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Now let's dive right back into Tara.
Through the campaign. Allelopolis.
All hail Craig. Fucking Craig.
He shall come soon. I'll call Craig.
And fate tosses the dice rolls, spins, turns.
A campaign starts and ends, leaving memories that become
stories. Stories flow out into the
infinite sea, painting it with legends.
Legends wash up on the shores throughout the Infinite C,
fading to myths until myths are forgotten and again the hand
fade tosses, the dice rolls, spins, turns.
Hitherto we left our adventure as known as the Rum Rollers as
leaving Socrates after they and heading right back to where they
came from. What is left of the PNC's cord
as well as the fissure that was erupting from the first level of
hell to create their lava tower, now inhabited by a large God
tree that they know as libertry only through Grand Dam's
interaction and the night before their quick rest in Socrates,
Grand Dam had quite the adventure with Queen Fiatta, Pop
Dart, Shondar and the Red and Mowok who now accompanies the
party. Grand Am faded to black while
and came back with the Stride of Pride to greet the rest of the
Rum rollers the next morning as they came up with the plan to
return to the Fisher and with Mowok in tow to help establish
his Grove. Who is to revitalize the spiral
wood forest that once stood around the fissure but has now
become the dead lands that the PNC wrote on this land in the
heart of Gargantuum? Let's find out what happens this
time. So you guys are all floating or
flying, I guess, rather on a dune towards your destination,
and you're flying back over, you know, familiar forests and the
like on your way up. The last time you were flying
through here, you were called the two giant Dragons that had
approached you, or rather gods in their dragon forms.
And you're keeping a watchful eye up, down and around and
above you. Who has the highest passive?
Perception. 19. I must say I'm 19.
Cat's got 23. Oh.
Shit, I am. Mimi, Admiral.
I need a second to find it. Hold on.
Passive perception, you said? I did say.
I need to sign in. I'm not even signed in right
now. I would bet money that that I do
not have the highest one. I don't know.
It's usually linked to wisdom, I thought off the top of my head.
And yeah, and pretty wise. Reception 17.
Passive. Oh, why?
Yep, Reception 17. Guess you were right.
I was. Probably just didn't have
proficiency in it. Well, yeah, there's the the
cleric aspect that made me think that you might be pretty high.
I have 23 passive insight. Oh, you went that direction, I
got it instead of perception insight.
Good to know. Anyhoo, 23 cat, You're probably
up at the top of the crow's nest anyhow, after commuting with a
dune and enjoying some of the clouds that brush across her
sails and deck as you guys are flying.
And you're the first to notice then the edges of what looks
like a shadow larger than any that you've seen in, in and
amongst the clouds with you. I will call it out.
Hey guys. Has anybody else seen that?
I'll rush up on. Deck if I'm not already there.
Of 15 after you'd said that to can very blatantly now see the
shadow. Some thought maybe it was just a
thickening of the clouds, but now can very blatantly see
there's this swath of clouds out in several 100 feet in front of
you that are darkened almost as if they looked like they're a
storm was gathering almost. But they the clouds themselves
don't look darker because there's, you know, this area is
large, but it's only 30 feet across by like 40 to 50 feet
across. It's like a very specific kind
of puddle almost, as opposed to, you know, a large storm brewing.
Maybe it's going to look straight up and see if there's
anything above them. There seems to be the the I'll
draw a circle actually where this is the the clouds.
If I'd be more specific here too, straight up you see, you
know, intermittent clouds and the sun peeking through them
every time you go in and out of a cloud and the blue Azure sky.
But there's a shadow. Out over here.
If you're drawing, I cannot see it.
I just drew it so. Yeah, it's not working.
Long rest, didn't we? Yeah.
Also, yeah, you guys. Took a long run, Josh.
I don't know if I'm supposed to be able to see what's casting
the shadow, but I can and I'm trying not to medicate.
You can't see it yet. What could it?
Be like no like in Rule 20. I know you, I know you can I I
realized this now because I was bopping back and forth between
GM and token layer. But.
Impossible to tell. I'm sort of shadow.
I'll I. The captain knows.
She can decide what we should do.
Wait, the captain knows what? You guys all see.
There's a there's a shadow, Drew.
Attention. I see it.
I ready my action. You want to do.
And I'm ready in Fall Cloud in case we need to hide ourselves.
Is it? Is the shadow directly in the
path of where we're trying to go?
You could go around it foreseeably, but it it does seem
to drift ever so slightly, you know, not with your guys's
pathway, but kind of left, right, up, down, kind of kind of
with the wind. It seems like every time it wind
picks up, it kind of goes up or it kind of goes north and then
it settles back down towards the South and then maybe takes a
little bit time to settle back down into its previous location.
Is it keeping up with? Us Aduna is at your cry.
Cat has gone. Oh, I've I'm holding our
position until you can decide what we do.
I I've found a way to reverse our trajectory and hold it
anchored in space. OK.
So we're holding still and it seems to be holding still.
No, when you guys are holding still, it seems to like drift
ever so slightly, you know? Not like.
Yeah. Something out there, damn it.
That's what I did. We only.
Do. At that's all we can perceive of
it. At this time, yeah, it seems to
be. I can I sense anything magical
about it from where I am. Innately, probably not.
It's good to 50 feet away the shadow itself anyways, so you
have no idea what it is and how far in whatever direction it
could be past the shadow. But you see the shadow about 50
feet away on on some cloud coverage that every time it
drifts through, you can see that that it's blotting out the sun.
It it kind of, I don't know if you've ever seen, but if you had
the higher something up is up in the sky, you know, like it has
no shadow on the ground. So like whenever the clouds
dissipate, the shadow doesn't carry all the way down to the
ground. Yeah, I kind of want to fly just
up to see if I can get a better view of it, but I feel like
that'd be a really bad idea. Like going up on our tip toes.
Why would you like it? I can probably get some altitude
being. Like me to face the crew up I I
would advise holding on or strapping in in some way.
Really nice Hall, did he add. No position I am going to go up,
just me and if I feel like it's something dangerous I will
scream like a little girl. You may salutes cat.
I leap into the air. I'm going to fly 30 feet up, 50
feet up until I can see something just straight up.
That's OK. You, you, you fly straight up,
not quite like a hot, much more like a chicken.
So it takes you some time and you get a good Everybody else is
kind of waiting on you, but you get a good, good ways away
because a dune is started to look a little bit smaller to
your eyes from how far up you are and inside of what looks
like a very large cloud. You see the every so often it
shifts around this, but it otherwise holds in one position.
You know where the rest of the clouds are moving around it.
This particular cloud is holding position.
It's not moving and but on the occasion the wind does brush one
side of it, making it narrower. And you see inside every, every
so often enough to get some glimpses to understand that
there are, there is a, a small what you presume only lying town
in this cloud because you see roofs, you see, you see, yeah,
you see balloons that are holding the whole thing up for
the most part, some propellers off in some odd directions every
now and again that blow some of the cloud away.
But it it's it's it's attempting to be hidden.
It's attempting to be hidden. OK, so I feel like approaching
it might not be the best thing for me to do.
Like I can see you just flutter over.
Is this Laputa Laputa. Oh.
We found Howell. House counterparts, maybe?
Castle in the Sky. Laputa.
Yeah, that's all I can perceive is that this looks like a
floating pal being held up in the air.
I'd be leery about getting closer to it, so I'm going to
flutter back down to a dune and let everybody know what I saw.
Oh. Flying town as.
I'm falling through the air. I'm just aggressively flapping
so I don't fall too fast. The Ghost.
Because there's a fucking town, Scott.
I'm going to bypass the crow's nest and just go down to the
deck. First person I obviously tell is
a dune. And I'm like, we need to let
everybody know there's a town ahead of us and above.
We tell if it approached us or we did.
Have we approached it if they don't?
Go over here, we might want to approach it.
It seems to be holding its position right now, but we just
noticed it. I don't know.
Has it been following us? Should we fire?
The ones to approach, we might want to let them know our
position with. Caution.
I doubt that it's following us. We probably, you know, we
haven't spent much time in the skies, probably just stumbling
upon it. Lucky us.
Maybe. Would we like to announce
ourselves? I raised my eyebrows at the
captain. Don't we have like something to
do with trees right now? Do we need to get?
This originally headed to the God tree but we're just
delivering what's his face? Walk Belches.
Mohawk, do you know any of anything about this?
Huh, about what? I wasn't really paying
attention. Sorry.
I you say something about. This floating city in the sky.
City, OH. Well, yeah, I've heard tale of
it. It's there's occasional stories
at least. I haven't myself interacted with
anyone from up there, but they say that reason that most the
gnomes that exist on land are very sparse and few fair few in
betweens because they've they'd. Taken to the skies, live amongst
and with the gods. But we kind of.
Assumed that they all died so. I mean, that's what I would have
assumed, but there is now a town in the sky ahead and above us.
Do you think there are? Potentialist gods in it.
Didn't we banish all the gods except for the one?
Not yet. That's the plan.
Well, how can we banish all of them if we haven't located all
of them? Do we need to go up there and
locate, determine if there's gods or not?
And what we need is a lot more information, right?
We don't even know how to banish gods, period.
Let us know where they are. Perhaps the Liberty could help
with this. It's a cool floating city there.
So while we do not want to get sidetracked too heavily, this
may be a once in a lifetime chance to to see the city.
Establish contact, maybe business arrangements and such.
This is my preference. I mean, it might be good to have
more contacts with something that is this high in the sky.
But just we have what? What if they're all cannibals?
It's a good point can. We eat them first.
Oh God. Mohawk people.
Accepted their society, they require us to make a human
sacrifice and eat it. I look over at the few of us who
are human. Technically, I mean.
Mohawk What are gnomes of this world typically like?
Well, the few I've met they've generally been interested in
tinkering with things. Otherwise they are very well at
least on land so far because as those only ones I've met keep to
themselves in their mutterings about low Landers or land lovers
or something like that I can't quite recall, but they also
don't. I have a rich history as I've
I've stated of of of. Being very interested in
tinkering and. All sorts of mechanical.
Generally friendly. Oh yes, I guess I mean, as long
as you have something to trade or information at the very least
about their recent task and you're, you know, patient enough
to deal with their rambling, I guess I.
Think killing them is an excellent idea?
You say you think killing them is an.
Excellent hailing. Put my hand off the gun or off
the can, no. No, no.
I also heard killing but Oh no no.
I would enthusiast him no with an each hailing.
Do you think that then? I think if is there a dune, is
it possible to like fly up above them and like observe and see
what we could see before interacting?
Oh, I, Admiral Mime, I think that would be completely
possible, but I think you would all would prefer to be strapped
in for something of those kinds of manoeuvres.
I believe I can pull it off, but it's going to, it's going to be,
it's going in between Milwaukee and her.
It's going to be a bit of a task getting up there, the angle
trajectory. Understand.
I mean, yeah, you don't have to be.
Afraid you can you can like go on spirals and spiral up, but I
won't tell you how to do your job.
But so when you say strapped in, do you have something in mind or
do you just want us all below deck?
Spiraling, she says. That is an intriguing
proposition. I hadn't thought of that, but
that's why you're the Admiral. I guess I could probably just
take a small incline and continue it up in a long spiral.
Yeah, I think I can pull that off.
OK. It was probably pretty doable.
Let's try that. Back ticket, take a massage as
we spiral. Yeah, I took Cat probably like
an an half an hour to an half, 45 minutes going up and coming
back down. So it's probably going to take
you guys a solid hour maybe to. You guys were all just standing
on the deck, just watching a chicken slowly rise into the
sky. Sorry I.
Mean. Darren could have given me a
given me a ride. As we get close to the as we as
we start getting close enough or within visual range.
I'm a cast and visibility on do you doing a concentration up to
an hour. How close is close because you
guys were like 40 feet horizontically probably like if
my math was right in saying the time frames that I did probably
about 3 miles away. At a diagonal, I want at least
like, I guess like 30 minutes before we get there or, you
know, 1530. I don't know because I don't
want to get spotted. But we also need time to like,
look, yes, I could recast it. Probably might.
Cause suspicion. Could be, probably it's not my
call. But all right, are you asking
the Admiral then to permission? What do you want to do?
Permission to make an invisible. Yeah, if we want to like sneak
up and get the look at what's going on quietly, we could do
that. Or if you want to just like, you
know, be friendly and know that they see us.
Oh. No, I would much rather.
I would much rather be invisible.
I'm not convinced these gnomes are not cannibals.
So. And.
You were. Sure, I.
Keep saying gnomes are not cannibals and I just keep
imagining the angry little coconuts from Moana.
Maybe they are cannibals. You never know.
Must be. True.
All. I'm saying is we don't know
what's up there and so it probably is best to proceed with
caution. Better safe than sorry.
I can recast it once, but then I'd be shot for spells until we
long rest. OK.
So you you'd probably to kind of build the picture around it to a
little bit more as you're spiraling up, you realize the
cloud coverage clears at a certain level before the large
cloud where Cat had proclaimed that the city resides in.
So there's like, you know, a few layers of intermittent cloud
covers that you guys are going up through, but up above that
there is only the city as a cloud, a very large cloud
sitting above the lower levels of of clouds.
So you probably cast it before you break the top layer of cloud
coverage and and then are able to perceivably without any
alarms get closer to the very large cloud and physically over
top of it. You do notice a a slight
shortening of breath as you're up this high.
Not not much, but just because of the the the difference of
where you were and not so long ago and maybe popping of ears a
few different times. I was.
And you also notice that the from from above, you can almost
see directly into the cloud and the city at large, which seems
to be mostly uninhabited. It looks like because there
isn't any steam rising from any of the buildings, there isn't
any. There isn't any small figures
moving around on any of the kind of like side streets in between
the buildings or anything. And as a whole it doesn't seem
alive, although they're all the parts are moving and it is being
held in the sky. That.
Is pretty sure it's a ghost ship.
They're just breathable. Disease during the day.
They're nocturnal, maybe, are they?
What do we actually? Know about noms?
We know nothing about any gnome, let alone what might be living
on the side. What do we know about gnomes?
Should we roll history checks? Yeah, I rolled a history check
against me 7. Look at you go.
I don't know shit about gnomes. Oh wow.
Too, too too bad earlier you. I don't want that.
Too bad earlier you didn't need that arcana check though.
That's fucking 36. 27 though as Cat.
Unfortunately Admiral May you don't know shit you you're
literally a little acknowledge of.
This is why I think they're cannibals and nocturnal.
Yeah, yeah, you have you. Heard the worst rumors about
gnomes? You just believe.
Yeah, you have heard stories. Oh, you're that racist?
It's not racist. They're really evil.
Don't fuck with gnomes, guys. And as As for cat, you are you,
you've, you've passed in your readings on several occasions
about how the gnomes have ascended and become a, a race to
work with the gods as opposed to most of the the lower lesser
races that still live on planet surface.
But this was an obscure text. You, you know, though, that it
does come with very reasonable sources because this person was
not only an adventurer, but also a sort of anthropologist who
would study the different races and where they lived.
And he'd been intrigued sometime about the, the, the, the domes.
There is some fanciful tales that sounded like to you at that
time that he, he explained about how they would live in the
clouds with the gods. And there were you're putting
maybe some more stock in some of what he believed or what you
thought he believed as opposed to what you thought was, you
know, fallacy when you're reading it.
And he, he proclaimed that they, they would actually traverse in
between different cities in and amongst the clouds hidden.
And there was one or two cities that were technically on the
ground, but they were in the mountains in certain areas so
high up that they could not be seen from the ground because
they were largely covered with clouds in the 1st place.
So that's where they like to do a lot of their work in the 1st
place because they could work directly with the gods in their
creations if they needed to. As I am recalling all this
information, I would be relaying it to my companions like I read
this book once that I kind of didn't believe, but now, just
now, it might have had some truth to it.
I rolled a 23 for history or gnomes.
That does. Anything for helplessness.
Nice. Yeah, with a 23, you'd, you, you
would also have had an experience in the past where you
would met a group of gnomes, gnomes, which was rare, but they
had been drinking a lot at the time.
And you would bought them a drink.
And they told you stories similarly to what I was
explaining there, of how they used to live amongst the clouds
and they were trying to get back.
I mean, you, you thought it was some drunken ramblings because
some of them were pretty sloshed.
One of them was throwing up in a hat of his own at at this time.
But maybe there's some truth to that, too.
Kill them all wrong game. Man if evil team got this, be
liked out for that. City.
I say we investigate this city because I feel like it should
definitely be more active than what it looks like right now,
but do we want to fly over or do we want to donate a park next to
it? Do you know what are you
comfortable with? Well, considering my fuel source
and the experience I have had with it and the stockpile I
think we've gotten at this point from Ferris, I think as long as
you. Had.
You all find it reasonable to be able to get back to me if
anything happens. I could do I, I feel, I feel
quite confident I could always do a turn and burn.
So why don't we, do you know, why don't you drop us off like
above it so we can jump from you down to the city.
And then can you go somewhere by the edge but below the city, so
that if we need to make a hasty escape, we could jump off the
city onto you? Oh, well, certainly just make
sure to be OK. So the so this is north, that's
South, east and West. Just make sure you have your
cardinal directions before you jump, correct.
So I can make sure that I get you or probably a good big big
splat. Hey, let's avoid that.
Going to be fine. People, some of our party can
fly. We'll just like hang on.
We'll just all get, we'll get a rope.
Everyone will hold on to a rope and one person will fly and
carry it, and we'll get ourselves to you.
But OK, let's move back, yeah? Carrying the entire party.
I mean, you don't have to carry them like horizontally, you just
have to like, right, 'cause the data is going to be lower.
So it's like an arc, it's like a ballistic trajectory.
So you really just need to like slow the descent a bit.
I digress. So, you know, how about you
chill? You park at the South end of the
city, like like 30 feet below the edge.
I can. Do that like seems like a number
trajectory, but not so much we'll hurt ourselves.
As for the invisibility, how long is this lasting?
It's going to last about an hour, but I'm one of the guys
with fly, so if I have to cast fly or any other concentration
spell, it's going to drop. OK, So as long as you're back
within the hour, I can stay in this location more than likely
if I don't, if not, then I I might be spotted and then I, I
will I will try to count after. Well, so I mean, we're not going
to do anything in an hour. Let's let's look at our tracker.
Couldn't be real here, so. Way to call us out I'm.
I'm assuming if you're below the city you'll be less visible.
Is that not a correct assumption?
You that is a correct assumption because you she she would then
be below the the cloud coverage that we were talking about
before. Yeah.
If we get into a fight also, I would have to cast a spell and
then the invisibility would go. Yeah.
Yeah, I would just fly. Right.
How? How about I hang?
Well, I guess she's given. Directly underneath of the city.
If I'm, if I'm directly underneath, perhaps it's harder
for them to see, you know, kind of like looking at your feet.
Yeah. And then we have a way to to
like call out, right? To like talk to like summon a
DNA or tell her when we're. You'll be able to talk to me the
whole time? The city doesn't look that
large. I should be able to be in direct
contact with you mentally, just whatever you like.
Just a nice mental scream to let her know we're in distress.
Yeah, we'll scream. Once for it's going well and
twice for we're bailing ship or we're bailing ship, We're
bailing city abandoned. City.
And is is 3 times for fire the cannons, the holy water cannons.
Oh yeah, it's going to suggest that if we think it's haunted,
shouldn't we just, like, dump some holy water cannons?
They bet it never rains here. I bet they'd appreciate some
rain. I mean here's the thing, that's
not the bad idea. It is an A never ending source
of holy water. So we if we want to just abandon
all pretense and see if anyone's home, just start raining holy
water on on the city. Yeah, that'll take care of
anything. Anything evil will die.
Anything not evil? Yeah, one flavor of undesirable
won't do anything about the cannibals, but you know, it'll
it'll get rid of anything evil. I give everyone a side look.
What do you think about the vaccine?
What? Did you ask, do you think about
the what? What do you think about the
vaccine, people? She seems to be pretty racist
about these gnomes. I don't know.
I've never explored this portion of the Admiral's personality
before. I don't think we've ever come
into contact with no. We have this.
Are you? No.
OK, so so wait, so so are we going to dump holy water on them
or are we going to strolling while we're doing a hide for?
To make contact before we do anything that could be seen as
an active aggression. Yeah, sneak a board, figure it
out, back up. If we see zombies, bring the
shit out of it. OK, yeah, let's do some Recon
and then decide whether we need some holy water showers or not.
I change really quickly into black SWAT armor.
You're invisible. No, I'm not.
You're doing that, is it? Oh, yeah, I'm invisible things.
They're inside out. They're backwards.
So how do you I would I would like you to describe how you
find black SWAT armor and then proceed to put it on while
invisible. I he.
Thinks it's black. It's actually like rainbow
pastels. It's a good point them them.
I don't take care of my own outfit list so I'll send one of
my siblings to go deal with it. Just hear them like bumping into
shit their way. I really hope they don't talk
soon if they walk off the edge of the ship.
There's a railing, they'll be fine.
Both. Hopefully we don't have to roll
for that one. Hopefully, but everybody else
you're going to zoom down with Aduni while still invisible to a
close ish looking doc and disembark.
Jump. Yeah, so, so who who, who wants
a ride? Forgot to comply.
Yeah, Gerald needs no magic to fly.
He can just fly. I mean, we don't need to fly
right now. We just need to have the ability
to fly away and they if we're in danger, right?
I mean, he can just fly us, fly well.
How strong am I? Are we going to take any fall
damage from us getting onto the ship?
That's all that really matters. If you jump off right now, I
mean 30 feet, I I think you were keeping up at least because of
the balloons, right? Like the yeah that close to.
A rope. Could we just lower a rope?
KIRO asked the Admiral and Cat if they'd like a a a ride.
Well, I'm just going to climb onto your shoulder and I'll be
like, sure, let's do this. I could get us down to the
docking regions down there. Wait, you can't see that?
Ah, shoot, you guys all have eyeballs, and you made
yourselves invisible, which made your eyeballs invisible, which
made them unable to see light, right?
Yes, not how this works. Well because when we're
invisible, if I cast invisibility to myself, I can
still see. Are you sure Blind.
Magic, not physics, so it can it can still work that way.
You. Have to read the the the terms
of the spell right? The the I don't, I don't, I
don't read. Those dude, I says.
I was just making sure because. I was trying when you give
access to your character sheet. I did.
It's lovely. It's very big.
Taking up a lot of space. I have a lot of inventory space
anyhow, I was actually just wanting to point everyone's
attention to this small dock that's down there that I could
easily there's no one at it lower ourselves while still
invisible to and you could disembark without any risk or
you know. Fall.
All right, what do we say? We get this show kicked off.
You're out. Just jumps off of the night and
with cat and just glides down with his wings.
As you as you do, you would lose the invisibility having jumped
off the edge and getting somewhat closer that you see.
Rather, you hear a a or a loud siren that kicks off with that,
and then you see one of the windows of one of the buildings
point out all along the side of it just a an array of what looks
like. The the the large oh ballista.
Large metal cylindrical objects. Yeah, Ballista, we should have.
Hailed from afar. And then Hero just brings.
Us I cast shield in reactant to seeing all that.
On on on. Hero you mean?
Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm on his shoulder and I cast shield in
front of us. OK, that is that is the reaction
Kira jumped off. The the surprise, I guess, would
be them shooting around frivolously.
Did we all jump down or just the first couple and then the alarm
went off? First couple.
OK. We're still on deck.
Right now I. Think it was just.
I am assuming none of those hit you because the highest one was
a 10. Hero just, you know, like banks
left and right with his wings that he's flying down, keeping
his hands in front of us. Like Cat.
We're just going to do the normal thing where you act like
a chicken and I'm just going to try to get them not to kill us.
Is that OK? With you as he, as he, as he, as
he shimming with his wings and avoiding gunfire?
Shield accident adds a + 5 to your armor class, but I'm going
to be like Yep I agree, I'm going to be as chicken as
possible in this moment. Kiro's current AC with shield is
23. And I'm assuming that you're
dashing from the edge of the ship down.
Yeah, it's kind of like a, you know, wee and wings just go.
You guys were easily 30 feet up, so you probably make it down to
one of the docked ledges within just that round.
Just saying if you'd have taken any of this ballista though.
But you land safely on the dock, and as you do, you breakthrough
the edge of the cloud that has been covering the city for the
most part. And the city comes alive.
Lights appear. People are walking through the
streets. You have to like flap a few
times before you're able to a light on the street that you're
coming close to with, or the dock rather, as there seems to
be smaller vessels docked there and unloading and reloading
goods. And a bunch of gnomes scatter at
your appearance and go hey. What the hell?
Greetings. I.
I come in peace. Well, that's good news.
But you, buddy, hey, you got to pay the docket fees.
Wait, where's your ship? How'd you get here?
Where are you? Shiro just kind of points to his
wings. I flew.
How'd you get through our cloaking system?
You just kind of appeared. That is that.
That is literally not how a cloaking system works.
Oh my God. Oh my gods, Oh my gods.
Deep breaths, deep breaths. OK, you have found a city of
gnomes. Congratulations, Traveller, but
if you want to traverse these streets, you're you're probably
going to stand out. And he just kind of looks.
Around and there's mostly gnomes around you.
Yeah, all know, knee, knee height and like Yep.
And and besides that, there does seem to be the occasional
automaton that they they have just around cleaning and
maintaining and lifting goods in some cases and but.
I will do my best not to cause any problems and I will watch
where I step along with any other protocols you have here.
Oh, that's rightly good to know, but you see not many make it up
here. But I wish everyone that does
see somewhat new is always interested in the trade.
I tell you what in about. He looks at a.
He pulls out a a, a small piece that seems to be keeping some
sort of time, although you can see that it's not the time that
you're used to. And there's a there's a bunch of
different what looks like. Planets circling around on it
and he he goes. If you've got some time, I would
very like be interested in see what you've come upon on your
travels. If you've made it this far
adventure. The the area itself is you're
welcome to freely walk around. This is the city is itself
completely and open. We when we could talk about
trades, it's usually not from gold here.
We don't actually carry that. It's rather heavy as you could
imagine, and the city itself is self supporting.
There's a lot of math with that. I won't bore you.
We like our maths, but I know the travellers don't so well.
Welcome to the Air City. Oh, I just had it.
I'd come up with something cool too.
AIR city #67 They name their cities like Thor restaurants.
That implies there's 66 other air cities exactly.
I could just do it in German I guess.
Yeah, in. Our Erstadt section, Oxig.
I see. God damn you, I don't know how
to spell that at all. You just.
Say sexy. Off Airship 67.
The sexy airship, The sexy 1. Yep, I am Lieutenant Kenpachi.
This is my companion as he points to Cat.
This is my companion Cat, the chicken.
I will, that is. That's nice.
I am Fizz. But do you for short?
You're probably not that interested in my name.
Full name, so Fizz will work for now.
Just in case You're a fairy anyways, you know.
Never know. But if you can make it back to
my shop. I would be interested in the
trade like I mentioned. But I also have some amazing
drinks and I'm always interested in the most extreme and rare
ingredients. I.
Find my shop known as the Star Spark in the third quarter.
That sounds like a great thing. I will make sure I stop by and
talk about trade and have a drink.
Wonderful. You know him, his name?
Can you give us his name? Bizz bizz.
Yep. OK.
Fizz, the German gnome. The gnome that lives in a German
city. I don't know if he's German.
What? What?
And if you're looking. To see the sights around Saxon
Akasiq, our shift the the the there are some things you should
be aware of when you said it. You will observe any of our
conditions. Well, if you have any companions
that you would like to make known to this and yourselves as
well, you should report to that little outbuilding over there to
let them know that there are travellers amongst us.
It will be very evident anyways, and you will most certainly be
addressed by one or two of the clankers and they will likely
draw you in for questioning and how you got here and to let you
here and such. But it's just easier if you go
straight to, you know, Inquisitions or.
Inquisitions. Yeah, we need to come up with a
better name for that. I've been telling them they
should just name it like. Friendly questionnaire are.
Are. We are we not?
Supposed to know entry survey. Or are we?
Yeah. Are we supposed to not know that
you fly in the skies? Have not Dragons seen you up
here? Dragons, of course, but they
generally leave us alone as we don't have we don't carry gold,
as I've mentioned. Seems cumbersome, yes?
Are you not crunchy and good with ketchup?
While this conversation is happening, Kat is remaining
still on his shoulder, being as chicken like as possible, but
also relaying all of this information mentally to a dune.
And a Dune is telling it directly to everyone on the
ship. There is probably limited time
left on the invisibility. I would say you're probably on
the latter half of it. Is your city going somewhere or
do you just stay stationary or have you always been here?
Well, excellent questions all well, I think that the city
itself is right now we're we're stationary because we we'd found
at least had been reported rather that the a new God had
made itself known and we were hoping to court it as we do not
have one for ourselves. Many of the other are Schiffer
have the have their own gods but we don't and we find it very
easy to get along with them as we hail high and don't have many
other worries as a pad as as opposed to the land lovers.
I am. It troubles me that you have no
ability to call your own. Might I, you know, suggest the
Lady of the last Breath as a possibility for your people, I
mean. I think she hasn't, hasn't,
hasn't, hasn't. No contingent already.
That is good to hear. Well, you're just so in luck.
Myself and my compatriots. We are also headed to that
particular tree to ensure its safety, ensure that no evil
blights it. Well.
Your your help will be. Most welcome.
That is good to hear. However, I don't know how
helpful we would be at this particular point in time as
we're kind of waiting until, you know, they solidify their reign.
Newborn gods are, how can I say, volatile?
I would not know unfortunately how that works, but I'm pretty
sure from what I've been told, at least from one of my
companions, that this will be a just and lawful God.
That's pretty, pretty half of the course, as it were on the
upper plains here of tariff. But they, they, I think the, by
the volatility, I mean the, they, they generally have to
defend their territory for a while.
And let's just say the other gods would prefer to have it
back. Well, I would like to tell you
that me and my companions, we are the Defence Force that is
going to help that God settle themselves so well.
I, I myself don't have too much pull in the city and I can tell
you who you might want to address, but I there's no
guarantee that you're going to be able to get an audience with
him. That would be most helpful.
I'm sure my Admiral would enjoy a parlay with them.
Well, OK, we do have many in charge here.
We do have a fair small parliament that is involved with
the inner workings of where we actually go.
But I myself, I'm just a simple humble tradesman, so if you wish
to reach them, you. Can.
Go to the very top. Pity.
Points to what looks like a domed kind of small building.
They're they're all small buildings but this one is a
little bit larger than the rest. But they and they all seem to be
almost paper thin in their make up and material.
But this one does seem to have a little bit more substance to it
and stately Manor at the very top of the the rest of the
structures. Curio looks a cat.
Should we wait for the others to land or should I go back and
grab the rest? I related with doing a like, do
you guys want to land? Because it seems like they
aren't going to be hostile to us.
We just have to register that we're visiting.
I guess we'll we'll go register ourselves.
You get in line for let us know when you're like something all
5-10 minutes out and then we'll come in.
All right, we go to the register or the port, the port master.
You go towards the building that's marked or that was
pointed out to you, but with markings, unless you understand
nome do not understand. How close is Nome to Dwarvish?
Surprisingly not. They carry some of the same
characters, but it's kind of like trying to think of an
adequate approximation Finnish like the Finnish language in
German, where you know they have based Germanic roots but nothing
alike. I'm just going to put this the
right building. Unless does Cat speak the the
gnomish? No, I speak dwarven, primordial
and infernal. I'm OK, so I hope.
You go to the building he pointed at.
At least you know. Yep.
And very dangerous. Languages.
I don't know how close is gnomish to hafling.
It's a little bit. Closer.
In in some ways. Cultural divide.
They get really angry about it. Yeah, it's, it's a little bit
closer in some some regards, but that's like the comparison to
Norwegian and Finnish. That's not Canadian French and
France French. No.
OK, so so you get into what you perceive as the line for this
this building, and another gnome in front of you turns and starts
speaking. The gate is dear.
KIRO just smiles, greeting. American.
I mean he can try. I mean he KIRO tries draconic
and dwarvish and see which one sticks.
You could have raised eyebrow on both of those and he kind of
looks around and scoots a little bit away from you.
The line slowly gets smaller as you as you wait.
I let everybody know we're waiting in line now.
We don't understand what anybody is saying.
OK, I continue getting a massage and eating grapes.
We seem to have have a bit of a language barrier cat.
Just a little bit. I don't know how we're going to
get around this. Wait I get around this momento.
No, you're not that kind of wizard.
Comprehend languages. Nice.
Boom, wizard. For the most part cat is, but
cat used to have to deal with this shit all the time.
Yeah. One of the ways you have, one of
the ways the DM would get around your shenanigans.
Oh, does does cat have the spell tongues?
Do I have tongue in this? I do not.
Show me your tongue. Dang it.
Basically it allows you to speak a language.
Anyone have? Nope, I have thieves can't.
Comment Wait, I do, I do. I missed it, yay does.
Anyone have what? Tongues.
It lets you speak another language as well as comprehend.
Yeah, it says. This spell grants the ability to
understand any spoken language it hears.
Moreover, when the target speaks, any creature that knows
at least one language and can hear the target understands what
it says. So I could just cast it on you
and then you could speak. Yeah, we, we, we have our game
plan. Yay.
All right, so I'm just going to cast it on you.
It lasts for an hour. So is it just KIRO and Cat that
are there? We have the option to join them,
but we haven't done anything yet.
We're just waiting. They're waiting in line at the
building at the docking port to get our paperwork done.
Yeah, yeah, I just didn't know it was just those two or other
people were there. It's appropriate because those
two can fly. So if they need to like peace
out Cub Scout, they're, they're not going to split on the ground
immediately. So.
Yeah, we can probably make it to the ground the safest I'm
guessing. Yeah.
All right. So now our conversation should
be a little better. Yep, the the person in front of
you is looking back over their shoulder as they're at the front
of the line and their number is called and they get get up to
one of the windows. And with that comprehend
languages. You understand that they ask for
some proof of identification, some a, a signature to or or a a
purpose for visiting. And more or less all of the
individuals seem tired and uninterested in their jobs.
However, they also do. Some of them have a little bit
more like I've been trying to think of the freaking term the
whole time. Or you get.
Passports check or you get passport check customs.
Oh, customs. Customs.
There we go. Yeah.
So you, some of them have a little bit too much enthusiasm
for their role in society, I guess, and have called a couple
of other people out of line. And there's a gnome child crying
off to the side with the the wrong documents that apparently
it sounds like for for that child and they're just making
trying to make sure that it isn't being stolen or something.
It sounds like. Make sure this isn't a stolen
child. Yeah, and they call.
Next. Greetings, I am Lieutenant
Kampachi of the Rum Rollers. I'm here to visit your city.
I have four other companions besides myself.
This is one of them. They are Cat.
They're going to need to be present for this interaction.
They are still trying to find parking.
That is, then you may want to take the back of the line again.
I cannot proceed with the according until all that wish to
find themselves welcome into the great city of 86 Airship.
Until they are all present. Well, then they, then they.
Will check. Themselves, they will check
themselves in when they arrive, but I shall not be deterred.
Neither will my opinion cat. OK, so then you have your
documentation for the both of you.
KIRO presents his Ferryman's badge.
That is my identification. Takes it and looks at it and
goes and he flips it over to the backside where I'm guessing
there's just like a leather nothingness and just, I don't
know if I can truly accept this as identification.
It just kind of looks like a badge of some sort.
Do you not reckon recognize Ferryman authority?
Have you not seen one before? I have not and I've your time
yet. Our city could accept this as a
sort of identification. He returns it and he goes if.
You do not have proper identification.
You will have to file for it at this time.
What do you consider proper identification?
And he gets excited at this and he goes.
Well, if you have all while all while KIRO intimidates with his
wings flaring out. How much?
With a 15 to to intimidate with his wings, he is officially
getting out of his skin. Probably with disadvantage
because when you said what do you consider proper
identification, he started to get excited about the
bureaucracy of your question. OK with this.
Oh, damn it. So yeah, it'd be 15.
I got I got a crit at with the disadvantage so it would have
been 25 and 15 damn it. Damn, I just had to look up
gnome stats too. I'm not expecting this whole
stat situation. Let's see.
What did you guys do on DND today?
Went through costumes. Carly Kiro's giving him the
smoldering intensity. This is the one that Han should
have joined. OK, here we go.
Dang, it's. So hard being an immigrant in
the city. Rick Nimaway would like to know
if she should prep everyone else on the ship to start coming
down. If he feels it's yes, yeah, he,
he, he feels it's, it's safe enough.
They're they're, they're generally harmless, Kira will
tell Nimway. Find a, you know, secure docking
location. All right, I passed along to
Nimway. I mean, obviously she, you know,
knows already, but she so back we don't have to role play it,
but back on the dune she'll be rounding people up and getting
them ready to. Go read.
I'm really difficult. Would you round up?
No. Yes, I know, I know. 5 more
minutes when they're ready to go.
I'll be ready to go and trying that.
She has to massage. Let's be dark.
I finally get up. Was supposed to pack barrel was
supposed to pack before. We go Nimaway is going to scoop
up schematic plans for the Holy Water Gun.
Yeah, make sure everything's secured.
And also if a dune is boarded please let us know because like
if they just secretly search her without telling us we're we're
coming back. Don't worry I will be shorter
after we. So wait a second, am I is
invisibility being dropped or? I mean, we don't need it
anymore. As you're saying that
invisibility drops I would guess.
And you hear the same siren, Blair.
Oh shit. And because you didn't report to
anyone, KIRO. About the other friend, well,
yeah, that's that's what he's trying to do with this guy.
But he's, you know KIRO looks the guy and hit with all those
stars. That would be the rest of my
party. You do not have to worry about
them. Turn off the alarm that is the
rest of my party. Oh.
Wait, I don't No. Oh.
He looks at his screed and he's like or it looks like a piece of
glass that he's tapping around on.
And then he he's like, OK, I think I found the appropriate
button. And then he presses it and you
guys see as the alarm goes was going off, it stops going off,
but the amount of armament double s.
So instead of like 4 or 8, the list of there's now like 24 or
16 somewhere in that range, the list of that are aiming towards
Odune and he he is just sitting on the dock.
He doesn't know what button he pressed.
That's good to hear. Now can we move forward with
letting us in this time? He he is, he is going to extend
his wings and be a little more huff and puff agitated and
attempt to intimidate with his agitation 23.
Oh nice. Meanwhile, you see as you're
intimidating, several bolts from ballista fly across the city
towards Adune after the invisibility has dropped from
the from the ballistas. Oh shit.
KIRO and it said incoming, incoming.
For a total of it looks like 1-2.
Three that actually strike. Yeah, three that actually strike
for a total of 39. Is Cat aware that a donate just
got struck with Melissa? Oh yeah.
Yeah. You can feel the.
I'm just like. No.
No, this is defensive. Yeah, KIRO, KIRO sends down
through the torque. Hey, they're being self-defense.
They don't mean to be hostile, or they do, but not not not in
the not they're. Not they literally just shot us.
They didn't. Mean to this whole person on
this gnome in front of us that is just continually talking and
then we can get in his face as a chicken and tell him to call off
this attack or he's going to regret it as a chicken.
Snuck up on them. We are a foreign vessel that
snuck up on them with visibility and all of a sudden appeared in
front of them. I told you guys we should have
had from afar. This is our fault.
How? Did are.
They this is this is this is Nimoway speaking, frustrated,
not me. You know, yeah, who shoots?
1st and ask questions later. Before Cat goes to Cat, cast the
whole person. KIRO just like kind of holds Cat
and just kind of like pets Cat. It's fine.
It's fine, it's fine. You can see Cat just all fluffed
up, all of his feathers out. Yeah.
Exactly. All puffed up.
It's fine my friend, it is fine. It will be.
Fine, this is a menacing look from from from chicken to this.
No chicken depth there right now.
I've already intimidated with the 23, I'm waiting to see what
happens with that. I ask a duty to raise a white
flag or white if she has any. Sort of like Mast with
messaging. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, she she
lowers the the your guys's flag, which if you if you don't aren't
familiar with it, it's on our on my rum bottles with a picture of
cat holding like two things of arrows and breathing fire.
In her chicken form. And lowers that just a portion
and the white flag above that and the the ballistas stop
firing but they follow you all the way to port and docking.
Understandable, we did behave pretty sketch.
All we did was approach a city that might have been hostile.
We're. Invisibly.
I told you guys they were cannibals.
Listen to me. So good there, we don't know.
What do they need to make? They need to make a wisdom.
There's so there's one of them that that there is name is
Sweeney Todd. I don't know if that's
references. We should stay away from that
one or find that one first. Excellent meat pies.
Oh no. Oh no, Josh before.
Reception was the 19. Yeah, before.
Yeah. Oh, no.
Before the spell goes off for cat, he kind of, you know, stops
to pet cat. Like, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Hold up, hold up.
It's OK. Do you do do do you let the
spell? Off exercises with the chicken.
Yes, do you? Don't let the spell off.
Don't let the spell off, OK? Does Cat need to rule
constitution with advantage to see if they he?
Doesn't let it off, he doesn't let the spell off.
He's just like, if they fire anything else, they're going to
regret it. OK, I would birds.
Of posturing the feathers stand up a little bit and like puff.
Yes, that's what I'm visualizing.
KIRO through the torgus saying if they do it again I will make
sure that happens. Still still still petting cat.
It's. OK, it's OK.
I think I've actually ever seen you fight Carol.
It's been all Oh no, wait, he turned into that dragon.
Does that count? I feel like that counts.
Oh no. And then we had the the battle
with the all those undead on the in the field where he basically
slashed through a crap ton. I was oh, no, wait, you Oh, no,
yeah, He you weren't here. That was Kat and Grand am doing
that Cat had. Cat has the hero fight.
Yeah. Yeah, with a 20, with a 23, you
see him like press a big X on the piece of glass that he's
working off of and the as as a dune, a docs, the the ballista
disappear again. I'm glad we can come to terms
now about those entry ways in. Oh yes, the documents.
So he gets excited in if you just stand right there and that
that that is that is that chicken needing entrance
entrance again, right. I thought I heard it talk.
You guys are going to need separate pictures.
So you're going to stand right there and hold still and he
presses a button and you hear some, some unnecessary.
Some unnecessary amount of like printing and he holds you, hands
you a stack of like 15 pages and he goes this is your paperwork.
You only need really the top sheet, but this rest of this is
all of your information. You might already have access to
some of this now, with some of the new.
He scratches his head, the new developments.
But some of us, most of us up here, have had some sort of at
least reference pages to what we can do.
And this is what it was. And the documentation takes a
while to change. We don't change very fast,
bureaucratic societies being what they are.
But anyways, chicken. KIRO.
KIRO yeah, Kira holds out the holds out cat to be photographed
with his hand as a pedestal. I'm still lightly puffed, still
kind of angry, but holding it in check.
And then you see a a bright flash and the the there's like a
little drop down that falls out behind you being where you're
propped to give you a background that isn't all the people around
and get your picture taken any hands your stack of papers for
paperwork. KIRO takes the 1st 2 from each,
the first ones from each stack because that's the one he says
that everybody runs around with, and then he stacks the other
ones together. If anyone needs to know the rest
of us, I'll send them to see you.
And you better hold on to these. Wait, what?
And he? Let's go Cat.
We have a city to see. Also, you going to Those expire
within 60 days. As you walk away.
So do we add identification paperwork to our inventory?
Yeah, for. Yes, passport, Air passport.
For Airship what 86? Wait is there wait you could
add. You could call it Visa.
Visa Air City visa. Air City visa.
There we go. I'll just put them in my notes.
Other Air City visa 60 days save.
Oh yeah, 60 days save. Oh wait, you gotta fix that.
Assuming everybody else waits through that process.
Yeah, it's terrible. I bitch the entire time.
Listen, can't I hire someone to do this for me?
Maybe they just keeps pulling like snacks out of their pocket
and just like periodically offering one over tomorrow.
Keep taking them. It ships me up for like 30
seconds. Yeah, it looks like hard, hard
caramel candies and like peppermint sticks and like.
Like a little. Chair and I just pick it up and
like put it down and sit on it and then then the line moves
like my siblings just like scoot me forward.
Sorry. Oh, she's very accustomed to
bureaucracy, so she's if they are provided chairs and don't
have to stand, she'll just, you know, calmly queue and move the
chair along. The the chair was something that
Rarls made his siblings carry around for him.
How long is the line? Easily an hour.
She will. She will also be requesting a
chair. From rural or his siblings I
mean. If there's a spare, but if not
then she will ask the domes. I mean, I'll quickly run back
and grab everyone chairs and like and and like snake like
more snakes, grapes and like streets and make it really posh.
Snacks are a. Whole like a whole pavilion that
just moves with the line. And so, yeah, somehow she
produces a little teacup with a saucer.
Bring the massage guy from from the ship.
Just letting them know how important you are and that you
are about waiting in this God damn line.
Bullshit. Yeah, Nimoi will wait patiently,
but she'll wait patiently. And Comfort.
Thanks. You guys make it to the front of
the line, you get an another gnome and they ask some of the
same questions. Welcome to Wait, do you guys
have comprehend languages? I just realized no other group
didn't well. So I have it, I can cast it.
Or the is it? Is it the the tongue?
OK, perfect. OK, so you cast it and or the
speaking part of this group, I guess, because at first they're
probably sounding a little bit like Guten tag the gate versus
Diamond Krund Dafoe Dastu heist. And then then you you cast it
and you're and they repeat themselves.
What it, what it? What is the reason for your
travel and good day? But we we were sightseeing,
passing by, and we stumbled upon your beautiful city, which we
thought was only out of myth, and we could not resist the
curiosity. So I guess you could say we're
here as tourists. We don't get too many of those,
but then I will need your paperwork.
Nimway pulls out her magic parchment map thingy and has it
populate her grade of lineage and pass that over.
Oh, I have no idea what this says 'cause it's in in El High
Elvish or Elvish I would assume. Yeah.
And it just goes, oh. Bother.
I think we're going to need some identification, you know, a
picture, your name, place of birth.
Oh, that's that's there. It's it's just an elvish and.
I mean certainly I I have a device for translation.
Yeah, sorry, I'm going to need it translation of that as well
as like I mentioned I. Might not know what a.
Picture is from where you are from, but it's like a.
Piece of paper with your face on it.
Like a painting. Yeah, except.
You know. The paintings can be forged.
I don't know. Yeah, paintings can be, but
pictures can't. I can get you some paperwork if
I need. So while I do know what a
photograph is, that does not exist where I am from.
Yeah, we can get you some paperwork sorted here.
You just you want to, you want to get that sorted.
I can get you sorted. Sure, and I I can have this this
parchment magically translated. I just figured that if I'm the
one to translate it, it would be a less reliable document.
I figured you'd want someone a trusted source of your own to
translate, though I'm happy to do it myself if that's
trustworthy to you. Piece of paper.
For a second he's looking at it and then he just goes and then
leans down. If you don't mind, I'm just
going to scan this in. And he sends it into a machine,
it looks like, and it swirls it around and you hear it at the
very end. Oh shit dude, you know one of
the quarters have gotten bent, but I think it's gotten the.
The rest of it? Here you are and.
It will heal. And he goes, OK, yes, I've got
the translation here now. All right.
It looks like you're some some from some highlightages, but I
don't know any of them. So doesn't matter to me, I
guess, unless you've got, you know, a gorgeous niece or
nephew. I'm not picky.
I unfortunately do not have any kind of marable age.
Oh well, I can still get you sorted if you want to stand
right here and drop back down. Drops down and and.
He he gives her back her. Identification and he gives.
Yeah, I'll make sure to include all of that scanned in piece of
document. With your visa and he presses a
button, there's a flash and he hands you a 15 page document.
Actually probably like 20 pages in your case with the scan.
She's a little disgruntled that she was not given time to
prepare for the photograph, but doesn't say anything.
I just snapping. She's just standing there
stunned. You look at your picture and it
looks like looks like they just shook you out of bed.
Well she she would have been groomed before she left the
ship, but maybe like one eye is half closed or something.
Saying that there's photographs being taken.
My start, my siblings start smartening me up.
Next, please stand here. I'm assuming you're part of that
group. You guys were all kind of
standing together so. Yeah, Yep.
OK, press button. Does he take a picture of all
the brothers together or are they just trying to crowd in
with one another? I think the first time he he
thought it was just going to be rural, but then when he looks at
the camera, all four of them are in there and he goes, looks back
up and he goes, you know what, this works as you guys are
always together, right? Here you go.
Yeah, we're always together. Never separated.
You start fighting over it, Max. Mimi's gonna walk up.
Go. Ahead.
Right. Mimi's got nothing.
I have no paper on my purse. I have no Idi.
Don't know what that is, just here.
Well. Yeah, you already told me your
name, so that's why I'm going to put down just the one name,
right, OK. Me Merson.
Oh OK, I can add that in. As the flash is clicking off,
you hear the the papers printing the hands of your set of
documents. Perfect.
Welcome to the Airship City 86. Wow, so there are 87 other
airship cities out there? I don't know, I just pressed
buttons on the screen. OK, so you're like a minimum
wage? Drunker and drunker with this
interaction. Is he actively drinking like
right now? You, you didn't know.
I think it just it just happens with the more I settle into the
role too. It just happens.
Yeah, and the more I act like a person, the drummer they get.
I I. Was trying to make them.
I was trying to make it so this gnome in particular too seems a
little bit more rotund, healthy, big.
Bone. Yeah, and the whole time they've
just been snacking on like something, it looks like off to
the side as they're doing all your paperwork and such.
You guys probably have like a couple orange fingerprints on
your documents from when he's putting it, giving them to you,
and taking them off the printer. Some nomi Cheeto dust.
Yeah. And.
We should find some of those. They're probably really good.
It's probably not like drunkness is so much as like an insulin
overload. Perhaps that he seems to be
going on, you know, like I. Know who my father is.
It was an early cat. He looks back through you, you
look back through your documents, and you actually do
see a picture of what they presumed to be your father.
'Cause it just looked like the guy from the arrest accounts.
O'Malley. O'Malley, O'Malley.
Sure. Yeah, that sounds fine to me.
My father was a musician, a rock star.
As as everyone else seems to be looking through their documents,
Kira, you you realize maybe you should have kept yours because
there seems to be some important back story information that they
were able to glean somehow. That did not help him with that.
He's like that's fine, we don't need all that stupid paperwork.
Although Cat is 1 for reading and holding on to too much
paperwork, but it's usually of the arcane time.
Right. Dipped in the paperwork box.
I have a box filled with paperwork.
I'm never look at it. You give it to Jeffrey the
Magnificent and he deals with it.
That's. My problem.
Jeffrey rolls his eyes and size as he looks at a picture of his
his his mother inside the paperwork, the only one that
truly ever understood him. He files the way.
Ring Pony Club, we will go dancing.
We did it. So welcome to the city.
I don't have any maps of it because I wasn't quite sure how
far we were going to go with this.
You mean this excellent impromptu role play of TSA life
wasn't intended? No.
Were you preparing for us to be nefarious and be like fuck?
Yeah, I have stats for the city for when you guys were ready to
blow it up. Dude, if if the other team I
would have suggested we immediately take it over like
hey. I mean this is an.
Advanced flying warship, We need to take that I.
Also wanted to just ignore it. I Why don't you fuckers care
about cannibals? That's partially what I
expected, to be honest. Is ignoring it?
Yeah, 'cause like. Wrap a cool steampunk floating
city in front of me and you want me to Duke Duke?
Past it. No, I, I did.
Yeah, I. Wanted to investigate a little.
I I have no desires for whenever I put something in front of you
guys anymore or expectations. I just try to plan the best
that. I sometimes you do things
dropped it in front of. Us I want to know more about it.
Yeah. I'm just saying there are 87
more. Of these.
They are in danger. You definitely.
Could catch them all. Gotta catch them all.
Exploring from a like a mind palace, sort of, you know,
theatre of the mind. That's the word I was looking,
very phrase I was looking for around the city if you wanted to
for the last little bit of time you guys got.
But I, like I said, do not have maps, but I can improvise.
And we tell if the city is moving now that we are standing
on it. You feel that it is physically
in motion, but not. You know how a dune was.
You know where there was a trajectory, trajectory and, and,
and the like it it doesn't it, it feels almost as if you're on
a boat that's at sea but anchored.
OK, puppies. I do want to go and check on a
dune because they fucking shot her.
Don't worry dearie, it was just a flesh wound.
I'll be fine. That's even worse.
I think I could incorporate these bolts actually.
And you just hear her kind of grunt mentally.
And yes, there would you can just absorb them after a time.
I'll be I'll be fine. It'll just take me a little bit.
That's going to take a mental note like oh she can absorb
wood, I should find her rare woods that she can just do
stuff. With.
So now I'm going to be on the lookout for rare what?
Lip, I wonder if libertry can spare a branch or two.
She just absorbs libertry and we just fly around with it.
Yes. And then it becomes a God, Yes.
Yeah. Well anyway, before we leave the
customs area, Nimaway is going to find some sort of staff
member to ask if there is a directory or some sort of like a
tourist guide pamphlet type thing of attractions, places
that would welcome tourists, if there's museums or anything
educational about their city. You catch one of them that must
have been in like a shift change because they were just kind of
walking around aimlessly, looking at to you what looks
like a little tiny handheld mirror, and they look up at you
with their face startled. And they go.
I heard about 3 words you said because we don't get to make
tourists around here, but if you want some information.
She stops chewing what's presumably you can only guess.
Well, you would know as an MOA, being able to perceive for
Emily's perspective a type of like bubble gum.
Stop chewing it for a second. Blows a bubble and.
If you just go around the corner there you can find.
A small Tavern that most of the Newport arrivals come through.
They tend to post some things on boards in there.
Why? Thank you.
I'll have to check that out. Though we don't have much time.
Does this city frequent this area of the world regularly or
are you Basically, if I wanted to find your city again to come
back and visit, how do I do so? Oh well.
And you would most likely want to find some sort of air city
compass. They they're sort of like a
regular compass, except they attune themselves to the
individual air cities. Well, that is disregarded.
I think we're going to be here for quite a while, at least
until the new. God.
Asserts themselves. Oh with this work and Nimue
pulls out her magic map and she imagines a like a live updated
icon of the city to appear on the map.
Does that work? I've never seen one of those,
and yes, it seems to appear on it after your own imaginings of
it. Lovely location sharing.
How handy. Well, I think I've answered my
own question, thank you Anyway, so we don't have much time here
today, but I would love to return.
And she kind of gestures to allow the gnome to continue
whatever they were doing. They just kind of nod and look
back at their handheld mirror and start walking, wandering
off. Oh, actually she stops before
they go. And what device is this?
I showed you mine, can you show me yours?
Excuse. Me.
Oh, I I I did not mean to insinuate it was.
It's just a turn of phrase. I'm assuming you're saying that
while pointing to the the inner hand.
Yes. Oh, this is how to describe
this. It's sort of like from where
you're from, like a like a newspaper, but like that updates
automatically in your hand. That's the best of God.
Would you recognize the term cell phone?
She squints and goes. I don't think so.
Sounds vaguely. Familiar and she gets a nails
bleed. Don't accidentally kill someone
with thoughts. Like a device connected to a
database? Well, as if someone could
continuously edit a book with new revisions instantly.
That's almost exclusively describes what this is, I think.
I understand. I think you what a what an
efficient way to disseminate information to your populace.
Yes, we are very well informed here on any of the Gnome
Islands. We is one of our most important
pieces of understanding for each other.
We just want to make sure everyone knows what's going on.
And does this include more than just local news?
Oh absolutely. You can find many pieces of
information on it. They purchase one.
Of these oh, sorry, go on. Most of the libraries that we
once held are on it because she gestures around to the place.
We can't quite exactly carry it around with us.
Very true. Are these for sale to those
outside of your nation? Well, sure, if you can find the
right place. They tend to be at small kiosks
and the like. They come in various sizes,
shapes and as you wish, but they also.
They're going to be pretty pricey, even at the kiosks.
There's some there's also some custom makes, but I.
Don't know if those would be in your price well.
You look like they might be in your price range again.
We don't carry gold though, so you're going to have to trade
something I. Think I may be able to
accommodate that? Are the kiosks out on the
streets? I can I can I just wander and
find one? Yes, there should be 1/3 streets
over. In what direction?
To the east? Thank you very much.
Now I won't keep you from your job any longer.
That's just done by. Very helpful.
It's good chatting. She lets the gnome go.
Let. Me go.
Back so everyone if you want access to the entirety of GNOME
knowledge, we know how to get it.
That is very interesting. The patents that we could get on
the on the on the surface, these guys don't seem to interact on
there. Well, they might have no
knowledge that his has been lost to common knowledge for who
knows how long. Yeah, we could get even richer.
So with what little time we plan to spend on the city, they're
always going to try to find one of those kiosks, price out a
tablet. Anyone else?
Yeah, cat's going to want to look for one of those too.
I have to consider what I want to do, but these guys have like
cat sounds like. What?
That's above table. I didn't hear you cut out.
Oh, it sounds like these guys have like.
Tack tech, yes. Technology, yeah.
And what do we need? You guys have nuclear bombs.
You're. Just asking like Block 1
populist on the street. Do you guys know?
Cell phone kiosk. I'm sure they know.
Nuclear energy, Well, I guess it'll be in the kiosk like you
say. I mean, I'll also go to the
kiosks. I mean, we, we have money.
I presume we could. They don't use money.
We have to need to trade stuff. I mean, we have information
about the Liberty, right? That's very important to them.
We do. That we were, we could tell our
story, that we how we were there, how it got formed, all
that shit for for money. Or trade, I guess.
Information we they're concerned about this whole Liberatri
situation and we know stuff about that.
So Oh yeah, yeah, Nemo, I was offering, she's going to offer
to describe the HUD thing that appears in their vision and
trade for one of the tablets. How do they have that city in
the air? That's kind of what I want to
know, but you might not have enough time to look into this.
I'm going to hop off pizzas and stuff.
Have a good one. What we should figure out is how
to how to create floating orbital bombardments to shoot
shit. Yeah.
That knowledge? Or or if yeah, could be.
Yeah, yeah. That might be a good place to
call it if people are dropping off.
Yeah. And yeah, unless you wanted to
play out the kiosk interaction or hold off until next time is
fair enough either way. OK.
I was like, we can hold off till next time since you were
apparently prepared for us to destroy the place, and instead
we're like, well, let's put Brendan go shopping.
It's been a while, so I figured it could go either way.
So I was kind of like prepared mentally for either one, but I
just, you know, don't need didn't have maps because I was
like, I really don't probably need a full iteration map of the
area you guys are in for if we're playing it theater of the.
Mind too little did you know? We never knew what you expect.
Fuck you. See that plan you had no longer
plan? I never have plans.
I don't know what you're talking about.
I just make stuff up and then put some things in there that
sound fun and then see what happens.
General outlines is what I like to do.
General outlines. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
More or less. And then if maximize the amount
of fun as possible. The one time I DMDI wrote it way
too, specifically for how they were supposed to like go about
getting information and picking up the quest.
And my, my hook was some like street urchins pickpocketed them
in the market and they, they caught the street urchins and,
or that they were able to like track them back to their hideout
and they're supposed to be like an exchange of information for
their. I had like this whole thing that
I I was going to give them information in a way that felt
organic, you know, What did they do?
They took the little rats and punted them into the river.
Yo, we don't need your information.
Fuck you. Scenes about Friday.
They were, they were like small children, like 5-7 years old
type deal. And they chucked them in their
river. So I did an improvise.
It worked out. I'm guessing they also asked
about how far they went. Now I'm curious about how far
they went. What do you mean?
Like how? Far did they put them into that
river. Oh, it was like a canal.
They just like dropped them over the the railing into.
The railing. OK, yeah, you said punt, so I
was imagining something completely different.
Oh, no, no. Well, there might have been like
an underhanded Chuck. No, no child was injured in the
making of the campaign. Or were they?
See, the very first interaction I had with one of my groups was
also they had to rescue a group of children that were about to
be cooked into soup. And they rescued the children.
And then one of the players just kept being so mean to the
children. Like, you fucking got caught.
You're stupid. And they're like, but we're
hungry and he just chucked food in our face and he's like this.
And then just walked away. And he's like, you better keep
up or you're going to be left. Right.
Oh. My goodness.
Yeah, I've not put any children back in.
Yeah, I I've made them as children to increase the
likelihood of a positive interaction and empathy and
understanding. Because he's poor, starving like
skeletal children big pocketed from them.
Nope. Yeah, they were just like, Nope,
fuck these kids. I think I did that with goblins
once, but you guys did not care in the evil campaign.
Wait, goblins? Yeah, there were goblin children
that pickpocket you guys remember.
Yes, I do remember that. Did I?
Eat them, did we? Stop them and they're like, oh,
they robbed us. Darn.
And then we carried on with what we were doing.
No, you, you went after them hard in the middle of a crowd
and KIRO did try to eat them I'm pretty sure.
But and just held on to them instead.
So while while he shook them out of all of the stolen goods, yes.
See, I was imagining the like, very first time we were in the
Goblin City, and I don't think Ezra was there at that point
when we went shopping before we had decided to blow it up or rob
them, and then we just need to blow it up after we went
shopping. Yeah, it was right.
It was right before then because like you were guys are walking
through the crowded streets of there and they just, you know,
did one of those bump and takes. And I think they made it through
a couple of you guys until like the Byra noticed or something.
And that's when shit hit the fans.
Leave it to the rogue to notice they're being they talking it.
Yep. Pretty much.
Yeah, but yeah, it was a good game and now you have slightly
more time to prepare. It's.
A good session for sure. I I will come up with something.
What did I say? And hopefully you guys find Fizz
later. Yeah, let's remember Fizz in his
shop. Who?
Wait, who is Fizz? He was the guy that Ezra was
talking to. Sorry not.
Oh OK, I missed KIRO. Yeah.
OK, I missed the name and. What did the shop sell?
His shop is called Star Spark, he said.
Yep, Star Spark *. Spark.
OK, Is it a firework shop? What is it?
He said it's a shop but he also offers drinks so we didn't ask
for details. Fizzy lifting drink.
Maybe he's an alchemist. He's either an alchemist or a
bartender. Either way, we're going to visit
him. Yeah.
All right, guys, have a good night.
You too. Bye.
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