The. Welcome back.
Shit happened. Oh boy, so much shit happened.
When last we left, our heroes, Robin Hood had instructed them
to go kill Merlin again. So we went.
We went to the castle, we looted a dungeon.
We talked to some Knights. We went up to the castle keep to
confront Merlin, but not only did we fail to kill Merlin, but
we find ourselves in a bizarre time.
A time displaced by anything we could possibly know right now.
We are currently rapier deep into one John Watson.
Oh good heavens, you just routinely go around parks and
stab any stranger you meet. Oh yeah, pretty much.
Well, that's illegal. Exceptionally so, you should be
arrested. Try me.
The man with the pipe pipes up now.
What I want to do now is what are a bunch of medieval
reenactors doing in the middle of the park?
Medieval. Yes.
Park. Yes.
Middle. Yes, reenactors.
Of. Yes.
Do you know Merlin? What are you wearing?
A suit and a hat. Your suit of armor would be much
more appropriate than a suit of whatever that is.
Suit of fabric? That doesn't make any sense.
It's. Tweed.
As as my companion says, we seek the wizard Merlin.
Yes. What have you done with him,
man? He.
Was friends in. This isn't Camelot, and this
isn't Sherwood at the time of Prince John.
No to all of the my God. You still have God.
This is fascinating. You are fascinating.
Might I just say, yes, we do still have God, that is, that is
still very much a thing. But that would explain some of
the anomalies that we've been experiencing.
This isn't hell, is it? To my knowledge, no.
But it is London. OK, so pretty close.
Goodness. I suppose I should explain
what's going on here. I have this stunning desire to
expose it. We were doing battle with a time
wizard and now we're here. Seems extraordinarily illogical,
yet would make a lot of pieces fall into place.
Who are you? Ah, my name is Sherlock Holmes.
Pleasure. Pleasure.
It's a funny name. I'm not sure yours would be much
better in that case. He kind of like puffs himself
up. My name is Hypatia d'amour.
I am La Rosignol of the French opera.
His eyebrows go up. My eyebrows go up.
My growler goes up and I take a big swing.
Now, forgive my asking, but could we just, you know, take a
quick aside, maybe get my friend here some bandages and go over
into this park here and discuss things like rational human
beings? Is there a law we can sit on
somewhere around here? Let's let's gather out.
There are benches over Yonder. We could do such a thing.
And he kind of like guides you all to some benches.
There are some pigeons. So you all, you all sit upon
benches, you know? Watson and Holmes start patching
up his rapier wound. So who's the king?
Queen, actually, and she's been recently deposed, yes, up until
about a few days ago, Queen Victoria was alive and well and
she has been brutally murdered and I'm currently on that case.
OK, so hold on, Deposed and assassinated are different
words. I'm trying to I'm trying to take
as many necessary measures to make myself seem as prim and
proper as necessary, especially when dealing with matters of
getting axed. So we're outlaws.
I've gathered that, yeah. So he takes like a puff of his
pipe. But we didn't.
We didn't just depose of the Queen.
Just to make things clear, we are outlaws.
But we did not do that. You're looking for Merlin.
If you just point us in that direction, we'd be on our way.
Here's the other thing. You keep quoting A mythological
figure of Arthurian legend. Legend.
Yes. He looked like this.
I unfurled a wanted poster. Fascinating.
Have you seen this wizard? No, no, I have not.
You're investigating the murder of your queen.
Do you? Have you ascertained any clues
or evidence? We have and a lot of it does not
make any sense. Perhaps if time more a factor,
would that help make sense? I had considered some rather
illogical methods to her murder. For example, her head was
chopped off. Interesting.
Do you have? Do you have the head still?
Why on God's green earth would I have her head?
No, that she. No, that's a great idea.
Do you have the head? Have you tried asking?
No what? She knows she does necromancy,
don't worry about it. And she's very excited about
using it. Do you have the head or have you
asked her which? Which is the no.
We do not have the head of Queen Victoria now.
Problematic rubbish. Well, maybe the body could just
point in the direction. She's been buried.
OK, well let's go get her. That is extraordinarily I keep
forgetting your outlaws. Why do I keep bringing up the
legality of options? So we left our leader back in
the hands of an angry time wizard.
We have an assassinated monarch. We have this detective who can't
seem to put two and two together without accounting for time.
Pardon me if I ask a lot of questions, because I truly do
have a lot of questions. You keep mentioning Robin.
You wouldn't happen to be in Sir Robin Hood, would you?
Correct. Yes.
He's not a knight. Don't call him Sir.
I have I have a follow up question.
It starts with what and ends in the fuck.
Is there anything in the middle of?
The. Not.
Really. No, I think that's about the
long and short of it. Mr. Holmes.
Yes. I don't know.
We're being very clear here. We were out to murder a time
wizard who we had previously murdered.
He broke out of hell and he sent us before you and now we're
trying to find him so that we can steal his power ticket back.
It's not that I don't believe you.
Trust me, I really, really want to believe you.
Sure. It's just that your story is so
incredulously far fetched. Indeed.
Can I show Sherlock Holmes my shield?
You may. Would this add a man of your
thinking calibre? Why isn't in the ways of
history? Would this mean anything to you?
Pulls out like a little monocle and kind of adjusts it to take a
look see at it. Good God, why?
Museums have been looking for Shields like this for centuries
to show any proof of our theory and legend having any sort of
merit to it. Hang on now, that's from
Arthurian times, he said. If Arthurian legacy has lasted
this long, then there would be a possibility of a self-described
master detective understanding what it is I carry.
A burden from what it sounds like.
Hold the fuck up, pen Wick. Pendragon, actually.
Oh my God, get the fuck out of here.
There's no case. Back out of here, I cannot with
you. Hey, what the fuck?
I suppose if we're going to be gallivanting through time, I
should probably come clean. I am like, actively like
climbing on top of you, like to take you in the head like I am.
On your shoulder, that's. That's Oh my God, can you?
You're a cock life I. Want to fuck your wife?
To be clear, I no, I OK? No.
Everyone, everyone, everyone settled down.
I don't carry the authority of the king.
I'm not Arthur. Then which Pendragon are you?
I'm. Kay, the proper son of Lord
Pendragon, an older brother to my adopted bastard brother
Arthur. I think this is entrapment.
I'd monkey my way back down. I will explain as best I can.
Something happened with my brother and Merlin and the
Knights Arthur and the and the Knights in Merlin devised A
stratagem to restore the right of kings, the divine right of
kings, the Arthurian right. And I'm quoting here through
time, so the round table was brought to your era in order to
begin sowing the seeds of such. And we killed them.
Well, we killed Merlin. Killed Merlin, as far as I
understand, but that was after my departure from the Round
Table. I could not stand for it.
All things must end, especially Arthur's reign.
Our time had to come and he was trying to claim more of it.
So I visited an old friend of mine, Robin Hood, warned him of
the plan and told them should anything come to light it is our
responsibility to do something about it, which to his credit,
he has. I just worry now and seeing
where we are and this man here and what we know, that the issue
goes further than I could have feared.
Those pieced together quite a few holes in my little mystery
that I've been having here. Yes, we have narrowed down to
possibilities. The first of course was this was
some would be assassin who had a penchant for medieval weaponry
and a bit of a bloodlust kink, let's put it that way.
So we can rule out magic. We can rule out magic because
her head was indeed cut clean off of her body.
The 2nd and more probable answer, We believe that my arch
nemesis, Professor Moriarty may have had something.
Now both of these things could be equally true.
So how would it benefit? They want to bring back, they
killed the queen because they want to bring back the right of.
They fucking hate women. Is is there is there somebody
named Arthur on on the throne now?
We currently we have nobody on throne.
That's not how succession works. You should have someone in line.
But they haven't been incarnated yet.
You see there is someone in line, but they have not yet been
incarnated. Oh, who is that?
It would have been her son Edward the 7th.
Does he suck as much as Prince John sucked?
Prince John. Oh, right.
Back in the phony King of England.
Well, he's a bit inexperienced at the time at at right now.
How old is he? I also, you know what, he's a
boy. He's a young boy.
I'll, I'll say that she died a lot sooner than she was supposed
to, maybe in her 30s as opposed to her 64 year reign.
So yeah, he'd be a, he'd be a very small boy, like maybe 5 or
6. So do we think that the plan is
for Arthur to be the advisor to the young boy?
I will say cutting heads off is not Arthur's style.
Would you know that there would be any knife that would be sort
of, you know, murder happy? There were a lot of us, but if
you're going. God damn it.
Penchant for violence. The first name that comes to
mind is always Lancelot. Or me Or you.
But I'm here. But it wasn't you, or so you
claim. Well, no, I was fighting a time
wizard. He was with us, that I can
verify. I and I wish you told us.
I wish you told us this sooner, I would have prepared for being
dropping into yes, but you're dealing with fucking time.
Who gives a fuck to? Think we'd be transported 500
years in the future. My apologies, I thought it was
limited to your time so. What we will you have us do
because usually last time we ended up in the wrong time.
We just kind of fucked around for a while and then went back
because we had the means to go back.
But I don't know that we have the means to this this Sal, do
you? Do you know how to do time
magic? No, I do not know how to do time
magic. I know the set things aflame.
You keep saying that you and Augustus stole his power, right?
Can't you do time magic? Yes.
That was temporary, unfortunately.
There's there. Remember, time magic is very
dangerous, which is why you don't just go out and learn it.
And fire magic not dangerous. That's dangerous than time
magic. Yeah, fire manager is non
dangerous. You could burn down the church,
but you could also make it not exist with time magic.
Why does it have to be a church? What?
Well, we have cornered the whereabouts of Moriarty's
company, I suppose we could call it.
He's been hiding out in a rural village outside of London, which
is baffling. Why?
Why he would go there, I don't know.
As far as figuring out who murdered the Queen, one we've
put, Edward has gone into hiding.
Obviously we've, we've, we've taken that precaution.
But I am truly fascinated about asking the queen directly.
It's a it's a very bold claim, one that I'm not taking with any
grains of salt. What?
What part? The bringing her back from the
dead part. I don't believe this era has
necromances. No, no, no, no.
Magic is not real. So Jenny question, did this
count as a conversation where we talked to our allies about
what's happened and catch our breath?
This is a catch our breath moment.
Yes, we are currently catching our breath.
I am going to be rolling 3D6 and if I get a four or higher on the
third then 8th as shall rise. I am excited to see if that
happens. So the first two dice were A2
and A42 and A4 and then I rolled the last one and it was a six.
Oh my God. OK, so Jenny just needs to put
that in her pocket for later. I do get.
That. I do get to put a complication
from your past in my pocket for later.
OK, so you're up to full. You took a breath.
We're all, we're all hunky. We're all Dory.
Yes, I'm hunky. Yeah, you are.
And Doctor John Watson has been transported into the hospital.
Yes. Yeah, he's, he's on his way.
He's he's going to the hospital. An ambulance has arrived and is
taking John Watson to the. Hospital.
So are we? Are we like walking to where the
Queen is buried? Yes, yes we are.
Should we be doing this in broad daylight?
Why? Why not?
That is an awesome question. It's a miniseries.
We could do anything in broad
daylight. Can I have, like, pull Sherlock
Holmes aside for a second to ask?
A question. So if you don't have necromancy
in this time, is that because all you detectives killed the
necromancis 'cause it would make your job obsolete?
I What a bizarre question to ask.
What an odd thing to say. No, not to my knowledge.
I don't think detectives were part of the age of necromancy
going extinct. I if I had to wager any kind of
guess, I believe men do what they always do and they destroy
what they fear. Interesting, do you want to
learn necromancy? Because it seems like to do your
job properly it would help a lot.
If it does work, and it does be extraordinarily skeptical about
this, that's a huge if. It's going to.
I You're extraordinarily both, Madam, if I must say.
Why thank you. And she like there's like a
bunch of like unruly hair coming out from the wimple and she's
like blings it like do a hair flip but it's like 3 pieces.
Well, if it does work, then consider me exceptionally
curious. OK, it's date just keep working.
So we get to the royal graveyard.
As expected, there are two men in bright red shirts with big
black hats. What is that?
What's what? That points a.
Man. He's a royal God.
He's not wearing any armor. No, I suppose not.
Where's the dead skunk on his head?
It's not a skunk, it is a hat. What's what what does that
sticky is Gary. That's a gun.
What? A gun Elaborate.
It is a rifled barrel powered by gunpowder that releases an
explosion near the back and shoots the projectile forward.
Oh, so it's pyromancy? Magic.
Give me a gun. Give Teddy a gun.
It's so. Good.
Can I have a gun please? The guard says nothing.
It's He stands stoically, and he gazes forward.
If we can't have their gun, where can we get a gun, Mr.
Holmes? Obtaining a weapon wouldn't be
terribly difficult. There are gun stores.
How much do they cost? I have one gold.
I have 10 that I stole from sister.
What come? On.
Could go anywhere between 10 and 21 shillings.
What's a shilling? What's?
A shilling. Think of it like a gold piece.
Everybody. We can buy thirty of these guns.
Oh shit. So.
Many wow magic is cheap in the future.
Yeah, that's amazing. Let's go buy guns.
So what you're saying is you want to split the party so that
you can go buy guns? Mostly kidding.
Let's go dig up the Queen's corpse.
We have a guard to get through. Don't, don't, don't worry.
I got this. Excuse us.
So we need to get through. The guard says nothing and
stares forward blankly. Do they actually, like, try to
stop us if we like, just try to go in if they're saying nothing?
You've got Sherlock Holmes with you.
He's a he's a police detention. Teddy just starts walking.
You can just go in. Great.
Thank you, I've given you a nothing burger guard.
They're much easier than the night.
Jenny, you taught us that that guns exist.
That is not a nothing burger. That's definitely not going to
bite anybody in the ass. Picking up the corpse might be a
bit of a bigger issue. OK.
Nah. Cuz I don't know if you knew
this but they put those things 6 feet in the ground.
Oh, interesting. We've got.
Magic. OK, somebody, somebody dig this
lady up. So you don't currently have
shovels? I don't think that was given in
your adventuring kits. I got unusual materials, above
average crafting and etcetera. That's.
I think that would qualify since you did go out and buy the
expensive 1. So yeah, you would produce a
shovel from your adventuring kit, considering you're the only
one that got the big expensive one.
OK, I I hand the shovel over to Kit Pendragon. 2.
Oh, I said. All right then.
You got this. The guards look pensive at you
carrying weapons in the middle of a graveyard, especially the
royal one. They move.
I'm going to begin digging up this grave now if anyone has any
objections. The guards look like they might.
Can't you just, can't you just tell them, Mr. Sherlock, that's
where this is part of your investigation.
Yeah, I'm going to make AI check for Sherlock here, actually.
Oh, sick. You rolled an 8.
That's awesome. Good for him.
Excuse me, lads, Nothing to see here.
We're just doing a quick autopsy of the Queen's body.
Carry on. We'll be with you in a moment.
We'll put everything back where we found it.
So you go ahead and you you dig things up.
You want to make a check for this just to make it go a little
quicker because it's going to take a bit.
Would it be Can I argue athletics?
You can argue athletics. Cool, because then I rolled an
8. Solid.
OK, you're a big, strong fellow. You might be a little out of
shape, but you still have, you know, everything going for you
where you need it to. While he's digging, I move his
shield to the other side when he is a.
Little dude, do not touch my fucking.
It does take about 1/2 hour to dig it all up.
I'm just like standing in like a hole in the ground looking at
the five other people who all also have arms.
I'm like cool, no event. Very great.
Thank you for the assistance. We're we're trying to figure out
how to get Salvador and Teddy guns.
I think that's what we're doing while you're doing this.
You are digging, I am smoking. I think it's a pretty decent
exchange. Here, No.
Very, very equal. Thank you.
Mr. Penchak and you didn't ask
for help? Saving my strength for the for
the necromancy so. I'm getting the dead queen, it's
fine. Salvador is going to roll their
eyes. They're going to, if you allow
me, Jenny, to take my same rose again and instead of 1/4 staff
it turns into a shovel. You know what?
That's fun. I'll allow it.
You didn't ask for help, but I'm helping you anyways.
You're welcome. Thank you.
Thank you for your help. This will make things go faster.
So you reached the casket of Queen Victoria.
What's like the the head situation of this corpse?
Let's find out. Prying it open.
Well, let's just say it was a closed funeral for a reason.
Yeah, You have a. You have a what?
What? Don't meme at me.
So you open up the casket of Queen Victoria, and sure enough,
there is a decapitated head. It's been, you know, made-up as
best as it possibly can to look nice.
But, you know, no mincing words here at the decapitated head and
her body, which has been, you know, very lovingly dressed up
and buried properly. You know, it's a very good,
beautiful burial. You know, aside from the fact
that it's a centered head. I I grab the head by the hair
and I just. Henwick.
I just plop out of the grave holding it.
Well, I'm a knight of the round table.
This is a. This is This is.
Perfect. He's doing a great job.
Don't. Handle a woman like that, Jesus
Christ, give it to me. I mean you can.
Listen some something. Like it you're saying I've been
there, Juliet. Is important OK?
I'm going to hold the head still.
The necromancer can do what she needs to do, and the rest of you
can ask it any question you want.
I will hold the head. If she says she doesn't like it,
we can put her down. It's.
Fine, OK, so I right, I'm gonna roll for necromancy.
That's only a six, but I'll spend.
I'm going to spend 3 wits to bump the score up by 3.
So it's a nine. So now it's a success and then
I'm going to spend. Well, we'll see how many
questions we end up asking. OK, First off, Queen, do you
consent to us talking to your severed head?
By the hair being held by the hair.
By the hair, do you like? Do you like hair pulling?
Are you cool with this? All at once, a breath goes into
the severed head of Queen Victoria and her eyes shoot open
and are a stark white color. Hello.
Good heavens swear, in God's name am I.
Did not. Not the question I asked.
No, it is not. Yes, I consent to you holding my
head. OK.
That's number one. Good.
It is a pleasure to meet you, I'd say, Your Majesty, but we
kind of as a rule, don't respect for royalty.
OK, don't don't tell her that right now.
Merritt Second, who killed you? The.
Last things I recall was there was a man in a suit of honor.
Yes, he was a very tall, imposing figure.
I imagine he rode in on a White Horse and he bore a golden cross
upon his chairs. Yes, but behind him was a a
bolding man with a large bushy moustache.
And yes, Professor Moriarty, if I recall.
OK. And then I, I just like, kind of
like hit Sherlock Holmes like in the chest.
I was like. Assault your case.
You're welcome. Next question.
He's just like staring in disbelief about everything
that's happening at. Current are the Have the guards
noticed that we're talking to the Queen's decapitate and head,
by the way. Oh yeah, like this is not
something you can exactly hide. Sweet, did you hear them talking
about anything important before you died?
Can you be more specific? Like like what they did they say
anything to you or they just walked in and chopped off your
head secret. Plans.
Hideouts. Hide.
Jinx spells, spell casting. Were they getting along?
Did they like each other? Were they bickering?
Did they kiss? They did not kiss.
No kissing. OK, not romantic.
No, it was not romantic at all. I believe the the the general
consensus between the two is if they were compatriots in arms.
Yes, it was. It was very bizarre.
I believe that Knight had referred to Moriarty by a
different name. I didn't quite catch it
personally. I think it was Mer.
Merlin. Merlin, that's the one.
OK. Well, that's three questions.
I think we got all the information we needed.
Should we? Are you OK to spend the magic to
ask if there's anything she wants us to tell Edward for her?
Like I feel like it's kind of a Dick move to reanimate somebody
and not let them have final. Words.
Yeah, sure. I guess you want us to tell your
son something. Tell him he's a cunt.
He's like 7. Your your son, the little boy,
and I hate that boy. OK, well that was that was a
that was a waste of a question merits.
Turn off the necromancer. I didn't realize Queen Victoria
sucks just as much as Prince John did.
They're all Royals. They're all like this.
I was going to say the hint is in the title.
Queen, Yeah. So how you doing Sherlock?
I dropped the head in the in the hole.
I think I need to lie down. What's up, all you grave robbing
aficionados out there, it's me, Grant, the guy playing Kay
Penwick on this show, and I'm here to tell you about stuff
that is cool and good and fixes your colon.
I saw the results. You should try listening to
these shows, starting with our good pals over at Tales Yet
Told. Once Upon a time, in a county
called Sublime, there was a child lost.
In the woods. He was an odd boy with a mind
full of stories and possibilities, tall tales and
unending curiosities. Yet despite the boy's marvelous
imagination, there was no one around with whom he could share
his ideas. Or at least no one that would
listen. So he was lost and alone,
frightened in the wood, until along came the stranger who said
that he understood. He was the guardian of the
Sublime, a keeper of children lost before their time, and it
was his duty to watch over those who had wandered into his land
to keep them safe and help them thrive with his guiding hand.
And so he gifted the boy two things quite peculiar, a role
and a machine that both made him the ruler of all the stories and
lives deep within the wood. Now all must listen to the boy,
just as they should. Our Lives in the Wood is a
horror actual play series exploring the tragic lives and
stories of the citizens of Sublime County, orchestrated by
one of the strangers most devious of servants, the writer.
Witness the everyday lives of those lost within this terrible
wood and glimpse the hope shining dimly the dark.
Enjoy tightly edited episodes with immersive sound design and
a rotating cast of guests playing a wide variety of ND
TTRP GS brought to you by Tales Yet Told wherever you get your
podcasts. I know this isn't like be weird
coming from me, but like genuinely, if you've enjoyed the
sound design on Game Master Monday, like at all, then you
should be listening to Tales yet told, especially There in the
Woods series, because I've actively stolen from Kendo.
I've heard things of that show does, and I think to myself, how
does one do that thing? And I've implemented them on the
show for things like hell, wailers and then they were
daughter mates and even Sherwood.
But even outside of beautiful sound design, it's also
brilliantly run, masterfully written.
The performances on there are so damn good.
One of the premier actual play shows.
I'm not kidding. I'm never kidding.
Don't question me again. If you've been enjoying the GM
sailings of Jenny during Sherwood Killed the Round Table,
well, maybe you should check out a little show called Fire Emblem
Fallen Kingdom. Hey, up on your feet, soldier.
There are better places to take a nap than on the ground.
You know this is a live battlefield.
We've need of your steal. The Kingdom of Albrecht has
fallen and we are at the mercy of the Empire of Bienenstock.
Grab your blade, hone your magics, and tune into Fire
Emblem Fallen Kingdom Fridays at 12:00 PM Eastern Time.
Uploaded to youtube.com at Red Echo Games.
This is a home brew actual play series DM by Jenny of Game
Master Monday fame and featuring a six person cast of characters
as they venture through a setting inspired by Nintendo's
Fire Emblem franchise. So catch up, we've already got a
whole adventure ahead of us and much more to come.
And if the long form format scares you, you can get your
feet wet with our clips playlist before deciding to charge into
battle head first. So get up together, we ride.
You've probably heard that Jenny will be taking more of a
backseat role here at Game Master Monday following the
conclusion of Sherwood. But I don't want you to be sad,
because there's no reason why you shouldn't be checking out
her YouTube series Fire Emblem Fallen Kingdom.
It's a completely original system.
She designed it herself. She's the Game Master of it.
It's well edited, it's a fun time, good table shenanigans,
gripping story. Everything you've come to light
from Jenny as a Game Master here is honestly infinitely better
over there. Go continue to show her your
support. I know where you are.
Now let's adjust our little funny hats.
Get out on magnifying glasses, take a smoke of that pipe and
get back to Sherwood. Kill the round table.
Now, about those guns. That's guns.
It does seem like it's time to go buy some guns.
I I'm going to be sick. I believe I.
Don't get too sick, we're going on a necromantic date now, so
you should pick a very nice restaurant.
Yes, there's this wonderful pub that I plan on running my
sorrows in later. OK, wonderful.
Our next objective is getting Teddy and Salvador a magic fire
weapon. I believe what we said.
Take about a 40 minute walk to get to a a gun store.
We would like to buy 1 gun please.
I think we need at least 2. We would like to buy 2 guns
please. Is this?
Shopkeeper man or woman, please Jenny.
It's a man. I'm down here, Sir.
So you are and what can I do if we use today's 2 My shopkeeper
voice? 2 guns. 2 That's extraordinarily
nonspecific. We've got flintlock pistols,
we've got rifles. That's about the only two things
I have planned. Wow, various spells.
OK. Yeah, yeah.
What do they do? Well, you could equate A
flintlock pistol to a crossbow, and you could equate a rifle to
a Longbow. If I had to be extraordinary
specific as to our rules, they. Said they're magic bows.
Magic fire bows. What do you suggest as a
starter? As a starter, well, a pistol
wouldn't be a bad idea if you're a a bit better in, you know, in
the wrist. All you need to do is load it,
put in your powder, put in your ball and then you cock it back
and then you fire and then you have to repeat that whole
process again. You put in your balls and then
you cock it. What?
God damn it has. Everyone in the future so horny.
It's like, is all the guns set up like that with that long
process? Well, the rifle is about the
same. Yes, the rifle is a much longer
variant. You would hold it vertically
like so. You would put in your gunpowder
in the muzzle here. You would tamp it down and you
would put your ball in. You would cock the weapon and
then you would fire and then you repeat that.
This one looks like it takes 6 bullets.
I'm pointing at a revolver. Oh, that would be a revolver.
Yes, you would load your bullets individually in here 123456
fling back the chamber here and then you pull back the hammer,
pull the trigger and simple as that.
Simple as lying. I'll take two of those.
That one. Seems much better.
I would say that the the revolver would be about the the
three D6 threshold for damage there and I would say it would
run you about 25 shillings. Do you take gold?
I hold up a gold piece from our time.
I only have one now. Get this.
That's it, they get this. This is from the time of Robin
Hood. Color makes.
An antique. It's owed money.
I'm trying to use silver tongue to persuade this person to like
think that this gold is extremely valuable, which it is
probably to be fair, it and you don't.
Have to like that it is extremely valuable.
This should be in a museum. I don't doubt it.
Teddy's like how about if I saw you these 3 gold pieces for two
of those guns? That sounds like quite the
bargain. You know, I would, I would.
I would definitely agree on that one.
Yeah, 100%. There you go.
How many guns do you want, Salvador?
That's right. I called you Salvador.
Thank you. I'll take two and we'll put down
3 gold as well. All right, so 2 guns.
We're just all getting guns today.
I'm going to I'm going to go ahead and say that, you know,
the one arm ones are the 3D6 and the two arm ones are the 46.
Cool, cool. I'll buy a gun.
We have given Knight to the
round table guns. I'm going to be honest, I'd like
my daggers, so could you? Point me in the.
Direction where I could fill up this and I just pull out my
growler. Wonderful.
I'll be across the street. So, Holmes, how urgent is going
to the edges of the village? Because like, we time travelled,
so like, we're not on a schedule here.
I would wager that it is rather urgent to get there because, you
know, Prince's life is at risk. Get it to go.
Sister. OK, I so we don't.
Have to role play the whole thing out but I want to
basically go into the pub fill up my growler.
You'd like reach behind the counter, like pull down the tab.
And then pay however much I need to pay to bump it up to either
the three D6 or the 4D6. You know what?
It's currently it's a 2D6. How much, how much gold you got?
I have 32 gold. I'm gonna let you do it for the
price of a 4D6 weapon. OK, so how much is that that's?
It was 14 gold. OK, cool, cool, cool.
So she got wine, is what we're saying here.
She got. Like I took wine, yeah come out
and I don't have my growler anymore.
I have just like 2 wine bottles that are strapped either.
I know. For sentimental reasons, I'll
still say you have your growler. How about?
That OK, I also have it. OK, cool, cool.
Cool, Yeah, you'll still have it for sentimental reasons, so.
You got the growler on your. Back so I have the empty, OK
yeah empty growler strapped to my back wine bottle now that I
hold by the neck and. Do wielding wine bottles
everything? Else we should get in London
Modern. Conveniences in Victorian era
London that you I'd recommend? That's a great question that
you'd be able to carry upon your body.
Apart from getting a vehicle, I don't think so is.
That what those metal things are.
Yes, those are called cars. Do you have one?
I do, yes. It's just back at my my agency,
but I can go get it. It's no big.
Deal. Well, if we're leaving town, it
makes sense to take a carriage. It's a.
Goodness, I'm not going to get used to that.
Yes it would. Excellent time has been well and
truly quangled. Time has been well and.
I'm just saying I have +2 to riding.
I might be able to drive. No, wait.
Totally makes sense. Adds up 1 to 1.
We get to Sherlock Holmes's agency and yes, he does have an
old station wagon. This 20 one, I don't fucking
know what cars were around. A bottle T You want to give a
bottle T to him. This is like, what, late 1800s?
Are they 1900s? Yeah, probably around that.
Yeah, like the thing about the the Model T is that they didn't
come out with new models every year.
The Model T lasted like for fucking ever.
Yeah, it wasn't just that it was like durable, but like they
literally didn't make any other cars for a really long time.
Welcome to Seven Idiots. Talk about history.
So you all uncomfortably fit into the back of his Model T,
and one of you sits up front of him.
I sit up front. I'll also allow you guys to take
John Watson's Model T as well, but someone has to drive is the
problem. I have writing.
You know, I think that's really funny enough to work.
I've got a + 3 in it. Yeah, amazing.
You want to drive? You want to drive a car?
Yeah. Also for the record, automatic
transitions transmissions didn't exist.
I'll figure it out. And how hard can it be?
Gang gang. I rolled A12 on the die plus
three writing. We just didn't insist on calling
you Sir Penwick. For the record, Sir Penwick
fucking crit. So there's a Knight of the Round
Table driving a Model T. So who's taking whose car?
Obviously, Sir Penwick is driving.
Yeah, I think I've made it my mission to annoy him, so I am
with him for sure. Tonight.
Tonight with Sherlock. I'm with Sherlock.
Well, I guess I just did just say I'm with Penwick.
So I'm with Penwick. Fair enough.
Yeah, Teddy is going to Sherlock Holmes car.
How do you know what all those levers do?
I don't know, but it just makes some logical sense.
Everything makes sense. It's like a horse to me.
I'm staring at this and my mind is clicking.
I'm passing the growler around because I assume I filled up the
growler tube and then just like pass that around in the car.
Sherlock abstains. He's driving.
OK. You end up in a a small depot
outside of the city. It's surrounded by forest, as
most of London currently is, and it is a little three story
building. It looks to be unguarded, but
you can almost feel the watchful eye of people from the second
and third level windows, almost as if you've been expected.
Is there like 1 specific window we feel we are being watched
through but cannot see into? Or is it like I'll use a can
trip to like do my little danger sense thing?
If you feel like I need to in order to get an answer to this,
but can I tell like kind of roughly the area where it seems
like people are watching us from?
I feel like that would be worth the dangerous sense, yeah.
OK. So I will mark off 1 willpower
to be able to perceive that. KK.
And then so I, I, I can tell kind of which curtains were
being peered behind. I I I sense the motion of the
curtains? Yes.
Yes, you do. Most of the most of the motion
you can sense is coming from the third story.
You get the sneaking suspicion that you have, at least in your
brain. You have Archers watching a you
at the ready. OK awesome.
I narrow my eyes and I do have true seeing and I would like to
spend 2 willpower and make a true seeing clairvoyant skill
check in order to see in that room it will cost me two
willpower because it is only it is less than a mile from me.
So I'm trying to see a place that I am not currently in.
OK, so you're, you're doing that to see the third story?
Building. Yeah.
I'm trying to like see who's in that room.
Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. I'm going to roll for true
seeing radical. I rolled very badly.
Oh no. Modern technology is interfering
with my true sight. Radio waves are now a thing and
they are interfering with my ability to use clairvoyance.
That's the most fascinating take on why magic is gone.
Are there lights around us as we're going out?
They're like. Lamps.
This is like. They're St. lights, yeah.
Yeah, but they're still like lamps.
They're not. They have to be lit, yeah.
They're lamps. OK, seeing feeling that we're
being watched, I'm going to use one of the canned trips to just
extinguish the flame around us. That's fun.
Yeah. Yeah.
OK. Again, I'm just instead of
taking out the whole rows, it's just a petal and I kind of
crushed it between my fingers and throw it in the air and all
the lamps just and. Now we can sneak better.
You are under complete cover of darkness.
Shall we sneak, SER Holmes? Yes, I believe that would be
prudent. There are two entrances to this
area. As you can see, there is the
main level which has the big front door at the front, and
there is what appears to be some sort of a staff entrance near
the back. The staff entrance is locked,
but the front door is not, and when you approach it looks like
it's an old Sheriff's Office. My danger sense is good for an
hour. Does one of those ping me more
than the other in terms of if we try to like pick this lock or if
we go in the front door? Is one of those feel more risky
than the other? Front door feels more risky.
Got it. I'll let me, let me look.
Pick this door. That's deevery.
OK, that's. 8 + 4. I mean a locks a lock times may
have changed, but this general mechanics of picking a lock
that's pretty much eternal. And technically, that's a 12,
right? So that's a critical success.
It is indeed a critical success, which means we get to have some
good things happen to you. So when you go in the staff
entrance, it looks to be like an old processing station, like an
old jail. There's a couple of cells back
here, but it's generally speaking completely empty and
devoid of people. It looks like they weren't
expecting you to go in the back door for some reason.
The only thing that you do see in one of the jail cells is a
large red imp. Oh, are you the same one as
before or are you a different imp?
Oh God damn it, not you guys again.
You've already agreed not to snitch.
See you. Later.
Hey, hey, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Back the fuck up. We agreed not to snitch on you
to Merlin, this is a different whole.
Shebad it still. Seems like Merlin.
Is this, is this you made a deal?
No, we're not making deals. We're not making deals with you.
I agree, I said from the from the get go do not make deals
with Imps. And, and might I remind you, you
fucking owe me. She owes you.
I point at Teddy. Don't worry, I'm pointing at
her. I'm pointing at that bear.
Because he's like the next part of this, like the like, yeah,
here is the next part. Can I point a gun at the imp?
Yeah, yeah, you absolutely can. And here's Part 2.
And then trying to shoot it. Welcome to combat, I guess.
Shooting a fucking attacks are, generally speaking, either melee
or archery. We're going to call archery kind
of any range weapon in this case.
That's how Sherwood defines it. Any.
Sure. Yeah, it does say any.
OK, OK. Attacks, of course, are skill
checks, so go ahead and make me an archery skill check.
I rolled 7, so if I spend wits I just spend 1.
You have to spend 3. It's a 3 for 3:00 so it will
bump you up to 10. Then I would do that OK.
Which is so funny because again, spending wits is the like.
No no no, I've studied this. So she just spent the entire
time in the car? Just studying her gun.
Yeah, so I needed to know my pyromancy.
I was like, I, I honestly think that Teddy like in her hand was
like heating up the bullets that she's putting it in.
Hell yeah. So.
Roll ME3D6 damage please. Then 13 oh oh Bang Bang bang.
You straight up doom guy this shit.
You pull out your revolver and blast the Imps his brains out.
Yeah, and it is reduced to a steaming mass of imp corpse on
the floor. That was.
Loud shit. It was exceptionally loud.
In fact, it rung through the whole building.
It was loud. Oh, Oh no.
That hurt my ears. That was explosive.
He isn't usually that loud, Mr. Holmes.
Why didn't you tell us guns would be loud?
I didn't think I had. My ears are ringing.
I can't hear anything but I just hold out a fist to Teddy and
just be like that was rad. What, Teddy?
Just don't what? I invent the fist.
Bump in the fist bump?
What fist bump? OK, let's go.
Yeah, I grabbed something off the desk that I think might be
valuable and we run. There are a total of 6
shillings, a single rifle in a gun closet and a set of keys.
I grabbed the keys. Enough.
And I run up the stairs. Up you go.
I'll take the gun. You take a rifle, I.
Want to take a gun? All right, you have a 46 damage
rifle. You're just getting stacked up
on things, eh? You still good?
OK, so you have been alerted. The presence here in the little,
little Sheriff's Office upstairs there seems to be like some sort
of olden times office building, we'll call it.
You know, just desks, things to process, paperwork and nights.
There are two nights in full plate up here.
I skitter around the corner and I kind of skid out and I go, oh,
hi. Merritt.
Oh, this is not going to be how this happens today.
All right, stand down. Do not touch the girl.
Shut. The fuck?
Up Do not touch the person. With two revolvers, just like
don't do anything, just go so. If we have an order of
operations, we have merit kind of off to the side.
Pen Dragon up front with his big ass shield, 2 pistols drawn.
Try to get past. I'm just going to kind of try to
scramble past them nimbly as the boy, as the as the the older
people take care of them and distract them and keep them tied
up in combat. I have intentionally Jenny not
added any more weapons or anything to my inventory because
I am trying to stay at a light load for the sake of being
nimble. That's fair and very smart.
Yeah, so I have advantage on checks related to speed or
stealth because I have maintained that I only have two
daggers and a little adventuring.
Pack. So fair enough, Go ahead and
make your. Sneak OK, what would you could
we say that this is athletics? I could say this is athletics.
Did you not have a specific sneaking skill?
Thievery it's the same modifier either.
Way yeah, I'd go with thievery. Cool, that sounds like it makes
more sense to me. 10 You are sneaking past these guys
exceptionally well. You are able to kind of like
Juke them. They try swinging at you with
their swords, but you're just too quick.
The one that swings at her, I want to take out my wine bottle
and go to swing it at his. Head and go go to sleep.
That's epic. Make make me a make me a melee
check. Classics is great, I'm 99% sure
you literally did that in the first one shot.
I did I'm. Pretty sure I did.
OK. I roll these.
These are a disadvantage right? I think because I don't have
like melee or anything. If you don't have melee as a
skill check then yeah that would be you.
Don't. Have melee.
Oh dear. It's fine.
So that's a 5. Yeah.
But then I will spend endurance to make it an 8.
Hell yeah. And then the wine bottle does
46. Yeah, it does.
So that that is 16. Yeah, he's out fucking cold and
may also be dead. Just.
Boom, go to sleep. And then like you hear, like the
clad remark is like. And then I look at the other one
and I'm like, do you? Want some of this too?
Hands up, just like whoa. Let Salvador shoot someone.
Please, I want him to shoot. I'll shoot someone.
Next, there's still a wizard upstairs that I am trying to
burst in the door on. You burst in the door and
everyone else is still dealing with this guy who is
surrendered, so I think you all kind of casually jaunt to the
door. I can knock him out with my
shield. Yeah, you want to bash him with
your shield for intimidation sake.
You know and. I give him a bash.
A child. He just, he just, he's like he's
already surrendered. You just walk up slowly and
just. Yeah, listen, a person who has
surrendered, is that the person who can squeal later?
So I rolled an 8 on the die and my melee is +2.
Grant said no witnesses. No witnesses and I roll for 10
damage. I just walk up to this guy's
head and I look at him and go, I respected your doing, I
understand, but I can't risk anything.
I whack him in the cranium. All right.
How much damage was you? Said 10. 10 damage.
Well, he's not dead. I'm.
Not trying to kill him. No, no.
But he definitely does get like knocked out cold, like leans up
against the wall like. What?
All right, that's a take care of that.
Let's go figure out who killed this queen and get us a wizard.
All right, you gallivant up to the top floor.
You have two snipers trained on you with rifles who are also in
full played armor. And you have a a, a very well
tailored man, kind of balding, big bushy mustache twirling a
wine glass menacingly with one hand behind his back.
On the top floor here, directly to his left, would be Sir
Galahad. I point directly at the well
tailored man, assuming, assuming his identity but not actually
knowing it. I just gesture and point
directly at him and say I have finally found you at last, my
long lost father. What?
And I run up and I have him. Get your filthy hands off of.
Me. Oh, Daddy, it's been so long.
I grew up in a broken home. I've missed you so much.
You're. Going to break my spine, get off
of me I'm. I'm gesturing at the rest of the
team won't. Can I use this as a distraction
to shoot the guards? I'd say.
So now we're cooking. I'm going to try and tackle my
guy to the ground so he doesn't get like crossfire.
Also I have Jack of all trades, sorry.
Don't roll a disadvantage. Excellent.
You actually can use guns. It's crazy.
Let's go. So, OK, we're going to do a
couple of sequences here. So you said you're tackling
Moriarty to the to the floor, right?
As as I see Salvador draw his guns, I'm just going to try and
like use my my limited weight and agility to just like judo
flip him down to the ground. Give me a melee.
Yeah, I got a 10. Fuck yeah, 9 + 1 So it hurts.
Give me give me like a give me like a 2D6 damage check I guess.
Yikes 6. OK, well, you, you, you do like
kind of drop him to the floor. He kind of like hits his head.
His wine gets like spilled out of his hand.
Get off of me. What on earth are you doing?
I had this whole speech planned and you're going to shoot the
guards? Now Jenny, humor me if you will.
I'm a wizard with a gun. I know pyromancy.
Can I infuse these bullets of pyromancy and use my sorcery
skill? You know, I love that.
I love this for you and I think I'm going to let you.
Incredible. Yes, I rolled A10 with my +2
brings up to a 12. Yes, that's a great baby.
Gunshots ring out in a burst of flaming light.
You see two pistols drawn and then two projectiles get fired
and hit them both square in the middle of the forehead.
Those two snipers are dead as fuck.
I don't even want to roll for damage on that one.
That is just so fucking cool. They are dead as hell.
What you do see next is concerning.
So while it is a critical success, yes, so Galahad kind of
like ducks his head and like kind of like hits the floor as
well. So he's no longer an issue
currently. That's your bonus.
I am going to say though that you noticed 2 white souls
fleeing the bodies of the Knights and head up.
They're going to heaven. Stop them.
We're. On the 3rd floor right now or
the 4th floor. So I do think like with that
happening, she's never, she's seen people die before.
She's never seen their soul leaving their body.
And so that is interesting and suspicious.
And also Merlin is not in this room and we were told that
Merlin was there. I'm going to roll to see if I
can use my true sight. What power that is an 8.
So I'm going to spend that two willpower to use clairvoyance to
try to see. I'm just going to follow those
souls to wherever they're going by kind of like duck behind the
bigger party members who are have guns and and guns.
I'm flexing as I like. Just get a 50 yard stare and I'm
following the souls. Your eyes fully colour in with
the colour of whatever your irises are Hazel for your true
sight. That's cool.
And on the roof you see some sort of weird magical
technological contraption. You're not entirely certain what
it does, but you do see a man with an impossibly long beard
operating it. Keep them occupied everybody and
I go to try to find the way to the roof.
With Moriarty pinned and with Galahad on the floor, and with
you Merritt going up to the roof.
Anybody else want to do anything in this room?
Did the door shut when everybody else rushed in or was it open?
OK, you guys just see that Augusta walks in in full plate
armor. Nice.
During this entire fight, she was out there taking armor off
one of the nights and putting it on.
She's like. I think you see Merritt dark
past you as she leaves the room to go up.
OK, fights over. I'm a little late.
Well, Sherlock Holmes would come in at this point and and start
putting handcuffs on both Galahad and Moriarty.
It's like you're both under arrest for the murder of Queen
Victoria. And I even had this whole thing
planned out where I would put you in a trap with this random
woman. Just came with her heart.
What the fuck's going on? I, I kind of like scoot past
Sherlock Holmes as Galahads being arrested and I I pull up
my hand. They actually kind of hold it up
to him. And you know, when is Arthur?
When is he? He's everywhere.
Don't you know That's the plan. He's to rule in every age, Kay.
Where is his physical body currently?
Oh, that's the that's the problem.
I think right now it should be on the throne across time in
every timeline. He's everywhere.
Kay, God, you are just. So.
Fucking. Stupid God I hate you.
If you're not a pious little fucking whiny bastard, you're a
bootlicker. I only worship the one true God
and he who should sit on his throne.
Kay. Yeah, yeah, whatever.
What the hell ever. I like look at Sherlock Holmes
for a second and I go, Mr. Holmes, if you'll oblige me, I
don't believe this particular night is in your jurisdiction.
I'll turn my back a moment. Excellent decision, I'm going to
try and cut. His head off?
Hell yeah, let's kill Sir Galahad.
Kill the round table baby, It's the name of the series.
OK so I do 2D6 to make sure I can hit him.
I roll the six but I'm going to spend 2 endurance to bring it to
an 8. That's a swell plan.
And then damage will be 11. Oh, sick.
That is sick as fuck. Yeah.
I mean, you're aiming for neck. It's a very sensitive part of
the body. You do a lot of damage to him.
Head comes clean off in a tale of revenge.
I turn. Around to look at everyone and I
just kind of like look upset but I just address it and I say the
Knights of the round table are supposed to not exist.
What do you mean? We lived our time, we lived our
lives. We should be banished to the
realms of myth and legend at this point of what Holmes is
saying is true. Oh sure, but so should we.
And we're here, so. Well, we're here because of
magic. We're here because of devilry.
I think that's the same thing. Same thing.
Yeah, I I fist bump Augusta. My point of being see a night,
kill a night. Oh yeah.
Obviously. Yeah.
Good. Yeah.
Obviously been doing that. Kind of late to that revelation.
Just making sure we're on the same page here.
I decapitated a man in front of everyone here.
Aren't you a night? I stand by what I said.
OK, so we but you don't want us to kill you?
Bro, you can do with me what you wish to do with me once the job
is done. Put that, put that head in a
sack so we can talk to it later. Puts head inside.
You have obtained the head of Sir Galahad.
Incredible out of my. Seat down, I've dragged.
Teddy with me up there. I've dragged Teddy with me up
there now. It's kidding now It's kidding.
We're going to the roof. The wizard is on the roof.
Merlin is indeed on the roof, standing next to a man in large
gold armor who stands at about 7 feet tall.
He's a very large boy, this King Arthur.
So what you see is King Arthur plunging Excalibur into a device
that you didn't recognize. But what baffles you Merritt, is
you didn't see him on the. Yeah, that's why I said, Oh,
hey, Merlin, what the fuck we were having.
We were having a fight. Yeah.
And who's this guy? You do not recognize your
rightful king. Well, no, in whatever way you're
asking, no. No.
This, my friends, is King. Fuck you.
I saw you flip me off. Fuck you back.
This, my friends, is King Arthur.
Oh, so this one. I I I turned to Teddy.
He's a cock. Oh, that's all I needed to know,
brings up the gun. Once again, we we got to stop
king shaming. What if I was into it?
Did you ever consider that? I think you banished Sir
Lancelot to God that road in the time of Robin Hood that was
explicitly established. Oh yeah, That was really funny,
wasn't it? Yeah.
I throw a dagger at King Arthur. That is a very interesting idea.
So I mostly said that without thinking because that was like
this is kind of like fuck the king but I do not have
proficiency in archery and this would use archery because it is
arranged attack. This is why I took two daggers
because I knew I would be bad at throwing it.
Hopefully I can get it back later.
Oh, that could have been a crit. That could have been a crap, but
it's not. That is not going to be enough.
I got a 7 total. King Arthur would reach up as
the knife spins in the air and is slowly grinding to a halt.
In the middle of time, he simply reaches up, grabs it and puts it
down on the floor while maintaining direct eye contact
with you. You.
Didn't even keep it. Didn't even keep it.
He is being a little bit of a bitch.
Merlin depose of these outlaws. Would you send them where they
won't be able to find us? In fact, send the whole building
for all I care. Whoa, whoa, let's slow down
there, buddy. I was like, whoa, we shouldn't
do that. And then she's just like, again,
like I guess answer everything with a gun.
She should pull up both of the guns up and it's like we're not
sending anyone anywhere. All righty, make me a check for
it. Give me that archery.
I'm gonna use my wits again. Or yeah, like add the.
Running running a little low on these.
Yeah, but you know, Yeah. So that will bring it up to A10.
Hell yeah. Hell yeah.
OK, so bullets crack from the pistols.
Go ahead and give me your 3D6 damage here. 8. 8 Awesome you
hit King Arthur in the arm with both of your shots here.
He grabs at his arm yelling in pain and just just do it.
Send them anywhere. You feel that ever familiar tug
on your body as time begins to slowly corrode around you.
The whole entirety of the building is starting to
disintegrate as time itself begins to warp and twist and
bend. Some of the stone hews back into
the mountain from whence it came.
Some of the logs turn back into trees as you watch them float
back effortlessly where they originally came from.
Steel turns back into iron turns back into ore, turns back into
stone. Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes get
sent back to where they belong, one of which is a prison, one of
which is back in his detective agency.
But the rest of you and the entirety of the building once
again gets sent through time as things begin to slowly shift and
speed up and slow down and things become incomprehensible
and you all wake up smack dab in the middle of Scotland Yard.
Well, shit things. Things are once again different.
The cobblestone streets appear to be a distinctly just slate
grey slab. You hear the sounds of what
appears to be a tornado directly overhead as a metal bird
descends from the sky with blades whirling around as
swords, and lands directly in front of you.
Several men in black suits of armor, of material you have
never seen before start pointing rifles at you.
You recognize what a rifle is, but these ones look a lot
different. These ones look more dangerous,
more deadly. A man in a black suit and a
black tie steps forward from the helicopter and stares the six of
you down and asks. Wow, watch all this that.
What the hell are you? Bond, James Bond.
You know, from my bingo cart for this.
I did not think someone flirting with Sherlock Holmes was gonna
happen. Really.
You didn't think drums none flirting with Sherlock Holmes is
like 100%? Wasn't the guarantee.
Yes, the Sherlock Holmes. Augusta being the one doing it,
I can see you. Not for seeing that, but any of
us flirting with Sherlock. Yeah, it's a low ball you.
Have a lot of bisexuals in this. Room low ball, the drop it's a
lot, low bar. What am I talking about anyways?