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I want to see, does anybody have anything that they would like to
share or get started or is excited about or whatever?
I'm going to take the silence as a no but yeah.
So as except for someone else someone made a trip around the
Sun. Happy birthday Matt.
Sorry I couldn't be there with you bro.
Happy birthday. So if you hear that if you hear
this finding that some some happy birthday Juju love
whatever. Go ahead shake away, chick away,
John I hear you just fine John. Well, your dog.
It's it's, it's loud but that's part of it.
So before we roll into a recap of last week, we have a few
drinks. First off, we're going to have
Curtis. Go ahead and tell us what you
got. I made a mellow yellow sour.
It's creation of mine. It's got one and a half ounces
of Reposado tequila. It's got 3/4 of an ounce of
acid, grapefruit juice, which is acid adjusted.
Grapefruit juice, 3/4 of an ounce of dimmer era.
Simple syrup, half an ounce of yellow chartreuse, one egg,
white dry Shake. Don't forget the fart.
Your tin is what I went learned last week and then I shake and
then you double strain into a coupe glass.
And then you put a few drops of pesos on top.
Do some latte art. Check out the Discord.
There's a beautiful picture of it.
I already drank it because these guys are late.
It was delicious. I wish you guys could see it.
All right. What do we have next?
I didn't two drinks. I did an elderflower on asset
Saint-Germain. Sadler is talking with a buddy
of mine on Twitter earlier today and decided we were going to do
an elderflower themed cocktail. So it's an ounce and a half of
Saint-Germain. 3/4 of an ounce of lemon juice, half an ounce of
gargoyle, orange Curacao. About a half ounce of aperol.
There's something else I put in there.
And now I can't remember what it was.
Oh, and half an ounce of velvet falernum.
The carousel is the only thing bringing sweetness to it,
besides the Saint-Germain itself.
What do you think? That's lovely.
Yeah, and then the other one that I made I've just been going
through and making classic cocktails as egg whites hours
for the last few days. So yesterday, I posted on
Twitter and Instagram, a paper planes, our that I made and it
was delightful. So today I made an aviation.
Our and as usual, I do my equal parts build.
Instead of the are my I mean My Equity Parts build instead of
the traditional equal parts built as it should be.
So I do make it wrong with you. I did I did announce and a half
of gunpowder Irish gin. I did an ounce of creme de
Violet an ounce of Maraschino liqueur and 3/4 Oz.
Lemon juice with an egg white and will post pictures of these
guys in a few minutes here. They both are quite delightful
and And very pretty. I'm excited to try the one with
the Velvet falernum paired with the elderflower liqueur.
Like that was a really good idea.
It's not quite like, Lacroix orange creamsicle.
It's like halfway there because I definitely like an orange
creamsicle do from it, but it's not quite as in your face,
ignoring screen cycle. I assume the orange would come
from, the, a parole, the orange kind of bitterness and the and
the, and the, the B. All right, Jared, what you got
for us? Brother is for Jerry's pouring.
All right, so I was thinking about making something with
mezcal and averna put together and I googled this pink and it
come up. So something called Devil's Soul
came up and I made it with a slight substitution because I
didn't have elderflower liqueur that was not planned John and I
just stumbled upon the same thing kind of anyway.
So it's 1 ounce, right. Rye whiskey, a third of an ounce
Mezcal of third, ounce of Verna, a third Oz, Bittersweet app,
read a TiVo. So we used a parole on this.
And so the recipe calls for a sixth of an ounce of elderflower
liqueur, I have at home. So I actually made it with the
six of an ounce of creme de Violet.
So, I made both versions and to kind of see which one we like
better. So we'll let you guys know the
conclusion on that later. Well, alright, well there we go.
Our friends at home as you can tell, our drinks are getting a
little bit more complex as we go on, but that's mostly because
people's ability is getting better.
So they have the ability to make better drinks.
So with all of that being said, okay, this cookie day, we did
level up last time, so thank you Trump.
Oh, Bakery for those of you who are there, who are able to A to
ingest those delicious cookies and fuck you all Chomp.
Oh, come to you. I will please any more sponsor
us, you cowards. So, the last things I didn't get
the chocolate cherry bread that I went in for because they
didn't have it there to make, she's pretty good.
I miss their roast beef sandwiches.
I will tell you that with without a doubt.
Trump owes roast beef sandwiches are spectacular, croque,
Monsieur, I get to that part that far on the menu, but I love
a good cruncher or especially a croque madame, but before we get
to completely side rail by French cuisine, which is easy
for me, the last time we were together, the party began they
reunited after many, many nights of separation and they recounted
events with each other. They received payment for their
gear or for their, for their, their adventure.
And then they begin to make plans after planning and
successfully making, you know, Making decisions which in D&D is
not always easy successful. The party began to make their
way to Talca bahad in Bhutan. The cherlene also, for the first
time for everyone there took flight.
And they be, they came to the spectacularly.
Wonderful city of Talca bahad before we roll it to the game.
Do we have questions? Comments, concerns from the
party dr. Already left.
Yeah, I actually forgot about that.
So, I have to change my writing on the, on the Fly because I
forgot that we had done that already, John.
I don't look prepared for our first one.
Do I even have alert? Have no Mort okay?
No you guys can handle that later as we roll into.
As the six of you step off the ship, the breeze drifts over
you. There is a scent in the air.
Warm and spicy. Are we like I know where we did?
The Airship new version of this are we are we still near like
like it's like a proper doc doc where there's like, water right
there. Yes.
But you guys are actually on one of the Airship dock.
X. So you were going to be a little
bit higher, but yes, there is water right there.
I died down in the water and swimming into the doctor.
Okay, I did not enjoy that experience.
The. In the in my fucking room but
it's supposed to be the fucking ocean.
So you got are sick we're gonna have to get you like You know,
instead of dramamine will get you are of me or the media.
Maybe you can use a little floaty things, but with water on
her, there you go. So the southern tip of the
island is completely covered by the buildings of the city.
And the extreme southern tip is taken up by the multi-level port
and its bustling with activity, the buildings have a white and
pink Hue with domes covered in blue and gold many of the
structures they take up the entirety of a block with
Courtyards in the center at the northern border of the city is a
complex with towering buildings. That dominate the landscape.
Thin men yet minarets soar into the sky, with magical energy,
crackling between them as the six of you regroup again.
After the spectacular, dive that SOA makes into the water.
We're at about midday ish, if I'm remembering my notes
correctly, what would you all like to do?
The shit came into Port. Do we want to meet?
Whoever has the job for us tonight or do we just want to do
that tomorrow? Figure out over the city?
I'm voting for figuring out the city?
Yeah, I think we can meet with them tomorrow, they probably
aren't expecting us any sooner than tomorrow.
Anyways, if I ever failed this far in my, in my travels, I
don't have you, this would be for you, I would probably say
not, you were still a fairly fairly young sailor, so I would
say no. Maybe and it should make an
appointment for tomorrow, just to make sure that we can get in
our we are. We dealing with that kind of
person, I have no idea who we're dealing with.
It's not out of the realm of possibility.
They did offer some retainer to get from Haven to here.
It's not a That's something that's not used to throwing
money around to get what they want.
I have found that rich people don't like being surprised by
seeing me and I plan to be there, so, maybe we could like,
you know, kind of he's our new benefactor into the fact that
they're going to be working with us a little bit.
We're relatively a Motley Crew, these rich people don't know you
yet, you'll be fine. Yeah yeah, everybody loves me
once they get that, get a chance to meet me you know, huh why we
get along? So well by the way, here's some
point I'd love to talk I know. if you want to figure out a
little bit more about who we might be working for before we
go talk to them or Even go talk to them about taking a job from
them. We can probably do that.
It's probably not a bad idea you there.
Do you two have connections in town, do we?
Yes, there is a fairly substantial Office of the nine
brothers here in town. This is one of the major cities
of the northern hemisphere of Liber Arthur.
It's a shipping Port. Yes, among other things which
that needs to be on our list to do today to at least connect
with to stop in, but if we can get information at the same
time, but that is probably something that is best done with
just the two. Is just as happy to be off the
airship. I like that shit before.
The membership, much more convenient is the notion of the
lava is find it. Funny, how different your
characters react to an Airship map, kind of becoming like a
Trope at this table, right? Just a mean anytime.
I, you know what, your other group of me is the only one hat
that hasn't dealt with an Airship yet.
Airships We went to weekend, not, but not in the current
campaign. Oh, yeah.
No, that's that's fair. I'm standing on the docks, my
awareness of things. Do I see any?
Organization to like an underground train going on, make
a perception check, so Tony one. I'm going to say initially.
No, and this is only because based on your class, right?
So there would be other things. If you weren't if you were
something else, but you have, you can't see anything for sure,
right? But the idea of this being a
massive City, this is, it's probably about, it's not the
size of Tinker mirror, but it's getting close, right?
Right. You know, we're talking a couple
million people. The dock is thriving.
It's one of the biggest docks port cities in all of liberal
Earth. So you can safely assume that
there has to be some sort of underground of some sort.
But you're not seeing any telltale signs of it or anything
that would overtly trigger anything that you would know.
But you have a pretty solid idea that there probably is something
you just can't see it right away.
Maybe a how they operate more than that.
Operator. That's how I'm gonna feel kind
of how it goes out right now. That sounds perfect.
Yep. And if I could get everybody to
make a perception check for me, please.
Sure. Yeah.
This was a, this is for
something different 18 for Patrice.
Got 14 for us of a, huh? 16 for elves because for no,
it's not for anything like that 12.
Yep. Dirty 24 said, okay.
Sark say, again, only seven everyone everyone was able to
pass. That one is pretty low.
The most striking feature outside of the, the beautiful
buildings that are tightly. Pacted.
The sent the beautiful sense of spices and incur cooking meat
open. The sounds of open-air Market,
but the most striking thing is about 80% of the population of
this city or t fleets. So, for all of you, that is very
different. Anyone who is from the southern
continent of see can so anyone from The Syndicate, which would
be l in Sark and From the expanse, which would be Sid
would know that for them teeth. Liens are extremely rare within
the expanse. There's actually a good chunk of
time where they are still hunted to this day for you guys for
sarkin and L, you are very comfortable around teeth lines
because of who your boss is and what he does.
Every single one of his assistants have always been a
young tiefling woman. But other than that, Like it's
very rare to see a tiefling walking around and then for SOA
and Patrice. Not very common in the in Haven.
I think the one who is probably the least surprised by this
would have to be scold. I would assume you've been here
before. I think I probably have least a
few times. Yeah.
So but you have an understanding of how they and Where people
work. Yeah, so for you, it's the least
startling, but still, it's something that you don't see
very often, right? But for some reason, within this
for for real perspective, think of Casablanca, Algiers, Egypt,
Cairo cities, like that, that have that kind of, or even some
of the Southern port, cities of Spain, Where they have those
white Sandstone buildings, that have that Pikachu.
The blue Mosaic domed, buildings.
That's kind of what you're looking at.
But every single one of these tiefling seem to just it just
feels like they fit here, right? There's not a, there's not the
same level of anxiety that a tiefling would walk around with
and other parts of the world. So, that is probably the most
striking thing for most of you. What would you all like to do?
Drink, that seems right. Well, somewhere near here.
Tell me what it is that you're looking for and we'll find it.
Mid-range Sailors, hang out, maybe mid range of sailors.
Hang out with a slightly slightly less than legal, you
know, presence. All right.
Go ahead and make a perception check for me, please. 21 and
user role killer tonight. So as you look at the the dock
it kind of comes in to a Central Central Point all the the
railings and then it spreads out.
Again, there's a two roads that meet at a v right there at the
Apex of that V, is kind of this weird Corner building.
That has a very large sign. The.
The image on it is a black diamond and it actually does
have in common and then does anyone have a Bissell?
Maybe, we went through this already.
I can't remember what you guys are.
So I'm always going to ask - okay, well, it has it.
So on the top is common and the bottom is another language but
it is black Diamond Ale Works. Hmm. and it looks like it fits
all of your desires the space. It looks like it's for expert,
drinkers, expert drinkers, but also it's, it's welcoming enough
that you're okay Patrice. You're going to feel
uncomfortable, you know that. But you're going to be, you're
going to be okay. You'll be okay because I got my
crew here with me. It was just for you, Matt.
Unbelievable. As we're walking up there, I'm
going to Talk to get scales attention and they don't.
Don't worry about the The Haven Reserve in that out too quickly,
we can probably help with that too, besides coming less risk
than just asking where into people enter.
What about price wise though? We got to make sure we recoup
what we spent, They won't be going, probably won't be going
through the normal distribution channel for something like that.
So we'll get our our k.will just come out of, whoever buys it?
Next that makes sense. So I'm thinking we spent 25 gold
per cask I think we need to sell it for at least, try to sell it
for like 35. It hurts me to listen to John,
being a capitalist. That's not capitalism.
Correct cat. Unless we're asking in-house,
capitalism fuels is Vengeance. That's right.
Our benefactor is the capitalist and I'm very clearly not sharing
any of these prophets with her. Although, it's called how much
are you willing to pay for information for your lists a
lot? Okay, I'll see what I can get
while we're there. Yeah, quite a bit right about,
that's what I figured. I just wasn't sure if you're
putting a limit on information right now.
I mean my list goes in order, so start at the top. okay then find
it again but yeah I'm going to break his fucking fingers just
so you know, That's it. No, yeah, okay.
No, that's not it. That makes more sense.
I'm not even gonna pretend like I'm drinking with the bubbles.
I'm standing behind L. I'm keeping my head on a swivel
for stuff while we're in there. That would be a stronger
Pinocchio form than I have before.
I'm just shooting for a spending and at least enough time for my
city dweller tried to kick in because about its I think yeah
and yes Matt you can have picked up your Shield just subtract the
cost of it and I think I don't pay for it.
I just need to grab it because I got custom work done to it.
Yep. So, I don't know if any of you
guys have seen this movie because I'm going to reference
it but we're going to we're have any of you guys seen The Great
Mouse? Detective.
Yes, it's been in more recent for me, has me too, but I don't
know if any of you guys have seen it, they have a CD port
side bar. The tames in that that is just
full of Russian Sailors and it's with with dancing girls.
And in this case, it's just dancing people because, you
know, we support everybody but as you walk in there is like a
janky piano playing there, is a picture on the wall that they're
throwing daggers at. And on the stage, there is a
troop of everybody. Any type that you could want
scantily clad dress dancing, very suggestively.
But it's not like dirty or gross or anything like that.
But it is. This is a definite Sailors Dive,
Right. The bar is off to the left.
There are two bartenders as well as a lot of obvious Security in
this, in this space. Case.
And they went so obvious. They're all Goliath's, which is
hilarious, right? With other characters, great
track record with alliance with other characters.
I would like to roll perception to see how the bar kind of
smells and feels whether or not it has a Fight Club.
Go ahead, roll perception, check or Insight check actually.
Sorry, can I roll with Advantage?
Because I come from Fight Club family.
Sure, I'll let you have that one.
Drink motherfucker, drink, motherfucker, drink, that 2000
Mi almost grabbed them. I am.
I'm taking a shot myself. I am drinking s below and
Tequila so mmm. No, fake love.
No - figured wasted it at 20. Well, yeah, but you, and you can
get this. You kind of get a sense of what
it is. Even though you may not have
traveled a lot, you have, you do have family members that would
have. And what it is is it's even
though it's kind of the bar itself is far away physically,
from from the centers of power because of its location where it
is. And the fact that there is going
to be a A lot of attention on the Commerce and everything of
the docks. What you're actually getting is
the idea that there they're going to do other CD activities
and they don't want to find some other way to bring too much
attention to themselves. Cool.
So you got a know, but you got a lot of reasons why it's in,
they'll say it's not a wasted natural, 20 man, right?
so, what would you guys like to do is you walk in I see the the
sailors, I presume there, Sailors throwing darts at, pick
the throwing knives, or there yet.
Daggers Waggers at the picture. I think I have daggers.
Can I go over and look to join in?
Yes. General Tempo.
Okay, go go for it. Gentlemen.
Can I participate in the games? You got the coin?
Yeah. How much, how much are we
playing for? It is.
Two gold around closest to the nose wins, okay?
I followed Sid over because I know for a fact, I have some
daggers in my pocket to help him out when he said, like, closest
to the nose. Like is there somebody standing
there that they're throwing daggers at or throwing daggers
out of the picture? I got confused, make sure very
much the scene in The Witcher there where they're throwing
their doing, daggers in the truth, right?
I'm going through a. Were you watching that show
right now and it's just as good the second time around.
All right, so I'll throw in my two, two coins are two gold into
the pot or however, they're doing it.
I do have daggers. I think I have to To in that.
So they have like a, like, a bowler hat.
That's been kind of, that's upside down and you watch as
everyone. So, they finish their round and
then they gets poured out to the hands.
And so they point to it and everyone flips their coins
inside of it. It's also your go ahead.
Look up gold coins in get in liner.
I pull out my daggers so it's going to be, it's a rotation
there. You're competing against three
people and you're going to just roll like a normal attack but
there is no there's not like a DC kind of thing, but it's going
to be each person's going to take a turn to throw.
So doing is specifically deck spaced I believe, right?
Yep, it's going to be. So it's going to be you, you
take your you instead of using strength as your modifier, you
to use dexterity as long to make sure I was correct.
To means you took get yourself a night - one with your negative
1. Yeah, that's what happens when
you ask Morgan. What it's like to be an old
retired veteran. It's your character.
I said, well, you're going to take and and - Dex dude, I love
my character. It makes it fun.
Maybe wrong game to pick the play, but still fun.
I got the goal to lose. Frightened, we're all pretty
loaded. I've seen an old retired veteran
play shortstop before. Yeah, it was horrible, wasn't
it? You look so mad.
Dude. I was like, I should be able to
do this. There's multiple reasons, why.
But so, so you are actually the farthest away, right?
You went first. You But only one person actually
hit. So you're playing against 2T
flings and a human humans are everywhere.
Like they made their the youngest species on the planet
but they are they fuck like rabbits we do they just pop out
babies, right? So also if you want to want to
read about why go ahead and I will post access to the work in
progress, that is my dissertation on on species and
their origins of liberal arts because I'm a fucking nerd.
But so it's something from to look like everyone goes pretty
quickly. After you throw the first, you
throw the first dagger, one person made it onto the to the
To the picture. But that way it's the human.
Yeah. A so if you look here Jarrod
look at where I'm pointing, they hit right here.
Oh nice! The I so they're really close.
They had a 24. I'm gonna walk up and toss some
coins into the jar. Round two here on the right.
We, we, we we, we, we Newcomer throw you throw your dagger.
It's going to be a 25. You hit him and John other eye.
You're right there. You're super close your exact
like exactly equi distant from the nose on this picture than
the other guy. But you're super close.
Okay. So go ahead.
So Jared. Go ahead and roll round two.
Yep. So 12.
So this time you at least get on the paper.
Yeah. But you are like kind of center
of the chest like it's a pretty good sized picture, right?
But your center of The chest, like, you know, how to do this,
right? It's like, so this is, this is
how I picture it, like, when I learned how to throw an ax,
because that's what Rangers do. And I'm not good at it, because
I'm not a ranger, but the ranger said, throw the ax, that's you
right now? Yeah.
Right. Throwing these daggers like you
know how to do it, but you're not good at no.
Right. Look at that fun.
You know. So the next one throws it and
It's worse than yours. He actually hits on the butt of
the of the dagger and it bounces off.
The second one hits kind of in the throat.
The third one hits right in the center of the nose.
Drink motherfucker, drink, motherfucker, drink, natural,
obligatory, clink noise. It's a good bit of a muon
Ambience, dude. Scold roll, please.
I don't like this angle. You're gonna have to hit it at
20. Come on, come on, hit it.
No, get to drink. If you do it now only had a 17.
What is your? Do your your your a little bit
lower? You're really close to the chin
here. So I don't have a negative 1.
That's a modifier if I share it, but I'm a text-based fighter,
good. Alright.
Last round Jared.
That's what mentally So, first guy, he throws it in the mouth.
The third guy, the second guy puts it kind of in between the
two. So like we're John's was and
then yours on the chest and then the third guy again puts it kind
of in between the eyeballs. John.
It's only gonna be a 2013. Yeah.
So your for your first one was your closest one.
Yeah. It's so the human takes it all.
So human he takes the coin. So that would be eight, eight,
eight gold. The human comes up to you scold.
You know, your way around a blade?
Yeah. I'm told that you are, you're
not ported here? Are you sure you're not based
out of here. Though is what was is what?
That's what that, that's what he means by that.
No, I'm not running anywhere. Oh okay, it's nice to see.
Nice to see someone like you did can handle themselves. he's got
a hat like Matt the little was that a page boy, but I don't
know what it's called, but he tips the hat and he takes his
gold and he heads to the bar, I walk up to the bar not next to
him. I very specifically because seat
that's like three or four seats down and as he's ordering I
grabbed a second bartender and I say hey don't let him pay for
that. Drink that's on me.
And then I'd like, your third nicest rum.
We have one. Did you not see the sign hail
works? I don't read signs.
You know, if you can read, you do know that I can read,
literally every language. There is no not right now.
Sorry, wait for it. Wait for brakes man.
That was that was bad. Also Jared, you need to mark all
the three Nat 20s. We've had Morgan had a net 20
and I had a net 20 and didn't John.
Didn't you have one too? You say that, sure whatever.
So you watch as a kind of like a wooden cup is placed before you
scald and a very dark. Liquid is poured into it and
then you watch. Also as a vegetable e, the head
of the human turns towards you. Sweets.
But it's not. Anyone else after I, after I
watch a few more rounds of the darts of who are if anybody's
left playing, if not, I will mosey over pretty quickly.
And if there's a spot next to scold, I will sit down as well.
There's plenty of room that not a lot of people sit at the bar.
A lot of people sitting at the tables.
You see what you see is for those of you, so, would be scald
SOA and Patrice. You see, very familiar
groupings, right? These are Non rated officers,
they're like, they're the or they're not the officers there,
the the crew like you see a lot of a lot of groupings of crew
who were sitting together, right?
So you know exactly what you see in the foot.
The three of you have been around Sailors enough to
understand that and even you said, would you understand it?
You don't necessarily understand the groupings but you understand
that that it's like it's teens, right?
so, you sit down and you notice said that there are a Oh sorry,
I'm hearing stuff. I'm hearing children in the
hallway and they all have different
color, different colored wood. But what will before we move
forward on this, we have been playing for about 45 minutes.
So let's go ahead and roll into our first break.
And we'll be back in just a whew.
And welcome back everybody to campaigns concoctions where we
can't decide which Citrus, we like better in our drinks, but
with that, what are we drinking? So, this one, the first one that
I made is for Tyler, take knows birthday on Twitter.
He's a tequila guy, but I did make it with mezcal because I
don't even know if we have Any tequila in the house right now?
I guess. We have cos Amigas rapo, but I
feel like it's gonna go better with the Mezcal.
However, Tyler wants to try and make this a home switching out
the Mezcal for a Blanco, tequila, would probably be
delicious as well. So, it was one and a half ounces
of Mezcal .75. Remy.
Martin, Cognac, .5 Oz Benedictine. 3/4 of an ounce of
lime juice. Half an ounce of aperol.
And then I did a orange Twist on it, shaking and served up pretty
tasty for some reason. Smells a hell of a lot like a
lemon drop. Does not taste like, lemon,
drop. No sweeteners either.
No sweeteners. And they're the sweetest thing.
And then there's the cognac. The other one was one and a half
ounces of the bumbu rum half an ounce of Mezcal.
Because I wanted to do a double bass liquor, I drink because
double bass liquor drinks are wrong and often turn out really
tasty. I did some of the gargoyle
orange Curacao. I did about a 3/4 of an ounce of
that I did some plum. Brandy, I'm sorry.
Pear. Brandy pear Brandy and I did
lemon juice in this one. I think that was it in this 12
of these are very very simple builds, very short builds and
then a lemon twist on that guy also very tasty.
I said 3/4 Oz. Lemon juice on that, right?
Yeah, you did. You did I really wish we had
like a recording and how disappointed Morgan.
Look, we found out. It was bumbu Ramen.
This cocktail that is exciting. I killed my bottle last night.
And so, now, I have to go buy some more.
I made a Manhattan and it's sitting right next to my glass
of woods Barrel rested. Gin over ice.
My right, very nice. so, As we the six of you are in the bar, I
know we're a couple of you are at this point, two of you at the
bar, what does everyone else do? I think that's why.
I probably actually just went straight to the bar when she got
in here, right? Not parties.
Dealing really like she should be no issue but she wasn't happy
about being on the airshed. The ship while the ship is in
the air. Let's put it that way because
that's just weird and fucking a natural to her.
So she just probably posted up in the barn started drinking.
Okay, so the as the the name of this place implies they do have
multiple types of ale. So what is available to you?
Is they have a brown ale a Dale, a Scotch ale, a barley wine, and
a cask ale. Give Matt choices like this and
he can't decide biggest and most difficult decisions often
revolve around the food available and the alcohol
available to us. You Really Gonna Roll for the
beer. We got 20, I do it either on
even in The Cask, okay? All right orders, The Barley
wine. Those There are weird, fantasy
races but mostly food booze. So even though this place is a
little CD, a little rough around the edges, the beers fucking
spectacular. It is very top notch.
So it is everything that you would want in a cask ale, which
as far as I can remember. I don't know if I even had one.
I was looking at a page of ales. So there you go.
Whatever have the rights of its cast condition at that time.
The hand pump the Firkin Engine engine the Beer Engine.
Those are fun and it is. It's very steampunky as you're
pretty good. Glasgow fucking anywhere.
Yeah. So, how about so Patrice is at
the bar drinking barley wine? What about Ellen Sark?
Doesn't taste anything. Like wine.
Really good though. That's the whole reason.
I ordered it even as the resident non-beer Drinker hear
that sentence caused me. Internal pain.
All right. Sorry Kel what you guys doing?
Probably go to the bar to get a drink and grab a table somewhere
where I can just listen to what's going on around me, crap,
for the only ones at the table, sit down.
I won't stand behind up. Well, I don't unless anyone else
follows you, which I don't think anyone would have at this point.
The two of you would be alone. Go ahead, L and make a
perception check for me. And with this one, go ahead and
do it with Advantage just because of you guys would have a
level of training and how to how to listen to what's going on
around. You is information Brokers.
That's Make sure. Do I get my city dweller
boneless on this one? Read that for me, Probably not
it's fun to notice pickpocket secret passages your hand also
dirty dealings. Yeah.
Not in this case that's a 17 man.
So you get as you well I guess I guess you would know.
Yeah we'll see. I'll let you help me on this
one. I think be the only thing close
to a dirty dealing that you would hear is the fact that
bribes have gone up in cost for for those who are bringing
illicit Goods into town, but really what the there's kind of
a The the majority of the conversation that you're going
to hear is just going to be typical sailor talk about how
nice it is, to be back in Port, what their plans are those kinds
of things but there are a couple of groups of locals Dock
Workers, things like that. And there seems to be a level of
tension. Within the locals that.
The local. The leadership of the city, the
Mages that rule seem to be a little bit more distant than
normal. Usually, they're very, they're
very present within the city and when they kind of go into more
reclusive stance, it raises the, the nerves of the rest of the
city. So, recently, it seems that the
Well with the 17, you're not sure exactly how many they are.
But the leadership, the May geography of this of this city
have have gone into kind of a seclusion.
That is a very nice drink Curtis, please, share that alone
Discord. Good.
I think we're complicating this more than we need to Curtis.
Is this a drink that you just put in the discard, you know, me
IR like to over complicate shit. I already put it in a Discord
but Morgan Morgan had seen it. I wanted to show him.
I didn't like it going to be live it when you put it into the
chat of the zoom, it gives me a notification.
So, we're all learning, we're all learning.
Go back up to the bar and buy. How many how many Dock Workers
were at the table? Nearest me?
Speaking of D12, Curtis, I'm going to roll one right now.
There were seven of them. Fools.
Nobody. Whatever the nicest wherever the
most expensive, a Liz that's not barleywine.
I think that would be The Cask ale, just because of the nature
of the work that's required for it, going to buy in that case,
eight of them, okay? And take them over, take the 7
over with mine and set them on the table for that near them.
And I set him down inside one. If I could have a quick
conversation with you. So as you look around, the, the
table, it's all teeth leans. Very, very mixed Bunch.
You have red, blue, white, black purple, and a couple of the, you
have one of the strange ones that has a very similar.
Pattern to like prosper in. But with different colors, you
have like a red and blue where you have like the different like
a very sharp distinction in the colorations.
But yeah, it's all teeth liens. And they look at you and they
say well, we never turn down a conversation with someone who
bought us a drink. Go ahead, what is just just
docked Actually not too long ago. just one of those anything
we should know about going into town and he knew fun, rumors or
What was this kind of welcoming table takes on a little bit of a
more suspicious? Not that it's not hostile, but
there is a little bit of a suspicious or or around the
table as you ask that. Well, I will say.
Watch the back alleys. Not sure where your fun from
friend, but Tau Kabbalah hard is notorious for back-alley
stabbings. But if you do state of the main
thoroughfares, they're relatively safe.
Avoid anything that spins. As you may lose a limb.
Or maybe something more important, so device.
But unless you're interested in the local politics, there's
really not much that I was liking.
I can give you advice for It sounds like if we want to have
some fun, we should go to the back alleys.
But A Brazen that's that is one way to do it.
And you watch has a few few eyes go wide.
As you say that, reach over to whoever Sark is standing or
sitting next to me and just wrap them knuckle against Italy,
stabbing doesn't really bother that one.
Just like stand up and do the like a very stiff turn and like
whatever Direction he is form H2O.
You do. There's a level of recognition
here of what Sark is, that's a little bit different than the
rest. It seems that they are not that
uncommon that a in otamatone like that is not that uncommon.
At least in the guys that that he is persistent.
He is portrayed and go ahead and make a deception.
Check for me, Sark always fun. That's a 6.
I rolled an eight. So we're clear.
So for most of them because I rolled worse.
Oh yeah, by the way, drink motherfucker, drink
motherfucker, drink because that was a natural one.
Hey, Johnny Whoo so good. Once it touches your lips, I
don't know if we read this bottle we get we did don't read
it again. I wanted to guys, oh god,
really, if any of you are not following me on Instagram, you
should follow me on Instagram, The Nomad barkeep.
All one word, all lowercase. I recently started a new series
that I call milord a story. Ian three parts.
And it's yeah, I've done a bunch that I still need to post
because when people found out that I was doing it, I ended up
doing like five back-to-back, malort shots three nights in a
row and I did not feel comfortable posting all of that
on Instagram, where my boss follows me a little bit.
It will follow him. Anyways, it's he's a, his, the
drinks that he shows are beautiful.
But, so for the most of the table Sark, you notice that
everyone just kind of goes along with where you are.
There is one person it is one of the red tea flings who kind of
you watch them as they kind of they leaned upon the table.
And as they leaned up they grab their their mug and they're
spending him and they really focus in on you and they look at
you and you get the sense that they know, they know you were
not with what you appear to be. I'm going to in CS L at my head
covertly just sign the nine brothers to him and see what his
reaction is. Nothing.
Okay. You mentioned above that, we
have established CSL such a thing that we have abbreviations
for. It makes me happy.
Okay, there's no reaction. I'm going to actually Mark him
to like it's as far as it's. So it's not you as a member of
the organization. It's you as a as a sentient
forced, right? Because Was there seems to be
you get the sense that there is a distinction between what
they're what they're seeing of you with the rest of the table
is because most places that you've been don't necessarily
their more shock to the fact that there is a creature that
looks like you. That is walking period.
Here it may be more of the fact that they have them but they
actually expect them to be as you are pretending to be.
But in this Case, for some reason that particular tiefling
is able to sniff out that that's not the case.
He's not saying anything, he's not drawing any attention to it,
but he is, he does seem aware of who and what you are.
Do I do? I notice that to make perception
check This one. No, that's a five.
No, you don't. I'm going to try to get there.
Not I'm going to ask their name is what I'm going to try to get
that hands over the course of conversation and talk about
local politics. I heard the the majors are
stepping back a little bit. Seems to be making everybody a
little bit nervous. I'm not from around here, I
don't know. I don't necessarily know what
that what that looks like. Leadership tends to be a little
bit. Wow.
Government tends to be a little bit hands off.
Where I'm from anyway, alright, so here's what you got.
Four names just as it is just doesn't go away on that shit.
No, that's why I will never do it again.
All right, so number one is Kareem The second is Hameed.
The Third. Is Waseem.
Number four is Ishmael. Number five is Boz.
I don't like any of those jibraan.
And then the last one is the Guan.
And after after the initial conversation because it you get
the sense that when you when you ask them like what to avoid to
them, it's all very abrupt yeah. But once they came to realize
that you were just interested that that you're there was no
like some sort of arterial motive or anything like that
that that this is probably something that you just do
regularly that you just trying to get.
Fuel for the town that your new. They eventually pretty quickly
lightened up and you didn't have any issues with it and they were
pretty free with the information.
But it's typical of a town like this where there's just no
match, like, no one really knows what's going on.
This is not some sort of democratically elected
government. Right there.
There is some sort of power structure here but most of it
has to center around some what they what they are continuing a
name that you do recognize as Mage house which seems to be the
center of government. It's because if you guys
remember, that is where you are supposed to be heading to, but
it is the Centre of government here in town.
And that is the, as you continue the conversation, what is
pointed out to you? Is the fact that that is the
massive structure that you were that you saw as you were coming
down from as you were Landing. And it's Mage house, isn't it?
May at one point have been a house but it's that whole
fucking compound. Now that is like, It's so big.
It's like a mile across. It's one of those, right?
Like a Vatican City sighs we shall say, you know, it's a it's
a city within a city kind of thing.
So or maybe I guess San Marino or what's that rich one.
With the gambling in France on a casino when it Carlo - yeah.
Money. Carlo.
Something like that. Yeah. so, but it's go ahead and
L Roll Another Insight. Check for me real quick.
That is a six. You are having a rough night,
dog. Well, luckily, luckily my roles
were a little bit less rough for you.
You get the sense that this, this last round that you bought
was one that they must have been here for a while.
Right. It would probably the night
shift, you know, and they're probably getting ready to end
for the evening. You get the sense that as you
listen to them, that there's not a lot of resentment, or, or
resistance to the way that the structure of the of power here
is, right? There's, it seems that, even
though it's really kind of its authoritarian in its Nature by
the fact that it's a small cabal of people.
At run the city. They seem to take care of their
people enough. That there's not a lot of
resentment, you know, that there's always the case and they
make some reference to a couple of underground.
Things that, you know, that are resisting the the end you could,
it's you hear the kind of joking way, they talk about it but
really, it's just like the reason that everyone's kind of
nervous about everything as it's just, this doesn't happen very
often the the majors are very visible and they're very open
and they're very Re-engaging with the populace.
And when it's been a couple of weeks, since any of them have
been seen outside of Mage house, it makes it has made them
nervous that maybe there's something they need to worry
about. Okay, let me know since there
are Dock Workers. I'm gonna try to see how they
feel about any of the, any of the companies they that they
know of running stuff in the docks.
Like the nine brothers or anybody else.
So, as you asked that question, they're actually they know, they
do know of the nine brothers because they are a competitor,
right? So these are like, basically
they're longshoreman. So they work for a particular
company where they would, they would offload their ships and
get their Market their goods to Market.
So, the one thing that they will say, is that the nine brothers
Aren't much of a competition. They bring in their goods, they
take it to Market. There's always Whispers that
something else is going on because they don't seem to have
the same amount of volume. Is some of the bigger houses
yet. They have a very prominent
office here in town. But other than that, they have,
they don't have a thing to say about the nine brothers.
There's just, it's a very cordial environment here, when
it comes to the competing trade houses, just because there is a
Money to be made for everybody. I'm going to get some.
See if I can get some information on whatever House
Company, they work for under the guise of, just how do we got?
We You just started running a new ship around.
We're looking at doing some trade routes looking at maybe
Shipping some stuff around. I don't know what's, I don't
know what we're planning on shipping or anything yet, but
Might be worth, getting to know some people around here, if
we're going to be going to be unloading stuff here.
Give me a second. I gotta find something because I
was not prepared for this conversation at all.
Oh, I love D&D, man. This is it.
This is the second night this week that I have not been
prepared. Like, I have product I've given
Hooks and the group has gone completely, not where I've
expected it to go. And that is the one guarantee of
D&D if you do a group to go somewhere, they're not yet.
Well, I'm, and I barely playing right.
The only thing I really 100% plan is the things that like,
you kind of need to do. But other than that, I'm like,
I'm always playing it by ear and I'm still half the time.
Fuck, we need to drink, it's really imperative there there.
If we will always look for good booze and good food, it's true.
Oh man. I know that I've had a shipping
name generator before L. Are you good?
Are you? I'm sorry.
Not tell. That's why are you getting
hungry? I think we should look for some
delicious food. Like, you know, we've been on a
boat for a while. I mean, a flying boat.
But we've been on a boat. So, let's go.
Let's go find a meal betray him. I teach you one.
Simple trick. The other food here, I say to
the bartender, they say no. Okay, I looked him dead in the
eye and I go good man. What did I just learn?
I don't know what I learned. What did I learn?
You learned that one? You should ask whether you're
drinking at if they do food and if they say no, you should ask
where they eat. Where'd you go ahead?
You asking the Teresa you asking the parks and I'm asking the
bartender. There is a place called The, the
bottom hook. Little Octopus.
Yes, they do. Let's go.
So beyond that, I just play myself as characters and I'm
currently obsessed with eating octopus.
So there there is never a bad time to be obsessed with eating
octopus is like my favorite things just saying it's Jack's
Fish House dude. I don't know if it makes it
better or worse that they're probably sentient but that's
what I know. Go to Joe, Jack's Fish House.
They have a cold octopus salad. That is delicious on there.
But if the people didn't have bones in the right, exactly?
So tasty. Hell, I'm trying, you get, you
get the name, Paradox shipping Morgan before we take off, once
this is done, I have something to ask as well, just a heads up.
So L, is there anything else that you would like to come?
Because you notice that you happen to see yourself in a way
that you could see the rest of your compatriots at the bar and
you see them beginning to stand up at this point, looks like
they're getting ready to head out.
Well, that's pretty much all. I was looking forward to getting
general information about the city.
Say thank you. Thank you for the drink and the
conversation. And if you happen to be around
this time of day here, at this is their local drinking hole for
them. They will they said that they
that you're more than welcome at their table but my muscle around
again before we leave, which one was the Red tiefling, by the
way, Which one there was a couple the one that noticed
sark. We're going to go with seam.
Too soon. As far as Mark the individual
probably see you around later. I'm gonna head out.
I'm sure. I'm just gonna head out the door
if it looks like they're getting ready to go.
And wait, wait for them outside. Yeah, so it doesn't take long
for the rest of the party to meet you outside, except for
the, let's do this. Go ahead scald you had
something. Yeah.
So wild that conversation is happening.
I would have been kind of looking around the room looking
for the kinds of people that I know, Tend to attract
information and tend to disseminate information in
exchange for goods, services and currency.
Perception check, please. That is an at 20 drink,
motherfucker, drink motherfucker.
Drink. Thank you, John.
Damn, right. We're a total of, I think it's
only like 24. Pretty sure I'm back in the back
corner. You see a fully white tiefling,
excellent. They are writing in some sort of
book of some kind and it's not just like someone who's writing
with like a pencil. They have a full ink well a, you
know, with a with a, with a like one of those traditional pins, a
fountain to style pin. Yeah, and they also a quilt.
Thank you. You're talking about.
They also seem to have a little bit of security, a little bit of
personal security around its And this is only because it'll the
natural 20. You, you see, I don't think I.
So this person that's sitting there is What's the word I'm
looking for here gender-neutral? Yeah.
You know, you know what I'm talking about, the word that I'm
looking for, I cannot find it this androgynous.
Thank you. I'm having trouble with words
all of a sudden I'm usually pretty fucking good at words so
this is it's very androgynous person and then standing.
So it's kind of like a booth that wraps around it kind of
sits underneath a staircase and you see standing next to it,
obvious, but not obvious. You know I'm saying?
Like they're trying to be subtle.
Ah, but at the same time, trying not to be settle, is a red
tiefling male. But then you also notice this is
where the natural 20 comes in is that they are as you were
watching, you know, kind of waiting for that for everyone
and you kind of watch these separatists glances between the
red tea flame, and another red tea flying across the room, a
female. Interesting.
What's the name of the city where in again?
Talca bahad. I'll get that later.
Yeah. Okay.
So do I recognize the type of alcohol that the white teeth
Ling is drinking. You're not drinking alcohol
okay? They have tea okay and it looks
like a little bit of a snack plate right there with it.
Okay. I'm do they have a teapot or
just a teacup? They have a teapot.
Yes they do. I'm going to turn to the
bartender and say hey what kind of tea does that white tiefling
over there drink so I don't have a name for it but it would be
the in World Universe. Nate equivalent of a Darjeeling.
Okay, so I'll get a pot of that. The red tiefling.
Are they drinking? Which one the one that's close
to the white tiefling know that one standing and being both
subtle and intimidating, at the same time and failing miserably
for someone of your perceptive abilities.
And then the other one that they made eyes at are they drinking?
Yes. What can I tell what they're
drinking? They're drinking a nail of some
kind. I also turned the bartender.
I say what's that? Red teeth like drinking They get
very uncomfortable with that question.
The bartender I could tell you, but I would recommend leaving
them alone. Can you send them one of
whatever it is that they have on me?
And don't even let them know that it's from me.
And I walk away. Okay?
And I walk over to the red tiefling standing guard.
And I kind of walked up and like walk right up to them and stand
like side onto them. So I'm not squared up and I say
I just wanted to bring some tea over for our friend here.
Okay. So, it's not like a super
aggressive one, but maybe you've seen this, right?
Like you John have seen this? Yeah, absolutely.
They kind of bow up a little bit but it's not like a super
aggressive ones that. Yeah, and he turned he turns his
head and you don't have another tea cup for myself as well just
so you know. Yeah.
And The white tiefling they don't even look up, right?
They just but you do see a subtle nod and the red tiefling
he points over to the booth and you watch as the the the
tiefling that sitting down. They pick up the the pot and
they move it out of the way, but they continue scribbling head
down. It's like it's very impressive,
right? So I sit down.
I put my teacup in front of me. May I pour some of the tea into
my cup, I take a sip from my cup.
I wait a moment, I take a second sip from my cup as you take your
second sip, you watch as there's a very subtle movement of their
finger and you watch as a sugar, cube moves into their cup and
then they kind of it with a flourish point for you to pour
the poor their car. I pour them on top. and I say,
This one right. He's right.
As you start to talk their hand comes up.
Their finger comes up and they finish scribbling.
And then the book closes and they look up and you see that
they have little, it's like to monocles, but slightly cash,
there's nothing and they take it off and they have very purple
eyes. They look, you say the book
closes, do you mean it closes on its own?
Yes. So, I said, I say, well, met, I
just wanted to introduce myself. I'm scaled, you may have heard
of me at some point, and I just wanted to make my presence in
town known to you. I don't expect you to provide me
with any Services or information tonight.
Feel free to do some research on me if you want.
But wanted to make an introduction and learn your
name, if that's possible, if you're okay with that and I will
probably be mostly staying on my boat in the harbor.
Didn't we call it the Darlene? I think we called it the
Darlene, right? It's called the Darlene and if
you at some point would like to visit me there or send some of
your people to visit me there. I am looking for particular
individuals, and also my friends and I we do some work and we
would like to find more work to do.
We all have some goals and cashed.
Definitely helps that happen but I'd be more than happy to pay
in. Good Platinum for information on
some people that I've been looking for for some for some
time. Well they say a very silky tone,
it is very disarming. My name is Fatma sub re Batman.
Sorry. Next I gotta pull out notes from
another campaign, hold on. I always watch.
Matt to see if there's a reaction when you say shit like
that. He did not react.
Sorry, I'm looking at all. I've got too many notes in too
many fucking places, right? There we go.
We go. There we go.
Oh, that's right. That's what their name is.
She says, as a matter of fact, I do know who you are. my
organization keeps a list of many people and if you were
willing to pay We're always willing to look you just happen
to find yourself in the city where we're a little bit more
open than others. I like that.
I like to be open. I'm too stupid to lie stuff so
you know, I actually have a few people that I'd like information
on. Well, I can for you, give me
names. Why don't you come and see me at
my office? Excellent.
Would you like me to make an appointment?
Is there someone else I should talk to or we are the only
building in town that has no windows on the first two floors,
nor any doors, Excellent. How should I enter you'll get in
your out of? Well, Padma.
It's been an absolute pleasure. Um is it okay?
If I tip your bodyguard on my way out I'd prefer you didn't
understandable. I refill my tea and essentially
just make small talk about nothing at all, if she'll have
it. Oh yeah, she totally is she they
totally will. Yeah.
And You watch is so as much as I hate drawn a reference to this
there's there's a very good scene in Harry Potter and the
Harry Potter movies. Sure.
Yeah. We're there there's the dude
who's who's spinning the his his teaspoon.
They do that. Yeah.
I'm like very much continuously refilling Artie.
Once I saw that they put Script sugar cube in before they even
get a chance, I'll drop a sugar cube in and pour some more tea
for them until the teapot is gone.
Make polite conversation and they are, they're very, very
pleasant conversation. Yeah.
Which for you is a little bit unsettling, just because this
person is they are very obviously they're well, they're
well off their, they're very comfortable with their, their
place in the The world and usually you don't get that level
of comfort with someone like you.
Yeah and a space and they don't make a difference.
It doesn't seem to matter. They are very pleasant to
converse with and it is it's both Pleasant and unsettling at
the same time. Yeah.
Do I get the name of their organization at any point?
Well, how bold you want to be cool?
I'll just ask it is the convocation of Ebony and Bone.
And I will also blatantly ask what is your position within the
organization? Position of some.
Authority. Let's go.
I can really say totally understandable.
Yeah, I mean I think that's the entirety of it is, you know, I
get that bit of information. I find out that I can stop by
pretty much whenever right and where to go so and then as you
walk away I need you to make a wisdom saving through for me
please. I think so.
The conversation is still there. Everything's there.
But the one thing that as you try and recall their face, you
can't all you can recall is from the nose up.
They you seem they wear. It looks like they wear like a
band like a bandana. But instead of coming all the
way down, it's very snug against a Facebook all the way back
around and tied up, and they have very long.
Long hair and there they weren't actually wearing that but that's
what I see in my head yet to you.
It's doesn't make sense. Like you remember seeing their
mouths move? You remember seeing their entire
face? But you cannot recall.
Remember, it is love that. Love the ass mask of not so many
faces, right? Mask of approximately 0 faces
and with that as you the rest of you exit, the building, we're
going to take our second break and we'll be right back in just
a few moments. Welcome back everyone to
campaigns concoctions where we are, bitching about housing
situations, because no matter what, we're not living, great,
no, Jerry, what did you may see expensive?
Good man knows me. Oh fuck, yeah, okay.
So It was a half of the bamboo X.
Au. Rhum bacon Morgan upset again
this for you. Next time I see you.
By the way, y'all are welcome as your bottle that you left here
and I do appreciate it. And I would not lie to you and
say that there's not been a regular occasion, which I get
home from work and I'm like, I need one drink before I go to
bed and I just pour some that shit in a glass and I get is so
good fight, so I'm actually drinking it straight right now.
So, we're gonna do this again, 1/2 oz bundle, XO, half ounce
Curacao from gargoyle, half ounce of creme de cacao quarter,
ounce of me known. R0, 3 dashes of angostura
bitters stirred and dumped into a Coupe S glass.
Gasps what? Restrained.
She ain't sorry and then garnish with a cocktail Cherry dude.
That sounds so fucking good. I know it's not so tasty rum and
chocolate. Oh, no orange.
It's basically a chocolate chocolate.
Rum ball. Sounds amazing.
I want it now Jared, why am I not there?
I don't know. Yeah, why are you not there?
My brain makes these delicious things up but it works I will
say this courtesy kind of has like the opening notes of a An
on the front end because it's Bumbo.
Hmm. It goes into the chocolate
orange Kook. But none of them are very, very
like in your face, like it's very kind of mellow, but they're
okay. More importantly, has anybody
videotapes our friend? Matt today's sting any drinks
tonight? No, because I really wish we had
assholes. Come on now.
John. John, stop looking at your phone
and start videotaping math. We should've gotten John's
reaction to this journey because Brady made a record.
I watched it like it's a real someone looks good.
It's not like That's over nice. All right, so the six of you
have reconvened together coming outside of excuse me, the Black
Diamond Ale Works, a couple of you have gotten the name of a
place to eat that serve octopus called the Autumn hook.
So what would the six of you like to do?
Calamari. Yeah we're good.
Oh no dude this is going to be way better better than calamari
might ask if they have as well and just like put it like put
them side by side and go back and forth between the two things
that are definitely like subconsciously tied to my Patron
in my head. We would like for differently
kind for different kinds of octopus cooked, for different
ways and I don't know what the Plural of octopus is octopi to
go with whatever the DM says. Sark is actually going to Veer
off the streets while they go eat at this point.
Okay. Feel for the city is kind of
wander figure out where there are more slum-like neighborhoods
where there's richer neighbourhoods and get a feel
for the city life in the evening as this happens.
Okay, well, I'll toss ARCA. Sending Stone does he's heading
out. So we will do dinner.
First one of those really nice It's really because that's what
the to keep a good one. I like it Perfection,
Perfection. That was probably when the rum
was made, it sounds like the time that like the slave trade
was going on and there was something to do with molasses
and something to do with Caribbean 1612.
Sorry what? So, we're gonna the five.
You can't say gwei nicely from that.
Okay, Mike, I mean, if, if there is someone who could segue that,
well, it probably be me, but I can't.
So the, the five of you that are going to Autumn hook you walk in
and there is kind of like the doorman there has kind of an
initial revulsion to you but then like it's one of those real
quick things where it's like oh you have he looks past the, the
Crusty exterior of the five of you to understand that they may
be crusty. They got do so you're very
quickly seated in a private room because they have had people
like you before. So they know where to put you
and you you remember that the name of this place didn't pop up
until after ski all had asked about octopus.
And this is a fairly fairly fancy restaurant where you guys
seem to end up all the time just by happenstance, right?
But so they sit you down and a couple bottles of wine just
automatically appear on the table.
Perfect as well as. Should they ask you if you would
like to take Part in the tasting menu or would you like to order
off the menu? The tasting menu is centered
around octopus. Stand that think that's why the
bartender was. When you do in this direction
I'm voting. Yes, I would have to be on the
tasting menu today. Yeah, absolutely.
To testimony the ground, we're going to do the taste.
So the tasty menu also comes with paired, paired, wines.
So. But if there's anything that
the, the five of you would like to discuss, go ahead.
Do so, so it's called what? So, we need to sell this the
special, that Robin that we brought from Haven.
How should we go about that? Like, don't talk to some people.
I think the boys might have some ideas, boys.
I loved that. I loved every second of that was
a little bit. Only one of them is currently
present. Yeah, we can.
Those are good. Bad.
I know someone who knows someone here.
This is good, but I know someone who knows someone most places.
We don't have any actual details about this job, right?
I'm not misremembering that anything written down so I can't
tell you. Yeah I did.
This is this is a so asking The Crew.
That's we have to report to me, chose for the job.
Apparently it's been a while since anyone has seen any of the
Mages of Mage house outside of Mage house which seems to be
unusual but both. Whoa.
Yeah. Especially given the they're
paying us to show up and talk to him about the job that bodes
very well. Yes wait for True sophomore one.
Also apparently if if we feel like playing with people than we
can go in the back alleys yeah I was I was told if this it's easy
to get stabbed if you go in the back alley so that sounds like I
might be fun at some point. Inside to realize, that's where
Sark is right now. I wasn't after all, I'd say for
that, you knows where we can, we might be able to self-defense
our way and do a little bit of cash.
Yeah. Look, I just want to turn a
clean profit on that so we can continue doing the shit we do,
you know? Yeah, the only real problem I
see is getting them off the boat and off the docks.
Just give them the amount of people.
I'm sure there is. I feel like a pretty easy way to
get this done. Yeah.
Now, Ellen, scold. If I can get you to roll
history, check for me, please. and as a way to, yay.
But only one again, history 19. Wow, honey.
Okay. 15. Okay, so for for SOA and scold
because you guys are gonna actually have different
information, you would know that there, there's always either
bribes that can be had distractions.
That can be made, there's always ways to get quote, unquote
illicit Goods, off the ship, right for you.
L, you would know be just because you've been around long
enough with With your your particular organization that if
you bring your own longshoremen people don't ask questions.
It is possible. We might be able to just grab a
few guys from the company and leave with it openly to I mean I
don't know I haven't done this part before in my from what I've
seen I've never helped facilitate this right?
But you can typically do just, somebody's somebody's willing to
look the other way, and we just have to build that into our
price. I guess, I don't know.
That just adds to the cost, the cost.
Yeah, we don't incur the cost, ya.
Neff. Yeah.
I feel like petting on those just well, I guess getting rid
of a body is more work than it's worth to.
I've decided I've been in situations where I've been on
the vessel and, you know, somebody got paid to look the
other way. Let's see what happened.
I'm sure, I'm sure that person exists here to probably
everybody's got a price. I'm sure I'm sure that's how
someone's putting their, you know kids through med school,
right? It's made school here,
definitely made school here. Like, I know that I heard
muttering on the bar that the price of bribes has gone up.
Which is also not boding. Well, for the job that we're
looking at, I could maybe our present just went up.
If we can run it through my people, then we can, we might be
able to avoid all of that and just take a clean profit on it.
Yeah, let them worry about unloading it somewhere else.
As long as we can pull somewhere around 30%, I'm fine with it.
There's plenty of places we can sell this stuff.
It's only made in Haven and people know what it is.
Even the people who haven't had it know what it is, what it be?
Would it be worth more in take her mirror?
We don't have to sell it all here either.
You know, we can unload a few barrels and see what happens
when we get to take your mirror. Scarcity.
Right. Okay.
Immature Economist but you know here we are.
It's just she's heard the word before.
I was like sure that seems like the thing.
I just don't have it here. That's the joke.
Thank you have. We thought about like maybe
maybe we can get more than just money.
Like maybe it's worth more in trade in bartering than it is in
just Clean Cash. Maybe we can get some of that
fancy food on Tobacco in trade for it.
The futon have fancy tobacco. Yes it does.
Okay, I think you're onto something.
Before we go back into many plans, this direction, let's
let's hold off on decisions on that till till I stop, I stopped
in so also please please as Morgan says here.
Don't don't go too deep in it. I am not trying to get to an
economic D&D game plays and we might you know, redistribute
some For and or fundamentally Alters some economies that
liberates. Not what I'm saying.
Labor, what I'm saying is I'm not trying to build a trading
house in D&D right now. Not a we all want.
We just want to talk to the tobacco assist and find out some
stuff and possibly go see this secret society.
You were talking about Morgan, that's all we want.
Petraeus. I feel like I feel like maybe
given our current Friends trading something that we want
to sell for. Tobacco isn't the best idea.
Well, alright, I trust you and I'm looking, it's called as I'm
saying that That's exists. Not the best idea.
Doesn't mean it's not a good idea as you're looking at this
girl, that was gonna pull out a pipe and let it.
This is this is also just a friendly, reminder, John, if you
want to. I just want to remind you that
you. What do you do?
Did just learn some information out.
Know if you want to share it or not.
The information about the the tiefling and the convocation,
all that stuff. So, I will bring it up.
But I want to be strategic about it, not that I'm trying to hide
anything, but like I feel like there's a distinct possibility
that I'm consorting with a competitor to my comrades.
As a lot of these great campaigns.
Do you guys already forgot the name the fucking thing?
Hold on a second. Are the conclave in it and
Denis? Public at the convocation of
Ebony and Bone. Are you guys familiar with the
convocation of Ebony and Bone by any chance?
Are we? You are not SOA but you don't
need, you actually don't need to roll l so for you, Actually four
but also Sid does need to roll a history.
Check Patrice, you can but you have a really really bad chance
of knowing so I'm Gonna Roll in that 20.
Hold on, we can do this trick roll.
Yeah 18. Okay 15 Patrice know.
But Sid, you would know that they are.
Some sort of secret organization generally centered around large,
buildings in the centers of most of the most cities.
They are willing to sell intelligence for the right
price. That's what you would not.
Yeah. Well, I'm just saying I'm a
pretty big fan, so L what you would know.
Is that? While they do operate for a time
in a shared space of information brokerage, they are not actually
a direct competitor of your organization.
They Center more around instead of the Gathering and selling of
information. They actually Center more around
direct action in the the political space in
assassinations and things of that nature.
They are the next step up from an international Thieves.
Guild. I'm so fucking impressed.
You you made it that long without saying the word
assassination, right? Sometimes but sometimes I'm
pretty good at what I do. John John this is perfect.
Yeah. That's exactly what your
character wants. What's that crime and
assassination? You don't even need to do the
killing now. Oh, these are not the right
people for you to be unpleasant. So while so L you would know
that that generally speaking you and your organization or where
you would go for the best information.
Pending on what type of information it is, these guys
could probably provide something even better, right?
But it's very Niche and what they do.
But they are also, they are probably the only organization
on the planet that has a broader.
Reach than you guys do. Oh what?
So from SIDS perspective would Ebony and Bone would she
possibly know about it because they would maybe have locations
somewhere in the region of crypsis?
Yeah, there they have, they have they have houses in the
legation, right? I'll tell scalp them there.
there might be able to get you the information on the names but
they Depending on where they've ended up since the last time you
saw them, I feel like most of them are probably too low level
to be on the ebony and Bones radar.
They tend more towards political and high-level stuff.
But they do have. The new quite the reach though.
I'm sure with enough money, they move, they might be able to will
might be willing to look into something for you.
I think we might be able to do it cheaper but sure, I mean
never hurts. Yeah, it doesn't hurt to get
multiple sources. I also I also mentioned to some
guy from them. We probably don't have so right?
Yeah I kind of figured you know and also like I threw the idea
out there that maybe we might be willing to do some jobs for them
as well. Assuming it doesn't directly
compete with anything that, you know, any interest of yours,
clearly you should be aware by. Now that my first loyalty is
with the people at this table and the one jack off.
It's not here. He's probably having some
recreational self-defense is Stark.
Aren't even customer creation of self-defense out of my mouth.
He's probably looking for another fight club to make you
more money. That was fun.
I don't know if it's a club so much the truth.
We need to talk. If you find something
interesting, he's got a sending Stones.
We can go play too. Hmm, make sense.
So tomorrow, we'll go get with the people at the magic house.
I'd like to put like to stop check in before we hit the magic
house and see what we're walking into that's fair.
So maybe we do a pass by it tonight on our way back.
Sure. Look we're out of Towners.
We're lost. That's easy enough to
accidentally stumble pass the place we're supposed to be
tomorrow. I mean I'd like to go check in
with my crew and safe. Oh.
Totally because anything I can do anything, they know about it.
I would I would like to scope out the place, we're supposed to
go and I would also like to scope out the convocation house
as well Gunk. Asian writing Morgan.
Yes, convocation of ebony involved but that pretty
interesting things about their bill.
Yeah, no windows. No doors on the first two
floors. Ron didn't say that part.
Okay. I'm just reminding you because
there's been a lot of shit sense.
Yes! That sounds remarkably like a
jail like a jail, hasn't case the whole lot of place in this.
It hasn't been in jail yet. What's the point of casing a
place that has no windows and no doors?
Let me know how to get it but you're not going to figure out
how to get in the roof. Obviously.
I mean maybe But we walked through some pretty weird
fucking things recently. I mean there might be some shit
where you just like walk through a wall you know.
Yeah it's not a magic user. He doesn't understand things.
We have established that we have more than enough impact ability
to make a door if we need to. I'm not in most this idea
actually the convocation building that's actually kind of
where my head was at was either we blow a hole in the wall or we
sneak up to the roof and sneak in through.
Like some some some attic space or something, but either way,
I'm fine with it. I feel like the level of
invitation that I got I can get away with a little bit because
they definitely what kind of invitation did you get stop by
whenever It's the tone you stop by whenever and you going a case
the place and see if you can find a way in.
Yeah, well they also told me that there is no doors, no
windows on the first two floors and that I would figure out how
to get in so that seems to me like they're asking me to figure
out how to get it. Feels like a challenge.
Okay. Feels a little bit like a
challenge. I'm just saying, blowing a hole
in the wall of a building filled with assassins is probably not
the best plan startled assassin. But in to react poorly to that,
I feel like that else can That's not that's not their agenda.
They'll leave. Don't come back and kill you
later conversation. I'm just saying, I think they
expect me to do something incredibly stupid tomorrow and
if we blow a hole in the wall, they probably will have eyes on
us and they'd be like, they're putting a bomb on the wall,
they'll move everybody. Out of the area will come in.
They'll Point weapons at us and then we'll all have a good
laugh. See, I like that seem way more.
Reasonable than God be God ever. See the faculty, is something
incredibly stupid tomorrow. Maybe you just shouldn't.
Why not do you not want to live up to people's expectations of
you? That's the way I don't really
give a shit about people's expectations to me.
I have a reputation to maintain, okay.
And I also have a reputation to bring down a couple notches so
that people have lower expectations.
So why are you going to do what they're expecting?
You if you're trying to lower people's expectations because
that will in fact lower their expectations that doesn't track
logically. I don't think look, I didn't go
to college and get a degree in philosophy.
So, I don't know, I don't know if it does because I also did
not get a degree in philosophy. You can in world, go get a
degree in philosophy. I believe me.
I was saying I also quit Philosophy for these reasons,
okay. My mom has a degree in
philosophy. There's so many shitty things
that I want to say. That's why she's a mom
misogynistic way. It sounded Matt meant, that in
the Collegiate, elitist way. What the hell you going to do
with a Philosophy degree type of way?
That's exactly right. Okay.
Okay, so party at the table, is there anything else that you
guys would like to discuss? I move over to replace very
proud of both my God. Nope, nope.
You got you're gonna have to eat that bro.
Scaled, is this, I had barleywine earlier tonight is
this rice wine that we're drinking now with the octopus?
Oops. Because it rice wine?
No, no very, very different. Yeah, it's wine also.
Okay online, yeah, bollywood's, not wine Patrice, it's beer.
Is that like a buttermilk thing where it's neither butter nor
milk correct. But it's beer except yeah,
except bana uses barley. So no it's not her beer is
neither butter nor beer butter who doesn't exist.
That's not a thing. Question.
Yeah. Butterbeer is some weird thing
that people who like, don't believe other people should have
rights would come up with. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Fair Point really, you could put some butter in some beer.
I don't know why you'd want to, but, yeah, I mean, there's not
fattening enough, I guess apparently not.
So is there, is there anything else that that the five of you
would like to discuss before I move over to sark?
Let's go to Stark. I want sorry.
So what's shark, what is your, what's your kind of General plan
of action here? Obviously not a loop of the
whole city but going out a little bit into the city beyond
what would be the tourist stops or where most of the dockworkers
going to get off to blow steam a little more into?
What is actually like residential area, we've got
focusing for like 10 to 14 year old Street, kids possibly
contact, you still wearing off and more open to like just
bribes for information. Kind of tough and just curious
about lay the land. If there's any like heavy
evening nighttime works at start opening up at this point that
are open to the public. Okay, so there's there's three
major thoroughfares that exit off of that point where the
Black Diamond Ale Works are located.
So directly behind it is where the Main north-south Street ends
and then there's two kind of radials that go off that kind of
follow. So the tell Talca bahad is on an
island. That is kind of reversed
teardrop-shaped. And it's not as part of the main
continent of whoo Dan but you saw it as you were coming and it
covers pretty much the bottom third of this island.
So would you want to go left or right, or straight up the
middle? I'll make you happy.
I'll start left to Circle back, right.
So as you move to the left, this first initial section of town is
primarily a commercial District. There's a lot of warehouses, a
few shops. It seems like this is where a
lot of import export businesses are but fairly quickly.
It moves to a excuse me a little dust in the air there.
It moves to a kind of a lower lower end residential district.
And here, it's not like a slum but it is definitely more of a
working-class neighborhood. They're still because at this
point, it's probably about midday evening is just kind of
starting to set. You're seeing a lot of young
children running around playing games in the street parents out,
just kind of picture like a 18. Like 1890s early 20th century,
New York City, kind of vibe with everyone, you know, kind of
share in spaces like that but it only takes about two blocks
before that. You start to realize that it
gets very wealthy very quickly as these these this major road
follows the coastline. So it's definitely very nice
property and you start going quickly to row houses and then a
very quickly to large, Estates About.
Half to three-quarters of a mile in, do you want to keep going?
Or do you want to turn yet? Now, I'll turn after the like as
a wealthy neighborhood, mostly out of habit of theirs, not as
often of foot traffic of my aesthetic in that region.
So it's as you turn Inland there's a lot of cross streets
and you see the back alleys as you make your way through.
Through the city, you kind of see as the like, it's not a Nat,
it's not a straight progression. So as you move more Inland, that
richer area to, that would be to your left.
Eventually kind of molds into a more middle class, then
eventually a working-class neighborhood.
And, as you get to that main north-south, drag it hits again
to a commercial District where you're getting just kind of
general like you restaurants, bars shops.
This is more of a kind of General, it's not just a tourist
attraction, but it's definitely where you can see a lot of, a
lot of places for the, the local populace.
And as you look down, you can tell that this Main Street goes
all the way down to the end where the Mage house is the, the
huge compound that's on the North End of the city.
Like you can kind of see in a distance, the gate, you can make
out a lot of distant different or detail, but you can see it in
the distance. Anything.
So, go ahead. Make a perception.
Check for me, please. 21. So you are you're not seeing a
lot of the things that you're looking for.
You're not seeing like from what I'm gathering.
You kind of like that Sherlock Holmes, Birds idea that they
have the kids, the street kids that are working mostly because
it seems like there's the neighborhoods that you're seeing
here are not quite poor enough. For that yet.
And you haven't really seen any indication of a slum here yet so
you're not sure why. If there's just maybe another
location that you haven't gotten into it is a fairly large city,
like you could probably walk across it in a full day, but it
will, you wouldn't be able to Loop it fairly quickly
continuing on. Yeah, I'll move on and kind of
be watching more of the side streets now like I'm less
interest for thoroughfare. Okay.
Joe only did not stand out as kind of what again.
So as you continue to walk, it's it's you're basically seeing a
mirror of what you saw on the other side.
I mean it's not exact. You know, there's some settle
some subtle differences. It seems that here the the
upper-class neighborhood seem to come on a little bit quicker but
these are little bit they're not as ostentatious is that as on
the east side of the island but here you're also starting to see
it looks like people that are Are making their way home as the
evening progresses on and here, you're starting to get that
first glimpse of maybe someone who fits those bills that you're
looking for. You're seeing some people who
are working, you see a lot of kids that are just kind of
hanging about a couple of them with their hands out some of
them who were just casing adults, you know.
So it but you see them, you see them, see you use.
You see them, see you seeing them?
That was a Twist there and when they notice you, they kind of
they very quickly and subtly move away, right?
And then eventually you are able to make your way back out to the
coast and then you can either continue up to the left, which
would take you up further away from where your friends are or
you could head back down. I'm going to head back down.
The next group of like kids who are casing adults.
I'm gonna flash like play with a platinum piece across my
Knuckles if we catch eyes again. Okay, kind of get that like do
they recognize the difference between silver and platinum?
Like what level are they used to working with kind of thing C.
So, let me get, let me get first.
Let me get you to roll a d-104 me. 98.
Okay, so unfortunately as you continue to walk, it seems that
as the Sun is setting and the the bodies are have really made
their way home. You're not able to catch any and
it's probably because you're moving closer to a commercial
District away from a residential district that you're not really
seeing as many kids but like you know, how kind of have that that
view of what they are. You see that they kind of have a
general vibe to them there, they kind of wear.
Like those. You see the kind of like
traditional Arabic robe. That's in white, both men and
women, boys and girls where I'm here in this case and they're
the kind of ones. It looks like they are kind of
seen the uniform. Maybe it could be something
maybe from an orphanage, or something like that that they're
wearing together, but you're not entirely sure.
But that seems to be the commonality between them between
the kids, but you're not able to see anything any other ones as
you make your way back. And they did give you the the
name of the On Twitch is just a little bit north of the Black
Diamond which is on that main thing that made north north and
south or Fair. Okay, I have at least two
Regional go back to so set in with them figure out what their
plans are for the night and then possibly head back to that
District later in the night or early.
In the morning with that though. I feel like that is a really
good stopping point for the evening and we can go Roll
forward in a couple of weeks with what we've got will pick up
after dinner with casing the convocation building Mage house.
What was that? Because I always like picking up
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