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Manny Polos. Oh, you bloody Craig.
Fucking Craig. Hello.
Overlord Craig is.
He going to talk to us like last time.
I hope so speak to us so. Ezra, you find yourself atop a
table, very large night sky above yourselves, all around,
all the way to the edges of the table, bunch of mundane items on
it. And you, you're standing upon a
page that just reads Taurus. The path unfolds with letters
the size of you written upon it. What do you do?
This is not where I went to bed last night.
He's going to investigate the area, trying to figure out why
he looks so small compared to everything else.
Rick is Is your character illiterate?
Oh. Extremely.
OK, you can go ahead and roll me that investigation one A2 he.
Said he said one, I think. No, no, I said one.
I rolled a three. I got a 10, OK.
So I was making a joke from from AD and D short where a guy goes
I got a 2. Apologize.
So yeah, you look around for a bit, but then you find your gaze
lingering on the candles, and then everything else kind of
starts to shrink around you before you realize, oh, I should
stop looking at these candles. I might go blind.
So shiny. So you're gonna be afraid.
To this, To this team. Fantastic you.
Favorite that? It as Russia kind of scratches
behind his ear. Oh no, no.
Focus, focus, focus. I'll sniff it out and.
He's supposed to see. If there's a smell around him
that kind of points him in the direction he needs to go start
sniffing in the air, yeah. And is there anything that you
were specifically meaning by looking for where he needs to
go, like food relations or food people, anything of that nature
is what you like. Is there people?
Is there food? OK.
Smelly smell that smells. So you you, you, you do take,
start taking a whiff and there's this.
At this point smells of many people that have passed this
way. You can tell just from just,
just from even. You're realizing the amount of
different smells you're you're smelling.
It can't just be all from the books, the keys, the cards and
everything in the paper or or even the dice or even the
candles themselves that these smells are coming from.
Because there's just so many of them.
Even though they're all very light, as if they'd travelled
through here briefly, you're not sure where they would have gone
because it seems as if they've there.
There isn't any real trail that you can follow with.
The smell, because it the, the, the large lingering scents are
about even as you're kind of wandering.
If you start wandering off the page that you're standing on,
largely allocated there on top of the page, yeah, he goes over
to like where? Like towards the edge.
And then he decides to jump up on the the compass to see if he
can see a little further. You stand up on top of the
compass and you look off into the starry void and you realize
standing on the edge of the table too, there's just this
gaping nothingness below you and nothingness all around the
table. It it seems like just nothing
within reach. There's just this, yeah, this
starry night sky. There's there's legs to the
table, but they seem to just be floating in whatever this area
is. Oh God, I'm.
Trapped. I'm trapped.
And then he tries, basically, yeah, he's going to punch
something. Probably.
You're gonna probably punch down on the compass one.
Damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it.
As you're punching onto the compass, it, it starts to kind
of vibrate in in the same rhythm.
Even as you stop your smackings of it and you're you're looking
at around at it as the air, you finally realize that the needle
in the compass is pointing directly towards you.
It's magic. Tell me magical compass where I
go it. There's no response.
Do do we get our torques when we get transported into the game or
as we're on the table? The I I don't think at any point
Has anyone gotten their torque at the table.
It's been given to them at a later date by another character
because it usually comes to them in some weird way.
Like, I think Kat got their torque through a chest.
I don't. I feel like I just woke up with
mine, like in game. I also feel like I just woke up
with mine. Remind me what the torque is?
It's like the necklace that lets us communicate with each other.
Oh, yeah. Someone just gave it to me.
I think it was. I think Franklin just gave it to
me. There's someone.
I gave you, I gave you my like charm necklace to get into the
base and a good Berry. That's what I give people.
Oh, then I don't think I have the torque.
Ezra's gonna jump down off the compass angrily.
Stupid compass. Try to pick it up and throw it.
Well, definitely a strength check.
Also, I forgot to ask for this one.
Could you roll? You'd.
I don't think you'd need to roll to attack to hit the compass
'cause it's not going anywhere. But could you roll damage for?
We'll just split the difference here and I'm gonna roll the
percentage of this, OK? Two times that you hit it. 10
damage with my my hands, 5 for each.
Oh, OK for the unarmed strike. You, you, you notice that it's
it's got a little bit more resilient zillions than just
glass that you would have expected it to.
It doesn't quite break under that pressure.
And that's when he goes stupid. Compass tries to throw it and
let's see, 23. So you squat this, you, you get,
you get, you lift up the edge, you get up under it.
Oh, this is something that you might not be familiar with, but
I do let people describe their own things.
So if you want to describe how you succeed, I'm just going to
tell you you succeed and then you can tell me how.
Otherwise I can fill in the blanks for you.
Oh yeah, he he jumped down, squats it really low, starts to
lift up the the compass and gets ready to throw.
How? Where?
Where do I throw it? What Or does something happen?
Before it before it throw. It rolls away from me.
Nope. You you got a hold of it.
You're ready to throw it. You're able to do so.
I'm throwing it off the edge. I'm angry.
I'm throwing it to the edge. Uh oh.
So you you grab the, the, the compass.
I'm I'm imagining that you've lifted up the edge because this
thing is 15 feet across. So you've lifted up one edge of
it, gotten under it and kind of gotten your back under it.
Did a squat and then lifted it up like that with your hand kind
of sprayed out, sprayed out to either side, balancing this
thing on your back. So when you throw it, I'm
guessing you kind of lean off the one leg trying to grab onto
the edge of the compass and prep it, ready to fire, almost as if
you're yourself. As a catapult, launch it off the
edge. As it comes flying over the edge
and out into the space. It spins a couple times, they're
slower than you were expecting before speeding up in that same
spot. And the the needle on the
compass continues to spin, placing itself pointing at you,
and it starts to glow bright and your vision, and you go, oh,
shiny again. And before your vision gets
whited out and then blacked out and you fade into nothingness
and don't feel like you exist anymore for a second, it feels
like that we're here and we're going to start to aim the pocket
rocket. So for those that also haven't
been experiencing this side of things.
Wait, were you going to do a recap?
Apologies and other power there. Issue I'm going back to SO.
I was trying to say though that those of you that that weren't,
can you guys hear me? Yeah.
OK. Those of you that weren't here
before, the last thing that you're remembering, whatever it
was, oh, you know what I didn't do either.
The recap this time. Let's start there.
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,
fading to until myths are forgotten and the campaign that
gave it birth comes again and again.
The Hand of Fate tosses, the dice rolls, spins, turns
Hitherto, we left our adventurers on the 4th level of
Hell, Greed after defeating A phallic maze known as the
Acropolis right back. OK.
Too far? Here we go.
Which was situated OK yeah, hitherto we left the adventures
on the 4th level of Hell Greed after defeating the phallic maze
known as the Acropolis, situated in the fifth level of Hell in
the centre at the in the Swamps and Quagmire.
Of. Anger, the fifth level of health
After braising the braving, the maze peril of of the March
outside, the ghost, the creepy crawlies, angry Gray dwarves 2
headed etten and the undulating walls and skeletal beasts and
demonic servants and a gelatinous Cuba of or or
gelatinous memory eating beasts inside the Acropolis they came
to a door with a Titanic Titanic eye.
They definitely solved a Riddle. It posed and with a flash of
light from the centre of the eye, the door itself as well as
the eye disappears. Ash, Phalen, Flint, Franklin and
Balmain enter the chamber beyond at the center of this Acropolis.
Inside, a demon sits in front of a mirror overgrown by decrepit
pastoral laden tree atop a cigarette cigarette.
Jumping down and announcing himself as Fraz, EUR, Leur or
Fraz for short, he claimed to be the this level of Hell's Seal.
He then began attacking Shadow Seekers with gusto and deploying
their attacks in the pain it delivered to him as the melee
came to a pinnacle and Mommy chopped off his tail which he
which had grappled. Ash Fras rescinded his claim as
this level seal, and then Phelan confirmed he was telling the
truth by reading his mind. Fras gave Franklin chocolate he
was eating out of spite, Franklin chalk, which Fras Silk
was eating out of spite of this invasion into his mind?
And then Franklin at Manipulus, who said this seal as magically
magical resistance. The mirror that he was referring
to was actually the seal he only knows in Breaking It, Break
Yourself. However, left in a bloodlust of
drunken haze, Mommy immediately chose violence even after
Frasz's warning not to. Mommy's act strikes the mirror
and everyone except Franklin, Mommy and Frasz themselves falls
unconscious with a shattering of their minds only surviving from
Mommy's healing mangoes and Franklin's healing touch.
They decide now is the perfect time for another long rest and a
recuperation inside the pocket. Rocket Shatter seekers poof into
their cave home after the rest fight and Franklin retrieves the
stopping wet pocket rocket from Traz after he pulled it from his
hand. Loos Mame uses used their
polished axe and Franklin the mask of True Sight to view this
mirror and did the Seal of on Hell.
They both see old companions and distinctive eye stocks of a
beholder behind them. Inside of the mirror, Franklin
learns and shares what his featured codex learned about the
mirror as well. It is called a Fractine Prison.
Franklin calls a huddle and the shatter seekers speculate
whether they should try to steal the mirror for their purposes.
And as well as he, he continued to do Tests with four more
crickets. Two and.
Only one returns. The 2nd Geralt joined the mirror
prisons. The first one's flat, eyes
closed, touching the mirror no more.
Oh no. Jeremy's dead.
Franklin orders his family to stay.
Orders. Jeremy's family a stipend.
Of the last two, only Amos is the only one to make it.
Geralt senses tell Franklin from inside the mirror, however, that
it is a white void with no side to side, no up and down and only
forward, out of the mirror and backwards into an infinite white
void. Giving their brains break,
though, the shadow seekers decide to take a rest.
Another rest in the pocket. Rocket while while there,
Franklin and Vomitra agreed to a potential new member, Callum
Zarhorn, and decide to brave the infinite tower of Ishmael once
more, whereupon they make a deal with him for a personal space in
exchange for that chocolate he had received from Fras.
They clear one level of the with a tentacle Bush monster and
decide to rest in a tower. In the tower, at which point
Callum Zarhorn and from Vomitra, Nischery thief to exist.
Franklin opens his eyes in the pocket, rocket to ash and Flint
bickering along with Phelan, who then all speculate on ways to
break the seal to the fifth level of hell.
Anger everything as in doing so they continue their discussions
all the way out to the mirror where Flint sees Hamilton on the
other side of it at the same time that Hamilton in the Good
campaign is seeing Clint from the other side of it.
And they both longingly reach out to each other and there's a
shattering not only in their minds, but in everything around
the Shadow Seekers on the 5th level of Hell in the center of
the Acropolis and they fall into the fourth level of hell.
Greed. The Shadow Seekers find
themselves dusting themselves off in front of a new Tavern and
a sweltering hot magma filled cavern with a sign that reads
The Greedy Goblin, which proves to be true as the two goblin
muscles at the door immediately swindle them for an entrance
fee. Ash play pays them, but a
drunken Franklin and Phelan get her gems back with threats.
Ash then bargains with Bildreth, the main owner of the
establishment, and learns of the deity of this level called Kai
Shen. After learning this, Ash
continues her bargaining with a kiss and more of her gems for
50% ownership of the greedy goblin.
All the while everyone else is ordering at the bar from
Stephen. A very friendly bartender
goblin. Bill dress allows Ash his
personal name. Also, Bill then says she can
drink for free at the Greedy Goblin anytime she likes and I
got to go back to this way. Here we go, which upon the
successful placing of the armband on ash and a pouch which
she received to explain that she would get her earnings from the
Gritty Goblin once per day in said pouch and the armband acted
as a symbol of this. More drinking ensued at this
successful deal. Drunkenly, all the Shadow
Seekers head up to their room for the evening, close and lock
the door, then jump into the pocket.
Rocket Franklin immediately sneaks out after everyone lays
down to find the two guards that had tried to swindle them
earlier attempting to break into their room.
He surprises them and proceeds to drag them into the pocket
rocket, stripping them of all their flesh and organs,
animating their skeletons. Phelan, Franklin and Ash in the
Pocket Rocket wake up to a think, think, think, think,
getting louder and resonating through their entire home and
pounding inside of their skulls. With that pain, they all
groggily walk towards the eating area inside of the Pocket Rocket
and immediately start guzzling. Some CAF wipe away the pounding
in their heads along with a hearty breakfast served by the
the goblin skeletons which they asked no questions of, and a
dire cricket inside their skulls.
They then decide to head out onto the goblin town and begin a
shopping spree. The the 1st place they they head
to is an enchantment shop run by an A goblin named Easels Easels
and then start start into some of the street vendor shops.
Let's find out what happened this time.
Hope that gives everybody enough context.
Is am IA monster? Still going to open up
everything back up here too, but yeah, so I think I've touched on
things that everybody should know, at least for the most.
Part Excellent. I'm trying to get the.
In its power. There we go.
I just have running after that too while I was and now I still
need to drop this. This is what I was about to do
before is dropping this bookmark over here and 1st.
I actually need to go back to here too and grab Ezra's token.
But for those of you that had not been here, your
consciousness before was covered in darkness.
And as you, as a sense of time no longer existed for you.
During this point in time your your consciousness continues
with a feeling as you're as you covering your body start to
lose. You start to feel like you've
lost all weight and you're floating effortlessly,
effortlessly in the void, in no particular direction, with no,
with an avoid of nothingness. And your wants, wishes and will
drifted away inside of it. Only one feeling persists.
You are all things because you are nothing.
There is no movement but everything, including your
including you, moves infinitely fast, knowing all things and
knowing no thing. Have all things but hold no
thing. And then all of a sudden colours
and lights streak across your vision.
A persistent bubbum. Bubbum burrs to life inside of
you. What is you?
The life that bring that you bring with it.
A weight physically that encompasses encompasses the
sense of you and that of time. As you feel yourself and begin
to realize there is a you. A clear desire, dream and
determination pulls you towards it, growing and changing ever
more. And you flow out into the
evolving you at a solid chug, chug, chug inside of your
current forms. Which is, yeah, Regina and
Warren who find yourselves in the pocket.
Rocket wherever you last left yourselves.
Warren's case. You're at the bar, I believe
passed out drunkenly. Leave your character over there.
Thomas Gray. Maxon the Third was the that
name you're looking for earlier. Regina, I think you're on.
You were on a asleep on a bed. Yes, I am on the bed.
Over here, right? Yes.
Who else is in the bedroom with me?
No one, no one, no one's here that are for those characters.
So they they they're currently in that empty void that I was
describing earlier. Gotcha.
OK, I didn't know if it was anyone playing.
Right now no. And and to your to your
recollection as well to it's it's kind of a newer change for
yourself. I've been playing role-playing
it meta wise, table hats off kind of thing.
Is that even you were you as Regina, cease to remember those
other characters. Like maybe when you're waking
up, you're like, hey, where are those other people?
Wait, there were other people. Maybe it was a dream.
I don't know. Yeah, well, well, I look over my
shoulder and I see this freaky little skull shaped plant thing
for the first time and I say, hey mom, it's not actually the
first time. It's because I don't remember
for the record, but that's yeah. So I'm like, wow, it's mom,
you're here. Is it my turn to do something
or? Yeah, you can walk around, do
what you would do, and tell me if you were doing anything else
besides that The the the creature there that's a skull
shaped root bulb opens and closes its mouth with no words
coming out. Really.
Do you have any mental communication with your familiar
too? Not sure on that note.
Not that I had planned now. OK, Josh, can you change my
token back to my original 1? Oh shoot, do you know what it
was? It was just like a red guy, like
2 swords. A red guy, you say?
Yes, it was like a hooded red figure with two swords.
I think I know which one you're talking about.
I'll. I'll get to that in a second.
I hadn't. There's something wrong with my
setup that I'll have to figure out in the future, but working
through it, you do anything while you're sitting at the bar.
There one as you're pulling back to consciousness.
It's been a while since I've been in game, Can I roll to see
if I've got the box open to crown?
You can roll to a attempt. You would probably have thought
of that first, pulled it out and realized it is currently still
locked all right. What I have to roll?
Oh, what were we saying with that?
I know locks lock picking was generally a duck dexterity based
skill. I can.
Do lock picking. OK.
Depends upon exactly how you're trying to open it too, because I
think as we think there's a description in there.
I'm still getting everything back up again after another
issue there. There was a description though,
going to. Warren.
That's still it, my other characters backpack.
Oh. You never transferred it over
after getting it back on the last erythmic rasty.
No. I gotcha.
Does it just keep changing hands?
Yes. Myth Mithril Cube.
This cube is 18 inches across and radiates A palpable magical
energy. Five sides of the cube are
playing the six hat and a white curved teardrop. 13 black dots.
You can use an investigation. And you see, of those 13, before
there were two or there was only one of those slots that had a
kind of grayish hue to it. Now there's another one that's
lit up on it that has a reddish hue to it.
So. Prolactic.
You can. There is no holes really.
So do you have any description on how you want to try and open
something like that? Press buttons randomly.
OK. I don't know what I would order
to do that. Maybe just roll it each sleight
of hand. Yeah, sleight of hand is
generally associated with it, and you get your if you're
proficient in lock picking. You get to add your proficiency
if you have those lock picks, usually.
I I get to add my print seat to that on I have lock picks.
I do have lock picks so that is a 27.
Nice. You were, you were messing
around with it and you put your lock picks into the other holes,
which they themselves don't. Don't have anything in them
necessarily, but they're only kind of these recessed divots,
so you're wondering where that color of the other ones come
from. So you're kind of trying to like
pry around the edge where the other color is and you can kind
of tell that these the colorations themselves are a a
dulled out stone ish material. But you're not sure where it's
coming from because you you're scraping along those edges and
you can kind of feel there's maybe a hairline area where
where your picks are able to sit, but there's nothing behind,
nothing to the side besides that and and it does not open.
Interesting. And I'm guessing that's when
Regina, the small drow child, climbs down the ladder, out of
the bed, bed chambers and down to the bar where you're sitting,
fiddling with this cube. Yes, I had walked over.
I actually walked past these bugs over here first.
Yeah, I wanna go up to the bugs and check out what they're all
about. What do I see?
You see them occasionally too. You see a a a skeleton, a goblin
skeleton about the size size of height of you.
You know, walk up and sit down a small piece of shiny metal on
the table next to them, as well as the goblins themselves or the
the the bugs, which you realize have to be cricket crickets and
they have to be Franklin's crickets, although maybe a
little bit bigger than the last time you've seen them.
Do I know? That they're Franklin's.
Crickets. You're pretty sure, I would say
from having done having interacted with him and had bugs
before. OK, so my memory of everyone
else is coming back. Mm hmm.
Well, it's the people that are still here.
So Franklin is here today with us.
OK. Oh, I see.
I see. Yeah, they they're also watching
the babies. Unless the babies stopped
existing. That's right, Nope, Ash is here.
This is also a laboratory. That they're doing odd
experiments. It seems like that you don't
understand and with materials and such.
OK, I'm most curious about the skeleton guys that gave me a
coin. So I'm gonna try and talk to the
skeleton. I'm gonna say, hey, you can they
hear me? You it turns its head and you
realize inside of the skeleton skull is another cricket that
seems to be controlling it to some degree.
And it they kind of wave and do some gesturing, but there's no
verbal response. So I'll say thank you for the
coin, and I'm going to pick it up, shove it in my mouth, chew
on it for a bit, and I'm going to spit it out and look at it.
Is there any, like, writing on it?
Is it just money? Is it?
They didn't. I I may have been a
misinterpretation. They didn't.
Or maybe they, I'll just go with, I'm just going to roll
with it. So they they they roll.
They walked out and they were going to set it on a table, but
it kind of looked like they were handing it to you, maybe.
And you just picked it up out of their hand out of curiosity.
And you realize it's just like a hunk of metal.
And then you see them walk back into the bathing chambers off to
your right and go go waltzing down under the water, and you
hear a a soft. Ting.
Through the whole structure that
you're standing in currently. Walk over to the bathing
chamber. I'm following the skeleton
cricket person. Where are they going?
Under the water, they walk directly under the water.
Is that even possible? OK, All right, bye, skeleton
guy. We'll wave.
And I'm going to go up to the bar again because I remembered
seeing someone over there. OK, so is this hunk of metal
something of interest or is it just part of the experiment?
It's it's definitely shiny, and you can roll an investigation if
you'd like. OK, let me I don't think I'm
hooked up to my D&D Beyond isn't on the roll 20, so I'll just
tell you I got 12. Oh.
Very nice. So you're you're looking at it
and you're you're realizing it's a little bit heavier than what
you would expect for its size as well as that it's, it's kind of
crystalline, although it is metal and silver and shiny, but
it's maybe not something that you're 100% sure you would, you
would guess, you know with your limited experience in years that
it's heavier silver punk of silver almost.
OK, I am going to take it and can I put it in my satchel?
Yeah, yeah. Take the coin again.
I think I already. I picked it up.
I smelled it. I tasted it.
I hand it over to mom and say, hey mom try this out and she
they takes it and I'm actually going to hold out my bag and
Mom's gonna spit it into the bag.
And there is no further exchange about that right now.
So all right, now I'm going to go back to the bar where I saw
someone over there. All right.
OK. So who's that at the bar again?
You're walking up and you'd come across him once as he come out
of the pocket rocket drunkenly, and lit his head on fire.
OK, cool. And and I think you still
introduced yourself at that time as Warren, I believe to to
Regina Warren, but you otherwise.
All right. So yeah, you guys are standing
there staring at each other I guess.
I'm just kicking the ground, you know, staring at my feet, hoping
would you say? I'm I'm in trance with my box
trying to get it open. Need some help.
Sure. OK, so I'm gonna take my grimy,
sticky child hand out of my nose and I'm gonna reach over to the
box and say what's in there. My crown.
Is it what's going on with the box?
Like is it a lock and key or how is it fastened?
If it was just a lock and key, I would have already had it open
by now. It's some sort of mechanism that
takes some sort of, I guess, either combination of button
presses. Sorry you cut out, I missed that
part. But if it was just a lock and
key, I already have it open by now, but it's some sort of
mechanism that requires awful button presses or something
along that lines. OK, what's so important about
this ground? Mine and I want it.
Fair enough. Want to see the rock Cool rock I
found? Sure.
OK, so I put it on the table. Do you think this is worth
anything? I was going to ask this earlier,
Josh. My gold check place like allows
me to locate valuable items, right?
Can I tell how valuable an item is by how much it like
interacts? It wouldn't be very accurate,
you know, you wouldn't be able to tell them unless you yourself
had some kind of like way of of explaining it that I haven't
thought of. But I would say right now that
you're you're your nipples are about half cocked at the item.
Ask about Who is it with the nipples?
That would be my character I guess.
Oh, cool. OK, OK, so your nipples are
picking up on something. Yeah.
It's probably worth something great.
I don't think it's out. To ask a question, OK.
What is? What is that poking through your
shirt, Sir? It's I don't have a shirt.
I have a gold chest plate that lets me detect valuable items.
So, so I probably don't see anything through that.
You might hear Ting Ting. This is the most awkward
exchange I think I've had in a long time.
Yep. It's good.
That's how we like it. Awkward.
All right, I don't. I don't remember how it it
turned into the that it made my nipples hard.
It used to just let me detect stuff.
But one way or another, this is what they've we've ended up
doing, and it's too late to change now.
I think it's I think it's a good, good measure.
It's a good way to introduce people into the game.
This is the level of weird we get to.
Real quick. OK.
Well, I guess I'll just put this back in my pocket and be like,
well, good luck with that. Also to you're pretty sure at
least at 1/2 glance at that you would know Warren from your
experiences that that is Adamantium.
You do some pretty cool stuff about a war brain.
What? Nothing.
It's just inside joke to myself. OK.
So do you choose to comment on the rock or you're not really
looking, you're looking at the box?
It's Adamantium. What's that?
It's a precious metal, but not like silver or gold.
It's more of a well, Josh. Can I get some help here?
Yeah, it's prized for its resilience.
Usually used in armor and such, you would know.
It's very strong, makes good armor, but OK.
OK, nice. Very difficult to work with I
assume. OK.
Well, thank you. I put it back in my bag and kind
of kick nervously at the floor and stare at my feet like a
child hoping. Do you want something?
Do I want something? I don't know.
I don't know where my parents
are. They left me here and I'm trying
to look for them and I had some friends before but just like my
parents when I fell asleep, they were gone when I came back.
Have you seen my friends? Your.
Parents left you here? Not in the pocket rocket, but
you know in in hell, you know, as one does.
Can you describe these friends? There was this Sorry, my cat's
climbing on me. There was this turtle boy and.
Oh, you mean Franklin? Yeah, yeah.
And then a couple other, I don't know, people looking people,
grown-ups. Well, I'm not sure where they're
at, but I'm sure if I'm here they're somewhere around.
Can we hear this conversation at all?
This is a I wouldn't say no. This was happening inside the
pocket rocket and they aren't projecting it over the torques
as as to what I understand their intent is.
They're just talking to each other.
OK, we're not in the Pocket Rocket right now, OK?
I thought we had ended like out in the like street or whatever,
but I could see my character on the map, so I wasn't sure.
Yeah, your your character might have been on the map, but that's
more of an oversight than an intention.
OK, just making. All right, so I have my little
pocket rocket button on me, though, like the thing that
takes me in and out. Oh yeah, yeah.
And you're currently, you know, you're inside of it.
The the last thing that I was trying to do, and I think I may
have, I'm not even going to say anything.
I'm just going to get this character token and as you guys
are standing there at the table talking to each other is right
when you hear and it is audible of a in the air haste and right
next to Warren is a large figure if you want to describe yourself
something Ezra. So this large 6/2 you can say he
looks human except for you know his nose is a little hawkish and
his ears are a little pointed long gruffy beard and carries a
big axe on his back, fur lined kind of like vest and leather
jerking pants and he's kind of looking around like he's lost
and confused at the moment. Hi there want to be my friend?
You see a small drill child asking you.
I'm uncomfortably standing uncomfortably close, just
staring at you. Where you come from?
Over in that bedroom over there. This is where I live now and I
just have this like dead stare in my eyes and I'm just drooling
looking at you. Did you touch the magic compass?
The what? The magic compass.
Did you touch it? Is that why you're here?
Yes, I have. It's a necklace, right?
A torque and you realize, yeah, it's a necklace, that it has an
open slot in in the front and it wraps around the back of your
neck and it's like this twist metal with these ball with this
ball on either side and you find yourself with one as well as
rough. Now.
So to answer your questions from before, it's whenever you get
off the table till you get a tour.
OK, so I hold it up in like this magic compass.
That's not Compass. It was.
Big. Wait.
Are we talking about the? You mean like?
Like like carriage size or like table size?
He kind of gestures like above his like, lists his arms in the
air. Like, no, Like big big.
Were you on a table? Oh, yeah, That table.
Yeah. I don't know.
I just kind of ended up here, met some, met some cool people.
They invited me into their pocket.
Rocket, what else we do? We're just kind of going through
hell looking for Are we still looking for Sexy Satan?
I do believe at one point we do need to run over sexy.
Satan. OK.
And I'm just, I'm just gonna say, as a matter of fact, like
what I think that's. Our over.
I think that's just our overlord Craig joining in some.
Yeah, that's all. That's what it sounded like.
Craig, My Lord, you're here. I've.
Been. Waiting.
I've done as you instructed. I've installed the software on
everyone's computers, so. If you can, it's hard, but I
said I just generally ignore him.
But. Yep.
Don't. Ignore.
I keep hearing these voices. Are you hearing voices?
I'm saying this to the the guy standing in front of me.
Oh, I didn't even. Ask Are we supposed to hear
voices? I have really good hearing.
Are we supposed to? I don't know.
He leads down to like where your like your head level like puts
his ears up next to you like. I don't know.
I I don't know which voices I'm supposed to hear anymore.
Can you hear my voice? Yeah, yeah, yeah, among others.
Good. I'm Regina.
Ezra. And I reach out my sticky,
slobbery hand to shake yours, still staring at you.
He grabbed. Your hand and it like kind of
like lifts you in like a shaking motion.
Oh. I like.
You. I like you too.
Want to be my dad? Did you did you allow that?
I guess then, Regina, you can't. You can try to fight it.
But did. I miss something?
Are you are you allowing yourself be to be picked up?
So I know both of you are relatively newer.
Well you're you're not so so much as as Rep but Regina,
you're newer. In the DD world you can decide
not to allow somebody to do something.
It is your like PC, right You get yeah you yeah you can you
can contest the athletics to strength.
Yep. If they didn't want to be.
OK. No, I'm good.
I'm, I'm just chilling. I'm no thoughts in my head.
Just voices. Just saying that and you know,
going up, you want to be my dad. You'll be my wolf pup.
And he and he puts his puts you on his shoulder.
Oh, wow. Now I have my dad and my mom,
and I gesture toward the giant floating plant root skull thing.
You weren't here before, but I have a familiar that's like a
floating It's shaped like a skull, but it's made of roots.
And that's mom. So gang's all here.
Mom and dad. Yes.
Want to help me find my friends? Let us find friends.
More friends do it. Before we transition anywhere
else real quick, Warren, were you still just fiddling with
that box? I'm guessing while they're
having this conversation. I was.
I was kind of interested in the
giant guy who just appeared. Well, the guy who just appeared
next to me and I was kind of listening into their
conversation and grimacing at how disgustingly wholesome it
turned out to be. Amazing.
No one's responded positively to Regina.
Yet. And when they said you want, she
said, do you want to help us find our friends?
I it kind of clicks in my brain and and I look down, I tap on my
torque and I go, hey guys, where are you?
And you you guys actually realized too, Regina and Ezra
that Warren's voice comes through your torques as well,
just because he's projecting intent towards other people.
I hear voices now. And that's when you, Ash and
Franklin hear their voices at the same time that you cease to
remember who Phelan is, who was traveling with you guys at the
market. Oh, our money bags.
No, no, no. That's it.
That's Ash. You're good.
Oh, thank God. She was having some pretty good
ideas and I think Ash would remember that.
Be like somebody told me something really clever earlier,
but now I don't know who said that to me.
I have no idea. This place is weird.
We should burn it down. I.
Was like he should free Manny 1st and then burn it down.
Or maybe we need to burn it down to free Manny.
We should figure that out. We should anyway.
Did you hear that? I did hear that.
And I tap on my torque and I'm just like, hey, you're finally
awake, 'cause it like, comes to me that you were asleep.
But I'm like, was he asleep? I think I was mostly drunk.
Yeah, you were passed out drunk. I think that's pretty normal.
And that's kind of just like, I don't know, shifting through the
fog of my brain of like, I remember him, but I don't
remember him. Oh well, we're in hell.
Things are fuckery. Why does no one remember
anything? I don't know.
When people fall asleep now in hell, they disappear from our
minds. Yeah, sometimes they just
vanish. And then sometimes they come
back. And then you remember them
again, but then you forget that you didn't remember.
It's kind of like a dream. He gets a Nosebleed.
Yeah, I was going to say our brain's OK.
Does it feel like things are rattling around up there?
No. I literally feel like screws are
loose. Nope.
You're you're fine, physically at least.
We're hearing a ringing anyway. You hear a one of the goblins
that are walking by you guys Hawking some sort of snake oil
of do you hear ringing in your ears?
This is tendonitis. It's we can solve it with this
oil and blah blah blah may cause blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Turn to him. I will kill you if you don't
shut up and then I walk away. I.
Turn to the goblin and I'm like and he means it and I wink at
him, and then I walk after Franklin.
Touch my ear. Hey, how's it going bud?
We're actually out in the market right now.
Buy it stuff if you guys are interested.
Lots of stuff to buy. Glad you're up.
Been awhile. Second question, where are we?
I don't know. I'm not where you are.
You tell me. This is a very off topic
question, but does Franklin have ears?
I think turtles have ear holes, but it's like the.
Hole yeah. Neither.
Forbidden. Forbidden.
Hole. Forbidden.
Hole No. Well used, Oh.
God, oh God. Secret tunnel is a.
Child. Yes, he is.
OK, ignore me, I was just. Yeah, ignore me.
Disregard. You're good.
You guys would hear this too. Obviously, Regina, you would
recognize the sound of my voice. Bye friend.
Oh hey, I turned to. Is it Ash?
Yeah, it's ash. That's.
Yeah. Turned to ash.
It looks like Regina's up too. So it's Warrid and Regina.
Yes, by Lord we. Understand.
Uh, huh. Yes.
OK. Craig D Craig Cool.
I the blow you were you could hear obviously that we're out
shopping. Should we like choose like a
like a preview of destination. I kind of scan around looking
for like a a landmark or something like that.
Well, also covertly asking what the city chamber it looks like
that we are in. Oh, did we leave?
Do we know that they're in the pocket?
Record. No, they said where are we?
And I said, I don't know. I'm not where you are.
OK, I would answer that V like we're on a new level of penalty.
Yes, my Lord. I understand.
And I didn't write down what level of hell we're at.
Oh. All right, so this like, bar,
slash, like lounge area that we're like at is a new level of
hell. Oh, we're just in the pocket,
Rocket, though we're not. What is the Pocket Rocket?
Or not. In.
Character, because I don't think my character has ever been
explained this. Yeah, you know, a pocket rocket.
So you're asking that to Regina? I guess to over to everyone you.
I don't know. I mean, go for it, Regina.
Oh, so this is our pocket rocket.
It's our little little cozy home.
But there's this, you know, rock the pocket rocket that travels
with our friends. So if we push these buttons,
then we'll be able to come out of the Pocket Rocket and won't
be in hell. She points to her torque, which
has a poop symbol on it, which you realize yours does have a
poop symbol on it. Warren, at this time you kind of
just vaguely forgot because you did come out of the pocket
rocket in the middle of the Acropolis at one point and then
went back in. But.
I did. Yes, yes you did.
However, you're looking over at Ezra at the current time and
you're going he doesn't have a poop symbol hoop emoji symbol.
But where was Acropolis doing? That's the center.
That was the you only came out briefly.
That was where the Crab Demon was, right when Phelan turned
everything to fog as you guys were fighting it and the walls
were undulating. Are you sure that I was here for
that? 100% because.
None of what you, because none of what you just said struck any
like chord of memory, which it totally should have.
I think I should remember a giant crab demon.
Yeah, well you kind of did stumble out of the pocket rocket
drunkenly, and used alcohol that you'd found behind the bar.
High proof stuff to get the mustache off of your face.
All right, I do remember this. And then you lit your sword on
fire, which it ignited the fumes of alcohol that you would
suffuse your your face and head with, and lit your head on fire.
That was the same thing. Also remember this but I think.
It here, I think it, I think it may have, you know, taken over
your memory of the rest of it. Just because your head was on
fire, it's kind of hard to remember anything else when your
head. 'S on fire.
Yeah, it's slightly distracting. All right, guess we should head
out. So let.
Me ask. Which one?
Ash. Ash.
Oh God. Peaches.
Tangerines. What the fuck were?
They mangoes. Mangoes that's that's the thing
I was trying to remember. Magic mangoes.
But they grow hair back. Would they grow?
Hair back? Oh, I mean, we can always see,
see what happens. Hey, so you guys touch the poop
emojis and yourselves out. Did our one friend, you know dad
didn't have the poop emoji? Is that what you said?
Correct. OK.
You're sitting on his shoulder currently, though, so oh.
I see. I guess we should describe our
characters to them too. Or does he Argo?
You could briefly do that after you get out of the pock rock
maybe. OK.
You'll find yourselves, you guys try to go to like a a quiet side
street. I'm guessing in the meantime out
there. Yeah, we could go to a secluded
place. I will look around and point
something out and again try to be wary of pickpockets.
Like just be like on the alert out of the corner of my eye.
Right. Yeah, that was just the final
description that I did forget to write down.
That was the last thing that happened right at the end of the
session is you guys realize there are people trying to
Picketpocket that you. Oh wait, yeah, that's true.
I got this. Do they say that over the thing?
I don't know. No, I mean, I didn't.
Oh no, my character has a lot of shit on him.
Yeah, yeah, I. Probably wouldn't say it over
the torque. I just said it to Franklin so
that we could like go to some place secluded without being
mugged. But I mean, I think they would
have a difficult time mugging us.
You're not wrong. Hey guys.
And then Franklin will kind of do a shimmy to wake up the swarm
in his shell. Can you guys just, like, cover
us at the look at all directions for pickpockets?
Thanks. Was it that survived the mirror,
Amos? Yeah.
So Amos, Amos comes out and he goes, oh, he's a little bit
bigger than you slightly remember, but he he goes, Yep,
Yep, Yep, Yep, Yep, boss. And he's looking around your
shoulders And he goes. What about over there in that?
Space. It looks like there's a small
hole over between those those buildings, and I kind of already
dropped your characters in that space before I put the bookmark
there. That seems perfect.
And. Then guard the entrance to this
little like back alley. Behind we also had rings of fire
resistance and didn't we have enough for everyone?
OK. Seven more besides the one that
you guys had that on. I will like once we get to a
private, secluded place, I will start like rummaging through my
bag to get those back out. Pull up the pocket rocket and
then tap my ear. Hey guys, feel free to head out
whatever you want. We're at a secure location.
Or not. And then shut up.
All right, I guess I just pressed the button.
So as you guys press the button, including yourself, Regina on on
Ezra's shoulder, all is poof into this purplish smoke.
You can feel yourselves and sense yourselves floating out of
of the space and into a new space kind of.
And then as you materialize in the new space, the there's this
ever present heat that surrounds you.
And the first that's the very first thing you notice, as well
as that it is. Your friends are in front of
you, and you're standing on top of a metal grate that's over top
of lava magma. You realize it's got to be magma
because you look up above your heads and there's a enclosed
cavern space easily 100 plus feet above you.
But it's not the sky. I turned to Warren and I hand
him a Ring of Fire resistance. And I'm just like, here, you
might want to put this on this. This will help with this sweaty
area. That would have been useful.
Like, I don't know. However long it's been since I
fucking set myself on fire. Well, we just happened to find
these, and then I turned to Regina and noticed, 'cause she's
still sitting on the big guy's shoulder, right?
Yeah. I go to hand one to Regina, but
then I stop for a second and I'm like, who the hell is this?
You're not touch my pup. This is fuck, I forgot his name.
It's Warren in character, by the way.
I don't know this this big guy Manny has blessed us with
another companion, it seems. Did you say your character's
name yet? Yeah.
To Regina. To Regina.
But only to Regina. Yeah.
OK. This is my dad.
This is your dad. Yeah, tell him.
Yeah. You know.
That's my fault. You say this and the person who
was asking who the hell is this is a four foot tall changeling
with pale skin and pale hair and a blue and leather dress.
Kind of just like staring you down.
He stares back. I say I just witnessed this
adoption happened and it was very heartwarming and all the
Hallmark movie ways. Somebody me.
And the guy who's saying this is also 6 foot two, I don't know.
That seems like a really common height Characters, apparently a.
6 foot. Tail Yeah is a six foot tube
dude with with dark black hair goatee.
Patchy hair. Patchy hair.
What was that? You're overwridden by Craig
there for a second. I said kinda unkempt, like, not
like, all right, but not like mad scientist, like he brushed
his hair like six weeks ago and it's still in that shape.
Slightly burnt, There's some glue still left in it, yeah.
And he's wearing red robes and a gold chest plate.
Has four swords, all of the swords.
And the gold chest plate. Some reason has prominent nipple
den it has. Bat nipples on it.
Bat nipples. Yeah, I know.
We keep describing it, and I just keep imagining that,
Batman. Oh, not the bat nipples.
Oh, and then of course, right in front of you, Ezra is Franklin
the Turtle. If you want to, yeah.
So frankly, the Turtle is about a 13 year old C wiggly Bale
turtle, about four, four foot 4 foot six right around there.
He looks exactly like Franklin the Turtle from the children's
books, except his right arm or left arm I think is a skeletal
hand up to the elbow and he has is covered in insects.
They're crawling all over him into a shell like they're
covered the wall, the floor, everywhere around.
There's one sitting on his shoulder with like a little
spyglass looking out. He turns to you and says, oh
guy, hi. I turn to the others.
Hey guys, high fives, hugs, my hug.
Ever. Going.
I'm still questioning the newcomer, like staring at them,
but I do want to give Regina the Ring of Fire resistance, and I
kind of like, reach up because how how tall is, how high is she
sitting from me? How tall are you again?
Yeah, I'm 4 foot. She's about. 2 1/2.
Feet in the area above you. OK, so I just stretch out to
just hand her this ring and I'm like, you should put this on.
It helps with the heat. And I'm holding a couple more
rings in my hand and I'm still staring at you, who hasn't given
me your name yet. And I'm just like, so you're her
dad? But when I met her, he didn't
have one. But you were dumb.
Yes. Like I said there.
Was and as he stares intensely at you and his facial figures
start to become more feral and dog like.
I change into a perfect rendition of him and I'm looking
him eye to eye now. I look better.
I turned to Franklin, still in the newcomer's form, and I'm
like, what do you think? Should I give him a Ring of Fire
resistance? Is he also affected at all by
the heat? Does he just like, Nah, I don't
give a shit, or is he like starting to sweat?
Let's go up. It feels like 100° Gay Day with
100% humidity currently. Well, 99%.
It's not raining. No.
Yes, there is there. There's physical droplets of
like rain just in the air, but they're not like the fall and
it's so humid. They're just like floating.
With the pain. That's Craig.
I turned to. One too many.
I turn to you and I say, well, let's take a look at him and I
look him over. He's got a torque, so he came
here the same way as us. I walk up to him and I start
patting you down. Would you pick up?
Pick up what pick you up? No, don't pick me up.
I could pick myself up. No.
What do you what do you pick up the the giant Gabe table and he
starts getting a Nosebleed? I threw comments.
OK, check your pockets. See if you've got one.
I turn. Give Regina a hug.
I'm so glad to see you. We're at a great spot.
You should get a yes. Yeah.
I just asked him. OK.
I thought I asked to see you. I asked.
I asked you. I'm like you threw the compass,
The compass on the table and I'm trying to, like, think back and
I'm remembering the size of a coin.
Wait, am I remembering the size of a coin?
I guess I would have a vague recollection of the coin since
we have like the shared memories.
And we gave the coin to. We gave the coin to.
No, that was the other campaign. The coin cut a God in half.
That's. Right, interrogating.
Yeah, there's another coin in the other campaign, too.
Yeah, but this is like a fuzzy memory.
We're like, oh, why do we remember that?
Yeah. And get nosebleeds.
Through blood starts to come out one year and I'm like, oh, what
this? And I'm just like, I guess you
have a torg and I turn back to myself and I'm like, maybe you
should put one of these on. What is everyone's passive
perception, by the way? Passive Perception 15.
Well. Where is that again?
Left side. Also 12.
Where do be the crocodile? 13 is mine.
I feel. Like.
That he's disappointed us. Asif is 14, but I've got my bugs
on stand out or on lookout, right?
Right. Perception is What is that
under? The path of perception is on the
left side of the sheet there. OK, yeah, mine's 15 and Bob's
would only be 10. OK, so Ash and Franklin, both
having those vague recollections and the slight Nosebleed, look
up to try and kind of stop the Nosebleed and see almost as if
precipitating out of the top of this, the ceiling, a compass
that is the size of all of you slowly, almost looks like it's
dripping out of the ceiling. I see it.
I'm like guys, we got to move. I don't know.
I think it'll get smaller. Well, although that's not true,
we have to use the Rakes. We're going to watch that.
And I point up at the ceiling at it, and I nudge, what's your
name? I forgot I Ezra.
Ezra. That's a great name.
I pointed the sea lake. That's the compass you touched,
Right. You're going to watch that.
I go to you watch my pup, I put Regina down and I and I go to
try to grab the compass. Oh, you're going to try and
catch it as it's falling from over 100 feet?
Me and Mom just move out of the way.
I kind of grab Franklin by the shoulder and I'm just like,
gently trying to get him to step back.
I'm like, come on, don't get squished, please.
Yes, I will follow on that. I'll.
Pull Regina. So you got adopted.
Congratulations. I'm adopted.
That's. No.
Is that your biological dad? I sure hope so.
Do you see the resemblance? And we look nothing.
Like, wow, what do I know? OK, I looked down at Regina
questioningly. But don't say anything because I
mean like I have a 2 headed baby that's being babysat by giant
crickets. I was like, I don't have room to
judge whatever the. Situation is.
I as far as I'm concerned, I've got one big happy family with my
mom, roots and my random man I just met.
Random man Dad. It's a stranger danger.
So. Yeah.
So we're just going to stand back and watch this activity
play out. You're going to watch this Level
1 Catch. He said he wanted to catch it.
Alrighty, this is going to be terrible.
We'll pick him up. OK, I have the ability to bring
people back to life. I I have the ability to point
out any of our rules mistakes. I'm gonna call out and like.
Are you sure you wanna catch that?
Can I do a oh a mage hand? Would that help?
Mage Hand Catch like what, 10 lbs.
That cast slow on the object. I don't think I have anything
that helps with this situation. Oh, would that help?
Can you please display that? Sure, it affects.
It affects people normally. But if I target an object, I
don't. Know can I use a?
Can I use a action to shove them?
You're altering time. Yes.
You could totally shove, that is, That is.
I know that's an action as well. I can't quite.
I think that has something to do with your strengths.
If I remember correctly. I can't.
I can't remember off the top of my head.
It'd be an Athletics check to shove them.
Athletics. Thank you.
So when you're you can alter time with this spell, this slow.
OK, so that's what you're altering, not the actual.
Yes, I think you could cast slow on it to to answer the question
simply, what's your verbal and semantic?
So Franklin's eyes go pitch black where and he gets like a
luminescent white pupils and his skin around his eyes becomes
necrotic and Gray as black flesh kind of like or his flesh
blackens as he whispers in Abyssal.
Whoa there, slowed out but, but if you don't understand Abyssal,
it sounds super intimidating and he reaches out with his skeletal
hand, skeletal hand, and it like luminescence, like black shadow,
and then the object itself kind of highlights in black and then
slows down it. 25 to Athletics to catch it.
I have a 27 to push them away. No, 2424, sorry.
Oh, thank you. I just, I've got to roll a lot
of things. So the the.
Yeah. Yeah, the the, the compass does
slow down in in the air as you're casting that Franklin and
and you see it moving at at the last as you guys have moved out
of the way. It kind of materializes the last
little bit. When I say dripping out of the
ceiling, I mean it was kind of coalescing into existing through
the ceiling it seemed like and the last little bit seems to
materialize and then it speed up to normal fall distance from
that height. So it was falling at a regular
pace until about 50 feet above that before you cast the spill
on it I would say. And again having that you're
you're probably looking at the thing you Ezra by 8 since you're
not you're you're you're trying to catch it you you're not
you're not prepared for Warren to knock you out of the way.
Could you please describe how you're going to knock him out of
the way out of this 15 foot thing?
Because I'm assuming you've positioned yourself.
This is where it's going to fall, where I've said it right
now. So you've positioned yourself,
Ezra, I'm guessing directly under this thing somehow.
Yep, Yep. And then, Warren, could you
please describe how and into which direction you're telling?
I'm raising my row 20 reset. Awesome.
Great. Hold on.
So he's right underneath that. Uh huh.
Right in the center? More or less, I would guess.
Can I consider saying shove now that I see this thing?
Can I say like tackle you? Know I'm just going to gently
push him out of the way. Man looks like shit, Brick.
House. You can say to Aqua, I mean it's
161 half dozen the other. In my opinion the only
difference would be that in this particular case of the instead
of the shove, which is more of just like moving them out of
their space into another. You were also physically
following them, yes. OK, so.
Do I get advantage for a sneak attack?
I mean, he is not paying attention.
He is focused on the giant fucking compass.
You you you're you succeed in getting him out of the way.
The thing that I'm more going to ask is if you could roll me a
Dexterity savings roll. Yeah, sure.
On top of it, 8 Everybody watches as you shove Ezra just
out of the way, in the nick of time, right outside of the
compass's range, tackling him to the ground.
I'm I'm gonna have to move that so that I can move you guys.
Franklin, you're not here. Get out of here.
So there you go. There you go.
You are pushing Ezra just out of the space Warren And there we
go. It's not a really good way to
show it exactly how I want. But you're yeah you're you're
more or less let's move you here then you here there.
But your your legs get trapped under it as a confusion of the I
was I was trying to think of something there but yeah it was
slowed as well so only 14 damage was like bounced off your legs
as the compass settles on top of them that's that's what what I
was doing. Yeah, there we go.
It was still it was falling at half speed, but it still kept
speeding up because gravity is what gravity is, and I know it
half the time that it would have usually failed, but gravity
still was in place. It wasn't affecting.
Gravity was affecting time. At all relative.
Yeah, it is. Darn physics.
Meters per second right time it's.
Part of the deal. Why do I had to?
I had to think of it some way. A a new meters per second equals
gravity. And then I was like and then you
halved the time so like gravity stayed the same.
It was constant. So it's still moved at A at a
slower pace granted, but which would yeah it half the time,
which would have technically increased the time that it would
have fell. But if it was 9.8 meters per
second as it is on Earth, it would been like 18.
In this instance, meters per second.
There are three meters in a foot and there are still 50 feet blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah mental math.
Yep, very good. Fun.
Turn to him. Looks like you found your path.
I look down at your legs and I'm like, damn it, how heavy is that
thing? Ezra, shrug.
Not that heavy. And he goes over to lift it off
his legs. Crank check again.
Thing is still massive. I mean, it's 15 feet across.
Dirty 20. 8:20 Nice.
You pick it up, and as you do so, it succumbs to your will.
Is there any intent that you have upon this object currently
besides being able to pick it up?
You're mine and like I I I'm like.
Kind of like as I'm picking up, I'm kind of like squeeze it like
you belong to me now. So just hugging a 15 foot
compass. Yep, he's mine.
Also looking down like is your feet down the way now your feet
safe. I guess.
Are you just laying there like God damn it?
Is like it for helping. As I like all I see all this
play out, I'm just like OK. I think the next thing we should
look to purchase are maybe some healing potions or some healing
items or something that heals and.
Recall the very last thing you did purchase which were some
greater, greater, or potions of greater restoration.
Check mark. Yeah, I actually have that
written down and I spelt bought very wrong.
I can't spell close enough, I guess.
You know what you meant. Did it?
Did we say how many we bought or just one?
I think I want to say it was 20. OK, 'cause I have just greater
health potions and then that's it.
I didn't write down a number. OK.
Right, 20 and then we divvy them up between the three of us.
Yeah. We should test them, because
that dude sold them for, like, wildly cheap at this level of
hell. I scooched closer.
Oh, I feel this is literally called greed.
I'm a little confused at the prices we've been dealing with,
but I'm not going to complain. I'm finally home.
Yeah. So I'm like, all right.
And I pull out one of these greater healing potions and I'm
like, here, drink this. I'm sure it'll help.
And I just hand it down to Warren.
I have no reason not to trust her, so I I drink it, I guess.
I have a notepad out with a pencil waiting to write down the
results. If you're in your inventory or
to add something to your inventory, it is a Greater
Potion of Restoration. If you want to roll your those
dice, hold. On worry, OK Yeah, I had six of
them, so I just gave you 10. I'm looking to roll it.
Does he roll it or do I roll it? He does.
He drank it, OK? What?
Was it greater?
Potion of Healing greater, like the ones I have have greater in
parentheses. Yep,
that give you back what you lost.
Hold on. Let's see greater V4 D 4 + 4,
right? Sounds about right.
Well, so mostly. And you've got almost all of it
back. You feel your you feel your legs
in the tingling sensation that that was becoming almost
numbness alleviate and slight pain resonate through them
before. Do you do you feel?
Yeah, they they close up, they heel up, You're able to stand
up. Well, where?
Else I'm slating. Please stand up.
I stand up. And when you're looking and
holding the compass to submit to your will there Ezra, and for it
to be able to be picked up, besides having actually
physically picked it up, it shrunk down into the size of
your palm and you can put it in your inventory.
I'll create it later you you if you know how to who boss now.
What does he think happened? Does he think that he just did
this like? Yes, yes, very much so.
Ezra thinks I made it small. It's on my list.
That's going to be useful. Hey boss.
Hey, boss. Amos waving from the entrance.
Some some some goblins are staring into here.
I don't. I don't know what they want.
We've. We've it's hard to look at them.
The goblins or, yeah, the goblins.
And they're just kind of staring at the crickets.
They're you can tell that they're children, it seems like,
and they look like they want into this back alley that you
guys are in currently. One starts to pull a knife and
while while Amos has got his back turned looking at you.
Amos, turn around. There's one If I'm going to stab
you in a second, do you want me to kill them?
Turn to the others. Hey guys, these children are
going to try to stab us. I'm like Bob, do you want a
snack? Where are they?
I haven't. I didn't actually draw or put
anything in there. I just.
I I was. They're they're out.
Can't lose Amos. He knows.
I draw my Do I see them? Yes, I would say, if you looked
over your shoulder and such. I turn around and I draw my
flaming long sword and say night.
And as you guys start to gather at the entrance, they were
looking at the crickets as easy targets.
But as you guys start gathering at the at the narrow entrance,
they scatter back into the crowd that's on the other side of the
alley and back back street that you guys find yourselves on,
which there, I know I haven't visualized it there for you, for
everyone, but we're kind of in a theater of the mind moment.
You're in a town, there are buildings around you, all kind
of ramshackled stone works that are situated on top of this
metal grate that the heat below you is radiating from, from the
magma that this town is situated on top of.
And there are. There are hundreds, maybe
thousands, of goblins milling about in the streets.
And there are hawkers and streets, vendors and buildings
that are claiming themselves to be any manner of business
outside of the alley. As you should poke your heads
out. Wait a wait a minute.
We're in the level of hell of greed.
Yeah, after seeing these children, I also just remembered
something. There are pickpockets very
active in this area, so be wary of your belongings.
Probably isn't a great idea to be carrying a lot of.
A lot of things that can be stolen easily.
Yeah, probably. Uh huh.
Yeah, I agree. I say that and I have a backpack
full of. Gems Edra.
Edra goes to stand right next to Regina.
Yeah, can I head back to the Pocket Rock for a quick second?
Sure, bad. Do you need me to do?
You need me to put you there or? No, I just need to transfer some
stuff into. Maybe that chest that you
emptied in the 1st place from best or two.
That's who emptied the chest. It is Warren is definitely who
emptied the chest. Inside.
So what are you just putting some of your more valuable items
like the the, the crown and. Oh, I don't want to be carrying
341 platinum, 615 Gold, 250 electrum, 300, three, 53 silver
and 298 cover pieces. I don't want to be carrying all
that. You guys are stacked.
I rob people on this is when I said.
When I said I found my home, I was not joking.
I was very excited to create this level for you, Warden.
And you finally get to experience it.
And I'm like, yeah, we were just doing some shopping.
I'd also like to get rid of my black gem, my glowing golden
platinum ball. I remember how we like there's
like that thing, like that chest in like the Underworld.
The chest of desires. No, no, no, no, no.
And like something got poured on it and all the like the contents
got melted into like a liquid. Yeah, it was the chest of
desire. What?
Yeah, that was the chest of desire, because you put some
stuff in there with the intent of something that like, created
light and then it kind of remelted itself into that.
Box. Oh, yes.
All right. OK Yeah.
Yes. So that I also have red gems and
a bunch of rubies. That would also be where Ash had
gotten her board. Yeah, 'cause I have like and I
didn't realize this until very recently.
Just like piles and piles of gems just in my backpack.
Is there is there a way to like add like a like a another
section to your like inventory? Or gold and such.
Not so much. I mean like there's like I have
equipment and then I have a backpack.
Holding you can add another backpack and like label it like
your backpack of holding. Because I also have the pocket
rocket I think is a storage option.
Yeah, yeah. And then I have be.
Smart for yourself, for instance, so that you know that
you have this stuff it's just not with on your person at this
time. For instance.
Yeah, so I kind of forget how to do that.
All right, I figured it out. Her name?
Chest. While while Warren's doing all
that, I am guessing Franklin is probably talking to Regina and
Ezra about stuff they want to buy potentially and that they
have some sugar Mama Sugar daddies to buy this.
Stuff, yeah. Yeah.
So let me leave you a rundown of what's going on, turned as
right. You don't know this.
You're dead, I think. Word hell.
Literally hell. I don't know which denomination
this is. Look around, but we're there.
This is Level 4 greed. And we are in the first city
structure that we've ever seen. And we've got, and I lean really
close and not to give it away. A.
Fuck ton of money. And we're here to spend it.
So if you want to have some items that you would be
interested in purchasing, you should look those up.
Oh, I'm. I'm dumb.
I have a backpack of holdings with secret compartments.
You do? You do that.
Sounds like a way to lose shit. It does sound like a way to
lose. Shit also.
If somebody tries to pickpocket that, what happens?
Do they get sucked in? One way to find out.
So I'm going to put all like, the stuff I don't need to be
carrying like gems and shit in the chest, and then I'm going to
put the majority. Of my money in and.
Keep, I don't know, 3. 100 cold pieces in the secret
compartment, OK. There's no way to like, do that.
Like, I don't think. I don't think I can separate my
money in different spots that way.
No, I that's what I was saying earlier.
I don't think so either. But I I understand what you're
trying to trying to do there. So Regina or Ezra, did you
respond to Franklin of anything you want?
Just anything. Ever.
Better X, That's really seems to be anything you could really
think of or like find or like you.
Know. A disguise kit, A cloak of
invisibility? A nice hat.
You know you like.
The disguise get in the hat to get a hat of disguise.
That's an option. I'm still, I'm still like, burnt
to a crisp, right? Do you have any of those
mangoes? Wait, did the did the Greater
Healing Potion do anything with that, or should I just give him
a mango? The Greater Healing potion did
did not do anything with his hair, no.
All right. I reach into my bag and I give
you a mango. Because I think I remember last
time it like I took away my 5:00 shadow.
Well, that's because it aged you back a year, because the first
time you eat a mango it reverses one year of aging.
And if you wait another year to eat a second one, it reverses it
again by a year. So I guess you could just not
age by just continually eating mangoes.
Should we just make mango farm and forget?
Yeah. Yeah, I think.
So. Save the seeds.
Yeah, I eat the mango, I guess. And your hair does regrow.
And what was the healing on that?
Because there was still a little bit of health that you needed
too. I I just.
I just forget I was typing something else over here.
Hold. On Let me click on it.
Oh, so I wasn't at full health when we started this.
I I. OK, so never spoiling mangoes.
You regain one year of youth, you regain 10 D 4 + 20 hit
points. So.
Oh, if it's just plus 20, I bet I'm at full health.
Yeah, it could be. I could roll 40.
Jesus, by Manny's beard, you should be of full health.
Yeah, that was way overkill. I needed five hit.
Points You got 45. I hope your hair and moustache
grew back. It it did with the goatee and
all and you, you feel yourself a year younger.
I don't. I think it's, oh, no.
Time passes. Weird.
It might have been a year. Whatever.
I'd have from the last time that you had one time.
Down here, real nights and days because we kind of just go to
sleep when we feel tired and not when the sun sets.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it just turned a solid.
And John Philips. Yeah, I have no idea what year
it is. Man, I wonder what my mom's
doing right now. She's probably.
That's a. Fun question.
What year did you guys all die? What year was it when you came
in? I don't remember die.
We died. We're.
Dead. I'm.
I think we're dead. That was all.
We're dead. I am in denial.
We're not dead. We're just stuck in hell.
And we're going to get out of here because we didn't start in
hell. We started in a maze with a
mindator named Brad and a bunch of dwarfs that didn't like to
talk to us. So we left.
I I I also started here. I also agree that I think I'm
dead. Or at least I died.
And Manny, like, revived me somehow, because the last thing
I remember was running from a group of people that I'm
severely pissed off by being me. I turn around pretty abruptly
and I'm like, we aren't dead. I'm still alive.
You're going to get out of here because I have things to do on
the surface. This is just just just a little
bit of a distraction. And then I like kind of like
March away. Well, the last thing.
I remember. Is.
Sleeping in a ape tied out in a hay barn and then smelling
smoke. And then I woke up on the table.
Yeah, that you think you burned to death.
I look at you, that makes a lot of sense.
Explain Do I have a fiery personality or something?
No, weren't you literally just covered in birds?
Well, yes, but that was from something that I recently did.
Yeah, I know, but like monkey, like you know.
No, I don't. I mean, I look at the others.
You don't think that this is just like something that
happens? Wait, say what?
You said again. What happens?
Like him just burning, like getting lit on fire.
Like, yeah, I think you died and your torture is you just get lit
on fire over and over again. How many times they caught on
fire only? Once.
If if that's true, then I was probably eaten by a gelatinous
cube, because I've been like six of those in this campaign.
I keep getting anyway. I keep getting trapped in
things. You should get a key like.
What are those bone keys? Those are cool.
Yes, the bone keys. Anyway, regardless if we're dead
or alive, even if we were dead, there's nothing stopping us from
going to the surface. Which we free Minneapolis.
There's nothing stopping us from living our lives.
Except. Death.
Not even death. That's not going to get my way.
I've. Been dead for too long anyway.
So yeah, if you guys want to go shopping, we're going to go
shopping. And then we're also here to go
look at a temple, if you want to do that instead, to attempt to
find out some information about this level of hell.
Because I turned to the new guys.
Our overall goal, apparently when I point at the torque, is
to free the God of evil from his prison, which is is which is the
plan. You have to, like, break the
budget. I pull out the the cube thing.
I think Craig is slowly taking over Matt.
The Tri decahedron. Oh, I thought that was just me.
I thought I was just overbotted. We I I understood what you were
saying, but it was a little spotty.
Yeah. You pull out the Tri decahedron
is what you were talking about. That you got from Griselda after
you guys had toothpasted her. Tooth pasted her.
That's a verb now. Uh huh.
I found this in Griselda's pockets after we turned her to a
tube of toothpaste, and I don't really know what it is, but the
description is very interesting. I wonder if it's a portal to the
other levels of hell that we've been to.
And you guys realize that there are 3 levels or rather three
colors solved on the 13 sides since you pulled it out?
I just posted the thing. Which is different from the last
time anyone has seen it, which were there were only two sides.
The texty here I think if you touch it it get the red down
says what's the side of solve for a color touching the solve
sides color well I didn't contact we'll move the wheel
there those contacts could corresponding to the level of
hell. I think this is a teleporter
guys. It's a different level, so
levels of hell, which is game JJ, game JJ.
Ezra looks over at Regina. The turtle talk, big words.
What he mean? Or I totally stepped away for a
second and missed all of that. So Regina just has like
hypnotized blank glazed over eyes.
What Turtle? Is is there?
Is there one over there? And he points to Franklin.
Oh, that guy. What did you say, Frank?
Oh hey, I think, I thought. We have a teleporter to the
levels of hell that we've already been to, I think.
That we've already been to. Yeah, so these ones here, these
three colors, I think it's oh God, sorry, it's really hot down
here. I think if we touch one of
these, we'll get teleported. Check for me Warren.
What check? And insight.
Is that skills? Yes, that comes through 11. 11.
Yes. You having been playing with
your box. Why did I waste level?
Realize the colors that are solved on the cube, well 13
sided cube that Franklin is proffering currently correspond
with the colors that are displayed on your box the the
dots that appeared on them, yes. The Illuminati fucking knew it.
Do I have to go through all the levels of health with my crown
back? What if it's not your crown?
What if it's Manny's crown? What if he's Manny?
I look at him closely. Are you Minneapolis?
No, I don't think it's. I don't think.
I don't think anyone else has made this connection because I I
I just. That's why I wanted.
Yeah, I think a few of us have seen his box that he's tried to
break into but haven't, like, really examined it.
When you said the stuff is lighting up, I was like.
Man this is there's. Something I won't be able to get
open. There's going to be a process.
Sorry buddy, you did this to yourself.
Just saying. I know and I'm really mad.
It also says we could solve this additional sides by ruling A
Dexterity or an Intelligence check, so we could just skip
right to the top if someone's smart enough.
Should we finish our shopping spree?
And then, yeah, absolutely go back to the Pocket Rocket and
play with this cube. Yeah, I just wanted to make sure
it popped into my head and I wanted to point it out.
Sure, everyone's hands on my box right now.
We're all just going to fondle it until it opens.
That's normally how box. You work.
Model Photo Model Photo This reminds me of home.
You know I have profession fondage, don't you?
Oh God, no. So who's my dad?
God. It's.
So dark, so fast. At least you know your dad.
Yeah, So you guys going out on the town?
Yeah, I've been Googling. So you you guys wander out into
the crowd, more of a theater of the mind thing, but you can move
your character tokens at least out of the alley for your own
references. And you're walking through the
crowd, and just about anything you can imagine is popping up on
the signs of the buildings that are around you.
Is there anything that's anyone's looking for
Invisibility Cloak? I found some cool things I
shared. I have a list.
You also recall that armor and weapons were a bildreth, so we.
Gotta go to him. Which is in the Tavern.
But you you do pass some armories and weaponries that
that or spark some interests. But you you've, you've got some
time constraints obviously for the literal evening that we have
as anyone going to take prominence here of which you'd
like to go for Auburn slippings, potions, etcetera.
Let's decide which place we want to go to, like what kind of guy
and then we can all order there and then go as a group to the
next place and order etcetera. Efficiency.
That's how my parents did Hallow or Christmas when they let me
out. When they let me.
Out Jesus. I would really like a cloak of
invisibility, and there was something else I said that I
can't remember right at the moment.
Regina or Ezra? I know you're you're probably
feeling like you don't get much safe, but you do.
Ezra. As soon as they said there are
thieves abound, Ezra is going to.
Since he's calling Regina his little pup, he's going to put
her back on his shoulder if she'll let him for safekeeping.
OK. You.
Know. Awesome.
What what what you want? They say we will get stuff.
I want a gun. I want.
An A gun. Yeah.
I give the child a gun. This can only go right.
Yes, because that is not a left wing thing.
I mean, excuse me, I don't know what I'm talking about.
All right, let's get this child armed.
I don't think. It's an antimatter rifle.
Do we see a sign that says buy gun here, buy.
Gun here. Yeah, it's right next to a
liquor store and the church for some reason.
Actually it is next to those things, but it does call itself
an Armory as opposed to the by gun here.
I could get some dynabite there. I'm looking to get a lot.
Yeah, I shared some items in the discord.
I've seen those. I've seen those.
That's why I was leaning on on some of that information there.
So do you guys go into the Armory or?
Yeah. Like we could do Armory first,
yeah. Yeah.
Where did you find those at, Jesse?
I'm. I am, I am, and I type in like
D&D magic items and I have like a whole list of stuff.
I even have some D&D guns, but they are much more in depth on
their descriptions. I just found the Antimatter
Rifle when I went to like D&D Beyond and did inventory and
just add. Well, that's already there.
That's cool. I I I want the blood X and I
want the rhino. Blood X and rhino, yes.
I am very surprised you were looking at axes as ash.
I have a whole list with just a variety of weapons in it, 'cause
I'm like, oh, that weapon's pretty, I'm a save it.
Oh, OK, I see it. It is.
Mostly daggers, but I have a lot
of weapons. I thought maybe you were
thinking of Mamae too. Anyhow, you guys walk into the
shop and you see weapons galore. There is easily 3 levels inside
the shop, although it looks like it's only A2 level on on on the
outside, and as you're standing on the inside you're going wow.
This had to have been magically enchanted because this is way
bigger than it is on the outside and the the the goods are played
out everywhere and it's not even 10 feet as you walk inside.
There was a musical sounding chime as you guys walked in and
you are greeted by a goblin that's more well dressed than
some of the other ones that you've seen and more well kempt
even though his teeth as he smiles at you walking up to you,
greeting you guys with. We've got some travelers here.
What can I do? Yuva just.
Browsing I need. I need Axis and Gun.
Get a gun. I I love this negotiating
abilities and I'm and I I turned to the proprietor and I'm like
yes, we would like to see what kind of axes you have in stock
and if you have any long range weapons.
Well, we. Well, we have many things in
stock. How big is your budget?
Big enough intimidate. I kind of had positioned myself
that he would be standing like just behind and to my side so
that he could like lean over me and glare.
OK. There's also a.
Crocodile at my feet. Wait, Who's Rolling
Intimidation? That would be Ezra and I know
there's the the crocodile at your feet.
Ash, you can assist. I will insist.
I will assist with intimidation
too by just kind of like, I don't know, like cocking my
eyebrow like, how dare you question us a dirty 20.
Nice. He he just kind of like kind of
just like whoa whoa, whoa, no. No, no need.
To. Hold me up here.
I don't. I don't run the run the run the
warehouse. What?
What are you looking for? Anything I could specific I
could probably get you do. You have any enchanted axes?
I say very sweetly. He goes, there's there's many
that I that I can get you. What I mean do do you have
something in mind And he just kind of gestures to like a whole
wing of the area that they're at.
You guys look over and there's like floor to ceiling, 3 levels
of axes, Franklin. Kind of rolls his eyes.
We did this last time. You got to ask for the specific
item. He walks forward like a satinel
shield. Please.
A a Sentinel shield. Let me see what what I can do
for that. And he kind of.
And dynamite a lot. And he he he looks around and
then he pulls up off the side of him out of a side pocket and
kind of rests its on his forearm.
This like still Sentinel wrong. I thought I spelled it right.
Oh, I spelled shield wrong. Hmm, he pulls.
He. Pulls it up on his arm and then
he you kind of see that it's this mirrored surface that you
can only see his face in from his from your angle and as he's
kind of like tapping it he's he goes oh.
Come on. Come on.
No. He he's looking at it and he
goes, well, I think we have some in stock of the Sentinel Shield
and the dynamite. The dynamite is easily
obtainable. Great.
Then let's see. Everybody could just list off my
stuff, then I'll shut up. Walloping ammunition, however
much I could get. That'd be great.
Dynamite. I said that I need some
alchemist fire. Some, I guess the Armory.
Armory you guys have. Arbor.
I need an outfit. A number of goblins and ring of
mind shielding and staff swarming insects them all set
when I step back. Thumbs up.
I don't know if which of those you guys do here, but.
Well, we, we deal in armaments as in those that you could give
to, yes, seems like we could definitely.
You get most of that? Yeah.
Well, yeah. All right, you just let me know.
What do you happen to have a pair of spiked knuckles of face
punching? I like it.
That's How did you find such
good ones? How long have you been looking
on Pinterest for stuff? Since I started DM ING you.
Find that all all sorts of cool stuff on Pinterest.
Well, I tell you what, this seems like it's going to be
rather burdensome. Just a total All what?
What? I'll tell you what I'll what
I'll do here is if you provide me with that list of all the
things that you've just just described.
And he he's already started typing some of it.
But you can tell typing. Do you have a computer?
He's like, he's like, yeah type. He's like tapping.
Yeah I know he's like tapping at this mirror and he's he's he's
kind of gone slack jawed at the point where you started
describing more than like 3 items.
And he goes, if if if you just gave me like a list, then I'll
be able to get everything that you want and a price maybe come
back in like an hour or two, that's that's.
Perfect. That's probably, that's more
than I was expecting. This is wonderful.
I can take a yes. Yeah, we can afford it.
Don't worry about it. Meta wise, this is him just kind
of like brushing you guys off until you get that list and you
put it whatever you want in that Discord and I will work up a
price and you guys can come back and haggle with it next time
because I think you guys want to go off to somewhere else.
Yeah, I think we also need to go to.
Didn't they say there was a place we could exchange our gems
for money? Ah damn it.
Now I'm going to be up all night looking at magical item trying
to make. Yeah, there was a.
There was a. Gem exchange.
George. I wish I could share this lesson
with you. Do you have a Pinterest account?
Do I? I do, and I probably have most
of these already. So he goes on to say you you
mentioned something about exchanging magical gems.
Magical gems that that'd be over at the The church usually does
most of the exchanging and they kind of handle currency actually
around here. Perfect.
OK. So yeah, we definitely want to
go there for some currency. Are you telling me that the
place that handles money around here is the church?
It's not questionable at. All, yes, yes.
Do they also happen to be the governing body?
Well. I don't know how it is where you
come from, but yes. Perfect.
I kind of just scratched my chin and I'm like, I see.
Ducks brow, All right. Same goes goes for you, Regina.
If there's anything you can think of, just.
OK. Yeah, it'll take a billion years
to get through. Yeah, I was like, oh, you guys,
you said you were coming prepared, but I was not that
prepared. Damn.
Sorry, I I also was not prepared apparently.
Now you're good you're good. Just put.
I'll put it in there and I'll I'll work it up and we can
negotiate it out. You're there's no sorry to be
needed just I was I was under prepared and you were perfectly
prepared but I want to make sure you guys are able to get to
somewhere else. So he's he's like, yes, yes,
I'll get it together. Perfect.
You're the boss. All right, all right.
So now you're going. To go next.
Jeb exchange and then we had to learn about the temple here to
see what like the what this level seal is, I think.
All right. I now have a profile.
My name is Maddox 444. Oh God.
I I want this, lawbreaker. Oh my God.
Yeah, I thought that would actually be pretty good for
Warren, but I was like, this is just seems like a nice piece of
armor. Oh.
Lawbreaker, I need to see this. It's in the oh God, yeah.
So the church handles the money and.
Oh my God, it's a medieval leather jacket.
I need it. Breaking the law.
Breaking the law? Do they make it in plus size
guys? I bet we can have it custom
made. Tank.
You guys are walking down some of the streets and you see an
Armory nearby, or Armory A. Jeweler Gembous.
Jeweler. Called Jeweler.
Did we need to go to the church to exchange gems for money?
Or to the jeweler? Or the?
I mean, it sounds like the church is the government and
that's where also you exchange get gems, right?
Or is it like a side business? I mean if we get, here's the
thing, if we go to the jab guy, we can talk to them, get their
scoop on the layout of the temple.
The political stuff going on with their low down opinion is
then we go to the temple and we ask them compare the two, then
we'll do more than what we know now.
Yeah, that's actually a good idea.
Collecting information is always good.
I write that down dice. Man, I'm trying to think of good
funny, like like hell puns for trolley store names.
Oh, and as you're walking by and down the street, you probably
point out Ash to Warren, the in magical item guy slash Izel Izno
that was the enchanter that had some cloaks that it you guys had
gotten as well as the. Yeah, I wrote down Easel.
Easel. OK.
We point him out. All right, I walk up to him.
You walk up into the shop with the cowbell over the door.
And. Then you hear from the back in a
Goblin voice going You're My customers as well as in Goblin,
and they walk back out and seeing you, Ash and Franklin and
Goad switching to Under Common, so is there.
Something I can help you with. I kinda just like Wave to Warren
and Ezra and like I brought you more customers.
Wonderful, wonderful. What can I do here for?
How different is common Thundercon?
Because I don't speak that. Night day I was.
Just saying, if we were speaking in goblin, 'cause I can
translate that. Oh, I thought you were.
You thought you also had under common.
You said that last time. I have common, Dwarven, Gnomish,
and Goblin. My.
Thieves can't, yeah, I don't actually remember saying she was
talking in under Common, but. Me realized.
That. So you can't understand her.
Kind of. Under common.
Can you please translate from goblin to thieves camps because
I can speak fast. So she she realizes you don't
understand her. Anyone.
Sorry, did I cut someone else off?
Ezra. I think maybe No, no, no.
OK, so yeah, she she switches back to goblin, realizing you
didn't understand her, and goes what?
What can I do you for and? She is the enchantress.
She will help us enchant any items you want.
Did you have stuff that you needed enchanted or that you
know? Or she could give us items that
she already has enchanted. You just got real quiet.
Last time we were here, we got cloaks of protection, no?
And you'd you'd seen their cloaks, New cloaks.
Which is what I was drawing upon your request for an invisibility
cloak for me. Yeah, I would really like an
invisibility cloak. Although if you could like, I
don't know, I don't know how like that triggers and stuff.
It would be really cool if I could just trant the clothes I
have on and then every time I put my hood up I aren't
invisible. I don't know how stuff like that
works. I translate this to Esel, what
Warren is asking for about the Invisibility cloak, or if she's
just able to enchant an item he already has on his person.
And she looks him up and down and goes.
He could probably and Chad something that he has on him,
but it takes some. Time like I do have something.
Cloaks stuff. Invisibility.
That I think I've chanted a while ago.
It's been some time to have to dig them out.
It's one of those things that not.
I don't. I don't get asked for a lot.
Well, as well as that, you know. Yeah.
Why? Yeah.
But the the government doesn't let me.
I mean, the Church doesn't let me provide so many of.
I get it. They don't like the cloaks of
invisibility. Well, I would appreciate it if
you could look through your wares to see if you have
anything already like that. Now do I be a bitch here?
And I'm like, please look for hot pink?
Oh, you were. You are translating and she'd go
hot pink. Hell, Danny.
Well, for that for that I can probably do you do you a
bargain, a good dealio. I think I could do like 1000
gold for something like that. 1000 gold.
We did that. Right, 1000 gold.
But you did so much better for what you did for us, I think.
I think you could give us a better price.
I say as sweetly as possible. You can roll a persuasion. 16 +
2 so that that'd be 18. Wait, did I?
I rolled the wrong thing. I'm sorry.
Oh, I don't know. I rolled a.
Performance. Sorry, I saw P and I clicked on
it. Click on the P23.
Plus 2/23. +20 Fuck so 25, Yeah, she goes.
Oh well, Don't need to watch you see it?
He has been sitting kind of dusty, especially 'cause it was
hot prank, no one really wanted it.
So you know the price just for you though like to 500 gold?
50% off. And this is for a cloak of
invisibility, correct? Yes, yes.
I only I only have a couple. Of them, I mean.
I mean. I.
Only have the one she. She raises an eyebrow and looks
around as somebody's watching her.
Interesting. Do do I notice?
Do I notice her like shifting this?
You can roll a perception to notice.
I do lean in like a little bit closer and I'm like.
Go. Ahead and I'm like, all right, I
think we can do that. I am trying to remember how much
those gems were for because they really liked Amethyst gems.
Like. I'm wondering if I could just
get away with giving her one of those.
How much did the base cost for those?
Yeah, because. I was asking, I apologize.
Oh, the base cost of a gem is. The amethyst specifically, but
yeah. OK.
So the Amethyst, it's base cost was 100 and I know that the
Amethyst they liked and emeralds were the ones that they did not
have a lot of, but they did have a lot of.
I think they said it was either rubies or garnets.
OK, rubies. Yeah, so.
God damn it. I think that's the one gem I
have a lot of. Well, you can find more down
here. So are you proffering it?
One of them or. I'm just gonna pull one out and
I'm gonna ask be like, is it all right if I pay you with these
and just indicating that I have more?
Her eyes get a little large and she goes, oh, Amethyst, those
are hard to come by this deep in the crust for year where we find
ourselves. I can probably, you know, just
like three of those would probably suffice.
She just. Kind of does some mental math.
I, I, I just give her like the biggest grin and I'm like, thank
you, you are so sweet. And I pull out one other that's
like the same size as that one. And I kind of like dig around
and I try to find one that's a little bit bigger than those two
and set them on the counter close together and slide them
across to her. That she greedily, like, shoves
them into one of her pockets. You hear it, Dink.
Dink Dink Dink. And she she she goes one second
and she runs to the back and she comes back out with this red,
high red edged, black bodied cloak that she's like.
I couldn't find the hot pink one for some reason.
And I I I do like kind of like laugh out loud at this.
And I'm just like, that one's fine.
It works out perfectly. And she hands it to you.
Oh, that's good. I'm not sure where it went.
Maybe my daughters were playing around with it.
They do like that color for some reason.
I I say to Ash, how big is the Lebowski in these can't imply
how much money do we have. So I I take the cloak from her
and I thank her kindly. And I'm like, give your
daughters my best wishes. I hope they have a great time
with that beautiful cloak. And I walk over to Warren and I
kind of like, tell him to, like, turn around so that I can put
the cloak on him. And of course he has to kneel
down for this. Because he's only four foot and
he's 6/2. Yeah, and I go to put the cloak
on him and I like, lean in and I kind of try to whisper to him
and I'm like, I have a bag of fucking rocks that they really,
really like. And this is what we're going to
go exchange for money. Also, we have a steady income
now and then I as I finish that off, I turn around to Ethel and
I ask her, and I'm like, now, how does this work?
Like, did I just make him invisible or does he have to do?
Macarena. Does he have to dance the dance
of his people to get this cloak to work?
She goes, well, did you see him? Did he put the hood?
Where'd he go? The hood's on.
He must be invisible then. Yeah, As soon as he puts the
hood on, it's invisible. I turn around.
Did you put the hood up? Warren of.
Course. Yeah.
So I turn around and I look around and I'm like, OK, it
works beautifully. And I and I kind of just like
say out loud, I'm like more and nobody can see you.
Perfect. Is he?
Are you just going to skulk around invisibly now?
I whisper in my work. Perfect.
He's just. Never going to reveal himself
unless for comical moments down. Hey, Whisper, we should ward the
women's bathroom. Why is there a lot of gold in
there? Something like that.
Some people would call it that. The only block I want to play
with. Is mine.
I see. For Regina, you'd put something
in there. For Serpent Venom.
I'm not sure I'm following you there.
I don't. I don't know why I did that.
I'm looking on Pinterest now. Sorry, disregard the.
Yes, as every everyone's just doing that now we're just
looking through a Pinterest going.
Yeah. The artworks is all really
lovely and some people give really good descriptions of what
they were thinking of. Yeah, my thought with the
serpent venom was my blow darts. So I was thinking of making
poison darts, but I'm gonna find something a little more well
thought out than that. OK.
Well, you guys have probably approximately like 4 weeks until
the next session I would guess of of evil campaignishness
because we're we're definitely not going to be able to to pull
ourselves together. I would guess for the session
right after E rhythmic veracity, which is normal just overall
heads up as well as if you wanted to run to somewhere else
real quick, we could probably pull it off.
That's why I was coming up with it.
Let's go to the jeweler so we can talk about the currency of
these gems. OK, sure.
There's also tattoos, but I think people need to look and
see what they need. Right, the magical tattoo
tattoos. There was a place that.
There was a place that said said they could do such.
You go to the Jewelers, then or. I can show you the word yes.
Yeah, we can go to the Jewelers. We need to do that first.
All right. You guys go down the street back
up to where the Armory, the church and yeah, elementary
school or something was and you're walk into a nice sound
that's almost harmonic as you you're greeted from across the
room. It it's a lot smaller than the
other places that you've been in, but the items that are in it
are a lot smaller as well. And there is these, it's just
glistening with gemstones all along these cabinets.
But a person kind of looks up across from the door from you
who's looking at some sort of Ledger, it looks like and just.
Goes. All right, and let me know if
you need anything. And the all of the gemstones and
such are encased in glass. Is is Horan like paralyzed with
pleasure as he walks in? Oh yeah, yeah, you get an
instantaneous orgasm from your chest.
Tickles. It's like.
Lots of planning needs. Lots of planning, planning,
planning, planning. I approached the counter and I
asked them, I'm like, is this a place where we could exchange
precious gems for coin? Oh, you have such.
Well, that's pleasant change. Are they?
Are they rough? Cut or what?
Do you get them from the might? He looks you up and down he
goes. Try for this sort of very, very
pleasant change. He stands back from his Ledger,
puts his hands on his hip, and he goes, well, yeah, we could,
we could definitely do some exchanging.
What are you kind of exchanging? Are you looking full off of
those gems? Do you have a list of how much
gems exchanged for or can tell me I I am?
I'm asking this because I don't want to reveal exactly what I
have right away and I kind of want to get how honest this
person is. I understand.
And he goes a list. Well, I could list them off to
you. That'd be the easiest way to
current current exchange rates. He kind of looks off in the
space up above your head and into the ceiling and he goes,
well, Ruiz, as you, I'm sure you've found out by this point.
If you've found your way to meet my door relatively useless in
this area well they can come in and clock themselves at about
depending upon the size. Obviously we've got the smallest
of of measuring about of Pinky nail.
He holds up his pinky and he goes, those will comment about 5
gold and then you go all the way up to and he pulls his hands up,
the largest I've seen, and he holds his hands apart to about
the size of the a a soccer ball. For everyone listening, it's a
reference. It's probably about 500 gold
there, but. Then we go to and he's puts his
hands back together. Let's see now the next precious
that we've got around is you probably won't find it
yourselves. Any diamonds down in there,
around this pod? Those are still very precious
obviously. But then you've got all sorts, I
mean like. What?
What are you offering? Here I guess and he just kind of
puts his hands back together and he goes and and his crosses his
arms because you know, I I really don't want to list every
gem. I cut in.
I was like, can you also identify gems?
I could say just knocks his head back.
I forgot to put one of the things in the chest and I reach
into my pocket and I pull out a goldish green gem that I have no
idea what it's called. That's what's in my inventory.
It says Goldish green gem. Yep.
I have no idea where I got it. Probably out of some chest I
robbed. Goldish Green gem.
It's not ringing any bells. It's a.
It's a custom item. I don't know where I got you
probably. Said.
I know Jasper comes in a couple different colors.
Yeah, that sounds like Jasper to me too, but she's trying to
remember for the life of me. Yeah 'cause if it's multi
colored it might and most likely is Jasper, but I mean how many
green gemstones are there? A lot. 32 pair approximately.
Oh, OK, that was just my first Google after I typed in Goldish
green gem. Yeah.
I did the same thing. You pull it out, he looks at it
and see what he gets with advantage because he takes off
of the top of his head A. Might be green fluorite too
because that's kind of got like a multi colored face.
He pulls off the top of his head.
AI found a Ben's pool that has like a green but like a yellow
hint to it too. Looking glass to magnify his
eye, he closes one eye. He looks through it and he looks
at the gem, holds it up right close to the edge of it, starts
holding it up so that the light refracts off of it in different
angles and he goes. I think this might be some sort
of bloodstone. Yep.
Interesting, I just Scroll down to a random gem.
I actually just looked at Bloodstone and it is usually a
dark green color and it's speckled with any colors from
like bright yellow or gold to what looks like a really dark
orange or blood. Rather unique.
I could give you a good price for it.
He kind of like takes it down to a little measuring device and he
sets it down to it. I can probably.
We're we're just working in the treasures cherishes size gold
here, then. So I could probably give you a
boy. It's no 500 gold for it.
That sounds acceptable. He keeps it on the counter and
he goes, OK, give me a moment here to count it out and he
pulls out a drawer, starts slapping gold pieces on it.
Can I do an insight check to see if he's being truthful?
If he's what? If he's being truthful.
Go ahead. I'd also like to do that.
You know, go right ahead. I just don't want to get
swindled, but I mean, like, we're going to get more money.
And you guys can both tell that he's probably overpriced the
gem. You're getting more than it's
worth. Why?
About me. Yeah, I'm not gonna say anything
about that. I'm gonna be like, these are
probably hard to get down here. I just like think that in my
head. OK.
So after they're done with that exchange, I'm going to pull out
a blue sapphire from my bag. OK.
Light up staring at it, almost as if in trans.
Like how much would you give me for one of these?
He goes quite rare down here. I could and he's looking at
this. Do you mind?
He goes to reach for it. And I'm like, Nope, go ahead.
All while. Watching him.
And then sets it on the counter with a measuring device you'd
seen before. Were there any sizes associated
with those? So they don't actually have any
sizes. I just have like a stack of
these guys and it doesn't say whether they're rough cut or
not. It says a transparent blue,
white to medium blue gemstone. I would say that they.
So it was like we could just do random sizes.
If you want, I could roll to see what size it is.
I would say that they're all more or less rough cut in the
sense that they aren't like, faceted to fit into a piece of
jewelry, right? They aren't.
They aren't the those sorts of cuts.
But he'd still look at it, kind of.
Not literally, but almost. You can feel the drool dripping
from the corner of his mouth. And he he's sizing it up there.
Go ahead and roll for it then, too, 'cause that's something I
should have had you do, Orn, but that was good enough.
What do? You want me to roll just AD 20?
Do AD 12. OK.
Cool. Three.
So this one that you pulled out was probably about 3 inches in
diameter and you he sits it down and confirms more or less that
and it was I could. Probably give you about 300.
Gold for this one. And I'm like, OK, you said 3
inches 300? Yes, yes.
So I'm like. The that I say that oh fuck, is
he speaking goblin. He is been speaking Goblin, yes.
Yeah, so I would say that I probably translated for you for
your interaction. Does he understand Common at
all? Like if they ask him a question,
does he understand it and just speak back in goblin or am I
also like translating both sides of the conversation?
You seem to be translating both sides of the conversation.
He does seem to be at least partially versed in Common
you've been picking up because he's kind of been interpolating
a little bit better than. So.
Did he give us his name? Did we?
End. Oh, we're being so rude, rude.
So I'm like, that sounds like a very good deal.
Thank you, Ma. And then I'm like, what is your
name by the way? Oh well, yes, you so ask.
Lately I am blonde and unluckily.
Blund with AP or with AB? Doubt would be with.
AP, as in punch, my lady? I would not say it's
unfortunate. It is a very unique name and not
a name that I will soon forget. And I was like my name is Ash
and I this seems like very agreeable business.
So I also need some money exchange for these and I pull
out 10 more of the blue sapphire.
Holy. Hell.
You hear him kind of intake breath and say more or less you
want to roll for those as well. Just for what their sizes are.
Yeah, you can. Do you want him to roll 10D
twelves? Yes, please.
OK, I rolled them all at once.
I don't know if that's what you wanted, if you want me to roll
them individually. That's actually perfect,
honestly. So 10 D 1262 plus. 100, right?
That's how that math works. Yeah 'cause I think you did 100
gold for. Per inch basically.
Per inch so. Being multiplied. 6200 gold.
Gee, correct. Crushes.
From. A little.
Bit. And yeah, his eyes are.
Just. His eyes are just bulging out
and he goes. Well, that's gonna clear us out
for the day. But he puts it all on the
counter. Does this guy?
Just. Does this guy just have do like
exchanges or does he like, sell jewelry too?
You you. You've seen jewelry in the
cabinet? Yes, as you're walking.
Magic jewelry or just jewelry? I.
Don't know. Are you asking him?
Can you, can you ask him, Ash? I turn to him and I'm like, once
you're done exchanging all that, do you have any magic jewelry
you're willing to part with? He's counting as fast as he can.
He's on top of the glass countertop and he goes yes, yes.
I turn a war and I'm like, he says yes, but I think we need to
give him a moment. All right.
I'd really like to pick up a ring of understanding so I don't
have to be like. These.
Conversations smart, right? We'll just write out a list for
you here to leave it out of the counter, huh?
Yeah, yeah. Can we make a list of things
that we're looking for and leave that here with you?
Oh, wait. Yes, of course.
Fund will provide, he says greedily.
Waiting, waiting for it to get that gold back that he just gave
you. Good man.
So yeah, anything you guys want to put it in that general, I'll
work it up and work out a cost for it all eventually.
Awesome. You have time to work on it, I
guess. So we should probably get into
him as soon as we can, I guess. Just drop him in the Discord and
then that way, like the next time we sit down, you can just
be like, all right, this is how much you owe me.
Pretty much for the each individual peoples that you guys
had interacted with. Did we get that other guy's
name? I have things that I want many
dark things. I created.
A A Just a. List of thingy mobombers we
want. Oh nice.
That's actually smart. I don't know how wonder if I
could like, yeah, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll look there too.
But that's actually smart, right?
Under Watsy. Perfect.
All right. Well, I'm going to spend like
the next like hour and a half looking at stuff online.
Right here, while we're overwhelming this guy, yeah.
Yeah, Welcome aboard. Pick all the ice.
Yeah, welcome to the shopping episode.
We'll take one of everything, please.
So Josh, if you do have an idea of like some sort of number of
limitation, some sort of limitation for, you know,
obviously you can't have one of everything.
Right. I mean off the top of my off the
top of my head I I don't that's that's the problem because I I'm
personally mentally having because I'm like these items are
all great but then I'm like how do I quantify.
Yeah, because that's the thing. You also have to be like, OK,
you can't have that. That's two OP.
Or maybe you could put a clutch on some of them.
No, I like the idea that the evil campaign is rich and we're
just like overpowered because of it.
And the good campaign is poor and we're really struggling.
Or anymore boys. Yeah, I was going to say we
started a business. Yeah, we're.
CEOs. Yeah.
I don't, I don't. I don't necessarily think that
it would be improbable to have any in all of these items but it
would just be depending upon budgetary means that's that and
and quantifying that is the is the problem again because.
Yeah, I just, I figured I would give you a list of things that
my person is going for and you could be like, OK, we have this
thing and it wouldn't necessarily be like, Oh yeah, we
have all these things like we're in hell.
There are limitations. Why?
As a tell, I I guarantee you they don't have good trade
routes. Apparently they do.
Definitely for myself, I did. I did like one, you know, wild,
crazy, legendary that I would like 1 rare, I think 2 uncommon,
two or three uncommon and then like 2 Commons, something like
that, but I don't know. Slap it into that list.
Yeah. I'm sure, I'm sure you can find
it. It's the it's again the problem.
The problem would just be whether or not you guys could
afford it, which it's sounding like more and more feasible with
Ash's deep, deep pockets. Yeah, they just keep getting
deeper. And great and great
negotiations, All right, right. And I get advantage on
negotiating with all merchants, although I haven't rolled an
advantage yet because I don't think I can roll below a 23 on
Persuasion. Wait, how do you get advantage
with all merchants? Rural needs this.
It is armored, which I would love to see Rural wear.
This armor weight. Let me find it because I have it
still. Yeah, it's a dress that would.
Be so good. Wait a minute.
I just thought of a way of like, quantifying.
Like, OK, so my gold chest piece is it based on my knowledge of
what's valuable? Like, I could walk past
something that's valuable, but if it's not valuable in like, my
mind, it doesn't count. I figured it was based on the
like base or average of something's worth, like in the
world as a whole. Because I think like when I
think of something like that, it's connected to the world
itself and not to like your personal wealth.
And and that's that's accurate what what Jesse's saying for for
the chest plate. Because the chest plate isn't
necessarily connected to your idea of wealth.
If you if you. It's just connected to wealth.
Correct. I remember this one.
The merchant's attire. Oh God.
Yeah, I got that out of a chest of desire.
So could I, could I tell how much something is worth by
holding? Like a like a fistful of gold or
something and and like standing next to both and seeing which
way I'm attracted to more. Like a human scale.
Yeah, you can put one close to one nipple and one close to the
other nipple and see which one's more excited, yeah?
Oh, we could get nipple clamps with little scales on.
Them. Oh, I feel a little heavy on the
right. Yes.
I miss it just being a regular chess piece, we.
Should see if we can have somebody to sign that up for us.
Hope we haven't scarred you too much, Regina.
I'm. I'm good.
OK. That was a very delayed
response. To.
Do what you will with that. Things are.
Things are OK. There's.
Things are things are things. Yep.
Oh awesome session. Y'all, I'll get, make sure you
get all those those things into that list of thing of the
bobbers that I I definitely appreciate George and I'll work
up a price. Yes, please.
Head off to the church in quite a OH.
Yeah. And we needed a question.
We'll question the jeweler person or whoever we're talking
to about the church next time. If.
We. Remember the jeweller and
questioning the church, OK? Have a good one guys.
Bye. Bye.
So have we scared you away?
A grand and wonderful thank you for those who took the time and
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