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Now let's dive right back into Tara through the campaign
Allelopolis. Fucking Craig.
Oh. I don't think I need to go back
that far. The Hand of Fate tosses, the
dice rolls, spins. Fans, we need to go.
Back that far. A campaign starts and end,
leaving memories that become stories.
Stories flow out into the infinite sea, painting it with
legends. Legends walk up on the Thor's
throughout the infinite sea, fading to myth until myths are
forgotten and the campaign that gave it birth comes again and
again. The Hand of Fate tosses, rolls,
spins, turn. The dice rolls, spins, turns
hitherto we left the rum rollers on the island of Shandar, Meme,
Kat Hamilton, and the Ronaldsons Beach de Dune, right next to the
horde of Kobolds and their ship owned by Shondar.
They then frolicked in the sand with some crabs, catching 12 of
them. Rarl also made a deal with
Gulliver, the captain of the red Kohlberg ship, to deliver
Shondar's goats. Gulliver also warned Rarl of the
feuding goblins inside the volcano that Shondar lived in.
While the dune whipped up some Balkan tentacle sushi for
another offering to Shondar. The rum rollers headed north on
the island head towards the island body the volcano, a fully
active volcano. On the way, they stopped to
admire and then devour enormous coconuts and coconut.
Barely dry on their face, the rum rollers marched forward into
the Obsidian cliffs across the dark lava tube caverns.
Hamilton leaves the group to gather the goats from Gulliver
on the deck of a dune and test the portal onto a dune's deck.
Mom, Mimei, and Kat, unable to see in the descending darkness
of the tunnels, latch onto Raro, then Kat casts Fly On on him,
and then Raro speeds off through the tunnels, avoiding attempting
magical auras noted by his companions and the raging
battles between the Cobalts and Goblins.
Rapidly, the small contingent of the Rum Rollers convinced the
guard at the door of Shondar's chambers to be friends in
exchange for gold, greeted exuberantly by the Red Dragon
himself upon entering the crater of the volcano, and Shondar
assumes they are early entries into his talent show, they went
along with it and entered themselves as goat stackers.
After some quick practicing, Hamilton took the lead to set up
the ACT for Shondar the red dragon with Rawlsons balanced on
top of one another, then some, with the Nora atop the tippy top
of them and Kat held in Sonora's hands while Hamilton and Mime
herded the goats and other food they had prepared for Shondar
towards their stacked companions, juggling the goats
and other food to the all the way up the stack of the then
where cat flame broiled them and Zenora tossed them into the
mouth of Shondar, who had excitedly turned from his human
form to his dragon in his winged glory.
All going good and smooth until the Balkan Sushi made it into
the gut of Shondar, who accidentally torched the Rum
Rollers nearly to death with his indigestion.
Captain Mimi saved the day as they cleaned up their act.
The Rum Rollers then set an appointment to come to terms for
some of his breath in exchange for the Queen's gold to help
save Socrates. Let's find out what happens this
time. But yeah, that might have given
you some insight of what happened while you were gone.
There, George. Incinerating indigestion.
Well, when you're a dragon, indigestion can be slightly
aggressive. Yeah, we forgot that Dragons
were magical creatures and we gave it anti magical sushi.
I tried to eat a piece too, to see if I could turn back into
human, but it didn't work. That's true.
She did. I just threw it up.
I was going to say what was the result?
Did you like your body reject it?
I. Actually ran into a chicken.
Yeah, I turned fully chicken. Like I forgot all my magic.
I forgot all my humanity, and I was just worried about where to
get feed. And then I threw up and I was
back to myself. Yeah, exciting.
I got a question now that I'm going to ask you later.
Yeah. Did did we rest then at the end
of that or are we still in the middle of the day?
So you guys are probably towards the end of the day, you'd set up
a meeting with with Shandar for not that long.
You were hoping to be before the next day because the next day
was going to be the the the full on event of the the talent show
because you guys had asked to perform early actually too that
was one thing I didn't kind of leave out from the.
Description. The ones that nobody got an
invitation for. Yeah.
Yeah, that's the one, right. But yeah, we actually had set up
a meeting to go talk to him before we went to bed and we
decided to hold off on the meeting until more players could
be here for said meeting. Excellence.
I'm glad I heard so much to this meeting.
I I I'm still trying to get you on the map and now it's being
even more. Definitely.
Have a candy just missing? No, it's just that 'cause I'm
I'm working off my phone here instead of like a laptop that I
decided I could do that, but I was.
I didn't think through the all the processes until I got to
here at this point. And like when you open some of
those side menus on your phone, from like the browser's
standpoint, yeah, it takes up like the whole screen.
So like, I can't. I was trying.
There was like a little bit of a gap that I've been sitting here
the whole time too, just before the recap, trying to like drag
in character over in between the gap and the.
Now the screen's not even loading though, so uh.
Oh, we might just have to use our imagination, guys.
Yeah, it would be great, but that was what I was going to say
too in in in the most part of this.
There would be a bit of a a switch off here as Nora's not
making it. I think as Nora is going to take
her crispy self and be like, can somebody spin up the plate so I
can go back to a dune? Yeah, well, didn't she?
I know I like, died. Almost died.
And she almost died because we were both at like 0 HP.
And then yeah, Mimi just came in and was like, Nope, Nope,
heeled. In the.
Row. It happened literally in both
campaigns, now about a week apart.
It's not. That's not a, that's not an omen
or anything. Ominous foreshadowing.
It's almost as if what happens to one happens to the other.
Since our real selves are now a Canon, I wouldn't like to think
about that. Whatever happens to us in real
life happens to us in the game. Hold your butts on that one,
kids. Is this Jumanji?
And things are getting intense. Has anyone read the little
description thing of the short shot I'm doing?
Oh yeah, I have not. Did you post it?
I think it's in Discord. Yeah, it's under that final last
text channel Watt C something not Watt C.
Yeah. WOTCI might be here I go.
But. Is anyone going to spin up the
plate for Sonora? I think it's me, May that had
the plate last because you were taking Balkan Sushi on and off
the ship. Right.
I suppose I will. It's performance, isn't it?
If I fail, I'm going to give it to the oh, I got a 10, it's
telling me. Oh, I clicked on Tariff, but I
didn't launch the game. Oh, no worries. 10 is just what
you barely need. So, like you, you're kind of
like looking. Unless you want to describe it,
I can tell you how you just just succeed, just barely.
I'm just going to. Meimei's just real tired, right?
Just we all just narrowly escaped death.
I was able to heal everybody. I just want to help Sonora get
to where she's supposed to be. And so Meimei just doesn't
really pay attention. It just like pulls the plate and
like tries to do like this. Like it feels confident, right?
We've we've spun the plate up so many times before.
It's confidence and tires throw it and like almost fucks it up
right and then like catches it real quick and gets it to work
right. So you like, take it out of your
pocket and like, spin it off the back of your hand.
And as it's falling out of your hand from that fumble attempt,
you kind of just grab the top of it and spin it in the air.
Yeah. And it spins up and there's no
knobs to you and brushing some of the her crusty bits off and
walks through the portal and makes it onto the I wasn't going
to jump over there unless everybody's jumping onto a dune
this moment in time. But I was thinking at least that
she would make it onto Dune's decks into the crew's quarters.
I'm sure you can imagine and is sitting around there to asking
Dune actually probably for something.
Something to munch on is what you hear from your rooms,
Frederick, when you were coming back to after barely surviving
the OR barely getting into the action of the Balkan.
Yep. Tentacle creature.
I mean, I'm pretty beat up. I don't know if everybody else
is. It definitely would be nice to
get some health back. Yeah, I meant I'm pretty.
Good. Yeah 'cause you fully healed me.
Time for some shut eye. I'm doing all right.
I think I'm going to like real quick run down to like the fight
where the goblins and the Cobalts are and just get like,
you know, like like 50 HP of goblin kills And you know, just
like just laser them from a distance real quick, feel a
little restless. Oh, OK, I see.
Just. So close.
Let me, let me, let me, let me jump over here.
I can shoot from 120 feet away, so as far away as I can and I
just start lasering with my eye beams.
Are you going to look at some of the life energy?
Is that how that works? Yeah, they drop little like
green spheres and then they get like drawn into me, no.
They just. Roll on them and they absorb
into your fur. I don't get how lasering them is
going to get you HP. No, not HP.
I'm feeling restless. You know, I I feel so close to
like, you know, some sort of new power level or level of scale.
I just want to give it out, you know?
No. They are down there just
stirring up shit. Yeah, just real quick before
bed. Oh yeah, that's true.
That was going to be one of the things that we could offer him
too. We should all meet after we get
some sleep about what we're hoping to achieve in this
negotiation. Unlimited power.
That would be nice. Besides yourself, it sounds like
everyone else is heading to onto a dune.
Just to clarify, I. Don't know if anyone else wants
to join me for like a little bit of extra exercise at the end of
the day. No, I'm I'm ready for a shot at.
Yeah, you definitely need need sleep.
Yeah. After almost getting taken out
by a Dragon's indigestion, I I'm ready for a lay down.
Like that meme? Guys are going to the getting on
to the Adonai's deck then and you're you're are you coming out
of your room Frederick or are you just going to try to listen
in on the crew there I'll. Come out.
You see everybody filing in from the portal into the little
galley that you guys have, probably sitting down at some of
the tables and talking to her, doing it to see what she can
make them. Yep.
Can I do? Can I just going to stand there
awkwardly stare at them? Yep.
They're just going to like listening.
Oh, OK. OK, Oh, I I don't know if
anyone's going to tell him about RARL.
That's where I was. They met but.
What do I know about that? RARL the fact that the fact that
he's going to go pick some goblin butt for a little bit.
Oh, do you want to go knock some heads together with Rarlson?
You know, just like 30 minutes. You know, really quick.
Quick cardio. 5 goblins I don't know TET 6 I don't know how many
I need but not to meta game this at all but.
No, I, I, I I'm down for it. I was just looking up some stuff
here. You would you'd go then into the
caves, you know, You'd nod to one of the guards at the AT
Gondar's door and they go, I I don't know if I can let you
pass. You've got a meeting with the
with the Shonda and and a little while.
Are you going to be back? Yeah, I can.
I see through them to the fight. No, you're currently on the
other side of the door, like on the inside of the cabin, still
inside of the. I look at them.
I'm like, I just want to shoot like 5 goblins.
That 66 goblins and then I'm coming.
Right back. With his hands on his hip and he
takes a deep breath and goes. You want to come with?
Not particularly. I mean, why not here?
Nice and warm, don't have to worry about.
My life, Oh, I mean, I'm not getting in close.
I was going to be like 120 feet away, you know, maybe have like
an ice water while we do it. It was.
More thinking, like you got any? A shirt?
Well, I guess. Where's I guess the rest of your
crew's? Still over there.
I don't know. Would he's actually looking to
meet with you in like a few hours.
You know, There's not that much time in the day here anyhow.
I'm full HPI, don't need to sleep, I will just train.
I mean, this is a risky gamble for me.
I could. I could get my.
I could. Get my ass chewed out if I let
you pass and I wasn't supposed to.
Yeah, Weren't we just supposed to meet with him?
Like right now. I mean, he said a few hours.
So if you guys are you guys short, they they must be short
resting then. Yeah, I would prefer to not go
talk to the Big Bad Dragon with like less than 1/4 of my HP.
Try. So short rest is I'm going to
short rest. It's going to chill out on a
Dooney's deck and nom on some of of the sushi that she's probably
acquired by this other sushi she's acquired by this point.
Magic destroying sushi. How much HP do I get back?
When you, there's a should be a short rest button.
Yeah. And it depends upon how many of
your hit die you want to roll. So you can roll all of your hit
die at like a level 12 too. You'd be like, I don't know,
especially as a cleric, there's a good bit of hit die.
I don't know what you're at. There's a lot, yeah.
Yeah. So I can roll all of these.
Yeah, you wouldn't have any more until you would long rest.
You know. That's.
That's how the short rest ones work.
Gotcha. OK.
Sorry guys about AD and D continue you're.
Good. You're good.
Did you want to try and, I don't know, seduce this cobalt or
something there bro? Seduce the cobalt look in my
inventory at the 2 gold that I have because I gave it all to
somebody I. Remember how?
I looked for that guy. Do I see that guy?
It it doesn't seem to be it on the side of the door.
No, he was on the other side. You remember if he's not at this
particular post. Don't really have any other
stuff or money, I say. Sure, that's fine.
Hold on. And then one of my siblings will
come over and they will try to confuse him by pretending to be
me and continue talking while I just walk back past him.
OK, so you're going to need to roll me a Deception with a a
Stealth with advantage. OK, here's Deception 20 and then
stealth. Nice.
Thank God for Advantage 21. Jeffrey just comes up and starts
dancing in front of them as if he was me.
I don't. Think I would do it.
You know what would do it though?
What would do it? You you hand him.
You you hand Jeffrey one of the gold pieces and he keeps like,
twirling it between his fingers and like, makes it disappear.
And then he pulls it out from behind his ear.
He goes oh, and then he pulls another one out from behind his
ear, but it's the same one he's oh.
I gotta stop and watch for a little while, too captivated
before I shake myself and like, move through.
Oh my God, he's so talented. Oh, look at him.
Pearl loved my mother's eye. You may get through the through
the other side. The one that you've given gold
before is like shakes. Your shakes your hand as you're
walking by and it's asks if there's anything he can do for
you. If that guy is looking for me,
tell him I didn't come through. But they'll be back in.
Like I look at my wrist where there's no watch.
Like 15 minutes. Not sure how far.
I don't know either how far until I get to like generally
where the fighting is. Mostly that's his name concern.
That's the only one. Only place he wants to spend our
lives, it seems like. But yeah, probably not too far.
I mean, you came in this way, didn't you See him?
We've been holding the line. Yeah, we've come with kind of
fast. Do you have to like stay here?
I kind of look around. Yes, this is.
I'm making sure no one sneaks home past into the crater.
I wink. Sure.
I'll be right back if you'll let me through when that happens.
Absolutely. Cool.
I'm just gonna kill a few goblins.
OK, have fun. OK, bye.
Let's skip away. Just frolics into battle.
Don't want to get into a fight, I just want to pick off some of
the weaker ones. Yeah.
So you you get up to the line that they were talking about and
there is they seem to be changing out the the the people
in the front line as it were because you kind of join a group
that's the fresh the the fresh frontline and they're they're
kind of talking amongst each other in in Draconic and but the
CU come up and ask what's what's what's going on and you see a
cobalt riding a Drake they're all red and then there's a
couple heavy armored cobalts. And then there's a, there's like
a couple in the back that are you know ready for shooting some
arch, some whether it be whatever kind of the mechanism
they have in their hands basically they don't, they don't
all seem to be is as cohesive in the back lines and there's a
couple. There is one though that stands
in the back kind of hurting the rest of them that's got some
sort of magic capabilities you can tell about them.
I'll walk over and stand next to him and casually chat while if
I'm within 120 feet just shooting off laser bolts into
the into the crowd of goblins. Hey, my name's Zarrel.
Oh, that's pretty cool. Yeah.
It didn't come out of my eyes. Yeah, and he just like points a
finger over top of the line, just past the the Drake.
Some fire bolt around the other either side of them into the
midst and we're going to go back here and.
How many? How many do I have to kill?
You hear a You hear a sizzling sound from the other end.
Could you roll me a Dexterity saving throw?
Sure. Natural 20 for 26.
Nice. So you you hear the sizzling
sound and as it starts to amp up you can tell your hair starts to
stand all on end and you jump up to the ceiling cat reflex style
and hold on to the the top of the ceiling and and lightning
surges through the front ranks. Not everybody goes down.
Some of the back line goes down but most of the others still
keep standing. Seems like the there was an
armor had it padded as well so it didn't take them down fully
who have kind of rushed to either side of the Drake who was
just getting back up. That's right.
We'll go. I got to do one of these because
it did. It is.
It is haft Lou over here. Do I have being a rogue?
What? Was it 8/6 and 2:15?
Wow, so a bark kind of does come up and get you, but it seems to
be, you know, not as strong as the rest.
Dick, I target that guy with Mildred Blast and I hex him and
then I shoot him. Double go ahead, go ahead and
roll. Sure.
When you're on the ceiling, you do see that there is like
another goblin shaman of some sort and he's like doing a dance
and like you got a staff above his head and he's he looks like
he's preparing for another electric blast of some sort, but
in a ritual format. You look really cool.
Picks them off. I shoot twice and I have them
hacked which is how do I get that onto display?
There it is. You get to do one at extra D6.
There it is. Five plus Eldridge Blast.
Is that a a saving throw or? It's in A to hit.
It should have popped up 1111 and oh wait, the other one is a
Booming Blade. That was wrong.
I shoot two of them, 11 and a 13.
The. Also.
The they both they both seem to kind of bounce off of a shield
that he magical sort of shield that he has around him as he
stops and he is startled by the the attack though, because he is
in the back farthest lines of the goblins.
And there's definitely far more goblins than there are Cobalts
in this tunnel. You can see.
It seems like they're they've maybe doubled since the last
time you seen them. How far away exactly is he?
He's probably at the edge of your range, just like 100 feet
away. Maybe more.
I moved to 110 feet away, so I'm outside the range of a lightning
bolt and I continue shooting him.
Actually, I moved to 120 feet away.
And then he, he he sees he he doesn't quite notice that, I
guess. But so you, you try to shoot him
at Adam again there, Yeah. Yes, go ahead.
Just needs. To get this guy down and then I
can go to bed. Will you die, please?
Just snarling in the distance. 21 to hit, Oh yeah, and six
points of damage. And then another 13 to hit.
That, that, that, that first one seems to hit the shield right
where another bolt had and there had been like a small crack that
you'd seen appear kind of, and it fades away, but you aim
directly to that spot, so that 22 passes through that spot as
it kind of shatters in that. But you your other one kind of
Nicks some of that that's still remaining on the shield above
that. And he gets an additional 2
damage from hex. OK so the eight damage, right?
Yeah. And he is, he's like, well you
see him like stumble in his ritual and then he like takes
his staff in coming back. I'm I'm assuming that was your
action and and everything like that.
You didn't have any unless you want to do a bonus action.
I'll I'll move back another half my movement speed to like 135
feet and then on my turn and move forward again.
And you see him when he's after he stumbled there and he's
standing there and the lines are fighting each other and you guys
are facing off. He kind of definitely,
definitely noticed where all of those eldritch blasts were
coming from, especially because they're coming from the ceiling.
At this point that you're up there, I feel like I'm off.
He just takes, just gives the IT gets this aggressive look on its
face at first, but then you see all of his teeth, which we can
only assume is in a smile as he breaks his staff over his knee
and you see flame erupting out of the center of him, as if he
almost sacrificed himself to cast this but a fireball coming
in your direction, blazing. I run away.
He's. Angry.
I run instead of running away from the fireball.
Wait, how big is it compared to the tunnel I'm in?
It's it's nearly top to bottom. It's like 20 foot in diameter.
All right, let's see. If I'm 135 feet away, what's the
range of a fireball? How fast can I run?
You don't have a reaction speed as far as I know.
You're not wrong. So Fireball has a range of 150
feet. So I am Rhythm Range all right?
And like it says that a a 20 foot radius, so you see it sail
through most of the other cobalt, it's no problem.
They kind of just like what was that because fire resistant,
that's why he hasn't been using that spell.
You could tell, but having seen you not being a red cobalt with
his dark vision as Well-being a goblin, you're gonna want to
roll me a Dexterity saving throw.
Sure will. That's what that that movement
speed would get you. 13. No, that wasn't the number I was
looking for. Run Can I shield or does not
have any effect. Is that a?
Is that a reaction spell? It is, I thought it.
Gives you extra AC, but it doesn't say anything about like
area effects but. It is an area effect.
It would it wouldn't wouldn't really help in this.
Maybe it would at least. Does it say anything about
having damage or anything like that too 'cause it's like a full
on magical force field type deal too, right?
If there's a Blueberry Forest appears and protects you until
the end of the next turn, you have a + 5 bonus AC including
all triggering against the triggering attack, and you take
no damage from Magic Missile. That's text.
OK. I just thank you because yeah,
we'll say it's halved because we're talking again about here.
Donk and Donk. That's right.
Right. Oh no, I did that wrong, 8D6.
I got it backwards. Thank God.
So the last two 428-3216. I'm still up.
I'm fringed, I think to myself. Does that feel like about 50 HP
worth of damn it or fighting? If not, I still need to go to
bed you. Look back, you look back and you
do see that the. Murder.
The goblin himself had sacrificed himself.
He is. He's a pile of ash, but there is
another one that steps up in his place as you're deciding your
final decision. You're out of bed and IH8HP now,
and I use both my spells. Time for bed.
Take that goblin mage and the goblins within a well.
No, he's fine, but well, did he explode in a fireball?
You said he like turned to ash. Yeah, yeah, but I were there.
Other goblins within range. No, he was inside of his own
like shield that it like seems contained inside of that sphere
that he was using. Got it.
All right, well, I like limp Back now in pain and all fringed
up to go back to the plate and go to bed or take a take a short
rest 'cause now I need it. Ormits with disadvantage for the
plate 'cause it's by this point it's spun down.
Disadvantage. Yeah, you have my amazing
performance though. That's fair.
I still got a 24. I'm so good, beautiful.
You want to tell me how you succeed while I'll send?
You some I like start to spin it and then like hit a burn on my
hand and then went and then turn around and use my tail to spin
it, which I imagine is not all burned up because it was facing
away from the fireball and I spin it up with that.
It's spinning on the tip of your tail as it starts to open the
portal. Take a half step back before you
see your friends materialize in front of you, chowing down on
some food. Anyone want to tell me what
they're eating? Whatever, Sushi's not magical.
Cats up there eating some like dark sashimi and I think there
was at one point there was like trying to remember everything.
I think there was AI think there was some some alligator as well.
Alligator. Sushi.
OB. Wrong campaign.
Rima is just going to be eating everything that can get their
hands on. Taking a little bit of from
everybody's plate and your own. Yes.
Hamilton call up for a a brew of some sort?
And the ham sandwich I don't know if I just threw.
Or not. Oh, I got the ham sandwich now
because you get a little bit of a curious from a duet.
But then she goes Sam witch. So you mean like like the two
pieces of bread kind of picture in your mind?
No, it's meat. Bread meat dip.
Your Zaps. Well, the the, I only ask
because we we haven't restocked in a while and most of our
bread's kind of either gone really stale or multi that
means. It's crunchy.
If it's stale, I'll just pretend to.
OK, well, I can give you some stale bread.
It's going to be rock hard though.
Nice slices of ham and cheese on there will be good.
Oh yeah, that's a good idea. Yeah, Let me put some of that.
Seawater on that and just get some of that salt going, you
get. Ham wasn't a thing back in this
time. I'm I'm guessing it was.
That's what you're getting basically is like a super dried
cured sandwich. More salt than ham?
Yeah, exactly. And and she's like, I'm really
sorry, I don't I don't think we have any sauces that would pair
well with this. But I I have had my tastes in a
a century or two, so hard to say.
As long as I get a very, very tall glass of fresh water, we'll
be OK. Oh, I've got a dark brew that I
think would go possibly pretty well with it.
Alright, pop me off. All right.
And you guys had meanwhile been seeing a dune kind of like open
holes up in her deck with a hand that comes up from below.
And you hear some clattering and stuff on the lower decks as
she's working around in the kitchen with those hands and
plating your all of your food. Is Frederick still just watching
all that or is he going to be he's going to be enticed.
But the brew perhaps, I don't know because the last thing you
watching now gets that down on the table is a a deep dark foam
foamy beer that has a bit of aroma as you're taking it
towards your head. Face there, Hamilton of Multi
Almond Chocolate. Oh, I don't see.
It just press that. You still there, Frederick?
Yep. Oh, OK.
He's just menacingly watching from the doorway.
Oh. Menacingly little little Lee, we
woo, we woo, we woo oh. I'm about to fire him, I think.
What was that? That was my phone.
Sorry. Oh, the only.
One to say somebody's pulling out firearms.
I'm like this dinner table. None of that.
That's the most American dinner I've ever heard of.
What do we eat for dinner? Guns.
Bacon, coffee and. Bullets.
Heart LED. It was my nickname in high
school, so well, that's the scene you come into then.
Raul Frederick standing menacingly in the doorway to the
the hallway of his bedroom, watching everybody eat.
And his head probably wouldn't turn to you, though, as you come
through the portal that's directly next to everybody while
they're eating. All burned up the Wizards.
Just so you know, they have other Wizards.
Were they any good? Should we be worried about that?
Well, I mean, I definitely had him because like, I was standing
outside his regular range and just shooting him from a
distance. But then he's blew up himself to
shoot the fireball at me and then I gestured myself.
So he's dead, but. There's a war.
Sounds like it wasn't a smart move.
I mean. In my life and they're down 1
Mage and now we know he kind of gingerly sits down with his
siblings and allow them to begin like cleaning him and start
grooming him being feeing him. Guys get like the rawest cuts
with the least amount of additive, which I'm guessing
they would have requested from a dune.
Probably. And you probably eat some milk,
but they probably would have not, Jeffrey, obviously, but
everybody else would inform you that you're it's long gone
unless you want heavily fermented milk.
He thinks. Maybe cottage cheese level
though? We need to buy some cows.
Just doing a chime in. Milk.
You need chimes in. I was thinking about starting
some cheese off of it. I don't know how well it would
do. I haven't tried that myself, but
you know, I got to do some things to keep myself busy.
What can we do for you to help keep you not not busy, but what
do I mean? We're going to get you to fly,
so then you could do like cool loop to loops and stuff when
we're gone. That would be cool.
You know. Yeah.
One would actually like. I've been thinking about this
for a while because I think Captain Meme had asked me a
similar question. And you know, what I miss is
actually the land and walking about it and being amongst
people. And you know, just visiting the
shops and the stands and talking to the haggling with the the
shopkeepers and going out and getting a cafe, cafe at the
cafe. So you want to be a person
again? Well, maybe not fully.
I love being a ship, don't get me wrong.
I think the thing that would be nice is actually if I could, you
know, disembark every now and again though.
You mean like, possess someone's body?
That was a lot of voices. I'm sorry one at a time.
I think I heard. Something from from Hamilton and
Frederick that sounded interesting, I don't know.
I said hats off for a second. So since the rhythmic veracity,
we, our players know everything that our characters know.
So our characters know everything we know.
Which means I would know what Jess knows, because me as a
person knows what she knows. Which means Hamilton might also
know about Bob and about how he can like pop vessels.
Oh yeah. Is Hamilton just having a weird
flashback? I know this shady dude.
Yeah, I'm like, I think I might know what we can do here.
I mean for for the amount of times I was just going back and
looking at this more recently too, completely.
Hats off you you guys have been to every year rhythmic veracity,
so that would increase your connection with your other
players in my mind. In that case too, you would
probably have, especially being you know, in love with your
other character. You're alone with.
Yourself. I do love myself literally and
figuratively in the sense of that.
I don't know how that I don't know if that actually applies or
not. But anyways, you you would have
a a a pretty good understanding of the vaster array of all the
characters like in the stories, because you know of that, that
loving connection basically. I was going to say, am I the
only one who thought of like a ship just walking through the
forest? Does anyone have a ring of
resizing? Like, like like a.
Like a pirate trip with like hairy human legs walking through
the forest. A.
Distracting around. I have human legs and some beefy
ham arms. I have a ring of resizing, but I
had another thought. If we want to go down this crazy
Rd., about what the ifs? Do enjoy crazy.
OK, so thinking back somebody and I look around, did anyone,
was it somebody in this group that got the the fabric of
reality piece? Was that Jess or was that a
character that? Was actually me.
So you, Jess the person. OK then, never mind.
This does not work. We need that.
I'm making it OK, I'm working on it.
No worries. She means she means like
literally too, like, like. Yeah, yeah.
That's my next project. M trying to think of how to
manufacture the fabric of reality as a physical item that
I can hold. Now.
I was thinking about that a little bit.
It might have to involve food somehow, because it seems to be
a very hard, solid action. But I don't know.
It's still up to you. I'm not going to play with it
too much, but which is a thought of life.
Involve food. Well, in the other case, we
should also consider what we want to ask Jean Dar for to
derail it again. So we need Shondar's Breath to
complete our quest for the Queen and to get our 1%.
Yes. I was thinking, however, what if
instead, inside this contract Shondar, we do the same thing
and get the percentage of his side of the business with a
guarantee as well, since we did the same with the Queen, that we
are the only ones who can do this.
And then we can buy a bunch of ships and have people do stuff
for us. And then I turned to the
Captain, and you will become an Admirable.
Oh. Of a merchant fleet that just
generates US wealth and then we go do whatever we want.
That was directed towards me, may I believe.
Did she walk away? I.
Don't know. No, I'm here.
Oh. OK.
You know. I just saw the meme you posted,
and I thought that meant you took your dog for a.
Long time because. She was grieving violence, like,
all right. No, that was the earlier one,
the Ross, and she just wanted to kill things.
Explain this to me again. So we have an agreement with the
Queen that we will have exclusive use like she has to
use us for this endeavor if she ever wishes to trade the
Shondar, right? OK.
So we make the same agreement with Shondar for, you know,
exclusive access and a 1% stake in his company.
Then we open our own company, which we own 100% of, and then
we just hire a bunch of people to do all the actual work and we
just get rich. I say, but what does that
actually do for us? What are we doing with this
money? Do we need money?
I mean shopping. We could buy super good gear.
We could buy upgrades for for the ship.
We could pay off our 10,000 gold debt to the guy and Socrates we.
Have the. Debt.
Yeah, we somebody, I look around my siblings, destroy the all of
the bar stuff. And oh, that's right.
In the. Bar and so they don't.
Know they don't know that they. Do know that was us and we had
to give them collateral. So we had to give them the coin
that Regina or not Regina, somebody got Sonora, I think
Pamira, one of them, and I want them to have it back because
it's a very powerful object and everyone should get one.
I mean, I mean I don't think there's any problems with your
your business case. I think the business case is
sound. I just.
I don't know if we signed up. I'm, I'm from a I'm a simple
person from a very simple simple place.
You know, I just like to to farm food and eat food.
Really. I don't know about running.
Yeah, I don't know about running like a mega corporation
conglomerate with a monopoly on trade routes between some very
powerful and dangerous customers.
That's why we don't do that. We hire someone else to do that.
We're the owners. We get someone else to be seen.
Though. Yeah, we're just the guys, Yeah,
we're the shareholders, not the actual company.
Yeah. I mean, I'm not going to say no.
You all do as you will. I'm probably just going to sit
here and eat. It's true, but outside of that
we need the the breaths. And we could offer him, you
know, everything that we came with and also we could help him
with his goblin problem. That's true.
We should ask more about the
goblin problem, see if there's anything we can do about that
for them. And if, like, maybe he has like
a horde of cool magic items, like maybe we could be like, oh,
either everyone gets one, you know, Something like that, I
don't know. I think it sounds like a good
plan. I like that.
What do you guys think? I look to the others?
Sure. Thumbs up.
Can you guys hear me? Yeah.
Now we can, but not before. Did you say something before?
I assume he did it. He's asking if we can hear him.
We can hear, we can. Hear him?
Yeah. It sounded like a.
Part on the back. Like some sort of like a thing
came out. Right, I might have not fixed my
audio. There you are.
Yeah, you're popping like in and out.
It sounds like you have like a faulty wire.
Yep. Let me just have to decide what
we want to do with the rest of like our time, because I don't
want to become like merchants, you know, forever.
I just want to slam dunk like a early deal that, you know, that
feed us a constant stream of income and then after that go
like fuck off and do something fun.
Fair. It would also be cool to get a
dune flying. A flying ship would be cool.
Yeah, that's part of this deal with the Queen.
The Queen is going to make the A dune fly if we make this deal
happen. Yeah.
He does like ponder for a second and then he says OK.
But like, one option for the far future is if we do get our hands
on this, this, this item, this bag or this fabric of reality.
We could turn it into a bag and then put the dune into the
little bottle and then release the put the bottle in the bag
and then release a dune in the bag.
And then we could sail on the infinite seas forever.
That might be a very cool way to completely undermine everything
Josh has planned. Yeah, I like it.
Hey, I like, I say. Fuck around and find out.
I don't know how far ahead he planned, but you know that if we
really wanted to, like do something unique, we could, we
could go do that because she would fly and we would have a
plate on this side for resupplies and we could just
sail around and like, be the first ones to ever, like, you
know, sail actual sail in the reality.
I'm I'm I'm all about getting to do need to fly and sailing to
new and wondrous places. I.
Hold my hand up to high 5. Me mate gives you a high 5.
I don't know how we can get that thing, but you know, long term
goals, you know, I think it would be cool.
But first we have to talk to this dragon.
Fair We do need to talk to the Dragon.
Back at Frederick, really quiet, buddy.
Yeah, I I I muted myself and see does this sound better?
A little bit, yes. A lot better.
All right. What do you think?
I'm sorry, I I was looking for a different chord for like the
past five minutes, so I kind of was walking around.
How much did you hear or miss? I remember the reference of like
a vague shadow corporation that we kind of run per thing.
Yeah. So first thing was we talked
about what we want to get from Shondar, settled on trying to
set up some sort of company to give us like a basics income
stream while we do whatever we want.
And then maybe an item if we help them with like the goblins
or something. And then then a far-flung
thought on how we could sail into the fabric of reality
itself. But that's not relevant yet.
Drugs. Drugs too, Yeah, but I mean
physically in this game. Magical drugs?
Magical drugs, Yeah, I think that's technically true.
I think he's missing the the the strategy that you were talking
about is all which is that just to fill the end of his thought
process, was Jess's got the fabric of reality from Michael
Polis, the God that greets you usually during eurythmic
veracity, and he was talking about making a bag with it to
sail a dune into. Like a bag of holding.
And then you just release the dune into it and teleport onto
her deck from outside, and now you're sailing around inside the
bag. That's, I assume, infinite
because reality or we all die. What?
Don't die. I mean, that's an option.
We'd have to test it, send in like a regular ship and see what
happens. A Detroit ship.
He sits down and begins eating very hungry.
Don't forget to roll your or rest hit die.
Yes Sir. And to get my spells back,
because I'm a warlock, he takes a quick cat nap.
So it sounds like the negotiations haven't started yet
with Shadow. Not quite yet.
I think we need to make a game plan on exactly how we're going
to convince him to share his breath with us.
Oh. Wonderful How?
How did he like the sushi I prepared?
Well. So the sushi.
Go ahead. No, I'm good.
Go ahead. I'm gonna say the sushi that was
repaired with, he said. The creature's name?
The giants. We forgot that that was an anti
magic creature and eating it, it still has its anti magic
effects. So we might have given the
dragon a bit of indigestion. That's.
Horrible. I think I've.
Whipped up a cure of some sort of a maybe.
Maybe. You know, Shia, She was on deck
here. She used to be of an Alchemist.
Perhaps I could braid her. Where's try.
Here's some rattling in the room next door that nobody's
inhabited in the meantime, and she comes out from the side.
Razzed. Hello.
So do we need to like have like
a constant stream of his breath? Like how do we like?
What exactly are we trying to get like?
We're trying to set up a trade deal.
Yeah, I. Did that?
But like or what exactly? Like we need his breath.
Like we need him to do something with his breath, or like, we
need to, like, collect it. We need to collect it.
We got jars from the queen that will hold his breath.
He just needs to breathe and do them and then put them back on
the boat. Send them in, the Queen.
Give them to her. Pick up empty ones.
Do it again. OK, so.
Yeah, someone else. To do it, I'm like, do we just
need this one stash, or do we need to work a deal so to
constantly replenish a supply to the queen?
I mean, my question, can we just trick him and like get shit and
run? Or do we like need to like set
up? Like, do we need to, like,
negotiate? I think we want to negotiate
because then that way we're benefiting long term instead of
just like because I think Josh, correct me if I'm wrong, the
idea was she needs this to like power, I think the city or
something. She she's using it to save
civilians who have been losing their magic.
Like even the she kind of explained that like, you know,
everybody has a bit of magic in them, not all of them are very
strong, but that there is people coming out of the depths of the
sea stealing people's magic. Damn, if only one was here.
He's really good at accounting. And and the fact that they they
they're her researchers had found that rather than trying to
get into the depths of the sea and figure out where these
people are coming from that she can just they.
They didn't even be able to solve the problem by using
Dragon's Breath to our a ritual of sorts to re imbue them with
magic and save them from their lugubrious natures after their
magics have been restored. Because they don't die usually,
but they some sometimes they, you know, the attacks got
violent, but the IT was usually just that they just didn't
really care about life anymore, you know?
So we would be the power brokers here of of the the funnel that
controls magic in in this area, just saying that's a very
profitable, profitable position to be in.
No, we just happen to capitalize on that.
Just capitalize on it and then we don't have to do the running
back and forth. We set up the deal that he sells
them to us, we sell them to the Queen, exclusive access both
sides. And then we hire some people to
do the rest. And then maybe we go do
something, whatever else we want, get a dune body.
Or get something that can hold her consciousness.
So do we know? The muffin man.
The Muffin Man, Do we know how a dune became a ship?
Yes, you you've heard her story a couple different times, which
is that just to keep it short and sweet, she was a she was a
maid for a rich house. She got the honor of being
buried next to a tree, and she became an inhabitant of that
tree, her sole consciousness, that is.
And then the tree got chopped down and made into a ship, which
is and has not always a straightforward process of
whether or not the consciousness comes from the tree or not.
In this particular case, it worked out, even though she was
not fond of Speaking of that particular transition period.
OK, yeah, So what What I was thinking I was like, so is she
the ship itself or is her consciousness residing in the
ship 'cause if we could find another vessel to put her
consciousness in, then she could essentially walk the land again.
This is a great segue into what I wanted to ask Jesse.
OK. So when you ate the magic sushi,
you just became a chicken. Yeah, so my memories of being
human faded away, and my memories and all the learning
that I had gotten from wizarding school and stuff like that just
faded from my mind. So what if you're not like who
you are? You're just a chicken.
And like your actual body is somewhere else, it.
Doesn't have another body. She's just a chicken.
Mindfuck. Yeah, what if I'm a chicken and
somebody just implanted memories into me?
Oh my God, yeah. That's what I I was like what I
was more thinking like what if you, like just switched
consciousness So like there's like.
So is there a human just running around being a chicken?
Yeah, Zach. Fucker.
She's in an asylum by now. So we with that doubt of
conclusion, Adune does stop. Pause petting you.
You guys all turn to Kat too, with the question directed
towards Kat and noticed that he was who Adune is handing the
bottle of. Looks like a chalky, Milky
substance of sorts. The indigestion cure too, Yeah.
Is it dragon sized? It it, it, it is not it, but it
is a a larger bottle. Probably about a gallon worth of
it. Not quite, probably.
Probably not like, you know Barrel, but it's definitely.
A large bottle. A large ish bottle.
Yeah. We're gonna offer it to him.
You know when you guys want to do that?
Offer an apology. Sorry we gave you indigestion.
We really didn't mean to do that.
We didn't mention out loud to a dune that I tried to take a that
I attempted to eat some of that sushi, did we?
No. So she was.
She was. She was paused there for a
second. She just doesn't.
She seems at a loss of word. She doesn't say anything, but
she goes back to petting you again, but slower and kind of
more like you can tell that something's on her mind being
close to as close as you are to her.
I kind of just like like Lean in real close to the deck and like
whisper to it and be like, are you OK?
Yes. I mean I'm I'm sorry that
happened to you though that's it's sounds startling I I hope
you really are though who who you're supposed to be.
It's not just wandering around in somebody else's body that's
very alarming. That would be really alarming.
I'm going to continue to think that I am who I am and will one
day get my body back. And I kind of, like, lean
heavily, more heavily into her hand.
Just kind of like, oh God, I hope that's true.
I want to be a man again. And I'm just like kind of like
holding in all of my emotions and just kind of like blank
staring while I feel Adunes's hand on me.
You you you do see a second hand hand come up as your as the one
that was petting you doesn't seem to be enough and you lean
your head down into it and she cuts your head and and then
starts taking the other hand to pet the the the other side of
your head and down down the down your back.
I just take the time to enjoy it because I'm just like, oh, I'm
sad now. So glad I could bring
existential crashes into D&D. That's this whole game.
Did you turn that on just to turn that off?
In the meantime, me May is finished clearing everybody's
plates. Yep.
Are we Are we done with our our resting?
Think so. Are we ready to go?
But do we have a plan now to go pitch to Shondar?
We have a good way to apologize for the indigestion and present
our our. Scheme we've got our cash.
We. Have our new.
Gold we got. Nudies Perkins, we got.
Yeah. So we've got the goods and we've
got the indigestion cure. I think we're ready to go.
Let's do it. Oh, I got all the candles back
too. All the sex, candles.
Yeah, we could throw those on too.
And the vibrating pillows. How did you get those back?
During your rhythmic thoracty, I duplicated the backpack and gave
the new one to Warren and he gave back the other one.
Except really, except. The except the magical puzzle
box Warren kept that of. Course he did a myth roll cube.
All right. Are we ready to go?
Did you just wait? Did you just discover a
duplicating glitch and this game, Is that what you're
telling me? No, you need to share my.
Character my my character as me. That's weird.
Something to say. Is A is an artificer.
Yeah, and you can duplicate like an an item, but you're saying
when you duplicated it, it made a copy of all of the items
inside it, no? No, no, it I just, I just gave
him like the version of the backpack without anything in it
and he kept like got it thing out of the other backpack.
Got it. I was going to be like, Oh my
God, everyone get in the backpack, Duplicate it.
Get it in the backpack. We're going to duplicate
everyone. Sounds like chaos, but we should
try. We now have 30,000 cats who are
out. There not, we should duplicate
ourselves. I feel like that's a real bad
idea. I'm.
Sure. No where we start like that.
Yeah, no bad stories are. Ever.
I mean, we're in the good campaign.
That can't happen, right? Right.
That's the worst thing.
It's never come out of good intentions.
Yeah. World War 2, anyway.
Something by Barney, apparently. You say I should not be
giggling. At that, World War Two said to
the Sony intro song. Anyway, let's go talk to this
dragon. Let's do it.
We're going to, we're going to try to create like a big like
parade to the inside. I'm going to go talk to the
guard that I know and see if you can get some of his buddies to
help us. We're just trying to make this
look as official as possible. Who's spinning up the plate?
I can since. I.
Assume the more performance Y 20.
Succeed with flashing with flair and style, obviously I.
Do it with my chest. Can I get my, like, fancy armor
back now? Oh yeah, where did it get put?
Yeah, speaking. Of which?
You have that on, don't you? I thought he couldn't walk with
it on. I think Raul, you were trying to
keep just like the the breastplate of it on, if I
remember. Oh, it was.
It was a heavier armor than what I could wear, so I took it with
us. So it's because it was
adamantine, right? Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, I was interested in it, but I couldn't use it, so
I would have just given it it, probably sitting in a big pile
of penis pillows, and it's probably drawn all it's colored
on for sure. Dexterity saving throw.
For. For who me?
For you, yeah, you're going to crawl.
If you're crawling through the the pile of vibrating penis
pillows, I. Think you should get a round of
applause because that's by far the highest Frederick has ever
rolled on. Anything to do with Dexterity?
It's weirdly to do with penises. It's the penis pillows.
They. Made him it's pile.
Really. They they speak to them.
I'm trying to get it pulled up. What is it?
The what is the rule? Oh, there it goes.
It's it's 20. 20 Nice, not natural, but still good so.
Sorry, it was a 19 + 1. It was still great.
You that still? Counts.
You you wanna you wanna describe to me how you succeed on that?
Well, you're watching Raw spin up the plate with his chest
somehow. No, I don't.
I don't want to describe how I interact with penis.
Pillows. I'd rather I'd.
Rather just. Very awkwardly, very awkwardly.
Legs up, really high. He's trying to tip, throw tiptoe
through these pillows and like, just don't touch them.
Just don't touch the pillows. Ironically, very stiffly.
And your head starts playing tip toes, penises, and you're you're
you're able to, you know, find all of the areas just in between
each of the pillows somehow until you get to the top and
you, like, lean over the the last bit of it, since you've got
an extra foot on even the tallest person and the other
tallest person in the room. Easy.
And you're up against the wall, gingerly leaning over to grab
your armor and put it piece by piece into your inventories to
put on later, I guess. Yeah.
So let's say just spun up. You are able to walk through,
I'm guessing, where all leads the way.
Yep. So this new cord I found that I
am using hasn't for an interesting audio glitch.
Even though I'm not doing anything with the cord, it says
it keeps coming on plug and plugging itself back in, so
that's interesting. Doesn't that mean there's a
short in it? I have no idea.
It could just add. Yeah, it could be that or the
connection itself, you know, on the laptop's end, I.
Have no idea. Or the?
I'm guessing it's an. Is it an AUX or OX table?
This one is like a a split cord. One goes in the like a mic place
and one goes into like the actual audio output.
Oh OK, so they are both aux of adjacent, at least sometimes
I've noticed with those particular connections just
because they they spin and everything like that and they're
like a perfect their goal And the way that the connection kind
of gets into them too that that hole might get some dust and or
dirt particles in it and make a bad connection.
Just blowing it. Yeah, that's the only way to do
it. Blow it.
I don't. Know I can hold any S cartridge.
Yep, I think might just. Be time to get a new headset.
Possibly. Maybe.
So you ever, really. Like mine, I like.
I I like the one that I I've gotten the most recent.
I like these. The headset I have, which is why
this is like the fifth one I've had, and I'm probably just going
to buy the same one again. But I do, yeah, once you find
the one you like. Also, it's really nice because
this is like a turtle beach from like 12 years ago, so they're
like $24.00. Yeah, so yeah, you guys make it
through the portal. Not for which order everyone
else is coming through. Maybe cat lasts Still nuzzling
into those hands, but. Yeah, I'll take my time, but I
will eventually go through. And what's that indigestion
medication following last through I know that Riley you
said you were going to go over to the one guard and talk to
them about something. I don't know if anyone else
going to try and organize anything or talk to anyone or
you get the map in front of you though where where you're at
other than Frederick which I still have yet to been evil.
I I can't get the quite the token over there.
I apologize. Try it one more time.
Trying, trying again and again. See if I could.
Anyway, tell us when we can stop.
You can. You can stop.
You can point. To anyone who can decipher that
message. Guys can move around as you wish
on the map. You should be able to see it for
the most part. I'm just like I said, I still
can't quite, just because of the way the screen is set up with my
phone and everything right now. You can't grab us all.
Everybody scatter. Falls on the lava.
I don't remember the way back to Chandra's click thing or where
we're meeting him. I think they were like in front
of the oh Zena's room. I assume it would be like in
front of the stage, but maybe not.
That's where you didn't. See the brat.
Back to his quarters. But you're walking around in
some of the other pole bolts and everything.
Stop. I don't know who's in who's in,
who's in front of me right now. I think that was me.
Hamilton Zoomin. Oh, you know what They stopped
one of you. I I just thought of something.
I might be able to do this actually, because I can do it.
Might be a little for you, Warren, but I think I could give
you control of one of these other tokens from my side.
There you are. That might work if I can just
close out of this window. Come on.
Oh no, they'll make it if they drive just into the.
Well, and you're stopped. And he goes to Hamilton, one of
the one of them, as your friends had scattered.
Broke up a lot. What?
After your friends had scattered, you run into one of
them coming around the wall and one of the Cobalts and fully
armored, and they just are telling you that you're late for
the meeting and he's kind of directing you towards the the
wall behind him, opposite of the stage, and saying his offices
are just on the other side of this wall.
But you should probably gather your friends.
You're late, I. Mean a few?
Hours. You're right.
We are. We are a bit late.
I I do apologize for that. As you as you were, I hope that
you were there. These are amazing performance
that we put on for for Your Majesty.
Quite like. Fire.
So call him that. I don't.
I'm not sure what you prefer me to call him or her.
Call them it. I didn't quite like the part
where you go he's got. The last part is fire.
Hi. What is that with plant or not?
Sure, that was totally part of it.
Oh, I'll have. To tell the judges.
Yes, we totally intended for that.
That was. We were going for a good grand
finale, if you will. But cough, cough.
Let me gather my crew and we shall be with you shortly,
because we they're not. I'm to Billy Dally, but I mean I
can see what I can do with Shandaar to calm him down before
he's going full dragon if you can no catch my drift.
Oh, I I I'm missing half an eyebrow.
I totally understand what your your drift is there, but do pass
on the word to your Your Majesty Shondar.
We will be with him as quickly as we possibly.
Giggles at your gesture towards towards your eyeball.
Lucky that fire fire doesn't doesn't, doesn't bother me and
he kind of like his head comes, tilts down and kind of like
braces himself to start walking around out towards around the
wall. Yeah, I don't know if you want
to roll A as soon as he starts. As soon as he starts walking
away, I'm just. It is what?
Oh, hollering and. Just I'll just run over.
And. I had to take my headset.
Off so it wouldn't cut it out. I caught the last very last bit
of it, but so while you were doing that I guess we're all you
would run off to this guard. Frederick, you're getting
blasted by this heat as the as you're trying to throw your
armor on because you're in the center of a volcano that you
just walked into is where you're at probably.
You're probably stricken by the heat as you're trying to hardly
put the armor on. I can't I.
Can't remember. I'm pretty sure my character has
resistance to ice. I don't know if it has a
weakness. He has a weakness to fire.
He probably doesn't like it. I wouldn't say a weakness,
perhaps, but it's kind of like taking somebody out of their
natural habitat and putting them somewhere else.
They're just. Like.
This isn't nice. Are what they're like.
I don't know, but but yeah, that's pretty accurate to at
least my understanding of how people react to the temperature
difference. It burns, burns, but I don't
know what MIME is doing either. I was looking for everybody.
Is this where everybody is still back here?
Did. You ran.
Back over to Hamilton. Zoom.
Around the mountain, yeah, let's
try to look for things. And then I figured we got
stopped. I'm wherever everybody else is.
I just don't know where they went.
But. Cool.
What? Oh.
Yeah, OK. It's not me.
It's Josh. OK, yeah.
It's like my Internet must be really fading fast.
Did. We lose them.
Where where are you 2? Where everyone is where it's
supposed to be. But like I think.
Oh no. He gone.
He's gone. How about now?
He's gone. He's back.
OK. Great, so.
So you're right in front of the stage.
Are you to the left? Are you to the east or the West?
That's how they're not telling you anything, and they're
exactly where they were in the beginning.
That's where I was, OK. Yeah, I was going to say we're
we. I came back to behind the stage
where Hamilton is. Gotcha.
I don't know if you guys had actually wanted to move or not,
but I'd seen Hamilton for the most part.
That's why I assumed that the cobalt would have gone there.
But Raro, did you want to do your interaction with the other
cobalt or did you just accept the interaction?
I mean, really, he'll he'll, he'll fall in line.
OK, so he yeah, you kind of catch that as you're jogging
away and turned back around and he gestured on.
I wonder if I can ping on this. Not really directly South of you
guys's position. Hustle and hustle are way there.
Sorry guys, I thought we had enough time.
Let's do this. I thought we had enough time
too. Has it really been hours?
Yeah, a short rest is like 3-4 hours and then a then you know
throw in some of the debate and Rawls escapades there, I I
would, I would, I'd say you're going on on on on the 5th hour
from when you had requested the meeting.
OK. Well, it's, you know, it's
always good to be fashionably late or we're fine.
I'm sure all I see. Is, you don't.
I don't want to be the only one. Remember to bring the gold too,
right and everything. Distinctly we'll call, yeah, you
saying because I asked us like we have all the things we're
taking, we got the nudies, we got the gold, we got all the
things distinctly. Remember you saying, Yes, we
have them. A.
A dune whispers in everybody's head through the portal and
pushes the the chest out through the portal.
Oh. The chest of gold.
You may shoot some finger guns a dune, my girl.
And then another crate follows just behind that.
It seems like she's organized it to push out behind it with the
with the two crates of fire breath holding.
Jars. Great.
Grab them up and make her way. Pull up the duty, too.
Well, I know for a fact Frederick can hold any one of
those individually. I'm guessing the raw opens would
take, oh between them, a crate and possibly the chest.
Might need a hand from Hamilton though with with only three.
I'll totally help. Yeah.
Sure. So I'm guessing.
Maybe Kat, me, May and Franklin Canal.
Sorry to move a chest. Yeah, I mean, I've got my.
Siblings too, Franklin. Sorry.
Yeah. Ferrero Rosen I.
Mean. I've got my siblings too, so
they'll help as well. So you'd have like one of the
chest with Rarl himself, I would guess.
And that's where I was like filling in the blank of
Hamilton. And then he had tried to join
in. So I'm assuming you tried to
like, pick it up just before Hamilton got there, couldn't do
anything, jumped on top of it. It's like, yeah.
Like I just walked over to it and like, yeah, I'm going to
help and then I just hop up on top of it.
I'm helping. You guys could go to the actual
S on the map too and see. I mean, it's human form, but you
guys keep marching around the walls.
You could come back to the main thoroughfare on the other side
of the stage that you see was being prepared.
It looks like for some other by some other coal bolts, it looks
like there's another performance coming.
Not today, obviously, but they're preparing it for
tomorrow's. And then you come back rounding
the the the wall, just final wall to the what looks like a a
lounge and some desk and a chair and some other large statues and
other things that are been collected throughout the year.
It's that he that Shondar must have decorated.
His office space. Almost is what it looks like.
He's sitting behind a desk, his head's bowed and he's tapping on
on something on his desk that you can't quite quite understand
what he's doing because he's he looks very concentrated, but
there's nothing physically in front of him, nothing like that.
Or. He's in his human form.
OK. Hamilton, you seem to be the
most like charismatic one. I'll help you but.
But. Yeah, I was going to say Mommy
just had to dip out, so we've got to be charming, guys.
Somebody else offered the finger guns.
I have a + 3 persuasion, So what?
Persuasion do I have? I have a OK, well everyone's
step back. I have a plus nut.
Oh, OK. Yeah, I have a plus.
Two so more. Than you are.
I'm a wizard. You're a wizard.
Cock. Because.
She's a chicken. Chickens aren't very
precipitous. Nope, nobody believes anything
the chicken says, So I'm going to hop up on your shoulder.
I imagine a giant. A mountain giant is also not
very persuasive. Unless they.
Unless he's persuading with violence, I.
Don't think that's going to work here.
No. No, we're we are going to rely
on words, but I'm going to hop up on the Hamilton shoulder.
Onto the Hamilton. Onto your shoulder.
Yes, you are the only Hamilton. Do ever the only Hamilton.
The ham of tongue. That's why I had a ham.
Ham. Or the last Hamilton.
That was the. Last as far as we know.
Ararlson's will kind of be like backup dancers to him, like
emphasizing and like. Emphasize.
Mimi did like leave a little note here.
She said that she supports us, they support us and everything.
We present to Shondar to get all the goods and get all the money.
We should trade Mimi. Oh, we'll give you our captain.
I don't like that. But I agree.
She did say I support any and all propositions we present to
Shondar. We present our captain for one
night. One night of marshmallow
toasting. They're a power top, so you have
to be the bottom. What all?
Right. Let's do it.
Help. Go Hamilton, go talk.
Lately, he's busy. Right on the stone curtain.
So you step up to the desk, you step up to the desk and he, he
kind of he holds up a finger. He said, you made me wait, let
me finish this last little bit here.
And then he finishes off and he's finishes like tapping on
the desk. It looks like he's just tapping
out a rhythm to you guys. And then he just like his eyes
were kind of clouded over. And then he shakes his, his, his
head side to side and do I recognize the rhythm looks up to
you. And no, it doesn't seem to be in
a in a tune or or a song rhythm. It's just a solid kind of and.
I'm gonna. Say, OK, so the Dragon's just
stimming. That's fine.
And he looks up at you Hamilton then with the with Kat on your
shoulder and go goes. So you called the meeting for
that business. I'm guessing that you have.
She'd written me that letter for him.
Hi, we have. Did we give him the letter,
guys? Yeah, yeah, you get.
Otherwise you want to know about it.
Yep, we gave him the letter. But we gave him the nudies too,
didn't we? No.
OK, just the intro letter. OK, those are a leave.
It goes well. I I hear what she's saying and
her people are having some trouble.
I get that. I mean I I'm more than willing
to help out for a cost. Obviously.
I can't can't do work for free. That's just who who has the
time, you know? And I might live for a long time
but you know my time is still worth something.
So I I appreciate that. But you know, it's gonna cost
you. This is this is something that's
pretty precious to me. It keeps my volcano nice and
toasty in here. My Dragon's breath.
I I think that's it. Is what she was asking for, at
least. But in in hear me.
Out. Pause, fiery one.
Your breath is unlimited with your magnificent health that I
can see that you are in. And so one is go.
Ahead. So what is a few huffs and puffs
for someone in such a great physical seek of your Wow?
Was it that bad? No.
He's just. He's having those technical
difficulties and all, so if you, if you would for me with
Advantage Rule for Persuasion. Can I help in any way during
this? Wait, wait wait wait wait wait
wait. I might actually be able to
help. I have one level flash spell.
I could give you skill empowerment, but I don't think
that helps with persuasion. So no.
I think it does enhance ability. Your magic deepens a creature's
understanding of its own talent. Persuasion is one of my talent.
You touch one willing creature and give it expertise in one
skill of your choice. Until the spell ends, the
creature double S its proficiency bonus for ability
checks it makes that use those chosen skills.
You must choose a skill in which the target is proficient and
that isn't already benefiting from an effect, such as
Expertise that double S its proficiency bonus.
Yeah. The spell is skill, empowerment
and and it's my one level 5 spell and I could just like use
it I. Mean.
This is the this is a our our trade deal of a lifetime, I
think. This one we want to use that.
I mean, until we long rest, right?
Yeah, yeah. So use it, otherwise you're not
going to use it and then we're going to long rest and then.
All right, I cast skill empowerment on the Hamilton
while I'm resting on his shoulder and I just let out a
quiet little squawk and kind of like tighten my grip onto his
shoulder to let the power imbue into him.
So do I. Get another roll or do I add to
this? Your proficiency bonus that you
had with it. Doubled.
Yes. Yeah, it double S your
proficiency. Does that make sense or?
No, no, it makes sense. I just embarrassed shows.
None of that came through, babe. I know that's.
I'm kind of embarrassed to say it.
He just whispered it. I don't remember all my.
Proficiency bonus, right? Your proficiency.
Be should be somewhere on the top of your screen.
OK, so yeah, so you see all your skills.
Yeah. Right after Charisma should be
your proficiency bonus. Oh, OK Yep, there it is.
Big a hole. Or.
So. We'll just add a Yeah, mine's a
+ 4, so if it double S it, we're just going to add 4 onto that
28, making the. 32 will get you pretty far.
You're you're sitting there, or rather standing in front of his
desk. He hasn't offered anyone a seat
necessarily, yet, never had any chairs.
And he he, he, he forms a mustache on his face, which and
didn't have any hair on it to begin with.
And he just starts twirling the end of it, kind of curling it
up. And then he goes, I think you've
caught my interest at least, And some chairs rise out of the
ground for everyone to plop a squat, he says.
I'm willing to talk What what are the terms for this deal that
you are proposing. I mean granted I am quite
magnificent. I I do appreciate those those
words, but it is good to hear you now and again and my my
breaths aren't unlimited like you might have suggested, but
they they are quite prolific. I'll motion to the chair, Blake,
if I may. Absolutely.
Seat seat. I'll have.
I'll pull up a seat. Oh, I wasn't prepared for this
are. You going to stop?
Prepared to be a hype man, not the main man.
Yeah, I'm, I'm 100% hype man, not main man.
I'll I'll kind of step in and be like if you want me to take care
of some of the technical details.
Yes. So yes, as as I did say my ex,
we are here for a bargain, and you are as I did it will allow
me to reiterate your almighty, and I do apologize for any
misunderstandings of your unlimited breath.
I was just saying, as in your eternal life, that you will
breathe forever as long as the sunburn.
But allow, if you may, one of my companions, Sir Arlson, who is
much more embused with the business side of thing, you
will. Ah yes, I understand.
I'm trying very hard to sound like I know what I'm talking
about. We all give you thumbs UPS.
Not not all of you mortals are versed in so many different
trades, as it were, because your life spans were so short, I'd
completely understand. We must specialize that there's
our curse. So my siblings will walk up, and
if there's a table, they will spread out a large number.
Yeah, they'll they'll spread out a number of like spreadsheets
and charts and figures and graphs, and they'll start and
say, as you may well know, if you don't Q Snip, the city of
Socrates is currently low on magic.
They are unable to fill their needs.
Naturally, something is coming out.
To the water and see, I don't mean interrupt.
I don't, I don't mean to interrupt.
So, Socrates, Do you mean Socrates?
Socrates, Sorry, I'm a foreigner.
OK, continue, continue. Their queen has sent us on a
diplomatic mission with full control to and I look at the
papers that we have set out of a business arrangement with you.
They are, to be frank, desperate.
And you? I look around at his lavish
area. Or as a dragon, I imagine would
like more treasure, yes? I mean, treasure won't wouldn't
be wrongly placed in these halls, that's for sure.
This is true. We've actually have a gift for
you after this. But to explain the idea, you
would of course fill up some of these vials with your breath and
we would create a company for you of which we would
participate in a small degree. And we and I gesture around our
crew and our own company, but be given exclusive access to
actually transport these goods. And as you say, these are
valuable. There's a large margin of profit
to be made here that kind of gestures to the more figures.
I've done a little bit of math based on like what we were told
by the Queen of like limitations of how much she can spend.
I don't know if we had those discussions or if it was a
letter or what. Yes, yeah, there was some, some,
some of those and there was, it was kind of passed to me may for
the for the final figures of the what the 1% of the final profits
would be. I don't think she's ever shared
that or they have ever shared that information necessarily as
far as I know. But that because it was on a
piece of paper and actually it was given to NEP at first who
who was doing the performance and then when he'd finished he'd
given it off to me may so. OK, so I assume if I have never
seen any of this amount of just some preliminary well, she said
she. Would be here to support us.
They would be here to support us.
So I'm guessing at this point, while you're talking about it,
they would pull out the necessary information.
Yeah, that'd be good. I don't.
I was going to say to for this with the graphs and charts and
everything like that, you'd created a crafting.
I don't know if you want to roll that or if you knew if you were
thinking that it would be more of an Intelligence check in this
particular case actually to in regards to how you interpret the
information that Mimi kind of would probably try to slip to
you to try and fill in the gaps as.
You're. Like, I'm assuming it's kind of
like, you know, Rahl's up front, he's presenting and then like
the rest of the Rahlson, the other three brothers are
standing back there creating these crafting charts on the
spot. Yeah, he's like Reek, can I
either do a performance or a side of hand to like kind of
like pick up the beat of as they're like putting up these
chart or like they're, I assume one of my siblings would start
like hand gesturing to me because we can speak in, thieves
can't. Yeah.
I would also think that like Hamilton and me would be kind of
like helping with the presentation, like just there,
like nodding, like yes, yes, he speaks wisdom.
Yeah, they're just standing off to either side, too of Rural
even. Well, I guess in Hamilton's
case, that makes sense. But Kat, yeah, you would be on
his shoulder. Yeah.
And trying to kind of like protect from the the, the goings
on behind you guys nodding along, you know, so that he
doesn't see that you're just creating the graphs on the spot.
Like, yes. That's why we were totally
prepared. And I am going to mark up.
So I'm going to mark into the amount that like we're given,
like we were told that the Queen would pay.
I'm going to give a slightly like a lower number to account
for our own like shipping costs and like profit margins and all
that, so. So you're going to, you're going
to. I don't.
Know how you want me to do that? Roll a bunch of stuff.
First and foremost, you have. I mean kind of, but no, we'll
try to keep it somewhat simple but we'll have everybody being
in the mix that's here. So we'll go ahead and roll for
me. Kat and Hamilton your persuasion
to like assist in this manner. You're going to roll me up that
persuasion for your for for the your general performance on how
you you're you know you're presenting the information raw
performance. Don't forget Hamilton years has
doubled because it's good for an hour.
Performance. So that just adds 4, so another
32. Holy day.
Yes. Yeah a performance for that
particular aspect of the presentation.
But then you're going to want to for you.
For your brothers. Everything roll me the I think
we based crafting off of your sleight of hand.
So. I've got one of those too, so.
If you want that. If you want to do that.
You can do one or the other. Oh oh, it was the same.
Same addition, I think. No worries.
So I mean, I rolled the 12 first, so not a great
performance, but I fumble it a little bit.
He's he's definitely he's definitely like slowed his
mustache rollings and like got a raised eyebrow as you're if you
as you've walked up you know probably and his problem he he'd
been kind of like lean back in his chair but he put hit both
feet on the ground when you started laying everything out in
front of him and he's just looking up at you and back down
at the grass and then looking up at you and then you look down at
the grass and you realize that some of them are kind of like
finger painted on from but. I'll I'll, I'll skip I'll seeing
like his his reaction I'll skip towards the end where I've got
the information about how much money he can make per quarter or
year whatever off of this. And then I'll kind of gesture to
the others to the grab the like the the chest of gold.
It'd be like. And to ensure the Queen's
goodwill and intention of setting up this trade agreement.
Here we have a gift for you directly from her.
And he's kind of just turned his head over his shoulder and
snapped his finger a couple of times and a couple cobalts that
are much leaner than the ones that you've seen and kind of
hunched over come out and he just said points to the chest
and he he nods in approval and waits for your fully handing off
the chest before he's like these are my 2 accountants.
They would gladly receive that and tell me what the figures are
and making sure that my vaults are kept nice and tidy.
But I understand that And he picks up the jar that you
probably placed on the table and he kind of looks back down at
the charts and grass and he goes that's not exactly my Forte but
then this jaw though I I've never seen anything that could
hold my breath per SE and I'm quite aspect of the trade
agreement you know I've just you know it's sounds all good in
theory but. I've had, I've had a few.
Other people coming around asking for other business
ventures and so you know it's sometimes a 5050, sometime we're
talking lower percentages of success rates on this business.
So you know, it's not a guarantee that this is going to
happen. What do you say?
I mean, this is nice, this one chest of gold and he turns back
over to his goblins, which in the meantime, as he's kind of
been staring at the jar in his hand, have somehow managed to in
like a minute flat, take all of the gold out, stack it all up,
counted it and is turned to him and and says the figure it's
about 10,010 thousand and one. It looks like they may have just
added one on there for or for for your health or something.
I don't know. Maybe they're just bad at
accounting. And he goes, you know what if
she can make it, if she can make A2 chests of a 10,000 gold per,
I'm guessing how many are in those crates And just looks up
at the bottle and he looks over maybe like 1000 bottles there.
So yeah, you know, 1020 thousand gold for 1000 breaths.
Seems fair to me. I don't.
It's a lot of effort and time. How does that fit into my?
Into my Excel spreadsheet? You're like, I mean, you'd be
working from home. Remote jobs are the best.
It just goes on to to to to say I'm always working from home.
I don't take it any other way. Unless, you know, of course, I'm
going out and having my own fun. Because who doesn't love a night
out in the city? Who doesn't?
I just keep nodding, like, very happily like, Yep, Yep, sounds
great. Love it.
Is is is skeptical nature does lighten with your guys's
continued nodding, especially with that other 32 there.
And he's he's just like you know your performance earlier was a
little little lower on the rung and I'm I've been hearing some
others that are coming through. You might want to watch them do
their talent shows because you could win something from this.
Just saying. Anyhow you know what I'm feeling
rather generous. So yeah, if you can get the
Queen do agree to 10,000 gold per these two crates, I I could,
I could see myself going in on this deal.
But you know what? I'll fill up one of these crates
just for you guys to take back as a sample.
How's that? And oh, of course, 10,000 gold.
Of course. How did that fit into the math
of everything? Like, is that within the range
of what she found acceptable of the Queen?
She didn't give you guys any figures or anything like that
when it came to what she was willing to goat, who like
couldn't give you an upper limit or limit of what she was willing
to spend for this. She just said it was completely
essential. So he's kind of, he kind of
knows that you guys got, he's got you got guys over a barrel,
so to say, and he's just kind of milking it.
Gold per crate of jars. Full.
Of his breath. Yep.
And A and a crate holds about 500 jars, so he knows that it's
like, yeah, like each jar. Math wise, you're you're talking
like, oh math. Well, I made it easy math too,
and my brain still doesn't want to do it.
And Drag Crate holds 5500 Jars of Dragon's Breath.
Yes, Yeah. So. 2. 2000 per. 500 times right
now, 10,000. You said one crate.
Divided by 500, so 20 gold. Each.
Yeah, Yep. I think that's a good deal.
I look to the others and then I think that's a good deal and
then we we add on our own profit margins when we go sell it to
the Queen. I set forward we would be
welcome to this idea. We will take the course to the
go ahead. I want, I'm going to, I'm going
to lean in as as you start I'm grab Ralston on the shoulder say
so I'm going to come close to him, whisper in the ear.
Yeah. Oh, I like.
It tickles. So what if we can convince them
to get two crate for the same price, but we throw in a fresh
nudie of the queen with every delivery because we still have
yet to pull that card out of our pocket?
That's true. Yeah.
OK, I turned to him. I like this offer.
We are interested, but I wish to have a little bit of counter
offer you. You've had the past relations
with the Queen, yes? You see a a, a flame.
You're not sure if it's physical or metaphysical.
Kindle in his eyes he doesn't respond, though he does stop
twirling the bottle in his hand and stares deeply into your
soul. He feels like.
We have the a highly skilled artist who and I kind of like
stamp my fingers and kind of gesture to the others has
created a beautiful work of art and we could guarantee more of
this same quality in the future every shipment if we were to get
a little bit more favorable terms, well, pull out the nudie
are we? Disagreeing and.
Flourish it? Analogue of Queen Nudies, yeah?
Fucking Calendar. And how?
How are you holding it? Are you?
Have you, You said you pull it out, but like, are you holding
it directly in front of him so he can see the whole thing?
Or what are you doing? So it'll be like a slow flourish
where like you slowly unfurl it. So that, like, you know, the old
Internet days where you watched one pixel at a time until the
boobies came on screen going from top to bottom of the image.
That's how it's loading, that's how it's presented.
While the rather rural sons are all making like the the What's
That game show, The Wheel of Fortune, like pose, they're like
showing it off. The van of White, Yeah.
So they're like off to either side of you and like on the
image and just like holding kind of like hands around it.
Like look at this and and you're taking your hand.
It sounds like almost to me and like sliding it across the image
so it doesn't see the whole thing all at once before turning
it around and like taking it back from.
Because while you're doing that to, he's just like intently
staring at the image, jaw slowly opening.
And the the mustache does kind of vanish from his face because
you can tell he's intently staring at the image before you
flourish it away. And he goes to grab for it
across the desk before he stops himself.
And he looks he, he, he, he, he goes you.
Actually, actually, that's that's he.
You actually hear a in the back of his throat kind of burgling.
And he goes, how about one better?
I'll cut you a deal even sweeter than that.
You give me that. Sure.
I'll take the 10,000 now. Sure.
I'll feel that both of these crates yeah, by by tomorrow,
though you've got to give me by tomorrow for.
Those, absolutely. Of course.
That's a lot of breathing. It.
Is and. You don't want to
hyperventilating. And his breath gets even a
little bit more throaty. Yeah, and he goes.
You set me up a single date with the Queen.
Deal. But you have to sign this
paperwork that says so I look to the others nod question mark.
Yes. I stick my hand out.
It's a deal. And he looked down at your hand
that just passed where he had almost grabbed for the image,
and he sits back in his chair. His hand turns into a dragon
hand for a for a bit. Not the full-sized one though,
that you'd seen before, but it is clawed and scaled and he's
rubbing it on his chest and you see a little bit of a flame
circle around his hand before he reaches out and it circles
around both of your hands. And as he's grasping yours, you
feel it kind of tingle in your hand and he goes deal.
Do I recognize what he just did? You can roll in Akrana.
Are you fucking serious, 14? Oh, that's good enough.
You know that from your studies too.
And at least curse or relief because of your interest in
Dragons and such on on a on a faint winter day when all the
other students had gone back to their parents, you were studying
up on it and you know that they have a they have.
They have this truth held contract between Dragons,
usually magically that depending upon their skill set, whether it
be magical, magical imbuement that is as as the case is in
this particular one, if a deal is broken, you will suffer that
particular damage until you die. If you break the deal, OK, so
like, after we're all done having our little meeting here,
I will very quietly relate that information to Rosen.
That makes a lot of sense. Think I also made a previous
deal with the bar keeper about the 10 grand to.
Yeah, they have a different type of magical deal there, but Yep.
Got it. I mean, it seems like a good
deal to me, and it's essential. So the Queen's you know, it's
it's a date, right? One date.
So one date. Yeah.
Now, Josh, just to clarify, the paperwork that he's signing is
what we had discussed earlier about like exclusionary rights
to us to do this business. He hasn't signed anything.
He just had the one day speak with you and then he was going
to take the paperwork that you have on the desk and he goes, he
hands it off to his two cobalts off to the side.
They read through it, speed, read it, it seems like because
it took only the time of the handshake for them for them to
give it back. And he goes with one of them,
whispers in his ear before he sets it back on the table,
starts to pull up, pull out a quill and kind of is just
shaking his head. And then he stops, looks at you
and go goes before I sign this and you, I know that you'd
fished in those exclusionary rights.
That's understandable in the situation, but I'm going to add
1 singular clause to this if you are amenable.
Sure. What is it?
Gulliver has been chomping at the bit for his freedom.
It seems like he's talked to just about every traitor up and
down the coast. I've heard word, and I'm not
without my means, and well, I do like your group.
You are the rum rollers. I've heard tale of you, and
actually I think I may have bumped into you on your way down
from the fissure. Oh, that race.
Sorry. Sorry if you're a bit more
charred from that incident as well.
And the race? Yes, the race.
Good point. I had raced the Eric Croker of
your group. I'm not sure I've seen him here,
so I hadn't thought to bring that up.
But I did hear that he was squaw.
I believe his name was was part of the Rum Rulers.
Yes, but where might he be? Kind of goes off on a tangent.
Before the rest of it, it's. In that coma.
Off on a personal quest. Yep.
Oh yes, yeah. I can understand though,
everyone needs to get their affairs as they as they see fit
in times doesn't always work with each group that they're a
part of anyhow. So this 'cause that I'd like to
add, it would simply just be that you take Golver to be your
first captain inside of your fleet and to do most of the
trading in these deals you know. So it does free you up, and it
frees him up in his in his ways that he will no longer belong to
me as a person. I feel like he's worked off his
indenture quite well anyhow and he's been seeing some of the
wider world, so give him some chance to get some freedom and
you know. In a supervised role, of course.
Absolute. He'll be the first captain
underneath of. Of Admiral me, Mame.
Yes, me, me. And I would be.
Attacking What was the hit die for?
I don't think Mimi's here. I oh, I just saw a notification
pop up that said Mimi hit the five and I was like, oh.
I don't think. I don't think that was
intentional, as far as I know. All right, let's ignore it.
But anyhow, so, and I would also as he's writing in that clause
there at the bottom about Gulliver being your guys's first
captain would suggest you know he's not going to be able to
have the ship that he has currently and the crew crew that
he has. But you you will have to take
him back with you probably to sore Curtis as the closest port
and set yourself up with the ship there.
So in that in that I would be giving you these bottles and
presumably you'll be getting some sort of exchange from the
Queen and perhaps that'll be enough of your first dealings to
get a ship to set you off for Gulliver and his crew there.
And as he's finishing off the last little bit with a flourish,
he says I will highly recommend his services in acquiring said
cruise and such. You may want to set a deal up
with him in particular to start financing the rest of your
business, so to say, and that this trade, perhaps we can move
farther and past this one city, maybe there are others that are
in our services. Maybe.
I agree. So you may want to give him the
right in those agreements to expand.
Oh yes, guys, we're going to become powerful.
Fuck yeah. And he he says it seems there
are two signatures that are required on this.
He draws another line and next to his name and it's with a
grin. And then he signs Shondar the
Red and the date. All right.
Right. And then turns the contract
around and hands the quill out that he's using Admiral.
So me may should sign this me. May, yeah.
So Admiral, now me May takes the Quill.
Considering their last comments there, they are OK with this and
sign the contract for not just Me May or Admiral Me May, but
now like it would. It would be Rum Roller, probably
1st and then Captain or Admiral Me May.
Rum rollers Limited or incorporated or something?
I see. Are you guys actually
incorporated? I not heard of any business
dealings with you before. I mean, wouldn't be that hard to
set up at the city. You might just have to talk to
someone in that sector. I don't know all the ruling.
You are our first. This is our first deal.
And I must say it's a very successful deal at that.
I think we're all going to be good friends and make a lot of
money, yes. I think it.
I think it would be quite a wonderful dealings indeed.
And with that he says finally too well, you're welcome to stay
for the rest of the talent show if not.
And he pulls like a a chip that just kind of looks like a like a
coin but with that doesn't have any real weight and he holds it
out. If you hold on to this, you'll
know whether or not you are the winner of the talent show.
I wouldn't hold my breath. I hear Pop Tart is coming.
Pop time. Oh jeez, 01 more thing.
One more thing. I'm so sorry, my Lord.
We saw on our way in you had a bit of an infestation of
goblins. Ah, yes, yes.
Do you want? Any help with that?
I mean, that would be lovely. I wouldn't put it upon my guests
though, to solve my problems as it were.
Sir, we are now a company. We could offer it as a business
service to you. That would be lovely if you
wouldn't mind figuring out rooting out those rats.
I would. I would love it.
The others? What do you think?
I think we're probably pretty good at rooting out rats.
Yeah. We got this.
Right. Yeah.
I think. I think we agree.
Yeah, we could, totally. Do this.
It sounds like you may be up for another reward besides that of
the talent show. I mean, I have quite a vast
array of magical items that might intrigue all of you.
Yeah. Oh, it's yes, yes, we are not.
Just for the Queen, Beck, We're. I don't know you're.
Here, I mean, we're here for the Queen's thing, but we noticed
that he had a problem and. Yeah, we're not here just for
the. Oh, oh, that's what you said.
Got it. Is that is understandable.
Hopefully though perhaps me and the Queen can unite on some
fronts in the future too. Anyways, that's just my idol
wants and wishes. But yes, I I would be quite
amenable to rewarding you for getting rid of them.
I don't don't really deal in that sort of extermination a
little beneath my station. I've been, yeah, I've been
delegating it to my my staff who have been taking to, it seems
quite, quite Well. I don't.
I can't tell if they're actually trying to get rid of them or
just using them for sport. Not real sure anymore.
We will get right on that, and you can trust in the Rum Rollers
to get shit done. Fuck, right?
I. I like you guys in that case
too. Well, let's call this a knight.
And he pulls out a a pipe and then like he's turned his one
hand back into a human hand, but kind of just takes that pipe.
And then like what looks like almost spins it real fast
between his fingers. But when they stop, there is a
pipe for each of you in between the fingers, and he hands it
over to anyone that wouldn't take one.
Even the cat the chicken into their beak and.
They attempt to take. It Oh, yeah, we take ours.
Yes, Hamilton was well. And he goes, oh, this is just
some something I've worked on in my hobby free time, you know,
I've poured this out of the the reaches and you can see it's a
nice polished, polished Obsidian pipe each in each case that he's
he carved up. Maybe you're not quite sure if
he's done it with his own claws or not, but it is well polished
and you see packed into each one too, a greenish coloration of
substance and egos. It's just something that's been
growing off the side of the mountain that I I find makes the
evenings a little more enjoyable.
Oh, OK, I take a deep whiff. You get a heady aroma from it
that is elevating and at the same time grounding.
As one of the woods would I recognize this herb.
You could what? Is it survival or is it?
I think that's the one trying to remember if there's something
nature that I didn't, that's the one I was trying to think of.
We don't use that one very much. So yeah, nature and and
advantage, right? Because you have, you have
skills that are centered towards the force, right?
The rogue natures and all right. Am I wrong?
Yeah. OK, is that in the I'm what Elf?
So I grew up in my livelihood, Woods.
I think it usually the thing
that I'm referring to is the the rogue aspect they have they have
on on checks when when in their own natural environments and you
can choose that. And in the ELF case, I guess I
could. I could accept that for now, or
an advantage on the nature check.
Three because from my my past, you know, maybe.
A3. I said or or maybe a history,
because, you know, might be from my past, you know, maybe.
With the nature not good. What was the nature?
14. With advantage, right?
Yeah. 14 You you get a feel that it is.
It's got to be. It doesn't quite give you the
same smells. It might be a different strain,
if you will, of herb that you know is known for its relaxation
and taken sometimes for meditation purposes too, for
those that are still learning to practice.
We're not looking at like an opioid, right?
We're not about the new. Peyote with the fucking dragon.
No, no. The your comparable senses would
tell you you know this is just a some sort of pot.
Medicinal, yeah. Yeah.
After taking a deep sniff of it, I looked at everyone and was
like oh this is excellent. We are greatly appreciated this.
I haven't quite found a name for it yet, but I'm glad to partake
in it with someone else. And he takes his pipe and just
blows into it, and you can see he doesn't create any flame out
of his mouth, but just the heat of his own breath seems to turn
the top of the the the pile into coals before he start he he
takes a long drag on it. As Hamilton lights up the pipe
himself, like takes a big deep breath of him like on the
exhale. Just if I may be so bold, may I
suggest you call it the roller for?
Go ahead. I was going to say for for our
great business hit deal here as between you and the Rum Roller.
Make a deal on that, Make a new business deal on that.
We can do both. We can do it.
And of course, all trademarks of this product would be yours, but
we still hold the right to the name if we're still talking
business, of course. And he's been holding his breath
that as as you were, as after you had choked, you was out.
He'd he'd been holding his in and kind of just staring.
And he still hasn't let it out yet.
And he's think you can tell he's thinking about it.
Go ahead and roll me a persuasion.
Worse, 1 + 4, so that'd be A7. 17 So he slowly starts to let
his out, just the the starting pressure, before he cuts it off
again and then starts blowing some rings out that he starts
forming in the smoke, some shapes, and he's still kind of
like pondering it. And he grows a beard in the
meantime, just for his own sake, and start stroking it while he's
creating these shapes in the smoke.
And you see his eyes start to water before he finally lets the
last bit of the smoke out and he goes breathing in a fresh breath
of air and says, you know, it's got a nice ring to it.
The roller, Yeah. And it's I I see what you're
driving for, but this was supposed to be a bit of a
celebration of in itself, not no longer business, But you know
what? For the.
But please don't take it as a business expense here, Take it
as a a suggestion from one friend to another, but at the
same time not compromising the name of our group ourselves.
I see, I see. He takes a quick little drag and
goes. I tell you what, for the name,
how about I just buy it off of you right now for he grabs in
the chest behind him with his you.
You seen it go in as a regular hand.
Comes out as almost the full size dragon hand.
Maybe 3/4, yeah. How's the and?
He's just stares at it for a long time.
You can tell he's trying to count them, but his eyes kind of
his eyelids flutter. However this is and he just
hands it to over before. I even touch the gold I want to,
I clarify. So just to clarify, you are
wanting to buy the title of rum Rollers off of us?
No, no, just. The roller.
The roller not from rollers. That is still completely your
area. OK, it's the name for the for
this herb. Will not.
You were talking about and I'll try it out in a couple markets.
Who knows? It might not even.
Stick might become something else later on down the road.
Looks like enough gold for our starter ship right there.
I'll I'll happily accept. In the clarification that yes.
Just to say that the name of Roller was a gesture of our
good. I just don't want to as I as I
previously. Don't want to compromise the
name of our? I completely understand it might
not go anywhere. So like I said, you don't want
to. You don't want to ruin your good
names, of course. And who knows?
Might be taken up also by some downtrodden folk.
Doesn't seem like it would go anywhere by them, though.
It's a nice nightcap after a long day.
You guys? Anyone else partaking or you
guys? All staring at your.
Pipes. I know that you took a single
one, but you're starting to feel you're any of your analytical
brain just completely shut off and just about everything is
making you smile right now. And that that pile of gold that
he has in his hand is looking almost like a a giant, whatever
food is most appealing to him at the time.
I don't know an unlimited size bag of Funyun.
OK? I would say that I cat is
partaking in this just like because.
Why not? We just made a deal with the.
Dragon, yeah. Oh, I should probably say, you
guys could. Roll in a constitution.
Saving throw for this? Oh no.
Round everything out. 11 oh. That's getting.
Good. Where'd you get there?
Hamilton 11. Oh, no.
Just 10. No Jessica him 11.
Gotcha. How about the rawl or rawl?
Just himself waiting for it to pop up.
OK. Making sure there aren't any Nat
ones before. I'm. 13 oh.
OK, so it seems like the. Rawl, that rawl's a little bit
more experienced in the field and the.
It doesn't choke while completely just kind of does a
little bit of to get used to it. While Hamilton and Kat are are
like you said, you already coughed it so that that worked
out nicely for the 10 I'd say, but you do still feel like
starting to wash over you and all of your limbs.
Are starting to feel a little bit.
Heavier, but you look back at your companions and Kat
meanwhile, is on your on your shoulder like just staring up at
the ceiling and watching the the smoke.
Of the volcano Go. Up into the sky and maybe like.
One or two stars that it. That it can kind of peek through
in between those and Rawls didn't cough, but it's still
kind of like blowing out smoke and watching it go out of his
mouth. Yeah, make it time doing
anything with it particularly, but don't want to fill up.
Too much of that, but. You, you guys are both all, or
rather all starting to feel heavy and really relaxed.
Very, very relaxed. Yes, relax in the.
Sight of a dragon, even. Though I'm a.
Chicken nugget. Yeah, Nuggets.
You do see his eyes start to start to lingering.
More on you. Cat.
But he knows that he's heard the tales of Cat hold us of the rum
rollers, though he has yet to incite any food related comments
towards you. And having seen your performance
as well, you know he knows all that.
But he one fellow fire lover to another.
Don't eat me. Yeah, but you do.
See, he is just like everybody else starting to get.
A little snacky turn to the others.
We should get some thigh. I I I.
Wholeheartedly. Agree We should.
Make our way. Back to our quarters and enjoy
ourselves. And then I kind of just, like,
fumble off their shoulder. And flop to the ground.
And start stumbling but walking upright as best as I can.
Oh fuck. Under the.
Dragon. Well, Sir, thank you so much for
the deal, for the. Celebration and for the smokes,
I. Believe we are all do a.
Long rest as absolutely I need to get get down.
Before I get back up for. The rest of the talent show
tomorrow. And yes, please keep those pipes
as a token of my appreciation for bringing this deal to me.
I guess a good thing is I just walked off with it like, thanks,
this is mine. Bye.
I kind of just like. Wave one of my wings and.
Give Shondar. Just like like a salute with the
pipe still hanging on my beak. And you see your hand.
Your your wing moving in the air and you start to think, hey,
that looks funny, why is? My wing like this.
Look at this guys. It comes back and forth like
this. Just start waving it around.
Start chicken. Chuckling, I.
Don't know what that would. Sound like, but that's what I
assume. I don't know if that one.
Sounds like chicken laughter. So you guys go back around to
behind the stage and spin up the plate to get back onto a dune.
We. Have no way to notify the Queen
from here, right? We have to now sail back and
talk to her. Yep.
Yeah. Don't we have any kind of like
remote communication? That sounds like a good next.
Session. Well, that.
And the goblins that you've now promised.
To expunge from the Yep. His Chandar's tunnel do that
first. Sounds like a good time there
and very squishy that. That one in.
Guy in particular was probably about the hardest guy there and
we've got a a bunch of these flaming.
These breath things. I say we bring one case to the
queen. Keep a case for ourselves for
the start of the deal, just as a clarification.
To after he'd like signed. All of the documentation.
Had like a copy being made behind him from his cobalt
accountants and handed handed off a copy and he kept the
original. All right, we'll be legit.
That's fine. OK, cool.
Fill in the manifest says 2K. Two case, yeah.
And for 20? 1000 gold.
Was the deal I heard 10,000 it was.
For 1000. 10,000 gold per. Per crate.
And we got. And we got a free crate for the.
Promise of a date? With the Queen, so I don't know
if that was part of the IT was contract.
Or if this was a side deal. That was the that was a side
deal for this. Time it was a handshake.
Deal this time. So then.
We got Oh, OK, so then the queen is gonna give us. 20,000 when we
get there and we're gonna have 10 grand or so she's gonna she's
gonna give go over the. 20,000, which is new crew.
Yeah, yeah, that's the money to start.
Up the the new merchant system, yeah.
Well guys, we did it. We've become.
Businessmen, Yay. Capitalism.
All right. The Good Campaign.
Has achieved capitalism. Achievement unlocked.
I've achieved what I hate. Now we can do whatever we want.
Meanwhile, then it. Sounds like in Hamilton's.
Rooms. A mirror has appeared.
That is no joke. That is not that is full legit.
Oh. What?
Said you said that there's something.
Yeah, you see a A. Mirror that has.
Appeared. In your.
Corridors. After you accepted yourself
loathing for having made this deal?
Oh so no. I had just have.
To Is that like a metaphor for having to, like, live with
myself? Are you are you looking into the
mirror? It's kind of like propped up
next to the desk. In while or the the.
Bed that you're in, so it's not you can't see it currently, you
just know it's a mirror from looking out of the corner of
your eye and there's it seems to be reflecting you know the other
side of the room, sort of kinda that you're looking at over the
corner of your eye on the side playing two.
Of the mirror, not like a direct.
Shot What does the mirror show? There's a girl.
Inside, she's crawling out. EW, girls.
Nobody likes those, do you Look?
At it though, or. Say that for next time.
I mean we got 5. Minutes you don't want.
To dig into that. Fuck it, yeah.
I'm getting ready to relax and lay down there.
I'd be like, what the hell? Yeah, you get a little paranoid.
As the mirror kind of comes out of the wall, he's like, who the
Hell's watching me? What the fuck is that?
And you my my medicated date. I get up to look at the mirror
like. Is that really there?
So I stared. Deep into the mirror and you
very cautiously. Get in front of it.
And what before you staring in front?
Deep into it. And as you're you get a full
block on the perspective. On the other side you see a
chamber that is illuminated by these glowing pustules of leaves
and branches with a demon figure that's center got its back to
you. And the first thing that you
lock eyes with in your particular state is Flint.
On the other side of the. Year is Flint the demon?
No, Flint is not. A demon.
Currently, he's behind. The demon though.
Oh. OK.
Like following it or facing it. He's.
Facing the demon. Is he in a?
Fighting stance. Or they seem to be.
Talking. You would know you have his
torque. As well.
Oh my gosh, you can talk. To him ask.
Him. Well, I can actually.
Talk to Hardy, not you can see him.
Can you feel? Relax a little.
Bit at seeing him, I guess. Too, and see the rest of the
shadow seekers near. Him that are there, I think you
would definitely notice Ma May and.
Being the big. Goliath that that they are and
trying to trying to think if Hamilton.
Cares that much to notice everybody else but.
Franklin Yeah, would be plainly noticeable.
And don't see the others, But maybe they're behind the demon
from this angle, because they do seem to be.
I've been playing Bad Campaign in a while.
What's? Going on in there.
OK, so yeah, I'm trying to picture this.
So like. There's a demon facing.
Flint like they. Are face to face.
They're, they're. Facing each other.
Yes, but he he's kind. Of he's kind of downhill from.
The demon and the mirror is kind of angled that way too,
honestly. But there's a set of stairs that
seem to lead down to the bottom of a ziggurat that you guys are
standing at, I think at the base at of or at least second level
if I remember correctly. And looking up the demon, yeah,
I have actually missed the evil campaign the last couple.
Times, I think. The demon, the demon I'm talking
about is the one that likes getting hurt.
So you guys have met him? For sure.
OK. OK, OK.
I forgot where that combat took place.
I was still thinking. That we were in the penis.
Caves. You are, but it's it's just
mirror caves. I I remember.
Call me master. Yes, I remember.
Yep, Yep. And we're just trying to figure
out how to break that mirror. But now you apparently.
Have a version of it in your room.
And you're looking through it. And now?
Hamilton will just be staring at the mirror.
What? Watching us beat a demon.
Until it gets off, no, I I because me myself as.
Like a a player I'm like oh. How am I gonna?
How am I gonna react to this? So now I'm gonna play.
I'm gonna play the odds and evens game.
Yeah, I'll give you. I'll give you until.
Next session for it. 'Cause you'll.
You'll see. Some reaction on the other side
of this. If you don't do it, do anything
physical, 'cause this is we're at the exact 10:00 mark.
So if you wanted to give your give your brain some leeway
there until next week, yeah, let's do that.
Sal's going to play the. Odds or Evens?
Games of like. Do I react?
To this or I'm like man, I am bait.
I am imagining shit, yeah. So.
Find out next time on the exciting conclusion of.
Capitalism. Yeah.
But now? We don't have to do well, we.
Have a little bit more. Capitalism and then we can do
whatever we want. With some funds, yes, let's do
it. You guys need to do some
accounting on that fistful of. Dragon gold too, Yeah, we need
to figure out. How?
And give it to the my siblings. They can count it.
They can count it for us. That's what they're for.
Make sure they're pausing. Need to make you.
In a. Shocked expression.
Me. Steal.
Something at the. Same time I steal something from
the table in the. In the ship.
As you're talking to me, steal something as you're just
grabbing a fork and slowly putting it into your pocket.
Yeah, the tail's just constantly grabbing stuff.
Good stuff. Let's cut it back.
Shots all. Around.
Shot. Shot.
Shot, shot, shot.
We're all. CEOs.
Yeah, we did it, guys. I've become what?
I hated yay yay. It feels so good to be.
Successful, I mean. Sure, it's a make believe world
and not real, but right we did it.
That world, we made it. I would like to believe my.
Dad is proud of me. Now.
Dad. Dad, I made.
It I made a huge trade deal, I'm going to be rich.
Really in my game? That's totally.
Made-up I I did it with a red dragon, Juggled.
We juggled goats and gave it to him.
While a chicken. Set him on fire and fed it to
him. Son.
That boy ain't right. That's.
The deepest sigh just where did? I go wrong just like.
Son of a bitch. Good.
Good evening guys. Have a good night.
Good. Night A.
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