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polos. That.
Toll has arrived. Tell me you to sacrifice my
Lord. The right blood.
Blood. No left blood, he'll die.
Nobody wants left blood. It's poisonous.
Did the two? Oh no, as you got to go back
over there. 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 until myths are
forgotten. And the campaign that gave at
birth comes again. And again.
The Hand of Fate tosses the dice rolls, spins, turns.
Hitherto we left our adventurers known as the Shadow Seekers on
the 4th level of Hell Callum. Oh, what?
Yep, Callum, Zarhorn and Vomirodinishri cease to exist.
And then Franklin opens his eyes in the pocket Rocket to Ash and
Flint's bickering along with and along with Phelan, who then they
all begin to speculate on ways to break the seal to the fifth
level of hell anger. Everything kind of just skipped
through that. After the debates back and
forth, they exit the pocket Rocket to stand in front of the
mirror and continue to speculate while Flint sees Hamilton in
Sedmere and immediately goes up to embrace him, thus shattering
the seal and switching their places, Although it was not from
their perspectives they'd switched, but their bodies are
in the same place, so it seems to be only their minds have
Freaky Fridayed everything though.
Shatter then shatters around the Shadow Seekers and they fall
into the fourth level of hell Greed.
The Shadow Seekers find themselves outside of a Tavern
in a sweltering hot magma filled cavern.
A sign reads the Greedy Goblin, which proves to be true as the
two goblin muscle at the door immediately swindle them for an
entrance fee. Ash pays them, but a drunken
Franklin and Zenora get her her gems back.
You said Zenora. Wow, I did.
Phelan, Franklin and Phelan get the gems back.
Ash then bargains with Bildreth, the majority owner of the
establishment. He after some conversations
about how much he's able to Ash is able to buy the other
majority or the other half of the owner's out.
During which she'd learned that Kai Shen was the deity of this
level and who they worship. As well as she'd gotten a bangle
from the bargaining and a pouch that is supposed to populate
with 500 gold per day. As well in the bargaining with
those gems that she exchanged was a kiss.
All the while everyone else is ordering at the bar from Steven
after withdrawing himself from the slobbery kiss.
Bill dress professes to Ash to his friendly name of Bill and
that she should call him that from now on.
He also says she can drink for free being 50% owner.
Meanwhile, Franklin is plotting the demise of the door goblins.
Bob's still in crocodile form, vomits all over their shoes
before they head hurdly upstairs to their rented room for the
Knights. Lock the door and go into the
pocket rocket. Let's find out what happens this
time. So yeah, imagination land wise,
you guys are in the pocket Rocket, but are inside of the
you went to your perspective sleeping areas.
I would guess from there, although Franklin may not have,
he may have stood at the portal waiting for everyone else to go
lay down. Or inconspicuously.
I am definitely laying in a bed. I think we all did go to bed,
actually, because you were nursing the you were nursing the
kid. Uh huh.
And and Hamilton was having a mental breakdown about the whole
pocket rocket thing. Yeah, and, you know, not being
in his body and. Yeah, that too.
So that was the description I was meeting from earlier that I
kind of fucked up whenever it happened, when it actually took
place. That's what I meant to do is
they'd switch bodies basically instead of their actual body
switching places. Thaw.
Everyone else was laying down. Franklin, are you then
proceeding to try and sneak out? Hell yeah.
He's going to grab one of the one of the the root sport or the
the skull roots rhizomes that we have, slip it into his pocket.
He's going to put on one of his outfits that he has crafted for
himself, which is a ninja, and he will sneak out of the pocket
rocket to go attempt to find and follow those goblins.
He's a ninja turtle. Yeah, absolutely he is.
You got it. What color?
Oh, what color? I think purple's already taken
so. It is I.
Guess he needs to be his own. I guess it.
Would be red, purple, Blue and orange are all taken by the
actual Ninja Turtles. Yeah, Franklin's definitely the
Black Ninja Turtle. Where in the world?
He instantly grows an Afro no. And then?
Hopefully those guys haven't gone to bed yet.
So roll me a perception real quick.
You're leaving the pocket rocket into the bedroom, and I I made a
map for it in the meantime. Before I didn't have one.
Sure, I will guide myself as well. 16 plus three, so 19.
You can hear from the outside of the door a rattling as if
somebody is trying to open the handle on the door.
On the pocket rocket. No, no, no, on the room to the
in the inn that you guys are in the the greedy goblin.
Oh, I will. OK, good.
I will. Let's see.
Ninja Turtle. Come on.
Get him. I need to see who's on the other
side first. Is there like a little little
hole I could peek through or somewhere I could slip a bug
under and look under their, look through their eyes to see who's
on the other side? You could try either route
there. I mean, there was a keyhole if
you're thinking of that. You would need to roll me a
stealth to get that close to the door at this point 'cause you
can tell there's definitely besides the the shaking of the
handle, there's a couple scuffs of feet and maybe some hushed
tones from the other side. Nice.
Can I instead slip one of my insects from my from from my
swarm through the door like a little fly like tiny little
maggot thing 'cause they can fly now and view through their eyes
instead versus me moving? Yeah.
I will. My eyes go black as one of the
insects from inside my shell pops out and flies on tiny
little wings over to the door and look, or goes through the
key frame or a keyhole to see what's on the other side.
They'd be able to fit under the door.
They try to go in the keyhole you can and they can see stuff
moving inside of it Looks like. I believe they're called
jiggers. I could be I'm.
Just trying to break in. Got it.
OK, it'll it'll go under the door then.
And going under the door immediately catches the
attention of what seems to be two goblins on the outside that
you, Franklin, recognize from the front door.
Bastards. I knew it, fuckers.
Great to be. That's awesome.
Leave me alone. They're asking for it.
Give it to them. Kill them.
And just just as they, you know, actually, you know what
perception is a wisdom based stat, right?
Yes. Yeah.
I don't have a perception skill so.
Are they dumb? Roll me a stealth with your
cricket if you would. Sure, let me pull up their
stats. Stealth skill plus five.
Nice. Jesus Christ 13 + 5.
So they don't even see the the cricket that's wormed its way
under the door and is standing just below their feet.
They're focused on their task at hand of trying to break in.
And now you can hear them too, with your cricket on the other
side, vaguely the the the sense of wait.
Do you get hearing from that or just sight?
I get hearing too. OK.
And then you just hear them saying, come on, hurry up before
they wake up. We need to get in there and take
the shit, man. So, viewing through my
familiar's eyes standing just on the other side of the door, I'm
going to cast Hold Person at Level 3 so it targets both of
them. You.
Guys, I can see them through my familiar and within range.
So they will need to make a Cleric 16 Wisdom saving throw.
Good luck buddies. That was a Nat one for a 0.
And. A. 10 So they both just freeze
and then a second later the door unlocks and it opens up and you
see my undead form of dread and I just say, oh just come with A5
you guys. And I reach forward, grab both
of them and drag them into the room.
Leaving a trail of urine the whole way.
I tie if I can before. I mean they can keep making
saves at the end of each of their turns, but I will tie up
their wrists and their feet and gag them and then teleport in to
the pocket rocket with them. So however many saves you want
to make for that, it's once per turn.
They can make the save at the end of their turn, I think.
Let me look that up for sure. I'll just give it, do it once
for each and well, no, yeah, yeah, 'cause the 616 meets it
beats it as as we say, both of them as you're, as you're
binding them up do start to their muscles twitch and they
start to try to get up and start to try and run away.
Whole person, you can't get away from me.
Oh my God. Level. 3.
For this, then now too, we'll make it an actual encounter.
Just to see how that. Exactly plays out so since.
Those poor bastards, that's. Right, they have no idea what
they've got themselves into. This is going to hurt you a lot
more. That's going to hurt me.
Actually, it's only going to hurt you.
Did you get, did you get a roll of initiative in there or?
Here let me give you one. All right, I got everything up,
so it should roll right in there.
They got C Evan. 12. And Weiss.
So yeah, you can cast your help hold person on him again.
Yeah, Level 3, no. No, moving's not allowed.
So it's another save. Think and you can cast it on two
people at the same time. I I haven't seen.
If you upcast it OK, you get one per spell level.
I'm just checking. First one got a three and a
second one got a four. So they just, they get back,
they get up and they get like 2 steps towards the door and then
there's like. I walk up to that, put my head
on their shoulder, whisper to their ear.
You asked for this buddy. This is what greed gets you and
I finished tying them up so. Their hands are pretty much tied
at that point. I would have guessed.
And then now you're just kind of butching them over, tying up
their feet and then teleporting them into the pocket rocket.
Yep. OK, grab both of them.
I. Call for Ferdinand and bring
them to my laboratory. Oh my God.
Got to try something but be quiet.
Everyone's sleeping. If they're so beautiful when
they're sleeping, I don't want to disturb them.
Face them here. And Ferdinand kind of does his
miming gestures turn to you and goes, Yes, boss, did Do you want
me to keep them restrained? And which experiments did we
want to run on them? Yes, keep them restrained.
We're going to turn the bid to zombies.
Skeletons, actually. Can we eat the flesh?
Yeah, actually we can. I always got to jerkify it, but
like, we could totally split it. Yeah.
So I got the skull rhizome that turns skeletons into or turns
bones into skeletons. I'm going to spend a little
while trying to turn these guys into skeletons by placing them
on the rhizome. And like I had to figure out if
I have to kill them first or if like you know what the actual
process is. Did I actually ever make that as
an item? I don't remember.
Nope. I thought there was something in
your inventory. Well I mean you used it in your
mechanic of a fight which was pile of scale or bones on top of
it and then every round it would animate one of them.
Right. I'm more in in meaning.
I thought I'd put something in someone's inventory.
Let me look at mine. I know Regina had turned, tried
to turn one of them into a familiar, but let's see.
Torque, Tri, decahedron, mask, shield.
Dirt, Dirt. Dirt.
Rocks, dirt. Be helpful if you knew where
that the. True inventory of a child.
I do have. I, I have.
It's all very well labeled. He's an order cleric, got blood
from every everyone, hair from Ash, hair from feline, hair from
Regina, hair from. Flynn When the fuck what?
Where when you guys when everyone got knocked out?
When Mommy. Whoa, you could and stole our
hair. OK, I'm not going to question
it. I.
I'm sorry this I literally kept you guys alive.
This is how we can find you if you get stolen, or resurrect you
if you're get exploded. I I just should know at this
point to never question anything?
Resurrect us if we get exploded. Yeah.
The only way that you would die and get resurrected is being
exploded. We can't be resurrected if we
were killed in other ways. It's only exploded.
Well, like if the body gets destroyed and I can't revivify
and we need like a true resurrection.
Like Jesse? Yeah, you know.
I do be dead. You do be dead.
Yeah. I don't have it in my.
I'll need to make it as an official thing so that when we
in the future we can make like official rulings on it
necessarily. But for this time being, I will
say that. Be hoping that I can turn them
into skeletons and their skeletons get out of their
bodies. Yeah, near the near the morning
hours is when when the jerky's finishing and all the all the
flesh has left their bones for the most part.
There might be some little bits in between some of the stuff
that the crickets couldn't get to that still needs to rot off.
But you more or less would touch the rhizome to the skeletal form
and it would, yeah, it it, it would animate in a kind of
self-defense, it seems like, of the rhizome.
So like you're holding the rhizome and it's trying to get
at you. I'm not sure if you were ready
for that. That's kind of where my brain
was at right now. It's defending itself.
I mean, that's what the one in my game did.
Yeah. Kill it.
Oh, oh, it's useful for so many reasons.
You. Also find on the goblins besides
that after killing them and being covered in piss, these
tanks that they'd kind of had on their on their person that were
full of some sort of clearish liquid and a A and a a rod that
seems to when you press a button on it spark a flame.
At the end I look at it and I look at the flame.
I bet this is a flamethrower. Oh my God, it's.
Been really hard to burn a rock. It's got a play thrower.
Let's go. It's.
Called a Scorch Springer if you're looking for it.
Scorch. Springer.
Yeah. I don't, yeah.
Actually an item or not, but. Wait, how many of them are there
now? There's 211 each.
Goblin had one. I can say that is not in DNG
beyond. Man I need to have a talk with.
With Yeah, he has what's? Her name when I get up.
Bill. Bill Yeah.
There's a Scorch bringer guard that's a monster.
That is exactly what they are so.
Oh. They're handheld monsters.
Isn't that nice? From World Angel Yeah, they get
a. Scorch Springer Recharge on a
four to six. The guard Scorch Springer spouts
a stream of flame in a line that is 30 feet long and five feet
wide. Each creature in the line must
make ADC 12 Dexterity saving throw, taking 2D6 fire damage on
a fail save or have as much on a successful one.
Uh huh. And said stuff.
Yeah. Yeah.
That's great. Having done that, I will then
cast a Animate Dead to take control of them.
OK, so when you cast Animate Dead as they're, as they're
coming to swing at you and attack you, that's when you gain
control of them and a little bit of your consciousness is
siphoned off to inhabit the form that is them.
Perfect. I stick one of my bugs on each
of them and then I give them a little outfit so they're not
just skeleton boys, and I put each of the scorchers on their
back. I say you guys are going to
serve me so well. And then I go to sleep and the
wee hours of the boarding. Do you do you leave them with
their with their equipment or give it back to them I guess at
this point or? I'll keep it for now.
I'll just kind of like station them somewhere because here's
the thing. So OK, so before I go to bed,
I'm going to grab one of the mining picks that the miner guys
were using, give them to the the point at the wall would be like
chip off some pieces of Adam had teeth for me while I'm sleeping.
Everyone actually, you know what in that vein of things.
Do it underwater so it's less loud.
Less loud. Oh, so you send them underwater,
OK. Yeah, I don't breathe.
That will be a secret lab. The true mad scientist he was
always meant to be. Mad scientist Ninja turtle
combo. Teenage mutant mad scientist.
He's also an altar boy on the weekends.
Oh God. Oh my word.
So, so versatile. Everyone roll me a Constitution
saving throw, even including your drunk self.
What? Yeah.
All of us sleeping too, yeah. Oh, how?
How exciting. Oh no.
This is me. Too.
I just saw ashes. Yeah, I don't have a good
constitution. I have to because I'm squishy
do. You want me to roll one for Bob?
Yes, please. All right, that is +1.
Oh nice. So Bob and Phelan seem to be
fine. We'll say it's.
Chilling. So that somebody else isn't just
popping in and out of existence. Hamilton slash Flint, which I do
need to change back that token, I realize now.
Dink, dink, it's me, my power flickered.
Oh. Yep.
But I was saying that I just need to change Flint's token was
the last thing that I was saying.
But besides that. So you you guys are waking up
besides Phelan and Bob with this, even though it's kind of
dulled since they're underwater. This that seems to be ringing
throughout the whole pocket rocket that seems to be
splitting your head. If everyone could roll me AI
think it was AD 8 for those that failed that first check
actually. So that would just be.
It's a base D8. Yes, please,
and tell me what you get. I'm still walking walking back
in on everything here. A six three for me.
For Ash. So you can choose either to take
that as damage right now or what I was going to stay for.
Actually, you know what for? For the rest of the day, your
health is diminished by that much.
By no day. Until you, until you either
sleep again or you, you're healed of the condition of the
hangover, you know, then you're, you're, you're at a permanent
negative, your total health of of that role,
that resounding silence read. -6 health, got it.
Lovely. -3 for me, oh God, this is Franklin's first headache or
hangover. Oh, poor baby.
Gotta love Constitution being my second saving throw.
We did it guys. So we all just wake up groggy
and Oh no. Did God has left us?
No, I just switched back over in the headset.
Oh. He has returned.
He has risen again. Oh, it's Easter.
It's Easter. Again.
Oh no. So yeah, you you guys are waking
up to the pinging sound, including yourself, Franklin,
and it seems to stop, although it seems to follow you around
now for the rest of the day somehow, as the.
You don't know exactly how long it's been, but you, you're you.
While you're groaning to yourself about the headache and
sitting there with your head in your hands, the skeletons come
back out of the water with. Let me roll.
Rolling, rolling, rolling. They've got a + 1.
Nice. What was your words exactly?
Get get some adamantium. Get a piece of adamantium.
They're just collecting until morning when I get them.
When he left, I was trying to remember what what you'd said
for them to do though is all like.
Like what was the command basically for them to have been
executing hello? Hello, did we lose him?
I think so had like a almost sounded like he fell down.
Oh, are you OK? No, I'm here.
I was just in the elevator with people.
Oh, OK. It.
Felt that's why it sounded like you fell down.
Then yeah. I don't remember exactly what I
had told them. I basically gave them pickaxes
and I was like, go get me some adamantine.
OK, so you said some. OK, that's that, that was the I
was trying to look for, you know.
Yeah, that's that's exactly what I needed.
So they bring back like a 10 inch and a 7 inch size size
chunk of adamantine each. Sweet.
I take that and I go hop, skip off to the others and bring them
with me to have breakfast. Just for saving time over
breakfast, I will do my inspiring leader mantra for
everyone, which is we exist, we matter.
We're not simply figments of someone else's imagination.
We will take revenge and burn the world down and everyone gets
11 temporary HP. Hell yeah.
Including including my new boys. I call them the Boner Boys.
Of course. I like it.
Hey everyone. Everyone go down to the eating
area then eventually it's I. Guess so, yeah.
Yeah, I would say we all just make our way down to breakfast.
Inside the greedy goblin or still in the pocket rocket?
If we have stores inside the pocket rocket, I would say in
here. Yeah, we don't have to pay for
it. I mean you are 1/2 owner but I'm
pretty sure where it stores in here because I've eaten cereal a
lot. As you wake up Ash, please make
sure to add to your inventory or however you're keeping track of
it. That 500 gold.
Oh yeah. So guys know that this chamber,
the far chamber is where your guys's cooking and eating area
is, should be able to move and see what not all your character.
There we go, see Phelan making her way.
Hell yeah, she's just accepted her fate at this point and is
now determined to get as drunk as often as possible.
It makes everything better. I learned a fun fact to fill the
silence while everybody's gathering in the kitchen.
Did you know that yeast, the thing that ferments and makes us
alcohol? Yeah.
Is not a bacteria. What is it?
It's a fungus. I feel like I did know that I
feel like I did, but I'm not the.
Good mold. Yeah, it's the good.
Mold, which is just even more awesome to me.
I don't know why it makes it that much more awesome to me
that it's. Could you drink fungus piss?
Yeah. Pretty much.
That that's, that's basically it.
Yep, yeah, sorry about that. I just got back into my
apartment. No worries.
I just threw out the trash. I moved your character more or
less in the vicinity. I didn't see Ash.
I didn't know if you're bringing the baby and Bob as well.
Yeah, I will bring them. I'm typing in my bangle and coin
bag because I thought I'd done that last time, but I guess I
had just taken notes on it and didn't add it to my inventory.
OK. I I will make a note to to
actually create that too, I need to create.
Have these Skellington's service breakfast.
Rise Zone was the other thing. The skeletons go over to the
what's the command you give them?
I guess actually, again, I'm going to be reliant on that
because they're pretty fucking dumb.
Yeah, I mean, I'll have I'll have Ferdinand start directing
them to try to start teaching them.
But even if it's that my insects make the breakfast and these
guys just serve it on low with low made costumes.
I'm. Also with that.
I forgot I I sort of forgot that you'd mentioned that already
too. So I'm guessing what is
happening from a visual standpoint then is Ferdinand's
actually subbed this work out to some of his other guys, but
they've Ferdinand's lackeys have gone from their shoulder where
you put them into their skull and are kind of directing things
from there like it looks. Driving them around.
Yeah, yeah. From the.
Brightest theory style. But the from the inside of their
skull, so you can see them every now and again taking taking
commands from you and then kind of like tap on the skeleton to
to make it move where it needs to go and.
Franklin looks at that and he's like, whoa, that's a good idea.
And they, they, they seem to be going about it a little
awkwardly, a little like they're still getting their, their sea
legs under them, but they're able to pull some stuff out of
the cold fridge and, or the cold, cold crate and throw it on
the stove. And you guys smell some some
eggs and probably bacon cooking all up, cooking up with
definitely, definitely those two things you you smell smell.
The other one seem to be burning some pancakes though.
It's goblin bacon. Do you share that or do you just
say it's bacon? Guys, it's bacon.
He doesn't care. He didn't know the difference.
Bacon. Ash gladly eats it and feeds
them to Bob. Nod, I'm so glad that I could
provide for my friend's family. So good morning guys, I hope
your hangover is not too bad. I groan quietly.
I'm hearing this to one of the the the cricket skeletons go
hurriedly back over to the stove where they had a boiling pot of
something and bring it over and pour it into cups and it's this
rackish looking dark, almost black.
Basically it looks like it's absorbing light in, but it's in
a cup. It's like a cup of black.
And you? I'll skip it.
Cheers to the Elias. You can tell that it it's very
bitter but it kind of almost makes you gag.
But then it has some chocolaty notes as you're coughing on it
probably. Oh, that's weird.
I ask if we have any cream. Probably the cold fridge.
With crickets like communicate back and forth between each
other and ask what she asked for.
Oh, she wants cream? Sorry, I could also just make
some. They both look at both the
crickets comes and look at each other and look back at you.
Assuming you said that to them as well, you can just make some.
I pull out the hell clay and I wiggle my bone fingers.
Spookity, bookity, hokity pocus. I would like some milk or cream
Shazam. That's the actual like exactly
how he said it said milk and then Oh no, wait, cream.
And you said you pull out the hell clay and started playing
with it. So you just in your hands starts
running, running this thick cream all over.
You're lapping in your. Hands I I I pour it into
whatever is left in my palm into her cup.
Sorry about that. It early.
Think that entirely through. Should have put it in a cup.
I just stir my coffee and I'm like that, That's good enough,
thank. You oh, what do you guys want to
do today? I.
Don't know. I think we need to pay a visit
to that temple, try to find the the seal, which I'm guessing is
the deity. I say with quotations of this
level of hell. A nod.
Gotcha. Yeah, we could do that.
You would. We had also mentioned I think
last time since I don't know how much buddy you have, but if we
wanted to stock up on anything, this would be the place to do
it. I don't think.
We haven't really come across any other stores.
Yeah, we probably should gather a little bit of supplies and
maybe some new equipment. Let's check things out.
Yeah, and then we can stroll by the temple, gather some
information, beat the locals, kiss head, shake babies, you
know? I mean I.
Got that wrong. I tip my cuff up and I'm like it
sounds like a good idea. Trying to fail in fail.
What do you think? What would you like to do today?
I mean, I feel like at this point, the whole mission is
we're just going to keep breaking these seals.
So like, we might as well figure out what it takes to do that.
True. True.
True, true.
All right. We go into town, do some
shopping, do some nose about, ask some questions.
Yes, let's do it. Scope out the area.
It's. My feet.
I like I like this one that I found.
I think I haven't actually found that many coffees that are made
into D&D, although in the world technically too, it's called CAF
KAETH, but I just haven't found the item, which I'm very
surprised. I thought I figured this would
be basically par for the course. Now I have to make one now.
If we go shopping, I need to find something that'll bring up
my AC that isn't armor 'cause I can't wear any armor.
I I need to work on my armor too because it is a fairly.
I have an AC of 11 and I physically cannot wear armor.
Sorcerer's suck. Jewelry.
I do. I need like rings and cloaks of
protection and shit but I also don't have any money.
Don't worry, we have. Money and I turn, I turn the
I'll turn to ash. And remember, we don't want to
take advantage of you. So if you ever feel like we're
someone's spending too much, please say something.
We respect you. I tip my cup to him and I'm
like, God, we can spend away because we can always earn more.
Ash is a little, I don't know what the term is, but she's a
little LAX when it comes to just like dealing with money because
she comes from nobility and she just never been without it.
Yep, we should also buy those cheap Jeb's they talked about,
remember? Oh, we have gems, Yeah.
Well, we have Jeb's, but this place is known for a specific
sort. Of oh, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
They mine all the gems and then we go sell them in a different
place and make all the money. Yeah.
'Cause I have what is it? They really, they didn't want
the Ruben. We came across a lot of room at
the level, but they liked the. Amethyst, yeah.
Yeah, and I still have 30 / 30 of those and they also like
emeralds, but I only have 4 emeralds which I agree we should
sell. Yeah.
I mean, I'm just saying if we want to get the most bag for our
buck, selling those or at least most of them, unless we need the
first spell components here and trading up for for like a vast
quantity of rubies and stuff which we sell later.
That's how you make money. Yeah.
So are all of you, including the skeletons, Bob and the babies
leaving. I'll I'll leave the skeletons
here to continue mining for me. I will bring the two adamantine
things. I'll think about getting them
plated. Like armor plating for the
skeletons. Yeah, or play their bodes
without a bad team. Again, what is?
Oh, wait, no. So you're going to just tell the
crickets, But what are you telling them the crickets to do?
Oh, I mean continue to thrive and direct the direct the
skeletons to mine under like underwater trying to carve out
like a Little Beaver dam under the under the bathing area.
Ferdinand, they Ferdinand would probably come in over at this
point as one of as a representative for.
Him and basically go boss, I've been working with these guys for
a while. I I think we should probably
give them a limit of how far they should go, because
otherwise you're going to you might ruin this place.
Yeah, I know. That's a great point.
We should limit how far we go. Could you get a survey together
about the dimensions here? I I'll dimension and
telepathically tell you the size of the of the, the pocket rocket
from the outside at all dimensions.
And then in here, if you dimension everything, we should
be able to determine how pick the walls are and we should
leave like a little tolerance, like at least 5 or 10 feet or
something like that. But we could scrape this the
rest of it pretty clean, all right?
Well, that's good to know. I just.
I mean, I think I have no idea. No, I mean that sounds
reasonable to me. With my longer years, you can
tell I've been getting a little bit more intelligible and you
can see some of his signs are becoming more unique than some
of the other ones. But well.
You're so special, Ferdad. The smartest boy of all of them.
I'm glad we got that sorted out before it.
It ended in in disaster. For you.
So yeah, I mean, let's start right now with just enough to
like baby do some sets of armor and then we could re evaluate
later. OK, well that seems reasonable,
I think. All right, High 5.
Do that though, and he brings his one of his legs up to high
to high 5:00 and after that he just goes and and I think we'll
probably want to shoot. I lost my train of thought.
Well. That front out there.
OK, I skip off. It's Ferdinand like packing us
up Etho to lunch and he's like, all right, go ahead, go out and
do wonderful, horrible things today.
I'll be here when you get back, kids.
He's such a good, he's such a motherly figure.
That's how. Very paternal does.
Skeleton stay here, Bob baby. I'll take Bob with me and I'll
leave the babies here again and I'll ask Franklin, like, can the
Locust be nanny again? This is quite nice.
Yeah, of. Course I've got.
There's. Literally thousands.
There's millions of them. There could be so many eyes on
these babies. Yeah, I would say that I had
breast fed them while having breakfast so that they would be
good for a while and I give them like a little Gucci Gucci goo
before handing them to like a pile of crickets.
Roll that mothering skill. 8:00 Not that great my.
The one head's asleep, the other one seems to have been affected
by the coffee that you just drank or the CAF and is like
just like beep bopping around. Seems seems to be happy enough
even though you're handing them off to the crickets but is not
sleeping. The other one is down over the
count. Seems like even though they both
just ate, they should be both sleeping.
One is sensitive to caffeine and one takes caffeine naps.
Oh, I'm that caffeine nap bitch. Absolutely.
Oh. All right, good to know.
Good to know. Learning more about my baby.
I'd say we suit up and get out of here, you guys.
To the store. I just had that room upstairs
for thematic purposes. I knew you were going to get
into combat and I figured it was easier to bring them to you.
So you guys go back downstairs into the greedy goblin after
leaving your room. Oh, you guys are on here twice.
Let's get this out out. I think we're still in the
pocket rocket ourselves. Out Yeah, I need to get the
freaking bookmark. There we are.
That should have done it and. Out.
Yep. Did Franklin mention to us,
either of us that were not there, about the goblins that
tried to break in? Did we even?
I didn't question the skeletons. I was just like, yeah, they were
just there. That's fine.
There were just two goblin skeletons in made outfits
serving breakfast. Question though, can we tell
that they're goblin skeletons? How different is a goblin
skeleton to like a halfling skeleton?
You know this is. This is a good question.
That's a good one. Oh, shit.
Perception. All right, let's see.
Oh, that's a 21. Very nice.
You definitely tell that those were goblin skeletons then.
I'm not going to say a fucking word. 17.
Ash is fairly certain those were goblin skeletons then.
Still not going to question it. I'm like Franklin seemed to have
it in hand. Got it under control, he's fine,
He's only. This whole campaign is just
everyone awkwardly ignoring like the giant hive of evil insects
and the giant skeleton monster and the horrid of undead.
It's fine. This is fine, We totally accept.
Guys, know that you came in this way from the front door in that
town is to the north, generally speaking.
All right. So is the same bartender there
as we head out? New you you you would round the
booths corners after you step down the stairs and standing
behind the the corner is a sketchy looking lad and he's
like. I just asked him for director
directions towards the temple. I was like, can you direct us
towards the temple? We want to go pay our respects.
I wouldn't go over there this hour, he'd probably be beaten to
death. Well that sounds fun.
Can you suggest a place where we can go shopping then?
Well, I mean teach their own I guess.
Just head north out of the the bar here, the Tavern.
There's a bridge across the molten magma and towns right in
the over top of that. We love breathing in the stench
of melting stone. It is a good smell.
Thank you, my good Sir. And then I just like March away
back towards the front door and. I'm sure you don't want to
drink. No, thank you.
I will when I come back though. Save one for me.
I. Can put it in a cup for you to
go. A to go cup, OK.
God, wait, if we're pulling out some code cops, I'll take one
too. And I have a blue gold.
Like I said, Palin's on the new mission.
He goes, Oh well, those. Those are our yesterday special.
Today's the The Green Goblet Special.
OK, I'll try one of those. Yeah, he goes, He goes, OK.
And he, he goes to the back. You you do hear some clanking
and such, but it's it's nothing compared to the.
How exciting. The laws here let you drink out
in public. It's an open carry state.
Comes out with with what looks like 2 mini barrels with like
kind of a sippy cup lid on it that he hands to you.
Barrel, yeah. Love it.
I like it. I think I heard, I think I heard
somebody else ordering it too, that that'll be that.
That'll be a gold for the two. Sorry my friend, I don't need to
pay any gold and I pick up my cup and I walk away.
And you you probably like show wherever your bangle's at as
you're walking away, I'm guessing.
Yeah, I would just like tap it where it's sitting on my arm.
And he just goes. Oh, how, Madam, I'm sorry, I
didn't know. I thank you for your thank you
for having me here. Ha ha ha.
And he just does like a little dance, turns around in his spot
and bowels. I nod my head to him and I'm
like thank you and I raised my glass and I take a big sip.
How is it? Oh, go ahead and roll me the
constitution that obligatorily goes along with it.
The first thing you notice besides the calf, which had kind
of dulled the throbbing in your head and would take away a level
of exhaustion if you had any, is what I'm gonna go off so far.
But the this kind of loosens you up and that pain behind your
eyes goes away at least. Oh, thank goodness.
And what'd you get here, 17? And. 17 nice.
You both are perfectly fine. You're still sober.
I'm a professional at this. And it's a a a biting green
apple flavor. Very.
Artificial. Mind you, but.
Hell yeah, even better. I'm in.
I'm like, oh, that's good, thank you.
And then I walked towards the door and I'm like, I know where
we're going shopping today. Do you?
Did we find out? Yeah, he said.
Go north across the bridge. I was too busy thinking about
the drink. Well, I see Franklin.
You're sitting there right before the door.
I didn't know if anyone else was filtering out.
We go. I need to remember Bob 2 two
more. There's new goblins.
On the other side of the Doria, they look similarly to the other
ones, whereas like. Oh, weird.
There seems to be some sort of group of them that are, well,
maybe you're just being racist because these goblins just look
different from the rest of them. I mean, I could see us being a
little or they could try the Robin.
Murder thing though, they tried to do things to me, I'm going to
be racist to them. All right.
And they're cloning. I'm calling it now.
I'm going to be racist because they were Dick heads.
Exactly. Socially exciting.
I have a right to hey, we can be socially acceptable in the good
campaign. You guys crossed the bridge over
the magma, which is there's pillars of stone that seem to be
dropped almost in place that go up to a paved area that you're
standing on top of this magma. Basically at this point, in
between the pillars, there's these arched stone walkways that
you're standing on top of currently with houses that are
then set upon these metal grates throughout the different areas.
Definitely, and there's more than just the probably what you
can physically see there, but this at least gives you the
general layout of some of the buildings that are propping up
around you. There is probably also some
signs on those pillars 1 pointing this establishment out.
They are all looking real shoddy, like they're made out of
they look they look like they're made to be nice originally, but
they they're real rundown. But the the first one on your
right is some sort of Taylor. The next one is some sort of on
still on the right is a Potter and and they all seem to be also
homes because there's intermittently between the signs
too, just people sitting outside like whittling something out of
out of some stone or something, or just goblins milling about on
the streets too. Really like this mixed-use set
up. I love a good mixed-use.
So walkable here besides the intense heat.
We love a walkable city. You guys are all very much
besides all those things, yeah, dripping in.
Sweat. I don't wear armor so I feel
like I'm better off than some other people.
I'm an amphibian. I'm cold blooded.
That means you're just getting sleepy.
This. Is great yeah that's true.
Wet Franklin are these ballista they're?
They're they're just looked like broken carts, burned, broken
carts. Got it.
Either they were old mining carts or who knows what.
We got a Baker, a tailor. Let's see, what are you looking
for? I need someone that'll sell me
jewelry that'll give my ACA boost.
Yeah, that. I think Ash needs that too.
Yeah. I find like the magic item guy.
Yeah. Magic item guy, is that what the
shop says? That would be so helpful my.
God yes please. Do any of the shops have signs
that we can read? I can read Goblin so I could
read them. Yeah, I was gonna say you're
probably reading them and then giving everybody the the rundown
of the of the locale. There's probably pretty much
anything you can imagine because it's as much as there's no real
tall buildings throughout here. There seems to be a lot of them
kind of fanning out across this giant magma pool and they're in
different locations and such. But the the ones that you're
seeing around you, like I I'd said, but you can ask me if you
looking for anything specific. You said magic guy.
Magic item guy. Magic item guy.
While you guys are walking, that's not what I wanted.
I'm just doing something over here.
Find me. Can't believe in you?
You've. Eventually find a when when
walking on the left you find a something called a demonic
restorations, we'll call it. That seems to be in line with
what you're talking. Or you might be thinking is the
closest thing that you find first anyways, and could
everyone? La La La La La La La La La La.
Roll me a perception with disadvantage because you're
walking through a crowd. This just said the perception.
Well, and that's what the disadvantage.
You bastard, I rolled a Nat 20 and then fucking five God damn
it. Yeah, I apologize for those loss
of your natural 20s, although it looks like Nope.
If we go about passive, my passive is a 13.
Guys are able to only bump into a few people as you're milling
through the crowds. Scuse me, scuse me, scuse me and
that we're gonna get stolen from.
How fortuitous of you. I keep my head of the rocket
unless we didn't bring it with us, I can't remember.
No, you, you probably would have that you left the room so and
that was the only valuable thing in the room in the 1st place so.
Yeah, see, these are so dangerous.
We'll say Ash you well you got lucky you
lost a stone. We'll just just to meta wise
you're we'll say one of the rubies are missing from your
stash. Probably wouldn't even notice.
One Ruby's missing from my stash, yeah.
No, the world's over. We're fucked.
We lost. It's all over.
I lost one. Rock those whores.
Absolute bastards. How dare they?
Oof. I was trying to roll off of like
the the things that you guys have got in there.
Let's say your inventory is so weird.
It's probably a bunch of sacks though.
So the sack that's got everyone's parts in it, Franklin
is what you lose. Wait, my like my collection of
people's hair and blood? Is either that I was I really?
How are we losing stuff? These people there's.
A goblin that's stealing stuff with a 13 stealth that he rolled
earlier that I saw and those bastard could be noticed by a
single one of us. Oh wait, should I have rolled
for Bob? I actually.
Say it, Bob, save our stuff. And it was either that or the
seeing, seeing the mask of seeing their truth, which is
what I actually rolled. Yeah.
No, you can, you can, you can keep the the blood.
I can get more. Yeah.
So I figure the sack that you have everybody's parts in.
You're gonna be so confused. Let's see what we got, guys.
It's just a bunch of they. Are going to be confused.
In bottles. And oh, shoot, let's go over to
the Actually, you wouldn't have to roll for Bob necessarily,
because I don't think anyone would try to steal from a
crocodile, per Southeast. Yeah, but would he know me?
He he didn't notice. I was going to say, would he
notice someone trying to steal stuff from my bag?
And by the way, who the fuck's approaching the woman walking
with a crocodile? Yeah, plenty of people seem to
not give a fuck about what's going on there.
Desperate. They don't question it.
They're just like, yeah, there's crocodiles in this lava ridden
area all the time. Lava crocodile.
They're probably more wild that it's not like a lava crocodile
and that it's just like an actual like crocodile.
A bear, Puss. Bear, bear talk, bear pull out
of us. Just a bear.
Oh. I'll be right back.
OK, you don't have much on you
there, Phelan. No, maybe level 7 but I don't
got shit. I technically either rolled for
like the crossbow, the crossbow bolts, or the crystal which is
your arcane. Focus.
I need that. I I think that would be less
likely. So we'll we'll say that.
I was gonna say like my daggers can be strapped on like either
side of my hips and those can be taken like I don't fucking use
them. This is not my arc in focus.
I need that bitch. I was thinking though too, that
it might might even be the astral diamonds that you have on
your person, but just because that would probably be in
another like noticeable bulging sack of some sort that could
potentially be something valuable that they might go for.
You know, I don't know exactly. It says you've got it in your
backpack. So it's likely too that they
could like just see a bulge and cut a hole and grab it.
Oh yeah, my astral diamond. Yeah, My astral diamonds are my
backpack. My active equipment is my astral
Shard. OK.
Yeah, yeah, that's where I was getting a little confused too,
so. I was like, not my astral Shard,
I want to teleport. It's fun.
We'll we'll say the Astral Diamonds are gone for Ian for
now. All 100.
Oh no. I'm assuming you kept them all
in one spot unless you had any stashed in weird locations I.
Mean, I don't, I don't think I would think of that.
Phelan's kind of unaware of the world.
Girl's been living underground her whole life like.
Those are gone, sorry. Sad.
But yeah, you're standing outside of what Ash claims to be
some sort of magic man. Its establishment guys go all
filtering magic bad. We'll go into some imagination
lands for some of it too, 'cause I didn't know what all would be
wanted. Sure.
So I just there's a town, there's places.
Thanks. Yeah.
Where do you want to go? To the library?
Yeah, right. Gotta get a library card.
So guys, I'll walk in. Yes, Yeah.
You walk in a kind of like cowbell sound sounds.
Hello as you open and you hear from the back kind of a shout.
And you're standing inside of a, A, a dusty looking place with
like tomes and some stuff behind glass that looks to be like
whether or not some of which is being jewelry or.
You're not sure if you'd call it that though, because it's
looking like it's made out of teeth and like feathers and.
So I like that. That's cool.
Go along with my rings that hold my arcane focus in them.
That'd be cool. But a a kind of hunched goblin
comes dragging a leg from the back just.
A customer's. And saying in goblin too.
So I don't know how many I. Think just Ash knows that.
Just ash. So ash, you hear him saying?
Yeah. Customers, what do we have here?
I would say I only I only know common under common elvish and
then I also have telepathy 'cause I'm telepathic.
He does look you guys up and down and starts switches,
switches languages and goes into under common and goes.
Hey, I know that one. We have some travelers.
You would be right there, good Sir.
We were wondering if you had. A Madam.
Oh shit, reverse and go into Madam.
That's what I said. I totally said, Madam.
Yeah, sorry, older years aren't what they used to be.
Let me gaslighting her into thinking that I actually said
Madam. All right, yeah.
We were wondering if you had any magical items that could maybe
help in protecting us a little bit more.
Magical items for protection. What?
You. What you.
What kind of protection are you looking for, Derry?
You're gonna need all sorts while you're down here.
That that that's a that's a true statement.
I guess something more in the harder to hit type of area to.
Hit. I've got some.
Olive oil in the back, That could probably do the trick
there. But you mean more like, you
know, stuff bouncing off of you? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Something to like upgrade like sort of your armor that you
would have for people that can't necessarily wear armor.
Yeah, it's a damn I. Think I'm understanding picking
up what you're laying down. Yeah, I.
Think I got. Something I can and she goes
over to one of the one of the cases that are obviously locked
but encased in glass and she pulls from under some shoddy
looking robes. You can't even tell how many
layers there are or because as she does flash her leg a little
bit from behind there. With that you can see they're
basically the size of toothpicks.
They look frailer than anything. Then pulls out this wad of keys
that she's fiddling with for a long time before she opens the
glass. That's you.
You didn't realize from looking on the outside.
Easily 3 inches thick. Unlocks it and lifts it up the
the top and then pulls out one piece in particular that seems
to be a a necklace with looks like a full set of teeth
intersparsed with these kind of you can't you can't quite tell
exactly what what sort of material the feathery pieces
look at whether or not they're flowers or or leaves or
feathers. And then in the center, though,
there is kind of this more floral piece that sits right in
the front of it that she goes well.
This would pretty much protect you from from any frame fire.
We use some of stuff like this to get through the mine safely
in case we open up another magma shoot some of is.
At least that's what we're used to.
Doesn't always work. If it gets to the necklace
first, there's some true terrible accidents, but hey,
this should work. Keep some stuff from hitting you
first for a little bit. I could part with it.
I've got a few others in the back though from what I was
making I could probably part for five gold.
I would turn to like Franklin and Ash and give like a, what do
you think sort of look. I don't know.
I don't know what he said. You don't know under common
either. I thought you knew under common.
No, Ronald, I know celestial, common and primordial.
It's yeah, so. He's just been.
Sitting there picking his nose. I I would relay what she said
about the ring. Necklace.
Oh shit, necklace. It's a fire.
Protection. Not here.
Fire. Yeah, essentially.
I made it for how much? 5 gold is what?
5 gold but so it must be like A1 type use type of thing.
Or it's just like a really basic enchantment of just like
resistance to fire or you know, once per day or you know.
Sure. I mean, maybe we just, I mean it
seems very cheap for that, for that effect, especially in the
well, it sounds like. It's something that's pretty
common down here. They use it for mining.
Can you ask her about like its properties?
It's like how many times can you use it?
Does it recharge like the what off?
Yeah, I can ask her that. So for five gold, I mean, that
sort of protection seems like it would be more expensive.
Is there like a limit on how many times you can use it?
Not really. It's more so like like I was
saying it you're you would just have very good resistance to
flame. I wouldn't go jumping into no
magma or anything, but it did. Everything would seem slightly
cooler down here. And she like flips like one of
the shoddy pieces of robes back. And she's like, I even have
something of that just on my wrist at all times, you know?
And figured it was an easy sell to you too.
Guys probably look like you're dripping in sweat.
And And you can tell that her brow was completely clear.
Other than Franklin, obviously. I would turn back to Franklin.
So there's no like limit to it. It just, it wouldn't, it's like,
you know, just the low level, like resistance, not as bad,
wouldn't feel as bad down here 'cause you know, it's really
warm. But she definitely doesn't
recommend like jumping into lava with it.
Yeah, that makes sense. I mean, yeah, we should
absolutely pick up a number of these for both ourselves and
everyone else. That's true.
Oh my gosh, how many would we need?
Well. TM how many would we need for
everyone so we can meta game it and make it easy for everyone to
be like you're actually fine down here?
Pen rough, roughly including yourselves, obviously.
I will turn to her and say if we do a bulk order, would we get a
discount? I don't know if I could do a
discount on these. These are pretty low item right
now. I mean it's pretty base base
cost. I could probably do AI.
Could probably do a discount on it if you bought something else
though. And and then what else?
Yeah, what else do you have as well to offer?
We're definitely interested in buying quite a few of these for
us and all of our friends so. OK.
Well, I mean and not everybody has just five gold laying
around. So now is every day that I get
some buying customers in so I can go all the way up to fire
immune if that's what you're looking for and but it's going
to be like 100 fold increase so. Do you maybe have something that
doesn't relate to just fire, but like overall damage?
You know, overall protection, not just protection from fire.
Oh sweetie, that's kind of really past year.
You're talking like you're talking like somebody hitting
you some. Magic.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Some.
Just. Pretend we could pay for it,
does it better. Say theoretically, right now we
have all of the money in the world.
Theoretically, all of the money, OK, where in any case you can
give me the rest of my life. I could sacrifice myself and get
you something good, but it's gonna cost you cause.
We'll say like to supply the next generation of my family.
And she just does some quick fingers on her, quick figures on
her fingers, and she's like. I don't know like what a douse.
Boy, why would you have to sacrifice yourself for this kind
of thing? Oh well, you do some really good
ritual magic, but you know, being immune to a lot of
damages, not something that you comes cheap and life is not
cheap. Very confused right now.
So you don't have anything in stock right now is what you're
saying? You would have to work on it.
Whoa, well, I mean, I could probably check around and see if
we have something that's really like all round damage, but
that's that's a rare find. Like I said, it's usually cost
somebody their life to make something like that, to be
completely immune to all the images, no.
No. No, no I'm not.
Saying immune? No, I'm just saying something
that can maybe boost our already natural resistance.
Better shield there like. Like you know, adding meta gave
me adding of a plus one or two to your AC.
Oh, so you just want like your skin to be harder?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm not saying like immunity to everything that yeah, I know
that's a lot. Hmm.
I think I'd have something like that.
I would add somebody asking for something like that.
We don't get too many fighting around here.
Check real quick on my inventory real quick, guys.
Is there anything else that you guys want me to look at while
I'm back there? I mean, I'm just kind of curious
of what you all got 'cause I don't know exactly what I'm
looking for, but you know, if we had a range or like AI don't
know. I'd like to outfit some goblins
with some some decent armor at some point, but they didn't have
to be amazing. You're going to want to go to
the armor Smiths or whoever gets out of that.
I mainly just for sure in some magically enchanted stuff.
Yeah, I mean they. Sometimes bring your armor by to
get it magically enchanted by me, but usually any of their
fittings and such I I don't really deal in.
Got it. Are you at all interested in at
a bad tide or have the ability to work with it?
Eyes get a little big and go. I don't.
I lost all that talk I'm translating through, right?
Somebody else? Yeah.
Being the, I'm being the translator.
I'm back. Just in case it's just to make
it easy, we'll, we'll say that we're conversing back and forth
like this, but unless you guys wanted to act all that out.
Oh yeah, we can just converse. Welcome back.
We're buying things. So he basically says yeah.
I can't really do anything with raw adamantium if that's what
you're talking about, but like if you have something to work
with that you want, like enchanted.
Gotcha. OK, well that's good to know.
Wait, so you're at a enchanter? Kind of more or less I.
Dabble. Wonder if we could just hire
this guy to live with us. Like, hey, do you want to quit
your job and come with us? Is that when Phelan chimes in,
it's actually a a she? OK, this is a woman.
Yeah, you've. Already been corrected on that.
Whoopsies. Sorry.
Let's see, here's a few things that I might be interested in.
Do you have any Staffs that create or some of like swarms of
insects? Him and the goddamn insects.
That's what you you say Phelan. So are you actually translating
you from the Nash? Gets a little confused when.
You I would I would actively say an under under, comment him and
these goddamn insects, and then proceed to ask.
Oh. OK, they are my only friends.
But then she would say. That's pretty specific.
I have some Staffs that are unenchanted that I could
probably do that. With as long as.
Give me a couple hours. And the insects you want to
inject it with. So that's kind of weird.
I don't know how you capture them.
I guess sometimes they'd come in a jar and then I just kind of
store it in there, you know? I've got sub and I just kind of
shake my shell and a bunch of them come riding out.
Because I haven't bathed in like 4 years and that's gross to me
bro. OK, I haven't brave bathed it
ever. You should try.
There's some Hot Springs. Well, they're not very near.
That's why I haven't been very far away.
Oh, good. Let's see.
I mean, here's the thing. Do you, do you buddy, have a
list of like specialty items that you've got here or should
we just like shout off a bunch of different things for you?
I it'd be easier if you just tell me what you want.
Honestly, yeah. It's just my inventory is shoddy
at best. Little Let's discuss what does
it cost you to enchant a, say, rare or uncovered item?
It depends upon what we're talking about here and the
specific enchantments you're talking about too for on that
item. I mean, I don't particularly
care if the item itself is rare or uncommon that you're giving
me to enchant, if that's what you mean.
But yeah, it has more to do with the actual enchantment and the
level of investiture that I have to put into it.
Gotcha. Eternity they always, I mean, I
could write a whole list of stuff down that I'd be
interested in, but in the end, we need to, we'll have to
determine like a number that we could talk to this guy about.
Yeah. In the meantime, do you want
these? She says, holding up the neck.
Yeah, yeah. We'll definitely take those
since we are, yeah. But since we're looking into
maybe bringing in more services with you, could we maybe get it
a little bit lower? Only if you're promising that
those services is, I mean, maybe if you just pay me the 50 and
I'll give you the discount on the on the services, that seems
like a better deal. Oh.
That might be a better deal. Ash I only have.
I only have 10 gold in my inventory.
We're getting OK. We're getting enchantment
necklaces that give us resistance to fire damage, which
also will make us feel more comfortable down in this
environment, and we're getting them for everyone.
Yeah, OK. That's the plan, anyway.
That's actually a really good idea.
I was wondering, I'm like, how are we doing in this heat?
Exactly. Is Bob OK?
Bob's loving it. Oh, OK.
He's. Cold blooded.
This Yeah, that's true. So do we need to pay for these
necklaces right now, or are we gonna?
Yeah, and then she's gonna, and then she's gonna give us a
discounted rate on future stuff. How much did she?
Say it's 10 gold per or it's 5 gold per and we're getting ten
of them, so 50. OK, I I, I, I reaching my coin
pouch and I pull out 50 gold. Just don't even question it.
I'm like Yep, 50 gold sounds fine.
And she go she she she like opens a slit in her shoddy
looking robes and and and kind of like scoots real close to you
Ash and you can smell her dirty unwashed body as well as her
never brushed teeth that are scraggly and holding on and she
just kind of points. To the the to her pocket.
Yeah, she wants me to put them in her pocket.
This seems suss. This seems.
Suss she's saying this well, holding open her pocket and then
like rummaging in the the the the open case.
So you weren't here for the description.
So in in front of her, she's got an open case of like 3 inch
thick glass that she's opened up and she's got her arm in and
she's pulling out ten of these while you're while she's holding
open her pocket. OK, while she's pulling them
out, I guess I'll count out the gold so that she doesn't think
that we're doing anything sass. So I just counted out 123 and
I'm trying to do it pretty quickly.
What, you don't want to keep interacting with her 'cause
she's stinky? That's rude.
I never said that out loud. And then she she so you put you
put it in in the pocket or. Yeah, I put the gold into her
pocket. She turns back around as she
feels it and kind of like looks up at the the ceiling while
she's holding. You can see very evidently the
OR the, the the 10 necklaces and she kind of like shakes it and
she's like, eh, smell 50 sorry, 50 weight.
And then she you can tell too, when you dropped it in there,
you'd heard an extra clang on the inside, as if there was
something metal. And then she hands you the and
not coinage, almost as if there was like a a plate of metal or
something. And then she hands you the the
10 Necklaces of Fire Resistance. I take them and do these require
atonement? No, no, deary.
They they, they're just put it on and you got it.
There's something called a Ring of Fire resistance, which is
basically the same thing if you guys wanted to use that in your
inventory. OK.
Yeah. It's literally just yeah, you
have resistance to fire damage, which means any damage that you
get would be halved from fire damage.
Nice. Beautiful.
It's so nice. And we have how many of these?
10. 10. Which I'm assuming you're
handing. Yeah, I'm.
Putting one on and then handing one to each of your YEAH
members. To Franklin And then which
character is the evil character? Palin.
Palin, Palin, Franklin and Palin.
And then I guess I'll just pocket the rest.
Yeah, we'll put them in the pocket rocket later and do like
a little sign thing that says pick up your fire resistance if
you don't want to die immediately when you exit.
Just have a nice pegboard here we have Yeah, hung up.
Take one for fire resistance. Nice.
And I don't get you, let's say like a 5% discount on all future
purchases seem fair? And she holds her hand out to
shake. I reach out.
I shake her yeah. I think that's pretty fair.
She is speaking in under common so again you would understand
her ash and just for your visualization since you did miss
it, it was like a necklace of teeth and feather looking things
with like a a floral a a reddish flower in the in hanging in the
center anyways. And she sticks out her hand and
grasps it more firmly than you, expecting her frail form too.
And then she takes her other hand and holds on to your wrist
and looks you in the eye before letting out a stinky breath,
that of thank you, and you can feel as the gross air Wasps
across you, a settling of a deal across your shoulders.
That should just extend to yourself, but if you need, you
can just with, with intent, you know, shake someone else's hand
in your party and the deal will pass to them as well.
I'm like, OK, And I turn around and just hold my hand out in
between Franklin and Phelan and ask do you guys want to shake?
Just. Hands.
My eyebrows are just climbing up my head.
Like don't shake hands with. Her like don't shake hands with
you. With me, I'm trying to like,
mentally send you a signal with my eyebrows.
Shake my hand. Don't shake her hand.
Make that I'm gonna make a check to see if I understand wisdom.
I'm trying to write down same as ring of resistance and I have
spelled resistance wrong three times.
Yeah, fire resistance, Yeah. I mean, there's, there's plenty
of things in my notes that are not exactly.
If you just type in into like the manage inventory and you
search for an item to add. If you type in Ring of Fire, it
appears so you don't have to spell resistance.
Perfect. The word I was struggling with
earlier was cease. I'm like.
Just gotta start with an S, right?
What the hell? Oh my God, like C cynicist like
shit like that like. CEASE.
Yeah, yeah, fuck that. It makes so much sense.
Why must the English language be this way?
'Cause we're not just English. That's, that's the, that's the
truth of the matter. You're we're we're.
Hodgepodge. Yeah.
Oh shit. The one, OK, the one in D&D
Beyond says that it requires attunement, but like, we can
just like, be like, No, it doesn't, Yeah.
Yeah. Correct.
I put in. I like manually put into my like
defenses A resistance to fire, but I have the Ring of Fire
resistance equipped so. Nice.
Yeah, I have the Ring of Fire resistance equipped and I just
put in my notes a necklace of fire resistance, same as Ring of
resistance. But you can.
You can also. Relabel the the Ring of Fire
resistance. You can rename it.
Oh, can we? Yeah.
Yeah, that too. And also you can just go into
your defenses and like put in resistance to fire so that like
you don't have to like remember it in your inventory and notes
and such. You're talking about up under.
Where the heck is that now? Under.
It's like underneath like your health and stuff, you have the
box that says defenses and conditions and and your defenses
you can have like your immunities and resistances and
stuff like that. Like I'm immune to anyone
magically trying to put me to sleep.
Also the case for you guys for a couple hours after having coffee
or CAF. You can't fall asleep because of
the coffee. Yeah, that's like one of the
conditions that I was reading about.
Somebody did create a a a a coffee item in D&D, but that I
was considering stealing that concept but.
So do you guys want anything else specifically right now or?
Does she have anything specific in her armor or should we?
Just no. I've been trying to ask for the
past 15 minutes and she just keeps proposing other things, so
no. OK, well I was just wondering
can. We like she enchants, right?
She can enchant something, but she doesn't have anything on
stock. From an arm, from an armor armor
standpoint, like like leather. Or she does.
So she does. No.
But wait, does she not have like a ring of protection or a cloak
of protection or something like that?
Like that's what I'm looking for.
I can't wear armor. Yeah, so we need fashionable,
sturdy jewelry. Exactly.
The last thing you were saying to her, Phelan too, was
specifically about increasing your physical defense nature.
Yeah, like my skin being tougher.
Yep. And to that effect after you
guys kind of had that? Back and forth she would just
go, oh, well, yeah. So to that, I guess.
I mean, it depends upon what you're really into wearing.
I got a cute few couple couple items.
That like what? Like what?
Well. I mean, do you want you think
like a you look like a cloak person?
I don't know. Oh yeah, I totally would wear a
cloak. I already have rings and now I
have your beautiful new necklace.
So like, I feel like the jewelry's kind of taken up
unless you got cool things for like, you know, long Els and
shit or like a headband or something like that would be
kind of cool. But otherwise, cloak, totally
cool. Headband hair stick.
Tiara those, those are a little bit harder to get the get the
physicals, physical properties of yourselves up in an
enchanting process. It has more to do with the
magicals and physical properties you need to get a little bit
bigger. So that's where I was thinking
leaning on that cloak might be a good option for you and.
She goes over to a cabinet that's closed and she knocks up
high like as high as she can reach, knocks down low as low as
she can reach and then turns the handle and opens it.
And inside you can actually as she opens it, a a few mouths fly
out and she she shoos them away like.
I should get some more of those mouths begins.
And then she filters through the the cloaks in the inside.
What? Are you?
Thinking what? What?
What was I thinking? What?
Color.
Oh shit, I get to choose a color.
What colors do you have? Or is it like a you can kind of
pick the color? Yeah, I've got it in pretty much
every color. It's just one another basic item
that I've got kind of just. All of my magical stuff has been
red. So I feel like I have to stick
with the theme. Like I have like red gems for
like my focus. So like I feel like I have to
stick with the red. Either that and black goes good
with red, but. That's also true but also I am
not good with red that. Oh do you have a mixture of a
red cloak with like a gold trim on it?
She she pulls her head back out slowly and she looks you up and
down and goes see you and then she sticks her whole head and
body in and starts shifting through a bunch of them you can
see before she pulls one out on a hanger that's got like a gold
dragon embroidered across the back.
Exactly where this one is from, but I love the back black
background in the gold embroidery that like what you're
talking it. It really come comes and stands
out. I think this was may have been
some some some adventurer that died down here.
I don't know anymore. They thought it was pretty and I
enchanted it. So yeah.
Love, I love it. I think that's the one.
That sounds good. That looks nice.
Do you want one ash? A cloak that'll up protection?
Like a cloak of protection? You know that.
Would be nice, like a. Key, I think you, I think your
AC is right around the same as mine, so.
Yeah, my AC is 11. I actually think I may have my
AC calculated wrong. Nope, I don't.
Never mind 'cause I was like, you're supposed to add your
Dexterity to it. Oh, my Dexterity is zero.
That means I totally did it right.
Oh. Man, but I like the armor I'm
wearing 'cause it also adds to my persuasion, 'cause I have an
advantage on persuading with. I keep forgetting words tonight.
Not sales reps. Oh, like merchants?
Like who we're talking to right now?
Who? Yeah, the person.
We're talking to into maybe getting the price down on both
of our cloaks. Oh yeah, absolutely.
Hold on, let me read it. So I'm.
'Cause I'm like, I'm like I got AI got a + 7 of persuasion.
But like, if you can do advantage with the with the
higher modifier, that'd be even better.
I have merchants attire on and it's a plus one.
Just leather armor can be worn by any class, +2 on persuasion
checks, an advantage on charisma checks when dealing with
merchants and tradesmen, and my if it's a plus one leather.
It should be a 12 then. Oh so I just have this in wrong?
Yeah, if it's a plus one leather armor, cause a leather armor's
base is 11, so if it's a plus one then it's a 12.
OK. Nice.
And I don't particularly D to hire AC but like.
It'd be always good to have it. As well.
Total with 19. I think it is, isn't?
It yeah, 17 naturally, +2 from a shield.
I've got other things I would prefer more, but you know, we'll
see what we could do. Wow, do you most do you want?
You guys are talking amongst yourselves, so I'm not guessing
you're talking in common. Yeah, yeah, I think that's the
only language we all have in common anyway.
Ha ha. Get it?
So do you guys want this? She she still says in under
common to guess. It Oh yeah, yeah, no, absolutely
want it. We're talking about maybe
getting a few more for maybe these other two right here.
OK, so she can do enchantments and she said she could do.
I think the cloaks are already enchanted.
Oh, OK, OK. I asked what other kind of
cloaks she has or she just has like a whole bundle of them.
She just dig it there's. A whole bundle of different
colors, like all in this closet. Do you have a blue and silver
cloak? Blue in silver, she hands Phelan
the cloak that she'd asked for and then she she she goes
filtering through and you can definitely see.
But just by holding it and kind of holding it and and and and
feeling it that it kind of imbues even just while while
you're holding it, it'll slightly faster movement and
kind of hides your movements as well.
So it is that cloak of protection that you were looking
at with that plus one. Yeah, yeah might be might be
more than that. I'm I'll play with it.
I'll look at some other things. I wanted.
I was trying to do that while we were sitting here, but that was
the first thing that I seen that came up that made sense for this
application for her to have a bunch of anyways.
And that's exactly what I was looking for anyway.
He pulls out a blue and silver cloak for you, Ash lying you up
and down, and goes. Since this is clashing with some
of your other attire, but to each their own.
I mean it should cover you fully when you pull it around
yourself, so could could lend to some flashing of the goods.
Clashing with my other stuff. My dress is blue.
Mostly blue. I mean, is it still blue?
We've been wearing it for a while.
Yeah, I'd probably be a little shoddy at least, but not like
not it's probably got a hole or two in it do.
You need that patched up. By the way, I got some
seamstresses that should that that I could recommend.
Yes, I would actually greatly appreciate that if you could
patch this up and make it look good as nail.
No, of course and. Then she hands you the cloak
too, and she goes. Well, for those two, I could
probably do with our discount of 5%.
We could do so probably. Let me see here.
She pulls a little notepad out to kind of remind herself.
How do you think I'll just round down to you guys seem pretty
nice. I keep doing business with you.
So 1010 gold each. That's that's such a good deal,
actually. Yeah, I I feel like I don't need
to negotiate down anywhere. No, I don't think you do either.
Crap. What kind of enchantments are on
these cloaks? I think it's just a close cloak
of production, so you get a + 1 bonus to your AC as well and
saving throws. Yes, all your saving throws.
Yeah, and my strength went from a -2 to a -1.
Damn. Hell yeah.
So plus one to AC an advantage, OK.
No, no plus one to your saving throws.
Just plus one to the saving throws.
Yeah, plus one to all saving throws and then a + 1 to AC.
It is an item in Dean D Beyond. It does say that you have to
attune to it, but I'm just, I don't know if Josh, you
necessarily want us to say that we have two attune to it, but it
kind of auto does it for you when you do attune to it.
So like I'm just gonna, I don't have any attunement items
besides the astral Shard. So I'm kind of just like, yeah,
I'll just hold it in there for now so that I don't have to
manually do it all. Yep, astral Shard, astral
diamonds. Wait.
Here I I lost my astral diamonds.
I have an astral Shard that I can use and teleport around
with. Yeah, that was one of the things
that you got from the tower, wasn't it?
No. I, I don't know that just kind
of appeared in my inventory one day and you said look in your
inventory. Yep, that was from the tower.
OK, so she said the tower that I died, Yeah.
The tower that you died in, correct?
Full died. Yep, 10.
Yep, 10 gold each. OK.
Franklin, are you getting one? Maybe I mean for Ted Gold, I
just I don't want to get too many things, you know, It'd be
wildly strong be. Wildly strong Be a.
Menace. Sure, I'll say that very.
Sweetly to you, I'm like, be a menace, Franklin.
Do it. Yeah, yeah, I am a menace.
Yeah, I did murder those guys. No.
I didn't say anything I.
Didn't I cough? I kind of cough to try to cover.
I was like, yeah, I know you get excited, buddy.
And I pat him on the shell and then I pull out 30 gold pieces
and I was like, we need a third cloak for our friend here.
What colors do you want, Franklin?
And she chimes into you guys while you're trying to talk to
Franklin. I don't know if you you stop and
let her talk to them or her talk to the them or not, but she just
kind of keep going and saying. Well, I mean, it seems like it
would be hard to fit a cloak over all that.
Maybe we can. Work with something else here.
She goes into the, into the in the.
What about a shawl or an Ascot? The closet again and comes back
out actually with what looks like just like a sheet of paper
and is is standing there and goes is.
There any particular patterns or shapes or colors that he'd like?
But the piece of paper that she pulls out is like the same guys
of the cloak. Like it's still a sheet of
paper, but it's like, you know, it's.
Just it's just paper but cloak sized.
Yep, exactly. She's about to perform some
amazing work on me. I feel it.
Franklin is your. Favorite pattern?
I mean gosh, I really like the pattern of my shell which is
like a regular like turtle pattern, but what is it I I
guess so. There's a quite.
Each turtle has like unique patterns on their shells, so I'm
not sure what you mean by regular.
Oh well, gosh, what? Well, what exactly is it gonna
all do it look like? Because I could take a excerpt
for my favorite book and I pat my like the book next to me.
And I'm guessing you guys relay the message.
We are the active translators for sure.
Just confirming because that that's always the power of being
a translator is you can just fuck with people.
Yeah, that's why. That's why I said him and the
fucking insects. But you could even be be even
more mystidious with it, depending upon how you're
feeling that day anyways, so. Like Franklin, I would never.
Yeah, we're a teeb. Yeah, we.
Work. Together.
You relay his his message and she basically just says well.
My, my intent here is that this piece of paper is particularly
enchanted for those that like to just, it's kind of like, you
know what a tattoo is, right? Except this is MIT more like if
you'd taken the thing and just slapped it onto something.
And it's not ink necessarily. It's just imbues a person with a
particular coloration in an area that you don't really have to,
you know, bother with coversome fabrics and such if that's not
your style, but does have to take some sort of shape and form
at least to to hold the enchantment.
I see. Then what I'll do is I'll pick
some of the text from from my book, some particular chapter.
I don't know exactly which one yet, but I'll get that tattooed
on to myself. You have no idea what it looks
like medley right now. Come back to me with what you
think. But that's what happens.
She's like drawing on the piece of paper and taking down the
translated version there, so she might have to roll with a
disadvantage for how well she does.
Let's look up the Book of Enoch and find a nice chapter. 27 No
one's a 15 about two seventeens in a row.
But yeah, she does a pretty good job.
Wouldn't say like Michelangelo good, but still, you know,
passable. Good guess I'm going to do.
It'll be the first, the opening chapter of the Book of Enoch,
which reads. The Holy Great One will come
forth from his dwelling, and the eternal God shall tread upon the
earth and appear in his strength His might from the heavens, or
you know, wherever it is they come from.
And all shall be smitten with fear at the watchers shall
quake, and a great fear and trembling shall seize them,
until the ends of the earth and the high mountains shall be
shaken. The high hills shall be made low
the and shall melt like wax before the flame.
Basically a prophecy of death. OK.
Cool. But I'm assuming you're
describing it to her in the written language that it was
originally in, which is, yeah, probably.
Like, what did we? I thought we'd said something.
It's I have primordial, there's abysmal abyssal.
I think it, I think we may have said Abyssal then potentially
because I think primordial. Primordial was one of your
original languages because you thought it was more in line with
what we were talking, but I think Abyssal was the language,
so. You.
Yeah, that's right. So you describe that what's a
Sauron script? Yeah, those shapes and forms to
her and she's. She says this is the.
Next of the the Abyss you did I. Have no idea what it says
though. Here you go.
Hopefully it doesn't say I like waffles.
No. Oh my God, exactly.
Without even hilarious. Maybe it does.
Hell yeah. And then she's just.
Like, just turn your back around here and I'll slap it on, OK?
Oh, wait, where's that dirty gold?
You said you handed it to her. She wasn't paying attention
because she probably was drawing.
Yeah, I would have just like pulled it out and I was just
like holding it out to her. OK.
And then she kind of grabs that and just throws it in that
pocket before she look, waits for while she's waiting for
Franklin to turn around. And then she kind of stands up
as high as she can get without falling over.
And she kind of like teeters back and forth before almost
basically just falling on top of your shell and then slapping it
all over to adhere this thing. And she's she's saying to you
guys like, make sure he's not moving and keep slapping it.
I'm kind of like standing over her and Franklin and I'm like,
is she hurting him? Do I need to help?
A little confused. Yeah, Tails.
He's fine. And then she like leans back up
on her heels and grabs her hurricane that she leaned up
against the the coat closet by this part previously and and is
leaning on that heavily and then grabs the top of the paper and
then just rips it off. And you don't feel anything
really, Franklin, besides the like pressure of her doing all
this behind you. And you can see that this the,
as you described to her, to the best of your abilities on the
back, on your back. Oh yeah.
What do you guys think? Cool.
It looks, it looks good. It looks good on you.
Thanks, I got my first tattoo. Oh yeah, and this offers
protection. Yeah, you, you could still add
this to your inventory as the local protection.
Yeah, Dang, that's really good. Thank you so much.
This has been so good. Thank you so much for everything
that you have provided. All right, I'll make sure.
That she has some seamstresses that could patch up my dress.
Oh yeah, it's it would be right across the bridge right as you
entered. There was a tailor probably
right on your right. They're probably the best in
town. That's why they got to such a
prime spot. You you said mentioned something
about armor too, I think. Well, for that you're you're
gonna want to talk to the build dress.
He he's kind of got the monopoly on all of the all of the if you
want the best of the best, that is, it seems like you guys are
on the back that path. At least he's going to be the
one that you want to talk to for any like subliminal name armor,
he'd he'd probably be able to at least cut you the best deal on
it too, because he's he's not only the owner of the gritty
goblin. If you haven't met him there,
but he's also kind of, like I was saying, got a monopoly on
all of the other forges and such.
That's right. Wait, I talked to him about
armor the previous day. And he said to go into town
probably 'cause he didn't want to deal with it at the time.
But yeah. And she she goes, she would add
on to it. But I would say that he's pretty
busy guy, so. Yeah, you got to ask that I
interest them. Yeah, it probably got to be
something that's really worth his time if, but it seems like
you guys are on that path. If you wanted something really
exquisite, sure, he's got the commissions for that.
All right, let's go check it out.
And I thank her, give her a nod in my head and I'm like, all
right, let's head out. And it just single signal for us
all to walk out together. You walk out.
Pleasure doing business with you.
You can call me Easel if you're if you're around again.
Easel. Thank you.
Easel. Sweet sweet.
So excited with my 12 AC. Yeah.
So do we want to talk to the Arbourer?
Probably should. Yeah, it's Bildreth.
So I can just be like, hey. Yeah, I mean, So what things do
we need from him? So like, I could do some stuff
for like by Skelly Bros or the Boater boys, I mean, but like,
do any of our other allies need anything?
See. That's the thing, I'm like we're
missing a few buds so I'm like do weed armor.
I mean, we'll be around here for a little while.
As you guys are walking to, there is a person that's holding
out like Daily News articles of stuff and Hawking the news is
such a saying. Extra extra.
How about it? You keep walking, there's
another person that's got like a, a cart that they're pushing
with some food. And then there's a final there's
another person, probably couple of them that are walking through
with what looks like vials of of stuff clattering.
And the the person that's got the food is, is screaming.
Fresh fried tongues, fresh fried tongues, fresh fried tongues,
fresh fried tongues, and. In Goblin they're they're saying
these things. Sorry, but I'm sure Ash would
say that. Out loud?
Yeah. I mean like that guy is selling
fried tongues. What the fuck is?
Unlike hops up and down and runs over to buy a few.
I kind of let out a little Simon like, oh he's he's.
His taste buds are so adventurous.
And I walk over. I say this not knowing I ate
goblin bacon this morning. Literally, you go over with him
and he's standing excitingly in front of the guy and he's just
gesturing at Franklin and and saying.
One silver piece for a freak. First, Tang on a stick Comes
with its free stick. Did he say 10 silver?
No, he said a silver. He said a silver.
OK, does Franklin just reach out and grab it?
Oh yeah, I mean, Franklin has buddy, so he'll pull out a gold
piece and just like, hold it up to the guy.
And he grabs it greedily and he just gives you the the stick,
looks around the side to side, pockets it.
I kind of give him I like dirty grin, but I don't say anything.
I embark him. I had narrowed him.
I wouldn't know. You wouldn't know.
Imagine I mark him heat. It didn't give me 10.
How rude. No, I'm very happy with MY1 gold
Dick tongue. Yeah, you, you're holding it.
And you realize that this had to have come from a very large
creature because the tongue is probably about as wide as your
face. Oh.
My. God.
And it's shoved on the stick like like they've taken the tip
of the tongue, folded it, shoved it on, folded it again, shoved
it on. So it's got this WAVY back.
Oh, like accordion? Yeah, it kind of.
I I turned towards Bob and I cast Speak with Animals and I'm
like, would you like a tongue on a stick?
Yes, this sounds delicious. I turned to the cellar and in
goblin tone like you can give us a second one since my friend
gave you a gold piece. He he looks side to side and he
goes I. Don't know what you're talking
about. I said silver.
He had to be a silver. Intimidate him, do it.
Scare him. I do, I give him I, I kind of
like leave, lean in and just kind of give him a glare.
And I'm like, I heard what you said and if you want to keep
your stall, you'll give me an, a second one and I kind of gesture
towards Bob or I'm like, or you'll be his snack.
And I do this as an intimidation.
Yep, go ahead and roll. 27 OH. My God.
I'm 4 foot tall and I'm menacing.
Well, they're not. Yeah, they're definitely not
taller than you. So you're when.
You're Oh yeah, Collins are short.
Yeah, they're like 3 foot. Oh, I'm used to having to look
up and everything. I looked down.
I may be small, but you are smaller and I have a pet.
Yep. Where did that guy go?
Oh, we'll just roll this maybe. Oh well, OK, yeah, that button
didn't work. So this button, Nope, not that
button either. This button it's going to start
clicking all the buttons. One of them will work.
Eventually that one worked. Oh, I still had it on Whisper.
It was a A7 8 -, 1. So yeah, he, he's just like
looking up at you and then kind of like around you at the rest
of your crew and down at the crocodile.
And just without like taking his eyes off of you, reaches down,
grabs a stick with a tongue on it and hands it to you.
I say thank you, maintaining my menacing glare before I bend
down to Bob and I'm like, here you go.
I hope this tastes as good as it smells.
And I give it to him and I'm like, don't eat the stick too.
Before you even finished that sentence, he swallowed the whole
thing whole. He was like, delicious.
I'm like. Oh, it's OK.
Yeah. It's like I was being strangled.
It's great. That's OK, we're gonna find you
a body here soon, so I guess have fun in the crocodile body
while it's still around. All right, awesome.
Let's look at the goblin voice going on.
Awesome, Mistress. Well, that would be lovely, but
hopefully it's not one of these goblin fuckers.
They're pretty gross. Yeah, I agree.
We'll find you. We'll find you something a
little bit more cleanly and I carry on past.
So I kind of just want to say like, hats off.
If you're looking for like D&D magic items, Pinterest is a
really good place to look because they come with like such
good artwork. There's so many good things I
find on here, and a lot of them have descriptions too.
Pinterest. Is just the bomb for anything
D&D. Yeah.
Poses inspiration for what your character looks like.
It's just, it's fabulous. Yeah, most of my Pinterest is
D&D related stuff, or. I have over 120 pins of just
stuff to draw. Yeah, I have a whole drawing
board too. There's that guy to that.
You walk by or he walks by again.
He's got like, he's actually got like a little tray that's on
some straps that he's holding around him and he's just Hawking
vials. That was the thing that I didn't
get to say out loud fully, that he's just saying.
Vials of healing for those in the mine.
For those in the mine, I turn to him and I ask him.
I'm like, how much are your vials of healing?
And he, he lights up and he goes well, and he looks you up and
down and he goes. Be just one gold.
Just a simple gold. For each vial of healing.
Yes, yes, they're they're, they're quite good.
They're very good healing. From what kind of?
Healing in this place. Can I do an insight check to see
if they are actually like good vials of healing and not just
like OK so you colored water in a colored water in a bottle?
You're inciting the potions I got you. 13.
You're pretty sure that they're healing related.
At least they've got the the coloration and the viscosity as
he's jostling around that you would normally associate with
healing potions. I ask how many he has.
He looks down at his tree, looks back up at you.
Can we just say 20? 20 if I buy 20 off of you, can I
get them for half off? Oh no, sorry, I I I'm not the
original maker of these. That's just the price I've been
given to sell these for. If I don't settle them for that,
then I can't feed my family tonight.
Guys, should we kidnap these these shopkeepers like the
enchanter of the guy making potions?
I feel like we can have just have them live in our house.
I mean, I don't know if they would work very nicely for us if
we kidnap them. I'm under.
The way we might be able to convince her.
Maybe. But I was gonna say what?
It might be better if we have ways to get back here.
But I'm worried and I kind of like lean down and whisper them.
I'm like, I'm worried once we break the seal on this place
that this place might not exist because what what happened to
the other levels that we were in?
Hold on, I might be able to shed some light out of that.
I'll dig around in my bag and pull out my bottle with the
label. Rocks and soil from fifth level
of hell. Does it still have stuff in it?
I don't know if this will like, oh, I don't know if it like
vanishes because it vanished or. While you're digging around in
there, you do find that bottle, but you also bump against the
Tri decahedron and you realize another side of it's been
solved. Oh weird, I pull it out.
Are the bugs just solving it in their free time?
You pull it, you pull it out for everyone to see there, that's
standing there. Does anybody notice it in the
park or in the vicinity and panic?
Go ahead and roll me a Dexterity saving throw.
Good thing you just got that cloak, right?
What? Plus.
All. Of us, I see a 12 on my side,
you said. Yeah, but it was a plus.
I haven't done the the cloak thing yet.
You said 13. 13 Thank you. Yeah, so you you pull your hand
back just in time as a hand swipes through the air worthy
where you were holding it up for the rest of your crew to see.
And you look over at the end of the crowd and you it's hard to
tell exactly where the hand came from as the Press of goblins are
around you. It kind of just looked like it
was almost like instinct. Somebody just grabbed for it.
I'm. Going to stab the hand that
reached for with one of my daggers.
Oh. Or at least take a swipe at it.
Yeah, I go ahead and roll to attack. 14.
It comes within literal 30 seconds of an inch of cutting
off the tip of the tip of the finger, but it goes back into
the crowd before you could get it.
They have. They have generally A-15 armor
class. I'll just put that away.
I turn to the other. I think they're by pickpockets
nearby. Maybe just a little as I slowly
sheath my dagger. Oh.
So did you want these? Did you want these?
These gestures at his thing and of potions.
I say yes and I just give him the 20 gold without any more
fuss because I don't want to stand in the middle of the
street anymore. And he excitedly takes like,
takes like all of them out and slowly hands them to you after
you've given him the gold. And he he like, puts it on an
inside pocket in his shirt, it looks like.
What did we say? We said 20.
Mm hmm. OK.
So and then you're he's he goes. I think you might know these is
greater healing. Potions and then runs away.
OK, so I try to split it evenly between the three of us.
What did I have? I have 20.
That's not that's not even. But that's six for one person, 7
for two others. I'll take the six since I also
have mangoes of healing and you guys can have seven.
Yeah, potion of healing, and then it's got parentheses
greater. How do you specifically find
those? Just type in potion of heal and
then it'll have all the different tiers and the greater
one is the green one. Potion of Greater.
OK, I see it. Four D 4 + 4.
Why'd you do that? You added one.
Well, if you click on it again, you can change the amount that
you have there's. Just so many fucking rocks in my
bag. Who has more rocks, Ash or
Franklin? That's the real question.
Ash now? Well, no, that was the bag of
parts. Never mind not not rocks and
pieces. Well, I mean she's got a bunch
of like gems which are all rocks.
Yeah, that's what I was. Considering yeah, that's what I
was saying. I do actually have some very
simple rocks, like I think I have like 5 stones or five
pebbles from the floor of the table room where we first met
Manny and everybody else. Whoa, can I get one of those
that's. Amazing.
Yeah. I was going to say as I, as we
like divvy these up and we're walking to the side of the
thing. I, I, I would say that I
mentioned that and I'm like, yeah, sure.
And I just reach in and I take 1 Pebble out and I hand it to
Franklin and I'm like, this was at the feet of the table of
Manny. I licked that table by the way.
Wow, that's amazing. While you guys were going
through your inventory, you definitely realize little slash
marketing pieces of your stuff missing.
Oh no, I lost my collection of everybody's blood.
Your what? My collection of everyone's
blooded hair. What I chose for everyone.
Myself missing 1 Ruby which I'm sure they wouldn't care about
getting. Yeah, you might not even notice,
but you would notice the slash mark.
So you're like, they took something maybe?
I'm too rich, don't care. Don't care, but I'm gonna tell
Bob I'm like Bob, you need to be vigilant.
If anybody walks up behind us, just get a hold of him for me.
And he just said still in crocodile, obviously it's a
little hard in this form of mistress, it's this angle and
people, it's quite, quite difficult.
I was going to say, I wonder if we could find anything decent
down here for you to change into.
Well, usually it's pretty easy to get me into these forms just
because their consciousnesses are pretty easy to push out of
their bodies. But something that's a bit more
intelligent is obviously harder, unless you can convince them
otherwise that they want to do it.
I can probably charm my way in there.
Yeah, yeah, I believe in you. All right, so as we're walking
down the street, do we? What else do we notice?
I wanna also say that I'm trying to stay like vigilant as to our
surroundings because apparently people are pickpocketing us.
Yeah, that would just be you're, you're paying more attention
now. Obviously I'm looking for
something here. They would probably be here we
go somebody walking by that has some pieces and parts for
mining. It looks like a, you know,
safety equipment that isn't normally divvied out.
Looks like some people are crowding around him, spending a
lot of their pay on them, as well as another person that's
selling like Pickles on a stick. And then and and these are just
people that are, like I said, either milling about the crowd
or have little stands. You guys want to roll me a
perception to see if you notice anything else in particular
maybe? Should we get some mining
protection equipment? I don't know if we're going to
have to do that at all in here. I don't know if yeah, I didn't
know if we were going to go into the mines.
Yeah, the unless the seal is in the mines, which I would think
it probably is at this point. 23.
I had a 17. Oh, nice.
And then eleven, I see that you're that.
You're Yeah, I had an 11. Just making sure that it wasn't
from something else. And besides those, your guys's
would probably notice some of the other shops on the side at
least after. I'm guessing Ash translated it
from from Goblin to an apothecary of sorts.
There's a tattoo parlor, there's a, there's a weapons and then A
and then an Armory and some other kind of general goods
stores that are all throughout as they're wandering around.
Should we get more tattoos? I'm gonna say no.
Those probably take a long time to apply, and I'd like to do
some other exploring today. I mean, if you want to get more
tattoos, I'm not gonna stop you. But your tattoo also offers
protection, which is really nice.
That's true, yeah. I mean, do we want to then head
to the temple, get a little information there that now that
we've kind of got her out and see what's here, we could let
the others know and then maybe next time, you know, round two
or whatever. Yeah, we can come back shopping
when more of our party are waking up from there.
Narcolepsy. Or reexist you.
Don't you Don't you don't currently know that they exist?
Oh, like they're just like, blinked out of my mind, out of
my memories. Oh yeah.
They're in the blank spots. Where did the baby come from?
I'm so confused I had sex with something.
Well, Bob could have taken over somebody else's body in that
instance, even. Bob became the father.
I've got like five other instances.
Go ahead and roll. We'll make it 6D6 and then I'll
try and think of like, what else I could have made it with what?
Else I could have made just just just anything. 30 God, what's
that mean? You probably would have.
There was there was that Oni as you guys were coming in and and
since Flint wasn't there in that instance, you probably may have
had intercourse with him. I did not have sexual relations
with that woman. With that Oni, wasn't that Oni
gigantic? Yes, he was.
Oh, buddy. Girl, how you still intact down
there? I don't know, apparently gave
birth to his baby. Man.
It doesn't look anything like what I remember he looks like.
I don't know if you guys have seen Gen.
V yet or not, but that was what I was imagining that situation
would be like. Gen.
V. It's, I think it's Gen., Yeah,
it's Gen. V It's like the Amazon series
for After The Boys, which is a superhero show.
No, I haven't seen that. Yeah, I haven't.
I've only. Seen.
I haven't even seen the boys. Honestly all my friends get mad
at me when I say that, but I'm not.
Mad I would just I would just recommend it.
I know Matt you you're the one that that got me into the boys.
So I started watching Gen. V more recently and the girl
that can get little in the scene where she ends up meeting one of
her fans quote and he asks her to get little and hold his.
Oh, she's literally like the size of Thumbelina holding onto
the tip of his cock. God, that's great.
I mean, that's one way to feel better about yourself, I guess.
Yeah, best show it's. Pretty.
I feel like a man now. It's.
Pretty dark. Very dark show.
I mean, there's two, yeah, but. Yeah.
So it kind of sounds like metal wise, at least for the items we
kind of probably need to kind of order them AKA let you know what
we're looking for. Yeah, that's in general how I
like to to role play the shopping because I hate just
like putting a bunch of random shit in there and you guys be
like, I don't want any of this. And then we just, I just wasted
like 10 hours of my time coming up with a bunch of.
Random. Yeah.
Yeah, that makes total sense. I guess since we're doing better
stuff, what would be the limits of like what items that we're
looking for, 'cause obviously we were looking to spend money, but
based on the price of the things that are currently available, we
could spend a lot of money. Oh yeah, absolutely.
And and that's all it boils down to ultimately is like either
where do you? Draw the line.
Yeah, pretty much because you could probably even negotiate
down some really good items to be feasible with inside your
guys budget with that Ash's ability for negotiation.
But like I, I, I was saying with instance for the enchanter like
they, they obviously have some effort put in to create these
items to as a as a entity inside of space and time.
Sure. So like depending upon how
powerful the item is, it depends upon how much it's going to cost
and how much you're. Yeah, it's.
It's really up to you guys. That's the way I like to play
it. When when what you want is there
as opposed to trying to negotiate for random crap that.
Yeah. No, that makes that makes total
sense that just I think we just needed to know that we're we're
going fishing. Yeah, sometimes I too, we'll
roll up some random stuff with some random generators like
that, like the stuff that I was coming up with too and or base
it off of what you're asking me. And then kind of come roll from
there and see what what's already been created out there.
Because that seems to be, you know, if it's already been
created out there too, it's more than likely that, you know, the
entities that's inside this universe have thought of
something like that and need protections from those things.
So. Yeah, I will do some thinking.
Yeah, research will be done all. Right.
Well, I've got a hop off here for tonight guys.
I will talk to you later. Yeah, OK, pleasure.
And that by still shopping and then then head to the temple.
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