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Now let's dive right back into Tara through the campaign Mani
Polos hold. On.
Hello my overlord. Hello digital Master.
The Hand of Fate tosses the dice rolls, spins, turns.
A campaign starts and ends, leaving memories that become
stories. Stories flow out into the
infinite Sea, painting it with legends.
Legends wash up on the shores throughout the Infinite Sea,
fading to myth until myths are forgotten.
And again, the campaign that gave at birth comes again.
And again the Hand of Fate tosses the dice rolls, spins,
turns. Hitherto we left the adventurers
known as the Shadow Seekers on the 4th level of Hell.
Greed after vanquishing the mere seal on Manny Polis's prison on
the 5th level of Hell in the center of the the Acropolis or
the Phallic Maze, Chatter seekers fell before the Greedy
Goblin Tavern in sweltering heat which assaulted them from the
magma pool that's sat under the town of a of this of a
ramshackled goblin settlement. They reluctantly walk up to the
Greedy Goblin Tavern and pay the entrance fee to quench their
thirst on Green Goblin slushies. Ash bargains with Bildreth Bill,
the proprietor of the Greedy Goblin for a 50% share of the
profits. He also explains the Church of
Kaishen is the only other free time activity to a worshipping
of wealth. More drinking ensues.
After the successful deal Ash did by becoming 50% owner of the
greedy goblin, whereupon Steve the bartender explained they had
been victims of greed already. From the door goblins, Franklin
and Phelan drunkenly threatened the guards for Ash's green gem
back. Bill let's Ash know too.
They are welcome to stay in one of their rooms, and she can
drink for free. The Shadow Seekers wake with a
pounding in their heads and resonating throughout the Pocket
Rocket sitting with Franklin. Two goblin skeletons driven by
young dire crickets in their skulls make them breakfast with
the tink tink tink in their skulls resonating throughout the
entire Pocket rocket. Blessedly, it's seems to stop as
the goblin skeletons bring calf out for everyone to drink and
they're they they gobble up the breakfast.
Refreshed from from their breakfast, they head out onto
the ramshackled goblin town which was which is straddling
the magma pit. Realizing Ash is rich, they
decide to go on a shopping spree, stopping at several
shops, streets, vendors, and an Armory shop with a large list
where the Shadow Seekers used Hookamama's Ash's wealth to purr
of precious stones for some fancy new items.
During the haggling, the Shadow Seekers learned of the Wealth
festival coming up soon this that's today as well as Ezra
adopted Regina with Franklin as an officiate in the middle of
the shop. Plans are are made during the
the negotiation on Price to plant a mango of youth in the
pocket rocket and explode the goblin town with their own
stockpile of dynamite. The ring of mine shield and the
rhinos hide are the only items on the order that they had to
come back for. Ash received the stone stone
receipt for their dealings. The goblin salesman explained
how to get to Caution's temple though through a large door in
the Cliff face just to the southeast.
They check the time from the glowing stalactite clock hanging
over the Tavern town or over the entire town, and it indicates
that it's later in the day when they open the door to a narrow,
narrow metal hallway to another much reduced and heat cavern
with a devious looking temple directly in front of them.
Shadow Seekers walk up its staircase into a church with a
flamboyantly pimped out preacher who walks directly up to them
and asks them to to swear fealty to Kai Shen, which he gestures
around to everyone who's chanting.
More, always more. Wealth flows to the worthy, and
I am worthy. Ash then contacts many Polis who
explained that he he would take just about any swearing, Kai
Shen that is, and he then seizes the opportunity to explain to
the Shadow Seekers Michael Polis was not lying about the world of
Tarth exploding on his release and imploding if he dies and if
he is left in his prison in the center of Tarth.
The Shatter Seekers, the world would be fine, but the Shatter
Seekers would be trapped in hell.
Manny pulls rambles on in his drunken slur, dumbling that it
it's fine, he can fix the world after it explodes and they can
remake it in their image and they can have a seat at his
table to make it so all they have to do is steal the world
seed. During a rhythmic veracity from
Michael Polis. Blood pours from ashes and
Franklin's nose with a with Regina's eyes going bloodshot
and Ezra just looks confused. During this conversation with
Michael, Polis and Ash pets Bob the crocodile, and soothingly
they all begin to swear fealty to Kaishen.
All except Franklin's go smoothly to repeat the chanting
around them. Franklin learns, too, that the
statues out front squash anything that leaves without
swearing this phrase. A voice from below rumbles out
that they shall die for Franklin, not releasing his vow
to another. Two towering molten figures
lurch to their feet from under the fiery goblins who were
forging them inside of the church and immediately blowing
up, blowing the blowing up the Shadow Seekers apart while they
mounted at a fence. The Shadow Seekers take down one
of the molten figures with necrotic attacks from Regina,
who was hiding under Ezra's unconscious form.
Under their onslaught. The two giant statues on besides
the molten figures in the church, 1 outside bars the exit
and the other moves towards the center of the church and the
anvil situated there. Franklin fails to dominate the
giant clockwork statue in the center.
He then prepares to sacrifice himself and the clockwork statue
hits the anvil in the center of the church.
The vibration from it resonates deep within the Shadow Seekers
souls and throughout the church, and over the screams of the
other goblins dying while they try to escape from the clockwork
statues. A large disembodied head forms
over forms of gold over a reflecting pool in the centre
that is directly in the centre of the church.
Kaishen's voice booms through the place of worship, giving
them another form of escape. The Golden Head offers to trade
something of value, immense value to Franklin in exchange
for him his not pledging fealty like the others in trade for his
newly acquired book of U.S. Army Guide to Warfare.
Gary Devices. What's that?
Think it's the hold on, I've got it.
Oh, where did it go? Oh, the US guide to
unconventional warfare. Unconventional, unconventional
and which he promptly blots out during the dealings and the pimp
preacher winks and suggests a meeting afterwards outside of
Kaishen's reach. And the Shadow Seekers
successfully exit the House of Kaishen, leaving the book on the
steps in front of the exterior clockwork statue guard.
And as they leave, Kaishen explains once per day they have
to hold a gold coin over their head, and once per year they get
a 10% return. A frustrated Franklin drags the
corpse of the molten Clockwork that they killed with Ezra's
help into the pocket rocket. While while doing so, Kaishen
offers another exchange for three Astral Diamonds in in
exchange for three Iron Bands of Binding, which Franklin
immediately captures the the corpse of the Flux Blast Seeker.
He realizes that called into his iron bands of binding.
That's the first time you're hearing that actually, so don't
be surprised. I, I needed to tell you that it
was my reminder for myself. And Kashin also tells them to to
the north is where the mines are, where they're welcome to
go. And he also lets them know,
though to the South it's a bunch of feisty elementals.
They probably won't want to go there if they can't handle his
clock works. Ezra, Franklin and Regina return
to the Greedy Goblin where two guards are greet them with at
the door and ask for an entrance fee again.
Those goblins are immediately met with violence and explode in
a fiery ball and turn to ash. Regina licks their ashes off her
fingers before they all go inside for a drink.
They see and are greeted by the pimp preacher who is already
seated inside at a booth. He starts to tell them how
fortunate enough it is for them to make it here now during the
wealth festival, and tells them of the conspiracy that Caishun
is just an image. There is actually a metal door
to the South through the elementals that other
adventurers have either died trying to get to or disappeared.
Never be never to be heard from again once they go that
direction. And the Shadow Seekers, then the
Shatter Seekers lured the Pimp Preacher back to a safe location
in the Pocket Rocket where they begin torturing him with a slow
and slow roasting him on a spit over a fire where he screams for
his life and his family's life. Ezra threatens to eat him as
well. As Franklin casts Zone of Truth
on the Pimp Preacher, they learn that the clockwork statues are
weak to bludgeoning and Ezra takes butter proffered from
Regina and takes the pimp preacher's hand and Franklin
heads. Oh tries to hand the pimp
preacher a piece of paper and pen for a list of Co
conspirators which they can bring to safety and away from
this conspiracy. The pimp preacher says with a
tear in his eye. You cut off my writing hand and
Franklin offered to dictate. That's where we left off.
Let's find out what happens this time.
Violence was. Had lots of violence.
Lots, lots of violence. There was no morally upright
characters to stop. Welcome to hell.
We have luau we can use. Something much worse.
So. Yes, for your reference, just
for in the future if you need it.
If you look up Flux Blast Seeker there Franklin, that is what you
currently have inside of your pokeball.
I'll put in quotes. This isn't like an automaton,
this is just like a dude. No, it's it's like I'll it's
kind of a if we're if we're talking like real meta here,
it's it's kind of both and and this one, though is dead.
You guys killed it so. I don't know what to do with it
yet. That's incorrect.
I knocked it out and it was poisoned.
It's stable. So it's still.
Alive. Yeah.
I've caught another one and I handed the other two pokeballs
out to the other people and they're never there.
Well, yeah, so I was gonna say I think Kyoto, you have one.
No, Ezra, I looked. I looked at Discord.
Fuck. Ezra has one and Regina has one,
but Regina's not here. And in Speaking of which, what
you see popping into existence? So yeah, you guys forget that
Regina exists currently, even though you although you do have
a lingering memory, Ezra, if not stronger than Franklin's because
of the fact that you guys have a a special bond.
And you probably would remember her honestly, I would say.
But it's kind of like at this point in time, you know, that
you can't access her. It's kind of like she's like
away at at summer camp or something in your mind, but for
yourself. Vomira.
Before all of that, all of this was happening.
Darkness had covered you and time ceased to exist.
But move ever faster and you feel your body start to lose all
of its weight, and you float in an effort, effortlessly and in
no particular direction and a void of nothingness.
Your wants, wishes, and will drift away.
Only one feeling persists. You are all things because you
are no things. There is no movement, but
everything, including you, moves infinitely fast, knowing all
things and knowing no thing. And you have all things but hold
nothing. And then all of a sudden colors
streak across your vision. A persistent boom boom boom
spurs to life in in your chest, bringing with it a weight,
physical and that of time as you feel yourself beginning to
realize there is a you, a clear desire, dream and determination
and pulls you towards it. Growing and charm changing ever
more, you flow out into the evolving you at a solid chug
chug chug with your vision clear on a scene before you and the
feeling of having stood right at a wave's Crest as it splashes
across your body, leaving you with a tingly, heady high of a
buzz that just starts to set in. And you're standing at the bar
and you kind of look around and you realize you've got to be in
the pocket rocket 'cause that looks just about right.
And you look over to see Franklin.
And I don't know if you've actually met Ezra.
I have not I. Was gonna say I didn't think so
either. And another individual that you
have yet to meet standing over a goblinoid creature that is
decked to the nines pimped the fuck out with his hand missing
and and blood covering his arm and he's charred and burnt in a
couple places with a small fire that's been just kicked out on
the floor next to them. So yeah.
I like. Eyes are pitch black.
Shake my it's kind of like shake my head.
I'm like. Jesus fucking Christ.
Again, who the fuck are you looking at, Ezra?
I Ezra, who you wait is the pimped?
Out goblin, the one that's talking.
No, that was that was coming from the.
Go ahead and describe yourself if you wanted to, Ezra.
I would say I actually don't know what Ezra looks like so.
So let's see, I believe last time we left, last time we left,
I think Ezra was currently wolfed out a little bit.
So currently you see what looks like a black upright wolf
wearing a fur lined. No, no, I changed my coat, a
black leather coat, bare chested with a pair of leather leather
pants on boots currently holding a what looks like a long piece
of wood that kind of still smoking.
Oh, and as and as as you're standing there, the wolf
features kind of start reciting and going to more like a, you
know, humanoid look. He has like pointed ears, kind
of like a long kind of medium sized beard, black hair with
streaks of a little bit of Gray. Well, no, that's I went back a
few little bits. So a little bit of Gray because
I ate some fruit. You ate one of the mangoes.
Yeah, Mango. So a little bit of that Gray as
I was receded and he's got piercing like, you know, red
eyes. All right, Laura Franklin.
Get up and go hug her. It's good to see you again.
Glad you exist. I just kind of like, I can't do
that thing that people do. Don't like to be hugged too.
It's kind of like. Squeeze their.
Arms into their SO keep their arms in their chest.
We don't have to touch Septa's cake.
I stick that, yeah, because last she remembers, shit went down
with Franklin. In what way?
Like in the other Earth. Oh, you weren't at Uber Veracity
this this this time around, So you didn't get those memories As
for Myra anyways. Yet.
Oh so I OK? Oh so I don't know about super
Myra doesn't technically know about the one shot yet?
No. Oh OK, shit, I forgot things.
Oh, it's understandable. It's only.
I forgot things only upload like once or twice a year.
Interesting. OK, OK, so then the last.
I know. OK.
Yeah. I still do the like, awkward,
like. Hi, you're hugging me.
It's OK. I'll stop and I'll just kind of
like pat your shoulder tentatively.
It's good that you're back. Did our plan work?
Have you progressed? We did.
We're to the next level. We're on the next level, about
to instigate our next plan. Excellent.
What is our next plan? And all right, he said.
His name is Ezra, but. Who is?
Yeah, this is Ezra. Can we trust Him?
I mean, he's been. Actually, we can't trust
anybody. How did he get here?
Ezra, here you set. I just appear and then I caught
big compass and you see, and I have and I have a a big.
Compass. Yes, you're around his neck to a
familiar torque. And that's the compass he's
talking about. No, the necklace that that you
hold that let's you talk to Manny Polis and talk to your
friends, OK? Ah, I see you're one of many
Polis's chosen. He doesn't know how to stop
choosing, does he? He chimes in with a hey, you
gotta take every opportunity you get, right?
Every opportunity you don't take is one missed.
Fair, fair. All right.
So what does this place look like?
What are we dealing with? I'm assuming you're asking that
question of Franklin. Yeah.
Been telling you what the what is the key?
Yeah, 'cause I'm, I'm just in the park, Rocket.
So I'm like, what's this new place?
What are we dealing with? What's what do we got to do to
keep moving? We have big plan.
Yeah, he. Big plan.
He had a he had to jump off for a a phone call himself.
I seen Oh no worries Ezra's. All right, Ezra, what's this big
plan? What's your role?
What? What?
One second Ezra walks over to the pimp and gets some pump some
some wax and then like no say nothing.
He puts the wax in his ears and then wraps a little wrap around
his head. OK, we're good now.
Excellent choice, I like you already.
So Franklin says we're gonna get all smart people and we're gonna
put them in here, and then we're gonna take all the boomsticks
and we're gonna make everything go boom and then take all the
money and maybe get to eat some. Robbing a bank, essentially.
I think a whole. City.
Franklin's made it back to consciousness.
The city, that was weird. I don't know, Like I got
disconnected somehow. I haven't noticed bleeding.
I mean, he's got it basically down.
So we came to this place. It's a big underground mind
chamber that's got a city in it of goblets.
If there's a shopping center, like you can get magic items,
all that stuff, right? It's ruled over by this guy
named Kai Shan, and he lives somewhere underground past a
bunch of really big fire elementals.
And everyone here basically worships him and has to like,
pay him money like every month or so.
So he's just like sitting there like make a profit off
dividends, right? So here's my thinking.
We need to leave this floor, right?
We're we're going to leave. We're not going to be able to
come back here as far as we know.
So we need to gather the resources that we can here for
later on, right? That's a good strategy.
Yes. So the resources that are here
are the people, more particularly the Craftsman, but
people who can make the magic items, who can like cook and
clean and all that stuff, like the good, the good artists and
stuff. That is not what I was thinking.
Oh, I mean also like all their buddy like gear and stuff too.
Yeah, but yeah, intelligent. Like you're gathered the
resources, so I was like, all right, we're going to grab all
of the magical objects. That too, Yeah.
I mean, people are resources, right?
I you. Know.
Or food or food suppose. You might be.
Food is a resource. Fred it.
Needs to be when you have liquid.
So. And I point to the dude who's
like, all burnt up this guy. Is it on some conspiracy?
Who knows that like the guy running the show is just like an
image behind the screen? Oh, what?
Yeah, I know. I.
Almost real. Real Wizard of Oz shit.
Yeah, fuck that. That was bleed.
So the options are we either fight and toil our way through
the lava areas and fight the lava elementals to get to his
underground complex, somehow figure out a way in and then
like, you know, get up. Or we kill everyone in the city,
get a bunch of experience, take all their shit, take all the
smart people, put them in the pocket, rocket for later, and
then we starve the bastard out. And Ezra, be real strong.
I like. That idea and and another point
for that plan, this is a mining town and we have an order place
currently for the entire city's ditabite supply to be delivered
to us today. And also today is a big
festival. So everyone in the town is all
centered in one place, so 1 + 2 is five.
How? Many I never.
Looked at. Yes, math.
Work. How many people can we get in
the pocket racket? Only the thing I mean, yeah,
there. Are limits.
I mean, I didn't see a side that had a capacity limit, but like,
let's be real, we have to like, I mean, it might require some
overhaul. So we might want some
construction guys too. So I look around, if we build,
if we split the entire place into like a first floor, second
floor scenario or like this like bar hall gets turned into three
floors of apartments, we could probably fit like a good number
of people in here all. Right.
Oh, yeah, Franklin, while you were out, I put I put wax the
the goblin's not hearing anything right now.
He's smart. He's got he's got wax
appreciation. That was smart.
Good job. And we're sure that starving
Lord, what's his face and blowing up the minds is going to
get us to the next level and free Manny Paulus from this
level. Well, we're pretty sure that
like the the he's probably got a seal behind Deb, right?
Because we went to a temple to try to figure out where the seal
is. Actually.
Hold on. I turned to the guy.
Oh, I think we have to get to, we have to get to the big guy,
and the way we're going to get to it by is by blowing up all of
his money. Dig all his stuff 'cause this is
the level of greed. So this guy is probably super
greedy. So if anything's going to get
him to leave his house, it's going to be us taking all this
shit. I I like it.
I like it. So we're provoking him and then,
yeah, provoking him to get him out.
And then when he's out, we can capture him where the seal is,
break the seal and move on. Love it.
And I point at Ezra. He's got a poker ball that we
could use to capture him. Excellent.
Or kill him, I don't know. We'll see what happens.
But yeah, that's currently the plan.
Ezra eat him right? Then you let Ezra eat him.
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, we got to make sure like
he has no personal use or information that we currently
need. But yeah, dude, I'll eat him
with you. High 5.
Ezra, oh, he high fives. Oh yeah.
He likes to eat people I look at.
I'm just. Kind of like.
OK, we'll all eat. I guess.
Only people who Only people who hurt my pup.
OK, only bad people I hope. But we're bad people.
We're about to kill a lot of innocence.
Fuck. But it's OK.
I walk up. It's OK.
Hey, hey, hey, Revepper. This is.
All a game don't think here is real.
My nose is pouring blood. Everything is I.
Have no idea what you're talking about.
I mean you would have some idea at.
Least some idea, but it's been so long that she's probably just
like, shoved it and stuffed it as far down as possible.
Sure, Franklin's very honest. Fought into denial.
Yeah, well, if you didn't, if you haven't read, I did did make
that item for reality because you were asking about it.
And basically what it does is let you understand God
perspective. So like when you're not on it as
a mortal, you, you, you. Yeah, that's why the nosebleeds
is what I kind of figured. It helps prevent that.
Yeah. Got it.
But yeah, I'll look it up. So that's currently the plan
right now. I think we need to get this
guy's signature so that we could forge a letter so that it can
convince all of his friends and I waive the list.
Here's a list of smart people he gave me.
I took the wrong hand. Well, I had to dictate.
Yeah, you. Well, we took his dominant hand,
which, you know, better keep him here, I guess anyway.
Top of the list, you see Bill Druth is his name, or Bill who.
Asked me to deal with property owner numero Uno.
So we need to speed run through warning some key people.
Tell them to spread the word to the other key people.
All be in a certain spot. Bring a bit of the pocket
rocket. Don't tell them what we're
doing. Blow the entire thing up, kill
everyone else. Come back at it and be like the
the Lord Ruler guy. He killed everyone and then be
like, you can't live there anymore, but you could live here
if you want. And then they'll be our friends.
Oh I OK, so many aspects of this plan are unfolding so slowly for
me. OK, we're going to be better off
for it. Well, OK, and then so for Mayra
doesn't know about yet at least doesn't know about releasing
like releasing Manipulus will kill the world.
She doesn't know about that yet. No, not technically.
No one's told you. OK.
That's my thought, yeah, let's do it.
We got plenty of levels of hell to get through.
Help everything we need. That's not dilly dally.
All right, everybody put your hands in on three and on three
we're going to say 123 genocide. I don't.
Know about that? No.
OK, one, two. We kill everyone.
Ezra, put Botha's hands in. You said put your hands in.
Put Botha's hands in. Oh OK, how about 123 kill
infrastructure? I like it.
We're killing the infrastructure.
It's not our fault if people are in it.
Right. We we're trying to deplete this,
this tyrant of resources. Exactly all.
Right. Ready.
What? Oh, what's up, What's up, What's
up, buddy? Kill.
Yes, yes, OK.
OK, 123 destroy the infrastructure.
Wait, I thought we were doing destroy.
Infrastructure. Sorry.
We'll get it. All right, let's go. 123 go
yeah. The pimp preacher with his wax
still in his ears and tied up was like, sees you guys start
walking off and he's like, hey, what about me?
Oh yeah, we need you to sign this piece of paper.
I'm sorry, what was that? I can't hear you.
I pointed a piece of paper and hand him a pen and motion
signature and then double thumbs up.
He goes, looks down, looks up at you and then just like real,
like hesitantly, but also at the same time like, Are you sure
this is what you want me to do? Because this is, this is gonna
look bad with my left hand kind of.
And then he starts signing it and it just kind of looks like a
bunch of kind of look like a, a, an epileptic tried to sign their
their signature. Cool.
I pull the top piece of the paper away to reveal I give my
life to the the the members of the pocket rocket.
Or the shadow seekers. Or the shadow seekers.
Thanks bud. He goes not much different from
where I was before. It's actually gonna be a lot
better for you, I think as. Long as there's a place for
religion. You know, get eaten.
It's true. I mean, I'm sort of religious.
Quasi religious. All right, you stay here.
We're going to go find this list of people and very quickly they
run through them and get them to all come here.
We're really sorry about your hand.
We'll replace it. I shrug.
That's. Where I shrug, it chuckles.
He's just kind of staring at you like he understood the gestures
of of your hand to stay here and doesn't seem to be moving
currently, but otherwise, 'cause you've got you've got his ears
still stuffed. Yes.
I am and laughed to myself. That's right, he can't hear us.
I don't care. And when I walk away.
You said sorry about your hand, Ezra laugh.
I'm not. You guys tap your token.
Tap let's go. Go back out.
Build, dress and then do we got to talk to the guy who's got our
the rest of our magic items that we got to pick up get him as.
Well, yeah, I'll never explain that to Ezra.
So Regina's been the one that's bringing, that's been bringing
Ezra in and out of the pocket rocket.
Oh oh shit, sorry. Wait, is that possible?
You can like. Yeah, you can grab a hold of
people, Yeah. Is there a Max number of people
you can like hold on to? No you as long as you're all
touching and. As long as you're all touching,
or as long as they're touching you.
As long as they're all just kidnapped, touching and willing,
that's the other three. Touching and willing, OK.
Yeah. That's fine, all right.
So you guys pop out now I've got I've got the screen up.
Oh, I got to move the bookmark. Still here you.
Know we got to convince these people to come with us.
Does anyone have good charisma? Also, are you in creating for
Ezra then now a token met or Franklin for Ezra?
Yeah, you you know that you have.
Token. Oh, yeah, sure.
I'll, I'll make one for him and then I'll, I'll hand it over to
him and I'll be like, all right, so this is a token.
Hold it to your head. Think to yourself, leave the
pocket rocket and you'll leave the pocket rocket.
And the next time you want to come into the pocket rocket, you
just think to yourself, enter the pocket rocket and you'll
enter the pocket rocket. Ezra literally holds it to his
head and thinks what you telling?
Do you see? See him poof into purple smoke
and you feel yourself kind of become a fear ethereal for a
moment before you coalesce inside of the greedy goblin.
Oh, we're in a bar now. Mm Hmm.
That's where you guys were. Let me get a drink please.
I guess technically you guys would be inside of the bedroom
of the the place that you have at the top of the the Tavern
theatre of the mind, but that's where you technically are
currently before you. I love theatre of the mind.
Yeah, yeah, you. Is my.
Preferred. Well then you poof out of the
pocket rocket. You were inside of the bed
chamber actually currently, and you see the the pocket rocket
sitting nice and nestled into the feathers of the bed that is
that is the the only bed in the room, and otherwise it is a very
bare and sparse room. You're surprised to see even a
feathered bed at this point where you're at.
Pop into This is gross. I like our house more.
I agree, but you know. Better than where I grew up, so.
We have the room so the pocket rocket is safe, and then we can
sleep in the pocket rocket and don't actually have to stay
here. Yeah, Also come out of the
pocket rocket and feel specifically too in your mind,
Ezra, a presence that is demanding payment basically?
Ezra holds up two coins and then kind of browse a little bit, but
still puts the two points above his head.
And everyone else kind of sees that the coins kind of shimmer,
shine and flash and disappear. Hey, Ezra.
Yes. What was that?
Stupid floaty head guy that I'm going to put an apple in mouth
and then eat. Guy who's in charge here?
Some of us had to sign a contract of sorts.
He tried to take money from my pup so I give money instead.
So you have you, you have a pup. Yes, she away right now, don't
remember why. How's it or?
Was she away right now? Yeah.
Sorry, nose bleed. Oh, so you're Regina's father?
Yes. That OK.
Adopt and we performed a ceremony I.
Was going to say you remember Regina being a dark elf child.
That's why that's why she's like trying to like she's like, but
Regina is not woof like so. People what like to bite people.
Regina likes. She like people and she did bite
somebody. She did, says Ezra says that and
smiles while thinking about it. Yeah, she bought magic biting or
a magic biting item, so she's got shark teeth now.
When you see her, don't freak out.
Yeah, she does exist, though. She's trying to put the pieces
together because she remembers Regina being like an orphan and
and now this is her father. So she's like very slowly
putting the pieces together. OK, OK.
Franklin how many days has it been since we were at the
mirror? Ezra looks at you.
What? What?
Mirror What are days? Oh, date, date.
I say, OK, it's been like probably a week.
Yeah. Oh shit.
OK. Piece of mirror I show Ezra The
last seal we had to break was a big mirror.
You've do you Look at the mirror.
Take a look at it, I haven't looked at it yet.
You feel yourselves being drawn towards it and.
Look away. Go ahead and roll me.
Oh shit, I gotta look that up now.
I didn't expect that, sorry. Wait, what?
Fuck. I forgot I might get trapped in
a mirror. Does this says specific to
Franklin thing? No, it's specific to the mirror.
Don't look at. It what is it called now is
this. Like a handheld mirror.
Like one of those like. That's what it's called.
It's called.
It's a Shard. Called a fractine.
Oh, is this a oh, a Shard from the Oh, you picked?
Yeah, that's right. OK.
As we're following, I grabbed 1. Yeah.
Dexterity saving throw. Big roll, guys. 20 that that 20.
Oh, you guys both close your eyes but feel like you're you.
You were being drawn into the mirror for a split second and
you knew nothing else at that second other than side to side.
There was no up and down or forward and backwards, there was
just side to side. That that angered Ezra.
He's gonna slap your hand trying to break whatever that is your
hand. No, I try to avoid that.
We need it. It's I just, it's very useful.
I just realized. An arm strike and. 25 No.
Yeah, damn. Bad, bad, I know.
Can I? Use my.
Can I use my action to withdraw into my shell?
You'd have to use the reaction of.
Oh, Iris. OK, so Franklin looked in a
mirror. There was tension and then Ezra
attacked Franklin. No, no, he got it out of my
hand. He slapped the mirror.
He slapped the slapped. Slapped.
It at the mirror, OK. Do you have a reaction there,
Franklin? Like.
I don't have a reaction spell or trait, so I'm just reacting to
try to generically get away or protect it.
The generic reaction is is like the attack of opportunity in the
rule sets that we use. So you could like, try to bat
his hand away with another unarmed strike versus his.
Action unarmed strike. Come on Big Papi 26, bitch.
You. Your fingers get really close
before Franklin kind of just turns his arm and elbows yours
out of the way. Like Nope.
Hey, no, this is actually gonna make our job way easier.
Instead of convincing these guys to come with us, we'll just
catch them. Is this beer?
Don't let me see it again. OK, don't.
I'll let you know. I'll can I take a minute and try
to craft some sort of like latch covering so that I can like, you
know, like flip it, flip top up and down So it's not like always
uncovered crafting that or just a bag, I guess.
Well, I mean you, you gotta pull it out of the bag still.
Right, you end crafting, Crafting 20.
Nice, I. Would have used some of the
goblets good that I've got. Yeah, you, you take some of it
that's been tanned by your crickets from the last visit
also to coming in and out of the Pahi rocket.
They would have offered you, they would have like greeted you
too and and and been trying to like look, look at the progress.
We, I think we've cleared out most of the, the depth that we
could to of Adam and team and put it in this barrel.
The, the, the goblin skeletons. They're sitting here waiting for
their next order and our experiments are going.
I don't know because I don't we, we forgot to record any of them.
You just told us to experiment. No, that's fine.
I'm going to take out a bunch of stuff just to get this out of
the way. I'm going to give them a sample
of the of the reality. I'm going to give them the
crystal that I got. I'm going to give them some of
the Magic business cards. Basically, I'm just going to
unload a bunch of stuff I have in my inventory that I've
recently acquired. Be like, all right, do stuff
with this. I don't know what, figure it
out. I believe it.
You. I look at them directly in the
eye. You're my personal heroes.
They, they are very, very struck by this and they, they do take
them and walk over to the table and look very busy while they're
doing stuff, but it doesn't look like they're doing anything.
It looks like they're like, even while you're just like looking
at them over their shoulders. It looks like they're just like
looking up the business card, lifting it up to the to the
light and then putting it back onto the table.
Kind of like shifting it around a little bit, trace it on a
piece of paper, then look at that trace.
Yep, that's perfect. I mean, early days.
The more information we could get, the better.
That shit, all right, But yeah, they can produce some of the
goblin skin as well too, that they've tanned at this point
probably. Perfect.
All right. Oh, yeah.
I had another job for you. I turned it up.
Hey, turned the. Ezra, do you have that bagel
seed? Yes, and he.
Can I have that? He reached into his pocket.
He's got a little bit of like, yeah, bits of other things like
lint, maybe a little bit of skin attached to it, but it's still
there. Oh good.
Do you mind if we plant this so we get more of these in the
future? It's yours, so it's your
decision, your tree. Yes, lint, all right.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah.
We're planting a mango seed here.
At the pocket rocket, I point in the other room in the like the
wash robe. We're going to turn the island
into like, a little like. Oh Mango, I thought we were.
I thought we were. I thought we were still in the
bedroom in the level of greed. Yeah.
We get backtracked in time. Yeah, I assume like this.
I assume my cricket's just talking to me in the room.
Yeah, before. We leave.
That works too. They they may one of them
probably Amos followed you out and, you know, presented the
things all like proudly and was like OK, boss, we'll take this
back into the pocket rocket gladly and put it in the wash
the the washroom. Well, I, I, I also would like to
point out that's your, our biosphere, it's with kind of is
scrubbing the, any of the oxygens and such or the rather
the carbon dioxides, I think, I think it was by the one book
that you'd let us read there is what it was called out of the
air wreath. Yeah, I don't want to like
destroy the entire room. I'm saying like the island where
there's or you say there's like tubs.
The bathtubs are like the the thing.
Oh no. It's the.
It's the it's this the like swimming area around to the swim
the tubs that are. There.
No, no. Yeah.
I want to make like a tidy, like the island, as is clear of all
the like stuff on it that we don't need for vital importance.
And like, we could plant a mango Grove there and have little
beach chairs. OK.
Well, I'll, I'll, I'll start the progress on that, that look at
the other. Is what do you guys think?
I don't want to make the decision unilaterally one
second. What do you guys say?
I think growing a mango tree in the Paka rocket is an excellent
idea. Cool.
And then before you go as well, last thing, if you could get a
crew to start clearing out the maybe like the left hand side of
the the like the left chamber, we want to turn that into
potential living quarters for like multiple individuals later
like the others. What do you think?
Do you mean the dining area? Yeah.
And then like the upstairs area where we have like that like
overhanging thing. That yeah, that might be the
easiest place I could probably even in between the, the hanging
space upstairs and the the the dining space below make like,
you know, and there's just a level of some sort.
Yeah, I mean, that would be great.
I mean, just turn it into like those little Minecraft rooms for
villagers so you can shop at. You weren't there.
Sorry. I.
Was pleased like. Don't worry about it, we're
going to have some more people living with us, so we need to
prepare is all. It's sad.
Hey, I'll do my best all. Right, Amos, I believe in you.
I know you know what's real. I'm.
The only one that made it out of the mirror.
So you're damn right. And the salutes before he goes
back into the pucker rocket. He seems to have taken the
charge from Ferdinand. I think it was that has been had
had been aging at this point. He's the old matriarch and Amos
is the new up and coming stud. I'm actually gonna once
Ferdinand dies actually. Oh, since we have some time,
I'll cast Fine Steed on Ferdinand to get a giant dire
cricket deed. OK, do you want do you want to
display that one for me or should I'll shall I search it
before? I'll display it for you and then
we can go. Sorry guys, I don't mean to take
up so much time. Oh, you good?
I wish my brain. All good in the hood.
It is a hit second level. How do I display this find the
steed display in VTT? Oh, there we go.
I'm now mounted and I put out a little like nights outfit like
the one I'm actually wearing in my token.
So it's basically a War Horse or I think there's a few other
options that I have to look through, but I don't know if
there was a statistic for a dire cricket somewhere.
I made one, you should be able to find it in in stuff.
On D&D Beyond. I literally made it on a whim
because somebody had a dog that they'd taken a picture of that
had like a palm, a dead palm tree leaf in its mouth, and they
posted it. And then I was like, that looks
like a giant cricket leg. And I was like, oh, I need to
make that as a creature. And so I did.
Monsters, how do you search dire cricket?
I do not see. One second.
Browse home brew. Yeah, it should be in there.
Yep. Dire and then we can take off.
I think we should catch people instead of oh hell yeah instead
of trying to convince them, because otherwise we're never
going to get through that this session.
Did you did you find it then? I did.
OK, cool Steve Service Marathon. I was still reading through it
with the Steve Dreams. 70 foot flying.
Fuck, dude. Yeah, bud, it's pretty awesome.
OK, excellent. 70 feet. Man, that's, yeah, that's
excellent. Have you seen a like a a full?
Not, not a cricket, Sorry. Like a grasshopper.
Yeah, they they got bounce. Yeah, they do.
They can. They can go for a while.
Oh yeah, I used. To.
Oh yeah. Grasshoppers, they're.
Wild. OK, so you can only have one
steed, Yeah. OK, his name shall be Ferdinand
and Ferdinand shall be his name. OK I give you new life further
that as you lay out your diary bed Beaver bored as my faithful
steed had come now after years of service to adventure with me
forever. It is.
It is years for him. Yeah, they they age quite
differently. Here we go.
Yeah, it is Ferdinand. I remembered correctly.
Yay. I went.
Back feel like every feel like every Mount of Geralt from
Witcher wrote. Brooch.
Yep. All right.
That's about how big he is now. He's beautiful.
Will you? So you guys go downstairs and it
sounded like Vamira was ordering a Jink drink.
Yes, I was ordering a drink and then I was going to I Franklin
and ask him what the fuck is up with that Shard of mirror.
When you're ordering the drink, the goblin across the counter
goes. What are you having on on
special today? Is red goblin slushy?
That's sweet. Let me tell you do.
You have a purple goblin slushy. Oh well, I could probably mix
some of the blue from. Yesterday he starts to say it
loud. Yeah, I could totally make you
blue. Now, now just give me give me
something strong. Oh, nice.
OK. And that's not sweet.
Notch, I think I know how to interpret that, I think.
And then he walks around the bar, walks off this direction
towards the Yeah. Shit.
Comes back with a goblin that that looks a lot less here.
This is what he looks like. I know you guys tokens over
here. Comes back to the table,
basically where you guys are sitting.
He goes, I think this is Ash's group.
Did you? He's scratching his head with a
little bit of his nose bleeding when he wipes it, he goes, but
what? Why did you ask me over here?
He, as Steve said you wanted something not sweet and he
brought me over and strong. Yes, I would like a drink
please. That's not my job.
That's Steve's job. Oh, you know what?
I know what happened here. I don't know why Steve brought
you over here. I know what happened here.
Steve is is an employee. He's he's doing lackluster
today. I'll just excuse me one moment.
He goes back around, goes back to the bar, and you can hear him
reaming him out from all the way around the corner.
Like you stupid idiot. He was talking about a drink,
not a person. What?
Steve, you can just give Steve just like real, real, like
scared. And he's like, oh, sorry, sorry.
And he just like goes into the back room and comes back out
with like this clear liquid. Do you think this is what she
means? I don't know.
I didn't ask her to seem to think that the strong and not
sweet drink. Well, this is that, that this
falls in that category. I need to get new help.
He just shrugs and walks back to his forge where he was working.
Same Buildreth. I will walk up to him with a nod
to Ezra. We gotta catch the sky.
And Steve comes over to you, your, your table with shakily,
shakily and sets down a a clear shot or a clear glass with a
clear liquid in it. And this is this is the
strongest we've got. I'd be careful with though.
Looks like he's poured a double. I just wanted to make sure you
got enough. Sorry for the trouble.
And he walks, he like runs away all.
Right, just start sipping on it and then I, I, I, I, I Franklin
like. So what was going on with that
Shard? A mirror earlier?
Yeah, that was a brilliant mistake on my part.
So the mirror captures people into it if you look into it.
So if you stared into the mirror, you would get sucked
into the mirror and then you'd be stuck there until someone let
you out. Oh awesome.
Yeah, which I think is actually really good for us right now
because, and I whisper much lower or try to catch all the
smart people. It would save a lot of time to
not have to try to convince them and instead just catch them, you
know? I see what you're saying.
Could you run me a Constitution saving throw, by the way?
Momaya, Oh. Yeah, definitely.
I guess it's extra strong because I took a sip when you're
asking for a Constitution saving throw.
Well, I mean. 18. Oh, nice, you are.
You feel it burn as it goes all the way down, but it's a clean
burn. It's one of those kind of burns
that you appreciate at this point in your life, but it
doesn't leave you feeling, you know, any different.
Toasty. Yeah, exactly.
Kind of warms your gullet, but that's about it at this point.
All right, all right, so Shard of Glass, it'll suck people into
it. Love it.
We'd use that to quickly go to all the major shops, catch their
guys very quickly, empty the store into the pocket rocket and
move on to the next one. What do you think?
So you know how to get them out of the mirror once they're in
the mirror. No, I have no idea, But that's a
future problem. I assume we could like Dispel
magic or something. But you know, I'm here living in
the moment. This seems like a great way to
get what we need very quickly. Plus, we don't have anywhere to
keep them right now, so if we have them in the pocket and like
their beer Shard, we could create their quarters so that
when we're ready we can release them.
I think they're going to be unwilling to go into the pocket
rocket. Well, they're not going to the
Pocket Rocket, they're going into the mirror.
Right. But like if we just like we're
like, hey, we're going to make your life better come with us.
Are they like? Like, we should absolutely start
with that. And then if that doesn't work,
Ezra grabs by the back of the deck and we show them the mirror
and suck the bed because otherwise they're going to die,
right? That's the other option.
They're going to die. As as long as we try, sure we
convince them that, you know, we got just covered, then we can
move on to brute force. OK, perfect.
That sounds like a Plaid. Hey Buildreth, what we have to
speak with you privately about something extremely important
involving. What's?
Really going on? Here is he on the list.
He's the one at the top of the list, remember?
Yeah, about what's really going on here.
We talked to the priest guy and he said you were cool.
Pimp preacher? Yeah, you can call him that.
Everybody calls him that. Yeah, the pimp preacher.
Yeah, my dad was one of those. Oh, that's unfortunate.
Yeah. Anyway, we need to talk to you
about something very important in the other room in in your
work room actually, because that's probably the secure area.
Work room is right in the center of this bar because.
OK, somewhere else. I don't give a fuck.
Oh yeah, it was coming to the. Bar man right now.
It's this guy over here if you're on 20.
Come up to our bedroom, we've got one.
What's Yeah. What's what I'm trying to figure
out what. His importance is like, why do
we want him? He's a Smith.
He's also the.
Owner of the other 50%, Owner of this bar and so about
establishments. It's not.
Going to stay here much longer. I want to use this guy to go do
our work for us and get more guys.
I like it. I just didn't know who he was,
so go. Upstairs.
You you want you want me to come upstairs?
Yeah. It's a secret.
I I'm not really into your type though.
No, not about that. It's about when I whisper into
his ear, the Pip guy say that the guy who's really in charge
here isn't really that scary and he's just a guy.
He looks shiftily eyed off the either side, up and down, and
then leans in and says to you, if I leave here of my own
volition, it will be suspicious as well, as I've sworn fealty to
Kaishen. I do not know if this will stop
him from knowing about. This.
No, that's OK. You can't even come upstairs.
Do you live at your forge? Kind of I.
Look, I look for a bed. My wife and family aren't
exactly. Fuck your wife and family.
Yeah, they're not great. No, you don't like that here.
OK, come over. Is there anywhere around to just
get generally out of sight for five seconds?
Out of sight, you you notice. Besides the bar itself and the
door that Steven's gone into, you notice another door that
seems to be some sort of storeroom and another door that
seems to be some sort of storeroom that you haven't seen
anybody. Actually, this is the the the
door that you used to go upstairs.
So yeah, this, this door is has got to be some sort of
storeroom. In point of the storeroom door,
can you walk at that door? He's he like looks around and he
kind of puffs his chest up and he goes, what do you mean to
something missing from my storeroom and starts marching in
that direction. Yeah, guys stole some stuff.
I watched it happen. Very greedy.
Those sons of bitches. And he opens, He pulls a a ring
of keys out, tests the lock. It seems to be intact.
And then he opens the door, steps inside.
Cool. There's deep for you to come in,
I guess. Look at the others I'll follow
in. Follow Follow into the.
OK, creepy closet. As we're going to stand guard.
Yep, as we're going to stand guard at the door.
All right. If you hear something scream,
somebody try to get in. The door closes and.
Turn it in. Ferdinand barely squeezes his
way through the doorway. And you have to duck your head
there, Franklin for sure, basically laying down on top of
him and of a matter. And you do have to duck your
head too 'cause it's all, it's all goblin make.
So anyways, you guys make it into the cramped storeroom,
staring each other off, and there's like a, there's some
like empty bottles and chests and stuff and then he goes.
So what's the deal? Yeah, so we found out that some
some more information about that.
He's essentially gathering a bunch of followers to make a
mass sacrifice so that he can really ascend to godhood and not
just be like a farce like he is, right.
So we, I don't know if we're going to be able to stop him.
So our thinking was we're going to save as many of the smartest
people in town as possible, like yourself, because you're the
first one we came to because you're the best.
Just in case something bad happens, we're going to safekeep
like the leaders of the city and a Craftsman and like the the
best of the best, you know, cream of the crop.
And then we're going to go try to confront him separately and
try to stop his devious actions. So we need you to get to our
pocket, rocket. Everything made sense into that
last sentence, but. A pocket rocket.
It's a it's a think of it like a like a safe house, but on
wheels, but not really wheels. It's a rock that I carry around.
I'm not gonna get into that real deep.
I I'm just gonna ask a couple questions real quick, if you
don't mind. Yeah, absolutely, buddy.
You're. By he, you're talking about Kai
Shen, right? That's the one.
Yeah, I've never trusted that motherfucker as far as I can.
He's. Greedy.
This is the greed floor. You think he's happy just
sitting here lording over you guys being a fake God?
He wants to be a real God. You know he's greedy.
Greed floor. You mean there's more to
existence than where we're at? I'm not gonna get into that
either anyways. So you just want me to join your
crew, More or less? Basically, yeah.
Yep, that's the one. So I'm pretty set up here.
I've got a pretty good network of people that I could bring
with me, but we're talking to good butt load of of of peoples
that I could probably bring with of me here.
But I I really don't understand everything.
Go ahead and roll me a persuasion.
Sure, think of it like a like a like an arc, right?
Like civilization collapses, everyone in the city dies.
Who do you need to make sure shit keeps rutted when it's all
over? Persuasion.
Come on, come on. I do have advantage on it.
Yeah, you do. It's got to be better than mine.
Maddie, 20. Hell yeah, let's go.
And he goes, well, I'm I'm about ready to to eat myself off a
Cliff. Anyways, this place is pretty
terrible. Don't do it.
You'll just wake up back here. But so I haven't heard that one
before. We're the afterlife.
Oh, all right, Franklin, shut up.
Sorry, welcome aboard side this waiver.
Yes, there you go. I'm going to have to read this,
but I'm asking you by the end of the day.
I pull that waver back and I give him a different waver.
All right, sounds good. Wait a second, you're gonna do a
sleight of. Hand.
Or yeah, I'll do a sleight of hand.
OK. I like as Franklin's doing it.
I like. I'm just like Franklin.
I like, slap his hand. Come on man.
Oh. No, like trying to like trying
to like lighten the mood and like.
Oh, sorry. Just yeah, he he notices for
sure that you you you tried to grab it and then chuckles that
from Mayura slapping you on the on the hand, I guess goes I
understand. Like I'm not like, like like,
come on, just. You're right, I take both of
them back. You don't need a waiver, of
course. You're a friend of ours.
You could just cop, no strings attached.
Whoa, that is a good offer. He starts to stroke his his chin
where you could see he's one of the few goblins that you ever
seen that actually can grow some facial hair, but it's only like
mutton dropping. And he's like, yeah.
And he's like, well, I'll, I'll have to, I'll have to throw.
I, I, I mean, I, it's a great deal.
I mean, I if you're going to take us away from here somehow,
there's been no other escape as far as I've found.
We got it. Great opportunity and I hate to
miss out on a business opportunity so let me talk it
over with the lads, airwell and lasses of the rest of the
trading guilds here and see if I can convince them and or their
families to join. Cool, man.
I'm really excited about this. You're a great guy.
We're really excited to work with you and escape this place
together. Oh yeah, that would be great.
I mean, if I can hate Kaishan. So I'm tired of giving him my
gold every morning. Yeah, absolutely and absolutely.
That's obnoxious. That's terrible.
We got a friend who's got that right now.
He had to give gold this morning.
It's terrible. It woke him up so early.
He was trying to sleep. No consideration.
Yeah, that fucking happened to me this morning in real life.
Not like I came left. Oh that's so funny.
Shit I forgot to roll this earlier today but I I rolled a
69 out of AD 100. Or what I was.
Laughing, don't don't worry about it.
Don't Well, actually, you would know about it.
So I'll I'll I'll tell you. You guys might not remember in
months when it actually happens, but this is me rolling to see if
the witches ever do come out of their original space.
And I determined a while ago I was like.
Oh wait, the witches were. It's like the two sisters and
like the D. Yeah.
We have their house. Yeah, so I, I determined like
I'll roll before, before each session, but I forgot to roll
before this session today. And if I get a, if I get a 100
on AD 100, then they'll escape. So.
Oh, I mean, they're, they're not trapped there.
I mean, well, they're not not trapped there.
They trapped themselves there. Yeah, I was gonna say Zach the
sister that or what? What rather that changed into a
wizard instead of a witch, decided to trap them all three
there, and until they'd settle their differences would, would
they come out? So that's why I was like,
they've got a big family dispute that's going on like 400 years
plus. So it's like a 1% chance that
it'll ever work, but 1%'s better than nothing.
'Cause we, we, we trapped them there to get the key to leave
right or something. It was, it was part of the deal.
Zach wanted to trap the other two there so we helped cause
each of them had like one of three keys.
They had beef keys. Yeah, they all had beef with
each other. Yeah, and Zach wanted to
reconcile. So you, we tricked the other two
to like get together and then we, they trap them.
He Zach trapped themselves into the house.
Then yeah. He's who we got the pocket
rocket from. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
OK. And then, yeah.
So we worked with Zach to trap the sisters, like get the keys
and then trap them. Did we trap them in like a
pocket realm or we just trapped them like?
No, they got their own pocket rocket.
It's it's in there right now. Gotcha.
Yeah. So like, we haven't decided what
we want to do about them, but we have them.
So they'll just look between the two of you though, as you guys
are kind of like side eyeing each other and having this all
subtext conversation. We had some other friends that
were helping out too. Sorry.
Oh no. Worries are we hold?
Do we? So we we're holding on to the
pocket rocket that they're trapped in.
Yeah, we've got our pocket rocket at their pocket rocket,
but there because they were trapped at that.
So this is AI turn to builder. This is another reference for
us. We've freed some witches that
were in the third level of hell. They were trapped there.
They came with us. Now they are currently going
through some familiar discussions, but once they're
done, they'll be free to do whatever the fuck they want.
Well. Maybe if we can get.
Some sort of rider on this too. You know, you're, you're going
to take us wherever, wherever outside of this exists.
But eventually I I hope that means that we have our own
freedom, he says with that. I mean, yeah, absolutely.
Right. Now, here's the thing.
Here's the goal. Here's the goal.
Let me right in the eyes, Right in the eyes.
We want to get the fuck out of hell.
That's the goal. We need resources and people,
smart people, to help us do that.
We can't do that by ourselves. But if we all band up together
and we punch our way right the fuck out of here, we could all
be up on the surface world free and go our own separate ways.
I'd I'd be fine with that. I'm really not sure what you
mean by hell because this place is Kaisheng, it's realm.
That's all I've ever known, but. Yeah, I know.
Or a surface world. But freedom sounds nice, so.
Freedom is nice. Hey, the world's I've been where
you are before. Listen to me.
I spent my entire first life trapped in a basement eating
bugs to survive, so I get it. But there's a lot more to the
world so far. There's like multiple levels of
hell. Like this is only one.
And then about outside of that is an entire planet.
You don't know what a planet is. This entire other place that's
like way bigger and there's a sky and birds.
I tell you what, I will meet you with whoever I can gather by the
NTH hour just before the mines on today's festival date, while
everyone else is distracted by the festivities.
I look at the others. That's a perfect time, actually.
And hopefully this venture pays off because I've already got 50%
ownership here. I was just creating more and
more magical items to increase my wealth and fortunes, as it
were. And, you know, eventually buy
some portions of the town back from Kaishen was my other plan,
but that seemed to be an ever increasing impossible task.
So that's that's pretty much my life story.
I will go go out now and spread the word of the shadow seekers
and the to my other groups inside of the faction.
Perfect man yeah, beat us here. Take anything you guys need for
like the future. We could take quite a bit of
content, not a ton of content. OK, I'll give him a general idea
of like the space he might be working with.
You'll have to build some like quarters for yourselves if
you've got some like Craftsman since you got tradesmen coming
in, but like. That we we could, we could
manage. Cool, I manage stuff.
That's perfect. All right, well, I'll be off.
We'll be off too. We have to go pick up some
dynamite. He seems to ignore that last
part and seems like it's every part for the course day and
walks out the door, lets you guys get out and then locks the
door behind you to the storeroom.
Oh yeah, I see what you're saying.
There was something missing. I think that was just though
Steve and his inability to do correct accounting.
Don't don't worry, let me go down the way and get that from.
And he just kind of stump mutters as he walks out of the
door. No worries, man.
Yeah, we'll have to talk about that later.
As partial business owners, as part of our conglomerate now we
need to make sure everything's on par and everything is
accounted for. So we'll see you guys later.
Adios. Turn to the others.
Double thumbs up. Hero gives you the same sign
back all. Right, guys, stage two, we got
to go get the dynamite and then plant it in the center of the
festivities. While you were guarding the door
to Ezra, there was a couple people that walked by trying to
get as close as they could to the door.
But you kind of, I would guess, have just.
Glared at them and like they want they want to die rather
than come over here. And they they did they they
skirted around you as much as possible to get over to the bar
and away from you. Good.
Guys are just sitting there. No, I mean Jack would do the
other two. We got a business to do, places
to be. I leave on my mount.
I assume you're going out to the town to get your ring of mine
shielding stuff? Rhino's hide XI think it was or
something like that. It's a.
Shit ton dynamite. Rhino's Hide Burning Protector
Grid X. So we're to add that to your
inventory here quarterly as you guys make your way out onto the
town. I will grab my and go over to
town because I got rid of everyone.
Oh no, no, here we go. I see darkness, I don't know
over here. Cool.
You guys were over over here. There we go.
I got it now. For a brief moment, Ezra saw.
It and you walk out over the magma pit of realizing that
Vomira has not gotten the ring that you all have.
You see beads of sweat starting to pull across her foot.
We don't have any money, do we? Sounds like a resounding no.
Nope. Our queen bee, Our baby.
Our sugar Mama. Ah shit, I forgot I was muted.
God damn it. Oh no, have you been just
talking and not like getting any responses?
Not not for very long. OK.
I was mostly commenting on the fact that like, I walk out of
the bar and I'm just like what the fuck?
Like moderately freaking out. Yeah, that you're in a giant
cavern. Clearly very hot.
And I'm just like, what? This is OK, this is what this
place looks like. Cool.
How? Like how hot is it, Josh?
We're talking, We're talking. 'Cause like, 'cause my, my idea
is like Romero, like is always like in the shadows.
Hazard hood up. Yeah.
Type of thing. So like, how hot is it?
Fully clothed to the to the to the nines.
Well, and yeah, it's it's like hundreds of degrees on top of
this. I mean, you're not, it's not to
maybe maybe at the at at at the most for, for some of the other
areas too, like say like 110. So you're, you're definitely
sweating. OK.
Some sweat. OK.
All right. And you're you're guessing that
if you don't get electric lights or something inside of you,
you're gonna be dehydrated and pass out.
Sure, sure. All right, so does does your
character, does your does your character look really like
hearty, like, you know, buff ish buff adjacent?
Me. Yeah, Yeah.
Are you? Thick.
No, I'm like I'm more like live like I'm not Elvin or have ELF
or any sort of like elf in me, but like I kind of have like
I've kind of adopted similar qualities even though I'm human.
I guess I never really explained myself to you, Ezra, but
essentially I look human. I am like dressed head to toe in
like leather. I've got like a like a hood over
my face. You can kind of catch glimpses
of these like dark veins that are like coming down the side of
my face. And I kind of just like present
myself as like antisocial and like hugging the shadows and
just like like the the shadows are where I feel comfortable, if
that makes sense. Yeah, so Ezra takes the ring
that he has on. So I'm guessing with all of
that, like in this high temperature, like I am starting
to like sweat, not to the point where I'm willing to like do
anything about it or like show that I'm struggling because I
also am like, I'm like stubborn, like I won't show weakness sort
of thing, you know? Yeah.
But you, yeah, I do have like beads of sweat of sweat, like
kind of like coming down my face, like outside of my hood.
Ezra is going to incite. Yeah, you look fine.
I roll. You look.
You look fine. Ezra was sweating when he got
here. Ezra was looking.
Ezra was sweaty when he first got here.
Yeah, exactly. You look fine.
I was going to say, if you, if you, if you look like you were
struggling, Ezra was going to hand you his rank.
Yeah, I don't think I'm, I don't think I'm struggling yet, but I
anticipate in the next few minutes I might be.
Well, we'll see what? We'll see what Josh says.
There, you guys, make your way towards the Armory.
Yep, yes. This is fully theater of the
mind, but this at least give you a picture of what you have to
walk through. It's also a crowded Goblin St.
So you're making your way through Goblins who are Hockey
St., St. street goods and other things and.
Just trust these disgusting things.
Also watch your pockets. Watch.
I'm also like up on a mounted thing.
I don't know if that matters. Go ahead and roll me perception
checks with advantage then. Option with advantage. 1822.
Noise, noise. Oh shit, do I need to roll one
too? Yes, please.
Oh, sorry, I didn't realize it was everybody.
No worries, I'm bad perception. Oh, oh, not good.
Which? Is very.
Oh, was it advantage? OK, I saw my bonus.
I was like, all right, I got this.
And then I rolled. I was like I don't got this.
So everyone else is saying pockets while holding their
hands over their pockets, but you go to reach for your pocket
and you see a small goblin kid run away in the crowd with
something. You're guessing I immediately.
Throw a diaper at them. Yes, yes, Franklin looks like.
Darth Hideous? Yeah, immediately.
No one's taking anything from me.
OK. Wait, wait, wait.
I I. I am, I am the queen of the
streets, so if someone takes something from me, it ain't
fucking happened. OK, it says small goblin kid.
Yeah, Ezra, catch it tries to catch your hand to stop you.
That's to hit that 14. Do I do like a initiative roll
off to see if he stops me? Go for it.
Oh fuck me dude, what is happening?
I think I still beat you though. Yeah, by one big game.
So the dagger leaves your hand, but Ezra catches your wrist.
OK, do I miss? I don't think so.
I was just trying to get to it. Was it a 14?
Oh, the 14 that hit the kid? Yeah.
Oh man, it it thunks into the back of the kid with the because
of, you're guessing because of Ezra caught your wrist.
Not the blade but the butt. Go ahead and roll.
Half damage, Fuck. So you can roll.
Damage, so I'll roll damage and then the seven, so it'll be
half, so it'll be 3. And falls over with with from
from that, just like because of the the strike and suddenness of
it and in the crowd kind of stumbles.
As soon as I throw the dagger, I like Dart to follow.
Could you roll me a grapple? Ezra versus.
Yep, I can do it. That'll be my athletics.
And that'd be verse your. Dex.
Acrobatics. Acrobatics.
Yeah, acrobatics, all right. Oh, Jesus Christ, I'm lying.
Blow is shit tonight. So I I still have your hands.
Yeah, you tried to dart off to the kid, but he still has your
hand. Done work, God damn it.
I turn around. I turn around to Ezra with the
hand that he doesn't have and I slapped.
I won't. Ezra won't contest.
Ezra and say and say let go of my fucking hand.
You turn back around. Do you?
You would see where the dagger lays, but the kid is gone.
Ezra kind of like kind of grips, you know, holds his grip, just
grips a little tighter. He takes the slap.
He takes a slap all day. And just kind of you got 2
bludgeoning I guess the kid is gone.
Do you let me go to go get my dagger?
No, hurting pups hurt big ones, not little ones.
Nobody takes shit from me. We could have caught him and
then got it back. They're small, I.
Was trying to do. It looked like you tried to kill
it. No.
Good. Any let's go.
I yank my hand out of his his hand and I go to retrieve my
dagger. Although do I think I have hold
on? I have bracers of some sort that
I think return them. Yeah, I thought so too.
Oh. Fantastic, yeah.
Bracers of dagger, yeah. Bracer of daggers.
Yeah. Bracer of daggers.
Yeah, yeah. So they, they, they.
So I don't have to go after it. It just comes back to me.
And. But I'm very salty and do so.
So I check all my. I check all my pockets.
What is missing? You realize I was just looking
at your inventory and being as generous as I possibly can here
though too. And the the emerald of the the
size of a silver dollar is gone. All.
Right. We've got someone with a bunch
of those. That's a lot of money though,
I'm sorry. Oh, it's it's more so the
principle for Romero, that's. What I figured.
Did was she able to like retain any memory of like facial
features of the kid, like gain, like gaining any like what he
was wearing or like like any sort of information or was it
just like too quick? It was just like a.
Make a perception check. Wait, wait, no, no.
What was it was the what was the one that you hit world actually
already too? And 11:00.
That was the. Was the advantage.
Yeah, 11 was the perception for missing missing him taking.
Besides knowing that it was a kid because it's smaller than
the rest of them, you'd seen a a tattered red scarf around its
neck was something that you that caught your eye.
So moving forward like as we go through the city, like she's
keeping. Enough.
Like Josh, I did. I did.
I did a history recall from memory of seeing the kid I ruled
10. Now I get any other features
beyond that. You would have seen when the kid
stumbled and Vomira looked back at you, and you looked at the
kid as it stood up. You would have seen a scar on
its left eyebrow before it ran away as a distincturing feature.
How tall are you, Vomira? Like normal height.
Well, tall for a female. I'm average.
I forget if I put it at it's like around 59.
Oh, then yeah, definitely Ezra. Definitely.
He leans down. Yeah, I mean, I'm like, I'm
like, I mean, I'm human. So I'm, I'm like my average.
What did I put my height? Yeah, 5 nines.
Yeah, he he looks down and goes look one for hood scar above eye
I'll. Keep my eyes peeled.
Thank you. Welcome.
You guys eventually do make it to the Armory, which is a large
store, larger than some of the rest that you've seen so far,
even from the outside and on the inside as lined floor to ceiling
with goods. And there are display cases all
around. And you're greeted by a very
perky individual as you walk in, who goes, Oh, yes, hello.
We're in a store at. Franklin Yep, and we we're
headed to a store to pick up some items.
Yep. Oh, that's right.
Sorry. Where?
Where am I at? Dude on the list.
Hi, well, what can I do for you? We're.
Here to pick up the rest of our items that we ordered, do you?
Have a receipt I. Don't know, do you not recognize
me? No, I I think I would actually.
You're quite unique. Ezra Kai Ezra stands behind
freaking Franklin, arms out wide in a very intimidating way.
Axe. Where?
Good Sir, there are axes everywhere.
I'm not sure which one you speak of, but if you're here to pick
up goods, you don't have a receipt.
Do do you have a name for the pick up?
Yeah, Ash, right. Oh, look at me.
Ezra, Ezra kind of like Ezra Lesley like like looks off to
the to the right going. Ash.
I'm pretty sure Ash. Ash.
I don't have a pick up for that and he starts reading down the
list of pick ups that should be ready today and one of the names
is Shadow Seekers and then he. Keeps going.
Shadow seeker. That's us.
We're the shadow seekers. There should be like a rig, a
third item and a big axe. 1/3 item I only see the two big axe
in the ring. Oh yeah, just the two items
then. Oh.
OK. Do you have a number for that
that pick up order or? No, I'm not off the top of my
head, do I? Well, if you don't have a
receipt and a number for the pick up order.
Oh my God. OK, let's see.
Are they just like visible laying around?
I pull. I pull Franklin by the elbow.
Yeah, I'm like. OK, he's he's still safe.
He's still safe as you're starting to get mad.
Did you see Ash accept a receipt if so?
I can go find it, probably, yeah.
All right then, was Ash in the pocket rocket.
No, she stopped existing. Yeah, that's something that's
transpired since when you were. She's just like not even around
so I can't even like pickpocket or for shit.
Yeah. So.
Are the items like visible like a turn?
Is he on the list? He's looking at the list of
pickup items, if that's what you mean.
No, like the list we got from the guy of like intelligent of
like people who are like kind of like in on the conspiracy.
Oh, the guy that's there, he hasn't said his name or
anything, so you wouldn't know. I've reached out my hand.
Hi AB, Frankly, what's your name?
Oh, well, it's nice to meet you, Franklin.
My name's Jim Bob. He is not on the list.
Show Ezra Cow looks you. Is he fair game?
I mean, he's a magic creator, right?
I'm a. Salesman.
Oh, you're a salesman? Who's the magic creator guy?
Who actually does this? That's that's that's our
personal secret. I actually don't know all.
Right. Cool.
Well, Buildrus is gonna help us out with this.
Oh, you know Buildrus, That's lucky for you.
Yeah, he's a good friend of ours, business, business
partner. Well, look, we really need our
items. And like I don't have a receipt
off made or do I have a way to get the receipt?
Are the so are the items just like there or are they unlocked
behind some sort of cabinet? They're here, but they're in our
store room. They came in this this morning.
Oh well, here and can we look at them?
We just need to be sure and then I guess I will cast a spell
called suggestion on him. OK.
Displaying DTT good. 1. So it is suggest a course of
activity and magically influence a creature.
You can see if they can't be charmed they're immune.
Please please. The suggestion must be worded in
a manner to of course make action sound reasonable.
Asking a creature to stab itself blah blah blah.
So I guess I would say well we got set by build with actually.
Like I said, we're business partners to take a look at the
editory that is currently available.
He's hoping to do a big sub or blow out at the wealth festival
and he wants us to go in there and we need to make a wisdom.
Savings. Throw.
That's what I was looking for. Please Papi, please.
What's the number 1115? My save is 15 so he fails.
Yeah. So he, he goes, well, I mean, I
could let you look at the inventory for sure.
I mean, and that sounds like something Bildreth would would
ask. I mean, but that particular
order I could, I could direct you straight there if if you
want. The store, well, we got sent for
two separate things. So like he said, it was in the
store room with all the other items, right?
Yes, OK. We need to see that room with
them. OK, well follow me and he moves
towards the back and opens a side door off of the two-story
area that you guys have been in. And it goes into more of like a
a maze like space of of goods that are packed with only enough
room to walk for a goblin. So you guys are like stooping
around in the area of of God? And these are all protected,
right, I would assume? He looks back over his shoulder.
Means he says, well they aren't allowed to leave the the
building without written permission, if that's what you
mean. Good.
And you received like a capable guard.
I kind of side eye the other two.
Ezra if if, if you want, you can inside, but Ezra's currently
seething and very angry that he's not getting what was owed
to him and his conqueror eating him.
Yeah, the the the features are starting to shift Grant.
I'm side eyeing trying to non verbally talk with you guys to
see if you guys want to just knock this dude out and take all
the shit. Myers got her hand on the health
of her blade. She's not appreciating the.
Bureaucracy, You tell Ezra he's not useful.
He's he's going to be a corpse. So I guess once we get in here
then. He stands in front of the items
that you guys were asking about and he goes here.
We are perfect. Can we just grab them off the
shelf like? Can I see that note from
buildress real quick? I'll take a take a quick proof
of proof of that at least and put it on file.
Yeah, of course. I'll pull out a just a blank
piece of paper that's folded up, and as I hand it over I'm just
going to generally touch the item on the shelf to see if
anything happens while still holding on to the folded sheet.
Touching does nothing now it's brushing against it.
Nothing. You you feel the item.
All right. And then I try to give a a
nodding gesture to the other two as he takes the note in a in a
in a in a in a in a in a gesturing way to make it to
invite some sort of action. Actually, wait, no, instead of
the note, I'll flip open the mirror on him.
Here, here's my badge and then I'll flip it open on.
Him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
With the with the crafting that you did earlier, you were able
to take the goblin skin from before.
And he goes, oh, that's an interesting little clock.
I'm yeah, that was the wisdom saving throwing.
It matches up perfectly. Andy, you guys see him being it.
It kind of looks like it kind of looks like he gets folded up in
space and then into a flat singular, almost drawing like
image and then absorbed into the mirror.
As as you do that, Franklin. Ezra already had his hands
behind his back, kind of gripping the handle of his axe,
ready to look like it was about to come down on him, 'cause he
was like you to him it looked like your hand gesture said kill
him, kill him and he was about to go, huh?
That was my first thought, but this seemed faster.
So you guys find yourself. Less prone to screaming.
Alone inside the massive storerooms of one of the best
weaponry shops in the fourth level of Hell, Goblin Town.
Take it portal into the portal into the pocket rocket so we
don't leave the building with any of these items technically.
So don't carry any of these items with you outside of the
premises of the the the building.
Like as we cross the threshold. I don't know if there's like a
spell, but like he said, you just can't leave without them
without red permission and we fleece the place.
So what's the what's the plan here?
You're going to take all the items and put them in right into
the pocket rocket. Ezra's going to take some rope,
tie them to each of the racks in the room, hold on to the rope,
because whatever, whatever I'm holding plus what it's attached
to should go with me, right? I.
Think you have to lift the thing up?
I have to lift it up. It's like a carry like you have
to clip it I would assume. Or he can just touch.
He just touched the rash against somebody hits, hits his little
button for him. Maybe we can try it.
OK, Ezra's down. We try that.
I missed it because I was just thinking that Vimiter you were,
you're inside the building. So you feel it a little less
cooler or a little more cool inside of the building, but it's
not that much actually. You're wondering if it's
actually any amount of cooler and and probably get a level of
exhaustion just like from the amount of sweat that you've got
going. On Oh, I do get a level of
exhaustion. Yeah, that's fun.
Are are you are you showing it? Are you showing it 'cause last
ever looked at you, you looked like you find I?
Mean if I'm taking a level of exhaustion, I'm sure it's
apparent. Yeah, yeah, you, you.
You can see Vomira visibly start to wilt.
Ezra before he does the thing with the racks, he hands Vomira
his ring and then grabs on both of the the the nearest racks
like his he he puts his hands legs on basically as many things
as he can touch and hold on to and then I ready I.
Portal a bit of the TWAGA rocket.
OK, so you're holding on to Ezra and he's holding on to the rack.
I'm holding on to as many like I'm putting my legs on the
racks, arms stretched out, holding some racks like as many
things like put my hands on and being basically like a human
connector piece. OK, I.
Don't know if this will work, but let's.
Yeah, we're gonna try it. The mark.
Definitely take his equity. You're standing there and you
watch Ezra and are you, are you going with him, Franklin, I
guess. If I have to.
Well I mean you don't have to. I was just trying to trying to
paint the picture. You guys are both standing on
either side of Ezra, I would guess while he's holding on to
like 2 racks. I would guess is is the most
that you could really even hold on to because just because of
the spacing, you know? Yeah.
And he poofs into the purple smoke with geometrical figures
in it along with the racks that's holding all the items,
and all of the items fall to the ground and the racks go into the
pocket rocket with him. We're going to need them, the
racks anyway to store all this stuff so.
So I, I, I guess I come into the pocket racket with just some
racks. He takes the little thing and
does exactly what Frank say. He puts it to his forehead and
goes go out. And you you go back out exactly
where you were standing in the aisle, next to two piles now of
goods instead of racks of goods. We have racks.
Job. All right, I will sacrifice a
number of gold pieces, like 20 to make some tokens and then
create a Chang gang of of my swarm to just constantly go in
and out. OK, taking stuff in.
Make sure to minus that 20 from your gold I guess.
I did, I did 21 because I gave a gold to to Ezra.
All right, And you set up a manageable influx of dire
crickets into the pocket rocket and out slowly.
And you guys are all going to want to roll me a stealth.
Stealth. And with the teleportation of
that shelf with disadvantage, Ezra.
Everyone else is normal. Yep.
Oh thank God. Wow.
I. Think there's something that
gives me natural advantage? I don't remember what it is.
Oh wait, wait, nice. What's your hold on either?
Way I have a 19 on it. Yeah, I seen that.
That's pretty impressive. Yeah, right.
It's like equal equal 19. Oh, so I get advantage on
anything against dex, FX against dex.
So since I have disadvantage and I have advantage, I just think
it's straight rolled, right? Yeah. 17.
You got you teleport back in and before you set up the chain
gang, Franklin guys are looking around and actually, why haven't
I? Let's roll, baby.
Roll baby raw. 17 didn't make it.
Oh no. 13 no you good you're all great Gucci and you guys keep
setting it up taking as much as you can there before the we're.
We're taking the explosives, correct?
That's some of the stuff that's in the backroom.
I don't think the whole kit and kaboodle of like, what was it?
I have to go back through my notes.
It wanted to say it was like. A lot it was.
Like 900 or something. Well, that's too much.
That's how much it cost. But it was like 89,000 dynamite,
yeah. I was curious like what all it
was like swinging into the pocket rocket.
I mean everything that's here. I assume Josh will have to
compile some sort of list. Oh yeah, by next section I
guess, yeah. Yeah, a little while, two weeks.
Yeah, yeah. Because yeah, I don't think they
would have kept all of the dynamite in one place, that they
just wouldn't have been intelligent by any stretch of
the imagination. They would have sparsed it out
throughout the town to sell from different vendors for different
prices and different price points.
Are we getting it delivered? No.
So you guys never did buy the dynamite.
So that's the thing that you were, you were mistaking.
I think you never did buy the dynamite because that was that
was one of the things you wanted and that's how you figured out
the town has a butt ton of dynamite.
But you're like, let's just, you know, steal it.
So that's. Obviously cheaper.
Yeah, cheaper. That's kind of what you guys are
doing now, I guess. But yeah, it, it would not be
all of it. And granted, you do not need all
of it to destroy the town. I, I, I I I want to.
Want to plan out. I think we actually did the math
for that, Josh. Yeah.
So there's there's a couple different things to think about
with that, at least in regards to the dynamite and the rule set
that we're we're dealt with. The dynamite itself has a blast
radius up to a certain point. So like no matter how much more
you add to it, that blast radius stops.
There's like a, there's like a point.
Well, it only explodes so much. Yeah.
And add more to it. It's not going to expand the
radius, it's just going to, yeah.
We have to of. It.
We have to spread it. Out.
Unless you spread it out, yeah. Yep.
Boom goes the dynamite. So, and what we need is some
sort of disguise that we can leave around, like the party
disguise, like just something we can, something that people
wouldn't be like, oh, there's an unaccompanied backpack sitting
at the airport, weirdly at the TSA.
Support all on a unattended baggage.
Or it will be destroyed. Yeah, no.
No. No, it's a festival.
We should just put them all, put them all in barrels and label it
fireworks, right? I mean that would probably work.
I guess I did forget to to mention this part.
As you guys were walking through the town, you you'd seen people
preparing for the celebration, some of which would have been
fireworks. Well, we strip.
We, we, I think we accomplished everything we really needed to.
We got enough dynamite to probably do the job.
We got a bunch of items that we wanted to steal.
We got Bill Drift to go get his tradespeople.
He's going to join us. And more because you got a bunch
of random other magical items in the storeroom of this place.
Ash is Ash is going to be like what the hell?
What? Hey guys, What are you guys
doing? We blew.
Up an entire city, robbed the store, made somebody look like
paper. We haven't even gone up to see
it. Yeah, we have to do that.
Yeah, To Do List and all To Do List.
I guess we'll finish the evening by taking all the dynamite and
striding confidently off towards the center of the city to go lay
all the dynamite in fireworks barrels.
In strategic locations. In strategic locations and then
go find somewhere to watch the watch, watch the watch the
festivities. I'm going to have to roll quite
quickly on one one minor thing. What's it?
Gonna. Be how many people survive.
No. We haven't even brought anything
up yet. Yes.
That's a roll for two weeks from now.
Yep. How much shit we just stole?
No. Well, kind of kind of relative
relative to that. Oh, how much damage we're going
to take because everything explodes.
We haven't. We haven't blown anything up
yet. I'm saying as we leave the, as
we leave the store. Oh, if anyone notices us.
Not if they don't notice us. If they like there's a some sort
of magical something on it that means like.
Oh, like a like A tag on the like you just stole this item.
Epic walk away explosion. Inside our pocket rocket.
Yeah. So I guess that you can find out
next time. I just killed my entire
population of familiars. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Did you give them instructions to once they're done?
Stay in the pocket, rocket. I mean, my well, that's the
thing, we put all the stuff in the pocket rocket, right?
And. Then we leave the store and all
the stuff is in the pocket. Rocket.
We're hoping that like it being in a magical space in a sub
dimension means it won't like do anything.
But what if it does? What would it?
What would it do? I don't know like cover
everything in blue oil or or blue.
Paint by stealing it. Oh, if there's like A tag on
like stealing items or something.
Or if it literally just explodes.
We should probably these are options I.
Don't know. I feel like the people in this
level or this realm or wherever the fuck we are aren't going to
be that paranoid. In the level of greed, they're
not that paranoid. Yeah, as soon as I as soon as I
said it, I regretted saying it. I mean, biggest thing that
happens is they got, they got put into the pocket rocket,
which is in the front hall where we dumped.
Everything about the people or the things.
The things, the like the items, we haven't had any people in
there yet. Oh, we just convinced someone to
like, come into the pocket rocket.
Yeah, go get people, OK? OK, there's one person in the
pocket. Rocket.
The pimp preacher. The goblin, The goblin pimp
we've been. Torturing, yeah.
So worst case scenario, we get a bunch of magic items, they all
blow up, they probably don't explode permanently because
magic items can't like be exploded.
And then maybe the skeleton monster gets killed.
The Adamantine. To begin with.
We'll see. I'll let you guys Mull that one
over then. What's done is done.
We just robbed a magic store and just walked away.
Yep. Good job.
Repercussions. Repercussions to happen in two
weeks. Yeah.
That's a future problem. We're probably Ash to deal with.
Yeah. Hey, Ash.
So funny story. We exploded the pocket rocket.
That would suck, yeah. Ow, the pocket rocket no longer
exists. And all of our stuff is not
wrong. It's not something we can
utilize again. That would definitely suck.
Yeah, well, why are we giving Josh these ideas?
Oh, wait, oh wait, oh wait. Especially after.
What was it? Flint went and put all that
stuff into the pocket rocket. Oh God, Flint did.
Yeah, Flint unburdened his bags into the pocket rocket.
Oh. Yeah.
Oh God. All right, well, we'll find out
what happens. Yeah, I know, right?
All right, stop giving Josh ideas.
I know, right? Shut.
Up, Josh. Stop listening to us.
Everyone just shut up, Josh. Has Josh has enough ideas on his
own? He doesn't need our help.
He has the joy. He has the overlord to help
repeat our words. All right.
Damn, Craig. Listen y'all all right, I'll
catch you guys lady. Hope you have a good night.
Good. Night you too, y'all have a good
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