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Now let's dive right back into Tara.
Through the campaign Allelopolis.
Yeah, Butt munchers. Butt hole.
That's just the the end of Fate tosses.
The dice rolls, spins, turns. The campaign starts and ends,
leaving memories, that becomes stories.
Stories flow out into the infinite sea, painting it with
legends. Legends wash up on the shores
throughout the infinite sea, fading to myth until myths are
forgotten and the campaign that gave it birth comes again and
again. The Hand of Fate tosses, the
dice rolls, spins, turns hitherto the rum rollers partied
long and hard in the pink plush pig in the dance club in
Socrates. They were experimented with the
X Experiment Room or the XP Room.
They be, which they learned some things about Hell and that they
are not ready to defeat by force a red dragon, even if it is
small. They'd also learned about
Shondar. The red Dragon, which they are
going to go meet, has a crush on the Queen.
Queen Theoda and the Rawelsons went on their merry way to find
a way to set Adonai free from her bottle.
As well as acquired some nudies of.
The Queen to. Potentially trade with Shandar
for his breath, Which? They require to complete a deal
with Queen Theoda to to set up a trade route between those two.
So as they can profit off of the breath of the Red Dragon
Shandar. Last we'd left them to the
they'd met up with. Sirtellis, Sirtellis at the
cliffs of the market district before they'd set a dune free by
opening, uncorking the bottle simply and a waterfall gushed
forth over the cliffs and a dune was slant flew down over the
side into the the Bay at large waiting in the middle mare to go
find Shondars Island. Out which queen Theoda's guard
had told them was out towards the east, and pointed it out
even on their maps for them where?
Whereupon the they promptly forgot about the second portal
on the cliffs and started sailing away into the distance
before they remembered and turned around and sailed back to
the cliffs to get the plate for Cat.
Fly up to the cliffs and get the plate, and now they're sailing
back off into the sunset again. Let's see what happens in real
life or. Can't leave somewhere without
getting. Somebody.
Yeah, pretty much. I'd seen an appropriate to
appropriately describing. TikTok for it too, is like
describing the different difference between certain nerds
and it's like Pokémon gamers. They're like, ah, I got my card
box, I'm ready to go, Magic card gamers.
Yu-gi-oh card gamers. Got my got my cards ready to go,
D&D gamers. And he's like laden down with 17
different satchels. He's like, wait, I got to go
find my favorite pair of dice. Hold on, he starts, setting
everything back down to go that last thing.
It's definitely. Very.
And the laser pointer. Never forget the laser.
Nope. Don't.
Don't forget that and not. We need it.
Nobody's used a laser pointer in front of us yet.
Oh. Robertson's just go fucking
banana sandwich over it. They would, yeah.
Fastest way to lose a Rarlson over the edge of the ship?
Would that be like one of the hardest decisions of their
lives? Because, like, they would see
the dot in the ocean? No.
Like, I want to kill it, but it's water.
I want to kill it, but it's water.
Well, I mean, if we're flying really high, they probably
wouldn't see where it lands, just that it like leaves, right?
I've been gone that long. I forgot it.
We were trying to get a Dooney turn.
Well, she's not flying yet. Think she's.
Still, yeah, that's. No, she's not flying yet.
It's one of, it's one of the rewards that that would be
coming out of getting capturing the breaths and starting up that
trade route between sore critis and the Red Dragon.
And Thea doesn't know any of this, because the last time that
Thea was here, she'd just gotten to sore critis.
So have we. Been partying for months.
Kinda, yeah. I mean.
One night took so long. It felt long to me too.
And and I was just going to let you kind of jump in there, Theo,
with what you may have left behind or you know, where you
disjoined the party. You would enter the gates, come
over top of the bridge which they don't have a gate through a
wall as a traditional city, all of their entrances or bridges
that are spanning over all the walls which you came across and
seen the blue walls of Socrates. Expanding up with the Hill and I
think that was the very, if I remember correctly, did you make
it to the Market district at all?
I don't remember any of this, but it's been so long that that
could have happened and I just don't remember but.
I didn't think so. Right now I'm inside of Dune, I
think. Is that accurate or?
Right. That's where I have your
character. That's where you've been, at
least in. My perspective minds of things
is like you guys had spun up the portal and even she, you know
when she came up with a a description of what she she told
me she's actually going to be doing.
But we haven't we've yet to act it out.
So that's what I'm just doing here is basically acting out
your your departure for you. So like.
I don't know. I don't know how you want to go
about it, but that was the the last thing when I was going back
through my notes and everything is where where I'd kind of
remembered you being and having. Potentially gone on to donate it
for rest or something but. OK, so the, you know, all that
time to go back, joined everyone crossed into Socrates, then you
know was not. She had a lot of thinking to do.
So she returned to a dune for a little while.
And then. Eventually, I think Thea was
overwhelmed with thoughts of her hometown, but you know, has not
been doing too well. And I think it consumed her to
the point where she felt like she needed to return so that she
could try to do what she could to save her hometown and her
family. So I think Thea, at that point.
Go ahead, Jeff. I was just going to say I think
for that reason too you may and this is more something we can
get we can we can kind of play off the cuff a little bit here
to to keep it kind of short and sweet I guess.
But is that you're you would have probably been able to get
out of Aduna you know how to with spinning up the plate and
everything to activate the portal and may have done that
maybe. I don't know what you what your
thoughts would be but I would assume kind of.
Telling either one individual or leaving a note, Kind of like how
Zeff did or something like that. But then probably would have
gone out into Socrates and started asking questions about
how the best way to get to Byzantium, which you knew was
under attack or or had been conquered by the neophytes.
Yeah, before going to fight some neophytes, maybe.
OK, well, this isn't something that you and I talked about, but
maybe. I don't know.
Does does Gunther stay with someone?
Maybe Gunther Gunther is going to stay on a dune and maybe
Gunther can join up, join forces with someone in the future if
someone wants them. I don't know.
I mean, Gunther met Dia when he met the rest of the party as
well. So like, I don't know.
I would actually hesitate to say that the the partying that was
happening in the pink plush pig was probably over a period of
days, even though it felt like 1 singular day for the party.
And it only took a singular day, probably from the entrance to
the gate to meeting the Queen and going through the market
district and going to the Factory district.
But then the lost track of time and other illicit drugs that
were happening in the, in the, in the.
Wizard rave you you probably would have came out while they
were all crashed out from that from the portal and potentially
have ran into Radaha Aloran, the one that kind of.
Like. Was Gunther's original owner too
owner in quotations? Because it was more they were
friends and they met in the ruins and.
Well. They.
Then they then Gunther met you
guys while you're walking through the ruins too and liked
you because you ruled a good animal handling and was
following you around for the past years.
Now would have ran back into potentially Radaha and I don't
know. Just to throw this out there
too, if you want Gunther to stay like in the party and
everything. Wisteria very much prefers
animal companionship over human companionship.
OK, well, I well, I don't so OK, so I'm rolled.
A new character is the whole thing.
But if Wisteria and Gunther had that kind of relationship, maybe
I would leave a note tied to Gunther's collar and.
He would go hang with posterior. But yeah, I mean, if you
actually want, like would want him as a companion, I have a
character sheet for him, but we can we can talk about that if
you're interested. I mean, I was just suggesting
like I didn't know if you would want him with.
Your new Yeah. No, the new character probably
wouldn't have that kind of attachment with Gunther.
Or he Can I go with Thea? I wasn't saying.
I think him going with Thea would be cute.
OK buddies on an adventure together.
Radaha, though would have also greeted probably Gunther and and
probably have guessed this as much and probably would have
told you to. I'd heard some askings around
town that you were asking about the happenings in in in
Byzantium. Yeah.
Do you have any news about that? I I think a lot of the refugees
had from from there had actually made their way to the the the
town closest, the largest town closest by there.
Which is Athenia. Give me one second here.
Yeah, Athenia. OK, Can you can you point me?
Can you give me some loose directions that I'll probably
forget you'll? Well, you'll definitely have to
leave the Kingdom of Gargantium, and it is more or less along the
major landmass here North if you're traveling by land that
is, that is. I'm sure you can ask some other
folks along the way if you're if you're planning to take that
route. OK, did she point in the
direction or did she just? No, you guys are inside of a a
closed down wizard rave thing. Oh.
Yeah, it's a it's a nightclub that's currently closed and
she's just been. Looks like she was probably
setting up for the next night. Dang wow you guys.
Looks like you have fun here. Oh yes, the destroyed bottles
everywhere. Yeah, there's a stack of chairs
that were apparently stacked up and are being cleaned up by a
janitor currently down there now.
Just grumbling. Wow.
Do you have any leftover like drugs?
Well, I don't personally. Usually that is the Queen's
Forte. She's quite the party queen.
She finances a lot of this, actually, so.
I've been pretty lucky, I'd say. It definitely pays better than
the archaeology that you've seen me doing, but that is my main
area of interest. Although yeah, music's pretty
fun too. Wow, I feel like I missed out,
but. You know, I I'm, I'm trying to
do the right thing, be responsible.
So I gotta go help my family. Well, good luck to you and best
wishes I think too if you ever need anything and she pulls out
a card and presents you with a an elaborately scrolled card
that is just a little like a business card you you can
imagine size piece of paper with her name.
Across it and a bunch of different other odd scrolling's
that almost looked hand drawn. Oh, I'm going to, I'm going to
druid craft a little flower here and say for you, Oh my dear.
She blessed. Then I'm going to leave.
Mel's the flower watch as you walk out of.
Them nice if if I have a sense of direction then.
I want a wild shape into a mouse.
Well, first I want to I want to point Gunther in the direction
and and show him where to go. And then I'm going to Wild Shape
into a mouse and I'm going to ride on his head.
Beautiful. Off into the sunset.
It would have been early morning at that point, I would guess.
Into the sunrise. Yes.
Yeah, that's why everyone everyone's still very much
conked out. Even Hamilton though will Fast
forward time a little bit here and we'll go to Hamilton now,
who is also still on Adune's deck after hearing some clanking
of plates and such of people waking up and eating breakfast.
It sounded like you were like no, no thanks and just kept
sleeping. For a whole month.
Month. Our time.
You know it's only like 2 sessions, so 2, two days.
It wouldn't even have been that time honestly.
It some of it may may have been in there though.
But anyways, So yeah, you're waking up into your bed and you
feel fully rested. Now.
Some of the lingering effects of what felt like the night before
anyways, are fading away. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I need.
Oh, why is it so bright out here?
You'd probably see Wisteria and Baharach propped up against the
wall, and at that time too, probably Wisteria.
You'd be sticking awake from the trance you've been in for a
while. I don't know what you've been
doing. I would assume that you were
hanging out on a dune too, which is where you were last left.
Although I am thinking you were in the market, I know last
because I think you helped Kat with some purchases too.
So last time I was on I was in the club.
You were upstairs. That's.
Right. Yeah, we had just met Jarvis.
Right. And that was the last time that
was on. It had been a quite a blur after
that. For you especially, the really
good wine seemed to may have been laced with something that
you weren't right quite ready for.
So you were blackout and decided to go back to rest on the ship
in which you? At this point, two could choose
one of the rooms that don't have a name in them, because they
probably the other ones that did have names in them are are
probably scratched out if they're.
I would probably choose the one like in the corner like down
below idrill. Idrill.
I don't see Idrill's room. Oh, I see.
You mean the one I see down down here is what you're?
Talking about. That you should be able to open
some doors, but that one's Frederick's.
Oh, OK. And the one that says Idriel on
it should you shouldn't be able to see.
Although I'm interested in how you can see Idriel 'cause I have
something drawn over top of it. So I can see.
I don't see Frederick's name. Oh, that's.
I just see. Like they have Gray squares over
all of them except for wherever we're standing in.
Like that And then? Other people lack on like it's
just a shade of Gray. Except where?
Oh, that should that's. Well, no, that shouldn't be
right because you you get a character token here.
Yeah, there's no, like, fog of war on.
But so for the rooms, from what Jess can see, there's Shia's
room in the top left, which would have a name.
Scratched out off of it even. Yeah, so it just says Shia and
then Mime's room Hamilton, an empty room.
Adriel, Sia, Zeph, Squall and Move.
And the. Zeph and Squaw and Moon and
Idrill's would all be scratched out too, so otherwise Frederick
and Thea's rooms are occupied. Well, Thea, Thea probably would
have also. Yeah, sorry.
I'll take Zeff. Soldering seems fair.
Which is this This one over here?
I see it now. Yeah, the top, right.
Yeah, you would probably have wandered into there, seen the
bigger bed of the rooms, of the names that weren't scratched
off, that was the first one you found, and just into the bed.
And usually you don't sleep, but you actually probably would have
slept this time. Yeah, so I think.
With Sarah probably would have just been meditating a lot and
trying to figure out like, what like, so she like she came here
because she felt drawn here. But then I feel like we'll just
say because I've been gone. When she got here, she didn't
know, like what the next step was like, kind of didn't know
what her purpose or mission would be.
So I feel like she probably would have just been really
meditating on that, OK? And trying to get a better sense
of direction I guess. OK, so Hamilton.
You could step out into a room with only Baharashi.
Then it would be a peer who's leaning up against a wall who
also didn't have chosen a room before he went into a duday.
And that was the last time he was here too, But more or less I
think so. I have no idea what he's doing,
but I'm guessing he'd be asleep. I know, but it's wrapped on.
It's like how we could go because that's that.
Because. If you wanted to answer.
So I'm taking help, yeah. So you walk out of your room.
Desperate. Desperate for coffee, do you say
anything aloud? Yeah, I don't know if it came
through when I first stepped out of the room.
Why is it so bright? It did, and that's where I I
went towards. Zeff at first because she was
leaning up against that wall, so I figured maybe she would have
been awoken by that, but I guess not.
So you're you step out and Adune would probably just answer in
your mind of. Well, dearly.
It's always bright here in the bottle.
Constantly day. I've looked at the bottom of too
many bottles last. Well, sounds like you could use
a strong brew. Oh, that would be lovely.
And she goes. You can hear almost some
something rudimanging around in stores, it sounds like under the
deck of your feet somewhere. And she goes well.
I think I've got just the. Thing and a A wooden hand comes
out through the floorboards that's spread apart and sets
down a steaming mug on the on on the table that's closest to you.
Never used to thank you. I appreciate so much.
It's a it's a pleasure I I really do enjoy the company it I
can't really hear your thoughts, although I can speak into your
mind. So I do appreciate it speaking
aloud to unless you project something towards me, I don't
like to pry as it were. Hi.
I'm just going to start enjoying the coffee, trying to trying to
remember the night. Yeah, history.
Probably with a disadvantage for now 'cause it hasn't taken
effect. 13 That's low considering I have a plus.
Ten that is low. So you're you're thinking back
on it and going. Pretty sure that.
We even showed up. Tits and Ass were out.
That was cool. There's something about somebody
attacking the club and then and then we were attacking a dragon.
And then we were beating the shit out of Loki.
That was. Seems like some sort of fever
dream. You're like, I'm not sure how
much of that was actually real and how much of that was.
Just me wanting it to be real. And I also had this crazy idea
for my rifle, but that that couldn't work.
That would. And.
Put my hand on my on my leg like as I'm in the chair and I hear a
paper crumble in my pocket. What was that?
Out this piece of paper and I'm like, holy shit, I even drew up
a design for this thing and it's essentially my my rifle.
And it shows a very crude drawing of a cannonball going
into the side of it and shooting through a gold circle on the tip
of it and just coming out as a cannonball.
How? How the hell would I ever get a
cannonball? This is oh, this coffee's good.
Thanks, Diri. Well, I think we're about to be.
And then you just hear this sudden and a rushing sound.
I could get that one to come through, but.
As the water is leaving and you feel the ship start to move and
she goes. Oh yes, they'd said that they
were about to release me today. They'd I wasn't sure if they'd
be able to do it. And then you all of a sudden
start to feel a little bit of a waitness Ness to you and you
start to kind of float off of the ship that you're sitting on
and in the chair and you go ahead and roll me a deck safe.
Along with yourself, Wisteria. Oh God, here, here comes the
spins again. I'm just going to grab the seat
of my chair. You said Dexterity savings
there? Yes, please, 19.
Nice. You guys both float up hovering
a good few inches above your chair or what have you before
you're able to. But in your case, the bed
wisteria before you're able to go and grab on to whatever
you're you were sitting on and kind of pull yourself down to
it, weight it. And then you feel all of a
sudden all gravity come rushing back all at once and you hear a
big splash from the outside of the the deck.
While the cabin crews out, out out around the dune and dune
goes. It's good to be back at.
Sea into both of your heads before she starts talking.
It seems like to the rest of the crew and you don't, you can't
hear them for some reason, but she's hear some odd, you know,
intermittent portions of the conversation as she's talking to
them up somewhere else and how they're trying to get back onto
the ship and pretty confused. But you do hear them that
they're kind of becoming onto the deck of the ship.
At sea, Please wait a minute. Run over to like the nearest
porthole. You look out at the side of the
hallway window and you see that the.
That that there you were indeed at at sea, as there are waves
that are rolling out majestically into the distance.
And you kind of turn your head a little bit and you see the
cliffs of of the large city that you must have been in.
Because you see some of the blue walls kind of off in the
peripheral of the porthole before the cliffs disappear.
And you can't see too much more than the cliffs in the those
blue walls of the city. Holy shit, we did it.
You did it, somebody. How's it feel to wet your boards
in the open ocean again? Aduna.
It's. Feels lovely the the the salt
water of the the bottle was nice and clean, but this is somehow
beautifully dirty. Oh, oh, I know that.
Like, well, if that was crazy enough to work and we're out
here, Aduna, you think you could?
You think you could put a cannonball through a rifle?
Oh I I don't know about that. I don't I don't even tried to do
something of that nature. Although I think you might be in
might be able to talk to you the.
Me may, Or the rousins Rousans have some crazy ideas.
Sometimes they seem to be able to come up with just about any
manner of thing. And I think me may just because
she's the captain, she she can solve solve many of the
problems. They do have a keen mind on
them. Look over at the Ralph, since I
see they're still asleep. No, they're not.
They're not in. They're not in here.
I just kind of pulled them off to the side.
I apologize. Oh, OK.
No, I. They could see.
We're fishing. Oh, I I thought that little
black emblem was like ZS, like they were sleeping.
Oh yeah, no, I forget what that actually that one was for me.
May there. But yeah, they're actually I can
just do this too, wonk. You create a token, Josh, that
everyone can control. Yeah, like an all seeing eye.
That way you can just like if you want everyone to be able to
see but not be there, you could just drop that in.
Yeah, I can do that. I've done that with the with the
ship when we're out at sea and you'll kind of see me sort of do
that anyways with with here in a second.
If we get to that point, but I know that there's there's
something else that's going to hopefully take.
Place Adune would probably say to everyone, thank you for
getting me back into the ocean in one piece.
I I look forward to our journeys, Father.
Yes. It seems the the the raucous
nature of my. Exiting of the bottle though is
woken a couple others that were asleep on my in in the
corridors. Well, they've been asleep for
many days. They must smell bad.
Yeah, I don't. I guess I'm lucky in that regard
that I don't have that particular sense any longer.
Dooney, I say. Everyone's in need for a round
of coffee. How about a?
Hot for all of if you don't mind.
That's an excellent idea and you guys hear some rattling from
down below. I I will say that my stores on a
on this particular brew is rather low, so this may be the
last of it, but I think it will be amicable amicably.
Received and a hand comes up even next to yourself, Wisteria.
Because you've been hearing some of the conversation that's been
happening in your head, although you're missing some of them that
are happening. Yeah, I but.
You, I think, hearing like coffee.
Wait, am I muted? Yeah, I think you've.
Just muted yourself. Oh, I just unmuted myself.
Yeah, I was hearing. I can hear you.
OK. I think from hearing like that
there was coffee and like hearing other people stirring
about, she would have like. Lazily wandered out.
Of her room and over to. Like the tables and sat.
Down and joined everybody else. No one other than.
So you would have walked out and sat down next to Hamilton, who
is sitting at a table. Then I would, I would, I would.
Say, oh, is it just him? Yep.
OK, then. Yeah.
And when you're walking out, then Adune would recognize that
because you're walking on her deck and two hands would come up
beside you guys and the table that is with, well, one, I guess
because you already have one. Then yeah, one would come up for
you Wisteria at the table when you're walking over to it for a
steaming hot pitch black liquid. Yeah.
She would probably take it and sit down and just kind of look
around and look at Hamilton Be like, what?
What day is it? It's one of the days that end
with day. Yes, more specific.
I'm going to tap my foot on a Dooney deck like it.
The day is. Trying to like.
Trying to nudge Dune into answering.
Oh well, I I believe we it's it's really rather hard for me
to say too. I've been in that bottle for a
long time. There wasn't any differentiation
between days, but. I How long have I been
meditating? I would believe we have the the
the third half of the year. I don't.
I. Could be wrong though.
Wait, I've been meditating for like, the third half of the
year. What?
At least 1/3 of a year, I would guess.
Yes, our years are rather short here.
Which wisteria? Doesn't understand because she's
not even from this realm. Yeah.
And she's going to be like, oh
oh. It's been a year because I don't
know if you know this, Shosh, but time moves very differently
and very weird in the Fay wild. I have looked into it but it's
been too long that I do not remember.
Exactly. I think it moves.
Like for Kara, it's fairly weird to as a really reiteration for
it. It coincides with the times that
we play, so technically there are only. 52 days on Taurus
because there's only 52 weeks in a year and that's how many times
we can play in a year, so their year is only 52 days.
Days long. Oh, OK, that means people.
We're like dogs. Yeah, sort of kind of I guess as
well as that that you you you don't have weeks.
So when you were referring to days, that's where I was like
there isn't really like a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Those don't exist. It's just dates.
It's this is all they have for the for the different months and
a month is only like 4 days long.
You see his cat right now? There's basically a week.
Yeah, a month. Like a like a mini week.
Yeah, I mean. I would just get rid of the year
there's. No, I went the other way because
a year is the time frame of which the.
No, she's just meeting the. The astral body that you were
residing on travels around the sun.
That's a year. A month is the time frame at
which the moons that you have circling.
You are are. Transpiring around.
Your your planet, which you have two of them on this particular
planet. So those two things still work
out. A week is nothing, nothing,
nothing. Nothing is regulated, regulated
by a week. We just came up with a week
because it was easy to understand and that that it was
really good for the work workplace to try and get people
to work more. That was literally the only
reason I did a lot of research for that.
So what you're telling us is a weak is just capitalist
bullshit. It is, absolutely.
Trash. Living creature has a.
Concept of time. Leave in the barter system,
paper money is a lie. Taxation is theft.
You guys are not wrong. America was founded by a lot of
pirates, and that is no joke. You are not wrong, Sir.
So there is a there was a bunch of people.
Oh, Josh, me and Ike passed you in Rayland.
Oh yeah, yeah. Because we went, he's
babysitting right now. And we went to pick up Zeke
together and we were like going over the rail.
We were at that little stop sign and we're sitting there like
talking about something. And I goes, that was Josh.
Yeah, I I zone out. I guess I put on a book usually.
And unless you're directly, yeah, I wasn't paying attention.
If he was like that was Josh and I was like, where he goes the
silver Kia that just passed us. Yep, that'd be me.
Yeah. He's like the silver Kia that
just passed us. And I was like, there was a
silver Kia. He's like, yeah, you're the one
driving. That's why that's where you
can't. Well, that's why you can't pay
attention to those things when you're driving.
The only things that you can pay attention to is what is directly
in front of you. And if there's anything going to
be jumping out at you, Yep. Anyways, so yeah, you guys are
sitting there and then on the deck of Adune 2.
I'm going to make a second one of these, but the cat?
You'd probably have just landed back on the deck with the second
plate that you guys have been using to portal onto Adune with
and Rawlson's Meimei and. Zanora would as you land cat,
there's a a wooden arm that comes up through the floorboards
that is holding a steaming mug of something that you're like
OK, thanks for for the Ryelsons and cat who are here.
I don't know what you guys are doing.
Once I have the plate like securely put away and stuff, I'd
be very happy to just like crap on the deck and have a piece of.
Coffee. Remind me to can you hear?
Me. Yeah, I can hear you.
Yeah. We were just coming through.
Also. Gabs there for a second, so I
had to mute her. Oh, sorry.
Yeah, we're just crashing. Thank you.
Kind of like Nuzzle into the hand.
And then the hand would pet you back and go.
One day, cat, cat, hold us. We'll be together.
Yes, I can't do that day. Did she only bring coffee for
me? No, it was for yourself, the
Rawelsons and me, Mayans and Aura Two, like an individual cup
for each one. The Rawlsons are probably
sitting at the back of the boat. Two of them are fishing, the
other two are flying kites as coffee comes up and I hear that
essentially sounds like people are trying to gather.
In the hold. So Raro will set down his
fishing pole, get up, stretch, drink coffee or grab the coffee,
and then head towards the the the hold or the meeting place or
inside or whatever. I don't call it.
It's been no more than galley. Yeah, that would be common room
more or less, because there's a galley down below, but.
Which you haven't got to explore the ship very much either.
Any who you somehow managed to start fishing and hiding in less
than like the oh, I guess you. Wouldn't this all happened like
immediately we were flying kites as we flew away but if we if
this is all happening in? I I I see how that could
actually have transpired because you started.
You started going away and then you had to come back, remember.
So maybe they were doing doing that while cat flew up, up, up
top and so yeah, that that still that still tracks the other
question though. I I was like where did you get
the material to do that? Did you?
We have before. We left.
Oh. Yeah, we bought kites before we
left for sure. I don't know about fishing
stuff, but I assume a ship will have some sort of like.
Yeah, Dune would have provided for sure.
Gear. Yeah, yeah, Some tackle.
Yeah. So yeah, in the process of
leaving and coming back would have conversed with the dune.
Then I got you that. Works.
I mean, if you want me to do it, I will.
No, no, no, no, I I got you. I just want us like making sure
that it all tracks. Just the It's like my one job,
Sir, But yeah, we jump up and, or at least rural will.
Jump up and head towards the the common room.
No, but you're very quiet. Sorry, I am concentrating.
I'm painting. Oh.
Did you say you would? What Did you say then?
That you would hold the head? Or are you still nuzzling into
the hand? Coffee nuzzling into the hand.
And then at one point I would. Fall out or I would also.
Go down below. OK, which?
Would Rarlson have been doing? Would he have been or rarl?
Would he have been fishing or kiting?
He would have been fishing, OK? He's a provider.
So the other three sit there and are.
And with a kite. Yep. 2.
Two with a kite. One with a fishing pole.
Probably. Jeffrey with the fishing pole.
Yep. I clap them on the shoulder,
wink, and then make my way towards everybody else.
It's all smooth sailing from here, brothers.
Soon we shall have enough to eat forever.
And Meimei stays up top, kind of at the helm of the ship, and
Sonora is probably just wandering around like, where the
hell am I? How did I get here again?
For the rigging. Yeah, checking.
Everything out. Yep, so Hamilton and Wisteria
you see Rarl and Kat step in through the the main door out to
the deck and come come into the common room with their steaming
cups. Rid of a side.
Hey, how Are you sure, One second, Adonai.
Could I have some like heavy cream?
Oh yes, of course I I should have thought of such a thing.
Would you like that warmed up as well?
Yes, please. OK.
And you actually hear a little bit of rattling and then a.
Murr. And then a slamming of a lid.
And then a hand comes up between the four boards with a a pail of
steaming cream. And know you are a farmer.
I well, Betsy, I I've, I've kept her for a while It's it was a
rather odd thing that had happened with the first owner of
me. They'd they were more intrigued
with the Transdimensional. Transportation services, which I
could not not myself provide, but you utilize me for such and
also my power sources of course, but you know, yeah, so.
Anyways, they sounded like they wanted to use you, not feel
French. It was, it was rather
unfortunate. Shia and Thea and Meimei and and
Baharash and. Zeph, they all saved me from
from an indentured servant servitude to this person.
They they were sacrificing creatures to to form my power
source. Although I think after this trip
I might need a little bit of recharging it.
I haven't travelled for a while but the last trip I'd made was
was put me pretty low. Oh, how do you recharge with the
souls of your enemies? Or like.
Hey, I mean. Power station.
I don't prefer that that that is something that that they were
doing is they were sacrificing creatures and such on to to to
power my my, my my core. But in the in the interim it was
dropped on me and it's kind of, I've kind of been using it a
little bit to get gain some power.
In the in in the meantime, so I've I've fairly charged, but
not not enough. There's a tree see an apple seed
that Thea dropped on me quite a while ago now.
All right, but an apple fully appled on my core.
Oh, and that does that, that that gives you power growing an
apple tree. Wow, the the tree itself took
energy to grow, but the the the tree now kind of
photosynthesizes energy into me. I don't fully understand that
process, but I was a tree at one time so it's kind of intuitive.
You should you should build like grow a bunch of trees so that
you could be solar powered. I mean, that would be the dream.
I I I think that may be a direction that could be had.
I don't. I don't fully understand all
these processes. Yes, same.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
Let's, we'll think about it. I'll stretch and then pour.
I'd say half of the coffee in my mug, like over the side or into
the sink or into a bucket and then pour heavy cream for the
other half. Yeah, here you go.
And then pour fill the rest of mine up with heavy cream so it's
like a heavy cream with coffee. You mean?
Yeah, yeah, I got you now. The ratios you just is just like
flipped. Coffee flavored cream.
Yep. I'll sit down.
Hey. How are you feeling?
You were extremely drunk. The headache's fading, but damn.
Yes, but I don't, I don't know if you know this.
You know we have a tab, you know now at the at the the bed, the
at the, the, the bar. Just a small, small fine of
10,000 gold. Oh well, we're not going back
there anytime soon, are we? I mean, I put up a in for
collateral. Somebody's like giant, like the
item they got from, you know, when we first arrived in this, I
waved my hands around place. Oh, wow.
So and you know, I think we're going back there.
We're setting up a trade deal if it was.
Not anyway. It would be our fates, we'll
align and everything would be all right.
A nod turned to everybody else. Or who else is here?
Wisteria and cat are sitting at the table.
You know, cat, the chicken and then wisteria is.
Been only met briefly by by the two of you guys like were like 2
ships passing in the night I think.
Yeah, we met at the club, but. Yep.
Sounds like you also had a rough night.
Yeah? What?
How long has it been? Only a few insert number of
days, just half a lifetime, but I guess that's feel better for
something like. This one, but it's pretty small
this. One would be a good thing.
It's not that small, it's an average size.
And then here's. A wide a wide response.
It's easier to work from the top down because you're going to
touch that, yes. Work work the shaft.
Hark hark Hark. That's.
What we're. Doing Am I unmuted?
Yeah. Yep.
No, we're going through Gabs, yeah.
OK, my headset died, so I just. I'm listening to everything on
my. Phone, which I guess we could
just have one phone. We could just use your phone, so
it's not like. Yeah, but there'll be an echo.
So we're just going through your saying if I.
Yeah. And Thea, I know what you're
going to be doing here shortly because Adune, as the sun is
setting, is going to. Be.
Healing to you guys. There's an odd figure off in the
distance. Oh, and it seems to be some
sort. Of rip rap caught in the
currents. RIP Rap.
What's a RIP rap? How do you look?
It's it's like some rocks that are just kind of strewn about.
Although now that it's. The waves are coming back to me.
I I I'm very not good at seeing. I I apologize.
And it seems Meimei is kind of trying to take the lead, trying
looking in the glasses. And Meimei comes across the
torque and says it. It appears there's some trying
to get a Meimei attitude going on here, but it's really hard.
Hey guys, there's a there's a fucking some shit out here.
It looks like some sort of ship fell apart.
Huh. Kind of like my mental
stability. And then I'm.
Gonna go on. Deck through the link, you you
guys all all hear one word when you're getting onto deck and
it's a dune going flotson. That's the word I was thinking
of, Flotson. Oh, that makes sense.
Is. That.
Too good? Yeah.
Up, up and away. You guys get out onto the deck
and. Do we have a spyglass?
Does anyone have a spyglass? That'd be a negative.
Damn, I can't recall. We should have washed stuff.
At the store. Well, I have my rifle.
It's got a nice scope on it that'll work.
I'll hand it over to Royerson. With no knowledge of gun safety,
they generally kind of swing it back and forth pointed at
people. All right.
Let's whoa, whoa, whoa. They'll.
They'll grab the barrel and just hold it until the sky and be
like, OK, you see this end here? Yeah, this this is the bad end.
You don't that make people go dead.
But you're holding it. How does it make you to go dead
if you're holding it? As as I'm as I'm holding it with
one hand, with my other hand I'm pointing at the the whole of the
barrel. Like this end that make people
go dead. Don't point that out.
Oh yeah. I carefully point it towards the
other ship. Go ahead and rule me a
perception. Yes.
Yes, Daddy. Yes, father, yes, Peter, why is
this not loading? Do do do.
Sorry. You're good.
Yeah, all right. Kills hurt.
Oh, no. Go back.
I just had it. Kills load.
You don't have a token for me either, do you there, Cassidy?
No, OK, I'm just gonna. I'm just looking to Add all the
elf ones. There's a bunch. 18 + 321 Oh
nice. You were quite certain that
whatever was there no longer existed in its intended form.
You're guessing it was some sort of ship, potentially maybe even
a small boat or craft, because you're seeing floating on some
of the flots and A and you could fill in some of this too if you
wanted their olive. I just looked back to the to it.
Do you? Yeah.
Do you want me to describe Yeah, if you if you're if you're so
inclined. OK.
Am I conscious and moving just hanging out?
I would say that it is towards evening.
I'm not sure when the event had transpired necessarily that you.
Could you could just. Yeah, exactly.
Roll for it. I.
Can I be asleep on a floating piece of wood?
Sure. OK, so I you want me to describe
past that? Sure.
Yeah, OK, so you look out, pointing the weapon directly at
me and see a humanoid with some slight Elvin features, but.
For the most part, looks like a normal human in a very careless
sleeping position with a giant floppy brimmed hat resting over
my face to block the sun. A female with like dark hair.
But but. So the character is very much a
hoarder and there's all kinds of shit braided into the hair like
5000 pockets on their giant cloak and seemingly filled to
the brim like feathers, coins, beads, ribbons in like decorate
the hat and or braid it into the hair and.
Yeah, seemingly asleep does not see you.
Probably with your upper body on some sort of larger piece of
flotsam and your lower body under the under the water.
Or are you like fully laying on top of this thing?
I guess it's large laying on top of it, but yeah, look very much
stranded looking. Roll D20.
Me. Yeah.
OK. I don't know if it's large or
not. 11 You look like Jack. Save me, Rose.
Jack. Jack.
What? What?
Yeah, there's a lot of jacks. Oh, we know which Jack I'm
talking about, OK? There's clearly enough space for
two people. Yeah, I'm gonna say what?
Siri is going to look out and be like, sorry, there's not enough
room on here, not enough room on this boat.
I will put down the rifle scope, turn to everyone else and say it
appears that there it appears that there's someone I'm not or
alive out there. But Oh my look again.
They have a lot of shit in my like hunter eyes, like dilate.
Oh no. I'm about.
I'll hand back the rifle to Hamilton.
God.
I know I haven't played in so long, you forgot who I.
I always forget. That's why every character of
mine is forgetful. I like to give my name amnesia
so I don't have to think of a back story.
What happened to you? Don't know.
Oh, my head hurts. I know that more.
I'm here now. It's time to murder.
It seems like a mime is obliging enough to head towards the
direction at least, and you guys start getting close and pull up
next to the sleeping or unconscious elf and are looking
at looking down at them. When you guys start making
waves, I I assume I would notice, so I'm just going to
roll me, OK, OK. No assumptions here, OK?
No, not at this stage. OK, Dirty 20, Dirty 20.
Yeah, you. As the boat starts coming
towards you, you pick your head up.
When they're still even a little bit away from you, then
probably, you know, it's pretty much inevitable that they catch
up with you in either which way 'cause they're probably 20 feet
away. But you you know that's about
when you notice the waves are different.
OK, I'm probably really soggy and I'm gonna wave to the ship
as non threateningly as possible.
Hey, hey you guys. Should we hoist our colors?
And that's when Meimei goes? We haven't made any colors.
How it? Should be based off a chicken.
Should we hoist the chicken? Chicken skull the chicken.
Oh God, a chicken skull with two drumsticks underneath of it
crossed. That's perfect.
Oh shit. Oh, I just saw the time.
Well, on that note, that'll be my my last contribution.
I do have to get off. I'm sorry, absolutely
understood. Sorry.
I'm coming up fast. Get up so early but.
Thank you for joining us. Thank you.
And Josh, you know, you know what I'm aiming for with the
rifle. Just sprinkle that knowledge
across the rest of the session will do.
All right. Good night.
So boats getting closer, They're
olive. Can you guys hear me?
Yes. No that are hoisted, I guess are
a that you see. Anyways is a a Black Flag.
I don't know what color it is. I know.
Yeah. Black Flag.
Let's go piracy the Black. Flag the color of chicken
feathers, rooster feathers. Which rooster feathers, though?
There's so many. I have red brown feathers with a
blue metallic like tail. I forget what that one's called.
I am sure that I have a little bit of fabric somewhere, so I'm
just gonna wave a white piece of fabric and you guys well at
least meme through adune after talking to them.
Would adune would say it. Seems the the meme is seeing the
the flag for help anyone and you starting to pull up alongside of
them now and you can kind of see that Chi is looking for
assistance with the white flag. I don't know who's looking down
over the ship. But I don't know how much.
Bobby Wisteria will be looking, but definitely not helping.
She's just very invested in whatever weird thing is
happening because she does not understand this at all.
Permission to board. You would see one cat head pop
over the rail, then two, then three, then four.
Then they would all bundle together, whispering, and then
throw, throw like a rope over. Come aboard there almost dead
the person. Are there any actual humans on
your vessel? Look around.
The side right now. Yep.
Wisteria's looking over the edge.
Yeah, I was just about to say that.
So you see the the the chicken and the feline individual turn
their heads towards the semi human looking individual of
Wisteria who is more elven in features I would guess.
Yeah, she's a as a refresher, she's a elf.
But she's got like, let me double check, I think mint green
skin. And like lavender colored hair
and pink eye. OK.
We hear that and we say that seems kind of like a rude
question that asks us, but OK, she she is.
Can I grab the rope and try and haul myself over the top, Jeff?
Yeah, I would probably say you'd been out there for a little
while, I guess. So you're going to want to roll
me in Athletics with disadvantage.
We pull it out of our reach. That was for the weird question.
Valid. I promise I won't insult your
kin ever again. Thank you, I better use it.
Let me see if I have anything that can help me climb a rope.
Probably not. I'm just going to drive.
Over here, whenever you see it, it seems like the boat has more
or less stopped moving, or at least matched whatever direction
you were moving in, because the sea is never stopping.
OK. Is it dexterity or what?
Athletics, Athletics which is a strength based skill if I recall
correctly. Oh, not too bad, OK. 15 Nice
you're you grab onto the side of it and you you kind of remember
at least how how more or less to do this the best and you pull
yourself up out of the water, slowly put your feet up against
the side of the the ship and at that point to you hear inside of
your head, oh welcome. Aboard there.
Yeah, I think it it's good to good to see new crew.
You can roll me a Dexterity saving through.
Oh shit. I hear it in my head and then I
slip a little bit, yeah. OK, just immediately.
DOPS You. 13 Good, good, good you you only lose.
Like a half, half an inch before your your go, you go, you look
up at the people above you and look back.
At the ship. Did you guys hear that in your
head? Yeah.
So that's normal. That's a two day repo life to
her I. Don't.
Know about this person. So she's assaulted this twice.
Can you guys hear what's in my head?
I ask Shift. No.
Well, yes. What are you think of a number
one through 10? I'll tell you what it is.
Can I come overboard first? No.
OK, I got my number. Conversation.
We'll give it. What do you guys think?
What number do you think and who's?
69. What number?
That's not between 1:00 and 10:00, but yes, yesterday.
Hey. What's this gonna be like?
You know it. OK, I pull myself overboard and
then I extend my hand to all the cats and I say it's a pleasure
to meet. Make your acquaintance.
We all shake your hand at the same time.
I think really hard in my head here, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty,
Kitty, but no one hears it. Because we're all a bunch of
liars. And then I I guess I'll
introduce myself, because I'm new here.
I am Olive, and I am the finest captain to roam the seas of
wherever we are. Can anyone tell me where we are?
And as you're taking your stance, whatever stance that
maybe I'm imagining for some reason, you put your hands to
your hips. Yeah, it's obnoxious for sure,
but your head kind of up in the air and that's when everybody
sees glinting off of your neck a torque that.
Goodnight resembles at least the the characteristics of your
eyeses, but it still has some minor differences you're not
quite understanding. That everybody just stares at
the torrent doesn't respond. I said where where did she?
I where Where did you get that? You guys, my eyes are up here.
This thing, I've had it for a while, but I haven't found any
use for it. Right Josh?
It's nothing has happened with it.
Correct. There's Josh You.
Ever had any? Weird dreams about a giant
table. Can you hear my thoughts?
You can hear my thoughts. Yes, I told you I could.
Yeah, I don't, you know, I woke up on the table and it's been a
wild ride ever since. Yeah, you touched something
right. Always.
Well, are you guys OK?
Just touching stuff. Having some weird like table
green mass hallucination. You didn't have the.
We had no we had hallucinations where I was from, but they're
usually like mushroom induced. Those are good too, and I think
I'll hold. I was just going to elaborate
for yourself. Wisteria.
You probably may have had an experience like that and may
have attributed it to just mushrooms.
I wasn't saying I thought Wisteria just decided one day.
Yep, go into the other realm and just like started walking and
then eventually walk through a portal.
Just ended up in a pit of hell and ran into random people like
I'm gonna treat you. Yes, the voices in my head said
to come here for the most part that would have probably have
been accurate I would say, but there would have been a point
and you probably don't remember it now, but that definitely
would have been a point that you would have acquired the torque
that you you currently wear and that's usually on the table.
So just to to help tie everything in, I don't know when
it was we can always go back. That's always a fun little aside
that we can go to, and I know that we need to do that for
Olive as well. Here now was just introduced to
herself, so. So what are your names?
I walk up to her and I just look and pop up real proud.
I'm like, I can't. I am with Sarah Namaris and I.
Am the I am Raul. This is my brother Graro, my
sister Yaro, and then my brother Jeffrey the Magnificent.
Wow, I like you guys. Which one of you is the captain
of the spine vessel? And then from the stern or the
the bat? Oh fuck, those are all wrong
words From the helm of the ship. You see, you look behind the the
crew that's gathered in front of you at the wheel of the ship is
starting holding, seeing a small halfling that's guiding the ship
from underneath of the the wheel instead of the top which you
would normally see you. You see them waving profusely
between the between it. At you it goes.
I'm the captain of the ship Meimei.
Meimei make me messin be. Careful with that Meimei's name.
Yeah, I like that one a lot. That too.
Where are you guys? Headed Do a Black.
Watch. OK, I headed.
Oh well well Mimi wouldn't take the lead on this.
I'm she's probably still or they are probably still just kind of
steering attempting to. Where were we heading?
Were we heading towards the dragon?
I don't think so, because we weren't ready.
I think we. Were already.
OK, then we're gonna have. We have the, we have the
contract, we've got the money, we've got the nudies, we've got
transportation. The bottles that Zertelas had
given you. Yep, the bottles.
Yep, we got the bottles. Think we're on our way?
Did you list all those things that you have?
Yeah, but I pretend I did it with an accent.
OK, I'm intrigued at a list of items and you can tell.
That's what we needed. Now we're off to meet a Red
Dragon and try to broker a trade deal.
And Hamilton at that point would probably take his tip, his hat
off and go. Just had a realization.
I think I need to go talk to with Meimei and Stock.
Oh yes, I'm Thomas Hamilton and he tips his hat to you and walks
over to Captain Meimei. Is a red dragon the kind of
dragon that has like a horde of treasure and goodies and stuff?
I. Think that's all Dragons?
It might be. Wow, but.
We're going to have a deal with this dragon.
Oh, Oh well, do you need another person?
Because Nope. Well, bye.
There's. Only room for one Captain here,
sure. Prove my worth.
What what what areas of expertise do you have?
Well, I I'm going to open my Cape like a flasher and show my
glinting weapons. I I know a thing or two about
how to swing a blade and I'm I'm, I'm good with a a lock and
I can get my sneak on. Ah, a rogue.
Yeah. I mean, I'm not.
I'm not too shabby in a fight and I did drown with all these
weapons on. Or you don't fall in the water.
Oh. I never fell in the water.
That's not how I found myself in this position.
Wow. And you didn't drown immediately
carrying all that stuff. I.
Barely made it through Titanic style.
That's right. We came upon you and you were on
a thing. So that's right, we were here.
All four of you saw it. I look around, we're still here.
Well, welcome aboard. Do you probably want a change of
clothing and maybe something warm to drink?
I hand you a steaming mug of what appears to be like a like a
caramel brown colored thick cream.
That's steaming. Oh, I drink it to be polite.
Thick. I chew it.
Wow. A delicacy, Yeah.
I don't know how you would respond to it.
You don't necessarily have to roll, but it is green with some
coffee flavor or. I mean, out of C you wouldn't
have access to a lot of cream, so it might actually be a
delicacy for you. I don't usually chew my cream,
but. Or I've learned, but when I do,
it's apparently it in in the Forgotten Realms, it's Kath Kath
KETHKAETHI forgot the a Kath. It's an actual drink.
Mm hmm. It's basically coffee.
Can we make some this weekend? Let's do it.
Why not figure? Out.
I want to chew my alcohol this weekend.
Wait, wait, how? That was your.
Yeah. That was your.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I'm.
I'm on it. Well, that was me.
Sorry, Mimi, would you're good. I didn't even notice what you're
talking about. I know.
I dropped something very loud. Oh no, you're good.
I was apologizing. Didn't even notice.
I was going to say, though, that you would probably hear Mimi
from the wheel. Shout over.
You know what would prove you're worth if you could navigate to
the CS better than I. Oh yeah, how do I can I?
Is that something I can roll, or it is something you're going to
have to create if you want to make it in a skill?
Wait, wait, actually I have my. I have something for that.
Navigator's tools. Yes, that would be perfect
because no one here has that. Yes, I do have that and I'm good
at it. Hey, there you go.
We've been just sailing in a straight line, hoping we get
somewhere eventually. Do you know?
Where we are. Well, it's a good thing you guys
happened upon me. You're welcome.
I'm gonna. Can I?
Can I just bother me, May, for the entire rest of the campaign?
Just gonna stand right next to her and back seat drive.
Yeah, but I there for that two. I wanted to leave it up to you
guys in this next aspect of things.
I had some other things thought of to be here, and I think it's.
I've got six. It looks like.
I thought it may have been eight, but oh, OK, that was my
thought. I know that if someone wants to
roll me AD 8 for what happens next, I don't know who me.
Yeah. Yeah, I can roll AD 8.
It's your fault if it's bad. Our fault if it's good.
It's a four, so it's right in the middle. 4 This is the one
that I have least likely thought of.
Yes. That's what we like you see as
the navigator currently, and looking back and forth between a
bunch of things you see AI don't actually even know what this
thing looks like. You, like I said, least like
that I've thought of of the options.
I think it's probability. How did you think that one's the
least like the middle number? Because it was either going to
be one of the end numbers or one of the middle numbers, not the
very middle number. But that's not how probability
works. That's just math.
Look, if you're rolling QD, then sure, but one DA Everybody gets
an even shot. Yeah, it's literally one and an
eighth chance of any of the numbers.
But Yep, considering that I. Think that was going to happen?
You want us to roll again? No.
Nope. OK, I think I I think I see.
It now. I have to read.
OK, all right. You see off in the distance
before anyone else, especially because you're you're paying
attention to the direction you're actually going.
Everybody else is just fucking around.
And after when you'd walk up to Meimei, At first they were Flint
and Hamilton and Meimei were talking, and Meimei passed
something off to Flint and he went off into a corner with the
Rawlsons. Wait, could I see what it was?
Go ahead and perceive, Yeah. OK, 21 Damn, you'd seen that.
It was a a glint of silver and a hint of blue in a circle of some
sort. You're guessing some sort of
ring at per the size went before pocket?
And I clock it, he he walks off towards the Rawlson's and he
goes, could you potentially, could you potentially fashion
something out of this ring and this rifle that I have?
I've got this crazy idea. And he pulls a drawing out of
his pocket and holds it up to you with a cannonball that's
going into his rifle. And it's a ring of reasonable
size that he's working with, that he'd handed you along with
that. Rifle and mostly just scraping
away the black whatever. Sure.
So you want to be? Able to.
Like, let's see. Pretty.
Much so does does he want to be able to shoot cannonballs or
does he want like a cannon? Resized, He goes on to elaborate
and say, well the the theory behind it is that with the ring
of reasonable size, upon picking up the the the cannonball, it
would resize, go into the the gun, and then as soon as it
leaves the gun it would resize again.
Ah. I will examine the gun and how
you load the bullet 'cause I'm thinking the best way to do this
is depending on how the bullet is loaded, you make either you
attach the the ring of resizing to the loading mechanism or like
put it around it. And then you like essentially
push the cannon through cannonball, through the the
actual ring portion of the ring of resizing and then load it in
that that way like, well, would you, is this like a muzzle
loader? Like are you loading a a shot
down the front barrel? I'm just looking at that now,
'cause I was thinking the same thing, inventory.
Because it's a shot down the front barrel.
If this is as easy as mounting the ring of resizing to the end
of the barrel, so. That everything you push into
the gun gets resized down. But if it's like a cartridge
system loaded into the side, then you'd need a little like
add on something something, but it doesn't explicitly say which.
I will, yeah, so I would say that through the times and
everything too. And where he'd found it, it's
probably the muzzle holder of a sorts at least, and especially
considering this one. It is a rifle with like a range
of 200 to 800 feet. OK, so you'd load it down the
barrel with like a packet of gunpowder and Yep, yeah 'cause
it takes 1 action to reload this particular weapon.
Yep. So then I guess I would, I would
do it as like a almost like an attachment, like a like a rifle
attachment to the end, kind of like how a silencer would attach
but with. The ring of resizing on there so
that when you put a cannonball up to it at the top it'll resize
down and then you can like use the jam rod to like force it in
and he's takes out the picture and he's like that's.
Exactly what I was thinking. But now you're thinking to
yourself, like, how does it? How does the ring attach right?
We need a welder. You could roll a crafting if you
wanted to figure out how. Sure, crafting 15 go ahead and
increase that by one. You are looking at it and you're
trying to figure it out and you're racking your brain.
But under the circumstances too that you that you have with the
tools that you have, you're like I really need to get a better
workshop. And you, they'll take the ring
and hope that this doesn't invalidate some of the the magic
properties and are able to somehow separate it at at the
right point without busting the jewel, it seems like off, and
then reattach it just to the front of the rifle probably.
And you're kind of try to situate it back so that it's not
eating. You're hoping the magical
properties are attached to that way, to the rifle specifically
and not falling off of the rifle and and and attach it that way.
For now, OK. Yeah, I try that and then I'll.
Knowing not to point it on, anyone move to the side of the
the. Ship.
And ask if you need for some for a cannonball in in an
appropriate amount of gunpowder to shoot a regular size.
Well, I don't know. Because.
It'd be small, so like a regular bullet.
I've also never shot a gun in this campaign, so.
Here's. Nothing.
All I know is don't point it at other people.
So what are you trying? I didn't.
I didn't follow exactly. So you said I I created this
thing like I think it will work. I am.
I asked Adune for a cannonball, and then I attempt to, like, try
it out and she just kind of goes, oh OK and rolls one over.
That was like 5 feet away from you on the deck.
Just kind of like takes the floorboards and molds them to
roll the one of the cannonballs in the pile next to the cannon
over to your feet. Hey, thanks.
Then I will hold the cannon. Fall up to the end of the of the
gun and the new attachment and attempt to push it through into
the into the end of the rifle, and you're holding the gun
presumably, I would guess by like your two legs.
And then you pick up the cannonball with two hands and
set it down on top of the front of the rifle, and it resizes
down to the perfect size to fall down the barrel.
That was fun. Then I I think to myself, do I
need to take the attachment off now?
That it's resized and in there? Or is it something that once I
take it off, it'll lose its magic and his gun will explode?
You you were going to try and take the ring off is what you
said. Well, no, I'm thinking about
like I'm. Trying to investigate it to
understand. In Arcana you're looking at it
and you go. I don't really know how this
works. Maybe the metal of the gun would
hold itself together if I remove the ring?
They get really uncomfortable and not wanting to break his
gun, I'll look around. I think I'll just try to shoot
it as it is. OK?
So you hold the gun up and just shoot it off into the distance.
I'll I'll turn to one of my siblings and be like hey can you
like you know like throw something the like a skeet.
That's. OK, it's related to Dexterity
usually, so if you could roll that first Dex check.
Yeah, Abilities Dex. That was so close to a natural
1/22. OK, nice.
And you do not have this obviously in your inventory, but
if you wanted to with this particular instant, just for a
little bit, it's bad news. Xandria is the the rifle that he
has, but it's action wise related to your dexterity.
Again, I believe she's got a. Bad news, Xandria.
Add to equipment. How do I fire it?
Equip. All right.
Should be under my actions right now.
Yeah, OK. Eight to hit.
Wow. You fire the gun and it's got a
good bit more kick than you were expecting.
Go ahead and roll me a dexterity saving throw and but you see the
round that comes out the end of it just as it leaves and expand
to the side two times the well the size of the cannonball that
you put in there. As it just reaches out to the
end of it and flies off into the distance, not hitting the
whatever it was that was thrown out into the air, I examined the
gun for any damage as I oh I rolled AI don't I find, but it
was. X safe.
Yeah, I rolled it. It was.
I'm trying to see where like it says I can find like previous
rolls. I.
I didn't see it come through on the I'm on my phone right now.
I didn't see. I'll just do it again 20.
But I do see the 19 on roll 20 for.
A Really. Yeah.
So you. Yeah, it's coming through again
as a 13 that time, but I'll take the first one which would which
you you feel your shoulder rock back more than you were
expecting, but you're able to kind of take a step back instead
of falling over. And see, see all the proceedings
there. And you look back at the front
of the rifle and you see that there is it.
It heated up, but the ring is staying where you'd shoved it
basically onto the barrel and be like, all right, this works.
I think you'll probably want to get this like professionally
like attached once we like land somewhere, so I will deliver it
back to him whenever. Hips his hat and takes the
rifle. You know, you might want to get
this like you know better attached, like welded or
something like that in the future.
But for now this seems to work. You should consider making a
hollow cannon full of shrapnel, I say as I walk away and ball
still there. Yeah, it's.
It's funny that you said that, because he had actually just
talked about that same thing like 20 minutes before we got
online. Really.
Yeah, but he was going to fill it with silverware or something.
Oh man, shrapnel silverware. I think that works.
He said silverware was really common as a thing they would
load into cannons back in the day.
It was, Yeah. That's awesome.
Yeah. I'll rejoin the others.
And as you're, you know you're finishing that up, you hear,
probably anyways more than C or anything Olive asserting that
there is a very large creature off in the distance.
It looks like a hulking mass. Hey, you guys, there's the
hulking mass. Oh, thank you.
I've never been called that before, but I suppose I've been
working out. It's a compliment.
Do do we know what it is, Josh or no?
You you have many fears, but none asserted with your, with
your, your, your, your perception.
Go ahead and roll me a perception actually, too, just
to round it out. Bad 6.
Yeah, you're definitely not sure.
But you you know, for a certain of only one thing that you're
far enough away that it hasn't quite noticed you yet either.
Oh, is it a whale? Whaling is extremely profitable.
Oh, profitable. You have my Do we want to avoid
this thing or you guys? Confident in your abilities?
I have only been in one fight and it was a bar fight.
That makes me feel great. I was going to say we can
probably. Handle ourselves, but I feel
like maybe we should avoid it. Just in case.
Oh man. I can't be certain.
But nothing that large in the ocean can be good news.
I mean, we saw you from a distance, you're saying?
Was I that large? No, I think she's average sized
she. Yeah, I mean, I'm normal human
size, but this thing is, it's it's a hulking mass according to
my internal thoughts. The DM.
Well, we just got a dune out of the bottle.
Let's just have some leisurely sailing before we get involved
with hulking masses. OK, OK.
Can can I try and direct Neme like a wide berth of this thing,
yet still keeping our course? Yeah.
You can, you can definitely do that.
I would say at this point that that's probably the perfect
amount of what you're doing, especially you're you're going
to want to probably say that you're gonna, you're gonna take
an A roundabout course around it.
So you're going through the monster, or whatever the heck it
is is going to be. Directly where you need to be,
but you're going to want to head basically South and then around
and then head keep, keep heading east basically is what you would
explain and let's roll this one that doesn't get used very much
and she's pretty high in it. Are they?
I should not be rolling tonight. I'm just not allowed to hold the
dice. It's another nine.
Let's see what the the thing does.
Who's rolling that? Oh, Mommy.
Yeah, that was that was Mimi. Oh no.
Oh darn. The next thing you guys know as
Mimi starts heading a course around the monster towards the
South. It's almost as if what you
thought may have been some clouds or just the way the
horizon met the edge of the the edge of the ocean where there
were some stars missing off into the distance was suddenly seems
to be this black sort of behemoth in front of you with
flailing appendages and. Spiky ends to those before it
becomes invisible. Oh, glad that's gone.
Duh. Go ahead and roll the
initiative. Wait wait wait I I say that, but
I I mean to to wait one second so that I can actually put the
initiative up. I always pre empt this.
I thought we were avoiding avoiding shit.
We'll just have to dry brush over it again.
It decided to not not avoid us. Yeah, yeah.
Well, we avoided that thing, but.
But this thing. And then we ran into another
thing. I blame the captain.
Is that not you? Let's meet it.
Mama, thank you. Mimei.
Mimei is the captain. Mimei rolled that nine, not me.
So yeah. So.
Run Encounter. Now you guys can roll.
Wow, you got a roll. I know initiative roll. 20 Not
natural same. There's initiative on here.
About in the middle. 2 five I'm glad that's gone.
Well, Olive seems usually the first up there.
Wisteria also got 20 so. I don't know D&D Beyond, said
Olive. I don't.
I don't know what I don't know. I don't know how it decided
between the two 20s you guys could roll.
Off if you if you want to who? Is the higher?
I know that's like a home rule for sure.
It is. It is.
Does D&D Beyond already like automatically know that?
Is it smart enough? No, probably not it if you guys
want to roll off again, that's totally your guys's choice.
If they have gone off of who had the higher like.
Yeah, like whoever is base roll was higher and then afterwards
the modifier. 17 was mine. Yeah, mine wasn't that high.
My modifier. Was a + 8.
That's for initiative. Yeah.
Wow. OK OP over there.
OK, so I go or. Yeah, unless you guys want to
wanted to to roll for it again, I'm I'm open to it.
I know. My still rolling dices, but.
OK. OK, well just off the bat, it's
still invisible and no one can see it right now, right?
Oh, good. Also.
Sorry. I Is there a map or we just
looking at the ship? Wisteria is on deck and there
should be a map in that you're looking at.
You're looking at the ship with a lot of water around you
currently. Do I have a character token?
Battle map wise, no. So if you're on the ship you can
pretty much move across it in one turn.
So from helm to stern. OK, so I just we're just going
to use our, we're going to use the imagination to tell you
where I am. OK.
I guess I'm going to go from bothering me may to to like the
side of the ship and. I don't know can I make some
kind of check to see if I can look at the the tiny thing?
Perception, yeah. OK, 14 or can I see any waves in
the water or anything indicators?
Yeah, are you? Are you running to the?
Just for simplicity's sake, left or right the.
Port Kenny. I don't know which one's port or
side distorted the right side. OK, that is port actually.
Good job. You run to the port side and you
are looking. I could be wrong, I could be
completely wrong. Unless Johnny's here, I don't
know you. You look over the side and you
see in the water. Directly in front of the ship,
these smaller waves that seem to be rippling out from a source
that is at at least half the size of the entire ship.
The waves are or it's there's something.
That is something that is half the size of the ship that the
waves are emanating from. The waves are just tiny ripples
that are counter to the main waves of the sea.
That you you can only read them from your experience that that's
it's bumping up against something that's.
OK, I'm gonna yell to everyone on the ship and be like, guys,
the thing's over here. But I can't.
I can't hit it with this blade, So I'm gonna.
I don't see anything. I think it sees you.
Do you want to borrow Hamilton's rifle?
Actually what I'm going to do is, is this a cannon that I can
actually get behind and aim it towards that?
Yeah. What?
What does that do for my turn? Can I can I shoot that thing
this turn? It is primed and ready you you
would have to spend at least one action to re.
Minimum to reload it and everything you know, but it is
primed and ready. OK, well I want to get behind it
at least and aim it at where the splashes are coming from.
OK. And if I can shoot it I will or
if I have to reload it this turn then I will do that.
You can definitely try to shoot it, yeah.
Yes. You're going to want to.
So I had this up earlier but. Here we go.
You're going to want Are you adept with ranged weapons or
anything too? No, not not like simple ranged
weapons, yeah, but not something like this, I don't think.
You'll just want to roll AD 20 then I would say at this point
because it's it's range is like 200 to 900 feet and this is
definitely not that. That should balance it out.
Do I add anything? It would.
If you had proficient proficiency in this particular
weapon. I would say it would be a + 5 to
hit, but the range like I was just saying is 200 to 900.
If it were in that range, then you would also.
Add that +5 but. OK, well I only rolled a nine,
so. You you see the shot just go out
into the distance. You have no idea how far, but it
definitely didn't hit what you're aiming at.
OK, I swear I saw it over here. Is that the whole turn or can I
reload or? That's the whole turn.
Yeah. OK.
You. You had to.
Probably walk out there movement wise and check check to make
sure and actually light it. Bonus action wise for the for
the action of aiming and all that jazz 'cause you had to move
it the cannon itself too to OK. I'm still just like, pointing in
that direction, but that's my turn.
All right, Mysteria with cat. OK, so.
Yeah. Where is it?
Like so, Olive, You pointed it out.
Is it? Do you think it's within 60 feet
of us? No.
No, right Jeff. Sorry.
You're pretty sure. Yeah, I can't.
It's invisible, so I don't know for sure, but I saw waves within
60 feet of us. Point out where you.
Saw that over the port side at that point.
Be more specific. Can you ping?
Well, I I can't see anything on my screen.
Yeah, I can't either. So.
Really, you guys? We have.
Well, on Jess's screen, it's shipping black.
Yeah, let. Me let.
Me. Same with.
Fine. That's what I was asking about.
It should be. Oh yeah, I thought.
The watering was just basically. Black It's basically blackness
out there. You're you're you're talking
like middle of the night almost that this is happening.
So I don't know if that changes anything for you guys, but it's
basically just wolves. And blackness, for the most part
too, anyways. OK, so I'm going to get.
I don't know where I'm at on the ship.
You probably were still on the deck after you'd come out.
Yeah, but I mean, I don't know. I'm going to get right up on the
edge as close to this thing as I can and I am going to cast ferry
fire at level 2. I don't know if it sent it to
the. No, it didn't.
OK, so it's a 60 foot range and it's a Each object in a 20 foot
cube within range is outlined in.
We'll go with a Violet light because it's blue-green, or
Violet, my choice, outlined in a Violet light.
Any creature in the area when the spell is cast is also
outlined in a light if it fails a Dexterity saving throw for the
duration. Objects are affected and
creatures shed dim light in a 10 foot radius, and the attack role
against an affected creature or object has advantage if the
attacker can see it, and the affected creature or object
can't benefit from being invisible.
So it needs to be a Dexterity of 14 you.
Get a 17, yeah. OK.
There's still the the fact that you guys see the sloshing waves
a little bit better off the port side mainly.
Yeah, trying to. Get something out here So I have
a question. Sure.
Shoot. If a creature has an object on
them because it outlines creatures and objects, is that
object part of the creature or is it its own object?
Like would the object light up but the creature still stay
invisible? In this particular case, you do
see light that does not illuminate a creature, whether
or not that be from the fact that its abilities to not be
perceived are. Reflecting or refracting or what
have you of the light. It it is you're you're guessing
to yourself at least some manner of being, not not perceivable to
you at least. And then I am just going to let
me see what was the distance on that by the way. 60 feet.
And then it's a 20 foot cube. That doesn't make it.
Oh, OK, I got it now. OK.
Hope that illuminates some things for you guys.
Yeah, that's good. Mainly some waves.
Was that your turn, then, Mysteria, I'm trying to see.
Cat on deck, Carlson to follow I yes, that'll be what I can.
OK, it whatever it might be, you can feel the air rushing down
before. A splash of waves off to the
left and then a rushing sound before a 17 comes slamming down
on to the deck to hit. 17. Yeah.
Is that against a bunch of people, all of us or the ship
or? It's a range of 10 feet.
So I would guess for sure, at the very least we're talking
Olive and Wisteria who had rushed to that side of the deck.
Oh yeah, seventeen hits for me. Same.
Could you roll me? AI think it's.
I think it's Dexterity saving, yeah.
I hope so. Go with that.
Oh, I. I have evasion, so it's if I
succeed then I take no damage and if I don't I take half
damage but I got I got 17. So you succeeded then, so you
take no damage from well. Or rather, the second part of
this thing, which is actually I've seen a 12 from Syria, I
believe. Yeah, I don't know if this
matters, but I am alert, so I can't be surprised while
unconscious, but I'm or I cannot be surprised while I am
conscious. And other creatures don't gain
advantage on attack rolls against you as a result of being
unseen by you, so I don't know if that changes anything, but.
No, I had not even rolled with advantage or anything.
OK, that was. A straight roll and the and the
DC which is 15 so you you're able to.
Olive, you're you're getting hit with something that you're not
quite sure of. You would only guess it would
have been one of his tentacles that you'd seen riding slams
into you, but you immediately kind of try to pull away from it
and it's suction ability I guess, Whereas Wisteria is a
little caught off guard more and you feel it wrap around you and
contort holding you in place. Wisteria, you are currently
grappled. OK, can I do the matrix move on
it? Oh yeah.
So you get hit by it and then you kind of just like lean back.
Yeah. Yeah, that'll work.
So it kind of sails over. You're trying to pick you up
too, but you do see wisteria dragged closer to the edge of
the deck. Probably right up against the
railing, as if being pulled towards whatever and wherever
the creature might be gives you you a little bit more idea of
where in direction it is. I don't.
Would I get a reaction to that? No, probably not.
Yeah, if you haven't used it this round then you would get a
reaction. A reaction.
I bite. I bite it.
You oh. No, unless you do have like a
skill that's specifically reaction related.
Sorry, that is that I know. Nibbles on the creature.
That was something that was Pathfinder related and
everything, every pretty much every action had a reaction and
that just got cumbersome. I can see why they did away with
it. Sounds hilarious.
It can be until you spend 3 hours taking one round.
I'm just going to yell. I told you guys it was real.
There it is. Is the tentacle or whatever's
going to hold hysteria visible? Negative.
You also feel directly next to the ship.
Adune kind of cry out as she feels the grazing portions of
something against her Hull and you guys kind of all hear it.
I agree. Is it?
My turn. It is grazing, but not as in
eating like grass grazing, as in like it's rubbing against
instead of actually making contact.
I call out to a dune, I call out to a dune and I'm like.
Do you recognize this creature? Is this creature familiar to
you? In in your head, which was
softer until you started to kind of acknowledge Adune.
At this point, especially considering the circumstances in
their focuses, you focus back on Adune's consciousness and you
just hear a bit of us. No.
What? No.
What's going on? It's terrifying.
No, we're all right. We're going to get rid of this
thing and. OK here, hold on.
I need to pass it there so I can read and spell.
So about. About 20 feet out in front of
Wisteria I I am guessing at this point, but 20 feet out in front
of her in the direction that she is being like drugged.
I'm going to cast Shatter trying.
To remember exactly how that one's worded.
I just tried to send it, I don't know if it sends it.
No, it just rolled all the stuff.
Here I can read it. Give me Oh no momento.
Oh wait, I hit cast and then hit display.
Did it show up next? There it is.
OK, loud noise, OK. Yeah, a sudden loud ringing
noise, painfully intense, erupts from a point of your choice.
So I'm going to do 20 feet in front of the direction that
wisteria is being drug, OK? And a 10 foot radius sphere
centered on that point. Any creature must make a
Constitution saving throughout or take 3D eight Thunder damage.
Hold on, the savings rate's got to be.
It was just a 17 BC 17. I got an 18 so.
So we take half as much damage. Go ahead and roll those 3 to 8
unless you're casting it at higher than second level.
No starting with second level. Because I don't know what we're
dealing with, so start small. So we'll round it up to seven
though and at that too, you guys all see the invisibility
basically drop the concentration of it.
And what do we? See.
And you see just this writhing mass, mass of teeth, and.
Tentacles off the port bow. Hey guys, there's a writhing
mass over there I'm just gonna crow in like.
Distress and anger. Because it's hurting.
A dune, and it's frightened her. I'm gonna call out loudly.
Over the torque to the rest of the crew to make their way to
the deck and just ready for battle.
Hands on deck. Oh.
Sorry, my husband's. Sleeping.
The funny thing is, it didn't all come through here, but I'll
get the gist. I don't know if that would be a
good stopping point actually or not, honestly, because that
would bring everybody back in, but I I would at least like to
give Rahlson their turn. Before that, Rawlson, having
totally believed that whatever it was was gone, turns around in
complete shock. And he's like, awful shit.
It was actually there. And how far away was it again?
Like pretty close. Yeah, I'm trying to.
I'm trying to bring it up, but I still have not gotten a token
for this thing in the meantime, no.
No worries, I will. I'm gonna use my bonus action to
cast HEX on this thing and I'll make it.
What's a good thing to give it disadvantage on?
I don't think we've seen what it can do yet.
Yeah. So I guess I'll I'll hold on
that then, and instead I'll just cast a Eldridge Blast.
Disadvantage on strength might be good.
Yeah, yeah, it's a big boy. That's fair.
So I'll I'll do my action. Or my bonus action hacks shall
cast on the thing I think it went through.
Not the D20 or roll 20 anyways. Really.
No. You might have to go back to
your features and trades to refresh or something.
Along those lines, but I can pull it up here.
That's what I've been doing in the meantime too, before,
between people. It just popped up.
Let me see if I can actually post the text of it.
How do I display? No that's not how you display.
No display in VTT. There it is.
So disadvantage and strength checks.
And I will deal an extra 1D6 necrotic damage and then with my
action I will cast Aldrich Blast at it.
Come on, 14 to hit. I don't know why it rolled
twice. It shoots off into the distance.
Damn. He kind of did that like hip
check, shoot, shoot and then prepares himself for the next
round and I think that'll be everything.
I think it'll, yeah. That is a big boy.
The. Does that well satisfy your
needs? Yes.
My needs are met. I like it.
It's cute. Took me a while.
Kind of reminds me of teeth, but.
Gulp. Cutie.
Let's make it a pet. It's adorable.
It's rubbing up against a dune, too.
It it was, yeah. I wonder if that's.
Trying to get dirty, I use my action and my bonus action to
pet it. I think it it is it would be
your turn. I don't know if you want to hold
that action. No, I don't.
I don't want to do that. I do think it's a good stopping
point because it. Makes sense that you would call
to everyone and then they would join.
Yeah, for those who are making it next time, which next week
would technically be evil, but I was gonna skip those, That one
for since it's right after your rhythmic veracity, and then the
following one would be good. So we'll be starting right back
up where we left off at least. Cool.
Look forward to seeing y'all this weekend.
Yeah. Thank you all.
Right. Y'all.
Great. Thank you so much.
Hope. Back on the ship.
Alright, see. You again?
Pirate stuff. Pirate.
Type for me. Have a good night everyone.
Good night. Y'all.
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