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Hello, Craig. Right.
Last week, we joined the Scooby Gang once again, the Scooby
Don't Gang on their quest to free the land of Divgrod from
its horrible curse. They began their investigation
in the small town of Oranik, where they encountered a
horrible monster slaying it. They began to investigate it and
discovered that it holds a crystal in its throat.
Also, Daphne arrived on the scene having shown up late
because she was too busy putting on a show in a nearby town.
After she arrived, she did not heed anybody's warnings of
monsters that lurk in the dark and was promptly attacked by
said monsters that lurk in the dark.
She was saved and they discovered a second crystal.
Something about these crystals seems to tempt people to consume
them, and Daphne succumbed to such temptation and as a result
now oddly understands every known language and is capable of
speaking, but she is not capable of reading or writing them.
She also acquired cat eyes and has learned that the white flame
that and the cold iron that seems to be be used by the
people of Dhivgarat to protect them against these horrible
creatures seems to harm her. Seeing these mystical changes,
Scooby don't has attempted to steal said crystal or the second
crystal that they found from Velma who was studying it.
Perhaps his gluttonous nature simply desired more power.
He just wanted to find out what it felt like or what it tasted
like. Who knows.
And that is where we pick up with the ever vigilant Velma
having the spotted Scooby Don'ts clumsy mage hand attempts at
robbing her. Fine.
So we left off with me holding your ankles.
Yeah, half with you, half pulled off the end of the bed.
Yeah. And you were pretending you were
still asleep. Yeah, and.
With me prowling behind you. The best part I can think of for
that? And.
That's what did your fool heart think you were doing.
Realized that I shouldn't have tried sneaking one over on Velma
and just sigh and my head head back and put my hands in my or
my head in my hands and go. I'm sorry Velma, I just wanted
to know what it tastes like. I mean I've already eaten 1 so
you could have just asked me, it was just seemed like a little
weird route to go about it. It's not the same thing.
Do.
You know how? Did you not listen to me when I
described how dangerous these are?
There's something about that I don't trust.
It ain't right, I'm telling you. Turn to Daphne.
Did she say something? I'm sorry I have trouble
listening to you sometimes though, but you go off on
tangents. She just said you should have
listened to her because she's already told you how dangerous
it was. I mean, look at me now.
I get hurt by the thing that protects y'all.
So if I want to stick along with y'all, I just kind of have to
endure it. And who knows what we're going
to find, where we're going. Maybe there's some bigger test
that Daphne cannot get past, and then we'll have to leave her
behind while we go and solve this problem.
We need all of our team members in tip top shape.
I mean, I can take a different route.
I'm not worried about me. I'm more worried about you.
Because if there were two of us both stuck behind, theoretically
that would be bad for everybody involved because that almost
halves. We cannot afford for our numbers
to dwindle. I seem to notice your eyes glaze
over a little bit and I give you a firm yank so you fall off the
bed. OK, yes.
Won't eat crystal. Fine.
I I understand the severity of my actions.
You said you said the the the white flame hurt you.
I don't think we heard that, did you?
Did you only tell Velma before Daphne?
Yeah, it hurt a little bit, but I mean, it's nothing I haven't
experienced before, given my job title.
So I just kind of, you know, shook it off.
And every time I'm around one of the cold steel things, it just
kind of unnerves me a little bit.
But other than that, I'm not bothered by it.
But if you were to eat, if you were to eat your crystal, it
could have more severe effects on you so.
Something about this other crystal, it it doesn't feel
right. It doesn't feel the same.
If it's so dangerous, maybe we should try taking it out of it
right now. No, no.
My eyes are fixed on Daphne's throat.
I'm not suggesting we cut her open or anything.
Velma, hold your horses. I'm I was thinking more along
the lines of going going down to the the Tavern heap and going
through a gluttonous ritual there, but.
I mean, considering, you know, the whole have we?
Have we checked to see if these crystals are are attracted to
each other? Maybe they're like magnets?
We could just magnet it out out of her one side or the other one
of her orifices. I would be inclined to give this
a test when we change location, but for now that crystal is
staying nice and safe where I have put it.
Nice try Scooby. Don't but I'm still looking at
Velma strip. I would say with me, I think the
crystal has already taken about as much of A toll to kind of be
a little irreversible considering, you know, the whole
eyes and language thing. I would just.
So Daphne, can you sense where in your body the crystal is, or
are we just assuming it's in your throat?
Makes sense, but I'd like to know what your sensation is.
Can I roll a perception check to see if I can feel where it's at?
Sure. 11. 11 Yeah, you swallowed it, you felt it.
You felt a lump in your throat, but then you're pretty sure you
felt it like. Go further down.
That is a well you know when I ate that crystal, it did settle
in my throat a little bit like y'all had suspected, but it kind
of felt like it dissipated or dissolved or something.
I don't know if it's because it couldn't stand like starting,
you know, like compounds of an elven body, or if it just did it
on its own, but it's I don't think it's solid anymore.
We could spin him around like a centrifuge and separate out the
bits. Velma's remingine in her
pockets. She pulls out a ring with an
eyeball on the ring and she puts it on.
This is a ring of X-ray vision and she's going to look all up
and down. Daphne OK, How does this work?
Let's see. No idea how, I don't know.
My husband staring at me. You're going to, he says.
You're going to what? Daphne.
Daphne covers her chest and hearts.
Just. Let's see, so long.
OK, Yeah. What do I let's see, perception
or investigation. This would probably be
investigation because I'm intensely looking.
Yeah. OK oh, but then I get to add AD
4. Just a second.
That's because of the ring. Yeah.
No, not not the ring. It's my special describe
ability. Oh, OK, so 14.
So can Velma see where it's at? I'm not just looking for like a
solid stone, I'm also looking for evidence of it dissipating
or basically anything that isn't the same.
And I'm also looking around at other people around me to like,
compare her against the control. I mean, how thing, how familiar
with are you with a high elf? You know, like body features
like. OK, I mean.
OK, so yeah, you see through and you can see Daphne's bones, but
you don't see a crystal. It is not in her body, not in
little like singular solid form anymore, at least.
OK. Oh.
Guys, I got nothing. It's worth a shot though.
Maybe you see a little bit of boobah too.
I don't know what to tell you. I mean, it's nothing new
considering Daphne's current career path.
Your choice, brother, your choice.
Guys, I had no clue this ring would come in handy when I chose
it. Yeah, I have no clue what you
gonna do anything I don't. Like that, like I understand the
intended purpose, but at the same time I want to be a Dick
and just like you see through everything and you're floating
in a void. Because the the way it's
described is. You can see everything except
for water. You can see nothing but.
Water. Yeah, I think.
It's written a little sloppily. I would imagine solid objects
would appear translucent, not transparent.
That makes it a little more, yeah.
Like you're kind of looking to like a slime or like a jar of
Jelly or something. Yeah, I was just going to have.
It behave exactly like X phrase normally would, like certain
objects are opaque to it and others aren't.
Yeah, maybe. Maybe we could get a magical
tracing element or liquid. You know that that she could,
she could down and then then it'll illuminate all the magical
essence. I mean, yes, a magical.
Contrast die. I would say like.
Just. From.
Medical imagery, I mean. I would say I've been.
Watching too much House. What can I say just.
From visibility alone, I would think.
I would think it is settled at least partially in my eyes.
Sorry when this was really. Loud.
You're good, but I. Would think it's settled at
least partially in my eyes and somewhere in my headspace
considering the whole, you know, language and appearance changes
that's. A an assumption you can make.
I guess we could just remove her eyes and throat.
You're. Not doing that.
I don't. Think it'd be much of Daphne
left if we did that. I mean, like percentage wise and
ratio wise, yeah. But like, she wouldn't turn on,
Yeah. Plus like I feel like I I would
come in handy for something at least.
Like y'all, they're losing a whole team member if y'all do
that. And who knows?
Maybe the creatures react differently to her now.
We'll have to test this. Maybe she, oh, maybe she can
talk to them. I mean I can speak any language,
so maybe. Well, we're.
Bound to come across 1 again. Yes, good point.
Well, I mean. Plus on top of, you know, losing
A-Team member, if y'all did that, I also have a couple good
items like my whip that I upgraded.
So unless y'all were trying to kill me and rob me, I would say
I got the robber. Here.
I know I witnessed the whole thing.
I wouldn't have sleep that though.
I think we. Need to go get some sleep?
Agree. Well.
Y'all sleep, I'll meditate, y'all have fun.
You have to give a job. All right, Cool.
Good night. To you, she kind of like
dramatically swirls her her robe around her.
She turns stocks off. And you just hear Daphne.
You just hear the sound of Daphne's footsteps follow after
her. I.
Think we sleepy sleep? Yeah, roll over and.
Go to sleep along with everyone else.
Yeah, Daphne's just sitting up in a chair meditating in the
corner of the room as. Elves are allowed to do.
Gotcha. Yep.
Alright, so Daphne. Mm hmm.
I need you to make me a wisdom safe.
OK, probably not. Going to go well, but why not at
12 all? Right, you have a nightmare
tonight. In this dream, you wake up at
the foot of a enormous tree around you, The oh who just
joined in Matt. Hey.
Matt. Interrupting XP moment for hug
hello. Shaggy's just in time to wake
up. I am and I wake up covering Dr.
OK. Not yet.
We're experiencing There were Velma's.
Dang it, Daphne's experiencing your nightmare.
Yeah, got it. Go.
Ahead. Above you, hanging from the
branches of the trees, you see what it look like, corpses
hanging from a noose. But as you look closer, you can
see that those nooses are more kinda stems and decay and
they're all sorts of animals and plants and creatures.
Not plants, but like animals and monsters and people.
Just some mundane, some beyond your kin.
Occasionally they'll fall from the branches and splatter on the
ground, or they'll try and crawl away from the tree, only it's
for a root to rise up, wrap around it, and drag it screaming
into the dirt. You look.
Behind you and see that the tree is much like the one that Scooby
don't saw in his short jaunt into the astral plane.
It is textured like bark and but it's more of like a thick
leathery hide under your hands like that of an elephant.
And it just pulsates with a warmth that no tree should
produce. And you can feel a slow,
rhythmic but slow pulse through the flesh of the tree.
You start to run and you can feel.
Other. Things running along beside you
or some behind you, and you can't tell if they're running
from the tree to escape or if they're running after you to
devour you. You trip.
You land face down in the mud and you can feel one of those
roots wrapping around your thigh.
And just. Pulling down into the mud, you
open your mouth to scream, but you inhale mud and then wake up.
You are going to have a level of exhaustion because you couldn't
sleep well tonight. No, no.
Don't bother me, I've had pretty much a level of exhaustion this
whole time so. Well, it goes up to two then.
I think I've already removed. Yeah, we removed it last time.
We removed it last time you're. Right, so you're at level 1
exhaustion. Yep, Yep, I'm.
Going to wake them up to tell her about what happened.
I walk over to the bed and start to shake Velma like in short
jolts, not like full on rock her just gently I have.
One more thing for. You.
You feel a desire to travel to the Northeast.
Northeast, OK, noted. But I'm just gently, like little
short jolts shaking Velma awake gently again.
Well, Velma, Velma, there was there was a tree and it was, it
had a heartbeat like it, it wasn't.
And I take Velma's hand and put it to my chest so she can feel
my heartbeat just pretty much beating out of my chest at this
point. Where?
Tell me more. And she looks at the.
Window. Trying to like lean over to look
outside. It, it was, well, I'm pretty
sure it was a nightmare 'cause I popped up back here, but it had
these like tendrils that there were courses and I got, I
started to run and then I tripped and like, I don't know,
I fell into the mud and then it wrapped around me and drugged me
under. Yeah.
OK, OK, so calm down. We've been through a lot.
I need to know, been hearing a lot about trees lately.
What did this tree look like It. It when I ran my hand across it
briefly, it kind of felt like sick hide less than bark and I
could and I felt it pulsing like it had a a beat.
It was very slow but it wasn't plant like other than the fact
that it had tendrils. Did it look like Shaggy's tree?
What what did that look like? I I didn't know he y'all haven't
mentioned anything about. For waking the boys go back down
the hallway. Yeah.
You just hear Daphne like Sprint down the hallway.
You just hear her like pretty much stomping, sprinting down
the hallway. She's.
Banging on the door. I don't know if you guys heard.
That. Daphne's Daphne just kind of
kick the door open. She doesn't have time for this.
Daphne kicks the door open. Wait, wait, wait.
Like, whoa, guys, what's going on, Shaggy?
I need to know more about your tree and Velma's gotten like by
the the scruff of the shirt. I think he went.
I think he means Scooby, but Shaggy hides a small pot plant
behind the dog food. He says there's no like.
Tree. Wait, wait wait, was it Shaggy
that went into the astral plane? Scooby, Scooby.
Oh, Scooby. I'm sorry.
Then I grabbed Scooby. Yeah.
Scooby's the Wild Magic Sorcerer.
OK, so you. Got a hold of Scooby again, yes?
Yeah, it's like I'm not. Done with you bucko.
Tell me about your tree. This is how you pay me back for
waking me up the first time. Think it's more recent?
I thought it would. I'm sorry, I'm playing with my
cat with those stupid sticky hands I found on my desk
classroom. Do you?
Ever figure out where the sticky hands came from?
Not a. Fucking clue, but.
So Velma's got Scooby about the collar, and Daphne's just
shaking him like she shook Velma, just slowly prodding him
until he gets up. Does he wake up if you're saying
you're? Muted.
I'm muted. I've been talking this whole
time. He just he just he just like he
gets jilted and and says says not again.
I didn't do anything this time and Nope, this is.
Payback. Pure payback.
Mentioning the tree he he starts saying I don't know what you're
talking about man. Shaggy usually keeps the trees.
No, no, no. The one.
The one you saw when you went into the Vastra plane.
That tree. The creepy.
The The Boogeyman. Tree.
Leshy abomination. Yeah, I saw I.
Saw it too. I just had a nightmare.
I saw it too. It drug me under the mud.
There were corpses of animals and people, and you too.
Compare notes. I.
Run. I run my hand through my hair
and I say it, it was like a a flesh tree.
I don't know. It was.
Yeah, mine. Had mine, had a heartbeat for
me, I. Was only there for a second, I
didn't really notice a heartbeat.
I didn't even touch it. I got the guy in GTFO as soon as
I seen that it was trying to get me.
I touched it for a second. It kind of felt leathery and it
had a heartbeat, and then I took off to run.
I tripped and there were things chasing me, I think, or they
were running with me, I'm not sure.
I didn't stick around long enough to look.
Then I tripped and fell into the mud and then the tree wrapped
around me and dragged me under the mud and I suffocated.
And that's when I woke up. Massaging my forehead, eyes wide
and I look outside. Have we?
Have we gotten any sleep at this point?
Has it been like is it day or what?
Time is it it? Can be daytime, it can be some
up. OK, so we got some sleep, I
guess. And I, everybody wrote me.
Sounds like we've got a wake and bake scenario here, Shaggy.
We need to get over this. As long as that's a tree you
trust. Wait, in which direction are we
going again after this? I mean, I'm still a little
shaking, but like, don't we have somewhere we're supposed to be
going? Or.
Div Garage Keep. All right, Yeah, Velda cough, I
think is the next place on the on the road.
Yeah, 'cause we're at that way and then it's following digits.
For their lives, well. We best break our fast and pack
up and get moving gank. Oh no, it looks like Fred's
disappeared in the night. Maybe we should stop and get get
some potions or something before we leave though.
And. Probably be smart, but you know,
like don't. Forget guys, I have all these
delicious snacks. There's there's something
calling me from the northeast like we should.
I want to go that way, that is. The direction it seems like
we're going from my recollection.
That pulls out a little sketched map.
How Far East? Cause Diffingrad is north
slightly E? Are we talking like 45° angle
northeast? Where?
Y'all are at. It's about a 45° angle N, so.
Share pole? Is that where about where I'd be
drawn to approximately? That's a little.
Too South. OK, so that we're at I'm bad at
directions. You got to help me with this.
No, that's going to be part of it.
You just start pointing us in the wrong direction.
I don't know, not division garage keep northeast but more
northeast. So it looks like this Bay here
between the two. Well, I suggest that we continue
to the keep, gather more information, get us one of these
protective irons, and then once we have more information, we can
then from our new vantage point and direction, pinpoint the new
direction in which we're drawn. It might give us another clue as
to where where that creepy tree wants you to go.
And if you said that that flame hurt you, Daphne, perhaps Velma
could rig something up with her cannon and the flame.
Big boom. Huh.
As long as it's not aimed at me, go ahead, yeah.
For the creatures, you know. Oh, if we can.
Load. Yeah, if we can load that flame
into my cannon. 'Cause we we can't, like you're
thinking apparently, get one of these sigils until we get all
the way to diff garod keep, and that's still at least two stops
away. Well, we're wasting an awful lot
of time talking when we have somewhere we could go and we
need to be so like Jump. In.
Gang. Oh no, Shaggy's driving.
Crud we all love. Before we go, I ask is there
anyone around that seems to be associated with the people that
run the flame? The people that like tend to the
flame there. Is a person dressed in what I
would describe as like white clerical robes who remember the
Brazier that they brought to you?
He is. Basically attending at 24/7 I.
I try to politely flag him down or approach him.
Excuse me, Sir, we we're about to hit the road today and we're
a little worried about being caught out on the night.
Is there a way that we can produce this protective flame as
a way to keep ourselves safe while we're on the move?
Tending a flame? Do you have any means of tending
a flame perpetually? It depends on what it uses for
for. Fuel.
Anything that you could feed a normal fire.
Yes, yes we can. We can get our wood as we
travel. Gift to you a #20. 3 bucks 50.
One that that. Would be much appreciated.
Protect you and your travels, stranger.
Thank you. I need to pull up my notes.
Chocolate milk, cookies and cream, peanut butter, chocolate,
vanilla. I mean as chocolate.
Vanilla. We're.
Waiting on Daphne, Daphne's already in the Conundrum
carriage, tending to her very much dissected and mutilated
monster in the back. I'm up front in the driver's
seat with a big smile on my face.
Right now Daphne is examining the monsters eyes to income,
trying to compare her pair, compare them to her own in the
mirror, just to see. And I also like to clarify that
I did not leave the gym behind, I did pack it when I packed my
blinds in case I just brought up.
Leans back in the carriage front seat next to it Shaggy with his
with a huge blunt and finishes off and and finishes off a big
pool before handing it back Shaggy.
Repeat that one more time. I've finished off pulling on a
on a huge blunt. Before.
Just here I. I take it as well and and I turn
around and I look at the crew and I say no laws against D YS
here and take off. Tells me it's significantly
safer to drive a horse carriage drunk than it.
Is yeah, the horse is mostly doing work.
The horse will not deliberately. It's like those.
Old Cowboys that used to like huck themselves on their horse
and the horse would just bring them home.
While we're on the road, wait, wait.
Wait, we we're we were given that Ember, right?
Yes. He would give you an ember.
It'll be a OK I. Just want to make sure that was
in our hands before we left. It'll be a survival check to
maintain. Hey, do you have a place to put
a fire? Do you have like a little
Brazier portable thing I. Imagine there's like a camping
stove inside the cart. Yeah.
I am a yeah I I should have everything that like would be
required. Explain.
Carefully to everyone that this cannot be let to go out.
You have. Like a you have a iron I guess
iron stove. Cool, who has the?
Best. Being very careful not to touch
it, Daphne's going to throw a couple of monster parts that she
deems useless into the fire to to make sure it doesn't go out
before turning to Velma, holding up the monster's eyes and like.
She takes one of her hands and opens up her eyes wider.
Does does its eyes look like mine or do?
Or is it kind of different? Do you think 'cause I really
they're? Not similar at all.
I share. This.
So. At least that's one one piece of
good news. Is that I'm not similar to the
monsters other than the crystal but and you know the whip that I
have with teeth on it now. So.
So who's the best survival check?
Let me see. Got a?
+4. I've got a + 2.
But is anybody that has ever tried to keep a fire going
without modern technology can attest they can't be difficult
to keep going sometimes. Yeah.
It should. Be pretty good at it.
I've got it too, so the sheltered.
In a stove in a cart should be easier.
It Now I'm going to have to figure out what fucking
marijuana does when burned by cold fire, aren't I?
Now that you've given me the idea, Oh.
Yeah, what's cool all? Right.
Which one did we want? The plus. 4 Survival, yeah.
Machine. So how often we're going to have
to roll this? How many times a day just.
Once a day I've also. Got a + 4.
Why is my? Survival not fucking showing if
one. Of us fails, can the other one
like jump in to save the fire if we're all kind of like keep an
eye on on it or is that not allowed?
Typically I've limited to You can have one person helping or
any number of people helping and one person makes the role but.
But you how does that work with like that?
Do you just kind of, I don't know, I don't even know what I'm
trying to ask, how do if there's a group of people helping, how
would it like? I I feel like I add up there
check and I've done poorly in that.
But. I have a 0 survival.
Cause like in real life, if someone is kind of failing and
people notice the fire is dwindling, other people step in
and take over. Oh.
Absolutely. But also like I'm a big and I
I'm not a big fan of skill check Congo lines.
OK, Yeah. One second, I just, I just
occurred to me actually, I don't know if you'd be opposed or for
this, but if you think about it abstractly about the rules,
right, Bardic inspiration is sort of like a like obviously
it's specific to bards, but it's sort of like an assistance,
right? And and.
Like if you, if you, if you were to say it like that, then you,
you know, if somebody was assisting you, I don't think it
would be too crazy to say that Like it can be like 84.
Or so. Arctic Inspiration says once
within the next hour when a creature fails, the D20 says the
creature can roll the Arctic Inspiration die and add the
number roll to the total. Yes.
So if you already have that, then I do.
I'm a barn. It's not here.
It's not a very large difficulty, so.
Guidance. Guidance, guidance, guidance.
That's sounds like it's it's. It sounds like I have the
highest with the you do. So I'm going to I'm going to
cast one of my bardic inspiration and.
Podcast guidance. I don't.
Know if I have that I'm a barbarian?
I would not. Yeah, I.
Don't think we. Have.
Guidance so. If you fail the check, you can
add AD 6 to your thing. How are you inspiring me?
I don't know if this is I'm going to do it anyways.
It might be a little wild, but whatever I haven't done.
I've probably done Wilder stuff than this, but Daphne's going to
give you a little striptease. I thought this was going to
involve the whip. Well.
It does I. I like Elbow Shaggy and I go, is
this stuff better than than you were telling me or is is is she
stripping? Like, I don't know man, it's
like a new experience. Shit, all right.
Well I guess I better and then I like see that the joint has gone
out. Oh shit I better like that and
survival check the fire while trying to light God the Doo back
up. Scooby don't with a Scooby-doo.
2. Fires lit up in here.
Scooby, sorry, I was chuckling too much at Scooby Dooby.
Sorry. You get the little fire and the
stove going. OK, get back up.
The stove is now. Radiating coal?
Well, it's absorbing heat from the inside of the carriage.
OK, after Daphne finishes inspiring you, let me write it
like that. She's.
Gonna pull her stuff in the monster parts to the furthest
corner in the carriage from the stone.
And. Continue messing with her
monster parts. What time of year is it?
It is late spring, OK, so. Warm out.
Yeah, the the fields are well on their way to growing.
Very sadly growing, but growing. Make sure we didn't just let a
cold fire as our heat source in winter.
But now we got AC guys. It's groovy you.
Just hear Daphne mutter from the corner.
Well, y'all do and continue. Right now, she's probably
fixated on the monster's stomach, trying to figure
something out with that. Shaggy, have you realized that
I'm Scooby with a doobie? You are Scooby Dooby Dooby Dooby
with a doobie. Or just have you.
Ever looked at the horses and just watched them walk?
Oh my God. Whoa, their.
Their their their butts move like like a lot.
We're like. Downwind of them and I look back
to see if we're like trailing a smoke cloud.
Does the cart have a a wake? I got a question that might
sound slow but Oh well. Am I healed from my nightmare?
Like from sleeping through majority of the nightmare?
Am I healed from that or no? You're asking a few benefits.
Of the long rest. Yes, you're not.
Supposed to have healed but I think I'll get I mean.
I can finish a long rest in four hours.
Now you are recording getting fucked up by the.
Monster. We haven't had a combat since.
Because I'm at 26 HP from last time.
Just in general, yeah, I don't. Near Max.
You should be. There taking.
Like AD 4. What do you what take roll AD 4
for healing? Is that what you're saying
you're? Like what?
Take off like 3 HP from your Max.
And then that's gonna put me lower than I'm at now, but oh.
Well then you're where you're supposed to be then, OK.
That you hurt. Yeah, I think I remember you
rolling for for the hit day because I remember that question
last time I'm. Only hurt, I'm hurt from putting
my hand in the fire last time, but I only took two days.
It was, yeah. To glance over and see a large
amount of delicious looking food that would give you additional
HP if you ate them. You are.
Oddly hungry. She's going to take if she's
going to find the most appetizing bit of dog food and
attempt to eat it. I'm a.
Chef, it looks amazing, like 10 out of 10.
Some like little French creation, maybe like a tiny like
meat pie or something like that. But just like a tiny little,
like, you know, a little shag symbol on top, kind of like
baked. Into the cross Daphne looks like
the Daphne looks like the meat pie.
And eat it. Or if you have an artistic.
Just a dog dude, but yeah. OK, let me show what my.
Also have breakfast. I can't throw shade at anybody's
cooking right now. I made Italian tacos today.
What I. I have no money, So what I had
in my pantry was tortillas and some bell Peppers and.
I mean, earlier you literally take, you literally text me.
Sorry, was cooking up an abomination period.
Yeah. And the only protein source I
had was Italian sausage, that is.
The thing bad that sounds like. A really good Taco to me.
Yeah, but I mean, I'd like a like an Italian style Taco that
doesn't sound terrible. Plus.
I know how you season your food and so it can't be bad at all
honestly. Awesome.
I don't know how to get this to like show on the screen, but so
you take anyone who has had this at the end of a short rest, any
creature who eats the food and spends one or more hit die to
regain hit points regains an extra wait.
No, it's a different one as part of a OH as part of a short and
then one with one hour of work. You gain hit point temporary HP
equal to my proficiency bonus. That was 6, right?
Plus. Three to the proficiency I have
a question. If we one of these requires a
short rest or a short rest, is there any way I could do this in
a long rest? I mean like I know I could cause
like time wise but like mechanics one you're writing.
In a cart to a for several hours, this is.
This can mechanically be a long, be a short rest, or not quite
long enough to be a long rest, but it could be a short rest.
How many? Hours.
We're looking at six hours, OK. So I can take a long, I can take
a long risk here because I can. I'm meditating in the corner for
four hours. Oh, right.
You're half elf. OK, Yes, you can do that.
So these temp hit points only activate when we heal.
No. So there are two different
treats. One is was a short rest and it
gives you plus 1D eight hit points and one additional hit
die for does. My medication remove my
exhaustion. And then the other one gives you
plus three temporary HP and those can be used as a bonus
action so they should be saved for like person is down.
OK, my meditation room is my exhaustion, right?
It it should. Be gone with that, OK?
Thank you. I was going to say.
I didn't know if the nightmare was going to come back, but
could someone? Make a snack item and share it
so we can just add like editor inventories every time and see
if we used it or are we just going to remember that it's
there? You prob.
You probably should do. Like a custom item for your
inventory? What was the dice again?
Sorry, I was, I mean. I already had to make a custom
one for my whip, so I. Will see if I can make one.
And then? It can be shared, right?
Yeah. And then it should be shared.
And then, like I said, so Josh, it's everybody who eats the main
treat, gets 1D8 HP just on the top of your regular HP and an
extra hit dice when rolling up for a short rest.
I don't know what that means, but OK.
We'll, we'll. Tell you just roll 1D8 and you
get that many HP right now. I'm already like bonus HP or
just heeling, yeah. It'll be once you're done with
your long rest. You'll have full HP plus this,
so in addition to Max. I got it 7 That's a.
Good number super HP 7 and then the other one gives proficiency
bonus as temp HP but it can be used as an item as a bonus
action so it will be very useful for so and so is down right and.
What was? The extra head die thing, do I
roll that in addition to the D8? No.
That will be like if we take a short rest instead of a long
rest and we try to like regain hit points using a short rest
mechanic, which is you have a hit dice equal to your level.
This gives you one additional hit dice.
You got it. So the 8 the D8 happens now when
you eat the tree. Yeah, that one.
Happens when you heal OK. Yeah, got it.
But I'm. Going to be meditating in the
corner for the next foreseeable future.
The. Horses get us to the next town.
Over the next six hours, you come across a bridge going over
a pretty wide a decently wide river.
I'm going to say dad pays up for the last hour and a half ish.
Cut into the earth, alongside the road, almost parallel, you
see a canal of murky Gray water. Around this time, you begin to
smell like the distant smell of industry, just soot and ash, and
just like the strangely metallic scent of just of just air
pollution. It's not long before you see
smokestacks and chimneys and the beginnings of a very like
significantly large city in the distance.
Is this type of industrial development what we are used to
seeing for cities, or does this feel futuristic to us?
It's not quite futuristic it. For.
Y'all, it's probably like a can to someone from like the London
countryside rolling into London in the 1700s.
OK, so. Right at the turn of the
industrial revolution like this is the beginning of the
industrial revolution in this world, would I?
Would I be up at this point or would this still be within the
four hours? You know I'll.
You're 4 hours fast. You're good, OK.
I wonder what kind of things they make here.
Hopefully not more of that cold steel that you are going to try
to experiment on me with. Hopefully more that steel and
we're not going to experiment on you.
We're not. We're not that crazy.
You know, thanks. To the fire burning inside of
it. Your stove is now made out of
cold steel. Cold iron.
So we have a little kind of sigil now, you being the stove.
So now I'm constantly unnerved in vacation.
Can't. Welcome in this caravan.
Yeah, so good to know for years. But you don't feel welcome here.
Mechanically, it doesn't do anything.
Yes, I understand. Well, Daphne's used to a little
discomfort. Fears.
Start getting up into like as you approach the city, you begin
to see people carts going in and outgoing out to the fields that
surround the city. Some carrying lumber from a
nearby wood, others carrying like like baskets full of grain
and some moving to a dock that runs into that canal and loading
a barge with barrels. And you can smell the distinct
smell of sulfur in the air as you get near the.
And you pass Get near the what? The distinct smell of sulfur as
you get near the as you walk, as you drive, like it is thick in
the air here. Where are we at across the
bridge? You are approaching Beldekov.
Emanating from the city as a whole or a specific thing that
we passed this the sulfur smells you just.
Passed, but it is distinctively in the air everywhere.
As we pass by one of the. Primary industrial like things
that are manufactured here is gunpowder.
Oh, OK. And we know that.
You just hear Daphne fake gag from the corner of the caravan.
Forming the next part, the coal, the iron forge fire thing that
we have, do we have like AI would assume I have like a a set
of like tools and etcetera. If I put my frying pan in there,
which was a weapon I have. What?
Happens. Do it.
Leave. It in Would it turn to cold
still? Because the question turned the
stove to cold still? How?
Long do you get it in there? How?
Long do you leave it in there? I would put it in there when we
noticed or shortly after we noticed that it goes.
Her. Switches and then since I'm
driving I assume it's just in there.
Well, Daphne will keep Daphne would.
Daphne's just glaring that stove down the entire time because she
doesn't like it, so she would notice after about 3 hours.
You. Notice yes it does and in.
That in that time, noticing Daphne's distress, I I ask
Shaggy. You got an you got another
Doobie, I think. I think Daphne needs it.
You just see her shake her head quickly.
No, I'm fine. I'm fine, I'm good.
I think she's. Afraid.
Of like fire bro. Look at her eyes, they're
spooky. We love you though, Daphne.
You look great. Yeah.
You do. You're, you're doing great,
Daphne. I was just going to it just.
Says after Shaggy's comment about she looks great, she just
says I know and then tussles her hair a little bit in the mirror
and then goes back to looking panicked.
I look. Directly at the other two in the
eye with like a grimace on my face when she looks away.
I mean, she logically knows that she is welcome amongst us, as
her friends say. She's a little.
She's a little discount. Wait.
What and I? Just say under my breath
development you got any other sedatives?
Like you'll like totally. Tell us, Daphne, if we start
looking like snacks. I.
Wouldn't eat y'all if I was going to it wouldn't be.
It would be very far in the future, probably you.
Don't think you're. Going to eat that crystal either
but but. Well, I couldn't help that it
just seemed delicious, and it was, so you can.
Understand it but. So did you say the pan did turn
to cold steel? It's cold iron, yes.
We have an unlimited cold iron machine.
We've done it. We open up a shop.
I put my pan in next 'cause I also have a frying pan.
Well. Actually, do we have?
Well hold. Actually, it's probably less
than three hours until we get to.
Yeah, the. City.
'Cause I was meditating for four, I was meditating for four.
So we're already kind of there pretty much.
Well. Actually, we have to keep the
stove going no matter what. So yeah, I'll put mine in
because the stoves always coming out.
What the? Bias a bunch more iron while
we're here, kid. Everyone up.
Guys, Shaggy pulls his frying pan back out.
You just hear that. All of you all just hear Daphne
motor. Great.
So now I feel unwelcome everywhere I go.
Jake's just like, what have I done?
Would anybody like to make a religion or arcana check?
From the ion, Yeah, let me see. What mine is.
Think it would be more religion than.
Anything I. Roll -1 who's got who's got the
highest? I got a + 2.
They said religion, right? Yeah, that sounds like possibly
you have got a + 0. I have a. +3.
OK. Well I think that's about as
high as this can go because the only religion Shaggy and Scooby
practice is plant based. Yeah.
OK. And this is an intelligence
check, so I get to add my D4. Oh, OK, there's that.
And then so 1414. I'm just shy of it, just a
little shy of getting where I wanted you to go.
So we should have let Scooby do it 'cause he had bardic
inspiration. Maybe.
I'd I I hard eye hard eyeball it, there's a nice summer out,
no? What is the D6?
Yeah. Not even going to be close then
if 14 didn't get it. I.
Rolled A6 on it so that 15 if that's any better.
It's exactly what I want you. It occurs to you that this isn't
how cold iron is made, like. Then again, it's a weird flame.
You suspect that the if this was if it was this simple, the this
material would be everywhere. It would be every lock.
It would be every handle. In a place like this where these
monsters exist, it wouldn't just be something that you handed out
on rare occasion as like, it wouldn't be so precious and
hoarded. Yeah.
Wow. We just make it bad.
We should retire. The second that that fire goes
out, the iron will return to its typical properties.
OK. That's fine.
The. Magical the ones that like the
sigil in if in the those in the end, for instance, was forged in
a fire that has not gone out and it's maintained constantly.
Got it. The person that.
Maintained that flame and. So we need to set up.
So what you're saying is we need to start a subscription service?
Thank you so much. You're welcome, been loving
this. Only her.
As y'all sit here and discuss the.
The. Stove, you just see you just see
Daphne sitting there pouting in the corner is.
That is that something that I would why don't?
You use two tea bags. What's?
What's wrong? Daphne, why are you upset?
This is y'all. Keep making more of the stuff
that harms me. I I'm not gonna be perfectly
peachy about this, because if I get nicked about one of y'all's
weapons weapons, I'm done. That's true.
We need to keep you a little bit away from everyone.
Is it proximity? We should test this.
I bring it closer to him if he's if you're OK with it.
I'd like. To see if like.
It's like. Super.
Proximity or if it's like flash touching.
She's fine with it, she's just going to glare at you while you
do. With.
Her now cat like ours. Just so I will, I will do a
series of small tests to see if the cold iron will affect Daphne
both by proximity or by like conduction, so through clothing
of different types. And then I'm gonna make.
You rightly thick. I already know he is.
The last one is going to be directly on the skin if all the
others don't. I.
Well done. No, we can assume them directly
on the skin and. Isn't induction through
clothing? You are correct, I am incorrect.
OK. How proximity and contact affect
Daphne, Yeah. Like can we put her in a full
body suit? Wow, it's just the color, not
the fire. We've already tested the fire
'cause I had to stick my brand in it.
So 'cause. If it's as simple as just having
you wear like more clothing, you're already in kind of like a
leather dummy mommy situation. What's like you could just have
like a a leather like dummy hood for on that, yeah.
OK, contact with this again and contact with the well, contact
with clothing is enough to cause harm for the sake of kindness to
the individual player. It.
Does it? Doesn't.
You don't keep it there long enough to cause like health.
Damage. But.
Yeah. It's like touching like a very
hot stove for like just enough to know it's hot, OK.
And like does it. And I would like just to confirm
it's the same between different materials, right?
So like leather, fabric, metal. OK, alright, well we need to
keep you like 5 feet away from everyone.
Well I mean it's only if I touch you so as long as y'all weren't
actively fighting. I mean my whip is 10 feet long
so I have range on mine so I don't need the perfect.
Yeah, this is perfect that I mean, not perfect because you're
turning into. A well.
You look different, but as perfect as it could get
considering the circumstances. Yeah.
Anyway, Daphne. 'S just going to go back to her
little spot in the corner and just continue messing with the
rest of the monster parts that she hasn't gone through yet.
So she's messed with the teeth, the nails, the stomach, and the
eyes so far. So would you?
Say she is, could I roll to see if she's learned anything else
about these monsters through her autopsy?
Sure. Nate terrifying cultism in the
isn't a check in DND. Nope.
Investigation.
OK I got a + 7 in that so that should be good.
A 21 would be. What do I learn?
Tell me everything. Daphne is going to actively
share everything she learns as also you need to just stay.
Because this is terrifying. Do you often take people apart?
I mean. Like mostly we've just dealt
with guys with like masks on and currently we are elbow deep in
ripping and sorting out the insides of this.
Well, y'all haven't. Y'all haven't touched it as he
has and I mean that's what. I'm saying tell us what it looks
like, because it's fucking terrifying there.
You can't. Take the mask off, you take the
skin off. There's.
Just assorted piles based on like what it's made of.
Like teeth and nails and hair are made out of keratin.
So there's a pile of teeth, nails and hair.
In one spot, there's skin, in one spot, there's God.
Everything you notice that this creature, despite having behaved
like an animal, has characteristics much like that
tree that you saw earlier. It.
Is in. Jeepers.
It's a hybrid. It isn't anyone.
It doesn't fall. Neatly.
Into any little in the any like of the taxa that you are
familiar with. It's not a plant, it's not an
animal, it's not a fungus. It's.
That's thank guys, definitely. Alive.
It was definitely alive. Like at 1.
Point got organs. In there.
Also but. They're odd, they're not the the
organs inside of it, like it's stomach, are shaped like, as if
they are completely alien from this place.
What? Would you, What would you, what
animal would you say it's most like?
Similar to that Daphne could relate it to?
To explain it to. Apply.
It isn't 1 so so it's. Got like the hide of an elephant
and the stomach of like it's. Like it's muscles are made
almost out of a amalgamation of animal muscle and plant fiber.
It's like it's bones are made out of an amalgamation of I.
Gotta look up and make sure this word means what it means before
I say it. Trying to explain trying to
explain this out. Is it?
Hodgepodge. Is it actually like got blood it
has? It doesn't have blood vessels in
the form that like you'd expect. But does it have liquid blood?
That's. What I need to know, it hasn't.
Been bleeding, it's oozed a little bit of stuff.
Like. Daphne, Daphne's going to vile
that little bit of ooze and wear it as a necklace.
Jesus Brown, what the fuck is wrong with?
Daphne. And B.
Well, she's eating an evil crystal and her eyes are going
demonic. There's.
Something definitely wrong with Daphne.
And she's got a whip with teeth on it, and she's dissected and
almost like categorized. We're going to have to kill.
Daphne. Yeah, yeah, we're.
Going to have to kill Daphne. Don't.
Worry I. Handed over the coal iron on
the. About a sedative.
I hand over the cold iron stuff to someone so that they can test
it on the body just so we can see maybe if there's a better
weak spot I. Volunteers tribute.
So you're going to like, are you tested on the monster body or
me? No, no.
No monster. Like it's organs are weird.
Like it's digestive tract seems to be like it's got the stomach
and then there are thousands of little hairs that go out through
the body. Like there's no like
continuation continuous tube from mouth to anus.
There is no anus. Like.
Anything it eats it like completely.
Dissolves. Into its body.
There's no heart, there's no lungs.
There's something akin to a brain in its brain case, but in.
Its brain case What's? The technical term, I believe.
Also y'all are sitting here that judge and Daphne but you also
like some people might be into this.
She might just be trying to make her some more money in her
little dominatrix career. Like people are into sharp like
teeth whips like studded whips that exists.
Horrified. She's just making her more
money. No one's yuck in your Yum,
honey. We're just, we're just, we're
just a little scared for our safety.
I mean at least she's not going to dissect y'all, it's just a
monster to help y'all understand it better and it just valid.
It's just this is more of a Velma activity than a Daphne
activity. Well, I.
Mean she's been doing this since last session.
She's just now. I know.
Velma did. Start.
Then Daphne took over, and she let her, let her at it.
Daphne is doing this because she wants to understand if any like
internal organ changes happen to her based on the crystal, what
it might transform into. Even though her eyes are
different than the monster's eyes, she just wants to get a
kind of baseline of what maybe could happen.
That's. Her, that was her goal of doing
this. Is she just?
She's just. Trying to get a baseline of if
any more transformations happen, what could happen with it?
So I'm testing the pan, the cold iron pan on the the creature,
but coordinating with Daphne so I don't damage any parts that
she has not yet inspected. Yeah.
She's got the stomach, the eyes, the teeth, the nails and the
intestines. So far, that's what she is going
through. Sizzles and pops and burns.
No different from part to part. There's no.
Difference. Seeing nails melt would be weird
like that. You saying it burns?
That would be weird, but. They do nails.
But hold up. You're gonna.
Send me down a rabbit hole. Continue with whatever else you
all were doing. Give me a second A.
Care burns. So does nails.
They. Smell gross?
Yeah, I think we gotta place. Out a little bit.
So y'all going to be stopping in Beldeca or are you going to pass
on through? I think.
We're what? What time of day does it look
like? It's before noon before.
Noon. Daphne wants to stop just to
make sure, like if there's any shops that she would want to go
to and restock obviously. See the mountain off in the
distance? But do we see the keep at this
point yet? There is.
That like nestled in the. You can kind of begin to see
make out its shape on the mountain side.
Velma, we should probably leave this to you.
You, you're probably the best at calculating exactly.
I know 4:00 was probably about the earliest that it was going,
but that distance is hard for me to gauge.
OK, so. You said it's about what time is
it now? About noon.
Yeah, and. How long have we been on the
road? Six hours.
And I look at the map, it looks to be farther.
I would. Say about isn't Well, doesn't
that look about double to you? Like if you flip the let's.
See. Yeah, sorry, I was.
I was AFK. Yeah, it looks about double.
Guys. I don't think we're going to
make it to the key before nightfall.
Or do we want to test out these new weapons on the way?
I mean, I'm down. I want to see a couple options.
How much my little I hold up. I'm gonna read y'all the name of
this whip 'cause I named it the Vicious Whip of Mind flying.
I want to see what that can do. I will say we have the option
too. If we stop at this little town,
we could sell some cold iron weapons between now and the end
of the day to get a little cash to buy some supplies.
Though. Ethically, I'm not sure if I'm
OK with selling weaponry to people that they're going to
depend on with their lives, and if we fail and let this fire go
out, then there could be some deaths on our heads.
I got a question. I mean, here's the thing, how
many lives would be saved before that with these weapons?
That's the other question is. Zero unless we are actively
doing something. But if we do sell them and
managed to keep the fire alive, then lives in our.
Lives. No.
No, no. But like, we're going to finish
this. We're going to go investigate
this mystery and hopefully solve it.
How many people in this town will likely die between now and
when we finish right if they are as it is, versus how many if we
sold them a few of these weapons?
Even if we eventually die, lives will be saved.
Question, could we can you tell by looking at Cold Steel when it
loses its property? Like is it apparent?
It is apparent by if you're in, if you're like near enough that
you can touch it, but right? Oh, OK, they can't tell them we
have the. Source.
We can't tell them we have the source.
They'll kill us. No.
But we can tell them how it works, and this is steel that we
got from that source, and it's only temporary.
If they think we have the source, they will take it the.
The market could be flooded guys.
I mean the the keeps right there we can.
Say we we brought it from from fucking grad.
From my little autopsy, did I determine that?
Could these monster parts be burned as fuel for the fire so
we don't have to actively go out and collect stuff?
I don't. Know if I don't want to like.
Breathe that in, yeah. Like my?
Body is like a temple dude and I take a huge toke.
It is not a good source of fuel, no.
OK. That's what I needed to know.
OK at this point. Do I how?
How about how long between rules for that fire too?
Or is it just that one once a day?
Once a day not. Bad.
OK, I'm. OK with selling the weaponry as
long as we tell people that the fire that forged these in
fucking grad. If that goes out then they'll
lose their property and depend on it to touch it and make sure
it's still cold. We also have to take into
account that I hurt because of the crystal I look the way I do
so if. I was hoping.
Y'all feel this in my you should wear?
Sunglasses. Yeah.
Like that's the easy solution is don't tell people you're a
monster. Last time we did that.
And it went well. They were not.
Chill. It went well.
Definitely hear me out. Just take a toke off of this and
your eyes will be bloodshot. No one.
Will know, right? Daphne, to cover her eyes, she's
gonna put on her Cloak of the Manta Ray and just flip the hood
up over her eyes. Oh, that.
Works too. So we're just going to take a
peek in this town, make sure that their market markets not
flooded for some cold iron maybe we can buy.
Some stuff. Yeah, so we go.
Into even if we can just barter versus like selling, we could
just barter. So that way it's not inherently
like we're making a profit off of it.
We're just kind of trading. Yeah.
I mean, we tell them what we're doing right for Mr. Machine
guys, we're going to the place, we're going to solve the thing,
we're going to save the day. To do that we need equipment and
we have these things to trade. Don't.
Forget we're the heroes. Yeah, so actually.
I don't know if I want to wear this but how noticeable are my
eyes? Like if somebody just looked
like looks kind of my direction, would they notice it or would
they? Snake Eyes.
I mean, I feel like you don't be paying that close attention to
people's pupils and how they are eye to eye.
Contact is like a huge social thing, right When you say look
someone in the eye. I mean, I'm good at eye contact
in real life, but I don't know how.
Daphne would probably find her eyes hot, honestly, so she
wouldn't want to hide him. But like would be.
Smarter than we're going to get murdered.
Like. Daphne should also have a little
common sense. I mean they're.
Oh. It's D&D, there are literal
snake people with the exact same eyes.
Not. In this town, there aren't and
not. Around here.
Boy. They.
I think the DM specified at the start like unusual races will be
ostracized. That's essentially what you have
become. An.
Ostrich. Well, I guess she doesn't want
to wear the hood, but she'd want to buy some sunglasses.
I guess she's just gonna kinda not make eye contact with people
until she gets them though, OK. I'm like, read, read, read.
Sunglasses, Yeah. So y'all.
Can kind of just walk into Velvet de Veldekov.
Like. It is a big city.
What? Do you mean kind of by?
Kind I mean you're getting looks, but nobody's stopping you
not even the guards clearly posted in uniform with muskets
are like stopping to question you.
You're just allowed to waltz your carriage right on in.
And when I say it's a it is a full blown industrial.
It's not huge. It's not like but it is larger
than most other communities in division garage.
There's one other that's larger. Like you.
Smell the awful gunk of just running alongside most of the
roads. You can see canals or and
alleyways. It is a awful place to be, but
you can also just like the industry here is a very
profitable thing like. There's what?
Kind of Do they have all kind of stores?
What kind of stores do they have?
Literally right you could. Want.
I don't. I've never bought, I've never
bought anything in the DND game before other than from that
chest we have in the other one, so I don't.
You could find stores, you could find magic item shops, you could
find firearm swords you could find like you could find a
gunsmith you find a blacksmith could find.
Daphne is going to want some a little bit of armor.
Not heavy armor, but she's going to want light armor.
That's what she's going on. Is heavily known for his
alchemy. Alchemy.
Alchemy is like potions, right? You could get pretty good deals
on alchemical and stuff like that here.
Who do we lose? Daphne is going to looks like.
A Velma, you think we we ought to be preparing for this
division garage keep place. Like, you know.
Contingency plans and all. Seems like they have some some
some boom boom powder here, so we could probably know.
Yeah, if I could. Blow.
Everything up. Stack.
Up if we can get some grenades, some, maybe we can find a way to
bottle this coal fire and a grenade.
Coal fire grenade. That that.
That'd be pretty handy. I mean, you know, the city is
kind of big so and we're safe pretty much now that we have two
frying pans and plus we're in a city.
So would you all want to split up in in like groups of two and
explore a little bit? Yeah.
I'm sure I'll I'll stop by an alchemy shop.
I'll go. I'll go with Elma gladly.
OK, so me and Shaggy. Are.
Going off somewhere? Where do you want to go, Shaggy?
Mind. Anyone that wants to sell right
now. Hello anyone.
That wants to sell items made into Cold steel, needs to buy
the items to then make into cold steel.
Right. Shaggy's bag.
You said you think he is bag. No, no, that that would be
Shaggy's bag. Like hit his deal.
Well, consider the fact that he's not even in the car right
now. I'm gonna say Daphne goes off by
herself, kind of avoiding contacts with people too much,
but she's gonna go to a little armor shop and try to get her
some light armor. You're bored, board.
Rogue. Oh, OK, let me look.
I don't know. Well, hello Modello.
How are you, baby? Oh baby, yes, she's also going
to buy her a fiddle. OK, with what money?
And she's an heiress, that's her background.
And she she's also going to sell her little deck of cards because
she thinks it's stupid and she's she doesn't think it's at all
useful. An heiress doesn't mean you have
money on. Well, it should, but she's gonna
sell her little deck of cards and try to strike up a deal
using her performance skill and she can all close enough.
But oh, that's even better. That's even better.
OK, so. 1st what rarity is that item?
Whatever the green 1 is. I don't know.
Uncommon, yeah. It's an uncommon.
OK, need to look up D&D Uncommon item prices.
It might say on here price. Ranges are the same, but I used
them based off the standards I think it should be. 200 to 500
is usually up to 1000, which is rare.
Where rare begins, so do. You want me to roll precisely?
Sorry, you're good. So they give you a little
debrief of what you missed when you were AFK.
Since we're safe in the city with the cold steel weapons and
being in the city, Velma and Scooby decided to split up so
and I'm at a light armor shop right now so.
I'll be with you. OK, I'm trying to sell my little
deck of cards and barter for a higher.
Price Let. Me see if I have persuasion my.
Persuasion is +9, so I'm. Good.
OK, that for some light armor. OK, roll me a persuasion check.
You come across a OK 20. Five I'm.
Going to be stereotyped as a dwarven man running the the
armor shop. Please be not not Scottish, but
like Latin, a Latin dwarf you. Want to trade me this magic
item? I.
Do and that is what I would like.
For in a Russian theme setting, yeah, this is this is great sort
of armor. He strokes his beard.
He. Takes the cards, counts through
them. All right, I'm a fair man.
I'll give you a fan. Swift of Armor and. 60. 5 gold
pieces. Those.
Cards me. Up.
Alright, I. Accept your deal.
Is there anything else I could, you know, potentially do for a
little bit more money 'cause you know, money's looking a little
tight right now so I can help out around here or, you know,
everything's on the table. Just let the world know that
Esteban makes good armor and wait.
You want the payment? No, no, I'm afraid not.
Things are tight here too. Alright, but I'll accept your
deal for the armor and the gold. Seems pretty fair to me.
He'll. Give you 65 gold and a suit of
leather armor. Let me add that to my inventory.
Hold up. Della, What's the matter, baby?
Like since. We're here.
Can I ask you like a question? What can Esteban do for you
that? Like cold iron stuff that
everyone's talking about. That's.
Like pretty. Rare, isn't it?
What happened? Have you ever?
Seen anyone wear like a whole like helmet or like a suit of
armor? Or like a tool, do not.
Let the governor's men hear your taste of such things.
Thank God I missed whatever that was do.
Not let the governor's men let you hear, let hear you speak of
such things especially. No like.
I get visibly scared like why not?
He views the order of the White Flame insurrectionist.
A bunch of peasants take over one of his keeps touting of a
new God and that they are protectors.
But like that's. The only source of coal?
Iron you mean? I.
Got mine in a different locate I shut.
Up. Yeah.
Daphne just put the hand to Shaggy's chest sharply, just to
like. People are not found to be
associated with the white flame or hunk.
I look at it Daphne and I say oh, like.
Row row. What?
What all languages can you speak, Shaggy?
Thank you. Sure, let me, I've got.
A few trying to see where there'd be features.
And trades now abilities, senses.
It's under proficiencies and training at the bottom.
OK languages, Abyssal, common common, sign language, giant and
primordial. Also don't talk to me and
fucking abyssal in front of this dude.
He's going to. Talk to Daphne's going to talk.
What are the other two? Primordial and giant.
Primordial giant and sign language.
Because everyone should always always always always always take
common sign language. Well, Daphne.
Say it. Again, always take it.
Since. Daphne is not, and since sign
language is not spoken, Daphne cannot speak it so.
I mean, it's a. It's a.
Language she's going to language communicate words, but she.
Can only speak languages. Yeah, I can't read or write them
either. I can.
Unless it's one of the ones I know, which I know Common,
Draconic, Elvis, Primordial, Sylvan and thieves can't so I
can write all those. Her describing the hand
gestures. Left.
Hand to mouth forming a touching 4 fingers to thumb and then
pulling down to indicate hungry or food.
Well, in the since I can already speak primordial, I'm and like
off the rib, that's something I do.
I'm just going to speak to you in that.
But maybe considering the fact that they are not too acceptable
of Yeah, she's she's speaking quietly because Shaggy's like
right next to her, Maybe we shouldn't try to sell it here.
Maybe we should go somewhere else.
Like we got to warn the others. And it sounds like boss OK.
Now back back to speaking in common, that is going to turn to
the dwarf and take her hand off of Shaggy's chest.
Oh, I just wanted to take a second to thank you for, you
know, striking me up a good deal for the armor.
And are there any other shops around here that you'd recommend
Traveler stop through, especially if they have a
certain goal that they're working towards?
Certain goal that they're working towards.
Like. You know, going on a quest that
involves a bunch of combat or fighting.
Like is there any other shops you'd recommend like a weapon
Smith, any tools and just the potions anything?
Abraham's alchemy is down the street.
It's. Very good.
OK, well. Thank you for the deal again.
Is there anything you want to buy Shaggy or?
Got no money? I hold out my pockets and little
flies come out. Yeah.
A moth flies away. I got a few items but like I'm
still planning on using them. I'm going to say in, well, since
you know current situation, in the next shop, I'll buy you the
little potion shop. I'll buy you at least something.
Do you do they sell bottles of like, hard liquor?
I'm thinking Molotov cocktails. We're fighting a plant.
I have 10. I have 10 gold.
I believe that those are called Alchemist Fun.
They are a thing. Yeah.
We'll have to go to The Alchemist then.
Daphne's just. Daphne and Shaggy are just
walking towards the shop, looking like.
Backing out? I don't know.
I don't have a visual picture of Shaggy right now, but Daphne
just looking backwards. Huh.
He's. Like backing up uncomfortably
after, we now know that we need to go warn the others very
quickly before they reveal themselves to the wrong person.
Well, Daphne thanked the dwarf and she's ready to go, so I
guess they're just walking. They're already running.
We. Fucking Sprint.
Daphne said he OK. Up.
I'm a barbarian. I do the little like leg in
rotation. GIF where the.
The legs bend at 90° and they just become a pinwheel.
OK, so now y'all y'all do whatever y'all want y'all too
want to do. We're coming to find y'all.
So are we. Did we find ourselves at
Abraham's or another alchemist shop for the.
Sake of me introducing a character you find yourself at
Abraham. Right, this looks.
Like a nice nice This looks like a nice shop, Velma.
It say Abraham's alchemy with like a mortar and pestle.
A sign hangs over the street. There's a wooden door, no
windows except for like a couple thin slats that allow light to
just filter in. OK.
The inside of the place is as I said, no wind, no real wind
dimly lit by a single candle, the smell of like dried and
sulfur and just the standard smells you would expect to come
from a place that performs alchemy as its trade.
Just fill the air. There's bundles of herbs hanging
from the ceiling just and that the large counter sits the back
and the best way I can just quickly you see a frail old man
with like thick bottle cap glasses and or a coke bottle
glasses and a like fringe of Gray spiky hair poking out
around his sides. He it's vaguely like the the old
man from the first, like Pixar short before he plays chess with
himself. So when Velma steps to the door,
she takes a nice deep breath of all the smells.
Smells like home and she's kind of distracted and delighted by
all the, the sights around her. And she's kind of perusing a
little aimlessly, just looking at all of the the fascinating
doodads. And eventually she she makes her
way over to the, the counter and she puts her hands flat down in
the counter in front of her. She goes, You got any grenades?
But she says it in the like, you got any grapes voice?
OK, specifically your. Hands.
And declare your Ibraham just jumps in his little seat and
then swivels in it and you see that he levels a double barreled
shark. I don't fucking use it.
Oh. She leans forward double.
Like, like bug eyed and he was oh, oh, it's just a nice little
lady. I'm I'm sorry.
She's unfazed because she's admiring this gun and she kind
of like reaches up and she's like tracing some of the the
line work with her finger like the beauty you got there.
I've so I'm looking for any grenades, anything that you
think is particularly effective against those those nasty
creatures out there. He stares up at you for a
moment. Grenades.
Grenades that'd. Be right.
He looks around. Are you a cop?
No, no, just just adventure trying to stay alive.
I let out a breath. Breath.
That I've been holding and and he's.
Going to roll inside I. Mean I'm telling the truth I'm
not lying that's true I. I.
Got to persuade him you're telling the.
Truth. I let out a breath that I've
been holding the whole time that we walk into the shop and it's
just a cloud. Of Mary.
J are. You with her.
Yeah, yeah, you're. Hoping to find some booms.
OK, not a cop. Thank you for the the persuasion
aid. And as he says that you aren't
from around here, I suppose. No, not.
At all. Strict strict.
What's the word not embargo, not a ban like what's the word
rationing of gunpowder these days with with those lunatics up
a division garage keep and the horrors that have descended upon
the countryside. But you're.
Shipping it out by the barrel full.
That's all going to the governor, to the what did I name
that fucking city? That's all heading to Coral.
Why? Over there, that's on the edge
of these infested lands, that's. Where the governor Manassas,
that's where the governor keeps the peace.
He. The governor's peace extends to
Veldekov, but that's where he trains his men and makes ready
to retake Divgarod. Keep and the.
Rest of the Lands. So what happened all at the
Divgarod Keep? We've been hearing a lot about
that, some sort of rebellion about.
Two years ago the miners there took up arms, and the miners in
the mountains took up arms and seized Dyvgaradkeep.
We've not been getting as much sulphur ever since.
We still have maybe 2 good sources since those days, and as
a result a ration on gunpowder. So no.
Booms. Well.
I didn't say that. I said it was ration.
I didn't say yeah. So it's expensive, Yeah, I.
Might have to pay a premium. Why would a settle?
For some chemical grenades, they don't have to go.
I was. Just going to suggest we we, we
might have. We might have.
That's less adventurous, but you know, I do keep a good amount of
alchemist fire on hand. He points out a still that is
currently turning out what looks like pure ethanol.
Scoops eyes get real big. We'll take some this.
About be when we all join up. Yeah, I was expecting.
Based on the way Shaggy was frantically sprinting, I'd say
we crashed through the door. Crashed through the door.
Ding Ding. Ding Ding Ding like don't say
anything X nay on the everything, Eh, they're all neck
narcs make a. Deck save.
Oh no. Shaggy.
Seems duck C + 1. Let's.
Go 100% let's go. Why is it not rolling?
I clicked the button. OK, it's just.
Not coming up. All right, well I'll just do it
to everyone. I don't know why it's not going
shit. Can someone roll me AD 20 and
add 1? OK, I got it.
You got a 16. 17 you'll. Never take me alive.
They've bang and there's like this.
The door pin like the door frame above your head splinters.
I. Burst into fear, which is which
is a rage for me and but these. Friends are yours, He has that.
Triggers a magic role. So it does.
That's a percentile. Like whoa dude, 80.
Six wild magic chart. Big, big numbers.
We're going to fireball this place with the still.
There are now 3 shaggies standing there.
Like and we. All spider man point at each
other. You're mean.
From from standing in same. Time.
Standing like a little outside of the doorway.
You just here, you don't see her yet, but you because she's not
running after him, you just carry.
Well, when would you stand down? I would have this is up to you
if you want to have been sat down outside, OK.
You sent me down inside. Let's say that you just hear a
very angry Daphne testing Shaggy out in giant.
Just why would you come bursting into this person's shop like
this? You ruining the door frames you
stupid bitch. Just full.
Going like Daphne's all the way set off from.
You're ranting. Straight up terrible abuse.
I love it you're. As you're berating him, a man in
a guard uniform holding a musket walks up and just like, looks at
you, looks at Abraham. Everything.
All right, old man. Oh yes, yes, we're, we're, we're
quite all right, he says, reloading his shot.
Closing it. And tucking it away just
startled me a bit, you know? He looks at the multitude of
shaggies. All right.
And carries on. Is Abraham a dwarf or a gnome?
Like what is he, Abraham? Is an old man.
Oh, so he doesn't know I got it OK.
And swapping like it was her first one of her first
languages. Daphne swaps and turns to Velma
and speaks in Gnomish and just says do not mention the cold
too, do not. I.
I've raised the eyebrow that is facing away from what's his
face. I imagine like I'm standing
Ibrahim as. You say that like to the.
Side and. Velma looks confused.
Ibrahim just nods his head. Oh yeah, yeah, they'll hang you
for that. He says, going over and
beginning to bottle up some of the some bottle up some of the
ethanol for alchemist fires. I assume he takes the bottle to
put it under the drip and realizes there's some resistance
under it and raises his eyebrows enough to get the hair out of
his eyes and sees Scoob with his mouth open under it like you're.
Ever clear? I guess that's good shit and.
I suppose that he just sees Daphne very precariously
stepping over the roble, making sure her foot gets or her heels
get all the way planted on the ground before continuing to walk
in. That should that should get you
some big boom. And I say, licking my lips.
So if this town doesn't use what must not be named to protect
themselves, how do you all stay safe?
We're just trying to learn how to, how to get by around, around
here, I mean. He's, he's got a gun, Velma.
Well, he he. Pulls up his shotgun point.
Play Annihilation, you say? That thing can take out one of
those critters. Most guns can.
Well I mean if you can fire off enough shots to kill one before
it gets to you. Do people just only go out in
packs? Do the can?
Can the creatures get inside the town?
Creatures don't come into town, no.
Interesting. We were passing little
farmsteads on the way here that we're only safe with.
You know what? Well, perhaps an individual's,
but we have the militia patrolling at all hours.
OK, so they seem to be deterred by numbers.
At least they're not. Invulnerable, and they certainly
don't like hunting groups. So they're.
Like pretty smart. Or a beast.
He pushes his goggles. His not his goggles, but his
coat. Bottled.
Glasses up. I add in another 5 gold to
whatever pot is going for The Alchemist fire.
Oh yeah, we never asked what's the price for these grenades
Every time. It's just ethanol.
It's going to be 5 copper a piece.
It's going to not cop 5 copper. No, like 5 silver a piece.
It's awesome. It'd be like we buy this, we'll.
Go. 10 silver. And like how much for the still
this? Is not at all related to what
we're doing but I was just looking through the potion tab
to see like what all my options were being that it's an alchemy
shop and I just see MSG magic salt of the gods as soon as I
open it. You're.
Welcome. Gosh.
That is. The first thing my eyes look on
to. OK, so 10 silvers to a gold and
these are how much again? 55.
Silvers each. So you get 2 per gold.
He also. Has health potions, those are
going to run you 5 gold apiece. He also has mana potions, AKA
they give you back your spell like they give you back spell
slots equal to your level. There are, there are only four
of them here right now, right? Those are. 10 gold, yeah.
OK. How much would four?
Oceans. Of psychic resistance be.
More than we have. Also, Sir, don't listen to my
friend about buying that. Still, I have another question
for you. How I know?
You have some old bones, but we might have the trees that would
solve some of the problems to your old bones.
And if you were to, you know, come along with us, bring your
stockpile, what would that cost? We would, obviously, we would.
So you seem like a trustworthy fella.
Do we? Have room for all this.
And I would like to point out that we are here to solve this
mystery and finish what the King for the area set out to get rid
of this the curse on these lands.
Funny. I appreciate the offer, but
there's not enough ganja in the world to make the get back on
the. What about in all the 9 realms?
Because we got some of the best shit in all of it.
It's that shit that made Straw go what the fuck?
Shaggy, what was the name for this one that that you came up
with the strain like? It's the atomic bubble gum.
Super smash. Don't.
Know what any of that means, Boyle?
It's. Delicious.
It tastes like candy. It's.
It's so good you have to try it to know what those words mean
are. You.
Proffering. Yeah, I would.
I would definitely proffer to the old man he.
Will take a big old like, you know, like it, it it just like
the the the cigarette just like or the the the blood like
cartoonishly just like evaporate his mouth.
And we have like a, a real quick That 70s Show circle puff puff
pass scene. I mean, Daphne, Daphne's waiting
her turn in line as all three of y'all stand up at the counter.
Daphne, you just see Daphne peek around from beside whoever is on
one side. You just see her head just kind
of peek out from behind briefly and then she just goes back some
out of her business. I'm buying 4 alchemist fire
bombs, SO2 gold. Hold on Velma, we might be able
to get into this. Again.
OK, well, I'll hold my purchase. Yeah.
I'd also like. 4. Of them and then probably 1
healing potion and that would get me to 7 gold and then we
have 3 left for the next place. So do we.
Does he seem to appreciate the toke?
He holds it in his lungs for not even a cough for a good 10
seconds, then just lets it out in a single cloud.
Like we could. Get you like a duplicate or a
clone bro. It would.
It's under. New currency, boys and girls and
and. If we, if we do, if we do, would
you, would you be able to knock, knock everything down just just
by 1, you know, 1 silver, 1 gold, whatever it might be, you
know, it's basically a, a, a 10%.
Marked out frame. Of prices are what they need to
be. But even for a clone of this
sweet sweet. Ganja I can roll.
The persuasion, if you'd like. You you can try all.
Right, I don't have that's definitely not my strong suit,
but just. Actually.
It is wow. I lied.
I don't. Have it, but I attempt to
assist. 20 not natural. That's dirty, dirty 20s.
Listen. Don't forget if you fail that
you have that bardic inspiration to you'll.
Give me the good stuff and I'll I'll knock down the price on
those alchemists. Buy silver and it'll make you an
extract. That's solid.
But yeah, I knew. I liked you.
Daphne just face palms behind everybody, you can hear her hand
hit her face just. Who's the businessman now are?
You talking to me? You.
Talking. To the green.
Talk to me. You're.
Talking to me. You just hear.
Daphne and stay out from behind you while y'all are bordering.
I was just wondering, is there possibility that I could get
directions to, I don't know, like a musical instrument shop
somewhere here like I. Really didn't plan on there
being a shopping episode. I'm a Bard, I need something so
I don't got a strip to use everybody every time I want to
cast Bard against rush not. Not every time.
Whenever you made a Bard, you got a instrument.
It didn't tell me I got it, it said I was proficient in it.
You should have one, yeah. You should have starting
equipment. Yep.
No, if you go to. Manage character and go to
equipment and inventory. Does it give an option to say
gold or equipment? You say go to.
It's. Whatever you wanted it to be.
Oh, hold up, I didn't do that. Bless it, I'm going to take
that. So I have a liar now I don't
even need the leather armor anymore.
Yep. But I'm yeah, I'm a.
Little bit richer now. So never mind, hold up y'all, go
ahead with whatever y'all are doing.
I'm on. It's still didn't appear in my
inventory though. You may need to equip it.
Like if not even. For.
Me to equip Oh hold up did I do this wrong again Oh I got to
click add starting equipment that makes sense if that's.
The case I'm going to instead of getting 4, I'm going to get 8
alchemist fires. What I'm?
Going to do. So did we get that discount?
Yeah. OK.
And how? Much does it discount?
1 silver off everything It sounded like is is what I so
instead. Of two for one.
It's one for one. Oh wait, no, it did that wrong.
8 silver 4 silver for for for a sorry.
Well I don't have change so I would still spend 2 gold.
True. OK, now I have 84 gold so. 84
Nice unless he gives. Change.
Does he give change? How much do I have?
I Did. I screw myself.
Somehow. Or do Barbarians just be poor?
Does anybody else need an extra set of leather armor?
No, Nope, I'm. Bare chested baby, I go buck
naked. I get.
Scared straight out of my clothing when I rage.
I don't know if there's anything left for me at this point, but.
I have a question for mechanics and game rules for my homunculus
servants. I have to have a gem to make it
right. Do I start with that
automatically or do I have to buy it?
OK, so could you? Use the gym from the monsters.
That's also what I was thinking, but that's a little risky.
That's. More fun.
Yeah, you. Say I gotta have a gym to make
it and that you just clicked Yeah.
That's that was one possibility, but I also don't know if I start
with a gym. It didn't say anything about it,
it's just that seems like it's a such a low level ability and
such an expensive thing to buy when you're such a baby
character. Did you get like it has a price
tag next to the gym huh? It.
Like what was the price tag on the gym like this is a spell
correct? You have to choose a gem from a
list and it doesn't tell you when you're choosing.
So for funsies I clicked on alexandrite just to see what it
was, added it it to my pack to see how expensive it was and it
cost 500 gold so. OK I'm confused, So what spell
is this? It's an homoculus.
Oh, let me look. It.
Up. I assume this is create
homoculus servant the Artificer infusion.
Yes, it's like. One of the core artificial
abilities and it feels like a very high price tag for
something that you get at such a low level.
And. I think you can use any gems, so
maybe there are cheaper gems out there.
Oh, they're. Definitely we are gemmer
crystal. Gemmer.
Crystal worth 100 gold. OK, has to be worth at least 100
which I don't have any close to that amount of money.
Wait. Question Artify Sir, wait, am I
looking at the wrong thing? How much money do you have?
Create Homunculus Servant is a minimum 6 level artifice or.
Why did it let? Me pick it then.
That's upsetting, no? Let me make sure, because
there's create Homunculus and Create Homunculus Servant Oh.
Mine says Homunculus Servant. Let me look, I'm pulling up
here. Homunculus Servant.
Yeah. So prerequisite 6 level
artificer, a gem worth at least 100 gold, or a dragon Shard.
I'm on AD and D wiki so if someone has a book.
IV Artificer. Here I'll show you.
I can't even find it on your character page, so where are you
seeing this at? Just a second, how do I'm trying
to screen grab but I forgot how to take a screen snap snap.
What's the? Hot key.
If you remembered, I don't know the hot key, but I just know
that. Let me check.
I just searched snipping, yeah. So do I snipping tool.
You're an. Artillery is correct.
Yeah, I found it on her page. Hold on Windows logo.
Key shift S Oh. That's right.
We can just look at your character on your campaign.
That's a smart move. Oh, that's a genius move, that
is. Except.
There's no character my. Character sheet.
I've got it, I've got it pulled up in Google 'cause I was
looking at what languages you could speak earlier for when I
busted to the door. But so it let.
Me choose this at second level. It does.
You do. Have it, it's popping up for me
and it under infusions on the inventory page.
Can you expand the Homunculus Servant 1 and what does it say
it? Just pulls up the like stat
sheet for a homunculus servant and explains it briefly at the
bottom lines. Just doesn't.
Have a level tied to it so you can have.
Tweets, but then. I also can't even use the
feature on my character sheet because it's prompting me to go
to the marketplace and buy Tasha's Cauldron of Everything.
Yeah. But I thought we.
Had that by being in this campaign, not.
In my in. I was going to say it's in mine.
Wait her? Character is in yours?
Yeah, it. Should have been originally.
That's how she. Can select her like.
Yeah, that's how I was able to do all the stuff I was able to
do because I made it. I made it in Josh's and then I
moved it. To.
I made it in Josh's, then I moved it to this one, but.
Mine isn't making me like do anything like I have access to
all of the stuff that I made. Or would she have had this
homunculus servant from before? If you started with this
infusion, well, you don't start with.
The infusion made you start with the ability at second level.
Yeah, but. We are level 5.
We have had a history. Your character has done other
things. I see.
Yeah. We're level 5.
Does she? Have this.
Yeah, yeah. That you have That's why Daphne
is offend on at this point, because she had.
Yeah, like you could have the homunculus if you want, or if
you want to make the little crystal, you're welcome to, but.
She used the crystal from the monster to make a homunculus.
This is the question. Like she can or she can try.
I don't. Trust it enough.
That's fair. How much did you say?
How much did you say health potions were?
Health. Potions 5 gold. 5 gold is it?
Worth how? What kind of potion?
What kind of potions are these? Are they great?
Are they just regular health potions or?
Anything is great. We have one off healer, one off
healer. Last time they went unconscious
and we she almost died. 6 jump shots they are.
What? I'm sorry, they're standard.
Healing potions OK. I look I'm.
Going to make the I'm going to make the very bold decision and
buy everybody for health potions.
I lick your feet. I.
Have the money. Yes, thank you.
Mommy. Thank you, Tommy.
Mommy. So now I got 4 gold, 4 gold
lift. Damn, but I have.
A bunch of other stuff I can sell now so.
I'm not. Going through right now though
but. That is a solid move and much
appreciated. I load up on that's 48.
What's a division? It's a nice clean division of
.2. So yeah, two golds worth of No
20 golds worth No 4. 82 Gold 2. Gold.
Yeah, I had it right the first time. 4. 5 because.
We have a 1 silver off discount which is 20% right.
OK, oh, I. Forgot you'll do that, so
nevermind. I'm not spending that much gold.
Hold on. No.
That was only the only alchemist fire.
Oh so. I guess I'll buy.
I'll buy 4 worth and then give half to Daphne.
Yes, thanks. 5 Alchemist fire. Daphne.
Just smiles at you. Just I.
I I I I slapped down 3 gold and ask for change from Abraham.
I'm not going to be able to do the math on that, but I trust
you and once I get The Alchemist fires give so that's that's I'm
asking for 8 and got. Who?
Between the three, the three of us then, since you were kind
enough to share yours. Shag, Yeah.
That's three. That's three gold and eight or
two silver. You said you were giving me how
many of them? I'm trying to add them to my you
get. 5 for me, two from him. And then I gave 2 to you,
Shaggy. Sweet.
OK, I have how many total? You all just talk 7.
You have 7 total of what alchemist fired?
Yep. What about velma?
I bought 4 buying. Some.
OK. Yeah.
Originally or now? Originally.
I only started with 10 gold. Yes, but now the now they're
only two gold per. Right, you can get 5 for two if
you want. Oh, OK.
Then yeah, I'll do that. Great shopping.
Complete. What's the difference between
the fire and The Alchemist fire flask 'cause I'm seeing both of.
You don't. You don't want The Alchemist
flask fire. That that that's more special.
Oh. I didn't see it come up, I just
took a basic potion and renamed it.
They're the. Same, I just it's not under
potions though I don't know what it's not.
It's under. It's under.
Gear under adventuring gear, yeah.
Just search alchemist fire with no filter tires.
Yeah, and then you get 4 potions of healing for me.
Wait. We need to get some for Fred.
We need to plan for Fred. We can.
Hold on. Now if he if he wakes up from
from the carriage, we can give him something, right?
How much money? Did Fred have?
Is he in the carriage? Can we rob him?
Just kidding, I'm sure. I'm sure he would be chill with
it. I'll share.
I'll share some of my stuff with Fred.
It doesn't doesn't bother me. OK.
Hell. I go back to the carriage.
Fred's loaded y'all. How much does he have?
He's that 58 gold here. Who me?
These people, they're rich. They save a lot of money by not
buying premium dog food. Yeah.
Do we need to Rob? No, I think we're all right
right now. We're good, and I was.
Just hoping that I was thinking if she wanted anything but we
have enough. I'm going to, before all of the
absolute bullshit we just put Abraham through, I'm going to
tip him to gold for mainly the door for breaking the, you know,
the door. But I just slide 2 gold coins
across the table towards you. Fucking solid.
So are. We set now are we?
I think. We should leave, I guess.
We'd look outside probably to check what.
Time is it? Right.
Oh yeah, nice.
And I. Asked the the shopkeep how long
it takes to get from here to the three closest towns, Corel Rad,
Radoski and Divin Gradkeep. Well if you take the canals it
takes about 4 hours to get to corral division.
Garage. Peak.
If you take the river is about 5 hour but by the road through the
governors wood it's going to take you.
Well, it's going. To take you about 8 hours.
Well, there OK, you. Don't have any trouble heading
that way. Remember that's.
Outside the governor's reach and he's not keen on letting most
people head that way. But then when he also stopped
people from using the canals. Not within his territory.
Are there any boats that can fit like a mystery machine?
A groovy vehicle. Caravan the conundrum.
Carriage. I don't the conundrum.
Carriage. I don't know what it being
covered in grooves has to do with anything, but I believe it
could fit. But we most barges can handle a
carriage or two. Groovy.
No, yeah. I don't understand 2 words.
Well, sounds. Like a plan.
Should. Do you all have any other
business you all want with Abraham?
So should we head out or hold up for the night?
What time is it? Time is.
It. 'Cause it was 12 when we got
here, me and Shaggy stopped by the place to give me some armor
and sell my crab. Then we busted through the door
in here. And do we think that, because I
think we were hoping this was going to be a fairly quick in
and out, we've gone to two shops.
Yeah, but. In.
Those shops for a Bennett like you, you've spent a good amount
of time in Abraham, has he? So would.
You say it's like two or three now or?
Has the sun reached at zenith and hasn't moved?
So it's. Hard to tell.
I mean if it's reached at zenith and had oh because it it goes
out quickly. But we do have the cold iron
thing, so we should be OK camping right?
So long as we have it running. And if we take that barge
straight to Division Garage keep, perhaps we don't have to
worry about some of the things in the night.
Maybe they don't like water. Nice, I.
Look over at Gaffney and I throw and I casually try to like get
her a little wet with water. So turn to the shop key I like.
Flicker in the eye, in the face. Sorry, anything.
Does she? React.
I'm. Trying to think of which
direction I want this to go. Hold up.
I got 2 possible what which is the action here that I could
say. Well I guess firstly DM does it
do anything because it's. Just water.
Well, does it do anything because I'm mutated?
Am I? I turned.
To the shopkeep and I asked him if there are any reports of
people being attacked on the barges by the creatures at
night. Oh, we.
Don't run the barges at night. So when's the last one leave
here to Diffengrod to? Divgrod Keep.
There isn't an official barge to Divgrod Keep OK.
So you have to take the road then?
What about to corral? I noticed my diction.
An official barge. Oh.
He. Winks my nephew.
Well, we've got to. Make our money.
And it's like I said, there's rationing.
I've been trading a portion of gunpowder for the sulfur that
they're mining up there. They don't have the equipment to
properly make it. Fire.
In the you know that I'm doing a bad thing.
What? I.
Think he's saying he knows the guy.
So your nephew, when's the last time he how late does he go on a
walk at night? Well, he.
And some boys, like I said, no the the the official, they will
under the cover of the darkness, take a bar, jump to Diff
Garadke. There's about six of them.
They usually do this run. And that.
Usually is enough to well, you know, we really should come up
with a name for these things. At night.
At night, start to get hunk. So would you mind marking out
our map when and where he departs for these walks?
She's trying to be all sly and like, not say the actual words.
I. Can't tell you where I.
But. Again, this is a night time
trip. Be careful.
Mm hmm. We've got like special
protection, friend. Be careful.
With that. That's the plan.
Yeah, you got to wrap it before you tap it, right?
Abraham What city? Talk.
He knows what he's talking about.
So where's this location at? He will mark a place on the
northern bank. We're on the Southern Bank of
the river to the north. And you think it might be too
late tonight to meet up with your nephew?
Or no. It's.
Barely noon. Not too late.
Well, I. Wasn't sure what what time of
day he leaves. Well, Oh no, you say he leaves
it in the cover of night. I see.
Right. So hold on, let me get this
straight. The.
Night time can come anytime after 4:00 PM, right?
That's what we have determined. And definitely.
Wonky. OK, Abraham confirms it's wonky.
I trust him, the main. Point of taking the canal is to
avoid being spotted, right? The governor's made what canals
much in the river is much less than they want.
Got it. Yeah.
OK. So we would have to do have to
do an 8 hour over land trip at night to avoid the guards or
this canal for four hours at night.
Exactly, exactly, Shaggy. Now you're doing the math.
You're there. I.
Like, wow. Dude.
That's clever. But how much?
Yeah. What?
What is your nephew? I'm not as good at this charge.
And tell him that I sent you this extra protection and he'll
let you on the boat. Great.
OK, I'm glad you said that because I was going to take that
conversation into a different story if you said there was a
cost. So jeez.
Yeah. Hopefully we've got given you
enough by now to prop up the business here.
So we appreciate and I nod to Abraham all.
Abraham's is going to flourish my different franchise.
So. Now are we all ready to head
back to our little caravan and decide which direction we want
to go? Yep.
All right. Thank.
You. Abraham, let us.
Know if once you start taking investors Abraham and we walk
out the door roads. You can just again, it's best to
travel at night and it's best to not leave directly through the
eastern gate. Going to have to skirt around
town without any roads for a while.
Shaggy, I think we should buy some stock in this guy's trade.
We don't have any money. We traded him weed.
He. Gives you a THC extract from the
Super bubble gum explosion delight or whatever the fuck you
named it. I don't.
Remember. Because it is alchemical in
nature. Let's see here I'm going to say
taking. A.
Gulp of this and there's five gulps to it.
Will give you. Resistance to psychic damage.
As you you're. So high that you just can't and
you just kind of like. Take it in stride.
You're just so high, you can't. This is.
Normal. And and through my research, if
you get attacked by one of the monsters, you take psychic then.
All read on all checks except for performance.
So the monsters deal psychic damage so that you resist the
monsters attacks? Maybe through my research
because after putting the teeth on my whip I can get I can deal
psychic damage now. Please do that.
Monster. You think that's the only one
I've made of? Oh.
Yeah, I'm not dumb enough. So baby, well, I don't know what
you take me for. But.
I meant that specific one because I ain't that the only
common we've even encountered so far.
Yeah, I. I, I, I hold the the extract
reverently with my eyes very big.
We will save it for a special vacation.
Thank you, Abraham. I begin bowing to it.
Oh holy, what should we call it? Baby Dab I.
Think that's a little too anticlimactic?
I think we've got to give it a a real name.
We'll have to think about this one.
It's a Dabney. A Dabney.
Yeah, I like that Daphne just gently reaches down and grabs
Shaggy by his shirt collar and gets him off of the floor.
Well. Thank you, Abraham, for all of
your service. I apologize for us breaking your
door, but we got to take our leave now and then.
Daphne turns and very carefully steps over the roble by the
door. And for the love of God, don't
start with me, just knock or something.
Loud and. Clear.
Well, thank you again. Bye.
We might be back. There's a chance, I don't know.
Wherever the wind takes us. Well, so.
How? Your nephew for you.
I'm honestly. Kind of sad that when you
decided to play a cleric so as you're walking.
I considered it. I can't even lie.
I was between Bart or Cleric. As you're walking around the
city, you notice that every time you pass a church or a temple,
it has been looted or burned down or boarded up.
Of every denomination. Any any God.
No looks like. We can get some free room and
board there. Well, yeah.
Or, you know, now that we have that called steel in our thing,
we could just, you know, can I make.
An intelligence check to attempt to make some sort of mental
connection and be like, maybe we should investigate these places.
Like. Maybe there's a pattern?
Or would that be if you? Want to gather information
around town? Yeah, I was.
Going to ask people. Do just a general gather
information check go for it investigation.
I met someone else do not I have a + 2.
I will. What's your investigation?
What is it? And then plus 22. 22 Well, I.
Also got a high investigation, surprisingly so.
Asking around you both gather that around the time that all
this the magics of the clerics began to fail and as and over
for about a year. Eventually it just completely
dwindled to nothing and as a result the the people of this
land have completely lost faith in any of their God.
So you mean to tell me you just said you wish somebody played a
cleric so you could take away their magic?
Oh. Yes, absolutely.
Fred's going to learn that I'm going to be making.
Fred's going to have to make some Charisma checks in the
future for being a Paladin. It's going to be great.
But so are we going to the churches or are we going back to
the caravan? What are we doing?
I mean, I feel like we should. Start heading towards the dock
outside of town. So we should have the Westgate
skirt around town and head north.
Well, as we do, like do get your like on our way out, do our do
your things where you're investigating the church
information. Oh, no, it's because, sorry, I'm
an idiot. We just got that information.
I'm a fool. Well, he.
Was talking about and I was like OK that's cool, that's cool, but
what's going on? I feel like we all kind of teach
characters that kind of resonate at least with us a little bit.
Oh yeah, 100%. I am Shaggy.
I mean, I'm not necessarily a hooker per SE, but I mean, I do
give Daphne a little bit. I.
Think Daphne's a hooker. Yeah, definitely, definitely not
a hooker. I mean, I've, I've already in a
side conversation, I said that she learns more fit like fandom
if she does, yeah. You've.
Described her as a hooker though, so I would just.
I mean I she literally as her bardic inspiration gave Scooby
and Shaggy A striptease so you can't say that she isn't.
She couldn't sang or. Something.
Well and like you made your choice and there was definitely
an offer. I heard earlier shopkeeping
about some illicit service services in exchange for gold.
Yeah, Daphne is kind of scary. She's also like just taking
things apart. Like we're low time mystery guys
and we are actively dissecting, yeah.
She's out here acting like a fucking Witcher.
I mean, Rick's whole goal was to play somebody from Supernatural,
so you can't say that Daphne acting like a Witcher is too far
fetched. Yeah.
That's true. Because literally the I know
we're not encountering vampires yet, but the vampires in
Supernatural, they don't have just two fangs.
All of their teeth are fangs. It's like Jennifer's body Tundra
so. When you.
Yeah, me. Defecting a monster, is it too?
It's. It's not out of line for like
Rick's character, but like based on the lore of Daphne I.
Mean she's mutated. She's trying to figure out,
yeah, yeah, what could happen to her.
Yeah. I I am taking this all as in
like your inhibitions are now weirdly gone.
Yep, this is a new thing. Her descent.
I mean, we all knew each other before this happened, so so was.
She like this before? Yeah, I'm gonna say.
No, I'm gonna say slightly, she wouldn't go as like to boldly do
it, but she would ask if she could help, like just assist a
little bit. So I always.
Knew there was something there. She's way too excited at the
butchers. So before we head out of town,
that might be a good place to call it for the night.
That's what I was. Just going to ask, do you, do
you want to do you want to introduce us or do you want to
hold that off until next time? Jake, we're.
Going to hold it off there. OK, next.
Time we. Will pick up with meeting
Ibrahim's nephew and heading up to Devcrod Keep.
Hey, is that where we were supposed to be on session 2?
No comment from the DM. So that means yes.
Perhaps it doesn't matter, it's a. 4 for one dude I'm telling
you. Or A2422 for 1/2 for one Hey.
As long as y'all are having fun, I'm.
Fine, I'm. Thoroughly enjoying this.
The chaos factors always take your anticipated time and double
it. Yeah, so.
Like I have managed to successfully pull off one shot.
Before. So, you know, like I had, I had
this broken down into four sessions.
So I'm figuring out where I can trim some fat to make cut it
down. So like maybe in the next two we
can wrap it up. But sure, I mean.
I'm enjoying it, even if we, yeah, probably eat.
The other crystal, damn it. Boobs.
Trying. I'm not going to, don't worry.
I'm not going to spoil anything, but I'm feeling.
The munchies. I've already been ran by a
couple ideas. So I kind of, I have a, I have a
little bit of an audio. What's in store for whoever eats
it? Cool.
Say nothing. I'm not going to accept it.
Challenge it. I've changed.
It I've changed what they are from what I told you a little
bit. So can I say it or do you want
me to die? No, I.
Was pointing it. Used like this before in.
Other campaigns they're they're fun, but these ones are
different from the typical. Interesting, but when Shaggy
flipped water on Daphne I was very tempted to make a joke
about that. But getting her?
Wet. Yep.
I was like, let me. Pretend to be like insane like
pretend to go feral and get us all killed.
No, I was just going to be like. I.
Was just going to make her like nudge you and be like, there's
plenty of time for this later. Or something.
And just, but I was like, it's in front of a shopkeeper.
Daphne would have a little bit of decorum, like a little bit so
so. Cool that you're OK with the
fact that Shaggy's breath smells like dog food.
I mean y'all finally got Daphne to eat dog food today so she
probably won't have an issue with it anymore.
That's true, Daphne. You've noticed that your
appetite is significantly bigger.
Than and. That your primary cravings or
meat. Yep, I figured.
That's where you were going to go with this, So that's where
I've been trying to eat it. And try to eat us.
She wouldn't eat any of y'all. She might try to eat Rick's
character because he's the only not Scooby associated one.
But she wouldn't. Eat any of y'all, she's too
close to go. For now, I mean.
If she did, it would be Scooby-doo, but your Scooby
don't fully belt. Them you.
You got that sedative ready yet? I'm not.
Going to need Oh my. Gosh.
Break it to you. But I don't.
I don't think I got anything we should have.
Bought some from this guy. Yeah.
The Alchemist. Oh.
Wait, that's right, we're. Still in town Tactically, we
just. Got all this ethanol we could
just, you know, no. Or, or y'all could like,
forcibly drug Daphne so she rolls Nick, she rolls
disadvantage on everything. That.
Is possible and I probably would let it happen given the
situation. We shall see.
Alright, If we're leaving it there, I will see you all next
time. Bye.
Catch y'all later, gentlemen. Bye, bye, bye.
Yeah, yeah. Bye.
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