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Allelopolis. Well, hello and fuck you, Craig.
Fuck you, Craig. We interrupt.
Your regularly scheduled program for some fuckery.
There we are. With the We've got the Rawl and
Rawlsons and Zenora here on the deck of a Dune.
I believe they just finished a deal.
The Rum Rollers that is to help Gendar with the Goblin problem.
So here we go. I'm just bringing up the map.
I should have gotten it, but I hadn't had it.
That is my fault. It's OK.
I wasn't even online. I was still dimensioning plans.
And yeah, looks like, wow, really miniaturized.
If that is you, Nope, that's a. I am.
Halfling. Because you would returned
actually just after the talent show and haven't been.
I ate some sushi and then I went back on board.
Yeah, and you were very crispy after the dragon indigestion.
I'm just making sure I don't see your character on the map, so
I'm going. To I'm on the top deck over
here. Oh, OK, there we go.
Yeah. It's such a large map.
So many like an onion. Yeah it worked.
It worked better in in the very first system we had.
But this is that old of a map. It's it's I've, I've been
reworking the new one for when she she can fly which is the
eventual plan after the deals are finalized.
I think part of the aspect, just as a reminder, part of the
aspect of the deal was to have a date with Queen Theoda was one
of Shondar's asks. For the good of her people.
He wasn't satisfied with just the nudes he wanted to date.
Yeah, he wants the flesh. I mean in the flesh.
He wants the flesh. He desires to eat her.
Oh no. But you guys did.
What kind of? Way it.
Captain Gulliver, the Red Bull Bolt captain's contract.
That's right as as to be your captain for a new ship and were
the exclusive trade deals with Shondar.
Yup, to be closely monitored to ensure good working
relationship. You know, to succeed in all of
this, we have to fuck up some goblins more.
Or. Less.
Nice. That is probably what the
Royalsons would be telling you when you run into them next, but
you're on the deck and you probably would have heard a Dune
chime in saying too. That seems like everybody's come
back and are celebrating the the deal with Shandar in in the crew
quarters. Might want to join them.
Yep. Yeah, you're totally right.
You may and I will go seek out to the crew in the crew quarters
and look for my buddies. Were you doing anything in the
meantime too? Because it probably was a few
hours that you. Were I probably would have
wanted to relax in the water after being almost burnt to a
crisp for a little bit and contemplate life again as she
tends to. It's always good to reflect.
Yeah. Come to a class of wine.
With you that I'm come to terms with the fact that I'm part of a
crew that really fucks shit up and you know what?
Come to terms with it, It's kind of fun.
Or possibly. And what is Zanora's beverage of
choice? Yes.
Oh oh man, I should have made her a dwarf, because fear would
have been the easiest answer. Or a good ale.
Go for a cider I. Still think I still think she
Yeah, she'd probably be more of like a cider or pale ale type.
Nice. Well, I can provide such of a
cider. Anyways, I have a nice crisp
apple here or do any chimes in. Oh my God, she has apples.
Hell, yeah. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
I would take, I would take you up on that of course.
As you're walking in and seeing the revelries before you, you
notice a cloud of smoke hovering around most everyone else that's
sitting at the table with some newly acquired black Onyx pipes
that seems like they have. And a hand comes up with the her
dune's wooden hand holding a anchored of apples.
Adult apple cider. This adult apple cider, I will
grab it from her and just say thank you and.
My pleasure, Beauty. Take my way through the smoke,
apparently. And you feel yourself getting a
little light headed, even just walking through it and you
realize everybody's got kind of a glazed over eyes look like.
Wolves. Everyone's high as hell.
No wonder they're not here. I'm just.
I will push my way through the smoke to get past.
You might be able to duck under it at your height.
Yeah, I'm short, yeah. Just trying to not get
inebriated from the smoke. You people do really good at
fighting fires, don't you? Yeah, I mean, I'm like 3 feet.
I'm like 3 feet tall. So I think all the smoke would
be above my head. I don't even have to drop.
I can just roll. I just stop and roll.
In the space with ceilings of like 7 to 8 feet.
Yeah, I don't have to worry about any smoke at my level.
Yeah, I'll make my way through to see if there's anyone who's
not completely fucked up by this.
It looks like Probably Rural is the only one that's not
partaking, but he is in his pile of plush pillows that are
vibrating and guessing and have sounded like you had asked a
dune for a massage through some of her hands that come up
through the floorboards and are massaging here, maybe giving you
some scratches too. Oh yeah, I mean all four of us
just like this is the best place we've ever experienced.
Definitely like all laying on their backs like paws in the
air, just doing my like the the, the air biscuits as we sit there
and you and I'll kind of look over and be like, oh you're here
good. You were not here for the deal.
I kind of just around we did it high five and then I kind of
look around and say adune, can you high five her?
Another of her hands come out of the deck, prop ready at your
exact height too, Zanora. I will high 5 adune.
Nice roll performance, no? Oh God, I can if you want me to.
Why not I miss and 1st roll? First roll.
Let's see with the, with the what it's going to be like
today. Oh, it's not nice, it's.
Why did it roll twice? It rolled twice.
I don't know why. I see a 7 on this side.
OK, it rolled twice on my screen for some reason, and the first
roll that was on my screen was a natural one.
But it's a seven, yeah. It that's what came through, it
was a 7, so. Yeah, it wasn't a natural one.
I don't know what that never happened.
You kind of you kind of overestimate a little bit and
put a little bit more effort than you were wanting to into
the hand. I'm so used to using my fists as
weapons, the whole act of just not being vicious with it throws
me off. But you you still make contact,
I'd say with A7, so a nice resounding.
Nice. OK, Well, that's good.
What are the terms for the deal? Is everything done?
Is there anything more we have to do?
Yeah, we have to, And he kind of stares blankly off into the
distance, snapping his fingers. We have to complete the deal,
which means we have to get the, the, the jars back to the Queen
at some point. And I think part of the deal is
we have to convince the Queen to go on a date one time with
Shondar. But you know, like the entire
future of her people's magical potential is at stake.
So like I think she can suck it up for like one night.
I did not promise him in the in the hanky panky.
So you know that will be on him to use his charms.
OK. Oh, also, they asked.
I don't know if it was part of the deal or if we would be paid
separately. I think it was separately.
But if we kill all of the goblins or make them go away or
something, he stares off again, unsure.
Then we'll get like more money. Or that's part of the deal
already. I don't remember.
I hold up a pipe. Do you want to smoke?
I'm good on the smoke, but they have a goblin problem here and
you say? Are you with me?
When we, like, came here when we do, did that cool fly over?
What? Was below deck.
Oh, you are below deck. OK, so in order to get here, let
me, let me just back up a second.
To get here. We went through like this big
jungle and then we got to a cave mouth.
And at The Cave mouth we saw that there was like like an army
of kobolds fighting an army of of goblins.
And then we're like, Oh no, how are we going to get through?
And then we were like, of course we can just fly.
So somebody cast fly on me and then everyone jumped like got on
my back or the like. The two people that were there,
I think they were like little little little people like you,
which is why I thought you were one of them.
I don't know. You all look the same to me.
I'm going to ignore that comment.
I mean, you don't have any fur. OK, that I can accept.
Yeah, no, we do all of this. Yeah, we we use distinguishing
patterns in the 3rd to determine who is who.
So like looking at you is just like a like a white blank cat.
This like a white cat anyway. So like we they got on my back
and then they cast fly on me. And then I went really fast all
the way through and there was like this big battle of Cobols
and goblins and the goblins were trying to fight.
And then I got bored the other night and I went and fought
another one, which was kind of fun until he blew himself up.
By the way, they will blow themselves up, but he was like a
mage, but yeah. And this?
They're over there and he just kind of gestures and then stops
and then realizes they're on a dune up the mountain.
OK, well it seems that most people are partaking in some
fun, but if you're bored enough again, we could go maybe scope
it out beforehand. You see, Royal's irises just
expand to huge, like hunting like black pools.
Yes, they shall kill them and their sleep.
We may not get to that point, but if there's an opportunity,
yes. Sure.
Should we go talk to someone about like this?
Because I have no idea if anything I said was true.
I don't think there's anyone else.
Doesn't doesn't Shondar have like a manservant, like a like a
second that? Is true, we could Whoever do you
know who gave you the task? Sean Dye, Yeah, when we were
talking to him. OK, was there his.
His. Loose looking I point at a just
like a pile of loose papers. There's some papers there.
I don't know if they say anything, but otherwise we can
ask someone that kind of shrug. I'm going to, I'm going to look
at the papers. On the papers you see a lot of
legal terminology. Oh God.
Yeah. I mean, I'm not stupid.
I have a 13 intelligence. The deal and you could roll an
insight if you wanted to look, you know deeper into it but more
or less the overarching language.
And it seems to seems to be setting up trade terms and and
and agreements with the rum rollers and Shondar for his
breaths in exchange for regular shipments of 10,000 gold.
A crate and A and a crate that he would fill up with Dragon's
breath inside of these jars that that they that are, that are to
be supplied to them as well in exchange for, yeah, the breath
and that that's pretty much the deal.
There's some other riders on top of it that you can tell, but
that's. When you give me an A role
opportunity, I'm going to take it.
Yeah. And that was damn good.
That's a It was too. You can tell the deal is pretty
fair. It's actually if anything may be
more in the favor of the room rulers, especially in the long
term because of the the the profits that are going to be
coming from the queen. So this is gonna become sort of
a monopoly so to say with with your with, with that in mind
you, you you know that no one else really has this agreement
because there was a rider for that too, that it would only be
with the Rum Rulers and the subsidiaries of the Rum Rulers
Gulliver, one of the first captains to be it with Mommy
being like the oh shoot, what was the term you used actually
last time? Admiral.
Admiral of of the fleet, that of of any ships that would
transpire in the future. So it it's a pretty sweet deal.
All and all. And there's nothing about the
goblins in there. Not in the actual agreement, no.
So it is a side mission. Wow.
More money, more. Money.
More extra money for us. More stuff for us.
Yeah, so. And he kind of, like lifts
himself up off of the vibrating pillows and then just kind of
like shakes and pulls A comb out and his siblings rise and they
all begin brushing him down. He'd hold his arms out and like
AT pose as they do. So once I'm done getting
groomed, we can run up, talk to the guy, see what the deal is,
maybe see if anything that we can do, the two of us, and then
go from there. Yeah, it sounds good.
How long does your grooming normally take?
Oh, not long, only a couple minutes.
They are quite fast now. OK.
And there's three of them. That's true.
They begin licking me. So what if it's weird and she's
going to go wait on the? Top.
Deck. Oh, his.
Brother's licking down. Finish Finish your your cider
while they're while they're you can roll me a performance on
that if you wanted. Rural and sure.
It's not weird. It's part of our culture.
Stop it. As you're finishing your beer
there, Zenora, you you could roll me a constitution saving
through. Oh. 21. 14 you're You can tell
that they're experts and they're halfway done before you're even
out the door, but they start to get a little distracted as per
usual anyways too with like some tickly spots but for your 14 if
you it's it's a it's a good party but also light and airy
cider with notes of almost maybe is it 3 apples.
You, you can tell almost distinctly tasting everything
from the rind to the flesh of the apple in in it, but at the
same time still that yeasty undertones of of a strong beer.
But. You're not inebriated or
anything with that 14, so. And I fucking shouldn't be.
I have a 14 Constitution deniers.
I should be able to handle my liquor.
I hope I'm point. Don't monks become immune to
like poison? Yeah, I think later on down the
road. Get used to getting no longer
getting drunk soon. I know it'll be depressing.
Some of my you don't. Have to get magic alcohol.
Yeah, so my druids can't get drunk anymore because of, like,
their circle that they're part of gives them like immunity to
poison. Yeah, magic.
Alcohol is the thing. Druidic focus is really the true
A A. It's how many?
What level is a 14 step process? I think you probably get at that
level of 14 or 8 or something. Anyway, I finish greeting grade.
10th level, Tenth level is when I lose my ability to get.
I'm halfway there. And step process.
So you you noticed that Zenora went out onto the deck, as she'd
said she was, and you're pretty sure she probably didn't
completely finish her beer yet. While you're finishing up your
grooming, you'd probably walk out onto the deck looking for
her. Not sure which one you're
looking through right now. She's gonna grab one and put him
on the deck because you'd probably.
They're all the same. The Zenora doing whatever
wherever you'd prop yourself up on if you wanted to describe.
I'd probably be like leaning against the mast that, like
faces the downstairs so that I can see when Ronald gets up.
OK, so it's a you poke your head out then, and not even fully
out, and you see her staring directly and you at you.
Oh. Yeah, we throw my head again and
then I I'm going to try to sneak around outside of the window and
then crawl along the exterior of the ship and scare her.
OK, so she's she's seen you definitely stick your head out
the first time I would say, but but you're going back in.
OK. So then go ahead and roll me a
yeah. Still, and this would be
contested, I think, against your perception, Sonora?
Oh goodness. I don't have a high bonus to my
perception, So let's see how this comes.
Yeah, no, I'm not going to do shit.
It's a 40. My God.
I mean I have a + 9 so. Yeah, and you're going to you're
going to sink up on me no matter what, unless you roll a natural
one. Exactly so still have.
To roll 5 S Wait no. 14. 14 So I sneak out.
I sneak out like one of the portholes or windows or
something, crawl along the side of the ship stealthily and then
sneak up behind her and then just like sit down and like
start munching on like an apple or something like that, and then
just feel like, So Are you ready to go?
I definitely jump like 5 feet into the air.
Just like fuck. Yeah, yes, I'm.
I'm ready. You think you're going to be OK,
but in like the goblin horde, he looks at you a little like a
little concerned. I will be fine.
OK, we should probably get you like a little harness backpack
so that you can ride on my shoulders when I go.
Fast. I think I will be perfectly fine
going alongside you. OK, and he hops up in the turns
to leave ready. Yeah.
OK, let's hold hands the way there.
We'll pause, pause, make our way.
You get back into the Crew quarter real quick and whoever
wants to spin up the plate, me may allows it for this for this
instance. Oh yeah, I'll spin it.
I assume. Do you have a good performance?
I have a plus one to performance so you go for it. 14.
That that's a success, if you wanted to describe it.
We're on the ship. I guess what he'll do is balance
it on the edge of like the counter and then spin it there
dangerously close to the edge but not actually falling off.
You get it right to the edge of the table and spin it, and it
starts to spin as an actual plate, but then rolls just off
the table to turn into the portal, creating that little bit
of suspense. Whoa, that was.
Fun. Let's go.
And he zips through it'll. Be right after him.
I immediately dash, dash, dash, and run as fast as I can to make
it seem. Like I will.
I will. I will do the same thing and
then I end up 15 feet in front of you.
Shit. How did you do that?
You had tiny little legs. Here we go.
You guys would be actually somewhere over here.
All the goats are gone. I haven't yet been.
Ripped to the goats, they all got munched or lava.
Here we go. You guys come through the portal
where you'd stashed it behind the wall, near the beds that the
goats had all eaten. Earl kind of looks at it and
then looks at Sonora. Should we take the plate?
Right. Yeah, I think so.
Yeah, you think so? Yeah.
OK. He picks it up.
Well, I hope she's not, man. Captain Mimi doesn't get mad
about this, but you know. Hey, we needed to get back onto
the ship and we can leave it in a good place for infiltration.
I've looked over. That's not a bad idea.
That's true. Yeah.
OK, good plan. Guys have full movement.
Yes, we take lip late. Yeah, rural.
Just kind of looks around, doesn't see the guy immediately.
Should we start screaming? Just start.
We don't see anyone, so we just start screaming.
You know the center of the room, just staring at the ceiling.
I'm going to move over towards the stage to see if I can see
anyone there. Which token are you?
OK, you're grabbing that one, trying to update the tokens the
same time. But I was like, wait, which
token do I delete? Of the couple Roralsons that
we're on this side still. Let's see if I can give myself.
A little aura. Nope, it's too big.
You go towards the stage and realize it's been still closed.
There are some, you know, a bunch of hoof prints prints
around and you hear kind of off in the distance still, and
you're not sure if it's maybe just a memory but a.
Borrow Did any of the goats escape?
I don't remember. None of them did.
Right. I mean, I shrug.
I didn't. I wasn't in charge of counting
them. I was in charge.
I wasn't either. I was, yeah.
I was part of the stack to feed. So why?
And no, no reason is the with the stage.
Is there like a door I can knock on that is like indicating
that's closed or like? Oh you you know that it it's
curtain was a was a was a physical wall that was activated
by a level lever and when you are looking at it a little bit
more closely and not during performance time you you do see
a little kind of cobalt sized man door which would probably
fit you if you. I am small.
I'm going to at least #1 try and open the door to see if it's
open. OK, yes, you you grab a hold of
the handle. It is unlocked.
You're able to open it and see out the.
Other side whether it's that's that's the number one thing to
check first for sure. It's good to have, good to have,
good to have a checklist for doors.
But yeah, you stepped through it, no problem.
You stand on an empty stage where there seems to be some
cobalts milling around in the audience area, some of which it
look like to be setting up for the The rest of the performers
that are going to you, you can only presume, can presume that
it they're coming today because you guys had performed.
A. We did it.
Really. Yeah.
Do I recognize any of the Cobols or or?
You definitely notice that the ones in the back in the with the
best view kind of center stage if you will, are not so not
quite far in the back, but are look like the judges that were
there the other day. I'm gonna pop my head back out
to Rural Inn, say, Were any of the judges that were there for
our performance there for when the goblin deal was made?
He makes a history check 'cause he doesn't.
Know. With this advantage because they
don't have fur. Fair. 11.
With disadvantage. Nice.
You're you're like cracking your brain and you're like I.
Don't have. Fur, but they have scales and
you're like, there's this one. He kind of had some clothing
scales have. Patterns.
And then the scales on his face were a little bit like.
Yeah. Scalier than the others, you
think. You think you're better than
one? Of them.
I think so. I shrug.
They kind of have the same facial patterns, but I have no
idea. You work with patterns that
would make sense. OK, I'm going to pop back in.
Yeah, I'm going to walk towards the the group of the judges.
So you go across the stage and maybe down.
I'll hop down with Sage. And walk walk over to them
setting up. Hi, excuse me.
Oi, hello, little Missy. Hi, yeah, I was part of the
performance yesterday with the the, the goats, you know.
Oh, that you were? Were any of you present for,
like, the conversation afterwards, the deals struck and
you talk about, like, you know, infiltrating the goblin camp?
And one of them off to the side, the one that hadn't been talking
first, stretches and that was me.
Name's Trist. Hi Trist, would you mind coming
back behind the stage with me for my partner and I had to get
some more information about this Goblin camp and anything you can
provide for us like information wise for us before we set off on
an infiltration mission. He kind of side eyes the group
of his his other friends that are judges and they just both
both. The other two shake their heads.
No. Yeah, sorry.
It's in the rules that not allowed to go backstage before
final judgings have been taken place.
Unless permitted for curtain calls.
Usually we have somebody else even on that.
OK, is there some way? That I bribed.
Nope. OK.
Is there some way that I can get my much taller page view it over
here? That that would be fine, yeah.
And full view of everyone here. Yeah.
OK. How do I how how would I
approach them that like like opening up, you know, so that
they can walk through the stage because right now it's closed.
Back there. And this is more of a hats off
reminder. You have a communication device
around your neck. Rural.
You can you can make your way to the front of the stage right?
Cut pans to rural who's currently doing the the Fortnite
dance behind Just board in the in the corner and he's like oh
what? Oh yeah, sure.
Just go the way that you kind of went.
Through the through the you can fit Through the small door I.
Don't know. I will start wandering around,
Marco. Do I hear the Marco?
Out, Marco. Do I hear it through through the
torque? Eat both.
Probably. Still holding it on.
Oh wait, no, I don't have a torque.
Oh, right, you do. You don't though.
I was going to point out while you were standing here, I just
took your I went, took into effect affect your view because
I can do that to other people. Have to do it sometimes to see
what you guys can actually see. And you would have probably even
amongst the cobalt that we're going through, see the peeking
blue hair in between the crowd of Zanora in this direction.
Oh cool. There's more than one way.
I will make my way that way once my screen stops being frozen.
No. That's not off we go, I'm VPN.
Oh, into a different computer. So it like, drops suddenly.
What's up guys? High 5.
No, what's up? OK.
They're in the midst of, like, setting up chairs, and they just
look at you like, yeah, sure, right, High 5.
Yeah, these guys get it. I gave you.
You got Shandar to to crisp you guys.
Yeah, that was painful. I'd give you a tip, but they
don't have any money. Oh well, we were always open for
some gold. Yeah, I know.
But I don't have any. I chose my pockets.
I gave it to someone else. Someone else around here.
Anyway, bye. What I feel like giving like,
all of your gold to someone. Yeah, in the hopes that they
would help us with the with the tournament, but.
We shall see. That is true.
OK, so you made your way over it.
I'll be like, oh, here is said tall compatriot.
OK. Is there any information that
you can provide us for our infiltration that the two of us
will be doing before taking care of the problem?
Well, Tris starts to kind of like wide eyed after seeing Raul
come over, realizing that you what what you're talking about
even more so now. Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah. Yeah.
There's a the the You're going to get the best information
though, from one of our commandants, whoever is in
charge currently at the Garrison at the door to the to the
tunnels, because they're they're the ones in charge of the front
lines. But the the gist of what I've
been hearing, at least in my position here, is that it's just
been an ongoing battle. It seems like they never seem to
stop their flow, you know that? There always seems to be more of
them somehow, and we don't understand where they're coming
from because they just keep coming.
We keep killing them and feeding them to various things.
But yeah, we do. We do not understand.
Interesting. And what's the life cycle of a
goblin like? Like maybe they're just like
breeding them like soldier people.
That's. Never really thought to ask them
how they do that. Yeah.
Shondar just kind of decided this was going to be his home
after he got kicked out of his and we were tasked with rooting
out the vermin. Oh, so they lived here first?
You could say that. That's going to be extra.
I turned to the Moira, but that's an additional cost, you
know, the legal fee. You have to take.
Care of that and Socrates, you know just one of those things
anyway, so you want them all dead.
That's cool. Or gone like what is the
parameters are here, You just want them off the island?
That really, honestly, even just out of the volcano that we we've
been not not only given, you know, the task of getting rid of
them one way or another, but you know, to keep Chandar's riches
well protected. So to do that, we really need
them to just not be in the volcano which, which is where
the riches have been hidden that you wear, but you know.
Oh yeah, I totally get it. I mean, here's another question
I turn to, sorry, Say, have you considered maybe like, I don't
know, like investing like Shondar has all of this gold,
but it's not the making. Him.
Any money? Now let me sell you on this
portfolio for stock invest. A small contribution of 10
million gold could net you a return of 100 million gold in
less than a year. It's played right and I happen
to know a stock company that is up and can't.
Even take himself seriously. He just.
Stares. At you dumbly while you're going
on and on and he goes, goes. Sorry, I get really hyped about
business. That's a boss.
Why had you? You could talk to Shondar about
that, but. Why not you?
You could be rich. Not sure how give giving money
to to to people in stocks, you know like stockades.
I I don't understand how that gets me, buddy.
No. No, no.
OK. They give it this way.
We're never in equal trade at this rate.
Right. I'll say one more thing.
No. I love it.
It's hilarious. What if Shondar was to say, fund
a new highway on the continent and then every, you know, like
couple miles there's like a toll station where if you want to
continue using the highway, you have to pay a little bit of
money and you know, there's a lot of people that go through
there. So a small investment of say $10
million or gold with the net you.
I mean, what's the oldest Rd. in existence?
I mean right Untold profits. So highways are roads now?
What's the? I mean, that's what we call them
back in my home because they're up in the trees.
Oh, so you want to build tree roads for people?
I'm. Just going to look at them.
All right. Maybe I'll talk to someone else
about this. Do you have a Planning
Commission? Do you?
Have a steering Commission. Anyway.
Does have have some accountants that he he deals with.
I know that he'd had one of one of them with him.
During your other dealings you might talk to him.
They generally, they generally sit together in his office
though, you know. He was.
He was a nerd. Yeah.
All right, I stand up and I slap him on the shoulder.
You want to go talk to the the the gate guard guy?
Yeah, the the tunnel guards. What direction are they in?
Where's the gate? I turn back to the guy.
Finger guns. Just points directly east, so
perfect from the map orientation.
In the Hey, I sit down with them.
You're a good guy. I just want you to know if
you're ever looking for investment opportunities or you
want to be at your own home one day or be rich, just let us
know. We're ground floor company
making our way up and I give it a business card that I don't
have and then I walk away. You actually would have a
business card. Remember.
Fuck yeah, because did. I make business cards.
Of course I did. It was actually Socrates that
had been using the business cards they have, they've just
been calling them cards, but it makes sense to either which way
because there was one for the driver and you guys had kind of
talked to. That's right.
What's his name? That's right.
And we bought one of the stupid card makers.
Yep, so. Yeah.
We probably would at least have. You would have gotten bored at
some point and made. Hell yeah, a few of them of.
Course you would. And he looks at the card like
real confused 'cause it's just a piece of paper basically, which,
I mean, you could explain it, but I can tell you what it does
if you don't remember either. I have no idea.
I totally forgot this existed until 5 seconds ago when I tried
to hand someone a business card. It's.
It's more or less a imbued with the user's intent in the sense
that it can be used mainly as a communication device for for
business and in a way to contact people that you've interacted
with quickly. Oh my God, we used it when we
were the brothers. Yeah, we did.
And I just realized. My God.
This thing could be later in the game.
So you you've more or less handed him a piece of paper that
you can say, yeah, you just hold that and will it to talk to me
and we can have a communication. I do that.
Here, take this. If you ever get your hands on
some money and you say to yourself, gosh, I wish I was
richer, you let me know. We'll turn that money into more
money. You'll see.
Yay, he just says and like pockets the card, but looks at
you and then leans over to his friend.
If you want to hear what he's whispering, go ahead and roll me
a perception. Sure, I'm serious.
I rolled an 18 to listen in. Oh.
Nice. Perception.
I just want to roll flat to see. Natural one for A. 4.
I mean. Raul's confident and he walks
away. Please don't stay.
I'm staying back to listen. Oh no, that's a that's a natural
20. I'm not going to hear shit then.
The only thing you do here is he wants me to incest my gold.
That's how more gold is made. And a mommy gold and a daddy
gold. Oh, grow up together.
And Sister Gold. Oh gosh, she's shaking her head
and walking off after. Full confidence.
So are the guards these guys or are they further in to the
right? You guys are walking towards a
giant barricaded looking metal door that takes the entrance
into the belly of the volcano that you're familiar with Rarl.
And you're like, Oh yeah, that's where that guy was.
Jeffrey was doing magic tricks for him, too.
Right. I locate that dude since I think
that was who I talked to. Yeah, you see him still standing
there and he waves vigorously and goes, all right, where's?
All your brothers. They're thinking a nap.
Well, OK, that's good to be off the clock I guess.
I am, yeah. I've only got a few hours left
in mine my shift. Doesn't is.
Don't your kind die like? I mean, like, don't you have
like a really low, like a low lifespan?
He looks a little like aghast. That's not usually good table
talk. Oh, I'm.
Sorry, that was rude of me. This is my friend Zanora Zanora.
We were hoping you could help give us some insights on this
Goblin Camp or Goblin Outpost within the volcano.
How to Any information you can give us about the goblins that
seem to be an issue within the volcano?
Well, I am kind of the lead on this side.
I can't have do pass some of my orders off here.
Timothy's usually the runner, and he points to the guard
that's standing next to him. Also my backup in case I have to
take a piss anyhow. Well, the rundown is basically
we've been holding them and he pauses for a second. 33 bends
back, I think it is, and he holds up all three of his
fingers and go. You can tell he's missing a
couple from, you're guessing, missed endeavours.
Goblins. Yeah, and he is fully armored.
He's he's as far as kobalts go and you know, and he's at least
got some of the better polished armor that the others don't
have. And he's saying to that, well,
it seems like they've been holding pretty tight at that
line. They've somehow managed to
create a looks like they've just kind of hunkered down for now.
But they they've they had been slinging magic at us for for a
while, but it seems like that's slowed down, which is good
because we didn't have too many magic users on our side after
the first few confrontations were a little loose, Quick and
loose with ours, they they definitely have some way to
replenish themselves faster than us.
Not sure what it is. You haven't gotten any sort of,
like glimpses into this. Like, hold down that they have,
like this stronghold that they've kind of created within
this tunnel system. We sent some scouts out a while
back, especially when we first got here and that's kind of what
gave us rise to understand that they they they must have been
living here for quite some time because not many of them came
back. The scouts that is and the ones
that have been coming back now still haven't really penetrated
past this line. Now that they've set up, we've
we've pushed them back to this point.
They were closer up into the the central part of the volcano, but
luckily Shondar is pretty quick and easy with light in the place
up for us to come into from that side of things.
Fire doesn't quite make it down through all these twists and
turns easily, though. That makes sense.
OK. Kind of look at the wire.
You mean Zanora? Zanora, sorry.
So good. So bad with names.
Interesting. So based on what I know about
the Dragon's breath, is that essentially like, is it, is it
Dragon's breath? Is it like fire?
Is that what it like essentially is that we're collecting in
jars? Yes, but it's a magical sort of
fire, and it's specific to Dragons in that they they create
the fire themselves. It's kind of just like the.
Air will become fire sort of thing.
Yeah. So when they when they the thing
that you you've you've seen him when he did 1-2 because he gave
you one like as a sample basically to to to test the jar
one and two to show you what what it would take for him and
he blew into it for a while. He had to fully inhale and fully
exhale once and he was even in his human form when he did it,
just with like slightly modified mouth.
But he I don't know if that answers your question or not.
I think it does. So here's what I'm thinking I'd
like to Zamora. We have something that Shondar
did not have before, which is a way to capture and contain his
breath. The problem, as you just stated,
is that when he does use his breath, it does not extend the
far into the caverns. Far enough, at least, to burn
out these rats, as you call them, yes.
More or less. So now we have the capacity to
carry his fiery breath into the cavern and ignite it where it
needs to be ignited, specifically and hopefully at
the source of wherever it is that they are replenishing
themselves from. That would, you know, be like a
like a like a really good strong strike.
I mean as this new technology to me, but sounds like relatively
sound logic as a as a as the main combat coordinator here
Commander if you will, I. Don't.
Know if your. Refuel.
Would work very well. Unless you could convince
Shandar to wander through these caverns with you, or provide
enough that you could easily not need them, and I'm not sure how
big they are, let alone what what it would take to open and
close. It sounds like a container of
some sort you're talking about. If you're.
If you know in opening it, does it provide enough force to
potentially harm your the the person opening it, so on and so
forth? I I don't.
I just don't know enough about the technology itself.
To sure straight in sure we would need some sort of ignition
system for it or something. But I mean we can come up with
that of course at another time, I think I turned to our mission
is to discover how they are, replenish their numbers, maybe
locate where that is, set up a little base that we could have
our plate for when everyone else gets here.
And yeah, what about from the beach?
What about because we came in from the beach side and we went
through the fight like what if what what about this The other
front from from the beach? Because right now it seems like
you're on like defending from one size, right?
Yes, we're able to procure Shondar's help for any supplies
up and around. So what we would do is normally
just beach and or you know land, whatever craft it is and then
able to transport supplies directly from the top of the
volcano in. He fairies the town.
Correct. Yes.
He's been meaning to work with someone.
Maybe he can work some deal out with the Queen, because
apparently she has some flying machines.
That would be nice for him, I'm sure.
I write that down in a notebook called New Business Ideas.
And he goes on to say. But if the the the problems
rooted out in these caverns, we could probably get to work on
creating a more direct path through them too.
Right now they're basically lava tube, old lava tubes for the
volcano itself. Sure.
I'm just wondering if that's a better approach.
Should we go through the fight here or sneak through the back
if they, as you say, there's no fighting there, right?
They're not expecting to be fought there, so they are like
being not watching. We we have come in from that
side once or twice just to see if we can make it to this side
and those contingents barely make it through and we're only
able to kind of squeeze them through or sneak them through
around different different ways around the line, you know
because the tunnels are all twisting and turning.
So sometimes that line that we've we've established now can
change but not by much and usually like I'd said the the
ones that get through are. US or aren't a big big bunch of
us. I stop and think to myself, what
would you pay for a map of a direct route from here to there,
like the twists and turns of the tunnel?
I don't. Because we came through here,
from the beach, through those tunnels, through the fight, in
the battle to visit Chandar versus going up and over.
Well, I mean, it would be potentially useful as long as
they're not changing the tunnels on us either.
That's true. Do they are they are well known
for digging. OK, turns to Zenora.
What? Do you have any other questions
for him? It sounds like the best plan of
attack is go through the beach side and then sneak in and try
to find whatever is going on. Oh wait, do they take prisoners
often or do they just kill them? Because I look at Zenora and she
is she about the right size for a goblin.
I mean, like, honestly, yeah. Yeah.
'Cause I have proficiency in the disguise kit, let.
Me check. Also, by the way, Cobalt's 135
years. Damn, that's pretty good.
I thought it was. Like a lot longer than I thought
it would be. Yeah, I thought it was like 6
months, I thought. They Yeah, I thought they
didn't. I definitely did not think that
they lasted longer than humans at the very.
Least. Because I was thinking I could
disguise myself as like a warg, you know, like a like a goblin's
mount somehow. And then you could disguise
yourself as a goblin, and then we just go.
That is actually like a pretty smart plan for sure.
Three 3 1/2 feet. So I am, yeah.
Yeah, I'm in that for sure all. Right.
I think we've got the plan. Here's the next question.
Do you know Goblin? I don't know goblin.
I know ogre. I know common haffling and ogre.
I. Well, they could probably speak
common, but they would probably wonder.
But you know, you just have to sell it.
Do know of an item that and I don't know if I actually should
be saying this, but. I lean forward.
As we're pretty close, he looks, of course, to see if you are
hiding any gold behind your ear again, because he can't tell if
you're Jeffrey or not, you know? And he he he keeps going on
though, and he says he does have quite a vast array of of things.
But for that goblin conundrum you have, I think he had
something in his treasures that could potentially help.
Not sure. If he'd part part.
With it. Like.
Probably. And he starts to rub his chin
and look over at Timothy. And Timothy starts like his eyes
get large and he starts shaking his head back and forth, and
he's like, ah, come on, you owe me the other day for buying your
drinks. And he just, like, shrugs.
And he goes, You want me to go into the Treasury and retrieve
the item without Shondar knowing, ah, these guys are
good. They'll bring it back.
I give a big smile. We're in the good campaign.
You don't know what that means. Sorry.
They're good guys. See.
He said so and and Timothy gets kind of like a scared look in
his face and it's like that like that boss telling you something
to do that you don't want to do kind of look.
But he he goes, can we at least get some reassurances on that?
I mean, I don't know. I mean, I don't know the quality
of the item, so I don't know how much like money to put down,
but. That wouldn't that wouldn't
really be the problem. It's more that these are the
he's got a quite a lot of them. But they're they're closely
cracked. They're basically all-purpose
communicators to to just put the cards on the table for you here.
What you're what you're looking what we're talking about.
They're they're not cheap. Rural leans forward even
further. Excuse me, all-purpose
Communicators. Yeah.
Can you listen in? I don't think there's a back
door. It's really just a vicinity
activated thing so anybody inside of it and you could use
it for such a thing. I'm guessing this is where my
commander is coming from, at least because he's these things
are are quite useful. We've used them in a fair other
few dealings because we're not and he kind of points.
Why don't we just ask? You mean ask Shondor and he
starts to relax a second? Yeah.
I mean, if you do it, he he. That might work.
Or like the guy that gave us the the job, just be like hey and
all for this job. Can we use these?
I don't want to ruin our business relationships by like
having people steal from him immediately.
Yeah, probably not the best idea when we haven't even finished
the first deal. Yeah, and I'm pretty sure, like,
why would he say, I understand they're expensive, but like, I
mean, maybe he will. I pull out a card and I hand it
to the Mora Zanora. Be like this thing would let you
like message me I guess, But like this sounds like better.
Yeah, I mean, I don't think we're going to be split apart
too much, but I'll hold on to this just in case.
You are. Yeah, I forgot that you didn't
have a torque. Yep.
Why don't you go and let's see. Shoot, we have to run all the
way back there and talk to the guy again.
Do you guys have like passengers you need to carry like letters?
That all works around you. And he looks.
The commander looks over at Timothy with his eyebrows raised
and hand out. And you just sighs.
I'll take a letter. Yeah.
We'll write beautiful letter. The best letter ever.
Top quality 10 out of 10 my friends say That describes our
plan, what we hope to achieve like a thesis, like a like a
like a intro paragraph, a middle section, the conclusion and then
the request at the end for assistance in the form of a
temporary loan of those communicators with a sub clause
that has like a like AI don't know, like a rent to own
feature. Maybe not.
No, I won't do that. Maybe we'll ask for these in
return. I'd strike that last clause and
then package it up with my goodwill.
Put a little lavender scent on it, spritz it, put it in an
envelope, stamp it and give it to the guy.
Address it, even though I'm here very formal.
Timothy, during the whole process, while you're like
contemplating, each little part starts to reach for the letter
each time that you stop writing, like he's ready to go.
Slapping his hand. You you spend like an hour back
and forth doing this, and then he takes the letter once you're
finally done and finished with the spritzing, and then he goes.
Alright, you've done. Yeah, I am.
My hand's a little sore. Who could give me a paw massage
while we wait for you? And then Timothy just walks
away. Thank you.
Gosh. The help here is so good.
You're can you can roll me a persuasion just for for how well
you rewarded that. Roro's just so entitled.
He's just like a college age white kid from like,
Connecticut. Yeah, like on Daddy's money.
Like the whole shebang wears the polos all day, every day.
Call her. Up.
Damn. Only an.
Age. Call her up.
Call. With advanced police.
With advantage. Hell, yeah, right there.
There we go, 18. Oh yeah, better.
One for my friend, Two. You're gonna love this.
You see Timothy in short order, less, less, less than less than
half the time it took you to write the letter, jogging back
with a with a with a huge grin on his face and saying he he's
he's down. Awesome.
Thumbs up and and commander sounds.
That's great. Go ahead and go to the vault and
then he he stops and he's like. They.
Start dropping off. Again into the into the lava
tubes cracked side. Eyes and Nora, and then just
kind of like like raise my eyebrows and like lift my
eyebrows towards the guy jogging off to the Treasury and the give
a little shrug shoulder. I know the direction that he
goes. Oh, OK, she's she's scratching
on now. You see him disappear behind the
the big door. I'm not doing, I'm not going to
be doing anything, but we know the.
Direction. I know the general direction.
For the future. Or, you know, we're in the good
campaign though, so. This this time.
It How good is a dragon? That's the real question.
It it takes about half of the time that it took you to write
the letter, but he comes jogging back again.
Last time it took him less than half the time.
Now it's taking half the time, so we'll twice.
We're about, we're about at the same amount of time now at this
rate. Yeah.
So basically like 2 hours later he comes back with the two
pieces and they look basically like pins that you could pin on
to your person that are in in the shape of like a a tongue.
And actually there's several tongues on it.
They're kind of like arrayed in like a star formation.
There's like a a like the variety of of tongues.
What kind of tongue do you want to have?
Golden Pendant. I always thought about getting
one of those cool split tongues and being like a more ferocious
pirate, but then I figured it wouldn't do well for speaking.
No, I don't think it would. You'll probably have a lisp and
be hard to understand. OK, I guess I'll take the pin
and pin it on myself, since I'm going to be the one turning into
a goblin. Yeah, In the meantime, while we
were waiting for him, we would have, I would have done the the,
the, the disguise. Yeah.
And there was a the go ahead and roll for that.
I think it's normally dexterity and proficiency together.
OK. Hold on, I have a like a a cat.
And you could potentially, if it's dexterity and proficiency,
your proficiency bonus, because that's what gets you the
proficiency bonus is your kit, if I remember correctly.
Uh huh. Yeah.
If you're with the kit, it's not like your Dexterity modifier,
your proficiency bonus together on the role, yeah.
So I'll do Dex plus proficiency. Yeah, and you could make a skill
like that too if you wanted to. A specific skill that would be
like discussions. And then if I if I specifically
take our take my time with it, can can I get advantage if I'm
not trying to rush this? Yeah, you wanna tell me what
your reference is so to say? Because.
I walk over to the the guy and I'm like, can I see a dead
goblin and a dead warg, if you have one?
Oh well, I can't really leave my post.
And then he just yells to the crew.
That's like setting up over at the stage really loud.
Just a a name that's unintelligible.
Unintelligible to you because he's yelling it so loud.
Just kind of sounds like OI and one of them comes jogging out of
the bunch that's setting up and he goes, oh, I'm gonna need.
A. Walk in a goblin corpse from the
pile and just raises and one of the one of his eyebrows and a.
Female goblin, if you can with like you know, like a cool
outfit. I'd look at Zoonora and what do
you think? Yeah, I mean, just a female one
would be fine. We can just batter my clothes up
a little bit. And he raises both eyebrows and
the commander says hop to it and he just jumps in the spot and
turns around and goes behind one of the other walls that are set
up in inside of the volcano. And just about at the same time
that you're pinning the pinning yourself with it and comes back
with the with them, he's it's just him dragging these two
corpses and the warg is like twice the size.
So he's he's had to like, man, handle it on top of like what it
looks like you can barely see under it, like this little cart
that they use. I just watch him do it, even
though he's struggling and I could easily help.
I'm going to go. Help great and then captain, let
people know on the front lines if they see a goblin or a warg
wearing a blue and yellow bandana around their left arms
or. Legs.
Do not attack them. How about I just tell them the
ones wearing our pins? That works too.
I figured the pens were a little small from like distance, but
yeah, that works. Well, the the, the advantage
you'll have there with the pen at least is that the goblins
don't really speak Cobalt. So whenever we're tax, we're
speaking cobalt, you can easily just respond.
That's smart. Wow.
The the the call sign by the way for today is ladybug.
Oh ladybug. Oh cool.
Fine, we could have nicknames. No, don't get sidetracked.
Ladybug. Ladybug.
OK, cool.
Turn the Zenora. Let's do this thing.
Let's do it. 1st we have to go back to the ship and then up
through that way. I don't know how long of a
journey that was. We now root or dash through that
jungle. I'm.
Gonna say there. Isn't anything to really stop
you, so I'll just. We go really fast here.
Dumb on. I go really fast.
All intents and purposes, that's what you guys are doing while
I'm getting you to the other side of this map.
But you could all, in the meantime, roll me the that
disguise role that you were talking about.
Good. You're right.
Yeah, I got up and started wandering.
Oh, no worries. All right, let's see Advantage
12 and a four. Well, plus permission, say.
So I think that is with proficiency.
Right. Yeah, I think that was just
dexterity. Oh, OK then.
Yeah, you got 9. Proficiency and then proficiency
is a number that I can't see. I'm missing it +3, so 1515.
Pretty good, yeah. You guys pulled it off pretty
well. You get down on all fours RARL
with Zonora on your back. You've elongated most of your
features to look warg esque. Did I change this here yet?
Maybe I have like a like one of the saddles or straps or
something like that. Something, yeah, to make it look
like I'm. I'm just going to grab one of
these because I was bouncing back between I hadn't changed
the map you guys are on yet too, so I'm going to place this
corpse next to you. Here you go.
Paste to look more or less like this token.
And. Actually, you know what I'll do
too is when we go over to the other map, put your tokens down
already at the beginning of the other side after you guys had
crossed the channel with the magma bridges or the lava
bridges. I don't know.
Yeah, you get what I mean. Paste and give you guys control
of. Here we go.
And Sonora, go save. Do you have dark vision, by the
way, Sonora? Yep, I have Devil's Sight.
Sonora, I actually don't think happens too.
I didn't think so. No, I don't.
But I do have luck. Ha, ha.
Well, for this you're going to have it.
Because what I was going to do anyways is just to keep things
more or less simple, I created a a singular token that looked
like that token you guys were trying to mimic and disguise
yourself as, which you know, being that you're on top of
Rarl's back. Anyhow, good, you guys should be
able to grab a hold of that token and move it at your will.
You guys are over here if you don't see.
I think I'm on a different map. But I still.
See the Hell map. Oops, let me bonk.
Pop. Darkness.
Hello Darkness my friend. You're over here.
Rural cast darkness on everyone, right?
Over. Here.
Yeah, And there's that token that's right in front of you
guys that. So both of us can control this.
Yeah, should be able to click on No Fun and Control.
I turned to her. If I remember correctly, there
was like some specific like rooms that were giving off a
magical like aura. Maybe those are the first places
we should look. Or I can I look at this little
tongues thing, Maybe we can turn this to goblin and then you can
like, yeah, no, just be like, hey, I got hit on the head.
Really. Hard.
How do I get back to like? You know HQ.
Yeah, it can try. In I play with the thing, does
it is there a goblin? So I think 'cause there was a
cobalt one. You don't feel yourself speaking
any differently. You guys probably played with it
on the way here too, along the island, and you you notice while
you're playing with it and shifting around, it fell off and
Zonora was already talking in Goblin and you just
automatically understood everything.
So. You're guessing.
Wow, that's super useful. It has only to be like intent
based and as long as you're you know, meaning to speak a
particular language you will, but otherwise it will be
speaking whatever basically it it seems to be like
automatically translating the language around you and vice
versa. So anybody outside of your your
perspective would would would understand what you're trying to
say in, in the language that you're intending to say it in?
Yep, classic sci-fi communicator.
When they go down to a new planet in Stargate and they're
just like, Nah, everyone speaks English because we have a
translator, it translates. To you, that's why.
Yep. Yeah.
It's a very big trope in those communities.
I see. I I I really liked it and I'm
surprised I hadn't seen more of it in D&D, so I created it
myself. Love it.
All right, there's a Noah. Let's go.
Yes, let's just go all. Right.
This Is Us. Let's go.
This way. I.
Like last time, until I catch sight of something I will climb
on the on the walls to avoid any traps on the on the ground and
on the ceiling. You do.
You do to see the corpse of some goblin and cobalt as you're
going, but you're making your way through the tunnels.
Look for traps on the ceiling as I go.
Just in case. Smart.
Doesn't seem like anyone's had the foresight, or at least if in
the battles of back and forth that they've been untriggered so
far, or it doesn't. Like I said, there's there's
corpses of of of both goblins and cobalt strewn at various
locations, so it's hard to tell. Some of them were in varying
states of decay. Even so, this battle's been
raging for a little while. Wow, this place really smells.
He's gonna pause and look down. Oops, this corridor.
I don't know why I can't move now.
I got stuck. Yeah, we got stuck.
Yeah, you did. We're.
Stuck. Help us oh.
I was trying help me God, there it goes.
We're safe. If you hold alt while you're
moving the the the token to, it will move in between squares so
you can make it around. So I think that's actually
what's catching you up is you get to this point and there's
not really like a solid scope. You got it, there you go.
So you look around the corner and you see some more corpses
off to one of the side tunnels. What's the vision set to on
here? It's on.
Very small. Let's go with this.
There we go. How's that?
Yeah, better. You see a small intersection
with a with a smaller human tunnel, which would probably fit
you guys both at the heights that you're travelling at now.
But it's not definitely not the main path that's been being
travelled for any larger activities, but it is one of the
side passages. Andrew Sonora, do you think any
of these cobalt corpses here might be carrying some more of
these pins? Just lost to the carnage I.
Don't think so, considering that these ones were taken from, you
know, the personal treasure, yeah.
All. Right.
Let's keep going. You do start to hear too on that
turn, and from that smaller tunnel bits of curses.
It sounds like in Gob Goblin you can only presume because they're
they're curses, that even though they're coming through the pin
as translated, you're not familiar with them like trying
to think of offhand ones. Animations.
Dirty Dragon ass liquor. That makes sense.
They don't like the dragon. Yeah.
Do you think we should have cut off some of the cobalt's heads
back there and you, like, hung them from like your belt, like
you were some kind of really cool conqueror?
I don't know if we want to be like seen with that coming back
though. That's true.
OK, I'm going to have to shut up because I don't think words can.
Speak. I don't believe they can.
I know anything about D and DI don't think wars.
He says yes, this is good. So you guys keep rounding the
bend. You find some more recent gore
about, some of which is unrecognizable, whether or not
it's one or the other. And you see the intersection
you're at now. You see a smaller tunnel to your
left and the larger tunnel continuing to your right, and
you do see a couple goblins. It looks like standing guard,
and if you wanted to, you can roll me Perception.
Sure. Both of you Perception 16 three.
Natural one for me, Royals Williams Like a reward.
Natural ones. This is fun.
What are you looking at? So, Nora, you realize the the
the goblins, then standing guard over here, seeming to hold a
formation and having stoic images to them.
But you do hear more distinctly some of the and it sounds more
less like battling more like like people just throwing taunts
back and forth to each other and holding holding their positions
and down the left tunnel that's smaller is actually where you're
hearing some of the cobalt curse is coming more distinctly from.
So you're wondering if this is like?
A standoff? Yeah.
And whether or not this smaller tunnel is actually more closely
getting back towards the the Cobalt line as where whereas the
right one is going towards the goblins.
OK, I'm going to lean down to Rural and kind of like whisper
in his ears. Feel like on the right side are
the goblins and on the left side are the Cobalts.
The thick. OK.
On the right side are the goblins, on the left side are
the Cobalts. We should be going to the
goblins, yes. Otherwise we're going to get
shot at. Well, I guess they know not to
attack us, but. Like yeah, we would say we would
say ladybug, but our whole purpose is the goblins, so.
Yeah, goblins it is. I will lower myself to the
ground while checking very scrupulously for traps as I'm on
all fours literally looking for traps as I walk forward.
OK, you got this ready. Do you want to you?
You know the plan we need to get like further in.
You do however you want to, but OK, cowl, cowl are.
You guys approaching them? Yeah.
OK, you're far, far enough away that I did rule perception from.
They do not notice you coming up right right this second.
So you wanted? To.
Tell me how much closer you get, or if you wouldn't try to
announce yourself from that distance, or what?
Tell me what you're doing there. Well.
But I feel like we should probably announce ourselves in a
way. But I might Do you think we
should announce ourselves to the Kubolds so that they don't come
running out here thinking that there's some sort of attack,
like saying, you know, ladybug to them?
Think that will be more so like if we get into a pinch and have
to get back through the racks because like all we're trying to
do right now is just get past these guys and not to the front
lines but back down to like their core.
So I feel like we're not going to run into more cobbles after
this. I.
Will but you do you. I think we'll just go forward to
the goblins and pronounce ourselves.
OK. How are you doing that?
I'm not a Charismal character. I'm not meant for this.
You got this. Yeah.
And you're the one that can't speak here.
Hail friends and make merry. Yes, you could it.
Is I They're talking war like? Some, I guess you could make
some like loud, you know, snarling noises and such kind
of, you know, act like you've been like, we're like running
away. I'll try to intimidate them.
No, not that one. No, I'll try to impress them
with my manly growls. OK.
Growl 12 couldn't hole. I am a war couldn't hole.
We don't actually say that. Though I figured I see where
where you've gotten to. They would have probably told
told you in goblin to hold. Oh, then we then we hold.
They give you sit down and lick one.
Paw, they give you the whole wuba was there.
Barely escaped from the other ones I'm trying to like, sound
out of breath, like you're fighting, You know, persuasion.
No. It's a 5.
What did we do? A direct on infiltration.
Why didn't we do a stealthy infiltration?
And he he just just goes, How do I know it's not a dragon trick?
The one in front says, and the one behind him slaps him on the
back of the head. That's not for you to decide.
It's for, it's for the the shaman in charge.
And then they holler around one of the shoulders and skinnier
looking goblin pops his head up kind of over the shoulder of
one, the second one that's behind him, behind the 1st and
can't get a good look at you. And then just stands on top of
that one, pushing him down, and he looks over at you.
He goes, how'd you get over there?
He's. Not fucking.
Oh. I believe in you.
You could do it. We have a crib when you were.
Captured. They wanted to do some fun
tricks with us for their dragon. And they just let you go.
Nobody escaped, we thought. And you, you beat them.
Well, I guess you did have a warg at least that you had that
going for you, Dave. Maybe.
Maybe you just ran away with you.
Rah, That's. My name.
Let me just roll this real quick.
Don't. Don't.
Oh, we're in danger.
He's he he doesn't doesn't look like he's buying it very much.
Why are we doing charisma things?
He's just betting they're going. Well, wait, can I do a
deception? Is this contested?
I feel like that was against by 5 from earlier.
It was that's what it was you could I see the the only thing
that I would say yeah go ahead and roll a not a deception but a
persuasion as well as an assist to to to the scenario.
I'm sure it's going to be I. Don't know what assess means
but. It's kind of DM discretion
there, but usually I I kind of use it to add to the roll.
Yeah, a A31 would be be be helpful there.
And because that's where he was going to lean on to and say well
like you got a pretty strong warg there.
So maybe it just muscled your way away from them and took off
running and got lost. OK, fine.
We can use more. Always use more numbers.
You look a little worn down. Why don't you go back and get
some grog and get back up here? I look like an incredibly like,
smug warg, he said. That was.
He said. That was strong.
I missed the work I mean. Like as I go through any of them
that I kind of identify as like obviously scared of me, I will
give like a little snap to just like.
Be award going through their line and he goes, where are you
going? Growl.
Take him down to the take him down and one of the the line
from down here steps out and around you and then just keeps
going back almost the direction you went but down one of the
side tunnels and he's like, ah, come on freaking last in the
tunnels here, raised in the tunnels and he starts walking
this way. To.
Himself. Man, we could have just went
right on. And he goes.
He he stands outside of another small intersection.
He just points into it. Even smaller area there and he's
like, you'll have to dismount. But just go through this tunnel
here and it's like a the thing's barely big enough for the warg
to squeeze through and almost perfectly goblin goblin shaped
size. Growl.
Probably will dismount off of rural and make my way through.
I'll just say that you guys dismounted and move.
Through you know that crystal. And he's he's like, don't touch
the crystal grow, go down the hole.
And then he he's like, I gotta go back to the line or I'm going
to get my head chewed off. Then, probably literally.
And then he jogs back. I wanna touch the crystal.
Once he's out of ear sight or. Ear.
Sight from ear? Sight.
Earshot, cannon. That's what it's called or I'll
be like. I wonder if perhaps this is
connected somehow to why they are replenishing so often.
Do you have any sorts of Arcana? No, I have a plus one.
I'm kind of smart now. I.
Have I have a plus one too and I have some spells due to the fact
that I made the bond with this with the table I'm.
Not going to. Question that is a later
discussion. Can I make a?
Can I guess? Can we make a check, an Arcana
check to try to, like, see what's going on with this
crystal? We'll check.
Yeah, it can be like Arcana. Check this Crystal maybe?
19 Yes, Jesus, yeah. Nice.
Sexy Satan. He's waiting on your am I
waiting on your still his Donora.
I mean that that that's a sexy number.
I don't think I can do any better than that.
I can do much worse. Maybe you might have gotten a
natty, yeah. I know I did not get a Natty.
I will say that. +1 So anyways, he and you are looking at the
crystal up and down and aren't surprisingly, I'm actually the
fates are going to have switched those numbers because you
remember you remember Zonora actually, a time when Adune was
asking for a crystal to recharge themselves and Mime had handed
you something they had and this kind of reminds you of that.
It's got a little bit of a pulsating energy inside of it,
and it's kind of somehow you can tell alive to some degree, but
freaky you're you. You didn't ask any more, you
know, instructions about the crystal.
Just knew that it was something that Aduna had used basically as
a battery at some point. And that's a big old red button.
I want to press it. We should save the red button
for later, it will still be. We don't know if we'll make it
to a later with the red button. But if we hit the red button
now, we won't make it to later. It's right next to the entry.
We could totally get back here. You're mighty confident.
I am always confident I know exactly what I'm doing, even
when I don't. All right, we'll jump down the
hole. It's less of one of those kind
of holes in, more of like a Burrow hole, like it's even
smaller. This little area that the the
little tiny tunnel goblin tunnel opened up to is a little small
area. It looks like just a enough for
maybe the both of you to stand in basically and and and for
others to kind of filter through here you know two at a time
perhaps before they you know they make themselves small
enough to go through the next part of the tunnel.
This part is even smaller than that first tunnel you're going
through. So for the ward you're you're
you're barely you've got your you would have to have yeah I
guess you're not reading. Yeah, you've got all of your
opinion is uptight and you're doing like a weaseling through
the tunnel more than. Oh, I'm so glad I'm a cat.
So. I'm good at this tunnel.
And then you guys. I sing to myself 1 by 1 the ants
go marching 1 by 1 hara hara. The ants go marching 2 by 2 hara
hara. Keep pushing yourself through
this hole and it opens and widens up eventually into a a
small landing before a set of spiral stairs that start
descending into a nice looking Chamber of of sorts you see
below you. Yeah, I'm guessing you would
just keep going down the stairs to to wind up in what looks like
a well crafted black Onyx hull of the with these pillars that
have a soft glow to them. You're guessing because there's
magma running behind them and a desk with a rider sitting behind
it and saying you're here for oh I'm trying to get.
That was more of like something else.
I'm trying to think now you often for a resupply comes
through with like a little slurred and the person sitting
behind the desk is a little wobbly.
But the person is to give you a description for those who don't
know what a driver is having a spider body.
So hips down, spider Tor, spider butt with spider legs, and so a
spider tar but with a dark or a dro torso and upper arms and it
is obviously female and hips are.
Out sorry I have to. What was it titties are?
Out. Oh yes, absolutely and no,
because the females are the dominant species in their
culture and the and the and she she's, she is very much acting
so like just expecting you to respond, you know as if a
subordinate in the case. It's got some other facts and
figures on a on the desk, looks like some coinage and such, and
a paper heat. Along.
With it looks like a glass of red something or other.
And this space doesn't go on any further, does it?
Or is there like more to the like behind?
It's a circular chamber. There are some riffs in the
space with like magma evidently also lighting the space besides
the columns just with a soft light that is.
And a there seems to be a some sort of ritual circle in the
floor to the South and a large door to the southeast that is
closed currently. OK, resupply.
We just escaped from Cobalt Hold and we're sent down here.
They. Didn't say anything else.
Shitty commanders. Sorry for employing goblins, I
tried to tell them well. I've.
Got some? You just said that all under her
breath, so, but it was like loud enough that you could definitely
hear, along with the slur that's continuing in her voice.
I've definitely got some something.
She goes riddling through some drawers.
Got some? Yeah, and she did here.
And she pulls out a a bottle of something.
Drink this and just about 1/4 for you your size.
And she kind of sizes you up and give the rest to your work and
go back to the front line your the next troops won't be in and.
Till the morning. No.
OK. I, I, I I'm having a hard time
remembering where. Which direction do they come
from? Where do they come from?
Again, I think I. Oh, smooth.
The absolute smoothest. I never play charisma based
characters just for the reason I'm not.
She goes. Where your?
Where's your? Armory again.
What's the password? It's your Social Security
number. We.
We were captured and I sustained lots of injury and I'm having a
really hard time remembering. Oh, Hedwood got it.
And then she goes into another drawer and pulls out a a tiny
little vial that goes, This should help with the brain
damage. Yeah, you don't get we we
haven't been telling your troops, just you're commanding
officers where where they're coming from.
Yeah, this is my off hour. It kind of sucks.
I thought they were as the combat had slowed down.
I was taking a break myself. The.
The the combat slowed down. We had just escaped and made our
way back. There's no fight going on right
now, right now. Ground table I Well, that's
well. Would you be interested in
sharing a drink with me in the meantime?
Then I'm quite bored. Maybe a game?
I'll promise to heal the head injury first.
Oh. Did you did you say something
because or is that? Sure, it was a shore,
withholding my laughter. I just oh, OK.
Can't really say anything. And you, you can tell she's a
little off kilter. Besides being drunk, she's also
continuing to speak goblin to you, obviously knowing that you
wouldn't be able to speak Dro. So she's she's a bit of
disadvantage for understanding, but it does seem like she's
guessing that maybe you're allowed down here to actually go
ahead and roll me an insight to see some other things there.
Because see if there's anything else that you're understanding
from the situation. Yeah, that was actually pretty
good 19. You know for sure that she's
also guessing sexually. Frustrated.
Oh. Being part.
Spider. Actually, even even more
pertinent information than that, Constantly looking up from your
position and left and you see another spider dried her,
sleeping on the ceiling in a web and and continually trying to
kind of keep the voices low to not wake that one.
It seems like as well as yeah, when when she did say game her
there was a bit of a twinkle in her eye.
So take that for what you will, But she's proffering both the
bottle and the vial towards you, yeah?
Well, I guess. Will we be playing the game here
well? Yes, I I guess.
I mean, we could go into the hall and she would glance up at
the other one. Other dried her in the ceiling
might actually be a little preferable, but.
Yeah, that. Yeah, we can do that.
OK, and she takes an. I'm guessing you took the the
vial in the bottle. Yeah, yeah.
You can you can see that the translator doesn't seem to work
on text because they. Are both.
Evidently in under dark under common.
So unless you know that they mean basically nothing to you
other than the one does kind of look like what you're familiar
with of health potion with some twinkling inside and a reddish
hue, Soft red that is. And the the.
I have under common. Ah, nice.
I will show it, I'll show it to Rural.
Well, you definitely, he definitely had seen it in the
hand off and and on the front of them both, basically the one
says health and the other one says intelligence boost,
basically. Man, we need more of this.
We should hire these guys, growl.
He starts pulling out like some business papers now.
Oh. My gosh.
Have you ever considered franchising?
Well, she she's after she's handed you that.
She does take a long sip from her drink and pulls a a game
board. It looks like out from actually,
no. You know what it's a a deck of
cards it looks like from under in her desk and starts to like
kind of holds one of her takes one of her eight legs, holds it
over her lips suggestively and then goes towards the also in
miming for silence and then goes towards the door and slowly
opens starts to open it. Interesting.
I will, as her back has turned, I will point at A.
The health one and then thumbs up it and then point at the
other one and then wait. One was health, one was
intelligence. Yeah.
All right. I'll just be like health
intelligence, like, very quietly under my breath as this lady is
like, well, if we're being silent, I guess I won't do that.
All thieves can't it? But I know she can't probably
understand that. Nope.
I mean, neither of them is dangerous.
It seems so. OK, that's good.
You know the title on the thing, at least Growl.
And shake your head. Yeah.
Up and down. In a positive gesture, she just
turns her head back over as the door opens slowly and looks back
up into that position on the ceiling after you growl and.
Growl. You see the spider up in its web
up there, the dryder up in the in their web there 5th and toss
at the growl. I become quieter and I sneak.
Down onto the. Ground and start tiptoeing out.
All right, boink and. So I don't know if you're on a
different screen or if it's the same one, just like zoomed out.
Oh. Can you guys not see?
Nope. No, we.
Still went down into the hole. Oh, the we're in front of the
crystal. Still there?
Waiting. Actually, so do you guys wanna
see this room first before you go into that room too?
Because it looks pretty cool. Did it, Did it work?
Yeah, we're done then. Cool.
So out of the hallway here. Yep, and steps over.
One of the magma cracks gets up to basically like this
crystalline wall of the sorts that it doesn't.
This one's not radiating with any energy or anything.
It does seem to be much larger than the crystal formation you'd
seen above, but very solid, and she backs up against it across
the Magma Channel from you and goes, OK, now we can talk a
little bit more freely. Growl.
Yeah, growl to you too. Is that thing just gonna be with
you the whole time? Growl.
I we we kind of bonded in our escape together, so it's kind of
becoming my companion buddy. Or not.
It makes, makes, makes sure he just keeps on pulling his
weight. Well, one in there I'm thinking
about making he's already dead weight, so I might as well just
make him dead. Here's dude.
The one the one hanging on the ceiling.
Yeah, yeah that's that's he's he's been looking a little
appetizing to me lately so think think he's, he's given me a
couple broods too. He's he's he's served his
purpose. But I figured I'd let him have
this one last nicety before I eat his head in the morning in
order a new one. Growl.
The concerned. Growl this one last what I'd
look around as if oh, also if you I look around for traps
while we walk into this. Do you have like, them ambushing
me? I have the alert feet.
Oh, OK, I was wondering. I cannot be.
I cannot be surprised. I was wondering if you had some
sort of skill or ability that you've been trying to rely on
that I I was just unaware of. You definitely don't notice
anything of that sorts. You can tell these tunnels here
are littered though with various forms of goblin fecal matter.
It seems to making up the bottom of the tunnel as the walls are
are hewn into this and you're wondering if some of that fecal
metal is actually largely dead. Goblins perhaps too that were
used to build these tunnels maybe?
No. Kind of like lift one of my paws
up and shake it a little bit. Grapple.
And and and I I would say she's not that far gotten to the point
where she doesn't realize this and would say, oh don't worry,
this is not going to happen to you.
I like you. I think you can stay around for
a while. This is going to be fun.
So we're going to play a A game. Right.
That's can I do so ah, hats off a moment Here I have a Deck of
Many Things I. Have.
Oh my God. A deck of playing cards And
what's this? I don't even know what this is.
It's a deck that's called a safety deck.
Do not know. I do not know how to play for.
There's only three cards in that deck.
I do not know what that is. But there there are things that
I've never used on here. So I'll give you the advantage
since I have the home field or I have a couple things here.
We could play and you could choose what we play.
I'll and I'll get to choose what we play for, she smiles.
Well, I guess we can put up our own bets, so to say, but you can
choose the game. Not the deck of Many things.
Rural's. Considering.
Murdering this woman. Why?
She's got a very expensive item on her.
I know the Deck of Many things. The business opportunities.
It's oh God, it's horrible. Never pulled it once.
I'd pull that. He's so confident he knows he'll
win. You would be the one that gets
your soul sucked into another plane.
I did have that happen to one of my party members when we pulled
it. Fuck, that'd be hilarious
though. We.
Each pulled a singular card, and she happened to pull the one
that removed herself from her body and put it in place.
That just sounds like a great time to me.
Another side mission would let you not.
You wouldn't have to show up for like 3 weeks.
We wouldn't be able to get. You.
I'd just play one of my siblings.
Just shift. Just shift over to the next one
even more confident. I don't want to pull from the
deck of many things, that's for sure, no.
Or or we we do. I do have these and she pulls
out a a set of couple sets of dye we could play Some other
games I have I have here and it's like a pool setup.
But why? Don't you just killer?
An empty room. What's your favorite?
I probably like my I've don't know what you guys all call it,
but we take turns rolling each one of these die and she holds
up each of the individual die, which is, you know, 468101220
and make a bet each time. Or make a overall bet and
whoever wins the most rounds in with the highest rolls gets gets
the pot. That's probably the easiest,
easiest one I know. There's a there's an easy card
game. I know you.
We can just deal from the top of this 54 card deck and the first
one to 21 points wins. AKA blackjack on the.
Pod. And I was trying to find there
was a list that we'd made at one point of other like dice games
too. But that's the first one that I
can think of off the top of my head.
But yeah. We can try.
I'd still leave it. To to you less on what you
choose, because again I have homecourt advantage.
We can try the Blackjack Blackjack looking one.
OK, let's see how this works. Deal to select someone, deal two
cards to you. Less there.
Deal. I can see.
I can see it down at the bottom. There it goes.
And then we've got two cards to me.
Is your, is your. Oh my God.
Wait, wait a minute. How are these the two cards that
I got? What the fuck is?
7 and 19. DMDMI was handed 2 jokers.
Oh, I guess I should shuffle these.
Give them a minute recall. I'm also gonna have like the
Garat in in my hand as I'm like sitting there and just kind of
kind of as she's playing, I assume.
Are you dismounting? Oh yeah.
I'll I'll attempt to very slowly move my way around here as I
make eye, direct eye contact with you and once I'm out of
sight and like give you the shrug shoulders, pull up, grot,
shrug shoulders. And after she's dealt herself,
you you can you can interrupt me if you want, Sonora, she's still
dealing herself right now. I think you should have
different cards at least. Now I do.
They're not the same card, right?
I I pressed the shuffle button, I didn't realize.
I'm trying to trying to remember the numbers pretty hard once you
get past 10. Joker's 11 or Jack is 11, Queen
is 12 and King is 13, right? Aces are are 11 or one
everything else face face cards are 10.
Oh, OK. I haven't played Blackjack in
forever. No worries.
Yeah, I've yeah, it's one of my go to's just because it's simple
rules, man. Yeah, I know it's really simple.
It's just I like completely forgot how to play for a hot
2nd. Yeah, well, it's not like
remembering like Texas holdem or some.
Other thing? No God, no.
I can never. Are you responding?
I'm giving you a second to respond to to Raul's thing
before I. So you're sneaking around her to
try to do something. I'm I've.
I got out of her line of sight so that I can make eye contact
with you to question. Are we going to sit here and
play her game with her, or just try to kill her really quickly
and quietly and keep moving? I want to kill her, but we could
probably knock her out. She already seems pretty
inebriated. I mean, this is all an eye
contact, so oh. My God.
This is either go. I mean you you can try to, I
mean Josh can say you try to roll so that I could see that's
what you're trying to say. But right now it's either go or
not go. I wasn't.
Yeah, I'll. I'll let you guys play.
Play how you want to. I mean, it's gonna be like a
yeah, we need to go. We're here to.
We're here to infiltrate, not to play cards.
But don't tell her. I'll let you finish around.
All of that is trying to yes, let us do one round so that then
she's distracted and thinking that everything is cool and
then. Yeah, OK, she's she's dealt you
and herself. And then she goes, oh wait, and
she looks up from her cards and then looks back and forth to see
where you would your ward that you said you were so close to
went and looked. Behind, behind her.
Beside her and goes, oh heck yeah, puppy.
And it just takes roll onto my belly.
Claws and scratches you gently with it.
Does that puppy? Does that puppy want delt into
purr? No.
Did are they able to read war? Yeah, well I'm like asking the
like her if she thinks the dog can read or not to actually play
she. Probably doesn't think they do.
I Well, I certainly hope not. They're much cuter when they
don't actually have any intentions and they're just
that's all doggies and this petting.
But you know. It'd be fine.
Contact with you per. I'm just like.
I'm like, wait. Well I guess if they were not
dealing this cutie and she turns back to you and looks at her
cards and well yeah, they're both dealt face down in in this
particular game that you guys are playing and she goes, this
would be the time to bet. So I will let you.
I will lead as I am. I have dealt with A50 gold
point. She smiles as she puts it in.
Oh shit. I don't even have that much
gold. I mean, we're gonna, we're gonna
be probably killing her anyway, so.
What am I gonna do? I don't have 50 gold to pay.
My, my, the, the 10 gold that I have in my inventory as well and
be like the Cobalts took most of my stuff when they captured me,
but this is what I've still got. OK well I can take I can take an
IOU off that and she says with A50 gold match is what you put
in. So with minus the 10 you'd if
you'd if I win you're going to owe me.
But this would be the if we're OK on that bit I pretty sure I
I've not looked at my cards at all.
OK, I will. Will you take another?
I will take another. I am prepping my own stuff.
I can just. So once I goes.
Down so. I dealt dealt you another one
and she goes and I will stay. What's the number that we're
trying to match to? 21 If you pass, you bust.
Yeah, I busted. I don't know soon as.
By one you don't understand King and a two and I.
You drew me a queen. Ah.
I was. I was having so much pain.
Way to display it to. If that were the case, you could
like, show your hand just as all.
So much pain. I was so confident.
I was like, I'm at a 12, like there's barely any way that I'm
gonna bust and then immediately. I looked at my hand after I'd
said I hadn't looked at my hand and I just tried to hold my any
sound in 'cause it was an ace and A and a queen.
Oh my God, you literally got exactly.
If I had, if I had gotten a nine and it would have been perfect.
But no, you drew me a fucking queen.
I can't fucking don't know what to tell you so as you as you
guys both lay down your cards and your bemoaning your your
loss she she just goes when I strike she just she.
Totally can. You're totally, you're totally
welcome to strike. She just smiles and and starts
raking in the pot towards her. Is that when you start to attack
there, Rahl? Yep, Santa's her like she starts
moving forward. Rahl pops up already ready.
Bonus action. Hex her pulls the garage out and
then goes to whip it around her neck.
And then hold her back up against the chair so she can't
try to maneuver. Straight up assassination.
Oh my God. So I will do hex hold display.
So place a hex ideal extra 1D6 necrotic and I choose one
ability strength. It has disadvantage on ability
checks made using this, which is what it needs to grapple.
OK. And I I'm hoping with a garage
around the neck, she won't be able to make any.
Sounds OK. I see where you're going with it
now. So you're going in for a
grapple, basically. I got you.
Yep. Grapple around the neck so she
can't scream. Did you say?
It's a disadvantaged disadvantage track.
And then can I roll? Can I?
Can I argue for acrobatics? And she doesn't have that.
She just has like on her stat block.
It's she just has her modifiers. No, I think for him.
No, for me, because it's. A.
Contestant. Robe, but I'm trying to use the
chair to my leverage to like, finagle her into a position
where I'm. Well, I think Abel could do.
That. Yours is either against.
It's like it's can either against contested, yeah, against
your dexterity. Like it says, yeah, so you can,
yeah, you can definitely use Athletics, 'cause I think that
was one of the things that it can say it's either Athletics
or. Or.
Acrobatics. Whichever one you want.
Yeah, yeah. I think you want acrobatics.
That was what you mean? Right.
Yeah, that's what I'm trying to Yeah, I think you're right.
Like the the attacker can use either.
The other person can't. Oh, thank God for the
disadvantage. Yeah, with a with a nine on her
instead of the 21 you you have her grappled.
She cannot speak and think. That would.
Give her a disadvantage on an initiative too.
Oh yeah, we can now roll for IS. She surprised.
Do we get a surprise round? You do?
Oh, that was. Almost 20.
Zanora would get a an attack if she was expecting this or no.
Roll roll my initiative. I have a.
Very yes. Zanora was expecting it, so you
do get a surprise. You rolled a nap one on
initiative, and you still have the same fucking initiative as.
I'm a swashbuckler so I get my Charisma mod and I'm alert so I
get a +50. My God, I literally was like how
the fuck do you have a + 11 to initiate?
RARL moves fast. So you got a 12 Sonora, what was
yours? Mine was also a 12.
So weird we all cut 12. What's your?
Next. Mods have a + 3 unless you want
a rollies out. I have a + 5 dex.
Really. Damn.
Oh yeah, you are a monk. +3 So I think a tie with someone.
With me? You want a rollies.
Yeah. Rollies.
Just. What is that one?
D20? Yep.
Rollies. 13 You win, so you That doesn't make me.
Does that make me? No.
That makes me no, is the surprise.
Round still? Oh, OK, yeah.
So the. Surprise round I think would
still happen. She would still get her surprise
round action and then it would drop into initiative.
Yeah, if we're still doing a surprise run, I don't have to be
part of the surprise run because the initial attack was the
surprise and then it can go straight.
To the the surprise the attack is, is this is the surprise.
But the surprise round that he's referring to, like in the in the
rule set is like everybody that's part of because you were
aware that he was doing the thing you.
OK, so I still get AI, still get a whole like round, and then I
get to then essentially I get to go again before she gets to go.
I think you guys both get to go again, is what I'm saying.
Hell yeah, This is what we call murder.
So well you guys so yeah you did your attack RARL so it would be
we're I'm just gonna put I need to.
Sneak team six, Sneak team 6. I just need to put yeah Sonora
with like a 14 so that you show up first, so. 14/13/12.
Yeah, there we go. That that worked.
So Yep, it would be Zanora's turn, then RARLS, then Zanora's,
then the creatures, and then. OK.
Yeah. OK, so I'm going to stand up
from my Lucar team. I'm like, I'm so sorry.
Going to I'm going to OK, so she's held what by by the neck.
I've got a garage around her throat and I'm kind of like
using the position of her chair. I assume she was sitting in sort
of something, or was she not? You can use her spider body to
like, pull her. Shorts, Yeah, I'm using.
Her. Spider is like she was like
sitting on her spider body, but her upper torso was up.
So you're like pulling her upper torso back, leaning into the the
spider part of her. Yeah.
So I'm going to aim two strikes for her torso, sort of like AA12
hit, you know, not into the titties that that's a later
thing, but like into the abdomen sort of area.
So oh God, that's at 11. It's 11 hits.
No, you hit you. I'd say in this scenario too,
you don't. She's meteor than I thought she
was. She's got ABS for days.
Yeah, I was gonna say you make contact, but it's more of like a
than a squish. I was.
I'm still adjusting from the high 5 from a dune and holding
back. God damn it.
Really. Really.
Another 11. I.
Rolled A3 twice. Fuck you.
I spent the key point in Fear and Flurry Blows. 2 more.
If you roll my fucking threes, I'm gonna lose my mind and
almost lose a three again. That's a 16 to hit.
No, I'm sorry. God damn it.
I can't see what that is. That's a 22 to hit.
That definitely would do it. Oh, that's.
I rolled those as deflected missiles attacks, but it's the
same bonus. Anyway, I've astounded my
reactions instead of my bonus actions.
OK, so one of them hits. Thank God.
Oh, maximum damage. At the very least it's 11 points
of damage, and then I'm going to spend another key point and add
hand of harm on to that and deal an extra D6 and necrotic damage
OK for an additional 5 necrotic damage.
Oh man, that had to have hurt for a turn.
But yeah, that was. That.
You. You got them guys?
Your final blow. Makes.
Makes solid contact. You're wondering if you're just
loosening it up in that position and that last blows too starts
to rot away, some of the flesh on that spot finally seeming
like it's actually hurt. First ones she didn't even she
didn't even make the sound until that last one.
But yeah, yeah, that that you're.
Turning that was that's, that's me.
That was my action bonus action, so.
All right, Raul. Was wait, was that including
your surprise? Yeah, that this is the, this is
the surprise console. So you used to get another
attack and then we start again. Yeah, so I have her grotted
currently. Grapple do you God?
I was just trying to look into one of those because I didn't
know if you'd. There's there's no real rules on
it. The only thing I've seen is like
treating it like you're like suffocating, but that takes like
a couple minutes. But in that case, I don't.
I don't. There's no, there's no like
resources online for it. I'm finding it from the the D&D
wiki where I've found it. I I use them for stuff that the
other places don't find because there's just like a lot of
people that create stuff on here that like I found cannons and
stuff on here too that were useful.
But this, that's, that's what I'm looking at now and like what
you're saying about the choking, it says, So this is where I'm
thinking this is really going to come into effect and helpful for
you because it it's reading, they're choking, it can't
breathe, and it's a creature can hold its breath for an equal of
one plus its Constitution modifier minimum of 30 seconds.
So we're looking at. Like 10 or 12 rounds.
Constitution modifier minimum of one round.
Constitution of 14 can hold its breath breath for three minutes.
It starts suffocating 2 rounds. It has two rounds to reach error
before it's it drops to zero hit points.
So if if that was 14. I was reading the example, I was
just getting to that when it switched over.
Your turn here. Come back to the Trotter here.
Constitution of 18 So oh. God.
Oh, you've got 8. Points.
You've got a, you got a, you got a bonus round honor, so that is
at least. The war First round.
Right, right. And and it brings it down to a
total of three round counter basically until she's
unconscious. So then my next question.
With a typical grapple, once you have someone grappled, you can
grapple someone with one hand. So you can grapple two people.
Do I have a hand free? Like, can I wrap the now that I
have her grappled, can I like, do the, like classic three twist
and then, like wrap it around my, like, wrist?
Yeah, I mean, or am I using my turn to keep her subdued?
No, I think you you have the right to to to twist it so that
you can hold it with one hand, if that's what you're asking.
All right. If I can do that, and it doesn't
super negatively impact my ability to hold her, I will do
that. And then with my right hand,
which is the hand that the AL's knuckle Busters are on, I will
very quickly begin making stabbing gestures into, like the
side of your body. The way you extend your claws
and your I, I think I'd said in there go black, but I I was
rethinking that a little bit. Maybe they go white or like.
Yeah, that's fair. Cause light.
Yeah, yeah. Something along those lines at
least and those, those similar color lines start spreading up
your arms like we talked about. Go ahead and roll.
There's one second my computer has turned off on me, but I
pulling up my character. Sorry, I.
Was also seeing too, that it does one slashing damage.
That's the thing that I was still not understanding because
it it's weird that it doesn't have a role.
I would, I would say at least from from the Garat when you
first did that, that's what I was trying to.
Find. OK, well it would also be if
it's damaged. It would also get the one D6
from hex. Yep.
So I will roll that in a moment. I am sorry.
Need to get some dice in front of you?
Yeah, I know. Or in your pocket.
Well The thing is, the elves knuckle besters are such a such
a unique item that like, I have no idea what the hell I'm
rolling. I know, I know what you mean.
I could roll the hit, but all right, yes, it's me.
Are you sure? Yeah, just Google.
It is me. Believe me, it's still me.
I'm in the same room. I got the same phone, same IP
address. Just leave me be.
Sorry. All right.
AL's Knuckle Dusters +6 to hit. Come on, Big papi, Big money is.
That's a critical fail. Oh no.
Oh no, shoot, I haven't thought about.
That How the fuck do you flavor that?
You're literally holding her. She's right there.
And he? And he's got claws, he.
Man, that sucked. You get.
You really bad at this. I I got, I got you.
She she's got a lot of appendages so she that's where I
should have been doing it. Even with yours in your case
Sonora is you bring your you you twist it.
The garage. Don't forget to roll that
damage, by the way, with hex added.
And you, you go out to swing in with your hand in one of her
claws, come her legs, come up and deflect the blow so that
just whiffs. You're a good one.
I'll put my hand back on the Garot.
The first one was for the first round, the second one was for
this round. So 45678910 points of damage for
567 of it is necrotic or radiant because you said you were re
skinning this. I thought it wasn't.
Oh, Hex's Hex's. Whoa.
I mean, if it's AL's knuckle dusters and it's.
I don't know. You tell me.
I was saying that AL's knuckle dusters didn't hit this round
when you that's when she that how she deflected that blow was.
Yeah, but the Garat does the damage, right?
Oh, OK, so the the the hex you're talking about.
Hex applies anytime I do damage, and it's a It's a warlock spell,
so I don't know if it's connected to my patron and if
that changes the damage type. Yeah, I'd say it's radiant, if
that's what you're talking about.
OK. Sure it does radiant damage, if
that matters at all. No.
She kind of closes her eyes and makes a hissing sound, but
trying to find where that particularity.
OK, there it is. It's not you can tell that it
doesn't have anything right now affecting on her because it's.
Yeah, she's got Sunlight sensitivity, not radiance.
Got it. All right, well, that's a turn
then. I whiffed, whiffed on the on the
strike. But I have the garage still, so
that's good. All right, Zanora.
No, it's back to me. Yeah, just.
I am still. I am, yeah.
I mean, we're just jabbing on the sides, man.
If I could hit, you know, I think 25 hits.
Oh, yes, so. That's my first hit for my
damage and then my second strike That almost was another 16 and I
was going to lose my mind. But an 18 does an 18 hit.
It's right in front of her before she you're not sure if
she's actually doing it on purpose this time, but if or if
she's just struggling up towards the garotte because one of her
human arms bats your arms away. And. 18 does not hit.
Holy fuck, we messed with the wrong thing we'd have done RAW.
We're fucked. You use your action to like,
restrain her hands. Just just hold her down.
We just have to. Hold her down for another 2
rounds and she'll be out. I don't.
I don't think that's how it's going to go, but I'm just going.
To she's she's got disadvantage under strength chat and I have.
I'm going to. That's fine.
Bend another key and do another blurry of blows.
I believe in you. That's a natural 20.
Get that crit in there. That was the worst.
Fucking. Crit damage in my life.
How did you roll it? I'm not looking at the screen
right this second. It was A2 and A1.
OK. So you re rolled it, you mean?
No, for the crit damage total the the two D 6 + 5 I've I
doubled the dice. I rolled 2 dice.
I'd let you like, double the higher one, just take that
damage that you had, OK? So that would be one more point
than what was rolled. So nine damage.
Still shitty. But that's the original roll and
then doubled for Crit, right? Yeah, yeah.
So that's nine for that crit. And then the second strike and
flurry of flows almost was another crit.
But 22? It's a hit.
Oh yeah. OK, good.
Oh God. Suck off with the twos and
that's seven. 3434 points of damage is pretty good for one
round crying. And that'll be my turn.
The first one was 9, so for 5:25 is the more additional damage
that I have to add now 25? Yeah, 997.
OK, she's definitely looking at the like you want to.
She's probably a little under half if you want to describe
what what your attacks were like, any BI.
Mean like I'm just like, I am striking at her abdomen and
probably like also where her body conjoins, you know, because
I'm short, so it's probably all that I can hit.
So it's just kind of like, it's like left hook, right hook, a a
knee. Like I look like a toddler
beating up an adult that they're mad at.
Feel like that's the best way to describe how this would look
right now. Yeah.
You can tell that it it's still working to your advantage, if
anything that Laurel is on their back because you were you're
doing this and of the ones that didn't hit she was she barely
deflected. But the other ones you're making
solid contact and probably did some softer bits.
You can tell this time compared to the first time you you didn't
realize where her softer bits may have been straight on the
ABS. You're no longer aiming for the
ABS, I would guess, and are more so going like under the abdomen
where the where the two bodies connect.
Yeah, maybe throwing some kicks under there.
Yep. Kick her in the balls.
Yep, Where she would have balls is getting kicked.
Hair chain. Yep.
I'm just. I haven't even go.
To sleep. Go to sleep.
Go to sleep.
That's pretty much how it's
been. Can't spell cast, which is nice.
Yeah, that's what I was just looking at to see if there's
anything that she does. It's multi attack, so if she
wants to break the grapple, she has to use her whole action to
try to break that. Well, that's how I I think
that's how grappling works. That's how grappling works,
yeah. It takes an action.
I don't know about the garage you found.
Gear wrote. Oh, I forgot to add my sneak
attack. Oh my gosh, these things.
Yeah. Shit.
Oops, sorry. I'm even seeing what she can,
what she can even do. Also, if you're talking about
the same wiki, Garat says attacks against the grappled
creature have advantage as long as they're grappled by this
weapon. Are you playing that, or are you
using it more as just a silence grapple?
The silence currently because you're you're not really, you
don't have her fully pinned, I would say in this particular.
Case Yeah, you want to like restrained.
Yeah, and in this particular case too, I think what would
actually happen, she would probably use her thorax, I
believe it's called, and shoot some web up to the ceiling to
try and start pulling herself up that way and try and like shake
you loose. Bitch, I got to clamp speed.
And and in the meantime, trying to also obviously break break
the garage on on her. So what'd you say?
Strength. Disadvantage Strength from hex
against my acro. Disadvantage 70.
Versus 20I hold her down, I ride her.
She's. Toggles.
Yeah, you ride her. I.
Pull off my hat. As she's climbing up to the
ceiling basically where it it seems like she's basically out
of reach for Usenora, that's. What, you think I can do some
fun? Monk jumps.
Do it. Jumping up in the air and
punching. No, we're like jumping off the
side of the walls and stuff. But yeah, then it would be your
turn. Rural as she's gasping for air.
I think that's now after your turn, the third round, right?
Technically. Yeah, at the start of her next
one. It'll be like the top of the
third, I guess. Top, top or end of the third
because there was the prize round then.
This round, yeah, so it'll be top of the third.
On the next I'll do the same thing.
I'm got my claws, dog and der back with my feet and the grout
wrapped around one hand and like a cowboy, I raise my hand in the
air and say, Oh no, I don't do that because we're being quiet.
I go, I don't, I don't scream. I'm very quiet.
And I I attempt to stab her or probably, yeah, I'll, I'll just
stab her in the in like the small of the back where the
connection meets the thorax kind of where opposite where Zenora
was punching earlier. Oh, OK And I will do it using
Booming Blade in conjunction with my No, not Booming Blade,
because that creates A booming sound.
I will not do that because we're.
Being quiet. That's what I was trying to
figure out if she could do anything like alarm wise.
And there is one thing that I I'm I'm thinking she might do if
she gets to it next round, but she's still vaguely surprised.
I would. I would say it wouldn't been her
first thought so. I definitely missed again.
I whiffed it. With the A8. 8.
Yes, yeah, she's. Able.
To bat away your plot hand. I return my can I use my other
hand actually, to cover her eyes so she can't see what she's
doing? So.
And I just, I lean into her real close and I go, go to sleep, go
to sleep, go to sleep, go sleep. Go sleep.
I'm just trying to figure out. So you have the the one hand
holding the grot and you tried to strike her with the other
hand. So it's the hand that you tried
to strike with that you're just bringing back up over her eyes?
Yeah, if I can. But if that's too many actions,
I will, I will not. I mean it's, I don't think it's
outside of your realm of movement because you you, you
pulled your hand up, back down kind of thing and in that motion
tried to reach for her eyes. But I think it would be a
similar kind of grapple check in my mind too.
So you if you want to. I can't think of anything else
that would be better for that. Yeah, 22.
Dang. Yeah, Speedy.
And you? Yeah, and at disadvantage.
But you were going to fail anyway, yeah?
Yeah, so yeah, you you succeed. Go to sleep.
I don't want to kill you. Who's.
Now blinded and can't silenced. Silence.
That's the word. Yeah, I looked down to Zenora.
That's my turn. All right, Zenora.
OK, I'm gonna try something else, so I'm going to be fine.
Hit. Hopefully it actually hit.
Please, Lord. Hit.
That's not gonna hit. That's a 17.
Fucking. I will attempt my second strike.
We. We decided that, Oh no, that was
for the grot that we're talking about.
Attacks would have advantage on her.
Oh, I need to do the damage for the Grot.
Yeah. Oh yeah.
Do that. 1D41D6O Next. Damage. 10 points of damage
thing and I'm trying to do this non lethally just to specify.
Yeah, we're trying to knock her out.
We keep saying go to sleep. Yeah, go sleepy.
Not dead. Dead.
Go ahead, valuable information. Source right here.
Second, second, second attempt. Just oh, that was beautiful.
Oh, is that? Critical.
Another crit. Nice.
Yes. And so that'll be.
Oh my God. That was maximum damage, 17
damage, and I want to spend a key point to make that a stunt
strike. Fuck yeah, that's so good.
So she's probably going to succeed because it's.
I'm pretty sure it's a Constitution saving through.
Let me go check that. Yeah, a Constitution saving
throw. And the DC is 13 and not very
wise yet. So it's She's probably going to
succeed, but. You get a big OOP OOP from her
from that hit though. That's good.
I would say so. She I don't know if you've got
this in your head well enough or if you want me to describe how
you how. How you I was thinking that
like, since she's trying to suspend herself in the air, I'm
like hopping off. I'm like trying to vault myself
off the side of the wall and then like like trying to throw
like good jabs at like her underbelly and I feel like I hit
like it's a sensitive area when. I did it.
Yeah. That's exactly right.
Right. You're able to hit like you You
come in right as she's getting situated and hit her right right
in the web spinner and and use use.
Use. I hit her in the balls.
You see her. Her flinch very, very hard, to
the point where she was about to lose her footing on the ceiling
with her, with her, with her eight legs, but she's able to
hold hold her spot there with maybe three or three or so legs
that are able to hold her still in place.
That was, that was why the Strength check.
So seeing if she was able to be knocked loose from the ceiling
or not, because that was a pretty good blow.
Nice. Yeah.
I'm going to use my bonus action to still just try and punch her
again. Just one though.
And that's not going to hit, because that's a fucking 16
again, So yeah. Sorry, I still haven't had her.
You're doing all the damage here, sister.
I'm doing peddly, but you know. Oh, those two Nats are really
nice. You know, if you just hold
someone's arms behind their back, it's really easy to punch.
This is Joe. We're the good guys, right?
Yep. So supposedly you.
Is that what your your turn? That was my turn.
Yeah. OK, you can see that her face is
turning deeper darker shades of purple hues than what they
already have their skin as and strength with disadvantage if I
remember correctly. Yep.
God these corrupts. Yeah, I don't think A5.
OK, I got an 18. Yeah, I don't think A5 would be
doing much, so she's still struggling to rip it off of
herself while you're riding her back and this is your last turn
before she falls unconscious. I had to look down.
Supposed to breathe with no. Air.
I looked down. As an aura.
After this, we should go back to the ship.
She's going to be a valuable source of information, but we'll
have to keep her alive. Also, I was thinking about
making a Garat out of that that tentacle skin that we got,
because then it would be like an anti magic Garat and that would
be fucking cool. What do you think as?
I think that might be a be like, yeah, no, I think that's a good
idea for sure. Yeah, I think so too.
This way this is working really well.
We need to find a good place, though, for the plate.
That's true. I'll look around, Let's finish
this first and then I I won't try to stab her because I'm not
trying to, but I mean, it'll be the at at the next round.
So I'll just use my round to, like, stabilize myself, just in
case she's got any like, you know, last minute tricks up her
sleeve or I'll like hold my reaction to see if she tries
anything. Because as long as I hold her, I
think at at the start of the next round, she goes
unconscious. Yeah.
So I will strap in and hold on. OK, so you I'll.
Strap on and hold in. You keep a hold on the Garat and
you feel all of her limbs just start to loosen.
Dexterity saving throw. Yep.
She's falling. Oh, I need to.
I need to make sure that I'm not directly on her too, Actually,
yeah. Why don't you?
Say 13 Dexterity. Saving throw.
Oh, I'm fine 24. Nice.
I just forgot to roll out the way.
Raul, I don't think you're fully out from under her with that.
You you, you turn, you do like a backflip in the air, you know to
land on your feet as as your race does, then realize you need
to actually roll out from under her and try to do that in the
air at the same time while still landing on your feet and she
catches your back haunches. Oh.
Geez. Swear to God, if you tell anyone
I didn't land on my feet, I'll kill you.
I used. To land it on.
Your right damage. Oh, thank God.
But you just, you just you did it by with a with a drowl
landing on on top of you, is what I'm saying.
Oh shit. On the back of you.
Fuck. It's heavy.
Oh, it's so small. This how I die 27 days under a
dryer. So.
All alone again. That's how you find or yeah,
that's how you find yourself. With Zenora, you just you see
her limbs going limp and tuck and roll.
I tuck and roll out of the way. I'm so good at this.
And stand back up and see Raul half caught under the dryer with
the web spinner leaking on him. It's in my mouth.
This is disgusting. Can you?
Is there anything you can? Here help me.
See if we can leave pull. Yeah, I'll see if I can help
pull. Just so gross.
I I think you guys would be able to manage it unless you want to
roll. Rolling forward is always fun.
Yeah, then. Oh God, the strength.
Strength. Athletics.
Just strength. Yeah.
Second of five. Athletics.
Athletics is acceptable too. Yeah, you're lucky.
I'm such a strong bitch. Thank you.
Plus. 4. Athletics, look at you.
You're oh, you're a swole little halfling.
And still unconscious, the Dreider kind of is is pushed off
of you as you're pulling yourself out from under him and
under her, and you got probably tits in your face, the Nora as
you're lifting. Diddy's.
Lifting her up and then you guys realize you didn't even get her
name. That's.
All right, we can ask her later. Yeah.
OK, so. Take your weapons and we.
Should scout, though for a safer space for the plate or an
inconspicuous space for the plate.
Yeah, I I can do that. Can you bind her hands and all
of her legs together so if she wakes up she can't move?
Also gag her and cover her eyes. Yeah, I'll do all of that.
Thanks. I mean, if you have better
perception, like go for it. I mean, I only have a + 2
perception and only a + 1 to investigation, so whichever one
it is, it's not going to be great from my end.
Got it. OK.
I mean, we can both. Kind of like, why don't we?
We'll both just take the time to tie her up, loot her, and then.
So yeah, I want my gold back. And all of her.
I want the deck of many things. You get the 50 some, I don't
know, it's 60 with your gold. So the 10 and then the 50 of
hers. Sonora for sure.
You go to look on her person for the deck and you see that it's
they're they're just imaged cards with the the iconography
of the deck of Many things there is.
It's not actually the Deck of Many things I.
Pull one just in case. Nothing.
Nothing happens.
Do you? Yeah, Damn it.
One it is then. No, it I was.
I turned as an aura. We were going to be rich.
I mean Richard. You were going to almost You
were going to potentially kill us by doing that?
Hey, in business you have to take risks.
I don't know about. That we do in life every day,
and I gesture around it where we are, We take that risk every
day. What does?
What difference does it make if it's in the shape of drawing a
card anyway, Let's look around, see if we can find, like you
say, a safe place to stash the plate, and then let's take this
little lady back with us, and next time everyone will have
someone to talk to. Yeah.
So I guess are we perceiving or investigating for a spot for the
plate? Especially if they're like up
high in like 1 nooks and stuff like that no one would expect.
Like or like there's like this jagged gem wall if there's like
a spot to like hide the plate in.
Or maybe if there's a way past this gem wall perhaps?
Yeah, that's that's another thing I was thinking.
I think Josh is gone. No, I'm here.
I. Don't know.
I'm just listening to you guys speculate because I'm like
whatever you guys want to. I look around.
We look. I use my eyeballs to investigate
the area. I use my eyeballs.
Not that great. I'm trying to see it's not the
oh. Nice.
You did much better. That was shocking.
It almost was like a. Oh, that's why you think there's
something behind that wall. What?
No, put it back I. Was wondering about that.
Yeah, so. I sighed.
Back. We were so powerful we could see
through walls. Your sight.
I was bullshit like wall shouting people.
Will. Play.
I didn't notice the whole time. I mean, I didn't really realize
that like, that was. That we weren't supposed.
To be hidden. Yeah.
Because like if as we zoom down it caught like progressively
harder to see, so oh. OK.
So I figured it was just that we could see it.
Oh yeah, Well, that's fair too. Anyway, we look around.
We yeah, I perceived with 19 to try to find a good spot for the
plate that. Is.
Like. You're looking you're both
looking at this crystal wall and it's very much out of place than
the rest of the area. So it it is definitely drawing
your attentions past the regular thoughts of like especially
because you'd seen that living crystal above and this seems to
be dead crystal. So you're wondering if this has
if you know if they're connected one and two how.
So perception wise I'm I'm assuming you're just looking at
it. If you wanted to delve further,
I would say that would actually be an investigation and oh I.
Was looking for a place to like put the plate.
Just for that, yeah. That's priority number one.
Then we'll look at the crystal. Yeah, yeah, Yep.
You can definitely tell There's a lot of insurance and outs in
the crystals, and it's reflective, so it can.
You could probably imagine, at the very least, that you could
take the plate and wedge it in a certain way in between the
crystals. But you're also realizing that
you're not gonna be able to do that with just how the plate
works, because the plate itself needs to be spun up for you guys
to go through it, and then it just spins down on its own on
the other side. And then just kind of sits
there. Yep.
All right, So what we need to do is one of us needs to go ferry
her back to Adune. Then we need to write a lengthy
note in her hand, quitting her job and leaving it on her desk.
We. Could go and do the plate like
behind the desk. That's true.
I guess the the big question is like.
Or like in a drawer or something like that.
So what we could do, Yeah, what we could do.
And because I'm a little bit more speedy and stealthy in the
fact that I could darkness myself and then run on the
ceilings at like 180 feet a second is we could write that
letter here, spin up. I mean, we could just leave, but
or spin up the plate you go through with her and then I hide
it like you say, either in the drawer or like under tape to the
bottom of her task or like something like that.
And then I yeep my way across the ceiling back to a dune
that's going. To be long for you.
I mean, sure, but I run really fast and that way we would have
a portal into this room for everyone else to get through.
I think if we. If, we if.
We spin it well enough, we can probably just spin it and just
go through. But the problem is they don't
want to leave the plate behind without like securely hiding it.
Because like you said, you spin it up and then it kind of.
Spins. Well, she's a she's a she's a
big creature, so I'm sure her desk was pretty big and has a
big underside to it, and I feel like the plate can just sit
under there pretty easily. It can, but will it be sitting
on the floor? I think like is it just going to
be like chilling on the floor after the don't we use it or is
it going to chill on the desk? Or like how does it.
End up chilling on the floor like underneath the desk.
We crawl under the desk and through the portal.
Maybe there's, maybe there's oh, let's go look at the their, the
other. Rug.
Yeah, let's go, let's there's. Like a rug if.
There's like a rug or something. Yeah, then I can.
Put it under the rug. That's smart.
We're under like a piece of other furniture.
Yeah. All right.
Stealth. So what do we got?
Stealth. Mm hmm.
Good Lord. All right, Rolls, please let me
know very. Quiet.
That was beautiful. It's a tree 4.
Very beautiful. 23. We are stealthy ass bitches.
Real quiet. We don't want to put it in here,
right, because these guys are sleeping here.
Well, there's the one guy on the ceiling sleeping up there.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. We don't want our whole party
like. He's a he's a useless fuck and I
think a whole party can handle him.
But we don't want to like wake him up and give him the option
to like sound the alarm for more.
Because like if we all bought like bust through the portal
next time into this room. I think it that gives us a
surprise round. I guess the question is, how
long is it going to take? Is this guy going to wake up in
the meantime? We don't know.
We do nuts now. But first and foremost, I'm
going to go over to the desk and very quickly write out a formal
resignation in her hand. I do have forgery saying that
she has decided to leave and quit and not to look for because
she quit and left, even though it's an island.
All right. Did you want to?
Is that a role or is that just like a skill?
Dexterity and proficiency for forgery I believe as well.
Yeah. It's almost like he was a
criminal in a previous life. You want to roll it.
Not that great, plus my proficiency.
So 11. Comes out nearly just as you
said it. All right.
A little. Bit of wine spillage to it to
make it look authentic. There you go.
And then I motioned to Zenora up at the person.
And I'm like, I don't know if we should.
I think. It'll be.
Fine, It's our best bet than leaving it out in the hallway.
The other Yeah. Or causing one of us to have to
return by ourselves. Right.
I mean, I could always, we could, we could always just
leave the way we came in and redeliver it, 'cause now we know
how to get here, but God, we're already here.
That would just seem so much better.
Yeah, we're already here and the whole thing was trying to get a
good advantage, So I think so if we look at the desk, is there
like, is it like a tall? Is the desk taller than me?
Yes, it's like 4 foot. We're going to be fine.
We're going to put the plate under the desk.
OK, Raul's going to take a second and maybe I'd like to get
it somehow affixed to the underside of the desk, but I
know I did that somehow with a wall before, but it's going to
unspin and land. That's that's the question.
OK, crafting. Maybe I.
Don't know. I don't know what you have on
your person. Bagpipes or loot.
So I have loot strings. OK so I'll take some some loot
strings or string that I have and I'll I'll make it in kind of
like a like a like a tire chain thing.
So it's holding it from 1 central point and then it kind
of like, you know, holds the plate, but the plate can also
spin. Does that make sense?
So you're taking it like the string around the outside of the
plate and hanging it like that. Is that what you mean?
So like if you were to use string to basically make a knot
like like you know like the string carry case thing where
you like loop it around 1 portion of like a corner and
another corner and then it loops into itself and you can
physically carry stuff like that like a like a crochet blank or
hanging string basket thing. Through Yeah, definitely.
Crafting because that's that's called macrame I.
Macrame. Oh my God, my string it.
I love that. I, I I myself have dabbled
because I have a crap ton of leftover hay Bale wine and I'm
always like, I don't want to just throw all this away.
What do I do with it? I failed.
I got of Admiral. Natural one, Yeah.
Well, to keep it, my brain went somewhere dark at first.
But I'll keep it simple, since we're we're farther along in the
night too, and say that you just couldn't, you couldn't get the
loops to work, you're you'd get it to a certain part and then
you'd be like, oh, string and you'd start playing with it.
All right, all right. I'll just suck it up.
I will. I will do the best I can to hide
the hide the plate from view and we'll spin it up.
Well, actually, yeah. Yeah.
Deception I think would be a
good a good roll for that. OK, I'm gonna roll so bad.
What's your deception? I.
Have a + 1. Eight.
I'm rolling so poorly today. 8 isn't your deception.
Oh, it's a three at least, but. It's a + 3.
The guy is sleeping though. Yeah, You're not making any more
noise than you would normally. That's not where I was going
with it. We will just find out in the
future how well your deception was.
How? Well I hid the damn thing.
Damn. Exactly, yeah.
God, we should have just put it on the table and put some like
food on it. But activity impressions, but
you know, I mean. If you wanted to say it like
that you could there's still time you you would have
disadvantage for or I mean advantage, sorry advantage for
that sort of role too just as as a thing and a a quick aside
would be that you guys haven't gone back through the plate or
taken her through the plate as to what I understand either so.
Right, so realizing that, I'll pick the plate back up from its
hiding. I'm gonna throw my rations that
I have in my bag on the table scattered so it looks like the
plate was made a mess, like she left in a rush.
OK, but first I'll gesture for us to leave this room so that we
can open the plate and let her put her through.
Yeah, I'll drag the body through grid and then we can sort of
arrange. And move it in here.
Go through ourselves. Yeah.
Yeah, all right. That would be a performance role
for the spinning the plate up too.
OK, natural 20 on that one. What?
Oh my God. So good at opening plates.
Oh. Shit can't hit for shit can't
hide for shit can't. Sit in a plate.
Anyways, yeah, the the the plate spins up beautifully, silently,
even if you will, and you got some of your ration scattered
around on it or on on the table. No, this is the one for we're
out in the hallway and we're dragging the Dryder through to
put her onto a dune. And then and so I'll be dragging
her into there, and then I'll pop back out and then help Rural
arrange the little rations display on the desk and then
hidden and I will pop back through with it left on the
desk. Yeah.
OK, so this is gotta be smart. There's only two of us.
So you guys. On the portal up outside of the
room first. Outside of the room first so
that I can drag the body into a dune.
Then then grabbing, grabbing the plate and spinning it up again I
guess. Yeah, we'll be spinning it
again. OK, been away.
You're so good at kidnapping. So she's 3, so we have to we
have to spend again. Should should I take a stab at
it? Oh, if you want to.
I had just done it. If you.
Want to We can. We can do yours.
We'll do yours. Nope.
I have AI have a plus one to performance.
We will take 22. Absolutely.
OK. Yeah, so she went on to the
decks of a dune. No problem.
Still unconscious, You guys were both needed to drag her through,
grabbing each each a leg. And then the plate is spun up on
the desk and silently and you guys walk through onto a donate
stick. And just as the plate is
spinning down, you see the drieder.
Or rather hear almost a yawn from the drieder before it spins
all the way down. So were you?
Are we using the Stealth roll from our deception from earlier?
OK. That's gonna be great.
We'll be sorry. Full confidence roll.
Roll roll has full confidence. Everything went perfectly.
They don't really have an insight, but they do have
wisdom, and that's a natural one for his useless ass.
So. Perfect, perfect gun.
He has no clue. Attended and Aura and I say good
jobs and Aura. We did a really good thing here.
We're going to have more information and we had a bonding
experience. And we have a good place to jump
back to. Yeah.
You're a still goblin clad friend.
Oh yeah, we should probably we should probably go change and
wash these off so that the so that the rest of our friends
don't attack us. That's true.
Yeah, let's do that. I wander off.
Yeah, I call my siblings for a bath.
Teapots. I'm good.
Where's the. Bath one.
They're really good. They could do you after me.
Do we have an actual bath? Adune would chime in to say,
Well, mostly you've been using the ocean.
It's pretty clean. That is true, actually.
I like the ocean. I'm going to go up and jump off
the deck and bathe in the water. Get this goblin costume off of
me. We did it.
That was the most chaotic infiltration ever.
As it should be. Very good, we.
Didn't get super far, but we're we're, we definitely got the
group past, you know, Yeah. We we probably got past like a
good initial fight and we're actually like in somewhere so.
Yeah. Plus, I mean, you accomplished
the goal, which was the infiltration.
So I mean. And got a secondary 1 which is
information we. Kidnapped a person.
We kidnapped a person. We succeed.
We're the good. Guys.
Success. We kidnapped someone.
I mean, let's be fair. We we we did it in a humane,
fairly humane way. the United States often kidnaps people to
question them, and everyone thinks they're good guys, right?
Facts. Facts.
Oh the. Only other things that she would
have had on her person I forgot to mention probably would have
been like a a long sword, a curved long sword, that's nice,
as well as a dagger of some sort.
But that I didn't think you guys would be that interested.
So I just didn't say those those things, yeah.
I mean interested enough to remove them from her.
Yeah. Yeah, but I don't.
I don't use weapons. I got Fists of Fury.
I'll pin a note on to the Strider too, explaining the
situation as how we got her and I turned it as an aura so next
time I remember and I don't have to report history, Chuck.
That's a good idea. Is that you think so?
Too. Writing down a note for yourself
and. Never.
Ever. Ever will I take a note.
I did notice though, while we were talking here, if you're
looking at, I don't know what you have Discord open on, but
there's a little chat bubble now next to the channel's name.
That's like a specific chat allocated to this channel that
they. Did.
Yeah, so you could probably put a note in there for yourself if
you wanted to put something anywhere.
I sure could. I always play forgetful
characters for a reason or people with keen minds so I can
go ODMD. M tell me everything.
I don't remember anything. Say it again.
Guys are lucky then, that I especially you in that case,
that I like to do my session prep as best as I can and that
I've been recording the sessions because otherwise you guys would
be as shit out of luck as me. I was.
I was re listening to that last session.
You were in two there for the Evil campaign and.
I was. Like.
I was like, damn you guys, you did a lot.
Although it felt like nothing because you guys went in and out
of the pocket rocket and talked to the guy for a while and
messed around with the mirror. So like.
I was like sitting here thinking I was like, what was the last
thing that we did? We fucked around with the
mirror. That's what we did.
Yeah, but like, there was a lot of.
Like Mommy almost killed the entire party, right?
Franklin got chocolate from the guy.
You ready? When I and I said no, no, don't
do that. Oh my God, I'm so excited for
the chocolate. I was.
Revising the very last part of of that episode just today too,
was that when you guys came back out to mess with the mirror
again after barely surviving it the first time, you learned more
like details about how it works. Basically, as well as had seen
Frasz pulling the pocket rocket out of his pants.
Forgot about that for a second, Yeah.
All I know is the the the future portal room that I shall have
whenever it happens. Because of the last session, the
first thing I'm going to do is give it to Thomas, Hamilton and
Flint so they can be alone for one night.
Yes, very nice. You're gonna be making it to the
all of the next month in there. Barrett, I think is one of the
times. Yeah, for the for the one shot.
For the one shot and is it the whole month?
I I don't have a specific number of sessions it's going to take,
but I suspect it'll take several.
Yeah, no, I should, I should be available on every Tuesday, so
yeah. And then did you see?
My I threw my character in there.
Oh, I still need to think about that.
Yeah, I saw the question, but I I don't have a lot of ices, so I
don't know. I mean you you or your other
like your your D&D character would either.
Is there any? Is there any situation where you
would, I don't know, go scorched earth?
The question. Any see that's the thing that I
did want to ask you because I'm like.
Not any, not any, any one instant like event that could do
it like so for Flint. He told me he if Thomas Hamilton
died, Flint would go full nuclear because I thought men
were can. Specifically between my between
my like in relation to all of the characters amongst each
other because there's like if one of us died I don't think the
OR like you're saying in that case for him and then Iron O Cat
is aggravated with with Jesse so to say because of his his back
story being. As his friend.
Yeah. And yeah, Franklin, I I forgot
what yet to would be mad at you for his.
His back story? Right.
I don't think any of them would have any aggression in in any of
those forms. Perhaps.
And Josh, you the person given power, would not be like, I'm
gonna become a super villain on accident or on purpose.
See the That's the thing when you say accident, perhaps,
because. Oh, I absolutely would
accidentally become a villain if I had powered.
Yeah, because like, The thing is that I could see myself being,
what would you do for the greater good?
Right, but like what would like what would your I?
I guess I would just consider what would your motivation be
going forward? Learning you have powers.
Like would you, would you continue living your life?
Would you become a superhero? Would you go kill Putin?
Would you go hunt down? Right.
Would you, you know, go take over a small country?
I don't know. It's just a bug that I wanted to
put out there because it will come up.
Yeah, yeah, I I I. Like, are you?
Are you the sort who would want to tip the Apple card over once
you had the ability to do so? I think at one time I might have
been if you'd asked me when I was younger.
I feel the same, feel the same way.
But I feel like now I if I got an immense amount of power and
influence on for things too, I would probably just use it to
like, I don't know, get my house built.
That's just my first in my brain, right?
Now limited power build hobby power.
And make is a flourishing area for for for other people to so.
You'd set up a Druids Grove, basically.
It'd be great. I feel very much.
If if you haven't read The Iron Druider Chronicles yet, I
recommend it still to you because there's a character in
there that I resonate with so hard.
It's like his old teacher he runs into later on.
He he not to ruin too much of it but because he doesn't know that
he's alive but he runs into him because of some weird time shit.
But he he himself as a character is basically like fuck this,
fuck you fuck them. I'm just gonna go do this.
Yeah, and he just basically goes around like helping those that
can't help themselves. And like he he eventually makes
friends, like with the familiar of a sloth that.
Nice I. Was like oh that sounds awesome
just like because they well in that book too they have like
that. I think Helith kinda has that in
the you know what the heck is that?
It's a critical role is oh. Taldori and Vox Machina.
Yeah, I think it's Vox Machina. Keith Vox Machina.
Keelith. Yeah.
The Druid? Yep.
But she can, like, walk through trees like those, yeah?
Oh yeah, yeah. It's the It's true stride that's
the. And that's like a stereotypical
druid power from like ancient, ancient, like Scottish lore and
everything too. That's where this person gets a
lot of their lores actually, from, like real myths.
That's why I like reading into it so much.
But because of that, they can just go pretty much all over the
planet because they had druids that had set up these like
pathways all over Earth, ancient, ancient times and such
for like thousands of years. And he's just like, I didn't
even know the rest of this world existed at the time that I was
alive. So I'm just going to go around
exploring it. Nice.
So, like, that sounds fun too. Yeah, that's, I mean, yeah, that
would be, I could see that too, just taking off and just start
exploring. Yeah, honestly, that would
probably be even more of a motivator.
If I got ultimate power, then that would probably be even more
of a motivator to. Become a wanderer.
Yeah, I mean in an infinite amount of space and there's like
infinite amount of things to see, yeah.
I just want to know, yeah, I mean yeah, so same for you
better if you or your character has any in like has any any
reason to like want to quote UN quote the to flip the applecart
so to speak, Applecart being just like everything in general.
Change the status quo. Yeah.
Dude, if I had power, I would use it to make sure that people
just left each other fucking alone.
That's always my thing. I'm like, let people live their
fucking lives. As long as they're not impeding
on you, it's fine. Sure.
But it isn't that exactly what everybody's doing when you want
to change that. I mean by throwing a wrench into
the system up and. Yeah, well.
Like too much of this system is like impeding on people's lives
for no fucking reason. And so I'm just like.
Go away, yeah. Just consider it over the next
week or. Yeah, I mean, like, I would be
shit up if I had power. I would probably do anarchy.
Like that's a thing. Yeah.
It's like taken. You just at this point we need a
hard reset and just like redo, keep that.
In mind. Yeah, just just put it out
there. I absolutely would, if I had the
chance, Anarchy. All right, right.
OK. Your life burning.
I'd just think it'd be Elmo meme.
I'm just I'm excited to actually play a Bloom Stalker Ranger.
I haven't played a Ranger in so long.
That's exciting. Because that's what the Queen's
team I am. I'm a Ranger.
I'm not typically Adm, so my scaling on encounters is going
to be a little off, so the first.
Bloom Stalker is like the most powerful Ranger, so it's fine.
Oh, just that's perfect. Yeah.
I got to make sure to add XP and make sure everyone's up.
Up. I just became Level 5, so like,
I don't think I'm going to be levelling up anytime soon, so.
So that was, that's another question I had the other day is
should it be based on the levels currently or should it be based
on the levels at your rhythmic veracity?
Because I think it would be currently, because time still
would have passed for them and they still would have played.
Right. I think I see what you're
saying. So like to the to the next
highest level that they've become or are you?
That's what I was expecting you would say too, but it is still
at your discretion. You could even like tell
everybody this is the level you're at for this for this,
just to make it simpler for yourself as as the DM, because I
know that can get cumbersome to dealing with multiple.
Level types. Yeah, I might consider doing
that, but I don't wanna I I don't know if how well that
would be received. I agree.
Yeah, everyone should be fine with it.
Probably. I think especially because this
is like its own thing right now, you know?
Whereas like the reason that I do it my way specifically is
because I have people jumping in and out at different times.
So you have I have to work I I personally.
Have to work with that. Yeah, work with that as well as
that. I don't want to like give
somebody that's been at the table a lot longer any like
disadvantage to somebody that's been at the table for less
longer than them, you know what I mean?
Yeah, I totally get it. Yeah.
I think. I think your system works well.
You level up pretty quickly. I think the biggest thing is
just keeping them alive at low levels is really.
It was really the big thing. That's my last time.
I was like, here's sanctuary, here is false life, here is aid.
Here is take everything. Don't die, you tiny little
squishy baby. And he played it, played it
right. So because especially compared
to Regina, who was run into the middle of combat.
As a wizard 10 out of 10. Oh my God.
And then my first time with fucking Phelan and just in the
tower immediately fucking die, Yeah.
That's that's your that's what I'm talking about.
Happened there too. But in in her case, I think it's
still the one that stuck in my mind the most, because on top of
her being like a squishy level 1, I think she's technically a
sorcerer rather than a wizard or a warlock or maybe.
She's. No, I think I'm the sorcerer.
She's the wizard. OK.
And then as the Wizard, she's still basically at level 1, I
think actually, no for the combats.
I did level everybody up for for the highest level in combat
because just to be fair, because you guys were facing off against
each other, but still the Wizard.
It's a wizard. It's a wizard.
Directly into the middle of of the entire encounter, though
giving her some credit for it is that is that this is her first
encounter with us ever. And was literally exploded by a
a a magic rifle that can shoot cannonballs.
So. Yeah, yeah, Wizards don't run
into combat. It was amazing.
What do you? Mean I've played the man.
Directly into combat. Manly Wizards are possible, but
you have to. They are, but they're really
hard. Yeah, my favorite's the the
armor artificer, War wizard, and unlimited reaction +2 AC or +4
saving throw every turn with the heavy armor proficiency.
And if you take like Tough and some of the other HP feats you
can get, at least you know you can get pretty good.
That's a fun class to play like. Give you some warning because I
had put some thought into the alchemy aspects at least I was
hoping to be able to. Having having talked to you too
about saying you know that we'll we've been spending some time in
that world as our characters and getting those levels and
everything so we'd be comfortable with our powers.
It's it's not like we just got our powers handed to us and
we're. Well, that's a, that's a
question I guess for you because as we had kind of talked
earlier, my understanding was I wouldn't nobody would understand
their powers until this thing happened, unless you happen to
already have had an item on you. But what are you thinking?
And then I I'm hoping to reconsider because I don't.
There's no particular reason I that can't be.
Yeah, no, I I can can understand that too.
I think most people are gonna come into it like that.
That's probably a good way to play it too.
I was just curious because I tend to prepare.
Yeah, I totally get that. And I know that not everybody
else will, so I'll try to play it down a little bit from my my
own thoughts. This way I just know which
directions I'll be going because my thoughts, just so you're
aware, I guess it's like I was going to lean into the alchemy
aspect of it, but also with a mindset for crafting, sort of
like what you're doing because but on an umpteenth degree with
almost some magical automations in some aspects for my potion
making because that's just kind of where my brain took me and
like basically mass. Produce healing potions.
Not not mass. I mean that might be something
that I would would work up for for people in the meantime but
not like on my person you know where where I was thinking of
just like a a mini kit that's ready to go because we have the
because that's the thing that I that this that our world as in
you know Earth does it has that Tarth doesn't have is a lot more
technology kind of like. Something like that is going to
be available to you. Pretty early on.
Cool 'cause as So, yeah, my my thought from there would have
just been incorporating the crossbow in with some vials and
shit, because I'll be able to pretty much reach anybody in the
party and buff, heal, attack, so on and so forth.
Whatever other random weird ass potions I come up with.
Yeah, those are good things to know.
I will still say you probably will not have any knowledge of
your powers until this event transpires.
Perfect. But those things will be
accessible because so you're essential.
I mean, not to give too much away, but you're essentially
going to be picked up by an agency that does this.
Like I'm like basically a magitek agency that's needs your
help. So they'll equip people with
some items and stuff and like like you say, Magitek is going
to be more of a thing. Here though, I'm kind of ruling
it kind of similar to the the Dungeon book, where Earth is
generally there's no ambient magic, so you need a power
source. Yeah.
And these? Yeah, that's either using
magical items naturally magically occurring like
creature parts, or you know, plants, cultuses, healing
potions, and then obviously putting that in with with
technology to a degree. Have you thought then too about
those that I because I thought about this a little bit because
of the same book that I that I recommended you.
The book we're talking about, if you if you're interested in such
things, there is called He Who Fights With Monsters Pretty
good. Definitely recommend?
Yep. It's a lit RPG, if you know what
that is. Yes.
Yeah, it's a it's a good read. There's about 10 books out now.
But yeah, anyhow, oh for have you thought of a ruling for like
that ambient magic effect on magic users?
Because one thing you might need to consider so to say would be
like how they have in that area too they not only the training
is isn't as good for a lot of their magical abilities but also
just like you're what you're saying you need to gather the
magic. But that we there isn't really
like I guess. I guess the best way to think of
that may be that you don't get spell slots back until you've
gone and got the things that you need to replace them is maybe
the disadvantage to our world. Versus.
Like I would say, long rests don't refill slots.
You, a long rest would be replaced by a magical item that
you would siphon the power out of in that world or in this
world. Interesting.
That'll affect me. I am a Ranger and I do use
magic. Yeah, I mean, so here's the
thing, I don't expect this to take longer than one long rest,
right? This is not going to be like a
like a multiple day thing. Oh, you mean like in game time?
Not longer than one rest? Gotcha.
Yeah, in game time you'll probably get the option to do
like a short rest if you play the cards right, but it's it'll
be a a like gas all the way down the entire time because there's
a timer. Are you going to have a timer
running during the sesh? No.
So I mean the timer, the. So there's a number of different
things that you can do. You can either beeline it
straight to the end thing and get a little bit of an advantage
on that fight, or you can go to a secondary location and prevent
something bad happening there, yeah.
You don't have to tell me too much.
You can always just tell me. It's it's something that I have
to wait to hear because. Yeah, you you'll.
Repeat. Repeat yourself too much.
Either for everybody else. I was just trying to pry some
more. Also try and give you some tips
if anything you needed because I know.
Yeah, sometimes. Bouncing, bouncing ideas off of
Somebody can help? Yeah, I mean I how I guess the
question is how much do you want spoiled because you you have a
general understanding of what I'm going for, but you don't
have the specifics all. Right.
I'm always, always going to ask for more, but that's just me as
a person. I like but.
I'm I'm gonna keep it vague for now.
I've got some other DM people that are helping me so I should
be OK good good. I've already got all the maps
and stuff set up, so I may need help creating the character
tokens and stuff 'cause I don't know how to do that, but.
Usually what I'll do for that do is just like roll 20 has some
like free freebies you can use for people that don't know what
they want to look like. In my in my case, I I I usually
go on to Hero forge, Hero forge and love.
Hero Forge. I'm gonna make myself in Hero
Forge. Oh my God.
Build your character and then I'm.
So excited they get to make me. You and then and and then just
yeah, crop it out basically and from the top and take out the
rest of the stuff and put it in. I I I dropped one in in the chat
from from mine. Yeah, so I got to take the time
to fill to do all that. All all you should do have to do
after that point is like when you when you take that image
that I sent you onto your computer, because I think it has
to be there for you to drag and drop it onto and you can.
That's going to be the easiest way because as long as you're on
a token layer you drag and drop an image file even right into
rule 20, it'll understand it. You might have to resize it or
whatever, but. Yeah, that's what I've been
doing so far. It'll just be like all the
mechanics of like getting the settings right and all that for
visibility and map settings cause 'cause I've got stuff on
like GM layers and what not, but I have no idea if it actually is
looking the way that it's supposed to look.
Yeah, I mean we can, we can always do something pre sesh too
to to do like a little just. To see.
Yeah, testing, testing, but. I'm good with that.
Cool. But yeah, consider if you want
Anarchy on Earth or not, and then I'll see that that can be.
Yeah, that sounds like it might be Joining the Anarchy.
Anarchy. Yes.
All right.
Y'all. Good night.
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