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Tara through the campaign. Allelopolis Fucking Craig.
The Hand of Fate tosses. The dice rolls, spins, turns.
Their campaign starts and ends, leaving memories that become
stories. Stories flow out into the
infinite sea, painting it with legends, wash up on the shores
throughout the infinite sea, getting 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 our adventures
known as the Rum Rollers in the ocean of the Middle Maia.
They had left the shores of the island of Chandar after
successful dealings for his breath and clearing out a goblin
problem for him. Setting sail back to Sorcrities,
the Rum Rollers make it but a few hours before being set upon
and promptly escaping gargantuan sized tentacles by turning to
turning by turning a dune and everything on board her to gas
and flying away. Once sufficiently away, the Rum
Rollers settled back into the oceans of waters, solidly
sailing through a peaceful night with only a bit of a Hulk on the
horizon. Setting a quicker pace, they're
only but hours away from Sorcrities harbor as a crew of
100 or more tortles named the Kobuk Sun captain by Dabuksung,
sailing atop a tortoise with no flag raised.
A tortoise of 250 feet long I might add and two similar ships
to the South boxing the rum rollers in who they had their
guns levelled at as they try as the rum rollers tried to quickly
fly away from the whole situation.
Admiral me May in negotiations with Gabe Book Sung.
Admiral Gabe Book Sung to throw negotiated to throw a feast
before they started any trade trading, which seemed to be what
the the crew wanted as they named themselves free traders.
And then after the rather there's a part of the deal to do
the feast. A dune was going to do the
preparing, or rather the crew of a dune was going to do the
pairing as to what they understood the cable Cobic sons
and of the feast. And the Cobic sons would prepare
all the food or provide all the food and prepare the all the
settings for the feast. During the preparations they
had, they had a dune preparing full course mirror for some 600
turtles. Or no sorry that was is that
3300 some turtles. Now with the total other two
ships docking and setting ties up to a dune and in they began
planning on how they might deal with the docked crews holding
them in place to find out what happens this time.
So also to to add immediately into this, everyone else was
here last time. I want to say that we played
other than Cat, yes. You find yourself sitting under
the the second, you know, on the second deck of a dune in the
kitchen space while there was much flurrying of arms around,
you know, a dune's arms coming in and out of the wall and the
floors and everything, preparing a bunch of stuff that looks like
hurriedly some dishes and setting them up to the top main
deck. And you're probably on the table
that everybody was sitting around with Mimi.
Captain Mimi's got a chalkboard and a plan written out on it
after they'd come back. It looks like holding some like
couple foot long pentacles that look familiar to you.
The last time you ate some of these tentacles that you lost
your magic and forgot you were, you know, human for a bit.
So. So I'm under the table where I'm
on the table. I figured you'd be like on the
table because like, a chair would be too low for you, you
know, right? So you'd be like on the table is
what I figured. Unless for some reason you asked
Aduna in the meantime to get you a booster chair or something.
Nope, on the table is fine. But yeah, I will look around at
everyone and just kind of like, listen for a second and be like,
man, what the hell happened? And just kind of like listen for
a moment while everybody's talking about the plan.
That's the plan I look over. Oh, you're here.
Good. Just in time.
I just like, unfold a wing and swirl it and I'm like, all
right, is it a good plan? Are we OK?
Is a dune OK? Well welcome back we got
captured by some Beavers and we are unsure if they are friend or
foe so we. Are planning for both options.
Saying that we have a plan kind of like saying that we have a
plan is kind of like saying we have a stand of trees and
calling it a boat boy, we have a plan.
The captain has a plan. Let's follow the plan.
Yes, Captain, you were saying. Yes, we need need to gather more
information. Is what we need to do correct?
Yes. So so we can't just leave.
So they have tied, if secured a dune to one of these giant
tortoise ships in such a way that we cannot just leave.
We will have to cut the ropes in some way.
So if I remember, we're going to have a feast.
I bought us time with a feast. These people want to make a deal
tonight. I don't know.
I don't know if we want actually want to make a deal with these
people. So we're going to feast.
I've told the the other captain, I refuse to make deals on an
empty stomach, so we will feast. It is our job to get the sailors
as drunk as possible, right? It's job number one.
The other captain does not want his crew to get drunk.
We need to get the crew as drunk as possible.
I feel like we could. We will succeed at this.
And in getting them back, we need to.
Figure out what kind of crew they are, what their intentions
are. I have one reservation, Captain,
and this is since we are under parlay with them.
Wouldn't inebriating them slightly violate the parlay?
Why I love getting parlayed drunk with friends.
But we're doing it under dubious conditions a little bit.
Absolutely. They captured that standard
dubious conditions. Yeah.
That is true. If they were not holding us here
against our will, it would be a different story.
We would trade freely. But First off, I'm not sure what
we have to trade with them that they want, right?
We're not in a very good position.
We have to figure out what they want.
I think they're going to get some great deal.
I don't, I don't know what we have for them.
If we figure out what they want, what we have, what we can we can
get for them if to figure out if they're sheisty bastards or if
they are good trade partners. So Oh yeah, so aren't we gonna
so So what they did is they brought a bunch of food over
where I'm having a dune prepare it cause a dune is the best
finger guns to a dune and then we're gonna carry it back over.
But I think we wanted did we harvest the tentacles from the
tentacle monster? I think we're going to in a show
of goodwill, we're going to give an appetizer or a soup made with
the tentacles from the capture tentacle monster so that if
there is anybody magical on board, they will be rid of their
magical abilities. I.
Think so. I actually have one request on
that's two. If I could get a small amount of
it, we might be able to create a more potent directed power if we
need to neutralize an individual versus a group.
Yeah, they do have at least one magic person.
I am built to take down the Wizards, but that would be a
great boon. I also again the captain, it is
your call. I would advise we gather more
information before the feast we want.
If we're going to do something big, we want to do it then, so
we need to know what we're going to do before then.
More or less. OK, OK, I see what you're
saying. What do you propose?
How do we do this? Drinking.
We know for certain that some of their ships are currently headed
towards us. They were their treasure ships
right there. The important.
Ones I say we take a small band of stealthy individuals.
We fly there very quickly, very quietly.
I could do. We could do it on the water as I
have the ability to cast. Water.
Breathing and I can swim. And then we sneak in.
We try to listen maybe at the Helms to like what they're
saying about like what's going to happen tonight, right,
without them seeing. And then if we know, we know.
Then we zip on back here and we do the next thing.
They are discussing us. Grand Am is going to wander off
and try and make friends with rats.
So, Rosen, let me see if I got this clear.
You are suggesting that the Admiral and I entertain with
livations the other Admiral and his crew while you sneak off,
see if you can see their true intentions and.
We could do a drink. While these drinks, while these
drinks are happening, yes, they loosen up with us and you can
just come back and tell the captain if we should go through
with the good food or the not so good food.
I think your idea is equally just before the feast, if the
captain and you wanted to go meet with the captain of the
current ship that is here, 'cause there's only like one or
two that's here. Three of them I think are still
on their way 'cause they're waiting to see like what we did
if we fought. So if you guys like, talk to
that, right or am I wrong? I thought there was additional
ships. There were.
There were there were they? In the meantime, while Aduna has
been preparing and you guys have been planning and and such,
there was also a short rest in there too.
They've. Moved forward, which is the
three ships that you see around Aduna currently boxing her in.
Basically not. Not like that's.
Totally fine too. Not uncomfortably, but it would
just be pretty awkward. I have a perfect idea.
Does anyone have the spell invisibility?
Let me check hold. On I might if not.
But I think you are correct, KIRO, you should, we should
have, you know, the delegation crew try to find out what they
say to us in private and then the sneaky crew that listens in
somewhere. Else and like.
Tries to find out what they're really planning.
What do you think, Captain? The only thing is we've already,
we've already spent a lot of time talking to their captain,
right? We were over there for like a
real a real long time, talking in the captain's quarters, like
going back to talk again before the feast going to be.
Maybe we can tell a dune to hold off on bringing the food up and
wine them with great drink and then once we get a little more.
Comfortable, we can do that bullshit like, yeah, this is our
custom. The food does not come first.
First we do shots. First.
We played beer pong. First.
We, I don't know, play quarters something.
Yes. There's some some way to stall?
As well that just it might be ever a, you know, a real world
perception issue versus the game.
You weren't over there for more than an hour or really tops on
the 1st negotiation because it went pretty quick.
It was, it was the, you know, lead up to that negotiation that
took a little bit more time in like, you know, buying a doone
up in the air, being close enough and you know, lowering a
doone and setting up the gangplank and all that, all that
jazz took more time than anything else.
And you were also, you were also trying to get out of that room
before Hero Oops on the captain. Oops.
Done, the captain. He was about to.
Regardless, Captain, what do you think we should do?
Just thinking. I I'm just thinking.
The best time to do something to all of them will be at the
feast. That should not be when we are
gathering most of our information.
Yeah, no fair. So if we're going to gather
intelligence, I think we should do it now in a sneaky way,
right. I don't think we want to be over
it because I think it if if we go show our faces on their boat
again with before the feast, it's just going to be
suspicious. And so.
We wouldn't do anything, he. Is going to go talk to rats and
he's going to ask them questions and try.
And make do that and. Does anybody have invisibility?
I do not. For that just as AI do not as a
as a understanding of what you're finding on the decks is
you're probably going around looking for them, but a dune
goes in what you look at for dearie every shed in your head
they. Do.
Oh, they do have some, but they haven't made it over here.
I've keep a tight, tight ship. I don't like their little
scoochy claws all over my decks. They're like pets.
It's a big whole eye. I pipe up and I'm like, we don't
need any kind of pets like that. If, if we had that sort of pet,
well, I'd be I'd be really covered in poo.
What's that? Grand AM is going to attempt to
walk over to their decks. You you go over.
Easy peasy. And he's going to go back to
rats. You would get, you would get on
their deck, on their top decks and probably start to go below
deck and one of the other portals would call out though
and go oy, where you headed off to.
Line of the head. Ours is broken.
Oh, you mean the loo I well, we generally all just jump out into
the ocean. If we have to go, we can all
swim so we don't have one of those down there.
He's going to keep going. And you hear him holler after
you, but doesn't doesn't give chase immediately you hear him
going off in another direction, his fins slapping and then he.
Are you out once out of his sight trying to get farther, I'm
guessing like quickly? Or are you just out of his
walking non slump turning? To a rat and I want to go find
rats. OK, soon as you're out of his
sight and you turn into a rat, he comes back with another
crewman. You can probably tell in from
whatever direction you're looking at around a corner or in
whatever shadow you're hiding in at this point.
And he goes, I swear I just seen him go in there.
You hear him saying, and another crewman go.
Must be another hand that's above him in the hierarchy.
And he goes just, well, it's, I don't, we're not seeing anything
now. I guess if they get down there,
somebody else will find him, take him back out.
Yeah. Like, I guess if that, that
that's fine. I don't, I don't know how he
would have gotten any further than this.
So. And then you're just going to go
around listening to people, I'm guessing.
And talking to rats, you say what they hear.
Oh, OK. You want nowhere fast went.
You just vanished. The first few rats that you
find, you actually you're wandering around the corridors,
which are more or less clean, but you catch a hole in one of
the side walls that kind of leads to a storage room that has
a bunch of droppings along the sides of the edges of the wall
where people weren't really paying much attention to.
And keep following it around to a nest that you females are
sleeping in that you can tell things that rats would notice,
you know, and they're there's one that that jumps up.
It seems like it was half asleep and kind of hisses at you a
little bit like and probably says.
Where are you? I'm grand am friend.
Friend, friend, bring food. No mini food and then know where
lots of food will be. Know what?
What the tall long legged turtle people say.
They don't use words like us. They're stupid.
They bring us food. We we we hitch ride on on big
thing, go across the ocean long. Way.
Yes, yes, Other friends come back from long way, say bigger
food. Yeah.
Where does have you found Big Tortoise egg?
Tortoise, Tortoise. Big egg hard shell.
Egg. Big egg.
We know they keep lock. Where Where?
Big egg. They keep lock and and big solid
metal room no one get in. What happens?
Boats. They stop.
Oh, you mean other boats stop by then?
Those boats usually bring new stuff.
They take other stuff seems like.
I don't know. What do they give stuff Friends?
What do they take? Yeah.
Both. Do they use loud boom cannons to
take the take stuff? Booms usually come only if they
fly, Black Flag do. They fly Black Flag sometimes.
Oh, other ship. OK, OK.
OK, so they're just traders. Cool.
That's something they like. What kind of?
Yeah, No, you're not the right person to ask that.
Yeah, yeah. Oh, wait.
Where food? I answer question, you say.
Yeah, lots of food. Lots of food in about however
long until the feast. I'll bring you food then.
Or if you hear me yell for you, you'll know.
OK, I know. You'll know.
I know. You spread word and there's lots
of food on deck and you can come take food.
Oh great, so I I will tell other nests.
Yes, and with that, my name. Scuttle, huh?
And and she kind of like crux her head and bats her eyes,
lashes and says, my name's Chitse yours.
And dam, the greatest of dams. OK.
Nice to meet you today. Greatest Dance?
And she kind of like bumps another one in the nest, like
waking it half a half a half awake and skitters off in
another direction. Seems like following another
trail of he sees into some other nests.
I guess I'll just continue to wander around and listen to the
conversations going on until my wild shape wears off, which is
an hour, and then I'll just. Go back to the bow.
Yeah. OK.
All right, I'll fill in some of those blanks if you.
I'll just hop back over to the other crew right now.
Yeah. So yeah, you guys are like,
where'd Grand am go? Yeah, Franklin, I think was
there. Not Franklin the Ross, since
we're the first one to notice. I am alert.
Nothing but trouble comes from Grand Am's, so the stories say.
And. OK, Is he going to be OK?
Oh, I was just thinking if we're going to go sneak on the ship or
like outside their ship, 'cause we could also go to the outside
of the ship because I can climb on it.
I have all of the movement types except for borrowing.
Don't we still have the tentacle creature in a bottle?
Yes, yes, we promised him to get freedom, apparently.
We promised it freedom. Yeah.
I think Grand Am did. Yeah, do name would, yeah.
Elaborate. What if we freed it on the other
ship? We certainly could if we have
to, yes. That's like that's.
Right, yeah, we were going to let it out and it was going to
distract the the tortoise, right, The tortoises.
Yeah, it though scale wise it wasn't like wildly huge compared
I think. So it.
No. It was like the same size.
But. It was like the same size as a
dune. So it would be like, you know,
another another ship of your size basically.
A smidge smaller than the turtles.
Yeah, well, the both of you combined would not Gola turtles,
I think. We're looking 1/3 the size.
Like 1/4. Anyway, So what do we want to
do? Do we want to go climb and
sneak? Do we want to dig around?
Do you want the guys? Want to have like an orgy?
I don't know. I mean, sneaking and finding
more information sounds good, yeah.
I can cast the fly, I can cast water breathing, I can cast.
Some other stuff, but that's a probably the best ones you.
Can do I feel the best option is our continued diplomacy, Yeah.
Shield friends. I could get some friends on
someone. Yeah, that might be good.
That might be good. I was going to say I could far
step onto the other deck and just kind of like, have the Tour
gone and meander around and eavesdrop on conversations.
What about? Does anyone have any disguise
abilities? You do recall the the last time
you were interacting with anybody of the other crew, that
you had been playing up the chicken act and you were not
introduced as part of the crew? I know I was going to continue
that. I was just going to be a random
chicken and hopefully. That's kind of dangerous it.
Is it is and hopefully they just ignore me like oh, a chicken.
I mean, it might be worth trying because.
Yeah, you could teleport over and just act like you somehow
got a bored. Yeah.
I could sneak around and try to listen at somebody's window
because I I can climb. Yeah, I think.
I think I know about the. Ralston's being sneaky.
Or if I get caught. If I get caught, one of the
Ralston's could pretend to find me and chase me across the deck
so that. Can you help me find my?
Can you help me find my chicken? I have a + 11 to my sneak say
with a Nosebleed. Or.
We could kidnap one of them. It's not a great option but no.
But I could cast fly and the really really fly fast and like
zip in zip out then be gone. Just an alien abduction.
Yeah, just like in a blink of an eye, just gone.
But, you know, I'm just, it's an option if we want to question
someone. But, you know, a captain, you
you say what we should do, so we stop talking.
OK, Go. I love you feel tail swishing.
Yeah. I think I think being sneaky is
a good idea. I think that if you're brave
enough to go on a ship with limited resources as a piece of
food walking across the deck, you're welcome to.
But I don't think that's a great idea.
I do have my torque still on me and I have my spells, which
they'll never see coming from a chicken.
True. Also just right in my back.
We might ignite battle. True.
Before we're ready, right, If we make them so if you guys are
caught and then we make them suspicious of us before.
The. Actual.
True. You know.
Peace. Maybe that I would like to.
See if only we know more information about their
intentions. Yeah, that's the only thing I'm
worried about is like, can we get, would it be at all possible
for us to get an idea of what they want?
Yeah, Kira, you're saying something.
Yeah. It maybe we could bring the
other captains and their Admiral and have a preemptive before
party drink and the captains can conversate and the first mates
can meet and talk while all of our unsavory or UN not proper
parlay behaviors are being conducted.
I've heard that, you know, many captains sometimes had a little
extra fun before the cruise. So what is to stop us from, you
know, participating in such an event while others find
information that we can't? And maybe it will help you,
Captain suss out their intentions.
You're just going to fire some finger guns?
I like this. Except you all should know I
don't like to talk, right? Well, I don't know.
I am more than glad to speak on your behalf if needed.
I might just have a little bit of trouble.
I was about to say I might have a little bit of trouble
communicating with their Admiral, but you are another
Admiral. He will be more receptive of
your one-on-one conversations. Yeah, but I.
Don't really want to talk to this fucker either right like
you don't you don't like this fucker I don't want to talk to
this fucker I don't really want this shit I don't want to do it
have to deal with that it's. Going to say I do not like.
Sneaky. I like, I like, I like letting
the Rarlsons just go sneak around.
Just don't get fucking caught. I could bring the chicken, I
could bring cat with me. She is small.
She could fit in my backpack and it would acts actually quite
well. I can.
Do that. But anyway, you could fit in my
backpack like a little Seattle. I could then with then with your
with your permission cap, may I request that the other first
mates of the other ships come together and maybe I can garner
some of their intention while keeping you plausibly in
deniability of any other actions we have taken place kind of a
preamble negotiation. Yeah.
Thank you. Yeah, OK, so Arlson's and Cat
are going to go on the other ship and Kira's going to go
verse and I will stay here with the do day.
Perfect. I snapped my fingers and cast a
size self and look like a turtle.
OK. I guess Gerald will go and try
to request a meeting with the other first mates.
OK. I'm just going to go in the
order you guys had spoke there. So Raul, you're just doing that
for yourself, not your brothers, correct?
Staying here, they are strictly role play.
I I I should? Not give me mechanic yeah, I I
wouldn't they're. Going to chill.
What was what was happening there?
And when you get to the other, you know, get across the gangway
to the other ship, it's the first ship you guys are crossing
over to because it's the only one that has the gangway and
they're setting up tables and such.
And one of them just points at, you know, and says, what the
heck were you I? Was sleeping underwater a great
place to sleep? Must not have heard the
captain's orders. Then we we have to hurry up and
get this ship. Ship shake.
Yeah, we got to get all the tables and all the chairs and
all the everything out for a big feast for everyone.
Oh. Big feast.
That's exciting. I need to go pee at the head.
Poop at the head. You're.
Going to. Have to hold it.
Hold it though, Sailor, you're going.
To. You haven't got earned your
stripes. It looks like you're going to
have to. You don't get break until the
until the tables are done. What's your name?
No, I'm not going to attack him. No, don't do it me.
Don't say that out loud. I'm whispering in your backpack.
Don't do it. Actually, I was sleeping and I
ran into the captain and the captain says that I have to get
his his special tuxedo for the for the thing from his cabin.
And and not a a big big eyebrow raise and he just points to his
shoulder where there's like 4 stripes, you realize?
Not the other captain. And he goes, he goes.
Cast friends shit. OK, it's.
OK, I'm disguised if this doesn't work, it's fine.
I'll display it. No, I didn't go through to the.
Did it come through I'm. Not seeing anything over here.
Makes sense, I probably should be on the thing.
It says for the duration of a great advantage on your charisma
checks and then after a minute it becomes hostile.
So I try to act like a bumbling buffoon and be like no, not that
captain. The other captain from the other
ship, they found me and they wanted to know what you're
wearing so they can coordinate Captain and.
He he goes. So is that a go ahead and roll?
Yeah, persuasion there for sure. And sounds like you get an
advantage on that. 16. Four.
So he just rolls his eyes and says, I don't have time for
this. I.
Shrug. They're weird, you know, people,
but the the breathers, the what the air breathers.
No, we breathe air the the non down the non turtles.
Weird guys. He's he's just like shaking his
head in his hands and he's like, just get along with them.
We're the best. It's it's the rum rollers we're
meeting with, for God's sakes. And you've.
Heard of them? Of course I I.
Haven't. Heard about this.
How did we hear about these guys?
Well. Tell me about them.
Are they? Cool.
Do they have a really cool? Companion cat, I mean.
It's a wax sailor. This is far past your pay grade.
You're right. You're right.
OK. I slap him on the shoulder.
I will get to work, and then I wander onto the ship.
I turned. I look at my backpack.
And I say, good one, we did it. Really quietly.
I chuckle. I'm like, yeah, we made it in
and now we just have to keep our goal.
Try to walk like a torto. Deception.
That was between that and performance.
But I feel like this deception might be your better one.
I don't know. Can I argue stealth?
So from that I got that they're excited to meet us.
So I is it good? It it could be good.
But they did again. Capture us.
So it sounds like they intended to catch us, but why?
We don't know. I would say that there was a be
a stuff check for when you guys are talking to each other and
and. Depending upon what you're
trying to do after that, but for like when you're walking amongst
them, it would either be a a, a performance, a deception, or.
OK, I'm going to go with performance as I have a + 8.
Do I get anything from disguise self?
I don't. Recall.
I will post the thing disguise self display in BTT.
That one worked. Yeah, I heard that chirp make.
Yourself include you change the hand of someone who reaches.
Doesn't look like you get to. Make specifics.
Still in middle, so it's an illusion.
Specifically is what I wanted to know.
So yeah. So it's, it's, it's a form
that's on top of your form, right, Which would give you
still advantage in my, my opinion for the performance
check. 23 and a 23. So weird.
You might be walking funny, but it might have just been, you
know, the way you slept or something.
But you get a couple of people like fuck, he thinks he doing
walking around with such a strut.
My cool guy, just talk to the captain, all right?
Where do you want to go, Cap? So probably the best place to
look for information would be the captain's quarters, as long
as nobody's there. OK, let's go.
I'm wander my way to the captain's quarters.
You may want to let the others know how it's going
periodically. I don't have one of the.
Torques anymore so. OK, so you walk back into an
area of the ship's cast. Actually, this ship is a bit
different in the sense that like there isn't the kind of
Victorian era castle, the back area where the crew quarters and
everything is, everything seems to be situated in multiple
layers throughout the deck. So you have to go down a level,
then up a half level for the area that you're looking for.
And when you're when you get there, there's another half
level that gets you back up all the way to the area right under
the Elm basically. And there's a nobody around
here. And there were some hustling
through the corridors there, picking one fancy sconce or
something up or, or the other to, to take out back out onto
the deck. And you're standing in front of
what you would only assume is the captain's door because it's
it's one of the nicest looking things.
I look around and I snap my fingers and now I look like the
captain and I take out. I look at the door and I inspect
it for traps and then I attempt to pick the shit out of the
lock. If there is one.
Investigation 11. Aladdin, I'm reading some things
here. You don't notice anything cool.
I pick the lock. If it's locked first I try to
open the door. It is definitely locked.
OK, go ahead and. Just assume these things could
be a problem. OK, let's do this.
You have guidance or anything Cap?
I have skill empowerment, will that help?
I probably, I don't know, I'm. Your magic deepens a creature's
understanding of its own talent. That sounds like me.
And they gain expertise in one skill of your choice until the
spell ends, lasting for one hour.
It could be sleight of hand or or a thieves tools because you
could get the expertise in that because I have expertise in a
few things that would work great.
OK, so I I poke my head out of the backpack and I let out the
quietest of little Peacocks and touched my beak to you.
And you feel and you feel in your mind that you know these
tools inherently, and they now will work for you perfectly as
they can. Perfect.
Thank you, Kathy, very kind. I will attempt to pick the lock.
I'm going to pull my head back into the backpack so it doesn't
look like there's a turtle with a chicken head on it.
How do I just roll for that? But it's a plus a lot.
That's just tools. I guess it's just AI.
Guess I'll just I'll just use stealth because I have expertise
in that and it's the same. It double s quite a fancy.
It's a sleight of. Hand.
Oh it's sleight of hand. OK but and I'm saying I'll get a
+ 11 for it instead of a + 7. So if I roll a stealth check
I'll get the right modifier. Oh, because of the that you've
got. Yeah.
So it'll be a 25 sleight of hand check.
You hear the couple tumblers that are that are ticked into
place signify the door is unlocked as you pull your What
are those called again? Like thieves tools?
Yeah, the thieves tools, but I'm thinking of the specific parts
that are in the thieves tools, like the parts that you would
be. The metal bin.
Yeah. You pull it back however, and
you feel it catch on something as you pull a stop.
As you're as you're pulling it back and a click happens.
Can I argue my alert feet would help me in this situation or no?
Does that just stop from surprises?
Surprise attacks. It does and gives me plus
initiative. Let me look at it.
There's nothing specifically in it that says I avoid traps +5,
do initiative, can't be surprised while I'm conscious,
nothing gets advantage against me as a result of being unseen.
Yeah, I wouldn't say that you. Like cat senses should have
something to save or something. I wouldn't say that.
Particular reaction. Particular skill would, but you
your your your sense. Your senses are tingling for
sure, and you don't pull it all the way out.
Yet there is a there is a trap. If I take this out, I think it
will trigger. I will, can I leave?
Them in and just be like cat can you hold these like perfectly
still and I will attempt to reinvestigate the door or cat.
Do you have like a like a misty step?
I have far step, I can use that to get into the room, but it
only works on me. I don't think I can.
I don't it doesn't work on others.
Right. That's probably a big spell.
OK. Actually it it's actually counts
as one of my cantrips because it was the first spell I ever
learned. Wow, cantrip.
Damn. All right then, I guess.
Do I have the option to try to disarm it from the other side
again or is that gonzo? I want to make an arcana check
of the door real quick. Go for it. 32.
You have an innate sense. It's almost as if it's a a bit
of a a tingling in your in your beak that gives you this knows
to say that the this this door is protected by some sort of
magic as well. OK so it's a magically protected
door and we just attempted to pick the lock which.
Do you have to spell magic? You are a wizard.
I don't have that. I mean no check but I do.
You're a wizard, why don't you have to spell magic?
I have a lot of slightly destructive smells.
Because what is the door? It's a fireball.
But we could just leave. This and try to get in the
window, but if it's magically protected, it's probably
protected too. You know, Disintegrate opens
doors just as good as Knock does.
Gosh, I am wondering if I far step into the room, could I see
the obvious protection and do something about it there?
Or I can't recall correctly, but I thought far step also required
a line of sight on where you're going.
You teleport to a 60 up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space that
you can see. Is there a gap under the door?
I are you getting out to check? Yeah, I'm going to hop out of
the backpack because I am looking at this door now and I'm
also trying to make sure there's nobody around I'll.
Keep watch, I keep watch. While still holding the the lock
picks in the in the keyhole. So you you hop out, look around
stealthily and you can see a bit of a gap under the door, but you
can't quite get your like the the side of your head press down
far enough to see through it. You know, like the line of sight
is, is kind of blocked from your angle, right trying to and even
like push your head up up against the floor.
You you can't quite see. It's just just enough for the
door to, you know, not be brushing the ground, basically.
If I cast mending on the door, would it put the lock back in
place without igniting anything? What spells do you have?
What is that? What is the?
What is the phrasing on that? The spell repairs a single break
or tear in an object, so I guess this wouldn't count as a break
or a tear. No.
So for can trips I have control flames, fire bolt, mage hand,
mending, far step and Eldridge blast.
And then I have things like chromatic orb, earth tremor,
floating disc, scatter, hold person, flaming sphere, enlarge,
agonizing scorcher, chromatic orb, fly tongues.
I believe that spell is enlarge, reduce.
Wait, you have enlarge reduce. No, I do so you could you could
reduce the size of the pics to well.
That would just cause it to go off if we enlarge.
If we reduce the size of the pics, you might as well just
remove them. But you can reduce yourself and
then try to sneak under the door.
But I don't know what size class size you are.
I am considered small. So you would be considered tiny
after that. Can a tiny thing fit under a
door? And a tiny thing Can a tiny
chicken fit under a door? Is there?
Oh well, can you limbo? No.
Get the rules, I get to fly. Yeah, you could fly to get
yourself away from the door. I mean worse comes to worse, you
just leave the picks in there and use like glue or gum or
something to come up and then like stick them in.
I know I was trying to look through my inventory to see.
What I had. Rip your candle.
I do have candles. This guy's kit clothing bed
roll. Guys want to think about it for
a bit. Yeah, so cool.
No worries, kiddo. You're making it over onto the
deck. You marched right over and the
first, the first mate that you'd seen before stops you.
Not, not in like any aggressive way, just kind of like stands up
like yes, can I help you? Yes, I would like for you and
the other first mates to come and be invited to tea before all
the captains speak. New books around and other at
the rest of the crew that's hurrying about.
Well, I think my the second has everything in order so I think
we could do that I'll just check with the other ones.
Should we meet on your decks then in a brief moment?
OK, well just give. Me to bring formal dress.
Oh, well, we starting the festivities early, I see.
That's part of the course, I think so.
I don't know how they got golf in this world, but yeah, we'll
go ahead and do that. That's.
Like the that's like portals. Mystone circles.
That is good. Golf is like the peak total,
Josh. We could I know how how golf
became on this world Once Upon a time and Outlander.
Oh yeah, the Chicken Rd. portal. The chicken Packer, it somehow
made it to this Ralph a cock. It's following him.
God has nightmares about the thing.
They he he nods and I'll I'll spread the word and he goes.
He goes over to one of the other gangways that are attaching it
to the other ships and and but in quick, quick succession that
he comes back around with the other two first mates.
As for three of them all dressed the best of their abilities.
Not quite Captain's Guard, but you know the the some of their
best uniforms. Good.
Please make your way over and I will get everything prepared and
Kira will go back. He will undone his armor.
He will then, you know, get out from his pack his actual nice
kimono and you know he'll wrap his actual nodachi and you know,
ceremony. Tie it up and then ask Adune to
please bring 4 cups and saucers and a pot for tea.
Should I bring it to them or to you?
Please bring it to me. Tea ceremonies are very.
Formal occasions, Well, we don't have quite a full set enough
probably for everyone, but we've got a mixed match set if that's
all right. I will do with what you get.
And out of the out of the wall, it seems like next to you,
you're a boards unfold with with almost like a hole in it and
outcomes on a plot plate of her own planks, another plate with
four mismatched saucers and teacups.
And they probably be like bronze or brass tea kettle.
He he kind of he kind of grimaces to himself and kind of
tells him tells himself that you know, I will have to rectify
this at the next port, but still gratefully takes the stuff from
a donate and ghost perform T circle with lieutenants.
Do you want to roll performance for that?
Yep, I will roll the performance dice.
Gods do not hate me today. Please don't hate me today.
Never mind. I'm gonna worry about the dice
gods. Rule 20.
God is hating me right now. Jesus.
All right, Performance. Go that come through.
There it goes. I see an 11 so you, you, you,
you perform a passable ceremony, but you feel the disgrace.
Your ancestors are shaking their head over your shoulders from
and. The tea set wasn't pretty.
The tea set wasn't ready. And the the portals kind of just
let you do what you're going to do though, and and don't seem to
take any offence to the the mismatched tea set or your black
luster performance in in pouring.
But it it's it's not they, they seem to be used.
To you know, how well do they? The bare minimum.
How well do they know tea ceremony?
They are of an Eastern culture so that that part would be
somewhat somewhat about them and they they they do, you know,
rotate the cup around and couple times and then bring it up to
their lips and blow before mildest of sips and set the cut
back down. I hope you all find the T to
your liking. And they the the two seem to be
deferring to the the one that you've been talking to before,
because they a nod while the first mate of the cookbook Sun
replies saying it was it it it'll suffice.
I understand it was rash timing for guests that you would that
that we are that we are very appreciative that we could have
this opportunity. Well, I feel we should have a
moment for lieutenants to speak and introduce ourselves if we
are to become trading partners in the future.
I am Lieutenant Kenpachi of the Rumblers.
You. I am.
I'm sorry, Josh. He's like magical names.
I'm First Lieutenant Juan Juan Nesole King of Carlton, and the
others introduce themselves and I am Kim jokes solo, and I'm Lee
Jokesson. It is very nice to meet all of
you, might I be frank? I thought you just said your
name was, is it Frank? Now I apologize.
Then there's a turn of phrase where I'm from what it means to
speak openly. Ah, yes, please.
We are among equals here. As we all know, we lieutenants
are the ones that actually perform most of the duties
required for the captains. We try to make their lives as
easy and as carefree as they like so that they can be, how we
say, hands off from day-to-day decisions.
Yes, familiar with that aspect. They seem nodding all around.
So knowing so knowing this, what exactly are we wanting to trade?
What are are the intentions of your CAP and your Admiral so
that I can properly brief my Admiral I I.
Understand. I understand you the the the
real objective of our Admiral here is to better our clans as a
whole and as you may know of the total folk we are generally
migratory and having of no particular home.
However, I think the Admiral has ambitions to change that for us
and create a permanent spawning ground for us and our families.
And does your people? Does your people?
We need particular land permissions, and in those
permissions he needs better connections.
So I think he's aiming to have some sort of audience with the
Queen of Socrates, as it is one of the most up and coming
technologically and magically magically advanced cities in the
regions. Might I ask what happened to
your original spawning land so that I know you wrong but you
had an original spawning land? What forced you away from your
home? Nothing as this might not be so
knowledge from outsiders, but we do we change regularly our
spawning grounds. It's it's a it's, it's a
lifestyle. But then in the way that things
are progressing in the wider world, land is becoming scarcer
and we can't go back to all of our spawning grounds or as they
change, it becomes harder to find different ones.
I see, so your true objective is to find a home permanently?
At least what you believe you're at was vision.
Yes, yes, it's, it's what he it's what he's been promising
some some of our youth from quite a long ways and where he
how he's gotten to where he's at and most see his vision, but
don't know how it is that he thinks he might get there
because we can't be as widely as he.
I might have a way to help in that matter, at least my
captain, it's Admiral would be able to help you with that
matter. They have garnered quite a
reputation as you well may know. What if they were to help?
Speak up with your Admiral. The two Admirals come together,
one as good friends to the Queen of Socrates and my Admiral
advocate for land rights for your people.
I think that would be very advantageous and you could get
pretty much anything you'd wanted for such a bargaining
chip, you know, as to what we already have, obviously.
And I would be remiss if I wouldn't do something.
Or I'm sure you would be earnest.
And I would too if we did not. For helping you achieve land and
settlements. Something for my Admiral in
return for helping. Absolutely.
That is, that is the idea of this evening.
Then what would your captain be willing to offer for such a
lucrative transaction? I think he's looking for a flag,
if I'm to be honest, If that sounds like something that
Captain or Admiral Mimay would be interested in, or, you know,
if not, he'd understand. It could suffice with such
things as creating, giving, or some of our most prized
possessions, which really they're not possessions.
They're our friends of ships we sail upon.
A egg for the for the tortoise that tortoises that we we breed
and as friends. I see.
That's they're one of the harder parts of reasons why we wish to
create a stable spawning ground. Then I propose that I will speak
to my Admiral have heard again join your Admiral in requesting
settlement in sort regions from the Queen.
In return, I would say that if we need anyone your aid or some
form of Pharaoh's brow Deeping Deeping his thoughts or just the
happenstance of information across the seas to widen our own
networks for trade it. Would be excellent.
We have not flown for for any particular flag in quite some
time. Well, then, I will go to my
Admiral after our meeting today, and I will speak to her about
one possibly bringing to you a flag and the promise of
assistance in seeking settlement with insurance if you are your
admirable, and the captains of your vessels will honor your
promise to me about aid and information.
Well, certainly. And he takes another longer sip
of of tea. It's seems like it was
advantageous. If you did not know some of this
information before, I, I, Captain, may not have told you
all of it as I, I thought. And we, we are quite set in our
stories. Most that we come across have
known our story. Well, I am glad to hear and
would be very, very honored to help a people find home and
settlement and I'm sure my Admiral would have no problem
with this. Yeah, yeah.
And. Not.
Made cheers or raised? Then I say we we put this to
paper so that we may present it when they are done with their
drinks and party. Oh, well, I don't have sway, it
says. One says, you know, as the other
two look at him. I don't have necessarily, I have
the ability to write out something, but for my captain,
our Admirals seal to be upon it and to be a binding thing.
I would have to take it to him after we come to terms and we
would still have more negotiations to go.
But I think setting the framework might be a good idea.
You know, putting a little bit of forward work into
negotiations before the actual captains decide to captain.
If you get my name. Yes, absolutely.
Did I say we have come to an accord?
I'd say at this point, too, the sun is going over the horizon
and they're lighting some of the candelabras.
And somehow they, they seem to have found a couple chandeliers
per Mima's request too, and set it up on on deck, which they
they seem to be lighting it with little like some sort of magical
light because it's not a, a full flicker.
It's kind of more of a, a dance on the flame than than usual,
which doesn't seem to, you know, it's probably a safety
precaution, it seems like, but they, they, they all you, you
guys would pass it out. Some of the details.
I would guess in, in, in the final hours as the sun is
setting over the horizon and Grand Am, you wouldn't know.
Oh, actually, we'll go back over to Kat and Rahl first before we
circle. I think Mime, you're just
chilling, right? So what was it said or?
Yeah, I'm, I'm hanging out with the DNA, trying to figure out if
a DNA needs anything or keeping keeping a DNA company while, you
know, they prepare food. OK.
Oh yeah, I'm wise at RAHL. The only thing I've got is
another attempt to maybe re lock it and see if that would.
Allow me to withdraw my pics unless cat has anything but.
Raul's just like Cat. I really think at some point you
should learn some utility spells.
So you want to roll another thread of hand?
Telling you what to do, but like, what do we do if we have
to get through a magic door? We're fucked.
Anyway, would be a perfect. What do you think, Cat?
Cat to try and lay an egg. Yeah, I looked a cat to see if
she has had any other ideas before I attempt to reverse what
we just did. And barring that, GTFO, she's
not here. Oh.
Great. Oh, I see it.
I see it down there now. Oh, she's.
In a BRB. Yeah.
OK, do you want to do the others then first while we wait for
her? Not bad.
Yep, and damn, you're going around the she.
Stopped even listening. Yeah, I'm going around the ship
listening to the turtles, talking to the rats.
Yeah, and you're and. Informing them that when I if I
yell for them there will be a lot of food in return for them
coming to help. And most of them kind of
proliferate, obliferate the same story that, you know, they've
seen other ships come and go, but most don't cause battle.
Does that seem to be your line of questioning?
Yeah, they're they're chill. I get it.
I didn't return back to our ship in rat form.
Before you do that, you'd probably happen upon Rarl and
Cat in the captain's area, standing outside.
Are you there, cat? I don't know if he's.
A rat he's placed over cat. God, they don't.
That's. Taken a nap I.
See them standing outside the door?
Can I squeeze my rat body through the gap under?
The door. No, it's it's that tight, like I
was saying the cat that he couldn't even get his head to
the ground to look. I like an at an angle through
underneath of it because rats though is like.
Pretty small holes, but. Rapid.
Yeah, there's a rat with that. Flowers.
He stands. Up like rats on.
His hind legs and just holds his hands up like.
Oh my God, look at it. It's so cute.
Hello, Kathy. He.
Waves. And squeezes.
I'm trying to talk but can't. You can see too, Raoul's hands
are like looking like they are stuck at the door, you know?
And I got no. Options Cat.
I shake her a little bit. OK, rat, I don't know if you can
speak common, but you seem smart.
We need help, Rat. I picked this lock but there's a
magical trap on it so I either need to run away really fast or
try to undo it or I don't know. What do you think rat?
But I also have a chicken in the bag and she cast spells so who
the fuck knows. Anyway, the rats just going to
like, lift his little paws up and shrug.
I think I understood me cat. God this world is so crazy.
OK I'm going to try to undo the lock by re unlocking re locking
it from the inside. With that.
Information I can give you. I'm going to go hide behind
something in case it explodes. I could give you some more time
if you wanted by giving a final explanation of what's going on
on the ship deck there sure to because you would probably hear.
You got all. Damage, I don't know what else.
To do it'd. Actually be.
Oh, OK, back now. Never mind, here we go.
I am back. I'm sorry.
No worries. You wake up, I'm shaking you.
Cat, what do we do? We need the stuff to stay in
place. It's a really smart rat
watching. I turn and I look at a rat.
The rat waves. I kind of like cocked my head,
but I wave back at the rat and I'm like, do we know this rat?
Think so. He's probably, you know what?
He's probably that rat that no that was not a rat that was like
a there anyway. OK my my only thought is like
try to re lock it and then undo like take my pics out or cast
the reduce on the door but that might explode it.
So I did Narcana check on the door and I could tell that it
was magically enchanted. Could I tell any details?
How are you checking this thing? I'm going.
To need. This there too.
I extend my wizard senses to get a grasp on what kind of
enchantment has been placed on the door.
Do does it feel like a destructive, defensive reactive?
Can I tell if it's going to blow up or make a sound?
It seems to be a combination of defensive and reactive.
Just with your overall understanding of it.
You're not seeing any particular ruins on this side of the door.
You were. You're looking and kind of
trying to gauge what or how something might be triggered and
you're thinking that a lot of the magical parts of it must be
set up on the other side of the door.
Because even with that 32 that, that you're, you're feeling, you
know, the senses of, of, of magic at in the door frame and
on the inside of the room. In the door frame and the inside
of the room visually, no representation on this side of
the door. Wait.
Wait, can I tell if it is linked to the door or to the the the
the the key in the lock? It's it seems to be currently
active and you know, it's hard to tell exactly, but there is
some magical parts in both in in both, you know, the door and the
lock. But like I said, it seems active
currently. What if you just reduce the size
of the board next to the door? Don't do it to the door that
like the part next to the door and then you just stick your
hand through. Our little rat friend here.
Would. He put under the door.
Oh, we tried that. What if you reduced him?
That's what I was thinking because I also have tongues
which would let them understand any spoken language and would
also let us understand them. Is this a concentration?
No. And what else was I looking for?
Enlarge, reduce, enlarge. That one is a concentration.
OK, so the tongues is it, but this one is.
So I'm going to just reach down and very gently with the tip of
my wing feather, touch the little rat and cast tongues on
it so that we can understand him.
And I say I'm like whispering all of this still trying to
remain really quiet. I say I was like little rat,
could you, if I made you smaller, fit under the door?
Could I? How much is it reducing it again
by like 1 size category if I remember correctly and A and a
rat's already is tight tight tiny is there?
That yes, it is called freaking. Minuscule.
Not how? What was that word for that?
Jacob was was. I mean, let's see what the
Googles have to say. Yeah, that's what I'm doing.
Tiny, small, medium, large, huge, and gargantuan.
Nah, there used to. There used to be a below tiny.
There's diminutive and fine. Mini.
Yeah, must say. Diminutive is any org is a
height of 6 inches or less. What then?
What is small? Five feet.
OK, no, you're tiny. 2 foot, 2.5 feet.
You're a big rat. Wait, this rat's 2 feet?
It's. Like the size of a nice cat.
A big boy. It's the size of me, a chicken.
Yeah. Kill it?
How many new? York subway rats.
OK, so I think. Roll on that show.
I think even if I shrink him down he's not going to fit under
the door, but the shrinking of the board next to it might be a
good idea. I could sense runes in the room.
Can I sense their location? Is the door framed out?
It's not it's not ruins. Why don't you just shrink the
door? It's not ruins that you're
sensing necessarily. It's a magically trapped.
Yeah. It's just magic that you're
sensing because it's it's too, you know, broad right now.
You don't, you can't see it physically.
It's just, you know, like a feeling, like a, like almost a
gut feeling if you would, but you know, a little bit more than
that in the magical senses. It's you're, you're pretty
confident in those assertions. But no, they're, they're small
assertions to begin with. It's not very certain.
Yeah, I'm pretty much just like guessing flying by the seat of
my pants. OK so I'm looking at the store.
Paul Ralston is stuck holding. He's stuck holding the locks in
place and if he releases it, it will activate whatever trap it
is because that's what the spells attached to is the lock
on the door itself. That I can tell.
You're, you're guessing, Yeah. Educatedly guessing, Yeah.
How else would you trigger it if you were?
What else do I see around us? What is around the door?
Besides the wood wall, I. Call from my rat friends.
Could I make them make a pyramid up and take and have one at the
top take the lock picks in exchange for a wheel of cheese?
I could you. I pull a cookie out of my bag
and I set it on the ground and I'm like, what about cookies?
You just start yelling then for them or do you like?
This was just an idea. OK, you could you could
visualize that. I hold up a little finger and I
scamper off to find the nearest collection of rats.
OK, the giant rat left. Thank God.
He's so creepy. We know that rat.
Is this rat familiar? I don't think so.
He didn't speak at. All if I find anybody I'm going
to come back with like 4 rats and.
Then try to. Communicate to move a box so
that they can stand on it and take.
There isn't any boxes in the in this area, but you did.
I'm trying to think because this is this is like the captain's
corridor so that he keeps up looking like you do find you do
find some probably like a pile, probably like a pile of rope or
something. You know, that would make sense
to me. Want want to much Actually, you
know what, it would make sense to maybe have a couple crates up
there. So there there's something like
that around that rats come pushing back a a smaller like 2
foot crate. What you guys?
It's coming back, it's got friends.
Oh God, should we run? Once the crate is in position,
I'm going. To I look at you and I'm like,
no, hold still, but I get like close to your feet and I'm kind
of like my wings are up a little bit like oh God, what's
happening? Trying to take the lock picks.
Oh, the rat is helping us. It's helping us.
Why doesn't they want? To talk to us.
There's still the company on the ground.
Roll a Dexterity saving throw. Well, for the rats.
Yes. Wait, all of us are just the.
Rats. Just the rats.
Can I help? It's already in your hands and
it's it I'm thinking of. It's more of it's like in the
jostling of, you know, switching from one hand to the next, so.
In the midst of this happening, I'm going to kind of stand in
between Rarlsson and the door, and I'm going to prepare a spell
to just like throw up to protect us.
Come on rat don't suck. Dexterity saving throw for a
rat? Where's the rat stat block?
I was just looking at it. We're in danger.
Rat Dexterity is a plus 00. No, we're in danger.
Which means, am I in this blast or am I just rolling for the
rats? You're rolling to right now.
This is just to, you know, steadily take over.
The All right, so there it's it's all a rat.
OK, where's the fucking rat? Boom.
Critical for rats, critical for rats?
Pretty close not. Quite critical, but definitely
not great. With the two you.
You kind of misjudge in your smaller size how the like not
having thumbs was going to work. And the one lock pick of the two
falls out of the door and you know, you try to catch it and
that pulls the other lock pick out of the door.
And you you all hear a a, a a slight tumbling sound as if sand
and then a junk. I immediately throw up a shield
when I see the pin fall from the door so that there is a magical
shield between the door and us. And if possible, I would.
Shimmering across the captain's door, A A just like a phrase in
bluish letters that says you were locked out for 10 minutes.
You know the passcode. I'm just leaving.
I oh, I see that happen and I'm like, you know what?
You know what, I dropped the shield and I walk up to the door
and I cast reduce and I just shrink the door.
You know what? I hold my reaction.
Set anything specific up for this?
My brain trying to go through some options, but basically I
think what would would happen is as you rink the door, the the
phrase and everything shrinks with it with the blue letters
and a fine mist comes out of the edges of the door that seemed to
kind of float around and it sounds like the rats already
took off. If you guys could roll me
another Dexterity saving throw, all of you.
As. Soon as I saw the thing, I was
going to leave. But you know what?
You would get advantage. No.
Natty 20 for 27. You'd get advantage as well
having got advantage. On that SO.
There we go. 3020. I see that you're able to just
back out of the way with only a, right?
Here, Dingleberry right here. Full drops landing on you, maybe
cat grand am you're you're tripped up a little bit by some
of the other rats running away, you know, after the scurrying
and dropping. So you get pretty much covered
in this mist as well as rural. You with your natural 20 are
somehow back on a dune. I'm just kidding.
You're you're. You're.
Like a cat who just gets startled just.
Gone. That that that fucking chaotic
tornado run back to any place safe.
That's what I that's what I mean.
You would probably use all of your movement to get away from
it, and that's all of your movement just back on fucking a
dune. But I.
Wouldn't abandoned them though. At.
OK, yeah, but you, you. You want to tell me how you
succeed? Then that was just my.
Well, as I'd said, so I had, I had readied my action.
So I think I was going to ready it for fly and then just eat
myself as far backward as possible while flying and while
wildly scrambling at the air until I like get close to a wall
and then I'll go around the corner and then I poke my eyes
around it. You.
OK. That's not far too far behind
you. Getting around, getting to the
corner right where you're hiding from and you see a couple specks
of what looks like glowing red dust on on cat and a what looks
like now glowing red rats scurrying away.
Glowing red rats. Uh oh oh.
No it. Released something terrible onto
the sheep. It was in the How could it be
terrible? I don't know.
Well, no, the rat, it's a red lightning rat.
An evil death rat. I'm going to inspect this fog
now that I can see it, do I? Should.
Leave, I probably announced. Or did the door actually like
shrink too? The door, the door still shrunk.
Wait, no, it isn't because you you would have to roll me a
visit Constitution saving throw to see if you kept concentration
during that exchange. And yeah, so you, you, you got
distracted by it in the door, just slam back into place
basically at the size it was. And it wouldn't have just
flopped over and lost connection with all sides of the with all
four sides of itself it. Wasn't can I roll?
It wasn't very slow. This miss that was coming out
like as you could see it's it's still got you with an unnatural
20. So it all happened like within
seconds. Can can I roll a chance to see
if I accidentally needed myself into the room like while it was
open for the split second and I cast fly and like threw myself
out try to get out of the way I. Don't know if you'd want want
that to be rolled or if you wanted that to be the way that
you succeeded because that was a natural 20 all.
Right. I guess I'll that's true.
I guess I will. I will use that as my success.
So as soon as I see it open, I would have dashed through with
my with my readied action. In that case, though, I would.
Wow. No, I would still, I would still
say that it's. Yeah, it have to be.
So you still make it through? Yeah.
But you're you're see. You see on the other side of the
door, standing there, not only the captain's corridors, but
what looks like that red mist settling on the floor.
And it's glowing as well, all around the door on your side.
You probably, you probably would notice that when you look back
at the door that's enlarged back into its spot, You how are you
touching it? No, I don't want to touch it.
Floor dust is lava. Yeah, let's.
Enjoy putting our hands on that and.
Get under the wall. I climb onto the wall.
It's not feeling in the room or anything like that.
Like I said, it kind of settled down at the floor.
He said that fuck you dust. I look around, this is really
bad. They don't have a torque.
A room looks very well ordered. Other than that red dust,
everything looks like it has a placed a place.
There isn't a speck of dust otherwise everywhere else, and
there's some really nice stuff like collection of the captains
it seems like all around, and probably what seems to be the
captain sitting at his desk now looking at you.
I look like the captain on the wall on.
The ceiling. A captain weirdly crawling on
the wall quick. Act like a poltergeist.
Just freak him out. Wait question, how did the
captain get here if we also met the captain at the front and
then beelined here? You assumed that was the captain
that was actually the first mate.
He just pointed at his four stripes.
Wow. OK, we do look like the first
mate. She still look like the captain.
Oh no. Then I would look like that.
I would look like that guy there.
I would look like. That was your interest?
Mate, 'cause I yeah, my assumption was that was the
captain, yeah. So even better.
So you look like the first mate hanging on his ceiling.
OK, would I have I dropped to the ground?
I say. Captain, I forgot the password.
And you just size actually go ahead and roll me a deception.
I'm now eavesdropping at the door, just listening.
No OK let's do this. Should I use friends on this
dude so I can get out? So what did you say?
I'm sorry. I said.
Captain I I forgot the password for the door.
And with that, Grand AM is going to scream in his little rat
voice and take off, trailing that red, that powder with him.
Think there's a giant captain? Maybe have a rat infestation?
That's what I came to tell you. Good one cat.
Yes, good. One and you can't help hear hear
through the door, though, because you, you sense some of
the magic that must be on it as some sort of you know, like one
of the protections that you were sensing before must be that
protecting sound in and out escaping.
But for yourself. Raul, he he he just did you get
that deception out there? I didn't see anything.
Let me throw one out 12. He's going to have to roll,
roll. I don't.
Want to end this in violence? After all that great
negotiation, damn it. He just goes, he just goes.
He he just sighs and he goes. You know, you May 1st I chose
you because you're so diligent in your work.
But there are sometimes when you should learn how to delegate.
You know. Captain, I think you are
absolutely right. In fact, we should discuss the
plans for the upcoming feast and then I will go and use my new
like delegation skills to tell other people what to do, which
we already have like but like final, you know, preparations,
stuff like that hidden secrets, secondary plans, what happens if
they try to kill us, that kind of thing.
We've. Gone over the plans like 1000
times. I know I was drinking.
He just writes. Down.
I'm just so stressed. Says under his breath, and
you're off the next port. Well, as if you were.
Need a reminding. You were.
I take out a notebook.
Better note taking for delegation, Captain.
You you should already know that if they turn hostile towards us,
we already have all of the cannons primed and ready.
It would just be a matter of of getting the men where they need
to be. And we do have some of the
others that can do do the work for us.
Actually, we might even be able to.
I'm not getting into that. You don't need to know every
contingency. But of course, captain, you're
the captain. The main main issue way that we
could protect ourselves if they become hostile, but I don't
foresee that being an issue. I've heard great things from the
rum rollers. They're they're usually helping
people and I'm hoping they can help us like I've told you and
all of. You did tell me that, yes.
Sorry, I don't mean to interrupt you.
Where's the second mate? I might think I might need to
promote him anyways. I.
Can't. One more chance.
I will promise you this will go perfectly.
It will go well. I I just need one more chance
to. Prove myself will be the good
deal. I'll I, I, I, I, I, I, I I will
get this a good deal, Captain. I will impress them, they will.
They will speak highly. OK, go on.
Look, the best thing that's going to be for you is to take
those pieces of information I gave you, go out to the crew and
tell them to continue their work, setting up their
preparations and I'll be out. And he looks over at a a ticking
piece in If You as as the sun finishes its journey over the
horizon and the first stars take light.
This is why you are the Captain. I write that down.
Good stuff. OK, perfect.
Thank you, Captain. Sorry about the door.
Just so you know, do you have a giant evil rat problem on board?
We should take care of that. And then I will go let them
know. Not a problem.
They take care of themselves. They just take care of our
scraps. We don't have to clean as much.
But I'm tired of telling you. Goodbye, Guam.
This one was like 4 feet tall, 2 feet tall telling you it's.
Like I know you are a crat, I have a Nosebleed.
He just turns turns back to his work.
He's writing me. Hurry out.
Wait. As he's writing it down.
I, I kind of like, I just kind of like stretch and it's kind of
like sewage ring. Sewage ring.
Steal what? Probably like fire this guy, no?
What? What?
No. What did you say?
I I didn't catch it. Oh, I want to try to sneakily
see what he's writing in his book.
Oh, see what he's writing? I thought you said steal his
ring. I was like, what?
What? Thank you.
Let me just kiss you a ring. Perfect.
Anyways, so you are trying to see what he's writing it it
looks like he's writing on a piece of two way paper with the
other captains and in the margins of the two way paper.
He's he's got names and scores it seems like for the different
crew for the rankings and such and is making some marks in
yours it looks like at this particular moment.
I'm like, Nah. Walk back outside and I look
around and look. I pop up from the corner after I
couldn't hear anything. I just kind of like kept watch.
My backpack 11 One quick performance from you cat just
because there was one person that did walk by.
And I kept it as chickeny as possible.
Right. Oh, wait, you said performance.
That was perception. Oh, that wasn't very bad.
So chickeny that they want to eat you.
They they look down at you and go, oh, maybe that's why that
one hasn't been eaten. Looks like it's got worms.
Keeps walking. I kind of just puff indignantly,
but yeah, as soon as we're also walked back out and he says get
my backpack, I'm going to just like jump to his shoulder and
wiggle my way back into the backpack.
And move the. Whistle.
Walk about back out on the deck, still as the first mate.
Not back out on the deck, but if I see somebody else that's
headed inside after they pass, I will then turn into them and
then exit again. OK.
And then, promptly, when nobody's watching, drop off the
side of the ship into the water. As you walk back out there is
another crew member that is just finishing up what looks like
winding a a spool of rope and looks over it.
Wait a SEC, did I just didn't you?
Did you forget something? I did.
Yeah. I have to go.
I forgot something in the water. My lunch.
I tied a lobster to the bottom of the boat so it would stay
fresh. OK.
You hope you tied the line really long, I will.
Jump. Jumping on and off chip all day
for using the head. Oh geez, yeah, that's a good
point. I'll have to stay far away from
there. Woof.
Busy day, bye. Jumps off the side of chips with
cat in the book bags. Around this is cool cat.
I can breathe underwater now. I'm just like, yeah.
And then slow and then make my way back.
I look. Oh, yeah, you can't.
Hold on. I'll cast water breathing on
her. Isn't this cool?
We should make our way back to the others.
I guess so desperately. And I'm like, yes, please.
You start to choke on some of the air that's got caught in
your lungs from the the the transition.
Yeah, it's a rough one. Air, I'm like I, I tap on the
tour, I'm like, guys, we're on our way back, still choking a
little bit. Have you picked up smoking?
I told you not to do that. No, I swear it's not that.
It's oh, it's it's water. It's air.
I'm not sure what it is. Breathing is hard.
Oh, OK, we'll make it back safely.
I will my love, I'll be there soon.
Forgot. Then the next 45 minutes hunting
fish. That one looks like Nemo.
Damn you made it. You've you've had to have made
it back to ship as the spell is running out basically and you
are still glowing very much red in your transformed shape even.
Even after being in the water. Grand Am didn't go in the water.
Oh, OK. And you know, you would probably
finished up with the the mates and we're standing on on the
deck after a discussion with them, it comes to a conclusion
and of of pretty much the terms that you guys had already talked
about just written down, you know.
Yeah, and he would go, he would go talk to the CAP, to the
Admiral afterward, after the meeting was over.
OK. And inform Mimi of the terms.
And you have anything to say to that Mimi?
Or do you need a? Reminding of what those terms
are that were discussed. Yeah, tell me, tell.
I mean, some did. Does everybody return to Dune at
the same time? I think.
Quite. Probably at.
Different times. I wouldn't say I wouldn't.
I would say rural and cat are the last.
Well, oh, that's true. OK.
Especially after you're going hunting for fish.
No, because I would like to see everybody's reaction to
everybody else's. AI want to hear, you know, in
their own words, what they took away from these experiences.
BI want to see everybody's reaction to what right because
they saw two very different. Things yeah, they everybody
would make it back just to just as you're hearing from we're
doing any of that the the mate seems to have made it his way.
I don't. I'm kind of guessing Kidder you
were hanging out on deck until the others made it back, so
you're probably. Yeah, he was making sure
everybody, yeah, making sure everybody made it back onto the
deck. Does he see the glow?
Actually, yeah, he would see Grand Am glowing red.
Who makes it back on board 1st? And what mischief have you been
up to as he looks down? Squeak.
Shrug, and then you would turn back into Grand Am as the spell
runs out to an hour, right? Yeah, less an hour.
I made some red. Squeaks.
I can see that anything that would adversely affect the
captain's plans. My fault if it does.
Your general appearance would say you got to something.
I mean, I was present when someone else got into something.
Was anyone harmed or caught? I don't think so.
I think we're good, maybe. Are we go are.
We the good guys. Yes, yes.
Go clean yourself. Go clean yourself.
Make yourself presentable. What's presentable?
I'm sure there's a dwarf way of proper etiquette.
I might be bringing friends to the party.
You're right, I should get cleaned up.
And with. That he's going to go find like
a tub. As he says that the the walk.
Over and jump into the ocean. Everybody else is doing it.
As he as he says that, the vein on the side of Hero's head just
enlarges. Like what, friends?
Oh yeah, all sorts of questions are burning through Kira's head.
Right. Now, so you jump in into the
ocean Grand Am and then Raul and Cat would probably jump out.
Yep, Raul currently looks like Jason Mamoa.
From. Aquaman and cat.
Still has some glowing bits on your feathers of red you see
after even being in the water. That's going to be a dead
giveaway, cat. I I pop out of out of the
backpack and onto the deck and I kind of try to start like
fastidiously cleaning my feathers while inspecting
whatever this red is. Like is this poison?
Am I'm not about to be hurt? Am I going to be set on fire?
You're cleaning it and cleaning and cleaning.
It's like one of those like feels almost like one of those
three spots that like, yeah, it's like you can't, you can't
get off basically how how much you, you wipe it at.
I'm just like holding out my wing, looking at these feathers
with the dots and I'm like, what is this?
And you're able to sense magic from it, so you're guessing that
it's some sort of magical mark. I kind of like, I kind of like
let out this big sigh. And I was like, oh, maybe
there's something about this in one of my books.
And I kind of like, marched downstairs and I'm like a dude,
I look at me, are you OK? Let me just ask her how she's
doing. She would she'd respond with
well, you seem frazzled deer. I was.
I'm doing fine. I've got my my tasks with the
food. I'm quite nearly done with the
all of the, all the appetizers, the entree finished and I'm
mostly done with the desserts. What is that on you?
And you're kind of racking your brain and this quite, quite be
it you, you was trying to look up something in the meantime
too, to see if there's already a spell of some sort like this or
if I'm just making stuff up. Here I would have saw a cat once
his other side of his head would have.
The fame would have bulged out. Some naked stuff up.
You're completely you're kind of renaissance.
You're kind of remembering a spell, though, that one of your
friends were was creating to to start selling to people in a in
a scroll form that just about anybody could actually use, but
would basically mark things if they were opened or closed
without the correct, you know, magically keyed thing to unlock
it. He thought he was going to make
become very rich from this because of all the people that
have money and want to protect it.
I look at it and I realize I was like, I know this.
I remember that guy. And you recall that he he was
pretty proud about the mark not even being able to be removed by
most magical means. You would.
You kind of brushed it off though, because it wasn't your
field of study. Can I make a history check to
see if I remember him talking about it at all and anymore
after the initial fact? Oh, OK, 22.
You know, from, from the, from his talks and lectures that,
that he was able to stand up and, and you, you kind of tuned
most of it out. But you, you're like it if it,
if it was a, depending upon this, this spell level that, you
know, he could charge higher prices for it to, for the higher
castings of the spell to do this.
But the issue he was trying to get past was the dispel magic
part. And that's probably where the
the levels was discussion was coming in because you need a
higher level of dispel magic to, you know, get rid of higher
levels of of the of his spell too.
OK, so I do not have the ability to get rid of this.
It's a good thing you are projecting yourself as a regular
chicken, I guess. Oh no.
This chicken, it, it's so mischievous.
It's getting into things. I, I guess while thinking all of
this, I would kind of be like speaking it out loud to a dune,
like just like having a conversation with her.
And at one point I would ask her be like, do we have maybe I can
just paint over this until it goes away or until I am able to
get rid of it. You could pluck your feathers,
the ones that have the tiny bits.
I could. How many dots do I have on me?
There's all varying sizes there's Let's see what the fates
say. They're generous to you tonight.
Only 10. If I RIP out 10 of my wing
feathers I am going to look nasty.
Yeah. Well, some of the dots are
probably on a couple of the same feathers, but that's that's how
many dots there are. We'll say it's on like 5
feathers mainly you got you got mostly away before it any of it
could actually get you. OK, I am going to take the time
to just start like plucking these feathers off and then
fastidiously grooming the rest. It does.
It does seem to stay with the feathers that were that the dot
was attached to, you would have tried to when you were in your
cleaning, you know, tried to maybe even like like spit shine
or like, you know, like like put some other color of like dust or
dirt on top of it and realize that it somehow shines through
that. Good stuff.
Yeah, I'm going to just start plucking them off.
And I'm like, man, this stuff is a pain in the ass.
I should have paid attention when that guy was talking about
it. And I just like I'm plucking
them off and putting the feathers 1 by 1 into my bag of
holding just so that they are out of sight and nowhere on the
ship to be found. Yeah, Grand Am.
You get back up on the deck, still glowing.
Beautiful. You hear me?
You hear me at the tail end of talking about how a terrifying 2
foot rat monster with friends tried to help or tried to tried
to help us. It was wonderful giant rat
monsters coming to our rescue. Let's get this What A2 would
alert you? Maybe that everybody's on deck.
And how much time has passed? Probably a little bit over an
hour. Probably like going on an hour
and a half, two hours. So and you said Aduna or DNA
mentioned that they're mostly finished with the preparations?
She has lots of hands, yeah. So how long until the?
Feast starts. Do you think Ferraro?
How long until the? Feast, yeah.
Yeah, because it was like 6 hours I think if I recall when
we left the ship. Oh, so from your time.
Probably. When it when?
When Mima stopped talking to the captain, we still have like 5
hours. Four hours?
How long were we on the ship before the all these people
left? No, you're, you're guessing that
it's going to be happening soon because the sun is just gone
over the horizon and the lights fading.
Got maybe 15 minutes before everybody starts sitting down
and that's when the first mate comes over to and announces such
to you guys. It's like, hey, yeah, just
wanted to let me know. I don't know why he was so
frustrated at me for asking exactly.
He seemed to think I was already there, but wanted to, wanted to
me to let you guys know that he'd be set.
We'll be all settling in for the feast here soon as the first
stars light over the horizon. Thank You, Beautiful.
But we need to talk, we need a plan, I need we need to gather
all the information. Yeah, we we would all want to go
to discuss the pregame that's. That's.
Pregame and pre plan. I mean with.
Us, our Admiral. Thanks.
KIRO thanks, Thanks The first mate, on behalf of the cat of on
behalf of the Admiral, you just. Dodds tips his hat and says OK
so you weren't talking about pre gaming with the ad with my
Admiral OK And then he turns on his heel and walks with.
Kiero kind of does about turn going.
Some thoughts should be kept inside, not outside.
So I've made friends with all the rats and they seem pretty
chill, both the rats and the people on the boats.
They're a little uptight but you know they are traitors every
time. They've fought as most people
against pirates. Also, I may have invited all the
rats. If it comes down to it, it'll be
a great distraction. I turned over and I'm like, you
invited the rat. And at what point did you?
Turn. I did.
The Rat King. This is a terrible problem.
There's a Rat King we have to fight.
I did. Hi, yeah, I didn't do that.
They did that. He points at Rarlsson.
I didn't invite the Rat King. No, but you made me shiny.
How you weren't even there. He's just like.
Doesn't want to explain. Yeah, Grand Am will not not
explain and he just kind of blinks at you asynchronous.
I'm going to. I want to roll an intelligence
check and see if I can connect the dots.
Wait, I don't have. Any by the way that's a tell at
any point is if you were looking at an animal that is a grand am,
it will probably blink out of sync.
Just blink, blink. So far, every time I've seen you
as like an animal has been separate, like you've never
transformed in front of me and. He's always scruffy, like he's
always scruffy and bedraggled. Anyway I.
Rolled I rolled a dirty 20. Hell yeah.
Pat, were you there that time that he turned into a squirrel
too? Yes, it was.
Yeah, I was standing at the foot of the mass that he climbed.
Yeah. So then definitely you would you
would kind of put two and two together.
I do. I'm, I kind of like am squinting
at you, up at you. And I'm like when I look over at
Roberson and I squint back at you, but I don't say anything.
I'm like, he'll get it. I don't.
Appreciate on that. Speaking of which, you hear a
oh, wait a second from just across halfway across the
gangplank. The first mate turns on his heel
again back towards you and looks at you Grand am square on and it
was to raise his hand and point and then closes his mouth as it
opens and then opens it again and then closes it.
And then I have finally, quietly, finally says did you
have one of those girls that went bad?
That happened to me last week. You're just going to want to get
some lemon juice. And then he turns around and
walks away. Puts the knife away.
What's a lemon? I have no idea.
I wait to make sure that the turtle is actually like gone
across the gangway and not in earshot.
And I'm like, it's a fruit. They're kind of exotic, but
they're stingy when you eat them.
Eat stingy fruit. And I eat fruit and should just
eat meat. Do do the.
Cream. With what color and shape is it?
It's normally yellow and it's kind of shaped like a big egg.
I think we I got some from the crew across the way.
I'd used it in making some of the sauces.
I I still have a few. Yes, we're good to see one of
these. Lemons.
Oh, that's right Captain, we trust them too.
I went to talk to the captain as the first mate and they also
said that they're. Trying to be our friends.
OK. OK so so no anti magic.
I think no anti magic. Sushi and no releases yeah I.
Think we actually should and I. Think all they want.
To just genuinely party tonight. Is for you to like introduce
them to the Queen. Did they say why?
Because. They want, I believe, make
friends. I I believe I can shine light to
that cat from my meeting with the other first mates.
So this group of turtle are seafaring folk moving from
location to location. Their Admiral, the Pompous 1.
He has a grand plan to find them settlements and believes that he
can convince the Queen of Socrates that they be an asset
and would like to get settlement and land from them.
I on your behalf talked with the first mates to figure out all
how they'd like to do this and they pretty much said they would
like to. Their words was get a flag.
I'm going to assume that they would like to sail under a
nation's colors. Not 100% sure of their meaning,
but I did tell them as I did tell them that we, or more
precisely you, would be gracious enough to go with their Admiral
and beseech the Queen to allow them to have a settlement of
land for them to set routes. In return they would give us
admirable trades and information on the Seaways if we need it.
He just said a lot of words to say the same things.
I just. Said, you know, it would be
nice. It would be nice to avoid the
tentacle monsters going. Forward.
I'm sure with. I'm sure with.
Unless we can make a dune like a submarine and make friends with.
Them I can help with that, they seem nice.
It's Walter breathing on a dune. I don't think a dune breathes.
But we have. You know.
We have started drafting drafting.
We have started drafting the documents or the Admirals
signatures. As long as everyone behaves
themselves and the festivities go on without any problems, I
believe we should easily garner a good trade and a ally along
seas. If that is acceptable to you,
Admiralty may. No, we'll see how well they.
Party You know Captain, we are in possession of a new trading
route and currently we only have one ship to trade.
These turtles are Wanderers, so maybe the merchants life would
be more akin to their needs. How do you think Shandar would
take? Portals.
Well, I believe they wish to. Probably fly under.
Well, that's the thing. They could fly under either
Shand or like have a spawning ground by Shandar or Socrates.
I believe they're. Right, so I'm assuming they can
now instead of us ferry dragon? It would be back and forth
between. The Queen and the and the and
Shawn. Or it could be them.
I believe it is and. That they would.
Pay us for it. Sorry.
Go ahead. Sorry, KIRO.
I believe it is their goal to make Socrates their settlement
at home so we could. That is the Admiral grand plan.
We could absorb them into our company, they could base
themselves out of Socrates if the queen allows it, and they
could set up like a little like trading hub on Shondar's Island.
And then we just set it and forget it and make our money.
Yeah, capitalism. I don't believe, I don't believe
we came to terms as far as monetary issues.
I believe I was would have left that to the.
Let's look what the feast is for.
Let's Yeah. Let us go feast.
Let us again. I make no decisions on an empty
stomach. My stomach is very empty.
I would like to feast. I say, I say I like these.
I think this is good. I think we move in this
direction. I'm glad.
I'm glad every We're we're everyone's going to be amenable.
I'm glad we don't have to to fight, you know, big three big
giant ships versus our a DNA, which is very capable, but
smaller. So yeah, let's go, let's go
feast. Let's go get them all very drunk
and make sure, you know, sober drunk drunk words or sober
thoughts. Let's let's go see this if this
carries out and then we will continue on to sorcrities with a
hopefully then a oh, an escort. Yeah, so we have these giant.
Miami, which would make one final situation, may instead of
talking business, it feels to me that their culture is much
attuned to doing things level headed and unintegrated.
So I say we, as you say, party, and then in the morning after
everyone's festivities, we didn't conduct proper
negotiation. I mean that yes, yes, I agree.
That was that was my intention, right?
What you all have done in the last, you know, two hours.
So this information is good information.
This is what I was hoping to glean for the feast.
But now that we don't have to glean information, all we have
to do is confirm what you have found in your in your
adventures. Now we can confirm and in the
morning we can be sure and confident.
I'm glad our reports find you amenable.
You're doing great. That's good news, yeah.
And. For everybody.
Yeah. This is the first time y'all see
KIRO without all the heavy armor on.
He is dressed very formally in a kimono right now.
He is look. He is looking.
Sharp that's. Nice.
I mentioned that. I mentioned I'm like you look
snazzy and I kind of like looked down at myself and I'm like, I
miss clothes. I.
Do name. Oh, I guess me and May would go
change at this point. Me and May bought fancy.
Clothes. Last time we were in a town.
And. Dune would chime in with I do
too. I would love to find me
something like that talk talking about Kiro's kimono.
Maybe when I'm on shore next I will find you some.
Yeah, I feel like we could put Cat in a really nice like,
jacket. Make a little dressed up
chicken. Yeah, like a sleeveless like
Blazer or. Something I am confused.
Cat. Were you not always, little
vest? I I kind of like straighten
myself up to my whole like 2 feet and I'm like, no, I was
once a beautiful man, but the last I offended someone, maybe a
goddess and she turned me into a chicken and I kind of slump.
Magic. I I feel sorry that that
happened to you cats. I apologize if I always assumed
you were a chicken. No, but.
Alas, and it is not my preferred form, I do not regret it because
it has led me to a Dune and I kind of just like like drag my
my feather tips across her decks and I'm like, I am so glad to
have found her. And I you cat as a wooden hand
comes to up to broken feathers. I lean into it.
But that is a wonderful way to finish.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's not the beautiful
ending scene, because with that I didn't spend time.
It's the show it. Was.
Yeah. Confirmation that we're not
going to get screwed. Yeah, first one.
Hero was a. Diplomatic.
I didn't attack anything. So proud of you.
You restrained yourself. Yeah.
Yeah, there's so much character growth this session, guys, and
so, so proud of you. All my brothers are getting
ready for the feast. Oh, they're.
Licking themselves, No. They're all getting.
They're putting little tuxes on and belt.
Yeah, he kind of looks over to arson, kind of like, can you get
your brothers? And he kind of points to Grand
AM assist the dwarf with cleaning.
If you touch me, I will expose you to horrors that you might
never experienced in your life. Oh, that's why.
That's why, Kira Yell pointed. He's not going to bring.
Over Jeffrey the Magnificent's face.
And I just squish it in front of you.
You're going to hit this guy. You're going to subject him to
horrors? For giving you a bath, look at
how. Cute he is.
Beyond your comprehension. Goodness.
And with that, it'll cut to Grand Am yelling like a cat in a
bathtub. No.
Floating in it. Scrubbed by 4 cats, Ladies.
Ladies, you've cleaned everywhere.
You've cleaned everywhere. Oh, I guess you haven't.
Oh my. Didn't even know I had.
One of those. Good games everyone, thanks.
Definitely. I'm going to go eat some pizza.
I'm done. See ya.
Have a good night. Bye.
Just Grand Am shows up to this thing looking like the beast
from Beauty and the Beast when he's living all gussied up.
Oh my. God, yeah.
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