146. Desultory Days

[00:00:03] Speaker A: Welcome back to Barely D and D, your sorta Dungeons and Dragons podcast. I am your resident bard here, rowing a green bottle. And we are back with episode 146. [00:00:21] Speaker B: That's impressive that you know that off the top of your head. I guess you're looking at your notes. Yeah. This is another installment of the Accidental Adventures. Welcome, everybody. I believe we're all here before we get started with our episode. Okay. Before we get started with our adventure and whatnot. I use it every session. Before we get started with our adventure. In Hoot Nut, our letter question for this week was suggested by Noah, the lord of maps. If your character were in a zombie apocalypse, what would their first. [00:01:00] Speaker C: What would they do first? [00:01:02] Speaker B: Yeah, what would they do first? That was the original question. Yes. If your character were in a zombie apocalypse, what would they do first? So let's go with Jackie. What would Ro do? Jackie. Jackie. Oh, unless Micah raised a handball. [00:01:18] Speaker A: Wait, what's the letter? I mean, who's the npc? [00:01:22] Speaker B: Wait, what's the letter Question? [00:01:23] Speaker A: What's the letter? You just spoke. [00:01:25] Speaker D: Hey, wait, what are we doing? [00:01:28] Speaker A: What is this? [00:01:29] Speaker B: Wait, what's my character's name? [00:01:32] Speaker A: No, who's the npc? I'm sorry is what I was trying to say. She would just go be in a tower. [00:01:43] Speaker C: Kind of want to hear confirmation. [00:01:45] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to take it. [00:01:49] Speaker B: Abby went. Yes. Well, that's the reason I'm bringing Freaking asking Jackie. Okay, well, Andre, it is so Roe. What does Roe do in a zombie apocalypse? And then I promise, we'll ask Craig. [00:01:58] Speaker C: Micah, Ro, maybe we'll ask Craig would. [00:02:03] Speaker A: Stock a bunch of food and probably try to learn some necromancy magic. And then she would want to stay on the ship. I think. I think it would be a good idea to just be like, we stay on the poor vet, and if we need to go, we zap in and out, and then we winnow in and out. No, I'm just kidding. I'm sorry. [00:02:36] Speaker B: Goodness must stop. [00:02:38] Speaker A: I'm sorry. Okay, that's the goodbye. [00:02:43] Speaker B: All right, Craig, what are you doing first in a zombie apocalypse? [00:02:48] Speaker D: So, like Bel Andra, he would find a tower, except he would have collected probably a million rocks, and he would, like, watch from a window. And anytime a zombie came at him with the level of strength of a giant, would hurl a rock at the head of the zombie and, like, completely smash it into pieces. And he would just have fun doing that all day. [00:03:22] Speaker C: Every day would be as strong as a giant. First. That's the first Thing he would do is he would become as strong as a giant. And then he would. [00:03:29] Speaker D: And he would. [00:03:30] Speaker B: Importantly. He's not right now importantly, but he would importantly. [00:03:35] Speaker D: He's almost there. But I mean, think about it. You have alts all day, every day, and you're just throwing. [00:03:40] Speaker B: Actually, Craig, what's your strength? [00:03:44] Speaker D: Is it emotional depth and empathy? Plus 5, 20. [00:03:53] Speaker B: Okay. You are actually importantly one away from the strength of a hill giant. [00:03:58] Speaker D: So I'm just saying you are almost as strong. [00:04:01] Speaker B: Almost as strong as Craig. [00:04:02] Speaker A: Just go work out a little bit more. [00:04:04] Speaker D: Yeah, just hurl some more rocks. So that's what he would do. And he probably tricked people into getting him stuff and then they would die in the process. And he'd be like, yeah, but I got that stuff. [00:04:14] Speaker B: What? Okay. And also, I love. I love that Jackie brought up that, like, well, Ro's in a really good spot because they're on this ship they can teleport to in the ocean. So they're actually really advantageous. And Craig's like, yeah, I'd go onto the land and find a tower. Like, I like that. Craig's like, first, I'm giving up my immediate advantage. Second, grabbing a bunch of rocks. We all know they'll be in great scarcity in the zombie apocalypse. Anyway. Grab Grabita or pause it as first. [00:04:46] Speaker C: Things Grab would do. Grabby would make sure that her teammates are safe. And then I think that she would open a zombie greater restoration clinic and she would just try and greater restore the zombie. [00:05:01] Speaker A: Like, I love that because the idea. [00:05:02] Speaker C: Of a zombie apocalypse is that these zombies are like actively being infected. So you're trying. [00:05:08] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:05:09] Speaker C: Like, it's not like they're like. Like I'm imagining it like they're not undead creatures because I get you probably can't like fix that. But she would, like, if possible, she would try and find a way to like heal people from being or in. [00:05:24] Speaker B: The process of turning. [00:05:26] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:05:27] Speaker E: Zachary, this is actually. This is an interesting question. I didn't really think about the different types of zombies until Abby asked that question. But I think there are probably two distinct types of zombies, right? Like, there's one that's like infection based where like of some kind of illness or medicinal thing is spreading. And then two, there's like someone raised a zombie from the dead, like a magic shista. Like pulled up all these dead things were like, hey, y' all are like magic zombies now. Like you were a person and. And then I just, just created you. [00:05:56] Speaker B: So with this are they're a thing In D and D. Sorry, that was my whole thought. Please continue, Landon. [00:06:03] Speaker E: No, so I was like, so this is primarily like the sickness kind, like something is turning people into carnivorous. [00:06:11] Speaker B: This is a really interesting thought because zombies are a thing. In D and D they are. But like Landon pointed out, they're the classic zombie, which is just this came out of the ground. And zombies, as they have become much more popular in popular culture today, the modern zombie is all infection based, which is not D and D at all. So that, I mean, I imagine a zombie apocalypse would be much harder in a D and D world than our world because you'd have to raise all the bodies. [00:06:39] Speaker C: It's not spreading on its own. It's all man. [00:06:41] Speaker B: Oh. Even, even if it's an infection zombie apocalypse, I imagine it'd be harder because one, it's not 8 billion people, so that makes it harder. And then two, I mean, you know, the lower your population, the harder it is to have a zombie apocalypse. And then two, there's so many other magical things in the world to compete with them that like, you know. But Landon, it raises an interesting point. Like I guess in this reality it's a whole other version, which. So then commenting on the Greta thing, clerics would be so important in an infection based zombie apocalypse because they could just like within a certain radius of a cleric, you could, could just stop the apocalypse in that area. [00:07:19] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:07:19] Speaker B: Except you only. You can only do so much casting. That's interesting. That's interesting. Anyway, what's the first thing boss does in a zombie apocalypse? Unless other people tell me. [00:07:29] Speaker C: Greta would set up a system where she would try and get together with all of these clerics and have them all like rotating so that there's always like. They would be like sleeping. There would always be a cleric on duty. So like there'd be like a night shift. That's what she would do. [00:07:48] Speaker B: Micah, what denomination of zombie are you? [00:07:51] Speaker C: Make a cleric clerical union against the. [00:07:54] Speaker B: Z. Oh, we need to have another third watch, cuz we haven't in a while. Which is fine. That's its own topic. But we're not. I'm not here to shame us for that. I Only Micah said the thing about what denomination of zombie are you? Which is a good joke. Good job, Micah. Good joke. Good joke. Sticker and I just wanted to comment. We need to talk about all the cons in detail. But on episode 144 with the big combat, Jonathan commented, we do bless and claim the Plesiosaurs as Episcopalian at the feast of St. Francis after Landon called them Presbyterianosaurs or something. Presbyosaurs or something. So that was really funny and I wanted to acknowledge that. [00:08:44] Speaker C: But it is funny. For a minute I thought that like plesiosaurs were actually. Wait, so they're. I'll text him. [00:08:53] Speaker B: They're a guy. [00:08:54] Speaker C: I'm confused by that. [00:08:55] Speaker B: They're not a part of the Presbyterian church. [00:08:58] Speaker C: Well, but he said the Episcopalian church. [00:09:00] Speaker B: That was a joke. Oh, because. Because we know that was because of the pesky. The piscopelian thing. And then someone went piss and then you all left. That was. He also pointed out that you all first inherit faced the Kuo Toa before the live show. That's how long that's been coming back around. [00:09:17] Speaker A: Wow. [00:09:19] Speaker B: Boss. What's the first thing Boss is doing in a zombie apocalypse? [00:09:22] Speaker E: I feel like Boss would settle down. He would probably become a more classic adventurer. He probably found like a route and he just travel like on like probably one of the large continents and just kind of travel from place to place and just kind of be like the lone wanderer that kind of like shows up once every couple months and like helps with some random zombie related problem and like heals people and fixes things and make sure everything's loosely held together like on the road. [00:09:51] Speaker B: I mean, a good time to be you guys who are essentially each like a superhero. Like, you'd be the tag Nabbit. [00:10:01] Speaker A: Jackie. [00:10:03] Speaker B: I have a complicated relationship with zombies. They're dangerous, but I love their swagger. That's excellent. Bella. Andra. Yeah, a good time to be an adventurer because you're essentially a superhero. So you're probably fine. Belandra. Weird choice of a dmnpc because yes, she would. You are correct. She would sit in her tower. And here it is confirmed for you. She would sit in her tower. That's what she would do. She'd be largely unaffected. Jackie, I can't hear you for some reason and I feel like you're commenting on things. I don't know why I can't. Oh, you're muted. This is the way. [00:10:38] Speaker A: Yeah, I've been just talking and what were you saying? I said, what would Tello do? Give us a second one real quick. But it's fine. [00:10:50] Speaker B: Stay on the freaking boat is what Tello would do. That's what Tello would do. He'd stay on the boat with Row. [00:10:57] Speaker D: And I was over on the boat. [00:11:00] Speaker B: He. [00:11:00] Speaker C: I was over on the boat. [00:11:03] Speaker B: Oh, my goodness. The longevity of that joke has really surprised me. Did not think it was going to Endure for as long as it has. And it truly has. All right, thank you. That's our letter to Christian. Now for the Yakta Dental Adventures. This is for the note taking loves. And also, this is your session wide reminder. Please have out your dice and your notes. If you're a note taking nerd, I have burped. I am sorry. It happens to the best of us. [00:11:34] Speaker C: Not me, not the worst of us. [00:11:39] Speaker B: Just taking negative things and making them positives and saying it's the best of us. I pooped my pants. It happens to the best of us. Micah can do the rock. Eye row. Kind of. Whoa. [00:11:52] Speaker C: Let's go, Micah. [00:11:55] Speaker B: That feels great, Craig. There we come. [00:11:57] Speaker D: I'm just waiting for that to give me an interview one day. [00:12:01] Speaker C: An interview. [00:12:02] Speaker B: There's Hoffa. [00:12:04] Speaker D: Ask the right questions. [00:12:10] Speaker B: Oh, don't fart noise in my mouth. All right, nerds. Episode 146 Scattered Pieces oh, no. Maybe it's scattered pieces in a really, really positive way. Level 13 Adventure 3488pb si hadron 21st. Jackie, do you want to race me to see what day of the week that is? [00:12:39] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:12:42] Speaker C: It is the 23rd. [00:12:45] Speaker B: You said 21st. [00:12:50] Speaker A: It's. It. [00:12:51] Speaker C: Wait, wait, wait, wait. [00:12:53] Speaker B: Oh, no. I'm gonna beat her. [00:12:54] Speaker A: No, no, no, no, no, no. It's a Mac. [00:12:56] Speaker B: Oh, I literally just pulled it up. Literally just pulled it up. It is amex. So it is the beginning of the week also. That means you guys are halfway through the first month of winter. [00:13:08] Speaker C: Oh. [00:13:09] Speaker B: Something that you have experienced very little because you have spent the entire first month of winter in the tropics. So. Yeah. But anywho, we will begin our session. M. Let's go to. Okay, so, Fungies, is the music playing? Is it working? Can you all hear it? [00:13:33] Speaker A: I can't, but maybe it's just me. There it is. [00:13:38] Speaker B: Okay, fun, guys. It is the day after the previous day, which was the day after. So it's two days after. No, because the other one was stark in the morning. It is the day after the attack, the renewed assault by the Kuoans. Just a reminder that you all are currently. I mean, you've moved a good distance, so you're fairly far north now of Sandoria, which means that you are, by assumed nature, also a fair distance north of Hashas, just northwest off of the coast and quite some distance away. You're probably almost like 100 miles away from the northernmost point of that coast, which puts you some distance out from Zedge and actually Coinciding well with our little comments about the date at the beginning, I want to point out how the weather has changed. So still far north, you're about 500 miles south of Zedge right now. You don't have a clear and current pointed destination to which you are trying to arrive. Maybe, maybe 450. But in this neotropical climate, the change of the season is very different but palpable. While the weather is still a balmy 70 to 78 on a daily basis, precipitation has not fallen in weeks. And the sky has been cloudless since the magical storm over the Drowned Keep. Which is to say that the sky has been essentially cloudless for like, almost a month. Yeah, it's just that there was a magical storm in the middle of it because you guys went to the area. So the skies over Sandoria for the time that you have been here have not been very. Have been almost cloudless. Like, occasionally there's been some clouds, but very little. And then also, it's worth pointing out that you all spent the second half of the last month of fall and part of the first month of winter in the lost lands who have no seasons. So, you know, you have skipped the beginning of winter and the end of fall, in a sense, and that you were briefly in a place that's like in an eternal summer and spring, and then you went to one of the most tropical places or one of the more tropical places in the world, so you skipped that as well. Whoever wants. Well, I'll tell you what. No. Whoever's proficient in nature can make a check for me, which is really starting to. Whenever I say whoever is proficient in. It's just starting to be the usual suspects. [00:16:24] Speaker A: Wait, can. Are we all doing a check because. Or is just one. [00:16:29] Speaker B: So the people who are proficient in nature. [00:16:31] Speaker C: Okay. [00:16:37] Speaker B: Are you guys getting audio feedback from your voices back to you or no? [00:16:40] Speaker A: A little bit. [00:16:41] Speaker B: A little? [00:16:42] Speaker A: I thought I did earlier, but every. [00:16:44] Speaker E: Once in a while I hear. [00:16:45] Speaker A: Yeah, just every once in a while. [00:16:46] Speaker B: Why does it not come through in recording? I don't care, as long as it's not coming through on recording. [00:16:51] Speaker C: I got a 29. [00:16:52] Speaker E: I got a 29 as well. [00:16:54] Speaker A: I got a 34. [00:16:55] Speaker E: Wait, no, actually, I got a 30. [00:17:01] Speaker D: I got big arms. [00:17:06] Speaker C: What's our per diem? It's a D4, correct? [00:17:10] Speaker B: Yes. [00:17:11] Speaker A: So I can technically add it and have, like, the highest roll ever. [00:17:15] Speaker B: Do you want to add your per diem to your check to this? [00:17:18] Speaker A: Should I just. [00:17:19] Speaker B: You can if you want to. [00:17:21] Speaker A: Maybe I should just for funsies. [00:17:22] Speaker B: Add the stats, girl. [00:17:25] Speaker A: I rolled a fun four, so that's a stupid. Is that a 38? That would be a 38. [00:17:36] Speaker B: Anyone get a net 20 on any of those rolls? [00:17:38] Speaker A: No, I got a 19 and then a plus 15 and then a plus four, so it could have been a 39. [00:17:50] Speaker B: Hold on now I have to write this. [00:17:52] Speaker C: Is this a group skill check? [00:17:54] Speaker A: Yeah. Can we average? No. [00:17:57] Speaker C: I love group skill check. [00:17:59] Speaker B: So this means I. So first of all, I'm starting to get confused why I have you guys roll checks. Do you know what the three highest rolls of the accidental adventures are now? [00:18:12] Speaker A: 38, 34 and 36. [00:18:16] Speaker B: Great guess. 38, 38 and 38. [00:18:18] Speaker A: Oh. [00:18:21] Speaker B: So first place. And there is no first place. It's all three of you. All three tied for first place. One is Boz, who got a nature check with guidance. With Bardic inspiration. Greta had a 38 from History and Bardic Inspiration and Ro had a 38 from Nature Guidance and per diem. This is so. [00:18:37] Speaker A: No, I didn't get guidance. I had no guidance. [00:18:40] Speaker B: Excuse me, Excuse me. That was from the previous note. Okay, well, with a 30, a 29 and 38. First, the DM wonders whether or not he has. You make checks for anything. And second, which makes sense, you're epic and powerful adventurers. You should become very good at things. But second of all, all three of you pass the DC12 ability check. The DC12 check. Holy crap, you gremlins. To know that Yalabran's more equatorial countries do not experience the seasons that Craig, Greta, Tello and Ro know. Boz, seasons altogether are kind of new for you. It's not a concept you were unaware of, because you knew people in your association with the deep roots in Ogba, you know, you were told about the. About things. Not everything, but certainly natural things about the world. So you've known about seasons much of your life, but you have only been experiencing season. You've been out of Ogba for about a year and you've experienced like a year of seasons. They're new to you. This is your first winter, and so you've hardly experienced any winter at all so far. It was a bit cooler when you arrived anyway. But obviously Gretaro and Tello all from parts of the world, all of you all are from the Northern Hemisphere, and then Tello is from North Central, but an area with climate like that. So you all are accustomed to seasons, but you all are aware through conversation and travel, certainly row through travel, that the equatorial regions and the Neotropical regions do not have seasons. Much as the others. And obviously that is information that does not mean a great deal to you all as players. Bless you, Micah. Because you're like, well, duh, Zach, thank you for making us do a check for that. But this is experientially news for your character. Ro is the individual who's done the most traveling here. So her time in Eunson saw less seasons than many others. But even Eunson has a fair amount of seasons, a fair experience of them. But even Greta. [00:20:54] Speaker C: Yes, because I was in the southern hemisphere here. Are my seasons switched now? [00:21:01] Speaker B: No. Zyllium is. No, the far southern and the far northern season hemispheres have very similar seasons, both in Yaloman and on Earth. [00:21:10] Speaker C: Wait, but South America, It's Christmas. It's hot on Christmas. [00:21:17] Speaker B: Yes, because they are close to the equator. So it turns out that this is also a check for. This is a check for both Greta and for Abby. [00:21:24] Speaker C: I thought it was hot in Australia on Christmas. [00:21:26] Speaker B: Yes. Yes. Okay, so I guess this is a bit complicated, but, like, point being that, like, get all the way into, like, Argentina and Chile. [00:21:35] Speaker A: Their. [00:21:36] Speaker B: Their seasons are actually a little bit more like ours, but it's actually quite complicated. But. [00:21:42] Speaker C: So. Okay, I'll just. [00:21:43] Speaker B: Because really, really, this. This conversation of seasons is less about northern and southern hemisphere and more. Though that does play an element. [00:21:52] Speaker C: You answered my question. I would love to talk about this more. [00:21:54] Speaker B: The main thing is that it's about equatorial distance. But we're gonna talk about this more anyway. [00:21:59] Speaker C: I would love to, because I'm confused. [00:22:01] Speaker B: Yes, well, we should talk about it more. Science is fun. But back to Yellowbrin, Greta, where you are from, in Xilium, there are seasons. They are more mild than the seasons that the Zegi and Ro and the Beast and Craig would know, but there are seasons nonetheless. [00:22:19] Speaker C: They kind of match. Like in. [00:22:20] Speaker B: They are very similar. Yes. Okay. They don't line up perfectly, but they're quite similar. So you all are. Where? Sorry? Oh, that was just a sound clip. Instead, these. These more neotropical reasons. Oh, and then, last interesting note, Greta Hashos is very close to the middle of the world, but interestingly, just on the northern side of the High Crown Mountains, it has much more northern seasons. One of those examples of how Yalabran tends to reflect the seasons of Earth. But there are land masses in Yal' Brin that do not at all obey what their seasons should. The way that Jarsku just randomly sticks out in the north, and Hashas sticks out in the middle of the world. Areas where magic shapes. The way that weather Happens. So even though Hashas should technically be a very tropical nation or region, it is actually much more boreal. [00:23:21] Speaker C: Would Greta know. I don't want to get. I don't mean to get us too stuck on this, but would Greta know that it's the weather there is because of the magic? [00:23:31] Speaker B: Yes. [00:23:31] Speaker C: As opposed to other places? [00:23:33] Speaker B: She absolutely would. [00:23:34] Speaker C: Interesting. [00:23:34] Speaker A: Yeah, that's very interesting. [00:23:39] Speaker B: Why don't we interrupt an intro check with a check? Why don't you make me an arcana check? But I will let you do that as I continue my little narration, and then we'll go back to what your check was. So you all know that instead these neotropical and tropical regions, they have dry and wet seasons rather than warm and cold seasons, where temperatures go from warm to cool or hot to cool, rather than, you know, like, hot to cold or warm to cold. And the main difference is just in the amount of precipitation. What did you get on your arcana check? Grabby. [00:24:14] Speaker C: I got a 27. [00:24:16] Speaker B: Because why do I have without rolling like a 1? When was the last time any of you rolled below 15? I don't know. [00:24:27] Speaker E: But, Zachary, I would like to remind you that we tried four times at the end of last episode to figure out what a heart in a jar was, and we did not get above 20 forever true. With my inspiration and a DM inspiration. [00:24:37] Speaker A: Used and bardic inspiration and guidance. [00:24:40] Speaker E: It was. [00:24:41] Speaker A: And bardic inspiration. [00:24:42] Speaker E: It was rough. [00:24:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:43] Speaker C: I think I was rolling, like, twos and sevens. [00:24:47] Speaker B: That is a really good point Landon made. Actually. I went back and looked at the rolls, and they were 9, 18, 8, 13, 13, and 1. I. That was a really good rebuttal. [00:24:55] Speaker A: We're just really good at rolling really good when it's really not that important. [00:24:59] Speaker B: Very true. When it's not important, y' all cross. [00:25:02] Speaker E: It, so don't get too discouraged. [00:25:10] Speaker B: So anyway, yeah, so you. You all are experiencing that it is dry and slightly cooler, but internally, your. Your biological clocks. Biological crocs. Your biological clocks inside Greta and Micah. And Micah's laughing so hard she can't breathe. Greta and Greg and Ro, you all have the weird. It's like taking a vacation in the middle of November in, like, Central America. You're just like, I feel like I should be cold right now. And you're not. Oh, my goodness. Micah's just die. She's muted, but she's dying, laughing at your biological crocs. Okay. Also, as a quick reminder, Greta, you are missing. You know, I'm actually going to change the music a little bit. Greta you are still missing 15 hit points. Your maximum is down 15 hit points. And you feel the things you heal from that dream. Yet another horrible biological you still feel or no, you have, you have had yet another terrible dream from a deeply powerful magical creature. This from a literal God. And we, we do not need to start with Greta. We can start with, with everyone going about their day as usual. But I do want to point out, Greta, just, just, I want you to know this for whenever your character wakes up all day today, you have this feeling of un, of unease near the water. Anytime you get right to the edge of the boat, right to the water, you just get this deep sense of foreboding as if danger was in the ocean at large and really close to the edge. You just have that sense sensation. [00:27:06] Speaker C: Awesome. [00:27:06] Speaker B: Otherwise, the party is doing their usual thing. It is, it is another day on the poor bet. I mean, a day after a violent attack, but a day on the poor bet. [00:27:14] Speaker C: Greta is not doing her usual thing because Greta spends a lot of time staring at the ocean and contemplating and sitting by the edge of the boat. Okay, so, okay, Greta is, I don't know, I guess, yeah, experiencing seasickness for the first time, maybe. [00:27:31] Speaker A: Oh, okay. [00:27:33] Speaker B: So the characters are free to do as they please. The crew is comporting themselves much as usual. Nam is very hard to find today. She's assuming that the mansion has not been cast. She's up in her tree and I mean, you guys know that she does this and she is up there a lot of the time. But I mean, she spends a good deal of her time below deck or doing a duty below her upper deck. She's nowhere to be seen today, which is really saying something because as we established last session or session before last, the tree is just grafted into the wall. You know, it's not a free straining standing tree down below deck. It's like a part of the wall. So those branches that grow up underneath the ceiling only come down like a foot. But in their gnarled mass, she has hidden herself away. This is something that maybe Boz hasn't usurped. But Craig, Rowe and Greta, you all remember this. The last time you got attacked on the ship, Nam hardly showed her face for two days. Very much a cat after you move, you know, she's just, she's nowhere to be seen. And Bill, Free and Plough are going about their usual duties in business. But even after all the magical healing yesterday, a lot of them are still wearing bandages to bind wounds. And there's a lot of wincing as they go about their physical duties. A lot of sucking in air with pain. And Craig, they do, they do skip work out this morning. They do not work out because, you know, they feel like they almost died yesterday because they did. [00:28:59] Speaker E: One. One thing boss is doing. Boss is going to start waking up early. Kind of like how Craig and RO have been doing to work out. But he's, he is starting a project that he's going to be like researching on his own. [00:29:09] Speaker B: Okay. [00:29:11] Speaker E: And which we can talk about later. But he's up early. I don't want to jump in the moment, but when we get a chance, I'll. I'll expound on what that is. But he's up early as well. [00:29:18] Speaker B: I have one last note, so keep that thought landing because you can absolutely go next. Thank you for interjecting with that. The. The only other note to make about the start of today is that so. Novels nowhere to be found. Bill Free and Plough are doing their thing, but with some pain and Goober's just. He's just much less cheery than his usual self. He's there, he's doing his thing, but he is not bubbly today. He's at his post nonetheless. But he's, he's. He's sailing the ship at the moment, but he's, he's just silent. That was, that was the end of my intro. So Landon, take it away. [00:29:51] Speaker E: Boz is not very. I never pictured him this way, but I don't think he's very attuned to how other people are feeling after a really rough encounter like that. And I feel like it's partly because he handles it his own way of trying to distract himself with other things rather than like, sit still. But it causes him, you know, like, he wasn't like the primary, like, emotional caretaker for like, Tello or Spaghuber or even Nam. But right now what he's doing is. And of course, if he sees like Bill for your plot, like, needing to lift something, like, he's right there helping do stuff, you know what I mean? Like practical things, like, he will step in and he's very aware of that kind of stuff. But he's up early because he has a theory that he is trying to figure out. He doesn't really know how to do it, but he believes he's noticed that there's a lack of radiance in Druidic magics that exist right now. And after connecting with the Maker and going to the Westwood and like seeing Ogba, like, I think he believes that the Inherent like magic of nature is radiance and that he is trying to figure out if he can feel it based on what he can't, based on the interactions he's had in radiant environments and with the maker, like feeling basically specifically the touch of the maker in nature. Ultimately his goal is he'd love to be able to like harness that and like develop a new spell or to figure out how to accentuate what he currently does. But that's what he's focusing on. And so right now he's probably just like, I don't know, like any pieces of any. I'm sure he has some kind of nature or something that's come along with him. Like he's just like staring at it probably and like feeling it and just trying to focus and meditate. Not really pray, but just consider and ponder and think. You know when you have like the start of an idea but you're not really sure where to go or what to do, he's. That's what he's sitting with on the boat. [00:31:42] Speaker B: Okay, well boss, what you have done is a big oops because now I don't care about any of the plans of what I had for right now because that's big. Cool. So first I'm going to take inspiration for making a choice so character driven and world connected. So please start by taking inspiration. [00:31:58] Speaker E: Thank you. [00:31:58] Speaker B: And then let's dig into that so much more. If you have woken up early to go up deck with your allies, where you're in the infinite blue sea of undulating glass and the cyan sky above you is just open and stark and bright, there are all of those flowers growing up deck, many of them missing after the conflict of yesterday. Though the ones that are there very alive and rejuvenated from rose oldsong casting. You can witness all of them. You can be observing all of those plants in their natural way. There is of course your apiary which you could let out with bees to interact with their environment. There is that bizarre tree below deck which is very much a living tree. It's just a tree in the wall. So you know. And then lastly you still have your bonsai goodberry which is essentially a part of everyone's breakfast every day. So which of those objects would you be interacting with? [00:32:56] Speaker E: Okay, so sorry, help me with my hamster brain. I have the, the boat which is made of wood. The tree which is made of tree and the bonsai tree which is also made of tree. [00:33:06] Speaker C: The flowers which are made of flower. [00:33:08] Speaker E: And the flowers which are made of flowers. [00:33:11] Speaker A: I All purpose or cake. [00:33:14] Speaker E: Here's what I don't Boss would probably not know where to start. He probably spent a little bit of time with each. He would probably start with one of the flowers in his hair and then kind of feel like well I don't think this is really a plant, this is more like me. But I think trying more to attune to what the divine sense of it is, you know, like. Cuz I know that it's a part of that, like this has that even if it's not the same. Like basically attuning himself to that common denominator. And then he'd probably go to the bonsai tree cuz it's the most separated from him, you know, like I feel like the boat isn't alive anymore and I feel like that nature of being alive he would think at this point is somehow connected to it. So he would go to the bonsai tree after. [00:33:53] Speaker B: Okay, could you describe to me as he's below or up deck wherever he's taken the bonsai tree, the berries already have been plucked. And it's also just people eat different things on the boat. There are limited access to rations. But I mean you guys are very wealthy and taking quite a bit of effort and resource when you resupply at different places. So there is some variety. But man, if there's one staple around here, it's it's the bonsai. Hafa quit it's the bonsai berry jam essentially that you guys came up with forever ago that it's just constantly being applied to the hardtack and whatever is being added to the, to the hardtack. So after the mini berries have been plucked and people have eaten, as you sit there with the potted goodberry bonsai, what does it look like as you interact with it? Does it involve the roots that you can grow? How does it involve your magics? What does it look like? As Boz investigates this magical relationship? [00:34:50] Speaker E: I think he's, he's sitting with it knowing that he's not going to learn anything. And I'd be very surprised if he did. I really don't think he's going to get anything right now, but I think he's like coming up with this idea as he's sitting with it and probably like takes one of the berries and like squishes it and like tries to like, like taste it and just like it slowly and just you know, just really rudimentary type of like observations to like feel or connect to some piece of the maker in nature or to see if it's there, or even, like, what kind of nature would have a stronger, you know, rudimentary connection to that, you know? Because I'm sure that, you know, something that, like, when. Like, if, like, Christians, like, when God created the world, like, lemons weren't there, like, lemons did not exist when God created the world. Right. So kind of like that thing, like, I don't know, like, trying to find something more primal. [00:35:40] Speaker B: What's a More original? [00:35:42] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, something original. So I. I think he knows that he doesn't have anything like that, but he's just trying to see some glimpse or echo of, like, radiance in nature to see if he's even close to something. [00:35:53] Speaker B: Now what you've done is interrupted the thing that you interrupted my thing with. With a thing that's even more interesting to me because I didn't know that lemons weren't an original plant species. So now I need to hear about that after session. I'm gonna. I'm gonna control myself and keep myself focused on DMing. But, Landon, please tell me about that after session, because I really want to know about that now. But anywho. Okay. I know I've asked you to do a lot of describing. I'm gonna ask you to do one more, okay. Because I'm really into this investigation you're doing with your character right now. I would like you to describe for me exactly what. What it is that Boss is trying to learn. And I know you're like. Now, you can also be honest with the fact that you're like, no, no, Zach, I said what I said. He doesn't even know exactly what it is he's trying to learn. I just. I want to formulate checks around this. Not things that are just made now and done, but a pattern, you know, to. To come of this. So describe for me what. What is it that Boss is investigating? Yes, we do. We do. Microwave. Okay. Okay. You guys were. Landon, what is it that he's. [00:37:10] Speaker E: Zach, do we have, like, some kind of, like, symbol of the Maker burned onto us since encountered. Since switching our subclass? Do I. Am I misremembering that? [00:37:18] Speaker B: Well, Ro has one or two. [00:37:22] Speaker C: Borrow mine if he wants. [00:37:24] Speaker E: I would probably borrow somebody's. [00:37:26] Speaker B: And. [00:37:26] Speaker E: And, like, just, like, rub the goodberries on it or, I don't know, like, brown things? [00:37:33] Speaker B: Would Boz feel inclined as a near approaching archdruid? I mean, as someone approaching archdruidism and possibly who would be the only Archdruid of the First Flame in the world at the moment. Would you like to try and create a symbol of the maker? [00:37:48] Speaker E: Yes, I would like to do that. Can I do, like, plant growth or something? [00:37:54] Speaker B: Please describe that for me. And as you describe that, give me an arcana check. [00:38:00] Speaker E: I take one of the low branches of the tree below deck, and I kind of, like, take it. And as I cast playing growth, almost like pull a piece off of it like laffy Taffy. And then I just kind of like twirl it and form it with my hands, like lead the branches and kind of like, like, almost like multi twine, like, like a spiral as it creates the concentric circles. [00:38:21] Speaker B: Sick description. Pause. As you reach up to the branch and go to pull the piece away, the tree very much responds to you. And as you. As you pull it away, it's like you go to, like, break the wood to rip it. And when you go to grab the branch, the tendulous vines that can grow out of your skin and your fingers, like, grow into the branch in a very green way as sort of like new tissue merging with it and where you don't need to apply a lot of force. It's like the xylem tissue of the branch, those hard lignin fibrous plant cells just pull away at your ply. It's like they come away like paper. And where they come away, it's like the plant sews itself up behind it, and where that tissue regrows and scars new. As you pull the plant, the branch away, as you go to shape it, the wood is like pliable in your hands, and it really does bend like, like a heated metal or a taffy like you described. And you're. Every single time you. You go to touch a part, your roots embed themselves in its. In its fabric. And as you pull your hand away, you. It's like the roots. The roots pull themselves out. And as you go to finish your structure and your design, as you make that symbol of the maker entirely out of wood, the, like, there are sort of these. These grooved. There are these sort of grooved, like, track patterns from the roots within it. And what did you get on your arcana check? Boz, Let me roll. [00:40:03] Speaker E: I didn't realize I was rolling. Arc. [00:40:05] Speaker B: That's okay. Okay. [00:40:08] Speaker E: I'm going to burn my inspiration. [00:40:10] Speaker B: Okay. [00:40:11] Speaker E: O. It's not good. This is going to be a long process. [00:40:16] Speaker B: Okay. [00:40:16] Speaker E: Boz rolled a. A ten. [00:40:23] Speaker B: Okay. Boz. You successfully craft a wooden symbol of the maker, but it is not currently magical. But you have one. You have the symbol. Yeah. Cool. All right. [00:40:34] Speaker E: He puts it in his pocket. I'm going to add that to my inventory. Unmagical symbol of the maker. [00:40:38] Speaker B: So what was that thing again that you were exactly trying to divine from your investigation? Or are you like. No, no, no. We're still in the phase of. He doesn't even really know what it is he's asking. He's just starting the process of searching. [00:40:54] Speaker E: I think he's just starting the process of searching. I really don't think he's going to be able to make any meaningful connections or declarations. I think he's probably going to have to learn a bit more as well. But I think the idea is there now. He's fascinated by it. [00:41:08] Speaker B: Okay, cool. So what did you. So now as you, as you do the symbol first, and then you sit down and apply the symbol to your investigation of the bonsai and you put your roots in the soil and you connect with it and you feel its pulse. Interestingly, Boz, very, very, very, very, very, very, very slightly you do feel that like thrum, that like that pulse in the most, like the most. You can just barely feel a vibration through a wall kind of way of that energy you felt from the roots of that like, sort of that like. [00:41:45] Speaker E: Yes, that's exactly what he's. I think that's what has awoken in him is that connection where he'd like reached into the TR tree and where he touched like the floating diamond, like things where he's like encountered it in like such a, like cellular altering way. I feel like he's searching for that feeling and looking for that connection because I feel like if he's not as attuned to that as it's kind of like burned into him now like that, like that is. Is part of him, like he knows. [00:42:10] Speaker B: And so boss you very slightly you feel the faintest echo of that thrum. Like just like there's. There's a moment even where you're like, do I really feel it or am I just. Is it placebo? But you feel like you're feeling it a little bit in association with that. Could you give me a nature and an arcana check? And I'm not necessarily telling you what it's for. You're not going to know any fruits of it in the moment. But pardon the nature. [00:42:32] Speaker E: And Arcana is 26. Arcana is also not good again, 14. Actually not that bad. [00:42:47] Speaker B: Okay. Okay. Boz, could you put somewhere on your sheet or your digital sheet or make a note of it, however you want to do it. Could you record nature Checks and arcana checks. Two little points or details or whatever. And then put 1 out of 10 and 0 out of 10. 1 out of 10 for nature, 0 out of 10 for arcana. [00:43:11] Speaker E: Okay. [00:43:13] Speaker B: And then we'll come back to that at a later time. [00:43:18] Speaker E: Nature, one out of ten. [00:43:20] Speaker B: Arcana, zero out of ten. [00:43:22] Speaker E: Okay, Sounds good. [00:43:23] Speaker B: Okay. Excellent. Rowan Craig, did you. That was awesome. Landon. Thank you. That was super fun. Thank you for engaging with your character and the world like that. That was really cool. Rowan Craig, did you morning workout. This morning. [00:43:37] Speaker D: Did we go on our workout? [00:43:39] Speaker B: Oh, you are almost inaudible. What's going on with that? Do you have a mic? [00:43:45] Speaker D: Do you remember? [00:43:48] Speaker B: I remember our issue, but now I can hear you clearly and well. So it doesn't matter. [00:43:51] Speaker A: Nothing. [00:43:55] Speaker D: We found out that using Discord doesn't work with my microphone on the app, but with Google the quality is better. [00:44:02] Speaker B: Well, whatever you've suddenly done now, I hear you very well. [00:44:05] Speaker D: I pick up laptop. But basically I think that because it's just ro. Cuz you didn't you say l free and Pl are going to be. [00:44:16] Speaker B: Yeah, they have skipped the workout. [00:44:18] Speaker D: Yeah, it's. So it's just me and. And row. Right. Can I do some like, teach her how to do like deadlifts and stuff, but like with things that we have like, like more things that I would need to teach her form on and like, I'd kind of use it as like a training session to teach her like, hey, this is stuff that we also like doing, but we just know how to do it and you haven't had that teaching. [00:44:47] Speaker B: Sure. [00:44:48] Speaker D: And it's like more valid coaching. [00:44:51] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Use it like a coaching session. Absolutely. Formal powerlifting has not been currently invented at this time in history, so. So deadlifting is not necessarily what you're doing. [00:45:02] Speaker D: Why is there. [00:45:03] Speaker B: But you could teach her fundamentals of strength and. Yeah. So Craig, with like, let's say like the things you and Bill Freeman plough use a great deal of calisthenics because that's something people are doing a lot of at this point in history. But you all have. You have. Have gotten. One of the main things you guys work out with on the ship are you have these sort of essentially chunks of slag in port. Bill Free and Ploff used some of their earnings to buy ruined metalworks from blacksmith shops. They are unevenly shaped and they are not always the easiest to hold. Sharp or broken areas have been wrapped in rough burlap so that they're more handleable. But you essentially have different metal chunks that are different weights that are used for movements and exercise. You have one that's like, roughly 20 pounds, and then another that's roughly 40, 50, and then another that's roughly 60, 70, and then one that's more than 100. And they're all different sizes and they're very different shapes. One of them is like a ruined weapon, and another one is like a ruined, like, metal breastplate couriers that was sort of, like, bent together and just thrown in with something else. So you'll have these metal chunks you can lift with that could be used to, like, press or to squat or to curl or stuff like that. And then you also have barrels, and sometimes they take barrels from below deck and do movements with those. So. [00:46:24] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:46:25] Speaker B: What does it look like as you instruct Ro with these? [00:46:27] Speaker A: When the mansion's up, we use the training room and, like, different sacks of stuff that's in there. But I didn't put the training room up or the mansion this morning. [00:46:38] Speaker D: It's all good. I think I might just. I don't know. I don't think it's that interesting because I think that she's pretty, like, good at what she does now, Like, I think she's almost on the same page, but it's just more like. [00:46:57] Speaker A: Oh. [00:46:58] Speaker D: Oh, my gosh. Okay, I'm gonna replace Craig. Ro, can I teach you how to spar and how to, like, strategically fight? [00:47:12] Speaker A: I mean, we've. We've been in. In battle together for a few times, but. Yeah, yeah, we can. [00:47:21] Speaker B: No, but this is, like. [00:47:22] Speaker D: It's different because this one is. They're not trying to kill you, so it's more like. More like an art form than it's more like, can I just please. Can I please wrestle with you? Can I please just take you down? And under the title of. I mean. [00:47:43] Speaker A: I mean. [00:47:44] Speaker D: Yes, let's. I'll teach you. I'll teach you. [00:47:46] Speaker A: Okay. Okay. Maybe don't wear your armor, because I don't. I'm. [00:47:55] Speaker D: Last time I wasn't wearing my arm attacked, and I couldn't put it on. [00:48:00] Speaker A: Okay. Just saying. Sure. [00:48:05] Speaker D: Okay. [00:48:06] Speaker A: I feel like this is a bad idea I'm agreeing to, but. Okay. [00:48:10] Speaker B: And now we're gonna make a thing out of this. So there are warm ups. Craig, you generate. You demonstrate some moves. You know, you demonstrate, like, what good strikes look like basic. Like, this is what. Like a sidekick. This is what a punch is. This is how to elbow. Now, you guys aren't striking wrestling, but you give some of those basics. You emphasize the importance of like feet at shoulder width and like low centers of gravity and hip rotation. And then you demonstrate some basic throws. You get into like kind of some grappling after you all have done some warm up exercises and there's been stretching and there's been like maybe a good hour of sort of moving through the basics. You guys have some light. Some light wrestling. The crew is. It's less fun than it usually is. It's less. Let's see. Is this the one I'm looking for? I think so, yeah. It's less jovial. Like Spaghuber in the past where he has had a jovial response to your training. Like, oh, look at how skilled you guys and how fun you are. There's a somberness as he watches you all as he understands its application. Now it's. It's mortal importance. Bill free and plough similarly watch on with less like investment and fun wagering and more like steady understanding. Tello as well. But you all have a couple rounds of wrestling. So would you two roll me Initiative. [00:49:45] Speaker A: Okay. [00:49:47] Speaker B: The players can still have fun, even if the characters need to be serious. [00:49:56] Speaker A: Oh, wow. [00:49:57] Speaker D: Look at me. [00:49:58] Speaker A: More than I ever get. I think that's the best I've ever rolled. An initiative. That's a 19. [00:50:05] Speaker B: Wow. Jackie's role so far this session are a 13, eight and a 19. Oh, my goodness. Your first roll is double your second. Anyway, Craig. [00:50:23] Speaker D: Don't look at me. [00:50:25] Speaker A: Don't look at. [00:50:26] Speaker B: Where'd you roll, Micah? Don't look at me. [00:50:30] Speaker A: Don't look at me. [00:50:31] Speaker D: Hold on. I can't find the exact piece that I need. There. There it is. Okay. You can hear them because they're metal, but it sucks when there's a bunch of dice around them that's cocked. [00:50:47] Speaker B: What'd you get, buddy? [00:50:54] Speaker D: I got a four. My dex is a five. [00:50:59] Speaker A: Right. [00:51:01] Speaker B: Okay, Craig, as you set up your first sort of like training round with Ro in wrestling, you know, you square up and you go to sort of engage for the first time. And Ro just moves a lot quicker than you expect her to, both as she's been improving physically and then also like, she's just a lot more into it than you thought she was going to be. So Ro with the first move. How do you attempt to wrestle, Craig? [00:51:30] Speaker A: I don't know. I don't know. [00:51:33] Speaker B: Here you are. So what are you doing? [00:51:36] Speaker D: How do you wrestle? [00:51:37] Speaker B: You gotta wrestle, girl. [00:51:40] Speaker A: Okay. But I'm not like, Okay. I don't have weapons. [00:51:42] Speaker B: Episode 146 Wrestling. [00:51:48] Speaker A: Okay, I go for. Because. Well, Rose not too much shorter than Craig, is she? But she. I go for his legs to try to make him go. [00:52:00] Speaker B: Okay, you shoot the legs, give me roll to hit, and just add your athletics modifier. [00:52:09] Speaker D: Okay, I'm leaving. [00:52:11] Speaker A: Okay, well, I got a nat 20, but because of my athletics, it's minus 2, so it's an 18. [00:52:22] Speaker C: Yikers. Craig, you're going down. [00:52:25] Speaker B: Okay, Craig, you square up to wrestle with Roe. And she just shoots the hips. She just dives for the hips and grabs, which, quite frankly, no matter how you react to this. Craig. Wow, she was really listening. Yes. What's up, Craig? [00:52:38] Speaker D: Okay, my question is, doesn't have that pass my ac. [00:52:42] Speaker B: No. Now you're gonna give me an opposed athletics check because this isn't. She's not striking you. This is, like, about. Can she physically overcome you? So now it gets very hard for her. But, you know, who knows? Maybe you'll roll that. [00:52:54] Speaker A: Maybe. I caught you by surprise. [00:53:02] Speaker D: Post athletics. [00:53:04] Speaker B: What'd you get? Nickel dribble. What'd you get? [00:53:11] Speaker D: So that's just like regular athletics, right? [00:53:14] Speaker B: Yeah. As opposed to super athletics? Yeah. [00:53:16] Speaker D: Okay, well, I got a 27, so. [00:53:20] Speaker B: Oh, okay. Well, so ro. [00:53:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:53:28] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:53:29] Speaker D: Can I flavor? I'm gonna. So I, you know, I was taken a little back by how, like, quick she moved towards me, but I think it was a per. Like, I. I could tell what she was going to do. And so I just jump. [00:53:51] Speaker B: You shoot the hips incredibly quickly, and it catches CRO. Craig off guard, and you have the jump on him, and as you're sailing forward, he's, like, barely reacted, and you're like, oh, I've got him. But you telegraphed it a little bit. And Craig, I mean, he is a dense, solid object, and he is much more powerful than quick. But legs are a form of power. And as you shoot the hips low, Craig just vaults upward and he barely skims you, but you under his legs and back down on you. Craig, it's your turn. What do you do? [00:54:24] Speaker D: Am I, like, on. Like, did I fall on top of her? [00:54:27] Speaker B: No, no, no. Nor did you fall with her in a headlock. Nor did she dive off the side of the ship. But she has. She has dove past you and missed you, and you are now landed. What are you doing? [00:54:41] Speaker D: I'm going. [00:54:43] Speaker C: Did she land on her stomach? [00:54:45] Speaker B: You know what? Fun question. Dexterity saving throw row. [00:54:50] Speaker C: I'm so sorry, Jackie. [00:54:51] Speaker B: Oh, Jackie, you just got teacher. You forgotten the homework? [00:54:54] Speaker C: No. [00:54:54] Speaker A: Okay. [00:54:55] Speaker B: Oh, how the turns table. [00:54:58] Speaker A: That's 1919. [00:55:00] Speaker B: No. And in fact, Ro, would you be comfortable saying. I mean, I don't want to flavor this. Well, what is. No, no, you. What does it look like as you do not just fall over from your missed tackle? [00:55:12] Speaker A: Well, I'd say when Craig jumped and I would say maybe I did kind of like hit the ground, but then she just rolled out of it and stood back up. Yeah. [00:55:22] Speaker B: As the terrorist, terribly dexterous individual she is. She does. She does a full somersault and then just stands back up into it. Craig, it's your turn. What are you doing? [00:55:29] Speaker D: So I am going to rush at her. And there's a move that I learned from, like, my dad and his work where, like, you have one hand. [00:55:42] Speaker B: I was like, Craig's. [00:55:46] Speaker D: I learned from my dad, you know, in rocks stuff. He just loves attacking rocks. Like, one hand on the shoulder, and then you take the arm and you, like, put it to their back, like their, like, hand, and you put it on the back and then you, like, push them forward toward, like, they have to go down a chicken wing. [00:56:03] Speaker B: Yes. Okay. A very effective and real thing. Roll the hit for me and add your athletics. [00:56:12] Speaker D: 22. [00:56:14] Speaker B: I mean, really, these should all be unprofession, unarmed strikes, but I think this be might makes more sense and is more fun. So, Ro, I very much assumed that hits. So, Ro, give me an opposed athletics check. We're just. We're running this combat a little differently. [00:56:31] Speaker A: Yeah. That's a five. [00:56:33] Speaker B: Well, it was fun while it lasted. Craig, you do the thing you said you do, but what does it look like as you kind of just manhandle row in the cross? [00:56:46] Speaker D: Well, I'm going to say that I did that like I did the chicken wing, but I think somehow I'm going to twirl her and then I'm just going to throw her to the ground. [00:57:03] Speaker B: You can. Yeah. If you. If when you grab her arm and you rotate. If you. When you grab her shoulder and you rotate the arm, if you, like, lean her into that elbow, people go where that joint goes. And so, Ro, as you like, as you pop up out of your barrel roll and you go to spin around, Craig is just already on you and you're like, oh, faster than I thought he'd be. And he just grabs you by his shoulder and you go to pull away. You're quicker than him, but you just don't go anywhere. That big meaty hand and that arm are so strong. You go to pull away and you're like, oh. And he grabs you like you see it all coming. You just cannot stop it. And as he pins your arm behind you, he just spins you and just tosses you. [00:57:41] Speaker D: No, no, no. It's like a twirl. It's a genuine twirl. [00:57:44] Speaker B: Okay, never mind. With your arm pinned behind your back, you're led in a very graceful dance move. [00:57:50] Speaker D: And then I take her down. [00:57:52] Speaker B: And then you get slammed to the floor. Take a point of bludgeoning row. [00:57:55] Speaker A: Okay. [00:57:57] Speaker B: And then what do you do? Having just been. [00:58:00] Speaker A: So wait, where am I? I'm through. Thrown on the ground. [00:58:05] Speaker B: To the ground in front of Craig and Tello let out a little. [00:58:17] Speaker A: I'm. I'm gonna. As I get thrown to the ground like as it's happening. Can I say I just. I just. For fun because. Because this is silly. Anyways, Rose going to. Rose going to touch her disguise self tattoo and make herself look like Craig so that he's now attacking himself. [00:58:42] Speaker B: Absolutely. As Rose up touches her tattoo, mutters and then Craig, it's you. Slightly shorter. What? [00:58:52] Speaker A: What? What? [00:58:57] Speaker B: Doing anything else, Ro or are you just looking like Craig? [00:59:00] Speaker A: Am I allowed to do anything else? [00:59:01] Speaker B: Yes, because it's informal combat and yeah. [00:59:04] Speaker A: That'S what I feel. [00:59:05] Speaker B: I want more to happen. [00:59:09] Speaker A: So she's gonna, she's gonna take a running jump at Craig. [00:59:19] Speaker B: Well, you're laying down on the ground, but absolutely. [00:59:21] Speaker C: Oh, I am. [00:59:22] Speaker A: Oh, that's right. Okay, well, I'm going to get up, bite his ankles. [00:59:27] Speaker E: Bite his ankles. [00:59:30] Speaker B: Dm I Cat. [00:59:36] Speaker A: I'm going to get up and I don't know what to do. [00:59:43] Speaker B: Punch me. Sorry. No, I'm joking. I'm joking. I'm kidding. Don't do that. [00:59:51] Speaker A: No more. [00:59:51] Speaker B: Children. [00:59:56] Speaker A: Can I, I don't know, can I jump on his back from his front? Sure, sure. Run around right around him. [01:00:13] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:00:13] Speaker A: Hitch up on his back and cover his eye. [01:00:17] Speaker B: Absolutely. Roll the hit and add your athletics modifier. Actually, on this one I'm gonna say roll the hit and add your Dex modifier. [01:00:25] Speaker A: Okay. Oh, no. Converting my inspiration. [01:00:30] Speaker B: Good. Using it. Using it when it matters. [01:00:33] Speaker A: On this really important roll. Oh, that. It only went up 1. Okay, I'm adding my decks. [01:00:44] Speaker B: I'm. I'm gonna change the title of this session for sure. [01:00:46] Speaker A: What about acrobatics? Can I, can I use acrobatics? [01:00:50] Speaker B: Were this acrobatic? You certainly could. [01:00:54] Speaker A: Okay, so it's a nine. [01:00:59] Speaker B: Okay. For the note taking nerds, I have already changed the title of the session Desultory Days retitled to. Because this doesn't make any sense. With a nine, Craig row pops back up looking like you and then just in front of you tries to run around you to the back and kind of leaps at you. You just. You just turn. You just turn where you're standing. But she never really gets all the way around you. She tries to jump at some point, but just kind of slaps your face. Yeah. Craig, what's up? [01:01:35] Speaker D: Can I just. I grapple her and hug? [01:01:42] Speaker B: Give me a roll. Grapple check for me. Roll the hit with your athletics. This isn't how this will work in real combat, but this is fine. 18, 18. You grab her and you just wrap her up in a hug and rose. [01:01:55] Speaker D: Hug her really tight. And I'm just like spinning her around and like the kind of spirit spinning that makes you dizzy, bro. [01:02:03] Speaker B: Combat is very much over as you are just wrapped up in a hug. And Craig wraps it up just. Just about as gently as he could. That combat ends while we're at it. So that was the kind of goofy version of how you guys are letting off some steam this today and. And learning some practical skills. [01:02:23] Speaker A: Ro remains Craig for the rest of the allotted time of her. Yeah. [01:02:28] Speaker B: Okay, so there's just two Craigs for a while. One of them very clearly a little more Craig than the other Craig. Reg or crow? Would you roll a roll? How long has it been? It's been a bit. [01:02:42] Speaker A: Roll. [01:02:45] Speaker B: 2D8 for me. [01:02:47] Speaker A: 2D8 what? [01:02:51] Speaker C: What? [01:02:54] Speaker A: That's 10. [01:02:55] Speaker B: 10 more hours of your workouts throughout the morning. What are you at now? [01:03:00] Speaker A: I am at 167. [01:03:04] Speaker B: Okay. What are you trying to get to? [01:03:06] Speaker A: I have here as 322. [01:03:09] Speaker B: Okay. Okay. [01:03:11] Speaker A: I want to say that sometime, whether it was before this or after this, Ro does try to have sh. Goober work with some, like, navigation with her. Just. She's doing it more so for goober sake to try to, like, get his mind off of anything. She's just really, like. She's asking, like, a lot of questions. She's like, really just trying to get him to focus on navigation and navigation only, like, something that she knows that he knows a lot about to get his mind off of what happened yesterday. [01:03:45] Speaker B: Absolutely. That seems to be quite a bit. Are you. Are you still tracking your navigation hours? [01:03:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:03:50] Speaker B: Okay, put roll 2d12 for that for me. And then also I've just realized that I haven't been counting any of your time in combat as athletic training, and I think it does count. So roll your 2D12 and then roll. My dad made me becoming a steak and I ate it with whiskey before I started DMing today. So I'm just in a very good move. Roll two D12 for your navigation stuff and then roll a D100 for me. Okay. Just in a good mood. [01:04:19] Speaker A: I'm at 158 and a half hours. I don't know where the half came from, but I'm at 158 and a half hours out of 250 for navigation. Okay, and then you said roll a D100. [01:04:31] Speaker B: D100. And then we'll go to somebody else. Oh, Jackie turns. Keeps her dice on the ground. It turns out. [01:04:43] Speaker A: No, I just dropped, like, 3, 000 things. What is it when it's double zeros on the one zero? Double zeros is zero and one zero is ten, right? [01:04:58] Speaker B: Yes, you get ten. [01:04:59] Speaker A: Okay. No, so I have double zeros and a five. So that's just five. [01:05:03] Speaker B: Bummer. Add five more onto your workout hours. [01:05:07] Speaker A: That could have been a hundred and. [01:05:09] Speaker B: I would have gotten 100. You got five. But if you were a cleric, that would have been divine intervention, which. Or not. And then you talk tushbaguber, and it seems to help him a bit. Anyone else for this morning? Greta, what are you. What are you up to in the day? Oh, and you're muted. This is the way. [01:05:28] Speaker C: I was. All right, guys, I'm gonna say that Greta has. She probably woke up, like, really late, like, later than normal for her, and she's just moving, like, very slowly. She probably watched while Craig and. And Row had their. Had their tussle. I think that she has maybe, like, she watched for a little bit, but I think, like, while they were training, she probably roped in Tello to try and, like, you know, when, like, you're not feeling great, but, like, you want to do something, but you're not, like, quite up to doing it by yourself, so you just like. But you. It's not like a. Like a two person activity. You just kind of want someone to watch you do something. She probably like Ron Teller to watch her, like, fumble to, like, like, help. Quote. Help her fumble through trying to figure out how to pronounce some celestial words. So she's probably just sitting there. I imagine her sitting there and like, hello, maybe halfway doing something else while she's just, like, struggling for the. Looking at the celestial book, just, like, struggling for the pronunciation and just, like, not feeling great, but trying to do something to make her feel better. [01:06:57] Speaker D: And she probably absolutely. [01:06:59] Speaker B: And you and Ro are in your period of celestial where things are still very grammatical. So that is absolutely the sort of practice that can be done that way. Why don't you guys roll me over the course of this day. Both of you guys roll me. I was taking the higher of the way you two roll. Yes, but each of you roll me a D4 for the amount of hours practice for Celestial T today. And then I haven't asked you in a while. I guess we're doing a little character maintenance right now. I haven't asked you in a while so I'm also going to ask you about insignian in a second. [01:07:32] Speaker A: Greta, out of a. I rolled a two, so. [01:07:36] Speaker C: Okay, I got a one. [01:07:37] Speaker B: So you guys both gained two hours of Celestial. [01:07:40] Speaker A: What. What were you at, Abby? [01:07:42] Speaker C: Let me check. I think I keep track of it. [01:07:47] Speaker A: I had mine down as 86, I think, but I don't know if that's correct. [01:07:53] Speaker C: I keep track of it in my one note, but I should move that. I had. How much did you have? [01:08:00] Speaker A: 86. [01:08:01] Speaker C: I had 87. [01:08:03] Speaker A: Okay, so. So we're at 89. Well, see, I hadn't. I hadn't updated it in a while. I had to go back to my old sheet. So my guess is that we had one more. Yeah. So we're at 89. [01:08:14] Speaker C: Yeah. I'm gonna make a section. Going to make a section in my fungi management. [01:08:24] Speaker B: Oh, that's a great idea for your uncinian practice because I haven't asked you in forever but you are constantly speaking with. Hello. And you're at the place where you can go ahead and roll me 66 because you quite a bit of. [01:08:46] Speaker C: That's it. [01:08:48] Speaker B: Group focused three. [01:08:53] Speaker C: 19, 60, 16. 16, 20. [01:09:13] Speaker B: 20. I had 20 hours of insinion on. What are you at? [01:09:22] Speaker C: Two hundred and thirty four. [01:09:25] Speaker B: Wow. What's your. What are you trying to work out of? [01:09:29] Speaker C: What. [01:09:30] Speaker B: What's your total? What are you 234 out of? [01:09:35] Speaker C: Let me check. I don't know why. [01:09:41] Speaker A: For Celestial, I don't know if it's different. Are they different? [01:09:45] Speaker C: I think they're the same because for. [01:09:47] Speaker A: Celestial, 337 hours equals fluent is what I have. So don't know if that's the same for the insignian. [01:10:04] Speaker B: And really a thousand five thousand hours is probably much more realistic to fluency in real life, but I'm not going to keep track of that. So we're using smaller numbers. Well, I'll let you figure that out later at some point. No, it's okay. I'm not sorry. I didn't mean that Sassy as you all carry on your day at some point Goober asks you all hey everyone, just while we're Together, eating a little bit of lunch. Where. Where do you want us sailing right now? What is the current objective? The group at large? [01:10:54] Speaker E: That's a good question, guys. [01:10:55] Speaker A: That is a good question. [01:10:59] Speaker B: I mean, right now we're on course for zge, which we could just go back to, but I mean, otherwise, is there a place you want to. I mean, I know you guys do your lot of your departing, lot of your conjuring to other places nowadays, so I understand if you're doing that, but is there a place you want the vessel headed right now? Anything you would like us to be pursuing? [01:11:23] Speaker D: Are we dead to anyone? [01:11:26] Speaker A: So many people. So many. [01:11:28] Speaker E: Why don't we go on vacation? I'm not. I'm being serious. Like, why don't we take a break? Like, let's go take a group vacation. [01:11:37] Speaker C: It has been a long time since the boat has been somewhere nice. Like, they've been on this boat for a long. [01:11:42] Speaker E: Well, I mean, where does the 1% dock at? [01:11:46] Speaker A: I. I mean, not to be that person, but I did, like, create an entire mansion for everyone to hang out in. But, you know, no, that's no big deal either. [01:11:53] Speaker B: Tello just means everyone goes. And it is a very good mansion. [01:11:56] Speaker A: Thank you. Thank you. [01:11:58] Speaker E: There is a real big lack of beach, though. I will say, for a vacation spot. [01:12:03] Speaker B: Tello just goes, I could. [01:12:05] Speaker A: I could make a sand pit in one of the rooms next time, and. [01:12:09] Speaker E: I bet it would be great. [01:12:16] Speaker A: Okay, I'm taking your beehive away next time. [01:12:20] Speaker B: Squatted down to rose level for that one. [01:12:26] Speaker E: In a very brother sister type of way. [01:12:29] Speaker B: Touches his finger through his lip and he goes. I mean, Home Cove has one of the more famous beaches, but we've been there quite a bit. [01:12:36] Speaker A: Yeah, we're also kind of. [01:12:39] Speaker E: Yeah, we can't go back there for. [01:12:40] Speaker A: The rest of our lives. [01:12:41] Speaker E: Actually, speaking of. [01:12:44] Speaker D: Speaking of being wanted, have we. Have we considered. [01:12:53] Speaker A: Yes. Yeah, we do still have to kill Loshla. [01:12:59] Speaker E: Oh, you're right. Let's go start to figure out how to do that. [01:13:04] Speaker B: Gets a really concerned look on his face and then goes, so I'm sailing for kfk or. [01:13:11] Speaker E: No, I think we should position the ship somewhere that if we need to evac, we should be very safe to do so. What about Zedge? [01:13:18] Speaker A: But what if. [01:13:19] Speaker D: Okay, I like Z. [01:13:20] Speaker B: Hold on, hold on now. That works out good. [01:13:23] Speaker A: Wait, what if we. What if we went somewhere nice where you guys could vacation while we. [01:13:29] Speaker E: That's just nicest time of year while. [01:13:31] Speaker A: We zap out and do a little, you know, general Hunting while you guys can relax. [01:13:42] Speaker B: Well, I mean, by the way, I do the math. If we sail for the edge now, actually, you guys do some role play conversation while I give you an exact number. [01:13:53] Speaker E: All right, guys. I think that I worry that if we go try to fight, lo, we will die. [01:14:00] Speaker A: Maybe. [01:14:01] Speaker E: But I'm down to try, you know. Well, there is no eye and kill. Lashla. We actually. [01:14:07] Speaker A: Sorry, boss. I have a question, and this is a genuine question. [01:14:10] Speaker E: And I have an answer. A genuine answer. [01:14:13] Speaker A: I, I'm. I'm not being funny or silly at this point. I, I know I have been before and we've had arguments over this, but in your, I don't know, opinion, and I guess this is a question for all of you. Who do you think is going to be easier to kill or fight if we had to? Losha or me? Score. [01:14:38] Speaker E: I'm not answering this because I don't think you all will believe that I will give an honest answer, but I am very interested to hear your point of views. [01:14:46] Speaker A: No, boss, I really want. I'm. I'm serious. That's why. [01:14:49] Speaker B: Okay, okay. [01:14:50] Speaker A: I'm not being. I'm not being silly. I'm not. I, I, I genuinely believe that you'll give me an honest answer. I'm not. I, I want your opinion. [01:15:00] Speaker E: A boss takes a minute and he, like, thinks like he does. He, like, he genuinely spends just a second thinking about it. [01:15:07] Speaker B: I. [01:15:08] Speaker E: And then he looks back early, says, I honestly don't know what we will be facing when we go to fight. If we go to fight Lashla. To a degree that I just. It's like a big question mark for me. [01:15:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:15:22] Speaker E: I feel like she would just be a harder fight because of who she is, but a bit, I don't know, straight. A straightforward one. I feel like she would have some curveballs, but I feel like she would be like a straightforward fight. [01:15:36] Speaker A: I feel like it depends on what playing field we get her on, you know? Yeah, we could get her alone. Yeah. [01:15:44] Speaker E: Yeah, we gotta draw her out somehow. [01:15:46] Speaker A: Maybe we should do like a, like a snipe, you know? Like, can any of you guys shoot magic from like 300ft away? [01:15:53] Speaker B: Any of you guys have a sniper rifle? [01:15:56] Speaker E: If I was a warlock with some crazy warlock blast, they can do 300ft. No big deal. Elders blast like Eldrich Spear. Holy cow. With searing blast, like, you can snipe people from a 300ft. [01:16:10] Speaker B: A little bit of blood is running down boss's nose. And the wind just comes by and goes a. Michael. That's very Large. So. [01:16:19] Speaker E: Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. [01:16:21] Speaker A: Okay. [01:16:21] Speaker E: I think. I don't really, you know, I don't know. Why do you ask? [01:16:25] Speaker B: Question? [01:16:25] Speaker A: Well, I'm just asking because those are like kind of two things that we kind of maybe need to take care of. One of the things we are contractually obliged to take care of. [01:16:35] Speaker E: That's right. By the end of the year, right? We have like a month left to do it. [01:16:39] Speaker A: Yeah, I think we have like a month left. I'm. I mean, we could try. [01:16:47] Speaker E: I mean, what happens if we don't like? What happens if we don't like. What was the thing. [01:16:52] Speaker A: What. [01:16:53] Speaker B: Let me pull it up. [01:16:54] Speaker E: What we just promised to do. Right? [01:16:56] Speaker A: Yeah, we did. I did. I did promise. [01:16:59] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:17:00] Speaker B: The fun guys have accepted a contract for a contract from Jupiter Yaslan to hunt down and killed General Anir Lashla by the end of the year in Exchange for 20000 gold. A contract signed in blood. Blood. [01:17:11] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a blood contract. [01:17:14] Speaker B: Apparently that's the only way you guys and if I remember correctly, require it. And then you all enthusiastically volunteered blood. [01:17:22] Speaker A: I don't remember doing that. [01:17:25] Speaker C: Me neither. [01:17:27] Speaker A: And what was it said, what happened if we. If we didn't do it? [01:17:33] Speaker B: I mean, she threatened, okay, with her power with. As an individual and with her rank and esteem within Good Charlotte's faction of the brass company. But I mean, you know, you are also a fairly powerful entity at this point in the world, your group. So you all could wager that. I mean, it's not that she's not necessarily a threat to you, but you are a very powerful, highly mobile group. So you could wager that it'd really be about the loss, right, Rather than really about. Be about losing the carrot, rather than necessarily enduring the stick. [01:18:10] Speaker A: I mean, I think that we. I think we should still kill her. Just cuz I think taking out another. Another finger of KE would be a good thing for everyone involved, in my professional opinion. Says Ro. [01:18:32] Speaker B: Thank you for specifying which character is your character. [01:18:35] Speaker A: You're very welcome. [01:18:39] Speaker C: I mean, so we've decided we. Yeah, we don't know if it's possible. Well, we just. [01:18:44] Speaker B: Very quick, Very quick interjection from Spaghuber as you all talk. Okay, so I've been looking at the map and I think maybe the sale to Zedge is not a bad idea because we're about 83 days away. So by the time I get there, it'd be early spring, so it'd be kind of nice weather. [01:19:04] Speaker A: Okay. [01:19:04] Speaker C: Sounds like a good place to Go. Is that a place that y' all would want to, like, hang out, feel. [01:19:10] Speaker B: Free and plough nodding, speak Uber? Because, I mean, it's. It's one of the better places I think we could go. We're very allied there. It's very safe. Makes sense to me. [01:19:19] Speaker D: How. How many more months do we have until it's the end of the year? [01:19:24] Speaker B: 1. [01:19:27] Speaker D: How. How many more months do we have until it's the end of the year? [01:19:32] Speaker B: One. [01:19:33] Speaker A: One. Oh, at least one, actually. [01:19:36] Speaker B: I'll tell you what. Craig. Give me. Give me. And Craig just knows this, but because it's fun. Give me a DC2 intelligence check. [01:19:50] Speaker A: Can. [01:19:50] Speaker B: And I don't. I mean, it's just fun. [01:19:52] Speaker A: I have a question. [01:19:54] Speaker D: 14 plus 13. [01:20:06] Speaker B: Yeah, I was waiting for you to read that. Craig, in the world you live in, you know that the months. The last two months of the year are C. Headron and then C. B. CB Call is the last month of the year, and it is next month. So. [01:20:19] Speaker D: So that wouldn't work. [01:20:21] Speaker B: Virtually November. [01:20:22] Speaker D: So that wouldn't work to go to. Why wouldn't it work in the spring? [01:20:29] Speaker B: Spring is next year. Right now is winter. [01:20:31] Speaker A: No, it would take that long to get there. Craig. [01:20:34] Speaker D: Yeah. Wait. What I'm wondering is how would we kill Lashla? [01:20:39] Speaker A: We would teleport to wherever she is. Yeah. Okay. [01:20:41] Speaker B: We're just ending the boads there. [01:20:43] Speaker D: Okay. [01:20:44] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:20:47] Speaker B: I'm back at the helm. Now it's back to you guys talking. [01:20:52] Speaker A: I do have. Do you can. Okay, my question for the DM is, what is. What is Lasha? Is she like. I mean, like, what is her race like? What is she. What does she look like? [01:21:09] Speaker D: Lasha? [01:21:10] Speaker A: Do I not know from looking? [01:21:14] Speaker D: I thought she. [01:21:14] Speaker B: Oh, I forgot about that time you looked at her. One of you looked at her. [01:21:19] Speaker A: Lashla sang a song to her. [01:21:22] Speaker E: We performed for her. [01:21:24] Speaker A: When I sang a little song for. And then ran from her in a castle. [01:21:29] Speaker E: They found Greta's magic cloak and they almost got. [01:21:33] Speaker A: That was so sassy. [01:21:35] Speaker B: Two campaigns. It's. You guys are on episode 146. [01:21:40] Speaker E: The. [01:21:40] Speaker B: The. The voice of the well are on episode 230. That's a combined almost 400 episodes of DMing. It's a soup up there, man. Yes, you do remember what? That was stupid. You're right. [01:21:53] Speaker A: I'm so sorry for being that sassy. [01:21:56] Speaker B: Well, it was also a remarkably stupid thing I said. She is drow. You know that she is a. [01:22:01] Speaker A: That's what I thought. [01:22:03] Speaker B: Yeah, that was a very dumb thing I said. She is a drow. [01:22:07] Speaker A: I know this, but can I. I guess. I guess this is kind of being meta. But does my character. Does Ro know that if drow elves sleep or not? [01:22:24] Speaker B: Well, I want to stop and celebrate that really quickly. That's awesome. Greta has officially reached fluency. [01:22:30] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [01:22:31] Speaker B: Whoa. Could you go to the languages section of your character sheet and just write Luncinian because you're just fluent. [01:22:41] Speaker C: Wow. [01:22:42] Speaker D: All of that hard work paid off. [01:22:45] Speaker C: Yes. And I did. Oh, wow. So happy. [01:22:51] Speaker B: I haven't. [01:22:53] Speaker C: This is, like, basic. Now I get to move it up. I. I added sidebar. I added the rules that I have notated to the misc page of the fungi inventory management. Zach, if you want to. Later. [01:23:13] Speaker B: Okay. [01:23:13] Speaker C: Check my work. Feel free. Or add more wording. But so happy. So exciting. Greta now speaks. Common priority. Primordial, Gnomish, Sylvan, High, Kefkin, Sandorian, and Uncinian. [01:23:32] Speaker B: You speak six languages. That's crazy. [01:23:35] Speaker D: Wow. [01:23:36] Speaker B: Seven. [01:23:37] Speaker C: Oh, I took a. I took a. [01:23:39] Speaker B: A feat. [01:23:40] Speaker A: Okay. I was like, when did this happen? Did I blank out? [01:23:46] Speaker B: Ro give me a nature check on I die. The physical characteristics of elvenkin. [01:23:53] Speaker A: That's a 19. [01:23:55] Speaker B: Like, it's a bad roll. Oh, my. [01:23:57] Speaker A: Well, no, here's. I rolled a four, and that's why I was like, oh. And then I remember, oh, no. [01:24:05] Speaker B: Dungeon master. I touched a dirty 19. My roll is under 20. [01:24:09] Speaker A: I don't like it. [01:24:10] Speaker B: Send it back. Put it on a silver platter. [01:24:14] Speaker D: 100 on my test. I got a 99. [01:24:21] Speaker A: I was the kid in school that cried when they got a B. But you know what? [01:24:26] Speaker B: No. With a 19, you are aware that Elvenkin, including drow, are. They do not need to sleep a full night. They only need to sleep four hours. So. Because, yeah, the makers of D D sat down years ago and went, yeah, I don't know about a lot about elves, but I know they're better than everyone else to make sure in every edition that they were a little better than everyone else. So, yes, Lasha does not need to sleep eight hours. She sleeps four hours. [01:24:59] Speaker A: So Ro thinks through all of this in her head. Excuse me. And she. She says. She pulls out her songbook, and she's like, I have. I mean, I don't know how much this would help us because of who Loshla is, but to do some, like, you know, scouting beforehand or recon or whatever. I. I mean, I have this spell that I've. I've had for a while, but I haven't really used it. And she pulls out her spell book, and in her mom's handwriting is. Is the dream spell, which is like, fascinating. I mean, I don't know. It would definitely be interesting and it would be risky, but not risky. But I. I could possibly try to get into her mind while she's sleeping. If she's sleeping. I would just have to know when she's sleeping, which would be a hard thing to figure out. [01:26:02] Speaker C: But I mean, that. That would be good to like, scare her, but. [01:26:07] Speaker A: Well, I mean, it could possibly do some. Some damage too. [01:26:14] Speaker C: That's true. [01:26:15] Speaker A: And keep spy on her, trying to. [01:26:17] Speaker C: Get some information, like a warning. [01:26:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:26:22] Speaker C: And then, like, it's better if she doesn't have it work. [01:26:26] Speaker E: I could also literally just kick the hornet's nest. [01:26:29] Speaker A: I could also. [01:26:30] Speaker E: Sure, she's all over it because she works with biscuits. [01:26:33] Speaker A: So I could also, though, disguise myself within the dream and we. I mean, she could figure out who it is, but with the amulet and everything else, she may not know where the source is coming from. [01:26:47] Speaker E: Remember, remember on the street when Greta turned into herself and everybody realized it was Greta and you were still disguised? Like, you didn't look like Ro. [01:26:57] Speaker C: Yes. [01:26:57] Speaker A: Balls. [01:26:58] Speaker E: And you approached Greta a few days ago and you were like, oh, my goodness, Are you okay, ma' am? And it was like, kind of weird. Like. Like you didn't look like yourself, but everyone knew something was up. That's what I'm worried about happening again. [01:27:10] Speaker A: Okay. But also, that was in the middle of a crowd and I was worried about Greta. And this I would prepare for. Like, I would. I would make sure I was ready before I went into her mind or whatever. [01:27:25] Speaker B: I'm reading the player's handbook, not ignoring you all. Please keep playing. Yeah, I just didn't want you guys to think I was looking away. [01:27:30] Speaker A: I mean, I. I could literally appear as like, her worst nightmare to her. [01:27:40] Speaker B: I'm gonna read the spell for everybody. [01:27:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:27:45] Speaker B: It's a minute casting time. The duration is 8 hours. The spells shapes a creature's dreams. Choose a creature known to you as a target of the spell. The creature must be on the same plane of existence as you created. Creatures that don't sleep, such as elves, can. Can be contacted by the spell. Except that and my dming elves don't not sleep. That's so stupid. They just sleep less because. [01:28:06] Speaker A: Yeah, I can't be surprised. [01:28:07] Speaker B: I'm an elf. Shut up. So they sleep four hours instead of eight. It's still an immense bonus. [01:28:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:28:13] Speaker B: You or willing creature you touch enters a trance state, acting As a messenger. While in this trance, the messenger is aware of his or her surroundings, but can't take actions or move if the target is asleep. The messenger appears in the target's dreams and can converse with the target as long as it remains asleep through the duration of the spell. The messenger can also shape the environment of the dream, creating landscapes, objects, and other images. The messenger can emerge from the trance at any time, ending the effects of the spell early. The target recalls the dream perfectly upon waking. If the target is awake when you cast a spell, the messenger knows it and can either end the trance and the the spell or wait for the target to fall asleep, at which point the messenger appears in the dream. So if you do while they're awake, it just happens later when they're asleep. [01:28:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:28:55] Speaker B: You can make the messenger appear monstrous and terrifying to the target. If you do, the messenger can deliver a message of no more than 10 words. And then the target must make a wisdom saving. Throw on a failed save. Echoes of the phantasmal monstrosity spawn a nightmare that lasts the duration of the target's sleep. Wow, that's a long time. Prevents the target from gaining any benefit from that rest. In addition, when the target wakes up, it takes 3D6 psychic damage. If you have a body part, lock of hair, or clipping from. From a nail or similar person. Target's body. The target makes a statement. Throw with disadvantage. [01:29:28] Speaker A: Yeah, let me just go clip my enemy's nails real quick. [01:29:31] Speaker D: You just bite them off with your own mouth. [01:29:34] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay. [01:29:36] Speaker C: To do, like, the night before we attack her. [01:29:39] Speaker A: That's what I was thinking. [01:29:40] Speaker C: Could be damaged and. [01:29:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:29:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:29:42] Speaker B: I mean, we don't. [01:29:42] Speaker C: He's probably not, like, fighting every day, but if you don't. Right. [01:29:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:29:50] Speaker B: Were you asking me? Yes. Sorry. Yes. [01:29:52] Speaker A: So. So. Yeah, so, like, as we're reading this and all Rose, like, yeah, like, we could definitely weaken her before we knocked down her door. [01:30:03] Speaker C: The thing is, like, how do we. How do we get her? Because I don't want to fight her, like, in the castle or wherever. I don't want to fight her. Like, when she's surrounded by Alex. That's like. [01:30:14] Speaker A: Yeah, like her army. [01:30:16] Speaker B: Yeah. She's typically surrounded by. I started this for a second. Sorry. I got hit in the head yesterday. She's typically with an army or how does that work? Are people always with her? [01:30:28] Speaker A: Can I do a history? [01:30:29] Speaker E: Generals and stuff. [01:30:31] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:30:32] Speaker A: Or rumors. Check. [01:30:34] Speaker B: I will say the two Empire kids, Row and Craig can give me strategy checks if they want to know this about The. If they kept the military's proceedings as people who came from this nation. It's not a low DC because knowing exactly how the generals do stuff is not easy. But it's also. There's a lot of rumor about it, so it can be common knowledge. [01:30:57] Speaker A: That's a 1918. [01:31:00] Speaker C: Oh, let's go, guys. [01:31:02] Speaker B: I swear, if you sound disappointed by one more 19, I'm just picking. [01:31:06] Speaker A: I did it. I did it on purpose to mess with you. [01:31:09] Speaker B: Well, it worked. Craig, what did you get? [01:31:11] Speaker D: I got an 18. [01:31:13] Speaker A: Thank you. [01:31:14] Speaker B: I blacked out after another player went 19. All I saw was red with an 18 and a 19. You all are aware that as a general of the Kafka military, Lashla typically has. And with. You know what, with that level of success, I'll go a bit further. Typically has three duties, so to speak. She has her role as throne steward, which is to go in and oversee the prefects and the individuals who are in charge of the kingdoms she conquers as a part of the empire. This is the least important of her three roles. But one. Okay, fascinating. All right. I can't wait to talk about that during break. That's amazing. I can't wait. So the least part of her job, a political one, basically, to just kick in the door and go, hey, y' all doing anything stupid? Do I need to kill anybody? No. Okay. Her secondary job is to lead armies, which is, you know, the. The main part of her job, that's the main thing she does, is take. She's a general. She takes huge Kafka armies around the world and does things with them. And most recently, all of you are. All were aware in 3000, 487, she toppled Yaslan. Or no. Yes. No. 34. No, never mind. It was years ago. Anyway. Her most recent achievement, actually almost a decade ago, was toppling years. [01:32:39] Speaker A: Yeah. What's she been doing. [01:32:43] Speaker B: Since then? You're not exactly sure what her military movements have been, but in that way, she is often surrounded by an entire army. And then the third kind of thing she can be doing is strategizing, working with other generals and commanders and thinking and planning and. And then being in communion with the emperor and, like, you know, strategizing with him and learning from him and all that with Asgard. So. [01:33:11] Speaker A: The. [01:33:11] Speaker B: The other piece I will say you're aware of with an 18 and 19, which both pass, is that a general is never without certain portions. So you also know that the generals operate differently, Obviously. Dolgoth was his own weird, freaky deaky Thing. And then Undeloth is also kind of different. He's like. Well, actually I will say Craig or Row. Are you proficient in history. [01:33:47] Speaker A: Profession in history? [01:33:50] Speaker B: You know, Undulot's different. You don't know how, but Kisk, when he was in the Empire, and then Lashla and Vashnazan all have similar roles in that they lead armies. And so in that way, those three generals are always have at least one of their lieutenants by their side. You all witnessed with Vashnazan. He had those that. That swath of Wasgo ogres who are always with him. Lashla did not have her lieutenant with her at the dinner. So clearly sometimes she's without her lieutenants. But you aware that they often have lieutenants with them and then captains are often left in charge of forces and so on. So if they are doing what they're doing the majority of their time, leaving their. Their army. An army is always nearby them to some extent. And then all of their officers are with them. If they are doing their political or their strategic role, there is a chance some of their officers are or are not with them and that's the likelihood or proximity of them to other Kefkin forces. But you are willing to bet that the odds of catching a Kefkin general without a bunch of other Kefkins with them is probably pretty low. And really Dolgoth's kind of probably like that though. He was so terribly dangerous. That encounter with him where it's like up. It's just Dolgoth and the dudes he brought with him pretty standalone because that's not the way all the other Kefkans operate. I will let you all go back to Strat. [01:35:13] Speaker A: Would we be able to grab her? You got. You think you guys. And take her somewhere else, like kidnap her? Yeah. [01:35:21] Speaker C: Would they be able to track us? [01:35:23] Speaker A: Maybe. That's why I'm asking. I mean, I can't teleport her. It has to be a willing creature with teleportation spell would be the most. [01:35:32] Speaker B: Powerful game and spell in the game if it wasn't. Yeah, you can help or at anybody that would be. [01:35:38] Speaker A: I mean, we could fly her though, if we like knocked her out and then flew her an hour away somewhere. [01:35:46] Speaker C: Dude, we could just drop her at that point. [01:35:48] Speaker A: Yeah, then we could just drop her. I'd be done. I mean, it's definitely a risk. Do we? Okay, one more question. DM for a check. What was the last thing? I guess, would this be a rumors check or something of what was the last Thing we heard about where Lashla was do we know you have not. Okay. [01:36:14] Speaker B: Oh, months ago. [01:36:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:36:17] Speaker B: Almost a year ago. She was in Narskana. She was in Telethenon with you, you know that. All the way back when you were in Teltonom. So. [01:36:25] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, could any of us somehow SCRY on her or. [01:36:34] Speaker C: I was just. I'm. Yeah. [01:36:36] Speaker A: Prank caller. We prank called Biscuit. We could prank call her. [01:36:40] Speaker C: I think I'm going to. Do we still have the necklace that prevents people from sprying on us? [01:36:46] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm wearing it always. Yeah, I'm always attuned to it. [01:36:52] Speaker C: Okay, I'm gonna go. [01:36:54] Speaker A: As long as you're. As long as you're within 10 or 20ft of me, I think. Then you're Gucci. Yeah. [01:37:03] Speaker B: Okay. [01:37:04] Speaker C: I'm going to. [01:37:14] Speaker B: Okay. That is going to be a bonus action. [01:37:17] Speaker C: Okay. [01:37:18] Speaker A: Okay. [01:37:19] Speaker C: Who's the best artist on the. [01:37:24] Speaker B: On the ship? Probably whichever of you is proficient in artistry, if any. [01:37:29] Speaker A: I'm not. [01:37:33] Speaker C: Okay. [01:37:33] Speaker B: Well. [01:37:34] Speaker C: Oh, it's. It's Greta, obviously. [01:37:37] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah. [01:37:41] Speaker C: Greta is going to. We don't have any, like, things from Lockla. [01:37:47] Speaker A: Right. [01:37:51] Speaker B: You didn't pick any up in the Cfkin gift shop. [01:37:54] Speaker C: Okay. [01:37:58] Speaker A: Dang it. [01:38:00] Speaker B: Greta, may I ask for what reason you need a visual representation of Lashna? [01:38:04] Speaker C: Just looking. It says in the connection, if you have a likeness or picture, it's negative two. And I don't quite understand what that means, but I think I want to have a likeness or picture. [01:38:15] Speaker A: You've. [01:38:18] Speaker B: Oh, I see what you're saying. No, Greta, you're in the. [01:38:26] Speaker C: Is. That is knowledge. [01:38:27] Speaker B: Because you guys are. You guys are firsthand. But then if you have a likeness or picture, it goes to negative 2. [01:38:32] Speaker C: So I'd rather just do firsthand. [01:38:34] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:38:35] Speaker B: No, no to their save. [01:38:38] Speaker A: Oh. [01:38:42] Speaker B: So likeness or picture is better. Yeah. Greta, try and make a sketch of. I mean, you've seen her. Try and try and recall. Clear the benefits and use some of your paper and your charcoal to sketch Lashla for yourself to focus on. Go ahead and give me an artistry check. [01:38:55] Speaker A: Can I assist by using my keen mind to recall things for Greta? [01:39:02] Speaker B: Okay, so here's the thing. When you started the sentence, can I assist? I was like, jackie, how could you possibly assisting? And then you said what? [01:39:10] Speaker C: You said, can I use my feature does. [01:39:14] Speaker A: Can I use my feature to do what my feature does? [01:39:18] Speaker B: Hold on. Let's get specific about keen mind. [01:39:20] Speaker A: Oh, no. [01:39:23] Speaker B: Because actually, come to think of it, I don't think you can. [01:39:28] Speaker A: Silly. That like like in a month, it's just like, oh, I don't remember anything from that. Like, I remember everything really specifically, but then I don't remember it at all. [01:39:36] Speaker B: The idea is not that it just drops out of your mind after a month so much. Is that, like, within that month? Ish. It's. It's like crystal clear. [01:39:44] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:39:45] Speaker B: And then outside of a month, it becomes, you know, not fuzzy. [01:39:53] Speaker E: Wuzzy. [01:39:54] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, sorry. [01:39:56] Speaker B: It just falls out of the back of your head now. You guys can bartically inspire and guide and all that crap. [01:40:01] Speaker A: Okay, I'll do that. [01:40:03] Speaker B: Yes. What's up? [01:40:05] Speaker C: Totally okay. If not. But can I add my proficiency to this role? Since Greta does a lot of practice sketching and she sketches faces a lot. I mean, she sketches Walter's face a lot. [01:40:20] Speaker B: I would say so. No. And here's the thing. It's not that it's like, no, you're not proficient. I would say you're not proficient yet. You know what I mean? It's like, I would say like an artist, someone who does this full time time as proficient. So I would say Greta is certainly on her way to being so. But I. I don't know that it's a large enough part compared to the other things she's proficient in. I don't know if it quite qualifies. [01:40:45] Speaker D: Zach, I'm just wondering, did the. The steak and bourbon come out of your system? Or like, what? I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Everything. It makes sense. It's all good. [01:41:06] Speaker C: Hey, I got a. I got a map. 23. [01:41:12] Speaker B: 23. Wow. Shouldn't even take any of the bonuses. Gris rolls are 29, 27, and 23. Holy crap. Greta, you pull out a sketch that. Yeah, that's really pretty good. It's a little abstract of detail, but in a way that focuses your mind very well. And so like to say that it's not quite realism, but, man, in a vague sense, is it not an excellent sketch. And so. You know what, Abby? You're a little rabid. Stat Gremlin. You can put this down on your character sheet. Anytime you're trying to make a sketch of a person, you can add half of your proficiency bonus. [01:42:02] Speaker C: Do I run up or down? Down. [01:42:04] Speaker B: We run down. Right down. You may add half of your proficiency bonus if you want to record that. Anytime you're making a sketch of a person. [01:42:10] Speaker C: A sketch of a person? [01:42:15] Speaker B: Actually, no, a sketch. Because that was your whole thing that you want to run the landscape, sketching things and animals and plants. Yeah, anytime you're sketching, you can add half your proficiency. Bonus. Okay, Greta. With within. With an accurate rendering and likeness and having first hand knowledge, she is at a minus two on a safe. [01:42:34] Speaker C: Okay, hold on. I just want to make sure I'm not getting myself in it because I always. [01:42:47] Speaker B: I know the song that I'm about to use for this, and it's. I'm so glad I made it. It's such. I. I really feel like it was the missing hole in our musical lexicon for the campaign. [01:43:00] Speaker A: Very pleased, Jack. I was so close to putting on, like, our DND music to, like, listen to while I read. I feel like that would be a cool thing because people do that. People make, like, playlists and all for books. And I was like, what if I put on our DND music? Or when I'm reading, like, a fantasy novel? That would be kind of fun concept, Jackie. I might try it sometime. [01:43:25] Speaker B: Well, I mean, I. Sometimes I study to the music that we have from our sessions. [01:43:28] Speaker A: Yeah, I do that. I just wonder, like, I feel like I'd have to, like, change the. The music up, like, if, you know, things get, like, battly, you know, I should switch it to a battle theme. [01:43:39] Speaker B: I have different playlists for that. But anyway, that's very fun. Greta, are you casting scry? [01:43:49] Speaker C: Yes, I am. [01:43:50] Speaker B: Okay. [01:43:51] Speaker C: This is the first time I've ever cast this. [01:43:53] Speaker A: Really? Wow. [01:43:54] Speaker B: Is that true? [01:43:55] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:43:55] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:43:56] Speaker B: Rose been the only person to SCRY thus far. [01:43:58] Speaker A: I haven't scryed. Boss. [01:43:59] Speaker B: Who scribed from this group? Boss? Me. I have. Boss has been doing all this crying. [01:44:03] Speaker A: I can't. [01:44:05] Speaker B: That's right. [01:44:06] Speaker A: I can only dream. [01:44:07] Speaker B: It's a druid. It's a druid, cleric, wizard, warlock thing. This game has a lot of details in it. [01:44:15] Speaker A: Oh, wait, you can do bard those classes. Bard. [01:44:19] Speaker B: What? Oh, okay, so it's. [01:44:21] Speaker A: Almost everybody didn't know that. [01:44:24] Speaker B: Okay, well, it might just be that you'd be like, well, two other people can do it. I'm not wasting a spot on it. [01:44:29] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:44:32] Speaker B: All right. So, Greta, could you describe what it looks like as you take some time to take out the crystalline orb you all got from the hag cave in Zedge and attempt to SCRY on one of the Kefkan generals? Anir. Lashla. [01:44:49] Speaker C: Yes. So Greta successfully, or she thinks she's, like, pretty happy with the sketch that she's made of La. What? Lashla? I have a coordinated lachlan. No, she pulls out her sketch of baklava and she's not evil. She's very nice. I Pull out my. I'm, like, pretty satisfied of the sketch that I made of Lachla. And so I, like, kind of I tear that out of my. My notebook or whatever. I wrote it on, threw it on, and I kind of put it to the side. And then she starts over and she, like, does it again, and she does it, like, two or three more times just to, like, a lot of her. She's, like, just casting in, like, this meditative way. And then after she's got, like, two or three, like, just quick sketches, she pulls out her. The orb and she sets it in front of her, and she kind of, like, arranges the sketches. And then she is sitting, like, cross legged with the orb in front of her, and she's, like, leaned over, and with one hand, she's like. She's, like, looking into the orb. But, like, while she's doing that, she's, like, sketching on her, like, another Lashla face, and she's just, like, staring into it while she's like. Or she's not sketching a new one. She's tracing, like, like, the chin and the nose. She's, like, tracing over again the lines that she's already drawn. So she's just kind of, like, tracing it and tracing the curves of her face as she, like, focuses and. And. Oh, and can I say that, like, once, as the spell, like, kicks in the face like that, she's drawn, like, the. The. In Greta's mind, the lead, like, lifts off of the page. Oh, and, like, her eyes are open and, like, the page. The. It lifts off of the page and, like, kind of floats and, like, slowly morphs into, like, the vision that she sees. [01:47:03] Speaker B: I mean, no, that's a crazy level of overreach on the spell. Except that you're a 13th level cleric of Ioun. I mean, you're reaching. Arch Cleric. [01:47:19] Speaker C: I was just flavor. [01:47:21] Speaker B: No, I know. What I'm saying is. Here's what I'm saying. [01:47:25] Speaker C: Okay. [01:47:26] Speaker B: No to anybody else. Yes to you. In what? I mean that, like, you. Your vision's clear. You get the full vision. I'm gonna say 13th level, near archpriest. What's your title? With your. [01:47:43] Speaker C: Curator. [01:47:44] Speaker B: Yes, Near Archpriest, Curator of the Temple of IU and the lady of the Knowing Mistress. I will say that as Greta has. As she's, like, almost trompe l' oe, just going back and repeating the pattern and repeating the pattern of her face. And, like, as the. As the charcoal is just getting started, so, like, embedded on the page and darkened and one hand Is on the scrying orb. And she sits there mudding with her eyes closed. And the ethereal wisps of magic, so pale, thin green that you almost can't see them, start to wrap around both the orb and the page as you all sit there and watch with rapt attention. You watch as, like, the charcoal begins to, like, sort of sublimate and float off the page. And you all start seeing an abs. A very abstract, only, like, shades of grayscale rendering of what Greta is seeing in full color in her mind. Mind. [01:48:24] Speaker C: I do want to be clear. That's not what I was trying to do. I was trying to do it just for Greta's mind and not for everyone else. But that is so cool, and I'm very happy that that's what happened. [01:48:32] Speaker B: Okay. Sorry about the misinterpretation. Glad. [01:48:33] Speaker C: No, no, I appreciate the misinterpretation. That is awesome. [01:48:37] Speaker B: Okay. Sick. Oops. Okay. Saving throw. Wisdom. [01:48:44] Speaker C: Yes, wisdom. Wisdom. And she has a negative two, I believe. If I'm interpreting. [01:48:48] Speaker B: You are correct. You are correct. What is your spell save? [01:48:51] Speaker C: Open. Sorry. 17. [01:48:54] Speaker B: 17. Okay. I'm rolling in the dice tower. Okay. All right. How interesting. What an interesting time to SCRY on her. Greta, as you look through your. [01:49:12] Speaker C: Did I hear that? I'm so upset. [01:49:14] Speaker B: No, of course not. [01:49:15] Speaker C: Okay. I thought that was something that she heard. Oh, my God. [01:49:18] Speaker B: Your image melts. No, you remember that's not her voice. And your image melts away. And the big mic pops out of the dead, goes, ha. And pokes you in the eyes. As your world melts away, a new vision resolves before you. And the vision is. Let's see. If you all can't hear the music. I recommend turning it up. I'm not trying to pat my own back, but it goes really well with this. [01:49:50] Speaker C: I will turn it up. [01:49:53] Speaker B: The new vision that resolves before you is bright. It is bright for many things. It is bright from the bright white sky, trimmed with a hedge of pale gray clouds at its rim. Within the span of the vision. Bless you, my cousin. You can see. You see no landscape because all the world around there is the bright blue above and then the gray wisp of foam cloud at its edge. And in this sort of bowl of bright blue sky within it, all the world is hemmed in by a wall of stone. A great wall, A massive wall, I will say, the tallest wall you have ever seen. You're having a hard time estimating its height from this distance of your perspective, because, remember, scrying is centered on a person and so this is all at the fuzzy periphery of your vision. But General Anir Lashla is standing in an open space. And so you have this like slight perspective on what's further away from her. And there is this massive wall quite some distance away in what is otherwise an immense stone courtyard. And not a courtyard so much as like an entirely open municipal district. Its size is so vast. The best comparison I could make for you is the way that when you were in Tel than am, there was an inner ring, which was the ring of the palace, the innermost ring of the city. And Greta, as you perceive. Well, I'll just grab a little more and then give some context so you see that I'm in space. She is the singular individual in your vision, but many others are in the vision with her. She stands in her full plate armor, her deep high Kafkin double forged magical plate. It's dark metallic blue, almost black. The way that they have that, that super dark blue metal, the Kefkan iron, where it's like, it's just barely blue. And the bright winter sun day is gleaming off of her armor and you can see her. Her. She is not. Anir Lashla is not gorgeous person. She is not beautiful. She is just striking. Perhaps someone would find her fetching, perhaps they would not. But she is just structured. Her face is very squared, her cheeks very high. Again, not necessarily in a beautiful way, but certainly in a sharp way, in a harsh way. Her thin nose is looking over a script of paper. In front of her, a large broad sheet of a papyrus mixed paper plated onto a wooden board, which is being held at either side by metal handles by two different soldiers. And she is looking over what seems to be a schematic of something. Her silver gray hair is tied very tightly into the single powerful braid behind her, which is an iron clasp at her side, her brilliant metal sword, a shield over her back. She doesn't seem to be in a place where she would need to fight, but from where she is, you can tell that she seems a person who's never not ready, so to speak, that's. [01:53:29] Speaker C: So good for us. [01:53:30] Speaker B: And where she stands, you can see that she's surrounded by a litany of individuals. There are two soldiers in front of her holding whatever this thing is she's looking at. There is at her side an individual you do not recognize. Greta or Craig and Ro, you all can give me rumors, checks as I describe this individual, both being Empire kids, but at her side is a blue. No, excuse me, no one give me a check. Everyone knows this individual. You all know this individual as Lachla's closest lieutenant, whom you met when you were in Telton on meeting with the king. This is the dragonborn woman who was in the. In the throne room with you, who was watching over King Yuan at the time. She. I. If I remember correctly. If I am wrong, then retcon it to what I said in the past. But if I remember correctly, I believe she is a blue Dragonborn, just huge six foot something. Just a wall of muscle encased in sheets of iron. And she has that immense great axe on her back. And she's stroking the downward jutting spikes from her broad mandible tooth chin, just stroking it. Looking over the sheet with her. And she and Lashla are speaking quietly. Thank you, Jackie. [01:54:54] Speaker C: Can I get what they're saying? [01:54:56] Speaker B: Well, we'll come to that in a moment, I promise. But a valid question. And they are looking over this schematic, muttering with each other. And you can see vaguely in the distance in her periphery, just sort of like masses of iron. Clearly regiments of soldiers are moving by in either direction. She is very much in the middle of a massive force of people, a huge population of them who all appear to be in Kefkan iron moving by. People are moving expeditiously. You notice from what you can see. Give me a perception check. Actually, within this vision. [01:55:40] Speaker C: That is a. [01:55:41] Speaker B: You really should have been bartically inspired before this, but you live in your loins. [01:55:46] Speaker C: This really is a per caption keg. [01:55:48] Speaker B: Oh, it is a per caption keg. [01:55:50] Speaker A: The first. [01:55:52] Speaker C: For the first dirty 20. [01:55:54] Speaker B: Forever dirty 20. That's pretty good. Pretty good for a mortal person. So you, as you look around the space you're getting though your vision is focused on L, you're able to see a fair amount around her and you can see that she is surrounded by soldiers. But very few of them are carrying weapons. I mean, they are armed. Weapons are at their side. But very few are carrying weapons in their hands. The majority are carrying things, objects, stone. Many of them are pushing carts with great portions of metal in them. Wood, beaming, bracing, construction materials. It appears they are at a. At a site where something is being worked on in some way. Something edificial, something structured. There's some sort of architecture. I may have made that word up, but edifice is a word and I've decided I will say edification. If it's not a word in the English language, then I dunk on them and they should add it. But I would like to presume that perhaps it is thank you for the rock answers that, Jackie. That really did something for me. And the other thing, before I get into the exact details of what you might perceive from there, Greta, that you can see, is that. [01:57:04] Speaker A: The. [01:57:07] Speaker B: So there's this great stone space open. There's some landscaping at distance, some plants, ones that you don't recognize, many wizened and harsh, great areas of bark, and none of them seeded with any green or flowers. Right now, though, it is winter in Keft, and, you know. No, you're not from the earthenbloom. Okay, well, there are wooden plants in this great court space at distances within the stonework. But what is in front of her, what she's facing as she looks at this schematic, is a building of scale, which you have never witnessed. You are looking at what appears to be the base of a great circular building, and it stretches on for great distance. Whatever this building is, it appears to be larger than the Telethian Palace. [01:58:04] Speaker C: The whole palace, or the thing that's. [01:58:06] Speaker B: Enclosed the whole palace, like the whole circle for a moment? No, that is within an entire section of the city. But like the palace itself, that immense structure. [01:58:18] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:58:19] Speaker B: The largest building, larger than you'd ever fathom. This appears to be larger, and for a moment, you mistake it for another great wall before you realize that it is one massive circular building, and you presume it might even be a tower because it goes up, but it simply hurt. Your vision is not up. It's kind of down at her. So you just lose it at some point in the vision. Would you give me a rumors check, Greta? I would. [01:58:49] Speaker C: It'd be a 24. [01:58:51] Speaker B: Okay, excellent. What were you gonna say? Nothing. You perceive immediately that this. This must be the Kefkan palace. And with a 24. What you have heard from multiple sources is that the Kefkan palace is three concentric rings. The city, the Kefkin City, the Kefkan capital. Why don't you give me a concurrent history check? [01:59:24] Speaker C: History check. Okay. [01:59:28] Speaker B: We'Re getting out of hand real fast here with the checks. Aren't these in here? [01:59:35] Speaker C: Okay, can I. I can't cast guidance on myself right now, can I? [01:59:41] Speaker B: No. [01:59:42] Speaker C: Okay. Because I'm currently. Yeah, that is a 25. [01:59:47] Speaker B: Okay, well, it was much lower than that in D.C. so give me a moment. [01:59:52] Speaker C: Okay. [01:59:54] Speaker B: Somebody else do some narrating or conversation or something while I look up something really quickly. [02:00:03] Speaker A: Sorry. [02:00:03] Speaker B: I found it really fast, so that was misleading of me because I found it weekly. Oh, that was bad. I just knocked a bunch of stuff. [02:00:14] Speaker A: Over. [02:00:16] Speaker B: The thrash is the Kefkan capital. T H R A S H Thrash. T H R A S H Thrash. Within the Kefkan capital, the city, is three concentric rings, because the symbol of the empire is two concentric rings. So they're. They're like. There's like the out of wall and then two rings within it. And within that primary ring, which you must be looking at now, there is the palace. And the palace is three concentric rings, two great layers, and then a central spire. So you are aware that the palace is an immense. The building is larger than some hamlets in the world. Wow. [02:00:55] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:00:56] Speaker B: Like, there are towns in West Texas, the circumference of which is the circumference of this building. And there is like a great central base layer and then another layer on top of it, which is essentially like another great palace on top of it, just one great cylinder. And then in the center is this great spired tower itself, the highest building in the world. You've heard many varying descriptions of how high it is, but. And so this last part of the rumors check. With a 25, you might be able to know its exact height. But from the 24, you've heard many different estimations, some outlandishly impossible, some even. But the most conservative of all of them you've heard. You've heard have put that central tower upon the other layers at at least 500ft in height, at least 50 stories high. Wow. In the ancient in. [02:01:51] Speaker C: Can I see? I. I can't see it. Right. [02:01:53] Speaker B: You can see none of this. This is all what you've heard. You just see that great layer of the building. You see the many immense stepways leading up into it. So you put together that Anir Lashla is in Thrash, in the very center of the capital. She is before the palace now. Now with the 20 on your perception check, you can hear her. [02:02:14] Speaker C: Awesome. [02:02:15] Speaker B: And she is not speaking. She is rubbing her chin, listening, as is her lieutenant in front of her. Are there. There is someone who is not a soldier. They are dressed in a rather fine tabard, and they are. They are recounting some sort of details to her. And next to Lashla is standing a very old person, a very old elven man who is in deep, deep gray robes with very dark blue accents trimming them. They look clearly arcane. And with the checks you've gotten on the last couple, I will just give this to you. You are aware that this is. Well, actually, no. Give me another history check. Well, you can know right off. [02:03:05] Speaker C: History or rumors? [02:03:06] Speaker B: History. You can know right off the bat that this is a member of the Iron Cauldron, the wing of the Kefkan Empire was. Which is their. They have. They have a portion of their. I mean, they are a military government, but they have a portion of their military which is nothing but their magical division. It is the magical branch of their military. And it is. It is basically an entire university, what is now the largest academic arcane institution in the world, sadly devoted to nothing but the production of mostly wizards and clerics in the service of the Empire. And it has grown larger than the Vashtan Institute of Magic. And with that history check, what'd you get? [02:03:53] Speaker C: I got a 18. [02:03:55] Speaker B: Okay. You do not know a great deal about the hierarchy of the Iron Cauldron, but you are aware that within there's the Iron Cauldron, there's the Iron Tome, the Iron Press, and the Iron Press is the highest, like, rank. There's the highest. Highest section, the most central section of the Iron Cauldron. But you are not aware of what the higher members of that order are called. But you'd be willing to bet this is a fairly high ranking individual. And so, okay, what you are hearing is this where. [02:04:28] Speaker C: This is where I forget her name. But the. The sorcerer that we captured from Dolgoth, she was part of the Iron Cauldron. [02:04:37] Speaker B: Was a member of the Iron Cauldron. [02:04:39] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:04:41] Speaker B: And whoever this. This individual he is this very old elven man is also listening, along with Lashla and her lieutenant. So the two guards are holding the schematic. And with your 20, you can see that the schematic is a schematic of a portion of a building. And that portion of the building is circular. You put together. This is probably a layer of the tower somewhere in the palace. [02:05:04] Speaker C: Okay, so is this, like. Are they looking at the construction of the outside, or is this, like, designs for the inside? [02:05:11] Speaker B: Now give me another perception check to try and see the schematic in front of her. [02:05:16] Speaker C: Oh, that's a natural one. [02:05:21] Speaker B: With so much focus, Craig is at the vision that Greta's looking in. You accidentally lean forward and just bump her. And Greta's vision kind of flutters for a bit before it goes back to seeing clearly. Or perhaps Craig farts and Greta gets a whiff. Whichever it may be, that made Michael laugh. So we'll go with that one. So, Craig, as you're watching Greta carefully in a vague sort of distant echoey, like through the realms, you hear. And it, like, throws you for a minute as you get like, a little and you sort of miss what the schematic is, but you can tell vaguely it's like circular and it's like. Of like a level or a room or something. And they're all talking and you can hear that the finely robed individual, who is not the caster among them, who is speaking to Lachlan, to the lieutenant and to the. The wizard for the empire is just rattling off like measurements and details. And he's going. Or actually she. She's. She's like a late middle aged woman. And she is just saying. Now the distance to the door is a significant factor. You have at least 30ft in between there and here. But we think we would be able to offset this by the radial inlay. We have not received all of the foreign materials yet. We are expecting them in from Yazlan within the week. But we already have a team putting down the primarily ground and superheated layers here. Lord diamond, this would be in your hands to begin your enchanting process. Obviously not my expertise, but your schematics were clear and the engravers are doing their work. Well, we do not mean for this to displace any of the position of the deus before the throne, but this should not interfere with any of the structure of the room. Now the reinforcement from lower layers will take time. And she's just. She's going on like it's details about the design of the building and how it's interacting with something they're making. And she's just very much in the middle of this tirade. And that's what you're perceiving. This conversation goes on for some time. And finally Lashla just. There's no response. She's just nodding quietly listening. And whoever this woman is, she finishes up her portion and then it's at this time that the person she referred to as Lord diamond, whatever's going on with that, responds like just as she finishes. He's. He's this elven man. And elves do not grow beards. Typically he must be half elven because though he looks very elven, there is like a very near flush beard to his face, very short hair, entirely white. [02:08:16] Speaker C: Is this the man in the Wizard? Okay. [02:08:20] Speaker B: And he's like rubbing that tight beard on his face. And he says, we will be challenged to undergo so much enchantment and such a brief period, but half of the diamonds have been assigned to the work, and the cauldron churns away at the materials. We would be well suited to complete the task on time so long as we do retrieve all of Our components, Lord Lashla. And so it should move to Asgon specifications. Will we be reinforced by such a time? And Lashlet doesn't. She doesn't even speak. She just looks to her lieutenant as if this is a delegated task. And her lieutenant responds and says, and goodness, do I not remember this voice? So I'm just going with one in the moment, and if it's great, great. And she says, we have more than enough troops already. We have exceeded the required number present for the capital. 85% of our Yazlanian force is protracted, and we are assuming the majority of the Navy and by. Of the navy. And by the end of the month, the aerial reinforcement is already in place. We should be more than ready. And Lashley just nods. And the duration of scry is 10 minutes, Greta? [02:10:02] Speaker C: I believe so, yes. Yeah, that's what I remember. Let me double check. [02:10:06] Speaker A: Yeah, it is. I have it pulled up. [02:10:08] Speaker B: Okay. Excellent. [02:10:08] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:10:09] Speaker B: Ten minutes. Nods and finally says, do you see the slightest little smirk creep across one side of her face? Not arrogant or above, just satisfied. And she just. Asgon will be pleased. I will prepare the update for my summons. You all are dismissed. And everyone just nods to her. The Lord diamond guy just nods and then lifts up his hand. There is the slightest flurry of a very quick and intricate series of glyphs just from around his hand. And then he just begins lifting up off the ground and just, like, walks, but up and away into the air. The two guards carry away whatever the schematic. The fourth person is dismissed, and her lieutenant sort of remains by her side and looks around as Lashla sort of turns and looks up at the tower, you would assume. And as she looks up for a moment, she just sighs like you're looking at her so you can't see what she's perceiving. But her lieutenant kind of turns to her and says, general, if I may ask, for what purpose are we doing all of this work? And then, yes, that smirk on her face just widens a little wider, and she just says, I don't know, and I look forward to finding out. And she starts walking toward the building. And as she walks forward, your vision expands just a little bit, and you can see huge swathes of Kefkan soldiers just moving by. And like, what looks like sort of like in a marching order, like a whole section of an army moving by. [02:11:59] Speaker C: They carrying snuff? [02:12:01] Speaker B: No, just this is an accompaniment. Who are armed or something? Somebody doing a large section. And very briefly, there's just a shadow goes by her from above, just followed by maybe 20 others. [02:12:12] Speaker C: Yeah. Scary. [02:12:13] Speaker B: You hear heavy wing beats. The shape of the shadow vaguely reminds you of the griffin that she rode into the throne room. And it's about this time that your vision and you watch her awkwardly walk for about a minute. Some soldiers fall. She's some distance away from the palace. So it's just a minute of fruitless walking. And then your vision sort of like resolves and you are back to your own mind on the deck. And for your allies, who only barely saw everything in grain scale and whatnot, you can catch them up easily enough. And they are. [02:12:52] Speaker C: I relay every. [02:12:53] Speaker B: Never count and everything because we're not gonna sit here and I'll play that. That's so boring. [02:12:57] Speaker C: That's crazy. It's like they're making like. I'm afraid they're gonna do, like, mass sacrifice or something. Like, it's like, so freaky what they're doing. [02:13:06] Speaker A: Did they say, did I hear correctly that she said a majority of the Navy will be back by the end of the month? [02:13:16] Speaker B: That was correct. [02:13:17] Speaker C: An aerial support. That's so spooky. [02:13:23] Speaker A: Interesting. [02:13:25] Speaker C: So I relay this to the group and I say, I don't know about y' all, but I. This seems like a something that I would love to shake up a little bit. [02:13:36] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, definitely. I just don't know how to do it without getting completely. Completely slaughtered by the army. Yeah, I mean. [02:13:49] Speaker C: I mean, killing her is. Will shake it up things up no matter what. [02:13:53] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:13:58] Speaker D: I know that we are, like, very good at what we do, but I personally would love if we had a level of backup to match their backup. I'm not sure what that would look like, but I think it would be great if we could reach out to. [02:14:16] Speaker E: I can start getting some flyers together. We can start training our own army. [02:14:21] Speaker D: Put it next to our wanted flyers. [02:14:25] Speaker E: Hey, you like this guy? [02:14:27] Speaker A: Wanted Fungi Army. [02:14:31] Speaker D: Join my army. Mikasa Etsuka. [02:14:36] Speaker E: I'm not gonna lie, you guys. I think we would get smushed if we tried to go. [02:14:40] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, there. [02:14:41] Speaker A: Yeah. Unless we did. I mean, we could try to, like, you know, sneak in as army ourselves and like, you know, step in line with. [02:14:49] Speaker C: No, that sounds so scary. [02:14:53] Speaker A: I think it's interesting that she doesn't even know. [02:14:58] Speaker C: Wait, wait, dm. [02:14:59] Speaker E: They don't need to know. They're just following orders. [02:15:01] Speaker A: I know. [02:15:02] Speaker B: It's been in the arms before. [02:15:03] Speaker E: Rock. No, back in my time. [02:15:08] Speaker B: Back in my day. [02:15:12] Speaker C: A retroactive insight check to see if she's lying. [02:15:17] Speaker B: Yes, you may. I will Accept that. Dang. [02:15:21] Speaker E: That's a great use of the inside. That's crazy. [02:15:25] Speaker B: Again, I'm still feeling that. I'm feeling very merciful right now. I'm feeling the delicious food, a great mood. [02:15:29] Speaker D: That steak. [02:15:30] Speaker C: 18. [02:15:32] Speaker B: Oh, Mike, I can't even describe how good that steak was. Seriously, some of the best steak I've eaten all year. What you get, that's good. [02:15:42] Speaker C: 18. I got an 18. [02:15:43] Speaker B: Sorry I didn't listen to you. [02:15:46] Speaker A: He was still thinking about it. [02:15:48] Speaker B: Yeah, I got lost in the. Got lost in the steak. It didn't even need sauce. Got lost in the sauce. So I guess I'm giving an opposed check with Lashley stats. [02:16:02] Speaker D: How would she do that without knowing? [02:16:05] Speaker C: Yeah. Does someone do a deception check if they don't know that? [02:16:08] Speaker B: Greta, you can tell. Well, I don't think I would take it as a detection check. Moving on from that. [02:16:14] Speaker A: She was deceiving her lieutenant. If she was saying no or yes, that's true. [02:16:18] Speaker B: Actually, that would be a really good point. Thank you for that. Thank you for backing me up there. [02:16:22] Speaker E: Good point. [02:16:24] Speaker B: That's you. But she rolled exploding butt pee. So, Greta, you can tell pretty clearly. Yes and no. Yes, she was lying and no, she was not lying. Yes, she does know more than she was telling her Lieutenant. So she does know a little bit about what this is about. So you can tell Greta she was telling the truth as she lied. [02:16:50] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:16:53] Speaker B: She. She does know a piece of what the emperor is doing. She understands something about what's happening. There's some knowledge understanding there. That's part of what she's smiling about. But there is a central thing she doesn't like about their specific question. What all of this is for. No, but she does know, like, something interesting. [02:17:16] Speaker C: And Greta. [02:17:17] Speaker B: Okay, wow, wow, wow. I'm listening. You're walking. [02:17:28] Speaker C: Greta relays this also, obviously. [02:17:32] Speaker A: Do we know. Do we know for sure when Zach gets back? He can answer this. But. But it. Okay. Just to refresh my memory, like grabbing a snack is. As Asgon is. Is Asgon the emperor? [02:17:43] Speaker B: As emperor. Asgon is the emperor of the. [02:17:46] Speaker A: Okay, that's what I thought. That's what I thought. Okay. [02:17:48] Speaker B: The most powerful individual in the world have. [02:17:55] Speaker A: Would me or Craig know. Had ever heard of Lord Diamond? [02:17:59] Speaker C: Oh, my God. Stupid name. [02:18:01] Speaker A: Yeah. What a stupid name. [02:18:02] Speaker C: Sorry, Zach. Sorry, Zach. [02:18:04] Speaker A: I mean, what a. [02:18:04] Speaker C: What a great name. [02:18:05] Speaker B: I mean. No, no, no, no. Hey, hey. Characters in the world can be stupid. Greta, why don't you give me an intelligence trick? [02:18:19] Speaker C: I love 22. [02:18:21] Speaker B: You heard a what? [02:18:23] Speaker C: 22. [02:18:23] Speaker B: Of course, Greta, you put together easily enough. At one point, he said, the machine majority of the diamonds will be on this. [02:18:31] Speaker C: Right. [02:18:32] Speaker B: Lord diamond is not his name. It's a title. [02:18:35] Speaker C: So stupid. [02:18:37] Speaker B: Diamond must be representative of some part of his title. And so something about the military political structure of this nation must insinuate that he is. But the interesting thing is you also heard them called General, Lord General. So whatever this diamond title is, whatever the full title, a Diamond must be near par within their military political structure as a general somewhere in that hemisphere. So whoever he is, he's one of the most important commanders in the Kefkan empire. So that diamond must be part of a title by which he was being referred in shorthand. [02:19:12] Speaker D: I think it's really impressive that we get so wrapped up in this world that we forget that it's made. [02:19:21] Speaker B: Oh, my God, thank you. That was really sweet. [02:19:23] Speaker D: And so we dissed something about it. [02:19:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Because it feels like that's. [02:19:30] Speaker D: Forget that. Like this is something. It's not just like happy life. [02:19:36] Speaker B: That means a lot. I really appreciate it. I worked very hard on it. I really appreciate it. [02:19:40] Speaker C: It's like when you're reading a good book and you're like, wow, this character is insufferable. [02:19:44] Speaker B: I hate that character. Because the book is. [02:19:46] Speaker C: No, no. You know, it's a good book because you can trust. It's like you trust that it's like the main character is bad in doing mean things, but you, like, trust that it's like. [02:19:57] Speaker D: Like that on purpose. [02:19:59] Speaker C: You know what I mean? [02:19:59] Speaker B: Like the point of the book, I will say not. I'm. I want to be clear. I am not in any way insulted by going, that name's so stupid. It kind of is. They are a little bit opposite. Sometimes things are in the. Dumb in the world because I mean them to be. But actually, I will say that the full title is actually a little less stupid than it sounds in context. You just don't have the other half. But it's also not. Not stupid. It's just when you hear the whole thing, you're like, I guess that makes a little sense, but it is a little stupid. It's both. [02:20:28] Speaker C: Shade that it's stupid. Honestly, I think it's. [02:20:31] Speaker B: Sometimes autocratic dictatorial figures give themselves really stupid names. [02:20:36] Speaker C: I was just thinking that it. [02:20:37] Speaker B: Because they want to sound. [02:20:39] Speaker C: That this nation, that this group specifically has. Yeah. [02:20:43] Speaker B: Diamond. Somewhere in their title is dumb. Yeah. [02:20:46] Speaker C: Lord Diamond. [02:20:47] Speaker D: It's giving Steven Universe. Okay, I like it. [02:20:52] Speaker B: But you get the feeling that the diamond is probably not a name, but in the same way that they referred to Lashley as Lord General or something like that. [02:20:59] Speaker C: Yeah. Lord General. [02:21:04] Speaker B: Yes. They are very full of themselves. But. And we'll end the session soon. [02:21:12] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't. Yeah. The pro. Yeah. Getting in and out of Kef itself. If she's staying there and for some reason, if they're bringing back all of their troops and everything for definitely should, whatever they say days, that means that they're all going to be there. [02:21:33] Speaker B: I have a question. [02:21:34] Speaker D: Can we do something horrendous to a certain degree that would draw her out of. Kevin. The Kefkin military place? [02:21:45] Speaker A: I don't know. [02:21:46] Speaker D: Do we know any family members? [02:21:48] Speaker A: Maybe if we, like. Maybe if we, like, killed Biscuit and. [02:21:51] Speaker E: Does she have any family? [02:21:54] Speaker A: No. [02:21:54] Speaker C: Strategy to. [02:21:55] Speaker A: Wow. That went. [02:21:57] Speaker B: You all saw her sister at the. You met her, you spoke with and were threatened by her sister who checked you at the gates when you went to the capital in Teom. You know that her sister is a lieutenant in the military. [02:22:08] Speaker A: That would be. [02:22:09] Speaker C: I'm gonna do. [02:22:12] Speaker E: We don't have to do anything to her sister. You guys. [02:22:14] Speaker A: We could show up that we are. [02:22:17] Speaker E: If we make her think that we. [02:22:19] Speaker B: Are. [02:22:22] Speaker A: Without anyone or we do something to your sister. [02:22:28] Speaker B: That's the math face. Her math face is so much like my pooping face. [02:22:33] Speaker C: That's so gross. [02:22:36] Speaker A: Why would you tell us this? [02:22:39] Speaker E: Guys, guys. I'm gonna. I'm gonna say I think it would be a bad idea to try and go after her for right now. I think we are almost there, but I think it would be a little bit too much. I. I don't think it would be. [02:22:52] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:22:53] Speaker A: Did they say a time limit? [02:22:55] Speaker E: Yeah. [02:22:57] Speaker A: By the end of the month. [02:22:58] Speaker E: By the end of the year? [02:23:00] Speaker A: No, not for what we're doing. For what they're doing. [02:23:03] Speaker C: Oh, they also mentioned the end of the month. They said getting there. [02:23:10] Speaker A: Right. [02:23:10] Speaker C: They said that the Navy would get there by. [02:23:14] Speaker E: All right. [02:23:18] Speaker B: I'm listening, y' all. [02:23:19] Speaker D: I think it's gonna get worse from here. [02:23:23] Speaker C: Yeah. They're obviously planning something big. [02:23:28] Speaker A: I mean, unless we did. Do you think she's. Do you guys think she's arrogant enough? [02:23:36] Speaker C: No, I think she's very. [02:23:37] Speaker A: No, I mean, like, I just don't know. I don't think she would give us the time of day if we did try to taunt her to pull her out here. [02:23:44] Speaker E: Here's what I'm. Here's what I'm thinking. [02:23:46] Speaker A: I'm think even if we called her up and we're like, hey, we want to fight. [02:23:50] Speaker E: Guys, guys, can I present. Can I present something to y' all? [02:23:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:23:54] Speaker E: All right, so I think. I think it is possible for us to take her on with a very, very solid plan on a setting that's on our terms. Right. I think it'd be possible to find that place, time, and setting. I feel like we. It would not be simple. I feel like we would have to do a lot of, you know, interrogating Kefkin troops at different levels, trying to get information on her. We'd have to be figuring out more of their plan. We'd have to do, like, reconnaissance missions. There would be a lot of points where if we make one mistake. Mistake. The whole thing would fall apart. [02:24:31] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:24:32] Speaker E: And we just kind of turned up the heat really high on looking out for us too. So I think trying to do an elaborate plan like that would be hard, and I don't know if we. It would be worth trying to do right now. I think you're right that it would be a lot more difficult at the end of the month. So I don't really know how to balance that, but I just kind of wanted to, like, present that to y' all as a thought. [02:24:53] Speaker B: I forgot my mic was on. Sorry. [02:24:56] Speaker C: And we don't. I know we talked a little bit about this earlier, but we don't. Like. It doesn't seem like we were, like, particularly beholden to this particular mission. [02:25:07] Speaker B: It would be. You'd be losing the favor of this person, Jupiter Yazlan, whatever that means to you. [02:25:14] Speaker C: That's true. [02:25:16] Speaker B: Well, if that's important to you at all, maybe you don't care that you'd be losing her favorite, and you'd be losing the opportunity at 20, 000 gold, but at the scale, you are kind of feeling like that's about the only consequence. I mean, it's not that she can pose no threat to you, but if she really wants to get pissed and upset with you, she needs to get in line. Behind the coven crown, there's the Kefkan Empire and, you know, the Baba Yaga. [02:25:40] Speaker E: Yeah. [02:25:40] Speaker B: Like it doesn't feel. Yes, exactly. It doesn't feel like. It does feel like. It's. You do not feel. You feel that this is the sort of thing. [02:25:51] Speaker E: Mr. Krabs. I'm gonna call him Mr. Krabs from now on. [02:25:53] Speaker C: No, I have to respect him. [02:25:56] Speaker E: Okay. So why, sir, Mr. Krabs. They're just Dr. Mr. Krabs. Is that. Is that. [02:26:04] Speaker C: Yeah, that's okay. [02:26:06] Speaker B: You guys do feel like this is probably the most beholden For. [02:26:10] Speaker C: Okay. We could also go the route of like. I mean, this information would pro. It might not be new, but it could be very valuable to. To you. Your last Yazlan. So we could. [02:26:24] Speaker E: I don't want to give her anything. She works for Good Charlotte, right? Screw them. Who cares? Let them. Oh, no. Never mind. [02:26:31] Speaker C: No, we just met her close to when we met Good Charlotte. [02:26:36] Speaker B: She is. She is within the infrastructure. She is. Actually, yes, she does work for Good Charlotte, but not. I knew it not. You are aware that much of the way the brass company is. Is structured. There are like, obligate members who are like. Like. Like that. That Tabaxi lady you met. She works for thim. But then there are plenty of people in Thimman's employ who are just members of the brass company at large who are just temporarily under him. And so she's probably in that category. [02:27:08] Speaker C: We could. We. We could like, request an extension. You know. [02:27:16] Speaker D: Hey, professor, maybe. [02:27:18] Speaker A: Maybe it's worth. [02:27:19] Speaker D: Please. [02:27:20] Speaker C: Maybe it's worth talking to her and asking like, did we ever ask why she wanted to. To have this done by the end of the month? [02:27:31] Speaker A: You. [02:27:31] Speaker B: You never asked. [02:27:33] Speaker A: Oh, I thought we did. [02:27:35] Speaker B: No, she just said get it. [02:27:40] Speaker A: I think. Cuz at that time it was like six months away. So we were like, yes. It'll be like, no problem. [02:27:52] Speaker B: That's good. Good. So what? That party? [02:27:59] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't. I don't know. It'd be easy enough if she came knocking on our door. Of course it would be easy going to. [02:28:11] Speaker B: If we were. No circumstance. It'd be way better. [02:28:14] Speaker A: It would be really easy if she. [02:28:16] Speaker C: Like, she seems busy and like, obviously looking at something. [02:28:22] Speaker A: I mean, who. [02:28:23] Speaker C: They're building a Death Star. [02:28:29] Speaker E: Alderaan was a necessary sacrifice. They were assisting the rebels. [02:28:34] Speaker B: The Empire did nothing wrong. Lives out of the ground and starts circling y' all hair. [02:28:47] Speaker E: What's Order 66 to the Empire? [02:28:49] Speaker B: I don't even know. They don't. [02:28:51] Speaker C: It can't count that high. So they don't have. [02:28:54] Speaker E: I feel like Sha is the one Putting together order 66. All the zombies. [02:28:59] Speaker B: Abby, you got me with that one. That was so dumb. Count that high, so. [02:29:03] Speaker E: Oh, guys, I just had an idea. Why don't we sail to the Zoram island and just do the well thing right now. [02:29:12] Speaker B: What? [02:29:14] Speaker E: The island with the well? [02:29:17] Speaker A: No. We know. [02:29:18] Speaker E: Let's go there right now. [02:29:20] Speaker A: That's not a vacation ball. [02:29:22] Speaker B: From the. From the Helms Goober goes. That doesn't. And killing. [02:29:25] Speaker E: Killing this lady would be. [02:29:26] Speaker B: What are we. What we're going on vacation. You just said sail, and I don't want to go there. [02:29:31] Speaker A: Yeah, you did say sale. [02:29:33] Speaker E: You don't want to go there. [02:29:35] Speaker B: I don't want to sail to Zargrun. I'm spending goober. [02:29:40] Speaker E: Okay, I'm. [02:29:44] Speaker B: There, but please don't make me. I mean, if you ask me to, I will, but please don't make me. [02:29:51] Speaker D: Do we know of another Wellspring location? [02:29:54] Speaker A: Why are we going deep in the well? [02:29:58] Speaker D: Guys, I'm tired of water I've had. [02:30:02] Speaker B: In your mind. Craig. Hear old's voice go. I. I would like you to take me to the well springs, but please, not that one specifically. [02:30:11] Speaker A: Not that one specifically. Not. I just. I. I think we. I. I don't know. I just feel like. I feel like we need to make moves somewhere. [02:30:26] Speaker E: Ro, call the move. Call the move. Ro. [02:30:28] Speaker A: No, I just mean, like, hello. [02:30:29] Speaker B: Just stands up very suddenly, pulled out a knife and goes, go. They move, bro. And then he, like, gets down and, like, crouches out and looks out at the ocean. Got it. Got. They move. Starts jab. [02:30:38] Speaker A: No, I just mean, like, we can. [02:30:40] Speaker E: Hunt down the chicken pirate, see what happened and have to take this. [02:30:42] Speaker A: No, I mean, like, we have. We have these several big enemies that. We're on their hit list. They're on our hit list. And I just feel like we need to make a step in one of those directions. [02:30:56] Speaker B: You could SCRY on Captain kfc. [02:31:01] Speaker A: I guess I could go into his dreams and pretend to be chicken. [02:31:09] Speaker C: Could do that. [02:31:10] Speaker E: See from the zor. What if they're a Zorgam ship now? Like, what if they're, like, sailing the seas full of. For to promote hate or something? [02:31:19] Speaker B: They're just. They're. They're not. They're not murdering anyone. They're just going around spreading. That's what it is. Yeah. [02:31:26] Speaker C: Hilarious. [02:31:28] Speaker E: Oh, man. I don't know, guys. I'm fine with whatever. I don't think we can make any awful moves. I just. [02:31:34] Speaker A: Okay, well, shifting. Shifting gears here real quick as far as. Okay, if we don't go after the kiss. [02:31:45] Speaker E: We could just start hitting random outposts until they. [02:31:47] Speaker A: I mean, I could call up. I could call up of. You know, looks off into the distance. Not the king. He's not king right now. And he's. He's like, I don't know, off trying to survive. [02:32:07] Speaker E: He's a short king, but he's not a king. King. [02:32:12] Speaker B: What? [02:32:14] Speaker E: He's a short. [02:32:14] Speaker A: Shifting. Okay, Boz and Greta, since you guys are kind of the ones that have to make this Call. Have you decided what you're doing about the. You know. And she makes herself. She, like, sticks on her finger the. [02:32:33] Speaker B: Sassy face Abby gave you for the most Abby thing you've ever done. [02:32:37] Speaker E: You describe something by going. [02:32:39] Speaker B: And then Abby looked up, like, I don't know what that means. As if that's not the only language Abby ever communicates with us in our bark, grumbles, squeals, and growls. Come on, dude. [02:32:49] Speaker C: You gotta give me some credit. I use my hands a lot. Okay, Exactly. [02:32:56] Speaker A: I mean, why don't we go try. [02:32:58] Speaker E: To free that one kingdom from the. From them? Why don't we. Draco, kick the calves out of somewhere and see what happens? [02:33:08] Speaker C: That would definitely get Lashla and many other Kefkins sent, which I forgot about. [02:33:15] Speaker E: We wanted to do something crazy about her. Like, she. [02:33:17] Speaker B: I mean, they are pulling away from. [02:33:18] Speaker E: Places they don't really care as much. They're. They're in, like, the final, like, goal thing. I feel like they're not. They're no longer conquering. They got what they needed from conquering, and now they're going to plan to. So maybe they wouldn't even care. I mean, where is there a front that the Kevin are actively at war now? There's no way. They're not conquering anywhere. [02:33:38] Speaker A: They're all retreating. [02:33:39] Speaker E: That's right. The whole Navy's going back this month. Like, they're literally. The whole Navy is going to be home. [02:33:46] Speaker B: Wait, I don't think it was the whole Empire. Kids, can you guys both give me a history check? [02:33:57] Speaker D: Why do you do that to me? Can I. Wait, I have a negative one. Shouldn't I have a little bit of proficiency in this? Because it's literally what I'm used to. [02:34:07] Speaker E: Zach, how much. How much mirth are you feeling right now? [02:34:11] Speaker B: I wasn't feeling that much until you used the word mirth. And now quite a bit. What? Landon, Can I make. [02:34:16] Speaker E: Can I make a really high history check just for funsies? Because I have a bad modifier, but it'd be really cool for bozzies to have a crazy. [02:34:21] Speaker B: You can hop in on this. Get in here, Boz and Micah. All right, right now, you get proficiency in history. I got a mat. [02:34:30] Speaker E: One. [02:34:31] Speaker B: Excellent. Everyone's talking as everyone's talking. Oh, man. You. Oh, you. Like, you thought you were holding that fart in, but it just goes like. And it's really bad. It's awful. In fact, I got a 22 Goodberries. [02:34:49] Speaker A: I got a seven. [02:34:50] Speaker B: What the. [02:34:50] Speaker E: Craig? [02:34:51] Speaker A: Because I don't have proficiency. [02:34:56] Speaker C: Ro. [02:34:57] Speaker B: Doesn't remember. But Craig, you remember in fact as a Bjastan after the scourging the history you had to learn about the Kefkan Empire that you hated to in school. The Kefkan military earlier this year when the attack by the warriors of the well with the the dragon apparently they brought was the first time the Kefka military has ever permanently withdrawn from a front. They have never retracted. They have been defeated plenty of times. But they always return, always resume the front. And in fact last year in 3487 when the. When the military actually that was the first time when they were. When they withdrew from Zedge. That was the first time. And then in those are the only two times ever they have only ever pushed and pushed. Now they've lost plenty of battles, but they always come back to them. The empire has never retracted like this ever before. This is the first time they have ever done that. The way that they have pulled troops from Home Cove. The way that they have completely left Unen. No one took Lame Libre from them. They just left Lame Libre. They just left. They've never abandoned a territory like that nor as they did in Zed. So Boz might be on to something in the terms of. Dang it. Yeah, got me. They might be on to something in the sense of like the usual things you might be able to do and antagonize. That might not work because it feels like whatever's happening it's something that's never happened with them before. They're the dominant force in all the north eastern hemisphere and they've just. They're just retracting. [02:36:42] Speaker D: I have a theory. [02:36:43] Speaker E: We gather all the nations and like Mountain Doom them. We could win. [02:36:49] Speaker A: Mountain Doom. [02:36:51] Speaker E: Mountain Doom them. When all of the Lord of the Rings people came together and to attack Sauron. Except the dwarves. [02:36:58] Speaker B: The dwarves did not do the doom. The. [02:37:00] Speaker E: The dwarves did not do that. But they're a little crazy. They didn't. They, they. They nod that I cast the night. Oh, that sounds like a Taco Bell warlock. [02:37:15] Speaker B: Oh my goodness. [02:37:17] Speaker E: Taco Bell Subass. I feel like there's some evil entity attached powers. Okay. Ah, we're just buying time now to keep from making a decision. [02:37:31] Speaker B: So yes, that is what's happening right now. [02:37:34] Speaker D: Okay, wait. [02:37:36] Speaker C: I have one more guy we could go after. The guy who set the box on fire. And that hate that hates Tello. We could get that guy that count. [02:37:43] Speaker E: That guy is scarier. [02:37:46] Speaker D: Guys, I have an idea. [02:37:50] Speaker E: The call is no. [02:37:53] Speaker D: I think what land. I think what boss was Saying about how if we are going to go after Lashla, we need to, like, know our stuff and we need to do some further investigation. So I think what would be really. [02:38:12] Speaker B: Get it. [02:38:12] Speaker A: Micah, go ahead. Finish. Finish your thought. I'm sorry. [02:38:15] Speaker D: Real quick, real quick. [02:38:16] Speaker A: Yeah, no, don't. [02:38:18] Speaker D: No, sorry. But I. I think that, like, we need to start from an outside source and just kind of zero in. And you guys have the magical abilities to disguise self and could really play it off. Tell it be tricky. [02:38:36] Speaker B: Tello leans in the crack and goes, you have magic too. You're also very magical. [02:38:41] Speaker D: Yeah, but bro. Bro can't put a on new clothes and new magic. [02:38:46] Speaker B: Really good. [02:38:48] Speaker D: Thank you. Thank you. [02:38:49] Speaker B: You're welcome. [02:38:51] Speaker D: I appreciate that. I can sense magic items, which is really, really helpful. Yeah. Anyways, we could. [02:39:03] Speaker A: What if. I mean, we know quite a few people in the Kev guys. [02:39:09] Speaker D: What should go to a tavern. Everybody knows stuff in taverns. [02:39:13] Speaker A: Yeah. Let's just saunter back into that bar that I sing an anti war song at. Right? What if I walked in there as. [02:39:24] Speaker E: The bar in the law 1. [02:39:26] Speaker A: What if I walked in there as Biscuit? [02:39:29] Speaker D: Get out. No way. We can't pull that off. [02:39:33] Speaker A: I could do it. I could do. Do it for like. [02:39:36] Speaker D: Yeah, your skin would crawl. You'd look in the mirror and then punch yourself. [02:39:40] Speaker A: Okay, what if I went in as that. That one dude? He. You guys kind of liked him. He was kind of friendly, but I didn't. [02:39:46] Speaker E: Like, every time you hear the name Bella Andre, you. [02:39:49] Speaker C: You. [02:39:49] Speaker E: You like audibly like cat, like, like retract. I feel like if you saw yourself in the mirror's biscuit, you just like, scream. [02:39:57] Speaker A: Well, yeah, but I just look in a mirror. I think I could pull. Wait, I think. I think I could pull it off. And she. She can't do disguise self right now because she already did it today. But can she try to talk like this? Can I do a performance check and try to talk like this? [02:40:13] Speaker B: You can. You can. As all of this is happening with your 20 passive perception row and Greta, you hear Bill free and likely never to plough and go, man, this is why they take so long to make decisions. They're not good at this. But he's just like whispering and not that good. What'd you get? [02:40:30] Speaker A: I got it. I got a 33. [02:40:34] Speaker B: Rob proceeds to do a pretty good biscuit. She is calling. [02:40:44] Speaker A: I could do it or I could look like I'm. Oh, well, I could look like that one guy that was kind of frozen friendly. That human dude. [02:40:54] Speaker B: You know, different subject. What is the. Like the. The party? Dude, I can't hear. [02:41:05] Speaker D: Can we just say that we continue game planning on the way to Zedge? [02:41:10] Speaker B: Okay. And does anyone have any other they want to conduct in this episode? [02:41:15] Speaker D: I don't know. I just. [02:41:18] Speaker A: I don't know. [02:41:19] Speaker B: Incredibly anticlimactic finish. That's the end of the session. So speaking now, forever hold your peace. All right. [02:41:28] Speaker D: I don't have to live with that. I just don't think that we know what we're doing. We need a game plan a little. [02:41:33] Speaker B: Bit, and that's okay. 0.02 levels for the session, 0.01 for the successful scry. I thought that was pretty cool. Pretty cool there, Brian. Raheem call. Yeah. And that is episode 146, Desultory Days, which I am no longer calling its previous title. That makes way more sense now. [02:41:53] Speaker A: 0.03 total 13.668. [02:41:58] Speaker E: What? [02:42:00] Speaker B: No. [02:42:00] Speaker E: Zach, how many levels did you give us? I think it's 6. 9. [02:42:02] Speaker B: 3. [02:42:04] Speaker E: Yeah. 695. [02:42:05] Speaker A: Oh, wait. I'm sorry. [02:42:06] Speaker B: Matt's hard. [02:42:07] Speaker A: I'm sorry. I put it in the wrong place. I put my dust ball in the wrong place. Okay, listen. [02:42:14] Speaker B: Life's an incredible adventure, and you're an important part of it. We're going to go in a break, and then we're going to do my dnd. Okay. Bye, Bluey. Get out of here.