149. Dinner with the Devil

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign. [00:00:03] Speaker B: Welcome back to Barely DND D, your Sword of Dungeons and Dragons podcast. We are a podcast about Dungeons and Dragons and sometimes other stuff because we all have undiagnosed adhd. [00:00:18] Speaker C: So I am diagnosed. [00:00:21] Speaker B: Landon is diagnosed. [00:00:23] Speaker C: I've never been diagnosed for anything, so. [00:00:26] Speaker B: Oh. So anyway. Not a cold. Anyway. I'm eating popcorn with chopsticks, and it's giving second episode energy because we're all having a good old time. And not to give. It's a good time. [00:00:40] Speaker C: Too much second episode energy. But I was like, I've never been diagnosed with anything. And then I went, oh, that's not true. And you went. A cold in my brain. I thought depression. And that's what. [00:00:52] Speaker B: God. [00:00:56] Speaker C: Anyway, guys, I turned off the light, so it's so that it's only the center light, so it's much more dramatic for this. [00:01:02] Speaker B: I love it. [00:01:03] Speaker D: That's scary. [00:01:05] Speaker B: Zach's given Spooky Count vibes. [00:01:07] Speaker E: I'm excited. [00:01:09] Speaker C: I would. [00:01:10] Speaker B: I would love to meet the account. And he's really just like the Count from Sesame street, and he just gives him of being an evil Count. [00:01:21] Speaker C: Phenomenal, actually. And I hope I see some memes about that this session. Okay, so this is the Accidental Adventures. Oh, that got Landon's attention. The letter to the question for today. I remember it. Nothing. It was just a throwaway joke. I remember the letter to question super well, but just to test. Abby. Abby, what was it again? [00:01:42] Speaker D: Who is the character that would give. That, like, gives the most leverage? [00:01:48] Speaker B: Wait, what if we. That. That. [00:01:51] Speaker C: Oh, actually, I think I do remember. [00:01:53] Speaker B: If the Count really wanted to hurt you, who would he go after first, basically? [00:01:56] Speaker D: Right. [00:01:57] Speaker C: Yeah. Which character? [00:01:58] Speaker B: Although by us doing this, Zach could totally be like guys and then do that right before the episode. [00:02:05] Speaker C: I've. [00:02:06] Speaker D: He's already got this plan. [00:02:07] Speaker C: I have my plot. You're good. [00:02:09] Speaker B: I know. It was a joke. [00:02:12] Speaker C: And a good joke. Let's start with Lando. Do you feel ready? You don't have to be. [00:02:17] Speaker B: I know mine. [00:02:18] Speaker E: I think. I don't know mine. [00:02:22] Speaker A: Let's. [00:02:23] Speaker C: Well, yeah, Jackie's in the enthusiastic. Let's do. Micah's asleep. [00:02:30] Speaker B: So I think, like, if it was. No. If it was one of those things where, like, somehow the Count could, like, actually, like, not like, him guessing, but, like, somehow he could see, like, her inner, you know, like, brain of who it would actually affect, you know? You know what I'm saying? Right? Like, not what she would say on the outside, but, like, who she really feels. I think it would be Spaghettuber. She cares that much for Spaghuber, because he, like, he is basically, like, the embodiment of. To her of, like, pure good and innocence. And, like, just there's no bad bone in his body. And she's seen so many of that of, like, gray areas and everything. And I think for something, she's an idyllic person. [00:03:25] Speaker C: That's like, a pretty important anger in. [00:03:26] Speaker B: Her life, and that's something to happen to him would, I think, devastate her more than anyone else except obviously, like, a party member. [00:03:37] Speaker C: Right, Jackie? That's a cool answer because it's like, you gave an answer about Ro, but you're also kind of giving an answer about her worldview that, like, to hurt Spaghuber is to damage Rose view of the world. And that's kind of sick that you gave that as an answer. That's a really cool answer, dude. Greta greeted also. Who's the dmn? PC? [00:04:02] Speaker B: Oh. [00:04:05] Speaker C: The Count. [00:04:05] Speaker E: The Count. Who would. The Count. Who does the Count love the most? [00:04:10] Speaker C: Guys. What? That doesn't make any sense. Can you pick a different one? [00:04:15] Speaker E: You just don't answer the question. You're too scared. [00:04:17] Speaker C: It doesn't make any sense. [00:04:19] Speaker E: It was another count. [00:04:20] Speaker B: It doesn't make sense. [00:04:21] Speaker E: He wanted her to get to the Count. [00:04:23] Speaker A: Yeah, there was another. [00:04:27] Speaker C: I'll do the count if you want. I just don't understand. [00:04:29] Speaker D: We always change the name. [00:04:31] Speaker E: I know. [00:04:31] Speaker B: We all because he's interesting. [00:04:33] Speaker E: Just because you think he's a hot character, Jackie, doesn't mean we can always choose him. [00:04:38] Speaker B: He's a morally gray man in a fancy. [00:04:39] Speaker C: Jackie's only. Jackie's only notes next to Thibin in her notes. After all, that writing is just zaddy, written like 50 times. That's it. [00:04:49] Speaker B: I'm not even. I'm not even denying. [00:04:54] Speaker C: But seriously, who's the dmn? [00:04:57] Speaker E: I would love to hear Bessa Oud. Who does she love? [00:05:01] Speaker C: Okay. [00:05:01] Speaker E: Bessa Oud. [00:05:01] Speaker C: It is. Understood. Didn't. I don't. Didn't know she was gonna. I should have known. [00:05:06] Speaker D: Who's Greta's obviously Tello. Is that an answer that I can choose? Yeah, obviously. Obviously before Tella, it would have been Walter, and she's just. Yeah. [00:05:21] Speaker C: It's the way that Greta and Tello have come to love each other is so sweet. It's one of my favorite things about this campaign, the way that they're just buds. I love it. [00:05:30] Speaker D: I feel like you don't see, like, a. Like. [00:05:33] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. Well. And. And, I mean, they're a weird fit visually, just because she's so much older. But, like, romances are so ubiquitous in fiction that like. Like, two characters of any gender who get close just must be romanced. That, like, a friendship like, that is. [00:05:50] Speaker D: Yeah, but it's. I think it's beautiful because it's not. It's like, you don't see generationally. [00:05:56] Speaker A: Yes. [00:05:57] Speaker C: That's cool. [00:05:58] Speaker D: Friendship. That's not like a mentor situation. Like, they're just friends. They're not mentoring each other. I mean, they are in the way that friends do, but not in the way that. Like Gandalf or. [00:06:06] Speaker C: No, totally. [00:06:07] Speaker D: You know, and I think they're also. It's, like, rare in the fact there's not a romance. But also the age difference, I think is really. [00:06:15] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like. And that guy in the park. And new girl. [00:06:20] Speaker C: Yes. Jackie. Holy crap, dude. That was amazing. Do you have inspiration, man? I get it way too much. But, Abby, thank you for saying the thing after I said my thing, interrupting you. I'm so sorry. Because I think that's a more impressive thing you said. I think what's so great about Greta and Tell. His relationship is that it skips so many of the things it, by genre convention, should be, like, two characters like each other. Romance. [00:06:47] Speaker A: No. [00:06:48] Speaker C: Two different generations. Mentorship. No. And it's. It's just this relationship that is nothing but a relationship. They're just two people who care about each other a ton, and nothing else matters than that they understand each other and they care about each other. And it's. Yeah, it's. Their friendship just feels so genuine. I like it. [00:07:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:07:08] Speaker E: Anyway, Boss, I. I honestly think Boss's answer would just be anybody. And I. And I think it's because, like, if he said, hey, here's a person. Here's who they were. I killed them because of you. I feel like it would hurt no matter if it was his family or a random person on the street who was just living their life. I think it honestly kind of exhausts Boz a little bit and is really annoying when they're like, I'm gonna come after your family. I feel like he's like, okay. Like, ev. Like, yeah, yeah, that's. [00:07:45] Speaker C: I totally. [00:07:46] Speaker E: Yeah, that would suck. Like, that would. [00:07:48] Speaker B: Everybody has a plan. [00:07:50] Speaker E: But I think, honestly, it is knowing that anybody died because of his actions or that someone hurt somebody innocent just to spite. Boss would have the same cataclysmic effect on him. Like. [00:08:03] Speaker C: Yeah. And he is a really philosophical dude, so the idea that, like, that's not just an idea to him, but so close to his heart. Makes sense. [00:08:11] Speaker E: Yeah. It would be anybody. [00:08:12] Speaker C: It would be anybody. Dang, Landon, killer answer. Dude, that's heartbreaking. [00:08:18] Speaker E: You like it so much. Give me inspiration. You like so much the inspiration. I don't want to hear just words today. I don't. If you want to back it up, you better come. You better come to fight. That's what I'm saying. You liked it. [00:08:31] Speaker C: You guys picked Bessa Oud. I will answer the question honestly. Her husband. I am taking no further questions. Yeah, she would. The death of her husband would ruin. [00:08:44] Speaker A: Her. [00:08:48] Speaker C: A long distance relationship. [00:08:50] Speaker B: So interesting. [00:08:53] Speaker C: Are we ready to rickety rock and roll? [00:08:57] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:08:57] Speaker B: Yes. [00:08:57] Speaker C: So I press record, right? We're recording. [00:09:00] Speaker B: Oh God, I hope so. Yeah, you did for just a second there. [00:09:05] Speaker E: I really doubt it. Stop asking scary questions. [00:09:09] Speaker C: We're just getting started. Okay, so first of all, this session is going to start by me admitting something to you. There is a non zero. I had two possible titles for this session. One, you guys making very clear to me on break what your intent for this session was. Was very helpful. [00:09:23] Speaker A: So thank you. [00:09:24] Speaker C: Thank you. That's super helpful. But two, I'm just going to be really vulnerable and admit that one of my sessions for this. One of my titles for the session was the pun. Counting on it. Already made that joke. I was like, I can't use that anymore. He already made it. No, no, don't feel bad. The other titles better. But I just. I'm going to admit that I made a pun that dumb and that was going to be the title. But instead we're going with a Dramatic Minds think alike. [00:09:55] Speaker E: Z. [00:10:01] Speaker C: I had another encounter with this today. But anyway, the. The new. The new title. [00:10:08] Speaker E: What do I see? Oh, sorry. Are we getting the title? I thought we were at the station. [00:10:12] Speaker B: What is that? [00:10:13] Speaker C: Sorry, man. It's coming in hot. The new title will be much more thematic and dramatic. So this is a level 13 adventure. The date is 3488. It is Sihadron the 22nd and not them. Maybe. Unless you guys want a time jump. We'll come to that in a second. And this is episode 149 for the Note taking nerds of the Accidental Adventures. Dinner with the Devil. [00:10:45] Speaker B: That's good. [00:10:46] Speaker E: He's a vampire. And Tello's a vampire thrall. [00:10:51] Speaker A: That's such a good twist. [00:10:52] Speaker C: Holy crap. That would be nuts. I think that probably would have come up in your detect magics somehow. But that's sick. [00:10:59] Speaker B: To drink your blood. [00:11:00] Speaker E: Also the sunlight you would have had Necromancer. [00:11:02] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. But A cool idea man. [00:11:07] Speaker E: Well, no, a thrall is different than a spawn. [00:11:13] Speaker C: I know, but I still think they're. I still think. I don't know. Would you get undead R off of them? Actually, you know what? I know why you wouldn't. Because Craig has done detect good and evil multiple times and he would have picked that up. [00:11:23] Speaker E: Yeah, you're right. [00:11:24] Speaker C: Anywho. Anywho. [00:11:26] Speaker E: I'm watching you, DM boy. I know all your tips. [00:11:28] Speaker C: I know guys that warned my heart. It's been way too long since somebody accusingly called me DM boy. I love it. So I'm actually just gonna open with what you guys. [00:11:38] Speaker A: Where are the drugs going? [00:11:40] Speaker E: Sorry? [00:11:40] Speaker B: I said dance, DM boy. [00:11:42] Speaker C: Oh, I'm sorry, Jack. [00:11:44] Speaker B: You gotta be. [00:11:47] Speaker C: Do you guys want it to be not him or do you want it to just be the next day? Up to you. [00:11:52] Speaker E: I group up in a world. If we could do like a. An office hours where I get to go talk to Nelson and the mayor and just say that happen and we do that some other time. [00:12:01] Speaker C: Do you want that to be a very brief. You won't miss. We have time. Do you want that to be a very brief thing at the moment of the session and then it's the next day. [00:12:07] Speaker E: I may hop off earlier than everybody else just because it's so late. So I would prefer to get onto the meat and potatoes. [00:12:13] Speaker C: Okay. Okay. Well then how about I just narratively address that really quickly? Boz in the. Is everyone else cool with this time Skip jump. Okay, cool. In the course, I will put a song on. In the course of the day's passage, as you go to investigate Nethan's goods, you find that Nethan's goods. It is hard to tell at first because. Excuse me, why am I so gassy today? Probably the nerves that Nethen's goods is. It's a little hard to tell because it was never in good condition. But you find that it is not occupied currently. In fact, there is a sign over the door talking about transfer of ownership. And when you inquire a little bit with townspeople, they let you know that Nessen has been dead for seven months. [00:13:09] Speaker E: Are his glasses there? [00:13:11] Speaker C: You find that he was found in his shop and he was given what all citizens of Legath who do not have any money or prearranged funeral rights were given, which is simply a burial at sea. And so he died seven months ago. [00:13:29] Speaker E: When he hears it, he tries to see if he can still smell the bread at all. [00:13:34] Speaker C: Like any lasting smells, the scent is long Gone, Washed away by the overbearing brine of the ocean. As so many things in Legath are okay in the ocean. You find that the ocean has taken nothing in the way that time has taken this town. [00:13:52] Speaker E: Boss takes a couple of his tears and wipes them on the frame of the door and then goes back to the tavern to see if he can find the mayor. [00:14:00] Speaker C: Okay. Let's just say I pulled up my session notes from Adventure. One of the accidental adventures. Oh, my God, listeners. Was titled Adventure. One of. It wasn't episode. It was Adventure. Because we weren't recording Adventure 1 of Brian and Bob. [00:14:17] Speaker E: That was a whole conversation. Do we call them episodes or adventures? I remember that. That conversation. [00:14:24] Speaker C: And so pulling up my notes, I can give you the name. We can make this short order as well as we just keep moving. Baz. You meet up with Matilda Agaranth. That was her name. Matilda Agaranth was the orcish woman who was the owner of the. Of the tavern here. The Mudfish was the name of the tavern. The very, very rough tavern. And not rough like. Like the broken tankard from Alaban. Rough is in just bad condition. Well loved by the town, but bad condition. Matilda is not the formal mayor, but as she was then, she is now the de facto mayor of the town because she's just considered the town leader, both because of her financial sway and also because she's just an imposing personality. When she sees you all. She's very glad to see you. You can tell that immediately she's trying to make some sort of a financial gain from your return to the town. But is there anything. We'll just. We'll short order this. We won't get lost in roleplay. Is there anything in particular that you want from her or try to communicate with her or anything like that? [00:15:36] Speaker E: I was just gonna try to catch up over the town. And I was. I wanted to hear how, like, it went with the Kuo Toa afterwards we saved them. I wanted to hear how this happened, how this came to be, because they still were a little uncertain about them. So I was curious to hear how it got so. [00:15:50] Speaker C: Well, absolutely. Jackie. The name of the tavern was the Mudfish. [00:15:55] Speaker B: The Mudfish. [00:15:56] Speaker C: Nice. Yes. An interesting moniker as well, because Legath is a place without a lot of mud. It's mostly like broken stone in the streets. So an interesting title, Boz. She recounts proudly that the town considers themselves people of a new age. You Boz, you can tell. Why don't you make an insight check for me? [00:16:23] Speaker E: It was Bleed by Sledger. [00:16:27] Speaker C: I had not thought of it that way, actually. [00:16:31] Speaker E: I was trying to evoke Tiny Chef there. [00:16:34] Speaker C: Oh, put me closer. Tiny Chef. [00:16:40] Speaker E: The hat I rolled not well. Eleven. [00:16:45] Speaker C: Okay. Well, what you can tell simply enough from her demeanor what you gain in the simplest way, you're not very familiar with this character. You spent all time with her a very long time ago and not a lot, but you can tell that she's overcompensating a little. And we'll just say with an 11. What you can put together pretty simply enough is that the town's not in good condition. And she is trying to talk about how great it is because she's kind of trying to overcompensate a little. Not a lot more than that, but you can pick up that much. [00:17:15] Speaker E: So she's like the White House press secretary. [00:17:20] Speaker C: Yes. Holy crap. Yeah, not that that was that spicy of a statement. Just that it was so very spot on. So. Sorry, listen, I didn't mean to get too political. So you. Yes. And so she just proudly recounts how Legath is a very forward thinking town and that as the. As Upper Legath meets hard times, they are depending on Lower Legath for a rejuvenation. And basically, Boz, what you learn is that there were tensions, racial tensions, between the Kuo Toans and the. The humanoid. I mean, they're also humanoids, but the peoples of the Upper Legathians, I guess, are Upper Legathans. And basically what brought them together was as other members of the town chip in from the tavern, it's very. You know what it feels a whole lot like in a less comical and less jovial way. It feels very much like the Gilmore Girls town hall meetings in that it doesn't consist of a lot of people. And everyone's got very confident voices with different interpretations. But basically after a while of conversating, of conversing, oh my goodness. What you put together is that some people in the town found it, some people are still not into it. There are town members who are not pleased with this arrangement, some people who are kind of racist. They don't like the Kuatoans very much a contingent in town, but that there are basically two camps who were for them and their integration together in one town. And that these make up the majority of the town by some margin. And that one camp were those who found it morally imperative to accept these people who. Or three camps. Excuse me. And those three camps kind of wind up making up like about 2/3 of the town's population. And then that last third are the people who are for various reasons, the most predominant being just prejudiced against them, not jazzed about the arrangement. So the first part of that majority, the first third of the 2/3 majority, which were for it, were people who were like, this is wrong. These. These other peoples have lived with us forever. We are one community. We're better this way. Another third were people who were like, I'm sorry, there's an entire population who have access to resources we don't, that we could trade with. That's a financial opportunity and our town needs it real bad. Of which the mayor was one. She speaks many moral platitudes, but you put together pretty quickly like, yeah, she's a Mr. Crab. She's Mr. Crab. [00:19:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:19:54] Speaker C: Yes. Agran was there for like, oh, my town's falling apart. Yeah, let's make some trade. And then the third group were a group of people who were basically like, they're actually weirdly kind of in the second group, a little prejudiced against the Kuo Toa. And their prejudice motivated them to integrate in that you put together, like through mutterings and rumors that they were afraid of the Kuo Toa. And so we're like, let's be on their side because we don't want them as enemies. And because you all remember that some time ago, I mean, obviously you put together more complex and the prejudices not well founded. But this began with conflict between the two populations, with the Kuo Toa attacking. [00:20:38] Speaker A: At least some of them. [00:20:41] Speaker C: And so, yeah, you put together that. That's. That's essentially the history that for various reasons, a majority of the town came to. They are not a democracy, but they are people with majority opinions. And so the majority of the town was like, let's become one town. And that majority won out over the minority. And that the de facto Mayor Agaranth saw a great opportunity to brand this as a huge positive and went, okay, we're all. There's Upper and Lower Legath. And then the Kuo Toa probably reflect, for different reasons, a similar standing, especially based off of this retrospectively clarifies things about your time in Lower Legath. Whereas you put together, oh, there were Kuo Toa who weren't jazzed about your presence down there there. They're probably Kuo Toa who didn't want this integration either. Probably for pretty different reasons, but all of the same. Right. And so you put together that it was probably a similar situation where a majority of the Kuo Toa decided that they would also go for this integration. So it is an integrated town that is for reasons of varying nobility have chosen to be one community with dissenting factions that are still not into it. You also put together your insight scores high enough. You just passively put together that a large part of the reason this probably worked at all was because you were over dwellers who helped the Kuo Toa so much and respected them in your time down there. And so that probably motivated them to consider this opportunity of clemency with Upper League and that this is how Legath came to be one community, if still a struggling one. And you are struck in this moment while you are there, you do hear a handful of real stinky things. Some of the minority of opinion in this place, perhaps a majority otherwise in the world, but in this place speak up and share their hateful opinions, their judgmental superior self thought positions above the Kuo Toa. And you were struck for a moment not simply to make some basic narrative comparison of but actually the Kuo Toa are better, but simply of how while the Upper Legathans have you don't understand the culture of this hamlet well, you've spent brief time here and understanding it better would probably require more time. But you are struck as this entire encounter goes. Thank you Boz for having this little moment because I had a lot of lore written for it. Even if we're motorboating through it. [00:23:16] Speaker A: I should have picked a different verb. [00:23:18] Speaker C: You put together easily enough that sorry. [00:23:21] Speaker A: That. [00:23:26] Speaker C: You are simply struck by the fact that the Upper Legathans have more structurally complex buildings, edifices, they have the more well developed international economy. They are recognized citizens by the nation and they are the ones with the degrading town. And that the investment that their leader, not necessarily of them as a whole people, but of Agranth has placed in the perceived and the monetary has perhaps not weathered them well against the challenges which have faced them, which are meaningful even if you don't know them. And that the Kuh Toan community below, which has for whatever reason had a culture that is more cultural and social and communal, have endured against their own challenges and even with qualities and affectations that some of the Upper Legathans find to judge that it is their culture which seems to be strangely enduring and actually growing rather than diminishing because it's one ultimately like they have a leader in Kvist who's ultimately focused on the people around him. Yeah, it's just interesting. [00:24:45] Speaker E: Lower Legath is growing faster than Upper the Gath is like Upper Leg and Lower Legath is is now you know, Actually, it's. It's a little sad, I guess, for them, because Lower Legath, now that its existence and trade is keeping it alive, is helping it die slower. But it's still dying and they're growing. And I think there's a threat, a threatening, you know, like. [00:25:12] Speaker C: And inwardly. Boz. And maybe all of you are struck in the course of this conversation as Agaranth can't help but put her heart on her sleeve and speaks of this marvelous cultural integration and just can't help but keep coming back to its economic benefits. You are struck by a moment. Not to tell you your thoughts, but as a world traveler and someone who comes from Ogbon culture, especially Boz, you are struck by how it is the economic opportunity that Agranth seeks, and no small one at that, but that we're Upper Legath to learn something culturally from Lower Legath, especially Lower Legath, which is running out of space with the Kuo Toa people to become more prevalent in Upper Legath. That might be the step which would revitalize this town, but that though they are in a majority in favor of integration, they are not a majority at all in favor of a cultural integration, and that. That denial is what is slowly weakening this town. [00:26:18] Speaker E: Really cool lore, Zachary. [00:26:19] Speaker C: Thank you for sharing. Thank you. [00:26:20] Speaker D: Yeah, it's so interesting. This, like. Yeah, it's interesting. [00:26:29] Speaker C: I. My certification course couldn't update for a whole day at work, so I just sat there for eight hours and wrote the. This session. So I got a lot of thought. [00:26:40] Speaker E: Zachary. Oh, I had an idea. I had an idea. [00:26:44] Speaker C: Okay, careful. I know that's a medical condition for you. [00:26:48] Speaker E: We can talk. Wait, let's talk about. Let's talk about this. I'm gonna. I'm gonna tell you my idea. Let's talk about it at another day, another time. [00:26:53] Speaker C: Understood. [00:26:54] Speaker E: I want to. I know that there's a property transfer. I want to figure out what. Who that is, what's going on, try to purchase the building and have it to where the koans can set up a shop for, like, the mushrooms and stuff. Like, function in the town. Like, have a community hub in the town. Like, see what that would cost. [00:27:09] Speaker C: Let's do it faster than that. You find out from Mayor Agath that the shop is currently not being pursued by anyone because Nethan died in the summer, and Legath has all of its trade in the warmer months because the waters are so impassable in the winter months, and so no one has come to claim it, and it's currently for sale. [00:27:32] Speaker E: How much is It. [00:27:33] Speaker C: She warns you of its steep price and very confidently smiles and says, it is 20 gold. [00:27:40] Speaker E: I buy it. [00:27:41] Speaker C: This is a very poor town. It's a very poor town. [00:27:49] Speaker E: I tell her of my plan and what I'd like to do. I want to give them. I want to give her 150 gold pieces. And I'm going to say that, like, hey, buy the building. Help make sure that it's renovated. Like, give them what they need. But also, like, use it to help, like, other shops here in the Gath and, like, make repairs and, like, bring people in and, like, you know, update, like, the walks. Like, like to improve things in the town. But, like, first and foremost, like, buy the building and make sure that the Kuo have what they need if they wanted to, like, set up, like, a shop there. [00:28:27] Speaker C: Boz, could you give me whatever intelligence check you want? [00:28:35] Speaker E: Is she going to steal it? I got a 19. [00:28:37] Speaker C: No, no, no, no. Different. Okay, give me a second. I need to write down what you just said. And if anyone wants to comment from a role player character perspective as I write, that's important. [00:28:55] Speaker B: I love that Landon. [00:28:57] Speaker D: Such a. Yeah, I do too. [00:28:58] Speaker B: I want to come back here and get to go to the Kuo Toa shop and shop for mushrooms and other Kuo Toan goods. [00:29:10] Speaker D: Dried seaweed that Rose loves so much. [00:29:13] Speaker B: Yes. She's halfway through that 10 pound. No, I'm just kidding. [00:29:18] Speaker C: He's very corruptual. Heart attack. [00:29:21] Speaker B: I'm just kidding. [00:29:23] Speaker C: Okay, I'm sorry. I need to write this down. Okay, okay, okay. Thank you for your patience. So many notes from today's session. Holy cow. Boz with a 19. As a very savvy business person, a field you've only been in for a year, it. First of all, there was going to be a persuasion check, and you skipped it when you offered 150 gold because a number of members of the town start to pipe up about how that's not happening in their town. And you plot 150 gold and everybody shuts up. And with your 19, it occurs to you to demand, upon paying, a legal contract, which you can write up if you want. [00:30:14] Speaker E: I don't know. [00:30:15] Speaker C: I don't care a detail if you want it, but I'm really not gonna get into it, that the shop has to be owned in Kvvist's name. Yes. So he is ultimately the one who winds up getting to make the decisions. Because it does occur to you that Agaranth would probably twist that a little bit in Upper Ligath's favor. And so, as it is written into Kvvist's name. You all do not go to bed before the night before Kvvist is called up, given the contract, and becomes owner of the shop, which seems to be to the chagrin of much of the town. But as the goods are brought up, people tend to be like, okay, fine. And some of the overflow population of the Kuo Toans begin moving into some of the abandoned structures in Upper Le Gath and claim Nethens as their own shop, where they will sell fungus fish and seaweed goods. [00:31:07] Speaker E: Here's what I. In the contracts, like, 50 of the gold goes to the Kuo Toans to do their thing with the shop and completely redo it or however they want. But the rest of it is to go to whoever the mayor sees fit in the town to help take care of other shops or fix infrastructure, pay for things that they need, basically, to kind of help mellow out all the bad vibes. And also Legath needs it. [00:31:32] Speaker C: Pause. Give. Give a persuasion check. And I'm going to say an advantage. [00:31:40] Speaker E: 29. Okay, guy, that advantage you. Come on, Zach. You can't complain when you give me a persuasion. That's my thing. I have, like, expertise. [00:31:52] Speaker C: I'm not complaining. I'm just impressed. You just have an excellent modifier. Has a lot of roles here. Oh, you rolled good, boss. I mean, is the prejudice wiped away from this town? [00:32:03] Speaker A: No. [00:32:04] Speaker C: But is anybody gonna have any physical violence anytime soon? Nope. That was pretty slick, dude. The money talked. [00:32:14] Speaker B: Money talks, man. [00:32:15] Speaker C: Yeah, Boz, you get the feeling that a lot of. A lot of good was done here. And, yeah, you made a. You made a fiscal impact on the community of this town in a very real way. Yay. [00:32:27] Speaker E: I can't wait to come back in a year if I'm still alive, and to see Nabai mushrooms in the shop. [00:32:34] Speaker C: Everybody. [00:32:37] Speaker D: After this is. Greta, obviously, watches all of that happens. And afterwards, in, like, a quiet moment, she, like, pats Boz on the arm and says, like, this one's going to be yours, Boz. That's. That's all you. You'll come back and we'll see. [00:32:53] Speaker E: B has to, like, do that. Well, you open your eyes real wide to, like, not, like, you know, tear up. Like, blink a little bit. And he gives her a hug. [00:33:02] Speaker B: But. [00:33:03] Speaker D: It does the same. They're looking at each other like this. [00:33:10] Speaker C: He looked at me. Excellent. I assume the party finds some sleep for the night. Somewhere in. In it is. [00:33:27] Speaker D: The muddy fish, the. [00:33:30] Speaker C: Mud fish, the mud fish, the mustard fish. We should be keeping a Burp counter. All right, it's the 23rd. What day of the week does that make it? [00:33:40] Speaker B: Jackie makes it the Mayonnaik Monarch monac. All right. [00:33:54] Speaker C: No, I'm. It was me saying I wasn't correcting you. It's crazy. You know that at all. Okay, what is the party doing? Also remember, that means spell slots back. Oh, my goodness, I almost forgot. D20s, everybody. [00:34:13] Speaker D: Oh, someone else. [00:34:17] Speaker C: It's gonna be me. [00:34:19] Speaker D: It's not gonna be me. I don't want. [00:34:22] Speaker E: I got an 18. [00:34:25] Speaker B: I got a 4. [00:34:27] Speaker D: Oh, I got an 11. I'm so sorry, Jackie. [00:34:31] Speaker C: Man, the work Abby just did to control the joy on her face. [00:34:36] Speaker E: And I'm spinning like a ballerina. [00:34:40] Speaker C: I rolled much lower on this 14. Ro. [00:34:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:45] Speaker C: You have a horrible dream about apocalyptic visions at the face of a crustacean like deity who ruins the world around you. [00:34:57] Speaker E: He's a king, though. Ro. Is he cute? Is he cute? [00:35:00] Speaker B: He's not a king. He's a God. [00:35:03] Speaker C: And that's where I draw the line. You take 14 points of psychic damage, and until your next long rest, your hit point. Max. Yes. Is reduced by as much. Greta, you are back up to full. And everybody has their. Their spell slots back. [00:35:21] Speaker D: I'm sorry, Ro. [00:35:23] Speaker B: It's okay. But if I die from the count by 14 points, you're the one reviving me. [00:35:33] Speaker C: It's the twin turd. [00:35:35] Speaker E: Because he's the one carrying old around. [00:35:38] Speaker B: What? [00:35:39] Speaker C: Very. Oh, true. [00:35:41] Speaker E: Actually, if we didn't have old with. [00:35:43] Speaker C: Us, someone could correctly assign blame. And then someone did what that party did. It's the. [00:35:51] Speaker E: Did you roll for Craig? [00:35:52] Speaker A: Third? [00:35:52] Speaker E: Did you roll for Craig? [00:35:53] Speaker C: He's not here. [00:35:55] Speaker A: Oh, what happened to him? [00:35:57] Speaker C: What's the party doing? [00:36:00] Speaker E: Let's go. [00:36:03] Speaker B: Yeah, it is. [00:36:08] Speaker C: It is a Kefkin rooster, obviously. Abby. It is a northern southern greater lesser white fronted black crested sunburnt. Was it Costa Rican Lesser Greater finch. That is an ornithology joke. Because the whole time that I was studying abroad in Costa Rica and we saw black vultures everywhere. That's what we called them. Making fun of the way that ornithologist named birds got him. [00:36:38] Speaker D: Dude, there's an ornithologist out here. Here. Rolling in their grave. There's an ornithologist out there. [00:36:43] Speaker E: Why are they dead? Why are they dead. [00:36:48] Speaker D: Out there? Like shedding many, many tears. Because they've been got by Zacchaeus. [00:36:55] Speaker C: Thank you. [00:36:55] Speaker A: I needed that. [00:36:56] Speaker C: What's the party doing? Oh, everybody turns into birds and flies. [00:37:00] Speaker E: We all turn into birds and flies. I turn into A. Yes, we did turn into the things that. [00:37:04] Speaker D: Balls. [00:37:05] Speaker B: Wait. Balls. I have a question. [00:37:07] Speaker E: Yeah? [00:37:07] Speaker B: Is there anything you can turn. [00:37:12] Speaker C: What? [00:37:13] Speaker E: No, tell me. I'm just kidding. [00:37:14] Speaker A: I'm just kidding. [00:37:15] Speaker C: No, sorry. [00:37:17] Speaker E: No, I'm so sorry. I was looking at Craig. He was asking. He was doing something. He was gonna do something real crazy. He was gonna fart or something. [00:37:25] Speaker B: Is there anything that I can. Is there anything that you can turn. [00:37:30] Speaker A: Into. [00:37:33] Speaker B: That is big enough to carry all of us and not scare the locals? [00:37:40] Speaker E: No. [00:37:41] Speaker D: I feel like we should go in with a bang. [00:37:43] Speaker B: Bang. I think if he were to turn a dragon and we went to a city as a dragon, we might get shot down. [00:37:53] Speaker C: Boz, why don't you make me a strategy check or roe whoever wants to. [00:37:58] Speaker B: I'll make it. [00:37:59] Speaker C: Okay. [00:38:01] Speaker E: What's the bonus of strategy again? Zach is an intelligence. [00:38:03] Speaker C: Intelligence. [00:38:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:38:07] Speaker D: I got so much better, Landon. [00:38:09] Speaker C: I'm not even going to count that one against you. [00:38:11] Speaker D: That's a 14. [00:38:11] Speaker C: Wow. [00:38:12] Speaker D: No, 24. Sorry. That's 18 plus 6. [00:38:15] Speaker B: Right? [00:38:16] Speaker E: Abby's greatest strategy. His intelligence should be higher. Zach, why don't we bump it by like 4 points? [00:38:22] Speaker C: It really should be, but. [00:38:24] Speaker A: Oops. [00:38:27] Speaker C: Greta. Oh, you know what? Boz could turn into that bronze dragon Wyrmling and then just land a distance away from the city and you guys can walk the last little bit. That's a really good strategy, Boz. [00:38:36] Speaker D: You can just turn into that bronze dragon Wyrmlane and then land a little bit away from the city and then walk into the city. [00:38:42] Speaker B: Cause I didn't sleep that great, Boz. And my magic juices aren't flowing as well. [00:38:48] Speaker C: I don't know what this magic juice is about, but it's so, it's. [00:38:53] Speaker B: Why is there magic juices in your made up world? [00:38:56] Speaker C: So that people can deal with it. Okay. Real world issue. And people need to role play through it. Okay. [00:39:02] Speaker E: Okay. [00:39:05] Speaker B: If you're worried about it, I could give you a potion of invisibility, but I don't know if that would work on your dragon. [00:39:13] Speaker C: Four people floating through the sky. [00:39:16] Speaker B: Great. [00:39:16] Speaker D: That's really good. [00:39:17] Speaker E: I'm not like worried about it. I'm just. I think it might be a better idea if we go in like in the back way. [00:39:25] Speaker B: Okay, sure. [00:39:27] Speaker E: Like, there's got to be some kind of secret tunnel through the mountain. [00:39:30] Speaker B: I'm sorry, like you want us to walk secret tunnel. [00:39:36] Speaker C: I am not aware of it. Through the mountain. [00:39:40] Speaker E: Secret tunnel. [00:39:41] Speaker C: Good reference. [00:39:42] Speaker A: Sorry. [00:39:43] Speaker E: Yeah, we can go. We can do that. I turn into a bronze dragon Wyrmling. Away from where people are going to freak out. [00:39:47] Speaker C: Everybody gets on my back and I go, okay. [00:39:57] Speaker B: Wow. [00:39:58] Speaker C: Was that a Tim Hawkins reference? Dang, Landon, that's a deep cut. That was. That was a gesticulated Tim Hawkins reference. That's incredible. What's the fly speed of your physical movement? Six. I don't know. [00:40:16] Speaker E: It's a five thing. I don't know. [00:40:19] Speaker C: I will look it up. [00:40:24] Speaker E: All right, my fly speed is 60ft, so that is. [00:40:31] Speaker C: Okay. Halved, because you're encumbered goes to 30. So that means it's 5ft per second because it's 30ft per 6 seconds, which means that's 3.4 miles per hour. [00:40:46] Speaker E: That's so slow. [00:40:48] Speaker C: Yep. You need to go to. Well, but I mean, you know, flying creatures carrying a lot of heavy things, you need to go to. You need to go. [00:40:56] Speaker D: The jet plane was going 20 miles. [00:41:01] Speaker E: Am I able to stay up? [00:41:04] Speaker C: Well, remember, you can always burn multiple wild shapes to keep it going. I like ruling it that way because I think it's. You're a level 13 druid. How can you not do that? I like when players are strong. Okay, so 3.5. Guys, help me out. 3.4 miles per hour. You need to go. That's your rate. You need to go. [00:41:25] Speaker B: Four and a half hours. [00:41:28] Speaker A: Divided by three. [00:41:29] Speaker B: Three hours. [00:41:30] Speaker C: Three and a half hours divided by 3.4. So three and a half hours. Wow, Jackie freaking. Look at you. So boss. [00:41:39] Speaker E: If I use the dash action, does that make it go in half? [00:41:41] Speaker C: Oh. Oh, no, no, Landon, that's true. That's true. Because that doubles your speed. And you could do that. Oh, okay, big kid. Okay, big kid. That makes it 6.8. Yeah, you can do it in one wild shape. Duration. Nice. Landon, big kids. [00:41:55] Speaker B: How big would that be? [00:41:58] Speaker C: Okay, do you have to go potty, Landon? Okay, I'm gonna assume you go potty. [00:42:02] Speaker E: So the party has a lot to say, you guys. He wants to tell y' all something. [00:42:07] Speaker C: Tello doll, the potty bronze dragon wyrmlings to the city of Treloch. I am going to struggle here to find a song that is the appropriate tone for this. What is? [00:42:22] Speaker B: I asked Ro asks Tello, Tello, how much time have you have you spent in this town? Like, do you know, like, the population of it and all? [00:42:33] Speaker A: Maybe we'll go with this. [00:42:34] Speaker C: If this is not the tone, you. [00:42:36] Speaker B: Guys let me know, like, not to, you know, drudge up stuff. I like this. Okay, so, yeah, like, what's the population involved? [00:42:46] Speaker C: The bronze dragon lands a thousand Feet from town on a roadside. I'm gonna describe it visually and then Tello will respond to your question because we need some context here, so that's true. [00:42:59] Speaker A: Oh my goodness. [00:43:00] Speaker C: Hoffa got these headphones off of the Internet for like 25 bucks and they're better than anything else in our house. They badly outperform the AirPods in every category. Yes, they're better sound quality, they're better noise cancellation. Their charge is, I think literally 20 or 30 times longer. She didn't charge them the first month she used them. [00:43:25] Speaker D: Wow. The first. [00:43:27] Speaker C: Yes. I'm not kidding. Like, I mean, not all the time, but. Yeah, but like every, every like two or three days she uses them. [00:43:36] Speaker D: Wow. [00:43:37] Speaker C: Yeah, amazing. Anywho, maybe it was the first two weeks or two or three weeks, but still badly outperforms the AirPods. Anywho. So Mount Koss is low on the AirPods. Mount Koss is low and stony and rough. And it is not like, like apocalyptically barren, but a rather barren mountain. On your fly up there is a pretty substantial conifer forest that goes halfway up the mountain, but you leave it behind about a thousand feet in elevation ago by the time you get to the cliff face where Trolloch is built upon. And when I say cliff, I don't mean like a singular cliff. I mean it is a massive jutting portion of the mountain. You can see why they picked gives. First of all, it's not like a floating cliff. It is entirely supported by a side of the mountain. The mountain basically reaches a plateau on a lower face that juts sharply out into a direction. And it is also, it overlooks the entire south side of Lore very well. You can see for an incredible distance from up here, basically, like out far into the ocean. It's a phenomenal vantage. And from here you can see that the island has a very harsh beauty. It is a beautiful, beautiful place. In an abrasive way up here, it becomes almost nothing but snow and ice. Not in a ice covered way way, but there are just. The best way I know how to put it is it's like a crappy little Dallas winter covering of ice everywhere. So there's just enough to go like, yeah, there's snow here and there and there. It can just shock the very faintly purplish but mostly gray stone landscape with its browns and the occasional dirt patches with just flashes of white and there's like a thin film of ice. There's honestly some black ice on the the ground here and there where like, it's kind of hard to detect. When it's on the stone, it's easy to slip on. [00:45:56] Speaker D: Very Texas. [00:45:58] Speaker C: Yeah, very, very like Texas, but a mountain and much colder. It's weird. And not far beyond you all. Now you, you all have stopped near a highway that snakes down the mountain path for miles and miles and miles and miles and probably branches to the other towns and villages of Lore. And up ahead, oh, it's so much. [00:46:20] Speaker A: Fun that you guys picked to do. [00:46:21] Speaker C: The storyline because there was so much here and it was one of those things that could have just totally not gotten done. Thank you guys. I freaking love being your dm. It's literally there's a lot of important things in my life, but I'm not even kidding when I say that this experience is overall like a, like a top 10 thing in my life. But anyway, so up ahead, built up on the cliff face, is the pretty significant city of Lore. It's a small city, but it's a straight up city. And for Lore, that's a lot. Trolloch is, I mean if you all had to guess from looking at it at a distance, a lot's being left to the imagination. But this is probably a city of like, you know, 5 or 6,000 which given the size of Legathe, considerable because Legath is a hamlet of like less than a hundred now if you're counting lower Legath now, it's probably a lot closer to 200. But still, you know, this is a, you put together pretty quickly, okay, the other villages and towns of Lore. Legath is probably the smallest. The other villages and towns are probably, you know, like quintuple or 10 times its size. And this, this much smaller than many of the capital cities you've been to. But you know, not nothing. It's an interesting city that you can see as a distance from the side of the highway. All of the, a lot of stone wood is that you can see at a distance is like a real accent. It's either, it's either you can see where wood would be something of wealth here or it's just where it's structurally key. So, so at this distance you can even see some of the buildings at the edge of town are their corners are like pillars of pine. Right. But the majority of buildings here are all stone hewn from the mountain. And from the tone and color you put together pretty quickly, oh, this cliff, which is very large, it's like a 2 1/2 mile wide mile long outward jutting section of this mountain. It's considerable that the city is built on. But you realize as you look over to your left, the north, as you look at the mountain face, the mountain comes down to this natural angle, but at its very base it's very worked and cut. And you realize that this entire city was hewn from this mountain face, that all the stone here was carved from the mountain and just moved directly to build the city. You can see at this distance that there is about a 15, 20 foot high wall that runs the entire perimeter of the city. So what you can make out from here are all buildings which sort of poke up over the side of the wall. And there are very simple. There's not even a true rampart here, like a, you know, like a flat base that's walled at either side for like defensive structures on the side. But there's like a walkway that goes over the top of the stone and there are a couple of like, there's like a, like two or three battlements per entire side of the wall structure. It's very basically, you can see tiny dotted figures moving. There's like probably guards up there. There's a front gate, you can see many buildings beyond. And at a great distance now, but at some distance you can see within, not the center of the city, but pretty, pretty close to the cliff's edge opposite there are very tall walls, maybe that go all the way up to like 30 or 40ft, huge stone walls and they surround, you can see, poking up over it far away, like two thin towers and a much larger tower in the middle, like a true kind of castle structure. And that's probably Castle Al Guid. And from Tella's previous description you can put together that. But it's this large structure in the middle, three towers around it, floating walkways between, and then the large set of walls that are pretty well like there are battlements and parapets and it's like a true castle, if a small one. And that within those walls there's almost sort of like a mini, tiny hamlet itself within the city. And that this is all of the homes and abodes of all the armed forces and the small army of people who need to live there to staff and work Castle Algui. And you can see this at a distance. Small army is probably the word, the wrong word. A militia of people, so to speak. And it's not that many. So you guys are like behind out rock outcroppings, like observing the city of disposal. The last little note I'm going to make is it's colder here. It's the next day in the morning. But you guys are all the way you're in the teens in terms of temperature and there is more snow up here. And what's worse, the distance is starting to cloud a little bit. Not with some violent storm, but just with what looks like it looks like it's gonna snow. So it's probably gonna get colder. And up here, not way up in the atmosphere, but high up in the mountain, the winds are pretty persistent. There is never not a breeze and there are occasionally some pretty heavy gusts. And when those come by, the breeze takes the windchill down to like 10ish. And when those winds blow by, it gets into the singles and the negatives. So there's some pretty miserable chills that come by pretty quick. And all standing water is frozen up here. And so I'm just going to go ahead and say that I will do this also when Landon comes back. But Greta, I'm gonna need you to make a con saving throw against the cold and roe. You're gonna need to make that con save at disadvantage and when Boz comes back, he will need to as well also. Ro looking back to it. Okay, here's what I'm gonna say about prestigitation. You can warm a portion of you at a time, but it's like. It's like a portion of you, you know, you couldn't. Like if you're prestigitating one spot and then another spot, then there's but you're losing the effect on each one you're doing. [00:52:40] Speaker B: So I can do. I can do three at a time. With prestidigitation you can expend it three times. And I don't know the exact language of it, but it says like it says if you cast the spell multiple times, you can have up to 3 of its non instantaneous effects active at a time. And you can dismiss such an effect as an action. [00:53:12] Speaker C: Jackie, way to know this is campaign one press digitation. Way to know this cantrip inside it out. Okay, then here's what I say. It's not going to gain of warm clothing. However, anytime I make you make these cold checks as you softly whistle to yourself. Like whistling a tune as you walk. Heating yourself up is a great reprieve from the cold. Add a D4 on, you're basically like guiding yourself against the heat essentially. Cuz it's helping a bit. [00:53:42] Speaker B: Love that. Sick. [00:53:44] Speaker C: This is going to be DC12 credit. What'd you get? [00:53:47] Speaker D: I got an 11. [00:53:49] Speaker B: Oh buddy, with my disadvantage I got a 9. [00:53:56] Speaker C: And your D4. [00:53:58] Speaker B: Yeah, that's with the D4, because I rolled a 5 and then I rolled a 4, so I got a 9. [00:54:05] Speaker D: Wait, what's your. [00:54:07] Speaker B: 0? [00:54:10] Speaker C: We will wait for boss to come back. But know that you all are essentially. I'm just gonna. I'm just gonna put it in language that makes sense. But. Well, not that you guys couldn't understand anything, but you're essentially baned. So until you warm up from everything, you have a D, a minus D4 to your ability checks. [00:54:29] Speaker D: To ability checks. [00:54:31] Speaker C: Yes. And I mean there's no mechanical transfer for that. [00:54:37] Speaker D: I have a question. Does Ro has the thing where she can change her clothing? Could she make herself just wear warmer clothing? [00:54:43] Speaker C: It's all illusory. [00:54:44] Speaker D: Yeah, just wanted to check. [00:54:46] Speaker C: Yeah, it's illusory, not transmutation. [00:54:47] Speaker D: I'm sure you'd already thought about Jackie. [00:54:49] Speaker B: Yeah, I did, because I was. I was wondering that. Thank you though for pointing that out. [00:54:53] Speaker C: Just swing where you can. You know, the other thing is that I'm just gonna say in terms of translating things from experiential to mechanics for the players, you guys can tell that what's happening is you're basically slowly getting kind of cold exhaustion. And so right now it's at a place where. Landon. Very good time to come back, Landon. The party is. Is up on the mountain next to the cliff. I have described the city in some detail. The essentials are it's a thousand feet away. There's a 15 foot wall city beyond. It's like a city of like three or 4,000 or. No, what did I say? Four or six. Four to six. [00:55:38] Speaker D: You said four or five. I think you said four or 5,000. [00:55:41] Speaker B: You said five. [00:55:41] Speaker C: Five or 6,000. Excellent. [00:55:43] Speaker B: That's what I wrote in my notes. [00:55:44] Speaker C: Five or 6,000. And right toward the edge of the cliff face, which is an immense massive. It's a whole section of the mountain is castle ogled within the walls of the city. And it's very cold up here. It's all the way down into the teens. When the wind comes by, it gets down into the singles and the negatives. Everyone is having to make a con saving throw against the cold. And because you are not warmly clothed, that is at disadvantage. Boz, I'm a dragon, okay? Unless you want to be a dragon the whole time you're in the city, you're gonna have to make that con. [00:56:19] Speaker A: SA could. [00:56:22] Speaker B: While boss is. [00:56:23] Speaker C: It's DC12, by the way. [00:56:29] Speaker E: One second, I'm looking. [00:56:31] Speaker C: Okay. [00:56:32] Speaker B: Ro, what's up? Jackie, I want like cuz she was asking tello about the population and all. And like, you kind of said that, but. [00:56:39] Speaker C: Oh, yes, thank you. [00:56:40] Speaker B: She asks him to like is like where the castle is and all essentially. Does the count. Is he like the ruler of this town? Does he provide like. [00:56:54] Speaker C: Not essentially. He is the. He is the sovereign ruler of this island nation. Oh, is the ruler of Lore. [00:57:01] Speaker A: He is its sovereign ruler. [00:57:04] Speaker B: I think I knew that, but I. [00:57:06] Speaker C: Forgot when the last ruler passed away. [00:57:08] Speaker A: A few decades ago. [00:57:10] Speaker B: Gotcha. So he's. [00:57:11] Speaker D: He's. [00:57:11] Speaker B: He's only been ruler for a few decades. [00:57:15] Speaker C: I believe 24 years. [00:57:17] Speaker D: Okay, remember, why is this titled account? Is that just formality or. [00:57:23] Speaker C: No, it is a title he has correctly earned and lesser nobility. I'm not going to lie. It was explained to me a few times ago. A few times. And when it was my job, I. [00:57:34] Speaker A: Did know how to explain it. [00:57:35] Speaker C: It has something to do with. He was previously a viscount to a. [00:57:43] Speaker A: Duke. [00:57:45] Speaker C: From Yazlan, I believe. And then something about the transfer of power moved him to the title of count. I don't know. I used to know. But some less probability title. [00:57:58] Speaker D: I see. I see. [00:57:59] Speaker C: Yes. [00:58:01] Speaker E: His fingers and then wispy flames wrap around his body and he gets resistance to cold. [00:58:08] Speaker C: Okay, do not make the check at disadvantage. You can make it straight. How long is that spell? [00:58:19] Speaker E: The spell lasts for 10 minutes. Oh, that's fun. [00:58:23] Speaker C: Okay, Buzz, you get the feeling when it runs out, you will probably need to make the check again, but for now, you can make it. In fact, I'm gonna say with advantage right now, while you have this going. Not just straight, I'd say if you have cold resistance, it's gonna be with advantage. [00:58:35] Speaker E: Oh, really? I still have to make the check? [00:58:39] Speaker C: Yeah, it's still ridiculously cold. But you have resistance to it. I mean, you. You make it with advantage already. [00:58:45] Speaker B: He said. [00:58:46] Speaker E: What kind of check is it? [00:58:47] Speaker C: Con saving, though? [00:58:49] Speaker B: He said it's in the teens. But the wind chill is like in the negatives up here. [00:58:53] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:58:57] Speaker A: On you said. [00:58:58] Speaker E: Oh, I may have rolled a 10. [00:59:01] Speaker C: Oh, okay. Well, boss. [00:59:06] Speaker E: It'S a plus zero. [00:59:09] Speaker B: You guys are. [00:59:10] Speaker C: This is not a very Connie party. Boss, you roll, you. You gain the Horrible consequence of minus D4 to your checks right now. That's the. [00:59:20] Speaker A: That's the. [00:59:20] Speaker C: It's not a point of exhaustion or something. There's a minus D4 right now. Now, the thing I told everyone earlier is that you guys have spent enough time in harsh environments to put together that right now, this is the consequence if you get more cold over a significant amount of time. This could very well turn into something more considerable. But that's what it is right now. So you all are looking at Trolloc in the distance. Um, I'm so sorry, Jackie, was there a question you asked Tello 15 years ago? [00:59:51] Speaker B: I asked him the population, and then you answered that. So I asked him. I asked him, though, like, what's the overall, like, vibe of the city? Like, how do we need to. Like, is there a. You know, is it a little bit, like, when I say vibe, I mean, like, is it very. Like, when we go in, are people going to be staring at us? Because we're going to be super out of place. I mean, we're always out of place. But, like, are they, like, an accepting people are. [01:00:19] Speaker C: They will say, it is not the. [01:00:24] Speaker A: Warmest place you've ever been. [01:00:26] Speaker B: So I get that. And she. Wiggle your fingers. How cold it is. [01:00:31] Speaker C: Tello laughs at the unintentional pun, but he says it is. [01:00:38] Speaker A: This is lore is not an easy place to live. [01:00:43] Speaker C: The people of Treloch do not live easy lives. And though a particular echelon of the city has become very wealthy under the. [01:00:53] Speaker A: Count, and they're very fond of him. [01:00:55] Speaker C: The general citizenry of the town, it's not like they live in squalor. And in fact, under the Count's leadership, the entire nation has grown more profitable. But there are many people here whose lives have become harder since he came into power. [01:01:12] Speaker A: At least his rule is clear, and. [01:01:18] Speaker C: So that puts a damper on the people. He is not some violent autocrat here at all. He likes to be in favor of the people if he can. But he has made his power clear multiple times, and so there is a tension here. In that way, I am not certain. [01:01:39] Speaker A: How. [01:01:41] Speaker C: If at all, their disposition toward us has been affected by the Count's feelings about us. I imagine that would not have been shared. But what it's worth, we have become pretty famous. And it's not uncommon for Lord to. [01:01:54] Speaker A: Be seen significantly behind the time of. [01:01:56] Speaker C: The rest of the world. It takes a long time for information to travel, but if they do know of us, I can see a world where our fame would not be a positive. [01:02:08] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:02:09] Speaker C: But beyond that, I can't say for certain. The guards of the city are very loyal to Alweed, whether from genuine conviction or from. From fear of him. And they are frequently suspicious of significant outsiders. [01:02:27] Speaker B: Okay, but, I mean, they should at least have been warned that we're coming, I guess. [01:02:33] Speaker C: I would imagine. I guess it's probably a safe assumption, but they don't know yeah, the counts can be hard to predict. [01:02:39] Speaker B: Okay, good to know. Good to know. Okay. Well, shall we? This is gonna be fun, you guys. I say first thing on the agenda once we get in is maybe get some warm clothes. [01:02:55] Speaker C: Yeah, whatever it's worth. It's about a 15 minute walk to the castle. If we're held up for a long time, we'll be here. Excuse me. It's about a 15 minute walk to the count. To the castle. If we're in the code a lot longer, it will probably stay this way. But if we already miss it straight in, it's probably not nearly as bad. And he just kind of holds his hands next to Boz as if Boz is like a fire. Yeah, just like. Oh, Buzz, I really appreciate that you're doing that. [01:03:30] Speaker E: It actually doesn't help a lot, but it. I mean. [01:03:34] Speaker C: Hey, Buzz, could you make this fire hotter or what's the deal with this? [01:03:38] Speaker E: As Boz is. Is literally like surrounded with lapping flames. It's like. He's like. I don't. I don't know what. You know what? It's. [01:03:45] Speaker C: He goes, no, no, it's cool. It's cool. It's magic. [01:03:49] Speaker B: What time is it? About now. [01:03:53] Speaker C: Can we, for the sake of logic. [01:03:55] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:03:56] Speaker C: Call it afternoon so that dinner makes any sense. Unless you guys are like, oh, my goodness, our plan depends on morning, in which case it can't be. [01:04:02] Speaker B: No, that sounds great. [01:04:03] Speaker C: Okay. Mid afternoon, so it's only gonna get colder. [01:04:07] Speaker D: I just think we should stop for clothes. [01:04:10] Speaker B: You don't. [01:04:11] Speaker D: No, I do think that, like, it's. [01:04:13] Speaker C: About this time that snow begins to gently fall. [01:04:16] Speaker D: Okay, we start walking towards the gate. [01:04:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:04:19] Speaker C: Okay. [01:04:21] Speaker B: I think I'd like to buy a coat. I mean, it's winter time anyways, and I need it. [01:04:25] Speaker D: I should probably buy something a little nicer than what I'm wearing also. [01:04:31] Speaker C: Well, cloaks are gorgeous. [01:04:34] Speaker D: Oh, yeah, I forgot. I forgot I had gorgeous new clothes. [01:04:40] Speaker E: Make your thing become whatever you want. Why can't you just make it a coat? [01:04:43] Speaker B: It's a lose loser. [01:04:46] Speaker D: I tried that. [01:04:49] Speaker B: Yeah, I can make it look like a coat. Maybe I can, like, placebo. Affect myself to believe that I'm warm. [01:04:55] Speaker E: But that's a placebo. [01:04:57] Speaker C: This is an old chair. And I just broke my chair. I put a hand on the chair. No, shattered one half of the back. That's okay. Just means it's well loved. Well, it's like a. It's like a four or five year old chair and I've used it pretty hard. [01:05:13] Speaker B: Did you Fart so hard that you really okay that you broke it. [01:05:19] Speaker C: My chair said enough. There's a heat death of the universe. This is the methane death of this chair. So it is a stark and dour walk to the walls of the city. It is frigid and. Yep. [01:05:42] Speaker B: Oh, sorry. I was just gonna say back to what Landon was saying on that. On the. On my armor. I am going to make it look like a really nice fancy dress before we go in, which I can do. I can decide exactly what it looks like, but it still has all the effects and weight of my leather armor. But I can make it look like a beautiful gown. Ro says to balls when they're walking. [01:06:09] Speaker E: Nice. [01:06:12] Speaker C: Excellent. [01:06:13] Speaker A: So. [01:06:13] Speaker C: So Maya has decided it's lap time. So I need to move everything I have. So the party makes their way to the gates. It's an overcast sky, even in the middle of the day. It's just a little gloomy. The snow is falling. Not in that amount. It's like a kind of beautiful amount. Not a ton, just enough. And it's just really cold. The occasional that comes by sends chills down your backs and the long slow walk. As the cold grows around you, a pit just kind of grows in your stomach. Oh, y' all bear with me. I'm gonna need to make myself some tea in a second because my throat is giving out and I've been taking a lot of cough drops to help my throat. They're making my tummy sick. You guys make your way to the wall and eventually as you approach the stone wall, there are very tall wooden sharpened pine tree gates into tall pikes. Not an uncommon design for clearly an inward parting gate. And the mountain stone walls to either side have guards atop them. And the guards here are the Lauren Population here is majority human with a pretty significant interspersing of wood elves. So a lot of dark skinned elves, light skinned humans. Somebody talk in role play. My voice is almost up. [01:07:57] Speaker E: So what if the Count doesn't like us? [01:08:03] Speaker D: He doesn't like what? [01:08:04] Speaker B: Well, he doesn't like us, so I. [01:08:07] Speaker D: Think he doesn't like us already. Buzz. [01:08:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:08:12] Speaker D: I think we should prepare for the worst. Well, maybe not the worst, but true. [01:08:20] Speaker E: What do we say? [01:08:22] Speaker C: What? [01:08:22] Speaker E: What. What are you. What are you. What are you planning on saying? [01:08:26] Speaker D: So I know that there's like some people who think that he's going to try and offer us a deal. I really don't want to take the deal if we can. I think that would be bad. I think I don't really want to be in any kind of, like, dealings with him or any kind of, like, debt to him. I think that's just. [01:08:46] Speaker A: So. [01:08:46] Speaker D: I want to try and avoid that if it's. If possible. [01:08:51] Speaker B: I'm down to take the. I mean, if. If you guys want. I know. Balls usually kind of. I'm down to. To take the lead on. On talking if. If need be. Obviously won't make any decisions without us all doing it, but I think first we just hear what he has to say, say, be respectful as we can without, you know, obviously, I don't want to be, but. Who do you guys think? Special guest. I don't know. We are on his turf, guys. [01:09:30] Speaker D: What if it's special? What if it's. What if it's special guest Jackie Butler? [01:09:39] Speaker B: I've never heard prepare for that. I think we need to be careful of any, like. And I don't mean like, like necessarily completely physically, but we need to make sure of any, like, traps or anything, you know? [01:09:56] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:09:56] Speaker B: Again, not like there's going to be like, a snare set when we walk in, but. [01:10:00] Speaker D: Yeah, just. [01:10:04] Speaker B: Mental traps. I was wondering, do we want to, like. Greta, would you want to, like us, like, cast tongues right before we go in? And if things go sideways or something, we have, like, a code word that we say in, like, I don't know, some obscure language or something. Or like sylvan or something. I don't know. Tell. I wonder if Tello knows. Tell. I thought about that 500ft away right now, but. [01:10:32] Speaker D: Well, we are at basic in Celeste. I don't think I told you last time, but we're. We're at the basic level in Celestial. [01:10:38] Speaker B: True. [01:10:39] Speaker D: So we. I mean, I. We could talk that. In. [01:10:45] Speaker B: That. I know how to say the word purple in Celestial. [01:10:51] Speaker D: What is it? [01:10:58] Speaker E: I think that's a great plan. [01:11:03] Speaker B: To. Tandra. [01:11:06] Speaker D: Tandra. [01:11:07] Speaker B: Tandra. [01:11:08] Speaker E: You made that up. [01:11:09] Speaker B: Tundra. [01:11:10] Speaker E: You made that up. [01:11:11] Speaker D: No, Purple. [01:11:12] Speaker B: And. There's purple and Celestial. Tundra. [01:11:15] Speaker E: I speak Celestial. That's not what it is. [01:11:17] Speaker B: You do not speak Celestial. [01:11:19] Speaker C: I do. [01:11:19] Speaker E: It's one of my six languages. [01:11:21] Speaker D: He's lying. No, you don't, boss. [01:11:23] Speaker E: I'm not lying. What are my six languages? [01:11:26] Speaker B: Okay, then speak languages. Then speak Celestial right now. Say a sentence. [01:11:31] Speaker D: I speak more. Second of all, you don't speak Celestial. [01:11:34] Speaker E: I do. I do speak Celestial. [01:11:37] Speaker B: Then what happened to me? [01:11:38] Speaker D: I'm going to check your character sheet then. [01:11:40] Speaker B: What have me and Greta been talking about every time we study the last, like, month. [01:11:47] Speaker E: What part of Celestial have you been studying? [01:11:52] Speaker B: We're on A small ship. You should be able to hear us. [01:11:55] Speaker D: I'm in your box. [01:11:56] Speaker B: I'm. [01:11:56] Speaker D: I'm in your drop box. [01:11:57] Speaker C: Spas. [01:11:58] Speaker B: I'm in your box. [01:12:05] Speaker D: That's very beautiful. [01:12:08] Speaker C: Thank you. [01:12:09] Speaker B: So if I say tundra or if anyone says tandra, my throat was starting. [01:12:14] Speaker C: To give out and I was almost throwing up from the sheer number of cough drops I had. [01:12:18] Speaker B: Oh, gosh. [01:12:19] Speaker D: Oh, goodness. [01:12:20] Speaker B: Don't do that. Okay. [01:12:25] Speaker D: Sylvan and Gnomish. [01:12:30] Speaker E: No, that's just. That's just the. More languages section. [01:12:33] Speaker D: Where's the languages section? There's not one on here. [01:12:39] Speaker C: Stickers party. This is absolutely the conversation that the characters are having. I buy it all day long as they approach the gate. And hello simply confirms as you walk up, I do speak Sylvan. [01:12:55] Speaker E: I speak Sylvan as well. [01:12:57] Speaker C: And he says, you know, I don't know, he speaks a lot of languages. [01:13:00] Speaker B: Okay, so celestial would probably be the way to go. So if anyone says tundra, which is purple in celestial, that's our. That's our safe word. [01:13:11] Speaker C: Our code also canon purple. [01:13:13] Speaker B: Something's going sideways. Okay, so what do we do? [01:13:16] Speaker D: If I spelled it, someone says that. [01:13:19] Speaker B: I made the spelling. [01:13:21] Speaker D: That's incredible, Jack. [01:13:22] Speaker C: I think knowing what we do with the safe word is less important than establishing it. [01:13:27] Speaker D: Well, I think the opposite. [01:13:29] Speaker C: No, I was joking. That's a sarcasm, man. We only have 30ft the of this gate. We should come up with a conclusion really fast. I think the plot will happen then. [01:13:35] Speaker B: To see the Count. He's. He's expecting us. I mean, I say we just. [01:13:39] Speaker C: Oh, when we say the trigger word, we see the. We see the Count. [01:13:42] Speaker B: No, no, the trigger word is that. [01:13:46] Speaker C: That word is only 20ft left. [01:13:48] Speaker B: No, that word is like when we're. [01:13:50] Speaker D: That word is that get to Rose as. As quickly or as casually as possible and she'll teleport us away. [01:13:57] Speaker B: That's like in the castle, if things go sideways, like when we're at the. [01:14:01] Speaker D: Dinner, we're out of the castle. Then Boz blows us, flies us away. [01:14:06] Speaker C: That makes sense. I like it. And then the party gets to the gates. So the majority of citizens here are human and wood elven, which makes sense because you know that the majority of the world's wood elves come from Unsen. And this is ultimately a city, a nation off of the coast of Unsen. And there is a. So there are a lot of dark skinned elves and light skinned humans and then a great number of like mixed half elves of a great degree of skin tones. And then A fair number, a not inconsiderable number. And I'm just going to tell you this, this is what you see as you travel through the city as well. Like a minority of darker skinned humans who are probably some amount elven, but a very long time ago, and then a small minority of very lighter skinned elvens. And so you all put together pretty quickly that this population of people is probably vast majority composed of these two races. And it occurs to you that like where you saw more diversity was in the coastal hamlets and villages like Legath. And so this Trollochian people is probably. Or Trelocan is probably like. I mean, I'm sure there's. You could probably find a few hundred individuals of other ethnicities here, but that the majority are probably a very long existing population, that this nation was probably founded by humans and wood elves and they have been here a very long. [01:15:38] Speaker A: Time. [01:15:40] Speaker C: To the point that they make up the majority of ethnicity of this place. And it is a smattering four or five guards who are dressed in very simple armor. They're round helmets that have sort of like pointed little spikes at the top. [01:15:55] Speaker D: And how are they keeping warm? [01:15:59] Speaker C: They are wearing some like dark gray armor that matches the stone around them pretty well. Doesn't quite have that purplish hue, but some of it. And it's just half plate. Each of them have like pikes and swords and shields. And under the half. The half plate is just heavy. Oh, it's a thing you've done, Landon. Under the half plate is some very like thickly padded, like just winter clothes. [01:16:25] Speaker B: I'm making my eyes hurt. [01:16:29] Speaker C: Yep, it's bad. They're just thickly padded furs that they're wearing under the half plate. They're very, very much dressed for this weather, even to the point that they have like, like cloths wrapped around their ears and around their necks, barring them against the cold. They're very dressed for this. And as you all approach, a handful of bows or actually like pikes and lances get trained on you all. And as you come close, a. A rather imposing for an elven figure. He's a big guy. This dark wood elven figure turns to you all and says, ho, there. [01:17:07] Speaker A: For what reason do you approach Sherlock? [01:17:13] Speaker E: No, I'm just coughing. [01:17:17] Speaker B: Hi, we're. We're expected by the Count himself. [01:17:23] Speaker C: He looks puzzled. An older human woman, woman, much older to be a town guard, comes up and sort of like whispers to him. And Ro, does one of you have the feature that lets you read lips is that someone in this party or is that the other one? [01:17:39] Speaker D: I'm pretty sure I do. [01:17:40] Speaker B: It's Greta. Greta can read lips. [01:17:42] Speaker D: Yeah, I have. Observant. [01:17:43] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, that's what it was. Observant. Greta, you put together easily enough. I got your back, man. That she whispers to him, the fun guys. And he like, of gets a sort of shocked face and suddenly takes in Boz's incredibly shocking physical features. And Boz, what color does your greenish white skin turn when it gets really cold? I'm curious. What color are your nose and cheeks? And that's a good question. [01:18:12] Speaker E: I'm sorry. [01:18:12] Speaker A: All right. [01:18:13] Speaker C: Color. [01:18:14] Speaker B: Does green turn when it. [01:18:15] Speaker C: And then he also puts incredibly impressive full plate. And he just nods and says, all right, then you are expected. And he steps back. Yeah. [01:18:31] Speaker B: Can I do an insight check just to see their, like, the kind of vibe that they're feeling of like what I. [01:18:43] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Make an insight check. What you all can pick up very often of you with eyes and brains can pick up very clearly. They are all, like, intimidated and surprised, but let's go from there. That's clear. [01:18:53] Speaker B: 29. So basically I read their mind. No, I'm just kidding, but just kidding. [01:19:01] Speaker C: Row with a 29, you can put together that. I mean, they are clearly intimidated and surprised. But what's more, row you put together easily with a 29, you put together this captain or. Or head guard of the gate here was probably not expecting you all to show up today. Like, knew you were coming and wasn't expecting it today. And then the other thing you put together is that the way the guard is reacting, they've probably been warned about you. They seem like you watch a lot of hands grip weapons a little tighter, and you watch a bunch of Pokemon points, like points of pikes and points of like. You watch sword hilts turn toward you very slightly and pike points turn in your direction as if all of the soldiers are like, the guards are subconsciously, like, reacting to that confirmation. [01:19:55] Speaker B: Okay. [01:19:55] Speaker C: In front of you, the gates pull back, and as they do, the city gets revealed in front of you. Not cobblestone streets, but simply the mountain stone below, worn smooth by many foot, hoof and wheel tracks. It's more of that. All of the buildings here are just, well, actually sort of cobblestone structure, mountain stone cut laid upon each other. Some of the nicer buildings here, some of the businesses and more refined things appear to be like that design of stone. You get that people are a big fan of in Texas, where it's like you're getting natural Stones, and you're fitting them together correctly and patching them with adhesive in between. But many of the others are square cut stone stacked into structures. Almost all of the roofs here are like a. Like a thatch layer over like a sort of beam structure. So they're not thatch roofs. They are like thatch outermost layers and then a stronger layer beneath. You get the feeling that this is where the majority of wood in the town has been utilized, so that there is a strong structure to them, which is probably for the snow, the heavy snowfall that can happen over them, and that that final thatch layer is for insulating heat. And almost every building here, almost everyone has a chimney with smoke coming out of it. And the buildings are pretty closely built together here. A huge network of alleys in this city, many of which are not connected. Many of them are individual standalone alleys. The city is pretty at a glance as you all walk through it. Pretty simply designed in a pretty efficient way. It's just a grid pattern. It's not perfect, it's not uniform, but the streets interconnect and the city is filled with Lorens. Not a teeming throng of population, but a significant one. And as you all walk through accompanied by guards, some people stomp and stare with interest. Other people get shocked looks on their faces and exchange whispers, which, Greta, you make out as people clocking you all as the fun guys. Your legend has made it all the way down to lore. Greta, also specifically with your. Could you make a perception check for me as you all walk? [01:22:11] Speaker B: Lip reader, Are we being escorted by these guards? [01:22:15] Speaker C: Yes, two flanky wall. So the five stay at the gate, but two flank you all both with with pikes and small buckler shields. 23 Retta. As you all walk by people, you can read their lips and see that plenty of people are just astounded. Holy crap, it's the fungus. Yes, Landon, I had a question about. [01:22:39] Speaker E: The guards as well walking, but that's just indication. [01:22:41] Speaker C: Let me know. Absolutely. For sure. And the other thing you put together, Greta, is that the majority of what's getting whispered about here is like a lot of people are whispering about. Oh my goodness. I'm so sorry. Let me somebody talk to each other really quick. [01:22:58] Speaker E: Bro, did you just fart? [01:23:01] Speaker B: No, that was Craig is not here. Just being quiet. Except for his farts. [01:23:11] Speaker E: No, the big voice in the sky said he was gone. That was you? [01:23:17] Speaker C: Sorry, I set an alarm on my phone for a certain time on Fridays and I left it in the bedroom with Hoffa. [01:23:22] Speaker A: Oops. [01:23:24] Speaker C: So, Greta, part of what you detect from. I'm so gassy this evening from walking by and seeing all the people talking. A lot of what they're whispering about is. Is like they're whispering Dolgoth's name quite a bit. O Lor knows about you all, but they're real behind, which makes a lot of sense. They're far enough south in the world and detached away that, like, I mean, for the record, what the majority of people in the world know you all for at this point is defeating, slaying, the death, the wandering death. But also specifically, you get to feeling that information has just made its way to Lore. So they're about six or seven months behind, and you can see how that is both impressing them and perhaps information that has been used to stoke concern about you all here. [01:24:15] Speaker D: Do we know how Legath and, like, Lore feels about the Empire? [01:24:26] Speaker C: You can make a rumors check if you're proficient. [01:24:28] Speaker D: I am proficient. [01:24:30] Speaker C: Oz, what was your question? [01:24:32] Speaker E: I wanted to see if there were any, like, identifying, like, markers or decorations or like, like carvings on the armor of the guards or, you know, like. [01:24:41] Speaker C: Give me a perception, like, it's great. [01:24:45] Speaker B: I asked Tello what the primary language is here. [01:24:51] Speaker A: Taling goes common. [01:24:53] Speaker B: Oh, okay, sick. [01:24:55] Speaker D: I got a 12. [01:24:59] Speaker C: I got a 7. Especially hard to say what a city so far from the Empire would. Would feel guns. [01:25:12] Speaker D: But I didn't figured that could be. [01:25:14] Speaker C: Bad or actually probably a good idea. Boz, with a 17, you do pick up. The armor's pretty plain, pretty functional. But on everyone's left gauntlet, there is a little carving that is not particularly high detail. It's pretty simple, but it looks like an affectation, like something added, not something that the armor was originally made with. And it's just of a small dagger on the armor. And you can put together this. This is probably, like, probably an affectation added by the count at some point, kind of communicating something about his rule or presence or these guards as his. As a part of, like, not just saying, like, these aren't just the guards of the city. They're my force. Got it. [01:26:00] Speaker E: Got it. And that probably answers what I was looking for. I was also trying to see have soldiers have, like, specific patches or like, decorations or things on their. [01:26:08] Speaker C: You're not seeing any other. That is literally the only. [01:26:10] Speaker E: That is the only thing. Okay, got it. [01:26:12] Speaker C: And I was like, okay, if they're part of the guard, perhaps he does not adorn his guards, or perhaps these individuals are not of a particular rank. Or maybe that insignia is an incredibly high rank, but you see that insignia? [01:26:26] Speaker B: I. I ask which of the. Well, is there a guard you are. [01:26:33] Speaker C: Being by a half wood elven woman and a human man. The man is sort of short, older, a little portly, and that elf half wood elven woman is pretty young and a little thin. She looks pretty nervous and he looks pretty nervous. [01:26:51] Speaker B: I lean over to the. Oh, sorry. I lean over to the, to the. To the lady and I say, I don't know if you guys are escorting us directly to the castle, but we were wondering if we could stop at a store perhaps to get some warmer clothing, if that's possible. [01:27:13] Speaker C: Yeah. She gets concerned look on her face and look toward the older man. He flashes a look at her and froze his brow. And she just says. And he just shakes his head with concern and says, ma', am, we are to take you directly to Castle Ogreat. [01:27:37] Speaker A: We won't be veering from that. [01:27:40] Speaker B: Course I can. Gro looks at Tello and just eyes wide. [01:27:48] Speaker C: Tello doesn't make any eye contact with you, and you can see that he's a little transfixed on the castle. He's having trouble moving his eyes where his fro poofs up and the snow is falling down. Little snowflakes are getting caught in the outer sort of like corona of his fro and not quite melting. One, because of how cold it is, and two, because the fro is far enough away from his head that it's basically just picking up snow. It doesn't have enough body heat in it. And so he's getting a little crown of snow up there and he's just transfixed on the castle. He's almost kind of like marching a little bit. Like, not like a full march, but like he's lost in a thought. Yeah, boss, did you have a thing? [01:28:32] Speaker E: Yeah, I was going to see what they. I was going to turn to an inside check to see what they looked like when they saw Tello. Like if they recognized him or what they thought of him or like any emotions they had when they saw him. [01:28:41] Speaker C: Ah, Boz. Yeah. Why don't you give me an insight check? That's a really cool check to make. This is such a good use of these 19. [01:28:53] Speaker A: Nice. [01:28:57] Speaker C: You saw a flash of recognition on their faces. Not a lot more. Some recognition and some surprise, but not a lot else. You get the feeling it's a whole lot like, whoa, him. And like, I wasn't expecting that. And that's about it. [01:29:09] Speaker E: Okay. [01:29:14] Speaker C: And it is indeed. Tello had it pretty well gauged. Maybe a little shorter given the nervous pace of the guards, but they get you to the castle gates in less than 15, maybe 12. And as you all approach Castle Alguid itself, walking all the way through the city, there is not but a small crowd like no one is following you, no one is daring to follow your path. But plenty of people are like opening doors and stepping out and looking at you all in shock as you pass by and then closing the doors back behind them. And eventually you all are led to the castle itself. These walls are 30 or 40ft high. Thick stone carved from the mountain. They have true ramparts atop them with keystone walls and battlements. The wall is pentagonal around the castle and there are battlement towers at each corner. There are archers set at those battlements watching you all as you all approach. You notice that the rampart directly above the section to which you approach the front facing wall of the castle is lined with guards. There's about 10 archers up there trained on you all. No one's, they all have crossbows and none of them are drawn but all of them are loaded and there are like five guards awaiting at the base. And as the two approach there is one individual, he is a shorter fellow, he's dwarven, fully different ethnicity than everyone else. And he has a pretty, pretty good gash going down over his left eye kind of down into his cheek. It's long and it's weird, it's not like a cut from a blade, it's like a, like an indention going down through here. It's a strange mark. He also happens to have some skin discoloration going down his jaw and neck. Just something genetic. And he has just, just a very short cut beard, not a big beard the way almost all dwarves do. And his head is bald. He has heavy cloak on heavy armor and he has a very heavy mace with not studs but spikes at his side. And as you all look up there's a very glow. That was good. He has very like just serious glowering gaze as he takes you all in. He looks you all up and down quickly just moves his eyes to the other two guards. They just nod and break off from you all. [01:31:47] Speaker B: He was by the door like by the. [01:31:50] Speaker C: And boz. I will say, I mean everyone can notice but especially with your previous check, he has his curious. The breastplate of his armor is just. The outline of the chest is just trimmed in silver. That's all you get the feeling like that's like a captain or somebody. And as they approach he just says thank you. [01:32:17] Speaker B: Rogue nods. [01:32:21] Speaker C: We go now to the Count. [01:32:23] Speaker A: Please follow me. [01:32:26] Speaker B: Does the scar on his face, does it look recent? [01:32:30] Speaker C: No, looks very old. Okay, very old. Is it bleeding? [01:32:34] Speaker B: Is it an open wound? Does he need medical attention? [01:32:38] Speaker E: He falls over dead. Is he bloody? [01:32:40] Speaker C: Is he bloodied? Huge metal doors, huge iron doors just open up. And as you all follow him, I assume. [01:32:52] Speaker E: Yeah. [01:32:53] Speaker C: You're flanked again by guards, but again, not many. He walks ahead of you. Three, three behind. And all of these guards remain in the area, but most of them don't come with you. [01:33:03] Speaker A: I know. [01:33:04] Speaker C: And as you pass into the courtyard of the castle grounds, there's maybe 10 other structures here that are not the castle itself. One looks like a stable for livestock. Another like sort of like a grain mill that appears to be producing heat. Another smithy, just all the structures and edifices necessary area to support the castle itself. And up ahead of you, the castle looms. It is three considerable towers, each like 35, 40ft tall, that are maybe like 30 or 20ft across. And each of them about 25ft up has floating walkways. The three towers at Trinary positions, like triangulating the central edifice. And this structure is probably like 40ft tall to which the walkways lead to doors high up on it. And it's all like worked. Very classic castle. It's round, it's circular, all the towers are. And the central one is probably 100, 150ft in diameter. No, no, 200, 250ft in diameter. Goes up 40ft and then at the crown of it there is like a slightly inset, smaller diameter, maybe 100ft across, and then another 20 or 30ft of tower. And this is the central structure. It's crowned with stones at every side. And there are massive doors at the front and guards awaiting. You can see clearly that you're being walked to this place. The captain looks back over his shoulder and says, you are expected for dinner. Are you in need of any particular good or accommodation? [01:34:47] Speaker E: A coat. [01:34:50] Speaker C: Something? [01:34:51] Speaker A: One is. [01:34:52] Speaker C: One will be provided on your exit. [01:34:53] Speaker A: If you so request. Okay, thank you. [01:34:57] Speaker C: And he just nods to one of the guards who like looks concerned and breaks off heading towards some sort of building, maybe where they keep coats. And as he walks to these very large arch, arching wooden doors, these two part. As they part, you all are led into a stone rimmed archway with a keystone through and in you find Castle Alguid. You pass by the taller towers and you head straight to the main structure. Yeah, I think this is the music. [01:35:30] Speaker A: I'm gonna go with. [01:35:35] Speaker C: Here you find the castle court. There is a spiral staircase at an end opposite to you that seems to lead up to a second layer. But this is just one very large stone courtroom or a court, not courtroom, but as in the court of the castle, there are high stone walls. This room is probably 18, 20ft in height, imposing in size and scale for this, for this place. There is hanging from the ceiling an immense wooden candelabra, or actually not candelabra, excuse me, an immense wooden chandelier that has iron studge and reinforcement. And on it are probably about 30 or 40 equidistantly spent wax candles, each a lit a light. And around the room ornate braziers hang. There are supporting pillars at the edges of the room, pretty close, close to the walls. And it is just an immense stone room. And at one end is a throne. It sits on a dais and then it is itself elevated. It's like a 2 foot tall high dais and then another 6ft sort of elevate the throne itself, an immense stone chair and then steps that lead up to it. And it's a fair, lovely, well worked stone throne. It's empty. But brought into the center of this stone room, which is very clearly the central court of this castle. That is what it is. It has been kind of temporarily converted into a banquet hall. As in the center of the room is a 30 foot long dining table and its sides have been lined with chairs. It is thin and long. It's kind of beautiful pine wood, well stained over it is a long, deep purple cloth trimmed with red accents. And all around the room, thin, tall standing candelabras, maybe 6ft tall have been filled with candles that are gently dripping red wax onto the floor and all flickering. They're beautiful. And don't throw up, don't throw up. There are high back wooden chairs that have red leather backing in the supports of them themselves. And in the seat five that have been set up, two at one side, three at the other. And they are not equidistantly spread that would spread this table very far. They are all grouped pretty close to one end of the table, which is the end closest to the throne, maybe 40 or 30ft from the throne itself. In that chair is a centrally positioned chair at one end of the table, but the other chairs are not positioned far from it. So that talking distance is all very close. There is a lavish spread of foods all across the long table, which itself has multiple candelabras on it. The room has a very warm light. It's Honestly, quite beautiful. There is a singular minstrel playing a. A loot at one end of the chamber. Pretty beautifully. Ro. It's pretty gorgeous. Around the room are 30 guards of various ethnicities, all like. Like you've seen, all with pikes, just in a huge circle around the room, all the way from one end of the throne to the door. They just line the space. And they are all armed. They are all standing at attention, still and waiting with various expressions on their faces. And sitting at the end of the table in the hall is a tall man, clearly humanoid, dark black hair, long and straight. He has a tall palisadel face with strong features, striking not at all unhandsome, but not the sort of tall, strong features that are necessarily like, oh, my goodness, gorgeous, just strong. He could certainly be found handsome to some, to others, perhaps off putting. He has a dark black goatee that also has a thin beard line that goes around his jaw. It's clear that he could grow a much fuller beard, but he keeps it well trimmed at this length, little shocks of silver in it. And his long black hair has streaks of silver in it as well. He has piercing green eyes, even from across the room. A very strong, pointed nose. He has somewhat olive ish skin, a little lighter. And he's dressed in long, deep red robes with light blue accents that are quite beautiful. A couple rings on his fingers. And as you walk into the room, he just gets a very broad, warm smile on his face, and he just gestures to the chairs behind him or beside him. The other guards who escorted you in leave, close the doors behind you. And the captain figure stands in front of the doors. [01:40:39] Speaker B: Can I say forgot before we entered or whatever, like, entered the room, the city that I changed my leather armor into, my glamour armor into, like a nice, absolutely, like, dress. [01:40:57] Speaker C: You have a gallon. Yeah. Do you all take seats? Oh, man, my throat is failing. [01:41:09] Speaker B: So you said there's three on one side, two on the other. [01:41:11] Speaker C: Mm. [01:41:13] Speaker B: I take one of the ones closest to him on whatever side. [01:41:20] Speaker C: Okay, that's probably not an unimportant clarification. I'm gonna draw myself a little diagram here. So Ogweed is here. Ro is closest on one side. Tello sits furthest from him on the opposite side. So on the side with three, he is the furthest away. Where does everyone else sit? [01:41:40] Speaker D: I sit next to Tella. [01:41:42] Speaker C: Okay, pause. [01:41:46] Speaker E: I sit probably not as close to him as Ro is. Probably next to Ro. [01:41:51] Speaker C: Always sit next to him. Okay. And then Craig will sit closest. Okay, understood. You all, you go to sit down in the chairs. And so of the guards walk up, pull your chairs out for you. You all sit down. They're scooted in behind you. And in front of you is a gorgeous collection of soups, breads, some fruits. That's pretty hard to do at this time of year. There's well smoked goose, and it's just a lavish spread. There are fine champagnes in your glasses. And you will have a roleplay conversation while I go heat up my tea and hope my voice lasts. [01:42:30] Speaker E: Hey, guys. We're having this conversation X part X parte. [01:42:38] Speaker B: Yeah, we talk without the Count. We're just doing like. [01:42:42] Speaker C: Hold on. [01:42:42] Speaker E: Anything we say here, we need to discuss. We in a liminal space. This conversation is taking place in the back rooms. [01:42:49] Speaker B: Yum. [01:42:50] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:42:53] Speaker E: What's your approach gonna be? [01:42:54] Speaker B: I'm gonna test the food I want. What if it's poison? Is my inner monologue. I hope you eat. [01:43:02] Speaker E: Tastes good. If someone makes me poison food, at least have the decency to make it taste delicious before I die. Right. That's my only request. [01:43:10] Speaker B: Rose gonna try to try. She knows. I think she knows that he's account. And she's gonna try to use a little bit of her charismaticness. She's not gonna be cold, you know. [01:43:27] Speaker C: Okay. [01:43:30] Speaker B: Yeah. Because she. She knows the alternative is. Is bad. [01:43:34] Speaker C: So, dear goodness, hope for my voice. That well practiced voice for the Count is going out the window. And we're gonna get what we get. That's okay. [01:43:42] Speaker E: That's okay. [01:43:43] Speaker C: No worries at all. [01:43:44] Speaker B: You got. You got issues. [01:43:46] Speaker E: Are you okay to keep going? We can pause it. [01:43:48] Speaker C: Oh, I am not missing this for the world. Too many months. [01:43:52] Speaker B: We wouldn't do it. [01:43:53] Speaker C: You all sit down in the chairs next to you. You all sit down in the chairs and the Count gets a wide smile over his face, temples, his fingers, and. [01:44:01] Speaker A: Says, I am so very glad that you all could make it. Welcome. Welcome to Castle Wall. Guid. [01:44:14] Speaker C: How was your travel. [01:44:19] Speaker B: Looks to the rest of the party? [01:44:23] Speaker D: It was. It was good. It was nice to see the gap again. [01:44:35] Speaker A: Yes, I imagine it was for you all, wasn't it? You're fond of that place. [01:44:42] Speaker D: I don't make that face. [01:44:44] Speaker C: He picks up his silvered fork and knife, and servants are coming up and placing out your place settings and divvying up portions for you. And he just starts calmly and quietly eating. And he just quietly eats his meal for a couple minutes. Rope the servants leave the room. [01:45:01] Speaker B: Ro give them, like a. Like a warmish smile. Like, you know, like she's. She's using that bard Charm that she doesn't use very often, bro. [01:45:11] Speaker C: As you smile at it, up at him. When he's like, not even looking at you, you smile at him, and as you smile, his eyes just flash up at you and he gives you. [01:45:22] Speaker A: A smile back. [01:45:23] Speaker C: It's just like. It's like confident and a little sinister all at the same time. It's. It's more than like something creepy. It's not trying to impress you at all. It is very certain of itself and very genuinely pleased, very confident. And Greta, with your incredibly high passive perception, Ro would be able to see as well. But her. Her back is to the figure, the minstrel on the other side of the room, who is playing quite well. Her forehead is beaded with sweat, and both Ro and Greta can pick up from all across the room. There's a pretty 40, 60 mix in this room of guards who look very determined in the 40 and the 60 guards who look real nervous, who are keeping it together. And the count just eats quietly for a little bit and dumb. [01:46:18] Speaker B: When. When Ro looks up at him to smile at him, she gestures to all the guards in the room and she kind of says, like, almost trying to be like, like playful, like she's turning on the char. [01:46:34] Speaker C: Just roll that play. Just roll that. [01:46:39] Speaker B: Crap. What was I gonna say? [01:46:41] Speaker A: I don't know, man. [01:46:42] Speaker B: Hold on. Give me a sec. Just one second. [01:46:44] Speaker C: I named this session right? [01:46:52] Speaker B: She. Yeah, she says. So I guess our reputation precedes you. Or were you just worried about us? [01:47:06] Speaker A: I. I've badly inconvenienced you all. I've asked you all the way out here on such a clear thread, such a short time frame. Who would I be? What would this be? [01:47:23] Speaker C: He takes a quick bite of sort of glistening goose. Chews it, swallows it. Very politely, very well mannered. [01:47:29] Speaker A: He says, if I were to waste your time coming all the way out here. No, now, I. I promise this will be eventful. Please take your time. I prepared this dinner for you. I wish you to be fully fed, eat, relax. Then we will speak if you wish to speak. Now, I am perfectly game. But please, it's. It's a hard joke journey up here. Eat. [01:48:05] Speaker C: He continues to eat and drink. [01:48:11] Speaker D: I pitch, but Brett doesn't eat anything. [01:48:16] Speaker C: He doesn't react to it. [01:48:18] Speaker E: Pause. [01:48:18] Speaker A: Eats. [01:48:19] Speaker D: He's not pretending. [01:48:20] Speaker C: Pause. [01:48:21] Speaker A: Breaking Good, dude. [01:48:23] Speaker C: I'm not saying you've never had better of any of these, but it is excellent. Whoever he's chefs and. And kitchen servants are, they're working hard. [01:48:31] Speaker E: His kitchen staff, like he boz, eats like he, like, you can feel the. [01:48:35] Speaker C: Fear in the food. [01:48:37] Speaker E: The fear. I can taste the. [01:48:39] Speaker C: Like. Like some food is made with love. This food was made with fear. [01:48:42] Speaker A: Oh, man. [01:48:43] Speaker E: Why does it taste so good? [01:48:46] Speaker B: I think that's the fear. I think Ro eats as well, but she's very tentative. Like, she. She eats very slowly. Very. [01:48:55] Speaker C: Yeah, it's hard to combat the turn. The knot in your stomach after everyone. And he really does let everyone eat. [01:49:03] Speaker B: I look at Tello. What is. Where's Tello looking right now? [01:49:07] Speaker C: Tello is eating. He is studying the candelabra in front of him very carefully. You can notice that there is a very slight tremor in his hand as it handles his fork, and he has a very thin line of perspiration on his forehead. You also notice he continues to make, like, subconscious peripheral glances toward Greta. And there's no insight check here. You just know him well enough that, like, he's just trying not to, like, fry. And so he's just kind of reminding himself like, greta's there, Greta's there, Greta's there. [01:49:39] Speaker A: He's going through it. [01:49:43] Speaker D: As soon as Greta sees Tello eat, she also. [01:49:47] Speaker C: Okay. He smiles, looking up at you, Greta. [01:49:51] Speaker A: And he says, Ms. Smallstar, are you arch priest now? What is the proper terminology? I don't want to be disrespectful. Curator. Curator. Small Star, please. I promise I did not ask you all the way out here to poison you. Enjoy your food. I'm going to hurt you. All this will be horrid, but your dinner will be excellent today. [01:50:25] Speaker C: He's back in his chair and against the back of the seat, very quietly, little noise at all to it. And he just says. [01:50:34] Speaker A: Today we will. We will enjoy some of the finest, some of the most excellent cuisines and flavors that life can ever offer. They will be bitter. They will have a savory tone that we will remember for a very long time the sweetness of revenge, the sanguine delicacies for bloodied hate. We will enjoy. We will drink of life deeply today. I mean for your dinner to be delicious. I mean for our dealings with each other to be a sharp flavor. Enjoy your food. I've clearly positioned myself favorably here, so allow me to be polite, please. Your questions first. [01:51:47] Speaker C: And he leans back and takes a. [01:51:49] Speaker A: Little sip of his wine, puts it down. [01:51:53] Speaker B: Ro takes a big sip. [01:51:55] Speaker A: Just. [01:51:56] Speaker B: You say we had champagne or wine? [01:51:58] Speaker C: Wine and champagne. [01:52:00] Speaker B: Oh, bro. Takes like a. Like. She drinks half the glass of the champagne. [01:52:07] Speaker C: It's quite. [01:52:08] Speaker B: And she asks. She looks up from eating, and she says, you Said there were other guests. [01:52:18] Speaker A: Yes, there are. [01:52:22] Speaker B: Not to be joining us for dinner? [01:52:25] Speaker A: Not for dinner, no. Perhaps for dessert. Sweet things as well. [01:52:39] Speaker B: Goes back to eating. [01:52:40] Speaker C: No questions. [01:52:41] Speaker A: You've all come so far, so much here. If you all wish to play this coolly cold. I can't say that I don't respect it or that I don't understand, but I'm just going to be honest, a bit vulnerable. I was hoping for more, but. Up to you all. I'll enjoy myself either way. [01:53:10] Speaker B: Were you upset when we didn't open the box? [01:53:15] Speaker A: Yes, of course. Do you think that's a small amount of effort? Yes. Very upset. [01:53:24] Speaker C: Very upset. [01:53:25] Speaker A: You can imagine my additional frustrations when you not only did not open the present I so painstakingly wrapped for you, but also when you went jewelry shopping and closed up my eye. It took quite some time to work. [01:53:48] Speaker C: My way around it. [01:53:50] Speaker A: Now, I believe life is something that we learn from, and that from which we learn must teach us most valuable things we may use. So, yes, I was very upset. I had a first plan for you all. I had no care for you. And then you became important. So I developed a plan. [01:54:15] Speaker C: And he just gestures to Tello, who just kind of fully freezes for a second as the Count raises a hand toward him. [01:54:23] Speaker A: And that plan fell through. So then I developed another. Your gift. And that plan fell through. But that is when you all became truly important to me. [01:54:40] Speaker C: And then we came to this place and on this. I'm cracking my neck. He's not doing that on this side. [01:54:46] Speaker A: Of it all row. I don't regret anything. I think it's all going to be worth it. Thank you for asking. [01:55:05] Speaker B: You know so much about all of us. Why don't you indulge us and tell us a little bit about yourself, Maybe? About what? [01:55:20] Speaker A: Would you like to know? Right, Romana? [01:55:27] Speaker B: Your magic. [01:55:31] Speaker A: What about it? [01:55:34] Speaker B: You tell me. [01:55:37] Speaker A: I am an arcane caster. Well studied, well educated. Long time to work on it. My disciplines are. Zara. I'm a mage of illusion. Divination. [01:55:49] Speaker C: I imagine you could have put that together. [01:55:51] Speaker A: My work in your box, my spying on you all. [01:55:55] Speaker C: He looks at bars real quickly. Bar is years and years ago. Okay? [01:56:00] Speaker A: Years and years ago, your little SCRY would have gotten right by me. These are my practices, my focuses. Of course. [01:56:10] Speaker C: And he kind of smiles at Craig. [01:56:13] Speaker A: I know a bit of the practical. I can put a good char on something. But my focus has mainly in. [01:56:23] Speaker C: Magics. [01:56:23] Speaker A: That support a more grand perspective. I'm a mage. An arcane mage, A Wizard. [01:56:34] Speaker C: As you knew. All the world practiced enough. [01:56:36] Speaker A: You understand that? Tied tongues. [01:56:44] Speaker C: Greta. Nothing to say, Boz you? Nothing else? [01:56:47] Speaker A: This is the fun guys. [01:56:49] Speaker C: From what I've heard, you sent one. [01:56:51] Speaker A: Of Dalgoth's lieutenants running all the way back to the capsule saying fear the fun guys. And this is all you have for me? [01:57:04] Speaker E: I think do pretty forward on what he was trying to do. [01:57:11] Speaker A: That's true. [01:57:12] Speaker E: It made it a little bit easy to respond to. But I think if. If you want us to talk a little bit more, you kind of have to put it in terms that we both can understand. [01:57:27] Speaker B: You did call us. [01:57:28] Speaker A: That's fables. Certainly, certainly, certainly. Well, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't disappointed. But I would bet a few coin you'll have more to say to me later. Or perhaps not. Maybe we'll all speak with our actions. So, fun guys, do you want anything? [01:57:56] Speaker C: I'll announce my terms. [01:57:59] Speaker A: Any requests? [01:58:00] Speaker C: Any thoughts? [01:58:01] Speaker A: I'm being fair. Here's your chance. Here's your opportunity. [01:58:07] Speaker E: I like it. [01:58:07] Speaker C: He gets a liveliness to his tone. He seems to be filled with an energy. Perks up, sits in his chair. [01:58:20] Speaker B: Can I. Yeah, okay, maybe it's just. Maybe it's just me. Player Jackie not quite understanding. Or maybe can I do like an insight check? Like, when he says, what do you want? Does he mean like. Like, is he trying to make a deal or is he like saying before. Like, before we get into it, is there something. [01:58:42] Speaker C: No idea. [01:58:43] Speaker B: Okay. [01:58:44] Speaker C: He's as vague as he is. [01:58:46] Speaker B: Okay, so I'm not like missing something. He's being vague. Okay. [01:58:53] Speaker A: To business. I've enjoyed dinner. I'll spoil myself. Dessert. I am going to hurt you all. And I'm going to hurt you all because you hurt me. Now, as I said, I'm a man who respects a Dion. [01:59:12] Speaker C: He looks at you pointedly bars. [01:59:14] Speaker A: And he says, I honor a contract. Some of what I love about you, Druid. I made an accord with you. [01:59:22] Speaker C: I said that you could join me. [01:59:23] Speaker A: As I said, there will be guests for dessert. But for now, I said that you. [01:59:28] Speaker C: All could join me for dinner. [01:59:29] Speaker A: Your loved ones can. Because you all have come and you came in my time frame. I'd expect nothing less. [01:59:36] Speaker C: I will honor my end. Ro. [01:59:40] Speaker A: Your orphans will all sleep tonight. Their soups will be untouched. [01:59:46] Speaker B: She gives them a the sparrow smile. [01:59:49] Speaker A: Will sleep well or not? Who knows what ire you've earned them from the Empire? Grooboo's father will know another day in his meaningless tiny little life. Today is about you all and me. Us. I'm going to hurt you all because I hate you all. And I'm going to hurt you all because I hate you all because you hurt me. And that's not easy. That's not easy to do. Not because I'm so amazing or so particular, but because clearly I work to remove myself. And it was not careful planning that brought you to me. It was insipid luck. Isn't that the way of it? I think you all know that you stole from me. That is when I became a You took my knife. You've learned as I've learned. You've learned. Since that was intended for the Countess. Arranging that work was a labor of years and that was derailed. I can still accomplish that task, but it will take a good time. Longer now. And I'm patient. But you get tired of being patient, don't you? Then I sent a tool for you all. I don't like being stolen from. But what you took was rightfully mine. [02:01:41] Speaker C: And Tello flinches a little bit and twitches. [02:01:45] Speaker A: He says, I have labored hard for what I possess. But that's the thing. I'm a patient man and what I've lost I tend to regain one way or another. [02:02:10] Speaker C: He just gets a pointed look at Tello, who just sweat starts dripping down his forehead and he's sitting up straight. He can't finish his food or his drink anymore. He's just sitting there, stock still. He looks back to you all. [02:02:25] Speaker A: All of these things were annoying, upsetting. He found my box. Ro. That was obnoxious as well. [02:02:35] Speaker B: We've been called less or more. [02:02:40] Speaker A: Vapid stupid wench. You have no idea how I feel about you, but I will make myself much clearer than words. Please. You came all this way to fall silent, you empty muling quim. [02:02:58] Speaker D: Bretta laughs when like, like stifles a giggle when she when he says all this while way again, absolutely. [02:03:07] Speaker C: You watch as one of the guards across the room, one of the younger men in the room like, twists his pike a little bit and looks like he's halfway on the verge of tears when you laugh and Oguid continues and. [02:03:19] Speaker A: Says, but the real problem is that idiocy is what has guided you all the way to my doorstep. You have become my foremost thorn simply because you are the right tool for the right people at the right time. So do me this one favor. Why doesn't everyone here guess how I'm going to cut your hearts out? And I mean it as a metaphor. How am I going to make you all bleed. Rowana, you are a near with this bleeding heart. An ardent fool who will worship whichever deity tells you that you're pretty and special. Don't you have any cutting remark? Anything? I hate a meal with no flavor, you empty headed, banal dullard. Don't you have anything for me? A cutting word? [02:05:07] Speaker C: There's a slight. Bends his fork under his thumb. [02:05:13] Speaker E: I know. I feel like Micah would have words right now. [02:05:15] Speaker B: Yeah. I wish she was here. [02:05:17] Speaker C: A real bummer she is not here. [02:05:20] Speaker D: I feel like she's building us. I feel like the. [02:05:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:05:23] Speaker C: Anyway, you guys are inside. [02:05:27] Speaker B: Yeah. Rose sits down her fork and kind of goes. I don't know, this is kind of boring. [02:05:47] Speaker A: There you go. Loose the tongue, Bard. Where's the blade? [02:05:54] Speaker B: Well, I mean, I've been called a lot worse and nothing you're saying is really making me that angry. So you might need to try a little harder. [02:06:15] Speaker A: Good. Good. [02:06:18] Speaker B: And she just smiles at him. [02:06:20] Speaker C: He smiles back, not like a goading arrogance, but like there's a fervor, a. [02:06:25] Speaker A: Joy in his eyes. And he says, good. I want the words to sour in your mouth later. Greta. [02:06:39] Speaker D: It really was a terribly arduous journey. I can't tell you how many hours we spent on the road. But this is such a beautiful hall. I deeply appreciate you hosting us. [02:06:53] Speaker A: The beautiful bot is that at the end of today, Walter's blood will be the least on your hands. You're going to paint the walls. [02:07:11] Speaker D: The yawns Frederick. [02:07:16] Speaker E: No. My name's Boz. [02:07:19] Speaker A: If any of these fine individuals lay a finger upon me, what is your consequence? [02:07:29] Speaker C: And a young freckled man from across the room pipes up and says, I. [02:07:34] Speaker A: Will not live, sir. Then he smiles and he says, yes, but Frederick, if any of them survive this dinner, what will happen to your children? [02:07:53] Speaker C: And he just like takes a hard swallow, furrows his brow and says. [02:08:01] Speaker A: It'S a long way down the cliff, my lord. The Count smiles and he says, yes, yes, Ro. I want you to know that they would not be able to fill the orphanage with the children that you will put at the bottom of this cliff. I just want you to know that. And every night as you try to sleep, I just want you to tell yourself, this is all I want. As you remember my boring, boring memory. Wouldn't your mother be proud of who you are? Of lineage she passed to you. Boz. Anything sharp? You're the only one here with half a brain. [02:08:57] Speaker E: Oh, thank you. [02:08:59] Speaker C: You are. You're smart. I've looked forward to you for quite some time. [02:09:03] Speaker A: Time. [02:09:05] Speaker E: I, I mean, I, I think, I assume I know where, where dinner's going, but before it gets there, man, I, I, I am sorry that we took that knife and Let me finish the thought because I promise I'm not trying to delay. [02:09:22] Speaker A: Please, please. [02:09:25] Speaker E: I'm sure you know what the knife does and, and I actually stumbled upon it chasing somebody that had stolen something from me that was precious to me. [02:09:35] Speaker C: Beautiful. [02:09:36] Speaker E: So I understand. I understand how you feel, and I'm genuinely sorry. So I don't think that changes anything tonight. But I hope that no matter what happens, that you probably will carve our hearts out or kill us. I, I hope it is satisfactory, no matter what. [02:10:02] Speaker C: Boz, could you, could you roll me a charisma check of your choice? [02:10:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:10:11] Speaker C: What do you want it to be, man? [02:10:21] Speaker E: Charisma check my choice. [02:10:23] Speaker B: Aren't you good at Persuasion? [02:10:25] Speaker E: Yeah. My best is a plus 11, which is persuasion. [02:10:28] Speaker C: Know that this isn't a DC. There's no determined. There's no branch tree here. I want you in role play to make whichever choice you feel is most appropriate to try and just affect. [02:10:38] Speaker E: I think it'd probably be Persuasion. [02:10:40] Speaker A: Okay. [02:10:40] Speaker E: I don't know if empathy was a check. I feel like it would be that one. [02:10:44] Speaker B: But check. [02:10:47] Speaker C: That's not the heart of the people who made this game. [02:10:51] Speaker E: That is a 25. [02:10:57] Speaker C: You watch for just a second, Boz, as his smile just flickers a moment, just, just for a moment, rolls over into a frustration and then moves back to a smile. [02:11:08] Speaker A: And he says, thank you, boss. I will. Boz. All I'll say to you is that I hate you. But I hate you as my equal. Your breed is rare. I have had. I don't know. [02:11:31] Speaker C: And he looks at you. [02:11:32] Speaker A: Row how many Rowan is at my table. They are a dime a dozen and an age. But you, he looks back to boss. You only come around every once in a while. He looks again at Ro. I get tired of playing Beggar's Hope with folks. [02:11:52] Speaker C: Back to boss. [02:11:52] Speaker A: It's nice to play some chess. Craig. [02:11:58] Speaker C: He turns to Craig really quickly. [02:12:02] Speaker A: There's no work your level do that will repair the distance between you and your wife, certainly. But you and your son? Never. Because it's not about what you've done. It's about who you are. And who you are is an example that could only ever disappoint him. You simple, stupid failure. [02:12:33] Speaker B: You know, it really is. [02:12:44] Speaker C: What Abby. [02:12:45] Speaker B: Wrote in the chat. Hold on. [02:12:51] Speaker C: It's tough. Now you're in my shoes. Welcome to. [02:12:53] Speaker B: Yeah, look, you know it really is quite pathetic how obsessed you are with five people that you deem so lowly. [02:13:12] Speaker A: Rowan, you have no idea. I think of you. I dream of you. [02:13:19] Speaker C: Today it will. [02:13:20] Speaker B: Lots of people do. [02:13:21] Speaker A: Tomorrow you will know. And the day after. And the day after just how much I hate you. You think I'm here to make you feel small. No, Rowan. This is my love letter to you. Obsessed. I'm enthralled. I can't stop thinking of you all. If love and hate were two sides of another knife, this would be my passion. You have no idea how much I love to hate you. But it will become clearer and clearer and clearer. I'm not better than you. I'm here for you. You resonant empty gong. Everything you have ever said were made hollow just by the passage of time. Please, Ro, no more empty insults. Say something from your heart, I beg of you. You generational disappointment. And he's just fixed on you. [02:14:44] Speaker C: He's panting in his place. He's losing, like his cool. [02:14:52] Speaker A: Well, Ron. [02:14:59] Speaker B: I've had stalkers that were better power poets than you. And she blows him a kiss. She goes. [02:15:11] Speaker A: I'm going to pull your heart from your chest. And you think you know what that feels like because you sat in the dark longing for a mother. But you've no idea. Because a lot loss of what you've never had is no loss at all. [02:15:36] Speaker E: And he looks to Greta, marry someone named Sirloin Crotch. So I don't know that's. [02:15:40] Speaker C: He looks to Greta kind of transfixed. [02:15:42] Speaker A: And he says, you're the only one here who knows that feeling. However long Master Dudley lives, he will live in the delusion that he's never lost it when he already has. Rowena is too far, too simply stupid to know that she's never felt it. Baals. You live in the constant terror of losing it. But you, Greta, you've known that feeling. And the only thing left that you fear is going back to that dark forest. I'm here to make it clear that what you have enjoyed this last year has been a brief delusion that you ever left. [02:16:32] Speaker D: Have you lost it? Have you been. Did we. [02:16:37] Speaker A: Have you been in the dark holes again and again? [02:16:45] Speaker C: We can't hear you, Abby. [02:16:46] Speaker D: That didn't pick up what put you there. [02:16:56] Speaker A: Position. I don't need you to understand. It has nothing to do with our relationship. [02:17:12] Speaker C: You're still inaudible. [02:17:13] Speaker E: If we. [02:17:14] Speaker D: Okay. [02:17:14] Speaker C: If we what? [02:17:16] Speaker E: If what? If we have a. A quick agreement that if we get you monologue, we promise not to take advantage of it. If we're just curious. [02:17:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:17:25] Speaker D: Please, we're here to listen. [02:17:28] Speaker B: What did you say, Landon? [02:17:30] Speaker E: Boss, I said, what if we have an agreement that if we get you monologuing, we promise not to take advantage of it. If we're just curious. [02:17:40] Speaker C: The only. [02:17:41] Speaker D: I don't want to be so vain as to imagine that we put you into the forest, so I would love to. [02:17:46] Speaker A: No, no, you might. You might. By the end of today, you might take me back to that dog. Please. [02:17:53] Speaker B: Although. All of this for just because someone stole a little toy of yours. [02:17:59] Speaker A: No, now. You don't understand now, but you will. [02:18:03] Speaker C: That's. [02:18:04] Speaker A: That's the good part. Ro, Isn't dinner disappointing? Like I said, it's dessert. At the end, all of this will make sense. Every last word I've said. All of the things that taste so good in your mouth right now are going to sour and spoil later. [02:18:24] Speaker E: I feel like the biggest mistake we made when we. When we fought d is that he never got a chance to say anything. And I felt like he wanted to so badly. And I regret. I wish. I wish I could have heard it. And so I'm always. [02:18:42] Speaker D: They have a story. [02:18:43] Speaker E: I'm very curious. I'd love to hear. [02:18:46] Speaker A: That's the best part. Boss. Now we're done. [02:18:51] Speaker C: And he pushes his plate slightly away from himself. [02:18:53] Speaker A: And he says, now. [02:18:56] Speaker C: Now. [02:18:56] Speaker A: I really tell you, it will start small and it will grow. And everything I say from here, I say without words. So Craig, Raoul. Pause. [02:19:11] Speaker C: And he sits up in his chair and he just pulls the lapels of his cloak back a little bit so that his chest is slightly opposed, slightly exposed. [02:19:19] Speaker A: And he says, say something first. Say something without words. First. Strike me. I'm going to strike you first. Go. Go ahead. Remember, take too long and I'll go first. This is it. Your first word. Have at it. And he smiles just half manically. [02:19:47] Speaker D: I'm not here to hurt you. [02:19:50] Speaker A: You will be. It's okay. Decline. [02:19:56] Speaker B: What? What were the. Just because all is fair and excellent. [02:20:03] Speaker C: War nods to one of the guards at the side of the room. [02:20:07] Speaker B: What? [02:20:07] Speaker C: And that guard, like, closes their eyes and winces. And he just shouts in common now. And from upstairs, you just hear a hot, wet, slick sound, like a. And you just hear someone's. Someone go. [02:20:27] Speaker A: And then there's a thud on the floor. And he says, that was your wine taster. [02:20:40] Speaker C: And he puts his palms on the table, face up. [02:20:42] Speaker A: And he says, please, someone, say something. Say something without words. Get it started. I'm hungry for dessert. Stable Girls next. No. [02:21:10] Speaker C: He looks to the guard. The guard sighs again. And he's like his. His lip is quivering. He's like not quite ready to speak. And the captain, just like where he won't speak, gets a frustrated look, nods to the count and shouts now. And there is again a sound from upstairs. And you don't hear a sound this time. Like there's no like vocal following. But there's a heavy thud as from the spiral staircase. A body just rolls off the edge of the staircase and smashes to the floor. And it's like a early 20s woman with a deep red gash in her chest, blood spilling everywhere. One of her limbs broke when she attacked the bottom of the floor. [02:21:55] Speaker A: And he says, please, I'm waiting. [02:22:01] Speaker B: You said if we touch you, though Frederick. She gestures to Frederick. Dies. [02:22:10] Speaker A: Yes. It's your better outcome. [02:22:15] Speaker E: We really like Frederick, so we'd prefer. [02:22:17] Speaker A: Him to be lif. That's fine. That's fine. I have an entire castle's worth of staff and they're replaceable. [02:22:25] Speaker D: All the respect someone. That blood that you spill is this. I. I don't. I failing to understand how this blood is on our hands. Don't under. Like, I'm not upset for this loss or I am upset losses. [02:22:47] Speaker A: But do you know what all the homes in Treloch are made of? The roofs of thatch. Fire arrows are phenomenal. Strike me or it's the homes next. [02:23:06] Speaker E: Jackie. Jackie figured out. Jackie posted in the chat. Zach figured out how to do the trolley problem and D and D also. [02:23:14] Speaker C: I just want to interject really quickly, guys. I'm so sorry. I promise this is one of the most awful things I'll ever do. I won't get darker than this. [02:23:20] Speaker B: Oh, I love it. [02:23:22] Speaker C: Continuing. And he just smiles. [02:23:24] Speaker B: He says, what was it that he said last? [02:23:26] Speaker A: He said you have two more servants. And then the houses start to burn. It's a lot of kids, but don't worry, the blood will be on my hands. So anyone want to strike? [02:23:43] Speaker B: Ro. Ro looks at Boz and Greta. [02:23:52] Speaker C: Tello's eyes are fully shut and tears are like kind of moving down his nose. And he's just put his hands underneath the table. Greta, you can see next to you, his hands are on the hilts of blades, but he's clearly with waiting for. [02:24:03] Speaker B: You all road looks to Boz and. [02:24:06] Speaker C: Greta and he like holds up a hand of the captain, but waits with. [02:24:12] Speaker B: Bated breath and takes a deep breath and then. [02:24:16] Speaker E: Okay, well. [02:24:18] Speaker B: Grabs her loot. [02:24:20] Speaker C: Wait, wait. [02:24:21] Speaker B: I'm gonna. [02:24:22] Speaker A: Okay. [02:24:23] Speaker C: Jackie, are you doing something because you have the right to do that. [02:24:26] Speaker B: Okay. [02:24:27] Speaker C: Okay. [02:24:28] Speaker D: I'm somebody on. [02:24:33] Speaker C: Excellent. That's happening as Ro does. What? No row. You were doing something. Don't let someone stop you. [02:24:43] Speaker B: She. She takes her loot around and I mean just actually hold on, let me try to do it simultaneously. [02:24:52] Speaker C: Like if you saw Greta starting to spell cast, you might be able to stop. I don't want to. I don't want to railroad you. So you start to pull around your route. You. You loot. You watch as the smile broadens on his face. Greta, what do you do? More decid. [02:25:05] Speaker D: I. I say something. I. I start to like as I speak words and like many of the different tongues that I know come out of my mouth and it's like switching between all of the languages and I imagine. Is he a human? [02:25:29] Speaker C: He appears to be. [02:25:31] Speaker D: Okay. He. I like am cycling through what Fred is actually thinking about him. She's like talking about how blah, blah, blah, you know. And so like in all the different languages she knows, like mixed in with the incantations of the spell, she's like telling the truth about how she feels about him and just like rubbing like her. Her face like this. [02:25:57] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:25:58] Speaker D: And it like a 15 foot radius. So basically the whole excellent room and everybody has to make a charisma saving throw. [02:26:10] Speaker C: You. You speak those tongues and as the green flourishes, it's like script, illusory script of truths rise up around him and surround him. And as they do, he just sort of smiles. And it looks like for some reason it's not having a lot of effect on him. [02:26:28] Speaker A: And he just continues and he says, is that it? [02:26:33] Speaker C: He raises his finger a little higher. [02:26:39] Speaker A: No one else. [02:26:42] Speaker B: So it did it. So that's all it. [02:26:43] Speaker C: It appears not to have affected him in any way. [02:26:46] Speaker D: It appears not to have affected him. [02:26:49] Speaker E: Truth says that you know, if they fail or succeed their throw. [02:26:53] Speaker C: But I can tell that it has had no effect. [02:26:58] Speaker D: Yeah, he didn't even roll the throw. He didn't even. [02:27:00] Speaker C: It seems like it didn't. Yeah, it seems like there was no resistance of the magic. It seems like the magic didn't take hold. [02:27:08] Speaker A: Finger. [02:27:10] Speaker B: So when Ro sees that it didn't do anything. Like when she looks to Greta and looks back to him, she. [02:27:18] Speaker A: Oh God. [02:27:19] Speaker B: I don't. I don't know if this is a horrible move on. Yeah, okay. She takes. She takes. [02:27:25] Speaker C: I hope that wasn't mean. [02:27:26] Speaker B: No, it wasn't mean. You're fine. It's. She takes songs, glitter. [02:27:33] Speaker C: Okay. [02:27:34] Speaker B: And she strums A chord. And she casts. Hold on. Sorry, let me get my. The spell my. So I can mark it off. She casts cry the old song directly at his. Like. At his like. Like it goes directly into his, like, chest is where she's aiming. Even though that's not exactly how the spell works. [02:28:07] Speaker C: But I don't care. Describe it for me. [02:28:10] Speaker B: She just strums like, a couple notes. And as she. As she does it, she kind of just sings a few notes in that. In that old song tongue. Kind of like how Greta did, where it's like the. The different maker, you know, like the weird multiple voices. And as she does it, it says to enemy people. But I think Roe would. And let me know if this is allowed. But I don't think ro would count because it's creatures within a 60 foot radius spear that are enemies. I don't think she would count any of the. [02:28:52] Speaker C: You can fully determine that. [02:28:54] Speaker B: Like, she is just counting him. [02:28:57] Speaker C: She's not counting the rest that your allies take. [02:29:02] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Also gain three D8 temporary hit points. [02:29:08] Speaker C: So go ahead and roll that. I promise. We're about to wrap up, folks. [02:29:13] Speaker B: So you guys get. Oh, nice. You guys gain an extra 12 hit points. [02:29:22] Speaker C: Okay, guys, add on your 12 row as you stand up from your chair, whip song splitter apart or around and go. And then just, like, let out that incredible note that pierces everything. You watch as all the guards in the room, like, lower their weapons at you all and look concerned, like, startled. And the. The count is, like, pushed back into his chair. And you watch him sort of, like, wince. [02:29:56] Speaker B: Crap. [02:30:01] Speaker C: And the dead woman at the side of the stairs just disappears. Her illusion melted. [02:30:09] Speaker A: And he says, don't worry, the arrows are real. [02:30:13] Speaker C: And he just melts from the chair. His illusion faded. And I need all of you all to roll initiative as all the guards in the room pull out their swords and begin walking towards toward you. And this will be the last thing we do in this section. O dang. [02:30:38] Speaker E: He was trying to goat us. That's why I wasn't gonna attack him. He's our biggest attacks right there. [02:30:45] Speaker A: Oh, let's see. [02:30:46] Speaker E: I got a. I got an 18. Oh, I'm gonna use my per DM. That's a D4, right? [02:30:53] Speaker C: Yes. [02:30:54] Speaker D: Oh, I'm gonna use My2. [02:30:57] Speaker E: I rolled and. [02:30:59] Speaker C: Go ahead and roll, Fratella. We'll get Craig next time. [02:31:02] Speaker E: I rolled an 18. [02:31:04] Speaker D: Okay. I got a dirty 20. [02:31:07] Speaker B: Also got a dirty 20. [02:31:09] Speaker C: Wow, guys, good initiatives. [02:31:12] Speaker B: So what does that mean if we both rolled the same thing? It's one. [02:31:18] Speaker D: I have a two. What's your dexterity, bro? [02:31:21] Speaker B: Plus one. [02:31:22] Speaker D: Oh, sorry, you already said that. [02:31:24] Speaker B: So you're. You're ahead. [02:31:27] Speaker D: Hello. Got a nat. [02:31:28] Speaker E: How often can you do Cry the old song. [02:31:32] Speaker C: Until we got a nat. 20. [02:31:34] Speaker B: I can do it one more time, but then I wouldn't be able to teleport, so that was a really dumb move of me. [02:31:42] Speaker C: What's his. What's his total again? [02:31:47] Speaker D: 24. [02:31:48] Speaker B: I have a lot of other spells. [02:31:51] Speaker C: Okay, why didn't I. And okay, 24. I just wrote 24 for Craig. That's not correct. No, give. Give Craig a 24 and the soldiers get. Okay, understood. We will pick back up with that next time. That is going to be the end of episode 140. 49. Dinner with the Devil, guys. Oh, on the verge of throwing up the whole time. Not because of my throat from the stress. I him. [02:32:35] Speaker D: You deserved all that gassiness. [02:32:38] Speaker B: Yeah. Can I just say before to the listeners and to y', all, I'm very angry at myself because I literally was reading a book the other day where the exact thing happened. Someone was using illusory magic to pretend that they were there and goading the protagonist into blasting all their magic at them, and then they vaporized away. And I literally fell for the thing that I thought, that's so stupid that they did that in the book. So I just want to say that. [02:33:16] Speaker C: Jackie, I'll admire your honesty my whole life. [02:33:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:33:22] Speaker C: Oh, guys. Okay, I need to get this out of the way. 0.03 XP. Nobody fought anybody, but no. Excuse me. Zero point. No, 0.05. I gave 0.02 for the shop stuff that Boz did, which was awesome. Let's all transport ourselves back to that magical part of the session where everything was so positive. [02:33:46] Speaker D: I'm so confused. [02:33:50] Speaker C: We're going to stop here in a second. I just want to say really, really, really, really, really, really, really quickly that I'm so sorry. I hate him so much, and I feel so icky and gross when I play him. And, you know, if I genuinely hurt anyone's feelings, please let me know. [02:34:10] Speaker B: But you did not. [02:34:12] Speaker D: I'm like, genuinely. [02:34:13] Speaker C: He's one of those. He's one of those characters I play. When I play him, the whole time, my heart is going and I feel queasy to my stomach. [02:34:21] Speaker B: Oh, I love to hate him. [02:34:22] Speaker C: He's great since Mercy. [02:34:24] Speaker D: No, Jackie, you'll just like him. He loves to hate us. I'm genuinely so confused. [02:34:30] Speaker C: On that note, listener, if you guys haven't Wait. [02:34:33] Speaker B: We're in. We're at 13.905. [02:34:37] Speaker C: 13.95. [02:34:38] Speaker D: Pretty big deals. [02:34:40] Speaker B: Oh, I'm so dumb. I hate myself. [02:34:43] Speaker C: Life is an incredible adventure. You're an important part of it. Holy crap. Are we in for a session? Next time. Skibidi Watten Dara.