Welcome everyone to campaigns in concoctions where we are a bunch
of scurvy Scallywags who liked to drink and play TT RPGs.
Thank you for joining us on this adventure of Cooperative
storytelling. I am Morgan, the GM.
I am coming to you live from up, relocation Alpha, Curtis.
Sitting us. His energy Detachment 1 and math
is at the Opry location Charlie while everyone else is located a
compact campaigns. Concoctions, 8.
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But before we get into deliciousness, I asked before,
but I'm going to ask again, anybody got anything that they
want to share, they want to pitch anything like that.
Silence, I will take that as a no.
So Jared is finishing up his drink right now, so I'm going to
get us started. I wouldn't simple, I have a
Manhattan. Two ounces of Rittenhouse Rye,
an ounce of sweet vermouth, a full eye, dropper of infused
bitters, Tres Amigos, which is super spicy and delicious, and
it's burned, and it's awesome. So, it is wonderful.
And you garnish it with a Maraschino cherry or whatever.
I don't know. I can't remember which brand I
got. So, that's where that is Jared.
Are you ready to go or we can, we can read.
Later is currently outside. I went to cochino tacos earlier
and I got a 32 ounce, Paloma and I am still working on it because
it's a 32-ounce Paloma. Yep.
It's and this is why I always warn Jared Jared don't make
drinks when you're, when you're really close to start when we're
really starts to starting recording because Jared, So long
time and I love him for it. Yes.
It's a lot of thought into his crafts, after the breakout time
we'll get. We'll get to it later.
But I have a drink. What do you have?
Good sir. I have gin and a glass.
Sounds is what what type of detail?
Looks like I have 805. So the choice get you would let
much Maryland. The vein of what Curtis is
drinking. I'm experimenting with this
newfangled thing called beer, awesome.
It'll never catch on. I'm wiped out in feeling lazy.
That's fair. I mean, that's what I've been
drinking the rest of the night. I just wanted to make at least
one before the night is over. So, the last time that I saw you
scurvy Scallywags which I might keep that part of.
That might be my favorite one yet.
Scurvy Scallywags kind of fits. Man, the party left the boat and
began exploring Talca bahad with its spicy sense.
It's bustling atmosphere and the crackling energy of the Arcane
permeating the city. They found a great place to get
drinks called the black diamond Alehouse.
Are they? Sound sound a little bit of
information about what's going on a bit more information about
the city. And then went to dinner at
Autumn hook where some people found actually before that, some
people found some information about from a somewhat shatter e,
shadowy organization and then inner some plans were made
Trying to read all of my notes here because I know there's
something about Paradox shipping, which I can't
remember, because my notes are crap because they're on a
envelope, that was the competitors for the nine
brothers that we were dining or Dustin was wining and dining.
That's right. That's just that was the shot.
That's the shadowy information. Space her name again Fatma
sibel. It changed Fatima to farms in my
in my app. It's it's very much a shame
because I this the culture of the three city-states is very
much kind of like if it's the reverse of what happened in real
life, it's if Algeria colonised. France.
Nice. So it's beautiful and wonderful.
So I use a lot of Arabic which is one of my favorite languages.
I wish I spoke it. So at this point, Sark is
finishing up his walk around where he found a little bit of
information and was able to get some spots of where he could
possibly be going. But at this point, the rest of
the party is resting for the evening Sark, you are going to
have to get back to a little bit for your shortened rest.
So, the morning has slowly come The humidity Rises because towel
cabal had is an island. And it's it's humid in a way
that haven is not and it's mostly because if anyone has
spent time completely surrounded by water, they understand that
feeling. It doesn't even have to be
hotter for it to be more humid and more uncomfortable.
This is kind of like a Florida humidity.
Yeah. Yeah.
They can keep that warm rain bullshit.
Yeah. But this it is a other than the
humidity. It is gorgeous as the breeze
kind of flows through the open windows.
It's one of those spaces where there's really not a winter.
There's a monsoon in a dry season.
So like there's really not a lot of permanent glass.
That is that is there in the wind for the winter?
But everyone had gotten rooms. I think there were just say that
you guys found it in because we that way, we don't have to role
play that everyone found a place everyone communicated where they
were going to be and the morning rises bright clear with a light
Westerly wind blowing over the port area where you guys are at.
What would you guys like to do? so, we'll probably still not
awake yet, so, Unless our coal come up.
Perfect. Did we notice any areas last
night? That would give a nice look out
into the harbor in the direction of Haven and again.
Sorry, Are there any areas that we would have seen last night?
That would be a great place to go to watch the sunrise and to
get a look in the direction of where haven is so Haven would be
directly south. And the port is kind of is so
the remember my maps here. So The island that Talca bahad
is on, is shaped like a like a teardrop and so the the port
itself is kind of slowly or not. It's round but not very, very
much. So, you know.
So the closest thing for you would probably be to go out and
sit on one of the docs. I will go and do that.
I will return to where I know the ship was and I will find a
quiet place to sit and to think and to just so the if you
remember the ship is floating right now, it's docked at and at
one of the airports or the are the airport, ha ha ha ha
unintentionally invented. That thing got a Sky Harbor.
So What are you doing there? Whatever critical.
I think I'm gonna I think I'm going to spend a little bit of
time. I think I'm going to go through
one of my rituals with red wine and bone bone fragments penciled
into it. I'm going to I'm going to take
time to listen and I'm going to try and meditate on the last
things that I heard, what I call Haven has said.
To me and what my objectives are.
There, any one that happens to be wanting to pay attention to
Patrice when they're leaving? All of them, I got all kind of
watch Patrice, go out. And then give I think I give
Patrice some space that kind of, observe from afar.
I'll show you. But are you going to follow?
Yeah, roll a stealth check. You're going to be discreet
about it. Probably not.
Yeah, I'm not like set eight. Okay.
What's your passive? Okay, that's going to be a 12.
So as you are walking around and kind of finding that spot where
you feel comfortable, being able to sit down and, and navigate
and listen to what's going on. You, you do notice, Sid, trying
to be discreet and giving a little bit of distance, but she
is definitely following you. I motion for Sid to come and
join me on my walk. All right.
Good morning, Patrice hot. Sorry, I didn't mean to disturb.
You just was also up early this morning and Just taking in the
new surroundings. Yeah, yeah, it's yeah.
I think I'm starting to get used to being a new places.
I was headed up to the docks to kind of get a better look South
and look back where we came from and spend a little time and in
quiet. Well, don't, don't mind me.
I'm just taking in taking in this new environment and sing.
And why the heck I ended up here now?
Why did you end up here? So it's kind of a long story, my
well, not long, but the short of it is that my comrade and best
friend that I went through my entire military career with was
was taken in the last battle that I ever fought in.
And but I, when I was going through her things, I found,
Little skull figurine head of the skull rocket at Haven.
And I heard of it and decided to see if there was any meaning or
any clues of what happened to her from that, that trinket is
a, do you have it with you? Yeah, I would so Patrice will
pull out. It's a massive poking.
Kit said, oh my God, thank you stable.
Pull out. I'm in the moment.
This is good. Sid will pull out its tobacco
smoking kit but it's different than the one you've typically
seen her have and there's a probably, is it unzip?
A little pocket and pull out This little trinket like it's
just a collector souvenir item of of Haven that somebody sold
to knows man. I see this chachki Yeah, so I'll
hand it to Curtis or to Sid. Oh my God to Patrice.
Um I hold it in my hands delicately and I smash it on the
no I don't do that. I would like to roll religion on
on this. All right.
Go ahead with Advantage please. It's going to be a 17.
Okay. So instantly, you have this
initial reaction to it, just because of the visual
representation. It is a perfect perfect replica
of Harbor House with the horns and everything.
As you roll. You here or not as your role as
you as you kind of as roll it through your, you know, your
hands. You probably have your Ocarina
out at this point, you know. And it's kind of like you notice
that it is made of the same material and it is It's sings to
you in the way that the Ocarina did and we also did I establish
or think about research in regards to the Ocarina that it
was made of the skull from Haven 100%.
Yes. So so I'm going to assume that
that you're implying that this is also made from the same bone.
Yes. So, you do recall that at one
point, there were a few of these that had been sold out of Haven
itself. This is the first time, you've
seen one in person and that you have connected with it, but now
that you've seen it and touched it and you know, that this comes
from the same creation space that Touches around the being
that, you know, is Haven. I visibly kind of I'm taken
aback and gasp at it. I've got is my posture changes
to 21 of slight reverence, and I hand it back to Sid gently and
say, This, this is no mere trinket.
This is a this is actually of Haven.
And when I say that, I mean, like this is made of the same
material as my Ocarina that I hold here, which is comes from
the skull of Harbor House. I had no idea how would of this
gotten across half the world. Well, I mean Haven is a bunch of
scurvy pirates that travel all over the place.
So I gotta assume by boat can I can we put the Ocarina and this
trinket together? Well as so Patrice had hit the
Ocarina out some like it's kind of become like a like you know
worry beads for for Patrice if I'm remembering correctly.
He always kind of has it in his hands and his kind of, you know,
gently caressing it. So you can see it, the
distinction though between the Ocarina and this trinket is that
Is a little bit of paint that has been applied to it, to give
it the shading and everything. As if you were walking up and
looking at Harbor House and now that you kind of look at it
differently, you can see that, but as long as you have held on
to this, it doesn't seem that anything has faded or gone away.
That is a, that is a special, special thing.
Was it you're saying that your friend was taken under duress
yeah, I we were kind of ambushed last last battle I ever fought
in and She's kind of sacrificed herself so that I could I could
get back. I just, I don't know what
happened to her and then, Colette politics kind of got
involved and they thought that I wasn't fit for service anymore
and decommissioned me and and I so I started my retirement and
was just just a couple months, have passed and our guests, and
he was a whole year passed and eventually in her memory opened
up. Her tobacco pipe and was going
to smoke in her honor. And I found this in her bag and
not just set me on the course to Haven.
Well, that's pretty pretty special.
Do you have you heard anything about about your friends since
like I do anything, as you any intelligence anymore, I was
hoping to go to the Shadow and Bone and ask them were here
before you say that. I need you to roll a history.
Check. Sid.
On the complication of Shadow will grow.
That's not great history's flat. Yep, eight.
Well, luckily these guys are from your neck of the woods.
Do you have a really low DC, Okay?
So, You would actually know that they are not the best place to
seek out information, great, the complication of Ebony and bone,
from what? Because you would have had some
sort of some sort of relationship with them and your
guys as a sergeant major in the OR worn officer in the, in the
in the legion at the dagger. There they are a Thieves Guild.
However they are more than that. They will have information but
they are not your primary source of information usually if
they're selling it, it's because they just happened upon it and
they see some money into it. The one thing that they do do
he's saying with that is that they are involved politically in
targeted killings. Yeah, that's that's kind of the
space that you had operated in with them that you would have
done. They are expensive but very
good. Okay, cool.
Okay. So that would change my Prime my
response. That's why I said ask me before
you go anywhere. Yeah.
Sorry. Okay, so scratch that from the
record, anything. No, I haven't heard anything
since. Yeah I was hoping that haven
would bring something to light but I just stumbled into you
guys and just feel like you're kind of my new new comrades now
and feel attached to this crazy group of Of this crazy team.
Feel like we're doing something that The Echoes is going to Echo
and history and have some purpose behind it.
You know, like I can't speak to that but I definitely agree with
you. Like I don't know what's going
to happen and what we're doing, but even know what we're doing,
but it feels, it feels bigger bigger than it is.
I would agree with you. I think that we lacked some
Direction so that's why I was headed up here.
This Learning to spend some time in communion with.
With my deity. And And reflect and try and
figure out what it is that we should be doing or should not be
doing maybe, who knows? Well, I'll let you get on with
your morning. And it's going to I just gonna
go walk walk, the walk the shore or by the shore, however the
shoreline is or water is so you would have been heading that way
that's where Patrice was kind of walk in.
So it's not like a you know, how Haven kind of has that that
sharp turn where there's the inlet and then the flat, this is
just kind of the the, the harbor here just kind of covers the
entire South End of the island. There is a A title title break
out in the distance that you can see and there's plenty of ships
here so you can walk the you can walk the docks, you can walk the
the ports, the port side stuff as much as you want, okay?
So this all start kind of Meandering.
So before we get back to what Patrice is going to do on his
own, is there anything that anyone back at the N would like
to To be doing. Did we ever meet with the person
was supposed to meet with when we got here?
No, you still have to make it to heart Mage house, right?
We're gonna go case both buildings moving go talk to the
everybody. We almost say that the facility
you guys stayed at for the evening is called feather and
sheep. Other ensure it is run by a
expat from the grand. Regency Of bridge hold which is
why it gets that British IT, British e name instead of
something a little bit more. It's also the name generator
that I had closest is a British pub in in name generator.
I like how there's a bull and Bush thing in the back of Matt's
background which is also like a British pub type thing.
I need to actually hang that. So, as I know, we have a busy
day. I probably wouldn't let L sleep
too long, okay? Mostly to kick them away so we
can go scouting and then swing by my brother's before we
actually go talk to relatively important people.
Right makes sense. This point.
Okay so if no one else got anything else though.
Besides that Patrice you go and find a good spot to sit and kind
of watch the sunrise you kind of you find a doc that's that's
protruding out to this that's facing to the South.
That doesn't have any ships attached to it and you just kind
of you know sit yourself at the corner where you can see that
that Sunrise from the, from the East and then you can look South
toward kind of towards Haven, you can kind of get the best of
both worlds and you know, for anyone who has traveled much,
you know that there's always a familiarity to the sunrise and
sunset, but when you're in a different place it still feels
alien. Right.
And here there are more colors with the sunrise.
It seems that they're in Haven right there.
Right around the, on the close to the equator, it's a very
abrupt sunrise and sunset. There isn't a lot of time, but
as you get further away the colors seem to settle in a
little bit more, so you get a little bit more of a refraction
away is quite stunning. It's very beautiful, and there's
a Mist off. To the, to the, to the east as
the sun seems to, as the temperature is rising.
And it seems that the Mist rises from the sea.
And what is it that you're going to be doing.
I'm gonna take out a small ceremonial cup.
I'm going to take out a small order and pestle.
Well, normal size, mortar and pestle, and I'm going to get a
sliver of bone that I've that I've carved from the base of
Haven and I'm going to place it into the mortar and pestle and
I'm going to Smash it into smaller pieces and then I'm
going to pour that bone into the cup filled with about two ounces
of wine. Okay.
And then drink it. Yeah that is the plan.
I'm going to I'm going to make a I'm going to have a small
prayer. I'm going to have my eyes closed
so I'm going to be sitting still.
I'm going to be Tracing along my chest, the different portions of
Harbor House, following the cheekbones, and the and the
ocular bone and things like that.
Just to just to kind of Center myself, and remind myself that I
placed it here over my heart because that's where it lives.
That's where it lives in me and I go ahead and I drink the wine
and I listen, So ever since you had put those two items too
close together, there had been a whispering in your ears, very
gentle. But as you consume this
concoction and you feel the heat rising, On your left side.
You The Whispers continue to gain in volume.
They're not painful, but you don't make anything clear out of
it, but it's not confusing. It's comforting.
It's the you get the sense that You're where you belong?
And that these voices are here with you as a continuation of
what the being you call Haven is doing for you and those around
you. After.
Feeling that reassurance. I, I would say I stand up as
tall as I can and I reach to the sky and I spread my arms, out to
the side and I leaned down and I touch the ground.
With my Palms, we're a flexible tiny man, and And that's kind of
like a, like a bow of prostrate in a way and then I say thank
you. And I go about the rest.
Go join the rest of my group for, I don't know.
I kind of want to know what breakfast is now.
Well, before we get to that, I need scold yousir.
If I can get you to roll a D100 for me, please 100.
I think I can do that. It's going to be 47.
All right. so, You also hear a voice however unlike Patrice it
is crisp and clear in your head, it's the woman that helped bring
you back, okay? Beware, the Western Mists.
Hmm. What are the Western Mists?
You mean the place in the ocean? You don't get any response from
it as soon as she finishes saying, the Western Mists it
goes away. So like super helpful.
Super, go ahead and Roll History.
Check for me. Green one of my history check
is, I know I got a 19. See I had a feeling.
Yeah. So you would know that off to
the West he especially up here in the northern hemisphere of of
liberal arts. Is an area known as The Mists
there. There are not very many
Uncharted areas on the breath. This is one of them.
All right, because it's not that hot.
Be that their Uncharted. It's just that when ships go
into the Mist, yeah, don't come back.
Gotcha, gotcha. Also I did forget this when she
says, beware the Western Mists there was an image of a fairly
large serpent. Ah Good to know, you raise your
hand and say slightly more helpful, I have slept more
helpful. I'm trying to remember all I've
got. I've got my disparate notes
everywhere on like 17 different places.
So, because I never prep in the same place twice.
Like I made a magic item while I was working at the reference
desk this week, so I'm gonna go find Sark, inhale and wake up
have to I was about to say I'd assumed that you were probably,
you would Probably also seen Patrice and Sid leave but you
probably just sat there and had some coffee.
Yeah. And a croissant or something
like that. So, you would know where they're
at, and I'd say that you're walking up, as you hear the
sound of Sark waking L. Perfect base, the Captain Picard
breakfast, by the way, coffee and costal cursing, which is
relatively familiar. At this point, I'm like, oh, I
think, I think yells alarm clock went off.
So as at this point is that's the way out there yet, are you?
That's the way? I mean, she's she's up at this
point. So I don't know if there's like
a breakfast situation, like, she's not looking for anybody.
She's just gonna like a deer or something until her friends show
up. This is this is very much a
Mediterranean breakfast. So it's mostly pastries of the
non-sweet variety. But with chocolate like a
chocolate spread hazelnut spread kind of thing, Jam leaning more
towards the Middle Eastern cuisine.
Which let me tell you what breakfast in Northern Iraq, is
amazing, really, really, really strong coffee.
That puts anything L makes to shame in strength, as well as
the occasional piece of fruit. Nice.
Sounds delightful. Yeah, well once everybody's are
like eyelids. Let's go to that magic house.
Hey, make sure that all my important things that I
requested people to do. I think we're good unless unless
Patrice or SID want to ask the group.
Anything is now that they're returning.
I think so. Well here we got business
business today to deal with. I think we should do that but I
think I also have a few, a few items on my on my list.
I've never been to another city before kind of want to like, see
some stuff. We can go sightseeing later,
Circle pocket for five whole fruit from The Brick House. so
the they don't have most of it is like a sliced, melon kind of
thing, but there are kind of like this purplish furry fruit
similar in In appearance to like a peach and apricot but it's
closer in flavor to a raspberry and it's that soft, but it's the
same texture as well. Oh, I like these.
What do you call these? I don't think anyone in your
group would know that. Route when I roll for that
nature. Alright?
Okay, / fun. I mean, if it was be anyone to
be you to so 1811 so SOA now, yeah.
But scold Yes, what do you want to call?
When you want to call it, what you want to call it?
This is what happens when you have to improv and you're not
ready for what people are stealing.
You have heard it called? Mountain fruit.
It's a real simple name but you also know that it's not dig that
the actual name, there's a deep down.
I'm like a real name because of 18 was pretty good.
You do know it's native to whoo Dan but it comes from the
northern part of the main the main continent where there are
some pretty drastic mountain ranges that spear up from the
coast and and cut the northern about the northern a to the
island off from the rest. Gotcha.
So I'll just go another sailor, right?
Told you, it's called Mountain fruit.
Yeah, yeah, mountford. That's all I'm used to be.
I was 50% of the way there. Very close, very close fruit.
You eat it. So you don't get scared me.
Yeah, that's exactly right. Clark's like it's pocketable
Brides for children. What are you bragging children
for? I mean information.
Yeah. Most people don't pay attention,
most people don't pay attention to kids very much.
There's sticky action. Don't like sticky things.
The very adolescent L shrugs, right?
That's funny. So what we'll say is Sir, he
deliberately at a like pot of honey and then just shakes his
head and walks away for nothing. So here's what we're going to do
is the six of you exits. That is actually a really good
natural stopping point. We'll take our first break real
quick and then we'll be back in just a few
Welcome back, everybody to campaigns concoctions where we
had our kind of, everyone's had a long weekend.
We haven't really made stuff tonight, which is weird for us.
So we had Jared's drink that. You guys heard him making last
last segment so Jared if you wouldn't mind describing what
you made. Yeah, so I don't know what this
is, but it came out actually pretty good.
It was One point five ounces, real kujan point five ounces,
yellow. Search.
First name is Like A Bouncing 3/4 blood orange juice and then
to Bar spoons of date syrup is very rich.
I stirred it and then after I start drinking as like, this
should have been shaken but it's okay.
It came out pretty good though. He had like a velvety.
Actually like that idea. I think it yellow chartreuse.
Sounds delicious with that. So John, if you wouldn't mind
educating us on WE you should always Shake, almost always
shake that shit your citrus in the in there, right?
Always shake when you have sinteres.
Always, yes, that's what I thought.
And it's one of those things that I don't, I don't always
know but it seems that everything I make that has
Citrus in it. I shade.
Yes. Yeah, anymore.
The only could I make with Citrus in it is a is Margaritas
the reasons is you want to You want to aerate?
Yeah, you want to, you want to aerate.
It changes the way that the citric acid interacts with stuff
and you also want to dilute it a little bit.
So, well, I mean, and you get some dilution with the Sturgis
not as much, right? Yeah.
Not nearly as much. Yeah, it's a, it's referred to
as a controlled dilution when you stir There we go.
See, not only do we make delicious cocktails family,
we're going to educate you on. Why you should do things the way
you do, which is why James Bond is always in correct in his in
100% preparation of martinis one I come are just number.
Not this actually in the books say again drinks a vodka
martini. Also in the books he doesn't
drink Vodka martinis, he drinks the Vesper, right?
Which, which is a creation of Ian Fleming, which is Tacular,
even though you can't officially make it anymore because some of
the Liquors are no longer in production, I mean you can't
make his version. Yeah, that's that's what I mean
by that. You can make a best for now and
it's spectacular. It is quite delicious.
Maybe one time we'll have to do that.
We'll all make one if we're all separate from where we are now,
I think what shakes the I think he has the Vodka cocktail shaken
on purpose to over. Dilute it.
Yeah, he doesn't drink too much and you can stay alert but still
look like he has Drink in his hand.
James Bond is my most problematic favorite spy ever,
so yeah, yeah. He's definitely a problematic
personal Matic character, right problematic?
Yes. Well, he and Fleming was also
one of the few people who was actually a an operator before he
wrote those books. So he writes, he got units a
little bit of it, right? He was in MI5.
Christopher. Who's the guy who played Sal
Romano Christopher Lee Christopher Lee and he were in
the same unit, right? So when fun fact, when Peter
Jackson was talking about sound design, on how the sound do they
were talking about the sound of someone being stabbed
Christopher Lee accurately described with the sound of
stabbing. His like and it really freaked
out Peter Jackson, great. Because Christopher Lee is one
of the most badass. Humans who has ever lived.
He killed Nazis. It is literally killed, not
suppose so but not officially it was like 60 because he did also,
right? Like that's the other fun thing
about James Bond is it was maybe a little bit based on
Christopher Lee. Hm.
And what Christopher? Lee definitely didn't get up to
during World War Two, right, right.
So there you go, family, a little bit of the fun facts that
that we all know randomly. No good reason because don't
ever sit down and drink with us when we're not focused because
you know what the fuck is going to come out of our mouths.
So with that being said, focused being said we know this is
because the alpha token nerd of all time.
Just also happens to be a great fucking spy.
Yeah. And it's Christopher Lee who
knew? Who knew tolki?
Yeah. All right.
Who's gonna interrupt Morgan next time?
He tries to get us back on track.
So good. We're nerds.
So it's D and D adjacent. I'm okay with it.
Now, if we start going a little bit further off, I will put a
will put certain Houston police on it.
But as we as we exit the for the, as we exit feather and
sheep, it is on the main north-south.
Drag, if you guys remember from last session, the north-south
drag which ends at the back end of the The Black Diamond Ale
Works. and it leads directly to the entrance of Mage house which
is a slightly Incorrect, name for the facility itself.
It is a massive compound that if you can picture, some of those,
really massive mosques in in the Arab world and it's very much
similarly built. It's almost like a mix between
the Taj Mahal and the the courtyard that surrounds the the
The ox. Yeah, I can't remember what it's
called off the top of my head there in Mecca, but it's in that
kind of style with the walls itself from afar.
You can't really see through them, but will describe it as
you get closer. I know that there was a talk of
maybe scouting out a little bit with the six of you like to do.
I want to go to Mage house. Imagine what our travel time,
first on, figure out what we're doing.
Let's go, get paid. Now the Kabbalah Nope, that's
not it. The kabah the kabah, that's what
it is the cabal for those. Yeah, it was gonna bug me.
If I didn't look that shit up, I kept want to say the Kabbalah
and that's that weird shit that Madonna follows and then the
Kabbalah is actually a beautiful Courtyard.
So but I digress. So You guys just going to go
direct go straight to. Yeah.
It was like, Alright, take it all the way.
I'm going to try to have my drone.
Pick its pocket So this this street is very, very wide.
I don't know if you guys have ever seen them, it's kind of
like a cross between, like, the cham, Cham stay Solis and a
large Street in kind of like a colonial City in Northern
Africa. I think, Cairo, or Casablanca or
something like that. Where it's like, it's the width
of the Champs of these. But also in the style of those
Northern African, Hounds. So go ahead and roll a
sleight-of-hand. Check for me Bell.
As the, the party is walking, northwards this whole street is
nothing but merchants on the bottom floor with apartments
above, most of the time, it's the people who own the shops
below above and you see if you look above for those of you who
are familiar with Assassin's, Read when they have those like
Wicket kind of coverings at the top of the roof with flowering
plants and Greenery that goes up.
It's fairly common. For those plans to be
overhanging the front of the building.
You also here as you are, continuing to walk the sound of
water cascading because there are quite a few fountains that
are going in Courtyards or at the top of buildings.
So go ahead and tell me what that is l.
What was it? There we go market Jared.
Oh which comes to a total of 24. So Sid I need to what do you
pick pocketing L? Is it Pockets?
Or is it pouches any patch? That's fuck tied to a belt or
something accessible on sit, right?
Yeah. I really think about what the
heck. So Sid.
How many pouches do you have on your belt?
That's accessible tiling. What the hell?
Shoot carry. Not many.
I would say this is this is Morgan being able to kind of
give you a little insight into your character because
unfortunately I, I dunno, go ahead.
I like I would say you would have one obvious one and you
would carry only just Display amounts of copper pieces, and
some trim non-important trinkets.
Basically, the idea is that anyone who is trying to do, what
eles drone is doing, they would take that.
And then the rest of your stuff is, in more secretive places,
where it would be very difficult for them to take.
Thank you. Yeah, so you think say you get
Aksum copper pieces. Try thinking like something from
home, maybe some a couple pieces of random or that she carries
with her just like random. So in my world, a lot from isn't
a coin but it is a metal that is used for certain certain types
of things so you would have. So let's say you had a three
pieces of unprocessed electrum. But with a natural 20 L your
drone with just take the whole pouch off of her belt and go
ahead and roll a D100 for me to see how many, how many copper
pieces she has. 51. So you get 51 copper pieces and
three pieces of unprocessed is little unprocessed electron in
the pouch, which is a fairly solid, it's not flashy or showy
but it is a well-made Leather Pouch.
Electrum is the two-dollar bill of Liberty Earth and in my world
it's actually a fair. It's fairly common in more
technologically advanced because it's used for electrical
electronic transmission or electric transmission.
So it's fairly common in ticker mirror.
The reason that the legation of crypsis is growing where Sid is
from is because they have a rich vein in the mountains underneath
their Capital. So things like that.
At. A blue baby things.
That really don't matter to anybody but I careful with the
Eraser there, bro. Don't undersell that lure.
That was good shit. So all right, so what are you
doing with that? Oh you show open it.
Look at it and then put it in a pocket somewhere, okay?
So, as the go ahead, but not gonna stop it.
He's gonna put the whole pouch and As the six of you were
walking North, you actually watch as the gates open to Mage
house. They are massive enough to let
into elephant side by side and they, as they open inward, you
watch as the, it's funny because, you know, normally the
the ostentatious nests of government buildings, they have
the, they would have, like, gold in the shiny stuff.
The tops in this case, Case may channels It lines.
The bottom where there is gold kind of like some sort of gold
or silver plating that is reflecting back it towards you.
As you get closer, though, you notice that the walls are not as
solid as they initially appear. So for those of you who have
seen it, it's quite beautiful. There is lattice work that is
fairly common throughout the Arabic world.
The entire wall is made of it as you can see through.
Do it and you can obviously see that this is not designed.
It may have initially been designed for defense in this
case it's not it's no longer for that option.
It's more of a privacy thing and so you kind of get this if I can
actually can get everyone to roll a quick Insight check for
me, please. A lot of lore tonight
unintentionally man I feel okay with this 14 but I don't want
inside. I got nine, okay, okay for with
today so what was yours Jared? Thanks.
Okay. And Patrice I got a 4.
Oh, my God. Yeah, I also wait dice back
after I rolled that I rolled it to.
I rolled a 3 and I rolled a 2 on the dice just now SOA.
So it's someone who's kind of been been around the block as a
sailor still young sailor, but you do kind of have this in
mostly because of the, The Bard - of yourself, you get the sense
that this is almost like a A contract between the ruling
class of. Talca bahad, which is am a
chakra T. So it's it's based purely on
magic power and the people of the city and while it's almost
gives you the sense that it's hey, we're looking out for you,
right? And you guys did, if you guys
remember, you did get a sense of that when you had the
conversation at The Alehouse, was that there was not really
the concern was less about what they were doing, in the fact of
running the city, because everyone is very happy with it,
but the fact that no one hits Seen the leadership in a couple
of weeks. As you come to the gates.
There are a few guards, they carry very tall, how birds that
have about a about a foot-and-a-half blade at the
top. It's almost all wood pole but no
one stops you as you walk in and there is a sign that says
visitors check-in and it points directly to the largest building
within the compound as you walk in and notice there's there's
multiple buildings throughout the compound.
Some of them look like like Barracks some look.
Houses. Some look like Laboratories is a
little mix of everything but it's a straight shot to the main
building, which is a very large, kind of kind of that mushroom
dome on top of a square building.
Think Aladdin is much as I hate is that is kind of
stereotypically racist, but it's a it's a good representation of
what looking for. Here you go with the
architecture. Yeah, and so there are two open
doors that that are inviting. As you walk in you, notice that
there are lamps or torches on sconces that are lit.
They don't throw them off a lot of heat and they are throwing
off, kind of a bluish Hue Delight, not quite the natural
blue at the base of flames normally so it's a little bit
disconcerting but it's there. There is also a very large desk
with a Male tiefling sitting there, also, for those of you,
if you don't remember, call from last session, lots of tea
feelings around. Probably the greatest percentage
of the population. Artie Flynn's.
This one is red. How far up the wall of the lamps
that are giving off late probably about 10 feet.
It's a very tall open space. Probably the ceilings are about
about 25 feet tall. Okay.
A racing please. Let's try and keep that to a
minimum on the desk at HQ. All right, week is doing,
they'll walk up to the desk and Zeb.
So kindly, we're here to check in for a job here, about a job.
And you, he looks up to you. This is O and he's in, it's very
much his. If anyone has heard someone from
Algeria, you can hear, it's this.
It's this really flowing English, that is touched with
French and Arabic. It's spectacular, is one of my
favorite things ever, listen to comes in and he says, oh, just
one moment And he flips to a specific page, in it in a very
large Ledger book, and he Scrolls down and he says, where
was this job posted. He watches his finger, his
finger moves down, and he moves across and he says, oh well, you
need to go see yamina Jamari and she is located on the third
floor and gives you really good directions on how to get there.
Okay, did you need anything else from us?
Notice we're fairly open. The only thing is the fourth
floor is off-limits if you do happen to To enter their.
There are no warnings most likely depending on.
You looks like stoic in and solid figures, unfortunately.
I don't think you will be able to overcome the magic that will
handle you. When I'm just curious, I know
you are. But you asked him?
That that's not impressive. Magic really are not helpful.
I got to be honest with you. You asked and I am obligated to
tell you because I don't want to see you turn into a pile of Ash.
That's fair. I appreciate the sentiment.
I don't particularly want to be a pile of Ash either.
Yeah, but you want to know what's going to turn.
You to Apollo Nida of Ash. I want to watch it on someone
else into a pile of Ash. Well, it is the domain of the
Lockheed and ducks and that is off-limits to all, but the
members of the order, No doubt that name one more time that
we're going to meet, you know, Enid Mari yeah.
Yummy NE. Why am in IA, J.
OU ma RI young Lena Jamari. Beautiful name, very beautiful.
He does give directions. You see that there is kind of,
you know, those big sweeping stairs that wrap around, you see
that there. It's it kind of just is a
sweeping Helix staircase that goes all the way up to at least
the fourth floor. As you walk up the, the 11 of
the, the major constants of walking around the city, is that
crackling sense of Arcane magic, that is just imbued with in the
city. And as you rise higher, the
tingling causes every the hair on everyone's arms in the back
of the neck to just rise because it's just so powerful and four.
I would say. Who would be the most likely I'd
probably be Patrice and L would get the most direct read on this
where it is. Just this pure sense of Arcane
energy for you, l it reminds you of being around some of the more
powerful Wizards So it's equal parts comforting and terrifying?
Yes, I think that's fair remind you of prospering very much.
Yeah, so equal parts, comforting and terrifying.
Yeah, that's what made me set up.
So as you walk to the third floor, the space, I guess the
the most direct comparison I could give Is to special edition
bespin where it's both in closed and open at the same time.
Most of the walls that look into seating areas and sitting rooms
are of that. Lattice work, but are even more
open. And then the actual offices are
in closed and closed off, you follow the directions of a mall
to ha who is the receptionist and you find an office that is
open to you. That has the the proper number
next to it. Um, it's open ready for you to
enter. As you enter, you walk in and
you see a purple tiefling sitting at a desk.
She is scribing away with a quill on parchment and she hears
jobs, he acknowledges you come in and she is writing her.
Figure comes up and she finishes and there is a scent of Jasmine
and Cedarwood as there is light. Right?
Bit of smoke in the air from incense that is burning in the
in the room and she finishes her writing and she looks up in a
very honeyed tone. Greetings, what is it that you
need? We heard you had a job.
Which job posting where was this post?
Didn't even yes. The that job.
Well I believe there was payment due for just seeking out the
job. Yes.
Correct. I believe it was fifty gold
pieces or For the for the job doesn't sound, right?
60 would make it easier to split between us.
She turns around and she you hear a kind of this this chuckle
if she reaches into she there's a set of drawer dresser drawers
behind her as she opens it up and she pulls out a small pouch
and lays it on the table. The 50 That was advertised.
So, thank you for those of you who have come.
I take it that you are interested in pursuing a job
here with us at Mage house. Depends on the job.
Well, the order has come into some knowledge that has great
implications. For those of us here on the
continent, we are seeking an item that we believe to be
underneath the mountains of Northern Sudan.
This will not be safe. Nor will it be easy?
We are seeking. The mortar and pestle.
Of the three ladies. Hmm and I can I roll something
to see if I recognize what that is history 13, 12 as well as as
people start looking around and start thinking, I walk over to L
and to SOA. And I place my hands on each of
their shoulders and I cast guidance.
Safe Haven was it and you do it with I did it for L&S away that
as what a D4. Yeah, correct.
Okay, I appreciate it. It's not going to help.
I believe I heard skull scold say a 1313.
Okay. Stark has a 14.
Okay. I'll go to 2000 we must you said
24 L 45. What was yours this way?
12. Okay anyone else that I missed?
I will 27 but yeah so l You know, this because your employer
has told you about some of the weird things that happen in the
park, just to the north of his building, particularly a group
of adventurers who had come Reese who had come within the
last 20 years or so. And had called upon some of the
spirits. The three ladies are generally
one of the many forms of the of the many personifications of
druidic magic in the world, and you got it. 25.
So you're going to get all the fucking Lord.
The there are three kind of known types of magic in the
world. There's the Arcane which
encompasses the wizard sorcerer's bards.
There is the druidic nature ish magic and then there was the
Divine, the druidic has personifications very similar to
the way that the Divine in warlock kind of things happen.
One of the more common ones throughout the region of The
Syndicate and some of the more Traditionally northern European
style Court cultures of liberal worth they celebrate Three.
Ladies the maiden, the mother and the Crone and they are
represented by Three Ravens. and they give, they're their flavor
of Druid is very much viney and thorny And it is, there are
rumors of them living in a house in the in-between that at times
walks. Does it have?
Chicken legs are so excellent. I'm taking some of our organs,
some of some of liberal arts floor and mixing it with some
official D and deal or because this is way more fun.
Do I need to buy that miniature now?
I think so who doesn't like, Bobby, you got Ding, ding, ding,
ding. I knew you guys would get it.
Of course, we've been there before that's been there before.
That was fun. That was a one button.
Oh my God. That was so fun.
It was he that was my very first introduction of the in between
which has caused some chaos. Every time anyone's gone there.
In between is fun. So doing is there any
information other than this will be dangerous and they are worth?
We do know that You can find this item, we don't know what
happens. We can point you and give you a
map to the location of a cave where this item Lies, We don't
know. And this is saying something
because we take very much a great deal of pride in knowing
everything that happens on this content.
But we cannot tell you if you're going to find this item here or
if maybe there's Place else that it is but this is the first
place that you need to look and you watch as she rotates back
around in her chair. And she opens up another drawer
and she gives you a this is again.
Why I wish that I was there in person because you guys know you
would be getting this. If I'd be handing it to you, she
gives you a message and I will I will draw the map and put in
from in Wonder draft and I will post it in the Discord for
everybody. Once I draw it It.
So what's what's the pay for this?
100 Platinum. If you bring proof of a
destroyed mortar and pestle, 300 Platinum.
If you bring it back, And please no, don't try and
negotiate. These are set prices.
This is what it will be. It's Morgan interjecting there
because they don't want to negotiate, is this an open
contract, that will be competing with other?
No, we will reopen it, if you do not, come back in two weeks, 16
days, We don't believe in competition.
We believe in exclusivity, we believe in trust.
I believe, we believe that by providing an open contract to
multiple teams shows that we don't believe in your ability.
Just the fact that you found this job and we're able to
survive in getting here. The dangerous trip from from
Haven to here, has taken many a mariner.
We believe that you have proven yourself worthy as observe it of
this pay. What why did you post it and
Haven? We Believe.
That those coming from a place like Haven have an adaptability
that many many here in the north.
Don't we get stuck in our ways? The Pirates, the sailors, the
locals, there in Haven you all are inventive.
The people who come through, there are creative.
We're creative in a sense but mostly it has to do with Scrolls
and crafting of magic. And one of the one of the first
schools of magic was formed in one of our sister cities, the
school of invention, and the Meiji Aqua T here.
The order has deep deep roots in the creation of magic items.
However, it's all right, keep talking, I apologize.
I just want my know you're smiling.
Unfortunately once Yes. We get out of the urban
environment and our Scrolls, sometimes our creativity leaves
us. We recognize that we are lacking
in some of those adventuring skills, which is why we
constantly seek those from outside to assist us.
Definitely takes all kinds, doesn't it certainly does?
That is a wise thought, sir? So you want us to go retrieve
some Priceless magical artifact that you can retrieve in here
and give us 300 Platinum for it if you bring it back and want
into pieces. Because it is two items
together, the more some order and about a thug.
I understand that, okay. What constitutes proof of
Destruction. He's really good at breaking
stuff like that. There is a good chance that our
gnome friend here might break it too well.
Every note that and I'm just wondering what we have to bring
back to get paid if if we get nothing else.
So she turns back around to where her chest of drawers and
she opens one on the left side at the bottom and you watch as
she kind of does that like librarian thing through a card
catalog. And she pulls out a piece of
parchment and She lays it down in front of the party and it is
a it's called a scroll of remembering very on point but
what it is is it's a ninth level spell that allows you to take an
instant rekt, an instant mind image and transmit it pretty and
perfect recollection to another so it's like a whole thing.
So like whoever cast The spell can can takes an instant image
of it and then holds it in their memory until they get to another
to a designated person and then transmits the image to them.
Fair enough. I just don't I don't want it to
be easy for you guys to remember shit, because then I have to
remember ship hints the ninth level.
And none of you are wizard. So I don't have to worry about
you as writing it down your goddamn spell book.
Chris, why do you play with her? We play to Sorcerers because
we're, I don't know. On inventive.
Yeah. Right basic also, basic, I will
say, in my game, Wizard is really on the nose, right?
Like it's like the perfect character, the class, like, it's
my class, right? It's like what I would play, so,
I think So, real quick, it was 200 gold pieces for think going
retcon. Strike that reverse it.
It's got 200 gold. You open it and it's wow. 200
gold that. All right, 15 min.
So one of different to these people.
I like it. A few things I actually wrote
down and I knew I've noted down somewhere.
Well that's why that's why I trust you guys to write those
little the The prices. I'm being very careful to only
write down. Stuff scaled would actually be
paying attention to I like it. I love it.
Thank you. It's like the money's in here
somewhere, right? Yeah, exactly.
Yeah. So you watch as she says,
There's the spell, there's no terms and she cast obviously
some sort of somatic component to a spell and you watch as a
contract appears in front of you 3.3 and a floating quill is flow
is a is sitting there waiting while we do trust.
We also do prefer sign a contract.
The only thing that this says And as you look, you watch as
the words are being written across this parchment and she
speaks them for 100 gold proof of destroyed mortar and pestle
Platinum. Thank you Platinum for 300 cool
Platinum. Return with the mortar and
pestle of the three ladies. The quill finishes.
And lines out six spots on one side and a singular one, and
underneath the singular one, you see the name yamuna?
Jamari Proctor. Proctor is the title, her title.
She flips it around and she in a very beautiful like literal John
Hancock's signature large is gorgeous Amina, Jamari and then
she turns it around and she kind of sends a, very gently floating
quill towards your group. Curious, grabs it first, you can
also go ahead. I'm gonna walk up to sign the
document, and I'm going to do my best calligraphy to match the
the style that she's doing performance, Check Place.
El you all can definitely tell that she's definitely not the
most powerful magic users she is seen but she is very, very
competent in the Arcane Magic. It's a performance.
Yes, please. That is a 25, you have written
and signed your name in the most beautiful form you have ever
done in your life Patrice family name sake.
Don't thank you. I'm like I knew you had one, I
couldn't remember it. Middle name is probably not, not
written out. I don't normally write out my my
middle name to my signature. Anyone else going to come up in
sign? After Patrice signs.
That's what makes an X as this called scalded that.
But in the past it's called X. Delta is also going to put an X.
Yeah, everyone else signing on all those going to wait till
after Sid does. Sorry I'm looking for something
implanted. Are you signing those ID?
Yeah. What some might what was my
military title? Remember, I was looking for you
were a warrant officer. What I sign with that title.
So generally someone who reaches that high you would when you
would you would sign and then you would put your title warrant
officer and then in parentheses ret for retired.
Okay. So is that something that you've
earned that you get to keep? Yeah so I think I think kind of
a habit you're going to see it's very formal acidosis.
Massage massage, Warrant officer retired like an idea.
Probably, you would probably put Legion of the dagger on there as
well. Yeah, sure.
Something like that. Yeah.
And then Sark and L. Are we gonna try to not put a
ton of effort, but try to step in between everybody else in the
group and the paper. When he signs he's going to put
his full name in. Yeah, and what are you doing
Sark? Are you trying to be am tan?
No, I'm going to try and forge her last name and mirror script
for my signature. Okay, go ahead and roll
performance. Check for me, please.
Dirty. 20 on perception. Can icl's full name?
Go ahead and do sleight of hand L.
Can I give my proficiency bonus for being attempting to forge
cuz I'm proficient with forgery tools?
Yes, this is going to suck with charisma.
That's a five sad you fail, you fail miserably and you watch as
she lifts her left hand and she just kind of goes and she wipes
away cuz she saw what you were doing, she rolled a 21 for
perception, have to make it performances that.
That's what it is, though. It's a, it's a performance when
you're when you forge, same. That's fine.
And you got your proficiency. So, I mean, I'm still just like,
freaking Charisma. I don't know.
I'd let it, I'd let him add deck stick to that, right?
We have to wreck on the title because I did get to Sergeant of
the dagger Soldier, the dagger, okay?
Yep. I had it somewhere and then just
do like an X with a circle is a circle.
I wasn't sure if you had made it all the way up.
Cause you had a pretty lengthy discussion.
Perhaps in like, eight months ago.
Now, actually it's been a year. Has it been a whole year?
Holy shit. So, L, what was your
sleight-of-hand, check? Oh my God.
I got I got the name. You texted me it perfect.
Thank you. Technology is great for that,
right? It's the greatest thing ever.
I love it. Well, welcome.
As welcome to the employee of the order, as long as it lasts,
we wish you success. And in that vein, is there
anything that you need from us to ensure your success?
Per diem health potions per diem more health potions.
Yes, yeah, we remember what I said about negotiating a price.
Oceans would be great though. Health potions and you watch as
she gently waves and there are six potions that initially
lineup that are kind of golden and you get you each get one
greater healing potion. Ooh.
And then there are 12 potions of healing that come out.
Afterwards. Nice. we like to ensure that you
all come back in one piece, we need to get we very much
appreciate that Siri I feel like a, we're gonna have
a going to enjoy working for the order as he puts the scroll in
the right and potions in the bag of holding We wish you all the
success. Now, if you wouldn't mind, I do
have work. Of course, and I will run.
Yep. As the six of you exit the
office, that's where we'll take our next break.
And we'll be right back in just a few.
Welcome back. Everybody to campaign.
So here coxswains where we can't decide what is okay?
To say. And what's not?
So with that being said, we have drinks and the ginger and I'm
like oh that's a great opening. All right.
Um we have drinks random staring at liquor bottles and going.
This combo sounds great. It's 10.5 ounce of the brennivin
Bernardin. It's Icelandic.
So I'm probably pronouncing it. Wrong aquavit one ounce of the
it's right here. Thank you.
I think it's been but I mean yeah.
One ounce of the drill odd pair white.
We're here. Perry liquor from France.
Mmm 2-0. Angostura Bitters.
And then about two ounces of ginger beer to your taste.
We use cock-and-bull, Shake everything with a ginger beer
and then just top it off with a ginger beer.
It's super tasty, I have no idea what to call it.
That sounds lovely. I want to try it since input.
Make sure to put that recipe in the Discord because I want the
great because it's a compromise. So fucking pictures today.
That's all right. I've already posted, I posted
my, my Manhattan on Instagram. It looks really good.
I thought it was a really, what do you think, John?
I thought it was pretty good picture.
So fucking beautiful with the one computer in the background.
Yes, it is. The computer also looks good, so
thank you, I appreciate that. I'm very, I'm very proud.
I wish I had bought a better case but that that's a learning
curve. So, alright.
And then it's we had one more drink, I believe, I mean, there
are together, I'm a little disappointed with it.
It's not bad, but it's not great.
It's one and a half ounces, right?
Whiskey, half ounce, a leak or half?
Half oz Cherry Herring ounce of blood orange juice and I did put
oh and I threw in a rosemary sprig in when I shook it and I
added one like dash of angostura to try to make it a little bit
more interesting. It made it better, but still not
great. Anyway, that's what I mean.
Apparently, I need a liqueur. Spool.
Does that sound? What is good stuff?
I traced it last break they handed it to me at the beginning
I remember and so I don't I don't like a but I think pair is
a really good accent like one of my favorite dishes that I had
in. Italy was a pair of fake of
teeny which is like a kind of like a large ravioli and it is
wonderful and but it's like it's not the star of the dish but it
really makes the goat cheese that was in it it just like
Paris. One of those things that you
don't have to like it, but it makes things better.
It's totally especially with some butter.
Some phony confit with a pair.
I did yellow onions caramelized in kerrygold butter salted.
And then essentially candied the pears in the taste like so
sauteed caramelized onions, and it was so good.
I mean, it was it was almost better than the rabbit itself,
which is ridiculous and hard to do.
So, As the six of you, I had, I knew we would keep going.
If I didn't, if I didn't stop us, he said would be very
dangerous for us to talk about food and booze.
So the six of you exits, the office of yamina Jamari and make
your way down the stairs. And as you exit, it is now about
midday. There is a lovely warm breeze
that is blowing from the West, it carries sense of saffron
Tamara. Friend goat.
That is, that is cooking. It is just like this lovely
scent. That is that it just permeates
the city as the six of you begin to exit Mage house.
Is there anything anyone like to do?
as we get close to the gate, I'm going to walk up next to say it
and True. So why do you carry real
electron around? Why do you ask?
Cuz carrying Roars is kind of odd.
How do you know this is yours? Just where did you get this from
my drone? Picked it from you on the way
in? Why?
Because I want to practice, don't touch my shit. if you
notice that, secondly, I come, I come from crab do and in the
legation, and my father and my brother are minors and reminds
me of home. That's better than anything out
of it. Touch my shit without asking
please. Next time, you'll your gum.
I mean, if he asks to pickpocket, you you let him
sure. All right.
Maybe you were just practicing. Well, don't fuck with other
people's shit. I gave it back.
Well, if you want to practice pickpocketing mommy just don't
take my money. My Boos are my cigars.
I don't even have scaled. I'm sure I have other stuff.
I don't know what that means. I don't want to pick pocketing
until I take it though. This is the cigar pouch, this is
the money pouch. Don't take those?
Well, let me put it this way. Would you like anyone coming in
and touching your in progress, attentions.
It's probably not a great plan, you know really bother me that
much but it might bother you a little bit.
You never know what you're going to find in somebody's pocket.
No, so I might just losing. That's why I didn't use my hand.
That was the right response. Morgan.
Yeah, yeah. That's actually except for,
except for because you because L had said drone, Sid would
actually have said you might lose a drone.
Might lose the Drone that can rebuild them.
Go ahead, go ahead and roll an Insight check though l.
I'm not even gonna have you roll anything because I know exactly
what fucking no, that's response for that slow very low.
Does it does it matter? You're pretty sure that she
means it and she could do it. Yeah.
I just want to, I want to put the right amount of Gravitas on
Sid, you know. Just saw her, what she's sign.
It's not like some ordinary title.
It has this conversation carried us like outside of the actual
confines have made house at this point.
I'll say yes. Okay, I got somewhere to go.
Oh, well, I before you do, before you take off on this on
this subject, Why are we going to bring this Priceless magical
artifacts that were being commissioned to go.
Get back there. It'd be really cool to prepay
our crew for another like six months.
I think it's more than that, but That's just my point, right?
Like if it's Right? Like like we're in a city ran by
fucking Mages and they want this shit and they're willing to pay
us to go get it. I really we're just accepting
that. That's like the going rate for
This into magic and also, we don't just want this kind of
magic. I mean, you have a very good
point. I'm not saying you don't but my
plan is to go. See if anybody that we know
knows anything about this thing. That may change what we do, but
Unless it changes significantly. Pissing off magic.
People is not generally a great plan in my experience.
Look, I get that but we don't we don't know what the fuck were
bringing back at this point, can any of us even use it?
I don't do magic. So I don't even know if any of
us could use this thing. Thank every title idea.
Have you time and progressively that it's called says things.
He gets like Wayward eyes from Patrice.
From yamini mean, from said, oh Patrice.
I like I like more like this. Looking like, pretty sure you
dumb fucking magic with them. Doesn't change the fact that
it's magic. Right?
Right. Well you don't, you don't
understand that you're doing magic.
We understand this and the rest of us do magic for the most
part. Yeah.
But do you know how to use a mortar and pestle?
That's Magic. Why not the truth?
Use one this morning? The okay, well, I didn't know
that using a mortar and pestle is not that hard.
Yeah. But I mean what kind of magic it
was magic with it Patrice, were you?
So that is like that. Very good magic.
I wouldn't call it like, Arcane in nature, but you know, like, I
don't know. I don't know anything about
magic mortar and pestle. I just have the normal kind of
curious. Are you add room?
You look weird, you do. I would refer to myself as Druid
adjacent classes them in D&D. Like I've known Druids.
I'm not a druid, you know, but like not that different really
Druids hang out in the forest. Mostly the truth.
Doesn't look very druish but this is just for a Jewish
princess Boy, did Spaceballs come on.
Yeah, the Spaceballs that. Did you see the head tilt?
I'm surrounded by assholes. Also, according to the Jerry
Seinfeld rules of Comedy. I'm allowed to make Jew adjacent
jokes because I'm half Jewish I'm surrounded by assholes.
Correct. Absolutely correct.
Continue continue, continue. Continue three sisters that they
referred to with. She talks to mention with the
mortar and pestle, that's Druid stuff.
And I don't know how any of that magic works.
I can. I can tell you how a lot of the
Arcane stuff works. If I can figure it out but I
don't know about drew a terrible.
Holy what I would would we feel more comfortable if we found out
what this thing does probably? All right well let's ask people
that we know that know things and see if.
Yeah, Amanda get the payday and we don't bring it back.
I'm just saying. Yeah, maybe don't think these
people, we don't know. - is a map to a magical artifact.
We should we should figure out what that does and figure out
what our options are. Well that's fair.
You guys want to come with me to somebody who might be able to
either find information for us or may already have information
with for us. I'm gonna go talk to other
people who already might already have the information or can find
information for us, right? Works.
Where are you going? So, house with no doors.
The compass. Yeah, that's them.
You do I know what that means? Now that conversation at dinner,
there was a discussion about the complication of Ebony and bone
at dinner. Is it dinner?
Yeah, you're there. You were there.
Okay, well, I told you guys. Yeah, we talked about it and
especially in the wall of a household assassins is probably
not a great plan. We can just also asked prosper
and right, you can contact her. I don't want to fuck her.
Yeah. Well questions, giving her a
unique Dragonborn was one thing, right?
I'm not calling her up to ask for simple also.
We can all solving I heard somebody who knows?
Probably more than one of the few people who probably knows
more than transparent. I mean, the, the prospering
card, I think based on my very limited experiences with her, Is
is like, does she want to buy this shit?
I was just thinking, as well as the way it was like, What if she
wants to buy it? This first before we offer to
sell it to somebody? That's true.
All right. But like she always seems to be
leaving right when I get there. You know.
You did also sign a contract. Yeah.
What if it's like, Kirsten dangerous?
And I mean like they like it could be awful.
Like maybe they're sending us because they know it's
dangerous. The item itself, maybe not even
the journey. That's probably why they are
sending us. Was there it was there, anything
on the contract that stipulated ramifications for failure to
fulfill the contract. It was nothing written, but if
you would like, I would let you roll in Arcana, check to see
about this because it is technically a magical contract.
Three schedule to 9. So so so you so it's called
World. It.
Did you roll something Curtis? Three Scout a 22.
You don't know shit Patrice with a to but even with a nine it's
not much. The only thing that you know,
scold is bad idea to not to not honor the terms of a magical
contract, got it. Yeah, I mean I feel like Chris
Morgan doesn't know you. Like we're probably better off
just doing what we said. We're going to do on this one.
Yeah. If we had, if it was, you know,
spit my poem and a handshake. I might I might think
differently but it wasn't. Then despite the fact that I
only wrote an x on that line, I have a feeling that it's the The
action of signing yet more so than it is what it is written.
Well, I approach that with much different intent than you with
my ex. What was your intent?
I don't want my name on that. Sang.
But are we still took the action of agreeing to it?
What I know if that matters rolling Arcana check.
Hmm and in this case, you get Advantage because it is a
magical object It's a 27.
Yeah, it really does not matter the intent behind.
So the reason that magical people like to use magical
contracts is because it doesn't really necessarily matter.
What you put on it, is the intent behind the signature.
And so, because there are multiple, there are many, many
people. In fact, most people in this
world that cannot actually read or sign.
So the active marching X, actually, Means something to
them. So in this case it would really
not matter. Well, that's always intent.
Was that she didn't sign shit. So if the intent, if the intense
what matters, she was trying to be deceptive and not signed
something in that moment. Okay, well, I would have Som
have signed magical contract before though.
No, she didn't want to put her name on something because so
even even their time so in this case, even with the deceptive
and it's the idea is to prevent that deceptive intent from
working. So, if s away, hadn't signed a
magical contract before that your intent was still there.
It's just that the magical contract will negate it gives an
so yeah. Yeah, because you actually
physically sign it as well matters.
Right. What you going for today?
Oh yeah, yeah bad. Choice Awards on my part so I
will explain that as they're still walking discussing it.
Okay. So is that where we're headed
next to the mountains of food on?
I'm going to the convocations. Building first, I meant in the
in the ship. Probably when we leave port, is
that our next heading? Yeah.
Don't typically go to mountains. The truth.
You have to get used to that. It's way fucking fat.
It's okay little buddy. You'll get used to it.
Can I pass away on the shoulder which is much higher than your
shoulder? Not what I had in mind?
How tall is us away with 56? You something really tall shiny?
Oh I don't think in my head elf equals tall.
Yeah, 56. Yeah, I was wrong.
I mean, she's only a couple inches shorter than been scalped
but she's still not, you know Tom.
I know what it is. Is that elves are historically
portrayed as life. So they have this they look
taller than what they are. Are just lucky motherfucker
yourself. We're the same height.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure even in your armor I still way more than
you though. Probably.
I think so I go check in with the with our organization.
Yeah I'm Charles my gear. I can understand I divide
without. So here's what we're going to
do. We got we got about 20 minutes
left before before we end tonight session.
We're going to start with scold with the convocation.
We're going to see where that goes and then then we'll go to
nine brothers. First man, if anyone has
anything else that they would like to do will do that
afterwards, but most likely have a feeling that will end with
scold and then we'll pick up with nine brothers next week, if
their next session. If that's if that's cool with
everybody, she came to go, it's called okay.
Let's say you're shaking your head.
Matt, you know, like like I feel like she's just like feels like
she's making bad choices. Now, that tells explained how
you know what she tried to accomplish, did not work.
I think that's fair though. Though, he's just be like, fuck
it mode. It's one of those where it's
like, I had a feeling that no one had really signed magical
contract. So I I probably should have done
a better job but we will deal with that repercussions as we
go. If you like school, probably has
but his never really thought about it that much.
I think that's fair enough. He's probably done it and just
Chase was told to do new things. No, I feel like I'll probably
have a fair idea what was going on when you signed it.
So, you've never done it before the date.
The danger of being a DM is sometimes you lose?
Track of things and you forget to ask so lesson learned.
So shut up. Who else is gonna go with scold
and SOA to the facility? Just the two of us, just the two
of us, we can make it if we try sounds like, oh, did he mention
the no doors and no windows? Yeah, yes I'll go with as well.
Okay, Patrice is gonna go so God as The party splits you guys had
actually seen the building kind of tucked away on the, the west
side of the island. So as you guys are coming down,
it's to the to the right of you and it stands out because it's a
little bit taller than the rest of the buildings, is four
stories tall. Most of the buildings around
here, three outside of Mage house.
It's, they're not very, they're pretty, it's a pretty Uniform
City. But this one, this one extra
floor. It seems to stand out and as you
walk towards it, you notice that, yes it does, mimic the
style of the building the buildings around it.
But the first two floors are exactly as Fatima described it.
No doors, no windows. The third floor has Windows, the
fourth floor has Windows and as its midday, there's no lights
that you can see shining. She did tell you to move to one
of the back. Alleys, when you go in, to face
the building. So what do the three of you do?
I say just follow me and I walk into the alley has described.
I walk up to the wall, I stand there in essentially like like
parade rest, right? Cigar hanging out of my mouth
puffing away with my hands behind my back.
Feed it like shoulder width and just staring directly at the
wall waiting. I cast armor back at those.
I myself. Okay, do I see this?
I mean I have to see the rhyme of frost cover you write, for
sure? Yeah.
It's kind of a kind of like lean my head over and look at you out
of the corner of my eye and I start chuckling and I look back
at the wall. You're not you're not trying to
be deceptive or u.s. way. Yeah.
Okay. And Patrice.
You do anything. Just wait Patrice says Haven.
Protect me and he pulls his fittest in front.
Face and he applies major armor. I need what?
What's everyone's passive perception?
12 for. But for the three who were
there. Oh yeah. 15 of enough to have
it. Looking 10 plus right?
Yep, 14 Okay, so good. We are we gonna do.
So right before skull dancers, everyone feels something.
Akin to a burlap sack going over their heads, but there's no
pressure. It's like it's not like it's
being pulled tight. You just the sap hits the top of
their heads. Does it knock my cigar out of my
mouth? It does not.
All right, I take another puff and start.
Chuckling, and then. Scold Hears, A Familiar voice.
The rest of you hear of a female voice that says you may remove
the hood as the three of you removed the sack, you are now in
the interior of a building what appears to be a an Arabic
sitting, there is a coffee machine, very similar to what L
has on the ship. It's, it's cooking away appears
to be making some coffee. There's a couple of trays of
baklava and cucumber sandwiches and Fatima.
Is there Fatima Safari? He says, well, I never, I never,
I always hope that people will come by themselves, but I always
expect them to come bearing, friends.
Welcome to the interior of the convocation of Ebony and Bone.
You're welcome here. As long as you maintain either
piece, that is here and she motions to SOA and to Patrice
and says this room here is yours to enjoy.
Joy, as long as it's called here is indisposed, do not try and
life. Things will be brought to you as
needed. But do not leave this room.
So, you got to start being detained?
Yes. As a matter of fact, you are, it
will be a comfortable detainment though.
That is for sure. Coffee tea snacks will be
provided for you and then you watch.
Anything is so Fatma is her face is is completely uncovered.
You see that? She is a red tiefling.
If I remember my, my notes correctly, she is Wearing
traditional, like, if you were to see kind of like the Tropi,
like thieves garments that kind of baggy pants, the, the kind of
high boots and everything. Everything though is kind of
that Ivory and black, right. Right.
But if you if you look around, you notice that two people have
now walked into the room. And there, the bottom of their
face is covered with a face covering.
Very much like kind of like an Assassin's look, that kind of
the Assassin. Look includes that cover up, and
it's really just kind of like this little bit slit of, I
that's available to them. Same very much coloration.
It's just that these are not as elaborate as Fatima's clothing
but there is a very serious demeanor to these two, It says
these two will be keeping an eye on you.
They will not interfere with you unless you attempt to leave this
room. Please know that we mean you no
harm. However, the secrets of the
complication are that secret Does does it feel like genuine
right? Like rolling inside check Look
natural one. Awesome.
If yet. Drink motherfucker.
Drink. Motherfucker drink.
Yeah. No.
Milord thankfully not this time. Even I'm an this time.
We're going s below. I was a good choice.
Yeah, so good. Yeah, it feels 100% genuine
youth you the implied threat is very serious, but it's it's like
cursing in French. All right.
It's got a layer of velvet that coats the steel to it.
So let's get you say it feel softer, but you know that it's
real, right? So, you know that like the
threat is there, only because it's necessary.
You almost get the sense that she doesn't like the Pirouette,
you know, like, we're here to conduct business, and if it was
up to me, this business would be more open, but it's not.
We have our rules kind of shit, right?
It's very professional, and it's very cordial.
It's the the way that, you know, someone who is very dangerous
says, please don't do that, right?
Right. So, but the two of you and it's
very, it's very Arabic, and it's setting, the rugs are gorgeous,
there's little almost like Kind of like beanbags low tables, but
it's wonderful. It's a very nice space.
There's even a hookah there, right?
Like, if you want to, if you want to imbibe.
So but if the two of you wouldn't mind scold, I love
questions. Yeah, I look at Fatima and I'm
like, well, I know for a fact that this one can keep secrets.
And I pointed SOA, very pointedly, don't point at
Patrice unfortune for Early. Also not at myself.
Yeah, unfortunately. Well, we anticipate that you're
going to share the knowledge that we share with you today.
As we keep it, we keep it this way for a reason and you are the
only one who were invited You're not wrong.
So if you would follow me, please.
Excellent. So you are taken through a very
convoluted set of hallways left's rights stairs, both up
and down. It almost feels like you
shouldn't be in the building anymore.
You know. It's one of those where it's
like you disoriented, right? And so go ahead and make this a
good one. Let's go.
I guess perception check on that one.
That's going to be want to say a 19.
Yeah, 19. So you're not completely lost.
You could find your way back, but you still feel that like you
should be outside the building. Like you should be walking in
thin air, right? It doesn't make sense but you
could still find your way back. If that makes sense.
Yeah. Eventually you were led to a
large black painted set of double doors.
There are two guards who are there who are standing in front
of them. These two are again in the same
Ivory and black robes and masked and hooded.
They are carrying, I don't know. The the proper term but it's one
of those like staffs that like we're half of it is a blade.
Like the Chinese style. Yeah, for sure.
Yeah, so they hold those across the chest opposite sides of the
blade is away from the door, very Wicked.
Looking the doors open apparently of their own accord.
And you walk into a very, very dark room.
And as you hit the center, a cup seven lights shine down on seven
individuals that are masked, but not hooded and thank you C. 5T,
Flings, And elf and what appears to be a, no sitting them.
Skilled. The Fill hounded.
That's me. We know you.
I'm sure you. Do you have asked for
information? And we are here to give it a
named name to and we will give you information.
Dandy bill. Andy bill is Daddy.
This is Morgan asking. Dandy bill was the one who was
an employee of Gans Worth, right?
Yeah. He's the one connected to my
mother. That's right.
Yep. Dandy bill is, currently the
captain of the Scarlet, wind a merchant, a merchant soldiership
of Ganz worth you are not the only one to seek Him.
In fact, he is pissed off enough that his only opportunities for
survival is in the bosom. Afghans worth and their things.
I'm assuming you understand what that means and do.
You know whereabouts, his ship is right now, he's currently
important in cans worth. They returned two days ago.
Do you know when they're supposed to depart again?
We're still waiting on word for that.
However, we are willing to off to offer a contract to either
kill or gain. Or to return the person to this
location for the right price. I won't be returning him, but
I'd be more than happy to be paid to kill him.
No, it said we would want you to pay us to kill him over to bring
him to this location. How much would it cost to bring
him here? 500 Platinum?
I can't afford that. I'll be honest with you.
That's okay. It is incredibly near and dear
to my black little heart that I get my hands on him. well
between this and the next person that you asked for we offer this
because we know that there are opportunities for information We
would like to trade this information.
For information on other political targets, as you were
much more flexible in your travel Arrangements than us at
times. What other political targets?
That's the coachable. If you have some that you would
rather not Target but we are open at this point.
We would just like to place you on retainer for information.
We don't want you to kill anyone but as we are constantly
contracted to Say creates a little bit of political
instability. We'd be willing to pay pay for
you. Pay you in information like for
like There's two organizations that I won't provide any
information on and obvious who they are.
Tell me some Morgan knows because Morgan's drawing a blank
right now. What's that is it?
Nine brothers is the name of nine brothers and the Richter's
daughters ization Morgan was going like way I was trying to
go through your backstory. Yeah.
No, no, literally just the people I currently work with
everybody else. Is fair game.
Fuck them. Well, as much as we've tried we
have never been able to infiltrate the nine brothers.
They are Well, they are the most significant information brokers
in the world and you would anyone is foolhardy if they want
to take on the Lord Richter. Yeah, I agree.
Everyone else. I haven't met him yet or if I
have, I don't care about them. So you see for that tidbit was
just the taster and you watch as the.
So this has been the gnome talking the whole time you watch
as they they kind of flick their fingers in another like it looks
like it may be a novice member of the organization stands up
and kind of wafts into and they are sneaky as shit right there.
Professional sneakers, right? You're rolling.
What's your passive protein? You actually did notice this
time. OK.
Google because they rolled a 14 and since so you saw mmm.
But it was it was a fairly thick kind of out of the corner of
your eye. Yeah.
Right. But like you you don't feel with
the threat right? And they hand you a sending
Stone. And they say this will be for
us, feel free to send information requests.
We will keep them logged but we will only pay you once the
agreement has been made. And you have given us
information on a target of our choosing.
As always, we like to operate in a member of in a modicum of
choice, you were always free to turn down.
An offer. Just no.
That if you decide to cross us not the best decision, you could
make. As long as you don't ask me to
cross the nine brothers or anybody in the employee of
Richter's daughter. We are.
We are technically politically agnostic.
We have only one organization where we actually have a long
was that scale? Says, so am I then I, I
anticipate this being being well, the only one that we
actually have a long-standing struggle with is far from here.
Our Founders Escape their clutches a long time ago.
But for this your agreement and in this case they don't they
just they the all seven of them hold up there their right hands
said if you would honor us with your right as well real quick go
for it, the retainer The retainer was the is the next
piece of information. God s let s ask us and you feel
you feel kind of like a light tingle.
Yeah as on the the interior of your hand of your right hand is
a tattoo now of kind of like a poorly drawn skull with a gold
tooth. Excellent.
Which means the inside of your palm you now, recognize you've
seen it around in the main port cities that you've been to.
It's just now that you've now that you've recognized it.
It's it's you like, oh shit, I get it now.
Yeah, and say now make your second task.
Hold on one second, no worries. No worries.
Okay. That was weird.
I want information about The Dread captain Iron wrought of
the harrowing Zephyr. The harrowing Zephyr.
Is currently skirting the Western Mists.
On the way down to the passage. The passage is the artificial
waterway that splits seek and the southern continent.
Last we heard, he was on his way, taking his ship to Rich,
hold the capital of the grand Regency of bridge.
Hold What's it called again? Which part the last thing that
you just said on their way to bridge hold which is the capital
city of the grand, Regency of breach old.
He is currently transporting a Envoy from bridge, hold. that
had been in contact with someone on the continent of mu Seth
which is to the east of us on whoo Dan but he had they paid
him to take the long way around, plus the the passage is on the
western side of seek and Okay, you didn't make an offer to
bring him here. He's not as popular.
Hmm. And at this current moment,
bringing him here may cause a little bit of destabilization
that we are not ready for gotcha.
Currently, in that part of the world there are rising tensions
between two of the four nation-states.
And if that Envoy, or the person bringing them was too.
Fall ill. A large War could possibly
Sprout up and we don't want to be the cause of that ever stood.
However, you would like we can also take them out or bring them
here as well. That would be more expensive
just because of the distances. Gotcha.
All right. Can I count on you to continue
maintaining tabs on these two individuals?
While I secure the funds to be able to pay to have one the
other or both of them brought to my to my care.
We will do what we can. Wow, we were quite good at it.
We are not the best at maintaining an intelligence
network, but we will do what we can and we will give you what
information we can in exchange. For services, rendered.
Understood. And with that, let us return you
to your compatriots. Mention a retainer.
You just received it. Interesting.
All right, let's go that coin matters little to us.
Now there's a lot to me when I need to come up with at least
500 Platinum. Why would we pay you to pay us?
You're paying me to do work by which I will pay you to do work,
we prefer the information, you can give us some hints.
We give it in kind. Understood.
This is a shit, we appreciate the attempt at guile.
All right, I turn around and start to walk out.
Padma follows you And she you as you exit this chamber and You
Begin a completely different path back then doesn't match
what you because you do. Remember how you got here,
right? Because of the fucking ground
team, right? This path is different.
Let's complain. But you hear a kind of a deep
chuckle that emanates from fad. Most chaste?
Yeah. Yes it's not often that a
like-for-like information exchange can be Negotiated enjoy
it while you can. We really must.
We usually much more expensive. I believe it, but sometimes Hmm
goals. Align very much so and I think
in this case you and your compatriots will be very good
for what we need. Eventually, your lead back to
the to the room where Patrice and SOA are sitting, they have
had a very wonderful detainment. We actually had wait, wait,
wait, wait, wait. Okay, we've been alone for a
minute. SOS do it?
No. So we'll do this SOA with them.
No. Absolutely.
What do you you're telling me? You're telling me that the that
the deity I've been worshiping that has I've been communing
with for years. Has a different name than the
one I've been using. I've been sitting there for like
an hour Petraeus. I still don't believe you like,
no, like we're so tight. You know?
Like we, you know, we talk all the time like you, you told me,
you just talk to him the one time and he already know his
true name. Okay.
So love it Patrice. I've been trying to explain this
Levin are has been talking to me for a while now and I wasn't
listening. That's my point, I've been
listening and you haven't and he didn't give me his name and they
didn't give me his name and I started and I started listening.
And and we had a conversation and and we made a deal and I'm
still not sure how I feel about that but it's been a week and
nothing else that has happened to me really yet outside of the
normal shit. That's just always happening and
He asked me to tell you that his name is in Haven, 11R.
And like like like like I like I like saw some right like and it
wasn't just like the goddamn skull that we just saw growing
up it was like a person. And it was huge, it was fucking
scary. Okay.
I believe you I believe you're too trusting of a person, I'm
telling you the truth but you're too trusting of a person.
I want you to know that. Also one of my faults true true.
I'm just I'm just I'm a little hurt.
You know I figured if anybody you know me not you would get
this information first but you know you know I'll try and all I
will you know up you know I'll figure it out eventually, you
know, but I just I just need a minute.
This is what I'm going to say. I don't yet food.
I mean, it Patrice. like I had I had this interaction and the
only other person who mentioned was you you came up, you know,
so so, you said that talking about me like, You talked about
me, is that what you're saying? Yeah, well you mentioned you was
a good stuff. I thought it was mostly to tell
you about what his actual name was.
But but you you came up, so there's that.
Yeah. What did I did?
I did I receive and it did. Did he have any verbal praise
for me? Doughboy, Maybe something
validating. I mean, I mean he he knows who
you are. Morgan, be sure to tell me when
I walk through the door again. I'm waiting for something good.
Yeah. So there's there's that right?
Like, like he definitely knows who you are.
So, you know, I think, I think if you if you're like Like I so
I he knows who I am, but he like is willing to confide in you,
okay, that just, you know, it just makes me feel so good.
Right there. Boom, I'm sorry.
Who are we talking about in my mind?
SOA is laying back. Like, like just just like
completely just smug and happy and Patrice.
It is like like has a sandwich in his hand and he's like
shaking it around and I was like cucumbers.
Pulling out of it, the throw. Yeah.
He's like yeah. Oh yeah, he's so jealous at
least twice that I could remember.
So installed walks in all you hear is, is well yeah but he
confides in you, right? And it just makes me feel so
good or whatever. And scaled is like Patrice I
tell you everything. If I say anything that I haven't
told you, it was maybe one or two things and they were
probably about you. Anyways, God doesn't tell me
anything. You're very, you're very
important. Be scaled.
Very important to me. I know.
I know, buddy. Yeah, let's just, let's leave it
at that. As I sit back and I down the
rest of my coffee. And I burned the roof of my
mouth. I'm like, Let's Get Loud.
Okay. How do we tell them?
How does this bag thing work? I want to.
I don't I don't want to be here anymore.
Well I figured I'd eat lunch before we leave.
And I sit down and start building myself a sandwich.
I didn't mean to interrupt you guys. 3 is continued
conversation. You you, you notice like Flames
start to tickle his fingers, he's not doing it on purpose,
but you can see like like there's, there's a, there's a
tension in his, in his arms and in his face and intensity,
that's only usually there. When when terrible things are
flying from his hands at enemies.
Is there like a liquor station somewhere in this room?
Morgan. Unfortunately not.
Mmm. So skeleton walks over and picks
up the hookah packs. It up walks over and sits down
next to Patrice Stokes the the bowl of bit.
Takes a nice, big rip. You want me to roll for truth
and stand together to like like the hookah.
You just described it to perfectly, let it it's good.
The residual flames on his fingers, the like the hookah and
I'm gonna blow some smoke rings and shoot.
You know, darts of smoke through the center of the Rings.
I can roll. Whole performance if you want.
Yeah, that one's a performance. That's going to be a 16-0.
Yeah. They're they're wonderful little
Rings there. It's almost to the point of
Gandalf. Nice.
The ship right? Yeah.
Beautiful little Rings. Actually.
They do so so Bilbo, right? Yeah.
I'm basically making bull's-eyes and then shooting little arrows
of smoke through the centers of the bulls eyes.
And then I hand the hose to Patrice and I'm like, why don't
you just hit this for a second while I eat my lunch, then we'll
get the hell out of here. Patrice is as soon as I figure
out how I'm supposed to talk to him again, I will, I will tell
him to talk to you. Okay, you know, you know, I
mean, I'm in. I'm, in Uncharted Territory
here. I thought you were crazy.
I didn't think it was real. I thought it was hearing voices
in my head, like, like, you can write more normal, right?
Did you say I was right? That you?
You notice like, when he says the words, you were right?
Like my shoulders drop. my continents evens and I just, you
know, that's really nice to hear.
I've apologized for for getting worked up needlessly and What do
you call this? Scaled hookah.
All right. Do I do I put do I breathe into
it or do I breathe out of it? Like why does it work?
Breathe it into your lungs. A little bit or a lot bit
halfway between the two, okay? Roll a constitution safe from
its ghosts. So you have a slight cough as
you. This is really like, you've, I
think you've been around tobacco or everything but like there's a
little bit of some sort of spicy thing to it.
That is a little bit different for the sailors here.
It's not a big deal, it gives a little bit of a relaxing, warm
sensation, it is slightly narcotic But for you who have
never abide in it, it's a little bit heavier of a feeling so you
were instantly calmed and you are no longer as mad at s.
So as you were, just, is there, is there any bacon at this
sandwich station? No.
It's just like you cut, like light, like, British cucumber
sandwiches, right? So like I walked over, and I
plop a cucumber sandwich down in front of Patrice with all of his
favorite rabbit food on it. And I've got one of my own and I
start eating and I slapped him on the back.
And I'm like, heat up buddy. This shit's free.
So, is there anything else that you guys would like to talk
about that? For me, I'm done.
That was awesome so much fun. So you guys finish eating and it
is, it is quite lovely. So for those of you who want the
coffee, it's strong like think Turkish coffee.
Yes. The key, the tea is very much of
a Darjeeling, if it's there, if you want it, it's lovely.
It's wonderful. And then Fatima comes in like
some there, her timings impeccable like you're finishing
up and everything she says. Are you ready?
sure am and she points to a window and says, if you would
mind looking that way, And just kind of have a shit-eating grin
and turn and look at the window. Start lighting the, the sack
returns and then, as almost as quickly as the, as the last
time, but this time, the it's removed from your head, and
there were three of no Nova lights will call them.
They are definitely the least Their clothing, is the plainest
of everyone's that you've seen and the center one looks to the
three images. Return home.
The three of you are all, welcome.
To enter a convocation house from now on.
Conduct yourself in the way that you have done previously.
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