136. Echoes of Violence

[00:00:02] Speaker A: Hey, guys, it's me again. Can I have some money, please? [00:00:09] Speaker B: How much money, please? [00:00:12] Speaker A: It's barely D. And D is what? [00:00:14] Speaker C: A Dungeon Dragons podcast. Welcome back. [00:00:16] Speaker A: It's me. [00:00:18] Speaker C: Dang. 136 of those in, and we hadn't done that yet. That was good. [00:00:22] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:00:24] Speaker A: All right. Somebody else has to do a take, I guess. [00:00:28] Speaker B: Oh, it's your host. [00:00:30] Speaker A: Is that me? Am I lickle? [00:00:32] Speaker B: Oh, gosh. Mickel. [00:00:42] Speaker C: Abby would be Grickle. [00:00:43] Speaker E: No one is ever gonna know who we're talking about anymore on this podcast. [00:00:51] Speaker C: Mickel. Grickle, Lickle, Jekyll and Demickel. [00:00:54] Speaker E: It's so clear who's. [00:01:00] Speaker A: Saying. [00:01:02] Speaker E: Shout out to the Mac. [00:01:04] Speaker D: I thought that the nickel was the big Mike, Micah. [00:01:08] Speaker C: Oh, we could do to Mazickle to be clearer. So we have Dimasicle, Lickle, Grickle, Nickel, and Jekyll. [00:01:15] Speaker A: Craig is Crickle crinkle. [00:01:20] Speaker E: I feel like everyone is speaking Latin, and I'm just standing here, and this is like. [00:01:26] Speaker B: You're not standing. [00:01:27] Speaker C: Yeah, we're just putting nickel on the everything. [00:01:29] Speaker E: That listener doesn't know that, Micah. [00:01:34] Speaker C: I feel like they can presume we're not standing the entire time. Obviously. Accidental adventures. Before we get jiggling again, our letter question is. Man, the things I'll do to watch Jackie sneer in disgust or to watch. [00:01:53] Speaker B: Don't use it as a verb. [00:01:56] Speaker C: Guys, I'm sorry. That was on me. I jiggled. I apologize. Won't happen again. Oh, my goodness. I got to quit jiggling. [00:02:10] Speaker D: My house. Jake started my. My brother started it, but he'll just say words like. Just put a B in front. Like, a B is the first word. So, like, drink is bank. And Noah and I have started every. Like, we'll do entire sentences where every word starts with B. We're like, every. And like, every difficult, like dog is. [00:02:36] Speaker B: You just be babe. [00:02:39] Speaker E: It would be. [00:02:43] Speaker D: Like every sometimes starts with B. And it's like our. It's. It's. [00:02:48] Speaker B: I love that. And I want a voice memo of you trying to do it. [00:02:56] Speaker E: Bear. [00:02:56] Speaker C: Boo. Boo Boo Bear. B Bar, Boeing. [00:02:58] Speaker B: Get down Land. [00:03:02] Speaker C: So the letter question for today's episode is if your character unless could go to the live performance for any real world band, if they could go to a concert, as the kids call them, live performance, who would they pick? And who is the Diminibooka? [00:03:23] Speaker E: I really wanted to be Tello parents. [00:03:25] Speaker A: I want it to be Terrence. [00:03:27] Speaker D: Oh, yeah. I want it to be. [00:03:29] Speaker A: What concert would Terrence go to? [00:03:31] Speaker E: You mean? [00:03:33] Speaker B: Wait, does that work? [00:03:34] Speaker E: You mean Terrence the. The. The. The fluff. [00:03:39] Speaker A: A turtle. [00:03:41] Speaker D: The Terrence. [00:03:44] Speaker E: Terrence isn't a turtle. [00:03:46] Speaker C: Terrence is a turkey. Dude, what's happening? [00:03:48] Speaker B: Turkey? [00:03:49] Speaker E: You can't be terrible. Not a DM npc. [00:03:53] Speaker D: Oh, that's true. [00:03:54] Speaker C: That's a player character. [00:03:55] Speaker B: Why would you do that? Teacher, do we have homework? [00:04:01] Speaker E: Okay, key in mind here. [00:04:07] Speaker C: Put the pitchfork down. [00:04:08] Speaker E: No, listen. There was a tarant. Terrence was the flumph. That. That Caleb's character. [00:04:16] Speaker C: Am I going for the flumph? [00:04:17] Speaker E: I don't think so. [00:04:19] Speaker B: No, you meant turtle. What did you mean, Landon? This was your idea. [00:04:25] Speaker C: Somebody helped warriors of the well. [00:04:27] Speaker A: Dmnbc. The turtle. What's his name? [00:04:30] Speaker C: You egg. Okay, we've never even met you, I swear. I want to hear we all got here on time and it's been 20 minutes and we haven't started yet. I mean. Okay, let's start with Jackie. [00:04:48] Speaker E: No, I know it's Ghost, and, well. [00:04:51] Speaker C: We talked too long. [00:04:53] Speaker A: I'll go. [00:04:53] Speaker C: Okay. Okay. [00:04:55] Speaker A: Boss would choose the Wiggles because I feel like he would feel at home on Australia. And I don't know any other bands. [00:05:01] Speaker C: From Australia because he would feel at home in Australia. [00:05:05] Speaker E: It's a summer. [00:05:06] Speaker C: Man. That's some reasoning. [00:05:08] Speaker B: Okay. [00:05:09] Speaker C: Oh, my goodness. Okay. All right. That was succinct. Thank you. Craig, who would be your Real World concert? Oh, that's a big yawn. We're starting out sleepy for it's 6:30. If you need to go get an energy drink, you go get one, buddy. [00:05:22] Speaker B: Never helps. When has it helped? I had. [00:05:26] Speaker A: Oh, no. Somebody else go. Abby, your turn. [00:05:29] Speaker D: I think the Greta would want to see Fleetwood Mac live. Who's not who I would see, but I think that that's. [00:05:37] Speaker C: Greta would see Fleetwick Mac. Abby would see Greta Van Fleet. [00:05:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:44] Speaker C: I mean, you might pick another band first, but you would totally see Grid events. [00:05:49] Speaker D: But I would love to see them. There are. [00:05:52] Speaker C: So I feel like I'm right. [00:05:54] Speaker E: Ronna, go with Lady Gaga. [00:06:02] Speaker D: Ooh. [00:06:04] Speaker C: Expected. Really? Okay. I was thinking, just not. Not what I was thinking. [00:06:10] Speaker E: Really? I feel like Lady Gaga in her Mayhem era right now. Ro would be into or maybe panic at the disco during their steampunk era. [00:06:26] Speaker C: Micah came back laughing so hard. She's just cackling over there. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Well, it's you now. [00:06:37] Speaker B: It is. Okay, so I think if Craig had a daughter. Okay. In this imaginary world where Craig has a daughter, it would start out where he's like, yeah, totally. I'll go to the Olivia Rodrigo Taylor Swift concert, Sabrina Carpenter. And then, and then he goes and he's like. And then he's like, oh, shoot, can. Can you come to the next one too? So I have a reason to be there. [00:07:04] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:07:04] Speaker B: Anyways, she's like moved out and he's. [00:07:06] Speaker D: Like, are you coming back? [00:07:08] Speaker B: Are you coming back for this? We're doing this for your birthday. Happy birthday. It's my birthday. [00:07:14] Speaker A: What would Newegg. [00:07:16] Speaker C: What's Neweggs would you know? Uegg is a very, very chill being. Chill is like his like defining characteristic. And I think he fits into the category of a lot of people that I've known in my life who are very, very, very chilled, relational people who like very intense music. So I think he would be into really hardcore metal. But like, like the person, like, I think he'd be playing Silent Planet in his ears and just like calmly nodding like, hey, you egg, what'd you listening to? And then it would just come in with like screaming and he'd be like, I love the transcendentalism. So I think he'd go to a Silent Planet concert and I think, I think he'd be the guy there where like, while everyone else is moshing, I think he'd be the guy there who brought water bottles and snacks and has like a little fan for people and stands on the side and picks people up. And I think that's what Ueg would be doing. And I think no matter what song was playing, he'd just be sitting there just calmly nodding like, oh, I love this song. [00:08:23] Speaker A: Micah, I have a follow up question for you, actually. A What would Aaron like? Olivia Rodrigo, Sabrina Carpenter, Taylor Swift, Secret Aaron would secretly. Secretly. [00:08:41] Speaker B: No, I feel like he'd be more like Girl in Red. [00:08:45] Speaker D: Oh, yeah. Or like more like would he be a man I trust guy? [00:08:52] Speaker B: I don't know that. [00:08:53] Speaker D: Or like a maximum. More. [00:08:56] Speaker B: More Girl in Red. More. More like Soft Girl era. [00:09:03] Speaker C: Yeah, this is probably how you guys felt when I started talking about Silent Planet. This is episode 136 of the Accidental Adventures for the note taking in honor of Abby. Also, quick check. Pointed at no one in particular. Do we have character sheets and dice, everyone? [00:09:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:09:29] Speaker C: Okay, well, I won't call anyone out, but a couple people made some faces. So this is episode 136, Echoes of Violence. [00:09:39] Speaker D: Oh, no. [00:09:41] Speaker C: Well, I mean, there's not a lot of mystery in that. The way the last episode ended. Yeah, but I like. Yeah. Would you like a recap? I'm going to, I'm going to recap because I can't deal with as much ambiguity. It's a level 12 adventure. The date is 3488 post birth. See, Hadron, the second topic, which we're getting into another one of those eternal day days. It's been. It's been. Well, wait, wait, wait, wait. No, that's right. It is. Okay, so as a quick summary, m. You remember getting to the temple and meeting all the people, and Greta being like, hi, I'm new here, but teaching. And everyone was like, oh, my goodness. Wow. And that was so cool and fun and a beautiful moment. And then she met all the. Did you. Were you there for her meeting the important people? No. You look confused. Oh, you're yawning again. Just hang in there as long as you can. Cardiovascular movement will help the. Basically, you guys met the really important people there, and they were like, hey, we know you're new to this, but based on that symbol around your neck, IUN has decided. Salem, IUN has decided that you are also really important here. So, like, welcome. And they had big conversation about, like, what's your role here? And what you want your role to be here. Also, we know who you are and what you're about. We want to help. And you guys found out that the students of ioun, what this order calls themselves, are. Their focus is on cataloging, understanding, and preserving the information of the world, as well as powerful arcane secrets. Apparently, they know about the Manabus and are allies with them, and they trade information. And you guys told them a bunch of stuff. You told them about the Seelie Court. You didn't get super into specifics. No one talked about the deal they made with the Archfey, but you talked about the book, because Greta returned the book to them, for which they were like, holy crap, holy crap, holy crap, holy crap. [00:11:47] Speaker B: Okay. [00:11:48] Speaker C: And they were all like, yo, did you read from this? And then everybody talked about seeing their visions, and then from there, that segued into a conversation about what you guys were working on. And they were like, well, you guys probably doing a lot of things, but we know that you guys are aware of the Zorgrim issue. And they were basically like, you know, in the future, we can talk about your future here, but for now, we want to be helpful with that, so can we be. And then there was a whole conversation about that. And basically, after some time and talking, they were like, well, we. You know, we're this religious order of knowledge. We have this. This thing called the Occu Veritas, this, like, focusing chamber for divination. Magic. You can use it to try and look at something anywhere in the world or anywhere through time, past, future. But you gotta be really careful because it's hard to interpret and very complicated. And it's kind of like a lens and things can look back. And there's a bunch of conversation. And Abby was like, I'm feeling ballsy. Landon's not here. Let's make a wild call. And she went and got in there and made the very gutsy call of. She got in there and she asked, where and how and when will the bloodied one enter Yalabran? Was the question. Landon nod of approval. He got a rundown on this. He got the skinny. And she proceeded to see a vision. First of a guy running into this gigantic city that no one recognized, bigger than any city you guys had ever seen. And he had this thing on his wrist with these metal circles and a stone in the middle. He set it off, and the whole city just disappeared. And then you guys were, like, kind of above the land in the sky, looking at a massive crater then. And then she saw a very sharp bloodstone beneath a veil, a veil surrounding the globe of Yalabran. And the bloodstone pierced through the veil. Then she saw a vision of a bunch of people fighting other people on a ziggurat inside of a massive city in a jungle. And those people appeared to be the warriors of the well. And one of them was Janus. And they were like, I know him. And then that fight kind of shifted, and there was a big lightning bolt from the sky, and the entire city blew up. And then there was a big crater again. And then you guys saw an obsidian sharpstone pierce through the veil. And then there were no other scenes. But then an iron, like, blade, sharp thing pierced through the veil. And then a sharp bone pierced through the veil. The veil. And once all those four were torn, she felt like she was looking out into the cosmos where there was a shadow. Then it was all like, hey, at this point, you need to make a saving throw for other things to not be able to look back. And she did, and she failed. And then she felt a dark presence around her. And you guys were, like, standing outside of this room with, like. Which got, like a. Like a magic force bubble over it. And that's where all this, like, divinating was happening. And. And everyone was like, oh, my goodness, this is going wrong. But it was really hard to interrupt the ceremony, and everybody started trying to help, and they couldn't. And basically, she was looking forward in time. She was looking back in time, present in time and forward in time at Zorgrim and his deal. And he was able to look back, and he saw her looking and started threatening her and started killing her. And then the whole party was like, oh, dear goodness, we have to save her. So bro tried getting into the room, people tried dispelling things. Craig tried breaking the wall. Nothing was working. And one of the ultra powerful clerics that you met there, the. Oh, big yawn. Big yawn. Oh, big yawn. Oh, big yawn. Okay. One of the ultra powerful clerics, one of the two high curators there, used a divine intervention and was able to shatter the door. And you guys got out, so. Or got Greta out. And we left off with Greta, like, coughing and sputtering. She was covered in blood that had been pouring out of her throat, and she lost a bunch of hip sweets. But also she was surrounded by clerics. So, like 40 people ran up and just started healing her. So she's currently covered in blood and dealing with the emotion of everything, but fully restabilized. And we. That's where we've left off. [00:16:11] Speaker D: That's where we're coming back in with Greta. Ending crying. [00:16:16] Speaker C: This happens a lot. [00:16:21] Speaker A: Can y'all hear what I do and unmute my microphone? [00:16:24] Speaker D: I can't hear it. [00:16:25] Speaker E: No. [00:16:26] Speaker A: That great. [00:16:28] Speaker C: Okay. [00:16:29] Speaker A: Okay, great, Great. Zach, real quick question before we jump into a heavy scene. Oz, probably during this time, I don't know if this boss just is there silently the whole time. That's fine with me. Oz would probably be like, if he's chill with these people, he'd be like, hey, do you all have, like, a place where books are? Because I just need to. I need to go do some research. And he would go there and, like, spend most of his time looking into, like, be related stuff, trying to figure out how to fix that and, like, reading. [00:16:56] Speaker C: Okay. [00:16:57] Speaker A: He probably would not even have been in the room with him when that happened, like, if they wanted that site. [00:17:03] Speaker C: Landon, you are okay to describe the temple in super brief. There was the whole chamber you got in through and then a super big massive central chamber and then a bunch of chambers that went out other places. But one of the places you guys saw was like the biggest library ever. So that was very much there. And as an ally to this newly introduced curator, you would have been assigned an archivist who would have helped you. Or actually maybe even a rank down, a scribe might have helped you. So you could absolutely not only go search through the library. But it's vast. It's like the library is Like a town. You could have somebody take you through it. [00:17:40] Speaker A: And if you don't mind, what we can do is just to help keep the episode rolling. If you. If you want to take, like, five minutes during the break to, like, talk about maybe, like, spitball, what that look like, or make a couple rolls to, like, so we don't have to, like. I mean, we can hash out now, but I don't want to keep it. [00:17:54] Speaker C: I was saying we could do it, like, some passive checks. Like, just make it some investigation checks, and. Cool. And then we could talk about your successes, and then we could talk about what that entails. A break. I love that idea. Sure thing. So why don't you give me an investigation check with advantage, because you're being helped by the scribe who's been assigned to you to help. And what is it that you're looking for? Just information on magical bees. [00:18:18] Speaker A: Oh, Zachary. I. Yeah, I'm looking for information about the lost lands, about the bees, about, like, if. Like, what common illnesses they are. He's even just looking for just, like, in general. About, like, oh, if the bees are sick, if there's problems with the hive. Like, he's trying to, like, get his knowledge about how to care for these beings. Like, like, see if there's any secrets, as people don't know. If there's, like, anything he can do better in the future once he. Or if he fixes it. He's also looking to see, like, why they would be dying like this. [00:18:51] Speaker C: Okay. [00:18:52] Speaker A: And I rolled a 24. Okay, sorry, 22. But since I said 24, I'm gonna. I'm gonna add my plus 2 per diem. I'm gonna add my plus two per diem, which is a new rule on time gets a flat plus two to a roll. And I coined the term per diem because it's a flat amount. [00:19:21] Speaker C: So 24 total. You just got jiggled. Well, Lana, this is gonna sound funny, but now, having succeeded on that check, and then I promise we'll go right back to the party roll. Another investigation check for me having succeeded on that one. That's very good. [00:19:41] Speaker A: This is an 11. [00:19:42] Speaker C: Oh, it is. It is still an advantage because there is still a dedicated scribe helping you. [00:19:47] Speaker A: Oh, that is an unnatural 20. Oh, thank goodness. [00:19:52] Speaker C: Yeah, and anytime you guys are looking through the library of IUN and a scribe is with you, you have the help action, so. Okay. All right. Landon will come back to that. And actually, hold on. We're gonna take a weird segue. We're gonna come back to the Scene and everywhere we were in just a second. But we actually are going to deal with this for a moment, Lando. [00:20:14] Speaker A: Okay, I'm down. [00:20:17] Speaker C: Oh, don't do that to me now. [00:20:19] Speaker A: I could block Craig. [00:20:20] Speaker C: Oh, Spaghettio, don't do that. [00:20:25] Speaker A: Why would you do that, Micah, the recording bot. I didn't know I could do that. [00:20:32] Speaker C: All the songs are unplayable again. And. And it does this every once. Yeah, it does this every couple months. Okay, unable to play track. All right, good. Talk amongst yourselves momentarily while I do a very quick save, because this is. You guys could do some strat. This would be a great some time for some above table strategizing and decisions. [00:20:58] Speaker A: So I'm so glad I don't have to help. [00:21:00] Speaker B: Oh, gosh. You're like, I am gonna let y'all handle this one. [00:21:04] Speaker A: And now I'm spinning like a ballerina. [00:21:09] Speaker C: Well, like, even if you guys want to plan next moves right now and just spend time talking that out, you can. [00:21:15] Speaker A: So I assume we're going back to the ship after this, right? [00:21:19] Speaker D: Yeah, we. Landon, you should probably call Bella. Andra. Because she called me. [00:21:25] Speaker E: Oh, yeah. [00:21:25] Speaker D: You were gone, and I was not. Yeah, Boss is so much better at being a diplomatic person. [00:21:32] Speaker E: Oh, you threw up a lot, too. [00:21:34] Speaker D: You did throw up. You may or may not call her. [00:21:39] Speaker E: Why would you may or may not call her? Okay, well. [00:21:45] Speaker C: But are we as a row. [00:21:47] Speaker E: I'm gonna tell you to. I'm gonna tell Boss to call her. Okay. [00:21:56] Speaker C: Okay. Please work. Please work. [00:22:01] Speaker A: So we're going back to the ship, and then why do we need to go. [00:22:05] Speaker E: Why do we need to go back to the ship? Is there a reason we need to. [00:22:09] Speaker C: Go back to the ship? [00:22:14] Speaker A: We sent them here. [00:22:15] Speaker E: Oh, yeah, that's true. [00:22:19] Speaker A: We're just gonna bounce into their spot and send them there instead. [00:22:22] Speaker E: No, you're right. [00:22:24] Speaker A: They're gonna feel like they don't matter. We haven't. We. [00:22:27] Speaker E: That's okay. Yeah, you're. That is a good idea to. To go. We. We should. [00:22:33] Speaker A: Yeah, we can't. We make real people in a fake world, guys. We have to have empathy. [00:22:38] Speaker C: I know. I know. [00:22:40] Speaker E: Oh, my goodness. [00:22:41] Speaker C: All right. Okay. [00:22:43] Speaker E: Do what I want to do. [00:22:45] Speaker C: Thank you guys for the patience. I can't believe I was able to save that. I have to recopy in the MP3 file every couple months, and I don't know why. So pause while deeply important questions about the future and the resources of this massive organization and visions of tantamount truths and Greta's near death happen. You're Searching through a library for many, many, many, many, for hours, while they speak with everyone. You're there for three or four hours searching while Greta was doing her lesson, while she was in the meeting, which canonically undoes all the dry humor things Boz was doing in the other episode. But that's fine because it wasn't important. So Baz, you are. The hours are spent literally walking the lengths. You find that these, these students of iun, the members of this order of this people are very patient. They take their time. I mean, like a solid hour of this three hours of searching is spent just walking from section to section in the library. You also find that many of the scribes here are equipped with mage hand. So when you have a. Yeah, mage hand. When they're a mage hand, when there are very high shelves, that's how they like. They like there are ladders to utilize, but they just reach up and have the mage hand retrieve the scrolls or the tomes and the text and whatnot. And you find out things you already knew. You even find a couple of information. You find some information about the lost lands that you are able to make little notes to them about. The scribe starts dictating what you're saying, if you so choose, like inaccuracies in their texts. But you do find evidence and record of these magical bees. You find that. So something that was briefly explained to Greta in her meeting and is now being explained to you. This scribe is one of hundreds here. He is low level. He. He is a functioning servant of this library here, one of the most important facilities of this institution. So he can only speak to this in concept. He knows what the manabus is. He knows of them, and he knows that they are often tasked to do research for the manabus, that this is not. I mean, they are their own entity. They are fully separate. The two organizations existed for a long time without each other, without knowing of each other, but that they are very much allied at this time. And that while the manabus is often privy to information, no one knows and might then rely that to the students of Ioun. The students of Ioun have a collection of knowledge unrivaled by anyone. And that apparently one of the main functioning connections of the relationship they have with the Manibus is that there is that place in the far southwest, Tchoskanan, which apparently is home to a number of cities that survived the skyfires, that survived the hateful note peopled living cities. But like it's not leveled, they still exist there. And apparently in the course of their Manable, focus. The manabus has retrieved many texts from that place and brought it here. And that, you know, the students meticulously translate them from eldest common to common in other languages and study them and. Abby, are you painting? Damn, that was truly unexpected. I feel no disrespect. I'm just. I don't. I don't know. You're always doing something, and I. I just. I didn't foresee the day that I'd be sitting down and Abby would be like, I'm doing an impressionistic one. Thank you for checking. I'm not a fan. That's dope. But I mean, honestly, I think that's more cool than anything because you're also clearly still paying attention, so I don't care. I think it helps players doing whatever they want so long as they're engaged. But anywho. So you are led through your initial aided search pause is through texts that you do know and things you are aware of and some speculation that isn't helpful. But eventually what you are led to are accounts from the elder age. From the age. And this is where things get really interesting because there is not a vast pool of knowledge about your ogbon bees. That is. I mean, again, the lost lands is so secluded, and you were just there. No one knows more about that than the deep roots who have sent you on this quest in the first place. But you start finding very interesting insights and. And part of what's happening is that this scribe is helping you find things, but they are also a rapacious devourer of knowled. Do you have a stink bug? [00:27:46] Speaker A: I can wait a little bit. Keep going. [00:27:49] Speaker C: You should. You should grab like a. Like a. Like a bug zapper. But anyway, they're big. [00:27:54] Speaker A: They're thickums. They wouldn't go down with just a standard zap. [00:27:57] Speaker E: And if you zapped a stink bug, would it stink? [00:28:00] Speaker C: I don't know. [00:28:01] Speaker E: They have to physically be really stinky. You know. [00:28:07] Speaker C: The. This is also in the lore. You find out, boss. Also, part of what's happening is that this person is a rapacious student. And once. Once you request this specific search, you are assigned someone who has some expertise, someone who has spent a portion of their life studying this. So they very helpfully navigate you through texts and help you, like, synthesize information and search with you and use magic to aid you both in their process. And eventually you arrive at consulting many texts, putting many things together, and using some texts to guide you into the search of other texts, skimming to specific passages, putting it in a Pile moving to the next one, you find out that while there is no specific account of your ogbund bees, this kind of phenomena has happened before. One second. Sure. Stink bug time. He got it. We got him, boys. We got him. [00:29:13] Speaker B: We got him, boys. [00:29:14] Speaker D: That's funny. [00:29:16] Speaker B: What's that from? [00:29:19] Speaker C: Well, I mean, famously, it's from we. [00:29:21] Speaker A: Caught Saddam Hussein and they said that at the thing when they pulled him out of the hole in the ground. [00:29:27] Speaker C: But I also knew that that's not what you were talking about. [00:29:31] Speaker D: Is that true? [00:29:32] Speaker C: So I don't think. Yes, that is. [00:29:34] Speaker E: Yeah, it's true. [00:29:35] Speaker C: But this is a perfect reference back to that thing we were talking about at the beginning of the episode where. [00:29:39] Speaker A: You really can't tell if that makes. [00:29:41] Speaker C: Sense when Landon's with. Landon's being sarcastic or not anymore. But the. I mean, what you were saying was true, but just none of us can tell anymore. Oh, this has happened before? Apparently. Apparently. Agba. This is a revelation, boss. Agba was not Vel's only prime tree at one time. Apparently there were others around the world. Additionally, you learn that there were apparently many, like wild Druidic groves and people built around them. That the. The Ogbuns from whom you hail are descendants of a way of life once much more populous around Yalabra. And that it appears that the long chain of events which led up to the. Oh, Landon. Something I completely forgot to tell you about is. The last session, while talking to the curators, the party learned a very brief overview of the entire history of Yalabdin, along with all the. All the seven ages, which I can talk to you about at break. But that was super massive Omega important lore I didn't bring up with you. [00:31:00] Speaker A: Age of Riz. The Age of Steel. [00:31:03] Speaker B: Oh, no. [00:31:06] Speaker C: So is that in a vague, scheming sort of way. These magical sources and the things which feed off of them have seen decline before. And they seem to decline with the health. With the health of the wellsprings and the wells that. As the wells diminish, as the wellsprings diminish, so do the creatures which spread their magic. And it's at this point mounting Druid of the first Flame, who has seen both Ogba and her might hailed from her culture. And Cena Wellspring yourself, including some very important insights in the Deepwood. I would like you to make some sort of a check. Now, here's the thing. You can pick the check. You just need to make it logically verify to me. So, like, this can't be like a persuasion check. What does that mean, yeah, I'm fine with being a nature check. Yes. [00:32:03] Speaker A: Yeah, just do nature check. I'm thinking of nature magic. Okay, who was act. I needed that one. With the Arby's dice coming in. Clutch. I got a 27. [00:32:17] Speaker C: Oh, they do have the meats. You feel this tectonic click in your mind. The world roots. When you were in the deepwood, you connected with those trees and you found out that all those trees were part of one network. And then you remember feeling that those roots connected all the way to Agba. That there's. There's this. This impossible magical connection system between life and Yalaburim. Not just roots like running underneath the oceans. There is this connection of deep magic flowing through the world and that when you were near the wellspring, you felt it, you remember that, and all of a sudden it dawns on you. No matter how removed Ogba is and the parts of her magical ecosystem, as the wellsprings drain, as they. As they drain, as they fade, as they are harmed, all the living things that depend on them wane too. This is why your bees are dying so convicted of it. The preservation of these deep magic sources is the preservation of Ogbo, which is the preservation of your. Of your bees. They're just also connected to each other. [00:33:36] Speaker A: Oh, I feel like boss is having a very. If he definitely tries to be a friends with the scribe as they're going around doing all this stuff. And I feel like he's freaking out as he's saying all this and like. Like having like, experiences with Describe, like, in earnest. Especially if describe is one who's like, dedicated to study of, like, the thing. He probably starts out pretty reserved in how he's talking to them. And then as he, like, I assume that they talk about the lost lands, like admiration and inquisition and like an eager understanding to hear more about it. And I feel like that kind of rubs on Boz a good way. And then I think by the end of it, they're just like. When they. When they make this connection, they're like, both freaking out the same amount together. I don't know. Tell me before that's not right. [00:34:17] Speaker C: There is this scribe gets reprimanded by a different scribe, by an archivist walking by. Because at some point you guys are just in the silent library, this, like, town wide library. You guys are just shouting and a skull goes flying up in the air and this guy fiving, and like, the guy's like, screaming and crying a little, so he has to come by and reprimand him. And then when he tells him that, like the archivist gets a little excited and then has to calm themselves down. And it's like you make a scene in the library, but as it is at this time that you have finally figured out exactly what is wrong with your bees. Now we're going to do one last thing and then we're going to get back to everybody. This is another one of those moments in the campaign. This is. This is a Greta hitting her head on the stone moment. You have a chance of possibly putting together a couple more things, given stuff, you know. So now I need you to make a couple more checks. I need you to make a. I need you to make an arcana check for me. And then I. I also need you to make a history check. Actually, let's do that in reverse order. How about you make the history check and then you can make the arcana check. Okay. Because you have the possibility of putting together some things you've learned. [00:35:24] Speaker A: I cast guidance on the history. [00:35:26] Speaker C: Yeah, you can. You can on both. And this guy, the scribes are all low level clerics, or not all of them, but a lot of them. The minority. But this guy is. You are. Enhanceability is also cast on you in the process of determining all this. So you have advantage. Except that. No, they're both intelligence checks. Yes, you are granted advantage on this. Yeah. Oh. I mean, you have an organization of people who do nothing but focus on the acquisition of knowledge trying to help you figure out these deep secrets. [00:36:00] Speaker A: That's 19. Go plus one. 20. Unnatural 20. Unnatural 20. I forgot to add my modifier. [00:36:07] Speaker C: I crap you not. You had failed and you just passed the first check. [00:36:11] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. [00:36:12] Speaker C: DC20. Now the second check is a little harder. Go ahead and make the arcana check for me. You are guided and you have advantage. [00:36:25] Speaker A: Arcana. [00:36:31] Speaker C: Bless you. [00:36:32] Speaker A: Okay, sorry. Math brain not working super well. [00:36:37] Speaker D: Did I get it? [00:36:41] Speaker A: So that's 18 plus 24. Doesn't feel like it would win. [00:36:48] Speaker C: I just said. [00:36:49] Speaker A: What'd you say? [00:36:50] Speaker C: I said 22 is the DC, but you were coughing and you cannot hear me. You passed both checks. So Boz, in this moment, so what happens is you and this other person, imagine them however you like. You're freaking out in the library. The. One of the archivists, you're learning that it's like scribe, archivist, curator, high curator. The. At least in this clerical side of this order. There's a monastic side here. And both the cleric and the. Both the clerical and the monastic wing of this society seem to share Ownership over scholarship and this library and stuff like that. But when the archivist comes over and starts trying to shush you guys, they also get swept up in what you're doing. And all of the three of you guys working together, discussing what you're. No. Put together some key things. Landon, you remember Boz. Excuse me. You remember Blickle, you remember that jiggled it. You very briefly learned. You very briefly learned from the Manibus, something about the warriors of the well doing something with a deep well in the north, that some big event had happened months ago in this last year with them doing something with a well in the North. Not a well spring, a well. Remember learning that there is one or two, a couple wells in the world, and that the wells are where the well springs flow from. So the wellsprings, these penultimate sources of magic, they are tributaries, they are ponds flowing away from these lakes, these world oceans of magic. All right, Jackie. Treading a dangerous line in Pun territory here, but also fair game. I have to give that to you. I don't know. That was such a weird balance between inspiration and. What was that she said? Well are the warriors of them. So they did something with a well, something brious and positive. In the last handful of months, you learned. And you remember, your bees have been. I mean, you took them to the Wellspring and it benefited them. And when they were in Ogba, it benefited them, but they've been doing better ever since. And you also remember that plant from your staff was growing in Telethenon all the way back in the town you left, and it succeeded in growing in the ground. And when it grew flowers, your bees responded positively to it. It must have been able to connect to that magical root system around the world. But how? The deep Magic is flowing again. Some sort of pathway open somewhere, somehow. And you also remember how when you were in the Deepwood, the Wellspring seemed to have been run beyond some banks. It was up near the trees in sections. Something's filling the Deep Magic again. So that's your first realization? This is when I say no taking nerds, this is. This is key lawyer. But second thing, your bees are still not recovered. So as one thing must be going right in the world with Deep Magic, something must be going wrong. This, the first realization, is very much yours. I guess that's the third realization, very much yours. The fourth, the last. This is where the archivist and the scribe come in. So much help piecing together some of the information you've learned from the Manibus. And they're consulting their text, you remember that there is a corrupted well in. So the place where Zorgam died, where he got to last. Well, that place where he was able. In the last moments of his life, his all the allies of the world had rallied together to kill him and had succeeded. And he was dying that he was able to flee there and absorb a ton of the power from that place. His essence got bound to it in some way. And that. That's where whatever the final moment of that century long series of conflicts that boiled into the. The Skyfire event that led to essentially the hate fall. And. And however those terms conflate, whatever it did that wiped out so much of the life in y'all, but. And ruined that age. And I mean, there's a long process, but that the final event and that ascended him to godhood, that. That poisoned that well and that. That Wellspring. As Zorgrim gets closer, that wellspring must also be growing the corrupted one. So these different sources, this source of corrupted Deep magic and the Deep Magic must be kind of like battling it out for the magical health of the world. And each source is kind of like rising in opposing levels. [00:42:00] Speaker A: Guys, we got to build a boat. An ark. We have to build an ark and get two of every person on. [00:42:04] Speaker B: Oh my gosh. Every. [00:42:07] Speaker C: Every race goes back to Chaska. He goes back to Beyonce. Look, Cat, I'm. There's a boat. We gotta get on it. I'm sorry. It's what we gotta do. I guess we gotta repair our marriage. I don't know what to say. [00:42:17] Speaker B: I guess we gotta go. [00:42:20] Speaker C: So Boz, just like seeing the math around you. This moment crashes in on you. That's the experience you're having in the library while opposite on the other side of the temple. Every time I add a track, I also have to close the program for some reason. Don't know what that's about. Kenku rocks, but it is a little finicky. I mean, it is the best of all these tools I've found so far. But sometimes it's a little weird. On the other side of the temple, we go back to everyone else. Greta, you are. The blood has quit flowing from your throat, but you look like a violent murder victim. I mean, everything from your nose down. You have a beard of blood that covers your throat and the front of your cloaks. And you've been pressed, digitated a couple times. They are starting to clean it off you, but it is still stained everywhere. You feel, however you feel about everything. And you are aware that You. You remember everything you saw. You have gained vital, paradigm shifting knowledge. I mean, you have learned important things, but you feel the cost. And you are surrounded by healing magics. All the damage is addressed. And it's also important to remember that sometimes when you're receiving divine healing, it also helps just a little bit with the traumatic stuff too. I mean, it's like especially the healing that comes from Ioun, like the healing that comes from Eldath is a peace. The healing that comes from it is binding your flesh, but it also brings a sense of peace. It's how adventurers can do what they do and not become so traumatized they can't function. [00:44:13] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:44:14] Speaker C: And from Ayoun, there is a sense of knowledge. Important truths come back to you. [00:44:23] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:44:25] Speaker C: But you still feel all the things you feel. So you are there. Craig and Tello and ro, along with 30 clerics. Well, 30 of the students of Ioun, maybe eight clerics, the entire council of the majority of the archivists and the two high curators. And the curators are there. There's just a crowd of people all huddled around you. And the vision has just ceased. And that's where you are. Yeah, that's where you all are as well. [00:45:02] Speaker D: I think I'm going to like. [00:45:04] Speaker B: Stanley. [00:45:05] Speaker E: Yes. [00:45:07] Speaker D: Oh, sorry. [00:45:08] Speaker B: I'm sorry. Go ahead. [00:45:09] Speaker D: I think I'm. I think I'm gonna, like, kind of desperate, like, to the first person around me, I'm gonna desperately, like, look at them and ask for like a pen and paper or, you know, like a scroll. [00:45:24] Speaker C: You demand it. And my diary broke and quills, and there's no shortage of it here. [00:45:32] Speaker D: Yeah. I grab the first one and I just start frantically trying to scribble down what I saw and what happened. [00:45:45] Speaker C: There's this wild moment. Whereas you all almost just watched Greta die violently from this nefarious dark cloud of black smoke inside of the Ocu Veritas just having been burst out, the power of Ioun displayed in a divine intervention, shattering the magical wall. Having her just healed, her just recovered back to life. Just being done spitting up blood as everyone's checking in on her. She just demands something to write with and starts frantically just scribbling. And it's just silence in the room. The air is sucked out of it as everyone's watching her. It's just that writing sound is the only sound in here. And as Red is just desperately writing and it's just silence until she's done. [00:46:27] Speaker D: Yeah, I think I. I don't know how long it would take. [00:46:31] Speaker C: Maybe like A reasonable amount of time that we don't have to specify. We can just screen wipe it. There's no pressure. [00:46:38] Speaker D: And then I, I look and I like, I. Is what's his name? Let me look it up. [00:46:46] Speaker E: Seth. [00:46:47] Speaker C: A curator. Lizec. [00:46:50] Speaker D: Yeah, I. I like hand. [00:46:52] Speaker C: The tall, dark skinned ASMR man is next to you leaning down. [00:46:55] Speaker D: I like hand in girl as soon as I'm done. And then I just kind of like, like take a deep breath and just like collapse into whoever's next to me. [00:47:04] Speaker C: We'll say, yeah, into the arms of Rose or Row or Craig, whoever you want. [00:47:08] Speaker E: Yeah, I think we were, I think we ended the last episode with us like grabbing her, Craig and Bro. [00:47:14] Speaker C: So, yeah, as you hand the notebook to him, he picks it up and he puts his hand on his symbol. And you watch as his symbol lights up as he reads. And so do the symbols of all the other curators. Oh, that's so cool. And you get the feeling that as he's reading it, all of them stop and you watch all of their eyes trace at the same time as if they can all see what he's seeing. [00:47:39] Speaker D: That is so cool. [00:47:40] Speaker C: They're all absorbing the information uniformly at the same time. And after a pause, there are just solemn nods. And finally Curator Lezec, like, he takes the book, rips out the pages, folds them up and puts it in his pocket. He hands the book back to whatever regular level scribe had it. The scribe just nods understandingly, like, yeah, I'm probably not supposed to know that. And he looks up and says, well, Curator Small Star, what an important insight. Students of iu. He like, stands up to his full height and looks around at everyone. Thank you for your assistance. Please return to your duties and activities. Knowledge will be disseminated, recorded through its process is necessary for now. If we ask that you return, this will be handled by the Curatory Council. Everyone nods and just everyone disperses from you. But Greta, if you're looking, whether you see it directly or from your periphery, I mean, your passive perception is so high. Like all hundred people gathered around you as they disperse are all just stopping, staring at you, doing the long blink before walking away. And you know, some you would imagine in support, others probably in oh, ha, I love you, Bink. Some in support, some probably in honor or recognition. I mean, this is the same day you walked into this society and you've had this experience and this impact here, and you get the feeling that that has just not gone unnoticed, unappreciated. And that's where you Know everything. Everything disperses. Lizec kneels down to you again and says what would be most helpful. Next. Curator, do you need to depart and attend to other allies? Do you need time to rest? You are clearly at the epicenter of something essential. How may we facilitate this path for you? [00:50:14] Speaker D: I'm going to look at Rowan Craig and I'm gonna ask, like, do you think we should stay here for the night or. Go ahead. [00:50:29] Speaker E: Greta. I think. I mean, that's purely up to you. If you need to rest, I think that's a good idea. [00:50:39] Speaker B: There's no wrong answer here. We don't want to exhaust you. We want you to have rest to recover from what you just experienced. [00:50:46] Speaker E: I mean, so much magic can help healing, but at the end of the day, I'm still sure it took it out of you. [00:50:53] Speaker D: Obviously none. What time is it? [00:50:59] Speaker E: Dm, what time is it? [00:51:03] Speaker C: What time is it? You are aware that it is. [00:51:06] Speaker A: Abby, what time is it? [00:51:10] Speaker B: I got skipped. [00:51:11] Speaker C: It's probably. [00:51:14] Speaker A: Greg doesn't know what time it is. [00:51:20] Speaker C: You're aware that it's probably like late six, close to seven. Okay. I mean, you know, you guys have burned through a lot of the day, and what a day. The last week has been full of what a days. So you get the feeling that the day is drawing toward its end. [00:51:45] Speaker D: Okay. [00:51:47] Speaker C: So I. I'll go ahead and just say you all are innately aware. You could take rest here if you want more to do with this temple and more with this time here. You also know that there was that whole garden section back there with all those plants, so there were trees there. And if you needed return to the boat, you know that that could also be a path you could take. You're aware of both of those things implicitly. [00:52:07] Speaker D: Okay. [00:52:09] Speaker E: Greta, if you feel upped traveling, we could. But essentially to you, if you want to just bed down here for the night, I don't think any of us would mind. [00:52:21] Speaker D: I think maybe we could stay here for the night. Maybe call Spagoober to let him know we're on our way is if that's okay. [00:52:29] Speaker E: Yeah, we could let him know that we'll see him in the morning maybe. [00:52:33] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:52:33] Speaker E: You want to do that? [00:52:34] Speaker D: Yeah. And then we can head out in the morning. I like that. Is that okay? [00:52:41] Speaker E: Yeah. And I'm sure I don't know where Balls is, but I'm sure he'll be. [00:52:44] Speaker C: Fine with that nearby and goes. My opinion is also important, and I also agree with that plan. [00:52:51] Speaker A: You hear a very light in the. [00:52:54] Speaker E: Back, and it cut out that cut out. [00:52:57] Speaker A: You hear? You hear? Very faint. [00:52:59] Speaker C: Bro. [00:53:04] Speaker A: I'm doing it on purpose. [00:53:05] Speaker C: I wonder. I wonder where Boss is. And then bro. And pause. Is it fair to assume that at around this time there's a jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jangle, and Boss is on. [00:53:18] Speaker B: His way there and maybe a jiggle. [00:53:22] Speaker A: I mean, if somebody keep. I can assume probably someone came and got me and like, grabbed me and like a bunch of whispers between scribes like, hey. [00:53:28] Speaker C: Yes, pause. That is an excellent, reasonable assumption. You have been rushed to the group informed of what has happened. Someone has. Has come and found you. All right. [00:53:36] Speaker A: I give my new scribe from the hug and I run. [00:53:38] Speaker E: I'm guessing that we were told as she was writing it or whatever. Can we just assume that we were. [00:53:44] Speaker A: Oz runs up and eats the note. [00:53:45] Speaker E: That I just wrote that she doesn't have it. [00:53:52] Speaker C: Of Boss eating things all the time is amazing. [00:53:56] Speaker A: He eats every day. Actually. It's his favorite. [00:53:59] Speaker D: The new Craig. [00:54:00] Speaker E: Ro asks. No. Ro asks a person walking by if they have like. Like if they could get her like a basin and like a warm rag. [00:54:14] Speaker C: It takes some time, but one is. [00:54:15] Speaker E: Brought to you because I think. [00:54:17] Speaker C: And would we. Or go ahead. [00:54:20] Speaker E: No, go ahead. [00:54:22] Speaker C: Would we like to fast forward to you all being provided chambers and having that time lady just messaged in the chat. Do you perchance have some gum? I'm also an orphan. [00:54:38] Speaker E: Owl. [00:54:39] Speaker C: Funny. Oh man. [00:54:42] Speaker E: May I have some gum in. [00:54:44] Speaker C: In the vein of. In the vein of like, of a warm basin of water and a towel being brought to you. Like, does the group want to just kind of fast forward to like. And then we go find some chambers. We have some. [00:54:57] Speaker A: Boss tries to get a room by himself. [00:54:59] Speaker C: You. [00:55:01] Speaker B: There were no ends open, so we had to find a manger. And then. And there in the manger, we were led by who's given birth. Jackie, because she asked for a warm cloth. [00:55:15] Speaker C: So the joke. There we go. [00:55:26] Speaker D: Is covered in blood. [00:55:27] Speaker E: I was doing a really sweet thing that Ro wasn't going to use prestidigitation to just wipe it off. Her friend has like been through death and she thought that, like a warm towel would make her feel better. And it was like a whole thing. [00:55:41] Speaker B: It's actually. [00:55:42] Speaker E: And we just barreled through that to something else. [00:55:50] Speaker C: You're taking into another chamber of this. Another. Another section, another. Another district of this subterranean temple city. And this one is a very long series of like. Like dividing capillary layout, like celled rooms. So like halls that lead to divisions of other halls that kind of flow outward from them. And here chambers divide into like, large central chambers, which then divide into, like, smaller chambers. And you get the feeling that, like, people who live here, there are, like, districts where, like, groups of people live. And then those chambers divide and there is a very small area that's unoccupied. And as you travel through, you. You passively absorb or actually, I'll tell you what an archivist, Archivist Ezra, is guiding you again back to the chambers. And she tells you about how the way that this is actually set up is that these, like, these areas where people live, they house families. And there are, you know, I mean, there are normal aspects of society here, but that one of the key aspects is that not all, but most of the people who live in these sections together in these districts of housing are. They're all members. They're like in learning communities. So, like, one of these would be like. Like, think of it like. Like when I say hall, it's like the central hall you're walking through is like a highway. And then they divide into what are practically like, like hall streets. And then these divide into like, central chambers. And those chambers are like cul de sacs, kind of. And then those divide into, like, smaller chambers that are like homes for people. Now, things are pretty simple here. This is still a very clerical, monastic lifestyle. Nobody's got really large digs to live in. Everything's very simple. These are people who are focused on what they're pursuing more than comforts. There is a. There is a severity to this society, and I don't say severity to connotate like, powerful imposition or something tyrannical, but, like, there is a belief about a dissemination of values across the people who live here. And that knowledge is often more important than presentation and discipline, more important than comfort. Not without some exception. There's individualism here and there, but. But there is a very communal sense of belonging and purpose here. So there are these little learning communities, and some of these circles are clearly home to artists and others to mathematicians and historians and people focus in different things. And you are essentially just brought to this area that's being expanded into. For as the population of this place fluctuates and you're just assigned one of the chambers that hasn't been fully furnished yet. And the place that you go into is. It's basically got, like, from there, one central, like, living chamber which has like, a very basic bathroom connected, Remember, bathroom of this time. So like a tub with water that needs to be changed in and out. And like a very basic it is currently, well, it's currently empty, but it is there. And then like very basic laboratories, which you would understand. There's no running water, it's just that hole goes down further and so there's like, like a living chamber, a connecting very basic bath space, and then like side chambers where people can bed. And that's it. And you're just in this stone space, very threadbare and simple. And it is to this space that the fungi's are delivered and that not long after a basin of warm water with a rag is brought. You get the feeling it was warmer when someone was initially bringing it, but it has arrived. [00:59:40] Speaker E: I warm it. [00:59:42] Speaker C: Ah, prestigation. Right, right, right, right, right. And Greta Ro just sits there. Well, bro, as you said, sponging away the well. [00:59:53] Speaker E: Yeah, I just, I, I obviously Ro asks Greta, but like she just helps her clean off and everything so that she's not just like sitting in her own like soaked blood. And she obviously asks it all kind of like very. [01:00:10] Speaker D: While Rose depends, like maybe helps a little bit, but is just very softly like explaining what happened and what she saw. [01:00:20] Speaker E: And Rose just letting her talk, she's not adding commentary or anything. She's just being very silent and listening. [01:00:31] Speaker C: And you all can have a long role play conversation where everyone talks about what they saw. You can also just say everyone tells each other what they learned. And that's fine too. You can tell everyone what you saw in your vision. Boz can tell everyone what he learned from his studies. And information can just transfer like that if you want. [01:00:48] Speaker D: Yeah, I mean, I, I spend the, like, Greta spends the time telling absolutely Ro what happened. And with the party. [01:01:03] Speaker C: There is a knock at your door at some point, Greta, and food is brought to you. All very basic, but with the scribes, actually. Okay, so you learn that the system of this society is while all people refer to themselves as students, there are pupils, scribes, archivists, curators, and high curators. And that, I mean, it is an exponential difference. So the vast majority of people here are pupils. There are maybe a thousand scribes, there are like a hundred archivists maybe, and then there are like eight curators or six, and now seven, weirdly with you, and then two high curators. So, you know, there's a lot of division and that is the clerical side of things. There is also a monastic side here that you've learned very little about. But as food is brought to you, Archivist Ezra returns and she says, curator, we don't mean to press you. This has been quite a First day. But you come from beyond our order and you have many priorities here and beyond. There is no obligation, I do not suppose, to speak for the high curators, but there was discussion of whether or not you have interest in adopting some of the robes of our order. You are technically afforded them and have right to them to the script laden tomes and color sections to identify as one of us, if you so choose. Is this a vestment that you would request? [01:03:04] Speaker D: This is Ezra, right? [01:03:05] Speaker C: This is Ezra. Archivist Ezra, the first person you met here. You get the feeling that she's been kind of assigned as your liaison for the time you're here? [01:03:12] Speaker D: Yeah. Let's see. Wow. Yes, I think so. That would be an honor. I wouldn't want to get them dirty in my adventuring, but I would be honored to carry a set with me while I travel. [01:03:34] Speaker C: The curator's robes are ceremonial, but they are also quite magical. They powerfully endure, and while you can certainly dirty them, they will survive quite a bit. [01:03:51] Speaker D: Yeah, I would love to look at them. [01:03:55] Speaker C: Excellent. I will retrieve some for you. They will take some time to be made, but they should be available for you in the morning. And I will bring them to your chambers. [01:04:07] Speaker D: Thank you. [01:04:09] Speaker C: Am I dismissed, Curator? [01:04:11] Speaker D: Yes. And Greta does blink. [01:04:14] Speaker C: She does the long. [01:04:16] Speaker B: She does blink. I cast blink. [01:04:21] Speaker C: Blink is a spell. [01:04:24] Speaker D: Really? [01:04:26] Speaker C: Yeah, when you cast. It's a concentration spell on yourself and you can use a bonus action or an action to move in and out of the ethereal plane. [01:04:34] Speaker D: Oh, cool. [01:04:35] Speaker C: To do a spell. Yeah, it's good for combat when you want to, like. Because when you're in the ethereal plane, nothing in the material plane can harm you. Oh. [01:04:43] Speaker D: But you can still see everything going on. [01:04:46] Speaker C: You can't interact with anything, but you can, like, disappear and then come back. [01:04:49] Speaker D: Can you cast it on anyone? [01:04:52] Speaker C: I don't remember if it's only self. I'll tell you as the group role plays. [01:04:56] Speaker D: Okay. Greta turns to someone and she says, I'm so worried I'll hate the robes. I guess I'll just wear them anyway. And I guess I. They'll know if I'm not wearing, so. [01:05:11] Speaker E: Oh, you can, like, wear them for, like, special occasions when you travel back here and stuff like. [01:05:17] Speaker D: I guess. Yeah. [01:05:18] Speaker E: I don't know if they have like. Yeah, like holidays or something. [01:05:23] Speaker C: But it is, you know, spell, and it is not a cleric spell. I'm sorry. [01:05:29] Speaker D: That'd be a great, like, thing to cat like. Yeah. Anyway. Cool. [01:05:34] Speaker E: Yeah. [01:05:35] Speaker B: Well, I see some. Some women ladies have. They do things to spice and spruce up their thing, the clothes. Like, I think it's called embroidery. Embroidery. Is that it? [01:05:48] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:05:49] Speaker B: Or you could. [01:05:51] Speaker E: It's also. It's also kind of cool. I've. I've been realizing or I've been noticing that, like, the more, like, prestigious or, like, rich people have, like, more than one or two outfits and, like, so you could wear, like, different outfits depending on, like, what your mood is, instead of, like, the one outfit we always have to wear, you know? [01:06:16] Speaker D: Yeah, I could do that. [01:06:20] Speaker E: So, like, maybe it'll be really comfy and you wear it like, when we're traveling, but, like, not when we're, like, fighting. [01:06:27] Speaker D: Maybe. Yeah. Or maybe it would be, like, battling. It could be. [01:06:31] Speaker E: Maybe. Yeah. [01:06:32] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:06:33] Speaker B: Maybe it make you swim better. [01:06:35] Speaker E: H. [01:06:39] Speaker D: Better. [01:06:40] Speaker E: Unlike Craig, who cannot win. [01:06:44] Speaker B: Don't talk about it. We don't talk about it. Hey. I'll just say I've been getting lessons. No, I've been getting lessons. [01:06:50] Speaker E: From who? We haven't been anywhere near a body of water. Well, I mean, other than the body of water we walked through. [01:06:59] Speaker C: Pretend the ocean. [01:07:04] Speaker E: Okay. [01:07:07] Speaker C: Right now I'm just sometimes in the morning workouts that they've made this harness for Craig, which, like, is like a rope strap around the chest, rub strap around the waist, Bill free takes the front, ploff takes the back, and they just dip him in the ocean at a slow speed, pull him out. He's only almost drowned a couple times. [01:07:28] Speaker B: Yeah, it was really nice whenever he couldn't breathe, but now it's a bit more dangerous. [01:07:32] Speaker E: That's true. [01:07:33] Speaker C: Now it's a real challenge. [01:07:36] Speaker E: Interesting. I'm gonna call Spragoober and tell him that we'll see him in the morning. [01:07:43] Speaker D: Yeah, that sounds good. [01:07:47] Speaker C: Micah. You know what? In this instance, your yawning is very immersive to role plays. The party's tired. I like it. That's method acting. [01:07:54] Speaker B: So sorry. [01:07:57] Speaker C: I meant it. It's very immersive right now. I like it Feels very character driven. Ro. Do you request the. Are you okay? [01:08:07] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah. I'm just making faces. [01:08:09] Speaker C: Request the sending stone from Craig's mouth to call. Yeah. [01:08:14] Speaker E: And I whistle it. I whistle, and it's clean. [01:08:25] Speaker C: This running bit is slowly becoming. What's his name? From Penguins of Madagascar, the penguin that could, like, vomit weapons. It's like. Like, this is. [01:08:36] Speaker E: Yeah, this joke is. [01:08:39] Speaker B: Wait, wait, wait. What's it called? Penguins five. Five what? Penguins Five. No, it's a penguin one. Specifically Penguin one. [01:08:51] Speaker D: There's a. Is there a guy? [01:08:54] Speaker B: There's, like, a show just for the penguins, right. [01:09:00] Speaker E: Came out, like, way later. [01:09:02] Speaker C: Different Penguins of Madagascar. But anyway, I'm right about that, but, yeah. [01:09:11] Speaker B: Oh, you are. It's just a terrible name, so I didn't remember it. [01:09:17] Speaker C: Take that, Nickelodeon. Take that. So, Ro, you squeeze the stone, freshly cleaned, and you call. You have. You have a connection. You feel it biger. Oh, my goodness. Ro. Hello. Hi. Short length of time. That was only like a day apart. [01:09:41] Speaker E: I know. I wanted to apologize. We. [01:09:44] Speaker C: We. [01:09:44] Speaker E: You know, we got on the island and then. [01:09:47] Speaker C: I don't mean that sarcastically. [01:09:50] Speaker E: No, no, no, I. I know you don't. I was just saying, like, I. I. [01:09:55] Speaker C: Would never mean it like some sort of a finance in my head. [01:09:58] Speaker E: I. I know we had. We had said that we were, like, coming really quickly to the ship, but then we got, like, intercepted by some, like. They're kind of like assassins, I think, and they all kind of. Oh, no, no, it's fine. They're chill. They were chill with us, I think a little too chill. I think they all kind of liked us anyway. But right now we're in it. In, In. [01:10:25] Speaker C: In. [01:10:26] Speaker E: In Greta's temple. And there's a temple to Greta. Well, her. Her clerical. Her clerical temple and the order. [01:10:39] Speaker C: Wow. How big is it? [01:10:44] Speaker E: They have so many books for Goober. More books than you've ever seen in your life. Oh, my goodness. [01:10:50] Speaker C: A lot of books. [01:10:51] Speaker E: But we had a little. Greta just needs to rest a little bit, and then we're gonna see you in the morning. We're gonna. We're gonna. We're gonna free in, I believe. [01:11:06] Speaker C: Onto. [01:11:07] Speaker E: The ship because we really miss you guys. It's just we didn't think that we could travel tonight, so. We'll be there. We'll be there in the morning. [01:11:16] Speaker C: We are very excited to finally have our fun guys back. [01:11:19] Speaker E: Is there anything you guys need? Do we need to bring you anything? [01:11:24] Speaker C: I mean, we provisioned that pretty hard when we left from Zedge. We had a feeling we might be on the ocean again for a while. So we're not really missing anything right now. We have two or three more weeks of provisions before we start getting banned. But there's also nothing anywhere to dock around here. So if you guys. I mean, as always, if you want to come back with any different kinds of food. [01:11:44] Speaker E: Okay. [01:11:45] Speaker C: That does help spice up the boath experience. [01:11:47] Speaker E: Okay. I'll see what we can do for sure. Goober. Okay. [01:11:51] Speaker C: But honestly, all we could ask is for you guys to come by. [01:11:54] Speaker E: Eric, we're very excited to see tape. Okay. So we will do that. We're gonna rest up tonight and we'll see you in the morning. [01:12:04] Speaker C: Well, I'm not gonna be able to sleep tonight knowing you guys are coming back. Wow. Okay, bye. [01:12:15] Speaker E: Guys. We gotta find food. We gotta find some kind of interest. [01:12:19] Speaker C: Look down at the plate of brought to you and how threadbare and essential and not exciting it is. You're just, like, not from here. [01:12:27] Speaker E: Do you guys think there's any place that we could find some tasty treats to bring our shipmates back? [01:12:35] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:12:39] Speaker E: Maybe somewhere in here they have, like, a restaurant. Do you cook or something? Do I cook? [01:12:43] Speaker D: You cook? [01:12:44] Speaker C: Can you cook? Cook? [01:12:46] Speaker E: I don't think so. I can heat things. That's about it. But, like, not very well. Maybe that was happy with some good berry. [01:13:01] Speaker D: We could always stop by the town. [01:13:04] Speaker E: There's a town. [01:13:05] Speaker C: Maybe we should ask about the. [01:13:09] Speaker D: There's nowhere to dock. [01:13:12] Speaker E: Exactly. [01:13:14] Speaker C: I didn't know there was a town in Sandbar. That's important knowledge. I should update that. [01:13:22] Speaker D: There was a small town and in the secret organizations. But I could be wrong. [01:13:28] Speaker E: Well, I mean, tell me about the small town. [01:13:29] Speaker C: I'm gonna need to write that in. Sounds important. [01:13:32] Speaker D: We don't have. If there's not a town. I don't want to make a. Yeah, like, I don't want to be wrong about the town, but if there was. [01:13:40] Speaker E: A town I think gives y'all stuff. [01:13:43] Speaker A: For free and you drop it to make your lives harder. [01:13:46] Speaker C: I just. [01:13:47] Speaker D: Anyway, the town that. [01:13:48] Speaker A: Oh, I thought you were really gonna do it. [01:13:50] Speaker C: I do that sort of stuff a lot, but I. No, that was being sarcastic. I got too much. [01:13:54] Speaker D: I feel like we do it when he does it. We don't know when he does it. [01:13:57] Speaker E: I. Buzz has some weird mushrooms and we can maybe find some flowers. We'll find something. We'll bring him something. [01:14:04] Speaker D: Or you could always tree to somewhere tonight. [01:14:08] Speaker E: Yeah. [01:14:10] Speaker D: And then. Wait. [01:14:12] Speaker E: That's a lot. Yeah, we'll. We'll figure it out. It'll be fine. They have food. They just don't have anything interesting. So, you know, maybe they have some tea or something. It's really not that big a deal. [01:14:29] Speaker D: So. [01:14:30] Speaker C: So. [01:14:31] Speaker E: Balls your bees. [01:14:33] Speaker B: Balls the bees. [01:14:36] Speaker A: Boss is in his own suite, right? What? [01:14:41] Speaker E: When does boss get his. [01:14:43] Speaker B: Why would you do that? [01:14:45] Speaker A: All right, so I'm here now. [01:14:47] Speaker C: And it said, it's good to be back. I don't want to role play with. [01:14:50] Speaker B: Any of you today. I'm avoiding you guys. [01:14:55] Speaker C: There's bees. [01:14:58] Speaker A: You know, like that Kramer. [01:15:01] Speaker C: I haven't seen it. [01:15:03] Speaker D: Dude, there was A customer that came into the bookstore the other day that was, I'm not kidding you, so similar to. He was even doing the, like. He's even, like, doing little, like, movements. He would, like, look around and he'd go like, whoa. [01:15:17] Speaker B: There was a time that your brother looked like Kramer. [01:15:20] Speaker A: I. I almost just said something that would have not been good. I was thinking of the meme of the magician looking at his orb, right? And I was like. And, you know, it's pondering your orb. For some reason, my brain didn't go there at first. It said fondling. It's the word it wanted me to say. I almost. [01:15:43] Speaker C: I just. [01:15:44] Speaker A: Almost straight. [01:15:46] Speaker C: That's crazy. You almost Jekyll just then. That was crazy. Way not to. Way to. Way to avoid both the fondle and the Jekyll. That was good. [01:15:57] Speaker A: Have to let you know that I stopped myself later than I should have. [01:16:02] Speaker E: But just then you told us. Anyway. [01:16:08] Speaker C: He just. He just lickled it, you know. [01:16:12] Speaker A: I lickled the jiggle and now we're in. Not the pickle. [01:16:15] Speaker B: No, I hate it. [01:16:16] Speaker E: I hate it so much. [01:16:17] Speaker A: When you save yourself from a jickle, you lickle it. [01:16:21] Speaker D: I feel like. [01:16:22] Speaker A: Save yourself from the pickle. Lickle the jiggle. So you don't end up in a pickle. [01:16:28] Speaker C: Okay. I don't know. I don't know. [01:16:34] Speaker A: All right. Pa says, hey, guys, it's me. [01:16:36] Speaker C: I got bees, Boz. And the constant fugue disassociative state he lives in. Oh, my. [01:16:44] Speaker A: Smell like blood. We already talked about this, didn't we? We talked. [01:16:55] Speaker C: Did you just say animal sacrifice? Real fast, bud. [01:16:58] Speaker A: Which animal? [01:17:00] Speaker C: That was a Jekyll. [01:17:02] Speaker E: No, that was not a jiggle. [01:17:04] Speaker D: What is it? [01:17:06] Speaker C: You just. Well, I hardly. Nipple. The point is that. Does the party take time? That one got lamb, which is wild because it's his joke. But does the. Does the party take a bunch of time to role play and talk about, like, each other's visions and talk about possibilities, or are you just like, now we go to bed. Which is fine, too. I'm just checking. Or we'll play about other things. I'm just. I'm giving you opportunity. Or you're like, now we're good. [01:17:31] Speaker E: Can we say that we did, but we don't have to. Yeah, absolutely. [01:17:37] Speaker C: Yeah. Assume you guys have had important conversations, but I don't know. I think Landon's water stink bug. But, yeah, that's fine. Let's talk. The party goes to bed. Everybody have your long rests. Whatever you need to update tier points, spell slots. [01:17:55] Speaker A: How many Levels. [01:17:56] Speaker C: Everything's back. We're all long rested. What did you say? [01:18:00] Speaker A: How many. How many levels do we get? [01:18:04] Speaker C: None. The session's not over. [01:18:09] Speaker E: We get three levels. [01:18:12] Speaker C: Okay? You couldn't be awarded more by a long rest than you already are in 5e. So long rests are paranormal. They are supernatural. Okay, so the party wakes up the next day. Greta in the morning left. Oh, she's back. Scream, making me jelly again. Broham. Greta. You all are awoken in the morning by a knocking at the door, which is interesting because it takes a lot to awaken you in such a fashion early. But you are awoken by a knocking, and at the door is a pupil who has in their hands folded sets of clothes. They're brought to you and laid out on the bed before you. And they are colors that will be determined. They have a brown base, and they are exact designs that will be determined in a way that you and I both know. But they feature a brown base. They have other accent colors to them. There are gold features to jewelry that comes with them. You realize there's. There's like a more formal chest dress setting for your. For your symbol of Ioun to sit in. They also have elements of text woven into the fabric that hang away. There's even a section on the front where, like, a scroll can be hung and inserted. And the coolest thing about them is that they exist in layers. And so you could very much wear your cloak with many pockets, like, beneath them, and weave your hands. But, like, you could separate the front layer of cloak and there would be, like, a gap through which you could reach into your pockets, which is even crazier because now you'd have even more layers to wear. And importantly now, when you pulled and when you shoved things away into nowhere and pulled them out of nowhere, you wouldn't just be doing it in your many pocketed clothes cloak, you would just be reaching your hand into layers of cloak and just producing things from pockets no one even knew was there. [01:20:29] Speaker B: Poppins. [01:20:30] Speaker C: You are also told that these vestments are magical, that they are. You know, as you were told, that they're enduring, that they will survive a great deal of. Of damage, and that all. All members of the. The curatorial council are provided, like, magically enduring cloaks. The cloaks also give the wearer proficiency in history. Now, you already have that, but if you didn't have it, they would have provided it to you. Also, you have learned that people worked through the night to make sure that these were additionally enchanted. And so you learned that these Vestments are not only enduring and that they benefit the mind of the wearer in a way that you already gain, but that they are also magically powerful. They're hard to damage. You learn that these cloth clothes come with an ac. They give the wearer. Someone has worked very hard for this non attunement magical item. Give the wearer an AC of 17. This cloak. So you can write in on your sheet. Greta. [01:22:01] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:22:01] Speaker C: That you now have robes of the curator, like parentheses. [01:22:08] Speaker D: Wow. [01:22:08] Speaker C: So let's put that in your Right. This is a non attunement magic item. So you can wear it and it does not take up another slot. [01:22:16] Speaker D: What were they called? Robes of Ioun. [01:22:19] Speaker C: No, robes of the curator. [01:22:21] Speaker D: Oh. [01:22:23] Speaker C: Because that's what you are. You are. You are a curator. And then parentheses, I own or however you want to remember that. And with this, from a mechanical standpoint, just for the player, 17 is. Is, if I remember correctly, higher than your current ac, which means you no longer need your armor. So you don't. You don't need your scale armor anymore because these robes are hardier than your metal armor. Yeah. So Greta no longer. I mean, assuming you're down for that. Greta no longer wears her scale mail armor. [01:22:58] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:22:59] Speaker C: She just has her clothes, her cloak of holding, and then her robes. [01:23:03] Speaker E: That's so cool. [01:23:04] Speaker C: So even though she has more layers of clothes, she actually had less extraneous, like, heat on her in hot environments and actually has more liberation of movement, even though she's harder. Wow. [01:23:17] Speaker D: And you'll find a pencil. So I can change my. [01:23:22] Speaker C: The scale mail armor can still be in your inventory if you would like to sell it at some point or give it to someone, whatever you want to do with it. But yeah, no one here is armored. You get the feeling they wouldn't. They would take it in a historical sense, but it would just be shoved somewhere for storage. [01:23:37] Speaker D: So cool. [01:23:38] Speaker E: That's beautiful. [01:23:41] Speaker D: That is so. [01:23:42] Speaker C: So you now. Greta now has robes of the curator, AC17. You can write down the proficiency thing if you want, but it doesn't affect you because you already have it. And then they are technically enduring clothes, which means that, you know, they're just. They're very resistant. Like, they, they, they. They will not degrade easily. Bless you. Bless you. [01:24:04] Speaker D: Thank you Know that. Wow. That's so cool. So exciting. [01:24:12] Speaker C: Thank you. [01:24:13] Speaker D: I think Ghetto is probably, like, apprehensive just because she, like, wasn't sure about. I think she's probably pretty attached to, like, her clothes and stuff, but she's super excited for about this. And as, like, whoever explains it to her, she's just, like, super happy and excited. She's surprised it, like, because she wasn't. She was, but she's very excited. [01:24:41] Speaker A: She's got, like, a coat of mini pockets, like, on the inside, and the curator's coat on, like, the outside. Okay, makes sense. [01:24:47] Speaker C: Yeah. The robes lay over the. The cloak. And as. As you have that, you put that on, and Tello just pulls out his little silver knife that boss gave him, and he goes, I still get cool stuff. I still get cool stuff. It's not the big deal. He puts it back in his sheath and he starts, like, flipping like, this is cool. I'm cool. What's that part of you? [01:25:16] Speaker E: It's now a mech. [01:25:20] Speaker B: A mech. [01:25:21] Speaker D: Thank you. [01:25:21] Speaker C: Actually, that's really helpful. [01:25:23] Speaker D: I say that Greta would ask the person that brought her the clothes, if she can, if there's a place where she could, like, buy some food for her travels or like, where there's. [01:25:37] Speaker C: The individual who's brought them to you is the people who's brought them is a teenager. He's. He's like a teenaged halfling. So he's about your height, a little taller. He's tall for a halfling. He's kind of gangly. He's got a. Just the worst mustache. Oh, no. And. And he's got, like, long hair that's tied into, like, a bunch of, like, padawan braids. It looks bad. He's going for a look. He's got some acne on his face. He's got slightly darker skin, really prominent nose. And he just goes, oh, well, I mean, Curator, I. I will supply you with whatever you need, but I. We. You know, we don't. We don't really use a currency down here so much as just, like, our specific allotments and what is perhaps provided because it's not actually necessarily outside trade. It's just all. It all goes back to the order. But we can bring more food here if you need it. We could bring you more. More flatbread, as well as more vegetables if you need. We could even have more bean rations. We have a bean paste if you want to take that with you. Is there something sort of specific you're looking for? [01:26:58] Speaker D: What do we have right now? Dm. [01:27:02] Speaker C: The breakfast you were brought again this morning is so basic. I mean, it's very much the F wound Kai school of eating around here. Nobody's. Nobody's making fancy dishes. There might be culinary things somewhere in the recesses of the society, but you have yet to see them. Okay. Everything looks very. [01:27:18] Speaker D: Have we eaten it yet? [01:27:22] Speaker C: Unless you have decided not to eat or you're saying the breakfast that you were brought up to, you. I mean, you can have not eaten yet if you want. [01:27:31] Speaker D: Has everybody else eaten yet? Which hand? If you've eaten yet. [01:27:35] Speaker B: I had one bite. I'm sorry. [01:27:38] Speaker E: I. Ro was like. Ro is mid bite. Like. [01:27:45] Speaker D: You know, I. It. I don't want to. That's okay. Thank you, though. I appreciate your. [01:27:57] Speaker A: No, it'd be very funny if I did, though. [01:28:00] Speaker E: Balls, you could lay an egg for spaghuber. [01:28:04] Speaker D: He might Goober would love that. [01:28:06] Speaker A: As long as I don't yell. Everybody gets weirded out when they find out that bird boss. [01:28:10] Speaker B: Yeah, because it's disgusting. [01:28:12] Speaker E: Yeah, it's weird. [01:28:13] Speaker C: And as you guys have this conversation, the pupil guy just goes, so, should I go now? [01:28:20] Speaker D: Thank you so much. [01:28:21] Speaker C: I don't know if I want to see any eggs getting laid. Okay. Thank you. The long blink. And then looks kind of nervous and closes the door behind him. [01:28:29] Speaker B: Poor kid. [01:28:33] Speaker D: It's funny. [01:28:34] Speaker E: Oh, Greta, I can. We can wrap. I'll wrap it up. [01:28:38] Speaker D: No, that's okay. I think. No, it's okay. This food is very tasty, but, I don't know. Tastier than what we have on the book. [01:28:51] Speaker E: I think that'd be chill. If Balls makes them some good berry sometime or something just to give them some flavor, I'm sure they'd appreciate that. Balls is shaking his head no, he does not want to make anymore. [01:29:02] Speaker A: I don't do good berry. I don't. I don't. That's a line, and it's a boundary. [01:29:06] Speaker E: Wait. We have a goodberry tree. They could eat jam off of that. [01:29:10] Speaker A: They have a good berry tree they're doing. [01:29:12] Speaker C: If I remember correctly, you have a good berry bonsai that you left on the boat, if I'm not wrong. [01:29:17] Speaker E: Yeah. So I don't know what's I. Well, I'm sure they're getting tired of it, but are you guys. [01:29:25] Speaker B: I think that that's a great thing to eat from. But didn't they want, like, beans? Like, eggs or something? [01:29:35] Speaker A: I could do eggs. [01:29:36] Speaker E: Yeah, sure. I don't know how we're gonna try and support them. [01:29:44] Speaker B: Pockets. [01:29:45] Speaker E: Oh, no. Nobody wants to. Nobody wants. [01:29:49] Speaker B: You just got pockets. [01:29:51] Speaker E: I just. I just wrap the beans up in napkins. I just had a horrible vision of, like, sticking my hand in a pocket and bringing it back out, and it's just covered in refried beans. [01:30:02] Speaker B: You've never had that happen. To you before? [01:30:05] Speaker C: No. [01:30:05] Speaker E: But now I'm scared of some reason. Bandana and ties up the stuff. All the stuff. She puts the beans on the. On the flatbread stuff. [01:30:27] Speaker C: I'm really not. Okay. I'm not gonna make you work this hard for this. [01:30:31] Speaker D: You haven't. [01:30:32] Speaker E: Beautiful. [01:30:35] Speaker D: It's soggy. [01:30:36] Speaker E: Y'all ready to. To go, or do you need to do more business here? Should do. We need to tell your other curator folks bye. [01:30:45] Speaker D: I should probably say goodbye. [01:30:47] Speaker E: Well, we gotta find a tree, right? [01:30:48] Speaker B: Balls. [01:30:49] Speaker E: Can you guess? There we go with a tree. [01:30:54] Speaker C: Yes. [01:30:55] Speaker E: Okay. Chill. Okay, cool. I guess let's go do that. [01:31:02] Speaker A: Yes. [01:31:02] Speaker E: Go say goodbye, I guess. Yeah. Yes. [01:31:08] Speaker C: And then the parties out of their chambers and into the central chamber and outside of that domed garden area that you found previously yesterday, in your time here. And both of the High Curators, Athet and Lazek, have gathered along with a couple of the other curators who seem to be slowly warming up to you, Greta. Not to the point that we have to name them, but they are gathered. And again, the people here are trying not to do the thing where they gather around and interrupt their whole lives to come watch you. But, like, people are going about their business. They keep, like, kind of slowing down trying to watch you guys because there's this thrilling thing going on there. So as you're gathered in that. That dirt area near that first garden ring where you guys could go through the central tree, you've informed them of your method of leaving, and they understand. The creator AET says. The. The. The. The squat, semi human dwarvish woman, she says, well, it was both harrowing and wonderful to adopt you into our old curator, Small Star. And we look forward to whatever more of you we get in the future. Please welcome you. And if there is another way we can aid you, please let us know. You serve the mistress well. And you serve us all well. [01:32:47] Speaker D: Thank you. I'm sorry for what she say. Sorry. [01:32:51] Speaker C: She said. May you see clearly. [01:32:55] Speaker D: Her says, thank you. I'm. Thank you for your accommodation and your openness. I'm sorry for the. For the turmoil I brought with me, but I appreciate your. Your help at all. Your knots. [01:33:17] Speaker E: Same. [01:33:17] Speaker D: Same for you. Let me know if. Please reach out if there's anything I can help with. [01:33:27] Speaker C: Curator Lezec, High Curator, chimes in. At this point, the very tall ASMR man, and he says it is no issue at all. Any inconvenience was the process of good work. Research is always messy. If you ever need to return in the future, if your Druid Friend is available. This tree is always yours. But perhaps far in the future, too. We might also talk about, with some practice and even a little more expertise, a spell you might use to travel right back to here. Something specific to your discipline. And anytime you would be looking for more guidance in the future. This is a role I perform as my curator, but also something that, given your specific duty, your quest, I would be glad to perform for you in the future. If you need more explanation. Tease. He just raises up his symbol. He says, I'm only ever called away. [01:34:31] Speaker D: Thank you. Thank you. She kind of, like, reaches into her bag and pulls out her notebook, and she says, I'll. I'll continue to write. [01:34:42] Speaker C: Excellent. For whatever it's worth. Your text, which you write there, connects back not to our library here, but to ions. Okay, so you would not be able to contact me directly through that, but yes, this is central role for any curator of our order. So we appreciate the responsibilities and roles you've adopted. And while we do not mean to obligate you to anything, should you ever wish to return in a more permanent sense to us, you will always have a role here. I look forward to being your teacher. [01:35:17] Speaker D: Thank you. Thank you. [01:35:19] Speaker C: Gives you the long link. [01:35:22] Speaker D: Link back. Link back. [01:35:25] Speaker B: Okay, I have a question before we leave this place. Question I am just curious about. Okay. This is something that Micah Brain is thinking, and I just want. I just want this answered. So there's the prize possession, or like, I guess like, the value of this community is knowledge. So are people actively learners in a humble way? Are they trying to act like they've already learned and know it all? [01:35:57] Speaker D: Any question. [01:35:59] Speaker B: Like, do they come out of like, oh, I know all this come to me. I know what I'm talking about. Or is it, hey, how do you know that I want to know more? Kind of. [01:36:07] Speaker C: Why don't you me an inside check also? I just realized that in my notes, I wrote Greta, Ro, Bo, and Micah, not Craig, Micah. I don't know what I got confused about. That's. [01:36:29] Speaker B: In inspiration using. [01:36:31] Speaker C: Okay. [01:36:33] Speaker B: I didn't do much better. That's okay, Micah. [01:36:36] Speaker C: Use inspiration on the important things. I like it. Yeah, that plus two, if you want it up to you. [01:36:44] Speaker B: It's not gonna do much. You said it was insight. [01:36:48] Speaker C: Mm. [01:36:51] Speaker B: I got seven. [01:36:53] Speaker C: I'm sorry, buddy. Part of the ignorance here is just an ignorance of experience, right? You have been here a short time, and Greta's been the one having most of the interactions. Now, it's not like rolling low means you just don't have A brain. There are some basic things you can put together. You've seen some people who seem a bit snooty about knowledge. You certainly haven't. I mean, plenty of people have been very humble about knowledge here. In the entire conference you sat through yesterday, was everyone listening with great fascination to Greta? So you get the feeling that lifelong learner seems to be what people are aspiring to. That seems to be. I mean, they call themselves students. They say that every level of this organization is to be a student. So you get the feeling that humble scholarship is the ethic to which they strive. But you imagine that just with any other social or religious institution, for that matter, there are probably people who abide by the. By the spirit of the law and others by the letter of it. So with the seven, you haven't really seen too many specific examples or nothing, but you can imagine that this group of people is like many others. [01:38:08] Speaker B: Okay, got it, got it, got it. [01:38:12] Speaker C: Totally done. Anybody have any other business for the council, or do you guys tree it up? [01:38:24] Speaker A: I'm down to tree Oz. [01:38:26] Speaker D: Yeah, I think we. [01:38:27] Speaker A: Tree grabs the tree. [01:38:29] Speaker B: Okay. [01:38:30] Speaker A: And casts plant stride. [01:38:34] Speaker C: Okay. There is a great crack and shining of golden rainbow light and powerful emanations of magic from Boz as he fuses with the tree in front of him, and it just splits open and light bleeds out. Everyone looks amazed as transport via plants is cast. [01:38:51] Speaker A: Yes, I want to do something as I grab the tree, but before I cast. Okay, transfer weapon. I want to push my roots into the tree and try to see if I can feel like a wellspring source here. [01:39:07] Speaker D: Oh, cool. [01:39:08] Speaker C: Oh, okay. Give me a check. Give me a. A check with your ability casting modifier. All right. [01:39:16] Speaker A: I think that's Arcana. No, wisdom. [01:39:18] Speaker C: Well, it would be wisdom, but I'm also. You can use Arcana for this, too, if you want. This is also arcana for you. I'll take either. [01:39:28] Speaker A: 12 plus 6, which is 18. [01:39:38] Speaker C: Boss. As you connect with the root system and the magic in the Leyland, you feel a vague remnant of that magical connection all around the world, but you do not feel any. Any Wellspring present anywhere near here. But sucks for them. [01:39:52] Speaker A: All right. [01:39:56] Speaker C: All right. [01:39:56] Speaker A: I cast. Plant go. And we over there, party goes. [01:40:02] Speaker C: We get out of here, Everybody hops to the tree, and everybody splits very suddenly into the portal connecting to the poor. Bet. And sorry, I. I wanted to utilize another track, and so I had to upload another one, which crashes the system for whatever reason. Is it gonna let me play the others now? No, it's still being finicky for whatever reason. But you guys step out onto the poor bet the lower deck, of course, because you've gone through the. Oh, I'm playing the music through my headphones and not through the. That's why no one else can hear it. Yeah, there we go. So the I love you, mom. You guys return to the lower deck of the poor bed. The tessellated pattern of the roots scrawling all around the walls. The starscape of emerald flecks shining brilliantly from the walls. The many the tree grown into the side of the conf find almost claustrophobic space. The canopy it makes above and all the little boughs and hung strips of cloth. This little cage of root of branches where Nam lives. The root system below where Rho makes her bed. The pillars from which are strong or the beams from which are strong. Yalls, hammocks swaying back and forth. Everything is very much the way you left it. There are are a couple of very small differences. Some of the barrels are in different spots, some of the lids in different positions like they've been utilizing different resources. Shipping's books are kind of strewn out around the back. You notice there are some ink smudges and stains near Shippago's little, like, kind of indent section bunk in the floor where he's clearly been doing some more spell writing and craft. And also in the very middle of the lower deck, someone has carved, probably the carpenter Bill Free has carved a little like kind of grooved indent into the floor where dice do not easily roll out. As if there's a carved space in the middle of the lower deck for playing beggars. Hope so that the dice would quit rolling off the edges into other storage spots. And when you guys split back in, no one's below deck as you all spill out and step out, or at least no one hears anything until after a moment you guys hear, oh, okay, you guys are back. And like. Like two little cat eyes poking out from the canopy of trees that the branches that fuse with the ceiling up here, the. The branches are now sprouting leaves, though there's no sunlight here. And Nam is like you. It's almost trouble. It's hard to see her. Her hammock now. Like, she is truly hidden away in these branches. They're dense and her face is just kind of poking out from some of the leaves. And she goes, well, it's good to see you guys back. [01:43:18] Speaker B: No, Craig runs up to Nam and. [01:43:22] Speaker C: Like Craig, you run up to the base of the tree where the canopy's three feet above you and she's up in it. [01:43:31] Speaker B: I climb. I start climbing. I start. [01:43:34] Speaker C: Okay, give me an athletics check, Craig. Okay. As you do that, no one goes, oh, hey, look, it's already too much. And she starts like weaving her way further out in the branches away from you, trying to like, like climb out further to where they're too small for you. Would you get on your athletics check? [01:43:50] Speaker B: So strength plus five. Okay, so that's going to be a 21. [01:44:02] Speaker C: In full plate armor, Craig noisily scales the side of the tree. And I mean, there is this much space between the branches and the ceiling. You can't get up in it, but you are so strong that you are like climb like monkey bars climbing across her ears, like turn just a little bit to start to lay back to the sides a little and her pupils dilate and she climbs for that into the branches and she's like, oh, I hate this. Okay, well, it's good to see you back, Craig. What do you want? [01:44:32] Speaker B: I missed you. [01:44:35] Speaker C: Why don't you miss me from down there. [01:44:39] Speaker B: So far? [01:44:42] Speaker C: Also, Craig's seven feet off the ground, upside down, climbing around branches in full plate armor. [01:44:53] Speaker B: I respect. I respect your space. And then he gets down. [01:44:56] Speaker C: Do you? [01:44:57] Speaker E: Do you. [01:44:58] Speaker B: Okay, it starts now. [01:45:01] Speaker C: Are you climbing back down? Do you just like, land? How do you do it? [01:45:05] Speaker B: Yeah, I kind of like lower myself down cautiously. Okay. [01:45:08] Speaker C: So Craig. And as he slams down with all his armor, the porthole opens and you hear my adventurers. [01:45:18] Speaker B: This one will hug me. [01:45:20] Speaker C: And finally giving you the amount of warmth you want, Craig, he runs into you and kind of ow, my face. And Spaghuber gives you a really tight hug. And then he goes, get in here. And I worry about the growth hug. [01:45:33] Speaker E: I get in. [01:45:34] Speaker A: I did get in there. [01:45:38] Speaker C: Okay. And tell does too. And everybody just squeezes in the middle and he goes. I'm liking an oven of love. [01:45:46] Speaker E: Ro takes out her bandana and says, it's not. I don't know if it's. I love it. It's not much, but I guess it's maybe a little better as a. [01:46:00] Speaker C: So thankful. Thank you. [01:46:02] Speaker E: I'll see you. [01:46:02] Speaker C: Feel free and pop some. [01:46:04] Speaker E: Come on. [01:46:04] Speaker C: Let's go, dick. Let's go, Dick. [01:46:06] Speaker E: Okay. She tosses the bread to Nam. [01:46:12] Speaker C: Just her arm just darts out from the branches and you hear this animalist like. Then there's this tiny little and thank you. Oh, that was good. I like that. I like beans. You guys climb your way back up the ladder and as you open the port cover, the poor bet is just. It's just cerulean blue everywhere. Except that maybe like a quarter mile away is a stretch of broad sand and thick forest along a mountainous edge. There was the isle you were just on some distance away from there. And the poor bet is just bobbing up and down. The deck has cleared a little of some of the flowers, which is to say that it's not completely overgrown at this point, but there's still grass and flowers and forbs growing everywhere out of the deck at a low height. It's beautiful. And Bill Free and Plough are up there kind of like looking over the edge of the railing out at the ocean on this tiny little sail less vessel. And just Goober smiles and takes the helm back from Billy and goes. They're back. And Bill Free and PLA are very excited to see you all and well, in their level and way. So it's not his same energy. But Bill Free turns around with, oh, we missed you guys. And he walks up and Craig, he gives you like a, like a full hug. Like a full. [01:47:43] Speaker B: And it started as a bro hug. [01:47:45] Speaker C: Yeah, very much. Yeah. [01:47:47] Speaker B: He likes like the bro hug and then it's like, you know, yeah, it's. [01:47:51] Speaker C: The hands and then the dab and then into the hug and he. Yeah, really walks up and goes, oh, have you gotten charter? And she like chest bumps you really hard and then gives you like a light headbutt. And then you guys both. Yeah. And then they turn around and greet each of you guys. Bill Free and Bluff greet all of the rest of you all with very warm and friendly hands. Handshakes. But it's Craig's the one they've grown this bond with. [01:48:18] Speaker B: So get on my level because I'm the bestie. [01:48:21] Speaker C: The handshakes are, are long and held and you know, they even put a hand halfway up the arm and they're smiles and they're very happy to see you. And Bill Free turns to you row and says, well, you were gone. You know, I don't know how you'll feel about it, but I know how artistic you are. And you know, this ship's very different from how I know a ship to be kept. But I've started trying to decorate it a little bit with some of the carvings. I mean there's the whole root space downstairs so it's only got so much with it. But with the roots where you sleep at the bottom. I don't know a lot about music, but I saw some of your book and I carved Some like little notes into the roots. So, I don't know. Let me know what you think about that. That and if you like it and all that. I mean, you know, tell me what you think, because if you don't like it, I can. I can scratch them out pretty easily. [01:49:09] Speaker E: No, that sounds so amazing. Bill Free. Thank you. [01:49:13] Speaker C: Thank you. I did it pretty good, boss. I put. I put a couple new pegs in by your space because I know you like that. [01:49:18] Speaker A: Oh, I love pegs. Actually, I. I had a couple of suggestions on how. How you might do pegs a little bit more efficiently after. [01:49:28] Speaker C: Okay. What are those? [01:49:31] Speaker A: Well, if you. If you take the pegs and instead of like drilling a hole in the wood, you just kind of like meld them together, they have a stronger bond than. [01:49:42] Speaker C: That's not how carpentry works. I mean, maybe you could do that with your magic powers and stuff. [01:49:50] Speaker A: Well, you just gotta. Just gotta like. [01:49:53] Speaker C: Nope. [01:49:53] Speaker A: Yeah, I guess you will. [01:49:54] Speaker C: Yep. Thank you. Thank you. [01:49:57] Speaker A: I should just said thank you. Thank you. I appreciate it. [01:49:59] Speaker E: Feel free. [01:50:00] Speaker C: Oh, it's okay. Okay. Yeah. [01:50:01] Speaker D: Half. [01:50:02] Speaker E: I thought. I thought you guys would. Would appreciate this. It's. It's a new instrument that my dad gave me. Well, you met him. And she pulls it out and she like. She throws it just like off the ship. [01:50:21] Speaker C: And as you toss it on the side. What are you doing? And then as a back to her hand, she goes. That's so cool. And yeah, they're. They're just mesmerized by Song Splitter. And they think it's awesome. You can pull off that trick 20, 25 times. And they think it's cool. They start being like, like, like Ploth. At one point, he's like, how, how. How far could you throw that? I mean, like, will it always come back? [01:50:49] Speaker E: Yeah, I mean it. I mean, it should always come back to you. [01:50:53] Speaker C: Even if I throw it. [01:50:57] Speaker E: Dm. Do I know that for sure how that works? [01:51:00] Speaker C: Let's test it at like 5ft and then we could try for more. [01:51:03] Speaker E: Okay. Yeah, we could. Sure. Yeah, that's fine. [01:51:06] Speaker C: Toss it forward like five feet in the boat. Just. It gets some good rotation. Do you whistle? [01:51:13] Speaker E: Yeah, I do. [01:51:14] Speaker C: In case as you whistle, it comes back to your hand. [01:51:17] Speaker D: Cool. [01:51:19] Speaker E: Okay, I can, I can. I just remembered Ploth. I can throw it about 60ft. [01:51:25] Speaker C: Well, do you mind if I try? [01:51:27] Speaker E: Go for it. [01:51:29] Speaker C: Okay. She picks it up, she goes to throw it and she steps back. Bill Free puts him. His foot out in front of hers and trips her and she like falls over and Just grounds it into the bottom of the boat. And she goes, oh. Oh, See, I like what you did there because you really. And she just turns out and boom, elbows him so hard in the chest. And she, like, just takes him down by the neck and just starts wrestling him. And soon enough, they're just full sibling, just wrestling each other hard. Too hard. [01:51:56] Speaker E: Ro just. Ro just grabs her grab song splitter and, like, backs away. [01:52:01] Speaker C: And there's just, like, for a little while as they're fighting. And the fun guys are back to the board. Lando has very temporarily stepped away also. We're probably nearing the end of the session, but does anyone have any quick input on. And I know the next piece was that you guys wanted him to call Bella Andra. So that is a bit unfortuit. Does anyone have some rp? They want a spiggity bisque bag or anything briefly to his characters and players or anything like that. Not to interrupt my own question, Abby, the quickest of reminders. Your divine intervention worked was spent on Kalilon 23rd. [01:52:55] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:52:56] Speaker C: And it is now Sihadron 3rd. And there's 32 days in each one. Oh, no, Ma. So divine intervention is expended for a week once it's utilized. So that means your divine intervention is back. [01:53:12] Speaker D: Oh, awesome. [01:53:12] Speaker C: Again, you'll always have to roll to see if it works. And it's once per day. But just make a note wherever you need to that your divine intervention dimension has returned, and you can attempt to utilize it again. [01:53:22] Speaker D: Thank you, DM Boy. If anybody is interested, Greta's probably, like, showing off her new. Her new fancy robes. [01:53:42] Speaker B: You and I try it on. [01:53:44] Speaker D: No. [01:53:47] Speaker B: Please. [01:53:49] Speaker C: But, Craig, your armor already looks so amazing. Come on, everybody. Get over here. Let's. Because Ro has. Ro has her. Her gown that can change the colors. And then Greta has her new robes, and Craig has his amazing new armor. [01:54:03] Speaker A: Why don't you guys. [01:54:04] Speaker C: We'll do, like, a Runway. It'll be fun. [01:54:07] Speaker E: Hello, Tello. And balls can put on their, like, really fancy outfit. [01:54:12] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:54:12] Speaker C: Who. [01:54:13] Speaker E: I'll play. I'll play. And she starts playing, like. Like Vogue by Madonna. Like. [01:54:21] Speaker B: Can you press the digitate or. I don't know. So press the digitate. I know you could do, like, sparkles and effects and stuff. Can you do, like, illusionary, like, carpets. Red carpets? Why would you mute. [01:54:41] Speaker E: That would probably be minor illusion. [01:54:43] Speaker C: Oh, that's probably more than minor illusion. [01:54:46] Speaker E: Okay. [01:54:49] Speaker B: I just. I just do sparkles when I'm doing my little show. Like, and then there's, like, a bad smell As I walk off. But that's it. [01:54:58] Speaker E: In row. Press the digitates that smell away. [01:55:01] Speaker C: Just. Just. [01:55:05] Speaker B: That's a sign of the fireworks. [01:55:07] Speaker C: Yeah, Literally fart sparkles. That's awesome. Heck yeah. And the party has fun with some fireworks. Does. Does anyone have really like, important business they want done in an RP sense that day? Any other reservation? Normal. And also, do you supply ship? Goober With a new heading. So where are we headed next? Now that you guys have concluded your business on the island? Where are we going? [01:55:38] Speaker E: Yeah, we need to go to. Where is it Greta that Bella Andra needed us to go to? [01:55:46] Speaker D: There's a temple. [01:55:49] Speaker C: Okay. You guys are going from temple to temple? Double dimensions. [01:55:54] Speaker B: Well, we're very religious. Very religious. [01:55:59] Speaker C: Okay. All right. [01:56:01] Speaker E: Wait. [01:56:03] Speaker C: Yeah, what's up, Abby? You've asked six times. [01:56:06] Speaker D: You can you remind me where we're going? [01:56:11] Speaker C: Well, you guys know some things and don't know some others. So you know that you are going to the Drowned King keep layer of saline. The Fathom Witch. That she is this rumored sea hag of some sort and that she is somewhere off the coast of Hashas. But that is everything you all know. Now, if you had a cleric in your party with a litany of powerful divination spells, you could learn more about that. Or even one who'd had a passion past deeply connected to Hags. But at the current time, that is what you know. [01:56:50] Speaker B: Too bad we don't have that. Too bad not any friends. [01:56:57] Speaker E: I have question I have answered. Have they? Have they. Has the crew seen us since we were all goldified? [01:57:07] Speaker C: Yes. Yes. [01:57:08] Speaker A: No. [01:57:08] Speaker C: No. You guys. You guys returned after Z Edge and you. The crew. [01:57:12] Speaker E: That's right. You're right. You're right. I'm sorry. I was so. I was like. For a second, I was like, whoa. [01:57:18] Speaker C: Yeah, you guys returned after Zedge for a while. [01:57:22] Speaker E: Yeah. [01:57:23] Speaker C: And then you guys. [01:57:24] Speaker E: That's when we did the tr. [01:57:25] Speaker C: And then you went straight from the lost Lands to the. So you guys haven't seen your crew in about a month. But they did see you for a while after they saw you in on land. And you guys were together on sea for a bit after. [01:57:36] Speaker E: Okay. Sick, sick, sick. [01:57:38] Speaker C: Yeah, Abby, you seemed like you had more also at the end of all this. Can we see what you're painting? [01:57:44] Speaker D: Yes, you can. [01:57:46] Speaker C: Guys, look at how pretty this D100 are. So I have this pink and black and this blue. [01:57:52] Speaker D: Do they match? [01:57:54] Speaker C: I don't think they're intentionally together, but they could be. That didn't want a while. They're married. They like each other. [01:58:04] Speaker B: Do you guys ever take your socks and then when you put them together, you pretend that there's a ceremonial marriage? [01:58:10] Speaker D: No, but I think now I will. [01:58:14] Speaker B: He's like, you know, like, they're like, they're married now. [01:58:17] Speaker E: Like, I like to think that Craig said that. [01:58:20] Speaker C: I like. I only assume that every time Craig puts his armor on, when he gets his boots on, he goes and tink. But anywho, I also think Craig pep Peck pops when he talks, but that's neither here. [01:58:36] Speaker D: He. What? [01:58:36] Speaker C: He was peck popping like. [01:58:40] Speaker E: Oh, peck popping. [01:58:44] Speaker C: It feels like a thing Craig would do, but no, like. [01:58:48] Speaker E: Like what the rock does. He. Zach is doing it right now. [01:58:52] Speaker C: I'm just saying I feel like it's thing Craig would do. Anyway. This is. Abby's making a face now. I didn't want this to. Okay. I tried to join in, and I did it wrong, so. Okay. That was quiet. My go. So do you guys want to do anything with the information you need to know? I don't know. Abby's really into this painting. [01:59:17] Speaker D: Can I make a. Can I. Do I know if this ad person is still alive? [01:59:22] Speaker C: Why don't you start with a check about the name Salgin the Fathom Witch. Oop. Oh, Mike is doing a big yawn. Get a mickle. I promise to play less sleepy music one day. Sorry. What are you doing? Are you okay? [01:59:50] Speaker E: She's making the calls of the hag. [01:59:53] Speaker C: Disconcerting behavior you're exhibiting here. Okay. All right. Okay, so why don't we start with a. I'm gonna call. Yeah, this is very much a. This would be a history check for you. Give me. Give me a history check about Selen the Fathom Witch. [02:00:19] Speaker D: Do I have advantage on these about hacks? [02:00:23] Speaker C: Do you? [02:00:25] Speaker D: I had a. Some kind of buff. [02:00:27] Speaker C: Is it written on your character? As we've said many times, when I tell you a feature, you got to write it down. It's not written down. I don't know how. [02:00:33] Speaker E: Do you spell saline? [02:00:36] Speaker C: Yes. Well, for the note taking nerds. So I just. I didn't want to say until Abby was done with her thing because I know that she still takes some notes, so I wanted to give her a second. [02:00:46] Speaker D: Will you? I have to. [02:00:53] Speaker C: I believe you did, but let me see if it's in your channel. I try not to say this sassy again. If I. If I tell you a feature detail, please, please write it down because I have a good deal to keep track of. Okay. I'm not seeing a note in your Channel. That doesn't mean you don't have it. Is it anywhere on your sheets or papers? I don't know if that's old Greta's sheet. [02:01:33] Speaker D: My new one is called Greta old. [02:01:36] Speaker C: No, but her sheet. Man. Abby, that last sheet you were playing with was in rough shape. Stains all over it. [02:01:46] Speaker D: It's. Those are. [02:01:51] Speaker E: Looks like paw prints. [02:01:53] Speaker C: Yeah, it does look like. [02:01:57] Speaker D: Yeah. Proficiency in history checks to do with hags, but I'm already proficient, so we'll just. I don't know what the. It's. It's at the very bottom of my features and traits on my old sheet. [02:02:10] Speaker C: And it says just proficiency for checks. But you started the campaign with proficiency in history, right? [02:02:18] Speaker D: So maybe I added expertise. But I already have expertise in right now, so. [02:02:25] Speaker C: Yeah. I don't know. It's a history check. So what'd you get? [02:02:33] Speaker D: I'm gonna guide myself, okay. So I can be guided. Oh, my goodness. Why did I do that? Sorry. I was like, I'm gonna guide myself, but I forgot the numbers obscenely high. So. [02:02:54] Speaker C: She'S like, not to brag or anything. Oh, my goodness. Abby, I'm so proud of you right now, using a calculator. I. Inspiration, Abby. Inspiration. Thank you. Inspiration. I thank you. Bless you, child. [02:03:08] Speaker D: I got a 32. [02:03:10] Speaker C: 30. [02:03:11] Speaker B: Say. [02:03:14] Speaker D: I lost my dice, though. [02:03:17] Speaker B: Oh. [02:03:17] Speaker C: Why do we even make Abby? Okay, you know, I mean, obviously it was gonna happen for so many campaign reasons, but just the. Her ending the campaign as a knowledge domain cleric is just so like she is. There's gonna be no character with the ability to know things as much as grand Greta, by the end of this campaign, she has this cosmic knowledge. Well, love. Okay. Okay. So, Saul Geen, for the note taking nerds is Sal. Apostrophe. Okay. I like that. Abby rolled a 32 on history check and then just put all her stuff down, and she was like, back to painting. She's like, the number is good. I'm done. So, Saulgeen, for the note taking nerds is Landon. That was kind of perfect timing. Saen is S A L apostrophe G H. Soggy. Yes, Soggy. The fathom witch. [02:04:19] Speaker E: E H. What? [02:04:22] Speaker C: S a L apostrophe G H I, I N. Saline. The fathom witch. [02:04:29] Speaker A: See, on the boat. Is this somebody on the boat with us right now? Should I be alarmed? [02:04:32] Speaker E: No. [02:04:33] Speaker C: And, Greta, very importantly, there's one very basic thing you know about her. She is not a part of the coven crown. So you know this about the history of the coven crown. The coven crown is very Old. They are incredibly ancient, but they're not that old. Which is to say that. That. Especially given the deeply impactful knowledge that you learned from High Curator Lazek about the Ages of Yalabran, The Coven Crown is something that formed in the Shade Ages. They are. Yalabrin's a tough place to be a hag in the Elder Age. Specifically in the. Especially in Landon. Sorry to be using all this terminology that may or may not fit with you. In the Age of May of Magocracies and the Platinum Age. Especially the Platinum Age. Hard time to be anything monstrous in Yalden, because there were so many magically powerful individuals and massive societies that like to be a malfeasant and dangerous magical being who's just chaotic, you know, down to ruin the lives of everyone around you. You really needed to live in the fringes of this world because you didn't have a chance against the sheer size, might and power of the societies that existed in Yal. But in the wake of the Hatefall, you have learned that in the Shade Ages, that was when many of the Dark Fae beings currently present in Yaladin came to Yal. And that there were Hags before them. But this. This is the era in which there was a great influx of Hags. And having learned from the history of those who survived, they were like. We are going to need a shield against the inevitable. Like as the. Once these cultures rise up again, our kind will be in danger again. And this is when the Covering Crown came into being and when Bashaba began weaving her careful plan and all that stuff. So the vast majority of Yaladin's Hags exist in the Coven Crown, but not all. There is a smattering around them. A smattering of them around Yalabran who are not in the Coven Crown. That sea Hag you met at the very beginning of the campaign was a part of the Coven Crown. But clearly Salgein is not. So that's the very basic info now with a 30 freaking two. [02:06:57] Speaker D: Wait. So sorry. The Hag that we met. Like the first Hag that we met on the unrecorded episodes. [02:07:03] Speaker C: Yeah, you remember that she was a part of a coven, right? But Salgin is not. And that being said, so you were taught when you were a corrupted domain Cleric, when you were a member of the Crown, to view Salgein with some contempt. Now, Hags view everyone with contempt. Hags view their closest allies with contempt. They hate everyone and themselves. But Saline especially she was. She was seen as one those Hags in Yom, which Would not join the crown, were seen as kind of like fools, was the way you were taught to look at them. Oh, are you going to crack it on the. No, no. You're muted, Landon. You're muted. You should have cracked it on the mic. Oh, well, you're still muted, but he'll always be muted. Really, he's muted in our hearts. So you. Why is he doing this to us? [02:08:03] Speaker E: He's so happy about a Coca Cola. [02:08:08] Speaker C: Yeah. Okay, so. Oh, that one got. Oh, he left. [02:08:15] Speaker E: Maybe he really can't hear us. He said, I can't hear you guys. [02:08:19] Speaker C: No, Salgein is. She has some renown. Apparently, she has hold of some number of things that give her great power under the ocean and that she stands a little uncontested in her watery realm and domain. You're aware that she is a very powerful hag and that there are. Are rumors that, like, there are rumors that she. No, we cannot hear you, Landon. You are aware that. Have you tried. Okay, there you go. Now we can hear you. [02:08:59] Speaker A: Okay, great. [02:09:00] Speaker D: Can you hear us? [02:09:01] Speaker A: I can hear y'all. [02:09:05] Speaker C: I. I would make this like a whole separate check, but given how high you got, I'm not going to. It has been said that Jackie. It's been said that her lair is in between Sandora, the Sandorian island chain, and Hashas. So off that peak part of the coast. Jackie, that was a good one. Inspiration. That was funny. It has been said that she has some power that pulls ships that sail over her down to the bottom of the ocean. And so sailors avoid the distance. Well, superstitious sailors, which is quite a bit of them, avoid the distance between Sandoria and Hashas because they fear there is myth that she is there and she is deadly. And the last bit of what you know is it is rumored that she lives in an underground lair at the bottom of the part of the ocean she's in. So she's. She's underground at the bottom of part of the ocean off the coast. Now, with that 32 in history with Saul Gein, we'll just throw in some bonus information that it's a different check to know more about the Sapphire Desert. But this ocean, which you are now sailing, you guys, I think previously passed some check to know the basics. So we'll just dovetail this in. And if you have any sailing experience in Yahbrin, you know this. The Sapphire Desert is the largest body of water in the world. Now that you are among the few in Yalaburin who have a global perspective on this world. You are aware that it is very much the Pacific Ocean of this world. It connects the largest distance of uninterrupted land mass. It's like the Pacific Ocean, but relatively larger. Not absolutely, because Yellow Brain is actually a little smaller than Earth, radially speaking, but relatively larger. It is vast. It's also known for having very large still patches and very infrequent precipitation. That's why it's called the Sapphire Desert. Many sailors refuse to sail there because it's regarded as very dangerous for its dryness and lack of wind. Now, lack of wind doesn't particularly affect your vessel, but this is very much in rumor territory. But it is rumored that this vast, open, watery place is home to all of the great unknown aquatic monsters in Yalabryn. It's the vast. You could get lost out there forever in stillness, or a giant monster could come up out of the water and eat you. But people fear it for many reasons. And it's very far away from people where people sail. So it's hard to say whether or not it really is that deadly, or if just because people don't go there, that's what they make their rumors up about. [02:12:07] Speaker A: Like Atlantis and the Bermuda Triangle. [02:12:09] Speaker C: Yes. Yeah, that's a good point. So that's what you guys know about Helgeen. That's what you know about the Sapphire Desert. [02:12:16] Speaker D: So as far as I know, she's still alive. Like it seems like she is. [02:12:21] Speaker C: You. The. The hag certainly spoke of her as if she was a current, right? [02:12:27] Speaker A: Oh my gosh. Are y'all telling me there's a hag at the water temple that we're going to? [02:12:34] Speaker D: So yes. [02:12:34] Speaker A: I have to kill a hat. [02:12:36] Speaker B: Guys, not again. [02:12:38] Speaker A: Is crazy. I can't believe the first hag we're going to have to kill is not Madam E. Score. [02:12:42] Speaker C: This is. This is the. [02:12:43] Speaker A: This is just back. [02:12:45] Speaker E: Y'all killed a sea hag before, bro, right? [02:12:49] Speaker D: This is true. [02:12:50] Speaker A: My encyclopedia knowledge went 0. The first was a hag. Cuz we didn't kill the Kotoa. [02:13:00] Speaker D: But okay, so turn to boss and I say. Okay, help me remember what. What exactly is our mission from Bella? Or we're just delivering, correct? [02:13:14] Speaker A: No, no. We got to go down there and get something for her. A book, right? [02:13:17] Speaker C: Oh, I. At the bottom of every single session document, I have copied all the open quests you guys have. Because I know it's hard to remember, but your characters would know. For Bella Andra, you guys have accepted a quest to venture to the Drowned Keep deep below the waves. Off of the northwestern coast of the Wildlands. Yeah, we talked about that. She has said that in the lair of Salgein, in the innermost heart of the temple, there is a very powerful magical item she once retrieved for her. You don't have more specific directions than that right now. Now, but. [02:13:58] Speaker D: Did she say that she would give us more when you got there? [02:14:02] Speaker C: You what? [02:14:04] Speaker D: Did you say that she would give us more when she got there or when we got there, or. [02:14:08] Speaker B: No. [02:14:09] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, she said that she would give you more specifications, you know, like when you were at that phase of the assignment. But thus far, that's what she's told you. [02:14:17] Speaker E: Maybe the Sea Hag took her soul and that's why she's meant. And then when we get it back, she'll be all happy again. [02:14:25] Speaker C: Tello doesn't say anything. [02:14:26] Speaker B: He just slides. [02:14:29] Speaker D: I mean. [02:14:32] Speaker B: Think of that personality. [02:14:36] Speaker D: That is a. I hope that that is balls. [02:14:41] Speaker E: I think it's time to call Bella. Andra. And she doesn't want to talk to. [02:14:46] Speaker D: Any of us or something, so I can hear. [02:14:49] Speaker A: Did you guys just talk to her? [02:14:50] Speaker E: Yeah, she didn't want to talk to us. [02:14:52] Speaker D: I think she wants to talk to you, boss. [02:14:54] Speaker E: You were in the middle of throwing up and she doesn't like dealing with us. She was like, I'm insight check back. [02:15:01] Speaker A: To see if she actually didn't want to talk to me or if they just don't want to talk to her. [02:15:07] Speaker C: It. To see if she actually really wanted to only talk to you or if. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Make an insight check. Make an insight check. [02:15:21] Speaker A: Sorry, gotta bring up my character sheet. [02:15:23] Speaker C: That's okay. [02:15:24] Speaker A: An unnatural 20. [02:15:29] Speaker C: Yeah, that sounds about right. I mean, you know, she really doesn't like the rest of the party that much. [02:15:34] Speaker A: She's much more Talk to me. [02:15:36] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah. [02:15:39] Speaker C: You get the feeling they're being pretty honest about that? Actually, you get the feeling both things are true. They don't want to talk to her, and she doesn't want to talk to them. She wants to talk to you. [02:15:48] Speaker A: All right. [02:15:58] Speaker C: Oh, Landon ate another stink bug. Landon, we've talked. [02:16:03] Speaker A: All right, guys, I'm still getting better from being sick. Sick? [02:16:06] Speaker E: Oh, I didn't know you were sick. I so sorry. [02:16:09] Speaker A: Oh, man. Okay, I pick up the sending stone. [02:16:13] Speaker C: Okay. [02:16:14] Speaker A: And what time is it right now? Is it night time? Do I know this is a bad time to call Zachary? [02:16:19] Speaker C: No, it's the next day on the third. It's probably like you guys have learned at this point. I mean, you don't know exactly what the time zones are. But you are aware that where she is in the he. In the eastern hemisphere, you wouldn't know the term hemisphere, but in the east, the day is often later than it is here in the west. But it's not even midday yet, so you'd be calling her in the afternoon. All right. [02:16:46] Speaker A: I give her a polite little ring on the phone. [02:16:50] Speaker C: Okay. [02:16:51] Speaker A: On the phone. [02:16:52] Speaker C: Ring the stone. There's a pause, and you feel the connection. [02:17:00] Speaker A: Hey, this is Boz. If it's a bad time, I can call back later. Just let me know. [02:17:09] Speaker C: Baz, finally. Yes, hello. No, give me just a few moments. Yeah. And then after a minute or two, the voice returns. [02:17:23] Speaker A: I think. No, never mind. He's not going to be done. Oz waited patiently and intentionally for her to come back. And then he. [02:17:30] Speaker C: After a brief pause, the voice returns in the connection in your mind and says, balls. I had waited some time for you. Are you feeling better? [02:17:37] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Travelers something, I guess. I don't know. Don't drink water. If you go to a new place, learn that the hard way. [02:17:47] Speaker C: More easily solved by not going to any ruffian places. But I'm glad that you have such expertise with things. I have been waiting for your call. It has been some time since I've heard from you. [02:17:58] Speaker A: Yes, I'm sorry about that. We. We were. We didn't realize how much time has p. Had passed. [02:18:05] Speaker C: A little bit. [02:18:06] Speaker A: We got caught up in the Westwood, but. So I'm sorry. That's. I. I apologize. [02:18:15] Speaker C: Don't know why your compatriots didn't bother to tell me about a time lag. I might have had a bit more understanding, but that's fine. I understand. And as much as I do expect a certain level of professionalism, I do understand that you have quite a bit on your plates. So, about the business. You owe me. [02:18:38] Speaker A: Yes, we're going. We're actually. I believe we're going there right now. [02:18:44] Speaker C: Boss. When you speak, things happen. I'm very glad you're with this group. Well, I am glad to hear that you are going today, this hour, tomorrow. [02:18:59] Speaker A: I. I don't think we have anything else. I don't. I don't think we have anything else to do. I'd be surprised if we didn't leave today. Today. But I don't know. Stranger things have happened. It's like the next. We don't have anything else to go to. [02:19:10] Speaker C: Understood. Next up on the dockers. Well, in that case, here is the underlying detail of what I need. Saline lives. If saladin dies. I really don't care. I assume you all will slay her because I imagine that you wouldn't be able to retrieve something with her from her without it. But. And what is more, I would imagine that it would be better was she dead. Because I don't want to take something of hers and have her survive to curse me. So feel free to strewn her blood about. But the real key here is that I have no true qualm with her. There is an object she possesses. Here is the important bit. Boz. I don't know what it is. I know what it does. I need you to find a magical end. I believe it's a periapt or an amulet. A pendant of some sort. It should be crystalline, if I understand it correctly. But it might not be. Here is the key detail. What I am looking for has the ability to somewhat control weather. And that is what I want retrieved. [02:20:22] Speaker A: Okay. [02:20:23] Speaker C: Regionally controlled the atmosphere of a realm. [02:20:27] Speaker A: That's incredible. Okay. Hey, if you're gonna stay home, you might as well not have any rainy days, huh? [02:20:35] Speaker C: Well, I have other purposes for it, but yes. [02:20:39] Speaker A: All right. Okay. Yeah, no worries. I'll. I think Craig might have something that can help us locate. Okay. Yeah, we'll go find it. And I'll let you know if we kill her or not. Or strike a deal. Definitely don't want you to have any ill actions because she's left alive. That would not be good. [02:20:57] Speaker C: Excellent, boss. Well, I appreciate your discretion and your perspective. And though I recognize the retrieval of this item will conclude our current business, I have made it quite clear in the future that I like your priority professionalism. And your group is clearly quite capable if not particularly timely. So if there is some other aid you need. I of course like to do well business with those who do well with me. Okay. [02:21:25] Speaker A: Yeah, I'll let you know. I think right now we're okay. But I really appreciate it. [02:21:29] Speaker C: Understood. Well, we can discuss transference of the item when you have returned from your venture. The best of luck. And here's to everyone surviving. [02:21:40] Speaker A: Amen to that. Thank you. I'll be in touch. [02:21:44] Speaker C: Tata. Boss. [02:21:45] Speaker A: Bye. [02:21:47] Speaker C: You willingly severed the connection. [02:21:50] Speaker A: And then I call the guy the ghost door from the keep that we promised to call once a week. [02:21:56] Speaker C: Oh yeah. Pause. I just dropped a die. Give me. [02:22:05] Speaker B: That's so right. [02:22:07] Speaker C: I love that she's playing with blood pack. So I'll go to hell if I don't. Will. I didn't know that it was a. [02:22:17] Speaker A: Word promise, but okay. [02:22:19] Speaker D: It was a word. [02:22:20] Speaker C: You Reach out and make the connection. And you hear, oh, my goodness. I'm a man of my word. You did see, I knew that. I made. Pass it to the charming one. Pass the stone to the charming. [02:22:33] Speaker A: Craig. Craig, come here. [02:22:36] Speaker B: Yeah, it's me. [02:22:38] Speaker C: Oh, my goodness. Muscular, cranky. How are you? And then this goes on. [02:22:42] Speaker B: I am so good. And then Craig just kind of, like, giggles, and then, like, he, like, sits down and is, like, kind of, like, kicking his starts with, like. [02:22:52] Speaker C: I was gonna ask, you know, I'm not even kidding. That's all I was thinking. [02:22:57] Speaker D: All on the same way. [02:22:58] Speaker A: This is the familiar that Craig needs. Adore. [02:23:04] Speaker E: Adore. [02:23:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:23:07] Speaker C: Yeah, Craig, how are your travels of the world? I made a best friend. He's Adore. [02:23:12] Speaker E: He's adorable. [02:23:14] Speaker A: Want me to leave forever? [02:23:16] Speaker C: Oh, my goodness. Micah. Inspiration. Okay, well, how. Interjection. Yes. Yeah. [02:23:26] Speaker A: Micah got a promotion at work, and I remember because she has a lace shirt on, but she got a promotion and she's sick. But I just wanted to admit I appreciate that. [02:23:40] Speaker D: Congrats. [02:23:43] Speaker B: Yes, yes, yes, yes. [02:23:45] Speaker C: That's awesome. Okay. Very exciting. Very exciting. Are you a manager now, Micah? [02:23:51] Speaker B: No, but they just made that position for other people. I'm what they used to be. [02:23:57] Speaker C: Oh, do they have to call you Big Mike now? Or how does that work? [02:24:02] Speaker B: They do they actually know? Because that's what I put my break name as every single day, actually. [02:24:07] Speaker C: That's awesome. [02:24:08] Speaker E: I love that. [02:24:09] Speaker B: Yeah, people call me in Big Mike in the kitchen. They're like, what's up, Big Mike? Hey, I'm not even kidding. [02:24:14] Speaker C: You should threaten to turn into a T. Rex. Beautiful. [02:24:17] Speaker B: I do. [02:24:18] Speaker C: Well, awesome. This feels like a really good point. Mike, we're very proud of you. As some concluding business before we wrap up the session, go on break, and go to the next one. How does the party find the exact point of Salgin's lair? [02:24:38] Speaker A: Tell us where it was. [02:24:40] Speaker C: She doesn't know. She knows the region. You all know the region based off Greta's check. Sorry, can I do another. [02:24:48] Speaker D: No, I guess I can't. [02:24:49] Speaker E: Can. [02:24:50] Speaker C: I don't think at any point, someone said, and here's the coordinates. [02:24:53] Speaker E: Yeah. [02:24:55] Speaker A: Goes. How long have Billfrey and pl been sailing for a while, I assume. Like, they've been sailors in other ships, right? Like, not just because. [02:25:03] Speaker C: Cooper. Yes. Yes. Years. Years. [02:25:06] Speaker A: So I would go to them, and I would ask them about the legendary spot where, like, ships get pulled to the ocean. Like, where that is. [02:25:12] Speaker C: What an inventive solution. Well, sorry. [02:25:17] Speaker A: Or a sailor who did. [02:25:19] Speaker C: Here's the problem. You guys already know that in. You know the region, you know that it's in between the cresting point off of the landmass of Ashas and the bottom of the chain of the island for Sandoria. But, like, you just don't. Like, you could point to the space on a map in the same way. You could be like Barbie. That be Mira Triangle. But, like, where in there? That's still a very large tract of space. But, Landon, that was awesome thinking. I really loved how creative that was. [02:25:45] Speaker D: We should have just asked people. [02:25:52] Speaker E: Was that Greta saying that? [02:25:55] Speaker C: Yeah, if I remember correctly. I think. I think. [02:25:59] Speaker D: Don't be mean to me. [02:26:00] Speaker C: A bunch of divination. Well, I'm just. I'm not. That's all I'm saying. Yes, ma'am. [02:26:12] Speaker D: The thing is, is, like, I don't know which spell would be best. [02:26:17] Speaker A: Let me Google my starts bath to bathing. His divination of the master Mad Prince spell. Swirling it. [02:26:27] Speaker C: Yeah. Okay. What are you swirling my. [02:26:32] Speaker A: My divination of the Mad Prince spell. Oh, what am I. [02:26:34] Speaker C: No, no, I know, but what's in the cup? [02:26:37] Speaker A: Can we just see the last of the kombucha? [02:26:40] Speaker C: Yeah. Excellent. [02:26:41] Speaker A: The last of the kombucha swirling in the cup. It's. It's fizzing. It's bubbling. [02:26:45] Speaker C: It's grainier at the bottom. Him. [02:26:47] Speaker D: He. [02:26:48] Speaker A: He asks the Mad prince, he says, is it possible to do this? What's the. No, no. He says, what's the best way to do this and not kill the hack? [02:27:04] Speaker E: The hack. [02:27:06] Speaker C: Sorry. Okay, roll your. Roll your. Expend your spell slot and roll your D100 bot. [02:27:11] Speaker E: Oh, I'm not making a deal with a hag. [02:27:17] Speaker C: Bro says I will forever. The dynamic of Ro being like, there are no deals here. And boss being like, everything's a deal. [02:27:25] Speaker A: Rose gets to be a passenger princess because boss is man in the deal wheel. [02:27:34] Speaker E: That I want to say. [02:27:35] Speaker C: I am not touching that. That's all you landed, right? [02:27:41] Speaker E: It's a 76, Rose. Literally, like, I fight it. Big deal. [02:27:46] Speaker C: Where is that on your. On your spell chart? [02:27:48] Speaker A: I have the. [02:27:49] Speaker C: Let me see. [02:27:50] Speaker A: I have all the documents together. I just gotta find it. That's okay. [02:27:53] Speaker C: Spell. I mean, I can pull it up, too. [02:27:54] Speaker A: Elimination of an arts. Drew it. Okay, I just gotta find the spell in the book. But I have the book open. What's the name of it? The Divination of the Mad Prince. Got it. All right, so a 76 is the second best. Your visions provide a mix of clarity and ob. Obfuscation, allowing For a vague answer to a question, you specify. [02:28:15] Speaker C: Wait. [02:28:16] Speaker A: No, no, no. Sorry, the table's all weird. The second best one is a clarified answer to a question of your choice crystallized in your mind and. [02:28:24] Speaker C: Okay. [02:28:24] Speaker A: In your mind. [02:28:26] Speaker C: Wait. Cool. [02:28:27] Speaker A: Zack. Sorry. It looks like one thing is missing. Well, so I don't know. You may have to. [02:28:38] Speaker C: Is it the worst or the best? Which one's missing? [02:28:41] Speaker A: It's the best. The best is missing. But also, I don't know if you just meant for the best. Well, to go from 61 all the way to 100. [02:28:49] Speaker C: It's also not impossible. That formatting might have messed up some in transferring the document or something. Let's talk about that again later, because maybe I have one that's fixed, or maybe I. It's not the first time I would have sent you guys a document with 30 finished spells and one that's not finished. [02:29:07] Speaker A: So I'm just noticing this. I've always gotten the best answer, so I never had to think about what the second best is. Skill issue, I guess. [02:29:14] Speaker C: Brag, then. Okay, so, boss, as you sip the kombucha and get a little zesty on the deck, you guys just watched Boz kind of like roll his eyes back and stumble around for a little bit. And Boz, what you see in your mind is. You see a dark room bathed in red light with remnants of ancient bodies in front far states of oceanic decay. I mean, just remnants of them littered with refuse. Everything is very dim and hard to see. And there's like particulate matter floating in the space and among the ground. You just see like, glinting baubles reflecting very, very vaguely in the very dim light. And there's just movement somewhere in the corner of your vision. And your mind is filled with an awareness that Saul Geen treasures which she can pick off of the bodies of people who go below. And as your vision clarifies and you kind of like return back to blinking, you're just full of an awareness that a deal is not impossible, but you would need to trade something extraordinary for any treasure from her hoard. And what's more, you are aware that she really likes killing things and people. So this is an Ursula situation for incredible loot. You certainly could. Like you. You could try to trade one extraordinary treasure. But you're al. But you're. But you're also aware that this would be a very challenging deal to strike. Not an unstrikable one, but very hard. Also, you're muted. If you had anything else to say, this is the way. [02:31:20] Speaker A: No Amazing. Thank you. [02:31:22] Speaker C: Okay. Heck, yeah. [02:31:24] Speaker E: Okay, I got it. I got it, guys. Ro. Ro leans over. Not to where she's going to fall, but she leans over the edge of the. The boat a little bit. She gets on her knees. She leaves. She gets on her knees. She positions herself. Does she see any kind of fishy or any kind of life, sea life anywhere? [02:31:45] Speaker C: Look into the vast open waters of the largest ocean in the world and do not immediately see anything. [02:31:51] Speaker E: Seriously? Are you. Wait, I don't know if you're being. [02:31:54] Speaker C: Are you kidding me? Yes. Have you ever seen the ocean? Most of it's just water. [02:31:59] Speaker E: Sometimes there's, like, fish, like, swimming by us. [02:32:03] Speaker C: Is there like a handful of times in the campaign. [02:32:06] Speaker E: Can I make a nature check just to of to know? Are there dolphins in these waters? Have I ever seen dolphins? [02:32:18] Speaker C: This is such a high dc. [02:32:20] Speaker E: Does ROE even know what a dolphin dolphin is? [02:32:22] Speaker C: Yeah, that's part of this check. [02:32:24] Speaker E: Okay, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. I'm gonna use my inspiration just because it was really bad. Okay, that is gonna be a 23. [02:32:46] Speaker C: Oh, okay, bro. You do know what a dolphin is? [02:32:51] Speaker E: Do I know if they're in this ocean? Like in the Sapphire Desert? Have they been spotted? [02:32:59] Speaker C: You've definitely heard they are. [02:33:02] Speaker E: Okay, I'm going to. Okay, I'm going to go out on a limb here. I'm going to cast speak with animals, and I'm gonna try to do a dolphin call. [02:33:18] Speaker C: Excellent. Start by expanding the spell slot, and then could you make a dolphin call for me? [02:33:23] Speaker E: I don't think it's gonna pick up on the mic. [02:33:26] Speaker C: Good. [02:33:27] Speaker D: I want to hear it. [02:33:28] Speaker E: Like, I push it back. Like. [02:33:34] Speaker C: No, no, do this. You did this. All right. Roll a D100 for me. Okay, Jackie. And if you get a four or lower, there's gonna be dolphins nearby. Yeah, and that's so gracious of me because it should be so much lower. I'm just picking your proficiency bonus. [02:34:03] Speaker E: Could I inch interest you in a 40? [02:34:11] Speaker C: So everyone watches as. As Ro strums on her loot. There's a spark of magic, and then she goes off the side of the boat and everyone's like. And Bill free goes. Oh, that was weird. In this time, is there any chance that the knowledge domain cleric has looked up any divination spells? [02:34:29] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Greta's going to cast scared of him. Divination. [02:34:41] Speaker C: Okay. How eponymous. Okay, tell me what that looks like, Griefgar. And then this can be the concluding moment of the session, and then we can go to break. [02:34:53] Speaker D: She's going to sit down and kind of like rodid sit on the lake close to the water. Can she reach the water? [02:35:05] Speaker C: The poor bed is very close to the edge of the ocean. But you're also very short. Pilfri picks you up and leans you over the edge or tello does. Each of them has a hold of a hip and a leg, and you can, like, reach down and touch it. [02:35:15] Speaker D: Okay, I'm gonna scoop some up. Okay. She's gonna scoop some up and put it in her mouth and. [02:35:23] Speaker C: Okay. It's awful. Okay. They lift you back up and your cheeks are full. And it's horrible. It's so brain. [02:35:30] Speaker D: And she gives like. She gives like a thanks. And then she goes and she sits down in the flowers and she sits down and casts her spell. And she like, she like, swishes it around in her mouth. [02:35:45] Speaker C: Oh, okay, Cool, cool. [02:35:48] Speaker D: And then she's going to, like, do her magic. She's burning her. She's burning. And then she's going to take a cup or like a bowl. She's going to take a little bowl and she's going to spit out the water. [02:36:08] Speaker C: Oh, okay. As you burn the incense, mutter Greta and the symbols, the tattoo on your neck lights up and your symbol does around your chest. When you spit the water into the bowl, all the water just sublimates instantly into steam. And there's only salt left in. In the bottom. What is the question? Because you ask a single question concerning a specific goal, event or activity to occur within seven days. [02:36:45] Speaker D: She's. She's gonna say, how can we find the drowned keep. [02:36:56] Speaker C: As you. As you cast the spell, the steam pillows around your head. And as you look at the salt in the bowl, the salt is floating even though there's no water. It's floating in a mass at the top of the bowl as, like, on, like the bottom 2 inches of air in the bowl. The salt is just floating. And all the salt gathers up against the wood at one edge of the bowl. And you pick up the bowl, and as you move slightly with it, the salt moves against the rim of the bowl. And as you turn, turn, it turns, following one position. And you have like, this little compass in your hand. [02:37:34] Speaker D: That is so cool. Wow. Oh, that's awesome. So Greta. Greta, like, rushes over to Spookuber and she goes, can we go this way? And she like, holds it out to him very carefully. [02:37:48] Speaker C: He looks at it and he goes, well, I could tell you if we could, but really, I think that's a question for our up and coming navigator, Ro. Do you want to get up in here and hail? [02:37:58] Speaker E: Sure, sure. I'm down. [02:38:01] Speaker C: Very cool. And with Row taking the helm and the party setting off in the direction of the drowned keep, that's where we will end episode 136 of the Accidental Adventures. Echoes of violence for the SAS. Let me pull up my nudes. You guys gain 0.02 levels for episode 136. You also gain 0.01 levels for. Oh, moving in the direction of your new path. Like starting a new quest and like concluding a little storyline. So 0.03 levels. [02:38:46] Speaker E: We're at 12.87. [02:38:52] Speaker C: Okay, guys, you're so close. Okay, well, with that we'll go to break. Listener, thank you for joining us for another accidental Adventure. We will have another one. I don't have to say that. That's so obvious. Okay. Life is an incredible adventure. You are a very important part of it. Skibidi, Wap and Dadda.