116. So Far So Fungis

[00:00:05] Speaker A: Hey, there. [00:00:05] Speaker B: Welcome back to Barely dnd. This is your favorite sort of Dungeons and Dragons podcast. We are in the lost lands. [00:00:13] Speaker A: Wow. [00:00:14] Speaker C: I'm lost. [00:00:17] Speaker A: Heads up. [00:00:18] Speaker B: This episode, Micah will not be joining us as she is doing stuff. I don't know what that means. Abby probably will be here in a bit. [00:00:27] Speaker A: Yes. [00:00:28] Speaker B: But if she. [00:00:29] Speaker A: Well, if she. Yes. As always, the Big Mike was called away. There was important action. Let's decide what it was to the. [00:00:37] Speaker B: Giant Michael in the sky. [00:00:41] Speaker A: Giant Mike. [00:00:41] Speaker C: That sounds like. [00:00:44] Speaker B: That's not what I mean, guys. [00:00:47] Speaker A: I mean, we don't have to. Jackie. There's no confusion there. The Big Mike can't be killed, but a herd of elephants have destroyed a number of crops in India. Number of sugarcane crops. And the Big Mike has been called to help, but she is not there helping the people. She is fighting with the elephants. So now they have a real problem over there. They're having to call the military in because the Big Mike can't be stopped. But that's where Micah is. I don't know, guys. You shouldn't let me talk, but Debbie might be here later. We have a letter to question, which is also the dmnpc. Well, I should say the question first. The Leditor question is, if your character had a signature dance move when challenged in a dance bottle, an important stipulation, what would it be? And the player is elected for the DMNPC to be viskit. [00:01:45] Speaker C: For the viscit. [00:01:46] Speaker A: For the viscit. So I kind of want a shirt that says that, but I do too. And just when people say, what's that about? I go and I walk away. [00:01:56] Speaker B: Or maybe hours playing a game to figure that out. [00:01:59] Speaker C: You don't know. It just says on the back, you don't know. [00:02:10] Speaker A: As I'm walking away. But growing up, what would your signature dance battle move be? [00:02:17] Speaker C: Man, I don't know, because, like, Rosa Bard. So I feel like she's pretty good at dancing, but I don't know why. And I don't want to necessarily make this canon, but in my head, at this very moment, I feel like she would be out there doing an Irish jig, like, just straight up. Just straight up, you know, that's what I've been picturing in my head right now. [00:02:45] Speaker A: Oh, my goodness. [00:02:47] Speaker C: So, yeah, that's what I'm gonna go with. That's. I feel like she goes through phases and maybe she tries to start trends, and she hasn't been any dance battles right now, but that's what she would pull out. [00:02:57] Speaker A: She has the pendant of Revelry So. [00:02:59] Speaker C: No, she doesn't. [00:03:00] Speaker A: Objectively speaking. I know I. [00:03:04] Speaker C: Gave it to Boz, who sold it to get. [00:03:07] Speaker A: Oh, that's right. [00:03:08] Speaker C: To get Craig's armor. [00:03:11] Speaker A: That's right. Wow, Jackie, you are good. Holy crap. Lore Master in every campaign. So dope. That's Ro. She's got a little jig. What would. What would bosses be? And I really don't know where this would just shuffle. [00:03:23] Speaker B: He could do, like, the party rock, you know, and he would just do back and forth. [00:03:31] Speaker A: I can see that. [00:03:35] Speaker C: I can see biscuits. I see it in my brain, you. [00:03:39] Speaker A: Know, I think Viskit. I'm not saying he's the best at it, and I think he's really only got, like a handful of combinations to the set and he needs to repeat, but I think Viskit just crumps really hard. I think. I think he just crumps really hard. And it's awkward in all the clanking armor, but it's just like. And I think he secretly thinks he's awesome at it and he doesn't bust it out because he knows people would make fun of it. But deep down in his heart, he's like, I'm really good at that. [00:04:16] Speaker C: So I forgot how much his voice terrified. [00:04:20] Speaker A: I do hate him some. It is fascinating. At this point in the camp, you've had one interaction with the man and every. There's so many villains you should hate more and you don't. [00:04:29] Speaker C: I've had two interactions. [00:04:31] Speaker A: Two interactions. That's true. That's true. That's true, that's true. [00:04:36] Speaker C: Well, in the campaign, Ro has had other interactions with him. Well, previous. [00:04:42] Speaker A: The character has very good reasons to hate him. But yeah, without further adid for the never taking nerds. And let's all have a moment of silence for Abby not being able to go and get surprised. But for the noting records, this is episode 116 of the Accidental Advent, y'alls. So far, so fun, guys. I've been holding on to that title for a very long time. I also. I was thinking of the title Windward Bound, but I'll probably use that some other time. [00:05:21] Speaker B: Oh, that's a good one. [00:05:22] Speaker A: That's a good one. [00:05:23] Speaker B: I see the Homeward Bound. I see the Homeward Bound reference. [00:05:27] Speaker A: I have a lot of. I have a lot of. A lot of different titles stored up I just write about so that you. [00:05:33] Speaker B: Can just come up with all the little clever chapter titles to your heart's content. [00:05:37] Speaker A: There's nothing in them. It's just chapter titles. [00:05:40] Speaker B: Chapters. [00:05:40] Speaker C: I've read A lot of books this year, and I don't think a single book I've read has had a. Has had titles to the chapters. [00:05:48] Speaker B: Yeah, that's a lost art. It's a lost art. [00:05:50] Speaker C: Yeah. It really is. [00:05:50] Speaker A: Because I feel like when we middle school, a lot of them. Anywho, anyway, level 11 adventure 3488 Papa Kalilan 7. I haven't said police butter in a long time. Police butter. So without further Adid Fungies. Let's go. Yeah, hit me up. [00:06:12] Speaker C: Always. [00:06:13] Speaker B: I have one level six spell slot, but I have three level six spells. [00:06:17] Speaker A: Prepared, which feels very. Boz, he's just over here. Like, I'm covering my bases. I've got my scenarios. I mean, people. People don't do that with their casters. They go like. They. Like they correspond the number of prepared spells with the number of slots. And it's like all your spells can be high level spells, but yeah, you. [00:06:37] Speaker B: Could do all six level spells. You just only cast one a day. [00:06:40] Speaker A: I was about to say something. I. [00:06:43] Speaker C: Unless you're a. And you don't prepare your spells, you just have those spells. [00:06:48] Speaker B: Could I do a ninth level spell just for this one episode? Z. [00:06:52] Speaker A: You know what? No. [00:06:56] Speaker C: Are you about to say yes? [00:06:58] Speaker A: I think me being a teacher, maybe sassier. Okay. [00:07:02] Speaker C: Oh, it made you even sassier than you are. That's worse. [00:07:06] Speaker A: I'm gonna choose this. [00:07:07] Speaker C: But. [00:07:08] Speaker B: All right, leave me alone then. [00:07:11] Speaker A: Yeah, well, DM joke's on you. I was gonna choose hugs. [00:07:14] Speaker B: So love wins, brother. [00:07:17] Speaker A: Looks it. Looks like you rejected physical affection and emotional intimacy, so. Looks like Zach's a bad person. So fun. Guys, we're just picking up almost right where we left off. [00:07:31] Speaker B: Are we on a blind carpet? [00:07:33] Speaker A: Well, no. You and Baz. Actually, this works kind of perfectly because where we left off, Micah and Abby were gone. So Greta and Craig are again silent. There's. It's. Ogba's a very easy place to fall silent. It's filled with so many. So many tiny, specific expressions of magic and wonder. And the land has such an air of peace. Boz. Not that your feelings or thoughts are not your own, but you had almost forgotten just how peaceful this place was. And how, in a way, I mean, your anxieties are incredibly well founded in the circumstances in which you live. But you. There's. There's a realization that. And not that Boz doesn't feel those things now, but that, like, part of the anxiousness you've been feeling all this time is just not being here, you know, to be In a place in so much balance and then just leave. There is a lot of like. [00:08:31] Speaker B: But always being on Zoloft all the time. [00:08:36] Speaker A: Yeah, that's. Yes. Great comparison. So we do not promote medications, but. Or not promote great medication. No, I know. I just. Like. It's supposed to be a joke about not endorsing pharmaceuticals. [00:08:54] Speaker C: I get it. I get it. [00:08:55] Speaker A: I delivered it very roughly. So anyway. Oh, don't fall. Do not fall. Okay. Don't fall. All right. You're up here. Fine. [00:09:06] Speaker B: Battle map. [00:09:07] Speaker A: Sorry. Cat almost fell. [00:09:08] Speaker B: Has his boss shirt on again. [00:09:10] Speaker A: That's my plain white shirt. [00:09:13] Speaker C: Plain white tees. [00:09:14] Speaker A: There are plenty of reasons for Greta and Tello to be distracted as well as Craig. Craig is where you guys stand in this small grouping of aspen trees. There's that little rill, that tiny stream running through. And Craig is just collecting new magical rocks and seeing what those taste like. And Greta is still not taking notes, but being very fascinated by everything around her and really resist. You guys watch her. She keeps sticking her hand into the pocket to get the notebook and then, like, muttering to herself and going, no, no, no, no. And taking the hand back out. But you guys have vez left maybe 15 minutes ago, and you've just had some moments of reflection. Ro. It has been very recently shared with you the information of your possible parentage and Jath, I believe it was, and his believed presence on Floofoonf. And Boz. You've just been told that the book of Many Secrets within the Bewildering Keep might hold the answer to what you've been looking for. Sorry if there's hissing in the background. The answer you've been looking for for the bees. And you've been told of Kirtan Untalam Yellowndid and how you all can head there to which you currently head. Thank you. I've practiced that name for many months. [00:10:30] Speaker C: That was good. [00:10:30] Speaker B: We are going to the island. I closed all my tabs that had all the information. [00:10:34] Speaker A: All good. I got your back. [00:10:37] Speaker B: We were going to the Upside down, like the weirdy one first. [00:10:40] Speaker A: Yes, well, so the course of travel Vesp imparted with you before leaving, because it's been recently tracked by the Vischal and he imparted with you that most recently the orders and the path to Kurfton Antholam have been Dimdap Panap and then Fluffoomph and then curved it on to Lummi Lad. And last time I said it very clearly as dimmed up Pop Knop. But Baz, you're aware that pixie sylvan words that are meant to be associated with each other are often meant to rhyme with each other and they're meant to have a very alliterative sudden pronunciation. So, not that anyone here needs to do it, but Boz would be aware that the pixie sylvan pronunciation is not like dim dot pop knop, like your friend going, I'm going to Puerto Rico, but instead, like, the pronunciation is more like dim dnup, but. So that's the first aisle, the very topsy turvy aisle to which you guys would be headed. And then after that it would be floof. And then curfton. And Boz, you've been to each of these isles and you're almost 100 years in the lost Lands, and you're very sure that like this, this is gonna be a stout journey to each. You'll be flying on the flying leaf or reskinned magic carpet that's been given to you for quite some time or loaned. Loaned to you. You'll be flying on it for quite some time. So you all are in like mid afternoon. So you're aware, Boz, that it would be very reasonable to just walk aways and then camp here the night and leave in the morning. Or you could leave now and do some night flying because you know how to guide yourself by stars. You've done it for many years. But you're also familiar on how to guide yourself with magics. And you can sort of like listen to Agba. And there are different methods, so one way is not prevented from you. [00:12:37] Speaker C: Is that a radio station? I'm just kidding. That was a dumb joke. I'm sorry. [00:12:43] Speaker A: I mean, I want to support you, but also. Yes, both thing. Both things can be true, right? Both. [00:12:50] Speaker C: I'm sorry. [00:12:52] Speaker A: I'm sorry. And I regret my actions. [00:12:54] Speaker C: Yeah, I really do. I'm sorry, Boz, what were you saying? [00:12:57] Speaker B: Let's just make camp here for the night. [00:13:02] Speaker C: Where. Where did we end up exactly? Are we just kind of like off. [00:13:05] Speaker B: We're in the middle of the. [00:13:05] Speaker C: Are we like in some woods? [00:13:07] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, and Ogba is very like not a lot of towns, no cities. It's all just like people groups kind of randomly scattered around. And it's just a lot of natural landscape in between. So you are just in some. Well, and you're not really in woods so much as there's just like, sort of like shotgun spreads of tree clumps around this sort of like meadow and prairie landscape and roaring hills. And it's very easy to get your general orientation on all times on the Isle of Agba, because, I mean, you can get far enough out that you can't see the tree, but the tree is literally like half a mile tall. So for many miles you can see it, and you guys are maybe five or six miles away from it, but you're just treading the landscape out in the open nature. [00:14:02] Speaker C: Are we. Are we now that. Cause we're a few days away from Boz's house. Right. [00:14:10] Speaker A: So, yeah, you walked. You walked about a day. [00:14:13] Speaker C: Are we closer? Like, where we need to? I guess this is a question Ro would ask Boz, but I know that Boz, that Lena may not know the answer. So my question is, are we closer to, like, where we need to start flying? Are we closer here than where we were before? Does that make sense? [00:14:33] Speaker A: Yeah. You have. You have coincidentally moved in a different direction to find Vesp, and you did not know that that northwesterly direction is where you needed to be headed previously. So, like, you are now a day's journey. The wrong direction is you went north, so that's good. But you went east. That's opposite. [00:14:51] Speaker C: Okay. [00:14:52] Speaker A: But also, like, you know, I mean, once you get to your other methods of travel, that can be rapidly made up. This was a day's travel on foot. [00:14:59] Speaker C: Okay, cool. What about, like, what time is it? Evening already? [00:15:05] Speaker A: It's mid afternoon. [00:15:13] Speaker B: Why don't we settle down here for the night and just get a fresh try in the morning? [00:15:20] Speaker C: Yeah, I guess we could. [00:15:22] Speaker A: Craig turns around with his cheeks full and goes from. These rocks here are really good. [00:15:28] Speaker B: Oh, beg. [00:15:32] Speaker A: Oh, buddy. Landon. [00:15:37] Speaker C: I mean, are we gonna be able to make camp on the first island that we get? Two balls. Like, I know y'all said it was like kind of top seater V. Kind of. [00:15:47] Speaker B: Yeah. No, we're not gonna do that. [00:15:48] Speaker C: Is it gonna be dangerous or. [00:15:49] Speaker B: That's gonna be quite dangerous here. [00:15:50] Speaker C: How long are we gonna stay there? [00:15:52] Speaker B: Probably a couple days. [00:15:55] Speaker C: Cool. [00:15:56] Speaker B: If we're lucky. You know, typically it's. You get sucked into somewhere and pushed into somewhere else, and then, you know, some people are there like a week. [00:16:03] Speaker C: Can y'all refresh my memory? I'm sorry, but can y'all refresh my memory of which one that was? I don't have clear note. I know that, but which one was that when he told us about some of them? [00:16:16] Speaker B: Oh, this is the one that's like, where chaos bleeds into Yallabrin through, like. [00:16:21] Speaker A: Unknown terrorist material plane. [00:16:23] Speaker B: Yes. This is where I found my trinkets. [00:16:25] Speaker C: That's okay, that's what I wanted to know. [00:16:27] Speaker A: This is the one they tell you to stay away from. [00:16:28] Speaker B: You just have to pound through it to go. No, yeah, no worries at all. I studied so that I could answer these questions for you. [00:16:35] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:16:35] Speaker A: I think you're very proud and warm is my heart. Thank you. [00:16:39] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, just go ahead and. It's been a big day. I think that'd be good. I'd be fine with laying down for the night. [00:16:52] Speaker B: All right, make some room. Then Oz, like, cracks his nipples and he starts casting. [00:17:01] Speaker A: Oh, no, sorry. Didn't mean to do that. He's going, I will fix it immediately. All right, don't worry about it. Nothing happened. [00:17:09] Speaker B: Starts casting. [00:17:09] Speaker A: Druid grove, plant growth. [00:17:13] Speaker B: Druid grove. [00:17:15] Speaker A: Druid grove. Excuse the misen. [00:17:18] Speaker C: What is that? [00:17:20] Speaker B: It's a 10 minute. It takes 10 minutes to cast, but what happens is. [00:17:25] Speaker A: Dude, sick. [00:17:26] Speaker B: I basically create, like a 90 foot cube area of safety that's, like, surrounded by fog. The ground, like, becomes, like grasping weeds and vines that catch people that aren't allowed to be there. And I notate that Ro and Craig and Greta and even the guy that we were talking to before as, like, a safe person. And I set the password as fun. Guys. [00:17:50] Speaker C: This is so cool. This is like my hut on steroids. [00:17:55] Speaker B: Also, however many trees there are, if there's up to four, they come alive. And. [00:18:01] Speaker A: Yes. [00:18:03] Speaker B: And I look at them and I say, brothers, join me in awaken. Please guard this cube for the next night so that we may rest under the shade of your branches. [00:18:22] Speaker A: And so, boss, do you have any particular way you want to describe the casting? Do you want me to lay into it? [00:18:28] Speaker B: No, I feel like I just sit on the ground and murmur for like 10 minutes. [00:18:31] Speaker A: Okay. [00:18:31] Speaker B: And then all of a sudden, all of a sudden just happens all at once. Like, fog rolls in and these trees, I just start yelling. And then these weeds kind of start tangling on the ground. Oh, for anybody that's allowed. It specifically says that the grasping undergrowth becomes soft and reshapes themselves to be beds and seats. If we. Whatever we like. [00:18:52] Speaker A: Lando, that's freaking awesome, dude. Do you still have inspiration? [00:18:58] Speaker B: I'd like to use my old inspiration right now on a random check so I can get a new one. If I can do that, please. [00:19:03] Speaker A: Okay. Yes, you have new inspiration. What do you want the old one to be? We'll do it in a second. [00:19:07] Speaker B: Can I use the old inspiration to see if Craig has any obvious cavities when he chews on his rock? [00:19:14] Speaker A: Yeah, go ahead and give Me a medicine check with inspiration. [00:19:17] Speaker B: Boz wouldn't call them cavities, but he would. Of course. [00:19:19] Speaker A: Of course. [00:19:20] Speaker B: Are the rocks hurting my friend teeth rot or something? [00:19:23] Speaker A: Should I be tooth rot? [00:19:24] Speaker C: Are his teeth rocks getting teeth rot? [00:19:28] Speaker A: Oh, Jackie, you're in a different realm tonight. First check of the session 15. Boz, as he's chewing, you know something? You notice that it's not what you were expecting and it's weirdly concerning. So. [00:19:48] Speaker B: Oh no. [00:19:49] Speaker A: There's one point where he like spits out a rock and yawns really quickly. And you just get a good look at the back chompers. He goes back to chewing them. And as you look, not only can you not see any teeth rot, you can't see any teeth fracture. And you're like, wow, that's good. And then you watch as he bites down and a pebble splits a little bit and you're like, what? And you realize that, I mean there are of course rocks he can't chew, but some of these thinner rocks he's. He's breaking apart. [00:20:15] Speaker B: All right, best case scenario. [00:20:19] Speaker A: That's why you don't know if that's deep magic or if dwarves just have a lot of extra dentin on their animal but. [00:20:27] Speaker B: Once. So it's not funny. [00:20:29] Speaker A: That's true. So you're just like, wow. Craig's at a whole other level. So you have new inspiration. But so Boz does an incredibly Boz thing which is sit down and murmur with that explanation. And then things suddenly happen. And as he does Bozes, you know, in that he's just so. You're a very powerful party. You're one of the most powerful groups of adventures in the world right now. But Baz is just so obscenely magical at this point. A half dried individual practiced in the ways of magic from the Ogbin people in the Seven Stars. Then taken up by all the wild magics of Curve of Yelick Tenant, then infused with the deep magic itself. In the first flame, he just bleeds magic. And he just sits there on the ground and chants. His chants bleed into deepest speech, into the many tongues that you all can understand. And there are these flashes of color very softly beneath his eyelids. And the many flecks of gemstone just sort of like a dust very Edward sparkly all over him, sort of pulse with radiating rainbow light. And as the weeds tangle up, they're like when little blossoms bloom from it. They bloom with little bursts of first flame, rainbow fire like light. And the bosses where his feet and hands are on the ground, the Roots from his digits and appendages begin to grow into the soils. And there are where. You guys will say that you've walked a distance away from the tree grove you were in previously. And the trees that sprout up, Baz literally grows them then and there. And the trees are fascinating because they look like a bizarre hybrid between ash and. Or, excuse me, aspens and crepe myrtles. And they literally look like a mix of baas physical plant lineage and the crepe myrtle, like wood of the staff. Like he's growing some new kind of tree from that assemblage. And where they bloom, their canopies are filled with those low baited leaves. And their flowers are like the ones the crook of the mad prince used to grow. And when Baaz does his sylvan chanting of brothers, guard us. The trees that, like, split apart and grow limbs, they look like that wood, and they, like. They're like. There are no clear faces, but the fl. Like, the faces are very much sort of like, impressionistic, like knolls of wood and like, warped bark that make those. The faces you see in trees and flowers just bud where eyes are. And there's no speech that returns from them, but there's this deep, reverberated humming chant. [00:23:17] Speaker B: And they have an intelligence of 10. [00:23:20] Speaker A: I am big. Wrong mouth. Holes split open and with wooden interiors. They just mumble in this garbling rough like Sylvan, which Greta and Baaz understand. And when you say, protect us, brothers, they just say, be at peace. And they gather up around you, and. And three of them stay in place, but one of them is always treading. And the treads are really cool because every step is the roots pulling up or lifting out and pushing back into the ground. And just again and again and again. Very Treebeard from Lord of the Rings. And you guys are in this perimeter, and gentle sort of cloves are growing and just different plants. And you guys have a soft bed beneath you to rest and make camp. [00:24:08] Speaker B: All right, guys. Long day, bro? Would you mind playing us a song? I haven't heard you sing in, like, a long time, boss. [00:24:24] Speaker C: That would be nice, actually, to, like, I don't know, sing a song that's not just scary so that I can. Yeah. Help heal someone or defeat something. That would be really nice. Yay. And I think she's gonna sit down, like, in the really soft, comfortable, like, plants and everything, and I think she's gonna play. I think she's gonna play the Holy hunters that she has or that she that she's played. I think she's only ever played it one other time. [00:25:08] Speaker B: Boz, while you're doing before, real quick, before you do that, he turns into a giant spider and he weaves a. [00:25:16] Speaker A: Web real quick, real quick. I'm just going to turn into a giant spider. [00:25:20] Speaker B: He turns, he says real quick before you start. Before you start. He turns into a giant spider and he weaves a quick web up one of the branches and he talks between says, hey, just. If you could stay still for like five minutes, that'd be great. [00:25:38] Speaker A: Thank you. What does again, I'm not trying to bed us down, but only because spiders. What does the giant spider that Baz turns into look like? Very green. [00:25:47] Speaker B: It feels like something that would kind of match, like the treetops. I feel like, of probably a. Whatever those kind of look like in patterns and coloring. I feel like this giant spider is the one that like crawls on top of it through the trees. Maybe I can imagine it being like predatory on like birds of some kind. [00:26:04] Speaker A: Maybe. [00:26:04] Speaker B: I don't know. I feel like if something's that big, they have to eat something that big. But hey, you know, whatever. You're the guy that knows animals. I just assume that's what would happen. [00:26:14] Speaker A: Tell me if, tell me if this is wrong. Pause. But I'm just sending this and tell me if you like it. It's called a green lynx spider. [00:26:21] Speaker B: Ooh, I love. It's beautiful. [00:26:23] Speaker A: Okay, so listener. It's a green lynx spider, but Boz just turns into like a 4 foot long green lynx spider. So boss is like, okay, hold on, hold on real quick. Leaf flurry. Oh, giant spider. And he's just. And there's this quick like crawl up the tree and his chelicerae chitter and there's this sylvan tonality. And the trees respond and they literally bend and move their boughs to align to a shape that conforms it. And giant spider Boz just spends some time lowering from the branch and returning and lowering. [00:26:50] Speaker B: I try to do the lines back. I just thought about this. [00:26:53] Speaker A: A lot of skill. A lot of skill. And also, wow, you got a really detailed look at how spinnerets and spiders work. That's very. [00:26:59] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:27:00] Speaker C: Oh, wow. [00:27:01] Speaker A: That's. That's. Yeah. And you have a giant web strung with many cords separated and pulling down from the tree to the ground. All right. [00:27:07] Speaker B: I come back on an unwiled shape and I'm like, okay, I've wanted to try to do this for a long time, right? [00:27:21] Speaker C: Wait, you wanted to try and do what for a long time? [00:27:23] Speaker A: I don't. I don't have any of these songs loaded onto the king. [00:27:28] Speaker B: That's okay. We've all heard them. I think as long as we're saying that that's true. Playing it. Yeah, Jackie just wants to play them right now. Pick up again. Guitar. [00:27:37] Speaker C: I don't have it. [00:27:40] Speaker A: All right, well, we'll get the MP3s at some point. I'll load them onto Kenu for now. Ro begins playing the Holy Hunters. Jackie, not to make you do it right now, but do you remember how it goes at all? [00:27:51] Speaker C: From among our own folk they came and they want us to succeed. I don't remember. The spider webs. What'd you say? [00:28:07] Speaker B: Oz starts plucking the spider webs, and you hear, like, soft, little, kind of like slightly muffled notes come off of them as he does so. And I rolled a 15 on my performance check exactly if that's required. [00:28:25] Speaker A: That does work, but I'm going to need you to make your. Did you add your proficiency on this? [00:28:30] Speaker B: No, I didn't. [00:28:30] Speaker A: Because you're proficient with this instrument, so. [00:28:32] Speaker B: That's right. [00:28:32] Speaker C: That's 19 instrument. [00:28:35] Speaker A: And so, Ro, as you begin singing that from among us they came, Some words I don't know. And as you're singing it, Boz has turned back into Boz and is seated in front of this web, and he's reaching out and just. [00:28:55] Speaker B: And what's wild as well, at first, I have to. I have to listen for a second like I'm not as good as Jackie is, but like I'm trying to figure it out. [00:29:02] Speaker A: As he picks it up and considers it a moment and goes back and revisits the notes. What's fascinating is that when he plucks the chords of Silk, he has to pluck them all quickly in succession. Also, is that whining really loud in the background, the fan sound? [00:29:16] Speaker B: I can't hear it. [00:29:17] Speaker A: Excellent. [00:29:18] Speaker C: I can, but it's hard. [00:29:20] Speaker A: He doesn't pluck them, each creating a distinct note. He plucks them all in succession, and they. They make very slight tones over them, but where he layers them, they. They have harmonic resonance to create notes. And so he has to. He has to like and, like, layer them over each other. But as he's plucking quickly, it's matching your song. Oh. Boz is, like, highly skilled musician in this instrument. That's just a bunch of spider silk. [00:29:56] Speaker C: Can I do a check to see if I've ever heard of this instrument or seen anyone or any, you know, all that stuff. What would that be? [00:30:05] Speaker A: Give me a history check. Give me a history check. [00:30:07] Speaker C: Oh, that was cocked. It literally fell into my hand. I'm going to use my inspiration because I got a two. So. Okay, so that's a 21. [00:30:38] Speaker A: Redonkulous rock. You don't. You've never heard of this instrument. You're not aware of this, but it's strictly ogbin. But all of a sudden. Oh my goodness. Yeah. Baz mentioned something months ago about playing an instrument and everyone was like, yeah. And he was like, no, really guys. And everyone was like, uh huh. And you're like, wow. And Greta is trying. She like gets out her notebook and starts to sketch it and then she just growls to herself a little bit and puts it back up. But she just sits there marveling and listening. And Craig gets really kind of like weepy eyed and you watch him pull out his journal and start writing a little poetry and tello. Just kind of like he leans back to the base of one of the trees and this like thicket of vines just sort of like grows up into a chair that he's not expecting. So he goes lean back further and just. All right. And lean's back against it and just. He plucks a little grass off the ground and puts it in between his teeth and chews it and smiles and listens. And you all just play beautifully together. And you find you're weirdly skilled together. Like something about either all the time you spend in partnership or the magics that bind you all. Or maybe your nature. Or maybe it's just attunement to agba in this place. But you pair very well together as you play. [00:32:02] Speaker C: After we finish, I'm gonna ask Buzz, I'm gonna say balls. [00:32:08] Speaker A: What? [00:32:10] Speaker C: What is that? [00:32:12] Speaker B: I have no idea what the name of the instrument is as a player. I forgot this has been. I wrote this down day one on my first character sheet and I can't find it. So it's just a spider. Silk. I don't know if we have an actual name for it, Zachary. I mean, do you want to like DM1? [00:32:31] Speaker A: We'll call, we'll say in Sylv. I don't even remember if I do. So let's recanonize something. In sylvan, it can be E, which just means like silk. Harp. [00:32:46] Speaker B: Can you spell that exactly so I can write it down? [00:32:48] Speaker A: Say that that's H E T H R E N Then space S apostrophe AVV heatherensav. [00:33:00] Speaker B: Can you say it one more time? [00:33:01] Speaker A: I'm sorry. Yes. You're okay. H E T H R E N he then space S apostrophe AVV heatherensav and that's that ogbin spider spilk like loom. Like harp. Like a spider harp. [00:33:25] Speaker B: Like a silk harp or something like that. [00:33:26] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:33:29] Speaker C: Okay, next. [00:33:31] Speaker A: With which bars has proficiency? [00:33:36] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. It's a silk heart. [00:33:42] Speaker C: It's beautiful. I've never heard anything like it. [00:33:46] Speaker B: Well, now you can play one on your loot. You can make the noise whenever you want. You want to. I don't know. [00:33:52] Speaker A: Holy crap. That's true. [00:33:53] Speaker C: That's true. [00:33:55] Speaker B: It's a thing used to come upon. [00:33:58] Speaker C: Wait, can you make, like, a small one? Balls, like, could. Could sometime. And like, I feel like Rose, like, barred gears are starting to turn and, like, she's getting carried away and she's like, like, what if we performed and you made, like, a small one and you were a spider and, like, you set on top of my loot and played it while we performed. And so then it was like this really cool duet. And then, like, she's just, like, going on and on about we. [00:34:24] Speaker B: We've tried to, like, recreate smaller versions of it, but typically the only way that we can play these is out in the wild, like, finding an actual web of a spider that no longer lives there, which is harder than you think. [00:34:36] Speaker C: That makes sense. [00:34:37] Speaker B: And so usually when we find one, my dad actually is the one that taught me to play. I think he played back when he was my age. Well, we would go walking around Agba. Whenever we found one, we would just stop. And a lot of times it was, like, super annoying because we would just literally stop whatever we were doing. And he was like, oh, we found. We gotta play it. It's here. We gotta do it. Like. [00:35:02] Speaker C: Well, I mean, that makes sense. [00:35:04] Speaker B: Yeah. And so we just sit and play. [00:35:08] Speaker A: It's nice. Wow. [00:35:10] Speaker C: I've never really thought of there being, like, an instrument that was of nature. You know what I mean? Like. Yeah, it's not something you carry around like malut. It's. It's something that you play if you have the chance to play. And. Yeah, if it's there. [00:35:36] Speaker B: I don't even know if it works instead of Agba. I mean, it might just be, like, the magical density of this area that, like, resonates with the silk. I don't know. I have never tried it, like, in a regular area. [00:35:47] Speaker A: Interesting. [00:35:49] Speaker C: We should try it sometime. [00:35:51] Speaker B: Yeah. I loved it. I love playing with you. It was fun. I see why you like it so much doing it how? Just feeling the magic and everything. [00:36:02] Speaker C: Well, anytime. [00:36:08] Speaker A: The group after the performance, you know, I mean there's, there's more compliments. And Greta says things. Craig thinks very pensively and says, I mean, you know, the first dwarves didn't know that rocks tasted great until we popped them in our mouths. Every culture has to discover their own truths. And she makes that face that Micah makes when she's being really, really sincere. Just like, like she looks like she's almost ready to cry. And the group otherwise beds down. And you begin the habit of taking watches. And you remember that it's Agba. It's kind of as long as you can see the roots of the tree just not necessary. And they do expand out like mountains around you all as you guys bed down for the night. Is there anything in particular that anyone does? [00:36:59] Speaker B: I just look a long time at the stars. Just on my back to the trees. I just take it all in until sleep takes me. [00:37:15] Speaker A: Sorry. I'm cutting intervals, trying to wait on the blow drying. So pause as you sprawl outward on your back among the dang it cloves and look upward through the gaps in the tree branches. I mean out here in nature, in Agba as much as it is, you guys have had quite a bit of nature in your travels and a lot of open ocean. So you are very aware to the ocean of stars above, to the vast bands of the galaxy arms to just the thick waves of constellations that cross the sky in their near indescribable beauty. And their density is as you've always known it here, but they seem almost brighter and baz as you take them in, you're not. It's not an overwhelming experience, but you're just so many memories of crossing open ocean in your ogbin canoe and. Or maybe it's a skiff, I don't know. We should come up with a defined name for that. But ya boat. Yaba's boat. So many memories of looking up at the stars and that. And I mean camping again, as long as you're within the borders of Agba's roots, can be done very just like, okay, I'll lay down here now and just sleep here on the grass. And nothing will bite me and nothing will itch me and I will not be hot and I will not be cold. And it's just so many memories of traveling with your dad and with Foosh are brought back to you. Your mom, more of the socialite or homebody. But those two, your sister and Your father very much the travelers and just a lot of memories. As stars slowly rotate above you where you all look up in the sky, Twilo and Twila, large and slightly discolored one from the other, Twilo a slightly darker shade today, are moving ever so slowly away from each other. They're a good distance away now. You can see where in a month they'll be at the edges of the horizon and half a month after that only seeing one at a time. But they are moving further away, their dance driving them apart. Now as the temperatures cool slightly in other places, not here in Agba, but Boz as you relax and look up, it's a. It's a peaceful sleep that comes to you ro as you look up at the stars with your keen mind. Could you give me a. I'm gonna say that you can make this a survival check with proficiency or cuz it's like navigatory or you can make this a nature check. Your call. [00:39:52] Speaker C: I'm going to make it a nature check. Okay. Well I'm glad I did nature because it would have been poo poo if I hadn't. That's going to be a 17. [00:40:08] Speaker A: Okay. When you're in nature like this, it's not so much the ability to remember where the stars are. I mean it's that for quite a few people. But with your keen mind and all the navigational experience you've been training with Spaghuber, you're pretty good there. It's much more just the sky is so rich with stars that it's kind of hard to make them out in all the density. But as you look up you are able to pick out quite a few. And you notice that the sky's a little different very slightly. There have always been a number of very bright gold stars in the sky, about five or six. And they're all distinctly brighter, all whiter, all gold and so bright that they almost look like, you know where you can see planets on the horizon and they just look like super bright stars. Each one of them is like that now distinctly. And two among them are just very noticeably bright, almost like tiny very far away moons themselves, just much smaller. I mean so bright. So that's different than it always has been. And then there's one star in the sky you've always known. People call it making this up. Right now people call it Athos, which in some language I haven't decided on yet, just means like, means like red sun or something. And there, there are basically two prominent red stars in the Sky. There's one that's kind of always shining a little red. We'll call that Ketha K E T H A. And then Athos is the more bright red star. And it is a deeper red, like almost kind of a crimson color and brighter now than it used to be. And you recognize that slight distance or difference as you gaze up at the stars from your back and the relaxing piece of the ogbinal. [00:42:33] Speaker C: Interesting. Are they in the same kind of position in the sky that they usually are? Well, I guess, yeah, they would be. That's how I know that they are what they are. [00:42:49] Speaker A: I mean, they move because stars move. Yeah, but they are around the other stars that they're usually around. So. Yes, that makes sense. Yeah, they're in regular position. No, hold on. Give me a history check. RO or no, give me survival with advantage. [00:43:13] Speaker C: Okay. [00:43:13] Speaker A: Because this is navigatory. We'll say. [00:43:18] Speaker C: Well, those are good rolls. That's gonna be 24. [00:43:32] Speaker A: Sorry for the pauses. Just trying to get as little blow dryer as possible on Mike. Athos is in a different spot. Again, the sky is so thick with color that it's almost kind of hard to differentiate. But you know, Athos is in a very different spot. Like a whole part of the sky it's usually not in. It's really close to a couple of the bright gold stars. [00:44:09] Speaker C: Do. [00:44:10] Speaker B: Hmm. [00:44:11] Speaker C: It's hard because I'm trying to, like, think of it as, like, what they would think because, like, of what our knowledge of stars and planets are versus what their knowledge of stars and planets are. Like. I've never seen it in this spot ever before. Right. Like, and what do we. What do we see stars as our characters, like, growing. [00:44:48] Speaker A: This is gonna be very high D.C. but why don't you give me. You can make two checks. Why don't you give me a religion check? Much lower D.C. and why don't you also give me a sciences check? [00:44:57] Speaker C: Okay. [00:44:59] Speaker A: And I mean, Baz, you can do this too, if you want, but I don't know if this is going on in Baz's head. You tell me. [00:45:07] Speaker B: Probably not. He's probably just like, a lot less scientific and more just like, oh, man. Existent. [00:45:15] Speaker C: Well, my religion check was a 31. [00:45:21] Speaker B: She can do the Hail Mary backwards. [00:45:23] Speaker C: I got. I got a. I got a Nat20 on the sciences check. And so that's gonna be a 25. [00:45:30] Speaker B: Ro discovers outer space. [00:45:33] Speaker C: Ro discovers the secrets of the universe. [00:45:36] Speaker A: This is. Wow, you are rolling half recession. Well, with the 31, big surprise. The stargazing child with a Natural sense for direction. Aunt Jenny had to give you all sorts of descriptions and answers. What's that? What are these? So the Selenian Church posits that these bodies are the painting of the gods and that, I mean, there are different, there are cultural perceptions. Some people say that these are all of the celestial beings in the sky and that they move across the sky as they travel. And we could take that literally in our context. I mean, yes, they are celestial beings, but I mean like, not just like bodies of stars, but like the angels and you know, the many celestial minor celestials moving through the sky. Others posit that they are the homes in which the gods travel. But Yenny told you from the Selenian Church that the idea is, especially considering that Selune is the goddess of Twilight and Eve and Starl, that these are. These are Selun's paintings across the sky, and that these are the stellar bodies she has placed to light the way for those who travel. And there is. This is one of those hot takes that like different denominations would argue over. But in the Selenean Church, some believers posit that these are the souls of all of Selune's faithful and that after so many thousands of years of dying, they've filled the sky and that she immortalizes their light forever to shine down on other people. So this is a selunian perspective with a 25. We'll say that this is information that you. Wow, that's a wild role. I mean, to be clear, the information about you're on a ball that's a planet was earth shattering, mind blowing information from, from old. A very long time ago. [00:47:32] Speaker C: We were all flat Earthers wrote. [00:47:34] Speaker A: Yeah, everybody was. The vast majority of the world still is at this time, but. So Ro is not sitting there being like, oh man, those burning balls of gas. But with a check that high. Ro is aware of the concept that there are some. Science isn't even really a word Ro would know. Well, like machinations is a burgeoning field that Greta barely knows about over rumor hearing. So in the simplest sense, Ro is aware that there are some people with a more who are trying to develop a logical and consistent view of the world and its natural phenomena, who believe that these are other bodies that hang in the sky and that the sky, like as they conceptualize the sky, goes on for a great deal further than others, people would argue. So they don't necessarily conceptualize of space, of course, but they think they. They are considering that the sky is much higher and further out than people might consider. The sky, so to speak, and that these bodies hang there in this time. And so the. In the simplest concept, you would be aware of these as stars. Not just as things that, like, light the sky at night and are sort of like stuck to the ceiling, so to speak, but the concept that the sky stretches out very, very far and they float there as well. And that when the sky moves to this phase at night, they are brought into this hanging motion. [00:49:06] Speaker C: Okay, cool. That's really cool, Zack. [00:49:14] Speaker A: Thank you. And Ro, as you sit there and ponder the stars and these realizations are fascinating and interesting, you also, you also can't help but think about your time watching these stars as a child with family. Enough with Aunt Jenny, who loved you, the other people there, but also very much without this possible father figure who may loom somewhere on the horizon. And no new thoughts, but just the emotions brought back again of, oh my goodness, do I have a dad? And am I about to go find out I don't have that I had a dad? Like, is this about to be another loss all over again? Am I about to meet a terrible person? Maybe he's out there and I won't meet him at all. I mean, there's just a lot of the distance of those lights from you. [00:50:17] Speaker C: I think she's probably thinking too. One thing that's going through her head is, has he, has he looked up at these same stars and asked the same questions that she has about them? Or has he ever looked at them at the same time as her? Is he looking at them now? If he's even still here? I think she's really kind of, you know, very existential going on of like, you know, I don't know anything about him, but could a connection be that? You know, one time at night when I was little, looking up at these stars, was he looking up at them too? [00:51:09] Speaker A: And it is that soft, distant wondering that eventually guides you into sleep. And the fungals? All fungi's all sleep and sleep heavily until. I almost said the fungals. Until you guys wake up the next morning to a new day and. No, let's go with this one probably. I like that. [00:51:34] Speaker C: Okay. [00:51:37] Speaker A: Pass out a bush and goes. I got you my secret plan. [00:51:44] Speaker B: Mash him in the face. [00:51:47] Speaker A: And then four trees. So the fun guys wake up on the next morning. There are. I know the goodberry bonsai was left on the ship, but magic. You guys eat? You have some rations? I don't know. Collected some from spaghetti. We're not gonna get stuck there. [00:52:09] Speaker C: Wait, I thought that Boz's mom or. [00:52:12] Speaker A: Dad sent you a snack. [00:52:14] Speaker B: That's right. [00:52:15] Speaker A: She literally. You guys eat mom snacks for rations. They're like Scooby Snacks, but very different. [00:52:23] Speaker C: It says weeks worth of fruit. [00:52:27] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:52:27] Speaker B: But you dried salad. [00:52:30] Speaker A: Yummy. Yummy. Oh, okay. Yeah. What that party do? [00:52:42] Speaker C: How early is it? I'm just curious. [00:52:46] Speaker A: Keen mind. It's working again. We'll say that you all find yourself waking up much later than you usually do. I mean, this is a party that gets up at 6 or 5. [00:52:57] Speaker C: Especially Rowan Cret very early as well. [00:53:01] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, in early evening. And stayed up to stargaze. But you find that the land is so peaceful, it lulled you into late morning. And it's like 8:57. It's. That's a long night's sleep for y'all. [00:53:15] Speaker C: We be snoozing. Okay, Lando. Sorry. [00:53:20] Speaker B: No, no. I. I feel like boss would probably wake up late. He'd be the last one awake. He'd wait to be woken up. There's. Yeah, he. He sleeps. He sleeps hard. [00:53:30] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:53:31] Speaker B: He's probably partially colored. Like the soft little growth stuff that he was sleeping in. Like, you probably for a second are like, where's belt? [00:53:41] Speaker A: I love that. Yeah. You have to sweep some moss off. And Raymond grew landscape. And Boz. When you wake up in this landscape with your magics, it's not so much the way that people have to stretch and crack their bats. You just have to sit there and pull your roots out of the ground. And, I mean, you very much grow into the spot. [00:53:59] Speaker B: Nice. [00:54:00] Speaker A: But when you wake up, you wake up to. And Craig's just like, you know, squatting and lunging in row, I assume, with him. Could you give me an athletics check? [00:54:10] Speaker C: Yeah, that's a Nat 20. [00:54:16] Speaker A: Oh, my God, you're so lucky today. [00:54:20] Speaker C: Oh, but that means it's an 18. [00:54:22] Speaker A: Oh, sorry, buddy. [00:54:25] Speaker C: RO is weak. [00:54:26] Speaker B: Guidance. Oz goes achoo. And guidance does her. Slaps her in the back because he's nearby. [00:54:33] Speaker C: Okay, let's see, let's see, let's see. Oh, that's a 19 then. [00:54:39] Speaker B: Also, I mean, could it be argued that Craig is, like, guidancing them since. Since he's like, teaching them? [00:54:45] Speaker A: You know what? I think that makes a ton of sense. So that doesn't change anything because it's still the one guidance, but excellent rock keeping pace. You are. I mean, this experience is changing you. And let's. Let's have you put another. It's been five, six days now. Put another six days on your. Your exercise sheet. [00:55:08] Speaker C: What are you at now I don't know if I haven't kept up with it Right. Or what because I only have 38 days. Well. Out of 322. [00:55:19] Speaker A: Cannot be right. Especially given where we started it. [00:55:22] Speaker C: I think it's because, like, we've gone in and out of it and I've. I don't know. That's bad. [00:55:29] Speaker A: Just do this for me right now because. Yeah, that's like. That's like literally a month or two off. [00:55:33] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:55:34] Speaker A: Could you just roll three D20 for me? [00:55:37] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:55:41] Speaker A: So add those bad boys up. Go clickity click. [00:55:43] Speaker C: 17. 13. [00:55:45] Speaker A: Okay, go ahead and put 40 days. [00:55:54] Speaker C: 40 days. [00:55:56] Speaker A: Okay. Okay. [00:55:59] Speaker C: 78. Sick. [00:56:01] Speaker A: Get begonked. My. Okay. So the party is chewing on. Died on dried fruit. Is he? She has been on a healing path ever since Edge. But there's something about this landscape. Oh, baby, that is a fit. Look at the drip. You're so very orange. Tello has been on a healing trajectory. Right, Right. [00:56:28] Speaker C: That's cute. Hopper's wearing really cute Halloween pajamas. That's what we're all talking about, by the way. [00:56:36] Speaker A: But Tello's been unwinding and emotionally healing, and he's returned to a lot more of. It's interesting because he has a lot more of his old Tello energy he did in the first leg of Yalls journey. But he also, interestingly, it's a little less kind of like comical and sarcastic. And he's still jokes a lot, but the jokes are warmer and he's calmer. And there's a degree to which you guys can consider that. I love you, baby. I'll see you later. You're the best. There's a degree to which you guys consider that. I mean, he has had a very transformative year the way you all have. But also, maybe this is a side of Tello that's always been there that you guys just didn't know. Because as much as he was having very genuine reactions with you, he also spent five or six months kind of pulling the wool over your eyes. So. Or four or five months, but yeah. So this is. You're meeting Atello, who is maybe. Love you, Hafalafa. You're meeting Othello, who is very possibly, like, changing and growing, but also maybe displaying more of his true self than he had in the past. So he's just doing a lot of quiet pacing and he's picking flowers and he's watching the landscape very relaxed. And Craig's farting. [00:58:08] Speaker C: Nero's whistling to keep the. [00:58:10] Speaker A: He's just doing squats and Going and Craig's just going. Really gets the guts moving in the morning. [00:58:22] Speaker B: I'm glad you guys are bonding. Are you ready to like skidoo? [00:58:32] Speaker C: Are we, Are we flying? Are we. How. How long flight is it? Balls. [00:58:38] Speaker B: We'll find out. I've never flown here before, so. [00:58:40] Speaker C: You've never flown? Well, how long is it like when you. When you. When you rode. When you. When you rode there? [00:58:47] Speaker B: Depends on where the island is. [00:58:49] Speaker C: No, I mean the island that we're going to. [00:58:51] Speaker B: Yeah, I know it depends on where it was. Like, I don't know. It's not always in the same place. [00:58:54] Speaker C: I don't know. Does it move? [00:58:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:58:56] Speaker A: You remember how the day before Boz talked about how all the islands are always moving? [00:59:00] Speaker C: Oh, that's right. That's worrisome. I don't like. [00:59:04] Speaker B: Hopefully it doesn't take long. [00:59:06] Speaker C: Massive plots of land moving. Can I. I'm sorry, before. [00:59:16] Speaker A: Okay, cool. [00:59:19] Speaker C: Before we, before we move on, I just, I was wondering, could I do just a little something since we're here on your beautiful home island and everything. I just. I think there's someone that might like this. And she grabs. She holds onto her ring, her Faber's glass ring, and lets Faber out because she thinks that he might like this place because he doesn't like a lot of places, but he might like this place. [00:59:56] Speaker A: So Ro. You rub that little dark ring and it's green gem. And there's just this little like of smoke. And you know what? This is a good moment. Come here, come here. Can I get a black cat on screen as we do this? Come here, come here. Hi. So much as this black cat is here, you twist the ring and there's this little puff of thin smoke. Maya, leave her alone. She's not harming you. She's not harming you. Maya. Mo. Don't hiss at her. Sorry. Maya is still not a fan of this cat, but we're getting there. So wait, what cat? There's a little puff of smoke. The other cat, There's a little puff of smoke. [01:00:44] Speaker C: There's a second cat. [01:00:45] Speaker B: Yeah, there's gonna be someone that took it home that night. And as we were getting off the phone, I was like, haha, they just got a second cat. They don't know. [01:00:52] Speaker C: What are you talking about? [01:00:54] Speaker A: Oh, one of my neighbors decided Monday that they didn't want their cat, so they just threw it outside. And then the cat came meowing at my door and I was like, oh no. And it's been five days and Maya is tolerating Her. So we now have two black cats and one of them is about six months old. Well, it's only yesterday that we were like, holy crap, I think we're keeping her. So we haven't given her a name yet. [01:01:17] Speaker C: I'm so sorry. It's just I. The two cats thing really. It really threw me. So go ahead. [01:01:23] Speaker A: Well, I mean, I'm just continuing a long tradition of me shocking you with life changing news live on the podcast. But, I mean, I haven't told you about my kid yet. [01:01:30] Speaker B: We got two new cats as well, by the way. Yeah, we got two new kittens. [01:01:34] Speaker C: Yeah, I did know about that because I talked about that. [01:01:38] Speaker B: I talked to Felony and I am not. I do not believe it is ethical to have cats live outside. And I, as a biologist, would love. [01:01:49] Speaker A: To say that I feel it is highly unethical, but that is my perspective. And people can live their lives. [01:01:56] Speaker B: My perspective. [01:01:57] Speaker A: Billions of birds every year, they're named, are that learned. [01:02:01] Speaker B: Waldorf. The two old guys from the Muppets. [01:02:03] Speaker A: That's so cute. [01:02:05] Speaker B: They're both kind of like white and another color. Like one is orange and white and the other one is black and white. Kind of like splotched around. [01:02:13] Speaker C: I want a cat. Because everyone else has cats. [01:02:15] Speaker B: We don't know what gender they are. And I have brought up a concern that if they're. If one is a guy and one is a girl, they're gonna have problems. So we'll see how that goes. [01:02:30] Speaker A: Especially when they're outdoor cats. But not my circus. [01:02:33] Speaker B: Not my monkeys, though. That's all I gotta say. [01:02:35] Speaker A: True, true. [01:02:36] Speaker B: I am. I am hanging out from the peanut gallery. Anyways, back to the session. [01:02:39] Speaker A: Quick, quick. Biologist plug. More than 100 species made extinct by local house cats. Please keep your cats indoors. But that's not to you, Landon, just to any listeners listening. But anywho. So Faber's there. Back to happy note. There's a black cat and his Faber never make species go extinct. He wouldn't. Well, he's a murderous heart, but he appears in a puff of black smoke. And ro. As you look at him, there is the immediate impetuous expression of the black cat as he sort of like looks at you with people's big and ears back. But then he sits back and does that thing where he sniffs the air quite a bit and starts looking around and immediately all of the aggression washed off and he begins walking around and sniffing the landscape and he rubs his hat on one of the tree bases and his tail is up in the air. And he's just kind of really feeling his face. And you're like, yeah, he's from the Feywilds. And he talked to you that time about like, oh, I have to get summoned from the Feywilds. And now he's very like, oh, okay, this is kind of on track. He sees Craig really quickly, and then his ears go back again. [01:03:41] Speaker C: I kind of put out my hand like, I have your ring now. [01:03:46] Speaker A: Give me an animal handling check. Ro. A check we never get to make. Craig goes, come here, buddy. And Faber just. And Craig's like, oh, sorry, I only. [01:03:58] Speaker C: Got a 14 on that one. [01:04:00] Speaker A: Okay. I mean, that's. I know you're used to getting a third. I know, but that's not a bad check. [01:04:06] Speaker B: Can't wait to get a campaign to over y'all roll like fives and tens. [01:04:09] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm very excited, especially considering how I'm having ever do the 3D6 rules instead. But as. As you wiggle your fingers and show off the ring. Holy crap. Ro. He walks to you and do you. What do you do as he walks towards you with his tail up? [01:04:29] Speaker C: I've been down like him and I had a little bit of a connection anyway, so I get on my knees and I just hold out my hands like you do with a cat to let him sniff. [01:04:39] Speaker A: He does the little head bobbing sniff. Then he just takes a cheek and just starts rubbing his head on your hand. Holy crap. He's purring. He's just tracer and your ankles purring. And he sits down next to your leg and then he leans against it. He's just purring and thumping his tail. And all of a sudden, bro, you go, oh, me and Faber are fitting to have a different experience than Craig and Faber, especially because this was the right. I mean, you do right, but this was the thing to do. So go ahead and give yourself inspiration. And Faber is very pleased to be around you. [01:05:15] Speaker C: Aw. I was gonna do speak with animals, but I don't think I will. I think I'll just let him. Let him live his. His. His life right now. And I think I'm just going to. Yeah, I think I'm just going to kind of let him hang out there for a while and then, you know, like 15, 20 minutes, let him just kind of chill and take in the scenery. And then I kind of just nod to him. And I was like, you ready to go for. Or do you want to. You know, like, you want to go for now and just kind of let him go back to the fae Ro? [01:05:55] Speaker A: You, you're not using speak with animals, but you find that I don't know if it's the ring. He seems to really understand you. And then you remember like, oh yeah, he's a familiar. So like there's a connection there. He can understand. And as you say that there's like a sudden motion and you kind of jump back and he jumps like up onto you and then purges kind of awkwardly because you're not big. [01:06:22] Speaker C: Yeah, he's. [01:06:23] Speaker A: It's worth iterating that Ro is small enough that Faber is kind of half your size. Like Faber doesn't go up to your shin. Faber goes up to your hip. And so he tries perching on your shoulder, but he's too big. So just climbs down off your back and he's walking next to you and he's just, he's not leaving, he's walking with you. Okay. And again, important size comparison. Fabers the size to row about of a German shepherd to one of us. [01:06:49] Speaker C: Like that's terrifying. [01:06:51] Speaker B: I did not realize you were so big. No, no. Ro. [01:06:54] Speaker A: So it's really important to remember how small Ro we forget because it's all just people on the camera. But remember Baz, Ro's head comes up to like an inch or two above your hip and radius is only three or four above your hip. Craig's head finishes at your sternum. This is a very short party. It's Boz and Tello just towering, looking like NBA players next to everyone else. [01:07:19] Speaker B: And so I love that. [01:07:21] Speaker A: I mean, and Ro is exceptionally short. Ro is like the size of kind of like a 10 year old child to you. And so as Ro walks around with Faber, Faber's like the size of like a German shepherd to you. [01:07:33] Speaker C: It's so funny. That's terrifying. If a cat was that. [01:07:38] Speaker A: Yes. Compared to yes, very frightening. We'd be on the menu. [01:07:41] Speaker C: But anyway, I just, I just, I just kind of let them tag along as we go, I think and let. [01:07:47] Speaker A: Him happily strolling along with you, Jackie. All right, what's the party do? From there I get the leaf. [01:07:57] Speaker B: A leaf. [01:07:58] Speaker A: Okay. Thing. [01:07:59] Speaker B: And I say, anybody want to help me figure out how to fly this and go to the place where weird stuff happens? [01:08:05] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm down. I've done some navigating, but there's no wheel on this like a ship. [01:08:12] Speaker B: I know. Dean, do you have to attune to the carpet? [01:08:16] Speaker A: It is not attune. It's not attunement, which is awesome. So Baz pulls out the huge rolled up green. It Looks like. I mean, you guys can Google it for yourself. It looks like a red oak leaf, and it's very big, except the leaves are not quite as divided as a red oak leaf. They're a little more together, so it's a little more one continuous surface, but very like it. So maybe even kind of like a big maple, but no. Anywho. So as like Baz, as he folds it out and swings it open, it just goes kind of half rigid like a leaf and gains some structure. And as he sets it down on the ground. Yep, that's a big leaf. And to be clear, when I mean big, I say eight by eight feet. [01:08:54] Speaker C: I thought it was eight by six. [01:08:56] Speaker A: Okay, no, eight by eight. [01:08:58] Speaker C: Six. [01:08:58] Speaker A: So it is not like everybody's not sitting around the living room talking. Y'all gotta be sitting next to each other this cozy. But it very much has room for everyone. And it does not hurt that two of your party members are so very small. But, yeah, everybody fits. Little baby. Okay, so the leaf is there, and it's on the ground. It's a very big leaf. Craig just kind of gets on the middle and goes. It's not going. [01:09:28] Speaker C: I get up front, I guess, kind of with Boz. [01:09:32] Speaker A: Maybe you want to drive it? [01:09:35] Speaker C: No, I mean, it's. It's your friend. [01:09:37] Speaker B: I've never done it before. [01:09:38] Speaker C: I haven't either. [01:09:40] Speaker B: Well, why don't you give it a try, See if you're good at it. [01:09:43] Speaker C: I don't. [01:09:44] Speaker B: It could be a natural. [01:09:49] Speaker C: She, like. She, like, holds onto the edge and she, like, thinks in her head up. [01:09:59] Speaker A: So everybody. Everybody clambers on it. As you do, Tello just goes, man, every day, I'm a little more often guy. And he. He sits down. Greta's. Greta's. Greta. As she sits down, she sits going. Just doing the manic. Abby giggles. And as you all sit down, Ro, you grab a side and you go up and nothing happens. Could you give me an arcana check, Ro? [01:10:28] Speaker C: As I'm thinking about. Well, maybe I shouldn't say what player Jackie's thinking. [01:10:35] Speaker A: Jackie finally learning about filters. [01:10:39] Speaker C: That's going to be a 27. [01:10:41] Speaker A: Girl, you're rolling so well this session. Magic leaf. Magic leaf. Magic leaf. Oh, maybe. And you sit down in front of the stem, the giant stem of the leaf, which is like two and a half feet long. And as you pull up on it, you just go like, well, maybe. And the leaf is up, and you guys just. And you guys have to hold onto the edges, and there's a sudden reminder of, like, oh, yep. No seatbelts and no walls, no doors, no windshield. Just a flying leaf. And so like a bow. So Ro pulls up on the stem and the leaf lifts and then rights a little bit in. Ro. Yeah, you're in control of it. And you find the more you pull the stem back, the more it banks up. The more you push the stem forward, the more it banks down. And as you hold it kind of just evenly in front of you, it goes straight. And the more tightly you hold it, the faster it goes. And the more loosely you hold it, the slower it goes. And Ro, you are flying the fun guys on the leaf. And as it's flying, the edges of it are just through the air and the fun guys are off the ground. And as you lift everything just around you and the landscape, I mean, you know, you're not just suddenly a thousand feet in the air, but you're like 30 or 40 and you're. Oh, you're up. And all the trees get low. And some of the trees are out here large enough with the canopy that, you know, they start to loom taller and you can see like the mids of them and the landscape stretches out a little bit more in front of you. Your view goes from, you know, hundreds of feet to, you know, couple hundreds of feet. And you are in the air flying gently over the prairie. And I'll put it on a slightly more exciting song. [01:12:22] Speaker C: Balls. [01:12:24] Speaker B: Yeah. You're doing really great. [01:12:25] Speaker C: Do you want to. Do you want to take this over or. I mean, I don't know. I don't know where we're supposed to be going. [01:12:31] Speaker B: I don't know what you're doing, actually. You're the only one that knows how. [01:12:33] Speaker C: To do this now. I mean, you just, you just steer this thing. [01:12:37] Speaker A: And I point towards. [01:12:41] Speaker C: She, like kind of like turns where he's saying, go. [01:12:44] Speaker A: And Boz, there's this cool moment where, like, I mean, this is, you know, for the deep roots, the guys who are all the way at the top, this is the mode of transportation some of them have. So this is very much the finally getting to drive the car moment. Like, we were like, I have the car keys now. And so Baz, as you point, go ahead and give me a survival check with expertise, Baz. And we're going to say that when you need to navigate in the lost lands, every time, it's a survival check for you with expertise. Because you did this for. Can I 60 years? [01:13:20] Speaker C: No, I can. Forest driver. That makes sense. 40 years. [01:13:25] Speaker B: I have a plus 10 to survival. But I don't know how, but I believe that's right. I believe I already have expertise on survival checks. [01:13:32] Speaker A: Well, I mean, your wisdom score is high, and if you. Okay, okay. [01:13:36] Speaker B: Yeah, because I also have a plus 10 on animal handling. I don't know. [01:13:41] Speaker A: I think you're just proficient because you have a five in wisdom and what sells proficiency, right? No, it's not. No, that's because I have a 22. [01:13:48] Speaker B: I have a 22 in wisdom and then I've expertise. [01:13:50] Speaker A: So six plus four. Yeah. Yeah. So this is whatever you roll on your D20. This is gonna be a plus 14. [01:13:57] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. That's a 24. [01:14:00] Speaker C: Let's go. [01:14:02] Speaker A: So these checks have the potential to be some of Boz's highest. Let's go. What? [01:14:07] Speaker B: Leaf check. [01:14:08] Speaker C: Leaf check, Leaf check. [01:14:10] Speaker A: Jackie just went stats, stats, stats. [01:14:13] Speaker B: Can't wait to get my average up. Let's do some more of these leaf checks. [01:14:17] Speaker C: Awesome. [01:14:18] Speaker A: And I'm gonna check again. And I'm gonna check again. [01:14:20] Speaker C: Yeah, let me do some perception and religion and get some stuff as well. [01:14:26] Speaker A: I want to make or DM. I want to make 15 religion checks in a row. [01:14:30] Speaker C: I just want to see what happens. [01:14:31] Speaker A: I'd like all the inspiration. So, Baz, you point out across the landscape, you feel that tug, that magnetic heart pull of Agba. And years and years ago, it was about the stars. Decades ago, it was about knowing the landscape and judging wave patterns. Not anymore. You're too. You've come back home. You're where you know best. But it's even different now. The first flame is in you. As it is. Agba is an incredibly centering force. But now it's like you can hear her. It's like she's always tacitly humming some truth to you. And it's like there are whispers in your ear about where to go in. And you just feel that feeling you felt in the Westwood of feeling all the plants in the world at once. It's like you can feel the plants on those islands and you just know where to head as you point. Ro, you lean the stem and the leaf turns slightly. How high do you take it as you travel? Ro. [01:15:53] Speaker C: What. What is the. What is the height that we usually fly when land? When Boz and Row are the giant. [01:16:00] Speaker A: When you guys giant eagle it, you're usually a couple hundred feet up. Typically you're usually like two or about like a hundred, 200ft up. [01:16:10] Speaker C: I would say you guys have gotten to do. I probably go about that just because it's what, like My natural instinct is as how many times we've flown as a, as giant eagles. So it's kind of like just, it's like kind of like, oh, this feels right to ro. [01:16:26] Speaker A: Yeah. So Ro. As you pull up on the stem, the leaf just lifts up and up and up. And as it does you find that like it evens out more, which kind of doesn't make a lot of sense because the wind gets stronger, but the leaf gets more balanced. And that breeze over Agba is still moving by you all. You see more of the landscape, man. It's just, I would say picturesque, but it's unlike many pictures. A concentration of rivers you don't usually see splendorously shining like melted glass mirrors. In the landscape of green, golds give way to kellys and forests rise and dissipate. Stonescapes push out of foliage. Far in the distance you can see that there are just swathes of color, as if the maker just took a brushstroke and painted the landscape with watercolors. Where wild flowers grow in rolling prairies. You can see now great herds of animals far, far off moving, smattering of birds moving. And there's so many trees here that grow to such great height. The landscape, as you look up far above you, massive white ships sail and clouds gather and fall. And to your. As you guys head northwest from the east, to your left, off ahead of you is still just that enemy immense pillar of gray and brown. And Ro, you just can't. I mean, Baz, you know, it's amazing, but you grew up with it, bro. You just can't. You just can't. It's so supernatural. It's so. It's like a mountain. That tree maybe more than half a mile high. It's so big, it just grows up this huge pillar and it's so far away enlarged that you can't even really see any detail to it. It's just color. Just that huge gray trunk that sprouts into that massive cloud canopy of green like an upside down mountain. And you all just fly onward, man. It's peaceful. Wow. It's so intoxicating to be here, man. It had to be hard for Baaz to leave and you just fly over a landscape filled with peace. It's really a shame Abby's not here for this, but any particular moment that anyone passes as you all sail through the sky? [01:19:21] Speaker B: I'm trying to see what other islands I can spot or if there's anything I can like ascertain as we're flying. [01:19:26] Speaker A: I mean, you can keep making, like, kind of magical checks for that, but you're gonna need to fly for a long time. Okay. [01:19:33] Speaker B: Remember, I forgot how big it is. [01:19:34] Speaker A: Yeah, it's like a. Yeah, yeah. I can't, Rizz. [01:19:42] Speaker B: Like, yacht, you know, So I hated that. [01:19:46] Speaker C: I heard someone say the other day in a reel, they said, let me do a. Let me do a Riz check. And I was like, oh, no, I don't like that. [01:19:57] Speaker A: I'm very thankful that my students are a little done with Riz. They'll use it every once in a while, but it's already leaving them behind. And I'm like, oh, that's nice. That's nice. [01:20:05] Speaker C: That's good. [01:20:07] Speaker A: My students still say gap coming. [01:20:08] Speaker B: Cringe, for sure. [01:20:11] Speaker A: All right. [01:20:13] Speaker B: What are you talking about? Cringe is a word that has been around forever, my friend. [01:20:17] Speaker C: Yeah, but if we said it around high schoolers, they'd probably laugh at us. [01:20:22] Speaker A: But God true. [01:20:25] Speaker C: What is. What is favor doing? Because favor's still out. [01:20:29] Speaker A: Yeah. Faber's not a fan. He was digging this. And then you guys got in the sky. I. We can just assume you dismissed as. [01:20:35] Speaker B: Soon as things got on. [01:20:36] Speaker A: Comfy. [01:20:36] Speaker C: Yeah. As much as. As when I figured out that he didn't like it, I was like, okay, bye. [01:20:42] Speaker A: Bye. [01:20:42] Speaker C: Bye. Okay. [01:20:44] Speaker A: But you guys are just soaring through the sky. Where's flying twice as high? Immediately, both of us. [01:20:54] Speaker C: Ro writes a song called Magic Leaf Ride. [01:20:59] Speaker A: I don't know. [01:21:00] Speaker C: A. [01:21:00] Speaker A: Magic. Magic proceeds to write every song about flying that's ever been written. [01:21:06] Speaker C: Exactly. [01:21:07] Speaker B: I love that for you. [01:21:09] Speaker C: I love that for you. [01:21:13] Speaker A: Ro just starts singing. I could show you. [01:21:21] Speaker B: Pixies are awful at setting up for good songs, because they don't. [01:21:24] Speaker C: I feel like once. Once they kind of get going. I feel like Ro, like, even though she's. She's trying to, like, steer and all, I feel like she keeps, like, asking Baz things like, now, now, what's that area? What's. What's that? Like, she's so intrigued by this place, and she's like, if she sees anything, like, any tree or anything that looks like something she hasn't seen before. I feel like she's just kind of not even, like, pestering, but just, like, in deep amazement. Just like. What is that? You know, like, just very. Like you said, just taking it all in. [01:22:08] Speaker A: Oh, my goodness. Landon. Sorry if I'm getting up a lot. I'm just checking on the kitten. Please keep rolling. [01:22:12] Speaker C: That's. I guess, depending on how long we go. Like Ro asks boss, she goes, is there, like, you know, like when we turn into things. [01:22:26] Speaker B: No kings here. Oh no. Yeah. So yeah. What did you say? [01:22:29] Speaker C: You know, when we, you know, like when we turn into things and like we have to be careful about, you know, like we need to land after a while because we'll obviously turn back into ourselves. Is there like a time limit to this, to this thing flying or. [01:22:44] Speaker B: Question? I don't know. [01:22:46] Speaker C: Oh cool. [01:22:48] Speaker A: Nope. [01:22:48] Speaker B: No there is not. And I knew that because I'm smart. [01:22:52] Speaker C: Cuz I. I was getting a little worried there. Like what if, you know, what if we just fell out of the sky immediately? [01:22:57] Speaker B: As long as you don't fall asleep, we're all fine. If you lose control and crash into the ocean, that probably pretty bad. [01:23:03] Speaker C: I'm quite awake. [01:23:05] Speaker B: All right. I can just scream every once in a while. [01:23:07] Speaker C: No, the beautiful views are keeping me awake. Yeah, I'm good. I mean if you want to take over steering. And she like veers it as she's like trying to hand it to him. [01:23:18] Speaker B: Oz is on the other end of the leaf. [01:23:20] Speaker A: Tello's kind of tuned you out so he's not paying too much attention to the leaf banks. And he goes. He curses an incineon. [01:23:28] Speaker C: How. How loud is it up here? [01:23:32] Speaker A: Well, you guys have flown a lot. So it's wrong up here. It's not right because the sky is not quiet. But it's quiet here. [01:23:44] Speaker C: Is that you can hear the breeze. But can I do like an arcana check or something? Is that the carpet itself? Is that the leaf or is that this place? [01:23:55] Speaker A: Give me an arcana check. [01:24:04] Speaker C: That is our 23. [01:24:09] Speaker A: Oh, the kitty. Kitty is so good for kissing. I mean I love kissing Maya, but she's just so soft. Ro you realize a little bit of both. The leaf has a magical dampening effect. It sort of limits the impact of the environment around you. But also Agba is just more still more at peace. [01:24:32] Speaker C: That's cool. [01:24:34] Speaker A: You can also understand how to you all so world battered and this is so peaceful. But you can understand how depending on the experiences you could have here in this place, if you're a very wild spirit and a thrill seeker, this island could get boring. Y'all fly and you fly and you fly and you fly. Balls. You have to redirect every couple hours or so. And you all fly for. Well, do you stop at any point? You just keep flying. [01:25:09] Speaker B: Do we get to the island? Where do we stop at? [01:25:12] Speaker C: Yeah, where would we stop? [01:25:14] Speaker A: You guys are flying for the next. Because this is plane speed. [01:25:18] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:25:19] Speaker A: You would be thrown from the leaf. In that case, you guys are flying from. I'm sorry. One of my neighbors decided to play with gravel outside, apparently. Thank you for the update. No, I just heard. I just heard outside, and I was like, okay, cool. You guys are flying for about eight hours. And you. I mean, it is. The party just gets quiet, you know, Everyone gets so deep in thought, and, man, Craig has to. Oh, he's asleep. But the party just gets so still for so long. [01:26:01] Speaker B: Hello? [01:26:03] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. [01:26:05] Speaker B: Are you still afraid of heights at all? [01:26:11] Speaker A: You know, I mean, to be clear, yes. But also, I. I am starting to get a little used to it. And in a way, not that I'm not thankful, especially to you, Ra. But, you know, when we're on the eagles, either I'm being carried in huge talons or I'm having to hold on to not fall off and die. So that's just kind of awful. Again, amazing that you guys can do it, but this is. [01:26:37] Speaker C: You know, I understand that. [01:26:39] Speaker A: As long as I keep my weight in the middle. It's really nice. [01:26:42] Speaker C: We should invest in one of these. Honestly, honest. [01:26:44] Speaker A: True, true. [01:26:45] Speaker C: Like, if we can find one. I don't know where to find one. [01:26:47] Speaker B: Like, start another business. Like invest. Or, like, get one for ourselves. [01:26:50] Speaker C: No, I mean, like, get one for ourselves. Like, patient. Like, find one and have money here. Invest our money in it, Buzz. [01:26:58] Speaker A: It's really important. [01:26:59] Speaker C: You only get them here. [01:27:01] Speaker B: It's a secret only the deep roots know. So. [01:27:04] Speaker C: So you've only seen these? I mean, I've never seen them. [01:27:06] Speaker A: It's really fascinating how quickly you've picked up general market capitalism coming from a culture with no concept of money. I mean, you have a knack for this, man. It's really impressive. [01:27:16] Speaker B: Well, it. It's. You solve problems. People care a lot about it. It makes them go crazy. [01:27:24] Speaker A: What? [01:27:25] Speaker C: I. I think in another life, you could have been an accountant. [01:27:28] Speaker B: Oh, thank you. I don't know what that is. [01:27:31] Speaker A: That's kind of a stretch. I mean, I also don't know. [01:27:35] Speaker B: Are you talking, like, spaghetti? I hate that guy. [01:27:38] Speaker C: Oh, I kind of liked him. He was kind of cool. [01:27:40] Speaker A: No, he's the worst. [01:27:41] Speaker C: He's, like, dark and brooding. [01:27:43] Speaker B: You know, like a squid vibe to him. [01:27:47] Speaker A: Like, sometimes, even though his nose is kind of big, I picture his nose, like, really big, you know? [01:27:53] Speaker B: Yeah. And I imagine his. His laugh is like. [01:27:57] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:27:57] Speaker B: Or something like that. [01:27:58] Speaker A: It feels like if you played any instrument, it'd be declaring it for sure. [01:28:01] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [01:28:02] Speaker A: True, true. [01:28:03] Speaker B: Okay. [01:28:04] Speaker A: Maybe he'd wear a brown shirt and no Pants. But that's not here or there. [01:28:07] Speaker B: You can SCRY on him right now if you want. We could SCRY on something. [01:28:10] Speaker A: Ever see what he's doing? [01:28:12] Speaker C: I don't want to SCRY on. [01:28:14] Speaker B: We could spy on him right now. You want to SCRY on a random man? [01:28:17] Speaker C: You would have SCRY on a random men while we're, like, hundreds of feet up in the air. [01:28:21] Speaker A: We could just cry on anyone right now. As long as it's your goodness. I beg of you not to count again. [01:28:26] Speaker B: But, I mean, I will never do that again. I will never do that again. Okay. I will never do that again. [01:28:30] Speaker A: Just kidding you. Ah, but this is terrifying. But, I mean, you know, we've got a lot of enemies who can't look. [01:28:37] Speaker C: Through diamond space when you SCRY on people, do they? I mean, I know the Count kind of figured it out. I know that. I know. [01:28:46] Speaker A: Most people can't. [01:28:46] Speaker B: Most people have no idea. Like, you can't know. Yeah, no, I guess. Impossible. [01:28:51] Speaker A: Taking advantage of that more. [01:28:53] Speaker B: Is it, like, I don't have it prepared? Well, I went to sleep. I could have it prepared. [01:28:58] Speaker A: You can if you want to. [01:28:59] Speaker C: Is it, like, morally wrong to SCRY on people, boss? Only I'm genuinely. What? [01:29:09] Speaker B: Only if it's for the greater good. Good. Enter the United States. [01:29:12] Speaker C: I mean, like, I don't think I would want someone, like, what if I. What if I cried? What if somebody's crying on me? I know we have this, and she, like, holds up the necklace, but, like, what if someone SC on me while I was, like, using the loo or, like, I don't know, you know, like, scary thought of me, you know, like, what if. Have you ever. Have you ever done that, boss? Have you ever scried on someone and they were accidentally, you know, in an. In an not so flattering situation, and. [01:29:41] Speaker B: It made me have nightmares for, like, a week, so. [01:29:44] Speaker C: Well, yeah. Yeah. [01:29:46] Speaker A: Which is funny because Boz has had the ability to SCRY for, like, a month, so I just didn't do it, actually. I guess it's almost two months now, but. Wow. Huh? [01:29:56] Speaker C: That's wild. [01:29:56] Speaker B: Anywho, Zach, is my bracelet a good enough focus to use, like, my original focus? Could I use it to scry or is it not good? [01:30:05] Speaker A: No, you have to have a scrying focus to scry. But you guys got one. You got one from the hag. From that. The abandoned hag cave in the crater in Zedge. All right, so you guys have the orb. You can. You can SCRY with that. [01:30:19] Speaker B: All right, I have Scry prepared. It's a fifth level spell. And I around guys. Let's, like, do some, like, crimes. [01:30:31] Speaker C: Let's do some crimes. [01:30:34] Speaker A: I'm putting that down. This is y'all. This is y'all. [01:30:45] Speaker B: We. I can talk with Tello about who we could spry on and you can come back. [01:30:50] Speaker C: I think that's a good idea. She's like. She's like, working on her steering. [01:30:54] Speaker A: I'll be right back. Absolutely. No problem. No problem. All right. [01:30:57] Speaker C: All right. [01:30:57] Speaker B: Jackie's. She has to slip. [01:30:59] Speaker A: So Teller goes. I mean, as long as it's not anyone, like, hyper magical, I'm kind of good. [01:31:06] Speaker B: I think it's even okay if it's, like, hyper magical. I just feel like the guy we chose to try it on first was like, the one dude who could know it was like, the one guy. [01:31:16] Speaker A: He's. He's so awful. [01:31:21] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. He's pretty ugly, too. [01:31:27] Speaker A: I mean, I don't. I don't know that much about magic, but sometimes it just felt like he could do everything, you know, it looked like he could. [01:31:35] Speaker B: He had so many books and stuff in there. I'm sorry you had to, like, talk with him and stuff. Like. [01:31:45] Speaker A: He owned me. [01:31:46] Speaker B: I know. Not anymore. Not anymore. [01:31:50] Speaker A: He just gives you a half hearted smile. Yeah, well, we've got a lot of Kefkins we don't like. [01:31:58] Speaker B: We do Biscuit. Oh, it would be cool to spy on Biscuit. I wonder if he totally know. I feel like Kafkans. I feel like they've encountered things more than the usual people have. And I feel like somebody as conniving as him might do a big angry. [01:32:16] Speaker A: I don't know. I don't know. I mean, we could try what the emperor. We also. So you think vis kid can see us watching magically, but the emperor can't. [01:32:29] Speaker B: That's probably the emperor. [01:32:30] Speaker A: Yeah. What did the emperor do? Is he like a weapons guy or a magic guy? [01:32:34] Speaker B: I don't know. [01:32:35] Speaker A: I just. [01:32:36] Speaker B: Just heard the name. [01:32:38] Speaker A: Yeah. We could certainly be a woman. [01:32:41] Speaker B: It could be a woman. [01:32:43] Speaker A: Well, I mean. No, I mean, I know you're not. Is a man. [01:32:50] Speaker B: Okay. All right. [01:32:51] Speaker A: But I don't know what A lot more than that. I mean, I know he did a lot of conquest. [01:32:54] Speaker B: What about Lashla? [01:32:57] Speaker A: That could be interesting. [01:32:58] Speaker B: That'd be pretty fun. [01:33:00] Speaker A: Okay, That's a good option. [01:33:02] Speaker B: Thing is, I. The less you know about somebody, the harder it is. [01:33:07] Speaker A: So Biscuit, we've got the better chance with. [01:33:11] Speaker B: Yeah. Like, it would be very difficult because we don't have anything do we have this arrow? We have the arrow that he shot. [01:33:18] Speaker A: You guys do have that in your inventory. [01:33:21] Speaker B: That makes it more difficult for him to save. It's a minus four to his check. Right. [01:33:27] Speaker A: We could certainly do that. That sounds like an option. I also. I feel like if bro didn't have the magic necklace. Bella. Android would be scrolling on us all the time. So maybe we kind of have the word to scroll, too. I don't know. She's kind of. [01:33:38] Speaker B: She got angry at me last time we talked because I was. I was being a goofball, and she got a. Mad. I was not. I wasn't being a cool guy, but you're chilled out, but I'm not gonna do that. [01:33:49] Speaker A: Okay. Okay. What about the Countess? [01:33:53] Speaker B: Countess? No, I don't want to make her angry and pause. [01:33:58] Speaker A: You have so many allyships. It's admirable. [01:34:03] Speaker B: Thanks. [01:34:05] Speaker A: You're talking to a career schmoozer. I see the value. [01:34:09] Speaker B: Hey, what does schmooze mean? Do you like your friends? [01:34:12] Speaker A: ITunes? It means, you know, like, you're making friends. It's, like, obsequious. Like a sycophant. [01:34:17] Speaker B: Okay, so who are the coolest friends? You know? Like, what are, like. You think about the wildest friends you've ever met, like, on your travels, other than the ones we met together. [01:34:29] Speaker A: I've had some incredible experiences with nobles who are really wealthy and really insecure and want to show off their wealth. I've had some wild experiences with them. I've been to some parties that I honestly regret going to. Honestly, most of my favorite people are more, kind of. They're not normal, but they're less that. You know, I've met. I met some sailors in Alabama who are really interesting. Obviously, there's the lady from there. [01:35:02] Speaker B: Did you have anybody that you were, like. How do I put this? Working for the Count? There anybody else that, like, you worked with him together where it's like, you're a friend just because you both hated him, like, so much. Like, you're both, like, forced to. [01:35:17] Speaker A: Like, honestly, it's part of the reason I got in so well with the Countess. She hates that guy. And now I kind of understand a little more why. I always assumed. But I always enjoyed being around her because she hated him. It was always painful to be around her because I was in her employ, and then I voluntarily went to his, and it's just. [01:35:45] Speaker B: But what made you change? What made you switch? [01:35:49] Speaker A: He offered me more. He offered me better. He offered me a step away from situations that could get Violent. He offered me a purely political career. I prefer that. But. [01:36:01] Speaker B: Did you ever try to leave, like, on your own? [01:36:06] Speaker A: Well, in the beginning, I thought it was business. And it was then that, at first, politely, I tried. Tried to suggest changing our arrangement, parting ways. And at first they were insinuations, but he made it clearer and clearer that not only was it unlikely I would ever leave his grasp, but that, as we know now retroactively, my loved ones could be. For foot made it clear that my father was not beyond his reach, which I'm still ever thankful that he is now, thank you very much. And I also did work for him that made it clear later on that he was not a man to be trifled with. Never the wet work. My hands were always dry and clean. But he certainly had plenty of people killed or worse. So I understood rapidly that. That he was not a man to. Yeah, he has his ways. [01:37:24] Speaker B: I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry he meant to go through that. [01:37:29] Speaker A: It's been just death in life to do this with you all. I mean, I've had so many moments where, if I'm being really honest, I pooped in my pants multiple times. [01:37:42] Speaker C: Horrible. [01:37:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:37:44] Speaker A: Everything with Dolgoth, I don't like fighting everything. The giant bone monster, but it's also been suffering. Yeah. [01:38:00] Speaker B: I mean, you're just as powerful as we are. Like. [01:38:04] Speaker A: Well, I wouldn't say. [01:38:05] Speaker B: How does it feel to grow and to, like, feel that inside you? Like, you touch the Welst spring, too. [01:38:11] Speaker A: Like, you're. That was amazing. [01:38:14] Speaker B: You're a fun guy. [01:38:15] Speaker A: You've. Buzz. I don't know. There's a part of me that what I tell myself every time is that this is not the time, you know, but whenever is it? I'm sorry. And at this, Craig turns and looks very filled with emotions, the way he is at Tello. And Greta smiles and looks away, giving him a moment. He just looks very ardently at you and Baz and says, I'm sorry. I said sorry to everyone else, but in some weird way that I can't put my finger on. But maybe now I understand. Bizarrely, it feels like I betrayed you the most. And he looks kind of over the edge of the leaf at the landscape. He says, now, I kind of understood how much I betrayed you. I wasn't just betraying you. I was betraying all of this. I didn't understand everything you were protecting. I was protecting one person who I love very much. But you were protecting your whole world. And I understand now the deep Magic. And I can't imagine what would happen if the Kefkans could come to this place. Or if they count. I'm sorry. You don't connect easily, if you will forgive me for being so poetic. You're like a flower, and you bloom very rarely. And I'm sorry that. I'm sorry. Very sorry. [01:40:21] Speaker B: I give him a big hug. [01:40:23] Speaker A: He kind of is surprised for a second, but hugs you back. It's not a hard hug, but it's a long hug. [01:40:37] Speaker B: I pull back and I look at him and I say, thank you. Obviously, everybody here, including me, has forgiven you. [01:40:47] Speaker A: And, yeah. [01:40:51] Speaker B: I mean, I think that. I mean, we met God last month, Last week. [01:40:58] Speaker A: Pretty crazy. [01:41:00] Speaker B: And, I mean, I. Pardon me. This might be Ro rubbing off of me a little bit, but, like, I think you were meant to come with us. I think he. I think you were done with your time of being under his grasp. And I think the Maker was ready for you to move on, whether the count was ready or not. So. [01:41:25] Speaker C: Ro's been quiet this whole time, but you just kind of like. She's like. Kind of has her head ducked so that she's steering, but you guys kind of hear just some sniffles from her, listening to this conversation the whole time. [01:41:42] Speaker A: Tello listens very intently to a moment for what you're saying, Baz, and looks away from you again, over the landscape, toward Agba, toward the big tree. And he says, yeah, the wellspring was, you know, I'm not a man of faith. I don't even just mean that religiously. I'm not a man of great convictions, never been filled with much belief. But now, since Yuan, so much more than ever before, I don't know what to believe. But I don't mean it in a bad way. It's like I traveled all the world and I never saw it. And my eyes feel so open now, and I can't take it all in. But that scares me less every day. I don't know what to believe. And I'm excited every day as I find out. I used to think that you all were a means to an end, saving my father. And then I believed that you saved me. But having brought me to the Manabis, to the Maker, to the temple, to the woods, the things I've seen with you. I fire an arrow, I do some magic. We're not the same. And I don't even mean to mean to say that you all are better. I mean, I'm good with words, but I do see it all differently now. I don't know how much I believe in my grand destiny, but I do believe in this. I believe a little in us. [01:44:06] Speaker B: I think this entire journey, I feel like we've been just getting to know the emergency that's been going on, the threat, the existential crisis that's seemingly growing from every corner of the world. And it seemed like nobody was in a rush to fix it. It seemed like we were the only ones who knew, or the people that did know basically just, you know, are trying to do what they can. But for a long time, that caused me a lot of stress. And it still does. It still does. But I think that meeting the maker and seeing that he's not freaking out, he's not in a rush, sometimes makes me feel that maybe it will be okay. Maybe he's not in a rush because he doesn't have to be. I don't know what that means, but. [01:45:16] Speaker A: I don't know. I don't know. I've always been really afraid to die. Still am. [01:45:27] Speaker B: Same. [01:45:27] Speaker A: Still don't wanna. I'd like to live a very long elven life. I've drank a lot of wines, but I want to try more. I'd like to travel to some of the beautiful, nice places available. This is incredible. Maybe I'll retire here. Just kidding. [01:45:45] Speaker B: You can just live in house. [01:45:48] Speaker A: But point being that even though I still really don't want to die, I'm so much less afraid now. And I don't think that's because I still don't want to die. But I think it's that I've never felt like I had something worth dying for. And if I died alongside you all, I died protecting Grata or stealing something from Craig that would be worth dying for, you know? Yeah, same. Thank you, boss. I forgive you too. For that time you accidentally bumped into me when we were walking. He just looks over the landscape again. [01:46:43] Speaker B: True. [01:46:44] Speaker A: His sense of humor very intact. [01:46:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:46:47] Speaker A: And the fungi sail on. Oh, Boz, do you do any sudden scrying or not? [01:46:54] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Ro, I'm glad that you got the steering under control again. We were gonna go SCRY on Biscuit since we have his arrow. [01:47:02] Speaker A: It'll make it easier. [01:47:07] Speaker C: As you say, Biscuit, like. Like the leaf veers a little bit. Like she loses a little bit of control for a second. Biscuit, huh? [01:47:22] Speaker B: Yeah, because we met him and we have this arrow. So, you know. [01:47:28] Speaker C: Well, yeah, no, I know. Yeah. You remember. You remember. [01:47:38] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:47:39] Speaker C: Okay. I don't want to say it's. It's quite like Tellos. [01:47:47] Speaker A: I mean, we Were talking about that. He's not magical, right? [01:47:51] Speaker B: Yeah, he's not magical. He's just mean. [01:47:53] Speaker C: No, he's just really awful. [01:47:55] Speaker B: I'm grumpy. What is he going to do? [01:47:58] Speaker C: Like, he's, like, just the worst. [01:48:00] Speaker B: He's just the worst sucky. [01:48:03] Speaker C: Can we see, too? Or is it just you? [01:48:06] Speaker A: Just the person who's crying. [01:48:07] Speaker C: Can I, like, hold on to your face and see it? [01:48:10] Speaker A: No. Okay. [01:48:13] Speaker C: I didn't know how that magic worked. Okay, yeah, that's fine. Just be careful. I really hate him. [01:48:20] Speaker B: Okay. [01:48:24] Speaker A: Greta just goes. And she pulls out the orb and hands it to you. [01:48:29] Speaker B: My saving. [01:48:30] Speaker A: Not that orb, but the other spell save dc. Oh, you guys don't have the other orb anymore? [01:48:32] Speaker B: My spell save DC is 18, okay? Since I have met him, he does not get a bonus modifier. And I believe he gets a minus four to his save because of the thing. So I hold the little orb ball and in my hands the hagrific orb. [01:48:56] Speaker A: Of scry, the horrific orb that is so its name. From now on, the hrific orb. [01:49:04] Speaker B: And I go, oh, Or Orbee. Show us. [01:49:11] Speaker A: Show us. [01:49:13] Speaker B: Show us the Zorby and I scroll Zor. Plot twist. [01:49:16] Speaker A: I'm just kidding. That'd be a different session then. Okay, excellent. So, Boz, you hold the orb in your hands. You mutter in deepest speech. And you all watch as the roots of Baz's fingers grow around the orb until they wrap it up and all this rainbow light starts playing all over it. And boss eyes kind of flutter. Roll back as I. Heck yeah. And as those start to blossom, Baaz's eyes flutter and he kind of zones out a little bit. And I'll make the saving. What's your save, Baz? [01:49:53] Speaker B: 18. And he gets minus four. [01:49:57] Speaker C: Bot. [01:49:58] Speaker A: Boz, your vision melts away from the sky in front of you. And it resolves now with. Give me a second. Let's change the music a little. [01:50:15] Speaker C: Biscuits. Stats, yo. [01:50:19] Speaker A: What was that, Jackie? [01:50:20] Speaker C: I said you had to go. [01:50:22] Speaker A: Vision resolves a little bit into. [01:50:31] Speaker B: You gonna show us that he has kids or something? I swear, if you do that, Zachary, I'll never forgive you. [01:50:35] Speaker A: He's crying in his father's grave. [01:50:37] Speaker C: He's just being a good dad. He's like, playing catch with his son. [01:50:41] Speaker A: You come back and he just goes, I do it all for you, son. And. And then he picks up a kitten in one hand, a puppy in the other, and he just goes, let's feed the poor. But your vision resolves with not. Not simple, monotypical colors, but a dense Array. And your vision moves to a cityscape, one you don't recognize at all. A lot of dark stone and ooh, big jump, Maya. A lot of dark stone and tall buildings. You just don't recognize it at all. Especially you. And Viscuit is sort of third person up behind him, trailing. You watch him walk, flanked by four or five soldiers on either side. And he has that lieutenant you saw very long ago, that huge blue Dragonborn lieutenant with the big ax on his back is walking with some tube scrolls capped at his sides. A couple soldiers with spears flanking at either side. And Viskit is not being paraded around, but they're just walking kind of almost on file. And he's leading them at a brisk pace and he's got a very determined look. And they're passing by citizens of a nationality you don't necessarily recognize, just a diverse citizenry and people are moving out of his way. Could you give me. It would be a different DC for other people, but Mr. Loslands himself. Could you give me a very high DC history check? Also you're muted, Lando, because this is. [01:52:20] Speaker B: The way my keyboard's so loud when I type I have to mute it. [01:52:25] Speaker A: And I smell your stuff. [01:52:27] Speaker B: Yeah, fun fact. You can't cast guidance while scrying because guidance is concentration. [01:52:33] Speaker C: Guidance is concentration. [01:52:35] Speaker B: Yeah, Never forget that. So I rolled a 15, but I am going to burn by friggin inspiration and I'm going to roll hot. Let's go. [01:52:50] Speaker A: Let's go. [01:52:53] Speaker B: That one was a four, so we're going to stick with the 15. [01:52:55] Speaker A: Oh, sorry, buddy. Sometimes it be like that. The architecture looks well developed. It's a big city, but you don't know what city it is he's walking through. And the language being spoken around. [01:53:13] Speaker C: Yes, I can hear. [01:53:13] Speaker A: Okay, you also, you recognize that you don't recognize it, but I'll. You have an insight modifier lie enough. I'll give you this. The accent of everyone speaking around sounds like Viscot's accent, but it's not a language, you know. And he's just like. People are greeting him with some sort of very like formal and kind of intimidated greeting and passing out of his way. And he's not like shoving people aside, but just where he walks, people move. And he passes by a few Kefkin guards who like, you know, stand and salute. The Kefkin salute, remember, is not like a military salute, we know, but it's clasping the hand over the symbol on the breastplate and it's just wherever that symbol is and fascinatingly Kefkin salutes are not uniform. Wherever the symbol is, you clasp. So if you're an officer with the symbol on your. On your Pauldron, you clasp there. If you're a soldier with it on your breastplate, you clasp there. If it's somewhere else, you clasp. Wherever the salute. Then you have to grab your booty. You have to give yourself a little. A little Empire spank. One hand or bow. But. Well, it depends on how. On how much. How jingoistic you are. If you really believe in the Empire. Empire, you give yourself a couple. Good spanx, but nice. Okay, he's just striding. The vast majority of soldiers wouldn't feel that emphatically. Maybe Sir Loin Crotch might feel strongly about enough to do it. He might do it, but the vast majority wouldn't. Anyway, I've got that one forever. [01:54:57] Speaker C: I let y'all do that. [01:54:58] Speaker A: We'll be in campaign too, and I'll be talking about Sirloin Crotch. But Viskit is. He's just parading through the street and he walks for a lot of the vision, not a lot of talking. But eventually he begins walking up a high set of stairs. And again, your vision stays close and on him. So you don't get a ton of the surrounding area. But give me a perception check, boss, a little bit per Kefkin. Keck. [01:55:32] Speaker B: Right. [01:55:35] Speaker A: That is an 18. Okay. [01:55:38] Speaker C: Is everyone around him that was around? Well, yeah. Cause you said they were doing the Kafkan salute. They're mostly soldiers. [01:55:44] Speaker A: Well, and just the soldiers he's passing by. Plenty of people that are just people moving out of his way that have some sort of a concerned look on their face. You get the feeling that he's not in Kefk, but. Which also makes sense because his accent is not very Kefkan. So that's an easy. That's not much of an insight there. But as he's moving up the stairs. The stairs are a different kind of stone. A light stone, very square, cut wide. They're individuals walking back and forth. And more Kefkan soldiers. He moves by some open braziers that are burning with fire during the day. It's kind of late evening. Wherever he is. Baz, could you give me a survival check Associated. Oh, yeah. But moving back to the perception check with an 18. Baz is a 21. [01:56:36] Speaker C: 21. [01:56:37] Speaker A: You are aware where you wouldn't have been in the past, but given how much you can travel the world now after your adventures and all the magical prowess you've gained. Oh, he's probably on the Other side of the world. So if you guys are on this side, he's probably on the other side, which, at the very least, you could put together. He's in the earth, in bloom. Not worth a whole lot, because you probably could have put that together. But there's something of an assumption. And as he's moving up the steps with an 18, you notice that he starts walking by people who are very well dressed, kind of layered robes, a lot of blues and Burgundies. Dark blues and Burgundies. But he's moving up steps. And as he starts moving toward the top of that step, he moves toward, like, you're starting to see very large stone structure, whatever this building he's moving toward. It's very large and regal. But it's at about this point in the vision that everything starts to kind of flicker and blur. And then you come back to your senses. Riding the leaf, see, was in transit somewhere, moving with purpose. And then boz I. [01:57:38] Speaker B: 10 minutes. [01:57:40] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, people gotta walk for a long time to be rewarding, and there was important information there. But also, you don't always SCRY on the person when they're doing the most. I mean, you know, your enemies don't SCRY on you when you guys go. Okay, so here's the plan. You know, like, you SCRY on people at different times. [01:57:59] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:58:00] Speaker A: But sometimes you SCRY on people at the most salacious moments. Sometimes you SCRY on them when they're in the middle of a task. [01:58:05] Speaker C: Balls. I really gotta say, I don't like when your eyes roll back into your head like that. [01:58:11] Speaker B: Oh, I'm sorry. [01:58:12] Speaker C: It's okay. Did you know they do that when you scry? They go like this. And she tries to do it with her eyes, and when she does it, that's awful. She loses control just a split second. Sorry. [01:58:25] Speaker B: Can I make a saving throw to see if I fall off or not? [01:58:28] Speaker A: Yes. Would you give me a dexterity saving throw? No one else needs to, but you do. [01:58:32] Speaker B: All right, I'm gonna do that. I would think it was. He's still coming back from the scry. He's not feeling, like, super great. Dexterity throw. All right, that is a 14. [01:58:44] Speaker A: You save. All right, so you write yourself. And Craig grabs you by the leg and goes, pause. Pause. Clenched glutes, full hearts. Can't lose. [01:58:53] Speaker B: I clench. [01:58:55] Speaker A: Okay, good, good. But you guys have the information. And at this point, the sun is starting to dip a little bit. You're moving toward Kalila 9, and it's starting to be Evening. And you are starting to. You've lost sight of Agba long ago. The tree and the landmass is starting to taper down and you're starting to see in the horizon blue. So you'll get out over the ocean tonight. [01:59:18] Speaker C: I have a question. As Baz relays this and RO asks for every detail. Can I do a little check to see if I can figure out what he's talking about? Where? [01:59:35] Speaker A: Maybe give me either an investigation. [01:59:39] Speaker C: Okay. [01:59:40] Speaker A: Or a strategy check. [01:59:42] Speaker C: Oh, strategy. [01:59:43] Speaker A: Try and make an inference first. If you succeed that you will then be able to make a much. So we'll have a high DC for that first and then a low rumors check if you succeed that. [01:59:51] Speaker C: Okay, well, strategy and investigation. The same for you are the same for me. So I'm going to do strategy just because I don't know. Have we ever done a strategy one? [02:00:01] Speaker A: Like maybe once or twice the second. [02:00:05] Speaker C: Oh, my gosh. I'm not even kidding. It was a nap. 20. That was a 25, guys. That was my 20 this session. [02:00:15] Speaker A: Your average for this session is almost a 25. [02:00:18] Speaker C: This is what just happened. What is happening? [02:00:21] Speaker A: You are so go to a casino, but also don't. Earth in bloom square stone. You don't even need to make the rumor check now. Okay. Burgundy. Burgundy and navy. Burgundy and navy. Those are the royal colors of the royal family of Yazlan. [02:00:40] Speaker C: Oh, I know all my royal family. [02:00:41] Speaker A: He's in the Yazlani. You know the royal families. He's in the Yazlanian capital. Oh. [02:00:49] Speaker C: I relay this and you know what information. [02:00:51] Speaker A: Oh, my goodness. I cannot stand that I'm telling you this. But because it was specifically a strategies check. Yeah. And because you have keen mind. Give me another strategy to check. And it's going to be lower D.C. this specifically is strategy. [02:01:07] Speaker B: She's thinking super hard. [02:01:09] Speaker A: Like, I give her guidance. [02:01:10] Speaker B: I give her guidance. [02:01:11] Speaker A: Craig does it also. Even though you can't have it twice. [02:01:15] Speaker B: We both clench. That's how we give guidance. Both of us. We clench. [02:01:19] Speaker A: Clench. Clench. Clench. [02:01:22] Speaker C: Okay. With guidance. Guidance. I got a 15. [02:01:27] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, that's enough, bro. You go. Okay. He's part of a committee to find adventurers. He was sent on it by Lashla. The Empire's retracted back into their borders to protect themselves. Lashla always stays in kingdoms for conquest. He's probably going to report to Lashla in Yaslan. Lashla is probably in Yaslan right now. That's what you're able to infer with confidence. [02:02:02] Speaker C: Dang. I relay this and like Ro relays this to them, like, weirdly, excitedly. Like, she's so excited that she. She figured, I'm attending to Kitty, but. [02:02:16] Speaker A: Keep role playing and we'll end the episode. [02:02:17] Speaker C: So she's like. She's like, Balls. If. If what you described to me was exactly correct, which obviously it is, then I. I think he's going. I think that's. I think he's going to see Lashla. Lashla has to be there with him. [02:02:36] Speaker B: Wouldn't it be hilarious if we disguised your voice to sound like another one of the generals and send him a message saying, luschla's preparing a trap for you. Run. And then hung up? [02:02:45] Speaker C: Wait, you mean, like, send to him? [02:02:47] Speaker B: Yeah, like send to him and disguise your voice. [02:02:50] Speaker C: What if he could, like, trace back? [02:02:52] Speaker B: We can't. You got the necklace on. It's a one way trip. [02:02:56] Speaker C: Wait. Balls. I also have that other necklace. And she pokes at the puka shell necklace. It transforms my voice. [02:03:04] Speaker A: Balls, you wild fiends. Now remember, it transforms it very specifically. [02:03:09] Speaker C: Yeah, I do. [02:03:10] Speaker B: What does it transform it to? [02:03:12] Speaker C: Like, silly, right? I don't remember what. [02:03:16] Speaker A: It turns it into an unrecognizable, awful voice. And Jackie specifically interpreted that as. [02:03:23] Speaker C: No. Guess what. Guess what? That episode. That. That's one of the recordings we lost, so I don't even remember what it was, so you told me that I could. You told me I could change it. [02:03:34] Speaker A: Okay, okay, well, it. You know, it transforms into an unrecognizable, bizarre voice. [02:03:39] Speaker C: What did you. What was it that I did? Maybe I should. [02:03:42] Speaker A: You interpreted it as what's his name's voice from refrigerant. [02:03:47] Speaker C: Oh, Russell. [02:03:50] Speaker A: Yeah. You interpreted it as Russell's voice. [02:03:53] Speaker C: I kind of love that, actually. I think we should do that. [02:03:56] Speaker A: I thought you could do it. [02:03:57] Speaker B: Pretty chaotic. The only thing is, if he tracks his back here, it's my home, so that would kind of suck. [02:04:01] Speaker C: Yeah, that's true. I don't want, like, I don't know. [02:04:04] Speaker A: Can you make me an arcana check? Just because you're so very magical at this point. [02:04:08] Speaker B: I can do that. I can make you if you want me to. I do that for you. Arcana. Oh, wait, but we is a 16. [02:04:21] Speaker A: Okay, that is enough, man. You. What was last time you guys failed a check? Holy crap. [02:04:26] Speaker B: I rolled, like, a 12 earlier. I failed it in script. [02:04:29] Speaker A: No, you have not rolled a 12 this session. No, I rolled. [02:04:33] Speaker B: I rolled very bad. I failed the scrying check. The first one. I did. [02:04:38] Speaker A: I keep track of all your rolls. 14 was the lowest roll of the session. [02:04:41] Speaker C: But anywho. [02:04:46] Speaker A: For this session, at least, I don't know if it was a different one. You do not know everything about Viskit. You don't know his character breakdown. There's no metagaming here. Nor do you know everything he might be capable of, what he might be able to deride, who he might be able to contact, what other magical members could do. But you do know that he is clever, he's intelligent, he's well connected, he's a good strategist, but he is not. He did not strike you as a magical individual. You are aware that sending or that scrying is very hard. The people who can. Who can be aware of a SCRY is a very small group of people. And the people who can. Who can. Who can magically track the source of a SCRY is an incredibly select group of people. So again, maybe Viskit gets permission to get in contact with an incredibly powerful caster. Maybe there's an option there. And the Empire employs. They have, like, a small army of powerful casters, so that's a possibility. But the ability to track stuff like that back is not easy. So if a person can't deduce who's doing it, it's very hard to put together who it is. And even if he can, his ability to locate where you are while you have that necklace on is very difficult. [02:06:06] Speaker C: But you said scrying. What about sending, right? [02:06:09] Speaker B: I'm saying, like, part of sending is that it recognizes you as the sender if it knows you and can answer in a like manner. [02:06:16] Speaker C: That's right. Does it. [02:06:16] Speaker A: Like, in your head, I'm gonna say a homebrew ruling is that you recognize the sender if you know who the sender is, but, like, if you don't know who they are. You know what I mean? If you hear the voice of someone you know, you know who it is. [02:06:32] Speaker B: If it knows you. [02:06:33] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:06:33] Speaker B: That makes. If it doesn't know who you are. [02:06:35] Speaker A: Okay, because we've done it that way in the past. [02:06:39] Speaker C: So basically, Zach is giving us permission to prank call anyone we want to. [02:06:44] Speaker A: What I'm telling you is if at some point he puts together, he deduces who's doing this. That's one thing. And then from there, maybe he could get in contact with someone at the Iron Cauldron. But even then, to get someone who could do something other than scrying to locate where you are would be not impossible, possible, but very hard. Now, his whole task is tracking down people like y'all. So maybe. Right. But it would be tough. And you do have a necklace that makes you impossible to this place. [02:07:20] Speaker B: This whole thing is like preventing. It's not impossible, but there's some good. [02:07:23] Speaker A: Reason telling you what will and won't happen. I'm just telling you guys that you can reasonably deduce. This would be incredibly hard to reverse engineer by this person at this time. It would be very hard to reverse engineer you. [02:07:37] Speaker B: I swear this. You should do it. You should just call and say what? Marshall is preparing a trap for you. Run. [02:07:44] Speaker C: Should I do it? [02:07:45] Speaker B: Nothing. [02:07:46] Speaker C: She looks. [02:07:47] Speaker B: Nothing. [02:07:47] Speaker C: She looks to the others and she looks to Tello. [02:07:50] Speaker A: Again, to be clear, I'm not telling you whether or not it's a good idea. [02:07:53] Speaker C: No, I know. [02:07:53] Speaker A: Just telling you. Tello goes, wow, that's risky. But I mean, I don't know. Could be funny if he dies. It'd be really great. [02:08:02] Speaker B: You gotta do it. [02:08:03] Speaker C: It would be great. Plus, it would be interesting to like, create some tension within their. [02:08:11] Speaker A: Is. [02:08:12] Speaker B: Is that. That's not very believable. Lash was praying a trap for you. What? One sentence we could tell him. Him that would, like, tell us. [02:08:18] Speaker A: Rubbing his increasingly full goatee. And his. Also, this is something I should really say. He is not there, but Tello is halfway to an afro right now. Like, it's. It's gotten thicker and he's just letting it. As you guys are traveling, his goatees fuller. He's. He's. He's got a wilder look right now. Things are a little more funky, and it looks pretty good. But as he's sitting there rubbing his goatee, he goes, look. If there's one expression I know from my time with you all, sometimes you have to risk it for the biscuit. [02:08:51] Speaker C: Oh, no. What if we said Lashley's been compromised? I like the word compromised. Like, compromised. Like. [02:08:59] Speaker A: Like she has to go to the bathroom. [02:09:01] Speaker B: Why would he be getting that message? [02:09:04] Speaker C: Because he's going to her right now. [02:09:12] Speaker B: Oh, man. [02:09:13] Speaker C: We don't have much time. [02:09:14] Speaker A: If. [02:09:14] Speaker C: If what? You said he was walking up to the sets, and that means she's, like. [02:09:18] Speaker A: Talking with her, and someone's like, he. [02:09:20] Speaker B: Just walked for a mile and he's still walking full screen ahead. [02:09:24] Speaker A: He's not. He's not. [02:09:27] Speaker C: He's like. [02:09:28] Speaker A: It's just full comfort. It's just halfway up. Like, so we could do that. [02:09:34] Speaker B: That'd be a little bit more risky. I feel like that would be something that he probably would be shrug off unless he has otherwise. But we also could say that his dragonborn Friend is compromised. That might be. [02:09:45] Speaker C: Do we remember his name? Do I remember his name? [02:09:49] Speaker B: No, we don't know his name. [02:09:51] Speaker C: Would I not know his name? [02:09:54] Speaker B: I mean, the fact that we know that he's walking towards Lashla might communicate. [02:09:59] Speaker A: There is some amount of reason to this. Give me a rumor. Rumors. This is not gonna be a low D.C. it'll be rumor. [02:10:11] Speaker B: Why don't we say that we're somewhere else? Like, why don't we tell them that we're in, like. [02:10:15] Speaker C: Like, the fun guys are in. Zedge, go get them. [02:10:18] Speaker A: Meanwhile, if you go all the way back to Pestival of Fettles to get this detail. [02:10:23] Speaker C: Okay, do I do. What do I do? What do I. [02:10:27] Speaker A: You have to follow your heart. [02:10:29] Speaker C: No. What kind of check is it? [02:10:34] Speaker A: Rumors. [02:10:36] Speaker C: Oh, okay. Well, I didn't like my role, so I'm going to use my inspiration. [02:10:42] Speaker B: Oh, how about this? Lashla is working with the warriors of the well. [02:10:48] Speaker C: Oh, that's much better. [02:10:49] Speaker B: That's ambiguous. That doesn't. [02:10:51] Speaker C: No, I mean, my role was much better. I'm sorry. [02:10:55] Speaker A: Jack said I like your idea, but. [02:10:57] Speaker C: No, I like your idea. No, because I don't want to get the warriors of the well, like, in any more trouble than, you know, we all are. [02:11:07] Speaker A: Is that possible? [02:11:09] Speaker B: I don't think that's possible. I think I gotta have any more heat on them than what we do. [02:11:14] Speaker C: I got a 27. [02:11:20] Speaker A: Why do I even try? I. I'm so dumb. Okay, 25. You are aware that it was Major Sky I. RR. And as you well know, this is the Lieutenant, over. Captain Bordron Helmson, your friend from Hong Kong. [02:11:49] Speaker B: Why don't we don't even say SP Working. What do we just say speaking like she's speaking with the warriors of the well. [02:11:55] Speaker C: Yeah, but that means that maybe she just caught them. What if we use what if? Did you say skier guy? How do you say it? [02:12:02] Speaker A: Skier gear? [02:12:05] Speaker C: What? What if we. I remember his name, Boss. Skier. What if we say he will get killed. True. And we don't know if he's really that good or bad. [02:12:17] Speaker B: He could be a good person. I don't know. [02:12:18] Speaker C: I mean, he is a kef. [02:12:20] Speaker B: You've said that about two cool people that we met that were kevs, but whatever. [02:12:23] Speaker C: I didn't think they were that cool. [02:12:24] Speaker B: Boss, you liked them. [02:12:27] Speaker C: Okay, what if we said SK and laughter. We're having a romance? Because I feel like that would be frowned upon. [02:12:41] Speaker A: A voice pops in your head and says, your boss and your assistant just gets out of your head. Your Boss thinks your right hand is cute. A voice pops into her head and goes, hi. Do you think I'm cute? [02:12:59] Speaker C: Why is it death, though? [02:13:04] Speaker A: It's just going, oh, that's good. I think you're stupid. And then just. [02:13:12] Speaker C: Okay, Balls. What do you think Lashla is? Is wolf. [02:13:18] Speaker A: I don't want to push you guys, but we are ready to final answer. We spent a lot of time on this. [02:13:22] Speaker C: Yeah, Final answer. Balls. [02:13:25] Speaker B: I. I think it should be something. [02:13:26] Speaker A: She's not doing anything. [02:13:28] Speaker B: I think it should be is. Oh, it keeps me about him, like, defeating. [02:13:34] Speaker C: Like, what if I say this Lashla is not who you think she is right now. [02:13:39] Speaker B: This Lashla is not who you think she is. [02:13:41] Speaker C: Not who you think she is right now. What do we think? [02:13:48] Speaker B: I say follow your heart. I say call and do it. [02:13:50] Speaker A: Do whatever. [02:13:50] Speaker C: You say we do it. I say we do it. That. That seems sus enough that maybe he thinks that she's. She's someone else in disguise or whatever. [02:13:59] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay, let's do it. Yeah, do it. [02:14:02] Speaker C: She puts on the note, I'm gonna. [02:14:04] Speaker A: Rename this episode episode 116. Brisket for the biscuit. But I think. I think we have to keep it so far, so fun, guys, because that's very appropriate. All right. [02:14:13] Speaker C: This is very fun, guys to do this. [02:14:14] Speaker A: Very fun, guys. It's very. [02:14:19] Speaker C: Oh, and I have the puka shell necklace. [02:14:21] Speaker A: The puka shell necklace. And he just goes. [02:14:27] Speaker C: Yeah, okay, I'm ready. [02:14:29] Speaker A: She was like. She was, like, hitting pitch. All right, bro. You feel a connection. Come on. Go for it. [02:14:40] Speaker C: This is player, not ro. This Lashla is. Is not who you think she is. [02:14:52] Speaker A: What is this? What does that mean? Wow. You speak. [02:15:02] Speaker C: And then I cut it off. [02:15:04] Speaker A: I heard a voice. [02:15:05] Speaker C: I cut off the connection. [02:15:06] Speaker A: When you hear everything, Mason, you hear all 25 words. Yeah, it's a voice. No, I don't know who it. That's all you get. [02:15:18] Speaker B: I love that. [02:15:20] Speaker C: And Rose, really, She's like, yeah, he was. He was really confused. Yeah, but she says it in Russell's voice. Because she still has the necklace on. [02:15:29] Speaker A: I'm still activating the necklace. [02:15:30] Speaker C: Really confused, you guys. [02:15:31] Speaker A: I'm sorry, guys. [02:15:33] Speaker C: Let me take this. [02:15:36] Speaker B: Why. Why does he sound like jojo Siwa? I just realized you sound like the people. The voice people use when they mock jojo Siwa. [02:15:43] Speaker A: Dream guest of my podcast, one of my exes. And on that very fitting note, flying through the sky, prank calling Kefkin lieutenants. That's where we'll end episode 116. You guys gain 0.04. Levels usually be 0.02, but I think there was enough extra stuff that episode. You earned a little extra exp. So what level is everybody at? 0.044. [02:16:07] Speaker C: That would be 4.612. We're at 11.612. Yeah. [02:16:17] Speaker A: Okay. Well, on that note, we'll get Scooby Gibby. Listeners, life's an incredible adventure. And you, you're a gosh darn important part of it. Dude. Skibidi. What I did. I'm sorry for what I did.