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Tara through the campaign. Manny Polos.
Female. I was unaware.
Fuck you. Craig.
Well, yeah, since Hun, my fiance
was going to play Craig. I'd I'd opted.
For Craig Alina, because she doesn't really do voices either,
I. Probably missed a heck of a
session last time. No, no, it had nothing to do
with the session. So lucky guy I am my for my
birthday wish, I'd asked my asked Hun to join as my As for
one shot or you know, one session play with us basically.
And I, we spitballed a few things and landed on the fact
that she could be Craig. And so we made it, made it, made
the God Craig for the world. I posted the stats in it in
general a while back if you were curious.
They are quite robust, yeah. Robust.
Robust is an understatement. But I think, I think Rick would
appreciate it because it's a historian God.
Neat. I do appreciate it.
We can feel it. Well, with that, the Hand of
Fate tosses the dice rolls, spins, turns.
The campaign starts and ends, leaving memories that become
stories. Stories flow out into the
infinite sea, fading to myth until myths are forgotten.
And again, the Hand of Fate tosses the dice, rolls, spins,
turns. Hitherto we left our adventurers
known as the Shadow Seekers high in dry, approximately 1500 feet
up high after destroying Ashima's Michael Ripper Micro
RIP Q4 rocket with their patented move the can opener
from inside while in flight. Falling safely, they return to
Faust's hometown of Socrates to collect their thoughts and rest
at the most plush and all inclusive hotel, the Pink Pony
Inn. Let's find out what happens this
time as the adventurers awake in their rooms and having just
languished in their in the luxuries of the Pink pony in for
the evening. Don't all start at once.
I don't know who you. Don't know the languages
negative connotations. Yeah, like, yeah.
And I I realized I was looking for a good word, but that one
just kind of felt right. You know, fair enough.
Faust is not well. He is the one that sought out
the luxury. He's not one that's very prone
to it. Maybe he is languishing in his
bubble bath. He he dropped a second one in
and now he's panicking. I don't fucking know.
You can have drowned Ezra. Ezra is just enjoying the high
life in the I believe it was the rubber ducky room, yes.
I just should have wrote this. Down.
Yeah, Yeah. He's definitely passed out
somewhere. Yeah, he remembers flashes from
the night before. You should roll the Constitution
to see if he threw up Whiskey Jack from the nights excursion.
Wait, didn't he's? Got a plus one in that like
that, could be worse. I think Whiskey Jack ended up in
another club by Athens Dance. 10 egg middle middle of the road.
Yeah, pink blush pig. Yeah.
Yeah, you would. Men wandered through some of
their connecting tunnels over there and back, and they were
able to hold your gorge, although it was questionable for
a time. You probably passed out praying
to the pink or the Yeah, it probably would be a pink toilet,
actually. Pink porcelain.
Pink porcelain God. Pink porcelain fro Please carry
me safely through the night. But yeah, I think for Ezra, he's
just gonna, you know, rock out with Ash and all the peoples in
the Rubber Ducky room. Yeah, Ash and Bob.
Bob. Yes, Bob.
Yeah, we're just having a party of a time in there.
Oh yeah, I don't, I don't think. We ever did say exactly what you
guys would do with the door closed and there's some noises
probably, but I don't know if it's.
Going. On there a lot of fun sounds.
We only heard it as the door was closing, but after that no
noises because the the pink pony in is true to their word and all
their rooms are. Discretion.
High discretion, magically and otherwise.
But yeah, I think they just partied with the bathing
attendant until everybody was tired and passed out.
OK. So you guys would?
Probably like drinking involved too 'cause like if they the the
bat bathing attendants aren't going to show up to like a giant
12 person bubble bath without champagne or something, right?
Sounds like you guys are in need of an athletics or acrobatics
roles then, as opposed to the constitution.
OK, OK. Or performance in the in the
case of Ash if you really really want.
Yeah, let's do performance. Party symbol.
Everybody had a good time. 26. You're welcome.
You're OK. And was that performance as well
or is that? Oh no.
That is all about no, no, that's athletics.
It's the standard. Yeah, so although Ash carried
the party through the night with making sure everyone was having
a good time, Ezra carried the rest of the crew just with his
energy and and Bob hung on for dear.
On his. Shoulders.
And Bob hung on for dear life with the enjoying the the whole
experience still. No longer new to the sensations
after his long rest in in his skull, but still.
They're willing to experience more.
Yeah, yeah, Fully embracing the hedonistic style of life.
That's the that's the best way to explain Bob.
Yeah, he's never going to pass off on maybe having a good time
or a drink or some drugs. Yeah.
It's so easy to kill. Bob, Bob, free drugs.
Oh, thanks, bro. Yeah.
Doesn't even question what they are, just take some.
Yeah, I can. I can see that.
Oh yeah, absolutely. As a, as a spirit that inhabits
any new form, especially because, you know, he doesn't
really have to deal with the consequences.
At the end of the day, if it dies, it dies.
Imagine the Tom foolery with Bob in his mimic form.
But if we're moving on, I don't know if anyone else wants to
jump ahead. I know Mimi, Mama, sorry, may
not have have gotten to explain as well anything that they were
doing in the evening. So I mean, I'm seeing in Rule 20
this like beautiful front of the pink, the plush of the Jesus.
Yeah, Pony Club? I asked the pink plush pig.
But there's this beautiful picture of this course.
It's right next to it, the pink plush pig, so there you can tell
that there's some tie in there. Yeah, I feel like for this one,
mom is probably going to sit out and just like stay outside, but
I don't know what time of year it is or I'm assuming it's a
nice, refreshing, cool evening. Just going to stand outside and
like people watch and just laugh.
I'm. Going to go in for a long rest.
Yeah, hang out and let people watch until it's too late.
You do know at the very least that Ash had led the party into
the inn after Faust found it and contributed to a fund that would
allow the Shadow Seeker is any amenities for the evening.
Yeah, that. Sounds like it's.
Your first day on the surface, what are you doing?
It sounds like I just want to hang outside and like, watch the
stars and the drunk people, you know?
There's bound to be hilarious. There's a Yeah, there's.
Definitely people stumbling out of those places.
A large orc person that comes out, probably at at the behest
of the rest of your party too, and asks one more last time
before you're settled in for the evening.
And he's got it like a higher pitch voice, one that does not
match his big burly form. Is there anything else I could
get for you in the evening? I could start a fire out here
under the. Trees.
Do you have like jerky? Jerky would be good.
Popcorn would be great, maybe a beer.
I could acquire all of those things if you wish, for what was
incurred in price. But I mean, if I could start a
fire for you, I could set up a grill.
It sounds like you'd like some meat.
Grill like kebabs. Yeah, I can do.
That let's do that meet on a stick can't go wrong.
Just saunter saunters off and you see a couple other works
that come out just grunting along as they starting a fire
for you and grilling up a absorbent meal of things on
sticks. All the things on sticks.
Yes, I won't even question it. I'm not going to even ask what
it is neat on sticks. You don't question, treat me.
You should like sometimes. You probably get a few passers
by coming by to inquire. Not with you specifically, more
so with the orcs that are cooking to share some of the
meal as it smells good. They don't seem woefully off
because this district itself is generally well off people, but
most of them seem to be changing shifts from their jobs, work,
working class folk walking by. Just that smells good.
Can I get a can I get a bite? They, the orcs, would turn to
you. Mommy that it's.
Yeah, we we share. You can have a whole stick.
You should roll me a perception check.
Perception 21. 30. Obviously, I guess very nice you
you notice most of the individuals are very grateful
and some do linger for a moment and chat.
And you'd overhear some of them mentioning how the rats seem to
be in harder swing this year for some reason and a little bit
smarter than they usually are. They've been evading their traps
and the like in the town as well as that some of them you you
catch briefly but you're not sure say they have exposed
enlarged brains. It escalated.
Quickly, don't ask questions. You're you're able to ask them
just public chatter. No, this is this is Mommy.
No, I'm. Saying like how long?
People are just talking about it.
Yeah, yeah. How long have the the rats been
like this? And they're ripping off a piece
of meat from the skewer and. Rat.
Well, I've been there pretty bad.
Usually around this time of year it gets a little bit chilly at
night, but this fire is nice. Still relatively Mediterranean
here, so it's not. Too.
Hard kept, but the crops were all pulled in.
So they the rats usually come in this time of year as well with
the crops as you can imagine. But they seem to be smarter.
Like I was saying, I don't know. They just seems to be not maybe
not more just they're able to get through things and a hold of
things a lot easier. Like and I've ate all the traps,
had to start coming up with new ones.
Peanut butter on a stick doesn't work anymore.
Oh, oh man, that's a that's a bad sign.
Peanut butter always works well. Is this a?
Is this a widespread problem? Do you know it?
Seems to be happening across the whole city, yeah.
Everybody OK. The Queen has posted a few
higher bounties on the on their heads too.
It seems some folk have gotten to the rat catching business,
but they're still pretty tricky, so I think the the bounties for
rats are still staying pretty high compared to the years
before. Thanks for the meat, by the way.
Yeah, yeah, it's a it's a great night.
Good night. Good night to be outside.
Probably doze off and dreams of smashing rats with axes.
I bet axes will be very effective.
Yeah, and that's it. I want to if if no other
interesting folk pass by or nobody else strikes up a
conversation. I'm going to.
Ponder the rat problem. I wonder why.
Why their brains have gotten bigger and exposed.
Or maybe, maybe I'll ask another passerby if there's somebody
else that comes by to. Oh, there's several throughout
the evening while you're dozing in and out, probably.
Then they would affirm his stories and some would allude
that that they're pretty sure that they're hiding down in the
Subarus, the vast majority of them, and they come up during
shift changes and the like. I mean, we've spent lots of time
in sewers. I don't think we've ever seen
rats. Gelatinous cubes, yes, but rats,
no. Yeah, that's what we tried to
employ the last time is some gelatinous cubes.
They clean up messes pretty well.
But yeah, they they, they seem to be evading those, even
surprisingly. Do you know if there's any need
any any market for rat catchers slash rat exterminators?
Oh absolutely. He pulls out of crumpled piece
of paper. I grabbed this half of 1 of the
Taverns from the blue district and it shows you a silver piece
for each rat and a gold piece for any rat with exposed brain.
Oh wow. Well.
Thank you for the information. So who is who is calling for it?
Is that the queen or is it somebody else in town?
Oh. Yes, yes, the Queen has put out
the bounty. It usually these sorts of things
around town are handled by the the the Queen's gals though.
I mean, it's got the Queen's script on it.
She signed it, but you know, it doesn't have time for that.
She's probably at the pink blush pig.
Yeah, I can't blame her for that.
That is the place to be. All right, Well, interesting.
I don't, I don't know. I don't know if a gold per rat
is is really worthwhile with our, you know, income from
Dragon's breath, but that's an interesting problem.
That's the other campaign. Oh, do we not have a?
OK, well, good to know we can. Oh no, that yeah, the good
campaign's broke. Yeah.
Good campaign is like a good campaign has a ton of money.
Like a gold per rat that could be like.
Damn has no money. Oh well, we just have to look at
the 1% money back or a money bag.
At some point, somebody has it. Yeah, that would be.
Oh, they may. When we say the other campaign,
I gotcha they're the one that has the massive income.
Yeah. We're just.
Wealthy. Underground.
Yeah, that was me, man, not Mama.
Wait a minute, are we in? Good campaign.
Tonight, no. Where?
Are you no evil? OK, that's what I thought and I
was temporarily confused. OK.
You're good. There's a lot of banter of it
going back and forth, so that much being said for Mama's
evening. And whiskey, Jack and Ash, I
think. Then we've got a Faust still
covered, Ezra and a Franklin. I know that you guys had both,
besides your evening beds, gone out on the town to gather
information and had met with sources, in your case Faust, and
learned about the underbelly to some degree and that there is a
resistance in the city. Anything else you either of you?
Oh well, I believe that any before I move forward with any
further plans that I might have been making, I want to discuss
it with everybody else. Gotcha.
Just. Wait until.
Everybody's just kind of. Might as well rule perception
check in your case too, since you're out about in the town.
Faust isn't that observant 13. You.
Trip. Over a stone and see a posted
board for the rats that had been confirmed confirmation for
yourself that there is an issue in town of, of, of them.
There are a few other bounties for smaller things, crimes and
crooks and whatnot among town that have stolen or murdered.
But you you kind of just brush it off as like it's a normal
board for jobs, job postings. Franklin, I think you had a
bunch of dreams you were going to cast.
So I had cast a dream at a well. So to recap what I did for those
who are not here, I ordered a massage lady who was versed in
the politics of the area, then coerced her nicely to write down
everything she knew about the area, of the factions, the
region, cities nearby, you know, anything that may be useful for
new and new adventurers and people aspiring to power.
Convinced her I was just a innocent 10 year old who was
just Kristed versus a murderous person.
I did not murder her. That was nice of me.
Very nice. Then I cast a dream at the druid
guy who's living in my body and he failed his check so he moac
so he failed his check so he did not get a long mate's rest and
then he has exhaustion. I will continue this until he is
dead, but it will take a number of other days.
Outside of that, I probably would have tried to get a hold
of ash and figured out some method to do ascending or a
dream on one of her family members so that they are aware.
Do you want to elaborate on Mohawk's nightmare?
I guess. I think I made it seem like the
team he was with, the good guys were like he he had a nightmare
about the good team being secretly evil.
He got thrown off the Airbus and then woke up from the fall.
Oh, and that was his. Like people yeeded him off.
I got you. Yeah, like he was betrayed while
they were travelling and it was yeeded off the side and then he
woke up with the very classic like falling dream.
Outside of that I will probably either wander out to sit next to
Mimi and just observe because I have never been in the surface
or seen stars or the sky crowds of people that I didn't blow up.
That or I was considering wandering the night looking for
murderers to kill. But we'll go with the first one,
seems more friendly. So after I do all the dreams,
I'll go attempt to find Ash and possibly end up outside with
Mima as she is observing. Oh OK, so you're going to go
knock on Ash's door before you go outside?
I think so, yeah. If I'm, if I'm inside and then
I'm headed outside, I will. I'll knock and Ash's door and be
like, hey, Ash, knock, knock. Sorry to Obama bother you if
you're having sex. Oh, wait, you're probably having
sex with people, are you? I hear to the door.
I listen for. I listen for sounds.
There is definitely grunting sounds.
For. Well, you would a lot of weird
sounds. You wouldn't.
Hear any of them as you knock on the door.
So I was going to say a performance check by Franklin
versus a perception check with disadvantage from Ash and OR.
I'm pretty sure they said the rooms.
For. Soundproofs.
Yeah, yeah. Oh.
Perception at disadvantage. Oh this is great.
Many performance. 1010. Unless you, unless you unless,
unless your strength wailing on the door at some point, I would
accept. That 24 that's with
disadvantage. Nice.
Ezra with a Ezra with A10 and he just don't care about what's at
the door. Might be safe.
So I I guess I hear it not. No.
I would answer the door of the robot and try and it would just
be like me in the doorway I guess.
I was, I was. I was still waiting, I think,
for Frank's performance there, I think.
Because he's got, I got a nine. I apologize all.
Right, it didn't. Go through.
I saw it. I saw it.
It's probably in the D&D Beyond. Yeah, that's where I saw it.
So I was kind of playing odds or evens in my head, so I don't
think guys heard it on the inside.
OK. I don't know if you're
persisting Franklin or not. Nah, I mean, we just got out.
I'm not going to. If she didn't, I'll wait there
for a minute or two, twiddle my thumbs a little bit, shrug, and
skip down the hall to the outside and go sit next to Mama.
Just sitting or were you going to go out and around like you
said? Nah, I don't need a burger right
now. Feel good about myself that
Lady. Why I don't feel to eat a burger
right now? You walk out and the orcs are
still tending the fire. Mummy is napping in a hammock
that they've strung up for them and they ask if you'd like one
strung up as well and some of the meat or things on sticks.
Take some of the things on sticks, but I will decline the
hammock. Need to stay vigilant.
I'm just gonna. My ally is sleeping.
I'm on watch. It's.
Gonna, I don't know, lean up against the three then or?
Yeah, I see any birds, I shoot them.
Yeah, what? The fuck is that shooting bird?
From now until the end of the campaign I shoot every bird I
see, Eldridge glass every. Time.
I shoot them with what? And then it's night time, right?
Are there nocturnal birds here? Well.
That's where the perception check comes.
In of your birds, right? That's true.
I guess I. Don't believe in birds at the
perception 20 but I will do a perception check Jack doesn't
catch. Oh, you got a passive 20?
Yeah, I could. I got a 22 with a with a roll.
I'm mostly I'm absorbing the the scene, right?
I've never seen this before. I've never seen the sky.
I'm looking at the stars. Very nice moment.
Maybe an owl flies bionic? Wait, what are you?
Shooting it with. Ultra Blast 300 feet.
Oh, oh, so this isn't like a gun or like an arrow.
This is like a beam. I mean.
Wouldn't that disturb the residents?
Probably, but there's a party going on fireworks that's late.
Everybody's drunk, OK? Not like I'm like carrying like
an assault. Well, I am carrying an assault
rifle, but I'm not using it. You, you're sitting against a
tree, Mommy's half dozed in the hammock with a skewer of juicy
succulent meat dripping oils across their face.
And you, you, you oil or you, you notice a, a a winged
creature fly by the night light, the street light and Priscilla.
Yeah, you Eldred's blast, which I don't know, it's been a while
if we have, but. With magic or the antimatter
rifle? Magic I don't want to.
I don't want to give the optics of having the anti mitre rifle
out and pointed at things were your Eldred's blast.
Franklin isn't also fingering up, though still remembers mass
shootings from Earth, and he didn't want to instigate that.
Hysteria are you Eldridge is your I was trying to remember
how Eldridge blast went. Is it is it like a a finger gun
thing too? Or are you, I don't know,
shooting out of your eyes or the whole?
Mouth opens his mouth like a Pez dispenser.
What means of Eldridge Blast? Rarl's Eldridge Blast comes out
of its eyes because it's laser beams out of the cat's eyes, and
then Franklin's are finger guns. That's what it is.
But you you you pull pull one of your hands up from from your
side in western style, stand straight up and point straight
to the bird or that you think it is and you shoot it with your
Eldridge blast and it stops in mid flight falls to the.
Is it a? Pew or a Caparo asking the
important questions. I figured it was more of a a.
Yeah, Phaser, Yeah. More of a exactly and it's.
The guy that screams the the Wilhelm scream every time.
I'll just. Required.
Wait. No, it does require something
right? An attack like.
You're still. Rolled rolled the 24 to hit it
requires that'll. That'll fucking hit.
Semantic material it. I'm just saying what it
requires. Yeah, I didn't think it required
anything. No, I was just going for the
making sure that it hit before I told you that the the winged
creature is is struck by your blast and it just on the ground
and you see that it's a bat. Send my familiar to go get it.
This isn't a bird. Hairless bird.
Once I get it, I'm going to move on after this.
I'm going to move on after this. But once I get it, I'm going to.
I'm going to cut it open and look on the inside to see if
it's a robot. It's not.
I throw it to the side if it is. Fucking it's not you.
You toss it to the side and and the orcs at the grill look at
you look at the thing and go. You got you're going to eat
that. Now you're going to have it
thought it was a spy. And you see him swiftly got skin
and prepare it for the grill. I'm just going to pass on that
one. She's going to distinct orders
of will. Not that bad things come from
eating bats, OK? Stay with the bats.
We'll eat it. We don't need a pandemic in a
tariff. I look between the orcs, the
meat on sticks that they're selling, and then over at mommy,
who is holding a meat on stick that she is currently eating.
And then back to the bat, back to the orcs, the meat on the
sticks. Then mommy kind of cycle through
that a few times while I also chew on my own meat on the
stick. I'm.
Not going to say anything. They're going to look over their
shoulder and keep cooking, keep going, Faust.
You could fill some other things in too, if you wanted.
Whiskey Jack, I was just going to throw that out there.
I didn't before. I just kind of threw some stuff
on you so you can. You're more than welcome.
I, I, I think it's probably still recovering OK.
So yeah, like whenever is my go, what are we doing?
Where am. I Yeah.
What's? I zoned out.
Yo, you're good. You, Who am I?
Where am I? You were last I recall.
Anyhow, you had finished your bath in the pink plush pig.
You were going and you were going to go out, or I said it.
Now the pink pony in and you're going to go out on the town to
find some of your contacts and we'd you'd stumbled over a stone
and done that, but I just wanted to make sure that you're all
good on what you did for the evening.
All right, Everyone has acquired their long rest status and May
Franklin and mommy are seeing the first Don Ray's that they've
seen in a long time, many years in fact.
And in the sky it turned a beautiful shades of orange,
Reds, pinks and some purples. Even your eyes are cracking
open, having had a pretty much across the board, even in
Whiskey Jack's case, a very restful sleep.
Yeah, this. This was nice.
The best long rest yet? Yep.
All right, so you guys. Ezra's going to figure out like
where in the dogpile in the he's at right now.
I feel like Ezra's a power bottom.
I don't know. Oh no, no, no, he's definitely
not that. He he is like getting as many
people next to him. Like kind of like the Rawlsons,
only minus. He wants to put as many people
next to him to keep him warm. Given the tameness of Faust
evening, plus the fact that he's probably an early riser, I kind
of want Faust to go and just like, knock on the door and just
barge right into their room. OK, yeah, Could you see us all
on this like a giant, ridiculously circular bed with
way too many pillows on it and all of us just sleeping in like
heart-shaped bed? I don't know, a line or a pile
pressed against each other. Nobody's clothed.
I really want Mimi to have woken up with the sun and gone and
like searched for breakfast and then found breakfast.
Whether just put the meat on the stick again and like then go
also try to find everybody and walk in like behind Faust.
Feel like Faust would not close the door behind him.
And so let me just like. Walk immediately to the window,
open up the the blackout curtains.
Good morning everyone, it is time for us to begin our new
lives. There's an audible grown audible
bed. Gentlemen, if you are hired to
be here, you may, may now depart.
I'm a lady but the they just they otherwise shuffle together
and don't even put on clothes it seems like walking out of the
room, stumbling out of the room. Ash is continuing to lay on the
bed and just reaching for a pillow to cover her face.
With, with, with, with the 32, especially a line of like 15
people. Leave ashes and foul.
All right, Ezra's room. After that I.
Imagine you'll. Be hungry.
Stick. Yep, it says that Ezra's like
looking, feeling around. Let's let's double said where
everybody. Go.
Are you a? Mistake.
Have an earnest discussion of plans.
Ash is going to grow again and sit up, not bothering to cover
herself, and she's like, can we have something to eat and, you
know, some caffeine before we start using our brains?
Sounds like everyone's gathered in.
Yeah, what? She said.
And as as Ezra's room after being collected, as the last
person makes it down the set of stairs, you hear somebody coming
up the set of stairs and softly poking their head in the room.
Yeah, fuck it, Fowl's just going to cast Heroes Feast at that
request. The board pokes his head into
the room and goes. I see that you're awake, can I
help? With that, do you think?
Looks like you guys have yourself covered.
Know that you're always welcome back at the Pink Party Inn.
You guys have been a blast. Thanks.
Before you catch that here at
least perhaps we should move this to a more secure location.
I know this say they're not listening, but do you really
believe that? You know, with that point, maybe
instead of taking that as my belt, I'm going to change my
mind if I may. Yeah, you may.
I would magnificent man off of that.
OK. You fucking baby boy.
And wait, what is it? Bowser's going to walk up to the
door to the room, take out like a piece of like, I guess like
really fine chalk and trace some runes around the door frame and
then push it open and it'll open up into a magical pocket
dimension that is a mansion. Oh nice, we already have a
pocket rocket. We do.
Yes, I suppose we do. I don't trust the goblins.
To chef do. You trust anybody?
No. No.
Wow. At that, then to at.
The very least I had know that this lot has my back through
hell though, so. Then to the individual that
would have been coming up had been then not not seeing a
giant. These labor cells had been
inclined to I could offer some to go pancakes, anything that
you desire. Sausage.
I request pancakes. I will I blueberries.
Collapse his hands and. I should note the Manor.
I'm sorry. Carry on.
I, I, I like to. I I have a bad habit of
interrupting, but the Manor does contain enough food for a nine
course banquet for up to 100 people.
It. Is litter their pancakes and.
Is and is staffed by invisible servants.
Oh nice. Oh.
That is, trust the invisible servants, do you?
I summoned. With my own.
Magic. Absolutely.
What is? What is the?
What is the spill called again? Just for my?
Morden kind. It's magnificent mansion.
Oh yeah, I'm familiar now. It's a high level base spill.
I just leveled up so I'm grabbing that.
It's been on my list for a while.
But the proprietor of the pink pony in collapse his hands a
couple times and up comes from from the the stairs up to the
second floor a what feels like a conveyor belt of orcs passing
food into the room at everyone's behest and their orders filling
them out and leaves them there. close the door and I'm assuming
that's when you cast that in to go containers as a question.
I want to know what Whiskey's Jack's order was.
I'm thinking I bet he likes French toast.
I'm. Trying like his protester had a
favorite food. I don't, I don't remember.
I don't think he had a bit. He had a favorite food.
Oh yeah, All the fixings, little powdered sugar and little fruit
and stuff. He can be a little indulgent.
Like he can afford it. Comes to you and perfectly cut
logs so that you may easily deal with it.
Kind of like French toast sticks.
Oh nice, but still covered. Jake, we need to get some syrup.
We have so many eggs. Like we could make French toast
if we just had syrup. French toast.
Everyone starts getting a Nosebleed almost.
Everyone. Yeah, I was going to say,
besides Faust, Whiskey and Ash and no, Agonon didn't sit at the
table, actually. He briefly did.
Then he stood up. What's Agonon's order?
That's a really tough choice. I feel like he's a fake guy.
I was. Going to say I'm assuming
there's some bacon. Yes, yes, definitely Bacon.
Can he order multiple things if he can't decide?
Yeah, absolutely. That doesn't have to be one
thing. OK, OK, OK, OK.
Let's see here he will get a steak topped with a Rosemary and
bacon. And then, oh boy.
Cook cook cooked in the rendered bacon fat.
Yes, mashed mashed potatoes with copious amounts of garlic and
cream. Let's see for dessert.
I want to. Say yeah, let me, let me think,
let me think on this one. He'll he'll hold on his desert
order until he's done with his his steak.
OK, yeah, you guys are still inside the pink plush pig or the
pink pony in God damn it. I did that to myself anyways and
so theoretically you could come back for more orders, but I just
figured I'd ask for everyone else's order.
I know Ezra's and Mama's are copious amounts of meat as well,
I'd assume. Oh yes.
Mostly bacon. I'm sorry, mostly pancakes.
Bacon pancakes would be very well received.
Bacon. Bacon, you're eating only the
jerky we've made from the people we've killed.
Bacon pancakes do do you mind if I steal this recipe?
I, I, I could obviously compensate you for the the cost
of this, but this, this is revolutionary.
Yes. Please spread this, spread this
to the world. And then I'm gonna try really
hard to convince Franklin to eat a bacon pancake.
Not just I'm gonna like, do airplane motions.
I'm gonna like hold a whole pancake in front of them.
I'm like, here comes the airplane.
You can roll with persuasion. Cool.
I don't know what I the. Airplane motion.
Now I have a -1 had. Advantage.
Next, it probably would be against.
I mean, it would be a wisdom save, right?
And. It.
Probably would be at advantage because it smells fucking
delicious. I mean, oh that.
Was. Wisdom save advantage.
He knows what he wants for dessert.
Persuasion is not for me. As you as the little airplane
comes closer and closer and the smell is like syrup and
sweetness hits my nose my like pitch black eyes from.
Just a. Split second like crackle white
and I go that smells so and then all black again today.
No, only the sweat. No, Most remained evil, no
innocence. Mom, it's going to shrug and go
more for me and just pop it in the mouth.
I need to stay sharp. I guess that's the perfect segue
for what is Franklin ordering then?
Nothing. Oh, I.
Continue eating the jerky from all the people that we've
murdered so far and we have in the Turkey factory.
The only sustenance he means. OK enemies are the only stuff to
soon I will eat Angel. The dessert for Agonon, though,
I did here, was ready. A large plate of assorted hot
cookies. I really want cookies now and I
have them in the fridge. Do it and you've convinced me.
Anyone else for their order I guess?
Well house is going to order if we're getting food from the end
that you've already paid for a single diff black coffee all he.
Wants. Is is that like you want it like
you want it like rigid death back and back and I can bring
you like a chewable form of copy.
A chewable? That sounds disgusting.
Chocolate covered espresso beef. What language do I have to speak
for you to understand what I mean?
He'll he'll explain it in Orcish and in Goblin and whichever one
sticks. It's the same words, just
different languages. Yep, whatever.
Like would convey what he means, because clearly the common
tongue is not it. I.
Really want to hear what this sound like now anyways.
But he he, he raises an eyebrow. Out the orchish and he goes.
I think I can accommodate you. I've gotten some beans from the
South that they say to brew in a specific way and you'll only
need an ounce of the stuff, but I can make sure to give you 6.
It comes off with six. You you want all six.
I just want cup. That would be.
That would, that would be all six.
That's 8 ounces of the chef, or I guess 6.
So you understand stiff. So do you understand the
imperial system but you don't understand stiff?
It's gargantuan. We work off the imperial system,
of course. My friend's going to.
Kill you. I I apologize for.
My let him get all this breakfast first.
Please. I'm.
I'm I'm used to dealing with the, the, the the the rest of my
staff. I apologize.
Cindy bowels deeply. I I most certainly get you the
stiffest form of coffee we have. It's.
Going to be solid, isn't it? It's going.
To. Be.
Like fucking. Just a puck.
It's the puck before the brood of like, espresso.
Yeah, Oust will kill him. Actually, I have been
researching something and it might come out like this.
You, I'll tell you in a second. I think I've gotten everyone
else's order. I think Whiskey Jack.
Not so sure though. French jokes.
That's the first one. Yeah, that's the first one.
That's right. Ash.
Was the last one. France confirmed to exist in in
tariff. Wait, what?
Welcome to France. You couldn't.
Leave a la. France.
Ha ha ha, great coupon great. Great, like good France.
Like when they were still strong.
Bibliotheque. Their government didn't collapse
every couple weeks. Only the South of France, that's
that's the only option that we do.
It's where all the good stuff comes from anyways.
Ash. She's.
Going to order a beef Wellington, fried eggs on the
side and sauteed vegetables and she'll take a coffee that's
extra sweet and extra creamy. Chef's kiss, he says, and the
orders are coming up as soon, almost as soon as he's writing
them in his little booklet. You can see a person follows up
not long after behind him. Seems to be almost a direct sort
of sending stone down to the kitchens and your coffee.
Everyone else's order comes up correct, including Fausts,
although you were very confused because it is clear.
Doing this side. It gets thronomy shit.
OK yeah, sure Faust will. Faust is an alchemist at heart.
He will try it. You take a sip and you feel
every follicle on your body stand up on end with
invigoration. You know, if you would drink the
rest of this, you'd probably have enough energy to cast 5
spell slots up to level 5. You, you, you understand what
I'm trying to say? Like you could cast 5 level 1
spells addition. Yeah. 5 spells.
What Faust? Faust wants to know how they did
this. Can I buy the process from?
You, you don't need to, but it's alright.
It's quite prevalent in these, well maybe not in the but in
some other. I would be willing to explain it
to you. It's possible through the Java.
I believe it it is the potion form of this particular thing
and then the. Country.
Of Java. Also exists.
And then you can take the Java after you've fully made a gallon
or more of it and distill it and it will produce as much well.
Have you been distilling coffee beans?
You can distill coffee. In fact, This is why I've.
Left the Constitution check for economy.
Yeah, it it will distill clear. Believe that, but like I'm just
how do you get the caffeine to go with it?
The caffeine over it's. Not.
Volatile the the the cap. This is I don't ask questions
question. I'm going to look up this is I'm
going. To look up the science later, I
just like I'm baffled but. This is a question, this is a
question that I've had and if you can find it out, I would be
100% interested because I've been watching people.
I appreciate that because I want to make a distilled coffee
spirit at some point. And there was people that were
distilling it. And I'm like, how do I pull the
amount of caffeine that is in this?
Because that's important. It can kill people.
Yes. Pretty sure magic.
Lots of magic. Yeah, yeah.
If you tell, if you could find out, I'd be highly interested,
but I only did brief researchings on the matter and
it apparently does work. That you can't distill coffee.
And it is. It tastes like coffee.
It's clear, but it tastes like coffee.
It's clear, fascinating. Yeah.
All right. Well, thank you.
I appreciate it. My pleasure.
I'm very much interested in what you find.
Yeah, I. Would say I was saying thank
you. They brought him the alchemy
coffee. Absolutely.
My pleasure. If there's anything else, just
ring this bell and we'll be sure to bring it to this room.
And he had a small pink bell. And we'll have to use our
imaginations for the mansion because unless you want me to go
grab something, but. Just give us the vibe.
It opens like Faust is not an ostentatious man.
He is a man of like very simple, clean lines, like if modern,
like decor were a thing, like it'll place where he's this is
strict geometries and like proportions.
It is almost, I don't want to say it's very, it's not sterile,
but it's very like teetering there on the edge of like you
ever been somewhere where like you can tell the architect
probably like had a fascination with like aviation or anything
like that. Because like of like the way
like, it's just like I'm talking to a room full of literal
architects and I cannot put into work what I'm trying.
To describe an aesthetic. It's all very like.
Sleek, Modern. Sleek and modern is definitely
his. Minimalism.
Minimalistic. Like it would not stand out
terribly in a like my brain is not working today.
Y'all I'm I'm way too stupid today to play a smart character.
The main room is just like a low like polished black table
surrounded by chairs. There's one seat for everybody.
What's the? What's the color scheme?
I guess is the easiest thing to. Start with it is 100% just black
and Gray like sterile and I would don't want to call it
boring but definitely like you. Should Google the word
brutalism? Yes, there you go.
Brutalism. He.
That's a lot of concrete. It's not polished.
Oh no, this is it's. It's not like brutalism implies,
like a love of no, like no care for.
Or as. This is.
This is a care for simple aesthetics.
Brutal. Minimalistic is probably the
best 'cause it's like he. Does not want like Faust
doesn't. Want.
He doesn't want what? He doesn't want for a lot, he's
one for a lot. Gotcha.
Baroque is the opposite of simple and clean.
Yeah, exactly. That's why my brain went there
when he said. He lives a very no
ornamentation. Life he doesn't really care for
the external that much got you Roger.
There are some doors that lead off to other parts of the the
Manor quotation marks the pocket dimension.
But for now, the that's all that we need is just the the the the
little like sitting room walks in and takes himself a seat at
the table and motions for you all and join us.
I haven't used this particular spell.
I don't know if you have pocket dimension wise.
It just lets you like it's got roughly the 50,000 square cubic
feet. MM, no, that sounds real small.
I was going to say more, less less on the exact the exact.
Like. No, yeah, I I was because of how
DND does cubes. It's like 10 foot on a cube and
there can be 50 of them. That makes more sense, less on
the actual like mechanics portion.
My brain was going on like the outside.
So like sunlight? Or are there no windows?
That's the kind of question that might bring.
In. Thinking of the spell.
Good question. I think that there would be like
he he would have like conjured up at least like the facade of
an outside for the windows. OK.
So kind of like digital, I mean lack for of a better explanation
I guess, but digital screens for Windows like it looks like
outside. The IT does open into the like
the the nothing between worlds. Gotcha.
That's where, that's where I was at when I was asking about the
spell 'cause I'm like, is it in a void?
But that sounds accurate then to my understanding.
So it wouldn't. Yeah, like you're saying, you
open up the window and it would be void.
OK, anyways, you would get the illusion of being in a giant
mansion that's in a beaming Meadow at the height of summer.
Maybe Spring actually. So I think it's a good amount of
time discussing what we plan on doing last.
Week. So I don't intend on this to be
yet another like hours long discussion to my wanderings
around the city. I have under the distinct
impression that the people of Socrates are ready for a change.
They're tired of the current Queen's love of indulgence while
they suffer. Yeah, I do not know precisely
what leadership they seek, but I think it would be very easy
place ourselves at the helm of such an engine.
One of Order isn't a good team. Basically already done that
here. We try to topple the
government's Socrates. We'll put ourselves directly at
odds with them. Else would be aware of this
Franklin you only get like 1/2 Nosebleed because you do know
this from having said. He does remember.
From before. They're well situated here, yes,
So we want to immediately go to war with them.
Are you not? Would it be?
I do not think it would be going to war with them immediately.
And I always say. This strike at their power base
and see what happens. Yes, you strike at their power
base. Right.
Strip it from them if if this is an inevitability that are coming
to a head, I see no. Better question, we don't have
to be coming to a head. We're still technically working
with them. If you're if our goal is to push
the gods out, we have a agreement with them to do that
already if we attack them. Alternatively, there is no
reason we could reorganize the city in such a way that it
enfranchises the people, puts us in positions of power, and yet
allows them to maintain their little trade of whatever they
are doing with the this portals I'm.
Just concerned that we don't have a power base.
Not yet. Well, the people would like us a
whole lot if we got rid of their rat problem and.
That doesn't have anything. To do with the coin and a.
Gold coin ahead is a fair price if there are thousands of them.
And you can eat that if you don't want to do that.
We could get some quick cash that way, that's for sure.
Gosh, knock yourself out, buddy. Yeah, above table.
I want to say something that I know would then get through to
Faust because it would just be too gamey meta.
I mean, you could tell me and I could tell them away and you
could tell Agnon. The.
Thought. The thought of a foul of math
mat saying no that's true Meta does the.
Band to. Get into the Airs.
Get out of me. If only.
Someone would remember that in the good campaign we encountered
a giant flying fortress that if we wanted a power base, we could
go get one. Well.
Somebody does remember that. I don't know this, I wasn't
there. For whatever.
That is. Agonon was there.
I I don't support me as Emily does not support.
Capturing the. Dome City and yeah, taking over
the Dome city. Damn.
Ash does ash, Absolutely. Does he need it?
But he would in a heartbeat. That said, I I think that how
much do you remember of your connection to Matt Mr. When
everything up until the last year rhythmic, grassy where some
other people took the spot. How much do you retain from
their world? There's something that I think
occurred in their. Time.
That parallels precisely to what I want to do.
Do you remember a concept known as the Communist revolution?
Oh. No, yeah.
I mean, I imagine this going like the Game of Thrones TV show
where the Kelis sees a bunch of slaves and then they join her in
a giant communist revolution. That's what I would do.
I'm imagining this without the keep the Queen as a figurehead.
Keep no no, I just mean like the with the story beats, like
having an actual queen. I'm just Speaking of like things
we could do here. We bring about this revolution,
We franchise the people we allow, we give them a council.
We we convince the the aristocracy to give them a
council of which they allow are allowed to govern themselves of
people, of course. First thing first, we need
money. Mama, Mama is just going to
raise their hand. Like real high.
Yes. So, so you started this by
saying that last week we talked a lot about what we were going
to do and you didn't want this to be a real long conversation.
Can you remind, remind us what that was that we decided last
week? A good point.
They were. That's the.
Issue We didn't truly established anything, we just
kind. Of yeah, we didn't, General.
Vibe. The general vibe is we want.
Are you asking you want to? Are you asking for a history
check? I'm just trying.
No, I really want not. What?
We're talking about. Not only that, but I really want
fast to like re baseline or like Recenter because we're proposing
a lot of things, but I feel like we decided things but we didn't.
Like. We.
We were supposed to go back, back to my family's home in
Athenia. Yeah.
That's what it. Was yeah, so, so from what I
remember, we had all kind of went around circle story time
and said what our goals were moving forward.
And we kind of generally land on the the the option of getting a
power base by going to Athenia to Ash's family, loading up, you
know, outfitting the pocket rocket so that we could have a
band of mercenaries, then use those mercenaries to go attack
something to get some more power or strength or money.
All with the end purpose of of figuring out a way to push the
gods off of just the planet of Torah.
And yeah, so so. Guys, hear me out.
What is 3? Yeah.
How much more powerful would our communist revolution be if we
befriended the rats and we got them?
We like controlled them as an army and we took over the gods
and the people. So.
A change in government. Did we establish that as a fact
or are we assuming? Oh, that is something that has
been. People are just unhappy.
Yeah, it's something that's been assumed.
No, I've got a pretty firm confirmation that there's an
organization actively working towards that end.
In OK, that was OK. That was the guy that you you
took over. Yes, got it.
OK, he had the how? Minority.
Are we certain that they're a minority?
How far away is Athenee? We could tell any.
Hot top skip. We could teleport to Ash's
house, gear up and then teleport to either back here to deal with
rats or wherever we're going. Next move should be go to Ash's
get gear 'cause we have and I hold it up again.
Let's again, I have this antimatter rifle that we stole,
that I stole from the the ship that we can't open it.
We have the pocket rocket, which is a huge utility.
We could empty the goblins Ash's house and fill it with
mercenaries and use the chest of desire to duplicate the gun and
then have a squad of like 30 to 40 guys to help us with whatever
we do next. Right now it's just, you know,
the five of us. We can do some damage, but like
if you want like area control or you know, suppressive fire,
anything, if we want to shoot, if we want to shoot high, we
need to gear up and, and and get some support.
Be ready to go because we've been in hell for how long and we
just had one night in an inn. Being able to go to my family's
home, get the lay of the land, so to say, and prepare ourselves
for what we. Want to do next?
I agree I think we should go to Ash's house gear up and then if
we want to come back here and kill a bunch of rats to get some
money or and and the the point on Mama is thing about
befriending them. We met an elder brain on the
second level of hell in his own ship.
So we have the information we could sell.
We also have one of that elder brains little brain minions that
is currently brain dead because it's in a pocket dimension in
the pocket rocket. So if the elicit or whatever it
is that are, I don't think so. I think it's.
Just in the pocket. Rocket.
But now it is in the. Yeah, it is technically
dimension of the dimension. How far can it go?
There's a third one because we still have the other rock that
has the subdimension with the A witches.
They're still living in in the pocket.
Thanks for reminding me. That's right.
We're 3 deep right now. We've been having a.
Long. Long conversation in there.
So we have, we have, we have resources if we wish to befriend
these things or if we prefer money, we could go in there
with, you know, 40 dudes with rifles and just, you know, clean
house. Money.
We need money.
I mean, Ash has money. So we should go.
We should go. We should go see what Ash's
family can give us first and then decide what to do.
Yes. They haven't disowned her or
written her off for dead. I mean, they've sent, I mean guy
to. Come, I did have like a dream
conversation with my mom so she knows I'm alive.
Well, I mean, I'm a dream or BP knows what your mom's been
taking to deal with the the grief.
Very well. I wonder if my mother is the
type of person to grieve. Oh.
Ouch. It seems like we have a plan or
the beginnings of 1. Also, next step, if we can
confirm, can confirm, so go on. If we can confirm how
significantly the populace wants this rebellion, Agonon will be
all for it. But he needs concrete proof that
this is the popular opinion of the of the city.
I would like to make two final stops before we call the city
quits. Maybe we could teleport back
here later today if we need for sure.
I would like to see if we can't find and speak with members of
this group and I would like to pay a visit to my old stompy
grounds. Did we establish like what the
Academy equivalent is? I forget like where Faust was
probably like a professor slash teacher slash whatever student.
Faust, are you from Socrates? Yes.
Yeah. And not exactly, not exactly.
As to your question of of institute, I'd always kind of
figured, but you could correct me if I'm wrong in that because
it may have been an assumption of mine that Faust was sort of
brought by his current outlook on life through the school of
Hard Knocks. But.
If there is an actual school. He, oh, he, that's not where he
learned his philosophy or anything like that, but he is a
wizard. He went to school.
He is a man of learning. At his school, OK.
But no, his philosophy 100% was formed by extreme grief.
Yes. Then it would probably have been
some of the emerging schools and Socrates.
Those those that aren't, you know, filled with the
aristocratic folk and that was that are probably housed within
the side as small as like a duplex.
OK. What's the biggest school then?
Biggest. Arcane School.
Yeah, yeah. That that wouldn't be in
Socrates. Well, here.
Arcane in on tariff no. In Socrates.
In Socrates, the biggest arcane school in Socrates would likely
be more akin to a technical school, even for Wizards,
because they apply their skills in like the, I want to say
factory application, but I'm thinking of like, you know,
manufacturing application. There we go.
So Fast is a high school dropout and went to a vocational school.
Apparently. You just.
Play while you total one. Faust would like to pay that
school to visit and see if he can't before we leave and maybe
visit the headmaster or whoever's in charge.
OK, you are you would go back to the school, the school of
Nakshneke and. Don't say that too fast, you'll
say something bad. Nakshneka.
Yeah. Anyways, yeah, naturally.
Anyways, you go to the school of Nakshneka, and you hear, or
rather see on the outside, some of the large slugs from the
lower class of Socrates, they that that are tending the
gardens and that greet you as you come in.
The works that are inside are sparse and fair, fair and few
between, most of which are learning, none of which are
actually tending the grounds. But you, you greet one of your
teachers when you come in, my brain is, is small.
So you, you greet Jake and he, he's a, he's an orc that was
teaching you a, a, a some of some of your classes and
biochemical ingredients. And he, he tells you are the,
the head masters in his office. He's got even as an orc this
long flowing beard, but you might have to knock twice as
hearing has gotten pretty bad. Well, I'll knock once, and if I
have to knock twice, I'm casting knock.
You knock, give me a performance.
Nice you. What's wrong?
Hit wrong button. Ignore that first one.
OK, he hears the knock and you just call me.
And I'll enter while activating the hood on my glasses, see his
level and HP. You see that he wait.
He gets the hood. He.
Yeah, from his self-proclaimed goddess.
My demonic pact. Oh OK, I was thinking of the
good alignment user. Interface though.
OK, I was like. That's right.
Is it OK? You, you, you waltz through the
door and through the cloud that is filling the room of a
enormous slug puffing away on a hookah who you know to be having
been the second in command when you left the I don't vice
principal. I don't know.
I don't know what that is in headmistress Head head minister
terms vice principal, but now is the principal of the school
apparently. Very cool.
Approximately what level is this guy?
You see that they are level 15 with he's.
Got. Some levels on him.
OK, with most of his schools of magic being in in in that of
avocation. OK, this just got a lot more.
Dangerous. No, This.
He clears some of the smoke away with him, just like blows in the
air. Oh no.
He squints. Headmaster, I presume?
Yes, it's been a transition since the last one passed.
Sorry to hear that. As are we all, the burden
unfortunately falls heavily on my and he looks to either side
back because he doesn't have shoulders.
But and he takes a long inhale and breathes out, but you see
you like a forming in the air, a dragon flying through a ring and
then a a mountain region that it settles on the dragon smoke
dragon and it breathes its own cloud of smoke.
The smoke dragon a task. What have you come back to your
alma mater and for? It's not.
Saying anything for a while. What does the HUD tell me?
He tells me is HP and his level. Is there any other information I
can get out of that? Boust's hood.
Are there currently any magical effects affecting him?
Only those that only a small one of protection.
It seems like in in the area that of mental fortitude
largely. Fine, I'll just shoot the shit
with him for a little bit, maybe make it look like I'm hoping to
find a job before I depart. I won't try and do what I was
going to do. You jerk until Ford.
Sorry, I I don't know, I just, I'm just saying words honestly
apparently. They're the wrong ones.
Yeah. I will not.
I won't cast gesh and then fuse the command to make it so that
you fail the next saving throw and stab him with the fork.
I won't do that. I mean you could fuck her and
find out. It's my favorite rule if I.
Had had maybe if I had said that I come in looking like somebody
else, but he recognized me. So we're just going to shoot the
shit, make it look like I'm looking for a job, and that'll
be that. Hello you.
Hello. There's always more work in the
fast factory districts. I think that's where you started
out. We always need more magical
items and the like, but never mind I guess.
What's that? Well, if you're looking from our
unsavory tasks, as I know that you already evaded the more
normal sort I can. And he looks his eyes move side
to side in their stocks. So like the whole stock moves to
either side and then one bends and turns and looks behind him
and then turns back and pulls up two little arms from the sides
of his his body and weighs the one.
And you can tell that he's casting a a region of silence
or, you know, a bubble of a such or outside of you guys that
there is a core of us that are learned folk who are tired of
being debauched with menial labour.
I that be so. And what does this corps seeking
to do? Build their own.
It takes a long pool labor base. They've been calling it a union.
I quite like that idea. Well, in that case, if you would
meet with one of my informants in the fact was a stiffed A slug
that goes by the name of well, it's hard to pronounce in your
language, I know, but he's OK with Glorg.
He can set you up in the union. You're going to find him,
absolutely. It's only comes with a small
kickback for myself so you can understand why I would be
interested in such things. However, blog can be found on
the corner of wealth and. Snods at that.
And thank you for your information, Headmaster.
I we'll see how well these endeavours goes A a union, you
call it. Interesting.
And with that, I guess I'll dip to that.
Yeah. Bows his head.
Hot boxes the room even more as you close it.
Yeah, I wasn't expecting to meet Java but.
We'll go meet Gord. Yeah, it's.
Union Boss Java. Java The Hut.
It's a it's, it's actually a vestige from if you're looking.
And actually I'm going to throw you guys on this map too, just
so you get a view of 1 of the lower classes that I came up
with. When I came up with the city, I
was like, you know what? I was taking care of this city.
And I was like, it's obviously not like a dungeon.
So it's not like, you know, dungeon monsters.
And it was like slugs. Why not slugs?
And they're because I was having fun building slug houses, which
are basically snail shells. Yeah.
See them OK, OK, so. And Nakshneke is actually.
Very moral digot. Nakshneke is it is actually
German for slug, but it mean naked snail.
One of my favorite versions. Yeah, it is so fun.
You will. I'll go meet Glorc.
You come to the corner of 12th and Giovanni and you see a slug
that is slowly eating away at a large Berry on the corner that
is popped up overnight off of 1 of the bushes and there there
seems to be no other slug that's holding their position for long.
You approach him and you say his name and he.
Turns one of his eye stocks around to see you and says while
munching on the Berry. And.
He stops munching. What can I do you boy?
What's the headmaster's name? And we didn't establish that.
We didn't tell. Yes, you you would have known
him as the vice principal, the. Principle of Schnick sent to me,
you can call it. Faust, extend the hand.
And he looks down at where he doesn't have any hands and
hasn't. Oh, I thought they were somewhat
anthropomorphic all right. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
He hasn't. I haven't attended the school
myself, but I am familiar with the Vice President and he
extends one of his closed eye stocks into your hand.
Give it a very squelchy shake. He mentioned that you share a
common goal, something. See both eye stocks turning all
around him, he leans down close and whispers with a little bit
of juices that purple onto the earlobe.
The Union. Yes, comrade, the Union.
Comrade, I like that. I think I'll use that we we do
meet regularly. Would you like to join?
I would love to meet the members of your union.
When is your next meeting and where?
Both eye stocks turn up to the sky when the sky is blind and no
moon holds in two days time. I'll be there where?
Under the budge of tribulations into the blue from the blue ring
side. Bridge of What the fuck is the
Bridge of Tribulation? I did come up with a name for
the bridges. I wonder if that was actually
one of them. Admonishment is the bridge in
two. Socrates, we're going to say the
bridge of tribulation. Yeah, I'll call.
I called it something else, but I never said the word.
So we're going to call the bridge of tribulations.
But I shall meet you there my friend.
Until then, comrade. And with that, I'll go rejoin
the others and if they are ready, we can go ahead and get
bounced out of the spotlight. After he casts teleportation, we
can go visit the long-awaited Mama Ash House.
You make it back to the Pink
Pony Inn. Everyone else seems to have made
multiple orders to the kitchen, some of which are waiting
outside of your doorway entrance into the mansion, which I'm
guessing you open and everyone else sees as they're lounging
around the table. And hurries out and picks up
their their last orders before they.
This may well be profitable. There is.
Well, I'll have more than whispers next time we visit
Socrates, if we're ready to depart.
I put on the helmet. Well.
Not ominous at all. OK,
does Ash take the helmet off Faust?
Wait what? It's a magical out of there
requires attunement. So if we want to wait that long
by. All.
Earth magical helmet. We could say that he tuned to it
while you were gone on your. Fair enough.
On your excursion. Yeah.
So we have to be attuned to it and know where we're going.
Yeah. Well, you can describe it to me.
We'll I've not missed the teleportation yet.
I'll have you know not. Yet.
There. Are not yet, but to a place that
you've maybe never been to. Fair enough, fine, she can have
my helmet. I want it back though, damn it.
I will definitely give it to you.
I paid. For.
It Are we all ready to go the. Like party items I feel like.
Let's hit it. Ash, where are you headed?
I am going to picture the courtyard at the main state of
our house in Athena. OK, you're very like, all right,
everybody join hands. Let's get ready to go.
You're very familiar with it. Go ahead and roll me AD 1D100.
AD 100. Do we have one right here?
Roll the 20. 1/21 You OK? OK, OK, off target, but still in
the vicinity per the table. Let me just make sure there
wasn't anything else with that off target on your group or the
target here. OK, roll that.
Oh, that could be a lot. Well, he's doing a lot and it's
making me nervous. 13 1K E You find yourselves in the fields
just outside of the summer estate, of which is more or less
the main estate at this point of Athenia.
There are some startled workers as you appear.
Hey, where did you come from? I I'm going to look around and
do I recognize where I am? Yes, you see on a rise 13 is
with that 2D12. That's why I was like, oh, that
could be far away miles, so 13 miles away from the estate.
But you see it on the rise, very prominently overlooking the Bay.
I think I've moved everyone's camera if they're looking down
in these fields. Oh, that's where we are.
So it wouldn't take about an hour or two of your time to
March up to the estate. Do we decide which estate was
the House of Croy? Because I know you said you made
two point resorts and we didn't decide which one was which.
I, I think I'd in my head at least, and, and you could
correct me if I'm wrong, but there are, there are a couple
fields. Those ones were the main ones.
These ones are farther away. So that's kind of why I was
thinking where I was thinking. But I think the Croy family
would spend their time for the most part.
At. This resort because this the
southern resort as opposed to the the the northern resort
because a lot of the problems are at the northern resort.
So we're going to be at the more peaceful place.
OK, Yeah. So I'm going to take the helmet
off and hand it to back to Falls and I'll be like, thank you for
that. We are just a short distance
from my home and I'm going to just like stretch my hand out in
the direction of the point resort and be like, all right,
follow me and I just start marching in that direction.
Andrew will shape shift into his big direwolf form and just roll
out with Ash. He's cashed out.
Of everything. Yep, House will just follow
along, returning to the helmet as we walk.
I'll walk with and then kind of look between or I'll walk with,
but I'll keep an eye out for birds.
Rule 12 I. Don't have to do this all the
time, but I will kill all the birds.
You see several birds in the vicinity, especially because you
were on a peninsula, so they're just seagulls galore, but you're
only able to strike down two of them as they circle closer and
down towards you. My familiar retrieves the bodies
and I I examined them for for robotics.
Franklin, why are you killing the birds?
Birds aren't real. Birds are spies, I'm pretty
sure. I'm sorry.
I believe birds are spies. Two birds in your hand made out
of. Flesh.
No, these aren't. These aren't real.
I throw them away. Birds are just created by the
government to watch us. Franklin what government?
We're in a feudal era. That raises her eyebrows,
looking at Franklin, and I'm like, he's probably not wrong.
And she just continues marching towards her own.
I point you upward. The government, do you know the
one that's always? With your passive perception of
20, you do not recognize any sort of mechanics in these
birds. I'm just saying that yes, the
gods are always watching us, but they don't need birds to do it.
I say just following along. That disturbs me greatly as I
start looking around everywhere. Oh no.
I'm going to say they can probably use the birds, but I'm
going to say that the birds probably aren't mechanical in
nature. So I have to kill all the birds.
How many birds do you think are here?
I. Think it's a futile effort?
Oh, no, no. In the other world, if they shot
this thing called the Partridge parrot or pigeon, Partridge
pigeon parrot. Anyway, there's this bird that
was like everywhere on this new continent they went to and
everyone shot them and eventually they went extinct.
So we could kill all the birds. We try hard enough.
It's it's. Not to that I like the.
Birds with all the rats and all the mice and all the cockroaches
and all the other things with eyes until there are no other
life forms on this planet. Yeah.
I'm going to look over Franklin and be like, we shouldn't do
that. We should make use of those
things and make them work for us.
Skeletons. Anyway we could take?
You guys eventually happened upon the entry to Ash's family's
state with a guard posted outside.
You guys could probably see some of
that, but I think I turned some of it off too.
But I actually need to grab tokens finally.
No, you can't. Believe your eyes, guys.
It might look like they're real birds, but.
They're not. Well, they're real birds.
They're just enslaved by the government, That's it.
Animal friendship. You know they're spells.
Alternatively, if you're going to, if you're going to use the
thing that if you're going they're using spy on people,
it's going to be a bird because birds can fly and they can get
around owls. Birds and rats.
We could be the ones. You.
I mean those are noticeable. Flies are less noticeable.
I feel. Like I use flies and they're
flies are very hard to catch. The flies can't can.
I've tried using flies, they can barely hear and like the visual
data that you get. It's fucking awful.
It's all just blurs and motion and.
I point it fast speech of it too well.
You know what has excellent hearing and excellent vision?
A bird. A.
Bird. Fucking bird.
You get it. It's the fucking birds.
I go stand next to Whiskey Jack. She gets it.
Don't look at my passive perception of 11 my eyesight.
Is all right, you can move on. This is stupid.
I'm enjoying it me. Too, I mean.
Amazing. So I definitely will be stupid
and fun. Both.
Yeah, it's for the mutually exclusive.
Unless, until I eventually get one of them.
It's unproductive. But one day you'll see.
I'll shoot a Britain, it'll be a robot.
Or it'll poof and vanish smoke and it'll turn out it's
familiar. A familiar, A homunculus.
Oh, what if it's that? What if it's mechanical
homunculus birds? That's not the the tariff isn't
is flat. Sounds like Franklin might be a
Jehovah Witness, Jeb. Yep, Yep, Yep.
He's a Jehovah Witness. Don't worry.
The he he's been getting sent a book of Jeb.
The Book of Jeb is being sent to him via the.
Office in a very bad place. Yeah, don't worry, Jeb's going
to take care of you. We enter Ash's house.
Do you guys all see stuff? I can't control myself, but you
can see yourself. That's a.
That's a direction forward. I'm sorry, I am my computer so I
don't know if I can see myself or not.
I don't see Jack anywhere. Oh, fancy.
Yes, I need to get. Then it's gone.
I had it, but it's gone. You, you you robbed of.
Me my site, I probably I probably turned on.
Like has a bucket of money at the front door for people to
just use wrench. I know I have a token.
It's Black Whiskey Jack. Whiskey Jack.
He's the bird. Whiskey Jack.
I'm like I need to add them to my list is what I need to do.
The problem with the list though, is that the tokens that
I drop off of it, for whatever reason, do not have sight.
Generally speaking, I have to turn it on for everyone.
Yep, Ezra is Ezra's not blind. I know where I've left whiskey
Jack in the Blue Ring for sure. If it loads at Mama Sue.
Eating noodles. There we go.
Nudes. Sick nudes.
Yep, of Mama Sue. They're better than those thick
nudes, Mama Sue. Probably the only one that's
going oh Nope, Franklin's got vision.
Faust needs his vision turned on.
There we go, save. I have no vision.
What? I'm vision loss.
It says your vision's turned on. Let me check something real
quick. Maybe to change something.
No, you should be able to see. I'll reload.
You have a bottom left I. See a white void now instead of
a black void? Wait.
Oh, there it is. OK.
It blinked and then I went black.
I'm still all black. Still black.
Get your shit centered. Let me see if there's something
else that I need to turn on. Nope.
I had it before. Big belly boys.
We were all dancing. Oh boy, I believe.
Me. Yeah, Faust and Franklin should
be able to see stuff, I think. Oh wait, Franklin's character.
We'll have control. Yeah, wait, maybe.
No, damn it, that's the problem. It's always the problem.
Usually it's that I forgot to. Turn on, give me the power and
I'll fix. Things.
I promise. I mean, Speaking of having the
power, has anybody seen the trailer for the new Masters of
the Universe? I have it looks pretty good.
I know the only OK, the only thing that was missing Orco only
thing that was missing. I mean, it's it's the first
trailer, so I'm sure we'll get something later 'cause I'll be
sad if they don't have a workout.
Where's? That it Nope controlled by.
Oh, wait. And.
And they can't let Jared Leto talk.
Like at all. Oh right, how is she still
getting movies? I don't know, but we're just
going to this one. We can be.
It can be like a Darth Vader situation where they had the,
you know, the really tall guy be in the suit.
But it was James Earls Jones voice coming out.
We can have that kind of moment. We can just it's crazy to think
that Jared Leto's like highest grossing movie is Morbius.
Like I can't think of more like. I mean I got.
Bigger indictment on my career than my highest grossing film
being Morbius. No, his most highest grossing
thing is his music career. How about now I can't.
See him? Yep.
We Ezra. Going Bert.
Hey. Hold off.
Ezra, go, Bert. Half.
Half Thor Bjornsson. For what?
I have no idea what you're talking about.
But. I don't know who he.
Is cast of he man, I guess, yeah.
The cast of he man half Thor Bjornsson AKA The fucking
Mountain from Game of Thrones. Yeah, Oh.
Is he man? Maybe he's he man He man.
I doubt it, though. He's not quite he man ripped.
He's like regular, like actually strong ripped.
He's strong man ripped. American hear.
He's. American.
He's nice. Move.
I moved you because I wanted to make sure Ash could see
yourself. I'm I'm assuming Ash would be
the one to. There's Tim.
I. Thought yeah.
Yeah, I would approach. You.
No, no, you. Duplicate.
No. You know how to multiply.
This one is not controlled by you, it is deleted hash.
You approach you doesn't have. Simulacra.
You know the knock as you get to the door.
I don't know if you want to enlighten us what that knock
would be, but. Oh, like a particular knock to
let them know it's me. She wasn't going to knock.
She was just going to barge in. Yeah, you would do.
The door is locked, especially the front door.
Oh OK. I would just do a little musical
tap, happy tap, tap and pause and then leave one more tap and
like I've returned. And one of the eyes of the
statues that are embossed into this door open to reveal a real
eye behind it that's looking out that was kind of lazily closed
before and on on the cusp of saying get the fuck out of here.
Then it bolts open full whites of the eye and goes.
Lady Kroy, is that really you? It is AI and I'm so happy to be
home if you would let me in. I, I, I I most certainly can,
but you know if if I don't ask that I will be reamed all night.
So what is the password? That's not a problem.
Yeah, I'm going to say it doesn't sound like it's that
bad. Does Ash know the password?
Yeah, you could come up with it right now.
Oh, OK, I can just make it up. Yeah.
Choose wisely. Stupid.
Wisely, the password is saddle sore but still ready to ride.
All right. Yes, yes, that would be the
password for summertime. It is spring though.
Do you, do you know what it would be for spring?
I I just have to be sure. The password for spring.
Oh God, Mother is tedious, isn't she?
Let all of your flowers but welcome.
Well, welcome, Lydia, Ash and he, he opens the doors to
everyone. You guys can wander in, You guys
see an extravagantly laid out foyer that leads up a set of
stairs that then spiral off to either side with gold inlaid in
all about the chamber and statues claiming the past rites,
as well as stained glass windows and handwork stone laying in the
floors, ceilings, the walls. Oh, perfectly craftsmanshiped.
I'm guessing even though we've had a long rest, the fact that
we have been an inhale for so long we are clean but worn
looking. Yeah, Ragged.
Yeah, like, like, like a, like a like a like a hobo that's gotten
a shave and a wash but still has their clothes from the streets.
Yeah, so I'm going to just walk into the house and I'm going to
call out and be like I'm home. Is anybody here to greet me?
Echoes and the The guard says I'm, I'm, I'm sorry.
Lady Ashney bows his head. You can find your mother in the
sitting chamber in the sunroom. Directly forward.
If you've forgotten, it's been a long time.
Welcome home. It feels like it's been a
lifetime and be like, come on everyone.
I hope you're ready to meet my mother.
Mind your manner, she's very fastidious.
Ezra will. Shine back.
To not big dog mode. And you walk up the spiral
stairs off to the sides of the main stair into glitter gold and
gemstone encrusted sitting hall, which they deemed the sun room.
Aptly so, because there are windows lining a hull that leads
up to a dais on a throne that is washed in a zuberant amount of
colors from stained glass windows, exacerbating the
problem of it being gemstone and golden crusted because the whole
room glitters and shines. Did we?
Get as well.
Before we left. Not new clothes, no.
Oops. Are you a nude?
Yep. You probably haven't.
You guessed that they probably gave you a change of clothes.
You probably know that we got a hold of something for you, maybe
even if it was just like a pair of ripped shorts.
You. Probably.
You probably have a loincloth laying around, right?
I mean, we got tons of. Clothes I mean Ash had a change
of clothes in her bag don't know how well they did Ezra those
cause Ash is really small and Ezra is not.
Yeah, the the clothes are probably, they show up, they're
probably ripped in areas. Yeah, hold on Ash, Should we
change before we walk in and meet your mother?
What do you mean by change? Do you not feel ready?
We could take a moment. Point at Ezra.
You can see a A1 distended testicle hanging down below the
I don't want you. And your.
Unbastful testicles. I'm going to wave to the
manservant that greeted us at the door and I'm going to be
like, please bring us a change of clothes for my very esteemed
friends here. And I motion to Ezra and I was
like, does anybody else need anything?
We could take a moment. To.
Refresh ourselves, yes? I mean.
With haste I your chambers are prepared as always, Lady Ash.
Right, let us go to them and refresh ourselves and then we'll
speak to my mother. Also, please bring a bottle in
our part of liquor. I need a drink.
Right at the end of the game. You gonna share?
Yeah, oh, yeah. She's she's going to give
everyone a drink. Anyone that needs it, take a
drink before we talk to my mom. I'm going to I'm going to
request a little money if Ash is willing to spare some since we
have teleported and purchase a pair of dimensional shackles.
Purchase a pair of dimensional shackles from where?
And yes, she is willing to hand over some money.
We have the shaft of desire, throw money in, get item out.
I am not needed money from Tara, though I am vulnerable to
banishment. We'll fix this.
Move your guys's cokins back every year so it's easier to
grab them before I move them over to the other side.
Don't worry about this. OK, this is all a simulation.
We're being used by the gods. Franklin, do you know how much
those shackles run? They are rare so it'll be up to
Josh to roll it, but I didn't want to take up game time.
But if we don't want to be like shit.
Well, I can certainly accommodate the highest quality
bottles of alcohol and your chambers.
I will need some time with those shackles.
I think they were called the the.
Dimensional I'm just using. I'm just using Ash's money with
the Chest of Desire while we are waiting for Ezra to change.
Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. I'm going to order dimensional
shackles but without the chain between them.
It's like 2 wrist bracelets. Well, once we get escorted to my
bedroom, I am going to. I have two of you now.
Whatever. I can see my bedroom, but I'm
just going to have like my bag open and I'm kneeling in front
of it And I'm going to guess that Franklin just in front of
me and I'm just reaching in, pulling out some gold, putting
it in his hand, reaching in, pulling out some more gold,
putting his hand. And I'm like, no, how?
How much does those things run? And she just keeps putting more
and more gold in your hand. Easy, I got to ask God a second.
Anywhere between 1225 hundred old pieces.
OK, well then she's just going to keep piling in your hand
until it's about 3000. She's like, maybe you need a
tiny sack for that. She gives you a tiny sack and
just starts filling it up until it reaches about 3000 gold,
which I feel would be a much bigger than a tiny sack, but
there you go. Hey.
Thanks. I mean, you could do a light
trim too and that'll be, yeah, whatever.
Yeah, the. Yeah, I I purchased the
shackles. To to I guess you get them, just
make sure to minus the golds and to explain the procession.
You leave the foyer, take the left, make it past and around
the courtyard from from the insides you see out through the
windows and archways into the center courtyard before you walk
N continually and up a large spiraling set of staircase in to
our that ashes room resides in with the other rooms of probably
the second from the highest not quite the highest room on the
tower. That's where, thank you.
I was going to say that's where Ash's room is and one of the
highest and one of the highest points in the in the home.
Listen well, I've got you. Since we're alone, we're the
only two standing. Around you.
I thought we went up to our bedroom by ourselves.
Sorry, never mind. Yeah, I would say we would.
I would be showing him around in particular, just to give us a
little bit of privacy. Well, I just know everyone is
changing, right? Yeah, prepping, nicing
themselves up. You're, you're showing him the,
the, the, the storage room. Then I was going to say bath
chamber because no one else has seen that yet, but probably
that's where Ezra and anyone else is changing.
It's not really secret changing in the in the what?
Are we getting fancy clothes? Are we getting a cute makeover?
We're going to get ready to see the Ash's thumb.
Yeah, and she asked her manservant to help everybody
else get ready. So they're just going to provide
you with whatever we have. We're going to go through my
lavish cloth, which I'm going to guess doesn't fit most of you.
That's probably where you and. Franklin are probably hard to
account for for Whiskey Jack. He doesn't own a whole lot of
clothing, but he's down for a sexy makeover.
He likes to feel sexy. You you probably find yourself
then sitting in front of a large stained glass window that's
behind lighting, a mirror and a make up stand.
What is this called? Vanity, Vanity.
Thank you. You guys said it faster.
So Whiskey Jack is sitting at the vanity and exercising his.
Vanity. Where is the vanity in here?
I'm moving my little guy around trying to find where the rooms
are. Probably like right there,
that's the closet. This is the vanity.
Yeah, so I'm going to get the window.
I see now. OK, OK, I see.
Franklin and I are like in the closet and I'm going through the
clothes and we're having our private discussion.
I'm going to look specifically for a very real cloak put around
Franklin and be like this can be for you.
Oh thanks. You don't think it looks
ridiculous? Does that look like a 12 year
old? You put it on and you you see
yourself standing at a a solid 5 1/2 feet, more like a like like
like 2, two to three inches taller than you were.
And you pull up the hood and your face changes to that of a
total. I'm going to say no, you look
fine. I wear stuff like this all the
time when I was that age. Also, Eichmann is now.
Taller than Ash to make myself not appear to be evile.
As to not freak out my mom, I do appreciate that, but we could
save that for our back pocket in case, you know, we want her to.
See it? Yeah, I mean.
It's totally up to you. I I have disguise self at will,
so I've been since we've been on the surface.
I don't want people to freak out so I just look like a normal
little turtle boy. I like this quote though.
It gives us a much better vibes than my Darth Sidious Sidious
outfit. Anyway, since I got you in this
place, I don't know where we are.
This is never heard of a closet before.
Anyway, we're at both level 20 now, remember?
Would we invited to do that that ritual thing?
Yes, yes I do. What about this ritual?
Have you anywhere's yet? Well, we have to buy the right
ingredients and get everything ready.
But I was reading the specifics of it and it says that it stamps
your soul to whatever body you're currently resided in.
So I just want you to know before you do it that if you
want to like, I don't know, beep shift or something into a cooler
form, you could do that and then do this thing and then live in
that body forever. So like if you had a shape
change, you would want to become a dragon or an Angel or
something. You could do that and then use
this ritual and then just stay an Angel if we're going to have
to fight. The God we're going.
To have to be in stronger forms. She looks at you and she
gestures. She's like, You don't think I
look cool now? I think you do.
Look cool, but I think you were in the form of a mortal human
being. We want to achieve what we want
to achieve. We need to be in immortal
beings. But performing the ritual would
make us immortal beings, correct?
To a degree, yes, but you would still retain all your human
features. If you wanted to, say, become a
dragon that could shape shift to a bunch of different shapes, you
could do that. That's my plan.
I mean, that sounds like a pretty good plan per SE.
Something else I want to, I want to throw at the group at some
point, but it's a, it's a little, it's a little extreme,
it's a little extreme. Want to get your take on it?
We're putting up ourselves or ourselves up against the gods,
right? Or DVDs or whatever you want to
call them. But right now we don't know
shit. We need information, right?
You can't wage war with that information.
You can't attack your enemies if you don't know where they are.
Yes, knowledge is power. So I take out the Black Evil
Book of Vile Darkness and I put it on table.
Every time I use this thing, there's a 10% chance that I'll
summon an Angel and then pure in and look at it out of this out
of outward or anyone listening and it will attempt to kill me.
However, we could trap it and extract information on it.
Now, this would kill the Angel, but you know, if we're going to
war, we're going to have to kill them at some point.
Yeah, I'm not too worried about killing them.
I don't really feel bad about it.
I am indifferent. But wait.
What do you mean we're going to war anyway?
I mean, if we're set ourselves up against like the the gods to
push them off of Tara, there's going to be pushed back, right?
A lot of them did already leave, but do you think they want to
come back? I mean, they probably do.
Whoa. I'm missing that.
I could not understand what you said.
Is that a good Emily? More time straight robot.
Yeah. My Lord.
Craig is fighting through. Craig, he rises.
Apparently he rises through Emily.
I was, I was asking why? Why would the Angels be involved
in that war? Well, so I mean, in this context
we're assuming like the the angels and the celestial beings
are, you know, the equivalent because like we've got a hat
like that. I thought the angels would serve
specific gods. I didn't.
Sure they do.
I wasn't thinking that they served them all, just specific
ones. I'm not sure what will summon or
what they'll know, but we don't know anything right now and the
only way we have to get in more information is this or asking
nicely. I do think this is a good idea
to gather knowledge. We'd have to have a pretty good
set up before we do this in case an Angel or something celestial
appears that so we can keep it trapped for real.
Yeah, you need, you need a interdimensional space outside
of time and space, such as the one that I negotiated with.
What's his face in the infinite tower?
And they set up a magic circle inverted to contain celestials
and then a force cube outside of that.
So I worry that we're about to piss.
Legendary resistances, so we'll have to.
Whatever, whatever one is summoned, the guy that it
relates to is going to be very mad and I worry that we are not
in a position to face that wrath.
Just we we will be shooting the first shot right now.
Are we ready? I don't.
We're not going to do it right now.
I think we're going to prep. Yeah, we need to prep, but the I
think the idea is if we summon this thing to a place outside of
time and space, AKA the infinite tower ideally, and we just kill
it there, how would they ever know?
Yeah, because it would essentially be outside of their
gates. Right.
It's like the the tower is specifically outside of the gods
range or be or power or anything.
So if we bring one there, we could just, we could just start
farming them. Like you really want to put
pressure on the gods to agree to stay off tar?
Have their minions go missing. Yeah, yeah.
Like they're not going to come to the negotiating table period
until it starts hurting. Yeah, because if they have
nothing to lose or gain, they they won't negotiate with us.
Right. So essentially we're going to
force their hand or attempt to. I think we can do.
It, I mean over time, suddenly, you know, their forces start
diminishing and they start realizing that oh, my minions
are going missing. Anyway, just an idea.
I wanted to get your thoughts on it before bringing it up to
everyone else because it's a I know I could be a little
extreme, but I mean, you know, I'm not going to describe how
I'll get that information. But I also just want to point
out this time in the year conversation, because if we do
this of the body of an Angel just chilling and then I walk
away. So I feel like at this point is
a good point stopping point. Oh yeah.
Yeah. Because we're all prepping and
refreshing ourselves to look presentable to my mother and
Josh, I actually don't know how much you and I have talked about
my mother. Very minimally, I know the fact
that that she is fastidious as you put it today, and that she
is very keen on making sure her children are in seats of power
as well that her she herself is set up in a seat of power.
I know that your family is rivals of Gargant, the capital
city of Gargantium, which is the, what's the word I'm looking
for here? The yeah, continent kind of that
you guys had. It's not really a continent,
city, state. That's the word I was looking
for. Yeah, been parading around on.
Yeah, mostly the good campaign, but you guys were just there in
Socrates. Socrates is part of the city
state of Gargant. And now we're in the city state
of Athenia. Or that's just what this town is
called because I thought it was. It's the, it's, it's kind of the
capital of the city state. I don't think we've determined a
city state that is the, you know, that like Athenia's reign
region and in looking at sorcrities or not sorcrities
tariff in handouts, most of which I believe is like it's
under Alopolis still because you guys have only recently become
come to the surface desert because, you know, and and
because of that, Athenia is only just like the powerhouse because
of its seat of power, but also because they have the main like
farm, not farm. Yeah, farming aspects of of the
region. They're only on like the tail
end of this. So like, it's kind of hard, hard
to describe, I guess, because there's like this really long
peninsula that Athenia is part of, but it's very wide as well.
And then it's got this very narrow pass into Garganteum,
which is part of this peninsula. And then Gargant is almost like
a hand shape that hangs off the end of this peninsula for that
reason though too, being that Athenia is the capital as well
as that it's one of the main food sources for the region.
It has a very large port, or ports rather.
But as to your mother goes her her, her main goals I know, are
more power and more influence. And so her her her hope with
some of her connections is to conquer Gargantuum because it is
the most direct neighbor portion with a lot of potential.
Yeah, and to absorb them into their empire would obviously
give Mother more power. So that's one of her, I don't
know, short term goals, medium term goals.
Yes. Discord me out.
Discord kick you out? Yeah.
Last thing I heard she like her goals and like you were about to
say what she wanted. Just more power and more
influence, and gargantium is is the quickest way to that.
There are some smaller islands which are kind of free islands
as it were, but they aren't as important.
Occasionally Garganta and Athenia war over the small
islands, but they change hands quite frequently as well.
And for that reason too they they aren't they aren't super
well sought after. It's just one of those like.
Just a little bit more for us to have.
Yeah, yeah, Yeah, it will. And it's like those those
opportunity grabs, you know, like war of convenience sort of
situations whenever the rabbit whenever one.
Yeah, exactly like Greenland. Sorry, didn't mean to say.
That. So sounds like we might be going
to war with Guardian. Sure.
Question mark. I'm more up for liberating
Socrates. If the population wants a
rebellion, what happened? To that see, my mother could
definitely use that we could use that my.
Concern is we will then immediately start fighting the
other team. See, I think we can do it in a
way that doesn't deprive. We might be able to and mother
their unlimited access to everything.
They might be convinced that that's the good thing to do.
Maybe. I mean, yeah, we could certainly
talk to them about it. It's just a y'all join the union
there. There can be no unions.
Yeah. We're trying to do weapons
called the Union Busters. Into what Busters?
Union Busters. My, my weapons and Ferrara are
called the Union Busters. I'm saying we should convince
the good team to help us with the revolution Nimoy would be
in. Because the good team is barely
that. That's it and 100% on board.
But Grand Am's always on Team Chaos, so.
Exactly. Nimoy and Agnon's whole back
story is liberating A corrupt government.
Or, sorry, liberating people from a corrupt government.
That's like their whole origin story of what happened.
So yeah. Is, is there anywhere, is there
anywhere near Athenia that is like, you know, a, a country,
area, blah blah blah, controlled and incorporating like slaves,
because that one should be step one is liberate all the slaves
and build an army. Calm down.
What are the working classes you cast of slaves?
I'm just saying. What now?
Revolution. What's?
What I'm saying like you find you find the nearest place that
has an oppressed population in a tyrannical, clearly evil
government. What can I say?
Really evil, but like that would be, yeah, it really depends on
the optics that you want to build, right?
You're trying to build a movement, right.
So yeah, I have to keep in mind. That note I will allow at least
to this minor brain worm, I guess, of the fact, because if
you're looking at Tara, which is what I'm doing right now,
because I am like needing that as a representation, I've
allowed most of the world to be blank.
And that's because I allow all of you all to influence it as as
as we grow. But Helmsgratt or Helmsgratt,
which is where Frederick, who hasn't played with us for a
while, is from. Is a large settlement of
repressed, if not enslaved Goliaths live?
So army right there, you want to you want to movement start by
freeing enslaved. Yeah.
And but they, they are by no means the closest when we're
talking about that. And unless you have any, any
representation to that area, I do not think any of you are
familiar with that area at least by by by this discussions that
I've had so far with the characters that I know of
because. Are there, are there Jehovah's
Witnesses there? Well, would this surprisingly
not fall into, would this fall into the range of me having that
person write down all of the regional players and like the
different countries and like information that I was
gathering? OK.
Because Helms grot if you're looking at the the tariff map.
So you guys just traveled like? Yeah, it's pretty far away.
Yeah, maybe like 1000 miles, maybe 1000 miles plus Helms got.
Like the world. War I guess, or like.
Yeah, the map is called Tarth Tarth Globe.
Yep. OK, Yeah.
So you guys just travelled from Sorcrities, which is basically
the middle of the Mediterranean, slightly more north to a still
tropical but slightly transitioning to desert region.
And above that there's like this intervening desert area before
it transitions into a much more hilly and mountainous region,
which is where the Goliaths live.
But they, they, they are almost at least the very edges of their
territory or twice the distance you guys travel today.
And that's not like that, that that's also not like the center
of their territories. So at least three times the
distance away for their, the center.
And as far as I know, guys aren't familiar with the region.
I could be wrong. House now knows all the.
Inform me you have you have two sessions until then.
OK. House does now know all this.
It's going to be great. So yeah, here's what I'm
thinking. We teleport our we, we gear up
right here. We get our, our, our hit squad,
then we pile in. We teleport over to two homes.
We set ash up as the Lisa Mel gayed.
We free the Goliaths, we RIP them to our cause, and then we
ignite a holy war that engulfs the entire planet in flames, or
at least the smoke. We, we, we, we ignite a war to
unify all people so that they may be prepared to stand against
the gods when they seek retribution.
The gods who want to. Crush them, I mean.
We just have to say what? We can and make like us and
believe us over anybody else. You're right, step one and two
seem good. Which is free.
Respect to. People.
OK, so we're about to bring so much pain and suffering on this
world to kick the gods out. Are we certain that the gods are
causing more suffering than we're about to?
Yep. Yep, they were.
They were actively trying to unbalance the stalemate between
the major deities. The idea is we kick them off of
the planet where these major deities are.
Why were they trying to tip that scale?
I believe they they work for one or the other.
Oh, OK. And we're certain about that
the. Deities are made from Alleopolis
or Minneapolis. Also furthermore, I made Faust
to be the villain between Grand Am and Faust, so he is 100% on
board if by any means necessary. Ash is out to save her world,
and she's the one who can do it the best, so everybody else
needs to get out of the way. Ezra is following mom Ash so.
Following orders. Get out of his way.
For me, the ends justify the means.
And and Whiskey Jack is along for the party.
You're getting a little we don't.
Have to do all the evil things. Just want to come along with us.
Right here's some drugs. Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob siddles up
and you got some for me too. Like of course I.
Do. I'm going to hop off, but I
think the idea is we use our power to free repressed people
to create a movement of independence and, you know, self
determination. Try to push the, I mean, if Josh
confirms all this, push the gods who are, you know, either on one
side or the other off of Taurus so they can't interact with the
stalemate that's going on. If stalemate ends, the world
ends, right? That's the idea.
Minneapolis wanted to free get freed so he could destroy
reality and then rebuild it. So we are heroes by pushing the
gods off of the planet. But.
I can. Only assume they're going to.
I can only assume they're going to push back.
So we need a power base. OK, see what?
I pumped the brakes when I heard that we were about to engulf the
world in flames. That's not what I want.
I mean, we certainly are. Well, the gods are about to.
Yeah, because we're forcing their hand.
Yeah, Yeah, it's a defensive, it's a preemptive defensive
strike. But that that.
Would be the ones they're going. To stop it, it's different for
me. So as long as they're the ones
to do it and we're not like that's not our goal.
Right. If we'll talk to them and be
like, hey, you want to get the fuck out, just get out.
But like, they're going to, they're going to hit back and
when they do, we need to be ready to escalate from your
adventures to warlords. And we will be ready.
Yeah, I need to hop off here too.
Have a good night. Bye.
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