Welcome everybody to campaigns concoctions.
We are a bunch of melancholic marauders who like to drink and
play D&D that. Is way too accurate.
I was like, yeah, it I feel like it hits all of us at this point.
Thank you so much, everybody, for joining us on this adventure
of cooperative storytelling. As always, we're really, really
excited that you're joining us. I know that a lot of you haven't
been listening less lately, but we love you anyways.
I know there's I've pretty much, yeah.
Yeah. You got to shave my listeners
for not listening enough. I'm gonna shame them all,
actually. If you're hearing this right
now, you're. Part of the problem, Yes.
No, if you're hearing this right now, you're not part of the
problem and I love you more. Yeah, that's right.
That's right. That's not.
I'm not shaming our listeners. I'm shaming those who aren't
listening and they're just going to get that energy in the
universe. They're my definition, not
currently listeners. And they fucking should be, God
damn it. God damn it.
We are delightful. Very much so.
We are. Especially Matt.
Yes, Matt is quite delightful. Matt is.
Is. Delightful.
All right, so I've I asked this before, but as always, I'm gonna
give you some alibis here. Anybody got anything that they
wanna share that we're pitching today?
Come hang out with me at the place I'm working.
Hey kiddo. Hey, kiddo.
You're gonna love it so. They will not make you a
cocktail based on your astrological sign, that is.
I will not make you a cocktail based on your astrological sign.
And if someone asks you, you just tell them to fuck.
Off, yes, yes. I'll be like we don't do that
bullshit here. Tell me what celebrity you want
me to base a cocktail off of, All right?
Or what? Movie or what movie?
But I'm not doing some bullshit around Zodiac, which?
Shows not. In the Dune series, do you want
me to base your? Girl.
Yes. What book or character within
Dune would you like me to base your?
Cocktail off. Of.
So I can make you a. Gurney Helic right I.
Would say that once the Duff in Idaho.
That's what I'm thinking, yeah. Next break, OK.
We will have a Duncan Idaho. That's happening.
So with all that being said though, thank you again.
We have cocktails. And I.
The good thing is, is right now none of you guys are hearing the
bullshit that they're doing right now because when I'm
speaking, they stop recording for some reason and we can't
figure it out. So they're laughing and they're
being fucking ridiculous right now.
And so I'm just going to keep talking because I love them and
I just want to keep rubbing in the wrong way.
So what are we drinking tonight, fellas?
Matt made a cocktail. I think I'm probably gonna fuck
with this a little bit more over the course of the evening, but I
did right? I'm in a cocktail.
It's. It's.
Like, I'm still doing the Manhattan rifting, so it's.
By two ounces of Woods Wood Gin. Yes.
Gin. Yeah, out of Salida Co, I
believe. And then I did 1/2 an.
Hour, almost. It's an oak gin.
It's almost an old Tom gin. Yeah, it's close.
It's not. Like an old Tom, Yeah.
It's not. It's.
It's so great. It's got a.
Really good. Like floral, like very aromatic.
Flavor profile, It's not over. It's not like super hot, but
it's got a good bite. It's it's really nice.
Yeah, it's really nice gin. So I did.
I did Benedictine and half ounce of Benedictine and 1/2 ounce of
yellow Chartreuse in this, and then a couple dashes of plum
bitters and a couple dashes of lavender bitters.
And so, like, it's all working well.
It's a little It's really got that, like licorice.
E Yeah, From the Benny. From the Benny Yellow together.
So yeah. It might be.
We might be seeing this a little bit later on in the evening with
some amaraninin or Aperol. Yeah.
And then I made a cocktail. It's.
It's a standard cocktail build I'll I'll call it.
I I wouldn't say it's based off of anything in particular but is
you could maybe call it a a non egg white sour might be a right
the right way to to approach it. It's 2 ounces of so tall half
ounce of Benedictine, 1/2 ounce of yellow Chartreuse, 1/2 ounce
of Orjat and. Roughly 3/4 of an ounce of lemon
juice. We haven't been pre squeezing
our lemon juice recently, so this was fresh squeezed lemon
juice just literally into the shaker.
But it was a half a lemon and that's going to come out to
about 3/4 of an ounce of lemon juice roughly.
It might be, you know, a few milliliters over or under, but
it's pretty close. I think it turned out really
well. I garnished it with a lemon
wheel. It is bright, It is refreshing,
it's boozy. It's all those things that I
tend to love and. Get the nuttiness from the
orjot. Yeah, the orjot nuttiness is
right there, but you also get the smokiness from that so tall.
And this is the yellow Chartreuse keeps it bright and
the Benedictine that's making it nice and herbal or blending it
all. Together, kind of, yeah.
The the so tall is the desert door.
Under proof aged so tall. Yeah, it's really good.
So tall. Yeah, it is.
So the. So nice to just drink meat.
Yeah, I I'm about to pour myself a neat pour of it to be honest
in in like 5 minutes here. Yeah.
I got from John. We can cry.
Strainers are. I'll just.
I'll just slap yeah, wherever the strainers are.
We lost our strainers. I will, I will fully slap a
bottle nipple on that bottle of fucking so Tall and just suck on
it like a fucking baby dude. Like I will drink that shit.
All night, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Absolutely, absolutely. No problem.
OK. So with that, it's going to be,
it's hurting cats tonight. I have the feeling sorry.
Also, the last time, something that we forgot until after we
had ended recording last session, we leveled up.
Yes. We did.
So we are now rocking at level 8 and so everyone did their thing.
They're both level 9 then okay cuz I cannot get any of my level
straight in any of my games. So it's all good.
It's 100% a thing I do. And then, if there's nothing
else, the last time we got together, the party was cleaning
up some stuff centered around completing the robbery.
Of residual. And can I just interject our our
HP roles? Does anybody else know their HP
roles? Nope.
No, Just being Curtis. Do you remember yours?
Me, Curtis and Nate. I do not remember mine.
Got the same amount of points, all right.
So four of us know what our HP roles were.
Go go on ahead, guys. Patrice rolled A3 on a six on a
D6. Sid took a level of fighter as
well and rolled A3 on a D10. OKI rolled really well.
Other than that. Doesn't say Stark took a level
of fighter, rolled A7 on a D10, and now I'm not allowed to gain
hit points ever again because I'm at 69.
There we go, yes. Perfect.
I rolled a level of I think
Fighter as well and I got a six on a D10, which I'm pretty happy
with considering that my last two roles were a three and a
four on D eights. So yeah.
Do I have? I don't think I've rolled,
actually. I know.
How to? I didn't know.
Because I lost doing it so. Did you figure out which level
you were taking though? No, I did not.
That's why you didn't roll. Yeah, that's why.
Yeah, that's why you roll. Well, we'll see what's happening
for you in a few minutes. I am.
I am currently a Warlock Deep Court warlock.
Just. Packed of the blade and also a
fighter. And I'm very excited about it.
And this is what happens when you have an amazing DM who's
like, you built a story around this.
Now your character can do what they want at this junction.
Do they want to take another level of war life?
Do they want to take a level of fight?
Or do they want to take like this is what you've built
yourself towards RP wise. And now I get to do whatever the
fuck I want with this character within the realm of what I built
RP wise. And this is going to be fucking
awesome. All right, so there we go.
Y'all. That's what we're looking at.
The last time we got together, the party was reconstituting
themselves after the theft of residual from the mine.
What did we get and what did we roll?
I. Rolled an 8 and I'm taking my.
I'm taking a third warlock level.
There we Go. 8 as the party was kind of counting everything and
returned to the ship, they were gathering information.
They were planning on what they were going to do as well as to
practice the jumping off the ship and getting picked off,
which went sort of better than people were expecting.
It wasn't great, but it wasn't bad either.
And then there was the big remember guys, I can't hear you
when I'm talking. Not that I don't want you to not
talk. I want to hear what you're
having to say. The there was the big reveal of
coming across the Horizon to Tinkermere, the bronze shine on
the the Bay of the Hill Hazy Lagoon and the also reveal of
the manager. This white vampiric appearing
beholder floating down from the ceiling and having it beginnings
of a conversation that we pick up in the manager's office.
The manager is behind his desk, the six of you are sitting there
and it was just kind of really. It was just small talk that had
been made. So he looks at the six of you.
Actually he looks at Elle and Sark.
I was expecting the two of you home, but I wasn't necessarily
expecting the four of them to join you right away.
So is there something particular that the six of you is to
attempt right now? We have unrefined residual to
process and sell that can be taken care of.
With a cut going to the business for whatever needs you need.
Once it is residual typical, cut just the processing fee.
How much is that so? How much?
I know someone else wrote it down.
How much did you guys have? It was in like the 200, almost
300 range, I believe pounds. 329.
Yeah, Yeah, 329. So Curtis, I'm going to have you
do some math 3. 19 I need. You to tell me what is 70% of
that total? It's gonna be. 2/24.
So when you, when you and the so this is what the manager's gonna
be telling you as as he's gonna ask questions as we process.
I just did it on my calculator, and that's right, yeah.
The job, right, As we process the residual, we generally lose
about 30% of the weight. It was two what?
224 so that will be your You will return with 224 pounds of
processed residue. The company will take 10% of
that as a processing fee and the rest is yours to do as you wish.
Yeah, that sounds good to me. I'm fine with that 2. 101, so
the current price of residual is approximately 5000 platinum
pieces per processed pound. So the six of you have come into
quite the windfall. So we can take care of that if I
will make sure that that those who know will punch. 5000
platinum per pound. Platinum.
Enough of you. Use magic.
I'm assuming that we'll sell like 150 pounds of it and keep
51. For.
How much? How much do we end up with after
their their fee? 2, 101 pounds?
Two. £101.00 so. Even if we keep.
Of 26. And I'm I'm like talking to Sark
and Al in like a sidebar way, but like the way that you are at
like a corporate table where, like, we're sidebaring but
everyone can hear us. Like, we all know that you can
hear what the fuck we're saying, but we're pretending that this
is a sidebar conversation. What's the manager's name?
The manager, Mike, that would be your answer, yes.
Sorry, sorry doesn't. Respond you just like.
Uh huh. Yeah.
And then I go bandy to about like half a breath.
And. What's?
The manager's salutation is it Mr. Is it Miss?
Is it mix? Is it?
The. Just signing like.
John, It's not Mr. Manager, it's just Manager.
I thought it was Mr., The Manager.
You can either call me manager mix is appropriate.
Mix. This seems like an extremely
reasonable transaction to me and my crew, because in the 4000
years of my existence, my entire purpose has been to find a
pirate's opinion of me reasonable.
I believe that to be true. And as his nine eyes are looking
at you, Scald, his very large eye turns back to Sarkin.
L Just before we get too deep into this, when the six, seven
of us are done, I need to speak to you too.
But outside of this residual, what is it that the six of you
are here to achieve? Because six, or really four of
you can really throw off the equilibrium of my city.
That may not be a bad thing. I know why I brought these two
back. And you watch him so his bottom
two. So for those of you who may have
heard of the holders in the past, he seems to have more ice
stocks. And he uses his bottom too.
He speaks very much like an Italian man with his hands, but
it's 2 eyeballs. Yes, right.
He's he's gesticulating with ice stocks.
Yeah, it's he's already a terrifying creature and this
little bit I. Was like this issue and you're
like, no, I'm not company. You wonder.
Why Sark has such? Weird men.
Yeah, That's fair. That's fair, yeah, he says.
I know why I've brought these two back.
Are the four of you seeking to join my employee?
What does that entail? Well, there is a certain amounts
of freedom, but at the same time in an increased lack of it.
I, for 1:00 AM, not a fan of anything that decreases my
ability to do whatever the fuck I feel like doing.
I had a feeling, but I'm trying to figure you out.
Information is my business and I don't like not knowing.
I might be open to contract work for you, easily done, but again
I ask you what is it that you are doing here?
We're here with Sarc and out. Okay.
People that he wants to kill, he's exploring.
She's looking for someone. I don't know why the fuck she's
here. I just rent the boot.
You're just gonna just lay that shit out there?
You already has your list. Who do you think's looking into
it? This is.
The this is where the list went when you asked for information
on them. It is nice.
It is nice to put faces to the information.
This is the face. Isn't it glorious?
It's on. I find it no better nor worse
than the typical humanoid face. You know, I accept that as a
compliment. You should.
For you, though, I will say that the search is ongoing.
There is no definitive answer for you yet, but my people are
working. The sooner I can break their
fingers and lash them to a pole in the tide, the better.
Honestly, don't care what you do with the information.
As long as it's fairly compensated.
It'll always be fairly compensated.
Well I would ask the four of you and he points to Stalled, SOA,
Sid and and Patrice. And if you wouldn't mind and you
hear a click and you turn around and you watch as a portion of
the wall just slides open and. If you would Please wait outside
in our waiting area, you have some business to attend with my
employees. Said Well I had through the
door. Patrice is doing math on his
fingers. OK.
And then he gets a look on his face of like disbelief of how
how insanely well numbered we are right now.
Like. Owning of country's level of.
Yeah, yeah. 125,000 platinum pieces each.
Yes, yeah, yeah, 125,000 scald Scald has also done this mental
calculus and is attempting to keep a straight face, and I'm
going to roll performance for that.
Right. Because I feel like it's
appropriate. Bullshit.
The bed. I did.
Not bad, I I rolled a 15. Probably a little bit.
A little bit of a smirk, yeah, Like, he's definitely got a
smirk. He's definitely like.
His eyes are a little bit wider than usual.
His one eye, the one eye that shows is definitely a little bit
wider than usual. And he's definitely, like,
scanning the room, but not, like, furtively.
He's like deliberately scanning the room to, like, assess the
facial expressions of his cohorts.
And he's going to try his damnedest to wait until Sark and
L leave the room before he gets up to leave the room and he's
still in his spot, reclined across an armchair with legs
over an arm and an elbow over the other arm, smoking a cigar
and sipping on whatever Brandy. So you're going to try and stay
here after he's asked you all to leave to?
Until Snirkin, I'll leave. Yes, we.
Were asked to stay. If you don't leave, you will be
removed. Oh, you meant me too?
Yes. I apologize.
I'm not used to being dismissed, but.
Well, it wasn't a dismissal, but it is now.
Under current circumstances, I'm perfectly fine with being
dismissed from this party. I hope that you guys have a
wondrous conversation. Sorry.
I'll see you soon, Mix Manager. I cannot express to you the
pleasure that this meeting has been, and I look forward to our
future endeavors. And then Skeld walks out the
door. The whole time Skeld has been
talking, Al has been sitting there shaking his head.
This fucking idiot's going to get himself killed.
So sorry, where I'm going. The worst thing in the world for
Skeld? I'm going to have to punch him.
I would like, sorry, I would
like the four of you to. That are leaving to make a quick
perception check for me please to see the begin.
So where is that I got a 7? I.
Do got 11. Well, since the double
proficiency skelet is gold blind right now, I.
Think we all lie? What was yours?
10 And then what was yours, Sid? 12.
Yeah, yours. So just just kind of the, the
broad strokes, you know, so if if you guys don't remember from
last week, the room does look over instead of looking over the
Bay which you would actually expect because that's probably
the the better, the better view. The room itself actually looks
over the city and as you turn around you see that the the room
itself is kind of like 1/2 circle.
Above and above the manager's desk is a solid cut out where
the manager had floated down from but lining the wall.
Of this room are stands that seem to hold a multitude of
objects. Because those were not great
roles, you can't really decipher what they are, but they do seem
to hold a a place of importance to the manager.
And then also as the door slides open, the objects slide.
With the door, you walk out to the waiting room, where you see
a fairly large wooden desk. With a youngish teeth lean
behind it, she is quite lovely and sitting in.
There's some really nice furniture set up for you to sit
in and at no point has anyone asked any of you who are smoking
to stop. So it's a very nice thing,
right? However, the smoke doesn't last
very long. It seems to dissipate very
quickly and the smell along with it.
Oh, I'm going to try smoke blowing smoke rings.
As you try and blow a smoke ring, it blows and then
disappears. As you, the last of you, exit
the threshold, you hear the sound.
It's really quiet, but you can because you know that it's
there. You hear the sound of the doors.
It's sliding and there's a very definitive click.
As the door latches the sarc and L the manager takes a very deep
breath. I have not met one of that
audacity in quite some time. It is annoying yet refreshing
that that pretty much sums him up, I mean.
Just mind him whenever you want to, but he's kind of useful.
Pretty sure a lot of that was from.
It's all good. It's there.
I don't, I don't even have like what he would actually say.
That's the only thing that can come out of my mouth right
there. Well, like I said, I was not
expecting the four, the four of them to be attending right away,
but I should have been. I should have known.
It seems like the the six of you have done some quite spectacular
things together already. Reminded me of some of the other
groups that I have hired out throughout the years.
But if you recall, the reason that I brought the two of you
back was to begin the investigation to some of these
ruins similar to the ones that you found under Haven.
Is that still within the scope of Y'all's plans?
Has anything changed recently? The only plan I had coming here
was to get. The residual taken care of other
than that I was planning to be at your disposal.
With Richard daughter as well. Well, with that, she's, she's
currently downstairs. Jesus, really?
It's one of the few times that Sark is very glad that no one
else is in the room, because he visibly shudders having these
two people in the same approximate space.
Love it, love it. But it's objectively terrifying.
It's like having the president, the vice president, being on the
same plane. So the the manager chuckles as
he watches as his metallically wooden automaton.
Employee shivers and says I can understand that, which is why
she's not here. I figure the two of us in one
room would have been too much for all of you.
We, her and I are on quite lovely terms.
We usually go have a meal together whenever she's in town.
But. You did reach out and say that
that you know you wanted to talk to her and apparently she's
she's interested in speaking to. The six of you.
So before we dive into any kind of tasking for the two of you
other than the typical eyes open, ears to the ground, I'm
going to send the six of you downstairs to my private
meeting. Where?
Some light, fair and wine have been provided and.
Madame Rector's daughter would like to speak to the six of you.
Of no, but I don't think we sent in a message Mage House of
Telkabahad as the mortal mortar and pestle of the three ladies.
You watch as as soon as you say that a fairly elegant quill
takes flight and begins to scribble across a notepad on his
desk. And then returns to it well.
I don't know. Go ahead.
Also, the three current avatars, manifestations of the three
ladies, were dead in their house.
He watches the the the quote returns and starts to scribble,
scribble, scribble even more furiously.
Well, the mortar and pestle was one thing.
I don't think that that's going to lead to any kind of drastic
change, but that last bit of information.
That's something. So thank you for that as always.
Payment will be as usual for those kind of terms they will
be. Payment will be made into your
rooms as usual, which are cleaned and prepared for you go
for it dude. It's part of the ambiance,
right? Can't.
Hear it, okay? Cool.
So as he looks at you and he says that now I lost my train of
thought. Shit, I apologize.
Oh, you're good, dude. It's not.
It's it. It happens.
Oh, there, there it is. So my hope for you today is that
you go and have this brief meeting.
With Madam's Richter's daughter. And then you spend the rest of
the day and tomorrow morning getting yourself and your
compatriots settled in the into the city and then we will talk.
Would you like to have your 4 compatriots here with you as we
discuss our future plans? Unless there's something.
You want to keep. Particularly private at this
point, there isn't. And the two of you have
definitely earned a level of trust that I was surprised that
you have earned, but I'm not disappointed.
I also think that may depend on what Richter's daughter has for
us cuz it. Our requests sometimes have a
time constraint, so we may need to have those for working on
other things. Well, mine's not a time
constraint. Those ruins as of right now are
not moving and I think it's time that with your the six of yours
experience up in Haven that some of these have been tied together
and we need to understand what is happening.
So. We can we can adjust fire as we
need to. But with that I shall leave you.
Oh, also, Li just wanted to let you know that the current
situation is still unchanged. You are still everything's still
copacetic, if you understand my meaning.
Thank you. And we'll be as far as I can
maintain it. But with that, gentlemen, I have
nothing else for you. Enjoy your evening, your your
day and the rest of your evening.
You as well of. Course Sir, I get a deep bow
and. You're going to watch him as he
floats up. To the top through through back
to his own personal quarters, the doors begin to open.
Sark and Elle walk through and into the waiting room.
And at that point, why don't we take our first break for the
evening? We will be back in just a few
moments as I really gather my thoughts, cuz I really do lose
my train thought there. So just hold on for a minute and
we'll be right back. Welcome back, everybody, To
campaigns, concoctions where there's too few of us that get
way too animated about women's national team football.
Go USA. It's the closest you'll get to
it. A lot of us being patriotic,
that's about. Right, so for my friend July.
Party I went to, I realized the only USA stuff I have is soccer
related. Yeah.
So. At this point of my life.
Yeah, all right, fellas. What are we drinking?
I'll go first. I'm naming this Leela Blanca.
It's 2 3/4 ounce Mesca Blanco Mescal.
Vita Yoga. I'm sorry.
Yovan Mescal 3/4 ounce. The lilac syrup.
This is like the first thing I found that you can really pull
the lilac syrup. Pull the lilac with Mescalia.
And then one dash. What are those Chipotle bitters?
No ones, Habanero ones. Habanero, I think it's.
One dash, Yeah. Habanero shrub bitters from.
Bittermans. Bitters, yeah.
And then just lemon, Peel expressed.
Lightly expressed cuz it will overpower if you do too much and
then I just drop that peel into the glass, you're not really
nice. You didn't say twist it, rub it
around the rim and drop it in though I.
Didn't twist it, though I did rub it around the rim.
Okay. Well, that counts, yeah.
I. Didn't want to.
That's the most important part. Yeah, Twist is not the most
important is rubbing it around the rim.
You gotta rub it around the rim and then drop.
It in, Yeah, it's just gonna do. Yeah.
Who else made a cocktail? Matt?
Did you make cocktail? I fixed the first cocktail I
made. Yeah, that's fine.
So I made something from not just a bartender on TikTok, I
think his name's Chris. He calls it the Swoon in June.
It's his first competition cocktail.
It just sounded fun. It has quarter ounce of Creme de
Casis, half an ounce of the Alvier.
Alvier Solare 1927 Pedro Jimenez Sherry 3/4 of an ounce of lemon
juice, 2 ounces of four Rose and roses Bourbon muddle mint and
blackberries in the bottom. Pour everything on top.
Add an egg white I dry shook shook with ice and then reverse
dry shook. Oh, for the fun of it and you
know. Strain through a fine strainer
into a frozen coop. Because, as he says, if you
don't freeze your coops, you're a poop, and it's just fun to say
he's not wrong. And then garnish.
With that came from another there's a story grain.
They come from another TikTok. It's very subtle for one of the
cocktails at our table, but it's real soft.
It's real soft. It's very soft.
It's velvety, yeah. It's got a good mouth, feel good
consistency. If anything, I would add more
mint next time. I might try and do one of the
others like a few more leaves in there.
Yeah, all right. Well, those sound delicious.
And fuck all. Y'all, I will say that Matt
refined his build a little bit. Matt was your refinement.
I literally. Swapped out the Benedictine for.
No, no, Maro. Oh yeah, you know, Maro.
And it's better. It is.
It is objectively better. And like I'm the one who
suggested the Benedictine, and I think the Nanino is better.
That doesn't tasted it. And he was like, can you make me
one of those? Yeah, Yeah.
So we know the, we know it's. It's been the.
Ultimate, Ultimate compliment I can get and then I made a malor
tie with no pineapple. Malor tie, Yeah.
I made 2 ounces of Plantation Overproof Rum and then one ounce
of Mallort. About 3/4 of an ounce of lemon
juice, a full ounce of cane syrup.
Wasn't enough. It was not enough.
It was not. It was objectively not enough.
And then I did a full dropper of the lavender bitters and a full
dropper of the mole bitters, and I did a 1/2 ounce.
Of yellow Chartreuse could have used a little bit more of
everything and less malor. Yeah, it could.
It could have used a little bit more of everything and no malor.
Yeah, then it would have been a Mai Tai, which is a delicious
drink. It would.
Have been It would have been, but I will say I made an extra
$20 in tips above the 30% that my guest was tipping in the
first place when I made this drink for him.
Yes, we do. The only difference was I also
added an ounce of pineapple juice, but we didn't have
pineapple. It's in the fridge.
Outside. Well, fuck.
All right, shall we get to? Yes, all right.
D&D. All right, so the four of you
that is scald S way, Sid and Patrice are sitting there
discussing how you're going to break down all of this fucking
money that you're going to get right?
Because it's. What was it?
500 pounds of platinum a piece. No.
It was 2506 pounds of platinum a piece.
Pounds. Pounds.
Each one of us has a ton of platinum coins.
A literal ton. I didn't realize a ton in a
coin. I thought we were converting
like residual pounds into platinum pieces.
We did, and then I changed it into pounds because there was
too many coins. It's easier to talk in pounds of
platinum. We work in pounds of platinum as
our new logo and so. We're not retired, we work in.
Pounds. Of platinum, and that's an
accurate statement. So as as the four of you are
discussing this, right you you hear, you hear the click of the
door and you watch as it slides open and you watch as Sark and L
come out and Sark and L you will hear them talking about pounds
of platinum. So.
So, Patrice, I could just buy a haven like the entire island.
Yeah, and have plenty left over. Yeah.
I mean. If you're shopping, you want to.
If you want to, you want to open a bar and restaurant together.
Feel like I know a little bit about liquor.
Who's going to cook somebody? We'll find someone.
Do you remember? Do you remember a place that
used to have a meeting with one of the Richters that we're going
to be like now? Do you remember a place that
used to have people dressed up as gorillas jumping into very
small pools across the waterfall?
I thought it was the one I was taking care.
I don't. I don't.
I. Don't think that was ever.
I don't think they franchise. I don't think it was ever, no.
But I feel like we could hire their head chef.
Their head chef is amazing. It was called Basa Canita.
Yeah, it was Basa Canita, Basa Canita.
That's the place we could poach their head chef and open a new
place on Haven. And that would be the new draw
for Haven. Like, yeah, it's a place to
sell, you know, Romney may have stolen, but also exactly
prosper, you know? Like you get all that.
Tourist trap? Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, I feel like. I feel like the locals.
Wouldn't go there? No.
Absolutely not. No.
Why would they do that? Yeah, we don't keep the Richter
family waiting. We need to go see the Richter
family. There's one waiting for us
downstairs. OK, let's do that.
I've intrigued about the gorillas.
Yeah, I think the gorillas can really be a selling.
As we will say, what the fuck is a gorilla?
It's a very large monkey. The fuck is a monkey?
I turn my cast. Polymorph on scald and turn him
into a green gorilla, and then scald gesticulates in such a
fashion as to say this this is a gorilla, except that I'm green
and I don't know how. Scald gesticulates the part that
he shouldn't be green, but he is attempting to just stipulate
that he should not be green. I feel like you.
Got the color wrong on this. I've also just decided that
Haven has gorillas, so that's why Patrice and I are familiar
with them. Yes, gorillas normally have
seizures like this. No, I do.
It's just Skull. And then skull starts doing sign
language. And I turn them off immediately
that. Start.
Understands, which is fuck you, I'm not having a seizure well.
If I remember correctly. You gain the Intelligence of the
creature that you're polymorphed into.
Can you keep your own intelligence?
No, that's for truids, yeah. Polymorph.
You lose your polymorph. You have the intelligence of
what I do. Don't gesticulate much of
anything. You're a bit smarter than coral,
yeah. We've got a little bit like 2
points smarter approximately. 6 Bit smarter Carl's pretty smart,
yeah? Carl's a good boy, That's why.
Carl's a good boy. Yeah.
So I'm like one point smarter than Carl.
Yeah, but at this point, Elle and Sark have kind of began to
lead you down a couple flights of stairs.
Are you keeping Sark in? Gorilla form?
No. I dropped it right as he started
doing sign language cuz I thought it might offend
somebody. You've seen me do tons of sign
language. I don't know, it just seems
weird when it comes from a gorilla as we're walking
downstairs. I was like, what?
Why do you want a gorilla in a restaurant?
Entertainment value? And then I turn to Patrice and I
say just wait until this planet gets taken over by the apes.
We're going to get sued. There's already specifically did
not use any trademark. There's already a skull on the
beach. It already fits.
But there's a very tall woman with a torch.
And a book. Well, we have enough money.
To do to Oh my God, make it O. K Prosper, Let's get.
A door. Me as as you come, you come to
the It's a pretty ornate set of double doors.
And in this case, you are now going to be entering facing
towards the to the to the east. And this is going to be as you
open up the door, you see you're kind of initially blinded as the
sun is is reflecting off the water of the lagoon and it is
kind of it's coming in and you see this gorgeous wood table
with chairs for about 16 people. Standing in front of the window
is the familiar form of prospering Richter's daughter.
Her trench coat, her, her long duster, I should say, is sitting
on the table or not on the table, on the chair, hanging on
the chair at the far end. She is in brown leather slacks,
A waistcoat and a kind of a. Peach colored shirt that has
been rolled up to the sleeves. Her hat is sitting on the table.
She wears A bolero hat normally, if you guys remember, and as the
door opens she turns and you see that face that is white up or
black up top and then white that kind of fades down and you see
her sleeves have been rolled and heard the black of her hands are
there and she smiles. And it is very warm and
inviting. Yet at the same time, for most
of you, it's in shivers down your spot.
Just because you know the power of this woman, right?
And so she. As she smiles, she says please
sit. I'm so happy to see all of you
again. How are you talking about pounds
of platinum now? Pounds.
I've never quite heard it
described that way. Well, you have now.
That's how we operate. Rake in the mold, I see how's I
was going to say my but how is your crew?
How is everybody? Our crew is doing very well.
They are going to enjoy their shortly, very shortly, yes.
And I think they're probably excited, Going to be excited
about the. Pounds of platinum once we tell
them about it. Excellent.
I'm very, very happy they're also going.
To get pounds of platinum. Please make sure that you take
care of them. They have done a very good job
of taking care of me. We always do.
They've done a very good job of
taking care of us as well so far.
Yeah, they had a they had a harrowing time while we were
somewhere else. So yeah, it was.
It was an intense, it was an intense time for them while we
were away. And they they were.
Non. Summit professionals.
Not only professional, but efficient, yes.
It won't be the first time they've had to pull someone out
of a, say, hazardous situation. I think they were in the
hazardous situation more than we were.
Definitely. And they they held their own and
did a great job and they were there for us when we were out.
Yeah. Excellent.
Well, I did get your message. Fortunately we were in town or
easily to get to town, but there's someone that I would
like you to meet and she snaps and all of a sudden to her right
cloud of mist rises and stepping out of it is a man in a high
necked robe tied up. To the neck, a very wide brim
loose hat with a basically a bandana across his his face.
All you can really see are from about the eyelids to the high
cheekbones. He steps across and you just
feel an instant chill enters the room.
And I can't do it. So but just I just need you to
imagine the deepest boom like the Allstate guy, like Dennis
Hasberg, kind of deep boom, right as he comes up and speaks
well. Met my new friends.
I am the Lord Richter if Elle is seated already.
He's going to stand up and bow. Please please.
Yeah, Shark might give him a deeper bow than the manager at
this point. Just like, oh God, what colors
his skin. Make a Perception check.
Skin. It's going to be a 13.
It's it's hard to tell the shadows like he he's a good emo
kid, right? Like he is the he he definitely
has the the ability to have good effect right?
So it's really hard to tell. The only thing that you can see
is the flaring purple of his eyeballs.
Looking at. The Lord Richardson.
Gerard Way. It's fine.
I mean, am I wrong?
No, so. I can picture the lead singer of
the Christian Evil band. I listened.
No, this is way worse. Trust me, Way worse.
This is the description you gave this hysterical.
So he he says no, no, no, no, no, no.
This is informal. Please sit down.
Sit down. We would like to invite you to
our home. We think that some of our goals
and those of the owner of this building a lot, so we would like
to offer you sometime in the immediate future.
The ability to come and stay in Bear Khan and peruse our
archives and maybe take a stroll through some of the places
underneath our city. I was.
Very much sitting at attention starting.
Very intently now, Sid Audibly. Takes a deep breath and exhales
as she's no longer feeling conflicted between the manager
and prospering. I would love to take you up on
that offer, Lord Richter. I've been dying to meet you.
Berkheim, Is that landlocked? That's not like a port that I've
ever made call at. Is that Matt asking or is that
SOA asking? I was about to say.
Come on, 100% SOA. I know, I know, I'm.
Like SOA doesn't know shit about this person.
Have I been to Berkheim? No, none of you guys have.
Ellen Sark know about it because the manager has told them about
it in the course of the game. But other than that, no one
really knows you. You know about it, that's about,
that's about it. And he says unfortunately, most
likely no. We just recently returned to
this plane of existence about 20 years ago.
So. Is that?
Berekheim or you return to this? Well, the entire plateau that I
am is my domain. We have three cities as well as
pretty solid population. I mean obviously nothing of the
16 million that are here in in Tinkermere, but you know we're
we're close to about half a million on the plateau.
So I had separated us. From this plane to protect my
people until some of my best had rid this area of a existential
threat. Some of them have come home, not
all of them. One still concerns me, which we
will have to talk about later. I believe Prosper has given you
a little bit of a touch of our concerns about that person.
When you say your people, do you mean T flings in general or your
household? Well, he kind of looks up, his
eyes kind of go up, and then you realize that he's not a T fling.
Sure. And he says, and at this point
it's prospering. This speaks and says no, he's
something else. Sorry, that's not necessary.
Prosper and says we actually have some of everybody.
All mortals reside within Berkheim.
We were a haven for many, many, many who sought protection.
And when the dangers that my father mentioned came is when.
About a millennia ago, he separated our home from this
this place. So if he's not a tea fling, can
I tell what he is? Go.
Ahead and roll a Perception check, it's.
Going to be a 15. Also, are you trying to be
discreet? Pretty sure I know the OK roll.
I don't even want to do this. I'll let you decide.
Sleight of hand or or Stealth. One of those two.
You're. Probably going to get this one.
It's going to be an 18 for either.
So as you look at him, he is tall, slender, he does not have
a tail. He doesn't seem to have any of
the markings of what you can see on his face that would signify
him as an ace mar. His skin is kind of palish Gray,
but I mean, it's really hard to see.
As covered up as he is. All you can see is his hands,
but you're and he's actually wearing gloves, but it looks
like they're just normal hands and really the only thing.
It's really hard to tell, but he kind of looks like a baseline
human, right? It's like the closest thing you
can see. So you seem very bold.
You could say. We very much appreciate this
invitation to your home. What do you want us to do there?
Well, in consultation with the manager.
There's some information that we may have in our archives in the
forbidden section of one of our clans that could be pertaining
to some lines of research that he is interested in and also the
area some of the areas underneath that create the
underside of the plateau date from.
Before the age of our con, which I believe some of you, some of
you have been around. Go ahead, Nate.
The manager wants us to come and take a look at your ruins.
Soon. Does this have anything to do
with the specimen that you picked up from us?
No, that is something completely different.
Maybe. We don't know yet.
We're starting to figure that thing out does.
Anything. Go ahead and.
Got the specimen from. Maybe we're strong.
I not even I have seen something like this creature before.
I'm glad we gave it to her. I didn't want to deal with it.
Yeah, I think it was feisty. That happens.
We are in no rush. It seems that our our goals are
are aligned in a way that's no one's in any rush.
I also believe that this research here.
May help you in something that we have put you on retainer for
HM. All the more reason to run.
Through all my notes. So, Lisium.
Yes, and whatever prison he's in.
It's Raven. Something I shouldn't remember
what it is Ravenhold. Ravenhold.
Yeah, the Ravenhold Institute. Metrical flying.
Highly garden. Magically.
I believe that some of the technology that the creators of
the institute used came from the time.
That these rulings are from, which were a time before me, but
I don't want to set a timetable. You do have a way to get a hold
of my daughter. I believe that there's still
some meetings and he looks at Ellen Sark.
There's still some meetings to be had with your employer.
With you, Sark reflexively tries to disappear into nonexistent
shadows. Up up till he looks over, Al has
very much been the like 5 year old that wants to tell you about
their day but knows they're not supposed to.
Like, kind of bouncing, visibly trying to keep his mouth shut.
And after that old, after Richter looks at him with that
question of now, I'll say yes, there's.
There's still a couple, at least one meeting we have to have and
I'm sure these they have never been to Tinkerbear before, so
there are several places that they need to visit and again,
they're working in pounds of platinum, so they have plenty of
distractions available to their when.
Well, for those of you, yeah, as this is the first time for some
of you in Tinker Bear, and especially since you have pounds
of platinum, I would recommend at least one meal at Grace.
It is located on the pier and he took.
He turns around and he points out the window and as you look
down you can see that there is. It's surprising, for as large as
this body of water is, there's only one pier that juts out
everywhere else seems to be. It seems that the majority of
the cargo is moved through airship, because as you look out
the window, you just see the sky crisscrossed with them.
And so then he points and there is this beautiful, beautiful,
two-story glass and stone building that is on the edge.
And he says that may be the finest dining.
In all of the syndicate, but if there is nothing else I'm
assuming. I've been there before, right?
Probably not. It is fucking expensive.
The the last party that I sent there, the manager paid for.
It. That was that was a that was a
fun session, he says. I just wanted to extend this
invitation personally to let you know that at the request of my
daughter, you are fully welcomed into any entrance of the plateau
and bear kind itself. Lord, Lord Richter, how do we
get there? Just reach out to my daughter.
We'll get you there. Well I shall take my leave of
you and he kind of steps back. He you know kind of does one of
those like you know has his his arms behind his back very subtly
and then just kind of in full glory just kind of extends them
and and brings it back in snaps his fingers and just cloud
encompasses encompasses him as he disappears.
He looks at and then prosper and looks at the six of you.
Dad has a flare for the dramatic A little.
Bit. A little bit.
When you got to find your entertainment after about 2200
years, so it. Seems.
Like. It's.
He has the He has the bane of immortality, as you will.
What? Uh, what race?
Is he? What species don't recognize it?
You wouldn't, as we all stare intently at Matt.
It's. It's.
That's the way it does nothing. Good players right there when
they're like. Nope.
Well, I will say this just the next time that you see him,
perhaps we can maybe provide some more information.
It's not something he likes to share, and even as private as a
forum as this. Interesting.
I understand your interest and possible concern with not
knowing. No, it's just interest.
But is it? Isn't that floating eyeball?
We talked to you upstairs just as old?
There's more than one eyeball. I believe in my understanding
that my father has him by a few centuries.
No shit. Older than the beholder.
Older than that, behold. I feel like after 2000 years of
century here there is kind of irrelevant.
They. Get together to have a joint
Millennium party. They have known each other since
before the plateau disappeared. Would you call them millennials?
Yes. Yeah, Boo Boo.
So many industry. So many industries killing so
many industries. Those Goddamn.
Boils. I mean, the boss has killed a
lot of people. Exactly.
And industries.
Industries, actually. Well, if the six, the six of you
have nothing else from me, I do. I would like to have a word with
Oh my God, where are my notes? I cannot remember his name.
Matt. What's his name?
The manager. The actual manager's name, yeah.
How are you gonna say it? Yeah, say it.
Zinthor. Zinthor, thank you.
That's right. And she says, if I don't know
how I forgot, right, she says. If if there's nothing else for
you, I I would like to go have a drink with Zinthor.
Who's Zinthor? Don't worry about it.
And then she walks straight out the door.
I feel like Sark and I'll look at each other and are just
completely baffled. Totally.
Checks out. Yeah.
Like when you. Learn your mom's name is not
bomb. Yeah, yeah, sounds like.
The last time one of Matt's characters learned that name,
the manager threatened to kill them if she ever used it again.
This. Is fun.
Like she went out of her way to find out that name and then
casually dropped into conversation.
I almost died. Oh, yes.
As well you should. Yeah.
It was wonderful and right way.
Every, every real person in the party's head turned to Matt and
was like, what are you doing? Oh yeah.
So as. Such a scary fucking person to
be working for. It's great.
I'm so happy to share this. Other people.
You were working for the preeminent information broker.
Of all of liberarth. It's fun and one of the most
dangerous people who have ever lived.
Two groups he's working for skilled.
Yeah. Technically, he works for a lot
of people. He's an information broker,
yeah. So we work directly service.
My employees. My employees, yes.
As Prosper and walks out the door, we're going to take our
next break and we will be back in just a few moments.
Welcome back everyone, To campaigns and concoctions where
we like to make things in weird things and real estate and
whatever. No D&D.
We had some weird conversations. Family Like, how much was the
price of real estate in Tinker Mere magic items.
And then yeah, so that's what it is.
So what are we drinking? Y'all.
Okay, so I I I did another riff on the drink I've been making
all day. So this time I did Green
Chartreuse and with mezcal and. No, no, I'm already.
And then I swapped out the bitters from Molly.
Bitters stole my Manhattan build.
So 2 ounces half oz, half oz. It's very nice.
Pretty, pretty happy about it.
I made a so tall equity parts So tall, so tall.
Gorita. So tall Gorita.
So it's.
So tall equity Gorita no. Just no.
So and as John likes to say, equity parts is where you know
you're getting, you're getting the the exact same amount from
all the different ingredients. So it's 3 ounces of Sotal, it's
two barspoons of agave syrup. It's 4 droppers of molay
bitters, 10 drops of saline. You you do a squirt of lime out
of a lime wedge to taste, you stir it in the glass and you rub
the lime wedge around the rim. You do not drop it in though,
you kinda hang it off the. Side No, you hang it out the
side. Hang it out the side.
Yeah, my preference. Chill.
Less saline, more lime. So here's the deal, Curtis said.
The same amount not equal parts, and that's the difference.
You get the same amount of flavor from each of these
things. By they're putting harmonious
amount. Putting in, yes, a harmonious
amount of flavor from each of these things by putting in
wildly different amounts of these things.
And that's equity parts and you could like.
Then equity parts drink is the correct amount of parts for each
thing and for each person. To for each person.
That's right. So equity parts drink.
For this one, it's really puts the so tall in.
Right at the front, Right at the front.
It is. It's carrying the drink.
It's delicious. If you've never had so tall
before, put it on the short list of things you haven't done that
you need to give it a shot. It's mezcal, but it's not.
Yeah, it's it's a lovely cousin to Mezcal.
There there are some legal things when it comes to booze
family. Like, you can't call it Scotch
if it's not distilled in Scotland.
You can't call it tequila or mezcal if it's not distilled in
Mexico. So that's where these things
come from. So it's the same process.
And there are, but The thing is, is because it's here, like
Peachtree distilling here in Grand Junction makes a agave
that is excellent. It's basically a tequila, but it
has a lot different flavors because a lot of the stuff is
locally sourced, so it changes it just enough to be.
Wonderfully different. Also we.
Were actually talking about this so tall.
It's a different plant. It's not a gobbit.
It's a different plant dealing
method is meth. It's yes, the same method as
mezcal, but it is a different Desert Palm plant called the
desert. Spoon the desert spoon.
Also, tequila is a type of mezcal.
For those who don't know, tequila is a type of mezcal.
Tequila. So a lot of people say that
tequila has to be 100% blue agave, and that is not true.
That is not true. Most of it is.
Most. Tequila is 100% blue Agave.
Tequila is a blue agave distillate that is a sub sect of
mezcal, however. Tequila can have additives.
Tequila is similar to Canadian whiskey in that it has to have a
certain percentage of blue agave distillate in order for it to be
considered tequila. But it can have additives above
and beyond that, which is where you get a lot of the vanilla
notes in a particular celebrityowned brand of tequila
that we will not name, but we will say that it has a house
full of friends. And those folks who understand
Spanish will understand what that means.
And the the recipe for the household of friends was
effectively stolen from the largest tequila producer in the
world, or arguably, let's say, arguably the largest tequila
producer in the world. But it it has to be some
percentage, some, I don't know the exact percent.
I think it's like 8085% blue agave distillate and then they
can add additives above and beyond that.
Similar to the way that Canadian whiskey can can be 90% rye and
then 2% vanilla extract. 5% fucking you know, a niece.
Whatever it is that they add to it to make it into Canadian
whiskey. Bad.
So so I haven't done this in a. While not as good as.
American whiskey, correct. I haven't done this in a while.
Patriotism. Sponsorous Nipple Batman.
Yeah. Sponsorous nipple.
Let's listen, B&D. Let's do that.
One more drink. We got one more drink.
Quick one more. Drink.
I made. I made a.
It's a classic. Cherry cobbler.
There's not like a set recipe. And it's so good.
It's so very good. It's three oz Cherry Amantiato
Cherry. Or a Vera Montiato.
It's threw in four. Yeah, it's really good.
I threw in four blackberries, about 10 mint leaves and like a
generous slice of orange, and just shook the living crap out
of it with a large cube. Strained it into a glass and
garnished with a frigment and a wedge orange.
Excellent. Sorry, I'm making magic items,
guys. While you guys talk, I'm making
magic items. That's fair.
So at this point Prospering is exiting the conference room.
It is also there were light snacks and.
Wine provided for you. However, both the presence of
prospering and the Lord Richter fucked all of you up enough that
you didn't realize it until they have all left and there now are
delicious snacks sitting there on the table untouched.
Do you want me to roll Perception for snacks?
No, at this point, I'm going to let you all have it.
You're just going to be like, oh whoa, wait, what?
If there's snacks, I'm getting after it, yeah.
So the IT is now right around lunchtime for you guys the the
day is now yours. Like you guys have hit
everything that you guys need to do for this day.
What would you like to do? We would like to make a
reservation to go to the restaurant.
Well, was referred to us by the oldest living being on the
planet. Grace.
We don't actually know that, but
definitely the oldest living being in town, at least for all
intents and purposes. I need Ellen Sark to.
Insight checks for me, please. Well, I don't have insight on
this character. Keep forgetting that I
deliberately don't have insight on this character.
I probably do such a good skill. Well, it's so broad it kind of
fits. Like if you can't think of a
skill check for to make, you could probably You could
probably justifiably put it into insight.
You beat. Me because that's.
My. Photo.
Do you see what I wrote though? Yeah, I got a 17 I.
Got you. Got a what, 18?
Okay. Both of you know that you could
probably get that taken care of bought through the secretary
upstairs in the manager's office.
She'll probably she could probably take care of that for
you. It probably be a whole lot
easier than you trying to do it. Shark will volunteer to go take.
Care of that mostly so he can go get his close, order two from
the same person. OK, cool.
So circulate and I'll be right back and just kind of like jogs
off. We're making a dinner
reservation, right? Yep.
And it's what time of day? It's lunchtime right now.
Yeah, noonish. So it's 13126.
There's 26 hours in the day. Yeah, we're at 1300, alright.
So we we have a few. We got several hours of light
left, yeah. We're good.
So that I'm assuming I know Sark well enough to know when roughly
when he's going to make try to get the reservation.
Sure, go ahead and and roll Insight.
That's another Insight check. And then, if it's good enough,
you can just Sark will tell us what time he's going to make the
reservation for. That's a 19.
Yeah. Dirty or dirty?
19/30/19, yeah. It'll be made for sundown, yeah.
It's like 7 pm 7:30. This time of year, probably
closer to 8, Okay. Yeah.
He also knows his friends, and they're like they need more time
in this city. It's a it's it's kind of like
late so here cuz now that you are on the southern continent,
it is late summer. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right. So you guys have only kind of
been within the tropical regions of the planet, cuz Wooden is
kind of sitting at the top of the Tropic area in the north,
but here you are in a temperate southern climate.
But. We've been very pyratical.
That makes sense. So if we want to buy magic
stuff, we need magic so that those people elf, where should
we go? Unless you want something very
specific, we want the night market.
Is that like? A kind of day thing, or is that
a place? Is that a type of day thing,
Morgan? It's a place.
OK. That's what I thought, but I was
just double checking. It's a good question.
Scout is like, yes, also me,
though also I would like to go. It's a place we need to go to
the old aqueduct, a place with water.
No. Used to have water.
A place that formerly had water. Yes.
Now would I say I'm giant concreteish brick place where
you can buy pretty much anything you want to buy.
That's the best part of everything you've said today.
You can maybe? Get custom made stuff there.
Depending on who you talk to. That's the way.
But if you're just looking. For random shit like we are
right now. That's where we're going.
So do you want something magical to poke things with?
Yeah. Yeah, me too.
Yeah, we're in. We're both in.
Let's do this shit. I was already planning on us
going there. Yeah, we need to go there
regardless. That's totally fair.
Even before we had pounds of platinum to spend.
Also, we should stop by a bank. What is it?
Why? Would we do that?
So we're not. Carrying half a ton of platinum
around each. Why would we not carry around
half a ton of platinum? It's.
Fucking heavy. Yeah, but we got a ship.
What is a bank? Our shit is where you put money
and then you can hand them stuff that's not.
You have money. A bank.
Is a place where other people hold on to your money and then
they tell you whether or not you're allowed to spend.
It now here. Based on whether or not they're
making enough profit off of having your.
Not here, not here. It is purely storage.
Then how do they make money? This is that.
This is as close to a leftist utopia as you're going to find.
That's fair. Skeld says everything that I
just said. Oh, I'm sure.
I'm, I'm. This is the great voice of the
universe. I'm I'm fine with him being
wrong about the situation, but he's like don't fuck around with
banks, bro. Like they'll fucking hold on to
your money and you won't be able to spend it.
It's a trap. It's a trap.
Don't do that shit. It's I'll.
I'll correct him after the his tirade because he's used to
scald at this. Point he'll let him.
Finish his tirade. Yeah.
And then that's. He's not.
Wrong other places, but that's not how it works here.
How does it work here? You give them your money and
they keep your money for you, and then when you want to spend
your money, you can hand them. A piece of.
Paper that says this place has my money and then they can take
that amount of money from it. So how to why?
Why would they provide this Service mostly has the manager.
Oh, so it's just an imposition of well, what isn't?
I'm not saying anything else isn't.
I'm just saying the reason this works for us is an imposition of
will I? Mean.
That's how a lot of stuff works for us.
And I'll. Not over at.
Sark. As soon as as soon as Skeld sees
you. Not over at Sark.
When you're saying this Skeld is like, yeah, I know that makes
sense. All right.
Let's put our money in the bank. Because it feels.
Like we'll just be able to walk around and tell people we have
money in the bank. Suck suck in the oh when the
manager said my city like what? In the taker mayor.
Did he build it? I think, I think, I think I
think the manager owns the city. I.
Mean not the whole city. But like, basically the whole
city. But he's he's talking like he,
yeah, it's like ownership and I. Only.
The manager owns the city, yeah. Sark and L Please roll a history
check for me, please. When you say the important
parts, do you mean the not poor parts?
Funnier, no? He would own large swaths of the
poor. Part.
I mean, I I know John knows that.
The skeleton has disaffected Leftist, so you know.
It's a 20. OK, you have a plus.
Yeah, that makes sense +9. Skeleton is even more of a
disaffected leftist than I. Got a 19?
That's saying. A lot.
A lot, yeah. So, so when it comes to when the
manager says his city, it actually isn't a manner of
ownership in the sense of actual physical ownership.
It's what people say when they talk about New York, how it's my
city, right? This is my town, right?
He has been here since its foundation.
He has fought to protect the city and he really cares about
the people and the space that this is when he owns large
swaths of the poor parts of town, which isn't really that
poor. It's because he knows that there
are people who need help and that he's going to provide that
space. Yes, he does certain things that
are unsavory. He does.
He hoards certain resources, i.e.
Information, but he usually does it in the mindset of protecting
the people within this space. He's the capitalist.
He's what? He's the class trader.
Who is this John Galt? Okay both of you guys.
I'm going to shoot you the next time I see you.
He is. He is the one who has has taken
his space and his power and has done what he's can to just make
this, this city something that is unlike anywhere else, right?
That is. Welcoming that is open, even
though no matter how hard he tries, because he does operate
in a more shadowy way that he doesn't necessarily always have
all the power that he that he that people ascribe to him, but
he's not afraid to threaten them with power that he doesn't have.
So that's what he means by. City Y'all turns to Sark, Y'all
turns to Sark and he says. Is there poverty in this town?
There's always poverty. Is there poverty like I've known
it? That's going to be a no.
Start would respond with Not sure I know your poverty.
Are there children scraping by? Are there?
There are not. Abandoned children, What does
that mean to you? We came here.
Absolutely no money. What happened?
I didn't go hungry. There is always an.
Options. For.
Interesting. Interesting.
They are free to not choose them.
What are those options? The options to engage in illicit
activities? Or are there options that are
considered respectable? That there are plenty of places
that are jewelry lying here. You know what I consider
respectable, Al? There are plenty of places that
freely provide. Food.
And shelter as needed. Interesting.
This is this is an interesting place.
You call your home, my friends, it is.
That's why it's his city, yeah. I think it is his city, isn't
it? Like Haven is mine.
No, I don't think it's the same way he cares for people.
Can you chase a few 1000 years a bit more money if you?
Feel like I feel like that's. More money at the moment.
Patrice decides to buy Haven when we get back.
There's there's a difference in means.
Patrice, you currently have the means, but she did not before
this. I think, I think, And Patrice is
talking about something way fucking different.
Not really. Yes and no.
I I think, I think
philosophically I would say. That yeah, I care for.
I care for Hayden. I can.
I can only see this from my perspective, you know?
I I think the main difference between the manager and the
people that rule over the other cities is that they hoard
wealth. He hoards information.
That's what we deal in. That's fair.
Information is power. So he adds.
The power it is, yes. I think from my stance, a person
being friends with a rector clan does not hurt a person who has
no home, no place that they consider their own.
It's interesting to see individuals who put such stock
in a physical locality, individuals who care about
people based on the location in which they're born.
And I'm not saying that's a bad thing.
I'm not saying that's a bad thing.
If there's no children here who suffer the torments and the
afflictions that I suffered as a child, then that's a good thing,
regardless of the means by which it is brought to pass.
But I think a major difference between what the manager is
doing here and what you would do had you the means in Haven is
both the means and the compulsion.
I don't think that you seek to rule Haven Patrice.
I think that you seek to serve. As.
As all of this conversation is happening, SOA, just like
absent, mindedly summons a sword.
And then it disappears. Oh, nice.
I think it's 18 passive. That's all I'm going to say so.
She's not she she doesn't realize she's doing it.
She's not trying to hide it. But like, yeah, I have somebody
to just just like just like it's it's it probably looks like a
rape beer because it's what she's used to.
And I guess what? Actually, go ahead and roll D100
for me, please. I'm at a 15 pass in Perception
also. 18. 33 good number. Yeah, I'm talking about that
number for this. As you are, are you doing this
just kind of reflexively multiple times?
I think it's yes, it's reflectively.
It's multiple times as long as the conversation.
Without David is happening. So every time that you
reflexively summon a sword or a weapon, I should say it changes.
First it's a rapier, then it's a falchion, then it is a war him,
then it is a Mace, then. And it just continues on through
the single handed, anything that has like the versatile or single
handed characteristic, Yeah, yeah.
You just keep as you keep doing it.
You keep Yeah. And then everybody who does
anyone have less than a 15 passive perception.
That is not SOA. I'm.
Pretty sure I knew. To you.
To say like, why would you? No, that's what I'm saying.
That's what it's just. 10 plus wisdom.
No 10 plus your perception. Perception score.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 8 plus proficiency plus perception.
No, it's 10 plus your, plus your proficiency, plus your.
Patrice and L do not see it. So Sark, not Sark.
Yeah, no. Sark, Scald, and Sid all watch
as this is as the conversation is happening.
You watch as SOA is is summoning.
We'll say it's a spectral weapon every time.
It doesn't quite have full form yet.
SOA what? What are you doing that?
What are? What are those?
Weapons. That keep appearing in your hand
right? Probably, yeah.
You can make. Weapons appear now.
I maybe. I've, I didn't say anything, but
they're. No, like they just.
That's. The.
Way Anyone else? There's like sugary effects.
Anyone else they go, it's a warhammer and.
I don't. I don't.
I don't and. I saw a Skimitar and.
What's the weapon you choose? What's your weapon of choice?
I mean, I I've been on shifts so it's it's been a rip here but.
Is that the weapon you want to use?
I. Don't know.
You don't know. You don't know what weapon
you're most comfortable with. That's the one I know.
Then choose it. I mean, we can take you
somewhere with a bunch of different weapon.
You can swing around and see what happens.
That's that sounds like fun. That's definitely a possibility.
But you got to choose a weapon. Or does the weapon choose you?
No, she chooses the weapon. We are our own masters.
We're not beholden to gods. There are some weapons that will
choose you. They are sentient, but they'll
conform to your shape if they really want to be your weapon.
Or you'll. Conform to their shape because
they're cursed. Listen up speaking.
Of Patrice. Way too awesome district to say.
That. That is not, I hear Patrice
would say, Patrice would. Not make that way.
I agree Patrice would say it, but he wouldn't like he's like
he doesn't know. Very puzzled by it.
Like I've read that there are cursed weapons that would
conform like. Kind of thing.
And. Sark, as soon as he hears it
goes. Oh, Speaking of, since we're in
a place that is probably safer, what's on the ring that he took
from the dragon? Porn and starts to attune to it.
Upon seeing Sark put on his ring, Scald thinks about the
ring that he purchased and starts rubbing the ring absent
mindedly and thinking about what that ring could possibly be.
I'm trying to remember which rings I gave you guys.
I have a Ring of Gin summoning. That's right.
And then so Sark has the Ring of Whispering Rings, I believe.
I have no idea. It's the one that I took off of
the Dragonborn that prosper and has as a specimen.
I have no idea what it does. Nobody's asked me to identify
them, so I had them. I don't remember rings at all.
Thank you for reminding me, because as hard as I try to
remember, I cannot keep track of all the shit that I give you
guys. It's called collaborative
storytelling, Morgan. That's what player notes are
for, that's right. Also my passive.
Oh, I thought. That was the ring that you had.
And you know what? I would not.
Have remembered that I had this ring.
If if Nate hadn't brought up rubbing the ring he picked up
off of a body and I was like, oh, I bought some shit, then my.
Player knowledge is way bigger than my character knowledge, so
let's have our character fuck around with that ring for a
second, yeah? I don't know if it's going to
work. It might not work.
He's just fucking with it, all right?
Also, is this because we're in Tinker?
Mary is this. Somewhere we'd be wearing our
medallions openly. No, OK.
Even though even though like, there's it's it's one of those
things that the manager is talked about in whispered tones.
Sure, he's never really acknowledged, except for in a
few spaces, some of the temples. Here, especially the Temple of
Helm, which has a massive, massive archive and library.
Surprisingly, the tinker Marian Foreign Legion has a lot of
knowledge about the manager and then that's pretty much it.
There's a couple of of of the more wealthy individuals here
who would have some knowledge, mostly because he uses the their
knowledge of him as a weapon kind of thing, you know?
So. It's really not that known.
I mean, you could wear it openly.
Most people wouldn't even know what the fuck it is.
It's the my, my. It's it's like the fucking
Rostovsky's crazy theory, right? Like so much so.
But it's a beholder in one city. The.
The main. First of that question was more
is there something that we can wear openly that is basically
the equivalent of? For the like pickpockets to
leave us. Alone stuff like that.
Some. Equivalent of like Don't fuck
with us that is openly displayed.
There maybe, I don't know cuz that's not something I had
thought about. So I will answer that question
at another date. It's a good question.
Probably wearing them. No, I think that they would.
That's something. It's definitely something tied
with nine brothers or something like that.
There there's some sort of thing that you guys can do that will
signify you as a don't fuck with class.
Now granted, in this particular case, petty crime like
pickpocketing and things like that, or actually fairly rare
here in Tinkermere, but it it's it's not a perfect utopia.
It does happen start. Just so you could break the
hands of the people who tried it.
Yeah, that's fair. So now that all this has been
said, where were you guys heading to the?
Night market, yeah. That's where.
That's where I was planning to lead them to.
Pretty sure we could kind of making our way out of the tower
to go there. Yeah, we'll say at this point
you guys exit the tower and that the the main entrance actually
exit on to this gorgeous pedestrian only St.
That lines a Wharf that looks over into the hill hazy lagoon.
It is even for a ground level view.
It is spectacular. This water is so big you cannot
see the other side. There is one little kind of hazy
dot off a little bit kind of to like your your 10:00 o'clock as
you look straight ahead and it's it kind of looks like a little
brown and and and. It looks like maybe there's some
land way, way, way out there. As you look to the left, you see
a continuous line of similar buildings, skyscrapers, except
for probably about half a block away.
There's this weird gap where there are no buildings, and you
see a little bit of greenery peeking over the sidewalk.
And then as you look to the right is where you see kind of
the entrance to the long jetty that goes out the docks.
And then there's a street that goes.
East and West. And that's eventually where Sark
and L lead you and the streets after you get about three blocks
inwards to the to the West, stop being straight and they begin to
become this curvy, circuitous route that you can tell is part
of the old city. Eventually you are led to one of
the pillars that uphold the massive what looks like concrete
and stone. Aqueduct that is 200 plus feet
it's but it's not even the highest structure in the in the
city because of these buildings that line the line the Wharf.
However, when you enter into this pillar, they have these
disks that lift you up and as you exit you walk out to see
something that is Ave. size huge, lined on both sides shops.
And restaurants and workshops that are just bustling.
This is probably the busiest part.
And this is not a small, quiet city.
The entire city is just alive and vibrant and in a way that
most of you have never experienced before.
Sark and L You feel just this instant comfort in this space
that you have spent so much time.
The rest of you this is slightly overwhelming.
Even those of you who have been to many, many places.
This is the. The largest amount of people in
one place any of you have seen. And as you look down and over
this massive city off to the north, you see what appears to
be a military encampment. Then as you swing down to the
South, you see there are. All trees that have been turned
into a workshop and what appears to be an airship, which is very
different than the one that you as you're in.
It it is kind of blunts nose it. It doesn't really look like a
ship at all, and they're being built further to the South.
You take in a deep inhale and you get the sense of spice and
food, roasting meats, nuts being cooked in the stalls.
You hear the sounds of bartering, of the the exchange
of coin. All of you are feeling alive and
vibrant in this space. That's where we'll pick up next
session. So good.
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