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Allelopolis. Fucking crank the hand of fate
tosses the dice rolls, spins, turns.
The campaign starts and ends, leaving memories that become
stories. Stories flow out into the
infinite sea, painting it with legends.
Legends wash up on the shores throughout the infinite sea,
fading to myth and until myths are forgotten and the campaign
that gave it birth comes again and again.
The Hand of Fate tosses the dice, rolls, spins, turns
hitherto we left the Rum Rollers as they set sail from Socrates
to Shandar the Red Dragon's Island.
Not far after splashing down from the cliffs of the Market
District, the Rawlson's Wisteria Cat and Hamilton rescue Olive
from wreckage she clung to in the churning seas of Mittelmare
at night, immediately taking to navigation for the Rum Rollers,
and with a torque to match theirs.
Olive quickly became part of the crew, whereupon she attempted to
direct me May to steer around a giant hulking mass in the
distance. Turning hard to starboard, the
mass teleported directly in front of the ship before turning
invisible. Cat was able to strike the air
around it with a shattering, thunderous blast while calling
for all hands on deck. Wisteria brought to light the
monster with her dancing fairy lights, and before them stood in
a mass, an enormous mass of rising teeth and tentacles
loading all the cannons. Olive, Hamilton and Cat take aim
at the wriggling mass of tentacles, while Captain Nui,
Mai, Rorl, and Mysteria rip into it with their magical prowess,
Rorl especially with his newly acquired Fisticuff ripping it
nearly in half. Meantime, Frederick is awoken
from in the depths of the crew corridors and Zenora is alerted
by Cat's call from the second deck, only bursting onto Adeni's
decks after the death of the tentacle creature.
Having quickly dispatched the creature, they debate and
successfully execute a plan to restore and capture the tentacle
monster from its very quick death and put it into the bottle
that once held a dune. Mimei uses one of her cold
purple crystals also to top off a dune's tank, where they set
sail for the rest of the night in peace as the first fingers of
light illuminate the horizon and a landmass off in the distance.
Let's find out what happens this time.
I don't think that. I don't know if that gave you
guys all the right key points to remember where you were, but you
guys find yourself on the deck of a dune.
Anybody else see this giant fucking volcano and?
Yeah, that's slightly large. That's the landmass that you see
off in the distance. That's it's, it's quite active.
Yeah, there's smoke coming out of it and there's definitely,
you can see some dribbles of of lava coming off the top.
It's not like exploding. It's just you know.
Bubbling. Yeah, it's pre pre pre
exploding. How nice.
Just a dribble. Exploding post exploding.
He would say it's edging if you will see you guys towards the
island or as I mean if. A red dragon were going to live
anywhere. Wouldn't he live in a volcano?
Pretty sure, yeah. But do you think the best way to
approach a red dragon is like, do we just sail up and like
knock on the door and be like hey, or should we like do like
smoke signals or like? No, I think we should cover our
bodies in this gold we brought. Yes.
I I would like that. I don't want to become fried
chicken again. Yeah, that way he doesn't
immediately attack, because if he attacks, he's going to damage
the gold. Should we have like?
Cover our bodies. It would be difficult to cover
our bodies with gold, but I think there should be a way for
us to display that we are we are in possession of gold.
Right, like hold the big chest on like a plinth or something
and be like look gold for. So.
I don't want. It to be I don't want it to be
easy for the dragon to snatch. Right, Because I don't want it.
Over and snatch the gold and take it so we need to like keep
the the chest below deck. And just bring a portion of it
above deck where do. You think we're going?
Do you think he's going to come out to the ship?
Oh, I'm assuming the ship is going to get closer to the to
the volcano. Yeah, you guys do find
yourselves you, you know, just you only see the the landmass in
the distance. So you're you're probably quite
a few hours out still. Yeah, we should probably figure
out if the water is deep enough. Like where it where?
Oh, a dune knows, right? I think how close she can get to
the thing before risking scraping the bottom of her hole,
that is relatively unclear to me as I can't see it.
I can kind of sense the waters near to me or if something
touches me. That shit.
Can anybody swim? I can.
But I would prefer not to. Do we have like a flag or
something from like the the Queen so that we can like like
we are representatives of the Queen?
Or should we just have like the nudie out and like?
Oh, that's true. So I.
Don't I feel like the nudie? Is like a maybe, but maybe that
could be a bargaining chip. Maybe we don't.
Want to or? Oh, what about this?
We go hunting for some sort of creature, right?
Another creature, one that we don't want to keep.
And we we set up like a big table, like a banquet on the
unlike the the the deck of the ship or like on the shore.
And then we have like a big dinner and we invite him down.
Oh, yeah, maybe because, I mean, I'm sure he's.
It doesn't look like there's a lot of wildlife on that island.
If that is where it goes, I guess we should first confirm
that that is where the Red Dragon is.
That's true. Is there like a meeting call?
Can we? Can we like?
Is there a? Do any of us have any knowledge
about? Something I would draw the
Dragon's attention. Yeah, yeah, it would.
I would to answer your specific question, that would be a
history check. That's.
All real history. Everybody.
Collectively. I did.
I did come from a world of of Dragons and pirates, but I don't
know if I would know about seducing.
Maybe mine them. There wasn't any classes for
that where you're from. No, you just it has you come to
it. Naturally, you stumble into a
situation like that. O28. 07.
Oh shit, we totally know how to call to this dragon.
Whoever can pick that knowledge up?
I'm not sure, but it is known. I like to learn.
There is a cat dragon or a chicken dragon.
Did you switch bikes there? All of you?
We're getting feedback now. Oh, now it's stopped.
OK, moving on. Yeah, Kat, you would know
specifically. Probably more than everyone else
who kind of just has a general understanding, even.
It's very detailed information. So you were going to have to
write roll pretty high to to get anything in.
That's pretty Dang high with a 28.
So you you know from your studies that you're the Dragons
do have a mating ritual. I mean, everyone kind of knows
that much at least, but it's it's usually usually entails
different things for different Dragons.
Obviously, this being a red dragon, you you know that they
are pretty violent and very much do like to hoard golden
treasure, and for that reason it's generally perceived as part
of the mating ritual for a mate to show up at one another's nest
nest with an exchange of brutality and gold.
Brutality and gold. So is that how we want to get a
hold of him? I don't know.
We're not really gonna mate with him.
Yeah. Do we want to send that signal?
We're trying. To insist that the Queen wants
to, right? We're bringing a fucking nudie.
Yeah. True.
But should we? Tried to What if we bring him if
he wants brutality? What if we bring him on the
hunt? Try.
That. We also do have a giant tentacle
monster that we could use, but so, so it's worth a lot.
Yeah. Should we say that?
Keep that in our back pocket? Make it preferable.
Out here. Are you guys also, just so I'm
aware, are you guys just sitting in the water then had a dune
kind of pause at this location or are you still slowly drifting
towards the island? And should we circle it?
I think I would slowly drift towards the island, but as
captain I'm going to be very cautious, right?
I don't want to damage a dune, so I'm going to have a dune slow
way the fuck down so that we don't accidentally like, run her
onto some rocks. Yeah, you have you have control
of the token. I think everybody does
technically. But you'd be really.
Yeah, I. Was going to say.
Is that why I can see like all of adune and all the water?
See all of Adune. I can show you the world.
Should we approach like directly or should we circle and try to
approach from this backside as it looks like?
I don't know if that's like is this more door?
Is this the entrance? Didn't you guys get a map of his
island too? A Dune Channel.
Let me check. A dune?
You're so smart, Why? Why do you don't even need a
captain? A dune.
Yeah, look at me. I am the captain.
And the ship? I can't find they changed rule
20. Where am I?
Crazy? Where's the handouts?
Shondars Island, yeah. Why can't I make this bigger?
You gotta click on the map itself.
I didn't figure that one out. Oh, why is it safe?
There we go. Volcano, Porco, tail, cliffs,
beachhead. So we should land at beachhead,
I am guessing. This more like sweet AI art.
No? I made this.
Not the map, sorry. I'm looking at the picture of
the volcano. Oh, that one.
Yeah, Yeah. How do I see?
Yeah, I was trying to come up with something.
It was in the meantime, so you guys could get like a visual on
the island. But I then I eventually did get
into roll 20, and I was like, oh look, I can just drop a volcano.
Boom. Boom volcano.
Oh. There's all kinds of rocks and
bullshit. No good.
To be very careful because like, don't forget, we could not fight
a baby red dragon and this is not a baby.
Need to be very specific about how we approach this.
Yeah, not trying to fight. So where are Can you Ping For me
Josh, on the map where the tail cliffs are and where the
beachhead is Ale beachhead and the.
Beachhead's north-south from your where W from your position,
but yeah. Yeah, but like, as far as the
map is like, it's. I got you.
The. North part of the island as you
are getting closer and you do see some of the dotted little
island islets. I don't know what tiny islands
would be, but tiny islands all the way around that look like on
the couple times that it has exploded in the past to this
volcano is you know left debris behind big enough so that it's
created these small jagged areas.
But there is one sort of path that's been navigable because
you see another ship docked actually actually at this beach.
Head to it's second chip as you're getting closer to No.
It is about two times the size of a dune, but you do recognize
flying on its flag that of a Dragon's head red dragon.
Chip. I do want to note, I appreciate
that the the island itself looks like a dragon, right?
It has a. The beachhead.
Portion looks like a Dragon's head and the tail cliffs look
like a like a tail and the volcanoes that torso.
Anyway, I. Cannot what you're putting down
there on the map. A handout.
The handout. Yeah.
Yeah, I'm looking at. I'm still looking at like, the
play mapping, huh? Yeah, that's just like a
mountain of volcano. What are you talking?
I saw, yeah. Oh, OK.
So I guess we're gonna yeah. Approach where it seems safe
close to the beach. I do.
Does a doonai have like a white flag?
Not a white flag of surrender I guess, but like whatever flag
signals friendly, I think generally the.
Queen what Azrilla would do when she was captaining my ship?
She would fly the the the flag at half mast and put the a a
white flag over over their flag. It wouldn't show, you know,
surrender. It would just show subservience
slash, you know, friendly. We wish to parlay, yeah, that.
That's the word I think she used.
OK. So do we do we have any idea of,
like, what brutality thing we're going to give this creature?
We have the gold, we have the nudies, but nothing, nothing
brutal. I guess we can start with the
gold and the nudies, and if brutality is required, we can
improvise. Yeah, I'm gonna say, how much
brutality do we need? Because, like, what does
brutality mean to a dragon? That that's a that's a question
we need to answer. Yeah, figure like a joint hunt.
We should. Like, like a team, Like a team
hunt. Would that be something that
would have worked? I don't know.
Sure, probably. I'm saying we could help.
All right, so I'm going to like, look at one of the royal sins
and I'm going to point and be like put the flag, white flag,
our flag at half mast. Well, I'm sure I do and I can
put our flag at half mast and we need to put the white flag up
above it all three. Of the others.
Salute and start falling over each other to do it as well as
you're getting. Actually, you know what?
Roll me in Athletics. We haven't rolled enough tonight
already. Oh.
No. OK 16 you you guys all start
climbing up the ropes to get up to the top as she's already
lowering the the first flag, A dune's wooden hands are coming
off the mast and lowering it down and you guys must be
carrying the white flag and go to set it on the string.
I don't know what the rope next to it you could successfully.
I mean it's it's there. Nice.
Looks really boring. Should we put like a :) on it so
like everyone knows we're friendly or is that like a
different flag then? Doesn't say I like the :) idea.
I want to see you do whatever you do to put a :) on that flag
light of hand or performance. +6 and plus six either way, so
let's go for it. What did you say?
Natural 20 What's. The worst that could happen?
26 I put a a smiling cat head. Beautiful.
A little. Cat.
That should be friendly enough. It's even got a little bit of
orange in it. You guys aren't right quite sure
where he got all of these colors or anything that he started.
Using in. It.
But I mean, they might be that color now, but they could fade
to something very grotesque later.
I was waiting for like a shit brown :) where these materials
came from? Yeah, this is great.
I don't, Yeah, I guess. But maybe his he he'd been
eating a little bit differently that day to get those colors,
because that was a natural 20 if it's the siblings that ran up
there, their utility, so they would have.
I can't remember what the like the tools we gave them were.
Maybe paints or something. Yeah, I'd have to look again,
but it's either ship around or or or.
It looks good. One of the two.
Yeah, I'm not asking questions. I'm just appreciating the
beautiful artwork we now have. They get down and go wash their
hands. As you guys pull up onto the
door or getting closer to the shores, you do get a call off
from the the other boat and they they they say is.
Is that supposed to be a :) smiley?
I mean, it's just gonna give him a thumbs up and some finger
guns. That's right.
Dang, you're not a cat. That's a cat.
I think there's a chicken behind that as well on the on your
flag, What's up with that? And it's a group.
Never seen that, never seen that one before.
They're yelling at you too as you're pulling in, but I'm just
didn't want to yell on everyone's ear.
Yep, I appreciate that. Yelling at us about our :) and
chicken flag. What scrubs is he on the
passenger side? It that took me off guard,
that's the. Side of the ship.
That's what my brain did. But then it finally clicked with
the song Shit. And he goes he he's not on the
passengers. He is on the port side though,
if that's any consolation. Maybe we can restyle the song.
I don't really want to yell back because I'm going to look around
it at everyone and see if anybody feels compelled to
answer. Artist.
You What now? I say the artist centers.
Oh, it's a group photo. We pop over the edge and I hold
the cat up. See.
We smile. I can just imagine just.
Like these great sounds with all your heads like pop up over.
The edge type of gawk, just as they hold me up into the air.
And you guys realize as you're getting closer to the individual
that you're talking to, you know, being largely humanoid,
size is a little bit shorter on on the shorter end, but they are
dragon scaled and though they aren't.
Dragon Kin, They're cobolts you see, and they're red cobolts
running around on deck and offloading the ship it looks
like. And another one comes up to the
first one and like shoves them out of the way basically and
says why you care about you. God damn self self-portrait.
What the hell are you all doing here?
It's got like a cap little captain's hat on being all self
important. At this point, Nina's going to
run over to the side and be like we come to offer the dragon, the
the, the. Red.
Dragon. But does he have a name?
I forget Shondar the great and mighty Shondar.
A. An offer.
Oh, you'll be here for Shondar A.
Well, I better not be messing with you.
Because if I if one of my crew here, and damn well sure they
would. So they could take my captain
out and tell them before I do. I'll just best be letting you
all take it. Take it straight to Shonda
himself. You're going to have a little
bit of a hike ahead of you though.
Up the island's head here and just across one of the the the
fingers into the into the mouth of the volcano.
And the volcano. For that information.
Yes, yes. Yes.
Do you do you have any best practices or tips and tricks for
how to approach? Shandar or How to You know, open
conversations. As you guys are gliding in
closer to it, a dune starts to go.
Oh, I'm starting to beach. And you feel the ship and then
and beach itself on the as it's as you see it as you see a dune
now on the on the island which is basically half the ship on
the beach and she stops moving but he he goes on to say.
Well, the tips and tricks you ask.
Well, best things to be known, I guess, is from here to there
you're going to want to be be watching out for goblins.
Most of my crew won't talk mess with you too much.
You're looking like a mighty strong bunch now that you're a
little closer. So I wouldn't be worried about
either. But you know, you're just
there's some squabbles between US and the orcs.
They were here first, at least, so they claim.
Before Shondar was kicked out of his original home back there
over in Gagant from the Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's a it's a
touchy subject. I wouldn't mention the
professional necromancy called around him is all he is.
He bastards. Those pictures.
All right. That is that is very good
information. Thank you very much.
Let me know it's going to look down at at.
Adune and like very, like nervously and anxiously like
like touch the railing and stroke the railing.
Be like adune. Are you are you OK?
Did the did the beaching hurt or do do you need anything?
Oh no, it was quite pleasant actually.
I haven't had my whole scraped like that in a little while.
Hi I have a question. Adune you had to bring the flag
up. You had little, like wooden
hands come out of the ship. Could you, like, make yourself
little wooden legs? If they just wouldn't be able to
support my, my, my bulk I had, I fear it would take a lot of mass
to lift this mass. We'll soon soon.
Aduna is going to have wings. So yeah, I just like the idea of
a centipede ship. That would be incredibly epic.
Instead of feet, though, it's all hands.
On deck yeah I'll I'll see myself but I'm.
Off the ship or? Yes.
If you're doing doing that, you can roll you can roll
performance. You know what?
Fuck it makes Let's make stuff happen. 24 very nice you.
I'm picturing 2 anyways that you guys were all chatting and
getting up close to the edge and what had happened was there was
still a couple cobalts off to the side that were Hut Hut Hut
Hut offing a ladder over to you guys and.
You look down and then stand right next to them and kind of
tip your hat to everybody as you just fall backwards and you guys
all look down and you did a backflip and landed on your feet
and as as Hamilton. Swirl around the face.
Umm, tip my hat to him like you said.
Like good morning to you. My name is Thomas.
Good morning. Good morning, Stairs.
The the like 4 cobalt that it takes to move this ladder.
Or three cobalt. We'll say that's four.
Here we go. They move it.
They set it in place after a slight pause and startle Meant
from your surprise. Landing was a mighty fine trick.
Thank you. The longer I stick around, I
might teach you. Oh we ain't we ain't too goods
at learning and they just turn back around and hood hood hood
hood back over to the group to start keep moving some moving
bigger boxes it looks like these boxes are about the size of all
four of them put together so it takes yeah all four of them to
move crate at a time and there's I didn't want to populate all of
this but they're they're they're doing this on and off the trip
the OR the the ship and. Looks like there is a bit of a
tent set up just off the ship there too, that that they're
they've set up a little bit of a camp on the beach.
OK. Babe, look at her cool.
Very. You hear some goats bleeding too
often. That doesn't.
Someone get that goat of Band-Aid.
There is. Where's Hamilton?
Where's is this? This is.
Me, Right. Where's I?
Just assumed I was free with them.
You are. I just didn't grab.
See Rawlson's and Kat. Did it.
I think that's me, man. It's not working.
There it goes. Yeah.
You guys can all see and move
your tokens now too. Yes.
I'll just lock that into place.
Just give me one second here. Oh.
Go ahead. I was wondering why there's this
line? Anyway, advanced lock position.
There you go. You shouldn't be able to move it
now. OK, Nope, Nope.
There's just a big lock that shows up OK.
All right, crew, Do we have provisions?
This might take us a couple of days.
I want to make sure that we don't start.
I was going to say we should bring our we should bring him
like an offering of goats. I mean, but those aren't our
goats. I do see these like giant ass
crabs all over the place. Maybe.
We there are a couple of them scuttling around on the beaches.
Some of them walk or walk up to a dune.
They're they're they're big by regular standards for sure.
They're like. 5 foot but they're not too big that some of the
like. Hamilton couldn't just jump up
and squash them. Wait, they're What if we did
like a surf and turf meal for him?
Like the not the not the main body mass, like the spread of
their arms like and legs whole. Thing.
Yeah, they take. Up Think of like a king grab I
was. Going to say that that they
sound like they're bigger than cat.
They are. OK.
Yes, they are good to know. You might have to pick a bite
with a crab. I like the surf and turf idea.
What do you guys think? Yeah, yeah, I I like this a lot.
So if the Rahlsons would be so kind as to capture some crabs,
oh. I bet that's very entertaining
war. I don't.
Want. It might take us a couple days
to get up there, so I don't think we want them dead yet.
I think I'm gonna continue this, this trend of capturing things
alive. And saving them for murder
later, for later murder. How do we store them then?
There's there's not like a little like Dock Town, is there?
Dock Town here? No, it's just the one ship of
Kobe I'll need to. Take them with us, I was
thinking if we could buy like a wagon to throw all this shit in.
There's a lot of a milling about, but they mostly seem to
be doing their own labor. We could take an empty barrel
from a dune and just put the crabs in there and just roll the
barrel around. I'm sure they'll live long
enough. And did I get a bubble?
Ah yeah, that's the bubble wand that you used to put the
creature in there. I made it for you finally and
put it in your inventories all. Right.
OK, this is great. Can we choose which plate we
teleport to when leaving Adune? Are you asking or are you
finding a route finding out? Because that's usually how I how
I'm going to answer that too. That's fair.
I will approach, think it's it's a cat who's got the plates
right. I know.
I have, I was going to say I have one plate approach be like,
hey, just wondering could we leave like a plate here and take
one with us so that we could teleport like back and forth?
Yeah, I think that's a good idea, that.
Would be smart. And then we could like, we could
capture some of these like crabs, put them in the ship, see
if we can buy some goats, put them in the ship, get to the oh
been in the. Ship.
Guys, do we remember the last? Go ahead.
Sorry, sorry, sorry. You are.
You are correct. We should do this.
Do you remember the last place we left a soul, Spike?
I have. We ever Oh, it's back on that
tree. I put a soul spike in Jarvis's
room at the plush pig. Yeah 'cause I really liked that
room. So I was like if something
happens I want to come back here.
I don't remember ever placing. I don't remember anybody placing
theirs, I just. Had placed mine because I was
like we really need to do this sometime because I had passed
them out a while ago. I would suggest adding it to the
as like a custom note to that object, but I do remember what
you're saying to Hamilton. The first time you'd gotten it
yours, you placed it back in the fissure.
Yeah, so I can I have a new one please?
It's not. No, it does.
It does say the return. Point.
Yeah. So it wasn't like a place the
spike and leave the spike. It's more of like you take the
you take the spike and you you just poke it into the ground
real quick and reattach it to your necklace.
Oh, OK. So I am gonna do that real quick
on a dune. I'm gonna ask a dune first if
it's OK if I put a soul spike on.
A dune. Know what that means?
But OK, I guess I trust you. Oh.
Please let us know if it hurts. Yeah 'cause I had the same idea.
Yeah. So it's some.
Yeah, we can both do that at the same time.
So I'm going to run back up this ladder.
Follow my captain. Oh, place it here on the front
of the ship, OK? Hopefully a dune didn't feel
anything. You haven't done it before, but
Hamilton you have. And you know, there's kind of a
ringing sensation through your body as you do it when you place
it into something. And so you know that it took
effect, but you do hear, hear a dune go.
Oh, that was a a. Weird sensation.
I will also do that. I guess I have to say the words
I swear to protect and preserve. I'm going to go below deck,
spike it in the floor where my in my room.
Oh, OK, you guys got soul spikes.
What are those? It is a trinket for a necklace
that lets us. Respawn at a certain point in
case we meet an untimely demise. Nice.
Forget exactly when you guys have gotten those, to be honest.
I know it was back in the fissure.
I I wanted to say it was from Dos the monk or or potentially.
Actually, you know what? It was probably from one of the
chest of desire, just in that Temple of Light.
I think so too. But yeah, like remembering the
exact date. It's hard, huh?
Yeah, it's been it's been a hot man.
Yeah 'cause I think you got yours Hamilton, and then
immediately stuck it in the ground, basically after
understanding it. Yeah, 'cause we was in that tree
and we had like the Canadian disco memories.
Toast to that with a handful of Skittles.
I know it's from the early, the early stage of this game, it's
just, but they're just great. Anyway.
OK, so this is Bull Soul Spike. I have provisions.
Are we catching some crabs? I don't know how we're going to
transfer so barrel. So I guess go beyond while go
back up on a dune. While I'm on a dune, ask a dune
very nicely for an empty barrel. No plates.
Do we want to put crabs in the barrel before we leave?
So what? We could, like, teleport back
and be like, look, here's crabs in the barrel?
Or do we want to wait until we need?
We should come probably have them in like a barrel, right?
Yeah, keep them. Because otherwise we're going to
be like, oh, one second, we'll bring them.
Not dead in the barrel, but alive in the barrel.
Just unhappy. Yeah.
Maybe we can like anchor the barrel to a dune as well as like
the bottom of the water. We can like weigh it down so
it's attached to a dune, but it's make like a little like
underwater cage. Yeah, yeah, Crabs like that,
right? I mean, we could probably just
capture some naturally if we built like a crab crab cage and
put something in there. Does anyone know how?
I'm going to ask Aduna. Like Aduna, do you know what a
crab trap is or like? A structure of a trap.
But I yes, I I don't think I have any myself.
Oh, so could you create? One for us?
Don't think I. Have a knowledge for that.
OK. Well, do you mind if we?
Use one of your. Barrels.
You see an empty barrel, or rather here inside of the inside
of the ship, a funk and then. Rolling sound and as it's coming
up the steps and up to the deck deck side and you see the arms
pushing the barrel along the deck and the wooden arms gets up
right to the edge of the of the ladder.
Shall I just push it over board or into the stand?
It shouldn't. It's pretty stout.
And she rolls, rolls it off the edge into the sand.
Nice. Amazing.
You're the best. You're such a boss, Aduna.
Anything we can do for you before we?
Go, don't try. My hole's still a bit slimy from
that tentacle creature. Oh.
Perhaps you can leave my siblings here to clean you.
That would be delightful. If they're so willing.
I mean, perhaps they can work something out with the fellows
we've just met there too, to make a timely matter of it.
Sure. They begin cleaning it, You
know, the old fashioned way. Oh.
This takes forever. It's so gross.
They don't stop. We're going to have such bad
hairball, they're. Going to be a ward color.
And splinters on your tongues. Should we try to buy some of the
goats from these people or trade for them?
Like what's a high commodity item that Eddunay could make or
that we have on on hand? We have gold.
Yeah. I.
Mean. That's true.
And they're little Dragons. I bet they really like gold.
Yeah. I.
Have gold and. Silk I also have some gold at.
This So should we should we capture crabs first or should we
negotiate for? Goats.
I have one also. Do we know where both plates?
Are I have the other it's. Still, I believe in the Crew
quarter. OK.
Thank you. Dine.
Cool. Yeah.
Sorry that I had stripped that chain of thought earlier.
OK, let's fill this barrel with crabs.
Yes, let's do this 'cause it's. The revival.
Just something we have to roll for Josh.
How do you want us to? Yeah, 'cause it's kind of like
capturing food. Or like if you were out in the
woods and you were just hunting for mushrooms.
Kind of deal. Same, same, some same thought
process. A 16 in harmony.
Meimei's gonna aim. Oh, OK for catching three crabs.
So I'm gonna roll three times. I'm just looking
1234. I see 4 rolls currently for
that's what I'm rolling. How many?
I'm going to roll then, and they're going to correspond
directly. First roll was 16 from oh wait
1234. Yeah was for Captain Memes 16
and a 14. You're setting the example by
going after one of the rat Wiley ones and you grab.
You go to grab for it and it goes to pinch for you at the
same time and you grab it's. One of its other legs just
nibbly and hold it up so that it can't do anything by its one leg
that you grabbed it on the next one though Kat, you go into to
Oh no. Wow look at that.
You go in to grab for. How are you doing that, Kat?
I need some descriptors there that was a little bit easier
for. It probably involves matching.
Yeah. I'm guessing I would just use
like Mage Hand. To just like corral the Karija
around until I could get a hold of it again with mage hand.
Cause like, how much does this crab weigh?
Oh, they're getting up there. They're like they're hefty,
hefty boys. Crab.
Weigh. Yeah, you're looking at above
your threshold. Isn't it 5 lbs?
I think it is. 10 lbs is all that the Mage Hand can do. 10
lbs. It can do 10 lbs.
OK, so you're you you go for a smaller one with the intent of
the being able to make sure because the the the bigger ones
are way up there close, getting close to £20 just FYI.
King crabs. Fun fact.
Yeah, I would just definitely go for a small one.
I I I let people with opposable thumbs try to handle the
laughter ones. And you use a similar tack
tactic after watching Captain Me May and are holding it up with
the Mage ham like. I got it.
And then I see you got an 11 there.
Yeah, me, May and the the the next one you go up to after
throwing that first one into the barrel.
You you go to dive for it because it's it.
It was trying to move faster and quicker and quicker and quicker
away until you were basically running after it and you whiffed
in the sand. And then the last one you
unburied by by landing on it in the sand.
And you go, oh look, here's one right here and it's it's not
moving currently. You're wondering whether or not
you killed it. Or or just stunned it.
Could you roll some an an unarmed strike just for funsies
damage there, Mimi? You're showing muted on my
screen. Oh yeah, same did.
She have to walk away with the dog for a moment.
Perhaps or she's got some technical difficulties.
I'm not seeing any any notification otherwise but.
Anyone else want to roll? You got three crabs currently.
Sure, we'll try. I look on a dune's deck for some
sort of net. There isn't anything on the deck
that you're seeing unless you're counting the rigging.
As netting, which is the stuff that you use to climb up the
mast, and some of the stuff that's holding down any of the
cargo that's up here. Are you saying anything out loud
or just looking around? I'll ask Adune, Hey Adune, do
you have any Nets or something like that we could use 'cause
this would be much easier, wouldn't like an.
Oh course, Deary, I have a couple of those.
What sort of net are you looking for?
Something that can catch a big crab on the on the sand maybe
like two people hold it and like they they run forward and like
sweep it up type of thing. Well, I could give it to you for
this, but it is not intended for its.
You see, you got to be careful to not make to make sure not to
get it caught in its claws, or otherwise it'll break.
What is it? It's it's it's net.
It's just, you know, intended for fish.
True. Sure.
And here's some bustling about before coming out passing from
one hand to another that keeps popping up on the deck.
A net that's folded up into a a nice square that it holds it up
in front of you for. Thank you.
I bow to Adune and then me and one of my siblings will run,
each of us holding one end of the net to like swoop on one of
these things and the other two will hold big sticks and run up
to non lethally try to knock them out.
Bigs feel like that should be a thing.
Non lethal. It's just something you call
out, like you do the damage and then.
Yeah, I know that we're. Talking about Nat.
I'm talking about the like as a as a weapon.
A stick should just be like something that's.
Club. Oh yeah, you could use club I
guess. As you've got proficiencies that
are associated or deficiencies, that's the case maybe for the
weapon. They have simple weapons so they
can use a simple club. They pick up some sticks.
What do you want me to roll? Well, that would be to hit with
the clubs. I don't know if we need to catch
one first. Oh, you're going to.
OK, I see what you're saying. I thought you were going to do
it the other way around. I misinterpreted.
I thought you're going to try and like club it so that it was
stunned and then throw a net over it, try to pick it up.
If it's stunned, I can just pick it up.
I'm trying to catch it so it doesn't run away, but we have
feline agility so we're going to like run really fast.
There's one that's arranged thrown here that I I have.
It's a standard ranged weapon, which is usually a Dexterity
based of a net. I don't know if you see that on
your side or not. Let's see.
I found it on Rule 20 then instead of Dean D Beyond
actually though too. Manage Inventory, Can I just add
Nat? Yeah, I should be able to.
Nat Add to equipment, Equipment Nat Action Nat.
I can action by Nets 17. Oh yeah, that captures it quite
quite neatly. And then the other two run up
and or other two or three if I'm throwing it will run up and
start hitting it non lethally until it's unconscious.
Yep, go ahead and drive wing back.
Close. Let's see, no effect.
Check all. Right.
Oops. Not having that, so I'm just
doing unarmed 1821 and 16. All of those hit for sure as
it's getting clubbed, though it does get a hold of the net and
pinch some of the net apart. No.
It rolled a natural 20, sorry. No, Dune said.
Not to let that. Happen.
Shit, I'll have to fix it. Look over my shoulder to Dune.
It's fine. I trust you.
We start sweating. You can't roll the damage for
those. I know it's non lethal but.
Roll 8 the. First one year we only got 2
health points, by the way. Oh, I mean, as soon it went, as
it goes unconscious, they would stop hitting it.
OK, Yeah, the first one immediately.
You're wondering whether or not you've broken the shell, though,
too. Oh shit.
I put that little dirt on it there to cover.
I thought, it's fine. I think the net.
Still twitching in the net. And I unravel it from the net
and go to deposit and thing and. Feel like I'm going to hold on
to this net for like a hot second, you know?
Yes. I'm gonna, I'm gonna go buy some
goats and I take the net and I start walking towards the cobalt
ship and then you can do some something else for someone else.
Yeah, yeah. You see on the on the front of
the ship, besides the boxes too that they're taking out, they're
taking out some statues and other goods.
It looks like that. Belonged somewhere else before.
They definitely don't don't fit here, although at the front of
their ship they do have a very immaculately carved Sea Wench it
looks like of some sort with the Trident.
Anyways, Hamilton, you you going after some of these crabs?
Yeah, might as well. How you doing buddy?
Are the crabs aware of? I mean they are, but they're
just kind of out and about doing their own thing.
You know they don't, They're not if you're just walking around
and trying non threat, right. If you're trying to sneak at
what you're saying, if maybe that's what I'm picking up, then
I would ask for a stealth in that regard, because if you are
just kind of walking around, they do move away from you in
general. Because I would.
I would try to sneak up beside one and just lunge at the same
time and grab both claws with each hand.
OK, Survival check with a A Well, roll me a Stealth first
and then yeah, perfect 26. Yeah, roll that.
Now roll that Survival with Advantage.
Shit. You, you.
You're doing good. You're sneaking all the way up
behind the crab. You can go ahead.
You can describe it if you want, yeah.
No, I I thought I had animal, but I don't because I was going
to argue if I could do that instead.
Oh, I got you. Now that in this particular case
I would, I would and say for the how you're doing it, you would
probably want to. Use animal handling.
If you were trying to lure it in some way or you know can like
yeah that that would be my general rule of thumb at least.
And it's usually I mean you you could try it for the next one if
you're trying to be a little bit more strategic with it in in a
different fashion. But for all intents and
purposes, right now, as you are leaning forward to kind of grab
onto the back legs of the crab, you're.
You misjudge slightly as you go in for the lunge and your foot
slips on the sand and you eat a face full of sand before you
look back up and see the crab skittering away.
Well, I tried. Yeah, has something to do while
I'm spitting sand out of my mouth.
You can go for a couple of them how like Mimi did.
OK, well, I'll just try to, as I'm laying their face down, I'll
try to like barrel roll behind another one stealthily.
At time it definitely notices you by skittering away.
So stealthy. Cattle.
Then I then fine, I'll use my cunning action to dash towards
him. Oh, OK.
And try to do the same thing. Try to grab both claws and.
That would be in that one's case then maybe.
Yeah, do an animal handling if you'd like.
I mean, they're both plus. Oh, OK.
Oh, 19 So that time you grab a hold of both of its back legs
there, the furthest back legs, and you're you're holding it up
like while I was trying to. Holding it away from yourself
too, presumably while I was trying to claw at you.
Oh yeah. Well, just March back
triumphantly to the barrel holding.
Please, please hold your hold your applause.
Hold your applause. It's only one.
Just one. Don't get into the barrel with
the other. Other four that are in there
now, the one on top of that was looking a little worse for wear.
Hey guys, good with four or are you going to keep crab hunting?
I mean, like how? How much like how big is this
dragon like? Is. 4 going to be more than
Yeah, four seems like it would be less than a mouthful, right?
Are you asking the Cobalts while you're over there, or?
I can ask him that, yeah. I mean, I'm I'm meta asking
because I'm not there, but so I'll shut up.
At me. May you doing anything else
there? Did.
Yeah, did. Sorry, I've been talking about
my. You got?
So did me miss you? You tried for four and got
three. So you only missed the one, I
think because. Yeah, that's.
Yep, that's what happened because Kat got got one and you
got three and then the Rallison's got one and Hamilton
got one. So actually we're up to six.
No. How does that.
Yeah, that mess with that math, that mess up, right?
OK 3. 456. OK, so Meimei's going to look
around at like, you know, their compatriots, valiant efforts and
applaud these, but look in the barrel and think that there's
we're still missing a few. So I'm going to look for three
more. I will help and again just use
my mage hand to if possible. My siblings will each give the
help action to these guys while I go talk to the kobolds.
OK. So that would give you guys
advantage? Oh yeah, as they have the
ability to dash really quickly, so they like head them off or
like they're just like like little little sideline field
boys run where they need to. We'll say for flavor, then two,
then the. The strategy seems to work very
good because you're having one of the Ryelsons run out in front
of the crab, and as soon as it's run behind the crab, and as soon
as as soon as the crab turns away to run away, is boxed in by
the other person that's trying to catch it.
Because each one of your guys's roles succeeded.
So you guys have got another three for a total of 9 crab or?
Four for a a total of 12 crab now, yeah.
Oh yeah. You should.
You should all be able to control this barrel too.
Oh, this is just my notes. I wonder if there's.
Yep. Details Cool Tips Barrel Rowan.
Name. Nope.
We'll just say that it's about half full with the 12 crabs that
are shoved in there, kind of. So a 24 out of.
Well, a big, big barrel. And if he wants brutality, we
could bring like a big pot and he could watch them boil.
Yeah. Just for reference, the general
size barrel in. Like the normal size, the
regular size is 53 gallons. How big is AI mean how much does
a dragon eat if that's my question?
Yeah. A lot.
So I guess the question is, how many goats are we bringing?
Do we want it to be half surf and half turf, or can it be more
turf? We'll see how many the Cobalts
want to sell. Do we have anything to trade
these guys or just gold? They probably like gold.
Yeah, I should be able to hover over the barrel now too and see.
Yeah, also, I can't move my tokens, Josh.
After you just moved them? Oh no, you haven't moved them at
all. OK, Nope.
Same thing probably has happened because I used the I pulled
them, I pulled them from the side.
They don't have their vision on either.
We can't see. Yeah, Mimi doesn't really have
any good inventory items right now.
We've got oh, we've got the the Flesh of the Tentacle thing that
we cut off. Like almost 500 lbs.
So how much? At like almost £500 that would
be a good surf like that's a. That's a nice addition, though I
definitely still want to keep the skin.
What about cookies? I still got 22 cookies in my bag
from the market that tickets. Yeah.
How? About now.
Cookies for goats? True.
I guess it depends on when the last time that.
The cookie for the goats is actually probably a really good
idea. Yeah, let's start with cookies.
And if they don't like those, then we'll do gold.
I boldly walked towards the Cobalt camp.
Can you control it now? Let me check.
Yeah, yeah. Stop to admire this big statue.
Seems to be a statue of some sort of deity you only presume
just because it's enameled in gold and like 25 foot tall.
I've seen deities. This thing is not a God.
It is just this statue. Not a fan of it because it's got
a bit of a dog shaped to it. My hair like jumps on end as I
move past it. Hello.
Wait, do I go this way? The tents over there, These are
just the workers. I need to talk to the boss.
Hello. Wait.
You see somebody sitting at a desk and they turn, turn to look
over their shoulder at you, That you're approaching them.
I will. Hello.
Hello again and this is the guy with the the hat.
Me and my friends were wondering would you be up to trade for
some of your goats? My goat?
We wish to make a like a surf and turf dinner for the dragon
and we need the the turf part of it.
Oh yeah, she's had to. Look, my lady, it's those goats
are off for the for Shandar. They already belong to him.
Oh, oh, they belong to Shandaar, That's true.
Are they going to Shandaar now? Well, I mean, yeah, I was gonna,
you know take my cut as as we all belong to Shandaar here.
But you know he's fair. Fair with his fair with his
ways. And we we generally do get at
least one go to our to ourselves.
Well, of course. What was your cut?
Perhaps we could perhaps we could save you some time.
I could give you the money for the goats that the that the
Shandar would give you and the we will deliver them henceforth
to Shandar. Ears perk up at that.
We don't get paid. Oh, he he What about the
cookies? He he he like pushes you, and
then like waves you in closer. I lean in closer, looking at his
hands to see if he's got a knife.
You. Could roll on inside if you
really want, but he doesn't look threatening at this time.
He just looks kind of startled and excited.
Oh, OK. And when you guess, when you
lean in then he starts whispering in your ear of well,
I just don't want any of the other crew to know we'd be the
captain of this vessel and. As as captain, I think any right
to any money should be mine. Perhaps then I buy myself out of
my own service. That's not not something we are
ever allowed to do here. But you know, you are a wise
man. You are a wise man.
How much would it be for you to buy your way out of this
service? Oh well.
Chanda does not bargain cheap, especially for one of his his.
Top crew here and he like I said he does does provide for us so
it's it's not like we need need anything outside of what we have
here but sometimes a man wonders you know So I think though I I'd
heard a story that he did he'd let one of us go for 1000 gold.
1000 gold? Wow, that's that's a pretty
penny. He leans back though and he
goes, I understand, I understand what, I could let you have a few
of the goats though if you're if you're willing to take them up
there for for our cut, which you know usually would be a it's a
it's a half a goat per goat. So we'll just keep the goats
that we get usually and you can take the rest up there.
I think there's like we got about 50 of them on board here,
so. That is that are Shondar
specifically? That would be great.
I have a question though. If you were to say be able to
leave the Shondar service, would that include your ship?
Would you be free with your ship to sail the seas?
He he he his eyes go back and forth because he'd lean back and
started talking normally again, and he looks around to see if
anyone else is listening and he just.
He he just kind of shakes his head left to right and then and
and then. I would never.
Leave out loud in a very bolsterous voice.
I would never leave Chandi's service.
He's. He's a.
Wonderful. The Immaculate.
Chandi's provides for us all. Of course he does.
He's a great guy. I heard he's really good at
karaoke, actually. Funny enough that you say you
will probably run into that exact the exact thing that he
ropes you into. But he likes karaoke.
Oh yes, I'm surprised you didn't.
If you'd have come over just a little while ago, you'd have
seen that volcano shaking with his singing.
Really. That's singing.
He's even had a question mark at the end of it.
Yeah, really. You seem to know quite a bit
about this, Sean Barr. Yes, yes.
He's quite, quite benevolent and he's he'll take quite a lot of
us under his wing, especially those that do the job right for
him, like I have been doing as a captain, this ship, the
wonderful vessel I see and you think he would be up for some
sort of like agreement where we both make money.
Oh, he loves money. I I don't doubt it.
OK. Yes, we will take the half of
the goats up to Shondar for you. Good luck.
And you lose any of them up, up through the pass and to any of
the orcs or I'm sorry, I mean goblins though the the they're
going to that usually comes out of our hide.
So I don't know how he'll charge you for that.
I think it should be OK. He likes them alive or like.
Oh yes, OK, so preferably alive. Like, not like in Maiden, like
like into a recipe or like some big like roasted or OK.
It was very nice to meet you. If you ever see us on the high
seas, please do not attack us. We will be friends and I will
talk to my friends because I don't have I look around what we
talked about earlier on me, but, you know, maybe they will decide
that is a course of action that is relevant and will decide upon
it further. Let's try to be nondescript.
Seems fair. Perhaps we can do business in
the future. If nothing else.
In my travels I fancy myself rather a merchant for Shandar.
More or less, and you can call. Call me Belliver.
Belliver. It's a beautiful name.
All right, bye. And I run as fast as possible
away. Rejoin the others hey all.
Right. I think we're going to get 25
goats. They're technically already
Shandars, so we're just bringing them to him.
They say it is dangerous to bring them up the mountain to
him though, but if we can use the plate somehow then we would
probably be in a pretty good spot.
So we can just put them on the boat, that's what I'm thinking.
But like we have to make sure the goat can go through the
plate so that they can travel from the boat to the plate with
at Chandars on the same has like a big bag.
Like, can we have like, a bag of holding?
We could like, shove the goats in there and just walk through
and then it's like, release the goats Within 10 minutes I was.
Going to say I do have a bag of holding.
I was like, can we just put live animals in it?
I think so you can. It's just they, they have 10
minutes of oxygen before they die.
So if you just go through, if we're there and you go through
and then grab them, put them in the bag, several people
probably, and then just like teleport back through the plate
and then be like here they are and then pop them out.
OK, Shondar said. Or that guy said that Shondar
likes karaoke too, so I don't know if we have any things like
that. I look.
Over at everything like I think you got this.
Oh, what? What the?
Karaoke part. I I needed more of the courage
before I can that so a bad time you know too, too much, too much
of the dark realm like visibly nervous singing in front of.
You. Are you shy?
We'll be among friends. We're.
Among friends, I know. Plus we have that big tentacle
play with the with the crabs too.
So I don't know, maybe we want to take a second and like, skin
it. So.
Then that's probably like a delicacy.
We've not had before. Maybe like make some big sushi
rolls? Oh yeah.
Amari for him. He's probably not used.
To Maybe we should make him like you were saying, but probably.
Doesn't get like prepared. Out of all the seafood.
We could just put a little bit of cinnamon on it and he'll then
get to heaven. A.
A dune chimes, and he goes I. I'd be glad to.
Do any of the cooking. You might have to tell me these
recipes you're talking about though.
Sushi's easy enough. We could just store it in the
bag of holding then and take it out.
We could. It would be.
Stay fresh. Yeah, let's do that.
We'll skin the thing and then Adune can whip it up into some
delicious thing. And then we'll bring the goats
and the crabs and the and this to him.
And we have crab meat with the gold and the nudies and the
promise of more gold in the future.
I think we've got a shot. The nudies.
Did I miss something? Yeah, we've yeah, we got, we had
a little one shot of the Rarlson siblings going into the city or
having a nudie of the Queen painted.
Oh, all right. I like it.
For just because we heard the well, the Dragon's got a crush
on her, I think. Or they dated or something.
Yeah, he sent her like, dirty paintings of himself.
Yeah. So we've got one for him.
Not technically from the Queen, but.
He doesn't need to know that. Yeah, what if we lie and say it
is from the Queen? We could say that.
And the Queen is the Queen, so she might be into it.
I mean, yeah. And even if she's like, no, I
didn't do that, It'd be like Queenie, queenie, queenie.
You were drunk that night, Yeah. Plush pink pig.
Do you know what happens if the plush pink pig?
I mean, the backdrop is at the plush pink pig.
Perfect. Yeah.
Let's do it.
Who has the best survival for
skinning this giant leviathan tentacle?
Not. It.
Yeah. Mine's only a two, You have a +
6. I think you're definitely the
best +6 we will. Yeah.
Cheer you on. Yeah, I I will.
Dos is the Should I? Roll.
Now, yeah, might as well. Are you?
It's It was still mostly residing on a dune's deck at the
time. Oh, no, wait, you know where
it's at. I took me a second to remember,
but it's in Frank Frederick's inventory.
He he'd slurped it up into his dimensional bag.
Yeah, he ran across the boat and I was like.
What's Ransacker's bag? Yeah.
We'll let him know. Be like, hey, we need this.
OK. Finger guns.
You. That's stealing.
Are we stealing from him? No, we're borrowing.
Yeah, it's fine for the. No.
For the betterment of the party, for the break your good.
And as you guys are or whoever is getting up on deck to get it
out, get it from Frederick. Comes up, you can see that Adune
is already willing to help and has started pulling out the
tentacle with her multitudinous arms and just like this long
train, almost centipede looking thing of a technical wooden
arms. And then I'm just saying guys,
we should see what we could do with this thing, because don't
know what's possible, but it's a lot of.
A lot of tentacle skin. We could definitely do a lot.
We can make sleeping. Sleeping bags, I guess.
Yup. Anti magic sleeping bags, Yeah.
But then we'd have to like preserve it.
You can put it in the bag of holding and it stays in stasis
that. Smells bad.
Oh yeah. Yeah, but if you want to make
sleeping bags out of it, right, you then have.
To yeah. Pan it or.
Preserve it probably. I mean, I've got a crafting
skill, but it's definitely AI mean.
You have survivals. That would be you, panning
leather. Otherwise we just have to wait
until we get to a a location but.
We we could do some tests and figure out what it does and
people like it can make leather stuff out of it, but yeah.
So you're are you going up on deck to to skin this thing?
That would be my next question. Is it or am I dropping this over
the edge for you and onto the beach?
Next cleaner, right? Otherwise it'll get covered in
sand. Well, it should.
It should probably be done. Yeah, it'll get covered in sand
and probably kitchen. Kitchen.
Honestly, it would spend the entire galley down below, but.
What would happen if you put the ring of reasonable size on it
and then skinned it when it's only fist size and then took it
off again? I mean, So what would it resize
as the question so like I have the ring on right?
I'm always, I think I'm always wearing the ring of reasonable
size, so then when I pick it up it would resize so.
I guess that's what I can attempt to do is pick.
The the thing up the tentacle. So are you going to see?
How it resizes? I'm just, I'm just trying to get
context here. So are you are you on the boat
now or you standing off the side?
And then. Did you?
Right. Yeah.
Right now, though, it's being held aloft by quite a lot of
wooden arms on a dune's deck, and it's kind of poking.
Oh, OK. OK.
So I'm gonna. Yeah.
She'd brought it up to almost
right at the latter point on the front there, and it kind of
spans the drawing. OK, three hand.
No, we don't want rectag. We want line.
No, that's regular. OK, that should work.
Spanning from like here. Why does that?
That's weird. Oh, from there to there.
So just so you know, Adune is like I've so I can't see that.
So like, even my character is underneath Adune.
Adune. Is definitely like brought to
front. I think he's.
Parallel. She should be #queen.
Yeah, we'll just. Move it off to that side for a
second though, and you can see the length of it very.
True. And OK, yeah.
Oh, there we go. Yeah, So I'm going to walk up
the up the ladder and like pick up this end of it.
Oh, so now I'm I'm everything's there.
It just disappeared from there. Gone Gray.
Oh, I know. Just moved, there we go.
There we go. Now all is right.
Yeah. So I'm gonna pick up.
All right, you pick up the one end and as you're holding that,
it starts to shrink and then kind of sucks out of dune's rest
of the hands, like snaps out of them and resizes into the size
of your palm, 'cause you're able to hold up just a portion of
this particular. Entity and it's kind of oh shit
behind here. So you sift away that now.
Oh shit. OK.
Yes, I'm going to carry it downstairs into the galley and.
Things about it because. This is going to be infinitely
easier. Things about the I guess the
size of a large cabalza and you have no problem taking just like
a a kitchen knife and running it along the backside of it and.
Peeling the skin off in the but it you've moved to the kitchen,
so you're taking the skin off and as it detaches it resizes
all around you. So now you're just like like
pressed up against the wall with the skin and the and still
holding tight. Actually, you know what?
Roll roll the deck save to see how well you hold on to the.
Oh, no skin. Skinned arm, yeah.
Yeah. 'Cause it's going to be slimy,
right? That's going to be great.
Dex 17, Yeah, you still hold on to that at least, but you're
pushed up against the wall with like, the skin resized and
filling the kitchen up with you pressed up against like the
port. One of the port holes.
Your face is kind of close by and you're like looking outside
at everybody. All she does that I'll I'll
start rolling up. Trying to pack up the skin best
I can to like make room. At this point I am just watching
in here for encouragement and probably not much help.
Takes you probably a while, but you eventually get it rolled up
and Meimei unpressed up against and held to the wall with the
skin. Gonna gonna.
Yeah, you're covered in. I do.
Express my thanks. Thanks guys.
Appreciate that. Just say me.
Yay smart. I'm gonna go outside and and try
to wash that off in the ocean. I'm gonna and I'm gonna
apologize profusely to a dune like sorry dune I was trying to
to. Oh, it's OK, dear.
Yeah, I had a sense. It sometimes takes a second or
two to think through the the plans that you've got in your
head to. To keep in your head.
And it's got so much shade. It's pretty hard.
It's pretty pretty hard on my on on my behalf though too as most
of the things I used to be able to do I can no longer do so.
It's a lot of a lot of the time for me, whenever I'm trying to
form a thought it's it's that that sensation of you know when
you no longer have the the the things you're used to.
Like if you if you no longer had your your your lighter kit, your
your Flint and steel, how do you start a fire?
But every time you go to start a fire, you're like, oh, I'll just
go get the oh shit I don't have. That anymore.
It's really deep. That would be.
What are you missing? We could get it for you.
You deserve it. You know what?
That's. I mean outside the ability to
fly, which we are currently getting you, but you know in the
future. I am very much looking forward
to that, and you don't owe me anything.
I I appreciate all of you that having saved me from the
sacrifices that were being used to power me before.
Beyond that, I mean, I haven't started a list, but I could work
on one while you're away. Sure.
Always good to have a wish list. Yeah, you're one of us.
You should get stuff too. Oh, that is kind.
One of us. 1. Of us.
All right, nice. Now we need need to cook this
stuff up and then test the plate thing and off we go.
So we're making sushi, right? Oh, I can do that.
Which? Which recipe did we settle on?
He's saying all of this stuff in your guys's heads too, So it
looks like you guys are more or less talking to to yourselves.
Or are we scaring the the creatures on the beach?
No, most, most, most of them have been leaving you guys more
or less alone. I hope so.
Wondering. Yeah, what's?
Is it worth? Do you think red Dragons like
spicy food? Should we make like a spicy
Curry instead of like a or like a hot pot or like a?
Can we make a history check to see if we remember this?
Oh, you would all know that it would.
It be if you didn't place. It's it is generally thought you
know in the cultures of the red Dragons that they do prefer
spicier. Actually, no.
Take that back to them. Cold is like everyone else's
spice, so things that have a cooling sensation burn them in a
in a way like ice and such. But it that's just a taste of
their of their culture. You don't know what this
particular, you know Red Dragon's palate, though.
What do you guys think? I'll leave it to.
You I'm thinking the silence means I get to get to choose my
my recipe. Unless you guys had something in
mind. I heard a few thrown out.
I do, man. Yeah.
I would make it. Place to you do now I would.
I would use all the spices at your disposal.
I'll have something whipped up in a few hours, probably and
and. Like a Cajun crab boil?
That's. How long it should take us to?
Yeah, 'cause remember we have to get up to the the.
Mountain should we? Still have to hike up.
You give me the meat then, or I know you're still holding on to
it There, Mimi and the crabs. Just talked about.
And what about these goats I heard tail?
Oh, the goats he wants alive. Yes.
Oh, OK. I mean.
But we need to do some testing to see if we can use the plates
like we want to, right? Oh, I don't see.
I don't think plates are going to be the problem.
No, I think as long as we take a plate with us.
And one stays on a do night. When we get up there, the plate
should teleport us. Well, the.
Getting the. The goats, I think with the idea
was let's see if we can shove one of them and do a bag of
whole thing and then so long as we take them out within 10
minutes, they'll be OK. I think they're lovely animals,
as long as they're not shitting on my Dicks.
OK, so we should go. Maybe we should tie the goats to
a duna. Oh, OK.
Yeah, that would probably be. Tethers.
That way they can run around on the beach, but they can't leave.
Or I mean, are the goats in a pen, right?
Now. I guess we need them on a dune's
hall. Never mind.
Because, like, my siblings can chill here too.
And like goats too, no. Watch them some.
Friends for. Watch them.
Watch them as well as they can. Royal has this.
Full trust. In them, Well, we know what the
next one shot is. Cause yeah, I'm assuming.
Chasing across the. Islands.
Yeah, that would be a fantastic fucking one shot.
Just royal since watching goats. Oh yeah, 'cause I'm assuming
it's gonna take us, you know, knowing us, it will not just
take us 10 minutes to get to the volcano, right?
Even if it takes these guys typically a day, I feel like
it's gonna take us like a week, the bag of holding for a week
put. The goats into a bag.
Of holding. They're dead.
They'd be dead that. I mean, I could, I could
revivify them, right? But probably fresh.
At that point, I don't know how well they'll taste.
I mean. Yeah.
And like, I guess that's a good question.
Like how are they being stored currently and can we just
continue storing them that way until we need them?
You're unsure. You'd seen a couple kind of
being herded and and they were grazing just on the shore on and
with only a Kolbart kobalt to guard them and they were kind of
like on leashes, almost like dogs.
So you have no idea where the rest of them are.
They must have a shepherd then. Should we wake up one of our
companions and just be like, watch these goats?
I mean, that could probably be a good thing right there.
Make use of everyone who's got narcolepsy.
I mean, I think, I think we've got the plan in place.
We just need to put somebody here in charge of watching the
goats, like as they graze and stuff.
Do we have a druid? Yeah, don't we?
Ever remember which campaign Willow is in?
Willows in the Yeah, in the evil, because she hasn't played
very much. Not this one.
I mean, or do we just want to, like, designate someone that's
not the royal sins to stay behind and watch the goats, that
is. A very important story is a
Ranger. Ask.
You've got as an aura, as a monk.
And Ranger would work. Egg Goliath paladin might just
eat the goats. Yeah, yeah, they might just
think they're snacks. Popcorn shrimp help?
On shrimp, the wool get stuck in my teeth.
Plan Plan to leave the Rawlsen. Brothers behind to inform the
the other people that you're watching goats.
Yep. And then the rest of us will
begin making our way up the mountain.
OK, so we also have to bring the we have to, we'll have to bring
our teleport in the the chest of gold, the jars that we need.
So. I think cat has the.
Chest. I think that was shoved into
your bag of holding, but I don't remember exactly.
Or no, it was put on a dune. It was put on a dune.
That's what you guys did with both of those things and that's
where a dune would chime in, I think.
I still have those. So we'll have to be able to get
those to where we're going at the end of this.
So either in the bag of holding now or grab them when we grab
the the goats and the. Seafood and stuff.
Perhaps it might be smart to hold on to a sample.
True. Yeah, that's probably the best
idea, right? Just in case we have to bribe
any goblins or orcs along the way.
Like if you like this, there's more of that.
Right. Don't eat us.
Eat this. Punching piece.
I meant a sample, not that was the food, though.
That's not going to be ready for a little while now.
Did you hear some stuff kick kicking around in the kitchen?
Some pots and pans and some chopping away.
But I meant of the jaw. I think you need one of these
jars and she you see one of the hands hold the breath of the.
Jars, yeah and holds holds a a. Large, pretty large jar that
looks pretty much like any other canning jar though other than
that it's got some fractal patterns all along the outside
of it. This is nice.
Do we have like a contract that we needed to have them sign with
the Queen? If we do, we should alter it.
To include us as permanent go betweens.
Play the game. Play the game, Get paid.
I like it. Capitalism.
Yes. Well, like we could set up an
entity and like we could just have our own like side company
just hire someone else to do it. Free Gulliver and trapping back
in the same place that he was doing with the same trades and
everything too with with Jean Dar.
But just pay him. But just pay him now.
That's true. Yeah, why can't you?
We could be. Both.
We could be both. Like, what are we doing here?
So far, all we've done. Can you?
I feel like that's the dream. Can I be?
Can I have a full time, I mean and be a successful.
Let's take a look at everything in this good campaign that we've
done so far. So far it's been making
corporate contracts and business convictions.
I wasn't there for that, I. Don't we saved the continent by?
The horde, yeah, we got rid of. We did do that.
Monsters. That we're gonna, man, Sounds
like a foot in your door to politics, yeah.
'Cause right now, all that we're right.
All that we're doing right now is trying to get a dune to fly.
The only reason we're doing any of this is so a dune can fly and
we can go on more adventures. There's definitely a like a Sky
world. I mean, 100% agree, but don't
forget we also have a 2% take on the any profits we can, we can
fund Dune in our Sky adventures while not doing anything.
Yeah, for the adventure, Yeah, I was.
Gonna say, what's the point of adventuring if we're not doing
it for gold, but if you look for adventure and friendship, right?
A. Friendship is magic.
Learn anyway. OK, well, we definitely, we
definitely do at least need to. Yep.
Figure out the goat situation. Aduna is cooking so we can start
the journey. Towards.
The Cave, We're told there are goblins and orcs along the way.
More people to make friends with, right?
Yeah, yeah, That, that, yeah. Mortar.
Yeah. Or more, you know, we're.
Gonna have a little army by the time we're done capture.
So saying if we could pay 1000 gold and get that other ship.
Maybe that's our true goal. We could be going.
To. ADD Oh, I didn't think of it in
that sense. Yeah, buying a ship for 1000
gold. Just turn him into a trader.
Sells a. Ship for 1000 gold.
I mean, he's already going back and forth between Shondar and
wherever he's going. I mean, as long as he never sees
any of those people again, it's fine.
If this is something we should want to do, I'm sitting on 970
gold so I've got 100 on me. I guess the question is, when I
was talking to him DM, when I asked if he was able to bring
the ship with him, he indicated he could not right just him.
Correct. Not, not for that, not for that
price that that was your question towards him.
So we would just be getting a cobalt to join the crew.
Come on Lay. Down.
Oh, it doesn't include the ship. It does not include the ship,
but he could be our first employee.
Is he ready for us? Well, we're going to get the two
point or the 2% if we get this done regardless, because that's
in addition to getting a duty to fly.
So we'll have a little bit of money coming in.
Guys are doing the the normal. Looking at a price and doubling
it, 'cause it's a one, it was a 1%.
Just saying you're you're remembering.
Yeah, it was. I remember yourself the tail.
But it was also like it the the real figures were shared with
with Mimei was the only one that actually seen the real number.
Never shared it with anyone else of what it would be.
The estimate of it anyways like goals is great.
Well, we can get treasure by venturing.
We can also hedge our bets like drug dealers and invest heavily
in the stock market. We're pharmacists.
We're bad people. We're the best kind of.
Yeah, it might be we. I mean, we are, technically.
This is the good campaign. Might come A reckoning if you
guys keep seeing yourselves as bad.
It sucks. Straight in the hell yeah,
exactly. Yeah, exactly.
Let's get back to this conversation.
It's whatever Micropolis thinks. No, no.
It's ambiguous. Ambiguous and it.
And I would I'd left it a little bit up to you guys in the sense
of what you guys felt. And we kind of decided at least
at the time, which means that it could change in the future of
the fact that that it was that you know, like generally good
people are less self-serving and are in the in the benefit of
others. And evil people are in it only
for themselves and when they really care about themselves.
But what if we plan on starting a foundation with this money?
They create a corporate empire, but build hospitals.
That's totally doable, right? We're going to bring Big Pharma
into the D&D universe, yes. You want to have a baby?
Boom. 30,000 gold, please. We just had to convince
ourselves that it's being good. We provide a high quality
service. We're good, I swear.
Anyway, let's walk up the mountain.
We've got everything we need, right?
You guys had your existential crisis.
Time to move on. Read the bags.
You guys gonna actually move your characters though?
I'm. Thinking about.
Not my character sheet this whole time.
Am I losing my mind or is like these gargoyle things moving?
They move and as you're walking up the path or near the path,
you do notice these two gargoyles that are standing at
the end of the path and they their heads.
Although they are stoned, their heads move to watch each and
every one of you as they as you pass through their through them,
in between them, going through their wave.
They they do not. They they lift up their
actually, they do lift up their hands each in unison and wave.
Maybe these are like a doorbell. Go give them a boop hit.
Just boop them. Walk up and poke one on the
nose. Hi, this is the crew of the
Adune and with Captain Meime we'd like to see Shondar.
We have a business opportunity and several gifts.
Thank you. Goodbye.
Poop it again or belt on the. Answering machine.
You never know. And we all know them because we
have our player memory though. Yeah, instead of screaming.
What is a doorbell? I keep trying to make static
noises, but none of it comes through.
It's pretty fun. Static happens in our minds
whenever our thoughts crossover to things that aren't part of
our typical world. Best thing to do that is a
rapper. No, it's cutting that out for
me. I heard, yeah, I picked.
Up. Yeah, I heard a little bit, is
what you hear from the mouth of the gargoyle as you're trying
to. After you finish talking, it
opens up and that comes out. I don't know if I did it right.
Maybe nobody's home. Well these guys should this this
like little guys here, so you must be expecting a delivery.
What little guy? What are you talking about?
Glover. Grover.
Oh, the name that you put down that I immediately forgot.
Gulver. Yeah, Gulver.
I was close. You were.
Well, if he's home, he probably got that and it's just waiting.
Or not home and we'll just wait up there.
Or these things aren't actually answering machines or
voicemails. Ow my brain hurts.
Send them a text message. What's that?
Oh, Speaking of which, did you have a cleaning skill in this
character, or was that mom a? OK, yeah, that was Mommy then.
I was just going to be curious of how well you cleaned yourself
up there. It'd probably be a survive
something in the vein of survival again.
But yeah. Medicine, Then either one's
really high. Survival or medicine?
Yeah, yeah. I mean, it doesn't.
Yeah, but they're both high. For me, it doesn't matter.
I'm not trying to, like, get better numbers.
I'm just trying to see what makes sense.
Yeah, you you're you got you remember to get behind your ears
with that 21. I moved you up north with the
path on everyone else, since everybody else moved there for
the most part. So you guys, ah.
OK. Received no opposition from the
guard rolls. But they're standing there, and
they're definitely, definitely watching.
I'm going to run up and scratch one under the chin.
But it doesn't. Move.
That's fine. I'm gonna pet its head.
I'm gonna really gently pet it from its nose up to its forehead
and between its. Horns.
Oh, my. Screen's Gray.
Thanks friend, I don't see anything.
Let me see. Oh, how about now?
Yeah. Sweet.
So yeah, you guys get up to up to there and up to the cargos
and seeing somebody was looking off in the distance, I don't
know. But you guys can are going to
keep following the path or are you going to?
Yeah, I would say we'd just keep following the path.
OK. Does it seem like there's
anything suspicious on this path?
Does it seem booby trapped? No, it seems well traveled.
Like my mom. Like stunt here.
No, he'd be making all the goat noises.
He. Would OK, I think I got
everybody here. We go round the bend around a
large rock outcropping to find another rock out cropping and it
looks like this path is Stillwell traveled.
But there is the. Within knots so of of recent of
times and there are some like broken bits and bobs that hadn't
made it all the way up their journey to the end up the top
and and you're hearing off of the distance besides some gulls
that are still kind of hanging out down at the shore and making
their way into land a little bit here some besides that you're
also hearing some. Some of that's not coming
through but chicken noises. Bugger wild chickens here I.
Don't. I look around excitedly.
Can completely see him from there, but definitely here.
Maybe your family is here. I chuckle a little bit and I was
like, I don't have any family. Everyone has family even if.
They're lost. What about your adopted family?
Doesn't say I could probably consider my wizarding master, my
family and those that I met at the Tower.
Did you become a wizard? You're a chicken.
I was a wizard long before I was a chicken.
Wait, what? You weren't always a chicken.
Nope, I didn't start off this way.
Wow. No, no, don't worry.
I'm, I'm. I'm clicking on shit.
We all know. OK, I'll say.
I hear like the Pokémon.
Do you miss having thumbs? I do.
You have no idea how helpful they are.
Roro will begin trying to do stuff without using his thumbs.
Yes, this is difficult as we're walking.
I can kind of grab things with my feet and I will demonstrate
by just like picking up a rock. And like putting it back down or
chucking it as best as I can, which isn't, which I do pretty
well, but still isn't that easy just because I've gotten used to
it. I got rid of some of my stuff.
Did you mean to do that? Yeah, I did.
Technically, those those were. There we go.
Bonk, Bonk, Bonk, Bonk, Bonk. I was wondering about this
earlier. I think when it updated it
removed some of my my lighting effects.
Oh, that's slightly irritating. Yeah, hope you guys got a good
look. I'm still on the map where the
beach is at. Oh.
Yeah, I was wondering if we. Had There we go, yes.
He was. Saved.
OK. Yeah.
Shadow on this rock kind. Of.
Looks like fat cat Batman turned into a cat.
There is a lot of black I don't this is.
Oh, and you even got a little. Watermark over here, yeah?
I made the map no. He's fine.
Oh, neat. All right.
There's lots to see here. There's more to see.
Are. We going to follow the path.
Are we going to explore? NI guess It looks like there's a
rock edge. We might not be able to go very
far. On the way it's.
Quite a nice area we're traveling through.
I'm going to climb to the top of rock and try to get advantage of
the different areas around here. Don't forget, we were told that
there are bandits and orcs and goblins around.
I am actually distracted by those coconuts and want to see
if I can try to get. They are very large coconuts.
Yes they were like the size 2 times, maybe three times the
size of U cat. But yes, you can get at them if
that's what you're you're. Yeah, I I wanna get up to them
and see if I can knock a couple down.
An arm strike maybe? Can I use my Mage Hand to just
slap it? Sure.
Slap that coconut. What should I roll?
Oh, babies. Not that coconut.
Performance, all right.
My performance is bad. Here we go.
Three. You slap the coconut and you
with your mage hand and you hear a solid thud and a on the inside
of the full liquid that's inside, but it does not
dislodge. Actually, maybe it.
It does and. They can.
I keep trying. What if I just slap repeatedly?
What if I just do this performance a couple more times
until I get the result that I want?
I got a natural one. Is you do so Hamilton walks by
Rolodex Safe coconuts oh. Shapois.
I think it. I think coming.
That's Gilmore fun fact. Coconuts killed more humans than
sharks anyways. Oh, coconuts are Dicks.
You you, you do hear the first slap and then as the second slap
comes behind it, you you're and you're looking up between the
the Leafs of the palm tree. You see the the nuts start to
dislodge itself and it would step to the side just in time as
it next to you. And The thing is pretty big.
It's like bowling ball size. Oh yeah, I.
Mean it's gonna get like we like turn.
I'm gonna slap again and. Get distracted and just say
another one. Oh, another one.
Much better, 16 this time. That one immediately dislodges,
and it comes falling down next to the other, more or less at
the bottom of the street. So somewhere in this direction,
yeah. OK, yeah, Meimei's gonna run
over and like, I'm sure. This coconut is.
As tall as Meimei is now you see, they were bigger than cat,
so I think they might be about half your size at a bowling bowl
size, which is like, I don't actually know the diameter.
Is it what? Oh, your size is 3, I'm gonna
say. I am 3 foot one.
I think they're like 10 inches or foot in diameter somewhere in
that range. I'll try to smack another one
down. OK, so me May is going tool.
You get that one down too. With it.
I have a dog you might want to roll me a deck save mime with
while you're looking at the other one.
Oh no. Oh, good.
Nice. I don't.
I'm. Not going to text myself.
OK, So what I'm doing with my daggers, I'm going to take the
point. I'm going to try to like stab
the coconut to either. It's a 21 for some flavored
text. As you look up at the wrestling
above you. As you see the coconut falling
down, you use you you think quick and use the momentum of
the coconut falling from high above and just stick your dagger
up as it hits on top of it and lands perfectly on the dagger
with it starting to dribble liquid out without you pulling
the dagger out. Yeah.
And I'm just going to hold it above my head.
I'm assuming I'm not strong and, like, catch drops of coconut
milk in my mouth. Yeah.
But I guess it's not very efficient.
So I'm then going to, like, you know, put it.
Turn the dagger upside down and put the coconut.
Down and pull. Them out and notch a little bit
more of a hole. Drink some coconut milk.
Yeah. And then turn it off for some to
my Did you say strength Check? Nice.
Even with a -4, you get the fuck.
Oh. Shit.
Negative. Four.
Oh my God. Yeah.
So strength. Is not bracing yourself
preeminently knowing your knowing your own strength used
in a different way? I guess you place one foot on
the coconut, both hands on the dagger, and pull and kind of
stumble backwards a little bit before you're able to catch your
footing again. But you you get it out.
Awesome. Yeah.
Milk around and offer. Some of the coconut milk to the
people around. Me.
I will take a little bit if I can get any of it.
Because you said these were pretty big too.
Yeah, you're you're you. You floater down and look at it
as everybody's, like, holding the coconut up over their mouth
with the slit open and you're like me next.
Don't know how I'm going to get it but me next.
I'm assuming it's a little lighter now because some of the
milk's out, so I'm going to try to pick it up and hold it.
Just tuck your hands. Would get coconut milk into
cat's mouth. You get to I would I would say
especially with it, the situation just moving along here
you get it. You get it up on your shoulder
and then kind of tilt it so that cat can tilt their head back and
is drinking some of the drops of the coconut water.
Do I notice anything when drinking this, or does this just
seem like regular coconut water? Other than it being extremely
savory compared to normal coconuts, nothing else.
Oh. Jesus, Very hearty.
Hearty coconuts. Be hard.
Hard. So Hamilton, yourself and Cat
no. You're probably only like 1/2.
A little bit over under under maybe.
Oh, jeez. I'm going to look over at Sir
Ruralson and I'm like, I'm going to look at look, I'm going to
make make eye contact. I'm.
Like cry some, but like you say, it's milk but it doesn't look
like milk. I'll.
I'll try it. It is coconut milk.
Yeah, begin pouring it out and lapping it up.
I'm going to hand it over like a cat drinking out of a water
faucet A. Gesture around at the other
trees. I can go get more if you want.
I can climb trees. No, it's all good.
I'm trying to get rid of the liquid inside actually because I
want to crack it open and get some of the coconut.
Very good. I hand it back, I'm covered in
coconut milk, all right. So.
If there is tainting to be had, yeah, that's going to say we
did. That's something.
Shady about the coconuts. We now augment tainted we deal
with. Them.
Good. I'm going to continue to hack
into this coconut now that I'm assuming it's Oh yeah, you you
split it in in half, losing about 1/2 of that half.
So you have left 1/4. Actually, no.
You'd split spilt some out for the rouse, and so you're
probably at like a little under 1/4 as you'd cut it in half
there. OK, yeah.
So whatever's left in the, it's going to drink the rest of it,
and then start carving out little pieces of the actual.
I was like around for a lime to put in the coconut.
And. Yeah, And then so I'm going to
put some I'm going to eat, you know, as much as I, right?
I'm assuming I'm kind of hungry. It doesn't seem like we've eaten
today. Eat as much as makes me happy,
and then offer some to the rest of the party and whatever isn't
eaten I'm going to put in my backpack.
Yeah. We'll take some and Mosey on our
way while we're chewing on it. You got probably about 5 lbs,
maybe 10 lbs of no, not quite 10, but almost 10 lbs.
Yeah, fair amount of coconut. 55 seems reasonable, especially for
the size of the thing. For later we have to feed the
the sea monster at some point. Will it eat coconuts?
I. Don't know.
If it won't, it'll starve. I mean, we don't want it to
starve. It's probably worth a lot.
We'll go fishing 979. But if we were to climb one of
these rocks and try to get advantage of what's around us in
any hidden dangers, all the perception.
I mean, climb to climb rock. Make perception, right?
Yep. See how I do?
Really bad. Don't see anything.
Signs. OK, with an 8 you you are real
distracted. You're looking from one of the
rock outcroppings and you the first thing you notice besides
the your your companions, you know, knocking down the coconuts
and you're like, yeah, yeah, milk.
And then you immediately run directly towards the chickens.
Oh yeah, I mean, hunter eyes, eyes dilate we.
Found our new enemy, guys. On the Rock here you see one
rooster and a couple hens, a few of them actually.
And you're also noticing too that the Roosters are is got
some something of a battle between him and the dragonflies
in the area, 'cause he's he's going after them whenever they
come near. How big is the dragonflies?
They're a little bigger than average, but not unreasonable.
They're probably about your size though.
Cat Full wingspan, that'll though.
I'm gonna say that's a pretty big dragonfly, Yep.
Do. These just seem like normal
chickens. Yep, they're just they're
pecking away at some feed that seems they've seemed to manage
to get from somewhere you're not sure entirely where.
And then you look over at a barrel that's busted open and
you see some of it poking out of there.
So you're guessing somebody's been taking care of them
somehow. But yeah, they they're more or
less normal chickens. But as you get up close to the
rooster, it gets up on its hind leg.
Hind or yeah, not hind legs, gets up on its haunches as much
as possible and puffs its chest out and just goes.
I don't do anything. I kind of just like stare at it
without like moving or making any gestures.
Just like Yep. You're a tough bird.
Good for you. He fans out his tail feathers
and starts scratching at the dirt and puts his beak down,
facing towards you. It's like he's about to charge
almost. I feel like I don't want to kill
this chicken because it probably belongs to someone and I don't
want to start on any unnecessary fights.
So I'm going to just kind of like back away, just swallow.
It back as you're backing away it it puffs out his chest and
just cause cause at you. You know just of the in triumph
of. Yep, you're the winner, bud.
You're the big bad bird, and he starts trying to, like, melt the
closest end. I'm just gonna turn away from
this, be like, OK, yeah, not gonna interact with these and
just hop back off the rock and continue on the path.
Sorry, my sister called. What did I make?
I had a stand off with the chicken.
Oh. A rooster.
Oh, a rooster. The biggest of the Cock
currently the rooster, is the bigger of the two cocks 'cause
he just backed Cat off. Yeah, I just don't wanna.
Yeah, he's like, I'm the King Buck cock.
It's not fucking for dominance. I don't really have an urge to
mate with other chickens, so it's fine.
Mummy, you should grab him and like maul him down with your
ring. And then we'll see who the big
Dick is. Sorry, big caucus.
And the tiny? Pit chicken I could cast enlarge
on myself as you guys too were having that exchange with that
particular chicken. You do hear one Bay of a goat
that seems singular and lost and scared in that direction.
Awe. I will refer to this.
I was going to say I'd approach. This immediately.
It's a trap. You don't see anything, though.
You see the direction you you hear it coming from.
It almost seems as if it's coming from inside of a rock.
I like it. Not our goat, not our problem.
First thing I I think about a freaking Jurassic Park when you
said it's a trap. I mean definitely.
Where's the goat? So we don't want to find the
goat. Need another goat and it's.
I think the goat is in the rock. I don't.
I guess I'll just turn to the nearest rock.
Do I sense any magic coming from the rocks?
Not not from the nearest rock, or any rock for that matter.
It seems like they just seem like rocks.
All right. I don't want anything from these
chickens. I don't want any goats and
rocks. We're off to see the dragon, the
wonderful dragon of Volcano Island, because.
Because, because. Because, because.
Capitalism is the way do do. Do do, do, do, do.
All right. Looks like you guys are making a
good pace up to the. Skipping to the jaunty song.
Along the way. But yeah, we're singing.
We're singing. So the work goes better.
My tummy is full. I'm satisfied and content.
Oh. It's starting to get warm up
here, Yep. And as you guys are getting
closer in that direction, you are starting to hear a bit of a
popping, snapping and crackling of and seeing a bit of a glowing
off in the distance. Hey, if Rice Krispies, guys.
Love. Rice.
Krispies. I'm so excited.
Right. Should we have like 1?
When do we bring the the goats in?
Right. Because we don't want to be like
meeting with the dragon and they'd be like, oh, hold on, we
have to go get your gift. Right.
Maybe it's. Like the front door.
I mean, maybe. I think it would be fine for
like three of us to talk to the dragon and one to sneak out, you
know, quietly and use the plate and then bring the goats in.
Yeah, it's in Teleport's out fight commences.
Yeah, I think we want to meet. I think we should, yeah.
I think we should meet the dragon without goats and then
suddenly appear them. I think that might be
impressive. We might impress the dragon,
might be able to to convince them that we are, you know, very
skilled. And we have gold for it like and
as we first walk in was the plan, right?
Hold up like a big like gold thing and be like oh mighty
dragon. We bring you treasures and
shinies. Beseech thee not to eat me.
Instead, eat this. Yeah.
Yes, yeah, it would be even better if we just let the goats
pop out one at a time. Eat here, have a goat.
Here, Have a. Yeah, I like that.
Or have a. Goat.
Here, have some sushi. Here, have a goat.
Just so. I don't know if that changes
anything, but these are his goats.
That's fine. He doesn't.
We don't need to explicitly tell him that he.
Can be expecting. To get goats from the people,
that what's his face. It's things we saw on the beach.
Again, this begs the questions, are we the baddies, just taking
them from us? We can just provide them with.
Goats. No.
We're resourceful. No, because we're working for
the Queen. We are.
We are working for the Queen and in general Dragons are not the
good guy and use and you see a set of stairs that take you up
to the very last top that's on either side of cliffs.
It almost looks as if somebody's carved the stairs right out of
the Cliff face and on as you. Crest the stairs.
You see a path that's been heavily laid laden with earth
from the paths that you're assuming are made through the
jungle to this point to keep the heat down.
Because you're seeing lava spilling out from the along the
edges of the volcano that's at the center mass of the island.
With the Obsidian cliffs and these tender rolls of lava that
had made their way arcingly across to over to the beachhead
island that you're standing on, with the ocean flowing in
between them or under them, you assume.
And there is one looks like cobalt that's made it up here.
It's got a broken reel behind him, but a box full of fish, and
he's kind of sitting at the cliff's edge on your side, not
on the volcano's side, and dangling his legs over it.
Over here. Well, should we go talk to them?
Yeah. OK.
This water looks nice. Yeah, there are things living in
the water. I kind of want to go in it.
Looks like some pretty big fish in the water here.
Can I tell how deep the water is here?
It varies. There are pools intermittently,
it seems to be. They seem to be relatively
shallow, you know, compared to the ocean, but you're looking
anywhere from, you know, 5 to 30 feet depending upon the spot.
There are some, like brushed up areas that are closer to the
shore that look like they're shallower, where there's sea
seaweed and such that have washed up and coalesced there,
and some other types of sea life that is growing in the shallows.
Should we risk going in? Have you talked to the guy
first? It seems pretty.
It's like like Meimei kind of just wants to Yeah, probably
Meimei wants to let Cannonball in, but I'm concerned because
it's real deep. Yeah, we should probably go talk
to the guy. Yeah, yeah, I'm.
Going to run up and give him sugar.
Guns. This help people greet one
another. Where are you from?
And then just gives finger guns back all questioningly.
Oh. Yeah, Mime's just gonna have
this big goofy smile on their face.
Like, yes, everything I wanted. I was gonna go hello.
Oh, you. My name is Mime.
I was wondering if you know few things and he looks to be like
an older Koboat. He's kind of hunched over and he
goes, I tend to spend most of my time just fishing for Shandar,
though. Here, this is his land.
Yeah, this is, these are the shallows and the reefs of
Shandar's Island. Oh, quite a lot, I'd say.
Probably on any day, at least three of these boxes here, and
he slaps the side of the the big crate that he's got, which is
easily 10 foot in length and five foot wide.
Wow. So then would like I'm.
Gonna turn back to the. Well, we that's.
The Big Be. Like, maybe we should get some
crab. I don't know, but between the
yeah, we still did the tentacle. So between the crab and the
tentacle and the goats, we might be good.
Anyway, oh, certainly if you're not afraid of so.
So is the the water here good for swimming some of the
creatures that that are there? I would I would stay away from
any spiky looking objects. Most of the urchins around here
are quite, quite annoying, but if you can get at their meats,
they're pretty delicious. Noted.
Very noted. All right, gladly from.
Swimming on this. Day.
Also, it seems you've chosen a good day as the annoying madcap
faeant. No, haven't slowed your journey
down. Usually they attack those that
Crest the hill there. I was waiting actually to see if
they would do it. Maybe they'll do it on your way
out. Just watch for that.
Yeah, they might still get us. There's still time on that.
Are you guys making it across the land bridge as quickly as
possible or? Rd.
OK. I'm not going to like one, but.
I would. I'm going to continue.
On the path. Actually, I'll wait until next
time because I think this is a good stopping point right before
you enter The Cave there, because I have it set up and
everything, but as opposed to describing it a second time when
we start back up next time. Yeah.
No, I'll I second this because I
would fair. Enough.
Bella's been, like, bothering me for the past 20 minutes.
It is that time, right? Awesome.
Good session. Look at all that progress we
made. We got off the beat.
We got off the dude. Yeah, I feel like we're.
Never started in the ocean, guys, and now we're like almost
to the volcano. Like 6 possible different or
like distraction options. Killing it.
And we and we just like Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope.
Thanks. We did catch crabs, yeah.
But that was for the dragon. We did catch crabs in negotiated
goats, like, but like we did things we didn't just like.
We're doing good. Yay, Mommy's proud.
I'm very proud of this very good session.
She's a happy captain. Craig Craig is smiling me.
Finally proud of me. It must be the light all.
Right. Why?
You too. You too, Turkey Day.
I'm out of. Here, enjoy the Turkey the.
Turkey, Turkey, Turkey, yeah. And the pumpkin, Pumpkin.
Pumpkin. Three of them.
Always three of them. You can't just have one.
It's like people juice. One can only hope.
Good night then. Bye have.
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