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Tara through the campaign. Allelopolis fucking.
My reach out for your blessing. The Hand of fate tosses.
The dice rolls, spins, turns. A campaign starts and ends,
leaving memories that become stories.
Stories flow out into the Infinite Sea, painting it with
legends. Legends wash up on the shores
throughout the Infinite Sea, fitting to myths, until myths
are forgotten. And again, the Hand of fate
tosses the dice rolls, spins, turns.
Hitherto we left our adventurers known as the Rum Rollers in
Socrates after delivering the breath of the red dragon Shondar
to Sir Ferris Telemanus, the lead artificer of the factory
district in Socrates. On behalf of Queen Thea and the
people of Socrates, Sir Ferris Telus promised to work up the
cures for the citizens who who have had their magic sparks
stolen by the mana thieves from the ocean.
He also gave them gave the Rum Roller is a satchel that at the
end of each day will populate with their profits from the cell
of the potions that were the cure.
For. Everyone's individual man is
being stolen. Deciding their next moves was to
heal the newly acquired corpse of a wizard formerly known as
Matt Nimoway, KIRO and Araro take a carriage to Zenith, the
goddess of knowledge Altar Island, and on the after they
arrive, they are escorted into the Head Acolytes Chambers, who
promises to heal the body. And during their negotiations,
KIRO harvested some eyes, which the Head Acolytes said needed to
need. The corpse needed some eyes in
place so that the soul could still find the body, and he'd
found octopus eyes nearby to replace the missing ones in
Matt's. The wizard formerly known as
Matt's corpse, The Head Acolyte also says it will take 10 days,
and the ring Nimaway holds with his soul in it must be present
for the last two days of the ceremony for the the soul to
return to the healed body. The remoters also ask for any
corpses the acolytes might have to sacrifice to the PNC for the
10 that they require as tribute. And the head acolyte says you
probably manage something and get them bodies to their ship in
the morning. And then the rum rollers depart
back to a Dune's decks for dinner and plan their next moves
to find out what happens this time.
So you guys would be waking up, but I think we're doing
something else here. We're Franklin is visiting.
I don't know exactly how you how you're playing this so.
Yeah, I can take over. I'm going to display in VTT then
read in the other game, Franklin casts Dream at the end of his at
the end of his day. He curses to himself that the
Admiral did not reach out to hold his hand during the one
shot because he wanted to steal some of her blood, but she did
not let him, so this is not as strong as he wanted.
Admiral, describe for me your life like a joyous, innocent
like moment in your life before all of this, and you are in that
moment in your dream. OK, Yeah.
So when Mimae was a small, tiny child, right, and grew up very
happy, like in a small little village, like, you know, parents
that were just like farmers, right?
Would run around and go out in the little garden next to the
house and help the farmer or help their parents, you know, in
the garden. And there's a whole lot of fun,
you know, filling the basket with all, the, all the produce
that was growing from the plants in the garden, bringing it
inside, you know, and like washing it and helping to, to
cut it up or like help, help, you know, the parents prepare
meals, right? So so growing food, gathering
food, preparing food, eating food when they're very small,
all, all very happy memories. Excellent.
During this, this memory, you see forms all around you and
you'll, you'll go through a series of memories as you're
aging and these kind of amorphous, dark, shadowy forms
watch you. They speak to each other, they
point. Eventually one touch, it reaches
out, touches you on the forehead, and a burning mark, a
mark appears there and then disappears.
The scene backs out again, and now you hear instead the roar of
a crowd, ecstatic, exuberant. You smell the sense of dirt,
blood and sweat as you now see from the perspective of a
stranger, the same Colosseum that we fight in during your
rhythmic veracity. And this person, you, you feel
their terror and fear, holding their hands up, backing away,
saying I don't want this, I don't want to hurt anyone before
they are tackled to the ground and you experience death as
another contestant kills them. And then it switches perspective
to someone in the crowd. All you see around you, well
dressed people clearly out for a good time, their skin luminous
gold. These are the gods.
You see them pointing, You see them talking with little cards
to determine Who Will Win and who will die.
They're placing bats. They joke with each other.
Some don't pay attention. This is a sporting event for
them. You see yourself then ripped out
of a moment in your own life and dropped into the arena, but from
the perspective of like a third hand person the first time that
you were here and you see yourself fight.
You see yourself either kill or die.
I can't remember exactly what happened in the first one or you
actually did something like that and then sitting next to you I
don't think. Me ever participated?
If I remember. I think mommy participated in
the fighting, but. He may.
Refused to join in because it was an option.
It wasn't a, it wasn't forced. Yep, this is a dream though.
Oh, I. Understand.
I understand where you're going. I'm.
Yeah. And so then sitting next to you
in the stands is someone that you do recognize, Franklin pre
all of everything that had happened, dressed as a as a
young child or like a Boy Scout with a chain around his neck,
his hands and his feet. He kind of looks down at the
crowd and then over to you. He says, I know you don't like
me. I didn't choose any of this.
Neither did you. They did.
I don't. I don't know if we could find
common ground, but no, they chose us to kill each other.
They're pitting you versus me and they want to just see what
fucking happens. They don't care.
I just, I, I had to reach out, at least try and see if we
couldn't find some sort of agreement.
I don't want to be your enemy. I don't want to have to try to
kill you and your friends. I don't want to do bad things
and he holds a book closely to him, but they're making me so
Admiral, where do your values lie?
I, if given the choice, would kill all of these responsible
and free everyone. You were ripped from your home,
just like a hoe, just like all of us were.
The only reason we're on opposing teams is because they
put us there. Then he sits back, waiting for
Yeah, seeing if she'll respond. I.
Feel like Mimi so so is does Mimi Remember Remember
everything, everything. So remember, it's Secret
Invasion. Oh yeah, not the me may me may
gotten the gotten the the the full download after sitting at
the table. So technically, and I hate to
throw a wrench in your, your situation here, Matt, not a
ranch because you were sitting at the, the table.
You're even as Mimi aware of Olivia's perspective now.
It's like a constant stream of of background information that
Mimi is able to tap into basically.
I wasn't going to touch that yet.
That seems like a whole other like storyline, but I was just
dealing with what's here in the world that we find ourselves Ed.
Feel like Meme is just going to kind of look at Franklin after
he said all that and just like shoot him some finger guns,
right me May it's just like a humble, humble cleric.
Like I don't gods, I don't know. I don't even know how I became
the Admiral. Like I don't know what's going
on. I don't know what you want me to
do about it. I don't like have a ship.
I don't know. I keep my ship happy.
I try to make sure that the people in the party don't, you
know, do too many dumb things, even though I do dumb things
sometimes, like. We don't want great.
Distrust. Upon us, Admiral.
We don't want great distrust upon us at difficult times.
You have to do what you have to do.
If you continue on your path, you're either going to have to
run away from the problems that you're going to face very soon,
or you're going to have to step up on the whole other level.
I know it's hard. Change is hard.
It's OK to the. Point where I don't really
understand what you want me to do.
All I want is to us for her to for us to have an understanding
that for now, I'm not going to do anything negative to you and
your friends and you're not going to do negative to be and
my friends more specifically be it my friends are trapped in
hell right now. We're trying to get out.
Maybe just like don't close the portal till we do that would be
chill. I don't know where a portal to
hell is. Yes you do.
Don't lie. You you would know, I know you
might not remember, but it's at in the fissure is what something
else I've mentioned before, but I'm may not it may not have
trickled. Down the hell on the fissure.
Didn't we flood that shit? Yeah, but there there was, there
was also. A new one, right?
A professional necromancy cult there working on it and flooding
it didn't didn't ultimately like although the water went
somewhere, but it didn't it didn't fill up.
That was that was because you like created water to a point
that you drowned a bunch of water, drowned a bunch of
people, but then it hit the lava and turned a lot of it turned to
steam and some of it went down some of the holes of the caverns
that were based around it as well.
So it it dissipated, it didn't fill it, if that makes sense,
when we from when we did that. But you would know that only
that there's a a portal in the 1st in the fissure because of
what's been happening with mommy down in the levels of hell.
That I actually thinking about that now, because I don't
remember if I have explained that explicitly.
It was just implied because it timed perfectly with the time
that you guys were trying to get into hell and the gates that
were standing there that you guys hadn't opened.
But you opened the first door to hell, if you recall, and then
went through the the interstitial space.
We went through the shadow realm to sneak around, but the gates
themselves were packed with enemies.
So at that time, Eurythmic veracity happening again, it it
coincided with you guys leaving another doorway out of hell
basically open. They they found it and you know,
unlocked their gate. So first level of hell seal has
been busted by the inhabitants of that level.
That's that's how the fissure came to be.
Ah, OK. Well, I don't know how I would
feel. A whole fissure.
They don't know what you want me to do.
For now, just promise you won't actively try to harm us, and
maybe one day we can sit down in a neutral location, figure out
something more. I wanted to gauge the waters
before we made a break for it. And yeah, it's nice in here.
I can't hear him. It's a dream.
And then it fades. And it's just going to like nod
and maybe more finger guns and look around.
Yeah. And then it'll little
uncomfortable, right? They may remember a lot of
things about Franklin. Makes me very uncomfortable.
Oh yeah, I'll do whatever I have to do, but I don't have.
Finger gum, all right. That was it.
OK. You had a successful dream and I
did not attack you. Nice.
Yeah, and it you benefits from the.
She gets a long rest. Yeah, yeah.
So everyone else is waking up. If you were negative, I was
going to start restricting your like ability to sleep until you
did or until you like talk to me.
But. Yeah, everyone else, I'm
shutting up. Oh no, you're good.
I'm looking for 'cause I thought I'd had Mimi here, but I guess I
don't have Mimi's token here. I thought it was here as they're
all waking up on in the crew corridors of a dune otherwise.
So let's start with Grand am you're coming from probably.
Anyways, waking up in a what looks like a storage room and
there are barrels around you. There's floppily written on the
wall Nepps barrel Fort along with a bunch of crates.
Were we all just sleeping on the floor?
I don't know where I was going to ask you guys where you were
sleeping, but Grand Am specifically was not here last
session. So you're coming through the cum
closet, which as you would probably open the door, you
would see sloppily written on the outside of the door come
closet. I see it.
Wrong. It's a huge grin on his face.
It's a shit eating grin. Nice.
Also, MIME would be in there too because you weren't here last
session and that's where I'm just trying to get your
character over one second. Note to self, don't miss a
session. I'm happy to only know this side
of that door. Yeah, so here we go.
Turn the vision on, Dave, make sure that everyone's vision's in
the right place. So yeah, doing anything
particular there? Grand AM or want to go over to
someone else? I don't know if you're speaking
and you're on a mute or. I'm muted.
Fuck me. All right, so I'm just waking up
in a Fort outside of the cum closet.
No, inside of the cum closet. Yeah, it was inside the cum
closet. So I was describing what would
probably you would probably experience as you're waking up
and moving outside of the barrel Fort.
But Grand Dam has questions. Grand Dam is not certain he
wants answers. You look back over your shoulder
and see me, May. Grand Am is then going to take
like, how is it painted on there?
How is the name of the closet painted on there?
It looks like it's just. Do you see it from the inside?
No, you. See, that went out.
Yeah, I assumed, I assumed you would probably try to get your
bearings and be like, where the hell and see the only door that
let out and peek out it and it's like sloppily written on on on
the outside of the door with like white paint.
We'll go with that. I always imagine it a little bit
dusty. You would like to see it white.
Paint quote UN quote. If I cast illusory script to
finish what what grand am thinks it should be finished as?
Sure, he's going. I'm not sure that was a pun or
not. Unster Bowl.
Yeah, no, he's going to Yeah, it it sort of CUMFORT All caps dash
uble since there's a Fort inside.
Text between the words like slants up and over the word
closet. It's.
Been quite that. After completing that, he's
going to nod approvingly and then go finding find like
whatever the Hell's going on. OK.
I don't think I was in the last game either.
Was I? You were or have me OK.
That was the eyes when you got your so you got it there, Zenith
I. See.
Mirror. Did the text just duplicate on
the map? I did it.
You could do it too. I was just going to fill it in.
I see. It's Mimi following Grand Am out
of the closet I guess. Yeah.
OK, you guys both walk out and see.
Probably for the first thing that catches your eyes.
Or the vibrating stack of pillows and the snoring
Rarlsons. I don't know where KIRO or
Nimaway would sleep, but you could tell me at this time if
you wanted to choose. Nimaway would have 100% asked if
there was an empty room. Oh, of course, deity.
If you just go to the right down the hallway there, there, there
should. There's three rooms to 4:00
rooms that are all all empty there.
Over and she pulls a hand out and waves down, waves you down
that direction. Does this one have a second room
behind it? Yes, yes, there's a bath in this
particular room. This is this is Nimway's room.
OK. Why?
Thank you, this will do nicely. To like use the text tool if you
wanted to put your name there too, OK.
My pleasure, I just hope that you find your find it a
comfortable room. I would agree.
OK, how do I work this? How about you, KIRO?
KIRO, probably after waking up, is currently on the deck near
the mass just sharpening his swords.
OK, where were you sleeping though?
Was the question. He probably probably in it like
probably borrowed one of the vibrating pillows.
Just kind of light it up in the corner.
Oh OK, so he's sleeping kind of in the pillow Fort with with the
roro probably. We attempt to we attempt to
bring him into our huddle sometime in the middle of the
night. Not in a weird way, just in like
a bunch of cats shifting over to like lay on top of you.
He probably like no different than you, you know, being in the
Rookery, so it's fine. But that's what the the scene
you walk out on. Then Grand Am and Meme KIRO laid
under the many forms of role as if they're trying to absorb his
heat even though he's a cold blooded I I believe I.
Don't know. He's warm, He's warm.
OK, I wasn't sure exactly how that one worked out for you.
Yeah, the human half allows them to be warm.
So when are we going to explode the the zombies?
Soon I. Don't.
Know as he's nudging the the royal the back seats.
Come on now, let me up. We roll over, let you part and
then start to sleepily wake up and go through our morning
routines of them feeding me and dressing me and cleaning me.
Would everyone like breakfast? Oh.
My God, yes. What?
Was that ethune in your head? I was just asking if everyone
would like breakfast. Count me in.
What teas do you have? Any biscuits?
I think we've got some biscuits that were delivered with Sir
Ferris. He'd given it in the regular
provisions. Lovely.
There are some basic Tees I believe as well, some blacks and
greens. Did you have an Earl Grey?
Oh, I don't know about that one. I could probably mix a black and
a green and get something in between.
I'll make a black. That's fine.
Thank you. OK.
You hear some scuttling under the deck.
Sounds like a bunch of rattling of pots and pans and.
How about the captain be made? Do you have any requests for the
Morning Breck? Oh yeah, I'll wait.
I also think it's funny. There's two of me.
Where's the 2nd 10, gosh darn it?
I thought there was only one I'm I was looking for the one for so
long. OK, so.
Yeah, I was over here. In the back of the I got it.
I see it now. I'm assuming we read this note
we did. Yeah, you might get some
recollections though that that does still have some Boone water
in it from the never ending picture I believe that she left
behind. Oh.
That's good. I think they'll have a flask of
Boon water somewhere still. Yeah.
Yes, please. Oatmeal.
Oatmeal would be great. Raisins and walnuts.
I think I can do some other nuts.
I'm not sure what a walnut is, but I can I can do some hack
flash nuts. They're pretty medium.
Lovely. OK, that shouldn't be just a
moment. Here's some more tossing and.
Imagine this is like as as as the DNA is working.
It's just that the like flute thing that the Oompa Loompas
play. You mean their song or what?
What? What?
Yeah, so there's like that flute they play Find it OK.
I'll I'll have to listen to that one while you guys are waiting
for your meal. Probably went out on to deck
that you said, kiddo, and we're sharpening your blade or Yep.
OK. Is everyone else just staring at
each other awkwardly sitting at the table?
I'm being. Daintily eating her food but
she's very focused on. It oh, there isn't food yet.
Oh, that's why I was like, is everyone awkwardly?
So how is non existence? Good, good.
Who is The Who is this director that?
Actually, the two ones who just came out of the common closet.
Now that I think about it too, I'm not sure if this is the
first time or if this is the first time that I'm thinking
about it. But after coming out of non
existence, now you had a little bit more.
You didn't have a sense of time, but you had a sense of of a
small minute sense of self during that non existence.
But it persisted in the form of Olivia and the day-to-day task
that you've usually been doing. Just your regular life.
Oh boy, that's great. For me there.
Indoor plumbing. God, we need that Jesus.
Yeah, fair. There's definitely a lack of
farming and gardening in my current life so.
But yeah, I guess you guys are otherwise just staring at each
other waiting for food. She'd see it probably.
Pops pops her head up from your pocket at the sound of food
being served as the deck opens up and hands start piling stuff
up with a bowls for everyone that are primly arrayed into
these artful displays of of dried fruits that have been
rehydrated with hot water. As well as a bit of what you
guys suspect is not cow's milk, but some other delicious
smelling milk in it and some other nuts that were mentioned
that look almost like strips of meat that have been laid atop
the bowl. Nice.
Grand Am your rat is very sexy looking thighs.
You just cause food to grand. Am possibly on mute again.
Bit like chicken wings. Jake, are you on mute?
It might be. Anyway.
What do we want to do today? We have to stop a war.
Probably talk to the Queen. That's what we should do.
Not that the Admiral's here, Admiral.
Yeah, probably the Queen do a her visit.
I don't. So is the Queen supporting us in
our efforts against the PNC? Sort of the.
PNC. She does now for sure.
Yeah, she must know about the army at her.
Gates you'd be surprised that Queen is very good at balancing
work and pleasure. True.
But her people are facing starvation.
I I can only assume there's a siege and goods cannot come in.
What are you talking about? Why can't they just eat cake?
I. Mean.
There's a port, right? It's.
Not nutritionally complete. How's the?
Point found the cake fruit cake the.
Historian in me, absolutely loved that.
You're welcome. Hey, yeah.
We're doing times in, Yeah, we're currently sitting in the
port. Nice.
Yeah, it's not under siege. Oh the the the army has no
ships. No, I think they're in the stay
of leave because we got here and they were like, oh, you're one
of us, the PNC, you've taken over the city, right?
And then we lied to them saying we did take over the city, but
we didn't take over the city. So when they have to go talk to
the Queen, tell her about that, and then figure out what to do
next. So we're playing both sides, but
ultimately choosing the side of the queen.
She is our primary. She holds up this dragon breath.
Deal, right? We haven't delivered the dragon
breath yet. They have been delivered
unloaded and we have gotten and I pull over the paperwork and
hand it over all of the paperwork signed as well as the
sack. I think it's a sack or a table.
I don't know that a SEC that all of the money that we will begin
making will come out and I turn it upside down to see if
anything came out. I think I put it in someone's
inventory with stuff in it. Who was it?
I don't remember. Yeah.
Is it in your inventory? It probably is.
Chief Chief Press Shark leather tandem sharps.
My ongoing list of notes of things that I've gotten.
Yes, correct. Your your actual inventory.
It's an item that I created. Look at that list.
Because I have no idea how to interpret that either.
We should also try to buy some things.
Today, Ebel, Richie, Rod. Oh, I have.
I have a bubble bond. Yeah, Bud.
Oh, that's right. That's how you get people in and
out of the the ship in a bottle. Which Jimmy's number here in
Yeah. 1% profit. Dragon's breath cure.
There it is. Wait, maybe not.
Oh yeah, if that hasn't into your space considerably larger
than its outside dimension. There you go, you got it.
Oh no, rural's never allowed to read the.
What does it say? What is it?
He gets really big on ice. I will have us to read it.
Give me. It's good, right?
It's so good. The bag combo has a current
stone charm marker it's passed through depicting the numeric
share of profits related to the negotiated deal you made.
An accountant at the end of the day in an undisclosed location
deposits the earnings of your specific bag.
Retrieving the funds from the bag requires to utilize action.
But the end of the day, we'll populate, which I love the image
of rural just like turning it upside down and shaking it and
like looking under the bag to sell out.
Which nothing would. What the fuck is this it?
Would come out yeah, but yeah, you, you, you, you looking in it
me may do see a a realized profit in there matching up with
a new numeric value that you recall.
And it's it's actually I put it where did I, how did I yeah, you
can see it there. It's cost.
So it's cost will continue to go up because I can customize the
value of it. Right now that is what is in the
bag though. We have 1000 gold pieces guys.
In one day, Rich. As as well as I believe we still
have the 10,000 gold that needs to be returned to the pink plush
pig. I think was was the gold that I
was given that you guys found as a treasure on Shondar's Island
explaining. Athena, I'm glad you're good at
remembering things well. Personally, I would like to
forget all the money we owe the pink plush plate.
I think it was mainly interesting because there's a
coin. That a large giant coin that you
were trying to get back. That one, it's A and I gesture
to the others with my gauntlets. The one of those items like that
can create something like this. It's like a super item, so you
know it's value is pretty good. OK, So what do we want to do
first guy? Probably talk to the Queen.
Okie dokie to the Queen. After breakfast.
After breakfast, yeah. Of course.
So if this. Good.
So if this group owes 10,000 gold, do we have a positive net
worth is how much debt do we have?
Oh yeah, it's alright. I turned back to I turned back
to Admiral. No, we're not Admiral.
In addition, I'm pretty sure we now own a sky port here in the
city or like a something like. Own a sky.
Port Yeah, remember we got the additional 10,000 things of
Dragon's Breath for like the date with the Queen.
No, please remind me. Oh, well, we promised the dragon
a date with the queen if she would, if they would get the the
extra the Dragon's breath. She agreed.
Yeah. Yeah.
And then the rest of it she purchased from us, but in doing
so, she traded it for like a whole district of the city or
like a base. I pointed.
Like this. The only like sky port around
that's being constructed, that's ours.
And I've I've been debating exactly how and or where those
are, but here just let me plop you guys real quick since.
This is Yeah. So what cause Adune flies have
we have We have Adune. Are you flying yet?
I, I was told by Ferris that it would take a few days at least
for that, but I think, I think we were waiting until today to
contact him to start those processes.
Mainly too because I I wouldn't be accessible to you all and you
guys needed to sleep. Oh, well, it was very nice of
you. OK.
The sky port is ours. Aduna can use it.
Because Aduna can fly. To be verified shortly.
Yeah. I guess we should go talk to the
Queen and offer her services. As far as you know, helping her
city be not under siege. Oh, we already did that.
Yeah, we we already, we already told the Queen we would handle
the dead problem. The dead problem.
We just have to go handle the PNC.
I, I think the, I think, I think what you're talking about, KIRO,
is when you guys first got to town and she told you about the
problem, but you guys haven't gone and talked to her after.
That as well, yeah. We didn't talk to her atward.
Yeah. Yeah, she needs an update.
Yeah. OK, but.
Yeah. Just for your reference to, you
kind of see like being being constructed.
There's probably three towers in total along the wall of the
outer walls of the city that seem to be these ports that are
being constructed and ones farther along than the rest
that's closest to the current port and is looking near to
finishing. It's got a roof on it and such
and it just seems to be there's some openings and there's one
ship that's floating around the top above the city.
It seems like keeping keeping guard on on the surrounding area
and docking there every so often, but you guys get off the
decks of a dune and are firstly greeted by a dock worker who 11
sees you mime and scurries away as quickly as possible back to
their work. And then another sees that one
and just kind of bows his head to you guys from Rumblers.
I, I've distributed the funds as you requested to the families
and to the banished individual. But I'm glad to see that he's
back to work with we always needed another hand.
Could you please in the future? Not banish any of our dock
workers. Be greatly, greatly appreciated
for our overall production rates.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna shoot some finger gun and say don't ask me
questions. I won't banish your dock
workers. Do they?
And leave and like just walk past.
Duly noted, duly noted, he says with a bead of sweat that he
wipes away. As as I still inquire.
About. As KIRO passes by the dock
worker, he hands him 5 silver and goes for any mental
distress. Even suffering.
Listen, I already gave him a real handsome tip.
I forget what I I tried to pay him to let us pass and he didn't
want it, so he got banished. Maybe I didn't give him any.
I thought I did. And then and then asked for like
a silver or something and then you banished him.
And then and then Kira goes. If you have any further
questions or comments for the Admiral, please just direct them
to me and I I will bring them up to the Admiral.
Also duly noted. I would hate for, I would hate
for more of your workers to have it on a very interesting
adventure again. He just says.
It was a minute back to their plane of origin.
They're fine. It says under your breath.
Yeah, I, I think I'll be giving all of this over to his family
because they thought he was dead.
But thank you. There's no problem.
You guys walk off the docks, start walking back to the city
or. Call a cab.
Have the cards. Ronald pulls out.
His. Chief, call a cab.
And you you get a carriage that zooms up in front of you with a
couple horses and he goes. Whoa.
Looks like we got a bigger crew here.
I bet I can. You just like turns a knob on
the side of the carriage and you see it extend one more cab.
There we go. Fuck yeah.
History. Fascinating So.
Pull out a sketchbook and see sketching.
Yeah. Where are we headed to?
Queen. Queen.
Kira Kyle looks at the bug. Kira looks at the buggy and goes
looks at his wings looks at the buggy.
I'll meet you there. And then Fly flies off to the
palace. To the Queen.
OK, I can do that. And he just looks down at the
rest of you. 1-2 is all for the Ryls there Rylsons.
Yes. OK, so.
They they deserve to go out sometimes too.
Yep, Yep. 6 seven. OK, well I can manage that.
It would be though A and I can do a deal of a a.
A single gold that could get you there.
And he looks at the sun. Oh, well, you might not want to
disturb her yet though, unless you're bringing some sort of
hangover cure with you. Just let you know.
Last night's parties were pretty crazy in the city that after the
God captains alerted the Queen that we weren't under attack
yet. Boy, it would be very easy to
trick the Queen into lowering her guards I guess.
I guess if you were into that sort of thing, but.
Not into it, I don't want to. I'm on the clean side, I'm just
saying. Yeah, I don't think her advisors
would make it as easy as what you think, but she she she does
like the party. You know what the best hangover
cure is? Mom is going to like leave up
lean over tomorrow. Be like maybe it's going to lean
over. You know what's the best
hangover cure is? What is it?
Tell me. Ramen.
Bowl of ramen noodle.
Yeah, what is ramen? Maybe we should take Queen a
nice hot bowl of warm noodle soup.
Noodle soup? I've never heard of ramen, but
noodle soup? We could do that.
Maybe Adonai knows. Yeah, so.
So Mimi's going to run back to a dune and like, lean over the the
railing and be like a dune? A dune?
Do you make me a bowl of hot noodle soup?
You see one of her half. Of a soft boiled egg in it.
You see one of her hands fold off of the side of the ship and
points to you and goes. You're a bowl of hot noodle
soup. I.
Actually. Don't think we have any noodles
on board. It wasn't in the regular
provisions. They were sorely lacking in
something. OK, you need anything Aduna
while we're in? Town.
Anything you bring me back would be great.
I'm pretty OK now, but if you wouldn't mind letting Ferris
know that I'm ready for my transition, OK?
I'll be back in like pat the the side of the the railing and and
run back to the rest of the group.
I'm guessing you go to the cab driver and ask him where the
best bowl of noodles are. Did I hear a Yep or Oh OK?
Yeah, yeah, cab driver. Where's the Where's the best
place that sells beautiful? Well, you've got to You've
probably probably looking for a place that's back alley, at
least for your money's worth. You're probably wanting to go to
Grandma Sue's. She's got a She's got a Hardy
broth that's been brewing for like 3 generations.
UN unmarred. Perfect.
All right, gang, let's go get noodles and then we'll see the
Queen. OK.
So Mami Mimi, goddamn it, Mimi is going to like take one of
these golds and like flip it, like toss it over to the cab
driver and just like climb into the cab and sit down.
If we're making a stop at the noodle shop, I will take the the
second payment of just a bowl of noodles for myself, if that's
all right. Yeah, noodles for.
Everything and do you just hear him all right everyone in and
assuming here is the last end shuts the door here is fine
grand. I don't know who's the last in
then. Does anybody else even get in
the in the carriage? Does it?
Just me. We owl the entire time the whole
way. This is terrible.
Why would anyone do this? Climb all over the couch
carriage. You can't sit still have to like
keep moving around I'm. Bad guys, sorry.
KIRO just flew off towards the Queen, opting out of the
carriage door that so sits is open in front of you with Nim
away and yourself standing outside of it, looking inside to
go get some noodles and go to the Queen.
Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know if I I needed to localize that I
was getting in the garage. Yeah, that's what we were
asking. OK, yes, Nim away gracefully
steps up and wraps her skirts around her, tucks them in.
With the howling cats behind you.
Yes. How large are these?
These cats are humanoid size, right?
All of them. Yep.
OK, so they're all bipedal. Humanoids.
Backseat, OK. While Kiro's fine, he's going to
look for a a guard. Just a city guard.
Well, it wouldn't take him long because you get up to the wall
and Crest it. As you're flying over it and
it's lined with guards, one of them starts to aim one of their
crossbows at you. He lands pretty much right next,
you know, right in front of him. Excuse me.
And then? That was fairly rude.
I, I, I appreciate the that you're talking though means
you're not undead and he kind of lowers the crossbow a little bit
and he goes, yes. Carol hears the word undead, he
like he spits the side wretched things.
I was wondering if you could help me.
Well, the first thing I'm going to help you with is that if
you're going to be flying around the city, I'd watch trying to do
that in front of our walls. We're all pretty much on high
alert here. You could get shot.
I will keep that in mind. I'll fly a little lower to make
it not so scary. The best thing to do would be to
alert and I could, I could do it for I could do it for a copper
that my guard captains know to pass the word of your presence
and you're flying around. But.
Oh. You understand it's usually a
monthly fee of some sort that we can't, we don't shoot you
because it, it, it's a security risk if, if we weren't.
Mafia. 01 of that is the case. KIRO reeks in his pouch, puts a
silver in his hand. I hope that is enough for
everyone. That that should that should do
it. It'll it will let it.
I'll pass it down the line. So what?
What is it that you were looking for information wise?
Where is your I'm trying to think of what word people who
here would use for it. Where you take your dead or
funeral your temple to the to the God of death.
Well, seeing that the lady is usually, as in the Queen is
usually indisposed for such things, she doesn't have much in
the way of ceremony. She gets the job.
Done. And then?
Parties hard that's those are her she pretty much.
We appreciate that about her though, but all of the all of
such things are left to the acolytes and the the southerly
Isles and do a do a lot of sea burials.
My apologies. I thought you would probably
bury your dead. I did not stand your customs.
My apologies. So.
That's all right. I I know everywhere is
different. We've grown up on these cliffs,
though, and the Hard Rock beneath us doesn't leave much
room for anything else other than buildings, and we would
much like more buildings than than that.
Other things. Also, we're orcs, so the dead
have no longer use for the first space.
So we don't, you know, don't really.
He kind of looks a little awkward.
He scratches his neck. He's holding the crossbow with
his off hand and goes. Is there anything else?
Some very personal questions. Oh my apologies, I am a ferryman
and I wish to pay my respects at the local temple before I go and
have audience. Oh OK, well then that would be
yes, the zenith altar. She's the goddess of knowledge.
We generally do most of our praying and quiet hours on that
Isle there. You pray to death from a goddess
of knowledge. Fascinating, fascinating.
Well, I will take no more of your time.
Good, good job watching the skies.
And Kira just kind of like stands up and there's kind of
like falls backwards and opens his wings and flies to the to
the temple that he remembers going to with rural and Cat.
Nimaway. In Nimaway, yes.
No, no cat. But anyhow, you're getting in
the carriage or not Grand am. Yeah, I didn't even know the
carriage. Yeah, that's what I was trying
to explain. Right when you got back there is
the. It's only you're.
Talking to somebody else, OK. Nope, that was you.
Yeah, I guess I'll get in the carriage.
I don't know where I'm going. I'm just going to follow along I
guess. Zone doubt zone's back in goes
oh carriage wanders in to the yelling cats, you yelling the
whole way and you you feel the carriage telltale signs that
it's taking off as the door closes behind you with a across
the galloping hose as they get go faster and but then utter
silence and the carriage is perfectly still.
And then the next thing you know there is a bit of a compression
and a release and the hose sounds pick back up with the
wheels rolling on the carriage again and rocking you as you
hear a knock on the outside of the carriage.
We're at Grandma Sue's. Grandmother's.
We bail out as soon as possible. So what what?
What type of noodles are in the are in the soup?
Is it a variety? Is it one specific type?
Well, I think you're better off asking Grandma.
Sue just gestures to the the door that just says a sign
hanging over it that's kind of flapping in the breeze a little
bit that says I'm. Confused.
Grandma Sue. Why are we getting grandma soup?
Grandma Sue's nudes, Mimos. Yeah, Mimos is going to look
around the the, the the carriage and be like, I can't believe you
guys are complaining. Let's get some noodles and just
like leave the carriage and and go immediately walk in and order
just whatever. If there's like a an item of the
day, I'm assuming I'm assuming that the the menu is.
I guess I should stop and let you explain what.
Grandma do. Yeah, I was just making sure
everyone was getting out before I got there.
Are we? What kind of place, like what
kind of area of town are we in? Full theater of mind here.
I've never made a grandma Sue's so if you're looking at the map
you're definitely the outer ring right now.
Actually probably the second ring honestly.
Where the red roofs are and it's called the red ring and all the
roofs around you are red and they stand out because
everything else is a cold stone and bits of bits of grass.
But it's all Cliff and plateau, Cliff and plateau.
So each houses are even individually sometimes located
slightly higher than the one next to it just because of the
the Hard Rock that is the bedrock of of of the town.
Does this feel like oh sorry. You're right.
Does this feel like a like a middle class merchant district?
Is this a shady area? Like an upper class merchant
district and the IT is though looking like a small back alley
of of that area. So even though the streets are
well kemped and cleaned, Grandma Sue's hat is is at elevation
level that you're standing on, but it seems to be crammed in
between these two larger houses. And the the the door is the only
opening into the space. There aren't any windows or
anything either. So assuming you may, you were
saying that you March up to the door, open it.
You hear this softest chime on the other side as you open and
you see an elderly woman stirring a pot with what looks
like bones and other things floating atop it.
And she just looks up and goes. You may as just going to take
this huge biggest possible inhale.
She's going to take the deepest breath anybody has ever
witnessed and just just this like look of just pure joy.
Who's going to go across me? May's face must be like
everything you have. She just looks down at the pot.
I have to leave something in there.
I, I, this, this pot's been stirred for three generations.
I'm the, I'm the. I'm the 4th.
Actually I guess, but I can't. OK, OK.
Let me let me amend that everything you're willing to
put. OK.
And. I'm just going to like take 5
gold coins out and give them to her.
Well, for five gold coins I could give you.
She just kind of looks around at her stuff and what she's going.
I guess everything that I've got prepared besides all of the
broth. The broth is the most expensive
part of the soup anyhow, but you will be getting it.
It's just not all of this. And you're looking at the pot
she's talking about and the thing she she's standing on is
like a like a small ladder that's going up to a pot that's
taking up most of the back of the room that she's stirring.
And she gets down feebly off the ladder and just goes over to the
over to the front of it. And the spoons keep stirring
somehow on its own as she gets down.
It almost looks like it's just residual momentum, though,
because it's starting to slow as she gets down to the front of
the pot where there's a spigot and she takes a bowl and then
there is a pot of boiling water that she takes.
It looks like a strainer of sorts with some noodles that
that she scoops out of another pail, dunks it in the water for
a couple seconds and then pops it in a bowl.
And then takes another scoop of what looks like all sorts of
vegetables and seasonings and and such and just scoops it
right into the top of the bowl and hands it to you.
I can give you this one just to for now, but do you want all the
others to go? I guess it's going to take me a
bit. I'm going to look behind me,
everybody, and I'm going to be like, who?
Who wants noodles now? Hands up four.
Raises the hand next to her shoulder.
We should have her order some for a Dune and we like if we did
a batch order and then we could have noodles on the ship.
Have you ever thought about franchising?
This is delicious. Yeah, you're getting if you're
if you're tasting it 6. Is it 6 orders we want for right
now and I I don't know how many she's going to give us in total?
Do we? Have frozen starch.
I want 6/4 Oh I. Have no idea.
Or it was cold starch. GNA is magical and can preserve
things. Excellent, fill her up.
Yes, I guess I should turn around and be like 6 for now and
the rest for for it to go. You are correct in whatever
containers, they don't have to be individual.
OK, I'll separate what I'll look what I'll do is I'll separate
out the each individual parts because you don't want to start
adding them together. The noodles will bloat, they'll
just be gross. So you just want to, you want
to, you want to take, you're going to have a container of
broth, container of noodles, container of seeds and stuff.
And I think. Yes please.
And I can add as many noodles as I want.
And she's saying this as she's serving you out the the bowls
that were requested for now. And then she just walks over
into a backroom, comes back out with like a couple lids and just
puts it on top of the containers that she was serving out of and
then picks it up and she sets it down on the.
Table. Careful, they're hot still.
And just walks back over to the pot to keep stirring it.
Oh. And yeah, I, I did miss a
description there, didn't I? So the noodles and then the,
the, the, the, the vegetables on top.
And then she went over to the pot and open the spigot with a
hot broth that just pours out on top of it.
And there's this hearty, hearty smell of underlying spice, but
overly rich, juicy kind of, with an undertone of earth to it and
funk. Umami, if you will.
So how many? How many servings in total did
we get? You you can you can see that
this is this would easily feed you guys for like like a month.
We're going to have to share some with the Queen, but I
definitely want left favors. So have we been served?
Do we have the food? Yeah.
Then weighs tucking herself in a chair, napkin on her lap, and
just silently eating, completely focused.
No one else exists. Are we?
Yeah, we May is like taking their time and like slowly
savoring every bite just like yeah, yeah.
We're feeding each other in a circle.
As you guys, I don't like that. Oh, let's go over here or eating
you're you're feeling not only the sense of your sense of
warming. I actually think that cats as
well as tobacco would be similar in their atomical makeup.
Can't taste spice? If I remember correctly.
I believe so. I do not know I mean.
Correct. Like I don't think they can.
But they can taste protein. I'm assuming there's some sort
of meat. Oh yeah, they they, they're
enjoying the heck out of the the tasty meat that was can't.
Taste sweet. I don't know about spice.
First thing that comes up these cats cannot taste spice.
When I googled it, I knew I knew chickens couldn't for for sure,
but I was trying to remember cats.
So yeah, I don't think you get the spicy effect, but everybody
else, you're getting this underlying warmth that starts to
bring a sweat to each of your brows.
Yeah, you're, you're also feeling like you could just down
this entire bowl as you keep eating it with with gusto to the
point where you would feel like you're drowning, but maybe you
wouldn't drown anymore. You don't know.
You got a weird sense going on. It's it's it's.
Nimoy accidentally slurps up a long noodle.
She's very embarrassed she's never had noodles this long
before. Kind of looks around to see if
anyone noticed, hoping they didn't.
I'm going to see if I did. I have a passive perception of
15. Passive.
Perception. OK, OK, OK.
What's my DC check on this? What was it now that you're
checking for though? I.
Served the noodle and I'm hoping no one noticed.
Oh, I see. So you would you were, you were
your. Your check would have to be
performance then, because you're not being stealthy, you're
eating along with everyone else. All.
Right. All right.
Yeah. Nice.
Yeah, sounds sounds like unless anyone had a passive perception
of a 19, no one noticed. And you're nailed it.
You're wiping the. It's off the side of your.
Mouth. One finger in my one finger in a
corner of my napkin. I'm I'm dabbing my mouth.
There we. Go.
It promptly returns to my lap. You're so fancy.
Well. Thank you.
I'd like to. Think I was restraints.
Yeah, you're lucky. I have a passive Insight of 22,
but a passive perception of only 17.
Maybe you might have not have noticed this slurp, but you
noticed my embarrassment maybe. It's grand am feeding feeding
cheesy any of this. Yeah, yes, gotta keep her, gotta
keep her well fed. So that kind.
Of just keeps her on the boat because he doesn't want to risk
her getting hurt if something happens.
And Dune would have probably, if that was the if that was the
case, the the situation that would have played out on the
boat would have been. Do do you have like a a cage for
her? I don't mean to be rude, but.
He's house broken, boat broken. OK, guess that's that's fine,
but maybe I don't know. Boat broken beans.
I've only ever seen what they've done to without being boat
broken. What do you mean by boat broken?
Is she going to break me? Oh no.
Starts to freak out a little bit.
Console her. Times her size, it'll be all
right. Yeah, but I don't want to just,
you know, throw your pet overboard if she frustrates me.
If she frustrates you, put like a little block of bread in the
middle of my room. It'll be out of the room or the
Fort or wherever I stay. OK.
I'll go to that, Talked her like, just be nice to the boat.
OK boat, be nice. So what's nice to boats?
What to boats like? What do boats like?
I assume they like water. Don't break water on them
though. Don't.
Oh OK I will. Looks like fish I won't piddle
on on the boat. He's like a towel for that.
Oh OK, I can go on Towel. Yeah, towel should be fine.
OK, I should I? I don't have bets.
Huh huh bets. Friends, I don't.
Know how many friends? I didn't know who you retired.
Oh, OK. I don't, yeah, I, I, I'm going
to need to, to, to poo a lot too.
That's fine. On the towel.
Yeah. OK, can you bring me back more
cheese? OK, I have a big litter box.
When did you get that? Oh.
That's very bad. I I assume I I don't know where
he shits but. Everybody was going.
I guess he could go like a regular person.
Yeah, that's what I figured. He is an anatomically humanoid,
so never mind. Cheese then.
Cheese isn't very good for you. OK, what food I need to I'll.
Bring back food, promise. The fruit was good from
breakfast. I'll bring you food.
And as he's thinking about, he will take some of the noodles
and put them in his pocket. OK, some wet nudes in his
pocket. And yeah, he while you guys are
finishing up your bowl, you see Grandma Sue going back after
stirring up the, the, the soup again, going back into the like
what looks like a crack in between the wall and the pot.
And then coming back out with the some more ingredients that
she starts preparing for the for the soup and noodles and
everything. So why are we getting noodles
when the world is in danger? I'm assuming at this point we
may have is done eating. I put their bowl down and be
like, you can't, you can't save the world on an empty, empty
stomach. And the Queen will be much
happier the less angry she is, and these will make her less
angry. Currently, Her Majesty requires
a hangover cure. All right, all right.
So how are we getting these these nudes into the carriage?
They're they're all packaged up. There are like 3 trays and a
bucket of broth. I'm going to go out to the
carriage driver, be like, hey, hey, good fellow.
There's a we purchased goods. How do we get them to the
carriage? Oh.
I if you look at the trunk and he points to the back.
It should be able to hold whatever goods you'd like it I I
can double its. Well, actually it's yeah, I
could, I could, I could carry it.
It wouldn't be a problem. What about those noodles though?
Oh yeah, I'm going to go back in and get another bowl of noodles
from from Grandma's too. Yeah, I'm just going to look at
the carriage driver. Like you didn't come inside, you
used to come inside to eat. Oh, fine, just give me a second
here. And he, you see him like stand
up, adjust his hat, take the steps off the side of the
carriage, turn back around to go walk in.
And then it goes oh, wait. And he turn turns back around
again to the carriage and pulls out another card.
And you hear a like a bird trill, and the carriage
miniaturizes and he picks it up and puts it in his pocket.
Fuck dude, that's sick. Convenient is it?
Does it do that when there's people inside?
Oh, no, yeah, you wouldn't want to be in there when that
happens. But can you 90?
6. 93 You know what? Yeah, I would like to buy your
car from you. I've only got it on loan, so it
it's rather rather expensive. I don't know if you have like, I
don't know, 40,000 gold laying around, but that's at least my
loans portion. And if you're going to buy me
out, you got to give me enough to get another carriage or
something here, so. And and.
The profit pretty profit. So I'd I'd probably probably go
part could part with it for 45,000 gold.
OK, I'll consider. Gosh, we could make a really big
one and then shrink it down. Sits down.
Yeah, go outside, get yourself some nudes, and then don't
forget to put all of the extras that we bought into the trunk.
And then, whenever you're ready, we can go see the Queen.
He sits down and slurps up the nudes faster than you've seen
while you're still finishing up EUR Name away primly, probably
just just like in your mind's eye.
Whoa, dude in. Your mind's eye he he just leans
down and puts his lips to the broth and just sucks everything
up without even using this utensil just.
His bowl, correct, Not my bowl. His bowl.
Just had. A really long noodle that he
slurped the entire way up. And.
Is Nimoy clearly the last one still leaning, probably side
eyeing what has just occurred next to her.
She kind of like sighs, takes 4 fingers, I'm imagining the
thumbs and her middle fingers and picks up the bowl and gently
holds it to her lips and tries to drink it as fast as possible
so she's not holding people up but trying to maintain dignity.
So she she still has the last to finish, but she she hurries it
along. And then the carriage driver
just belches very loudly, like my words escape me.
Shit, that was delicious. And just burps just like again,
as loudly as and thank you to the chef, basically.
And then Grandma Sue just bows and goes, well, you.
Just make sure to take care of your wife there.
Jim. And then she goes back to
stirring. I mean, it's going to ask her I
must do for a single serve to go container, right?
So like make a portion for the Queen once we get to the castle
or the palace or whatever, just a container.
OK. And she just slowly gets it down
the the step ladder again and it goes into the back and comes
back out with like this. I don't even know what oh it'd
be. It'd probably just be like a
wax. Waxed leather sack is probably
what it be. Nice wax sack.
Yeah. Like a ceramic pot or something,
I don't know. Yeah.
Those cost a lot of money around here.
Their Craftsman are very good. This is cheap and she hands you
the sack. Oh, I suppose it's at the
palace. Maybe I'll just like go get a
bowl and bring it back out. I mean, I can.
I gotta put this back now. No.
OK, he just hands it to you, waddles over to the.
OK, you never know, it'll be be useful.
I'll take it. Waters.
All right, and with that, I'm going to shoot grandma through
some finger guns and walk back outside and.
She just kind of does a a nod and.
You're welcome back anytime. Next one's on me.
Thanks for paying for all those. Ingredients just sniffs and just
pulls a a side spoon out from her pocket and dips it in the
broth to taste if she's getting the ratios still good.
As you guys are leaving, you hear her slurping loudly as
you're closing the door and the chimes as you walk out.
All right, perfect. Can we all pile back in?
Yeah, Jim pulls out his card and you guys hear the bird chirp and
the carriage resizes and he takes the leftovers that you
guys are holding and opens the trunk.
And you see there's like a couple divisions in it and he
kind of like pulls one to the side that is a little bit warmer
than the other ones. You can tell just from being
near it and seeing the him react to it and gingerly set it in and
then kind of resize that and then close it.
All right. Good to go everyone in.
Some what? Yes.
Oh. And he knocks on the carriage
and it rumbles off to the Queen's palace, and you guys get
to the. You may as just going to cry
like like shed a tear. I mean, it's going to shed a
tear. Like I don't want to leave.
I'll come back. We'll come back one day.
Like talking, talking themselves into leaving.
I'm like, it's OK. The whole care drives.
It's higher then the. Soup will be there when we get
back. OK, you guys get to the door,
but I'm going to pop over to Hero real quick to see what
you're doing at the Yeah, the Altar of Zenith.
Yeah, so KIRO arrives at the altar area, I guess.
Looks for the nearest clergyman. OK.
Excuse me? Yes.
What? What?
I I apologize for the interruptions.
I was here earlier with the friends with some friends of
mine. I was I was unaware that your
clergyman also tend to the dead in the city.
It's not a custom that I'm aware of.
Apologies. And he you see him when you ask
for his attention. His nose was literally pressed
into the book as he was reading through it.
And then he leans back and presses up his glasses and he
just goes. Well, I could, I could.
Yeah, that, that is true. We have a couple of you'd, you'd
probably recognize them as embalmers around every day,
working at every hour. We, we, we do, we do many rights
here. That's one of the reasons why we
can assist the whole city, because some of them we can send
back to other areas if you have other customs, but the large
majority of everyone here prefers the sea burial.
That is interesting. Would it be much of A bother if
I took a moment and had a moment of prayer before I headed off
for the day? I know, I know, your customs may
be a little different than mine, but I at least have to ask.
I understand completely you can find many places on any
particular place of the island that you find suitable, but if
there's something that you're looking for that the is your
custom as a large cathedral, maybe it seems like what you're
looking for of some sort. This place shall be fine.
This place isn't where we're at currently or.
Yes. Oh, OK, well, this is just an
apse, but you can, you can, you could sit up here and I hope I
was informative. And she just leans back into the
book and starts smearing his nose literally across the page,
like intently looking at this book.
KIRO thanks him and finds a nearby Pew, and in Draconic he
starts to offer prayers of kind of like guidance.
Lord Eerie. I know you are not here in this
world, but I need much guidance. The balance of life and death
are so beyond scale and I feel so lost.
And I just need a way to find my way or a sign that I'm doing the
right thing. And yeah, he just stays in kind
of like a a prayer and, you know, recites, you know, a few
mantras just to, you know, try to get some sort of epiphany
that he, you know, he's going to, that he's doing the right
thing trying to, you know, get rid of the the PNC and, you
know, helping the new compatriots of the rim rollers.
How are you praying you have your eyes closed and Oh yeah,
OK. He's got his so he's got his
wings kind of like flexed around his shoulders, kind of like in a
Cape kind of style. And he's kind of like sitting as
best to a cross leg in a Pew as he can be, and eyes closed and
hands in locked vision. OK, as your as your sitting
there repeating this almost as a mantra, assuming the in your
head you're you hear the caw of a crow fly by.
That quick quirks your interest in you.
You open an eyelid halfway in your prayer, especially because
you were You're inside, and it surprises you, and you don't.
You don't see a crow, but you see a single black feather land
on your hands where they're where they're rested.
Hero, you know, gently picks the feather up and takes it as a
sign that he is on the right path because, you know, crows
are, you know, in, you know, in, in some of his world, crows are
considered to be, you know, ferrymen themselves of the
souls. So he is going to take it as a
sign that he's on the right path.
And then presumably make your way out and fly the last leg to
the to the castle. Yeah, he's going to tuck the
feather in a little pouch in his belt and take off to look up
with the others. And as you're landing on the
ground, you you see a carriage pull up.
That's double long than what you've usually seen.
So it has four sets of doors and you it's opens up to presumably
roll again and all the rolls just barreling out of it after
having Gerald yard. I don't know.
You could tell Gerald. Gerald.
Oh yeah, Gerald out all directions, pent up energy and.
All four. All four doors, probably even.
Good. Yarl y'all have made it as he's,
you know, collapsing his wings and basically into like a Cape
kind of look. We did
heavy group consensus on what we want to do before we talk to the
Queen. I mean, the best option would be
to. Blow them up, but how?
You're you're talking about something really revolutionary
here, right? Like we.
Don't. We don't.
Plan ahead. What does this look like?
I'm a huddle and discuss what? We're going to talk to the
Queen. I'm going to jump out and make
her a bowl of soup so that her hangover goes away.
And then I say we wing it, OK? I'm good, but then let's fucking
go. You guys are are going to I
guess be marching right in then and the guards greet you
actually recognizing especially Admiral Mime at this point and
the. Announcer make her sound super
important. Oh, you.
Want now announcing and yes, absolutely, Admiral Mime, savior
of the city, conqueror of death performance.
Something about 9 kingdoms. 21 uniter of the 9 kingdoms like
she said. Lavar of soup.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, friend.
And I'm just holding like a big, I'm assuming still steaming pile
of or like bowl of bowl, whatever vessel of broth and
noodles and vegetable. Friend of Shandar the Red.
Just adding more flair into it as possible.
Owner of the the Skydeck here, CEO of the company.
And then and the guards part, letting you in through the main
gate and you you guys start heading towards the hall where
you've greeted her before. I was just going to continue on
this thread of make me make sure that everybody can see here.
I thought this was the. Oh yeah, this is the wrong one.
It looks very similar in perspective to this.
Does. Everyone see that?
Cool? That's the that's, that's the
Queen's receiving chamber that you guys have been going into
where she would stand up with a book right in the center looking
at it and her guards off to the sides in and amongst the growth
to protect her that seems to proliferate the chamber.
She's got flowers pretty much everywhere.
You are marching that way though, and somebody greets you
just before you enter and and says.
The Queen's fairly indisposed at the moment and looks down at the
bowl of soup and just goes. Is that Grandma Sue's that I
smell though? It most certainly is.
I think I can rouse her if you have but a few minutes to wait.
I can get get her attention with this, I believe.
And yeah, she she'll be right in if you, if that's OK, can wait
here for just. A minute by all means.
A little bit, OK. Have you taken the soup?
Takes takes the OR sees the the proffered food and grabs a bowl
from seemingly nowhere and then starts making making a bowl and
then looks to side to side. Of this looks like you got more
than enough though. Can I?
Can I have a bowl? Long as there's enough for the
Queen. Remember, the Queen is the most
important. The Queen needs hangover cure.
There's some leftover after. Pulls out just seemingly out of
nowhere. Again, just a smaller bowl.
Just just a little snack, you know, I can't, can't get, never,
never get enough Grandma Sue's and.
She. Yeah, is that Grandma Sue's
cannot be wasted. So yeah, enjoy fills.
Her bowl up as well and then starts slurping as you you hear
her marching away briskly, trying not to spill the soup,
though at the same time and while you're.
It's just going to shoot the finger gun.
You just hear from behind you. From rulers.
Turn to see. And we all turn around to see
who it is. Ferris, the like CEO of the
factory district and artificer head artificer of the of.
Oh yeah, we're supposed to tell you that a dune is ready for her
trans. Oh, wonderful.
I was just coming here because I thought you, I might catch you
as I'd, I thought I'd seen a black figure fly over the city
and I think I'd recognized him from before and your group and
I, I was just hoping that to catch you, as I said, because I
think I've come up with a way that I could probably manage
that in, in lesser time. It's, it's rather experimental,
though. I I don't think there's any real
danger in the. In it though.
Because it seems to be documented quite well in the
processes. But the, the only thing to be
the downside that that might be about this, I guess, is that you
have less time to wait. But I, I think you needed her
sooner rather than later. So shall I get started on that
right away? I could have it ready have Odune
ready for you to fly in in the morning.
I don't, I think. I think we have a couple days.
I don't. I don't know how I feel about
experimental procedures with Aduna.
Aduna is pretty important. Do you have?
Special. Let's let's just do the normal.
Only today. Prescription Our attack is
tomorrow. Why the the PNC attack again
tomorrow? How do we know that?
Because we made a deal. We we told them that that we,
the PNC, had taking over the city from the inside.
The Wish faction. And the Wish faction.
And then we had to somehow prove it to them within a certain
number of days. By bringing 10 sacrifices.
Right, so we either kill 10 people.
Have we not done 10? People, do you want to kill 10
people? Rather kill 10 people then risk
fucking up Aduna personally. Just saying Aduna is pretty
important. I all mean that, Merle.
Please pick the 10 people who we will kill, present them to a
Dune, and be like a Dune for you.
Yeah, Dune. Wouldn't like that very much,
but just you know, what if like he does this thing to a dune and
she like can't talk anymore? Or what if she like, only speaks
French? Or what if like, you know,
things could happen? By experimental, I just, I just
mean that I haven't done it before.
Like I said, it has been very well documented.
I believe one of our others creations had been tested on
this and it it went well. It was small test though, so
this would just be the the first time that it's done on a larger
scale for myself and my colleagues.
I I don't. See.
I don't know. Let's take a vote.
You're the captain. There is no vote.
Yeah. And I'm that's the cap that I'm
calling about. So thumbs up if you want to try
the experimental procedure on a dune or thumbs down if you do
not. I mean, they just holds up the
big thumbs down. I don't let.
A dune decide. True, she's a person.
Could do that. I think that's most likely the
best course of action. However I would say for me this
depends on how we select our 10 sacrifices.
Does this city keep a a long term prison for the the members
of society that can never? Yes, yes, I I really dislike
this idea but. We're fucking talking law and
order. If Adune is not comfortable with
this. Are.
We no longer on amp blow up the. Right, that's the other option
is that we that we, we don't kill 10 people and we use
immediate. Dead bodies.
I don't even need dead. Bodies to present them as.
What exactly? What exactly like needs?
What's the qualifications for a sacrifice?
What are our metrics here? Oh yeah, there was a vampire guy
here, here. Here's the other option, right?
We there's a vampire dude that's in charge of like this fleet of
undead PNC guys, right? We get the meeting with him in
private. We do a little stabby stab and
then I and then I'll look at me. May turn into you turn into him,
and then I be him. And then I'm enthusiastically
gives 2 thumbs up. And then I changed my voice to
sound like you as well. What I have the ability to
disguise myself as any other person and I can mimic other
people's voices. I choose to speak like this.
So we could like, we could like, sneak a board that I mean,
tomorrow is our deadline. We have to either sacrifice 10
people or we have to go on the attack or defense because they
will begin assaulting the city again.
Are we even ready to? Are we even ready to attack
tomorrow? Are we prepared for that?
Is that why we're? Yeah.
We have no idea what we're doing, you know, we're winging
it, slappy on the shoulder. Yeah, yeah.
So let's talk to the Queen and see if she has 10 people that
she's ready to sacrifice. This could solve all of our.
Problems. She could just order like 10
guards to just like the first one she sees to kill themselves.
I thought so. Again, we haven't established
that these sacrifices need to be.
That's true. We don't know what's going to.
Happen. We don't really know what are
the requirements. So, so Admiral, we can say that
our particular faction of the PNC, we do sacrifices in a
different manner, requiring dead bodies and then play that off,
have explosives inside the bodies and then have them all go
off. Yeah, we can just get 10 already
dead people, so we don't have to kill anybody.
We just need to find 10 people at our.
Heart. They would accept that.
Yes, they don't want to offend us.
They will. We'll say it's our, we'll say,
we'll say it's our culture. I mean, I think they're the ones
in a position of power. Perry Granddam, you are
speaking. Don't think that like that would
work. With the undead, that is.
We won't know until we try. That part I pull out my map.
Where? Are they at?
I kind of like zoom out. All right, yeah, you are you
looking for the Fisher, you mean?
Or do you when you say they where the horde is at that's
blocking the town? Where we're supposed to go meet
them later. It was discussed to meet at the
Lava Tower because. Don't know where that is.
So yeah, if you're going to the MOP handouts, Allopolis
Gargantium would get you there, but you're basically if you're
even or, or also the map of tariff, but the Gargantium is a
little bit more zoomed in and you can kind of see up to the
basically straight north of your position is a giant fissure
that's opened up in the center of Gargantium.
Seems kind of freaking familiar together, Olivia.
Oh yeah, that's a big, that's a big rift.
That's big. Yeah.
Where are we at presently? Sorcrities.
Yeah, this map is not very like. Should be able to click on it
and then it'll open up be even bigger.
Straight up north, OK. Yeah.
So that's big. Make sure that goes straight to
hell I think. Do we know that info I'd.
Rather not talk about it anyway. So waiting for the Queen.
So we're going to ask Queen to give us 10 dead people.
We're going to still look explosive.
I think the word sacrifice really implies sacrificing their
life. Otherwise, what else are you
sacrificing? There are more.
Body no, that's not what they want.
That's. Not what people goes.
Want OK. I think we show up with dead
bodies. They're going to see right
through it. I.
Think we show up with that bot? They won't know once the bodies
have exploded. And then they'll see that their
bodies I. Know, I know, I know.
Can any of you do necromancy? No your.
Cult, Are you sure? No, I don't.
Well, hold on. Let me check.
I can briefly animate a corpse, but I don't it's not really
alive. All we need put them like a bag
on their head, tie them up, have them walked in a single file
line and they are stuffed full to the brim with thing that go
boom. Let me see how many I can do it
once. Yeah.
So I swear if you try to sacrifice my siblings I will
turn traitor. Sir, tell us at this point too
is just like standing there with his mouth open, gaping like.
You want, not. What?
The only half of that came through.
You want to win this war or not? Oh, sorry, I can't do this yet.
I've been trying, I've been practicing, but I haven't quite
successfully done this. OK, maybe I can do.
Something let me see. I can revisify.
That would just make them people.
So far it's just. What if we?
I guess if they're dead. Then with the.
Well, if the terms haven't been set yet, does it have to be
people? Could not you sacrifice
important things? Gold?
I don't know, just. Animals.
Yeah, cold. So, yeah, goat, right?
Typical. So much.
Dynamite. Oh my God.
Anything that's not rabbit. What's the biggest animal we
could find with the largest chest cavity?
Centaurs have two chest cavities, but they're also
sentient. Yeah, yeah.
We. We don't really have any Cintas
in the city. But if we chopped off just the
horse part, are they still people?
Which? Part I don't know how to answer
this question ethically. My ethical training is kicking
in. I I agree is dead, not
displaying on the VTT. Gray is dead.
As long as the creature has not been dead more than 10 days.
So it's, I'm just saying if we show up and they're like, ah,
but it's dead, we need it alive. I can touch the creature and.
It's only one we need 10 or. I mean, it's a this level and.
Show up with the intense to start kicking ass the second we
show up. Yeah, if we want to like just
straight up attack, we could totally do that.
But we can't do that without a dunic line, right?
I mean that the towers in that giant lava.
I mean, I can fly, but I can only carry one person.
Once really far away, the. Teleport.
I have a Thunder step that'd. Be cool though, I can face step.
Queen I can fly, buddy. That can cast like Gate.
That'll go one way. But don't we have the the, the
disks, the the dishes, the things that?
One's inside the bottle is the other way that you've been
getting in and out of side of the bottle.
Yeah, but we could all go. Inside a bottle in there.
Except for one person. Yeah, I have an idea.
Yeah. Oh, that's the sea.
Monster. We could just release the sea
monster. You mean the inside or the OR
the? Wait, how?
Yeah. How much water does it contain
that's we could empty it into the fissure?
The sea monster cows is 10. That's how we filled the cows.
Do it more. Did it stop?
What was? Yeah.
Yeah, no, no, no, like, no. It the the water multiplied by
like a factor. Of the more or.
Something like the, the, the, yeah, I think we've got water
back in the, in the, in the bottle.
So yeah, if we open the bottle and like, pour all the water out
somehow forget how we did last time, yeah, we will flood.
To re resell hear. Me.
Out for a long rest. Yeah, like I'm telling you the
the like, I'm not joking. Like the amount of water that
came out of that bottle was like equivalent to the Indian Ocean
or something stupid. And then we just flood it like
every single day on like repeat until it like fills up.
Well, that's what Josh was saying.
It doesn't fill up. But if we flood it once, I don't
think they're smart enough to have like changed the strategy.
So if we flood it, at least we'll damn we'll kill enough of
them and damage them enough so they can't like.
Coconut not fill up and it's a it's a hole.
Right into the bottle. One of us that can fly flies the
bottle inside. I can fly.
We then all get let everything out of the bottle, including the
giant tentacle monster. He gets to eat a bunch of
undead, we get to wreak havoc, and in the end of the day.
At the end of the day, I didn't quite catch that.
Yeah, at the end of the day, we're all happy.
Don't you think they're going to kill the tentacle monster pretty
quickly, and then it'll be an undead tentacle monster that we
have to fight? I mean, not if we're fighting
alongside of it. But what happens when it dies
and then the necromancers have a giant tentacom OnStar corpse?
What happens when one of us dies?
We become a. No, but I can turn it on dead.
Also, he's my friend, he wouldn't do that.
He'll be dead. He wouldn't know.
I won't let him die. I take out a packet.
You see here I have these testimonials from several
clerics that say once a body is raised from the dead, they don't
know what they're doing anymore. So there's no unethical
treatment possible. It's a case study entitled The
Future, Future Profits. You're also thinking about
having befriended the the tentacle monster and you're
realizing you haven't brought it.
Food. Like you promised.
And it's been. Oh yeah, didn't I?
You did bring it some that you had on you, I think, but I
don't. I think you promised you gave
him a. Good Berry the size of a
watermelon. Yeah, on the on the day that you
were there, but you'd said you'd be back at some point.
But I need to. Do that I need to take care of
my friend? Well, here's the thing.
If you're also suggesting we throw your friend at your
enemies, you're OK with it almost for sure dying.
If he's OK with it. I mean, would you be?
For sure dying at some point. And yes.
Oh yeah, I can turn things. Undead guys.
Any creature that can see or hear me with some 30.
Feet. You can turn them undead.
Or do you have Turn Undead? Do you have Make Undead run
away? Or do you have make something
each undead that can see or hear you within 30 feet of you must
make a wisdom saving birth creature fails saving.
I thought you were saying you could turn a creature into an
undead. I was like, that is a powerful
ability. That's how I read it every time
that I've read it. But I realize what you guys are
saying. You're a cleric.
That just specialized in creating zombies.
Ferris just scratches his head and goes.
So should I? Talk to Queen and we should get
her input on this. OK, so we're waiting for the
Queen to decide whether or not Adonay gets the upgrades today.
Oh no, that's the Admirals pick. Hey Dune, do you want upgrades?
Are the Dune is a pick? Yeah, she's not here.
Talk to Dune at any time. Right.
Dune has a. Torque but there is a no she she
just talks into your guys mind because of her ability to do so.
She that's like her her her ability to talk is telepathic.
She she can't speak it any other way.
Not yet. Yeah, and she, she, you, you
hear the faintest yes in your minds.
And was I called, I think you're just on the edge of my ability
to hear you, you want. To breathe.
Do you? Want to fly?
So, so yeah, Sodune, Sodune, we have there's a choice here.
So talk to Ferris and he says he can, you know, if you do your
transformation so you can fly in the normal like 3 days.
But he says he's learned of a new experimental technique.
And I say this as I'm talking. I like do finger air quotes, not
that I do. They can see that, but like, you
know, experimental technique where he can get your
transformation done and like but by the morning, but it's
experimental. So we wanted to know how you.
Felt about that the technique. I'm going to look at Ferris.
I know. Was that a no as not going
forward with this? Was there another question that
I'm just not hearing because you guys talking to something in
your heads that I'm missing here?
Missing. How's this work?
I'm going to look at Ferris and I'm going to say how, yeah, how
does this transformation thing. Work well.
So the the reason why it's speed up, I guess is that usually
there's going there would need to be some sort of enchanter or
the ark or someone like myself that can engrave ruins and
channel the magics that are inherent in the in in the airs
and the the other things that are needed to make make her fly.
But as she's a magical ship already and has a soul, I
believe we could utilize not just not her soul necessarily,
but the way that she interfaces with the ship that is herself.
I think there is a seed that I that I hold that can take root
in her structures that will help power or actually sorry, it's
not as it's a see it. That's the metaphor that I use.
It's more of a a liquid that should help power her abilities
to manipulate herself and give her the light that's needed to
quickly manipulate herself. OK Dune, so Ferris has an energy
drink he can give you and it'll help the transformation to go
faster. I like the sounds of that, Oh
my. God, that was a huge Lord.
Wrap. OK, so all right, I'm just gonna
let you know, dude, I am not a huge fan of this, but he said
that it should be relatively safe, but he still calls it
experimental. And but if you're up for it.
I think I would be up for it, it's it's been a while since
I've done anything rash so I think it should be fun.
Oh no, Okie dokie. Then I will tell Ferris he
should go directly to you and you know, once.
Wonderful. Hopefully when he gets here then
I'll be able to connect with him more more properly.
And Ferris looks at you with a corked eyebrow.
And. Presuming you said that out
loud, not just in your head. Yeah, I totally have this
conversation, assuming the other people who.
You. Know I can only kind of hear you
so. She's in.
Yeah, kind of like you like back or something.
Yeah. So yes, I'm going to look at
Ferris and look. OK, so Dune says she's willing
to try this experimental method. You are free to go.
Go to a Dune now and begin. Wonderful, I will acquire the
liquids and proceed there post taste.
Thank you. Oh, did you get your first
payment? Hey, OK, great.
I just wanted to make sure that our accountants were taking
notes properly. If you need me, I believe Raul's
been contacting me on the occasion via my card, so you
should all have my card already. But good day.
Put the order in real quick for some of those like item sharing
packs. Oh.
Like the mnemonic tube ones? Wait, what?
Mnemonic tubes. No, don't say anything.
No, don't you say that. Don't say that word out.
I have to patent it yet. You want your tubes to to not to
speak to you. No, someone had a little, No,
someone had a little like shared, shared pocket dimension,
like a pouch, like A2 pouches, but one pouch.
Oh, yes, yes. Like a Captain Mimi, I believe.
Or Admiral. I apologize.
Yeah, there's. Yeah, I forget what happened to
that. But I have big ideas for it.
OK, need some. So are you proposing to fund
some operations, invest in the creation?
I'm, I'm confused at what you're asking.
I apologize. I want to buy 2 sets of these
bags. Oh, OK.
That yeah would be something like a 1000 gold I believe for
for the for the total of four banks.
OK. Well, we'll consider it.
I'll have to talk to my business partners and convince them to
make the purchase. OK, well you know how to get in
contact with me. Oh and he walks over.
May I see your card of? Course, I handed my card.
And he go he he pulls out a a quill that has a metal point and
then he just dabs it in in a a piece of scab that looks like he
has that. He opens up again with a pen and
then draws on on a little corner this minute glyph that's like
the imperceptible almost to the eye other than a dot.
And he hands it back to you if you, and he kind of waves it,
letting the blood dry and hands it back to you if you just hold
on to that point there. When when, when we're doing our
conversations, I can do transactional ones and bring you
items. Or rather the items will appear
on top of the card. It's complicated.
Oh. My God, I sit down on the floor
and put my head in my hands. Some teleport.
Oh my God, you're blowing my mind, man.
I live to the experiment, what can I say?
And then he. Says good, good day.
I I believe now. And as he's turning around and
marching out, you hear the horns on the other side of the door
announcing that you're you may enter the the Queen's audience
hall, which you see before you now.
And the there's two guards that open the doors and the Queen
screaming at the end of it turn. Horns off, Jesus.
You repeat that. Oh, did not all of it come
through? Yeah, it was just hurry, hurry,
hurry, yelling, fucking turn those horns off for halal
opolis's sake. I said Jesus but felt more
appropriate. Jesus and you, you guys walk
through the door, I presume? Yeah, I renounce the Admiral.
Yeah. Yeah.
I walked. Her Admiral Mimay, Captain
Nevadune, CEO of Captain of Dune Enterprises.
Captain Mimay Enterprises, Savior of the city.
With advantage, I guess because you've you got practice now.
Performance did not let me roll at advantage, so I'll just roll
twice badly each. Time you had advantage.
You walk into the room and our announcing and in the middle of
your your your speech you feel some of the spice catching up
with you. But it's not like the burning
sensation because the cats can't get that.
Instead of it, it's just a the smallest little burp that echoes
to the chambers and you hear a giggle from the Queen.
Sounds like you guys were out or up early.
I guess I got some Grandma Sue's and that was delicious.
This is the only reason I'm here, otherwise I would not be.
So what you we? Might just going to shoot some
finger guns and glad you glad you enjoyed the noodles your
Majesty. It's definitely less than
throbbing in my head, but I've got another form of medication
that I'll be taking for that. And she reaches below the top of
the her podium, it looks like, and you see her pull a glass up
and then put it back down, burp softly to herself and goes.
So what do you got for me? The Is the Horde going to be
leaving anytime soon? Yeah, a horde.
So we have an idea about the sacrifices.
She just raised an eyebrow. Sacrifices.
I mean the, the, the guard captain told me that you seem to
have had something handled out with their leader and that they
were holding off attacking anymore or sending any more
probing forces to our defenses. So that was.
Appreciated. Carol kind of leans down.
Admiral, that would be a no to the no.
What about sacrifice? Yeah, yeah.
So clean you have 10 citizens that are already dead that we
could have, or ten citizens that you would not rather have a
citizen anymore. Or you know, a mixture, maybe 5
of each. Whatever, as long as we get
cold. The death sentence here and the
parties usually just keep everybody real chill, too tired
to really, you know, form crimes.
The common folk are even welcomed and fed and everything.
I I don't we. Are.
Since I've been in power, we even had anyone, even in our
prisons. I'm, I'm sorry, I don't think
there's anyone that I can think of that I would gladly give gift
to these undead. Right.
So do you have 10 creatures of any kind?
This could be like, you know, some livestock.
I think goats would be fine, or sheep, or I can.
Arrange something like that. I would just purchase it from
the, the appropriate farms. But if it's between you and me,
I, I wouldn't be spreading words around that we're giving it to
the PNC and but what, what is the, what was this?
Oh no, no, no, we're not. We're not giving them to the
PNC. We're just going to surprise the
PNC and and throw them off their guard.
It's easier for us to to swoop in and attack.
OK, so you're just going to drop goats on them or whatever.
And you know what? I'm not worried about the
details to be. Honest, I really I really.
Don't care if if we can just get them to leave, that would be
completely fine with me. And well, so and she pulls the
cup back out. It's a little bit more hair of
the dog and I think it's clearing up.
That's nice. So you've got this handled
right, because I think the last time you guys were here too,
I've got a date with Shondar that we still need to work out.
Yes, Your Majesty. OK.
So you guys handled that. I'm not worried about the
details. You said you want some
livestock. I'll get you some livestock.
Big, small, medium. That's a good point your
majesty, with the big fuck off dragon that wants to fuck the
queen, be on board with fucking up some undead.
Oh, he told me. Can we get him here?
I believe that is the idea I have.
I have access to a channel, will say that if I send him
notification he will arrive. But I have a very important
question. Do I do so because you guys were
just with him? We were.
Is the pictures I've been receiving true?
Emphatically yes. I'd have to see the pictures.
No, you don't. She.
Blushes turns to her, winks.
Innocently at her. Turns to her guards and holds up
a finger, twirls it in the air and they all turn their backs
and she she turns what looks like a just a frame around
that's on the wall that's apparently a painting that she
flips back and you see an engorged dragon behind her that
usually could render many things asunder.
Wow, I have turned to grand am. Is this kind of like the
relationship between you and I Forget the rat's name?
Sexy rat Chistara. The size difference?
Cheesy. Now, I'm pretty sure this is
true, Your Majesty. Pretty sure it is a really risky
game here. I've got pretty high standards.
I did not see his pain, I mean. Hero.
Yeah, Hero said emphatically. Yeah, I am.
I am a half a dragon. He would not, emphatically.
I would trust that. Guy, yes.
Yeah, that's true. Like Grand.
You would melt. At like at.
To paint to to paint a picture for for everyone.
You guys doing it? It's basically a dragon Dick pic
on her wall anyways. Aren't you and she stare a
thing? I'm not judging you, you
probably turn into a rat the 1st, but fuck are you going.
On with it. Free left man, just raise my
fist. Granddam will reach up, take his
first and lower it. Back.
Raise the other first. And the Queen shrugs and goes.
Well, I guess I'll take the word of the only dragon here.
I've never seen his penis before, Your Majesty.
If. I've never seen.
Him before. This well, that's I've never.
Seen of him. Dragons are are majestic and
noble creatures. It doesn't look like a good
dragon. Are we sure he's a good dragon?
I yeah, I looks pretty good to me.
I mean that slight bend to the left.
Kind of bad. Like it's gonna bad.
Dragon I mean, all depends upon your verbiage of bad I guess.
Anyhow and she she flips the painting back around and leans
back to one of the guards face and twirls her hand so they can
turn back around and goes. Well, I guess I'll contact him
and we'll have dinner tonight. And she starts to kind of putter
off. I've got to have some more of
Grandma Sue's before I can butter myself up for another
night of drinking, but if you contact me in the morning I can
let you know how that went and hopefully we get along well.
Let's be the only the second time we've met in person.
So long distance relationships, am I right?
Listen to AT Rex. All right, that sounds great.
I'm going to turn around and look to like the rest of the
party. Is that what you just said?
I said, you know. What?
I could turn one of those goats into AT Rex.
Oh, you can turn one of the goats into AT Rex and.
Then we could put like cover him in stickers and the stickers all
have glyphs of warning. On them.
Glyphs of Warding can't go more than 5 feet past where they were
cast. They don't have to.
Went to cast all those glyphs of warding in front of them and
then. Or you mean you put it in the
bottle, I think. He's going to ride the T Rex.
That's true. Hold, wait, hold on, hold the
fucking phone. What if we buy a bunch of cows?
We all buy a bunch of cows, right?
We put them all in the bottles, many cows as fits, empty it out
and then we fly above them like 2000 feet and we drop all of the
cows dude. We need cows for that.
Like really? Don't we just use rocks like big
rocks? Seems a lot easier to source.
But if you put one of the Dragon's breath in or we just
drop a bunch of Dragon's breath, but we'd be dropping it on a
fissure of fire. So I feel like I don't know I'm.
On board. Yeah, I feel there's something
in me that says that we shouldn't destroy the fissure.
As annoying as the fissure is, I don't think we should destroy it
quite at this point in time. Maybe we just want to get rid of
the PNC and not ruin the natural geography, right?
Want to preserve the landscape. We just want to get rid of the
invasive species. Come on guys.
Yeah. Well, so we have the option.
I mean, seems like we're probably winding down, but we
have the, I don't know if we still have a plan yet.
Is the plan to blow them up? Because if we're going to the
tower. No, I think I think the plan is
to utilize Shandar. So to you know, team up and have
Shandar go with us. I still like the idea of
dropping the giant tentacle monster.
On me I need. To ask myself for the plan
monster first, I. Got to go feed my buddy.
I'm going to. Proceed to walk to where the
nearest thing of food is where? Everything, probably the
containers that you guys carried in for anything left up in my
arms. OK, welcome back.
No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
That is not going to happen. No, no.
It's like protecting me. You can have a portion.
You could not have the entire thing.
The Queen, Yeah, it was lulling asleep and perks back up and
goes so I can, I can give you some extra livestock if if you
want. I've got some in the courtyard
for sampling. And she licked her lips.
Yeah, take that. The technical monster will like
that better. How to kill it?
Probably Walker and Dan Wondergoff to go check the
livestock out would. Chime in with I think I heard
Shondar's name and about the guys were talking about handling
the situation. Which again, I really don't care
about the details, but if I may, I think that I could convince
Shondar to eliminate the army at our gates if you're OK with him
staying back so that he can he can manage them.
And I can give you what you think a day or two after you
leave the city to make sure that you know that that anything that
survives his wrath doesn't somehow make it back to the
creatures. I don't know.
I don't I don't understand this PNC really.
I don't that who. Who I'm I'm I'm sure Your
Majesty will be able to handle anything Shondar brings to the
table. Your Majesty.
Don't worry, he will help you with anything you need.
I believe so, but I. I and he and he and he and he
gives you like the the biggest winking grin.
Are you sure you are not taken, good Sir?
And she's just wings to. Oh, I am, Your Majesty.
I am. OK, well, I'm not quite yet, no.
Still free Free agent over here anyway.
I promise after you are blessed by a dragon, you will not be
taken. You will be his promise.
That doesn't sound foreboding or anything.
Anyway, so your plan? All right.
Plan chaos. More chaos.
Still no plan did. You expect anything else?
Nope, not. Not at all.
Yeah, we can you. Ready, we can absolutely as well
utilize some like I, if the plan is K, like create chaos, we
could kill an upper guy and I could take his place and do some
other sort of strategy of like maneuver all the guy be like
everyone, put down your weapons and just like clump up just Yep,
20 foot radius everyone. Me and I, I can throw him a
disco ball. Disco ball.
You can have another dance party.
Kira here, you hears you speak of the disco ball.
He kind of cringes inwardly. So the Queen just goes, well, I
last things last I guess, since I'm going to.
Be otherwise preoccupied this evening.
It sounds like you guys are out of a place to stay with a dune
being Yeah, I have my I have my Wiles.
Somebody told me that she's going to be being worked on this
evening. So you're welcome to stay in the
palace. Just don't mind any of the nude
servants. We orcs can photosynthesize, so
it's it's nice. That seems like a really useful
skill. Oh yeah, alright.
Just, you know, it's unfortunate for those that don't understand
because, you know, they just see a bunch of nude orcs walking
around and. That makes sense.
Photosynthesizing orcs. Alrighty then, we will.
We will hear from you. We'll come back to hear from you
in the morning. With a plan.
I was pretty much just going to let you guys figure out the
details like I said, but I will have Shondar.
Yeah, yeah, right, right, right. But we got to talk.
Yeah, I'll have, I'll have Shondar here for breakfast.
So you, you guys should be should be ready.
Like that? Confident if you're mad.
Don't you worry. Proud of you.
I know how to and. Then to keep keep him.
Around or send him away. Usually send him away.
But at that point too, you hear. This is a lucrative business
partner. Hear a bit of a toot from just,
well, like a fart. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
She's at that time, she's the crumblers, and her tumblers in
my hands can satisfy all. Right.
Well then. All right, good stuff.
We're sleeping. With the new.
Castle, Oh my God. You, you chose the path of non
violence Olivia so far. So far what appears to be.
Yeah, it was a good session, though.
I I I like the the grandma sues full full Yeah, it was great.
Necessary. Yeah.
Yeah, definitely taking that ship back to the do next.
All right man, have a good night.
Good good good. Pivot with with grandma.
Sues full improv improvisation there man.
Yeah. It was beautiful.
So I just had a. All right, with that, I'm going
to jump off of here. Oh, I was going to say I just.
Had a worker. Today, ask me what DND is like
because they've never played. And I was explaining how the the
DM can plan this whole thing of what they think you're going to
do, and then you can go off and just do whatever the heck you
want. Such as the great Noodle
Escapade of 2025. Yeah, perfect example.
He and my friends once broke out of a prison as our campaign
start saw that we were in the middle of an empty field with a
with a lone roll Rd. going somewhere and decided to take
get off the road and go north. My other example to him was that
you could. And then we founded an inn up
there and just ran in simulator. It's fantastic and my other
example to him was that you could just decide to face 15°
from West and walk 10 miles and the DM has to figure it out.
Yep. Yeah.
Oh yeah, pretty much, yeah. That's where quantum motors come
in. Yeah, I mean that or.
That's where bubbles comes in. Bubbles.
It's or. I Sometimes life just happens
like I had AI built a really tough boss fight last night.
But part of the boss fight was part of the boss fight was that
we get the the big bad vampire they were hunting down had
hastily rechambered a gun to take.
Except these really big explosive rounds were designed
to hunt hurt other vampires, and I've designed A1 in 10 chance it
could jam and a one in 100 chance it could explode.
Well, guess what happened? Exploded.
It exploded and dealt 4 aggravated damage to my big bad
evil guy which. Oh no.
You don't have vampire context is a lot.
Most characters have like 5 health.
Oh man, Yep. Huh.
Yeah, that was great. So the party got very lucky.
Yeah. Nice.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But there's so many.
There's so many untied up, there's so many unfinished.
I've been building that villain up for two years and that
happened. Oh no.
Yeah, I I was sad to hear that. I was, he was always a behind
the scenes Machiavellian sort, but like he wasn't really much
of A fighter to begin with. But.
Anyways, I won't dip. All righty.
See. Y'all.
Later, buddy. See ya a grand and wonderful
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