Hello everybody. Welcome to campaigns
concoctions. Where we were a bunch of blow
Viet blowhards who like to drink and play TT RPGs this week.
We do, as always, like to say, thank you for joining us on this
adventure of Cooperative storytelling.
It is really because of you guys that we have maintained been
able still keep doing this podcast.
Thing we would still be playing if we didn't do this but we've
had enough engagement over the last year or so that we really
appreciate you all. But first we have a few thank
yous that we want to get out of the way.
First off is we would really like to thank Ballmer Peak
distilling in Lakewood Colorado. They were kind enough to donate
a bottle to to the podcast and celebration of our one year
anniversary that pops last week a little bit, something from
their website, I think this really The kind of supports
everything that we do at their sustainably driven.
Pandemic, survive Nano Distillery with a cozy Tasting
Room nestled in Green Mountain, and Lakewood Colorado.
Bomber Peak, Distillery offers a unique line up of small batch
spirits and Cocktails with globally inspired flavors and
seasonal micro batch equipments. So please our experiment.
Sorry. So please go, if you were local
to the Metro, please go and check them out.
Support them. I know John and Curtis spent
some time with the distillers. They're also In the Discord now.
So go. Say hi to, I believe it's
distiller. Austin in the Discord.
Shout out, bro. Thanks for hanging out with us.
Really appreciate it and Curtis John.
I know you were there. You guys have some wonderful
things to say. So please expound, yeah, they
were awesome. They're fucking great.
Excellent drinks. Very Tiki Vibe.
Very tropical drink Vibe. Excellent rums.
Some of you may know that we had their anniversary aged, Already.
And we went went into the Distillery together, and James
made some awesome cocktails for us.
Excellent bartender. Excellent cocktails.
And when they found out that it was the anniversary of our
podcast, they decided to give us a bottle of Ballmer Peak spiced
rum, and Curtis also picked up a bottle of their gym while we
were there. Yeah, we're going to try to make
every single cocktail. That we make over here tonight
we're going to try to make it with a bummer Peak product with
a bomber Peak liquor and also on any.
Now that one's Curtis and I will be drinking bomber Peak no more
as well. They're locally distilled malort
adjacent bass clicker. I made a cocktail out of the
Spiced Rum that we were gifted. It's absolutely delicious and I
Riju. What's in it?
I called a calling it's Edna's inkpot.
If you go on Instagram or Twitter to check it out you'll
see why it is about as black as my heart.
It's an ounce and a half of bomber Peak Spiced, Rum a half
ounce of crack and black roast coffee rum half an ounce of a
Verna half, an ounce of Benedictine and half an ounce of
my surround agave syrup. Shaken and strained up in a coop
and garnished with a Madrid octopus.
Tentacle on a pick. Yes, mmm, very proud of that.
Not gonna lie. I feel like this is getting the
white drink to have the octave. Yeah, it's like we've been
hating every song and the octopus is kind of salty, right?
And it goes really well. With this unique coffee flavors
of the of the drink. The Spiced Rum brings a lot to
the table from bomber Peak. I mean it is a very well Spiced
Rum. It's a favorite spiced.
Realize this right here. Yeah, so one of the things I
really like about bomber Because they put their their baskets
right on the label. So, this is spiced with Szechuan
peppercorns Ginger, grains of paradise, cardamom, and cinnamon
absolutely amazing. Blend of spices in this ROM.
And that's part of the reason that I went with the Serano
Agave on there was, I knew that it would play well with the, the
already, you know, kind of spicy bits in that in that Runner.
Is delicious. I and I'm sippin on that rum
neat as well on its own alongside of the cocktail
because I like it that much a quote last episode.
Yeah, hard, seems, he's hard saying, jeez and Curtis.
I made one of James's signature cocktails is called the black
Sky. It is a Vesper, riff the it's
got three ounces of the, the Outback Aspen Jin from bomber
Peak. This is it is similar to their
other Australian Jin except it is so finish and soaked and
right? Charred Aspen chips and discs
which is where it gets that like, peppery flavor.
And I'd love this drink. It's really simple.
When I had said James, I want to taste something.
I would like a cocktail that really puts this gin in the
Forefront. So I can really taste the Gin.
I had a cocktail last time when I was here.
Here with this gin and I liked the cocktail but I kind of lost
the Gin in it. Can you make me something that's
like got a lot of gin. And so this is 3 ounces of gin.
It has one ounce of vodka. It has two dashes of patients,
two dashes of orange bitters and it has a third of an ounce of
simple syrup tonight. We used cane syrup because
that's what we had on hand. And then I did an orange twist
where I twisted round rubbed it on the rim, and then I just put
it on the side instead of dropping out tonight and Farting
and on the edge. I really like it a lot.
You can taste. You can taste all the Gin
Botanicals in there. I haven't tried that one yet and
then we would also like to give a special shout-out to the taste
of Denmark of Bakery up. I believe also in Lakewood as
well. They make delicious delightful
Danish baked goods and we love to have them.
The metro area is very fortunate to have a lot of European
bakeries and these guys are spectacular.
And Curtis, if you would mind giving a little Spiel, what
happened there, how that came about?
Yeah, I went in to go buy some, some sweet treats and some bread
for tonight. And when I was in there, I was
talking about that. I all I got, I gotta buy stuff
for five people, so I got to make sure I got enough treats
and then I gotta get a loaf of bread and the guys, like, what
do you got? What do you got going on?
I said, well, when we got a podcast going tonight, actually,
it's our one-year anniversary's like, oh, here have another loaf
of bread. So, and I said, is it okay if I
call it taste of Denmark? Friend of the podcast, Taste of
Denmark and he said, hell yeah. So shout out to taste of Denmark
for being some. Awesome.
Cool Dems. We really appreciate you.
So that is pretty pretty. Awesome.
Just also be prepared just in two weeks.
When after we drop, this mat will not be joining us.
He's got other plans and boo ya know on you for having a life
homey, come on. Shall I can't take down, turn
down the the free place to stay in the mountains.
He goes. No, no told.
It's very fair. But with that, is there anything
else that anyone else would like to to drop in the knowledge wise
or thanks or anything like that? I believe I got them all.
Yeah, all right. I will take the silence as a
yes. So but as always ghosts if you
live in the Metro go support these businesses, there they may
not be giving us any kind of financial support or anything.
But we do love their products and we think you will love them
to go support them. If you are not in the Metro,
make sure you go and find a spot that you love that support, you
support local, it's always bigger and better.
But with that, the last time that we were gathered together
around this, Digital interface, I can't say table anymore.
Right? Right Party Land.
It had landed in straw which small Oasis town, north of near
the blood teeth, the blood teeth Mount, but tooth mountains on.
Whoo Dan As they entered town the were able to find the
business of one. Y'all Thor, gorelick who was a
male Dragonborn and every member of the party, loved your y'all,
Thor's place. The wood, paneling the afternoon
tea, cucumber sandwiches the books that everyone was able.
Able to acquire, everyone seemed to enjoy the place and we're
somewhat loath to leave but also they got some directions as well
as some information about the happenings of the local area.
The directions were 21 bras sick, wraith beard the magician
or Mage or wizard up to the north as well as some better
idea of where to go to search for Or the mortar and pestle,
the three ladies at this point, the six of you are heading out
toward or had returned to the Shirlene.
And we're awaiting for the next day I believe.
And yes, it spent the night awakened and someone had gone to
the for Coast Castle as we will say.
So that person, what are you doing?
That's you Jared with all the for talent.
The member you had to make a point for saddling, of course,
out. On some children about scroll,
being on the front of the boat. Yeah.
Oh, you made a big point of it, man?
Boobs, yeah. She looked are not great.
I better than John's of mine. Mmm, I do too.
So I asked him if you do. I asked him if he'd ever seen
usually about things you buy crippled infused with dragon's
blood before. Oh yes, yes.
Um so you open it. What?
What do you what do you read? I have no comment or Kendrick
onek so you can read this device or this the scroll because it is
in your conic. However the language as it is
written out is a little bit archaic like this.
Scroll is obviously quite old. Okay.
Go ahead and roll. An intelligence check for me,
please Jared. Alright Sid rules as a flat 15.
Pretty good. As you scroll, that I did not
want to say it that way as you peruse this scroll, you're like
swiping down just roll still literally scrolling down, I'm
sorry Morgan. As you as you read this, scroll
you it almost comes to you in a like a Breathless.
Sound. You know, sometimes as you read
something you have you can almost hear the author's words
as you read it. Write the script is very Haggard
as it seems like it was written down fairly quickly.
And it seems like this person. There's no name on The Scroll,
okay, had been The. The subject.
Of a pretty brutal experiment. The descriptions are of
different. Sentient creatures tied down to
Two cots and tables. And in many things being
injected into their bloodstreams, okay?
The descriptions of these are all liquid and they all so, you
know, those like there's a little tubes that you can, you
can shake and they kind of have that thick milky liquid but has
a like a hint of Sparkle in them.
Yeah, mmm. So that's kind of the
description of what it is but each of them have a different
color to them. okay, and then he talks about the person heading
this experiment. Having an odd complexion
something that he had never seen before.
And the reason is, is because the creature appeared to be a
human male, but had skin as as black as an ebony.
Tiefling, the ones that are like were they're not where they're
actually black colored right there.
Not caramel complexion. His eyes were had very little
white to them as well. They were a solid black inside
as well. Okay.
Do I get the sense that this might does?
It does there any connection to from this person to the person
that the scientist that possibly worked on me, are the That
injected me with my powers. Are you proficient in history?
I do not think I am. No, I'm not, you're having a
hard time telling, right? So like, this is a really
ancient scroll. However, as you were not trained
in historiography in archival work, or any of that, kind of
thing, you're having a hard time Discerning like it feels old but
you're not sure if it's just old because it just happens to have
been left out. This could be something that's
3,000 years old, right? Okay, so I will need some help
with this one. I'll go ahead and like roll it
up for now. So this is this came in a case
like it wasn't just rolled in and you know you have so you
have it in a case. You get the sense that you all
Thor, really knows how to take care of his materials among his
prowess with the arcane. I'm sorry.
Matt, you always seem to miss some really cool NPCs.
When you're gone. You did this to yourself.
You deserve this. We got dear.
You have a job like trying to earn a living.
So I'll like I'm going to so I put it back in the case.
I'll pull out some tobacco pipe and stuff it into my pipe and
light it and kind of munder mutter under my breath.
Guess I'll probably be at reaching out to the Scaly or
directors daughter. Oh, prospering also, I need you
to right now to roll an Insight. Check for me real quick.
And say it's flat 13. As you're sitting there.
Puffing away on your pipe, your legs, kind of dangling over
sitting on the rail. Since the, the ship isn't isn't
moving right now. W, looking out like Here.
The stars are bright and clear the purplish Pink's of the Rings
around liberal Earth or gluing down.
Only one of the silver moons is up and all of a sudden it hits
you. And you open up your shirt to
look down at the mechanical. Items that have been implanted
onto your chest and you look and see what is flowing through the
tubes, and into the different containers.
They're okay. And it sort of matches the
descriptions that have been given to you in that scroll.
You're what switch, which color of jacana car, you Taconic
lineage, right? Yeah, it's going to be Copper
Dragon. That's what I thought.
So, so what the as you look at it, right?
So it's the copperish tone is the, it's kind of Cloudy and
what you see is like the for, like the spark connect, the
sparkle Essence is the kind of that sickly green of acid is
what it looks like. I don't know if we ever
described what Copper Dragon Blood looks like but that's what
it looks like. Of all the things that I have
prepared. Always, it's Dragon stuff
because dragons are cool. Yeah, there I all my dragons
always have a little bit of touch of weirdness that don't
belong in most D and D places because they're fun.
They can all be humanoids. All of them because why not?
Yeah, might as well as the evening sets and here, you're up
in kind of a desert waste. You feel the heat of the of the
day, quickly, escaping the ground, and it gets chilly, you
know, intellectually all of you. That is probably not that cold
but because it has been so hot during the day that the DraStic
change in temperature, just makes you kind of wrap your
jacket or whatever over over clothes that you have around you
as you sit around. Is there anything that anyone
would like to do this night before we awake the next
morning? You said the Epic of Gilgamesh
that I got was not in a language that I could read, right?
That's right. In that case, I'm gonna find
scold and I need you to read this to me.
Where's my weird magic item thing like a bit?
Sure. That I'm going to write down in
common. Okay, so some more like homework
than a bedtime story, my mom used to having homework unless
you do homework as a bedtime story, which would be weird.
But You do better. You do bedtime homework stories
that I never said that. Yeah that's what you said.
He implied. It didn't you.
Maybe it's kind of awesome. It's kind of II.
I do something similar. But usually the bedtime story is
the homework for me. You know, you got your own
thing. I hate when I don't save stuff.
It's a web page and I can't remember it.
That's the worst. I can make it up, but looks like
I had it and I was like, I saved it for a reason.
But as I get, I get the impression from when you
describe it last time, but this is going to take multiple
volumes. Yeah.
It's pretty big. Yeah.
Epic. Let's see if I can epic of what
was it again? You'll guard.
Cool. Yeah, so you were and who are
you going to go and give it to just go?
Because I know you can read a bit about.
Nobody else can apparently, I've got it.
I remember where it's at now. Sorry about that.
Y'all my brain farted. The right page.
Yes, I do. Have a saved page of books.
Shocker, as you should sounds right.
So do I? Uh-huh.
Let's go, what bottle are we drinking tonight?
But we'll just drink some regular Old Rum.
Big in there all around. Yeah, go to the middle shelf.
Is that is that one of them T tuners?
Yeah. We should make some tea or I
could just drink Robin and ecology they are similar.
And depending on the TV, they could be similar in color.
Yeah. So, so similar of spices.
Yeah. Yeah.
All right. Should we should we drink it?
Hot. Let's try it out.
Alright with one man out and do you have a you have a good way
to make it? I mean l can you can you make
rum hot? But you do shit with fire.
I mean, I do stuff with fire but like it's it's not small fire.
Like maybe like how hot do you want it?
T ha. A lot is tea hot less than
boiling. I light a flame on my finger
with prestidigitation grab. I grab two Tin Cups and I type
or I just get excited for doubling and Sean and I hold
both of them out and then I light my cigar afterwards and
start puffing. Tink Bells started to pull out
the out, his Alchemy kitten, fuck it.
I pull another, I pull another Tin Cup out from behind my back,
and I had to get it to L. I can't write and drink at the
same time, I he's, um, yes, you can't write and drink alcohol at
the same time yet, right? You got to be more optimistic
and positive about your ability. I was physically able to But I
would like to be able to read this tomorrow.
Mmm-hmm I can't read your handwriting anyways.
Okay so I need your casting comprehend language is I'm
assuming scold right going through all these somatic
Maneuvers. Yeah, I'm gonna cast it as a
ritual, okay? That's fair.
Thanks units. How long does it last?
yeah hours, I believe whatever one hour, so And then go ahead
and make an intelligence check for me as you're reading it.
See what you can pull out of it. Y'all better L the ritual.
It's all better. He's the one reading it.
Can I read it out loud? Sure?
Yeah. That would be great because I
got a seven. So whoever else is in the room
listening can roll an intelligence check as well then.
Surprisingly, in the, what for years, I've been, I've been
running games. You're the first person to ask
to read it out loud. I think, skeleton is just smart
enough to know that. He's not smart enough to know
what the fuck is going on in this book.
Let's also specifically asked that because he was
transcribing, okay? So not 20, look, right, Piers
Morgan Piers, Morgan. Clink that Jinzo to save the
day. Yeah, it's so good.
When it hits your lips so that's just straight intelligence.
Yep, that's a 25. I got a five.
Patrice got 250. We got trees is as scold is
reading this. He falls into the actuality of
his name and he begins to weave these Tails.
Like he doesn't like you don't even think he realizes, what's
happening? As he begins to tell the tales
of Gil guard a Wandering Warrior.
From a continent that none of you have heard of before.
As The Story Goes, it begins with the massive impact of
things falling from the sky. As all of these objects fall.
The Seas begin to rise in tsunami-like waves taking over
this Central continent. After the waters settle a few
weeks later. What was once a Globe, globe.
Circling continent is now a collection of islands.
Hmm. No gourd. is begins as a lowly
Warrior on a with a tribe of island-hopping preachers who are
making their way across these new islands seeking at first the
items to survive and then eventually they find a space
that is large enough to take all of their boats and to establish
a home for them. And it's here and then that the
try begins to realize that there are going to have to seek out
more and more to maintain their lifestyles.
Gil. Gord is one that is chosen.
To Captain one of the ships that goes out?
It is this epic continues to tell of encounters with
dangerous creatures. Fighting the squalls that come
across the oceans, about the Temptations in fate of
dangerous. Sentient creatures, that try to
lower them into their, their traps As they overcome it all
eventually Gil gourd, becomes the leader of the tribe.
And in his wanton disregard. For logic in his desire to
protect his people, he begins the search for a mystical cave
that will provide items that will forever protect his people.
The last half of the book. Describes the adventures of Gil
gourd and his Shipmates as they search for this item.
Eventually finding them returning home.
Viewed. As a as a brave and successful
Warrior as he follows the perceived instructions to bring
these items together to Forever, protect his people.
On completion of the ritual, a mountain juts from the island.
Begins spewing, volcanic ash and steam out of its Caldera.
Eventually after 50 years, the fog never ends.
And it's here that Gil gourd eyes as his people desperate for
the sun, begin to leave. Mmm, We're getting just for my
own personal edification. I rolled a performance check
while you were reading and I got a 16.
Yep. Well, I figured based off of
what you and I talked about it was going to be just kind of a
thing, right? Yeah, yeah.
I'm not even proficient in performance and I have a plus 5,
so You know, it's a thing, is there any attribution in it to
say who wrote this? Where the story came from, as
funny as it is? It is title.
It is the the author is labeled as The Bard.
Hmm. Without yes.
We have our own equivalent of Shakespeare he's just way more
interesting. Right?
And now the enticing later author to me Roll History.
Check for me. That's all. 19.
Okay anyone else 11? Okay 18 wow so Patrice just hit
it Patrice and L you to have heard about the Bard.
There are a ton of collective works.
A lot of the discussion around them is that it's one of those
spaces. As where no one really knows how
to differentiate between. History folklore and Legend,
there seems to be a lot of Truth, you know, and then in
this space of liberal arts, like it's a weird place right?
Things happen, you know, and it's like what seems to be
far-fetched tomorrow, seems normal.
So he is probably one of the foundational writers of the of
the general history of Liberal arts, the writers of thes
admire, have written extensively about him as well.
Has the many of the schools of magic that have history
departments? They have written about them as
well. The best comes from thes admire
academies, though. So, generally speaking anything
we found the thread by The Bard, we can assume there's at least
partly the least mostly true but take it with a grain of salt.
Exactly. Just like your cocktails always.
Add a little bit of salt to your practice.
Yeah. Well, I feel like there is a
really good point as it is now toss to be our for us, to take a
really quick break, and we will be back in just a moment.
Welcome back to campaign to concoctions, where that was the
smoothest break that we've ever had, and I can't press a button
doing this again for the second time.
The second time everyone saying that was just a dry, run up
until 30 seconds ago. And it was an excellent dry, run
to which, what pisses me off? It was really good.
So that was a really good break for all of you.
If you are following the Instagram account, you have been
seeing the pictures. I know.
I think I'm kind of like the way it works out.
That you get to see the drinks that were drinking about a week
before we post the episode. So that is super cool.
I really think that's gonna get you guys gigged up and excited
for what we're doing. But what, what do we have?
We have drinks now, go first. No, you go.
Okay, so the drink I made is courtesy of erekat, bomber Peak
Distillery, one of the leaves of bartender there.
Yeah. Owner, the owner owner of the
kotel, no big deal, just the owner, come on Bobber Peak, no
big deal called the three dots. It is fucking delicious.
It's one ounce of the bomber Peak anniversary, overproof,
Single Barrel aged rum, 1 oz of bomber Pete.
Distillery Spiced Rum, half an ounce of lime juice.
Half an ounce of orange juice, half an ounce of orgeat, half an
ounce of honey syrup, 2 dashes angostura, aromatic Bitters, and
two dashes, allspice bitters, shaken strained and served up
and I put A cute little orange twist garnish on there.
All flared out and fancy like it didn't survive past the picture,
but it was very pretty while it lasted and the drink is
delicious. Absolutely wonderful.
Oh and the or Shaw was made by giraffe.
Dad made the at home in his fucking.
Yeah. So I'm going to call this my
drink. I made it is called talking and
toasty, it's 1 and 1/4 ounce of Spiced Rum 3D quarter, ounce
overproof rum, this is both from ballroom Peak 1 ounce, or jot 2
oz, pineapple juice, an ounce of lime juice. juice and a quarter
ounce Serrano agave syrup garnished with like Seven or
eight dashes of angostura bitters.
Yeah, you and the just dumping half ounces better.
No, no. Both of you.
Yeah, but I was looking at both of you.
That. Would you like to just use
bitters? Like, it's a look here.
It's unreal. What I don't do?
I insert and drinks of mine. I know it's, I like, I like five
dashes of bitters in my Martini. What would its orange martinis?
It's delicious a lock. That's a lot Morgan.
You're my inspiration for putting Shit ton of bitters in
my drinks and I'm I love it. I like going to and to most of
the time a split in my split them up.
That's the way to go for me it's like theaters man.
I think I think they really add complexity to it to a cocktail.
So it's like and when you're only making like three
cocktails, you've got a, you know, sometimes because you
don't have the stuff or you don't have the talent or the
knowledge base, you got to mix it up when you can.
So I have a fuck ton of bitters at the house.
The spicy bitters are my favorite right now.
I really like those. The spicy Manhattan man or spicy
old fashioned is just wonderful. So the night is uneventful and
quiet, as The crew respectfully, declines, anyone's attempts to
go on watch except for Sark because Sark does Sark things.
The sun rises. And as usual, the coldest
portion of them morning is right before the dawn and it is
bitterly cold. Just because of the transition,
it hurts. Almost like I think about the
Arabian desert in July when it's 136 degrees and then it's 75 at
night that hurts, right? It's not comfortable despite his
Silly as that sounds. So as five of you awaken and one
of you is sitting in a probably in a crow's nest right now.
What would you guys like to do? Well, comes out of his room,
he's going to be in like the full welding setup with a heavy
heavy Leathers because it's fucking cold.
It doesn't have cold weather here.
He just has the heavy duty protection.
Hmm. Also, sarcone probably at least
knock on doors initially since it be earlier than normal.
So we can start moving out like two days of travel.
Before we get to what we got paid to come due.
So, he would be probably right? As light kind of crust, the
rising that nautical twilight start moving out of the Crow's
Nest and feel the like stiffness.
He's not sure it's actual pain but the stiffness from the cold
and just move for a little bit to get that out and then go
knock on doors, possibly dragged out of bed again and then move
on. Sounds good.
The one person that you definitely are going to find a
wake at the knock, is going to be said for sure since Sid, Sid.
That's, yes, it is. Is out there doing doing
push-ups and her morning. PT it's not his, as good as it
used to be 20 years ago, but it's pretty solid.
It's a pretty solid like, she's in pretty good shape, you know.
So you seen from Battle? Ah, in my head Sergeant, put it
yeah, I saw those knees afterwards after all the guys
passing, as I've shown of I think I think scallop probably
hears the commotion and gets up wanders out while everybody's
getting ready to head out. So the so cookie is was prepared
for you. You guys didn't even have to go
in to get back into the galley, sitting in front of your doors,
is a little small plate with some becs.
Some bacon eggs and cheddar Your cheese going on there, ready for
you guys. And also there are some bag of
sweets They are candidates. Fuck.
Yes. Skel definitely grabs a handful
of those and tosses in a little sack and put some inch yet.
So each of you have a sack that's about the size of a
normal like sack lunches, well, of dates that are like, this act
like a typical dice bag, right? That's what scallops going to
eat for lunch. You got trouble.
Yeah, my lunch. I mean, he's going to have his
hand. In there or in his face the
entire time he's locking until it's empty.
So we going for the mortar and pestle, are we going to drop off
the ship for the wizard? Wizard first?
Yeah, let's do the wizard first. You might believe that was half
a day's Journey. Hmm.
Clark knows this group could be a whole day.
That sounds promising. Do we have time to kill their?
We telling what? He's got for, whatever they
said. He's the one that's got the
space for me to do some experimentation.
I don't really want to resolve the ship.
Going to new recipe. I want to try time to kill, not
time to kill while we're there. Yeah, gotcha.
I think I'd be called a time to die for somebody.
Yeah, it's highly possible that might happen to but gotcha.
If not, then I'd like to go there before we head back to
your friend's. Mom to give me more information
about some folks, I'm looking for that's all no, not yet.
They're still in process. Gotcha, understood.
Oh, no. We actually end up getting
there. The most beer do is gift.
Wrap them for you. I appreciate it.
Well, I assumed he was asking on my behalf is there time for me
to kill someone while we're there.
If not, I wish I could do it later but I'd like to that's
kind of why I play with this recipe, two days there and back
to the wizard. And then we'll go to the mortar
and pestle go to the cave will see if we find what we're
looking for there. Everyone's saying that it's in
this cave, but if everyone knows where it is and it hasn't been
back yet. I'm slightly concerned either
there's really bad information or there's something very angry
and they could be both. So we all sign is we should stop
by on the way back until McKenzie that in about four days
you should be ready to leave in a hurry.
Potentially, and also I think he stays ready to leave in a hurry.
I'm not gonna lie to you, the very good stuff like that.
So well make sure he's aware that in four days.
We may be coming back on. I don't, I don't think it's in
Dry Dock, I think. I think we'll be okay.
We're just on the conversations that we've had about.
Entrepreneurial Enterprises, we take under, I'm pretty sure he
understands that occasionally we will be leaving without regard
to proper salutations. And it's heart, just starts
walking. The ship goes fucking up and
down. It'll be fun.
It's gonna be fine. Yes.
So do dragons. You're a, you're a cleric or
something, right? No, from only would be friends.
He's a, he's a, he's a device wizard, right?
They'll gather was magic with yeah, well, I mean, who knows?
To me. All I know is that healing is
effector. I'm pretty sure I've seen him
touch something and it like thickest itself.
He do that to the boat. If there's anything wrong with
it. Funny as all those lenses.
Go go gadget. Laser cannon theoretical you
better say that at least once. So this points are has taken off
and the rest of you kind of hustle up to follow as you are
held the business. I'm following.
I'm like halfway between the two groups and shouting all this
over my shoulder back at L as I was a few things.
As the six of you head, north word slightly to the to the
West. this is, The first like, four miles of this road are kind
of like this really rough hewn Cobblestone, but it immense
immediately just cuts off into a singular track of what looks to
be. Wheels for a cart.
And as you continue on the solidness of this path, seems to
diminish, it seems to get more and more difficult to discern.
The only thing that makes it so that all of you are able to
continue following, it is the fact that there's nothing else
around. This is like hard pack crusty
desert, think Arizona, in the summer.
You know, that kind of hard pack of dirt.
As but you continue on and as the sun is starting to rise, it
is definitely getting toasty again, it is getting warm.
But fortunately about three and a half hours.
After you have left the ship, you see something Crest The
Horizon that is moving. But it's just it's right there
on the edge, it's really hard to see.
And then eventually as you get closer, you notice that this is
a windmill and the building that this windmill is attached to is
odd. There's a solid Stone.
Like, this is kind of like an adobe brick building.
There is no coherence to the architecture.
It looks like this thing has just been added on to
willy-nilly throughout the years, decades centuries.
There is, there are four Chimneys in different locations
on the on the house. In each of them are emitting
different colored smoke. One is the gray of a wood.
Fire one is blue One is purple. And one is green.
Due to those colors ring, a bell to anything like roller
contract. If you want to associate with
you think I'm profession that yeah, 21. some sort of invention
or production of Magical items. But as you are a sorcerer,
you're not going to be able to get too much out of it.
Anything resembling a front door, porch area.
Oh yeah. There's a filling or do I knock
on as as you walk up there's actually kind of like a front
gated area. It's almost like a front, it's a
small front yard, this fence that is about shoulder high on
the average humanoid comes out and then Then produces a pretty
solid space and it, but it's solid.
It's like solid Adobe. And then there is a an iron gate
and as you look through think The wizard equivalent of a
Cadillac on blocks that kind of a yard.
Right? There's just all kinds of what
looks like an unfinished experiments, just unfinished,
builds. All kinds of weird stuff that's
sitting in the, in the say again, craters, no Critters in
the yard. There are craters around.
Sorry, Phil Carl equivocally cock knock on the metal gate
because he knows better than the walks through wizard portals.
In the hopes of making enough noise to be heard, okay, Wang
Fang, Fang Fang, yeah. There there is a nice
reverberation and you kind of Hear What I Hear.
When you have your delivery and we don't want to trespass get in
here, it's open. Sergeant pushes on the gate and
walked towards the house ferrying.
I like him, you aspire to be him.
Maybe sorry, takes the crate, and just shoves it into Ells
arms pump, you can give it to him, then women love him.
Al wants to be him that checks out.
So as you enter There is a very distinct path that you must
walk. There's no way that you're going
to be able to get across the rest of this yard it without
following this path. You come to a solid steel door
and it is as you approach it, creaks open.
On its own. and the the scent of oil.
Fire sulfur, just general gnarly, Arcane components just
hits. You like a furnace blast as you
enter this? This domicile.
You walk in and you just hear the Piston pump of Machinery,
the hiss of steam escaping as there are just various different
items that are laying around and what is obviously a laboratory.
What would you guys like to do? I'm gonna set the Craig down as
soon as I walk in and start looking at everything that's
going on. Go ahead and make This one is
going to be Arcana. I think you have advantage on
this involves magic technology. Yeah, yep.
Yeah. I think said would be slightly
concerned that L might touch buttons or something.
So I was like kind of follow him and be like motherly and be
like, don't touch that. Sark's going to now lean back
against the door frame, and watch this happen.
It's not me for once. This is like, this can't be
blamed on. That is A lot the 2025.
So while you're not able to really discern the the actual
result of these devices you know exactly what's happening.
Like these are the kind of things that you see in you wish
you had right and in complete contrast to the exterior of the
building, this space is immaculate right?
Everything's in its place. Everything is orderly?
There is it seems that there are small know Pants next to each
and every single one of these devices that is working.
You see items that are there for the distilling of Vance, Arcane
chemicals from like can beat. They can distill dragon's blood
that can you know, breakdown diamonds into its liquid form.
You even think that you may see a machine that can artificially
generate residual. You've heard about it, you read
about it but you've never seen it.
It might be there. But yeah, you have a full idea
of what is going on. You're just in, you are going to
be slightly intimidating because this is techno.
This is stuff that you may know what it is, is beyond your
capability. At the current, your current
moment. He's halfway between intimidated
and Starstruck and not really sure what with it, we call that
fanboy. Yeah, that's a solid.
It looks like they're making magical items or something.
Like what, what's going on here? Can you tell they can make
anything? Here.
Anything. I mean, does find anything.
And anything anything, what's the temperature in the room,
Morgan? It's comfortable.
It's a little bit chilly. It's a little bit cooler than
what you what. Most sentient creatures would
find like that. Perfect comfortable temperature.
It's it just feels like it's a little bit cooler.
There is a very nice breeze moving through, but there is the
only thing that keeps it from being a really nice space is
that kind of weird Tang of our Kane energies, scenting the air.
Acrid, I think you can even make residual here and even know that
was that was still just a theory.
The last time I saw that Did he make?
Is that? Is that?
Where the resume we have came from from a machine.
Now where's that from? As from a cave?
Mushy. Yeah, this is secret.
I think you're in the cave with the rest of us.
Yeah, I was. I was there.
I just don't I just don't know if they like they had to like
like add or subtract stuff to make like or if they just like
hacked it Off the Wall, I'm not an expert in mining.
Maybe you are, you're an expert in everything else including
deities sumbitch A daughter. Thank you, Patrice.
Just complain. Is that a first like I feel like
it's a freaking might be. I think it might be.
Yeah, but he did mention not feeling good on the boat once
but it wasn't necessarily a complaint was more of like
conveying information to the group.
Okay? Yeah.
Sorry. He's um Patrice is like
nervously like twirling a hair behind His right ear.
The just curling Andre curling and just like us.
I, I just I decided that we took stuff off the wall and then
we're using it. It's a while.
But yes, somebody else I could off the wall and then we took
it. There's no processing equipment
there though. I get everyone to roll a
perception check for me real quick.
Christian, that's not great. Should I be Rollin a
disadvantage Morgan? Sure.
19 God. 17. Okay. 15K 17.
Okay, I got the same with my passive.
I got an 18-6 got 0.12 with disadvantage, so everyone but
Excuse me, Sid and L which actually kind of makes sense.
As you guys are watching, Sid and L.
You watch as something flies in the air.
And as you follow its Arc, you can look behind a table and you
see an ass in the air as a couple of boxes or shaking and
rattling. Them items are beginning to be
tossed out of it. You hear the grumbling?
What the fuck. I have a plan against looking
find it weird. Can I tell the gender of this
individual male? Yeah.
Sir, stop on the back and just get out of here.
What you looking for a stop. Nothing that you would interest
you. Well, now you've really got my
interest. I said drop it off and go.
I'm going to choose option, b, option.
B may include disintegration. As he gets stands up and turns
around and you see as he turns a fairly elderly male dwarf.
Who is bald tattooed all around his skull and doesn't have a
full beard but has like it's a straight go t that is braided
with gemstones inside of it it goes down and it is tucked into
his belt. We're going full token and this
one and as he stands up, he kind of looks at all of you.
Well, You ain't the normal delivery.
Nope. Who are you the add-on, is he
kind of, he kind of, you know, reaches reaches back and you see
that he is on his belt, he has like 66 books on his belt.
You wizard. What's it to you curious?
Who are you to rent some time and equipment from you?
I have a recipe that I want to test but I don't follow up my
home. He's a wizard.
The hell are you people since you here?
Two groups. Obviously the shopkeeper sent us
here with your order because we were headed here, already sent
by those who kicked you out because my short friend there
has similar truck. Nope.
That words too big for my mouth, the moment similar nation is
feather. Proclivities the heart where you
wanted to go. I mean usually this is the table
that's going to give you all the words.
So where did the day kids? Proclivities.
I've only one go ahead. He's only gone up.
One room. It wasn't that big of a room.
Yeah. Outside.
After that, he might have knocked over a building to but
I'm not sure. And you hear him, you hear him
Grumble and he starts, kind of wobbling and he just barges
through all of you, right? And he's pretty solid, right?
So it's like it's not just like he's you're not you're a little
shocked for as old as he looks to have the strength that he
does and he goes into a stuff. He says, come follow me.
And he's kind of in general, but it's also being directed at
Elle. I was right on his heels and he
is, he grabs the crate, he kicks Open Door towards the back, and
you come into an open space that has been lined with some sort of
metal in the room and the entirety of the walls are
inscribed with Arcane inscriptions.
Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, you were describing the room
itself. Just thrums with Arcane energy
as soon as you step in. I know judge Patrice and I kind
of leaned over and I go If you want to bet this dwarf is blown
up. If you buildings too.
That's yeah, it's an anti explosion room, right?
It's like a, it's like a. It's like an Arcane blast room.
It's a bunker? Yeah, it's a reverse bunker.
Yeah. Yeah.
You never did. But yeah, inverted bunker.
But I have no idea. Think they kicked me out, damn
it. You weren't supposed to answer
and I didn't get to make the bet.
I owe you five gold now. I think you owe me five gold.
Yeah, hold on. Thanks, I hand scaled 5 gold,
perfect. I want to be able to like reach
the rim. Take it.
And there's put it in my pocket. Instead, like, intercept.
The head office, like film. We'll save that for different
wedding night. Now, I don't stop you.
Stop you because I don't actually care about.
The money just wanted to bet on something because it's been a
while. He so there's there's doors on
each of the four spaces and he points to the one that's
directly opposite of the room when you came in and says
there's a, there's a room at the top of the tower.
Got tea. And then he grabs L forcefully
and drags him over to a table and begins to explain how his
machinery and his space works. And he says the only way that
you're going to be able to utilize this space as if I'm
here and I get one, we just met a crotchety old dwarf in shock
teacher, I love it. Godless deal.
Nah, he's too old school for that.
If you didn't wear it, that's your down.
Damn fault. Does he have all those his
fingers or does he, how he does not?
He's Miss, he's missing his right Pinky and his left middle
finger. But not all of his left middle
finger. It's like the first knuckle, but
let me get that for you. I had a, I had a professor in
college, dr. Steele.
He taught machine design and back when we used to have
overhead projectors. For all the children out there,
there was a light. There was a light table that he
would put transparencies on, and he would point with his house,
with the bone in it have finger and it would be illuminated unto
the the onto the wall and that was every day, all day.
He also used to hold the marker sounds good.
But that's in the fact that this man had a half finger is white.
Hot machine design. Yeah.
Not machine shop. Also, I slept through the day.
He explained how it happened at my buddy was like, you don't get
to know you fucking we're not there, you fucked up, fucked up.
So so let's graph guy that he wants to make Okay, Scout.
You got that t tuner trivial? Let's go get some tea.
Yeah. Do you need a roll some stuff?
Dustin. I do.
Hold on. So as the the five of you go
upstairs because you're quite terrified of what may happen
with the crotchety won't. And the quiet gnome who slings
things, excuse me, a pleasant room that you find up there.
It's kind of set in the same style that that you are familiar
with from taka bahad with the kind of the rugs and the lowly
and tables. There's not really any chairs of
some bean bags but there is a lovely tea, set their available.
There's even a hookah for those of you who wish to imbibe.
But yeah. What's this what's this vase
here for scalp smoking smoking? Yeah, it's a smoking base.
A smoking vase. Yeah.
And I loaded up in, light it up and take a giant hit and blow
some smoke rings. And then, you know what Patrice
for hasn't as I'm smoking the the hookah.
I'm going to attempt to blow a three-masted ship. okay, you are
Performance, please. That's going to be a 15.
So it comes out but it's not quite like it's not Gandalf
level. Yeah it's recognizably a
dramatic night Isabel as a ship. And then I'm going to blow
another smoke ring that is a kraken that devours the ship.
That's only going to be an 8. It looks like a squid, so
squared comes up to it data. Like puts it's an abelian just
fucking disappearance. Can I eat the garnish?
From the, what's the name of your favorite?
You can sudden has ink pot? It's kind of like a honey pot,
but different or so good a scar. No.
I wish we had some video for this so that the listeners could
see that reaction because it was priceless as someone who's been
around and chat and a honey pot know.
It's good times. Good times the first attempt
with the recipe. Barely works.
But it does, and the second Works incredibly well.
Okay, yeah, I'm just gonna be in the future dust and that's how
this is going to work. If you get to a laboratory
because I don't, I have all that paperwork.
You gave me? Yeah, that's a fucking novel,
dude. I'm not reading that.
Yeah, but, you know, the information.
Inand and mechanics exist, right?
And I trust Dustin to roll it. Like it is one person that I
know is going to roll it to accurately.
It's Dustin. Yeah, that's fair.
Yeah. He's going to handicap himself
when he feels like he should be handicapped.
That kind of stuff. Yeah.
So I now have well. Now rascar has one and I have
one potion with exploding Alchemist fire, okay, what is a
potion of exploding Aquos? Do you drink it?
Don't drink. So apply drink, but if you drink
this, it's going to go very badly for you.
There anything on it? This is don't drink this.
No, you can drink everything. It's if you're brave enough,
everything can be drank once. Everything can be eaten.
Once everything can be fought once you know, just probably not
going to survive the Webster's Dictionary.
Definition of potion is a liquid with healing magical or
poisonous part. Properties says nothing about
drinking poison, and healing both imply.
Inviting another know. You can put on yourself or on.
Yeah, that's what they did in Ray's.
Warbling scored on the wound and as you and magical doesn't imply
anything? That's the way you can, you can
get poison through your skin, to I've done Jimson weed.
No Pride. For 16 days buddy.
This is my face. That's why I ingest.
This is true. It's true.
This is my first time smoking a vase.
You're doing very well, how okay?
So I do my dreams and three impression of Scouts called The
Heavy words as I go about this. Yeah, so I you want to pull it
into your mouth, use your sung, your tongue is like the like to
create suction, to pull it, into your mouth, and then inhale it,
and then breathe about Constitution.
Saving throw Patrice police. My first crew is way m to me
about this shit. Yeah but Patrice is special.
That's what my mom says. Yeah.
He's a special guy and you know life is hard enough for him as
is unfounded. But you know why role that a 21
on a constitution? Safe life has been difficult.
Because well Patrice. Alright, life has been difficult
for me as well. Honestly, for what I would like
to consider a similar reasons. We both have a virtuous nature.
We're both very direct and honest.
We both say what we're thinking, regardless of how it's going to
impact the people around us, you know?
Yeah. Uh-huh.
I yeah. Agree.
As you as you're drawing in the smoke, like you're finally
getting used to these new experiences like, well, they're
new to you. You're getting Used to this
these weird and unique things that are happening to you.
Over the last you know five months or so it feels like yeah
like the similar to puberty. Weird and unique.
Uh-huh. Yeah, so you were definitely not
as proficient in the in the Arts of smoking as scold is, but it
does not cause you to cough or anything.
It actually is quite Pleasant. Isn't for you.
It's like a kind of an apple date flavor.
I've been reading, I read a really good article on on dates
role in Ramadan and I'm really been wanting to eat dates into
the fucking best. Man, that brought, you do get a
state steer when you put one in a cocktail.
So you can soak up the gym next, you next week.
Next drink. Yeah, both due dates in our
drinks, next rank. Mind if we dance with your
dates, is there anything else that you all would like to do or
discuss? Why you're sitting up here?
Is there anybody else up here or is he the only one here?
It's you haven't seen or heard anything that would indicate
that he is with the he has anyone.
Here any books around not here. Wow.
Does anyone here speak to Connick?
I don't speak it but I can read it.
I'm going to hand. It's called The Scroll.
I got okay, ritual cast comprehend languages.
I feel like either this is just like, I'm missing something or
Or just really fucking old and hard to understand.
So go ahead and roll if you're going to read it and
intelligence check, please. I'll read it out loud again.
Okay, so whoever is there and would like to listen.
Can can roll an intelligence check as well to see how they
interpret everything. Hey straight 16 God damn
straight. Okay.
Oh, just the four of us? Yeah, I thought my bag outside
and I stayed in the room. Sorry cool.
Right. You gotta keep eyes on your
buddy, that's your ass so you don't really get anything more
than what then then what? Sid got initially, except for Am
I right? The right book here.
Sorry. Sorry.
This safety coordinator. Until there's building to jump
off with. The problem is, I have too many
too many lore books that I have written.
And I might be the one that you don't want to follow them
things. Shouldn't I have slow format.
Do-do-do-do, father, The Traveler California.
I don't know if this has any bearing, but the first sentence
of comprehend languages Says, for the duration, you understand
the literal meaning of any language.
So it comes across as just added.
This is how I've always, I've always ruled it.
Is, you can read it, you read it.
As you would the modern common, that makes sense Rockville,
right? Like, you're not getting
colloquialism or Nuance, right? Right.
Let's go metaphors tend to be lost.
Yeah, that's true. Yeah, I don't know if you're
particularly flowery language in your world.
It is. And in this case this is really
flowery. And if that happens to be the
case, I'm reading, very literally what those words say
not thought for thought, but word for word.
Yeah. So but the one thing that
everyone really keys in on is the name The Watcher.
Hmm. There can be only one stop in
this case. There can be.
For you said that the the infinitive is incorrect.
Well what is it supposed to be there?
Can only be one. Yeah, that makes more sense.
I need to watch that again. Rise who has a my guy sending
Stone to Patrice right are not Patrice prospering.
Sorry. I don't know who has it that.
Yes, that's not relevant. I thought that's who had a
standing Stone to sarcasm aside the room.
Yes, that's what I thought. One of the ingredients that you
used rum gin just it's just it's Rags and glass exactly.
Snowflake obsidian lotus, flower Desert, Rose, lodestone, Ivory
and black onyx. So, after you have finished, the
reading you've sat around had a few dates.
If some hookah, some tea. You get this this flowery scent
that rises up as you hear coming from the blow stairs.
Get down here. We're done.
I feel like there's like some memory like citizens, like some
training like in her. Like like a normal drill
sergeant. How does that makes it like this
snaps? Welcome back to campaign to
concoctions. Wear tonight, I don't have
anything pithy to say so we're just going to roll into some
drinks. I made a drink that was designed
by Andrew zakim. We use the Balmer Peak rum, the
Aged anniversary room, the it's called, the last bird, which is
a mix between a jungle bird and a Last Word cocktail.
Which are two of my favorite tricks.
So it's got three quarters of an ounce of the of the Aged
overproofed Orissa rum from bomber Peak.
It's got three quarters of an ounce of Campari half an ounce
of green chartreuse, 3/4 of an ounce of fresh pineapple juice
squeezed by Jared and half an ounce of lime juice to give it
that tartness. Pretty good, right?
And we garnished it with the beer tasting because we were
talking about this. Yeah.
And I brought some dates. What's the, what's the figure,
though? What's the James Bond movie?
It's like octopussy. No, that's not the one.
That's like a day to remember something.
There's a few, The Living Daylights now, because it's time
to kill. There's day after tomorrow, A
Good Day to Die. Oh, there we go.
A good date to die is the name of my drink.
DHE date. Not day.
A Good Day to Die. It's 1.5 ounces of Ballmer Peak
Spiced Rum again, we're just going to keep running right
through this bomber Peak product here, half an ounce of nonino
Amaro, half an ounce of Cointreau half an ounce of a
date syrup that Curtis made months ago and has been sitting
unrefrigerated on the countertop the entire time.
So hopefully it's also turned into liquor a little bit.
Half an ounce of pineapple juice and you're all gonna die.
Yep. But a Fun Run and like 99% sure.
I put cerrano agave in there as well.
That'll kill all the only thing exactly I think I put a quarter
ounce of the Cerrado agave in their garnished with a.
Is it a medjool date or they medjool dates?
I don't think so. No because they would have say
so on the package if they were They're deglet Nour Gates deglet
Nour dates, which are a little bit smaller than modules now
that I'm looking at it. And then I also hired a Demerara
cube with some of the overproof Barrel aged rum to caramelize
the Demerara sugar, and then drop that whole thing with the,
with about a bar, spoon of the barrel, aged overproof rum in
there as kind of a float. Yeah.
Yeah, look at the picture on Instagram.
Yeah, and the video of the the Flaming Q.
This is yelling. That's right.
Portray pretty good times. All right, well as five or four
of you walk down the stairs into the laboratory, we're just going
to say that Sark World a stealth check because well to be honest
L and wraith beard won't really paying attention and he's super
stealthy. So Just going to say that
because he would have kicked you out.
He wouldn't have done the experience experiment.
If he had known, you were in there.
So 18 self so so as you walk in the scent of those those floral
notes get a little bit stronger and he goes Well.
That, that ass. That went well, thank you.
I'm processing. We didn't actually say who we
were. Who are you?
Oh, how nice? Everyone else.
So I take it. Y'all work for L, right?
Sure. L sure, things we do.
Okay, well since I like y'all, what, what are you doing here?
But mostly censured in line with the eccentricities of people who
study things that probably should be left alone on
occasion, know anything about the mortar and pestle of the
three ladies. He walks back out into the
laboratory and and he's got, he's got books lining the wall
head. But he's, this is actually
probably for those of you who are familiar with Wizards.
This is Probably one of the smallest collections of books
that you've seen and you do see a bunch of books that I like,
laying on the ground. But they look like journals or
notebooks and he starts to kind of go through those and you see
them, they're flying. It's funny.
Right? Because the the lab is super
pristine in an order but like he's a fucking whirlwind going
through all of this and let me make a role for him real quick.
He goes through four stacks of journals and notebooks and
they're just getting tossed all over the all over this place.
He goes to the To the the bookshelves and he's perusing
peruse and peruse and, and he, you hear him getting louder and
louder motherfucker. What the fuck am I fucking have?
The fuck? You know, he is very much a fuck
kind of guy and he is getting more and more agitated as a time
goes by. And he finally stops, and he
turns around and his, the, his goatee comes out of his belt.
He just kind of throws it over his shoulder and he goes, I just
can't fight it. I got nothing out of it.
Okay. Well, since you were such a
lovely host and I would like to give you a bottle of this.
Nice Malbec wine did. I've been saving?
We just really appreciate your time.
Do you appreciate Fine Wines? Yeah, I appreciate the gift
though. Okay that tasted I can't taste
the fucking difference. if, you know, neither can I Not being
able to taste the difference doesn't mean that you don't
enjoy it so he puts it down to goes well with that.
I'm gonna. I got something for you guys and
he pulls out. He's got a bag that's a little
bit bigger than a dice bag and he opens it up.
It says one of your reach out in here.
Goes for it. You're going to get there before
me D6 for me Stark. Nope, that's the day on the pad
3 barely stayed on. Okay, so What you pull out is a
coin. It.
Um, It has what looks to be a carved.
This image of the Surly dwarf that is right in front of you,
on one side and on the other it has a really poor Fastenal of
the windmill that is above his house.
Because although yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's a, that's a lucky penny. What makes it lucky It's so
nice. It helps you out.
Helps you out? Sure.
Thank you so much. We really appreciate that and it
makes it disappear sleight of hand.
Check what I'm hoping for. A proficient, okay?
But still I hate teen. Okay, so here's what you have
Sark. You have a lucky penny.
So if you if you roll a natural, one on a perception, check, you
get to roll a D4. If you roll a 4, you find
another Lucky Penny. If you roll a natural one, you
get to re-roll and then the natural Penny loses all all
magic, okay? But you get the sense that Bra,
six got like these little knickknacks all over the place
that he's about right. That's fun.
Okay. I'll have to look back up at
themselves. Have a recipe that I've been
working on, I'm not sure. I think I figured out the potion
of create wall, but I want to make it soluble to something so
I can unmake the wall when I want to.
I haven't figured that part out yet. a potion of wall and one
wall, I mean like a Wonderwall Enough From The Oasis.
Ooh, I should make you roll, I should make you roll some sort
of save and take psychic damage for that point for the 20s.
I got a 2, a 3, a 4 TT. So L he looks at you and he kind
of stops That's real Advanced magic.
They'd be almost like mixing. What was that called again?
Is that you're trying to make l. Person of create wall, but
soluble times solly's. Like it's almost like great wall
and Wall of water together. Hmm, you never speak to me.
Are we over hearing this for? They'd buy themselves some
sorry? Oh, this is all you guys are all
together like but they don't they're not paying attention to
y'all. It's gonna be like hell.
A wall of ice. I'll strong enough though.
All right. In creating the world creating
wall of rock. Isn't that difficult Fair on
making it that stock? That's harder.
Also, contain, let me write it down, let me write it down.
I'll tend to my notebook, open to that page.
He pulls out, he pulls out one off of his belt and so you
notice the ones on his left, side are fairly plain, the what,
but the ones on his right are fairly What's the word I'm
looking for? They are They're obviously
something more than just a notebook.
So he pulls it out, he pulls out his Notebook on the left, the
left side and he begins to scratch it down and he writes it
down and says, hmm. And he reaches over into, he's
got a little pile and he, you guys are collecting these, like
they're fucking Pennies on the street.
He tosses you a sending Stone, grab it and put it in an actual
pocket. I'll call you Cool.
Sorry, I'm trying to keep that one
and then turn around and walk out.
So as everyone know like is leaving for the doors are system
like what do you call a magician, who's lost all his
magic? He turns around and walks away.
This weird amalgamation of buildings, which as I do.
I guess we should head for the probably go back through town.
It's like we should stop in 11 Mackenzie now.
Nothing else that we are planning on leaving in about 45
days since he asked for time to get stuff fixed and shit.
That's fine. I hold them at least two days.
So it's no more than at least two.
So it's it's only been about an hour and a half since you guys
have pulled up here, so if you guys want to go back to the
Shirlene, you'll still be able to make it within a day.
Urban and by the end of the day, sounds good.
I'm good with pushing through and we can sleep in beds
tonight. Both of us did sleep.
Well, know if we push through we can make it to the cave and
sleep there. And then we have half like a
full day of the cave and not half a day at the cave.
Well I was saying if you guys were going back to the cherlene
you could make it in half a day. Okay.
Nevermind I missed. Ya know.
That's It's the rich loaded planned and then I misheard what
you said. So we're fine.
Yeah, we can make it back to the shearling.
I'm good with that. That was my original thought
process. I swear, when we set out early
again tomorrow morning and gave but then we can also get cookies
breakfast again tomorrow. Hmm.
So when you talked to y'all Thor, you know, that from the
the Gate of the city that the the entrance to the cave is
about half a day to the Northeast, you guys when you
went to to bra, six place, that was going to the Northwest.
So you added some distance. You probably wouldn't be able to
To keep their today, without risking points of exhaustion.
Sorry. Magic House people are in a
hurry that it was like two weeks.
We don't need to rush All the booze and food is at the boat.
Anyways, so, well, all the good food and booze is at the boat.
Anyways, true? Yeah.
So at that and then head out early, we just have Artie
tuners. Travel Montage.
So Kind of opposite of the metro area.
The mountain ranges, sit to the north and to the East and then
it's flat tool, the ocean to the West.
So as you are slowly, making your way back to the cherlene as
the sun slowly reaches towards the Western Horizon.
It's not as spectacular as a sunset, right?
Is when you guys are around mountains, but as you were
approaching straw which, and that kind of sits on the right
side of the view, it's it is quite a lovely view as the sun
sets in these kind of adobe It's like this weird mashup, you
know, like Adobe and and like Islam or Islamic, and Arabic
architecture, right? It's really pretty and into the
Earth. I know.
So, So is the six of you arrive back to the cherlene?
The captain comes up to all of you says well hey welcome back.
I was not expecting y'all for a couple more days but I am
pleased to report that we should be finished with all minor
repairs that we had left here by midday tomorrow and we're
actually as it is good to go at any point you know everything
else is kind. Of like small small Fizzles and
also we can get it all done but I'm assuming you all still have
things to do around here. Yeah.
We ran one hour and we got to actually go do what we're
getting paid for. Okay.
Well do y'all have a timetable
that I can anticipate you all being back?
I'd like to have cookie. Make something nice for y'all.
Two to five days to five aren't will be waiting and won't start
till we see the whites of the eyes.
I'm if you don't, if you don't mind and he looks at at all
y'all and he goes, if y'all don't mind, I'd love to get the
crew, a little bit of leave in town if that if you all think
that's a good idea and if that's okay Are on the shorter side
because you don't know what's in the cave.
We're going to go spelunking. So on the off chance it comes
after us if we leave it alive I don't want to be gathering crew
at a brothels. I wouldn't worry too much about
that. We have a special horn here on
the ship and everyone knows that.
Once that things called, you pull your britches up and you
get here on the sending Stone I gave you.
Say it again. Dozen the toilets are kicking of
Mackenzie the sending Stone. I gave them back in town when he
was going out for some recreational self-defense.
Oh yeah, I'm sorry. Can immediately as really
puzzled look for me to do that in the hands and put Mackenzie
that's the one to you, right? Yeah.
That's that's the one I made. Okay.
How did how are you telling the difference between all of these
standing stones are Location and points at all his pockets.
That's why I asked because I couldn't I couldn't decipher the
the I think people from cities, that's something you Pockets to
All Peoples from large cities. Have a.
Yeah. All people from large cities
have lots of pockets, yeah. To hold all their stockholders,
Sunday Stones. Yeah.
I say, except for rich people, they they don't always have
stuff like that because they have people to carry their
things. And it's why I don't like rich
people to rent from the cities. We're talking about the people
who aren't rich but also acquire lots of money.
So that's just the thing to watch out for you that you can
usually tell who got a little bit of corn because they don't
got pockets. I don't smell like shit but it's
true. That is not wrong but
unfortunately incredibly true. I mean it depends on the city
Patrice sniffs himself. Well we all kind of stank from
time to time. We do a pretty good job with
hygiene around here but you know it is what it is.
You know, the people in a In is going to be a little more
fluttering, you know, it is what it is.
We'll get it. We get it all squared away.
But don't worry about it. We'll get you take care of, make
sure the ship's ready to go. Make sure the crews ready to go
but not now. So I think it's time for us to
all have supper and and you all can do is y'all see fit as it is
your boat. Well, we'll let you know on the
as we're coming back the condition.
If we're maybe coming back a little hot, Matthew coming back
hot we may come to you. That actually sounds like deal,
not gonna lie, big fan of that big fan of that plan.
Certainly the first, the first hot extraction that we've had
this prospering was known to get into a little bit of a mix from
time to time and she like to do it on our own would never take
none of us with her so we got real good at getting up there
real quick and take care of her and she's pretty hot in many
different ways. Got ya.
I'm really hoping with all have any issues of that magnitude for
a while. I wouldn't take you if it was a
very Magnitude because I don't think even the six of y'all
combined could handle what she can.
Yeah. I might be able to outrun it
then search wanders off. Well sorry for all six voice got
me. Yeah that was a rough one.
It's pretty graph. That's why I'm glad he's not
going to be one that you guys are going to be hopefully seeing
too much. He's not our Victor.
But at this point because like, as the sun sets, it's probably
the only time of day where it's Pleasant enough that you're not
hiding either from the Sun, or from the cold.
So, with the, it seems like over the last two days fairly
quickly. The crew have established they
bring out the, the chairs, the tables.
Chairs from from The Galley and set it out on the deck and then
they have a meal together there. And so they do you know as you
guys have gotten to know them you know it's a fairy Cordial
environment, especially considering like your owners
like of the ship. They treat you better than
especially those of you who are Sailors, like you're not
expecting this like owners, don't get this kind of kind of
treatment. Like you guys are considered
part of the crew. And so like you guys were
brought down äôs been brought up and so, you know, simple simple
meal of, you know, just kind of like some sort of like maybe
some Yardbird and and in something like that but it's
It's, you know, nice to kind of have a moment of rest and
respite as the the party is kind of recovering getting ready to
set on to the next task. Internal go ahead turn to
Patrice and I say every conceivable before.
Why would one do that? And I take a bite of the
nondescript bird on my plate and just sit back and then start a
sippin on my glass of rum that I got there and just with a like a
very subtle extremely pleased with myself smile.
Patrice shutters and then looks down at his plate.
And then go then. Okay, and then he tries it again
and he's expected Siegel to be a little string here, I'll finish
that. If you're not going to look it
up Patrice, you know, in towns like this people feed them alive
so they end up being a lot more tender than you expect.
That's fine. Are they actually seagulls this
far? Inland are they just goals?
She's not that far. My boat flies our boat flies,
which means that's also the see that make it Airco, whatever
they are, they're delicious. Well, you know cookie cookie
knows how to just cook just about anything in a place that
in a way that just makes it. So Sumptuous, you know, it's
delightful, it is the lot delightful.
And I tell What having this ROM that y'all brought aboard?
Tell you what crew is not been happier and a long time.
Well, we're going to try to keep you guys that way.
We aim to please don't go that far, we enjoyed ourselves.
He okay, yeah. Oh yeah, hey usually, if I'm
aiming is to kill something though.
You have to aim. I don't know, she just says
crazy black shit, just shoots out of my hands and then things
die aren't. I don't really know how it works
but it's not mad. It's definitely, I mean, it
might be magic but I don't do. Magic got it Stephen magic.
She does magic for him. I don't know who she is yet but
yeah, that checks out. Yeah.
She's the one that called us when we fell that's the one
that's kind of creepy but I like her clammy.
Chilean. Yeah.
Oh my God, chilling. Touch of you.
All right, technically was odd. All right now as supper ends and
the chill begins to creep. Creep over the gunnels of the of
the sure leans Deck. The Crew cleans up moves the
tables, and chairs, and benches back into the galley, the
lights, and the Torches are lit and watches or set.
You are not expected to maintain a watch at this point as because
the ship is stationary, it's a little bit easier to maintain
watches. Six of you go down for the
evening. And that's where we're going to
end for this week. As we've gotten to a good point
stopping point. And then next week we will take
on with you'll eat the six of you leading to go and find the
cave where we do see what happens after that.
So, real quick, big shout out and thank you to bomber Peak for
providing us. Our anniversary gift of that
spice rub And in thanks to them Curtis and I will be doing a
shot of their, no Mort. I think everybody else has some
variation on their rum or Jim or rest.
I do not because I don't think we have it here yet but you
don't yet. But yeah, the rest of us at the
table. I did also want to give a quick
another quick. Shout out that I forgot, I
forgot at the top. I didn't want to thank Trudy at
board fox games here in Grand Junction.
They, that has been a great shop.
As we know as most of, you know, when you move to a new city, it
things. Get a little tough at times, but
those people there, the jesters playground Warhammer Community.
All of those guys have been really wonderful and we're
hoping to start, we've got some local content creators.
Has and D&D game designer stuff that we're going to look to get
it to. So thank you Trudy.
Thank you board, fox games. I really appreciate you guys for
taking care of me, but with that, I think we're going to
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