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Tara through the campaign. Allelopolis bad.
Fucking Craig. Fucking Craig.
Preparations are underway. Jesus.
He can't help you here. The hand that fate tosses, the
dice rolls, spins, turns. A campaign starts and ends,
leaving memories that become stories.
Stories flow out into the Infinite Sea, painting with
legends. Legends wash up on the shores
throughout the Infinite Sea, fading to myths until myths are
forgotten. And again the Hand of Fate
tosses the dice rolls, spoons, turns.
Hitherto we left the adventurers known as the Rum Rollers in the
middle Mare on their way back to Sorcrities to deliver a
successfully bargained for shipment of Dragon's Breath from
Chandar to the to or Queen Shondar the Red Dragon to
Orcqueen Theta. On their way, they definitely
evaded a gargantuan mass of tentacles by using Wisteria's
ability to turn everyone to gas while on the decks of a dune.
They sailed through the night and most of the previous day are
after they've gotten after they turned back into it and gotten
far enough away from the writhing tentacles.
A a night and a day passed and a huge shadow on the horizon
appeared during the During that time.
Come morning, the rum rollers are set up set upon by a crew of
over 100 portals on a free trader vessel known as the
Kobuksung. They later find they try to fly
away though and only to have one of the Wizards of wizard turtles
board a dune and demand them to land or they would be forced to
set fire upon them from their 30 odd cannons from a broadside.
Deciding it best to to to land and hear the trade offered
agreement that there his captain is offering up.
They they notice as they land two similarly large bips to the
South of their position or a total of three ships that could
be converging on their location. And before they could get to
Socrates another half day still away.
As the Rum rollers landed back into the waters of the Mental
Mayor, they see the huge ship that had been following them is
guided by a huge tortoise under it.
Under threat of attack, they they they hurriedly take their
wares of the Dragon's breath, hide it with Cat in his
dimensional bag, and come up with a scheme for Flammelton AKA
Hamilton to pose as the current captain and Cat to pretend to be
a chicken. KIRO inserts himself as the mate
as backup as he gets to to help with the dealings and
conversation. Either the trade agreement that
they were going to make out with the free traders.
Grand Am poofs into existence at this point and begins talking
with the tortoise that lets it let's him know he's fairly happy
with his with his lot in life. They treat him quite well, and
the captain of the other ship, the Admiral of this fleet,
Gabook Son, greets the two Rum rollers, KIRO and Flammelton on
the other, on their on Gabook Son's deck and introduces
themselves as the Rum Rollers. He's quite pleased with his
knowledge but disrespects KIRO the whole time subtly without
doing it blatantly. Are you sure he's not actually a
mother? Subtly.
Mother-in-law. He was just, you know, not
responding to him or not giving him a drink or not definitely.
Somebody's mother-in-law. Not interacting with him as much
as possible, Gabook's son explains to Flammalton and KIRO
they find themselves where they find themselves and that they've
been trading in in sugars and Flammalton claims to be have
been doing the same thing from a town to the east called Titty
Sprinkles. After some more disrespect is
thrown on KIRO for not offering him a drink that he offers to
Hamilton Flammalton, a delicious Bootstrap molasses rum, and they
they begin the negotiations. We left off right at that point
where they were about to do it, to get into it more than just
the niceties do. It do it.
Get into it. And KIRO, you would so from a
poofing into existence standpoint, grand am you already
found yourself on the deck. You were with two other crew
members that you know of that poof out of existence, but you
don't realize it because they cease to exist.
So your brain just it's like it. It's so from our perspective,
you, they, they stop to exist, but from everyone else's
perspective, it was as if the the the person that's on deck
with you, which is the four Ryalson brothers were always
there. That's how that that works.
However, in this particular instance, reality does bend a
little bit and put Mimi on the deck with or in the Captain's
quarters is where you find yourself with KIRO seated across
on a a desk from a flamboyantly dressed, you're only guessing
Captain and you kind of get a smidge of Flammelton's memory,
which was them going across the deck and you're claiming to be
the captain, which technically you are.
So I'm on a dune or I'm on the. Turtle, you're on Kobuksum, the
turtle ship, OK. With a very, very uneasy hero.
So yeah, and kiddo, you can see has it's very stiff and close to
a snarl probably OK. And so we're not on the decks,
we're down in the captain's quarters.
Right. And you, you know too, the one
detail I did leave out of the recap there was that their mate
had followed you guys to this, this room, his corridors, but
had left held the door open and stood outside while the
negotiations were going on. So you're you're assuming he's
either giving orders to the captain's crew or standing
outside waiting for a new orders.
OK. Yep.
OK, So does the other crew recognize that there's been a a
change for Flamelton to me, May No, that's fine.
They still see the captain OK. Yep, to them, you, you, you were
that. You're that rule and reality.
Like I said, bent a little bit. You guys felt, probably felt it.
It's probably like a little nauseous pit in your stomach,
but that's about it. OK, so I'm going to look around
the room. How, how, what, what is the
quality of things in this room? Are they like high quality,
expensive, you know, matching? Or is this very much like the
treasures of a flea market, where nothing quite matches and
nothing quite looks right and it's just like, jumbled
together? It's all very high quality, well
kept. There isn't barely there isn't
barely a speck of dust on anything.
You're you're talking to somebody that seems to have an
eye for quality. OK, so the only person in the
only other crew member with me is Kira.
Yep, and you have a glass of bootstrap molasses rum in your
hand and he finishes his sip is actually what he was doing when
your consciousness kind of fled in to the situation and got
those little bits of memories. And you're probably wiping a
little blood out from under your nose as he sets down his glass
on and there and goes. Well, I guess it's to business
since we got the niceties out of the way.
Why is my nose bleeding? It it's been a quirk of like if
you think of things like kind of meta wise, so like, oh, OK, you
just got from the realm. No, I hadn't been poisoned.
No, no, no, no. No, no, that would be the
fastest way this guy would find the end of Hero's sword.
No, no, yeah. OK.
So I'm gonna, I'm gonna look over at him.
He's drinking from the same bottle that he poured it.
You watched him pour the poured out into the glasses and
everything like that. I don't know if you're taking a
sip or not, but. Yeah, so I'm going to take a a
pretty hearty sip and I'm going to right.
So he says that line and I'm just going to, you know, look at
the glass. I'm going to savor the taste.
I'm going to sniff it. I'm going to I'm going to adjust
the hat on my head. I'm going to look very pensive.
I'm going to look over at him really like the niceties out of
the way. What do you what do you mean?
If we are, if we're going to trade, we must, we have to to
mark this, we have to celebrate. There must be a feast.
You you've never, you've never had food of such high quality as
from the chef, the cook on my ship.
You must, you must have a feast prepared from from my galley.
Only then, only then can we can we come to terms of a trade
agreement. We must first be, you know, well
fed. There must be this, this drink
is high quality. So I will provide food.
You provide drink. You know, we will, we will
sleep. We will be Mary and feast.
And then we will just determine terms.
I don't do anything on an empty stomach. 222 roles, then for me,
first is going to be the constitution for the drink.
I didn't even bring up. Character sheet?
No worries. Yeah, I remembered to pull up.
Usually it's roll 20. I forget to pull up.
OK, so you need a roll for. Constitution.
Constitution and. This is not a saving throw, this
is just a regular roll. Saving throw would be fine
because you're. 16. There it is.
It's you don't even get a buzz from it.
You're still sober and you're just enjoying the decadent taste
of it. Almost cake, or you know it it,
it reminds you of a very kind of almost chocolatey dessert from
from your youth. And then I'm going to need a
persuasion. Persuasion.
To keep Kira from cutting his head off, maybe.
I don't know. Oh, 23 ha.
Ha ha. Beautiful.
And he, he, he goes. I can.
Well, I can go with that as a term, but I would at least like
to set some ground rules before we have a feast as some of my
crew can be quite rowdy. Mimi is going to look so
offended. Ground rules for a feast.
What food? Lots of food is the rule.
What what? What are these rules?
Oh yeah, I've been in, Captain. Oh God.
Oh well, it's just, you know, the the simple path of the
course. I'm sure you're aware dealing
with kings and Queens and all they they can be a bit over he
has. Flashbacks.
Flashbacks to the pig. Whatever the the prancing Pig.
What was the bar we were at with?
The fucking clash, pig. Yeah, that one.
Flashbacks. You don't say.
Go on. Well, simply, I just would like
to state that we have a, maybe we'll do a drink ticket system
just for my crew here, as we still have a lot of work and
miles to pick up. It's lovely to have run into you
though. So I would, I would be glad to
supply any of the food that you might need to, to provide for
the feast too and cook it. But if you, if you have a cook
that would, you would like to use the food that that's
completely acceptable terms. I just like I said, know how my
crew can be and how rambunctious they can be on on a celebration
night that would that's that's probably the main one there and
that. Excuse me, we're about half.
He, he kind of looks over at an instrument that he has over
there and he's, well, we're just about halfway through the day
here. So I guess we'll, I'll call the
other two ships in and we'll, we'll set up on the decks of
ours for for most of it, 'cause I assume you can't host over.
We could. Figure it out.
But I mean, if you would like to host on your ship, we will, you
know, I will take the foodstuffs that you would like to have
prepared and take it to my, the I'm telling you, the galley on
my ship is, is first class. You would, you would be doing
yourself a disservice to, to pass up on the opportunity to
have the, the, the products of my galley.
But we, I will prepare. We will prepare.
We'll bring this back and we will feast.
And then? And then I see instruments.
Will there? Will there be music?
We do have some Oh, I'm. Sorry, I don't mean to interrupt
to like. Yeah, yeah.
Has. I know I was only there for like
the last like 30 minutes of the session, but I'm guessing I'm
still level 4. Yeah.
OK. I think probably, yeah, yeah,
yeah. That question was asked at.
One point not going to get me what I needed.
Got it. No, and and just like.
Fucking a turtle. Talking.
I knew, I knew too. I was kind of waiting for this
situation to that because the question was asked about XP from
last session, but I was kind of waiting for this to resolve
because we were just like we left off in the middle of it.
No worries. So hat back on.
So yeah, we do have some some musicians.
I think it's on the other ships though.
I can kind of keep them back from our forefront runner.
Don't want to don't want to put them out in dangerous way.
But of course, I I'll be ahead of my crew.
So I should be out in the front. We, we'd seen your sails on the
horizon and thought it'd be best to cut, cut into it and see what
we're up against. We've we've had some incidences
with pirates in these waters and I just didn't want to be caught
off guard, so I figured it. Best man is going to like like
clutch their pearls and be like. Pirates.
Oh no. You don't say pirates.
And see who we're dealing with. We would.
We would never survive an encounter with pirates.
It's lucky. Lucky for us, we ran into you.
Well, it seems like so. Well, I don't want to do too
much business then, if that is your custom.
And let's get the celebrations underway first mate.
And you just see him holler towards the door, it slams open
and he salutes as he comes in. Sir.
He goes set the crew to ordering them about to get foodstuffs
over to via dune and make sure that they have anything they
need for preparations for a full on feast this evening.
And he goes so yes, Sir, And he just marches off out into the
desk decks. And then he's he goes over to
some of his stuff and starts what looks like communicating.
But like you, you only guessed that because he's got like some
sort of sheet next to him and he's like tapping on something
and he just looks over and he goes.
I'm, I'm just letting the other ships know that they can
approach in the meantime. Is there anything else that we
should discuss before the celebration start?
Is there any specialty requests? I guess and he's looking at me.
He's been ignoring Hero still the whole time.
I would suggest lots of pillows. I would suggest corn, 100% we
need corn. I would suggest you know
everyone dressed in their finery.
This is a celebration. Everyone should look knock
knock. I would suggest good lighting.
If you have lanterns, if you have candles, if you have
whatever chandelabras, whatever, whatever beautiful lighting you
have, this will, it is midday now it will take some time to
prepare this food. You need to, to prepare your
decks, you need to swab and, and let everybody clean.
So it will, it will likely this feast may go a little bit into
the night. This is perfectly fine.
This, this is the mark of a true feast.
If you're not feasting after sundown, it is, it is not a good
feast. That bodes poorly for our trade
agreement. So we need we need to make sure
we have the proper lighting once the sun goes down.
He kind of is hesitant almost he seems like to take it to take an
order because he's that kind of person and being the Admiral of
a of a three boat 300 plus crew vessels there.
He's then he kind of shakes it off and looks back around and
kind of reminds himself you can probably if you whisper
something under his breath, but then he starts taking notes, it
looks like, and then he he just says, Oh yes, yes, that's that's
this will sound like great ideas.
I'm glad you we could have run into you hopefully in our and
I'm not trying to get into business anything, but hopefully
we can have some talks about maybe getting in with Queen
Theta, I've heard. Yes, yes.
Yes, yes, but we'll all be discussed at length.
Once again. I I decide on no matters until
on an empty stomach. And right now it has been.
It is midday and I have not had first breakfast or second
breakfast or 11 ZS or tea. It is.
We must, we must, we will make up for all of this with the
feast. Great, wonderful.
You might want to go back to your ship then.
Should I call back the first mate to walk you back across?
Yes. No, no need.
I can escort my own cat. He looks over at Yukiro and then
looks back at you, me Mei with a raised eyebrow.
I'm going to raise my eyebrow right back and be like you.
You can, you know, Kira will lead, of course, but if you if
you find it proper to accompany us, you are welcome.
To. Well, I'll follow your lead
there. And it's it's, it's Captain
Mime, right? Or.
Yeah, I'm going to tip my hat and say yes, yes it is.
All right. Well, Captain, we'll be seeing
you. All right, Mimi's going to stand
up and like, you know, like swagger off the ship, watching,
watching, keeping a keen eye for all the supplies that I'm
assuming are are mitigating from the big ship to the little ship.
Well, that's. Migrating.
Migrating that one. Transpiring What are the
Rarlson's doing on the deck of a dune along with grand am
looking. Fabulous.
Do you want to go first? Grand Am?
I've got a whole thing. Oh good, like Grand Am would
still try to be making friends with the tortoise.
For the turtle. Tortoise is probably easier.
Easier to be clear on which torto.
OK, yeah, the the the the big one.
Yeah, the big boy. Yeah.
And I'm just kind of like imagining grand am just laying
on like the railing like waving his arm just like over the side
just lazily trying to like what you doing?
What you thinking about what just pestering this or drag?
Turtle. Well, I'm usually not thinking
about much water is warm today though quite pleasant.
But like he doesn't respond to everyone of yours.
He just kind of don't know I'm not the.
Huge treat Grand Am like a child that just is asking him too many
questions because that's exactly what Grand Am would be doing
right now, getting to know the elder being the ancient turtle
turtle. OK.
And maybe if he thought things were going to go sideways,
trying to convince it that it is so ain't too ancient and
dignified to be a ship. But if things don't look like
they're going that way, you know, maybe he won't plant that
seed in his head. OK, so right now you're just
trying to. Oh yeah.
Just pestering it. Yeah, OK.
Just for a general. To.
See how that's going? I'm trying to remember exactly.
Not. Animal Handling.
This isn't a dragon turtle. Yeah, I mean, that's what I was
going to say. OK, if it is animalistic enough,
sure. Animal Animal handling, I have
no qualms with that. Yeah, I'm trained in it, but I'm
still a druded. Yeah, exactly.
And I was trying to figure out a better one for you to roll, but
that's the only thing that comes to mind.
So animal. Roll.
Yeah, 17 I should probably get in the game, huh?
16 Add a -, 3 so that was all right.
It'd probably be in the roll 20, huh?
Yeah, I mean, you'd be able to see at least the situation a
little bit better, get a get an idea of what's going on.
I rolled A13 with a + 4 so 17. Right.
Yeah. So it seems to to not be annoyed
by your pestering. You kind of seems to enjoy the
attention if nothing else. But yeah, it doesn't respond to
all of your questions. I imagine talking to something
like that is kind of like putting up with an Ant and
talking. Yeah, a little bit.
And it's the thing that it always reminds me of too, is
like you, you start to you start to try and talk to an Ant,
right? And or something like that.
And it's literally only got the three thoughts that it was
given, which is like go find food, go find food, go find
food, take food back, take food back, take food back, go find
food, go find food. So you're you're so fast that it
probably just doesn't register on it is what you're gathering
though at it this at this point to in the sense of like your
speeds, like you guys are just not going the same speeds.
Yeah. Is more more the case of instead
of Ant and human, it'd be more like.
Ant and giant turtle or human and giant turtle?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right.
Well, if you didn't have. Oh no, I haven't Any other goals
in mind. He was just keeping an eye on
the the situation and he failed last session to like pick up the
negative vibes. So he's just vibing.
All right. Well.
I assume the Rarlsons just kind of popped back onto deck and
things have changed. Yes.
So your last recollection was that you guys were running from
a giant tentacle beast in a gaseous form, just landed.
Later in the day, probably at the most is the last thing,
maybe even that you remember. And then now you're here with a
giant tortoise ship. Right.
And there are turtles everywhere.
Turtles everywhere. Rahl is a suspicious bastard.
When he doesn't know what's going on, so has he has the
alert feet, he immediately goes into stealth.
And then I'm going to try to see if I can pick up what like the
vibes are like, is this an occupying force?
Is this a friendly like acquaintance?
Is this like like what's going on?
How are you trying to discuss? That's one of my questions for
you. The very first thing that you're
probably realizing is that there is, it looks like some sort of
magic user because he doesn't have, I mean, it's comparative
to the some of the other tortoises.
He's got a little bit more cloth about him.
Turtles. He's got a little bit more cloth
about him and he's got a definite some sort of magic.
Not quite, but he does have probably some sort of focus
about him as well. You know, a magical focus about
him that we'll say he's got like a shiny necklace that you're
guessing is something like that. OK then.
He's, he's, he's sitting leaning up against the rail on the
opposite side of where the the his ship is and kind of like
picking. He's like a maze, right?
Yeah, he's like maybe flipping through a book, but like you can
tell he's looking over the book at the Rarlsons and and Grand
Am. That's why I'm asking.
Well, if, if if I'm spotted, he's going to go from flight to
fight and he cast fly on himself, fly directly at the
wizard, grapple and fly directly up using his action to grapple,
action to dash, bonus action to dash.
So that's and then feeling agility to double movement
speed. So that'll be 6060 sixty 6240 *
2 four eighty. I'm going to attempt to
immediately kidnap this dude and fly almost 500 feet into the
air. Where is me may when this is
happening? Am I still below decks setting
up a piece or am I upstairs? Negotiating this.
Is happening at the same time, yeah.
God damn it. I mean first let me roll to see
if I get gather what the vibe is.
Yeah, I was going to say, yeah, you can do that.
I I was. That, but that'll be my plan if
it seems like a negative vibe. So would that be insight,
investigation, perception? You'll probably you're probably
look looking more like insight for just a general vibe check.
That's the vibe check role. General vibe Check Insight OK
only a plus one A3 I suck. Doesn't necessarily mean you
fail in the way you think you did though.
It just means that you're pretty sure that these guys are, you
know, you don't you don't see any of your normal friends
around as in like the ones that would be running the ship
usually right now, you you would be the one to run the ship
because you don't see anybody else around that is that would
do that. And what you can tell, just
getting on to on onto the deck of a dune too, you would hear
her jovially greet you in your mind like, hey, how's it going?
Hey, who are these people? Oh, they're just here.
They wanted to shoot us, but now we're I think we're friends.
I narrow my eyes. They're not getting big.
That's good, Dilated. That's a bad sign.
I look around for someone who has a torque.
Grand Am has a torque. I reach over, grab him by the
neck, pull of over. Hey, are these guys actually
friends? Grand AM will blink completely
out of sync with. It's like his eye is just
completely out of sync. Not that that's cool into the
necklace too. And yeah, so your intent flows
through to the necklace and let it does come out to the other
torques that are available, which would be Mame or Mime and
KIRO, your guy's torques. And it was probably right when
you're leaving the room, like right when you're getting up and
you're like, OK, we're going to set up.
Yeah, so I'm going to try to avoid.
I'm not like as quietly as I can, you know, without I'm not
trying to say this like super loudly into the room.
I'm trying to do this to a like I don't want our our new friends
quote UN quote new friends to to hear me, but I want to be like I
want to say into the torque to rural like like like hold on,
just just I will. I will explain everything as
soon as I'm back on the ship, just like please hold tight.
I will be there very shortly. We will discuss everything I
could. Kidnap a wizard and fly away.
Wait. Not yet.
Maybe, but not not yet.
Wait, wait for a second. They will.
Let me. Let me we.
Need to chat? Let me know, Captain, I'm ready.
My eyes are huge and I just stare.
All four of us are just staring at the wizard.
If. He's still like.
Grabbing grand am sorry grand am is also no his eyes are also
just going to do like the whole like cat predator.
Like, yeah, that guy. Yeah, that's the guy.
Yeah. Here's the We're going to get
that guy. You get on my back.
I'm going to guess the fly and myself.
We're going to kidnap him, fly away, far away.
And I will turn into a jacket. Wait, wait, wait.
I can also swim. I can see, I can see Rahl doing
that like thing which cats do where they're like calibrating
where they like do the butt wiggle.
And I can see your eyes real big and you're just like doing the
butt wiggle like I. Can I can I can capture I?
Can get the wizard. Like we can.
Hold on, the captain said. No.
I don't want to make the. I don't want to make.
Just wait. Wait.
Your time will come. Just not yet.
But the wizard's not the big turtle.
I don't know. He tried to shoot us.
That's what they said. That's what they said.
Did he? No, that the guy's on the
turtle. You guys are probably doing this
whispering back and forth when, Yeah.
Like. Me.
Maybe I'm still. Holding the button so this whole
conversation like I could do it, we could not a real button the
the metaphysical button. Yeah, just holding on the by.
By that end, it's just holding on to the torque and and doing
it with intent to direct the message through it.
So yeah, you guys. Are you guys hear myself ramp up
and then be like, no, not yet It's.
Like that meme? It's like I create violence.
Maybe tomorrow. No, that's that's the current
mode that's inside Kiro's head right now.
She is craving it. And yeah, KIRO and Mimae, you
guys come back across the the gangway gangplank across onto
the text of the dune, seeing them whispering to each other
into the torque and you're probably, I don't know, what are
you trying to do? Are you trying to muffle the
torque You said to? I don't know what your thought
is there. You know, like I'm just saying
like I have. Olivia.
Got it. Yeah.
Oh, I'm definitely, I'm trying to keep all this on the down
low. I want our new friends to think
that we are super excited about meeting them and super excited
about this trade agreement, right?
And I want them to think we are just happy.
Happy to be here. Despite Kira.
We are happy and we are friendly and we just want good things.
Just right now, check and make sure he he he is in the right
headspace. OK, roll roll the Wisdom save.
Others I'm I'm still getting used to the the the character
sheets on roll 20. How to get how to move around on
them. Let's see, do I have my wits
about me? So you guys know my immediate
reaction was to go find the most valuable person and hold them
hostage. I, I, I, I, I see the captain do
what she does, and I mimic the captain, Yeah.
OK. But his, his hand, his other,
his. His left hand is still in a
thumb brake motion, but his right hand is definitely around
his necklace. Yeah.
So when you guys his hand go up, hand hands go up and you're in
and towards the torque and touch it, you're immediately
redirecting all of the messages that are coming in.
You can tell they're no longer coming out of the necklace and
they're coming now into your heads.
So you can you can tell it's not an auditorial effect.
You know, it's not anymore, but you guys are coming back on the
deck. Look, the deck like that.
Well, they're still whispering into the torque, I guess, and
into your mind. Get.
Down and on your way to me May since you were asking about you
see the mate hurrying about the deck of the cool books on and
ordering some crew around to get some crates across the other
way. They're they're organizing him
on their side first before they bring him across the gangplank
and he just kind of nods to you and you get you walk across the
and you see the wizard. That was something else that was
implanted in your mind again, was that he was the one that so
as a portrayal to since only actually KIRO experienced this
when you guys flew up in the air on the ship, casting Cat had
cast fly on the ship to make it go up into the air away from the
cannons because they're thought was you cannons can't face up
that high. But they were wrong because the
tortal tortal, the tortoise that is controlling the ship.
Just kind of rocked and rolled and kind of paddled, holding its
whole side up to face towards the dune, all of the cannons on
one side ready for a broadside. And right from that, from that
angle to they had what looked like a type of what's that, the
big crossbows. Dang it.
Abilist. That Yeah, Abilista Yeah, it
looked like it had a abilista, but you guys were so far up at
the time you didn't quite see until it shot this towards doing
a what looked like a person sitting in a chair and as they
got close enough they just poofed in the mist and landed on
the deck. Was.
That's fucking awesome. So that's where the wizard is
that still standing upon the deck, and he's kind of like.
What a showman. Flipping through the book as
you. Can get him.
And the the the turtle wizard just nods, nods to you guys as
you come back over to and it goes, Oh, let me actually roll
for it real quick too, because I wanted to see you guys are
whispering. Could you hold me a stealth,
both of you? Oh no, for the whispering.
Oh no. Plus 10.
Oh no. Not what?
Not one of not. What if I cast pass without
trace? You guys are both good.
He's like, I don't know what they've been whispering about
over there, but they're looking real SUS.
What's going on over on the other ship Says am I Captain
hasn't called me back yet so I'm guessing to I'm just hold
position until further notice kind of been my.
You don't. Have to.
Well, I wouldn't be taking orders from you.
I'm just saying you don't have to.
It wasn't an order. You're your own man, right?
You're a man, right? Are turtles gently?
Yeah. Yeah, he's a man, yeah.
Just had to make sure that he were they.
No, he's 100% saying that. Yeah, yeah.
I was also making sure that they weren't actually hermaphrodites
or something like that, and I'm just making shit up.
So he goes, yeah, Oh yeah, true, true.
These are turtles, not turtles. True, true.
He goes well this season. I am.
Me too. I think granddad will then
proceed to pull out the waistband of his pants to make
sure. Oh.
Boy. Turtle Wizard just shakes his
head and goes back to his book. My cat is being awful to me
right now. One second.
Is it the soulless 1? No, it's a nice.
As they do. So you're going to inform your
crew there, Captain? Yes, on my back on Aduna.
So I'm just going to like walk under the deck and observe, you
know, turtles bringing over lots of goods.
I'm assuming I'm going to direct them just to drop it on.
The deck and carry. Them down to Aduna yeah.
I don't want them below decks. I'm assuming it once the turtles
are no longer on our ship and Dune can rearrange as she sees
fit. OK so I'm going to look at
everybody that I can see of the crew and I'm going to do that
thing where like I take my my pointer finger and my my middle
finger I'm going to put it in my eyes I'm going to point it at
them and I'm going to be like like point downstairs.
They want us all to go below decks.
We're having a crew meeting. KIRO is currently having him.
He's he's taking a momentary moment for a vibe checked.
He was, he looked, he's he's he's looking at he's yeah, he he
acknowledged the captain, giving the eyes to look down.
He's waiting for everybody to like out of his eyesight for a
moment. What is the vibe?
What is? He, he, he, he doesn't want to
show that he is, you know, loss of composure.
He does not want to show loss of composure in front of anybody.
Oh, OK. So he's you're, you're trying.
He he wants to have an outburst, he wants to have an outburst,
but he does not want to have an outburst in front of the crew.
So you're less trying to vibe check and more trying to find a
a quiet moment to to sneak to the side.
Yes. So that would be more of a
stealth against everyone perception.
God yeah, good. Oh wait, no, my passive and the
great in this one. Dang.
Yeah, yeah. I must say this is not.
It's something. Franklin to see.
Everything. Passive perception.
Oh, right. Path of perception.
Oh, so you have to roll? Mine's a.
Passive perception is 15 for me. It's a standard roll for a
standard number. Yeah, it.
Yeah. So yeah, I don't roll right?
So Kira's gonna have to roll. Yeah.
Hey buddy where you going I need?
A moment. Oh.
They're doing a pops in everybody's head and goes maybe.
He has to poop. So so me and Mae is gonna look
over and and shoot some finger guns.
Be like you do what you gotta do buddy, but meet us down.
The stairs he he got, he bought. I need your professional.
Kid. He bows up very respectfully to
the captain and from I must say, I would say I think isn't what
what's your passive on your perception?
Oh yeah, no, no, you you would easily see that.
Yeah. His his his hand has not like
left his like right where his thumb broke it.
And it's it's like in a death grip.
He's in he's death grip right now on his weapon.
Oh yeah. He's white knuckled.
Yeah, so I'm gonna, yes, I'm going to try to sort of, you
know, get KIRO to take his attention away from what we just
dealt with and more towards like, hey, your captain, like I
need you. Like I understand that was
stressful, but like, let's sort of shift instead of dwelling on
how terrible that was, let's shift our focus to our plan of
action. That's what inmate of the other
ship kind of comes over after having it.
Seems like the stream of turtles dropping off crates had stopped
and he talks to the the wizard and they look over at you and
seems like the mate actually takes takes the lead role there.
And the wizard walks back over to the ship and the mate walks
up over to you, me may with with just staring off into the
distance, not wanting to interrupt with his hands behind
his back, waiting for you, for you to acknowledge.
I'm going to look over at him. And he he doesn't, he doesn't
say or do anything. Not going to say anything.
I'm just going to look at him. I'm going to like put my my fist
on my hip and like start tapping.
He goes tapping my Maybe it's just going to like put their
hands up, like what the fuck? Did oh animal gay book son
wanted me to make sure that you had everything else in order and
to know that we've tied off. So if you try to leave it would
it would probably not be in your best interest.
You might do some damage to your ship at this point, just as a
friendly acknowledgement there and.
I'm just going to burst out. Leave, leave.
We will feast. We don't want to go anywhere.
If anything tied the ship's tighter.
We're not. No, no, no.
We will feast tonight. This is the feasting.
I'm the feast that I do not understand.
The the feasting is a celebration.
We are our our trade is going to be so good for everybody.
This is this is a momentous occasion to celebrate.
If you need anything else, just stop over on deck and holler at
one of the crew. I'm sure they will be more than
able to direct you in the ways of how to get what you need,
provided that we might we we have it.
Well, Sir, I'm not sure how well I can holler.
And they're going to air quotes some amazing air quotes holler.
But yes, yes, you have been more than gracious.
We, we are very, very excited looking forward to preparing all
these delectable these food stuffs you have brought this
way. Thank you so much.
This is your willingness to cooperate is a a giant gesture
for how well our trade agreement is going to go.
So thank you. Thank you.
I will let you be aware if there's anything else we may
need. You have done a fantastic job.
Caroling down to you and kind of whispers.
Go prepare. In a show of good faith, they
could take the very aggressive anchors and tie a proper mooring
knots so that they cannot damage a donate if they'd be so
inclined. Captain.
Oh, oh, yes, yes, yes, that's very good.
Very good. Important, important point,
Kira. Thank you.
I'm going to look over back to the first maybe like yes, if you
could please tie a proper mooring knot.
See our our ship here Adune means very much to us and in the
celebrations and in, you know, our great enthusiasm.
I would, it would be, I would deeply regret any sort of damage
being taken to my ship. You see, my ship is an extension
of myself and damaging my ship would therefore be the same as
damaging me. And so I'm sure you understand,
I'm sure you feel the same about your ship.
So I would like to do things properly and correct, which is
exactly why we're preparing such a feast tonight.
We would like to correctly go about the proper methods to
making sure that this is a secure and solid, you know,
arrangement We are coming to so So would you be so kind?
Could you please honor this request?
Of mine. Why is the first word that comes
to my head German? I would.
No, no, no, no, no. No Wiedelstand, which means like
to go against like it was out as much as that is possible.
He just kind of so he kind of like puts his head inside of his
shell and he he says from in there.
I can't. It's like a show of deference
and fear almost. And just he put pokes his head
back out. What?
One last thing just the captain would like to say.
It's a pleasure to to be doing business with you all.
And he puts both of his arms and his head back in the shell and
walks across like that. Just took two legs out change.
I'm sorry, please the I don't know what happened and I
accidentally closed my browser window.
Last thing I heard is that there was a word coming to your brain
in German. I'm guessing he complies.
He like or Yeah. He OK in in his compliance,
though he he almost is showing not only deference but fear and
pulls his head into his shell and just said says from inside
of his shell. I can't and then poked it out
back just a little bit to say that the the the gay books on
the captain of the other ship just wanted to extend his
gratitude and welcoming to the to to be part of this trade and
is very grateful for it. And then he puts both of his
arms and his head back all the way in his shell and walks
across the gangplank. Almost looks like he can't see.
Anything, I'm going to shoot him some finger guns as he walks
away. Interesting.
OK, that's not what I was expecting, but OK.
All right, so then Mimi's going to look around.
You're going to assess the deck and see the Rawlsons on the
verge of like action and just just, you know, gesture for
everyone to follow them downstairs below a.
Piece of fruit on the way he was going to.
Snag it on the on the way down, on the way down the stairs, down
one of the. Oh, all you have to do is
request. And it forms a hand holding a
Kiwi. Oh Kiwi that that works too.
So once we're like. Like all.
Downstairs, Grand Am's going to look at everybody take like just
a full on bite out of the Kiwi, fuzzy peel and all.
So we're traders what we trade. We are technically.
Good. I don't know.
We're going to talk about that. So can anybody refresh me?
What do these guys want to trade again?
And you wouldn't know either. He had.
He'd just been about to talk about that.
You would have knowledge that he had been talking about having
just been somewhere and gotten sugar.
And that's what Flamelton in your stead.
But you were remembering it as if it were.
You had claimed you were doing as well, getting sugar.
So you both have sugar, supposedly, but that's the only
only conversation. Oh, OK, so OK, so I'm going to
look at the crew. I'm going to say Full
disclosure, I just bought us six hours to figure out what the
fuck we're going to do here. Right.
I'm not sure. These mother fuckers are a lot
bigger than us and there's a lot more of them be either ship is
giant and CI don't I don't know. We were were be in the air when
they when they got us. Yes.
I think so, right? If the ship had to turn
sideways. I didn't realize that Dune was
flying yet, but cool. So yeah, we were in the air and
these fuckers made us come down and their ship is like six times
the size of a Dune. It was like, by the way, on the
way coming down the stairs, I also like very gently, you know,
was like caressing the the handrail and being like, hello,
Dune. I missed you.
I'm sorry I was away. Sorry.
I was on that other horrible ship.
We did bring you lots of foodstuffs.
Would you mind preparing us a feast?
You are the the best cook I know of that I would not eat food.
You have any other galley? Your new title so well it was
given to you more recently though, so I can understand the
the. The only question I did have for
you though, just to help to make sure that things are getting
under way. Am I to be stealthy about my?
Nature seemed to mean that was the.
The case and the consensus. Yeah, I think so.
Yeah, I think that's best. I think if we let on about.
Nature. These people might have slightly
lowered into into my desk. It will look almost as if we
have an elevator aboard or something or maybe some large
ants. But I'll get it a dude, get it
done. Perfect.
I don't think anybody's paying too much attention.
Yeah, so. So, Adune, you are welcome to
weigh in here with your insights, but how do we feel
about these fuckers? Do we actually want to trade
with them? Do we want to come up with an
alternative plan? I know we're all saying you're
ready for violence. This is good.
KIRO, you're ready for violence. This is good.
I'm glad we're ready for violence.
I just want to make sure violence is the correct action
first. Right there.
We have multiple options now. Right.
So Adune is going to work. Work their magic.
Work her magic and make some delectable food items which we
will carry over or get assistance, you know, carrying
from our ship to their ship. Sorry, I dude, I'm going to try
to keep as the minimum amount of invaders on you as possible, but
what do we how do we feel? How do we feel about?
This guys, I feel like we don't have enough information to
accurately decide anything. Now that my blood has tempered I
think we probably need the more information for sure.
I don't know how to get it. I could kidnap the wizard like
we said and I questioned him. Though if it is they are
friendly, then that of course is a poor decision, they said.
Oh, well, I guess I should I should tell you.
So we're going to feast, right? So, so we've brought all this
food is carried over. Aduni is going to prepare it for
us. We are going to go.
They have this lovely rum. It's delicious.
You're going to love it. And so I know their captain said
they want to sort of restrict how much their sailors drink.
I think I think we're really good at encouraging people to
drink. And so this is going to be a
fucking party. Like I said, feast to celebrate.
I'm like to like, we're going to fuck you up.
I'm counting on you, Rawlsons. We.
Can. For sure we can.
For sure do that, but don't you think like?
We have six hours. Plus, before that, before that,
we could learn many things and have more of a plan if things go
badly. So say they're evil.
Say let me hold up my hands. That would the feast would be a
premium opportunity to even the odds, so to speak.
As we are providing the food by shrug.
So if we know what we're going to do before the feast, instead
of using the feast as an information gathering option,
then we can capitalize on that I think, a little bit better.
Saying. Well, I.
I have eyes and ears more or less on most being that I am
attached to their ship and generally have.
It's kind of disorienting, but a 3D perspective of myself at most
points, that's all. As a whole.
You're amazing. A dune.
Can we all give a dune a round of applause for being amazing?
I think. So well.
It. Seems.
Like they just have a a. A.
Very structured crew. Otherwise it seems very fair.
No one is mistreated. There is a hierarchy when it
comes to their command, so far as I can tell just from my.
The question is, are they pirates?
They don't. Like is this deal, is this deal
that we're going to have to make going to be in our favour or
heavily in their favour and we'll be tied up to them,
surrounded and out of options? They they don't appear to be as
as I mean I have. I've only had one run in with
pirates a while back now and those.
Crews were a lot less. Orderly than these ones not to
mention they they whenever they whenever you're looking at these
these folks they're they're they're just generally well
mannered they don't seem. Yeah, but they like.
Forced you to. Leave.
That's what's getting me. I don't like that.
First off, I don't like that I meant it when you when you
threaten my ship, you threaten me.
It forced us down here. We are now permanently attached.
We don't just to have an option. I think that's the big question.
Right, let's see if we can leave.
Like leave. Before me.
Oh well, then we know. Oh no, we cannot there, he said.
That from their perspective. Continue, Adina.
When you're a when you're a free trader, you're you're only
chances to better yourself is with trade.
So any chance you get to trade, you take it.
Not to mention is. Yeah, but Adune, Adune, babe,
they they like, they threaten to damage you.
That's not cool. That's not, that's not cool.
That's not how you like make free and open and trusting
arrangements. Exactly.
Have you know, driven by with all of their wares on deck
either and had a fanfare for them to come buy stuff?
I guess I don't. I don't know, I.
They seem they seem more or less.
Good-natured. Seems like a bad business,
Eugene. You are so good-natured, Adune.
You see they exist in everyone. I however, I'm a capitalist.
OK, so Adune wants to trade. So stay, assume, decide to not
attack and just trade. And I'm not saying that this is
the plan of action right now. I'm not totally sold on this
idea. Attacking kind of seems fun.
If I have a bad idea, it seems kind of fun.
But what would we trade with them?
So I know we have some Dragon's breath, right?
But we don't want to tell them that necessarily.
And I don't know how much we can afford to quote UN quote have
misplaced, right? I don't know how much we owe the
Queen or how much we can like we have in wiggle room or if
there's anything else that we think we can trade.
No, no. Right, 'cause if they have
sugar, they don't want our sugar.
We're not trading like sugar of sugar, right?
So they have sugar. I don't know what else do they
have that we want. Yeah.
Other than that. Yeah, how do they shark?
Would also provide the fact that do turtles each other stores
were otherwise running low considering they had they hadn't
been stocked up recently. Besides the shark and what was
it else? Oh, that's what I was going to
say. Your nose does bleed.
Just a just a little trickle at the mention of the Dragon's
breath because it currently also doesn't exist because it's with
cat. Oh.
Yeah. Oh well damn.
So what do we have to trade guys?
Assuming we we we go the trade route.
Away in the night cuz do we have anything to trade?
Besides, I don't. Know yeah, like as he like
shrugs, he like slips his shoulder.
I mean, besides our bodies, I don't know, shove some leg all
right, all right, so we have so so there's an option of trading
trading what question mark? I imagine me made it for like a
chalkboard like me May asks a do name for a chalkboard on the
wall and like puts like a one and says trade equals question
mark, right, because we don't know what we're going to trade.
Option two violence. All right, so if we choose
violence, we need to plan this because they are much bigger and
many more than us and probably have tricks in their streets
we're not aware of. And you feel a subtle.
So how would we go about violence?
Bump against the whole of a a dune or just sitting up next to
us as well. Perfect.
So do you know exactly what would happen to you if we, like,
say, took off into the air right now?
Seems like they had stayed true to their word as well and
provided some mooring knots on their connections.
But there are quite a lot There's there's.
Well, it's not more than the standard would be at dock
though, so there's there's there's three on me currently.
I can probably undo them if I really tried.
The the only real challenge I think might be that they someone
would. You know that it does seem like
they have some capable deckhands that are keeping eyes on such
things like that as mooring. Mooring knots do slip
occasionally. Could try to handle them.
OK. So how do we feel?
OK, so via so OK, sorry, violence is number 32 is escape.
So if we just want to escape, I mean, if we get all the
deckhands super drunk tonight, the feast, imagine we could have
the capacity to, you know, undo some of the boring lines and
peace out. Although it'll be really hard
for us to leave if we are feasting.
So we can't have to be on a doone.
A doone. I think so.
Well, you have fly still. Yeah, that would be the other
challenge currently is they're surrounding me.
Right, 'cause you so somebody cast fly on you, that's how you
were in the air. OK gotcha.
Solid. Yeah.
I didn't think you were a flying ship yet.
OK. All right, so trading #1
escaping #2 these both don't seem like super great options,
but we haven't yet talked about 3, which is violence.
So they might. Let's start looking better soon.
Who knows all right so if we were going to try violence
right, so I don't think we have to fight everybody necessarily.
I don't so the we've met the Admiral who's in charge, you
know might be able to leverage the Admiral.
We've also seen the wizard dude. I think it would be necessary
for us to neutralize the wizard in some way.
How do we how do we feel? How how do we think this might
go? What do we think we might gain
out of violence? The.
Turtle's really big. I can try making friends with a
turtle. I can.
Do you think we can just like, convince the turtle to do
something else other than what it's doing right now?
We just, like, get them to like, leave What?
Can you ask him what his favorite thing to eat is?
Turtle. Oh yeah, I forgot that was the
thing. Yeah, I have to go back to it to
see what kind of, Yep, 120 a 120 feet.
I just had to check on that I mean.
We just had them deliver perfect 'cause we just had like their
crew deliver a dune, a shit ton of raw materials, right?
We can turn it into whatever we want.
What's your favorite food buddy? I like giant CMOS and enormous
kelp. Feed you that stuff, Where do
they keep it? Usually they let us graze upon
it in different aisles. Couldn't you do that without
them? Yeah, but at sea they give us
some as well, which is nice to have them for that.
They I'm not sure how they bring it with.
Just be kept in the boat. Pretty big.
Pretty. Bigger than me.
The kelp is bigger than you. Yeah.
That's some big kelp. It's delicious.
But if I could grow you some big kelp, maybe they have kelp
seeds. Like.
Kelp have seeds. I don't know.
What, what if? What if you tell him there's
kelp? Like below him, like at the
bottom of the ocean where he is right now?
Kelp. Don't grow that deep, is what he
would say. Just theoretically.
It could grow you some kelp. I mean, what if we convince him,
yeah, that we've put some kelp down there?
Friends, if I could grow. You let me just get them to
submerge. I don't know anything about
growing kelp, but you're not the only bond I hold.
I hold one to the captain and we've I have made a promise to
sail for him. I will not go back on my word.
That's that's and respect that. Oh, damn it.
OK, all right. Giant tortoises are not.
Species and cultivate. OK, so seems.
Somewhat intrigued by an option. Well then you realize maybe it's
not a heat and goes. I could provide you with the
eggs I've been holding on to, but I would have to talk to the
captain. Maybe it could be part of your
deal. Bring us.
Eggs. The turtles.
The turtle wants to trade eggs. Imagine.
Oh, guys, we might want to make this trade.
We might want. To sum up the trade, I think
we're the turtles. Oh.
Do. We have.
Anything OK? That was some really good Intel.
Thank you. I have nothing.
Yeah, I mean. We all have inventories, right?
And. Oh, I have a giant map.
We have the map. Oh, there was also I.
Mean. I don't even think.
We have the iPad map. Yeah, I was going to bring up
the treasure that you'd recently found Rahl with Shia and Place.
The 10? Yeah, the 10K.
Yeah, that was placed upon her decks, right on a Dune's decks,
I thought. Yeah, that was that was.
We don't know what to do with this.
Put it, put it somewhere and don't touch it.
I think the original plan was to use it to pay.
Wait, what is it? Pay God, Who is it?
Oh right, to pay Redaha, the the proprietor of the pink plush pig
back for all of the damages Rahul did by breaking all of
their liquor bottles by. Allegedly, yeah.
True. Always allegedly.
Allegedly. I feel that targeted.
It was actually, you know, as Nora playing as.
One of the cats. Yeah, yeah.
I was Jeffrey, so she was the other one.
I know, maybe I was grown. Whatever.
Anyway, one of the cats. It's.
I have glasses, what's your new? Like in real life.
No, I think, I mean, I think the glasses were part of your meme's
inventory. Only from the cat, the.
The biggest thing that I have portrayed.
Yeah, sorry, I do have glasses in real life, but these are new
in my inventory. 1/3 of a crystal you have No, we all have
those crystals. We have those big, we have those
big tooth crystals. You have.
I thought really about tooth crystals.
Well, you gathered, you gathered the crystals, so I don't know.
If yeah, we had like 5 1/2 or something.
I think you'd given half or the third the the like quarter one.
I thought you'd given it during the eurythmic veracity to
Franklin, because that's something he used more recently
I thought too. I had taken, I had taken one and
I split it into three parts and gave one to myself, one to him
and one to myself. So I was talking about the 1/3.
Yeah, you're getting some. We're getting some feedback from
you, Rick. Rick.
I have. Rogue.
Good, good, good. I have a disco ball.
We can all dance, guys. If we do feast, let me remind me
to throw out the disco ball. The.
Glasses that were from your and. Contents them into a really bad
we're. Gonna be staying alive then we
just. The the the glasses though I
think were your reward for helping Shondar get rid of the
goblin problem if I remember correctly.
OK, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.
What do you think, Captain? OK, so yeah, no.
And then there's I have more options, more things than
thinking. So we are having a dune prepare
this feast. So we could, you know, slip of
something, a little slipped, an extra in the soup and you know,
just in case all the sailors don't decide to drink to excess,
right, We can do with something extra to make sure that they do
and ensure our chances to loot and run or slaughter them all or
I don't know, whatever you guys are feeling.
I mean ideally you. Can flip a coin I guess.
US against 100 and if the turtle's not going to turn, our
best option is probably to run, maybe steal something and run.
Tort attack I. Mean, I mean, we can certainly
try, but right now we are in a situation where we are not
allowed to leave. Carol was Carol was originally
open to negotiation. He was originally open to
negotiation. Their captain fucked that all up
for him. Grand Am is just a long further
ride he does. He's going.
On. Giro chooses whatever his
captain orders him to do. OK.
He's right or die. He'll watch you to hate me.
OK, so grand Am is we're. Here for you, Captain, but.
OK. I'm I feel.
Strongly that anything else feel.
Strongly wow. We're not approached in a
friendly manner and I think that that says quite a lot about
their character and why they're here personally.
Yeah, I agree. I did OK so.
I mean they did just give us a bunch of free food.
It would be good to feast. I think we could all use like a
short rest, at least I. Think.
We need naps. I think what we need to do is
figure out a way to get more information.
Yeah, so this is So what I'm going to.
Nobody feels very strongly. What I suggest we do is we all
go take a nap to get a short rest.
We help Adune prepare in whatever way we can, even if
that's just like taking a nap and getting out of her way.
And then we go, we take all the food over to their ship.
We feast, right? We get a chance to talk right to
the sailors, to talk to the captains.
We, you know, we feast, right? We take advantage.
There's not many times we get to just party, right?
So we will, we'll drink into the night and we will party, right.
We will encourage the party to continue until people are
falling asleep, right? And then we will go sleep,
right? We're not, we're not doing
trades tonight. Trades will happen in the
morning regardless. And so we, we take as long as
possible, We draw this out and we, we party as hard as possible
and then right, get everybody too drunk that nobody can make a
decision and push this, all this till tomorrow.
And so if if some, you know, intelligence happens in the
night, right over the course of the evening, you know, you don't
either summon me via the torque or like find me, pull me to the
side, right. We can make snap decisions at
any time. How does this is this?
It sounds like we we just, we need more time.
Agree, but we need to have a plan ready in case escape is
they need the feast is the best way to strike or escape.
And if we don't have a plan and we wing it, how do they make it
hard? Right.
OK, so. What?
We need in order to. Escape is all the moorings to
be. That's how we escape the
tentacle. Moss what would do it?
Wizard's cat, I think. OK, who can be in charge of
Gash's form? Whoever that is.
Yeah. But do.
I have dashes for me. But in any case, we need to do
something today about it and I think we need to get more
information, which means, and I think we should do it before the
feast because the feast sounds like whatever is going to happen
is happening. Yes.
So if we walk in the blind, then shame on us.
Let's see. Yeah, but I don't know, I don't
know anything about about this ship.
I think that we should for now. I don't know, based entirely and
if you would disagree. Let me know.
On the fact that they came to us with the violence forcibly force
like sad like, stopped us, tied themselves to us, will not let
us leave until we trade with them while they wildly outnumber
us, says many things that we are not speaking about.
I think that we should probably take proactive action in
self-defense and to take one of them to learn more and to have
some sort of because I gesture around.
There kidnap and interrogate only one right we'll be but I.
Think the feast is where is the best.
Opportunity to do that now. The feast will not do something
big. Yeah, but the like the feast
then? When is the feast?
6 hours? Is that one?
Of their people. Too long the it's if it's later
tonight. No, I don't know.
I just said six hours. You along with.
It's midday. I assumed it was like noon the.
Food. Yeah, it's later.
Tonight you've been talking. You've here heard some banging
and clanging and it started to smell some food.
Food smells it's. Or.
Getting getting on end of the day, but I don't think we're
quite to the table setting portion of the day.
It's just seems like they're getting the tables out and some
of the chairs and such to set upon their decks currently.
What about a stealth mission instead of a kidnap mission
then? Yeah.
That that I can get more on board with.
So I make maybe six hours from the time I was sitting in the
captain's quarters. Like now it's probably like
'cause. We have a we have a, a, a
stealth character who's me and then someone who can cast pass
without trace. I think someone said we could
sneak aboard. Say that again.
I. Think I have it.
Let me just double check that in my level range.
Yeah, double check. So yeah, I could see if you can
with a high, pretty high confidence not be detected and
go over to their ship, that would be beneficial.
We did get some intelligence from the tortoise.
We got some. Outside of the.
Right. In general, things seem pretty,
you know, trade situation straightforward.
I will. I trust the dune.
We keep looking over that. Yeah, outside of that right now,
they're all on the ground and yeah, yeah, 'cause like it's
spell. No, no, no, no, that's very,
that's very apparent to me, especially given their size,
right, Our size versus their size, Like we should not be a
threat to them. So the fact that they were so,
you know, forceful in their yeah.
And how they're treating us at this point is a little
concerning. So no, we should.
More information for sure. But I'm assuming.
Nothing bad. What about the feasts?
What can we do possibly to slip in at the last second to subdue
100 plus tortoises? We have the anti magic disco
ball. We have the anti though that's
we have the giant. Creature that.
Creates the sushi and I think we still have the tentacle.
We do. Do we still have the sushi?
Yeah. We can certainly give.
It to. Make more of that probably make
sure everybody. Yeah, all of them.
It would do their mages. That anti magic stuff.
I don't know how much the sushi we had is still good.
I would need some more. Fresh.
Ingredients for that? It's in the bottle.
Yeah, yeah, I can go in there and get some.
Yeah, Didn't we like put that botanical monster in like
perpetual aliveness? Yeah, let's do that.
Let's grab some of that and give it to Dune and like, I don't
know, one of the one of the beginning sources, maybe like
course three or something. I'm assuming this is like a fine
four or five course meal. Not telling.
Dude, I had a nice please. Briny seaweed and kelp gratin
with a rich creamy seaweed, kelp, various Aqua aquatic
vegetables and crispy seaweed crumble.
I, I'm, I'm assuming I'm making, making this for their kind as
much as possible, so please let me know if there is any.
I, I, I don't know all the new crews, yucks and yums, but I
know Captain Mime doesn't quite have very many yucks, so I'll
keep going that, that was just one of the three that I've got
here. And we've got a, a, a mushroom
Moss terrain, rich, earthy, much mushroom vegetable on a, on a
crusty bread and a roasted river fish with lemons and lemon and
herbs. Oh, wait, sit, sorry.
That's that that's going back into the into the main courses.
I, I skipped over the crystal crystal jellyfish seaweed salad.
It's pretty delicious with a nice citrusy vinaigrette and a
clam chowder with a deep sea broth and a hint of root
vegetables. Oh and I missed the the one main
course, which I'm very proud of that they had and glad they had
in. This is lovely.
As a fiery salamander steak with a volcano sauce, I thought it
paired nicely. Maybe you can tell them about
your journeys with the with Shandai, but you know, if it
comes up or if you're interested in telling him.
It was more of my own inspiration there I took off of
as a smoky, rich taste and I found they had some chocolates
and chilies in there. And yeah, they, they'd had some,
some, some corals. So I made that into a nice coral
tart custard and with some candy it had and a crystallized
seaweed brittle. That one's interesting.
I hadn't seen that one in a in my kitchens before.
And oh, and a pudding that I made myself of seaweed
honeycomb. Do you know you are a true
genius? So would it mess up your recipe?
If your soup. Had some of the tentacle monster
in it. No longer.
I'm going off of pure memory here.
So was it more bitter or I believe?
I believe I know Zenora and I. Don't know, I don't think I ate
any. I know.
Zenora, did anybody eat tentacle monster?
Off the top of my head, for some reason I was trying to remember
if Mimi had or maybe it was more of a you'd seen their reactions
and didn't try it. Yeah, no, I saw cats reaction
specifically and it looked terrible so I did not try it.
But if if. We'll probably.
Go where he goes in and get some.
If. Grand am would try it.
That would help a. Lot that would.
Be cool, I can cast water breathing so we can all go in
and be safe, OK. And the fact that we won't drown
unless I get killed and then it will drop and then you'll drown.
But yeah, perfect. So we could do that.
I think having that for the feast would be a very good
choice. And then, OK, maybe there should
be at some point a, a stealth mission to determine if if, if,
if they if they are evil. What's up?
OK I feel I feel like due to the failure of the Rarlsons being
extra stealthy earlier, they just want to like be stealthy
again and prove. It's totally fine, I'm just I'm
suspicious of how they just. Like, well, you caught me last
time. Next time.
Next time you will not detect me.
I'm alert and I do. I do finger guns.
Yeah, no, that's very fair. I'm also suspicious, OK?
Well, let's go get. Yep.
Let's go get some tentacle monsters.
So we'll at least neutralize any.
Yeah, for sure. Threats we're unaware of.
Any magical threats we're unaware of.
We've seen one wizard. This is there's, there's a lot
of people here. There's definitely more than
just one wizard. I think we've.
Said hundreds. Of people that would.
Be 60. 100 total. Oh, probably a percentage.
With magic, but how many magical?
Was that you, my Lord? Oh yes, I'm working on it.
Oh, that's. Right, I snapped my fingers.
Mime Mame, do you have a Revivify spell?
Would you be a doll? And before we do a long rest,
load it into my Ring of Spell story.
I. Think.
I do, you will, but that's why I say before really long rest and
if you have the space slot or slot.
Left Sure do I? Have to cast it.
Does it matter what level? Or or a.
Some of these are, you know that, but I think Revivify is
not one of those. I hold up.
A business card? I have to get one.
I think I just have revivify. Q.
There you go. So are you guys going down to
rest? So.
No. It'd be more of a short rest I
would think, if you're trying to go into the bottle.
When we. Should go on time for a.
Long rest, yeah. So I thought, OK.
That. You want to tell me what you're
doing for a short rest? Like.
And then pushed it 4. Hours depending.
Who leave? Watching the Wizard.
He's not on deck currently. Well, at least not on your desk.
No. Definitely something like it's
his amulet. I'm.
Just staring at feathers in his hair.
Are they are they dangling in the wind?
Are there are there are there strings?
Does he have like tassels hanging off his robe?
Is it like a western where he. Just has like a whole.
Row tassels hanging. He must be see him in my dreams.
He taunts me. Ah, yeah.
So Mimi is gonna, yeah, go like wash up for dinner, right?
So after that we need to go. I was going to take you guys
there. Is there anything special you
need us to do, Josh, to go with the technical monster?
Yeah, it's in the bottle and aggressive as the last time it
was put there it had one. HP was basically, you know,
knocked out. But I'm I'm having some
technical issues with my computer actually too, trying to
get it to go and actually do what I want.
Keeps restarting on its own again.
And it just did it right when I was trying to jump you guys over
to another map here. So that's what what I'm running
into. We might have to be somewhat in
imaginary zone and I might have to bring up its stats at the
very least and. I mean an imaginary zone.
We're teleporting into a magical void of water.
There's a little bit of a. Beast, I was there.
Yeah. You, you.
So you pull out the bottle that Adune had been residing in and
the sea creatures that were there.
Are. Gone.
You can see there aren't any residing under the waters.
You do see a large tentacle beast pressed up against the jar
or the the glass you know currently and nothing else
moving besides some of the water and there is like a little brand
of beach right at the right before the neck.
Of the bottle. This reminds me.
Somehow, no matter which way you're holding it to the the
the, there is always a constant bottom in the bottle.
So it's, you can't like, just like shake it up and schlock it
around either. It's got a constant direction of
gravity in it. I'll get reminded and then note,
hey, doing that. Can you also, if you have the
time, just like produce a bunch of that, like shark food or
shark meat so that we can feed a giant thing because we're also
going to be injuring it and we probably need to be it.
Oh sure, sure thing. Just like sushified or.
I mean, it's a giant tentacle monster, it'll probably just eat
whatever. OK, that's.
But don't. Trouble yourself because like,
you've got a big meal plan to make and I don't.
Want to download on you of course, because I want to be a
courteous person. Thank you.
Thanks, but we need like a code word or something.
Wait, no, we can talk to each other with our minds.
I don't have one of those necklaces anymore.
So like, I'll, you'll have to give me a code word
like banana or something. I don't know if like halfway
through the feast, you decide that they're enemies and you
need me to, like, go. Code word for what again?
OK. I like it.
Mouseketeer mice are terrible creatures.
They're filthy rodents. Why don't we make it
Mouseketeer? Perfect.
Let's go fuck up our capture creature.
OK, so are we good with this this?
I look off to the screen. Nosebleed Good guys, thumbs up.
How do we get into it? Oh yeah, that sounds familiar.
Yep, yeah, you have you have the wand of bubbles that you can
uncork it and the bubbles when you well once it touch something
resizes to the shape of the bottle and you have to get the
bottle aligned with the bubble so that it it when it hit, when
it hits it just kind of and you, you go into the bottle
performance. I have.
Director, roll something for that.
Oh, good job. That works.
I. Don't know who you're trying to,
but if you want to tell me how you succeed, oh. 17 that's.
A I mean, I'm going to pull the bubbles out.
I'm going to shake it up. I'm going to look at it, pull
the wand out, you know, use a flick of my wrist to to, you
know, start any excess and very ever so gently, you know, place
it about an inch away from my face and blow into the the
bubble, the wand and produce a fairly large size bubble so that
it's easy to to get it to the right place in the bottom.
And then it the bubble pops and whoever it is that was going in
first is in. You're standing on the beach
with some palm trees and the breeze.
Sure. I mean, if there's a beach, that
changes quite a bit. But yeah, I'll go in first and
just. Like.
Jump in and run around looking for danger.
Oh yeah, that's true. You have the.
They carry the. Wall.
They should be carrying a load of it.
You have the shark meat, right? All right.
So you're all carrying a load of the What was that, Cato?
I was going to say after Ross goes in, I'll.
Go ahead and write in. Write in after him
after all. Performance again.
Or can it be more than one person at the same time in?
The same bubble. Maybe me?
Loop loop loop. More.
Bubbles. Bubbles.
Bubbles 13 Bubbbles bubbles. All kinds of text.
Christmas. Oh, a black screen again.
I did. Well I did the I did get the
bookmark over it looks like so you might be in a very large
map. That just means good things are
coming. Yeah, it it took a second.
It took a second. There it is.
I go search for it. Yeah.
Those are the all the. All the sides of the dune.
It's great. Dune at the beach.
I feel like I'm looking through an album.
There's there's the still trying to.
Yeah, that's great. Gosh darn monster too.
It's a dune with their sails out.
There's a dune at the lower decks of the dune, right?
Fox spelling. It's a, it's a Balkan.
There's no quarters. What it is, but I can't remember
how to spell that. EALABLLKANBLAKEN.
Those are the two versions I know of.
Come on. Work with me here.
Yeah, it doesn't want to BLA KB ALKAN does not show anything.
It's weird. It's weird that you can find
things some sometimes and then. Not others because of stuff like
this. Potential, potential.
Sun, D&D Beyond. It should be.
That's where I found it before. Now I'm finding something called
an. BALCHI don't think so.
BALCAN did that. Show something lavik luncheon
dairy creatures. I didn't think so.
I was pretty sure it has AK, that much I remember it's the
it's the vowels that are breaking my brain.
Bulk, bulk. I'll be right back.
OK, encounters maybe? Maybe I have it saved.
I thought too, that's where I was trying to go originally.
I. Want to say it's this one I'm on
nude. Oh, I think I just made that
word up in my memory. It's it's or they've changed the
name of it to be a a ball hunn off Yeah, I think they changed
the name on me. Interesting.
Or my memory is that broke? Is it a tentacle monster?
Yeah, it's changed from so weird.
It's interesting lore there. Monsters know what they're
doing. All Hanath were aberrations.
Maybe. Anyways, I'll figure that part
of it out later anyways, yeah, so let me get make sure I have
all the people that I need to because.
Frederick. Yep.
So we've got. You.
You wanted to know they had enough.
Society. And we're barely known for
assembling in large groups. And here and then we got to take
out all of these other. Folk, but we don't.
Have here or Frederick or Lamelton.
Which if you. OK, out, out.
Your worries and here's try it KIRO Gundam barrel.
And mimay, OK, OK, Dave. Oh, they respond well to
telepathic communication. And.
Anybody have to love? To see.
Restart. There we go.
And then bring this up. So I've got.
That and I need turnover and I need OK, so that's there.
Does that? Is that what he rolled?
I got too many of these open now.
Here it is this one. So looks like Grand AM already
rolled an initiative or an initiative.
Popped up for him auto 3. But everyone else would be
rolling initiative as you're popping into the into the space.
Like there's some like battle music starting right like in
Pokémon. Pokémon right?
Like how we just. Eat ourselves into the bottle
initiative. Let's go.
Only a six but I got a 17. Jesus.
So kiddo, I'm waiting for your initiative still.
Unless I missed it. No, I I already rolled it should
have come up or. Like monsters?
I don't even see it. OK, And I'm not sure for this
nine came from from Grand Am, but are you back yet?
No, yes, in silence means no. In this case.
We're going to keep it so that it would start off with me Bay
coming in first if you guys are going straight for the attack.
But that that's where I was in my mindset of trying to figure
things out. You guys are on the beach though
inside the bottle. Is everyone's wanting.
We have bait. Yeah, I guess.
Like can we see the? Monster.
Well, we have, we have a bunch of the shark that we brought to
feed it so we could bait it and then just like cut off one of
its tentacles from behind and then poop out.
Yes. Somebody playing music?
Yeah, right. Or when it's distracted they
won't notice a thing trying to chomp.
On it when it's well fed it'll be lazy.
Oh, do you guys have a Kraken down here or like some great old
one shit? We don't, No.
Yeah. Hopefully Ohana OK.
It's there. We caught it.
It's a ball, Hanun, We just found it.
This is this is a trademark. Sometime of our campaign when we
see big monsters, we like to trap them places and keep them
for later. This one we've decided to keep
alive so we can continue. Yes, Grande made it into the
bottle with everyone else. We found out it has a ability to
disable magic. Situated, I've got it almost
there. The.
Screen, we're good guys. What would our role to know what
the yeah in in Pathfinder? I assume it would be a cult, but
this is not Pathfinder. For this I would say nature.
This is a this. Is a group effort.
Fuck it. So I managed to get KIRO and Van
Damme on the beach, and I was just getting getting trying to
figure out how to get Mimi and Rao, and it restarted on me
again here. But you should see a monster
there that's not there actually. But that should give you an idea
of what you're dealing with when we're talking about scale.
He has a huge smile on his face. That's what's thrilled.
Things. Yeah, I just see a black screen.
I was. Going to say I have a good
imagination. Or or or scroll all the way out.
That's what we were saying, I think just.
Before we left there. Oh, there we.
Go. You might need to.
Hey. It's the same technical monster
from earlier. No, you might be seeing the
other one. Yeah, 'cause I don't.
Have OH. Or that's big, that's.
Big. Yeah, you're on a beach
currently, but me, maybe you, it's not quite so that you guys
had seen earlier was like probably about three times the
size of a dune. This one's about the size of a
dune also. It's a baby.
Yeah, it's like 30. It's like 30 foot in in in
length. Nope, no.
Plan was. Just a pain.
Check and nature check to figure out what I'm looking at.
You could go in nature though. Yeah.
Sure. It's usually history check.
You you're, you're not exactly sure the name of this particular
tentacle creature, but it does ring some bells in your mind of
it as it seems to vanish at the bottom of the the the bottle
because you guys are actually looking through the waves at it
at the bottom of the bottle. But it does probably let me see
here. Yeah, it's, it's got blind side
of 500 feet. So as you guys land on the
beach, you would probably be looking down into the waves and
see it and it would appear to vanish before your eyes.
Oh yeah, I think it can could be invisible.
Is it good that we have this thing?
We don't know. Yeah, we could either keep it
and harvest it like she said, sell it when we get back to the
city, free it, send it to a natural preserver.
This themes unethical, I think it.
You know. God damn once.
That is a very good question. We could use it here, tortoises.
We could release the Kraken you. Can.
Go away on the fighter. Do they deserve that?
We could release it, yeah. True.
I mean, that's the good. Thing again, that's a great
question. Do they?
Deserve that. We don't know.
We don't have enough information about who these people.
Are you know we could release the Kraken while drinking rum
dead? Drum.
So maybe that's the backup plan. So we'll harvest one tentacle,
maybe I'll heal it after we do that so that it's ready and like
in prime fighting condition. And then we to make sure that I
take the bubbles and this bottle or whatever I need to release it
with us onto the ship so that if any point we feel threatened
like we need to weigh out I. Feel.
Like that should. Go in conjunction with disabling
their magic users, because then they're up against a crack.
And with no magic users, Dune and we can cut the ropes and
vanish. Yeah.
So yes, we definitely need to at least get through whichever
course has the anti magic. Ingredient I assume?
I'm assuming we all kind of came in.
And with that, maybe it's gonna like look at where the shark is
and like either motion for the shark to be dumped in the water
or like throw a handful of shark into the water.
Maybe not a. Full shark 'cause you guys had
like giant sharks that you were fighting, but sharks.
We'll say like. Yeah, like a a few pounds each.
Yeah. Oh God can.
I talk to thing. What's that grand in?
I want can I talk to you? Do do do do do dead sharks do do
do do do do dead sharks do do do do do.
I guess he can't. Yes, I'm like botanical monster.
Yeah. So I'm going to Chuck Chuck
Shark into the water. All right, you guys start to
Chuck some of the sharks into the water.
You see it, waves start to wash it out.
Some of the blood too, that kind of pulls into the sea.
That's in the bottle and it starts to going to disperse
before you start noticing. Probably some chunks from what
you're tossing in appear to be disappearing.
Take that as the queue and move in along with everyone else I
assume. To attack?
What are you attacking? You can't see any of that?
It is currently. Yes.
Invisible, but we could swing at nothing if we.
One of the tentacles trying to. Harvest.
A disadvantage for your whatever strike, you could just be
swinging in the air or what rather water I guess.
Yep. Is that double disadvantage?
No, there's only one disadvantage.
I mean, that doesn't stack. I mean, it'd be.
I was just curious because of the water and I didn't actually
I don't have. I need to start looking for.
The. Underwater it wouldn't affect me
as I have a swim speed, but I think you're right.
Oh damn, I can't see. It you'd have half it's it's
like half movement and you would have I think that doesn't apply
to creatures. I don't remember exactly how the
word spells worded. I use locate object.
If you read it off to me though, I can answer your question.
I won't see it. Yeah, here I'm just.
Going to send it to the chat. Which chat real plenty it.
Doesn't say I can't. Yeah.
LED oh right, that's. Like the one anti anti magic
method. Always save any lead boxes.
I can't, I can't see through lead for whatever reason, but.
They're very useful. All right, so describe name and
object that is familiar to you. That's the direction of the
object's location as long as the objects.
That's OK, motion. I guess object.
Wouldn't this be helpful? You know the direction it's
movement to spell and it's suggests already that it can be
something that's moving and it's alive spell.
And OK specific object to you as long as you can have seen.
Josh, be very careful about how you define object.
Yeah, I know. I need to know.
What type of? What?
Because plans. Plans on plans.
You'll find out in a couple months.
Why? I know that we we decided at
least. For I will teleport this Kraken
with someone. Give me the power.
Well, so the definition I have been going off of is that a
person is not an object, a living creature is.
Not an object. A corpse is an object, so if you
targeted the shark bet that just got eaten, then that would work
because it would be in its stomach.
But targeting the creature itself would not work.
Yes, I you're you're correct, I believe.
That that's kind of the general. I was trying to remember if
there was another word that we we talked about too that or if
it was object that was the defining characteristic for
something that is in has no life to it or the rule set.
Yep. Oh, OK.
I see. Well, I mean, if that's a
distinction, then yeah, I'll do. That's a great, great
suggestion. I will target the shark pit that
I was just do. That.
'Cause that's a specific. Object that was known to me.
On I've seen it up close. A business.
Card so I can locate that within 30 feet.
So that should give us a pretty good idea of where to aim court.
Status object. Confirmed.
Oh. Got it.
You're sending it off to another another plane.
Well, yeah, to me. So.
No worries. So that was your action to find
and everything there Mima. I don't.
Know, I mean, sorry, I just didn't mean to put that in the
BTT and that's I'm just casting it.
In the vicinity of where you can still visibly see it on the map,
it's just. My action was to.
Find slowly, eating away invisibly at the staff.
When I find it, I'm going to shout to everybody.
Where? It's power of imagination, you
know, it's kind of towards the, you know, more westerly side of
the bottle if you're looking at it from top down.
OK. No you wouldn't.
While inside of the bottle you don't really ever see the
bottle. It's it's perceived as as sky
because it's so large. Is it a problem?
That I don't see the bottle. No, I I know what you're asking
there too. I haven't been.
I guess I should be able to. Yeah, I guess.
I should say is it a problem that I don't yours in rural The
technical monster, the monster. OK, yeah, I'm just not on that
screen. OK, no worries.
I'm OK with with using my imagination.
OK. So yeah, that's my action is to
yell by everybody. Hey guys, it's it's there.
Aim your attacks there and they know where I'm referencing.
When I say there. That's it, on my turns over.
OK. Yeah, you can.
You should be able to actually see it.
I was able to get their tokens in the right location.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can see. I can see it like I'm trying to
do the count how many space. Yep. 25, just 25 feet in the
water. I'm I'm going to bonus action.
Let's see. Went
too far. There we are.
I'm going to phone section, assume the dragon stance and
then action. I'm going to taunt the thing to
come get some. By a taunt, I mean intimidate
please. Tom with a six.
I'm. It's just all the frustration
KIRO has been feeling. The last little bit is just let
out at it in a come come come get some of this.
Your mama's Your mama's teeth is so yellow.
Your mama's teeth. Is so yellow 16 wisdom saved, so
I I would say that it's still currently invisible.
But I think is the least offensive one I can think of
right now. But anyway.
Let's see Action Lords action yeah, that that I can't really
OK, I want to sure. So yeah, kind of stuck on that
so. All right, Ryo was granted him
on deck. Let's see.
All right, well. I'm just going to go swing at it
as I don't have much that I could do against this so I will
run up and take two swings then bonus action dodge.
Shit. What's up?
I just got back, I had my Mama called, I had to step away so I
have no idea what's going on right now other than bonus
action dodge. We're fighting a tentacle
monster that we have in a jar so that we can get tentacle flesh,
which disables magic so that we can poison a bunch of turtles.
Yep. Right.
So are you aiming your strikes there, Raul?
I mean, I can't see anything. I show you.
That we don't. Want to kill the monster?
I repeat, we do not want to kill it.
We just want to tell like. Two animals but.
You do have so I think I've mentioned this once before
because you've only been in one combat with us once before, but
speech is a free action. But obviously, you know,
considerate of other player everything.
With effects has to be on my turn.
Got it. Yep, I'll hold my tongue and
weight then. All righty.
So are you attacking specific spots there, royal?
Royal. Sorry I was muted or I had my
headphone thing up. I will.
I think what I'm going to do is go in and attempt to locate and
grapple with my claws a tentacle so that I can like have one
because I can't see this thing if that makes.
Sense. Well, didn't you say it was
invisible? I see what you're saying.
So you're going to that's what you meant.
So you're going to go wading into the water and try to grab a
tentacle. Yeah.
I believe the grapple. Is totally going to work.
It's a Strength check and it can be a Strength, Strength or a
Dexterity. Yeah, I was going to say I argue
Dexterity. Is it a disadvantage since I
can't see this thing? Yes, you're wailing blindly in a
direction trying to grab something that's wriggly.
Yep, all right. Rule one is 12.
Rule 2 is in 11. I think yours are are strength
oriented, unless those are is something specific to your class
to change the grapple. Oh.
Sorry, because it's the response to the grapple that you can be
dexterous but when you're trying to grapple.
Oh God, I have a -116 and 8. The 8 is what got out of all
those roles 88 got a nine. So you were you're able to get a
hold of it, but I just through your through one through your
your pause. I'll.
Do it again. I have two attacks.
OK. So bad.
That was a natural 20. It's invisible.
I'm going to bone or reaction pull pull damage to you as it
kind of like just kind of as you're trying to grab the you
know. Yeah, how much left?
Side the head 12. 12 OW I wade back out of the water.
I have ruckus audacity, so I don't take an opportunity.
OK, that didn't work very well. How do we get this thing to show
itself? I guess I could stand at the
beach and just blindly shoot at the water.
Laser cat the water. So if that was your turn, though
rural, then it would be Grand Am's turn.
Who is going to? Be just that.
I don't know if this thing. Like.
From the role I did earlier, could I know if this thing was
animal and I have to speak like you speak with animals or if I
know it's like some sort of like a what do you call them?
What great time abomination. Yeah, some sort of creature
from. Beyond the stars or the depths
of the sea that speaks deep speech.
You do know that? Monstrosity.
It is some sort of monstrosity more than anything else.
All right, we're going to start yelling at in Deep Speech.
It. Can we be friends?
Come to terms. Maybe trade you a couple 100
turtles for a little bit of flesh.
It's not. Yelling at it.
I like you. So.
We'll heal your flesh immediately.
That's this is a good gamble. You'll lose some flesh, but
you'll get it back immediately. Yep, and.
He's not very pretty. We're the good guys.
Totally.
Hey, they held us at gunpoint. Fuck them.
Yeah, that's the last time Grand Am was insulted by somebody.
He wound up kidnapping a Lord and beheading them in the
sewers. Yeah, yeah, that happened.
Well, he didn't go heading. He did.
So. Technically.
So you feel a pressure against your mind again.
It doesn't want to go in there, but he'll let it in anyways.
And in deep speech, in your mind, you hear, you understand
better. Than anyone.
I don't know. I don't.
I don't know what you're offering, but.
I will project portals into his mind and the sentiment of them
being angry and of them like that feeling of being like held
at gunpoint. Oh OK then the turtles being
held at gunpoint. No us, us being held at
gunpoint, OK. It's the anger of that and also
like you. Should portray them being
delicious. You you feel a curiosity towards
the situation you guys are in with the the turtles and that it
goes I've not seen or tasted. Would you like to?
And you see out from the center of its where the largest chunks
of shark or head floated. They disappear and it goes.
I'll try anything once, but last time I was anywhere near this
group no one understood me, let alone wanted to not harm me. 333
fourths 3/4 of like conflict is misunderstanding, so that kind
of makes sense. Yeah, guys, we got to stop
talking to creatures. It's just knocking.
Yeah, it kind of makes sense. We can be friends if make it all
be water under the bridge or waves under the boat or
something that makes sense for a creature such as yourself.
I don't see a reason why you need to be trapped here anymore.
And at that too with that sense it it seems to understand that
it as you want to set it free and it it asks that question to
just free. Get as many totals as you want.
In exchange for what though? What you?
What will you have of me? You.
Help us get away from the turtles and also we want some of
your arms because they would make the turtles not wing bang
fireball. And it looks it.
You can feel it kind of like probing.
It's not. Super.
Let me see here what is the, What is?
What is the like? If it's probing into like Grand
Am's mind, it is going to feel like it is basically looking at
a single piece of a very of like a 10,000 piece puzzle set that
has been shaken up and then mixed with a different puzzle
set. And it just doesn't know how to
take you more or less, but IT projects into your mind
potentially if if you're if you've projected the the the
exact situation you guys find yourself in to like with being
surrounded and everything like that.
One of its others abilities that you guys might not remember
especially is that it can teleport and it and it kind of
shows you this where it could wrap itself around the dune and
teleport up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space that it can see
including any creatures that it is carrying or grappled to.
If we trust this thing. I mean, you trapped it here
once. Oh.
Yes, that was by chance that. Could.
Be awesome. We accidentally hit it really
hard and then like brought it back to life and then forced it
into, you know, don't worry about it.
I think I'll worry about it Insight check to see how
trustworthy this thing is that's.
What it was trying to do on you that that was the word I was
trying to remember too. What's that related to?
Oh yeah, great. Man's being 100% genuine, but
he's. Also.
Like cautious about anything from beyond the stars or
wherever this thing's from, any aberration it's he's cautious
about. Is it?
Is it a wisdom though? Inside his wisdom.
Thank you. I was trying to remember from my
role because I wanted to roll as well.
Oh, nineteen it did. Yeah.
It seems to be trusting of you, considering that you were able
to speak a language that it understands too.
And Grand Am trusts him. Great.
I rolled in that one like. Oh boy.
Or I don't trust him. It's up to you how that that
that one is interpreted. Yeah, I mean, this would be a
little bit upon your past though.
Why? Why do you know Deepspeech?
Do you remember the back story I.
Yeah. That instance he basically met
an elder God and learned the entire like history of the
multiverse and then his mind was broken and he forgot all of it
except for. The deeds of age, basically.
And little fragments of how much danger he He knows that there is
danger out there, but he does not comprehend it.
He is an Ant that has for a single moment comprehended all
of human civilization and then forgot it.
Oh my God. He all agrees.
Need to get his hands on you? The only reason Grand am still
alive is because I got intervened and went no come back
here. So OK with that reasoning and
that understanding at least though too you are, you don't
trust it, but you're willing to take it at its word if that
makes sense to you. What I mean by that.
So it's. Think we can trust it, but if we
can kick his ass totally? Right.
He's been in there for a while. He's probably hungry.
You see, more of the shark did disappear.
Do do do do do. And it makes itself visible
finally, with its flailing tentacles, some of which are
growing. It looks like from the last time
you've seen it out of its body, as if there's like tiny little
ones that are moving up its whole body up to a gaping law of
just teeth. And although you're not sure if
it's a mouth because it just kind of looks like a whole,
whole throat of teeth. That's so great in comparison to
the giant turtle monster that they were using.
How big is this? Well, you can see prospectively
that this creature is about as big as a dune, because that a
dune that you're seeing represented there is the same
size as the Adune on the other map, although this Aduna is not
here. So Tenneco monster big but not
threatening giant turtle monster big.
Well, it might have magic that the turtle doesn't have and
also. Yeah.
What's the word big enough to buy us some time and maybe
teleport us away? Yeah, damage for sure, but
enough to escape for sure. So enough to wreak havoc.
And yeah, that. Thing could definitely.
Do we want to unleash Yeah chaos?
Cause Grand Am is all for it. I mean, I think if we do that,
we definitely want to do it at the same time as we poison them.
Right? Sorry, go ahead.
I say we definitely. Beat this in a back.
Could we trade magic eating calamari tend?
To say we. Poison them first and eat.
For stuff. And then, yeah, I don't know if
it's at the same time, I think we want to give like administer,
quote, UN quote, administer the poison and let it take effect.
Rick Fix. Yourself.
Fix myself. Yeah, you do feel it it push
against your mind again almost asking Lee grand am and go in
deep speech. Still I don't understand what
you're vibrations are making above sounds like speech but
don't understand. Basically, it's saying that it
only understands deep speech. I was asking that to the rest of
them, yeah. That's it's just responding
because it heard vibrations. What's your name?
Sorry Sir, I should not ask the NPC that probably doesn't have a
name. It's name I should know.
Better than that, don't worry, I can think on my feet here a
second. Number one.
Car. Wait.
No, no, wait. No, no should wait.
Should this be? Who is Craig?
This should be Craig. Craig Calamari.
I said, can it be Carl? Oh God, that's.
All I'm planned for. US.
There, he has a plan for that, though.
To you, it just kind of sounds like a bunch of guttural tones,
I would probably say, but you can just call me ZOG.
I feel like it just hasn't. His His name is ZOG and he his
name is ZOG and He it's 100%. Struck me as something that
who's tumbling? Whose tummy has the rumblings
only hands can satisfy? Looks like a great exit plan if
if the trade hap if the trade goes poorly.
He also might make a good friend.
Oh. If we can stop.
If we stop tearing his arms off. We did that the one time when he
attacked us, so I want. To be real with you man, I I'd
remember the one time it happened too is.
Your. Friend same but like he attacked
us so you know, felt the fence. He seems almost like a a puppy
in your mind again, pushing up against it and saying did they
like the arm? I can give more they.
Closed that arm. And we can give you more food in
exchange. I'm going to cast good Berry and
make it. Can I make good Berry like the
size of a watermelon? Cool, I think offhand I check
real. Quick, it just.
And heal. And sound, just flavor wise,
just a big, big good Berry. I mean, from my memory, I think
you could do that, yeah. And just kind of throw it into
the water. So what is it a watermelon like?
Is that your intent? Yes, it'd be like a grape to
him. Great.
He one of his tentacles slides out and bops it once or twice as
it's kind of floating in the water and then then knocks it up
into the air and then opens its toothy throat mouth and you just
see it disappear into it with a with a soft.
Grand Am is going to clap and the spell Good Berry should fill
him up for the day. Oh cool, that's what I was
trying to remember how this all worked Here.
A creature use action eat 1 Berry.
Eating a Berry restores one and enough nourishment to sustain a
creature for one day. Wow.
OK, Yeah, I'm good. Cool.
Well, that's good to know that. That is.
So much at this point I I like I have to go to bed so you guys
are welcome to keep playing. I'm not really sure what else
we're going to accomplish tonight, but I think us man
there's like 5 memes on here. This is hilarious.
This is a little dragon memes. It's like Lupa island but like
Mimi island. This is great.
Oh no sorry these are rural scenes not Mimi's.
We just look a lot at like here. Anyway sorry my bad.
Anyway it was real fun when it looked like 5 Mimi but OK.
So what we have decided is we will go eat their food and try
to gather information and if shit goes to hell we won't
release the Kraken. Seems like in the evil campaign
they want friends too. That was more of a they make
friends. This is the good campaign at.
What point ever has Ezra looked for a friend in the evil wait?
That's true. Except for his daughter.
Except for his daughter and the new puppy that he's training.
So I was out of the instances. You're not wrong.
And and acquaintances so that you don't.
They don't. You don't know, like those are
friends. Those are.
Food resources for later. Friends.
And slaves are two different things there lava beast that was
going to drown you I'll. Probably delineate.
Oh no, that's that's Ash's new best friend though.
Yeah, Yeah, well, Patron. Yeah.
We could have taken him. I wanted to fight him.
I wanted to fight him so hard, yeah, but I ended up meeting
myself, so nobody heard me. Ashes.
Yeah. Overlord, Yeah.
There's definitely a a beautiful set up though for for next time.
I think ZOG would have taken that cue of the good Berry to
mean that you guys liked the tentacles from before, so he.
Like. Takes one of his bigger ones and
rips off a smaller one on him and it kind of just it kind of
looks looks like this the ones that that you would attack
before was one of the bigger ones.
So he's still kind of growing some of those bag it looks like,
but the one of the smaller ones almost come comes off like it
looks like almost like the same color and texture below it.
You're wondering whether or not it even actually was, you know,
deeper part of him or if it's more of like hair at this point
for him and just throws it onto the shore in front of you guys.
And it's like, oh, we'll roll one of these before we get
going. Blink.
It's like, yeah, it's like a 20 foot section.
It's a smaller tentacle, just 20.
Sorry long. No, 222 foot I, that's what I
was going for in the 1st place and then I was, my scale was off
and my imagination there apologize 2 foot.
That's a OK that that's much smaller.
We should put some of the we should take some of this flesh,
liquefy it, put it in syringes so we can directly inject it
into people. And we can dip and we can dip
this ring. Yeah.
No one else wants syringes Somewhere before medical
procedure I was. Going to say maybe.
We should take this instead of making like sushi out of the
tentacles, we should maybe like puree it and turn it into a
sauce so it's easier to like distribute and it can go
farther. But these are these are just
thoughts for another time. All right, this was good times.
This is a good, good one. I like like this.
I'm glad. We're going to feast.
We're going to perpetuate Nime's number one goal in life, which
is always to eat. And we're going to party and
we're going to check see if these turtles or guys are bad
guys. I like this and we have a new.
A grand and. Wonderful, thank you for those
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