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Now let's dive right back into Tara through the campaign.
Allelopolis. Fucking arsehole.
Fucking wreck. He's arrived, the enemy of us
all. The Hand of Fate tosses.
The dice rolls, spins, turns. The 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 sea, fading to myth until myths are
forgotten and the campaign that gave it birth comes again and
again. The Hand of Fate tosses the dice
rolls, spins, turns hitherto we left the rum rollers on the
island of Shondar, the Red Dragon Meme, Kat Hamilton and
the Rawelsons Beached Dune right next to a horde of Cobalts and
and the Cobalt ship owned by Shondar.
They find They then frolicked in the sands with some crabs to
catch 12 for Shondar. Royal also made a deal with
Gulliver, the captain of the Red Cobalt ship to deliver Shondar's
goats. Gulliver also warned Royal of
the feuding goblins inside the volcano that it Shondar called
his home, while Adune whipped up some Balkan tentacle sushi for
another offering to Shondar. The rum rollers then head north
to the island head and into the body of the ACT Fully active
volcano. On the way they stop to admire
and then devour enormous coconut coconut milk.
Barely dry on their faces. The rum rollers March forward to
the the Obsidian cliffs of the base of the volcano.
At the edge of one of those cliffs and old red cobalt
fishing greeted them and again warned them of the strife in the
tunnels, but said that they look strong enough to handle it,
unlike him. Into the dark lover two caverns
they they plunged while Hamilton left the group to gather the
goats for Golfer from Gulliver on the deck of a dune and test
the portal onto a dune's deck. Mime and Cat, unable to see in
the descending darkness of the tunnels, latch onto Rural, then
Cat, cast Fly on him. Rural speed through the tunnels,
avoiding tempting magical auras noted by his companions and the
raging battles between the Cobalts and the Goblins.
Rapidly, the small contingent of Rum rulers convinced the guard
at the door to Gondar's chambers to be friends in exchange for
gold. Greeted exuberantly by the Red
Dragon himself upon entering the crater of the volcano, he
Shondar assumed they are early entries into his talent show.
They went along with it and entered themselves as goat
stackers. After some quick practicing,
Hamilton took the lead to set up the ACT for Shondar the Red.
The red dragon with the Ryalsons balanced on top of one
another's. Nora climbed to top of them and
Cat on the very tippy top, while Hamilton and Mame herded the
goats and other food they had prepared for Shondar towards
their stacked companions, Juggling the goats and other
food in the from the top to the bottom or from the bottom to the
top where Cat SAT, who broiled them with her, her flames and
then tossed. And then Sonora tossed them into
the mouth of Shondar and had excitedly turned from his
humanoid form into his dragon body.
All going all was going good and smooth until the Balkan Sushi
made it into the gut of Shondar who accidentally porched the Rum
Rollers nearly to death with his with his indigestion.
Captain Me may save the day as they cleaned up from their act.
The Rum Rollers then set an appointment to come to terms for
some of his Breath in exchange for the Queen's gold to help
save Socrates before negotiations go well with
Shondar after they'd cleaned themselves up and brought him
some indigestion. Medicine.
Medicine in exchange for two cases of his Bottled Breath and
20,000 gold, less a handful of it which he gave to the Rum
Rollers in exchange for the for the the smokeable herb that he'd
found to be called the the roller that was.
I think that's still sitting on the table too by the way that
715 gold. I don't remember anybody picking
that up and. Throwing it off.
My God, you're right. Anyhow, and yeah, and while they
await the two days for the jars to be filled with Shondar's
breath and one extra, yeah, well, and they had to give him a
nudie of the Queen and plan a date with Queen Fiata of
Socrates And then the and the contract of Captain Gulliver,
the red cobalt that the was going to become theirs for any
future deals was well as exclusive rights for his trading
for his breath. With those amenable terms the
the Rum Rollers celebrations ensued and during the
celebrations Raul and Zenoral Zenora sneak out on a Recon
mission about the goblins which he they promised to rid Shondar
of inside of his volcano. Timothy the Cobalt exchanged a
letter for Raul with Shondar to get all of the to get a
all-purpose communication tongues for himself and Zenora.
They learned this call sign of the day to be Ladybug in Cobalt.
They then proceeded behind enemy lines and captured A Dreider
female named Von they find who seemed to be commanding the
goblin rally point. Bringing her back to the ship,
Adune, the Rawelsons cat and Frederick proceed to interrogate
her. She eventually tells them she is
amenable to joining the Red Rollers after the being held
down and her fangs there. Her fangs are like they're
they're no longer usable, basically by the wax that they'd
shove down her throat as part of the torturing as they're going
to. And not to worry about her God,
because they're gonna become gods, you.
Get it now. Yep.
Yeah, they were. They were.
They're quite certain they're gonna all going to become gods.
And she laughed at them and then said sure, why not, having no
other choice, being held to the floor of the deck of a dune by a
dune with her wooden hands. The Rum Rollers are also
recalled at this point while she was telling the secrets of the
Dreider and Dro cult under the volcano that were tasked by Lolf
who made a deal with the PNC professional Necromancy Cult to
to to to screw up all attempts of Shondar to to set up his his
place of being there inside this volcano after he they chased him
out of the the crevasse that he lived in the then the Run
rollers were called as a part recalled that they are
themselves are a part of the PNC known as the Wish Wish faction
and are contracted to provide surfaces for the PNC.
They quietly realize anyone inducted to their group was also
by proxy. Now in the PNC rural Rahl gives
his brothers the contract to read thoroughly.
They also learned that the goblins are created by butt
shaped crystals that Dreider that the Dreiders use and are as
directed by Lalith, their God Goddess Rahl suggests they plan
of attack by stealing the crystals to stop the goblins
production and to somehow seal the cavern and caverns in which
they were using to get into the volcano.
They they also then after learning all of this from Von
the Drieder portaled back into the spot where they had snuck
behind enemy lines and find the male drieder sitting at Von's
desk and immediately abduct him as well and throw him into a
what? In in a dune for holding.
And we're about to go back down under the volcano to enact said
plan. Let's see what finds out.
Let's find out what happens this time.
Yeah, that was a longer one but we've been on Chandler's Island
for a couple months. So yeah, I like that you're you
being here for large ports of it, Zanora, and are still more
confused than Rick or. Either that or we've stumped him
in the silence as Oh no, Oh no, no.
I'm just like, oh, I'm so gonna enjoy this.
I, I, I so I'm so glad I brought Kimpachi to this.
Oh, he's gonna. He's gonna have.
Such a great, great time. So could you describe to me
Kimpachi too? So Kampaki stands about 6-5
really broad shouldered. He has slate Gray hair with kind
of like Obsidian horns running backwards and through his hair.
He's got kind of like a an ashen Gray skin tone with Obsidian
black scales. Like kind of like where you
would see like a farmer's hand on a human.
That would be like where his scales kind of run through the
sides of his arms and he dresses in a very traditional shogunate
style armor. He wields his faithful Nodachi
and his Cortana both on each hip, and he is from a very long
line of sages. And he is a part of the
Ferryman's order, where his sole purpose is to keep the natural
balance of life and death and make sure that things that are
dead stay dead. So that is KIRO Kampachi.
Very nice. I'm trying to find a good token
based upon that. Yeah, I have a token.
I'm just trying to figure out how to how do I upload it into.
If you if you send it in chat there for me, I can upload it
for you. All right, one second.
It doesn't really let you do it yourself on rule 20 side as a
player is all. Oh, I think he clicked on the
general chat instead of the text chat.
Well, we'll see when. Oh, there he is.
There we go is the oh, there's general chat.
OK, there we go. Add file and there we go, send.
OK, see if I can Boink. Might have to save as.
That's fine. Over into this
file. Nice.
OK, save then. I have to open that up.
So to help you with a little bit of the mind portion of it, while
I'm getting this token over here too, you find yourself currently
Kyoto on a giant table. A table that's you're standing
on it currently, and it's you you don't really see.
You see the edges as well. From this vantage in the middle
of it, it seems like, but you're standing upon a map that or a
piece of paper that you can tell reads Taurus.
The path unfolds. There's various kind of mundane
items around you. Mundane in their origin perhaps,
but not in their size because they are all larger than you.
There's some candles, a compass, some dice, some cards, some
keys, books, papers, and still getting that token here.
One second. I don't know if you actually see
all of that, but that should be where everyone else's vision is
at currently it. Will.
Yep. No, I went to the wrong one.
Look at this one. Here we go.
Yeah the the the screen for roll 20 is is the black screen for
me. OK, I think it's until you get
control of this token and I send it over.
Controlled by. There we go.
See that. Go back into settings here,
because I think I need to still turn on your dynamic lighting.
Yeah. Vision.
There we go. See.
Ah, here we go. OK, now, now I'm seeing stuff.
There I am. All righty.
I see it now. Great.
So that's where you find yourself currently, is there?
How is KIRO responding to this situation they've suddenly found
themselves in from wherever they were at in the world before
this. What sorcerer is this?
Our necromancers at play. I'll cut them down.
Where am I? There's no response.
Go ahead and and he just looks around.
He's he's currently gripping his wrapped nodachi and kind of just
kind of like finger thumbing at the Suba, wondering if he should
draw, be prepared for anything. And as he's looking around, he
does notice at the edge of what would presumably be this plane
that he's standing on. He only sees it as a table
because of some of the other mundane items that are residing
here. But at the edges, including
above him as he's realizing, is a starry expanse of void of what
would look like a night sky but in higher definition all around
him. I think Kimpachi would try to
explore, find some form of way out of the scenario, try to
either get back to where he's from, or seek aid and find
people in this place he's found himself.
It almost seems like a place outside of places, so you can
can you move the token too? We'll see, yes.
So if you would like to move any direction you want to go of
describing how you want to try and get out of here.
But yeah, you you would if you walked towards the edge, which
I'm presuming you would try to do to try and get out is you'd
find that you're basically on this ginormous table floating
through what looks like the night sky.
Like I'd said. So you'd stand there and look
over the edge of the table and look down at 4 legs that are all
much larger than you, but it's just floating through space.
Did that blasted wizard has to spell on me as a joke?
I know I messed with his look, but shrinking me down to the
size of an Ant seems Harley fitting punishment and he
screams out. Show yourself wizard.
There is an almost dead deadening sound of your voice as
it comes back and doesn't quite echo.
That's what I'm imagining or the the word that I want to use.
But it's not. It's not quite that.
It's it's like it hits a point and then it just is nothing and
there's are you as you're as you're standing there and and
shouting into space to. In the starry expanse of the
night off in whatever direction you're you're looking.
I guess it almost looks like the there's a a quick writing of of
symbols that you would understand as as as as text in
the sky says which path will you choose.
That path that leads to my honor.
The path that leads to balance the from that that.
There doesn't seem to be any particular response, although
almost an arrow if you're looking in the opposite
direction of the compass. And then the compass itself sort
of looks almost as if it starts to shine brighter than
everything else on the table. You show yourself at last and he
goes over to where the compass is.
Staring at the compass you can see visibly that even your
reflection looks brighter than you would expect.
Looking into into the edge of it.
It it does stand, or rather sit on the table at about 3 foot in
height and is about 15 ish feet in diameter.
And when you stand next to it, the needle starts to point
towards you in whichever direction you're standing
alongside the compasses if you were the north instead of north
being north. Strange.
I never seen a compass do this. We're going to try and
investigate what the compass is trying to allude to.
Go ahead and roll me an investigation and tell me are
you touching it or as in lifting and trying to lift it up or look
at maybe some of how it works or how are you investigating the
first? I I will say at first he's going
to walk around it looking for inscriptions.
He's going to look for any notable writing that might
discern its purpose, and then after that he's going to go
hands on with it. OK, let's see, 16.
I see. Yep.
Nice. There isn't any notable
inscriptions on on it as it is. You'd probably continue that
line of thought, I would guess, and grab the edge of it and look
maybe under it for such. And as you do so you kind of put
your hand maybe even down on the table to kind of brace yourself
and or brace your knee and and pick it up and look under and
you start to see writings on under it as you feel yourself
there is there's this almost as if colors are streaking across
your vision. A persistent bump bump spurs in
your chest and of a life with with it and a physical weight
that you hadn't felt in some time.
And that time as you feel it yourself begins to matter and
you begin to realize there is a clear desired dream and
determination that pulls you towards it and growing and
changing ever more. You flow out into an evolving
space and at the same time feeling this chug chug, chug
burning through you with your vision clear on the scene before
you. Which you find yourself now in
your hand, holding a compass of all things of normal, normal
variety, more or less imperatively to those that stand
around you. Who you feel a a crash of almost
the cresting of a wave across you, splashing all over your
body and tingling sensation as if you just had a a heady high
before you though stands, and I will bring your character over
too. But you can tell that you were
on a boat of all things, and there are people around you.
I'm gonna get you there, I promise.
You might have to zoom around on this map.
It's pretty big, and you settle down next to a affling.
Are the first things you're probably noticing then a?
Remind me your race. Feline.
The backsee. Right, the backsee.
And yeah, those are the two that are there currently.
That's a vaccine now, A and a. Halfling and mime.
You're waking up in your room to a sudden chunk on the deck, as
well as having felt just before that before that same sensation
I was just describing for Rick. There, that bump spurring to
life. Just before that you felt a
darkness cover you as time began not to, not to exist and yet
move infinitely fast. You feel your body start to lose
all weight and floating effortlessly in a non particular
direction in a void of nothingness.
Your wants, wishes and will drift away.
Only one feeling persists in that void.
You are all things because you are no thing.
There is no movement, but everything, including you, moves
infinitely fast. Knowing all things and no thing.
Have all things but hold nothing.
So that was what happened before you spurred back to life and
you're inside your room. The last thing you Remember Me,
May, is you were celebrating and Oh yeah, everybody, including
Rarl. And so Sonora and RARL, you both
hear a trying to make it come through, but it's not a pop that
as these two other creatures come into being.
What a weird dream. I don't know what I dread last
night, but apparently it was a doozy.
OK, wait, so Mimi popped into existence as well?
Or is she in her own room? Mimi popped into existence in
her own room. So.
OK, OK. So we wouldn't see her popping
in, We would only see KIRO popping in, correct?
Oh, OK. And yourself, 'cause you weren't
here last time, right? I was not here last time, so I
would be popping into existence. Yeah, I I was so set on the fact
that you would help to capture the Dryder that you would also
been. There for I captured, I did not
torture. I apologize.
So yeah, you. Wouldn't have tortured in the
1st place, They wouldn't have happened.
You experienced that as well everywhere, Raul.
You're the only one that is like experiencing them pop in.
And then there's that sudden realization like the people that
you were just with stopped existing.
These new people started existing and then you were like,
well, that's weird. And then forget completely about
that, because the other people that stopped existing no longer
mean anything to you. But.
This particular time sounds right.
You're muted if you're saying anything.
Where were says KIRO makes. More sense.
You are on a dune. Our ship.
Hi, I'm Sonora. Are you a necromancer?
No. No.
A wizard. No.
The only power I have is the power within my body.
There are some of those here. I don't think that they're bad
though, if that's what you're asking about.
And where is here Are we on the dragon seas?
The Colombian pass? Where are we?
No, I'm not too sure myself. I kind of get this whole little
like pop in and out of existence thingy which just happened to
you actually too I'm still getting used to it myself, but
there might be some other people here who can actually the cat
right next to you probably could explain it a little bit better.
Just don't listen to the oh the other cat Raul isn't there.
I thought Raul. Was here you confused me ha?
Ha, ha. The cat standing next to you can
probably explain it a little bit better.
Just don't try to talk to the other three.
They are wild and one of them can't speak at all so.
I see you have Nakamata around. Shakespeare creatures?
Sure. So the scene you should see for
Rural is he is laying on his back paws extended into the air.
He is a six foot ish ginger tabaxi wearing elaborate silks.
He is currently being hand massaged by three other ginger
tabaxis, also wearing silks. Well, one of them is sprinkling
gold onto his chest. Hey, hello.
I'm Raul. This one seems like a new one.
We haven't seen him before. Do you want to do the rundown?
He popped up. Gives a big cat stretch.
Big yawn. Sure will not go to meta with
this one, so I don't know where you came from, but it is not
here. I also came from, and I believe
everyone here came from a different place either on this
planet, but currently we are in a We are on a magical ship on a
ship. Our ship, a sentient ship, a Pat
the Duck. Her name is Adune.
We are docked on an island, a volcano island home of a dragon.
Who are we? Are in the employee of
Currently. I can't tell you much about what
probably just happened to you. I know the torque around his
neck. You do find a necklace in the
form of a torque shape on on on your person.
It has two spheres on either end, and it's kind of of a
twisted metal throughout. You realize it's kind of
matching those around you that also all have the same?
You can't. Take it off.
You can't take it off. I don't have mine on.
Oh, what? Oh yeah, Ronald doesn't.
Have one. Yeah, mine's gone, but not for
that. It's.
Weird. So yeah, we're prisoners here.
No, no, we are not prisoners. No, we are an independent
company hiring if you're interested.
But no, we're we're pursuing our own goals, but we have no idea
how we got here. But I mean, I'm pretty sure
someone does somewhere in the ship, they're sleeping or
stopped existing or. I don't know, My brain hurts
now, but. Into your head, Meimei and goes.
The crew's gathering in the, in the, in the.
It seems like it where they've been gathering.
I don't know what to call it either.
Oh yeah, I'm also covered. I was sitting on a giant pile of
penis pillows that were vibrating.
Think for that description. And be like the adune this is.
This is you. You're the ship.
You don't know. You don't know what you're
called. But Fairpoint glad you're glad.
Glad to be back here. Glad you're doing.
How are you, Adune? Are you good?
Do you need anything? I'm all right.
I don't know if you're aware, but we've now got some spidery.
Companions on board. And they're pretty feisty.
Oh, oh. No, I think the one killed
himself. Spidery companions.
Don't do that to him. That's your subscribers.
Where did we get spiders? Is this like?
That was that was are you coming out of your room?
Yeah, I am. I'm like opening the door and be
like do you have fleas a dune? Do we need to get you?
A Oh, are you talking about the Are you talking about the the
Dreider? Yeah, Rarl and I captured one.
Is there another? But it just killed itself.
Did it multiply? We got the other one too.
You went back and got the other one, the one that was sleeping
on the ceiling. Yeah, well, the plan was that
we're going to go in in there and do like sneaky stuff like
you and I had planned. But then when I opened the
portal, because I put the plate, the teleporter on the table
covered in all the food, the driver was there eating right.
So I stuck my head out and I said oh shit.
And then I just grabbed him and I pulled him in and then we beat
him up. OK, OK.
So now we have 2 which is either a breathing pair or we could use
them to get intelligence. You feel hero in your head a a
presence that's feels like it's asking to come in like politely,
very, very like the the most polite knock on your
consciousness. Basically he allows it and
that's when you hear a a a, a soft feminine voice.
Hello. Welcome to my, my, my, my decks.
I'm a dune who you find yourself on.
Fine ship it is. Can you tell then anything about
where we are? Who made?
That second one not so much. I was it was in quite quite a
lot of pain. We we're in the middle mare.
It's just off the coast of Gargantium and on Shondar's
Island as it's been being called.
It's it's it's with us. The the Lapada's lovely.
The sea creatures are beautiful. And then that's when she starts
projecting to everyone else and says.
Well, unfortunately it you thought you had two triders, but
I think the one that just killed itself.
I forgot about. The cyanide poisoning, damn it.
I mean the self poisoning. The the other one tried to kill
herself by like biting herself and poisoning herself.
So we healed her. Yeah.
We I healed her and we also shoved something in her mouth so
she couldn't do it. Yeah, we wanted to make it as
humane. As possible.
And you know, Guy, one killed himself.
Yeah, I know. It's super, super depressing.
We lost our We don't have the match pair anymore.
Damn. Yeah.
Maybe spiders don't belong on ships.
I mean for sure, but like. Maybe I was going to flash some
finger guns and like, walk past them to go find food.
With that thought in mind, a doing they would provide and
what? You're looking for, then Me may,
Captain. Me may.
Well, what time of day is it? I believe it's just past noon.
You might be looking at the the afternoon actually.
Perfect. Yeah, I'm just looking for like
a big head of meat and some potatoes gravy.
Big meat. I think I may have had a goat or
two that wandered down into the bottom parts.
Potatoes might be on short notice, though they don't keep
as long and we've been out for quite a while I.
Whatever, Whatever. Whatever's in the stores.
OK, I could do. Actually, I think I've got a an
egg noodle that would be perfect for this that I've been saving
for a beef stroganoff of sorts. And she just kind of starts
mumbling about that and you hear some clanging from under deck,
yeah? Yes.
And you hear some clanging under board and then under your feet.
The boards rattle for the hands that open up into a hole holding
a a platter of steaming stroganoff on on egg noodle.
Goat stroganoff, you presume? Yeah.
So, so yeah, Mommy's going to take that.
Mimi's going to take that. See, I do too.
Mimi's going to take that and and thank Aduna profusely and
remind Aduna what? You know, whatever.
Whatever you need, Aduna, whatever you want, you let me
know. I'll get it for you.
I'm going to take take the food to a table to start eating.
Is there everyone? I want to get in on that.
Yes, of course, without a doubt. And you feel under your feet.
The deck rumble again, and a plate appear for anyone that's
interested. Hell yeah.
Oh, yay. I love breakfast lunch.
Kyoto You might just want to get some breakfast.
This is like some of the only times that you're going to get
like a good, proper meal. Yeah.
I don't know if they're what through like a full mouth, we
may as going to be like Etta Dune's the best cook.
He KIRO just kind of looks at y'all as y'all are eating and
kind of resolves himself to fight.
And you guys realize there's not only a hearty, almost slightly
gamey meat in a pleasant way with a mushroom sauce that's
been mixed in with the with the gravy on top of these noodles
that you know are slightly al dente with a just hearty filling
sensation fulfilling each one of you as you're eating and all of
your wants, wishes and desires enough.
For the meal. Except vegetables.
There's no vegetables in this. Bro, fuck vegetables.
Yeah, this is a fantasy world. I don't want to eat vegetables.
I like vegetables. But that's it.
But I want. Scurvy.
But I don't want them. As we're eating, I'll turn to
the others. That'll be like, all right, I
don't know how much you guys are aware of what we're currently
doing or what the plan is, but I want to like, lay it out for
everyone if that's all right. I feel like I would rather know
what the plan is so. Cool.
I turned to Kira KIRO. Yes, KIRO.
So we were hired by a queen somewhere else to try to secure
a Dragon's like a supply of Dragon's breath because her
Kingdom, the people were losing magic because there were some
underwater thing that was like stealing it.
So this is their supplemental version to to like fix that that
they're dealing with the problem.
So anyway, we came here because we want to get that doing their
wings so she can fly, and we met with Shondar.
We agreed to the contract, which is great, everything is great.
We have secured the great contract for our company.
But then in the meantime, while he fills up the first shipment,
we had agreed to try to remove a pesky clan of goblins that was
leaving in the volcano. This one kind of gesture around
that that that that's here. So I turned as an order.
We went in and snuck past the front lines and see.
The one of the. Yeah, it was great Fist bump.
She fist bumps. So we we infiltrated past their
front lines because there's like a huge army of goblins and
Cobalts fighting each other and we don't want to deal with that.
That's sounds messy. Not anyway.
So we infiltrated the behind them and we placed the
teleporter plate. I turned to Kira.
We have two plates that are like teleporters.
One stays here and the other one you can like, spin and then
teleport back here. We borrowed it for the mission
and we placed it behind enemy line so that we could just
teleport in next time we wanted to.
And while we were there, we captured one of the drivers who
told us that they worked for some God by their lady named
Loft who has contracted them to follow Shondar around and try to
force him to keep moving so he doesn't have a place to live.
So they didn't live here before here.
Now they came after he got here and are trying to like, you
know, shove him off for some reason.
So we should be OK eradicating them or removing them or trading
or, you know, dealing with this situation?
So, So what I'm hearing is there are driders encroaching upon a
majestic Dragon's wrist that need to be dealt.
Cobalts are encroaching. No, the Cobalts work for the
dragon. It's drivers.
It's goblins. Yeah, it's goblins.
And they seem to have some sort of magical butt crystal.
Thanks, Callum. That, like, creates more
goblins. Just like, I don't know,
automatically or it's like a teleport.
We don't know yet. But my theory is we could steal
that and gain an unlimited source of Labor for our new
company. What do you think?
Win, win. Win.
I find being in the Servants of Dragons a noble effort and
helping one in need and eradicating vermin from their
layers acceptable. They May is going to hold their
fork up and be like, wait a second, did we ever consider
that Shondar did something to deserve being, you know,
bothered by these people? I.
Mean maybe for? Sure.
Determined. I think the the goblins were
here 1st I believe. And teleporting in because
there's the underground tunnel to Lolf's realm that got opened
up because the plan was to take one of the firebomb things from
the the Dragon's breaths, find that gate opening, whatever it
may be, then blow the shit out of it.
I don't think the goblins were here first.
Gotcha. OK, Concurrent, I like that
plan. I think we could make the
volcano erupt. Yeah, we could do that.
So that's the current plan. Like we said, the the teleporter
is on the other side of the enemy line, so we could just go
and deal with that situation. I just wanted to download
everyone with like you know what's going on and the business
opportunities because like if we manage to get one of these
things, we could have a, we could populate an entire fleet
of crews with, yeah. But how?
Forced labor but like but like a little cheap labor.
Like it. It like a heads up, like a like
a step up program where we help them get on their feet.
Interestingly, they can do whatever they want.
But how good at being laborers are goblins?
I mean, how trustworthy are they?
Do they show up on time? Is that really the kind of?
I guess it depends on like, right?
Yeah, I mean, it really depends on like how the crystal works,
because like, if they come in like and are spawned already
adults and angry and stuff, then probably not.
But if they're little babies, like a nursery, we could totally
train them. Wrong there, but how?
Much does Mina know about Goblin sound.
You could roll a history guest. Go ahead.
Oh, Natural 20. Natural 20 You know.
You know for a fact that on this plane there are factions of
goblins. They are.
They do exist that you've had interactions with, and you're
quite sure though that you've tried to avoid them for most of
your life as a part of your existence was quite annihilated
by them being your hometown of Cranston.
And the that when you had left to become a mine that you had
had, you know, avoided them for most of your life, but
inadvertently learned a lot by trying to avoid them.
Knowing, knowing other things about them, being that they
themselves aren't as exactly as bad as you may have thought
because they were generally driven by another race,
generally those of the Under Dark.
They aren't. They were just kind of the
forebearers of those of the Under Dark.
Because they can't come out on the upper area in on Tarth,
especially during day, they can't.
The most of the things that come from the Under Dark can only
come out at night. So they use things like goblins
and orcs and hobgoblins to ravage the upper plains of
tariff. And you you know, you know from
this too that yeah, they can be created in this fashion but they
there is breeding is an option too for them.
Some of the more tame goblins, if you can call them even that,
do have small communities that and you know have left from a
war or something like that. You've run into them and
actually may. Maybe it's a back story moment
for you to intervene on how that exactly plays out sometime if we
ever need a one shot. Yeah, that would be fun.
But so I'm not going to, I'm not going to share any of this
information with the the party. I'm going to keep this all to
myself. And I'm just going to continue
making this argument about how we really don't.
I'm like, kind of ignoring our new.
I'm not even looking at the new person in the room like like I
have at this point walked in and just like walked around and like
stayed away from KIRO, right. And just have like gone about my
business and not really not really looked at them.
And so I'm just going to continue you know engaging rural
and being like, I don't, I don't like this plan.
I don't goblins, you know, You know they're yeah, but like
goblins, they're just not, you know they're not good workers.
You don't. That's not what you want.
Your workforce, right? Even if you raise them, first of
all, they're just like inherently they're going to be.
They're going to give us a bad reputation.
You don't. You can't leave them unattended.
It would cause more work for us than what we want.
I mean, I they're right. They're doing what they're
doing. I don't think it's like in their
nature to inherently, you know, bother Dragons.
They're doing it for a reason. I don't know.
Chandar was kind of a Dick. I'm not like he almost killed us
all. I know it wasn't on purpose, but
like, still, he almost killed us all.
Like maybe, I, I don't know, like what's Chandar doing for us
if we get rid of his plague of goblins?
Well, I mean, here's the thing we could learn.
Is immense. And we have a very advantageous
trade contract where we are the sole proprietors of the trade of
Dragon's Breath between US and the island nations.
A lot. Of money for that?
Yep. We've already paid a lot of
money for that. There was a big down payment.
You remember all the pay we went through to get that nudie of the
Queen? We're still going to set him up
a hot date. I don't think we have to take
care of his pest problem. I think that's that's on.
Well, no. This is a separate contract.
This is like extra payment. But here's the thing.
So you're right, We don't know enough about this situation.
We have a captive in the other room who knows more about the
situation. We can ask them these questions
and then decide. But what do we know about this
loaf character? I gaze off into the distance.
You can roll History if you'd like as well.
Does anyone else no more 'cause I'm not a?
And do all the history actually for me, if you'd like.
Yeah, we'll try. Unless you're.
History's only a + 2. I got real lucky on the last
one. And I got.
A + 1 and I got a 14. Nice.
Raul, you got a + 1 and I got a
six. So rural you are like like I've
heard of this person that she said she was the God don't know
I I I mean that's about all I got then that she rules them
they're. Such a bitches.
Yeah, and and well, it seemed like too from the last time you
you you at least remember from interrogating her just moments
ago that that she was potentially was excited about
you trying to kill her. So she's a bit sadistic and
hero. You are like loath.
Not even heard of her. What's a loath?
Yeah, I'm. Like what's a loath?
He. He He's like, I've never heard
of this loath. Play a big spider.
Kind of mean anything like the other drivers like.
And As for Zonora, you know, yeah, that she generally takes
the form of the spider and that she is generally worshipped by
most matriarchies of drowl in the under dark.
And that her her vision visage does visit those prominent in
the communities of the Drow at prominent times, but otherwise
just directs forces from afar. And that, you know as a godly
status would do. And I guess B Masons, you're
rolling so high on those histories would also glean the
individual fact that there is, there is some recurrence to
those those meetings with the under dark.
You can kind of see the surgeon, the the the resurgence of of
goblins in certain areas dependent upon her meetings and
her sightings. Yeah, I think.
I think this, this God is no good.
I don't. I don't think we.
Team Shondar may make a hand sign.
Well, so wait, so, so wait a second, wait a second, wait a
second.
Our our overall goal, you just said it earlier, I heard you
from the room was to get a dune some wings and after this
malicious stroganoff I am much more.
I'm reinvigorated upon this path and I think that we need to rein
in our focus a little bit. We've been doing, we've been
doing a lot of a lot of extra things lately, so it was my
fault. I take full responsibility for
the goat stacking. But maybe, maybe we need to go
folk like rein in our focus and get go back on the path to
getting a dune some wings. Because then think of how much
more we could do if we could fly way better than a Goblin
workforce. I agree.
But like I hit like so right now we have, we have accepted the
contract with Shondar and he said he needed a few days to get
the Dragon's breath together so that we could leave.
So we have like 2-3 days here where we we can't leave to go
get wings because we're waiting for the supply to bring the
queen to get the wings. Gotcha.
Well, you know, you know, we've been working really hard.
We're on a an island. There's some beautiful water.
Aduna says The sea creatures are gorgeous.
Why don't we do some snorkeling? We can land on the beach.
I have some. Sure.
There's some books here that are probably great.
Great beach reading and we can just take a nice little
vacation. I think we deserve it.
I mean, I'm just going to look around with like this big goofy
grin on her face. Like yeah, Yeah, yeah.
Vacation. Yeah.
We already signed the contract with Sean Barr to try to deal
with this situation. We could try to go back on it,
of course. It's never good to go against
the dragon. Was there a timeline?
I I don't know. I'll snap my fingers for one of
my siblings. Would you take a look for me?
Yes. Stamp, Section 24C-675.
I'm a roll. I'm just saying, like, here's
the other question, how long can we wait before Shondar is forced
to move on? Because here's the thing, if
he's forced to move on and he can't establish himself here,
how are we supposed to transport fight this breath back and forth
to the queen as we promised? Like we could do one load but
then he gets pushed to sure. But like where Shondar going to
be next? Is he going to tell us?
Do we have to go search for him like we need that?
We need a reliable trading partner, and a partner who's
being constantly chased out of his own house is not a reliable
trading. Card Little calling cards,
right? Didn't we?
Didn't we get the machine to make the calling cards for like
some we do? You have this thing meows real
loud with a. Doobies 33 three says you will
have 20 days to solve the problem.
OK, fuck. Guys, why'd you do that?
What if it's an impossible problem?
What then? You're terrible.
Right, I mean. Shakes their head.
I've literally written one contract before and I can't read
who. Let this happen.
This is why I always. Any of us were there.
I don't think any of us were there to sign the contract with
him this. Is obviously, no, no, OK.
So I mean, so the the contract I made for like the Dragon's
breath, that one's very advantageous.
We scored over it for quite a while.
It's just, you know, I'm just saying like like how long like
it. Yarrow chimes in with.
It well it does. See say here under the the the
reward section though that you will have your choice of a
reward from the the his riches and piles I think.
That was what drove you, Yeah. His horde.
Yeah, we get the additional. Stuff from that.
And a dragon does not part from his horde, so he's.
Yeah, any item. Too Any item he's probably gonna
give us, he's probably gonna give us his like box full of
trinkets. No, I'm pretty sure.
We get pitch games and like, yes.
It's a specific. It's a specifically of of the
the rewardees choice. Did you choose You Know 11 Super
Cool Item You Know. That is a fine reward.
I'm I'm going to hold too, that I don't think your reward's
going to be as cool as you think it is.
But you know, but here. Here's.
The thing what? I'm just saying what's?
Going on, let's let's chat Gal, what's going on?
On the pristine beach, pristine beach.
Beautiful water, beautiful sun palm trees.
There's we Do you one better, Let me do you one better.
We have a time limit on this. Let's go get this done and then
use the extra days to be on the beach.
We are the infiltrated them. We're in the back lines.
All we have to really do is drop off the bomb, set it off, and
we're done. What I mean?
Is just. What I'm hearing, what I'm
hearing is we're gonna need a roll off just to resolve this.
Yeah, maybe we're just going. To look over with these like I
do not believe you, that never turns out that way.
It'll take 15 minutes and five, five weeks later. 5 minute
adventure. Deposit an adventure.
Don't worry. OK, here's the other thing.
We can't just leave right? The the other plate is behind
enemy lines. So that is one final piece of
thing. Before, I was going to say that
I think we're going to need a roll off between Rahl's
persuasion and Meimei's Wisdom, Which.
Are we voting? You could guys could try to
vote. I mean this is Captain Meimei
though. So I mean I don't know.
I don't know how you will of. Course, whoever you say.
Captain. I don't know how your hierarchy
works here, it's your guys's decision fully, but I'm trying
to help. Here's the thing, we've
committed to a 20 day contract time period.
We just tell everyone, oh, we're we're taken up for 20 days.
If it takes us only 10 days, that's 10 days for the beach and
relaxation. Right.
How long does it take us to get? Back to Long to go get Treasure
AB who signed this contract RARL.
Hi. I think other people did too.
Zenora did, I'm pretty sure. I can submit this contract.
When did you sign this contract? Whoever, whoever went with me on
the espionage mission, we went. And talked to the contract.
We went and talked to like the general guy.
We got some. Information we did talking.
About and the way we went. Partial to blame for this.
I hereby decree that you both will have tattoos on your
foreheads that say I am not. I cannot obligate the rum
rollers. Hey, the rest of y'all were out
of Commission. What were we supposed to do?
Not so I can talk. OK, let's talk about the.
Contract that we're in with the the Necromancy Association if we
want to talk about the regretting to sign contracts,
'cause I'm pretty sure we're in like an honor bound thing to
serve necromancers, I turned the key Rd.
No offense. We're trying to get out of it.
Have you tried getting them really hard?
No, we haven't seen them. It's kind of more like a
paperwork thing. Then we find them and then we
hit them really hard. I That's fine with me.
But like, we'll have to do that later, 'cause we don't even know
where they are. I'm pretty sure they wait, no,
they contract. No, they're the guys who
contracted Loaf, right? Correct.
Yeah, they're the guys who who contracted law to share to get
Shondar out of his house. That's right.
More reasons just to slay? Them.
But I agree. But let's let's let's break this
down. Mammy.
What's going on? Why are you so scared?
You are so strong. Me.
May. I'm sorry.
I don't. I don't like goblins.
I just avoid goblins. But for for just just neutral or
neutral goblins. So you can avoid them by killing
them. Negative.
And make the child are happy, which in turn makes the queen
happy. You know, it's just it's a win
win here. OK, so so tell me about this
plan again. So we're going to throw a bomb
in through the portal. Where's the bomb?
So yes, we have, I'll pull out the fire, the sample fire breath
we have this is one of the fire breath things that we're getting
from Shondar. We're getting a bunch of them in
the next couple days. But I Figure 1 is fine
especially for this because I think we we also just got one
for a couple for ourselves anyway.
So what we know is there's a portal or tunnel or entry or
something to lowest realm somewhere down there that all of
these things are coming out of, right?
We don't have to kill all the goblins, we just have to stop
them from repopulating or you know, what's that word, What's
the word that you use in war where you reinforcements, That's
the word where they can't give more reinforcements.
And then I think we're basically done.
OK, so does our prisoner know where this portal is?
The entrance. Probably.
We have not asked them yet. We were mostly asking about,
like, the information I just told you about, like who hired
them, what they're doing here. Aduna.
Does chime. In to to say that.
Yvonne has just finished her meet.
I did ask her about it. Did.
The she said that the where you abducted her from is behind the
goblin line. Right.
Yes, that's true. Yeah.
So there's not even any goblins back there.
It's just fighting. Or she could be lying.
Yeah, absolutely. True, very likely.
It is a drider. They are liars.
I don't have any abilities to make someone not lie besides
beating them. Me neither.
I don't have magic. One of Adune's board hands opens
the door in this direction and says that she's awake for
questioning. If you wish to question her more
further before you depart. Sure, turn to me.
Me. But Adune, I don't want to
depart. I want to stay here forever with
you. Oh, I understand.
But we it seems like it would be advantageous you know to to to
finish this so that there isn't any ramifications to whatever
contract that was that you signed.
You think we should help, Chandar?
I mean, it seems to be that he has been pretty helpful so far.
He in the sense that he set up a a a reasonable contract with you
to to dealings with Socrates in in exchange for his breath.
Yeah, which? I wrote, so you know, it's, you
know, I'm not that bad at contracts Trust.
It's OK. I'll shut up.
Yeah, I don't have any Cubs that make people not laugh.
Sorry. Go ahead.
Go ahead, KIRO. I'm gonna assume, yeah.
Yeah, KIRO, go ahead, go. I'm gonna, I'm gonna keep my.
Eyes down, My question is simple.
You're the captain of this vessel, right?
I. Means you've been able to bring
upon great fortune in this crew. Honor to yourself.
Honor to your crew. Yes, we can call it that.
Then what hinders you from seeking further honor, glory in
service to something great as helping dragon as helping
Dragons is a noble cause. Yeah.
How many Dragons have you met? Several.
I am a dragon. Points a lot, OK?
I just really don't like to fuck with goblins, but OK, OK, How do
you how do you feel about this plan?
Stop blowing things up with a bomb you haven't tested yet.
I don't know what a bomb is, but I have my swords and I will cut
down every goblin you see fit to, as you put it, Have a time
on the beach, and once we're done, we can have that time on
the beach. But right now, if you may, if I
may, I will go question the drider and ensure that what
they've told the ship is the truth.
If not, then I'll continually beat it out of it until it gives
me the truth. I like this guy.
Yeah, I got this fighter, so I'll show that was good for him.
I thank you. And the the the the door that
the. I forgot the name of the ship.
Oh God. Aduna.
That's fine, Aduna. The the door that Aduna shown
everybody. Giro walks to that door, and
inside you see the drider restrained by what looks like
boards from the ship that have each appendage, all ten of them,
held to the deck. So her face is pressed up
against the boards and what looks like a saucer of water
currently that she's lapping at, and her mouth is covered in this
like purplish wax and she kind of reeks of lavender spider.
I'm here to ask questions. What language are you speaking
in? Just.
Oh yeah. I'm going.
To use. I'm going to use.
Let's see, I have Lord Ham Tremor.
What all languages I have hold on, let's see.
Would it be safe to assume that since Dreiders are from the
under dark they have interaction with Doragar they they would
understand a a dialectic dwarvish very potential but so
are you. Is that what you were, you were
saying that in currently, yes. I'm going to go over to him.
We still have the little pins, right?
Yeah, I'm going to go over to him and throw a pin on him.
This will help you. Throw.
Throw your pin on him, you mean? Yeah.
I'll put it on him. I'll just be like this will help
you to speak. Cause the driver just kind of
looks at you up at you and then looks back around and go what
you understand as it says is I'm sorry did.
You say that again. I didn't catch that.
Oh, my apologies. I'm gonna make sure that the
information you gave was the truth, and to show you my
sincerity and my conviction, KIRO starts to unwrap his
Nodachi and then plants it to the against the the wall.
If you lie to me, the last words you will utter will be your
last. And I I I attempt to intimidate.
You can roll. You can roll Intimidation.
And I think it is contested. Oh come.
Why Damn. Damn.
Oh, I I was off somewhere else. What was it it?
Was a 5. Well, let's see here, the 21 she
kind of like looks around like. Guy's serious.
And then just says, you said the word utter.
That's the only thing, she says. KIRO.
KIRO then takes his first and call, cocks the side of the the
face. I think.
Go ahead and roll me in an arm strike.
And I knew it. And I knew you were gonna make
him roll the hit. Well, the hit isn't.
On. Sorry.
No, not the, not the not the hit.
Not the hit. Sorry, not the hit.
It was just damage. I meant I apologize.
She's restrained. That would have been so funny.
I know, right? He rolled A7.
It would have been so good.
I know. Just totally went OK.
So just so damage. Just damage.
Well, yeah. I mean, she's restrained because
I think you have. I think you have advantage,
actually. He would, yeah.
Yeah, so it's what the the actual rule would be there,
that's all. Because I think the damage is
just the Strength modifier, I'm the only one that does different
damage with my unarmed strikes. Oh, OK, OK, yeah.
Yep. So 19.
That'll definitely do it. And four damage.
She falls unconscious under your fist.
No. She didn't have a lot of health
left, guys. You've choked her to death.
Pretty pertinier, basically. You.
Didn't do that. Yeah, You realize after you
clocked her, you're like, oh, she's got these bruises that
are. True.
So many key points on that fight.
And that on the sides of her ribs.
There's a good bit of bruises appearing there too.
And then, yeah, so she's at, she's at 0 currently, and she's
unconscious. Probably.
Well, problematic. She seems to stop breathing.
Did anyone see into the room I? Don't know.
I'm assuming I'm still in the room because I gave him the pin.
So. I'm gonna walk up and use my
hand of healing. Oh.
Thank God. Just Mr. Miyagi, rub your hands
together. Place them on her.
I mean, kind of. She gets four hit points back.
And she just breathes really deep.
It's how you welcome new. Believe me, is.
This how you welcome new crew members.
He's also new here. Oh, she can't understand me
'cause I gave my pin. Unless you have told her that
you're Nope. I have common halfling and
primordial. Nope.
Damn you believe me, Spider?
I mean. It hurt.
I don't quite remember what. Happened before that.
My mom's name was Gina. She was pretty mean.
And then when I was when I was a little bit older, she let me
smoke some cigarettes when no one was watching.
About the goblins, About your breach.
Speak plainly or I'll hit you again.
I think I told the furrier one about this.
Yeah, that's right. Still got some wax in my throat.
And then yeah, I told the furrier one that she that the
goblins were being created by the the crystals, the ones that
kind of like butts, and we were contracted by the PNC.
And who are the PNC? That be the professional
necromancy call. Necromancer.
Yeah, you deal with necromancers.
I don't necessarily. My my clan does.
They don't. They deal with whatever comes
their way. I tried to enact my protocol,
which is the if you catch my drift, but you can see my
position. I I can.
I look over at oh Lord, help me Sonora.
Sonora, I'm the one that's closest to you, Yeah.
Yeah, I look over at Sonora. I don't believe they're telling
us new lies. I can't.
I can't understand her, but I'm assuming you're just reverifying
all the info we already got. Yes.
OK, we should. We should.
Drop her off to Shondar. Yeah, actually that's not a bad
idea. We could give her to the dragon.
Yeah. No need to worry, such a
majestic creature, and he pulls out his Cortana from the other
side. I'll do the light work.
I think we need to kill her. If anything, Shondar might have
some fun with her. He's AI.
Don't know if you know this. He's a red dragon.
Well, then he'll be glad I handle my work.
He seems like the type that might enjoy doing some of this
kind of stuff. But why Burke?
I don't know if you he for us to be able to even talk to him, we
had to throw on a talent show. I think he enjoys little
entertainment, so if we hand her over to him, he'll make his
little other servants that are around him allow him to watch it
happen, which he would probably get pleasure out of.
Hear that, Spider? You have been reprieved, but for
the moment. I.
I heard something but I didn't understand it.
OK. If it was up to me, your head
would be rolling. And she kind of rolls her head
like this. He's a little sadistic.
Let's see. I'm gonna willpower not to
strike her down. Will.
I mean, hold on.
This is the third edition way of saying it, I guess.
Wisdom not to not cut her head off.
Yep, Rich a 9/9 Zenora.
You look over your shoulder just as you're finishing that
explanation to him, and you look back and go ahead and roll me
the attack. Oh my God, please let him miss.
This would be so funny. With advantage still, she's
still restrained. No, I don't think he misses.
Damn. Hold on with advantage.
So 22? Oh yeah, that'll hit.
And since it's drawn both hands Hey look back Sonora, and the
head is almost looks like it's floating before you in the air
as the you hear a thunk at the sword just as it taps the deck
and is withdrawn before the head falls to the floor.
My God, my apologies. This is not a good start.
Your joining of this crew. And he and he slowly pulls out a
what looks like a a silk cloth and wipes the sword and puts it
back in its sheet. So as as they come back into the
room, Mimi is going to pipe up, you know, scraping the last bits
of gravy off this platter. Did I so.
So if I understand this correctly, it's the professional
necromancy cult that's driving the goblins, right?
In the end, that's the real problem here.
Yeah, I'd say. So, so even if we do solve this
goblin problem, that doesn't mean that the professional
necromancy cult isn't going to then do like they're the one
that's actually targeting Shondar.
So why don't we just go deal with them?
I mean, I think we could do that.
Why are they of themselves? Mimi, you're the only one that
knows where you last seen them. Aren't they the ones with the
acolytes? No, they're in the fissure.
They're at the top of the lava. They're in the top of the lava
tower where you made your wish. Oh really?
That was the that was who and when it was convinced during a
boss fight with a large skeletal creature that you convinced you
were part of their faction and had summoned him to become a new
a new faction of the the PNC as the wish faction.
Yeah, that's right. They say I that was directing
contracts. It was.
It was when we were still when out or when astral is still a
thing. Yeah, I mean, I'm.
All for like taking down the source, but regardless, the
other teleporter plate is still back there.
Yeah. So no matter what, we have to at
a minimum get that and get back. Yeah.
Which, like, you know, I could totally do if someone casts Fly
on Me, then I could just zip in, zip out.
But you know. Isn't it nice when things can
fly? Is but the the point being is
yes, we could go do this thing and get the read of the source.
We could do both and get paid more.
I guess I'm just questioning it seems like are you afraid of
goblins? Do they scare you?
I understand that like, you had a terrible, like history with
them, but like, do they terrify you?
No, I just avoid them. They don't terrify me.
It's just part of my religion to not interact with goblins.
That's an interesting religion, but I want to judge you for
that. I think it was pointed out that
this was the plate, at least currently is beyond the Goblin
ranks, so I think we would be OK with not seeing them.
But you know, ultimately it is your call, but the plate is
still there and somehow we need to get.
It. Yeah, well, we still have to,
like, walk it out, right? So you're gonna have to walk
past Goblin at some point. I don't know.
I feel like you guys made all these decisions without me.
I'm not sure that my vote actually matters here.
It's. Well, there was no one.
When we went behind enemy lines, no one else is here.
I'm pretty sure everyone was high at the moment.
On the roller on the. Roller, yeah, I made.
A. Few, yeah.
It was just the two of us. We we were the ones that went
behind enemy lines and got the Dreider, so.
Yeah, so let it be known. We'll put it on the record that
I am not a fan of this idea. I would much rather hang out on
the beach. But if you all are really,
really itching to go do this thing, just wanted to let it be
know I think it's a bad idea. But you know, who am I to stop
you? Look around.
Although I will say no more spiders in a dune.
A dune is better than that. It's not going to.
Do this chimes in with a. What What should I do with the
corpses? We should probably feed it to
the monster we have in the bottle.
Probably hungry. I I I don't have access to the
bottle. That's right.
We'll have to take care of that. I'm sorry we did not make you.
We did not intend to make you feel uncomfortable.
We would just, we were trying to help and it seemed like a really
good deal because there seemed like really nice stuff in his
place and like fall under my knees and kowtow.
I apologize. I feel bad.
That's a weird feeling for me. So do we.
So we do. Do we come in on this with you
kowtowing? Yeah, I'd say you and Senora Ah
offering up prayers. I see.
Good. Something like that.
The other one's dead now. Adele, I apologize for sullying
your shit. Oh hey, thank you for the
apologies. I do hate also hate the useless
spilling of blood. I think that I could make
something of them if you'd like. Like dinner or like.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I don't know.
I have no idea what they would taste.
Like. Because again.
I'm working off of purely just instinct and from my past life.
I've never. I've never had Dreyder.
Afoat, we throw it overboard. Very well, of course.
OK. Whatever you said, dear.
Made me make it's very spacious, though we should probably feed
the monster. It would be silly to let it die
after all the trouble we went through to get it into the
bottle. Captain, If you have the bottle,
Captain. We have a monster in the bottle.
We caught the Tentacle Monster I.
Don't think she was there for. That Oh my God, no.
I came in at the tail end of that.
I forgot that we put it in a bottle.
Yup, we caught it trying to sell it when we get back so we can
get somebody to coin back. 'Cause we used part of it to
feed. To feed Sean.
Yeah, 'cause we like. Oh my God.
Wait, who's Voimira? She ate it, right?
Or what? No character, no what it?
Was it was cat? Yeah.
Oh, it was Kat that ate it. Kat like, yeah, because magic
and like, lost her sense. Of Yeah, yeah.
And we did not make the connection that that would
happen to Shondar when we fed it to him.
Yeah, negates magical magic. Magical magic.
Magic.
So yeah, Aduni goes. Am I throwing them overboard
then Or into the bottle? Does anyone actually want to eat
Spider? I don't.
I don't like I. Don't know what kind of.
Person would. Eat another sentient creature.
Literally pretty much all of us. Anything that deals in
necromancy is not worth the bear it breeze.
May May's going to walk over and like, rip a leg off the spider
and like, try to shove it into the top of the bottle.
It'll fit. It'll fit as.
Just push. As much as I love that imagery,
as you get it near the edge of the bottle, the IT does seem to
like resize almost inside of just the.
So it does kind of look like to everybody else that you're
shoving it in there. How about that?
And then, but you can feel specifically as it's getting to
the edge of the bottle, it's it's kind of shrinking in your
hand slowly but surely and you're shoving it in the rest of
the way. So yeah.
OK, cool. I'm going to do this with like
four of the legs. Just want to make sure our
monster doesn't get hungry and then put the stopper back in it.
Could you roll me a strength check by the way there Mimi I.
Don't know, but I'm getting help from the bottle.
It'll be bad. It's a zero with the -4 Can I
oh. My God, why is your strength -4?
It's a little cleric. I'm an interesting man monk and
I have a plus one strength. She has no interesting.
Strength I'm only. Am I?
Am I allowed to help Mei Mei? Yeah, so you.
So you're seeing Mei Mei, though, lift up the leg and look
like they're trying to lift it off, actually.
And like, shove it in the bottle.
And it's kind of, like shrinking and slowly, like inching along
the leg into the bottle, but it can't quite get the leg off of
the creature. All right, let's see.
Feel like the legs as big as I am.
The Athletics or just strength save, depending upon what you're
doing. Perhaps I'm going to help.
Shove the leg. Yeah.
Shove the whole thing, maybe. Yeah.
I'm just going to put the whole
thing in there. Then.
Definitely strength, because you're kind of like lifting the
whole body up. I would get, I would imagine is
what you're physically doing 16. Oh yeah, you're able to kind of
get under it and kind of start putting your shoulder into it,
so to say, and and shove it in there and it it's going faster
with the the both of yours work. And in short order the the whole
Dreider is into the bottle, and this bottle you can see clearly
inside as the Dreider resizes into a miniature.
There is almost this miniature tentacled creature that
excitably all of its tentacles were like kind of before this,
almost depressedly in on the beach and kind of at the bottom
of the bottle. But as this creature comes in,
it excitedly pops all of its remaining tentacles.
I think there were 10, so it's down to 9 now.
Grab around the the spider and pull it into its center mass as
it disappears from the scale. You can't quite see exactly all
the stuff, but you do see a little bit of purplish I core in
the water. I hope that was helpful,
Captain. We might need more, yeah.
So Meimei's going to, like, turn around, like abruptly turn to
face you and stick out of hand. And so at this point you'll see
that Meimei is a is a halfling, 3 feet tall, has a pretty sweet
hat on fedora, and some really nice clothes.
I think I'm still dressed up after meeting the queen.
Yeah, and then the dragon. I'm wearing my, like, nice
clothes, not, not a whole lot of distinguishing features.
There's real short hair. Not 'cause they're short and
they're wearing like green. There's no not a lot of, like,
indications about age or gender or general anything except for
this is a very short, obviously halfling, maybe a little more
stout. Me may really likes food and and
ale, but besides that, yeah, they just stick out their hands
as of like to shake your hand. Seeing how short you are, but
not trying to be disrespectful, KIRO kneels down until a little
more of an eye level to you to shake your hand.
And so it's going to so, so Meimei's going to do their best
to keep like their their chin up.
And they're like face forward, not really looking at you, but
shakes your hand and says thanks and then turns around and
leaves, walks away. Aduna says quite quickly.
The other one in the other. Room 0.
Damn it, where's that one? This is actually great.
Like this monster? Needs it.
Her hands come up from the deck boards and point, gesturing down
this hallway. So Bima is going to, like, turn
around and look back after over their shoulder at Kieran Hero.
Yes, what do you need? And then and then turn around
and walk up in the room you'd heard just turned towards.
Yeah, you'd heard a dune, and as well, just so y'all know what
his clothing appearance looks like.
It's something of this nature, a kind of disc plate.
Oh. Head to toe armor.
That's a simplification I know, but I know there's a better
words for it too. So that is known that that is
known as a shogunate. Armor is the the term used for
that particular armor set. That's serious.
So we have another one to feed to the bottle and he proceeds to
pick up the other spider and try to throw it in the bottle.
All right, No, the strength check A.
Little bit this time. Yeah.
Apparently I decided to see how it was done.
What was that KIRO on the Strength 1515?
So with the both of you definitely are definitely
working with this. You and having the experience
from before, are able to quickly shove it the creature into the
bottle and see the happy little tentacles devour the creature
with a little bit more eichel a little tenacles cool.
So Mimi's going to put the stopper in and put it back in
her backpack. Turn around to Kira again and
stick her hand out. Shake her hand again.
He shakes it. Again, they're just going to
turn around and walk back out to the the main room.
Guys walk back out and presumably sees Sonora and Raral
doing whatever Sonora and Raral doing.
Finishing up food. Finishing up the last of their
food and the plate that has settled on the floor for where
it's situated to. Yeah, where is the Yeah, we must
going to look around and be like, so who has the portal
plate? Oh yeah.
Who's the other side? We left one side.
I'm assuming it's still at the Dryder office.
Yep, that just happened. I would assume it's in the room
since we just got in that fight. Yeah, it's.
It's right here on the floor in between you two guys.
Basically, where your character tokens are actually situated
point at. It actually right there.
I don't see the room on them. My my roll 20 just has a black
and white a dune from the top. Oh no.
Unless I'm just not looking. Ah, there it is.
I was on the wrong part of the screen.
I was going to say this map is stupidly big and it's just
because it's another old astral map.
Oh, This is why I'm still in my room and I haven't moved.
I was like, waiting to see. Sorry.
Guys. There we are.
Look at that holy shiny faces. Don't worry, I have a new map
for whenever she can fly. Exciting.
Super exciting. I don't want to be on the penis
pillow, so I guess we'll come sit over here.
All right, So do we need to prep?
What are we doing? Where we going getting this over
with? I think so.
We've got the information, we've got the the firebomb thingy that
we're going to use. We know what we're after.
We just need to find it and then get out.
Everybody ate, everybody's well rested.
We're feeling good. Will be some stretches ready to
run. OK, well, I'm not going to lead
this charge, so somebody else is going to have to.
I can go because I have. I'm very alert.
And I'll follow behind you. So I'm going to open up the
portal and then I will stick my head through.
If it looks good, I will go through and then if it still
looks good, we'll put my hand back in and give you the thumbs
up and then you can all come in. Performance did that.
Where did I put my laptop performance right?
Where'd it go? Performance +6 9 so bad.
This is the first time, first time in a while.
I think since the first time that you were messing, you're
messing with trying to spin up the plate that you you pick it
up and then it just kind of like you go to try to spin it and it
just falls straight through your fingers.
Sorry performing I am a clear. Performing issues.
Things we should not go The gods have been.
The gods have been. This is going to be a bad trip.
It's going to be fine. It was one role.
Try again 11. It just barely spins up in your
hand, if you want to describe how.
So having failed this last time, he's going to go very standard,
not not try to be showy like he normally does and he just he
places it on the on the table and he just very carefully spins
it. But because he's so used to
doing it off the cuff, it almost tips butters and then catches
and then portal pops open. It's fine.
Totally fine. I'll poke my head in and take a
look around how. Interesting.
You look inside and see that the the chamber beyond is more or
less empty at this time other than every.
Very carefully start sneaking through one tiptoe at a time,
looking out in all directions. While giving the thumbs up.
All right. No, I want to.
I'm gonna like, fully go through, OK, go about the room
and then thumbs up. I just wanted to check see if I
can do this or no. I mean as soon as I can see all
the windows like the corners and windows and doors.
Yeah, I mean perception while I'm getting this just to see.
Sure, I go here. 11. Very midday, very mid.
Yeah, you are sticking your whole upper torso through and
seeing the desk and the chair and no other living creature in
the room currently. Having checked the room I will
poke back through, looks good and then fully enter and take
100 sentry position. Sorry.
And I I guess I will carry the the flame thing.
Same thing. Wait the.
Flame thing. The fire breath that we're going
to use to bomb the. Oh yeah, I don't.
You won't need to carry it. I mean, sure, if you want to, I
just, I didn't want to impose on you or anything.
You seem very flighty right now. I'll.
I'll put it in my backpack. Everything is OK.
This is fine. You see the room?
I see black. Now that's one moment.
Am I supposed to click on something for this?
No. I was asking Royal specifically
because. Oh yes, it's small and up at the
top, but I see it. OK, yeah, I was going to say
it's a it's a very large map. Again, an old map.
No worries. Do a quick check under the
corners around the columns while the others arrive.
Investigation. Let's say Hamilton.
I was going to say I'm not sure that anybody playing tonight
besides me has met Zeph or Squaw or Thea or Idrell.
What in what time frame does the Secret Invasion happen until
now? I mean, it is coinciding, but
also a separate reality, so it doesn't bear any direct impact
on this game yet. Until.
Yet. OK, so we didn't resolve things
with Franklin yet. Nope.
OK.
We need to schedule. That the multiverse.
Yeah. See.
Yeah, we have a multiverse. Was that an at one on your
investigation there? Damn that.
Was yes. Yeah.
I'm doing great. You're you're like, oh, lava.
This is pretty fun. The fumes are kind of like here,
your face right back to it. I keep waiting for him to do
like a cat thing and like fall off a ledge or something.
Into the lava. Why?
Hopefully not. And it's there's no one here.
OK. That that that was your
investigation check? Yeah, like it's really hot in
here. God.
But then Kira comes right after. OK, fire paste.
You walk through this portal, you feel a rest of sensations as
you get to the other side immediately.
One of being that you're in a hot hotter than where you were
environment and secondly that it is not rocking as if you were on
a ship are the main two. Besides that you're you find
yourself in a Obsidian clad circular space with columns and
a desk that's just behind you with a spiral star case in the
Center for some reason and yeah, a a very beautiful floor that's
underneath you that's got some golden lays cozy in rural you
probably would snap out as he's walking through.
Hey, there's lava over here. Don't fall in it.
Has someone already done that? I'm.
Just saying it's would be a very bad idea to fall in the lava.
My siblings, I have to kind of call out all the things for
them, otherwise they get into lots of trouble.
Last time they caused 10,000 gold worth of damages at the
bar. Is anyone?
It's funny. Very very good to chat.
The two that helped with that. I did nothing.
You have no proof here. You have no proof.
You have 0 proof of this. It was all the moral sense.
Is anyone following KIRO Through?
I guess I would follow behind. All right, yeah.
So once the Nora goes, BMA is going to follow because I now
have the jar of Boom. Oh yeah, you guys pop through
being much the same as I had described.
So what? We're not in the Dreider office.
You are. That is what the drieders office
looks like. I need to grab the bookmark.
There we go. Does everyone see the map?
You will have to. Wait.
Wait, wait, wait. I think I can reshift everyone's
focus. I just have to remember.
Did that work? Ah, Yep, Yep.
There we go. So yes, you.
Find just like how I remember it, but without the sleeping
drieder on the ceiling. Exactly.
He's now a fleshy mass inside of a Balkan stomach.
Yep. I'm gonna walk over here and
read whatever's on this note. You see a.
Note says that says. I I resigned my position as
Chief Officer in this goblin foray and I forget all of the
other things that you guys had said, but it was basically Von's
designation. It was really bad.
It's really hard to read the role.
Was bad too. To her post, and that's why the
male hadn't male writer hadn't questioned anything and just
started. You can see some bite marks in a
cocoon that inside of the the broken parts of the cocoon you
see a little bit of goblin mass on the other side.
Got about the fucking note. Oh, OK, where's this thing we
have to go blow up? Yeah, I think somewhere down
this hallway we saw like a bunch of cool crystals, and we'll kind
of start leading the way. You just want to go to the
crystals. Now look, I mean, that was the
original plan, but you seem really traumatized by Goblin, so
maybe not anymore. Can you move your toe?
Complete Hero. Let's hang around.
Hands in there. Yep.
And. Pretty sure jump over this this
lava. Is there something special?
Nope. You jump over the lava.
It's only not even a 5 foot. You could probably step over it
even at your size at some of the smaller points.
So I'm pretty sure it's through this crystal wall thing.
Over here. Yeah, well, if you put your face
right up to it, you could kind of see through so.
Did we climb over it? How do we?
Where we got to. Currently As for.
Kidnapping that Lady. You guys walk down this hallway
of hewn stone closer to this what looks like crystal
formation around a a secondary corner after walking out of the
really nice chamber. You you're standing in front of
it and looking and there's just this fractal paddling of light
from the lava are actually magma, because you're not
outside of a volcano or outside of Earth.
Actually, it's magma that is shining against it and just
refracting through it currently, and it is the clear crystal.
So if this is as far as you got, does that mean we don't know
what's further down? I mean, it didn't look like
there was anything further down when I went down there.
Just kind of stops, like right about right about here.
It's just darkness. Yeah, the lava.
That's or magma. I keep saying lava.
The magma does seem to stop right about where you're at,
Raro. Yeah.
And. I look for hidden doors.
The rest of the the the there does seem to be more of the
chamber that's farther on from there.
I think you have Dark vision, right 120.
Yes, I am the Dark Vision character.
Here we go. I just it's just the token.
The Devil's Sight. There we go.
Now you should have be able to see down farther down that
chamber. Oh, cool.
Oh, that's cool. Look at that.
Anyone else have dark vision? I don't think I do.
Because fucking Halflings don't have dark vision.
I was going to say, what's your what's your dark vision there,
60, 60, all right, yeah. I'm sneaking.
Forward. Real quiet.
Oh. View of what?
Magic I. Know what would be nice?
I don't have that either. You should have a torch and
Flint and Tinder. There's a fork up here, yeah.
Rural. Oh, I have light.
I don't know if it's a good idea to cast light right now, but I
do have light. Yeah, I come back up and tell
you that there's a fork in the path down this way.
It all comes out of the darkness like.
It's it's not that fork. It goes both ways, but there is
a fork laser. I poke my head out from one
side, and then the other side, and then the one side, then the
other side, one side, other side, and then I scare you by
coming out, appearing at the top.
I was under the impression that we knew where the place was that
we had to throw the jar of boom so.
At the other side of that crystal wall, I'm pretty sure
I'm. Pretty sure.
All right. OK.
Double thumbs up. Should we try to attack the
crystal wall? Anybody tried hitting it really
hard? I was hitting it really hard.
Yeah, maybe we should try hitting it really hard first.
What happened? Wait, no, that was a different
game. Can I hit it really hard?
Can you? Yes, please proceed.
Are you all? No, I'm gonna be a ways back
6/6. Bye.
So we're gonna. You guys in the position
currently that you would be while it is being hit?
Yep. The sacrificial lamb, I guess.
Anyways, go ahead and roll me a. Little one.
I know, I know. I believe it's a dexterity
saving throw. I'm just trying to find a Dick
in here. I had it up.
Even I brought it up before this.
It's for hitting a wall. The streets are tough down here.
Yeah. Worse than hitting a mirror.
Then I'd just be hitting myself. What good is that?
You would think that you would think that before hitting a
mirror. Wouldn't you?
Wait, I'm an idiot? Did nobody pick up the the
portal plate from the office? Nope.
All right.
I should do that. Guess I'll have to do that just
after we figure out what happened to KIRO.
So what was that role there that was a solid six?
Yeah, you strike the crystal and a pit opens up under you,
dealing, and you fall straight down without any resistance, at
least 50 feet and into a hole, into this hole for I think it
rolled one too many times. Oh no, that's a lot.
Yeah, I think I rolled one too many times.
That's dangerous numbers. 8. 11, Yeah, 11 damage.
Into a hole. Shit, that's like the last
thing. Y'all y'all.
I'm going to attempt to grapple the like, brute force, grapple
the side and try to stop my fall.
So I guess Athletics, That was the Dexterity saving throw that
I'd had you roll before. Oh, oh, no, no, no.
The six was for hitting it. Hitting it?
I didn't do the deck safe. I was supposed to do the deck
safe. Yeah, deck safe.
Oh, OK. Deck safe.
Do the please don't curse me. Hell yeah, 17, you grab the edge
of the pit. It just be as it's appearing
under you. And are you able to pull
yourself up to stand on the edge of it?
He he kind of composed himself, looks over at May May.
Don't punch it. OK, Distance attack then MA is
going to, I mean, not that I can do, yeah, so you're safe.
We can walk around it. This is still viable.
I think so if we continue forward or down here if you
wanted to go check. You can hug.
The wall, I'm going to go back. The pit, yeah.
I'm going to go back and get the plate wherever it is, right?
Here Hero's going to follow May May just to watch your watch
back. Oh, so, Oh yeah, there it is.
I'm going to pick up this goddamn spinning plate and put
it in my bag. You grab the edge of it, it
stops, stops, it's spinning, and you put it in your bag, HUP.
Hup, hup, hup. OK, now I'm going to run back
nod to Takira as I pass him. All right, I'm going to ask Rarl
if he sees any creatures in this area.
Not currently, but I will also look for traps as I go do.
You have any skill associated with that?
Just. Traps.
I have thieves tools. Nope.
OK. That would be one of them.
I think that gets you the. Why is this being?
Weird advantage if I am incorrect.
Is that that's perception or investigation?
It's perception. OK.
Based. And I will be climbing on the
walls for this per Huge Natural 20.
From where you're at currently standing physically.
I mean, yeah, I I'm doing that and like as I'm moving forward,
but as you, however many rules you want me to make, yeah.
No, I I was just trying to trying to visualize what you're
what you're saying you're climbing on the walls from where
you're at visually. Yeah, so like.
This one right which is right at the the split that KIRO was
noting before which does kind of come around a column of of Earth
as you were noting and then reemerge back into a a piece of
of corridor and then split off to the right or north northwest
and then the southwest. And on the while you're crawling
along the the wall with a natural 23, you realize at that
juncture where you were just standing, they could I hear you,
but they have not done anything. There's these lumps on the
ceiling that do occasionally move back and forth in these
shadowy images that they are like here like.
Here, OK. To here to here right about in
that intersection you were looking at.
All right, I'll take a note of that and quickly scamper back.
Hey, so there are some sort of lumpish creatures on the ceiling
in the intersection up there. They did not see me, I'm pretty
sure. Yeah, thumbs up.
OK. Kira Kira is all about coming
down with you. I don't know what they might be.
Oh, you got this. OK.
I got it. I can't see where I'm going.
You're gonna have to, like, hold my hand and, like, lead me until
we're close and then tell me when we're close.
OK. I'm pretty sure.
Anything. Oh sure.
Yeah. I will hold your hand and I will
lead you on the. Way.
So here. Hold my tail.
Hold. My tail cannot see anything.
Hold my. Tail guys, I I, I will go back
first, Nora. Thank you.
Honestly, you could probably just pick me up and carry me.
I'm very small and light. That is, I'll pick you up.
I'll pick you up. I will pick you up.
Then I I give consent to this. This is OK for me.
And we start traveling down and we're walking.
I will say I will move your guys's tokens as.
Thank you. You were literally in darkness
currently, yeah. I would give them like .1
visibility, just to see like what's immediately next to him.
But I will, I will lead them here.
I will kind of like position her head in the right direction and
indicate about, you know, like anywhere from like 10 feet to
like third. What is it?
1020, thirty feet away? This.
This intersection here. They seem to be on the ceiling.
I don't know anything else about them.
I could like look at them harder if you want me to, but.
No, we need, we might need to get a little bit closer, like
maybe maybe 5 feet closer. OK, there you go.
OK. I'm going to back.
Up you got this I'm. Going to throw out this disco
ball and at the same time cast light into it.
OK. So that we illuminate the the
Chamber. And.
Auto instable dance spell is cast How?
Far is that light. Huh.
How far? Oh, the light goes for 4040
feet, so it's 20 feet in radius and then like real bright and
then it's dim for another 20, so it's essentially 40.
OK, but I just want to illuminate as much as I can by
shining the light on the disk. So I like I'm I'm lighting up
the disco ball, which also. Disco fever.
Yeah, and it doesn't
incapacitate well. It depends on their their saving
throws, but. Well, yeah.
So what was that saving throw they need to make?
17. Of.
Oh, save DC-17. What kind of save?
It's probably a charisma. It's a it's Otto's Irresistible
dance, so it'd be Charisma. Yeah, I'm looking it up.
Yeah, they did not make that. You see as the light that you
cast in a sphere, right Populates.
I did make this. I forgot it.
Dexterity saving throws and attack rolls.
Disadvantage. Yeah, they have the charmed
immune. Who's one?
What is what is this creature that you see within range there?
Kings. A comic dance?
Yeah, period. There is no save.
That's a wisdom save. That would make more sense.
They're not very good in that either.
Yeah, it was even worse. They still continue to come down
from the ceiling and then kind of fly around themselves is what
you see and kind of dance in the air.
I'm not sure why my roll finds I need to be silly but I'll I'll
ovulate them slightly after this and then they are kind of
intermingling betweens themselves and just the the
undulating light of your light reflecting off of this disco
ball is and they're almost communicating with it.
It seems like they they're they're like floating around
those spots where where the light is reflecting off of it
and then flying around themselves and each other And
there's these these leathery wings as well as their leathery
body bodies with no fur amongst them And these pointy pointy
noses that they they you can imagine being almost needle like
to your own skin that they're yeah showing off to one another
and their lengths and yeah so that's what's happening
currently in front of you guys. I don't know why my roll 20s
being silly. Wrong.
Starts not bobbing. Nice.
Here, so I will say it is 9950I don't know if we want to engage
in battle now or if we want to wait.
You currently do not see this as a battle.
There is nothing in they. They are currently enjoying
themselves and ignoring all of your presences.
Even if anyone get would to get closer Hiro just for his for his
Peace of Mind, he's going to pull out his large Nadachi just
in case they decide to find out. Because there are, yeah.
I guess should I scout ahead in both directions?
A little bit, sure. Quietly do the hustle and look
around the corner. You see some going darkness
besides what you would noticed from before, which only is
catching on now. Some ashen piles on the ground
as well as just more darkness. Maybe some web?
That sounds about right. So there's webs that way and I'm
still on the wall. I'm going to go peek down this
way. See what's going on?
Go ahead and roll me a perception just real quick for
my sure 11. You can still note, especially
on the wall, that you as you are the evident back and forth of
Dryder from this location along the Wall and there there is
little streaks of their of their talons on the ends of their
claws. As well as you can tell that not
much traffic has actually happened on the on the ground
and those that have are booted feet.
Booted. Yeah, you have little baby
boots. No, they're like full boots.
Full boots? OK, all right.
So it looks like the right tunnel here is being more
frequently used, correct? All right, I poke my head around
the corner. It looks like the right tunnel
is being more frequently used when they keep going keep wait
no left right. Well no.
If the if we want to find like where the where they are coming
from right we probably want to go down the main one.
I could check out the other one real quick too and just go a
little bit further. Right, I'll do.
I'll do that. OK, I'll be right back and the
walls naked though by us very carefully.
We look around. While he's doing that, can I
make a knowledge nature about the creatures that are flying
above us? Sure.
I have no idea. Why would you get one?
You're like, I think they're, I think they're bad.
Incredibly easy. Was there.
Scott returned. Rural I.
Was looking to see what's in this room.
Oh, OK. In that room is a lot more of
that ashen material that's at that intersection that you were
at. It's it.
It looks very much like. Is it Shit?
No, it looks very much. Like very old shit.
He's found the guano. It's.
Very valuable. It looks like guano.
Yep, looks like guano. Looks like guano.
I'm convincing RAW that that is an investment.
It probably is, yeah, that's a great point.
I'll make note of it. Business opportunity guano from
drieders. OK, keep going.
And this place is a gold mined. You round another corner and see
a lot more webbing and it looks like old webbing though some of
which has been broken and there is trolling where you were at.
Yep, some of some of which has been broken through.
It's unclear of at your level that there isn't any, but that
it's above. It almost looks like something
Vigorous walked through here currently.
This place is so cool. Keep going avoiding the the
webs. And as you keep going, you find.
Very carefully, very sneaky. More web that gets thicker and
thicker, although there is still distinguishably a a small bit of
webbing that is broken and you round a corner and in the dark
there is a that is not the right size and there we go in seems to
be breaking the webbing at about your out your level at least.
Nothing up at the ceiling or anything like that is a chicken.
That's. A chicken?
I narrow my eyes at the chicken. I hate the birds.
It doesn't seem to have any. Are are you?
Hungry Ross, are you hungry? It seems very at your existence
currently. Wait, rural?
What about cat? Yeah, I was gonna say.
Cat. My eyes light up with power.
Kentucky Fried. Chicken.
I look around again. That would be very loud and I
wait until it gets closer and then I try to grab it.
Oh. My God.
But that'd be a grapple, I believe.
Yeah, I. Think so.
Just a grapple, yeah. So it has to be with advantage,
right? Like.
Can't. Can it the ratio?
Can it see him? Because if it could seem it
would be it cannot. It cannot.
It would be disadvantage. Oh yeah, Disadvantage for an
advantage for for for Raro. 27 God damn, now we get eggs.
It's dirty. I can start a chicken factory.
There's no way, yeah, a A4 it it it walks right into your hands.
Oh, OK. I pick it up.
I kind of pet it a little bit. Maybe you're not so bad.
I shall name you Charles, and I put him in my pocket or my
backpack or whatever. I have a sling.
In my little pocket pocket chicken.
Carl's the Chicken. It settles down and kind of
starts like fussing with what's under it, but at the same time
it it it nestles right into that spot where you put it.
It's chicken. Maybe someone else knows how to
talk to chickens. I give one more look of the room
to see if there might be any indication that there might be
some something of worth here before heading back to the
others it. Seems to be old webbing all
around. OK, all right.
Come on, Charles. We've got the Goblin army to
destroy, and they return triumphantly.
But to the others, and you see right, I'm holding a chicken.
Weren't you scouting Cat? No, it's not the cat.
It's just I think it's a regular chicken.
It somehow got down here and it was breaking through a bunch of
the webbing and stuff. Wait, hold on.
You said though, the webbing was broken on the wall, right?
There was, there was more webbing that was broken than
just what the chicken could have done.
You realize, as you're thinking back to yourself, because some
of it was broken on the wall and on the ceiling, yes, but so
there's broken webbing. Amount of our large amount of it
was broken on the floor where the chicken was kind of just
roaming around. So down there is a bunch of old
webs, and some of it's broken on the ceiling and the floor, and
this chicken was back there. But I got into a larger room
that was also covered in webs, and it didn't seem like it
really had anything going on for it.
Dickens prospects were low. Yeah, it seemed pretty boring
and I would get covered in webs and my siblings would hate to
have to clean that off of me. All right.
So this one over here seems like it's like well travelled and
used. There's boot prints and stuff,
but you know, who knows what's down the path less travelled.
You know, maybe like it's wild rises, or like a like a secret
entrance and like a spider nest, or like a for the nest stone, or
like a BLT or a cake. What does me?
Sometimes there's cake. What does me may say?
We may just going to look distastefully at the like the
the path that's left that is the the well trodden one just like
we have to go down that now for us.
And we can go down the other one.
I'm just letting you know what? I.
See. Did that's not.
That's not the way forward, right?
That was like a dead end. I mean, I didn't go all the way
and I just looked to see like if it was being used or anything.
And like you can go down there a ways and it opens up into a
room, but the room is full of like very dense old spider webs.
So like, it's clear it's not being used for anything.
But like it could also be like a secret entry into the back.
I don't know, but I could keep pushing if you wish then.
You're going to clap and be like rural.
We're looking for the path to stop the goblins.
Yeah, that's probably this one that's being used a lot.
OK, but if you want to go on a side quest like no problem, I'm
here for it. Found a chicken?
It's great. Mimi is so dumb with our shit.
Sorry, Captain. Yes, we should go down the
obviously well used one because that is probably the one that
that goes to the place we need to go, got that next.
Time on rum rollers, yeah? Will they ever get anything
done? The answer No.
Hey. We found a chicken.
You guys had a Balkan found a chicken.
A a new a new market. A new market for Rawson.
New market. No poop.
Yep. Yeah, that wanna.
I mean, I am a warlock. I so I'm a hex blade warlock.
But I think I'm saying that my patron is capitalism that.
Checks out. I originally thought it was just
going to be the table that I like got from the start, but
capitalism just feels so much better.
It seems more appropriate for Rarlson.
Yeah. Create a God of capitalism.
Great. Have.
Fun man. Facts it is.
I didn't think about that. That's pretty funny.
I'll have to. It could look like that.
Monopoly. Canonical.
It's actually in here. It's the worst game.
My family played it as a child, as children, and everyone just
gets angry. Who knew the housing mouse and
market was so stressful? Everyone, everyone knows that I.
Don't. Know why we have.
Anyone in their 30s knows that intensely.
Yeah, I do, Yes. Very much.
Yeah, never going to happen. Shit.
And on that now it's. Great session y'all.
Now that we're all depressed. I hope you enjoyed the the.
The fuckery. The absolute fucking tomfoolery.
And fuckery. This is about how much gets done
each time. This is genuinely so accurate.
There's always a 15 minute start of just conversating.
What did we do last time? Why are we doing these things?
Who did this again? All right, now let's go.
It's kind of what happens when you have two weeks in between
each session and then some people like me who don't come to
every single one, but I think it's the most.
But they're the few, and it always seems to be the really
fucking pinnacle ones where shit goes down.
Yeah, it's because no one's that.
It's normally like me and other chaos characters that are like
remaining. And we're just like, fuck it,
we're just going to go. Yeah.
It's like most of the time, not a lot gets done because we're
bogged down with logicing our way out of everything when it's
just like chaos Crew moments. Like when Zonora and Raul were
left alone, like we just wait and we captured a fucking
drider. Like we went on this whole ass
mission, bought this whole ass bitch and kidnapped her.
It was just a few months. Overall, it's beautiful.
That's. That's my summation of it all.
And now we're just discussing it for like 2 weeks.
What happened? No, I think it's perfect.
It's so chaos. I love this so much.
This is great. Welcome.
If you joined. The other Are you joining the
evil 1? Oh God, I mean, that sounds like
fun. I might actually come and hang
out with that. I highly recommend it.
We are genuinely super chaotic in that one.
Like this is just like the mild chaos of normal stuff.
That one is genuine chaos. Yeah, this is mild chaos.
If you want to taste a true chaos, join the Evil 1.
There's no moral boundaries. There's zero moral boundaries.
I had to. I read the thoughts of and like
of the head dude of the last level of hell that we were on
and he wanted to teach Franklin, who's like, what, 1213, he's
like. 15. Yeah, he's. 13 He's right
around. 13 He wanted to teach him about BDSM, I mean Pitts.
Pitts. It's We live in a We live in a
rock dildo in that game that has a skeleton monster in it still.
Don't know the story about skeleton.
Monster I. Just never told the story of
that. I just accepted.
It. I wasn't around for it, yeah.
Oh Lord. So the skeleton monster is one
of the levels of hell that we like teleported into after after
the three like witch sisters, siblings we teleported into
another room that had these roots that looks like skulls and
there were like bones on top of them.
And I'm the one who teleported in and I saw them and what they
did was the little root thing makes turns bones or a body into
a zombie or a skeleton. So.
But it did it at a slow enough rate where Franklin just started
taking them and putting them into their cage.
And now we just have a conglomeration skeleton monster
'cause he and somebody else spent like the entire session
just farming them with the intention that if we ever need
like a big like shock and awe thing, we just let it out.
Wherever we're we just it's a one time like shit hits the fan.
It's a wild card. It's the trump card.
Yeah, yeah. Matt Matt's characters like to
hoard things. And they do.
Oh. My God, Oh my God.
If you meet Franklin, you will, like, completely understand
every single gripe ever about his characters.
Franklin. Keeps his hordes on his person.
Frank is like an insect army on his person.
It's Oh my God. He is Franklin the Turtle from
the children's books. Oh God.
But he is evil. Actually, his.
Yeah, so he's actually a turtle. Like image.
He has a swarm that lives in his shell.
He collects corpses and every in samples of everyone's blood and
hair. Not anymore.
You lost that. I lost that I need to get more.
I got pickpocketed. But to be fair, he does all of
this for the good of the party. We we don't know.
We just found out about the fact that he had samples of our hair
and blood, but now it got pic packed off of him and we only
found that out because it got pickpocketed off of him and he
was like wait where did this go? No, I when when when Mime Mame
threw the axe at the mirror and almost killed everyone, I didn't
have blood from her and I walked up to her and I took some and I
said I'm keeping this in case you die.
Franklin's a prepared. No other explanation, nothing
else. That's it.
Doomsday proper, yeah. He's a doomsday prepper, yeah,
for the doomsday he's trying to create.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's Volt taxed.
The Roses aren't so much a doomsday prepper as a hoarder.
That's what you have for cats, the.
World. It's it's it's his capitalism
speaking to him. Right, Yeah.
I deserve all of this. You deserve all the things,
Ross, and all the things. I was promised if if I went to
college for four years, I could live a decent wage.
I'm going to live that way. This is.
All right, well, I'm out. This has been fun.
Lovely, lovely session. Y'all.
Oh yeah, it was real good to meet you, Rick.
Holy shit, that was. I was way off, man.
Rick. OK, my bad.
I'm really bad with names. This will get better.
I promise. Oh yeah, it was real great to
meet you. Right.
Good night. Good night.
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