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Tara through the campaign Allelopolis.
Oi. Brag.
Bloody you didn't have to go to school.
The Hand of Fate tosses. The dice rolls, spins, turns.
A campaign starts and ends, leaving memories that becomes
stories. Stories flow out into the
Infinite Sea, painting it with legends.
Legends wash up on the shores throughout the Infinite Sea,
fading to myth until myths are forgotten.
And again, the Hand of Fate tosses the dice rolls, spins,
turns. Hitherto we left our adventurous
known as the Rum Rollers after escaping the clutches of the PNC
and their demise. Briefly stopping back in
Socrates, they update Queen Thea on all the happenings as well as
resurrect a soul from a soul coin, Mohawk, the head Druid
from the Spiral Wood Forest that had been left to ruin by the
PNC. Now the Rum Rollers rush back to
the Spiral Wood Forest with Mohawk in tow in his new body
from a previous friend from another universe, the wizard
formerly known as Matt's body. And on their way to the to the
Spiralwood forest, the Rum rollers find a floating city
hidden in the clouds just outside of what is left of the
forest. Once on the city, they begin an
immigration process through custom through the custom
support after landing and declaring themselves friendly
and learn through learn that the lovely lively thrumming city is
awaiting contact with Libertry to become one of the God trees
new worshippers. They they'd also made a contact
while waiting in line at the immigration on and learned that
the they are on air shift 86. Also that most people otherwise
speak gnomish here and that they are lacking in that particular
category. Although I think it was Cat who
swiftly cast last time the spells so that you guys could
speak. And the friend they met was
Fizzbold, or Fizz for short. A lively brewmeister set up in
the set up nearby in and he'd invited the rum rollers back to
his shops to have a taste. And from there we'll see where
the rum rollers go into this pulsating city of a live
machinery it seems, as well as heavily active gnomish cultures
that seem to generally just everything, including the city
seems to be alive as in a machine fashion.
There's there's things and parts moving sometimes that seems like
on the occasion to you, you've noticed a shop physically move
in in and amongst the jungle jumble of all of this.
It's somehow still all held together though by some strands
of glowing mist that emanate out and especially from the lower
levels. You're seeing some plumes that
seem to keep the city cloaked and why most people don't notice
the city. You're wandering around through
the busy streets and you're seeing some of the shop names
all seeming to have some some some things to do with all walks
of life, all the normal amenities.
However, you're seeing not gold changing hand as you'd also
learned during your entrance through immigration as they
don't use that as a form of payment.
You are seeing these small vial like jars that have a glowing
mist inside of them. Let's find out what happened
this time. The first thing that would
probably catch your eye as you're trying not to be
overwhelmed by the Press of the crowd around you is is a small
map that's emblazoned right outside of the port in the with
kind of a quick breakdown of the city.
And then with the top level, the domed portion you'd seen before
from down below. But as you'd walked in towards
the inner streets, you can't see it as much anymore, but you're
seeing that it's a lively, plush garden set on top of it.
And in and amongst all the other levels you have coming straight
down from the top. That was the 4th level.
The third level is kind of the main level where you find
yourself now just off of the ports and a lot of the shops
are, whereas some of the lower levels seem to be more
functionarily based and designed to keep the city moving and
afloat. So is the main Lantern that
Tavern or what's the main Lantern?
That's the street way that you find yourself on.
OK, the Tavern. The Tavern visit would have told
you was the Celestial Brew. And that's on this level.
And then the great what row on the other side?
Is that another St. Yes, great tea house row.
OK. Do I see any shops that deal in
enchantment on the map? I will say that you're able to
read some of the shop signs, but do you guys know, do you know
Novish? I had the spell cast on me so I
can OK. OK, read and speak.
OK then yes you'd you'd find a shop fairly easily.
There seems to be a few kind of jumbled next to each other.
They they're there. There doesn't seem to be any
sort of stone in the city. It's all some sort of
lightweight metal. You're you're guessing with wood
inlaid in it. Yeah, Hero wants to make a small
detour to one of those shops. To see if you can procure a
buying something. Before we split up, can I do the
same thing I did with this city itself on my magic map and
activate location sharing on our entire party?
I don't understand what you did before by activate location
sharing. Last time when I was talking to
that gnome at customs and I lamented about the the limited
time that we possibly have because of our other objective,
I asked about a way to be able to find the city again should we
leave it, and I pulled out my map and asked to.
I basically imagined a live location update of the city on
the map like modern day location sharing, and it worked.
So I'd like to apply that same concept to the rest of the
hurry. So you'd like to be able to
locate individuals? Yes, your intent is imbued into
the paper of the map, but it's not.
It doesn't seem to quite understand because it doesn't
seem to have an interface for individuals.
It does seem to ask for a a spell input of scry in your
mind. OK, got to look up the
components for that and find them.
So I will hand off the the narration while I do that.
What's Azure next reaction to the whole city in general.
Everybody does seem to be giving you the side eye, but no one is
really approaching you. There are some hawkers on the
street, but they don't seem to be speaking common.
They seem to try to get your attention.
And no Mish, as you guys are walking by usually what?
I was checking to see what languages he knew.
He does not know Novus. OK, well, brain.
Damned is very suspicious of everybody around.
Him gosh, I got to remember this version of Azure Neck has no
charisma. I'm used to, because farmer
churches are a charisma based class, you know, So I'm used to,
you know, him having Charisma, a lot of it.
And now he's got zero. It's his dump stat this time
around. Got no ribs?
I'm going to say I don't know. He he's, he thinks he's
intimidating. So now he's used to people like
just kind of giving him a weird look.
He's just a weird looking little cobalt.
You know, that's, that's nothing new to him.
Grand AM is being suspicious of everyone so I guess something.
Wrong with these dwarfs he's going to stick with.
He's going to stick with KIRO wherever KIRO goes.
I have no aspirations in Little Gnome Town.
They all seemed seemed to be wearing a greenish pointy hat
for the most part. Some of the those that are are
more menial and their tasks, we'll call it sweeping the
street, picking up trash, maintenance and different
things. They seem to have red hats.
Wait, pointy, pointy red hats? Yeah, the no, they have a caste
system. Maintenance is red and I don't
know if it's actually a cast. I mean this kind of gives me
like David the gnome vibes. Different color ads.
No, just what are their opinions on gnomesh marriage?
You're asking KIRO? No, no, no, no.
That would not be inside of Kiro's wheelhouse.
Ask me how they die or their burial practice.
I can probably help you. Anything outside that?
No. I think Mimi, Admiral Mimi, you
also had a spell that you could cast to understand, and I think
you'd cast it on yourself. So you're able to understand the
gnomish. For the most part.
You you decide you're deciphering some of the signs,
but you tell me what you're looking for.
If you're going to or going straight to your new found
friend Fizz, or if you're wandering around.
You're muted if you're talking. Yeah, sorry, you're going to
have to repeat that question. I was trying to pull up my DND
beyond just giving me problems, but I just want them.
I was just I was, I was saying that I believe you're the other
one that has had had cast the spell and can understand no
mission. It was cast on all of us, wasn't
it because we all talked to the customs guy?
I thought. Yeah, I thought.
I think it was an individual for each party that went through.
There were like 2 separate parties I had.
Tom Yes, it was me and me and Cat and then.
No, I think it was Me May Cat cast on you and then Me Me May
has it on her on themselves. Yeah.
Yeah, grandstand. We all definitely spoke it
though, yeah, because we all were able to communicate
individually. What was the spell?
Tongues. I forget what Cat has, but yeah,
and that's anybody I touch. So I'm just going to just poke
it. I'm just going to boop everybody
on the nose. OK, you see everybody else
struggling and giving the boop tongues and it everyone's
overwhelmed with all of the language that they hear.
There is a bit of a a difference in dialect, mainly between the
red hats and the green hats, but not not so far as that this that
this spell is not capturing it for you guys.
Are there any patterns in the dress or mannerisms of the red
versus green that become apparent?
The Green seem to be a little bit more carefree.
They're kind of going about their day if they're out and
about. Some of them are shopkeepers or
walkers on the side of the road, but they don't seem
unapproachable as a complete, almost opposite to the Red Hats
who seem to keep their head down and be wandering the streets
with a purpose. Any difference in the dress?
Not in the actual outfits perhaps, but maybe at on the
level of adornment. So there you might see, you
know, the most noticeable thing being whether whether or not
someone is wearing a ring or not would doesn't seem like any of
the lower caste or the you you said it.
So it's stuck in my head now the the red hats are wearing.
They aren't wearing any jewelry for the most part.
They have even what you would notice perhaps as a wedding
band. You're you're guessing on some
of them is more of a tattoo as opposed to actual jewelry and
some. When we were in.
I was just going to say simply too that and some of that does
seem to be another distinguishing characteristics
you're you're as you're wandering.
None of the green hats have tattoos.
And when we were in customs was basically is everyone wearing a
hat and what hats did they have or no?
Pretty much everyone there had green hats because you were in
the port, unless they were, you know, being used to task.
But for the most part, you're seeing actually too a overall
use of technology above and beyond what the rest of the
world is used to. Some of you might understand
some of this differently, but with your meta knowledge.
But some of them are holding pieces of glass that they can
look into and seem to be moving their finger across is.
And that's mainly the green hats.
But they also seem to all have, especially the the green hats,
some sort of small automaton that follows them.
Grand I'm going to cast detect thoughts.
I'm just going to walk around just kind of like eavesdropping
on anybody's thoughts. I can get my get a like get
into. I want to get the vibe at this
place because Grand. Am we were all serious?
Go on. Sorry.
We were also introduced to those tablets last session here and so
my first objective will be to locate the kiosk that I was
instructed to the whereabouts of and purchase one.
You don't have to go far after seeing the map that kind of
denotes you are here and the rest of the city and you walk
not even 10 paces away from there and you you find a kiosk
that is selling them. Are you going?
Up to. Browse or.
Yeah, so I'm browsing and I I gesture to one of them and I ask
what would be a valid trade for this?
And are there any other accessories such as a connection
to a database that I also need to purchase?
Or does this device function as a stand alone item?
You start spouting that often? He goes, scratches his, pulls
his hat back and scratches his head a little bit.
Oh, it's a little bit odd seeing one of your sorts up here.
All right, my name's Clank. Pleasure to meet you.
I'll try to answer your questions.
I generally just sell the goods, but they are.
Connected to the main data hub, most of the information for the
cities accessible on them, you could find dates, times, places,
fence as as well as the standard Star talker Federation news
updates and and such. And it is how most of us
communicate. Except, you know.
And what is the range on this? How far can I be removed from
the city and still connect to the database?
Oh, that's A and he. Goes back to the he like pokes
his head back around the other side of the kiosk where you hear
him making some noise. He pulls pulls out his own glass
piece and he starts typing some stuff into it and he's like.
It seems like they the the the the makers have said it would
will operate up to 1000 feet away from the city.
I haven't tried that myself. OK.
So not too far it's not. And they say it will connect to
some of the other cities, but they generally you need a pass
key, some sort of. The pass back I'm familiar.
Yeah. OK, so I just got to make sure,
you know, sometimes newcomers don't really understand all the
tech up here. We're a little different, So
what would be a valid trade for this?
Well, in general we know mish folk.
We pay in. These and he pulls out a vial I
actually did put had to come up with a picture of it for myself
too because I had I was like chatting with AI trying to
figure out what the heck I was even coming up with It's a good
sounding board sometimes and it's going to be under handouts
Allopolis and he says they're called vapor chips and he's
holding one up and if you see it it's under your journal there
and it looks like a small tube with a cap on either end with
gas that seems to be held with inside of it and he's holding
one and he says this these blue chips.
I think you guys use gold down there still.
They're about 1 gold piece. And then he rummages around back
behind the kiosk and pulls out another one.
Easy. Won't see as much, but.
Or at least changing hands all that much.
These are the gold ones. They exchanged for 50 gold
pieces. Those are the main 2 that we
use. So to clarify, the blue was one
and the gold was 50. Yes, yes.
And how much for one of these devices and I gesture to the
tablet? That'll run you about two gold
or yeah, 2 gold vapor chips. Oh I will have to go to an
exchange and get some of those. How late is this kiosk open?
Like how? How long until you close for the
day? Until the sun goes down.
How? What time would I perceive it to
be? Dark no like.
What time is it now in the game? I was role-playing him, so he's
like. The the the device runs on
standard gnomish time, which is a little confusing for you guys
is it's kind of tied into a galactic standard.
I don't need to get into all this basically I guess.
He tried to He pulls up his his his little glass piece again and
he types some stuff in and he's. Right, 8:00 I guess.
In the morning. That's at at night.
I think it says Pete. Is that what Pete means?
Yes, no, sorry, but that was hats off me asking you Josh what
time I would perceive it to be. Right.
You guys would operate off of a standard 12 hour clock for the
most part. Oh, he's saying it's 8:00 PM
currently. No, no, that's when he's saying.
That's when it closes. Yeah, I'm asking what time is it
now? In in game.
Oh, oh, sorry, sorry. Yeah, yeah, sorry.
He does some more math on his little thing.
He's like, oh, it's about 6:00. OK.
I have a couple hours. I'll be back soon.
Thank you. That's good to meet you and.
I walk away, leaving him underly bewildered.
So I guess I'll I'll hand off narration as I go to wherever
the nearest exchange is. If no one else has any prime
objectives. Enchanting Shop Enchanting Shop.
KIRO leads the group over to an enchanting shop.
Oh, my mic's been up this whole fucking time.
Grand Am is while he's working with KIRO is going to be casting
telepathy and try not telepathy detects thoughts and is just
trying to get like the general vibe because he's picked up on
the he can't speak knowledge, but he has picked up on the cast
system. At least he thinks he has.
And he's like, oh, this is these kinds of places are always ready
to explode, OK. And he just kind of wants to get
like a vibe. Oh, I'm sorry to interject
before we split up. I'm assuming that the group like
decides on a meeting point. I didn't think anybody was
splitting up. You guys were just kind of
following the next. OK, great.
OK. Sorry, continue.
And yes, to to to your casting of detect thoughts Grand Am, you
can tell there is generally set up a in in the thoughts this
caste system that you're talking talking about in your mind,
you've got kind of laid upon a top of it on top of their
structure. But it does seem that they they
are all excited for what's going to be happening, which is the
signing of Liberatri into their into their midst, so to say, and
worshipping the the tree as they have something called a gift
society. You're you're catching widths of
which means that at every end of year they all gather back up and
exchange hats depending upon the this the.
I don't know how best to explain a gift society actually I looked
it up a long time ago, but basically it's like they don't,
they don't operate on an entirely wealth based
aspirations as opposed to that. They operate simply on whoever
has the most most by that point of time.
They redistribute it every year and by the by doing that,
everybody has a chance to change hats at that time too.
So how do you move up and how do you move down?
What triggers each? Why are there?
Why are the tattoos like divided by the hats?
Are they so they pee long like? Yeah, it's a mobile society.
Magic. Permanent alterations.
Oh, OK, OK, you got it. Fun.
So explain. Yeah, explain to me the triggers
of what makes someone move up or down in the system.
You're, you're not able to glean that, I would guess probably
from just the detecting thoughts that you're picking up on.
You're able to glean that Jake Grand am because people are are
thinking about it and are excited for it, like I said.
But generally speaking, when when they do that, you're when
they're doing the redistribution, they you're
getting images of them all gathering on the top flat form
in the gardens. And there is a automated system
that collects all of the data from the whole year of what
everyone has accomplished and done.
And at that point, they redistribute it all.
Is this a meritocracy? I've never heard that word.
I feel like I have, but I don't know.
I don't know the definition. Democracy would be like you are
like people that are competent get positions of influence, no?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Had nothing to do with that.
It's it's closer, closer to yeah, if if you're curious about
it, it's actually a group of Native Americans would do this
in the in the West, and it was called a gift society.
They would all gather for a very large gathering at the end of
each year, bring all of their resources, throw a giant ass
party and people that were less off, they would redistribute it
all, you know, so that everybody would be on a more equal footing
standing each beginning of the year.
I. See.
That sounds ideal. That sounds awesome.
So are the givers given the green hats and the receivers
given the red? Like how does?
So the it's a little bit more intricate than that and it's
definitely not gleaned from how how they're thinking about it
right now. Josh, I want the world building
now. So Rick, you walk through a door
into the the rusty hatch and you hear not a chime, but more of a
sing song. Bell almost sounds like a bird
as you walk through the door that catches your attention, but
then you're greeted by. Welcome customers.
Greetings. Welcome.
You do speak gnomish. I was kind of, I was kind of
worried there when I seen you, big fella.
I travel a lot. It's good to hear that means you
might have some good things with.
Changing, I'm assuming you haven't gotten any vapor.
Chips yet? I'm guessing not.
I just arrived but I had a need and I want to see you had what I
was looking for. I can.
Certainly do my best, we are quite well acquainted.
Here at the Rusty the Rust. What did I just say?
Rusty hatch? Thank you.
Although I'm sure you've heard the phrase the squeaky wheel
gets the grease. The Rusty hatch will find your
niche. That's good to know.
I was wondering if you had a way of or had a object that could
keep someone hidden by blocking out the ability of someone
finding them. Kind of like erasing them, but
not in the literal sense of erasing them.
Make them not searchable. So if say a wizard attempted to
scry and find you or they try to get inside your head.
Those are two separate things the the finding you.
I can certainly recommend any one of these rings in this case
here they they will elude most common means non befic.
Mind you, as we do follow some form of he looks up at you
hierarchy. You know, there's got to be some
accountability to us all, and who better?
By all means the the gods are good at doing their job.
Yes, this is for more unsavory fellows.
Well, he just is under his wrath of good.
I hope not. Have to recommend Ratchet for
his under arms dealings but. This is a.
Completely above board topic we can we can discuss.
As I said, these rings here are likely going to be able to
achieve what you'd like. But again, I will revisit the
topic of vapor chips. These are going to sit around.
What is a? Basically I'm I'm trying to buy
a ring that keeps you from being scried and a ring that's going
to keep you from being your mind ring of mind shielding.
Those are the two things I'm looking for.
Like I did not look those up beforehand so I needed to check
real quick what those are before I told you something ridiculous
price wise. Are you good?
As rural tells us, we we have cash flow coming in, so Hero is
going to use that money for good intention.
It's OK, It's only OK. They're both only uncommon OK,
which would put me in the OK. They're going to be around 4
gold vapor chips or 2. 100 gold starting.
That's going to get you the most basic forms.
I see. Well, can you hold two of those
for me? One to keep them from being
found and one for protecting the mind.
I can certainly do that I. Still would.
And then can you direct me to a place where I can get these
vapor chips? Ah yes, well those are going to
be most found at our jewellers shops and there is an exchange
at the port. But I would I would shy away
from them. They most certainly are going to
RIP you off. I will keep that in mind.
Do you have someone you recommend?
Yes. My my good friend Sprocket just
around the corner here. He's outfitted most of the gems
himself in these rings. Well then I will patron his shop
and Carol turned to the Admiral and tell them that he is going
to be going to that shop just right of the way and he'll be
right back. Presumably Emma way is following
you for the same. Purpose.
I hope so. I.
Assume we're all following you. Yeah, I.
Would want to turn. Together you anywhere by your.
Side yeah, I didn't know if y'all want y'all wanted to like,
you know, look at the the the cool little tinkery shop or not.
I'm going to follow you and I'm going to sort of like poke you
on the shoulder or whatever the whole time be like, but after
this we're getting food. I will find the best Mama Sue's
adjacent shop that we can. That sounds good, I like that.
Speaking of that thought, I turned back to the shopkeeper.
Begging your pardon, but where would you say is your best
noodle shop or fine dining shop? And he squints it noodles and
raises an eyebrow at at dining and he just goes much in the way
of fine dining. But I can highly recommend the
Celestial Brew just down the corners.
There they are, boy, a whiz bang Fung.
I. See.
It's a grin. We've been recommended the same
shop by two locals. We have to check it out.
I think we shall do that as soon as we get our funds exchanged
and. Sounds like a plan.
Items bought and then we will take the Admiral to the
Celestial Brew to have a good meal.
So we go over to the jewelry shop.
Yep, sounds like I'm just going to roll something real quick
here too. I don't remember exactly how the
detect thoughts works. Grand am for detection, like if
if other people can tell that you're in their mind or not.
It's not supposed to be surface level and I think that like
there is a Wisdom saving throw against my DC, but if they can
like actually detect it or not, that's up to you man.
Hey. In the in the crowd.
It's interesting. In the crowd, I would say not,
but if you were, if you were wandering in there and casting
the same on the shopkeeper, that's where I was thinking
maybe it would probably come to something.
But they rolled A6 so I have no idea what you were.
It's higher than 6. I figured so.
Anyways, he doesn't even bat an eyelash.
Then when you glean from him, he's talking about the celestial
brew and you just get these fond memories of these magical drinks
that that they serve. Very good, very good Grand Am is
going to enjoy this. And you make it through the door
of the shopkeeper for the Jewelers and they're they're as
you do so the the whole as everyone finally walks into the
door shuts and and instead of a chime or anything, there is a
red light and then a a soft overtone image that appears.
Hold on. And it you feel the floor shift
under your feet as everything in this town that you know and has
have witnessed. You must have just stepped into
a shop that has shifted from one location to another inside of
the the beast of this city. And then the image flashes away
and the shopkeeper stands up in the back.
So. I'm going to need deck saves
from everyone. Did you do?
I'm on my laptop so my account is linked.
I don't know if you'll be able to see it.
Let's see here. Do we have a token select?
No, OK. 19.
Ice. Hero, I am waiting for D&D and
beyond to load up it's it's being quite issued with me right
now. Yeah, it made me like put in my
birthday and shit. For same reason, it was weird.
It was kind of, I mean, it's whatever.
I'm just like, OK. Hey, Rick.
Yeah, buddy. One in 100.
One in 100 do I? I'm going to go Callaway style
90, OK? Cool. 95 Cool.
Very good. We're not rolling for a
Callaway, just I just needed to get the Grand Am vibe for the
day, that's all. Thank you.
Hero. Yep, all right, there it goes.
Now we're loading it up. Please be nice to me.
Please be nice. Oh, snap 20 ones you're all able
to hold your feet. You're you all had to buckle
your knees though and kind of put your hands out to the side.
So that's how the cop shopkeeper sees you all standing there like
you're on a surfboard, even though there's no surfboard.
And he, he just kind of mimics you and he goes.
Is this how you say? Hello and where you come from?
No new to town? I can see that.
Can I help you with something? Yes, you were highly recommended
for exchanging currencies. Oh, I can do that, certainly.
What? Kind of shinies have you bought
me? I forget how.
Olivia, how does our money bag work exactly here?
I've never used it so. Yeah, neither have I.
You just put your hand in there and there's money.
Oh OK, I pull out. I pull out the amount that the
other keep shopkeeper asked for and I need this converted into
your currency. There are there is indeed 200
gold as you're counting it out for what you need.
Is there I don't even know if I've ever recorded grand am
having money. I don't know if he's ever made
money in the existence here. As your neck apparently has 65.
The rum rollers have have money. Grand Am is going to extend an
acorn out to the man. He doesn't speak gnomesh, but he
is going to use telepathy to convey to this man with the full
and also use druid craft to put like an aura around the acorn to
convey to this man the full experience that he had being
connected telepathically to Liberatri and that this was in
fact an acorn of Liberatri. Is that a lie?
Is it actually an acorn of Liberatri?
It is a lie, OK? Wow, I will.
I will need. That's not nice.
I will. Need the.
Deception. Akiro is not engaging in any
kind of deception. Bro the answer has no idea
what's going on. Also, because I have the like
telepathic like feet, I can do it without a verbal component,
so there's no sign that I'm casting a spell here.
I'm just reaching into his mind and conveying the the wildness.
That said, my deception is a -, 1, so let's see how this goes.
Can't be worse than mine. 17 baby.
Yeah, I get rolled A2 so. He wants to believe.
He, he, he, he. He really does.
And you hear, you see his eyes get the size of saucers.
You're surprised his eyes can open that far.
And he just reverently holds the seed and he goes.
This is I, I can't give you cheats for this, at least I
don't have enough that I could pay you for this.
Considered a gift from my friend here and only exchange for what
we need. For the record, I did cast
Awaken on his acorn. The acorn?
How long does that take? How long does it last?
Forever, forever and it takes like an hour, but OK.
Grand am has a habit of users spending his downtime casting
Awaken on things. I just.
I'll guess I meant more so. So yeah, I I believe that 100%
that he's doing that. I'm more asking I guess, how
long does it? It takes it takes an hour for it
to start doing anything. Oh.
No, like no, no, no, no, no for it to start behaving like.
Alive. Now, like as soon as the spell
is done. And oh damn, and which ways are
you in doing it? Because I think there's a few
different ways you can awaken things, I thought.
I don't believe so. It.
Has to be a plant or an animal with an intelligence lower than
like 5. OK.
And it brings his intelligence up to 10.
He's holding it and he seems to be like in a conversation with
it. I was just trying to think of
how it would manifest, you know, because my brain went in several
different directions and very first thought was it's got a
little mouth and little tiny arms and little tiny legs.
And it's like, no. It'll it'll do that when he
plants it and it grows into a tree.
OK, so it's he's just, he seems to be engrossed in in in another
conversation as he's like saying things out loud that doesn't
make sense and. For now, can.
The top of the stem of the. Can the stem of the acorn like
wiggle in response to speech? It seems to, yes.
Like how it emotes by wiggling its stem.
Yep, yes, thank you. What's?
Happening. Take care boy, I'm saying
dwarfish as I leave. Wait, I can't, I can't possibly
take this for nothing, but I like I said, I I could not
compensate you enough for it. Just consider it a gift, I
promise. No, a gift.
I I walked up and just places a hand on his heart.
I have to. I have to.
At least I'll. Hold out a hand, I'll take off
his little like nasty hat and hold it out for some for him to
put something. In and then he he's he he goes
around the back of the counter and grabs like 2 handfuls of the
gold chips and tosses them in your hat.
Please this is. Not all I have I, I, I couldn't
go bankrupt. I would, it would wouldn't be.
Granddam just bows in thanks as he like, begins to put the hat
back on, full of money, and he'll turn and leave.
Granddam can't understand him at all.
KIRO nicely grabs Grand Am's shoulder.
Master Keldor, may I see your hat again?
Yeah, I feel like we should give some of these back.
Yeah, exactly what? We just.
We're we're squeezed this guy out of house.
A little bit more of this. Yeah, we're going to give a
little bit of this back, Master Gillivore.
I He'd gotten about a lot of hands back.
To have the hat. BMD, yeah.
And then and then and then and then each other for sure, yeah.
Just so that you're aware that's 26 of these cheats is fit the
the gold what kinds that you he'd given you or or about 1300
gold worth. Yeah.
I guess what is it my athletics versus or how we doing this?
This is what I would think light of hand versus perception.
Sure. Yeah, yeah, that makes.
OK. So my my perception versus his.
9. All right, God, please say this
is not one of my shitty skills. Please say God this is not one
of my shitty skills. God help I rolled an 8, this is
not one of my skills. And then Kira will use his best
diplomacy to ask Grand AM to give some of that back with a
19. You don't even have to roll,
Grand am will just like tuck his head and walk over.
Pull a couple chips out of his beard instead of getting on the.
Counter Apple I. Feel like we need to give
approximately 25 back. Also you as a.
Reminder I gave him hope. You you did not pick up the
chips that you needed. Yeah, because I I'm not, I'm not
taking any of these theft shits. No, no, no.
I'm just. I'm just I.
This isn't theft. It's.
I'm. Just reminding I'm just it.
Is what it is there's. No coercion here.
No scam shits for me. Oh yeah so wait is this an
exchange or is he just bartering and he's a rent?
Like I thought this was a just a shop.
He he gave him, AI gave him. A He's a jeweler.
He he will take pretty shinies in exchange for chips I gave.
Him February. I don't know if I have anything
jewelry wise I can barter. It it that includes gold and
silver, because to them it is. Here.
Yeah, I'll, I'll look at Nimaway and go.
I think Master Kellador has secured us enough funds, don't
you? I morally do not feel OK
accepting this. Oh, KIRO understands and that's
why he's leaving the 200 gold on the and just going and that is a
tip for your help. An additional 200?
You mean including the 1st 200 you gave him?
Yeah, yeah, OK. He.
I am. Nothing he says as he leaves.
He did leave a good aid of the chit that he took on.
The OK. OK, so how many jets worth have
we returned the 8 jets, the 200 gold, which is another 4 jets,
and then the other 200 gold, which is so we've returned 16
jets worth of gold. I they're, they're worth 50 and
that math was fast for me so. We we gave him 400 gold 4. 100.
Which equates to 8 chits. Yep.
And we gave him 8 chits back, yes as well.
So we returned a total of 16 chits, yes.
So it means we kept 10 chits. Faster you say chit it kind of
just start sounding like. Shit to me.
So we kept 10 chits. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's well, 'cause Grand Am had the 26 minus the 8:00 and then
plus the however many that right Grand Am has 18.
That's where I was getting lost. In got it.
OK. And then so KIRO has the four
chips, right? Yeah.
That's how math works from the 200 originally.
Yeah, and you need, you need two of the two of the same gold
shits, Sebastian said. Gold shits.
Sorry, I'm laughing. At I need 2, I need 2 blue
chips. No the the the blue was 1 gold
piece. Yeah, he said.
It was 2 gold. Oh, sorry, I'm sorry.
Thanks for reminding me, I'm getting all confused.
So I I strike up a casual conversation with a shopkeeper,
wondering just at all that he has so much lying around, and I
kind of casually ask, how much does he make in profit per year?
This seems like a very lucrative business here.
Well, the shop changes hands every year.
For the most part I've been getting on in my dotage before I
go up into the gardens and pass my time there, so I was given
this as a reward for my many years of service.
But I guess she's curious though how much profit the the shop a
shop like this could expect to turn in a year.
I it's hard to say I I have only been here for about 6 months
myself. Oh, then how much?
How much in six months have you seen?
It's we really don't talk in terms of profit here as most of
the earnings go straight back into the society.
So I guess in terms of increased wealth, he goes over to a
Ledger. And he raises one of his bushier
eyebrows so they could actually read a little bit better.
And he goes. I think it was something like in
your terms, I guess maybe in the six months carry the one, I
don't know like 5000 gold. You seem to do be doing very
well for yourself. Well, it's not for myself, like
I said, Well, one here. For your, for your society, you
are doing your part. I hope so.
My grandkids have been seeming to enjoy the change and they're
really looking forward to having a a God again.
And I hope that the Gods bless you in all your endeavors, isn't
it? My apologies.
Do not use the word bless. No confirm consume type is the
word you're looking for. Health, Prosperity.
Then may the gods consume type you.
Before we go, do you have smaller denominations of
currency? Could you perhaps exchange and
she she offers up five actually, let's make it 4 gold asking for
four blue jets. Yes, I can.
I can do that no problem. And he?
Goes over to another drawer and actually it's more of like a
crate that he pulls the lid off of and pulls a couple out and
sets them on the counter for you.
So what language are they like? Are they speaking common now, or
is everybody still speaking gnomish?
It's gnomish, but Mimi, Admiral Mimi had booped everyone on the
nose so that everybody can understand.
I see. OK.
We're welcome. Thank you.
Yeah, no more. I can't take any of the the scam
jets and she only has 34 gold 30 now so she PO she's not used to
it. So does everyone have what they
need? Yeah.
I. Just, oh, I guess, I guess me
and I should probably, I want food, should probably give over
some of my gold. I'm going to ask to exchange.
I don't know how much I'm going to ask the guy behind the
counter. How much does a meal usually
cost? Oh well, well, these parts of
meal is usually on the House. It's the bruise you got to pay
for and they're usually a blue chit a.
Blue chit a brew. Oh yes, they're very potent
brews. Maybe it's going to hand over 10
gold and ask for some chits. OK.
And he starts pulling them out of the crate and setting them on
the counter for the the 10 gold 10 blue chips.
KIRO will lean down to the Admiral.
Admiral, I'm going to hope that the drinking will be after any
negotiational talks that we have to perform.
Or shall we? Much like on the Kobuk Sun,
invite them to drink. Mimi's just going to shoot over
some finger guns and then walk away.
Understood, Admiral. Grand Am is already moving
towards the booth. Free food.
Nope. Wait, what was this about free
food? You probably briefly hurry back
into the bird chime, rusty latch or rusty hatch and grab the
chest piece or the the rings that you're wanting, I'm
guessing. Yes, and as soon as I do, I
immediately walk over to Mohawk. He's not there, he's on it.
Today he's on it Today. While you do that, I'm going to
pick up my tablet and be back at the the Tavern.
Yeah. You guys walk out of the front
door and before you split you see that it's literally just
around the corner. You can see the glowing blue
sign that's denouncing or announcing the celestial brew.
Lovely KIRO will excuse himself and tell everybody that he'll
join up at the Celestial Brew, but he wants to handle one
crisis at a time, so he's going to take flight and fly back over
to Adune. You can handle the Mohawk.
You can reach out to Adune via mental link still.
Oh. I guess.
I guess I'll. Wait, I do have to?
Think. About the ring of mind shielding
aspect there. Great to read your thoughts.
OK, so you can still communicate telepathically?
Yes, because you've already kind of set up the handshake, so to
say, between yourself and Aduna's mind.
Yeah, on my on my way over, I'll let Aduna know that I'm coming
to hand stuff off, hand something off to Mohawk and to
have them meet me on the deck. Aye aye aye fast mate.
And you you hear Denise assent to it.
Thank you Adune and. Before he takes flight, he'll
just nod to the Admiral. Get me whatever looks good.
I'll join you shortly. Ms. Salutes.
And he salutes as his wings take him off the ground.
All right, which way are we going?
Are we going to the Celestial Tavern?
Are we? Are you following Hero to the
tip? Well, I'll go to the tattoo.
I feel like I'm delivering those as a one man job.
Oh, yeah, yeah. But so, yes.
But that was a question for Josh.
How's the screen? So I figured for the most part
you guys would head to the Celestial Brew and we can check
back in KIRO here in a minute. Yep.
OK, and have I procured my tablet?
Yes, I was going to say I guess I thought it but didn't say it,
but you you go back over there no problem.
Same with like I'd I think I mentioned to KIRO and they
recognize you get your requested items ready and make the
exchange fantastic. And on the way back I am what?
I was just saying make sure to update your chip ratio.
Yes, and on the way back I am researching how the hat colors
are exchanged. Oh, on the device I was.
Going to get there one way or the other.
Yeah, I figured as much. You know, just from the Star
Talker Federation, who seems to be the they're not not a
governing body. They're more of a a group of
Wise Ones, old withered gnomes that hang out more or less on
the top of the airship 86 and commune with the gods and work
kind of as intermediaries for them and in.
Any gods in particular? This one not not currently.
There are several several other ones that work with various
gods. There are seems to be almost an
airship for every God that you can imagine.
So it is always an exciting time for the Gnome race when a new
God is born, as they can create a new city.
Oh, cool. OK.
And. Grow and the.
Wait, do they have to kill their cities if a God dies?
We've been killing gnomes accidentally.
The the city. I'll research that next.
The the cities, The cities do die.
If a God dies and it's you can tell linked to their power
source that runs the city. Usually there's a strange of.
It just falls. Out of the sky.
Of energy between the them and and and and for that reason
their their upper regions always flourish though too, because
that is one of their connections to the God.
Usually they plant the gods tree in their upper region and they
are able to commune with it and the God or goddess as maybe.
And if the if the if the if the God dies, their tree dies and
henceforth they're Hindenburg's. Yeah.
Guys been causing Hindenburg's our plans, they're so evil.
Oh. The evil campaign has been doing
this, not not the good guys. And.
Officially killed any gods yet? True enough.
Isn't that our goal? We haven't done it yet though.
I guess good thing we're not trying to become gods ourselves.
At least I'm not. And as as a whole, the, the city
sort of acts as a not, not just like an extension of that God,
but also kind of like a computing power for them.
The the you you learn that the your city is a machine to its
truest nature and does a a a lot of calculations and arithmetic
to assure their continued existence basically.
To ensure whose continued existence.
The God and the the Gnome City. Oh, so like like a predicted,
like a predictive model of the future to see what they need to
do to ensure certain realities come to happen.
Yep. Oh OK, I'm going to have a bunch
of follow up research questions but I will space these out.
And and you learned the the hats are more of symbolic and simply
as you you weren't gleaning, but grand am was gleaning before a a
showing of you know who who's doing what task currently.
And those get exchanged every year.
Usually you cannot be put up for the same task every year unless
you vehemently wanted, but this is not true for any position of
power or wealth. What do you mean wealth if
wealth is redistributed? By like that shopkeeper, like
you could not be the that shot. The so well positions are not
repeatable consecutively. Got it right.
OK, but it still hasn't answered my question of what do you need
to do to change colors of your hat?
Just make it through another year.
But then how do they decide who stays red, who stays green, or
who changes from red to green or green to red?
It varies every year. So like I said, if you can't
repeat a position, that's the first note and then the second
it it's, it's got a rhythm to it.
So generally it seems like for the most part, the younger
generations hold up the lower portions.
However, that is not always the case.
If they, if they the, the, there isn't really a person or idea
that individual that chooses so to say.
It's a collective and all of those that have gone through it
the system before, you know the the old wizard folk, the wise
ones at the top, they will make suggestions of who can do what,
but they will not make that be the final call.
It will be generally determined as a whole.
So it's purely A subjective assessment of character and
ability. And they get to choose at the
end of it too. You know, they get their say the
individual and. OK, so basically I was trying to
figure out like, say someone's a Red Hat and they want to be a
green hat because they want an easier life.
How do they aspire to do that? And basically it's they be
someone that's worthy of respected promotion and they
will get a promotion. Yes.
But then if someone goes from green to red, that seems like a
punishment. And what if someone doesn't feel
like they're deserving of that punishment?
Does it create discord? Some, some of those menial jobs,
a larger portion of them actually are performed.
You're seeing by a lot of automatons that are moving
around as well. They seem very adept at making
these and creating them and it's one of their specialities and
hence why their city itself is built on some something of that
nature that keeps them afloat and provides these calculations
for the gods as well. That in general it's not seen.
It's actually seen the opposite. Those that are able to provide
and put in that sort of work are praised for their ingenuity
because it is those that that actually put in the time and
effort to to do those what you might think of as menial or hard
label tasks. If they're able to do it and
they they want to do it, then they're most likely to come up
with new ways of doing things and innovate on their machinery.
And so they are highly praised. OK.
So that's more of like inventor positions, not like chimney
sweep. No, they've got machines.
OK, OK, got it. So it's it's less of a
punishment and more of just like a like an engineering job versus
a theatre job or something. It's like entertainment, public
facing jobs would be more green hats and service jobs.
And OK, I see. I see.
And, and in general, they, they, they're think of a, an engineer
that actually goes out into the field and helps maintain the
thing that they install that they suggest to be installed.
Got it. I'm learning so much about
gnomes, guys. You it's.
Very interesting culture. You guys all then walk into the
Celestial Brew, the door, double doors of which are much wider,
but you all, except for probably Mimi and Azure Neck have to duck
to get in. The ceilings on the inside are a
little bit taller at least, but you're all other than those two
having to be very careful careful walking around inside
because it is packed with people sitting around their
concoctions, some of which are not drunk in the traditional
way. You're watching an astonishment
as the patron mixing at the front finish finishes shaking
and instead of pouring downward, releases upward and then takes
another cup as the liquid floats up into it, captures it, holds
it, holds it down with the cup and then slice it across the
table to the person that he was preparing the drink for.
So there is a liquid that is going in the opposite direction.
Very dark liquid. I'll mind mind you and but.
Wouldn't mean opposite direction.
This is the liquid in the cup upside down.
Yeah, yeah. OK.
And it's a dark liquid. Yep.
So like the cup is upside down on the table so that the bottom
is facing up and the liquid is trying to go up and the smells
are that of deep earthy smells somehow.
Although there are a lot of spices being thrown about too,
in the air you see some dishes on the table, a golf ball sized
mushroom. You can only guess that they
that a patron is slicing into like a steak and there on the
side it looks like there is spiral shaped, glowing,
bioluminescent bioluminescent kind of fries you would might or
potato strings. I'm always going to watch.
Sorry, still not being able to communicate in gnomish Grand AM
is going to walk up to the bar, place five of his little gold
chips that he totally got through ethical means and
project into the mind with the bar.
Keep 2 words. Educate me.
Fizz. Fizz is who is standing behind
there, the one friend I believe Mime specifically interacted
with. He looks down at you and then
looks kind of over your shoulder.
Oh yeah, you wouldn't be having to duck either.
I guess I should have said that earlier too, but looks over your
shoulder, sees Admiral Mimi in their hat and waves and points
down to the person in front of them.
I'm assuming he's with you. Yes, yes, and I I don't think he
knows the value of what he places in front of you.
Well, I can. I do.
I can most certainly make a use of these.
I, I, I I just drew that he can borrow my tablet and look up
anything he wants to know. No, he just he wants to be
educated in drink and food. Oh, he won't be out of
everything. I see.
I I can make that happen. Maybe not one of everything, but
I can definitely give you our top sellers.
He nods. And you said you put down 4
chats. 5. 5 S 250 gold worth of food and.
Drink. Oh shoot, those are gold.
I thought those were the blue ones.
Not the gold. That's why I'm like.
I'm not sure he knows the value, but apparently so.
One of everything. I can do that.
I think I would. Still need some time to make.
Sure that to place the order, but I can I can do that.
He he he was kind of like more baffled and down at first, but
you can see he's picking up pace and he starts counting heads and
he's like I, I think I can make this work.
I'm still. Going to have to.
Give you some change and he's like doing some quick math and
then he starts turning around to behind the bar and starts mixing
up a slew of drinks. But I think while you wait and
then he turns while he while some of the drinks are mixing
themselves, that after he starts them in the air and then he
turns and starts swiping around on a glass screen that's an
embedded in the counter. I'm putting in your orders now.
I can get you your drinks though here in just a second.
And then you'll be astonished, I hope.
And the first drinks start coming off the line of that he'd
started creating. First one is that one that you
noticed when you came in, which is a dark viscous liquid that is
floating upwards in a glass now this one you're going to have to
be a little careful. I know you're probably not from
around here, so if you just take any, just.
Is he lifting drink? It points to the customer that
had ordered it just before you and watch Sprig here.
He'll demonstrate. And the customer looks up from
his glass and he's like, he's like, oh, oh, OK.
And then he tilts it sideways, and as it's continuing to float
up in the air, he makes a kissy face and sucks it all up in a
see. I was envisioning Grand Am
picking it up and then like wrapping his lips around the
entirety of the glass and then turning his head right side up,
turning the glass right side up. I'm assuming that's what Grand
am doing. That is what he's doing, yes.
No tutorial required. He's just.
Constitution safe to see if it comes out your nose.
Con boom, not 20. Nice.
You're able to take it down in one shook without it coming out
your nose, but you do feel a heady giggle start to come over
you as the other patron who would done his has a huge smile
on his face who seems to be accustomed to it, but yours
feels almost as if like laughter is coming up from your chest and
you can't stop it. Not at all armed by this.
And. Wait, what did you say happened?
Sorry, I was typing the effects of the spell.
Or the the jerk. He he just couldn't.
He couldn't. He couldn't hold down a laugh.
He he, but it makes him giddy. OK, so he did not start
floating. No, you need a lot.
You need a lot more of these to start doing something like that.
Brandon's eyes get big. So you're telling me it's
possible? Yes, but it's it's going to more
than likely 'cause you first to vomit before that happens.
But it's their own constitution, I guess.
His eyes get even bigger at the prospect of anti gravity vomit.
Is does this seem to be an alchemy bar?
Yes, they they the next drink he prepares for everyone on the
table. If everyone's taking that drink,
I would still ask for constitution.
Yeah, Nimoway is holding out for fizzy lifting drink.
I'm just curious about it. Azernak is he would try one.
And tell. Me at a 9 constitution.
And and tell me. Oh, that's not good.
If you're trying to mimic the Patreon, or if you're coming
with your own way to drink it, I guess let me know.
Well Azure neck doesn't really have lips so he just kind of
like stuffs the snout in it. Like he holds it upside down and
then just like trying. To he holds it up over his head
and then he like lowers it onto like his face and just kind of
stuffs his face in it as far as he can and then tilts it all
downwards that it floats up into his open mouth.
Like grand am falling grand Am's.
Gotcha. Well, no, like like if his face
is small enough to fit in the glass, like I want him to like
stick his nose in it like a dog, like sticking its nose in a
glass or something. Just, you know.
Maybe he like, sucks. In a little bit so the suction
like gets it stuck to his face. With A7, I would definitely say
that you're you're you're able to get your nose in the glass
for sure and you're licking away at it, but as you tilt it
upward, it all kind of rushes up maybe a little too fast and it
goes in your nose because of them being at the end of your
snout and makes your eyes eyes water.
But you you still can't stop a smile from creeping across your
face as it's as as whatever residual is making it down your
gullet. And the.
Rest is going to look at the bartender and be like does does
anyone ever snort this stuff? It's done on occasion, it's not.
The. Most pleasant as you can see by
your friend there. Her eyes are a little watery.
I think it's a her, I'm not a. Her.
No, he didn't account for the fact that like, it would also
just perfectly go up his nose, like the way he's done it.
So is it this is mommy or mime trying to snort it?
No. So Mime is going to take it off
the thing and like lean over and so lean over the glass and then
tip it to the side so that the mouth of the glass is right
underneath Mimi's mouth. And so they're like, Mimi's
going to be like hovering over it with the hopes of like,
releasing the liquid from the cup and just like, catching it.
So like you mean when you say your mouth over the glass and
the glass over the edge of the the counter, you're talking
about the top of the bottom of the glass?
So the whole glass, so we're going to keep the glass inverted
so all the the floating liquid is captured and I'm going to
take it off the counter and I'm going to like put it at West
waist height. And I'm going to like, lean over
it so that my mouth is like above where the glass is And
just slowly tip the glass upside down so that I see all the like
all the liquid floating up at me and I can like try to catch it
with my mouth. OK, OK, so as you as you do I we
need a slight of mouth a. Slight of hand.
Sure, that'll work. While this is happening, I asked
the barkeep if they have any wax paper. 18 You're able to get a
large majority of it. There's a couple bubbles that
kind of propagate as you close your mouth around it and aren't
able to fit it all in your mouth all at once completely.
And it bounces off the sides of your cheeks and then bounces out
in a way floating almost aimlessly up towards the
ceiling, these little penny pockets of bubbles.
And you guys look up at the ceiling and see that you guys
aren't the first one to be doing this in the sense that it's
happened before. So yeah, sometimes they get away
from me. You're going to apologize to the
barkeep for the mess but regret nothing?
No worries. I did a little doodle.
Barkeep, do you have any wax paper?
Paper we have. It's like paper.
Covered in a thin layer of wax. Wax.
It's good. For baking.
Wax is a little bit harder to come by.
It's a lot. It's not something we usually
put on our paper. I can I ask what it is for?
See, I'm imagining a device. I'm not sure if it exists in
your world. You cut a strip of the wax
paper. You roll it into a tight spiral
and you stretched out so it kaleidoscopes or telescopes into
a long thin tube and then you take the end and you bend the
end so it isn't in the shape of a shepherd's crook.
You take the end of this hollow tube, you stick it in the bottom
of your upside down glass, and then you can suck the liquid out
the other end while keeping the glass upside down.
I would call this a straw straw. Interesting I.
Could save you because. They were killing the giant sea
turtles. What?
Oh. Well, see, these are made out of
paper. They're they're biodegradable.
I don't know if I have. And he's looking around under
the the bar top and then he pulls out a, a a small metal
tube and he's like, would this work?
And then he kind of starts to try and bend the end like you're
talking about. I guess you got to be really
careful on how you do this though, when he's like rolling
it around on the edge. Yeah, exactly.
But here. Here you go.
Is that we have a straw and I'll offer it to whoever next in the
party is going to drink the the floaty drink.
I think that'd be you. Oh OK, then Nimue will very
gracefully partake. You how, how are you doing it in
in the prospects of the the glass that it's already in then
I guess. OK, so the glass is sitting
upside down on the table, correct?
Yes. OK, so I'm just going to pick up
the glass. And so the liquid comes with it.
It stays upside down. I take one end of the straw, put
it in my mouth, put the hook of the straw in the glass up until
like the very top of the glass, and then I'm just going to use
it like a normal straw. So you're going because it's.
What about like a rubber? These guys probably have lots of
rubber. Just make a hollow rubber tube
and then you can like just bend it in there.
When you. Were asking when you were asking
him to bend it. Then I guess you would have kept
correcting him until it made like AU shape because that was a
yeah, a shepherd. The shepherd's crook that you'd
said which like. Oh, that kind of.
Shepherd's crook, I got you now like.
Like a Bo Peep, Little Bo Peep. Yeah.
Yep, Yep, Yep. Yeah, like a candy.
Yeah, like a candy cake. They wouldn't know.
Yeah. But it would be really funny if
it just had like a kink in it. Then you could turn that into
like one of those hamster bottles or you'd just have to
hold the glasses over your head. But.
That that's what I yeah, I see. I see what you're saying now.
I was kind of imagining more what Olivia said actually at
first, because then it would just be like the the the 90°
almost turn and then you would be holding it up above your head
to try and drink from. It no.
This is so you can drink with it in the normal glass position.
OK I got you now. He was able to do it without any
any kinks. He got a 17 on his crafting and
he's they're pretty crafty folk in the 1st place.
I have to remember that. It's more entertaining though,
to watch. People try it the other way.
I'll just keep that very true for the next time Gramps is
around, seems to have trouble with it sometimes.
Very accessible and perhaps those who are already too
intoxicated, too intoxicated and cannot be trusted to be
respectful of your establishment can be offered some aid.
Yeah, I dig it. Ready for the next one?
I guess we'll go hit me. Odds enthusiastically.
Go over to KIRO for a second. So how what is Kira doing on
Adune as? Soon as he makes it to Adune
ship, you know, he meets up with Moac and, you know, proceeds to
explain that you know, he's noticed he's not been very well.
And you know, you know, he knows that, you know, you know other
forces are trying to get ahold of him.
You know, well, at least the body that he's residing in, and
he's wanting to, you know, keep him safe.
So to shield, you know, to shield his mind from, you know,
things getting in, he's going to even the ring for mind shielding
and to keep him where he's not be able to be found, he's going
to give him the the ring of, you know, no scry.
Hopefully this will help you sleep better my friend and
relax, rest. I sleep bloody brilliantly
recently, but these joints don't hurt nearly as much as my last
ones. But I I thank you.
Yeah, please. Going into where I'm going, I
might need this. And he slides it on a finger.
Yes. I, I would otherwise I don't
really want to hang out with those gnomes over there, so I'm
just going to, if it's OK, rest. On it is fine.
It'll be fine for you to stay here.
They're doing. They will watch over you.
Yeah, she's been keeping me up to date.
I like her. She is a remarkable ship.
Go ahead. You can say that again.
I again, this should help guard you and then once we get to your
Grove and act the spell that will, you know, keep other
things if they do find you from tampering with you.
Like this out of that. Thanks, you guys have been
pretty kind to me. I guess I can bottle down the
gruffness. Hopefully once we get back to
the Grove of there's probably some meat I've got squirreled
away I could give you. Oh.
I need I don't need any compensation for helping you.
Helping you is the right thing to do.
Odd 1 you are. But I'm not going to complain.
Thanks again. I will now take my leave and
join the rest of the Rum rollers in our exploration of the city.
And he looks to Adune. Adune, he is your charge.
I will keep him fed and rested. Thank you.
And he jumps off and flies in the air to the Celestial Tavern.
What's your passive perception? His 19.
I'm going. To roll something real quick,
and then I'm going to possibly ask for a perception check.
All right, oops, that was the wrong one.
This one, that one. So as soon as you turn your
back, you hear Mohawk more than anything sea or anything what
sounds like a pile of clothes fall to the ground and you turn
your back, turn around, back around before you take flight
and you see Milwaukee turned into a bird and flew off.
He's a druid, you recall. Yes.
Wouldn't the clothes absorb into his person?
That's. That's yeah, I've written it
both ways, as in, like I kind of let the the person who's playing
them do what they're most comfortable with.
But me as a person, if I'm a Druid, my clothes are falling
off. The main reason I'm asking is
because the rings that he was just given, did those fall off
too or did those absorb? That's magical in nature, so it
absorbs. OK.
He just had like whatever robes were around before because he
was walking around naked like he didn't give a crap.
You guys were going to go see the queen at some point.
You guys gave me fancy clothes. Got it.
Was dealing with it but. OK, so it's not like he promised
to take our warnings or heed our warnings and be cautious.
And then it was like JK dropped the rings and left.
But no, he kept them. Yes, he kept.
That OK. Well, I guess I.
I could still. I could still reach him.
He he was a brusque figure, but he didn't tell me he was just
going on reconnaissance, it sounded like, to see how the
Grove was fared. He said he'd be back within the
hour. That's good to hear, hopefully
with what safeguards I've given him so far he should be fine.
Please alert us once he's returned today.
Aye, aye. And then he continues flying to
the Celestial Tavern to inform the Admiral of said actions and
find out what's going on. And she's just dipped before you
got back. So I have to remember that for
next time. But as you're, you're walking
in, you see the rest of your compatriots being served up a
drink that looks like a So what he what, what he's concocted is
he takes, he takes a cup, he pours some liquid in it.
And then he under the counter light, some sort of quick burst
of light that catches the whole concoction on fire on the on the
inside. And then he he takes it into a
clear mixing glass or shake clear shaker.
And then he shakes the whole thing up, and it starts to glow
with its own, with its own light, not that of exactly fire,
but it, it seems to almost look like as he pours it out into a
glass, a clear kind of heart-shaped glass, that of an
ember in the center with a bunch of swirling blue lights in it.
I'll just take it easy on this one.
It's a. It can be.
A little cold on the tongue. Well, Minecraft sipping noises.
Giveaway is going to observe what it does to other people
before she tasks them. Grand Am isn't even going to
question anything. He's just going to.
You going to slow it first then? Or just you're in the same
process before as before it? This one isn't floating away,
but it is looks like It looks like there is a fire in the
center of it somehow being held in place that's burning but it's
bluish and there are a a bluish sparkling lights that swirl
around in kind of a hazy amber cute color liquid.
Bull said he's just. Going to.
Shoot it back. As you do, it's as if you drank
cold fire and your mouth and throat immediately go numb and
your belly starts to warm up with a a with a blaze that would
keep you warm in the coldest nights and all of your hair
stands on end. It's a lot, and Dan puffs up
like a angry cat, beard and all. Wow.
Well. It's a pleasure, been serving
you all and he's poured out a couple drinks.
I'm guessing he's with you though too.
And he pours another drink for KIRO as he's coming in.
This is correct. Why would you assume that?
I think I'd see him at the port with you all.
We are some of the only foreigners.
Yeah, I didn't want. To see it stands out.
Yeah, yeah, KIRO, you know, comes, comes to the door and
kind of like, you know, his wings, he kind of like furls
them around his shoulders, you know, treating it like a Cape as
walks in and seize the drink, takes a look at everybody else.
How is everybody looking sobriety wise right now?
More or less. Oh, probably looking like
they're buzzed actually, because they all have got grit shit
eating grins on their faces that they can't stop.
Azure necks eyes are probably all red from like all the drink
that went up his nose. Hero will look to fizz, Master
Fizz. I have to keep my wits myself
but I'm sure as he takes the drink and slides it over to
Grand Am, Master Kelledor will very much enjoy another drink.
Oh OK, well your food should be here shortly and it looks like
somehow we have the right number of orders.
Interesting. I don't know how that is since
Mimi popped out of existence he doesn't recall recall her being
there or then. But there is still, you know,
correct amount of orders placed. Your food will be out shortly
and please feel free to take any table you like.
Also, if you have some time, I would like to inquire your
services. It'd be my pleasure.
I'm. Sorry, I didn't catch that.
Grand Am looks up at him with a big like eyes, pupils dilated,
the different sizes. He has no idea what he just said
and he is zooted. Maybe we have this discussion on
the Morrow. I don't think any of us are able
to consent to any sort of commitments right now.
Oh, I completely understand. It would be in the best interest
of liberty, I will state. And we will certainly discuss
this tomorrow, preferably in the PM.
KIRO KIRO looks. Yes.
OK, yeah. KIRO looks looks over to
everybody. I can take the meeting.
I still have my wits about myself.
You enjoy yourselves. Drink.
I would like to be included in this this.
Is wrong. I understand y'all, I have my
wits. Yes, Master Kelledor, you sure
do. I'm good.
I'm so. Good.
I just don't know what this fellow's saying.
He's asking for our help and assistance, Master Gelador.
The answer is yes. We can do this that's.
The job. I well the on the lower levels,
there's gone one of the propellers.
There's a type of Barnacle that I use in my concoctions and I, I
would greatly appreciate if you could gather some for me.
It it is rather tiresome for some of us or actually fatal in
our cases sometimes to do so as it's so close to the propeller
as well as there are there is a particular automaton that has
gone haywire down there. And if you're down there, it
would to gather these. I'm making this brew specific
for Libertri in hopes that he he will take take our patronage and
as as well as that particular automaton needs correcting.
So are we to subdue this automaton without damaging it
too heavily? Quite the opposite.
Rather, these particular automatons are all around the
outer perimeters and they protect us.
But this one seems to have malfunctioned and only protects
that area from anyone else, including us.
And well, the easiest way to hard reset them is to destroy
them and within the next day they recapitulate and and
reform. So smash and grab sounds
delightful. OK, well that's a relief.
I was hoping we didn't have to send a party down there because
we aren't exactly made for combat.
We are, and she kind of like leans on the bar while saying
so. This tiny like wisp of a woman
in a fancy dress. But you're they're all perfect.
You're still like head and shoulders taller than him.
And then and, yeah, like having been decked out and such stuff,
now you can kind of tell that you guys know how to handle
stuff. You've made it up here, after
all. I haven't even been off air
shift. Well, take this as a a tentative
accept a as of right now, this sounds like a a splendid idea,
but let us confirm in the morning when we we are
ourselves. OK, I can set you up with a room
here if you'd like. One of my cousin's nephews has a
spare spare bunk room. No cost, of course.
Do you have perchance connected rooms instead of one large room?
That's going to be harder to come by in the city.
We all sort of. Understand or understood space
is in a premium. Do you have any curtains that
could be set up around the bunks?
For some practice that that comes standard Most most bunks
need some sort of. Just sleep on liberty.
On Liberty, on the dune. If we can make our way back, how
intoxicated are we, Josh? Grand Am thinks he can make it
back. Kira feels like he's about to be
the Uber. Pretty much because you're the
only one left that can fly I think too.
Fly and sober. Well, grand AM technically, but
there would be some added rules for that after.
See how well also we've only had two drinks.
Are we leaving already? I did have another one quite
queued up for you and I think your meals will be ready right
just after this one. Yeah, we still got to eat.
Oh. Yeah, right, right.
Something that's a good idea. And also what do those mushrooms
do? And she she gestures to the
mushroom that she saw another patron eating.
Is that a a meal or a substance? It's a meal.
It's one of the meals that are becoming out per your orders.
It's a. Lovely.
Best way to explain it is like a steak I I think I've heard some
other travellers talk about. I will definitely have me some
of that. And he starts pouring up the.
Last cocktail. Well that's wonderful.
I've just got this last one to be make it here for your order
and oh of course your change. And he returns you'd you'd slept
down 5, so he he he returns three because you'd ordered
everything on the menu. But.
In in terms of food, but he he's giving you these drinks as part
of that too, but you know for. No, no, no, no, no, no.
He wanted every drink he could caught too.
Well, these are my main main one attractions for newcomers.
I have some normal stuff if you'd like, but I figured this
is what you would interest. Would you have or tries affected
wine? I'm sorry, something about wine
you. Haven't botritis affected wine?
Botritis. Yes, yes, it's a wine where the
grapes are intentionally infected with a fungus and it
dries them out, concentrating the juice, and it's deliciously
sweet. Oh, that sounds crazy.
But right, it's wine doesn't? Hats off IRL it's my favorite.
He's tapping his chin and he goes.
What what you've described is something we have done, but we
don't call it buttritis, we call it ambrosia.
I'll definitely have me a glass, thank you.
OK. And then he he's pouring that
while he somehow simultaneously it looks almost as if he grows a
a second and third set of arms that are mechanical in nature
from his back. And he just starts mixing that
up or pouring that like I said, while mixing up the final
cocktail, which he does completely in secret under the
counter. You can see the arms that it
appeared, but then everything else, nothing else.
And he's smiling the whole time. And he.
Can I perception? That in front of you?
Sure. And can you describe that again,
because it's a wine, it's not a mixed drink because like so
Ambrosius. Sorry, yours yours, yours he
just pours into a glass he put, he took.
A. Like I'd said, a bottle out and
poured that into a glass, but I'm describing the last cocktail
at the same time. Oh.
Sorry, OK, I got it mixed up. You're all right.
He he then sits on the counter in a barrel, small like barrel
it looks like, with a handle and a lid on it in front of everyone
else. 19 was my perception check.
You can tell he's trying to keep the secret of this.
OK. So it's like a a proprietary
like he doesn't seem like he's mixing in something sketchy.
He's just like seems to be protecting his recipe.
Yep. OK, then my.
This is I can I was. Just going to say.
Now this is called the solar flare shot.
When you remove the lid from on top of your mugs there there
will be a burst of light and then when you the the the liquid
itself will glow and then so will you and your eyes for the
next hour. Yes, please.
Do our eyes glow the same color, or do they glow the color that
our eyes already are, as if they're lit by an internal
light? Or is it a color apply?
Well, we'll find out. We'll find out.
Let's go. You, you all drink the room
then. I know Grand Dam is grand.
Dam is going to try his best to make sure that he catches the
whole thing in his mouth, including the light burst.
Open his gap above the cup. As you pull the lid off to the
side then and you put your mouth over top of it and the light
shines forth. It goes.
It goes in your mouth, out your eyes, out your ears, and then
for some reason there's probably some other hole that is coming
out of. Grand AM gets treated like a
fiber optic wire. Got it.
And you hum softly from the inside with a warm sensation
like a hug from the inside. Feel like I could fight God.
You. Might have gotten a whiff of
those vapor chips then. I'd be careful with those.
Vapor chips. Excuse me, but I I just, I
figured I should warn you if you've gotten some of them.
It looks like just. Don't, don't.
Don't break them, you. You might find yourself bursting
away. Oh, I don't.
Want it what I don't want it. Wait, what you mean with just in
general or because we have consumed this drink?
Oh no, no, no. It was the vapor chips that I
was. I was explaining if you ingest
those the the vapor inside. Oh, don't do that.
Why would we do that? Why is that?
That of exploding. It's it's kind of part of our
agreement with the gods, like I, we, we could we, we use it to
power the station, but it's also a form of currency.
Here I am. I don't know if you've come
across the knowledge of this yet.
And he's scratching his head and but I would like to just warn
newcomers. I have seen them fall off the
wagon, so to say, and sometimes literally.
So that's. The kids are doing these days,
huffing chits. Yeah, not the kids so much, but
some of the upper, the old folks, it seems to get them, get
them up and going in the morning sometimes.
Fascinating. And is that what is within this
drink that the the the light? No that.
Well, there is a a. Small imbuement of such things,
more of so from the plants that go around the vents of that, but
not. Not.
Nothing akin to the actual vapors themselves.
OK, so you're, you're, you were mentioning that this has nothing
to do with the, the drink that was just served?
No, it was purely because I think I'd caught that your
friend, even though he was speaking in common, I could
understand fight and God. Oh, oh, OK.
Yes, we will be very careful with the currency.
Thank you. He just talks like that.
OK. So what colour are all of our
eyes? They glow with so when you first
ingest it, it is if the sun has glowing from outs from from from
inside of you out. But as it kind of sets hold your
I, I'm stealing your idea because I loved it.
But you were you were actual actual inner glow.
The color of your own eyes seem to proffer that glow and it
doesn't seem to just be limited to your eyes, although that is
where like a beam of it is. Your skin glows softly too.
Let's see, did I write down what she looks like in each season?
I'm going to have to find it. I wrote it down somewhere.
Don't wait for me, it might take me a bit to find it.
OK. I'm trying to remember what
colour I chose for her eyes when she's spring.
I will say too, I appreciate your helping in good nature, but
I was planning to speak to my great grandfather above for you
to get you in contact with the elders.
You see me when we were a meeting in the poet that you
wanted to delve deeper into our relationship with libertry.
Yes, that would be very helpful. Much appreciated.
I like libertry, they're chill. You can certain certainly set
that meeting up when you return from, from, from assisting me
and again, I appreciate it. I can meet help you meet
libertry. Me and them were tight helps his
chest. We have ties back to the family
tree, you could say. I've known him, I've known
Liberty since she was just a seed.
She grew up so fast, she. Really.
Did. He's actually getting choked up.
Him away genuinely Pats him on the back and comforts him with a
little tear in her eye, caught up in the moment.
Our druids could not be more different, but there's still.
Yeah, imagine like I have one of those little shadow box portrait
things of the seed and I'm holding it up and we're we're
admiring it together. You know the old timey painted
portraits. Yeah.
Yeah, it's just this generic
seed, little liberty liberty baby picture.
So you know the stereotype of like.
Oh no, go ahead. The stereotype of when people
get drunk, they are there's different types of drunks and
whatever I feel like right now, we're being the like the, the
sentimental a. 100%. Super friendly to everyone.
Just want to give everyone a hugs type drunk.
Absolutely. And then I'm also sipping my
wine. Should I be rolling some
Constitution checks here? We've all had what, 3 drinks and
I'm on my 4th. Yeah, there are conditions that
are associated with that. So yeah, you can roll the
including Azernac and especially Grand AM.
Let me see. I was looking at the meals.
Oh yeah, here we go. So I rolled an 11.
But The thing is I have a + 10. It started as a one.
What does that mean? Oh, that one.
That one mud. Yeah. 21.
What? What was that Grand Am?
21. Oh, OK.
Dwarf baby. Right down the middle. 10 Is
that what right down the middle means?
That's a 10. OK.
I was just checking. Oh, that's half of 20 we.
Have proficiency in constitution saving throws and I not wanted.
Shit, where did it go? Now?
There it is. All right, so grand am.
You're going to need to roll a couple though, OK?
As a dwarf, I get advantage on all of them.
Nice. Yeah, Yeah. 12 Do I only roll
one because I failed from the jump?
No. OK, You should roll one for each
drink that you're having. OK, Grand Am you're advantage
might. Then another 21.
I got it. Yeah, I got it.
I was just going to say your advantage might cancel out for
how fast you were drinking them. We'll say that for the last two
rolls that you have to have though 'cause you took.
Well then it took 12 and then 21.
OK. And then so the last two without
advantage 23. Damn. 17.
Nice, you're just tipsy. You have gained advantage on
charisma based saving throws currently.
It sounds like Nimaway is buzzed though.
You have disadvantage on Dexterity checks moving forward
and advantage on Strength based checks.
OK. The it's it's in the pins of one
of the last pins on it, which I guess would be the first.
It's how to get drunk and Azernek.
I'm sure he's fucked. Did you take all three drinks
too? He took the first couple.
Then you might want to roll again just to see how far down
this you got. Oh no.
And that one. It's just like a five.
He has no modifier, he's just bad.
Josh, let me know when you want my other 3 rolls.
Go for it. So the first was a net one, but
then a 20, a 21 and a 19. Yeah, then you're just tipsy.
OK, again, it's at the gain advantage on Charisma based.
You and Grand Am are charisma ING together.
Yeah, we are. And then one more for for Azure
Neck because I see the 2 or or were you not taking part in the
glowing cocktails does? It go through.
I'll have to actually be on the tab until the animation
finishes. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 13's a little better.
Yeah, that still puts you into 123, the buzzed category, right?
Yeah. Wait 1-2.
No, drunk. You're not drunk because you
failed three times, because it increases the the more you fail.
So if you succeed, then it doesn't at any one of the
rounds. Like each each time you take a
drink the DC increases. Makes sense?
Yeah, so you're, you're drunk. You have the inebriated
condition, you have disadvantage on all attack rolls and ability
checks, but believe that you have advantage.
So you just you, you feel awesome, like you, like you.
You could do. You could do whatever you want.
OK so I found my season descriptors and I know my
portrait has been me with white hair and blue eyes in a blue
dress because the portrait was made when she was in her winter
form but she's spring now so get ready for the main character
syndrome guys. She's got light pink hair and
yellow eyes. So you're glowing soft yellow
Azure neck if you're aren't you? Are you a red cobalt?
I can't recall. Oh, he's brown, question mark.
How about his eyes though? They're usually green.
So you do go with a soft green. I bet that's really pretty.
My characters are always like a nightmare for color blind people
I imagine. It's like brown and green.
I'm I'm I'm waiting for the the the art rendering of Azernac.
Yeah, I need to. I need to get around to that
I've seen. I've seen ISK, I now must see
the Azernac. Oh.
I'm trying to do a little bit more.
As you guys were reminiscing, the plates of food come out one
what looks like a literal cloud on a plate with a a slew of
tendrils throughout it that seemed to glow softly and and it
kind of looks like a lightning cloud.
And the next dish is a a pile of what looks like glowing soft
shell snails that have a, a heaping amount of spices and
sparks of energy coming off of them.
And then the last one is, and this is my favorite, Fitz says.
And as he pulls out what looks like a bowl that is held up on
stilts and upside down. It's similar to my drink.
I kind of inspired the chef on this one.
And it's a clear bowl, though, with a that you can see floating
inside of it, all of the ingredients, which seems to be a
kind of mixed between rice and air, these these larger kind of
shrimp that have been cooked. And it's got this deep, rich,
earthy, smoky home comfort smell that comes from it, as well as
the last two dishes, one of a a a salad that has this glowing
sauce across it. And that sauce somehow thrums
with the music that's being played on this recorder in the
room that's got this a techno swing, Electro kind of hip hop
vibe to it. And the final and last dish is a
is the giant puffball stake that he was describing earlier with
the you notice now too, being closer up to it, has this
herbaceous sauce that's been strewn across it and.
I'm always going to chow down on that mushroom.
And it tastes just like beef, although with a slightly
marshmallowy texture. I'm so hungry now.
I'm glad I could leave you guys with that.
That was beautiful. And then she's also going to eat
a bunch of the the cloud dish. And for the first time, for the
first time, you guys see, when given the option of using
utensils, she always uses them. But in this moment, she forgets
herself and she's just grabbing like with her hands, chunks of
the cloud. I'm imagining it's like cotton
candy. Yeah, a bit.
And you're getting hints of lavender and that of like a
morning dew on your tongue. This is the stuff.
He's going to chow down on that mushroom.
If you missed it, it tastes like beef but with like a
marshmallowy texture. He's, he's getting his claws all
up in it. It's like squishing around his
jaws. When he clamps down on it, it's
kind of getting all over his face.
I'm picturing like, like a dog with like a big stuffed animal
in its mouth, you know, like, like the way the stuffed animal
kind of squishes on either end of his face.
You know, I got to draw it. Hang on.
I, I, I hooked up the description of the salad too,
because I missed this particular arity.
It's not in like a bowl and the sauce is still over top of it.
It's actually in like a tree shape form and like the the
leaves and the fruit and nuts and such that a company salad
usually or fancier one anyways, are dangling off of it.
So it's like it it it's presented in the form of a tree,
but you eat it like a salad. You're seeing other people eat
it with chopsticks. Well.
Yeah, I must say here I will try a bit of everything first.
Food goes and ask for a glass of water.
We do have some dew. Water that's been collected from
on top. It's.
A little bit. Different what I've heard
outlanders describe as actual water but keeps us hydrated.
That'll do just fine. OK.
And he grabs a pitcher from behind the bar and pours you a
vibrantly glowing green, green liquid.
KIRO accepts and drinks it. And you feel a jolt run through
your system as you can feel, you can feel the rhythm and your
foot starts tapping and you just kind of get a little bit more
jittery, like you would just woken up from a long run and
drank a pot of coffee. Y'all definitely enjoy a very
interesting drink. Yes, it is one of our pastimes,
if you can't tell, and one of the only things that we at least
regularly pay for. Would you like to pay for other
things? I'm confused, isn't it good that
y'all can have things that you don't have to pay for?
Yeah, well, of course it is. It's it's it's great.
I'm just bantering back. I I'm testing that we do enjoy a
good drink. It is to the point where we have
to make it to be paid for, though.
If we were to just give this away for you, we might have a
problem. Kira takes a look around the
room. I can see your point.
So it is a pleasure to get to pay for something that is so
widely enjoyed together, but I can certainly show you to those
rooms when you're finished with your meal.
Yes, that would be very helpful. I feel like I might might have
to assist my comrades in finding their way.
And go where I drunken Grand Am is then going to get off and
he's going to go wandering around the lower decks by
himself looking for little craters he wants to.
Go would you like company? You want to go talk to the rats
too? I do.
You like what critters? No, I'm sorry.
He's like, what critters? His mouth is still full.
I didn't say anything about critters, but he will welcome
company as he goes and finds the local animal population, if
there is one. Yes, let's collect them all.
Temporarily, of course, if they are OK with it.
Totally doesn't want to cast Awaken on the five of the rats
to begin a little intelligent rat population of that.
I feel like we must use awaken responsibly if if we create
sentience, we have to do it in a creature that it wouldn't
sentience wouldn't be a curse for.
I look at her expectantly, waiting on an answer as to what
that would constitute. I guess if if we create
sentience, we have a responsibility to ensure a good
life, so we might need to take them with us is what I'm saying.
Unless they are confident that they can take care of
themselves, you're a basically, I said.
I appreciate that. I I see it as akin to instantly
creating a child with a certain level of intelligence and then
leaving it it's it seems cruel if the creatures.
Either in agreement or understanding or.
Just smile and nod, voice, smile and.
Nod. That's the point.
So if you were just wandering around, you would notice that by
and large there isn't very much in the way of just unkempt
creatures about, though the lower you go you do see some in
the in the form of plants that have taken hold or taken root.
Unwieldly usually, though it oddly enough seems that they
take after a. Sea or ocean like creatures, but
almost like they're adapted to the sky.
So there is. Like aerial roots?
There's like, yeah, there's like something that you see slinking
about in some of the shadows that you might well Grand Am
knew at one point. I think he sat at the table at
one point, I can't recall. Something like a sea cucumber
slinking about. Sky cucumber.
Absolutely talk to animals. Sky Cucumber.
And Nimbo we will also know what it say the table just so you
know. Yeah, you, you, you rock up to
it, I guess. And can I speak with animals and
start trying to talk with it? And it just says eat, sleep fuck
repeat, eat, sleep, fuck repeat. I'm going to call you Repeat, I
say as I pick him up and tuck him into my chest.
How big is it? I don't know it's.
Like a foot, it's. A It's a big sausage.
I'm taking this thing with me. What's the texture of its body
like? Is it scales?
Is it fuzzy? Is it slimy?
Is it like an actual Bratwurst? Like what's the texture of this
thing? It has little fur like type
spines on it. They they look pokey at first,
but as you touch it, it's more of like a Caterpillar.
Oh, so it looks like an actual sea cucumber.
OK. Yeah, yeah.
And then when you do pick it up fully, it does roll up into a
ball like a Caterpillar. And then it just, you just hear
it, probably grand damn. Anyways, it's just sleep, sleep.
Pretend dead sleep. What was that last one?
Pretend dead. Pretend dead.
It's OK. I'm not here to hurt you.
I'm. Here to help.
You friends. If you're physically saying
those words to it, it it like. Speak to animals, yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just, it just go just does not
seem to comprehend it. It just keeps repeating what it
was saying. This place is the best fireman.
I'm going to name him Pete and he's going to live on my head.
If we get startled, he will spew his guts at people.
Pete Zia pokes her head out from your pocket.
Do you have a brother? Are you talking to me?
You have a brother? Yeah.
Look at him. His name's Pete.
Hi. Hi, Pete.
He he starts to uncurl a little bit in your in your hands after
you're not doing anything to him and he just goes fuck.
No. Eat.
You don't eat Cheetah, no. And then his mouth, it's not
even the right word, just opens up to try and engulf Cheetah.
Nope, I don't allow that. Whack him on the nose or what
constitutes a nose. Maybe he won't be a good.
He was following instructions to be fair.
Pretended. He did ask.
Pretended. He did ask your permission and
you and you gave it, so he's probably a little confused.
Pete's a simple creature. Yeah, he he asked Eat and you
said yes in reference to cheat Sia.
I didn't realize it was in reference to cheats.
Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. I will feed him some crackers as
we walk and whatever food might be stuck in my beard.
Yeah, I was going to say, I don't know if you have any
crackers, but you definitely have some of that gravity
defying gumbo stuck in your beard.
And he he as you're pulling it out of his your beard and
setting it down for in front of his face and he's still
pretending to be dead. He you do catch him smelling and
then he just goes eat and then slowly and then up up all the
way up your arm into your beard and starts eating some of the
remains out of it. You can tell he's very much a
bottom feeder, takes whatever he gets.
In the spirit of flying animals, are there any sugar gliders or
this world's equivalent there'd? Probably be now I have to look
something up. What are you there's there's
probably what again looks fairly caterpillary, but has none of
the spines that the sea cucumber does or the sky cucumber and it
but it has this long pointed almost tail and in the in the
front it has a bunch of little not more of like sea anemone
kind of mouth parts and a bunch of little Caterpillar legs that.
It was up to Google. Walking around.
What's the what's the IRL equivalent here?
Gummy squirrel? A gummy squirrel.
Yes, I had never seen one of these in my life, but I I looked
up underwater squirrel and the first thing that came up gummy
squirrel. And they do have have a bit of a
gummy texture to them. If you're seeing them, they've
and but they, they, they, they fly by jumping like you're
talking about sugars gliders. So they, they'll, you'll see
them kind of punch up like an inchworm and then spring
forward. So Nimoy will not adopt one of
these, but she's very intrigued and kind of plays with one for a
little bit, like it's a cat and the the tale reminds her of
cats, so. These things are also sea
cucumbers. Oh, that's so cool.
I love these things. I've never seen one that's so
awesome. And she's fascinated by the tail
and keeps like, gently squeezing it, just the end of the tail.
It like bunches up as you squeeze one of them and springs.
Away. Delightful.
You know how. Imagine in sci-fi movies or
whatever when someone will touch a plant, the plant will like
curl up or recoil or something. Yes.
She's basically every time she sees a gummy squirrel, she's
like gently squeezing its tail so it like Boing's away.
Yes. Very much, and she's like
running from one to the next. Awesome.
Well, seems like a good session. Oh yeah.
Wander back to the Tavern, find the find Fizz and let him know
you're ready to bed down. And.
I I would say something along the lines of Faust should never
learn about these fucking cities, but it's too late, he
knows about them now. Why?
Floating God powered cities. I thought Grand Am was at a
table, not Faust. Feather both at the table.
They're both at the table. Both.
At the table. Oh, no.
Oh. Wow, wow.
Yeah, gosh, doesn't want to cause like untold suffering.
OK. Well, maybe he won't immediately
jump to the conclusion we need to destroy all of them.
He's already agreed that certain gods have to stay.
OK. We just need to come up with a
system to delineate which one those are.
Yeah, maybe he maybe he will be totally fine with like.
Finding a new power source for him.
Yeah, finding a new power source for him or something.
Whiskey is just going to fuck with him about it for sure.
Perhaps the Liberty tree could spawn a branch for each city in
need. Oh, maybe.
I've definitely had fun creating this little universe inside of a
universe. I want to live here.
It's one of my more fond creations.
It's been an amalgam work between my a bunch of different
genres and themes that I love. And you thought we were going to
pass right by it. Yeah, I mean, I don't know, You
guys were on a mission. You got to the sorcrities and
you're like, all right, I'm out. So I was like, oh.
OK, I got to. I got to start populating these
other regions again I. Had fun with my little doodles.
They're super cute. Are they?
What chat are they in? I stuck them in general.
I put them in the right channel this time like last time I like
did pictures or anything. I put them in voting for some
reason. It happens I.
Was not paying attention to what channel I was in.
Yeah, I, I, I only created the the voting just so that I had
somewhere to put the voting each time too, so it wasn't clogging
the general. So it was easy to find it later.
Yeah. Yeah, I, I I definitely need an
Azneck photo. It's Azneck with a squeaky toys.
God, he's. Just a little guy, yeah.
One of these days I'll actually draw him.
I keep on forgetting to ask my husband to draw all my stuff.
He's been voluntold. I I all you got to do is wait
for your birthday and go. Yeah.
Though I gotta. I mean, the only thing stopping
him is I have to give him all the like, the prompt
inspiration, material. I've got to collect it.
Yeah. But see, he'll have to do for
Nimoy alone. He's going to have to do 4
different. Ones, Yep.
Yeah, though I'll probably ask him to space those out based on
when I need them. So like, the winter and the
spring one are relevant right now because I've used them, but
the other ones haven't been used yet so that they can get that
can't can get kicked. But then I've also asked him to
draw a microscopic representation of what her
spores look like in each season, and I have ideas for those as
well, 'cause like her what? I always forget that she's a
spore keeper. Yeah, 'cause we haven't gotten,
I think with this character, we've gotten into one fight in
the good campaign and it was the giant bugs that we just had to
get the fuck out. So she cast Fog Cloud and that
was her one turn and then we ran.
So she hasn't actually gotten to use her abilities.
No foul. No, you're right.
The evil campaign's the one that's done most of the
fighting. Yeah.
Yep. So hopefully, I mean, yeah.
Hey I threw some options out there.
You guys just did decide GTFO most of the time like the prison
and. I tried to get out of there.
Yes. I mean, I, I was worried about
usually when you start a fight in a prison, you know, there's
layers of Garrison and it's an entire facility that you were
then starting to fight against. So I am hesitant to start a
fight when I don't know the count and I don't have a visual
on everyone who I'm starting a fight with.
That feels like a a risky choice.
But there's automaton, man. Our our time has come.
Definitely next session that also might be by that point to
when Hun's able to finally join is Craig for session.
So we'll see how that goes, yeah.
Oh and before we retire, can Demaway ask for one of the
bottles of wine? Like not just a glass but
conshig? I'm assuming our fee covers
that. Or like what we paid would cover
her taking a bottle. He might ask for one of the
chits back because I think he gave 3 back out of.
The oh, an entire gold chit. Yeah, I.
Don't know. This is like one of the most
expensive. That that tracks.
Did you look it up? I did not.
I need to. I.
Heard heard about it briefly before but.
It's one of my favorite wines of all time.
Botryitis affected wine. Let me look up the spelling.
BOTRYTIS Noble rot is the cloakwheel.
It's a fungus wine. I thought it was on character
for a sporgerid but also IRL it's my favorite wine.
It's very sweet. It's a it's a dessert wine.
Wonder if it's because the fungus doesn't eat sugar.
Well, what it does is it, it, it dries out the, the grape and I
guess it doesn't eat the sugar 'cause that's the whole point is
it concentrates the juice so the sugar content skyrockets or like
this sugar percentage, just like with ice wine.
You know how when you suck on like a popsicle, you suck out
the flavor before the water melts and you'll you'll be left
with like a clear popsicle? That's the concept of ice wine,
where when you squeeze it, when frozen, the juice gets squeezed
out and the water content stays behind.
And so that's how they concentrate it with ice wine.
But with the fungus wines, it's just it's dried and that's how
they concentrate it. Well.
And I, the hazard, just say it's even sweeter than ice wine.
That if that were the case entirely, it wouldn't just be,
it wouldn't just be the water. Because if that were the case,
they would just use raisins and then it would be, you know, even
easier. Oh.
Maybe the fungus adds a little some some.
Yeah, probably add some. Yeah, I'm guessing it removes
something as opposed to. Yeah, but it adds.
Yeah, 'cause like raisins have a very particular, like old grape
taste. This wine doesn't taste like
raisins, Not at all. It's still nice and like fresh
tasting. But I I looked for it for four
years when I lived in Colorado and not a single wine shop in
the valley had it. Not even in Aspen.
I couldn't find it. And maybe if I like if I went to
a super fancy restaurant I could probably buy a bottle of it
there. But I couldn't find it retail
and there's no way I was going to buy it at a restaurant where
it's like 4 times the price. This.
But feels like, yeah, let's carry on, Sorry.
When I went back to Rochester I found a one of our largest wine
shops. They carry 2 brands of it.
So I got a bottle and I have yet to crack it open.
It's been waiting for a special occasion but normally they run
about like 80 bucks a bottle if I had to guess.
Considering, though, Yeah, there is.
There is this one thing that I need to find at some point.
It's a apple Brandy and these crazy, crazy people in France
will grow an apple inside of the bottle and then make the Brandy
and then add it to that bottle with the full grown apple inside
of it that you, you know, can't get out and let it continue to
macerate, which is. What?
It's called when you extract yeah with the app, the apple
that just lives inside of this bottle cool.
But it surprisingly when I looked it up is only like 40
something dollars a bottle and I was like I.
Need to find this. Oh sorry, to be clear, 80 bucks
for full size bottle is about the cheapest I've seen retroitus
wine. It starts there.
That's a lot of it's a lot of work.
It's like that Brandy. It was.
Literally doing that kind of stuff is difficult.
Very hard. Very hard.
So let's see, I'm going to look this up.
Apple Brandy. Apple.
Brandy in bottle? Oh, the bottle's even like apple
shaped. That's so cool.
Yeah, that does sound really cute.
I, I, I had to look it up because somebody brought it out
from somewhere on a video I was watching.
And I'm like, that's a whole fucking apple in there.
What the fuck did they get that apple in there?
So I'm just imagining as the tree is flowering and when they
notice the the flower has been like fertilized and they come
out there with a glass bottle and they have to like somehow
lash the bottle to the tree. And so just imagine what that
orchard must look like with all of these bottles.
Just hide in the tree. Yeah.
Must be so like Alice in Wonderland Y.
Yeah. Very cool night.
Guys. Night.
Yeah, yeah, it's. My time?
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