Crawling Through the Cracks

[00:00:01] Speaker A: Welcome back to Bailey D and D, your sort of Dungeons and Dragons podcast. It's your boy, Danny. [00:00:07] Speaker B: Okay. [00:00:08] Speaker C: And do we sound better? [00:00:09] Speaker B: We're two episodes in, in our roll, listeners. [00:00:11] Speaker D: Listeners, do we sound better? [00:00:12] Speaker B: It's two episodes in a row that you've gone. Welcome back to your sort of Dungeons and Dragons podcast. It's your boy. And I don't know if you think this is gonna keep happening or something like that. [00:00:20] Speaker C: Money in the pocket and the horses in the bag. [00:00:25] Speaker A: It's a one shot with me, ya boy. [00:00:30] Speaker D: Do we sound better, listeners? [00:00:33] Speaker B: It's because we're better. [00:00:34] Speaker A: Now can everyone answer Abby's questions? [00:00:38] Speaker B: If we sound better, it's because we're now better. We got better. We fixed us. [00:00:42] Speaker D: Listener, I'm sorry. If you can hear me chew now. [00:00:45] Speaker C: No, I. I can't. [00:00:46] Speaker B: All you have to do is just sit back. [00:00:47] Speaker A: You don't need to get up your mouth. [00:00:49] Speaker B: Abby, we've said this like. Close your mouth, [00:00:53] Speaker D: listener. [00:00:56] Speaker C: If you don't know by now. It's. It's. It's Zach, Daniel, Abby and Jackie here at the table. [00:01:03] Speaker B: Why do we have we are two energy right now? [00:01:05] Speaker C: We are in person today, as you could not tell. [00:01:08] Speaker B: But then why is the audio good, Jackie? [00:01:10] Speaker D: The audio is so good. Jackie. [00:01:12] Speaker C: We have some new recording equipment for in person. [00:01:22] Speaker B: Okay. No, but yeah, sorry, Jackie, you were saying? [00:01:25] Speaker C: I broke my pin. [00:01:29] Speaker B: We got listener. If you're thinking it sounds so nostalgic. The audio's so high quality. It's because we got a P8 again and I don't. Maybe the patrons are paying attention. Years ago, we used to have a P8 for the first. [00:01:39] Speaker C: Basically we have. We have good recording equipment for when [00:01:43] Speaker B: we're in prison, which we used to have a long time ago. And we've gone all the way back to. We went ahead and got another one, man. What was that like episode 60 or 50 that we quit using it? Maybe 40. [00:01:54] Speaker C: Girl, I don't know. No, it was later than that. [00:01:57] Speaker A: Come on. [00:01:57] Speaker C: Well, but I mean, no, episode 100 was in person. [00:02:02] Speaker B: Yeah, but I feel like we came back together for that. [00:02:06] Speaker A: I don't know, because it's. [00:02:07] Speaker B: Think about the majority of the campaign's been at this anyway. It doesn't matter now. This isn't going to be all the time. When we play at distant sessions, it'll still be. But I mean, the audio is not bad. But when we're in person, from now on, we have a high quality setup. [00:02:18] Speaker C: We have some interesting stuff coming for after campaign one and campaign two. There will be some new logistics of recording for you guys. You guys don't care. [00:02:34] Speaker A: All right. [00:02:36] Speaker B: No, I was just doing that to the voice. [00:02:38] Speaker C: Also, I'm me, Jackie. Hi. I'm running the soundboard, and I'm. If there's a. If there's some bad. If there's some bad issues with some. Some music or something that. And it's scary. That's because I accidentally hit a button. So I apologize. [00:02:53] Speaker B: Now me, Zach. All right. [00:02:57] Speaker A: Less words do trick. [00:02:59] Speaker B: And I think why use Lawward when few word do trick? They see. They see. All right. Fwick and fwic. Let's get into it. Listener. [00:03:07] Speaker A: Oh, sure. [00:03:08] Speaker B: Durn goal. If you want to. If you want to go get on. Oh, wait, wait. You probably have that as part of your information, how it connects to the future. Do you want to say anything with that? [00:03:17] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. [00:03:18] Speaker B: Okay, okay. [00:03:18] Speaker A: So shizzle meals got. [00:03:19] Speaker B: I'll let the DM do his thing now. [00:03:22] Speaker C: I'm just kidding. [00:03:23] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. Calm down. So the people who are playing, except for Zach, because Zach's having a baby. Oh, yeah. [00:03:31] Speaker B: I was like, what are we talking about? And then I realized, oh, the thing [00:03:33] Speaker A: I just told you between the two campaigns. Daniel. Me. Me, Daniel. Will. [00:03:40] Speaker B: Guys, this is gonna be a mess of a session. [00:03:42] Speaker A: Will be running a little tiny campaign for the peoples. And this is kind of the beginning of those characters into the campaign to set them up for success. Obviously, nothing bad. [00:03:56] Speaker C: Is that going to. [00:03:57] Speaker D: I feel like it's bad. [00:03:59] Speaker A: I said something bad, though. [00:04:00] Speaker B: Abby die. [00:04:01] Speaker D: I don't know. I feel like something bad is coming. [00:04:04] Speaker B: Imagine, like, we get to the end. [00:04:05] Speaker D: I'm so far away from the microphone. [00:04:07] Speaker B: No, you're. It's good no matter what happens at the end. I just have to have cardiac arrest or something. We just got to the end. [00:04:13] Speaker A: I'm like, yeah, but since he's here, we'll play with him. Anyway. So if you don't know, my plane is called Megaengrund. Oh, oh, okay. I thought there was gonna be a question. [00:04:24] Speaker B: We can put a map up on Patreon. [00:04:26] Speaker A: Yeah, a mappy map. [00:04:28] Speaker B: Which listener. You should get the Patreon. [00:04:30] Speaker A: So we're gonna be playing in Megagrund. It is a plane because no one knows it's a world. It is a plane. And the world were the. The plane of Megan Grund has been for years fighting between giants and the small folk. And small folk are basically all humanoid races and non humanoid races who live on the plane against the giants. There was a spectacular War that ensued for many years only because some people back in the day brought dragons to the plane so the small folk could have a chance against giants. And so 150 year war was launched and they eventually became a peace treaty. And we are now 149 years from the peace treaty. If you have listened to many of our other one shots in Megan Grun, this will be two years probably before any of them, except for possibly one that was probably done Christmas a long time ago was probably in the same year as this one. But we have no way to know that and can't figure it out. So you just gotta take my word for it. Okay, these fine folks, one might say adventurers of some sort are going to go through the one shot which is going to be called crawling through the cracks. [00:05:51] Speaker B: Oh, new name since last time. [00:05:53] Speaker A: Okay, it's going to have crawling though. Anyway. Hey, bud. [00:05:58] Speaker B: What? [00:06:00] Speaker A: Yeah, you'll figure that out. [00:06:02] Speaker B: Anyway. [00:06:03] Speaker E: Laughed and it made me fart. [00:06:06] Speaker C: This is why no one said by you, Zach. [00:06:10] Speaker A: Oh, it's not good. It's not good. It is the 20th of Hetier. [00:06:18] Speaker B: Okay, Whoa. Okay. [00:06:20] Speaker A: H E I T R or high tier? Hey, tier mini. I don't know, dude. It's your thing. 322 APO which as we all know means after playing our openings. Yeah. Good job everyone. Everyone knew. Everyone understood. And just being a little Turk. [00:06:38] Speaker B: Is it crawl? You said crawling through the cracks. [00:06:40] Speaker A: Crawling through the cracks is the one shot. Yes, it is. Because the last time we did one, [00:06:45] Speaker B: we also did a crawling. [00:06:46] Speaker A: Maybe think of the the song Crawling through the cracks. Slipping through the cracks. [00:06:52] Speaker D: I don't know, I thought the Linkin park song. [00:06:57] Speaker A: I think ours is Skillet Skillet. These fine folks who we will all meet in just a second are in the cesspool city of Doi Colo. The nervous and trepidatious inductees to derues dastards, a well known crime syndicate on the plane of Engran, but never truly seen or heard of in ways that weren't like boogeyman tellings of terrible things that would happen to specific cities or specific towns. These fine adventures here are trying to be inducted into that organization. That is what these three people want to do. They have been each given a coin. The two gnomes which we will get to eventually have been given a coin with two symbols on it. It's a golden coin. It's quite small and it has on one side. It's a good one. It's not a big deal. Not a big deal, Zach. On one side is A like, almost face of a gorgon with all the little snakes coming out of the head of the creature. And on the other side is the. Like a tree rustling in the wind is on one side. And these are given to the gnome. The non gnome has been given a coin similar, but not extremely on one side of the coin for the other person is. Let me think if I can remember it off the top of my head. There it is. Is the face of a what for us just be able to see it is a mind flayer. A. A creature with tentacles coming out of its mouth with this terrible head across it. On the other side is like an elven face with like a Phantom of the Opera mask and the little, like, elven ear coming out of it. And you've been given these coins and through the coins have been communicated with. With various people telling you to meet at doi Colon at the Roaring Jester tavern on the 20th high tier. And so you have get up off of that thing. You have traversed from the south, from the east, from the north, all these ways down to the southwest part of the plain in doi color. And I guess I don't really like talking a whole lot, so I really want to get it back to y'. [00:09:34] Speaker E: All. [00:09:35] Speaker A: So I'm going to say I'm going to. [00:09:36] Speaker B: Do you want us to put on any music? Dm? [00:09:38] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, you can do music. That'd be good. [00:09:44] Speaker B: And also chibble. Can you put on some mood dick? [00:09:48] Speaker A: I'll give you a very basic description. You're gonna be in a tavern with a whole bunch of people. And then I will describe the tavern in more detail after I have let y' all speak for a little bit, because I don't. Oh, she had the face of fear on her. [00:10:03] Speaker B: And then you could turn it down a little. Yeah, yeah, right about there. That's pretty good freaking FWIC jibble. [00:10:09] Speaker A: It's a loud environment that you're in, so there's lots of people and lots of. Hey, that's my foot. Yeah, that kind of stuff. And there is a raucous piano playing with very loud music and a very loud singer and also some very loud singing entourage that maybe shouldn't be singing. And so in this place, let's each introduce our characters. Zach shall go first. [00:10:36] Speaker B: Okay. [00:10:37] Speaker A: All right. [00:10:39] Speaker B: As I described, my guy dum. Is there anywhere. Man, it's so trippy to be talking into the mic with the P8 again. It's crazy to hear even little variations in breath in my voice. That audio is high quality. [00:10:52] Speaker C: Where Are we on the map? [00:10:54] Speaker B: You said southwest, so it's right north of Everdale. North, yeah. Doi colon, right there. [00:11:00] Speaker C: Oh, it's literally in front of my face. Thank you. [00:11:07] Speaker B: Like, am I just walking in? [00:11:09] Speaker A: Have I been in here for a while? I would say you have been in here for a while. Just sipping on tea instead of giving it to you or that you have ordered. [00:11:16] Speaker B: I've tried to sit as much on my own as I can. [00:11:20] Speaker A: Sure. [00:11:22] Speaker B: I'm a gnome, a small little gnome guy. And I've got sort of like, I'm very pale. Like, you know, when people are unfortunately white, I'm like real white. Like, oh, he should get out in the sun. And I am, I'm young for. I'm young, ish. Looking for a gnome. An adult. But I don't look middle aged. I look, I have the visual appearance of being kind of in my 20s. And is this a table also over here? [00:11:53] Speaker A: Yep. [00:11:54] Speaker B: I'll be alone at that one. And. But I'm bald in the middle of my head and I have like that ring of hair the way that someone would when they're losing their hair. And I have intentionally cut my hair that way. So I've, I've, I've. The middle of my head is bald and I have that bowl of hair going around which is like a, like a. Not platinum blonde, but real, real, real, real blonde. And then it tapers down into kind of like an unfortunate bunch in the back because I can't quite cut it well and I don't care enough to do so. And then the hair moves down into kind of like mutton chops on the side of my face which gets pretty bushy. And then I just have a tremendously large handlebar mustache but nothing in the middle. And I'm wearing these like large kind of like spectacles and they're framed with brass and they're hooked back tightly over my ears, kind of pushing into my face a little bit. I have a big old nose. Think like Rankin and Bass characters kind of big, big nose. And I've got light hazel eyes. And I'm wearing. I have studded leather armor, but it's draped over by all these robes that are kind of meant. They're kept quite clean. And the two tones of color are like tan and then like a heather green. And I have these traveling boots and a pack on me and I have an over traveling cloak and I have many. I have like a bag of tools with me and I have a belt around my waist and it looks like I have Many traveling compartments and pieces to it that you can't see past the cloak. But I have a little leather bandolier going across my chest, and there's a number of, like, glass vials stopped with different fluid. Not the most vibrant colors, but, like, different viscosities and tones to them that are stopped with metal caps or, like, cork ones all going down. And I have a little journal, and I have a little quill and ink, and I'm just scratching away with a quill, and I stop and look around the room, and I'm, like, rolling my eyes haughtily every so once in a while. And then I go back to scribbling, and I've quietly got. Oh, I don't know what drink I would have selected. I don't want just ale. I probably would have gone for something like a honey mead. [00:14:11] Speaker A: It's dragonfire mead. [00:14:12] Speaker B: Ooh, I've gotten some dragonfire mead, and I have just a little bit. And I'm just sipping on it out of a glass. Every once in a while, I huff at someone else, and I'm just scribbling in my notes. [00:14:20] Speaker A: Okay, we transition to see a little different sight as we transition to Jackie's character. Where art thou in this conglomeration of people? [00:14:33] Speaker C: Okay, let's see. That's the bar over here, right? [00:14:37] Speaker A: Yeah, this is the bar. [00:14:38] Speaker C: I think my character would be sitting at the bar. [00:14:40] Speaker A: Zach, can you grab that? [00:14:43] Speaker C: Could you put me at the bar, please? [00:14:46] Speaker A: Is that a good spot? Do you want to be in different spots? [00:14:48] Speaker C: I'd probably be sitting away from people. Like, in the middle of. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, right there. [00:14:52] Speaker B: Right there. [00:14:52] Speaker A: The corner. [00:14:53] Speaker D: In the corner. [00:14:54] Speaker C: Did you say a foreigner in the corner? [00:14:56] Speaker D: No, I said in the corner. [00:14:58] Speaker B: You heard it here. [00:14:59] Speaker A: Abby's xenophobic. [00:15:01] Speaker B: It took four and a half years, but we got her. [00:15:04] Speaker C: Got him. So my character is a corvum. [00:15:13] Speaker A: So excited. I love cor, which, if you don't [00:15:15] Speaker C: know, they look like a crow. Raven, Humanoid for the listeners. I know you guys know. [00:15:25] Speaker D: I didn't know. [00:15:26] Speaker C: She is about, like, 29, so. So she's. So she looks like. I mean, she looks like what a human would be. Like late 20s, right? Like, it's about the same as, like, a human age. Like, as far as the scaling, I [00:15:46] Speaker A: think they age just a bit faster. [00:15:48] Speaker C: Yeah, that's what I think. [00:15:49] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:15:50] Speaker B: So you're also a bird, so. [00:15:52] Speaker C: Yeah, you know, so one of not [00:15:55] Speaker A: many in this spot. [00:15:56] Speaker C: Okay. So she has, like, her black feathers and all. They almost look like, like, Oil slick, like where it kind of like the sheen in it. And she has like dark blue silvery eyes kind of. And she's wearing hide leather or hide armor. But it's also like she has kind of like her hood is kind of like a little bit up. It's not fully up, but it's a little bit up. She has like some like coats on and everything and kind of the look of like what you would see like a sailor or something. [00:16:36] Speaker B: Oh, cool. [00:16:38] Speaker C: Kind of piratey. [00:16:40] Speaker A: Okay. [00:16:40] Speaker C: So she's got this like flowy jacket and she has some rings on and on her little talons. And she's kind of scarred up on her face. Like there's a scar going down one side of her face beside her eye. And she has a few spots like on her arms and everything where there's like some feathers out and everything. And one part of her head is like kind of like shaved almost. And so there's like feathers over here and like it looks kind of punk rock. [00:17:11] Speaker B: That's actually, that's legitimately a really cool character. [00:17:15] Speaker C: And she's sitting there. She also has some weapons, but she's trying to conceal them because like she's in a tavern and she doesn't want to scare people too much. But she's just sitting at the bar and just kind of like off on her like by herself completely and not really trying to make eye contact with anyone. She's just like sipping on like whatever like ale or mead. Is like the, the cheap one there at the tavern. [00:17:41] Speaker A: The ale is more cheap. Can you mean just a quick perception check though. [00:17:45] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:17:45] Speaker A: As you seem to feel like you are concealing your weapons. [00:17:49] Speaker C: Okay, that's a 16. [00:17:53] Speaker A: 16 very. Since you are five stools away from this man who is a goliath of a man, has a gigantic greataxe bronzed on the edges of the blade and he seems to just for your. You're. You're like, okay, cool. You can have weapons here and no one says anything. But also concealing them is probably a good idea. [00:18:19] Speaker C: I, I think if I saw like his weapon, she would kind of like pull her because she has a long sword like on her like on her hilt kind of and like on her like kind of on her hip. And it's kind of, it's like it's a really old looking sword and there's even kind of the. Is just for flavoring obviously. But like the sword itself at the end of it, at the tip of it is kind of like it does. You can't tell by looking at it if it was cut this way or if it's just really old and has had some problems. Like, it's almost like feathered. [00:18:55] Speaker E: Oh. [00:18:57] Speaker C: And so she, like, when she sees his weapon, she kind of like. It's kind of like almost like trying to like, flash it to be cool, but like. But like, just like, not. Not too crazy, but like. [00:19:08] Speaker A: We'll come back to this in a second. [00:19:09] Speaker C: I'm a little nervous now that the. Zach's face. [00:19:11] Speaker A: Yeah. Abby, how about you introduce your character and then maybe we'll get some other role play in here. [00:19:16] Speaker D: Yeah, my character, I think he would probably be. He would enter the tavern and he would probably look for a group that was. [00:19:28] Speaker A: Sorry. [00:19:28] Speaker D: A group that was friendly enough, like, having a laughing conversation, but maybe just like a little bit, like, silly or just like, maybe drunk enough to like, accept like a stranger into their fold. [00:19:40] Speaker A: One million percent. There's a guy with two dogs right over here. [00:19:43] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:19:44] Speaker A: You think that is a pretty friendly environment as a lot of the people at his. Yep. At his table are drunk and singing as they are the people who are probably trying to sing the song of whatever. The Piano man. But not. Not well. [00:19:58] Speaker D: Okay. So, yeah, he would go up to them and just kind of like start, like, chatting and laughing as best he could and just kind of blend in. He's a gnome, a forest gnome next to him. He's got the. A big. Can he bring his. [00:20:14] Speaker A: They probably would have said, you can't bring that. Well, no, actually, this guy's got two dogs. I would say that the creature that you have is also about the same size as those dogs. [00:20:24] Speaker C: Okay. [00:20:24] Speaker A: They're medium sized. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, the Piano man, as you came in with your. What you're about to show, he's gonna look at you and then, like, he's about to interrupt, and then he hears two dogs bark behind him. And he's like, I can't stop this person now. So he lets you in with. What do you have? [00:20:42] Speaker D: Okay. It's a big metal. It looks like a. It's like a scaled down version of a moose. The head is huge, giant head. Big, big, big antlers. And there's like a little leather saddle on it. There's just like some. Some little packages. There's like little glowing eyes. A big, very scary like. Like, you know how pitbulls. Like, they look a little scary, but you can tell they're very sweet if you know them. It's like big, huge head. Like, very tall for a medium construct. [00:21:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:18] Speaker D: But he's Kind of got, like, a friendly little face. My gnome is wearing. He's got, like, a breastplate on that looks like it was, like, made to fit him, and he's wearing that. And then he's got just like, some dark green cloaks and stuff over it. Just traveling stuff. He's probably wearing, like, a little, like a little. Like a little scarf over his head, like a little, like a little bandana. He's got a big battle axe slung over his shoulder. It's correctly sized, but it is pretty hefty for his size. It's big, but it's just a tiny bit awkward. [00:22:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:03] Speaker A: Yeah. Can you give me a history check? [00:22:07] Speaker D: Yes. [00:22:08] Speaker A: To see if you recognize this gnome that is sitting across from you. [00:22:12] Speaker D: Oh, man. [00:22:13] Speaker C: You know. You know, we're crazy. [00:22:15] Speaker B: Call Daniel. [00:22:16] Speaker C: You know, we're playing DnD when the first check is Jackie doing a perception check and Abby doing a history. [00:22:21] Speaker B: That is very. [00:22:22] Speaker A: Yeah, I didn't think about that. [00:22:24] Speaker D: That will be a nine. [00:22:28] Speaker A: A nine. [00:22:28] Speaker D: A nine. [00:22:29] Speaker A: You would recognize that this guy is a famous gnome. [00:22:33] Speaker D: Oh, wait, probably from which cavern? Which gnome? [00:22:37] Speaker A: This guy with the two dogs. He's got a gnome and two dogs. [00:22:40] Speaker D: Okay. [00:22:42] Speaker A: I mean, you would imagine that if you got more involved in the conversation and talk to him for a little bit, you'd probably figure out who he is. But you do kind of, like, say, oh, that guy. [00:22:51] Speaker D: I like. I notice that. Or I sit down and I just start, like, chatting, trying to, like, fit in. And then I kind of process that. And then I kind of scooch over just, like, as conversation goes, I, like, go over to kind of be next to him or, like, closer. [00:23:06] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:23:07] Speaker B: No, no, nevermind. This is so much better. [00:23:09] Speaker A: Okay. As you scooch closer, and then we'll just do the snake back to all the role players. This guy looks over and he's like, huh. I never thought I'd see another person with, like, an animal bringing him in. You know, Nimble and thimble over here. They're trusty little boys, but it looks like you've made that thing. Isn't that. That's crazy. [00:23:29] Speaker D: I'm gonna try a voice, but forgive me if I switch back. [00:23:33] Speaker A: That's okay. [00:23:33] Speaker D: He goes, well, good evening there. Oh, good evening. You said nimble and thimble were their names. [00:23:38] Speaker A: Yeah, that's their names. [00:23:40] Speaker D: Well. Oh, I don't have a name for my. This is Moose. Moose. Which listener is the name of my pit bull? [00:23:49] Speaker B: Actual dog. [00:23:51] Speaker D: This is Moose. Yeah, I. I work. I've worked on it for quite Some time, you know. [00:23:55] Speaker A: Yeah. It's metal. [00:23:56] Speaker D: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. He's served me well. [00:24:00] Speaker A: Are you from the cavern or from the forest? [00:24:02] Speaker D: I'm from the forest. [00:24:03] Speaker A: I. It did. You did have a bit of a different shade to you. So I was thinking. You were? [00:24:08] Speaker D: Yeah. I don't. [00:24:09] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I mean gnomes. Sniff. Of the gnomes, you know. [00:24:13] Speaker C: Uh huh. [00:24:14] Speaker D: Where are you from? [00:24:15] Speaker A: Oh, I'm from the cabin, you know. [00:24:18] Speaker C: Oh. [00:24:18] Speaker A: Or am I from the forest? It's been a long time. As you see. He has like three or four drinks in front of him and he's just like. It's. It's so long ago all those things happened. I might be from the forest. [00:24:31] Speaker D: Well, I'll. We'll count you. We'll count you as from the forest. [00:24:36] Speaker A: What was your name? [00:24:37] Speaker D: Mine? [00:24:41] Speaker E: And the stitching on my underwear is bronze. [00:24:43] Speaker B: What's my name? [00:24:45] Speaker D: My name? Well, my name is Merlin. And what's your name? [00:24:48] Speaker A: Gimble. [00:24:49] Speaker D: Gimbal. Well, nice to meet you, Gimbal. I swear you look mighty familiar, Gimbal. [00:24:52] Speaker C: Yeah. Do I know you from somewhere? [00:24:54] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Well, I'm. I'm one of the. The higher ranked HSA members of the. Of Megan Grund. [00:25:01] Speaker D: What did he say? [00:25:02] Speaker A: Higher ranked HSA members which for those who know this HSA is the Hunter Supplements association, which is like the plane's way of fixing. Having a bunch of people make war for 150 years and then have no jobs after that. [00:25:21] Speaker E: That. [00:25:21] Speaker A: And so they made a. Basically a. Hey, if you want to go adventuring or if you want to go help people with like jobs that are a little more dangerous than possibly the police of the area might want to do or even things like that. [00:25:35] Speaker D: It's Hunter Supplement association, okay. [00:25:38] Speaker A: They supplement the like Adventures for hire [00:25:40] Speaker B: sellswords academy kind of. [00:25:42] Speaker A: That kind of thing. And he's like, well, yeah, yeah. So. [00:25:47] Speaker D: Well, it's an honor to meet you, Mr. Gimble. [00:25:49] Speaker A: Well, it's an honor to meet you, Melon. [00:25:51] Speaker D: Now what brings you to. What brings you to the. To the tavern tonight? [00:25:54] Speaker A: You know, I. I really like it when I can sing with my dogs in the tavern and Jakob over here, he's such a good singer. And as you hear it, he's just singing super loud and obnoxious. It also seems like maybe Jakob's a little drunk on the piano, but he's still killing it. He's still killing it and he's just like. I just, you know, I love that and I love the. The whole. The whole vibe of the area. You Know, it's a pretty fun time here. What brings you here? [00:26:21] Speaker D: Well, I'm just. I'm just seeing the sights and exploring the town. I figured I'd get out and meet some people. [00:26:26] Speaker A: Hey, that's good. That's good. Yeah, there's, like, a couple people that try to join your table, but it's pretty full, so they go to the one behind me. [00:26:36] Speaker D: Yeah, I'm a cool kid. They all want to be at my table, but they can't be. [00:26:38] Speaker A: They truly do. Anyway, so, Zach, can you put this over there by Abby's or not? Jackie's mini. Jackie, as you brandish that sword. Perfect. No, that's not your problem, Jackie. You try to push out that sword, and the guy next to you sees a challenge. When he sees that, and he looks to you and this Goliath monster of a man, 8 to 9ft tall. You didn't even know they made him that big. He has rippling muscles and this terribly mundane helmet on, and his whole body that's strapping has tattoos all with golden filigree in it. And so, like, all that, like, kind of like warrior tattoos are in these, like, golden etched tattoo ink, I guess you would say. [00:27:39] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what they. [00:27:41] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, they have ink. He looks over and he says, bernard, we must see strength. Honor, strength. And he, like, comes and he, like. The whole room feels like it shakes as his boots clatter across. And I mean, rippling big, no armor. He almost has a bear shirt on, but he, like, not. Not like a shirt that's made out of bear, but bear shirted. And he's got sort of like a vest on. And he comes over and he sits down and it looks. You hear the sound of the chair and almost feel sorry for it. He looks at you and he says, now I see you also have a weapon. Yes, I arg. Am tram al Raden. And I would like to. As he, like, stretches his hands and you just see just a hint of terror and excitement in his eyes as he looks at you and says. He puts his arm and, like, almost smashes the dent into the bar. And he says, shall we tussle? [00:28:53] Speaker C: I mean, is this guy's hand like, [00:28:54] Speaker A: oh, probably the size of your head and half of your arm. And he says, you look strong. I like strength. [00:29:04] Speaker C: I am strong. Yeah? Yes. [00:29:08] Speaker A: Show me. [00:29:10] Speaker C: All right. Why not? And she puts her hand. [00:29:13] Speaker A: As you put your hand into his. Strong boy. [00:29:18] Speaker C: Strong like little feathers. [00:29:20] Speaker A: You see him, he looks at you weirdly, knowingly, and he says, what shall we wager? [00:29:28] Speaker D: Oh, [00:29:33] Speaker C: A gold. [00:29:36] Speaker A: No, I do not care for money. [00:29:38] Speaker D: Oh. Oh. [00:29:40] Speaker A: I have an axe made of bronze. Nothing in this world is as important as that. Well, drinks, though. I like drinks. Yes. [00:29:52] Speaker C: Okay. Sorry. My voice. I went. I went into, like, a row, and then I was like. Yeah. I was like, all right, [00:30:03] Speaker D: Five. [00:30:05] Speaker C: I have to do it to get into it. Shut up. Are like, five, five, five. Five pints of ale, then five. [00:30:14] Speaker A: You hear a good chuckle about three to four chairs down from me. [00:30:21] Speaker C: So who's by me on the other side? Did someone come up and sit next to this guy? [00:30:26] Speaker A: He just kind of stepped. He's also a corvum. Yeah, he's just sitting there. Actually, as you look at him, maybe not corvum. Maybe the other one. [00:30:33] Speaker C: The other one. [00:30:34] Speaker A: You can't really tell as this mountain of a man is grasping your attention. And he says, five pints it is. And maybe a hint as he flexes his muscles and it seems like his arm grows just the slightest bit bigger. As you, as a barbarian yourself, recognize. [00:31:00] Speaker C: Can I rage? [00:31:02] Speaker A: Someone going into a rage. And as you. How does it look as you go into a rage? [00:31:08] Speaker C: So. [00:31:09] Speaker A: And all this can be like. I know the. The type of barbarian you do. Does do damage when he goes into a rage. I'm pretty sure. Right? [00:31:17] Speaker C: Yeah, But. [00:31:18] Speaker A: Right. [00:31:18] Speaker C: That's not. [00:31:18] Speaker A: Yeah, I would say we're not gonna. [00:31:20] Speaker C: Yeah. I'm not trying to. [00:31:21] Speaker A: You're not trying to do that. That's good. That's good. [00:31:22] Speaker C: But flavor. Yeah. When she goes into a rage, like, her feathers kind of, like, puff out a little bit. [00:31:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:31:32] Speaker D: Like, they. [00:31:33] Speaker C: Like it sounds lame, but somehow she makes it look cool. Like, it doesn't look like a scared bird. [00:31:39] Speaker B: More like. Like. Like. Like feathers raising aggressively. [00:31:42] Speaker C: Like. Like. Like. Like, almost like. Like porcupine quills kind of vibes. And, like, the shine somehow on her, like, that oil slick shine somehow, like, gets, like, shinier, like when she rages. [00:31:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:00] Speaker C: And. Yeah, they just kind of puff out and she kind of just like, she grows just a little bigger, you know, like, just kind of sits up a little straighter. Everything's like. [00:32:07] Speaker A: Just his eyes. [00:32:09] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:32:10] Speaker A: Get giddy. And he says, yes, yes. Strength. I knew you were different. So let's make an athletics check. Okay. You do have advantage because you are raging. [00:32:27] Speaker C: You said athletics. [00:32:28] Speaker B: Yes. [00:32:29] Speaker C: Just a straight athletics check. Yeah. That's gonna be a 21. [00:32:34] Speaker A: A 21. Well, it is actually a very good fight. Like, you know, they don't last for very long arm wrestling competitions, but they do. Like, they can Be decided very quickly. And as you put a 21 up to his 30, it is to his 30. It is like a good 15 seconds of, like, holding your own. Your muscles start to bulge, your hands get sweaty because they keep touching. And he's just like, oh, I get the drinks, but you get the hint. And he slams your arm into it and almost like, cracks just a bit of the. The. The bar. And you hear this dwarven man say, aye, aye, not enter the bar. Jakob won't like that. [00:33:21] Speaker C: Don't do that. [00:33:23] Speaker A: You just see Traum look back, and as he turns his head ever so slightly, the dwarf looks at who he's talking to, and he's like, oh, sorry, Trump. Sorry, sorry, sorry, my bad. And he just, like, moves over, back to wherever he can get away from this person. And he says, yes, yes. Oh, Aladriel, what's my hint? I'm supposed to give these people. And you see, Eladriel just gives this exasperated sigh, which is the elf about four stools down from you. And he just says, it's about the coppers. And he's like, oh, yes, yes. Count the coppers. Count the carpets. [00:34:03] Speaker C: The copper. [00:34:04] Speaker A: Yes, yes. And he just looks at you. He's like, mine. [00:34:08] Speaker C: And she count hers. And it's like, oh, yes. [00:34:12] Speaker A: I do not know actually what that means, but you're supposed to count them anyway. I like my five pints. Yes, yes. Dragonfire. It's a good one. [00:34:22] Speaker C: And she. She waves down the bartender and. And she waves down the bartender. [00:34:28] Speaker A: So it's two coppers. [00:34:29] Speaker C: Okay. [00:34:30] Speaker A: Per cup. So that's gonna be 4, 6, 8, 10. 10 coppers. So a silver if you want to do that instead. [00:34:36] Speaker C: Yeah, let's do that. [00:34:37] Speaker A: Yeah. You give a silver to the dwarf. Any. This is balding, older, pudgy dwarfs. He gets up onto his thing and says, thank you. And then he's like. And he kind of turns around. [00:34:48] Speaker C: Thank you. [00:34:48] Speaker A: Yeah. And he gives Traum mead. And he just like. You see Traum just like. Like an after runner's high. And he's just like. [00:34:58] Speaker B: He pees a little. [00:35:01] Speaker A: As we switch on over to our other gnome friend. [00:35:08] Speaker C: What was, you know, name? [00:35:09] Speaker A: Trom. T R A U M. Traum. He also gave you his full name. I don't know if you care to have that, but if you do, just let me know, okay? Oh, did I not say it in the Micah? [00:35:21] Speaker B: It was just a little over here instead of a little right here. [00:35:23] Speaker A: I smell where you're stepping in a. I don't remember which kind of bird this character is, but like a. Oh, wait, I have descriptions, Daniel, descriptions. [00:35:38] Speaker C: I just realized the guy that's sitting next to me on the left, I painted him. [00:35:42] Speaker A: Yes, yes, you did. Yes, you did. [00:35:44] Speaker C: I got really excited about that. [00:35:47] Speaker A: This is a middle aged chickadee bird folk who's quite tall for her race. She stands at a tall 4 2. Her feathers are completely black with a few graying feathers still left in her plumage. She wears rather normal clothes, a gray blouse, brown trousers and an apron that is black. And she comes up to your table, Mr. Gnome. And she comes up and she sits and she says, oh, what. What are you writing? [00:36:15] Speaker E: I'm sorry, [00:36:18] Speaker A: did you not hear my question? [00:36:21] Speaker B: I like push my tight glasses even closer to my face and I go. And I like. I like adjust my nose and my like mustache like moves noticeably to each side and I get. [00:36:32] Speaker E: It is a personal effect. So I'm a little uncertain. Right? It would be your business, but I suppose I'll entertain you. I'm working through some amount of alchemical [00:36:45] Speaker A: I'm doing. [00:36:46] Speaker E: Working through things about magical society you wouldn't know. [00:36:54] Speaker A: Are you from the cavern? [00:36:56] Speaker E: Goodness, you're still talking to me. Okay. [00:36:58] Speaker B: And I just close it and I put it down and I say, as [00:37:01] Speaker E: I won't be getting any work done, [00:37:03] Speaker B: and I like drink a little bit of. [00:37:04] Speaker A: Sorry, I didn't know you would come to a tavern for work. [00:37:10] Speaker E: More important affairs. [00:37:12] Speaker D: But [00:37:15] Speaker E: I'm from up north. Well, I've spent quite a bit of time here actually. But I am. I have origins. My family name is. Is Northen from the cavern. But I've resided here in Hearthstone for some time, following my own affairs. [00:37:36] Speaker B: And then I drink some more of my mead and I go. [00:37:40] Speaker A: She looks at you keenly and she says, what? What? But what brings you to Doi Cologne, where we are right now? [00:37:48] Speaker E: Sometimes when people don't answer questions because they don't want to answer, I suppose I'm talking to you. What's your name, stranger? [00:37:56] Speaker A: Chandra. [00:38:00] Speaker B: I'm gonna write that down real fast. How would you spell that? [00:38:02] Speaker A: DM S H A U, N, T, R A. [00:38:09] Speaker E: Well, Sandra, I'm. I have my own purposes. I'm here on a rendezvous, as it were. [00:38:18] Speaker A: Would that rendezvous happen to perchance because of a coin you were given? [00:38:27] Speaker B: I like, look at. My demeanor completely changes. I get this really obvious ooh face. And I look at her and I go, perhaps. [00:38:35] Speaker E: And I push up my glasses. I've underestimated you, sundry. I have received a coin Are you a purveyor of coin? [00:38:47] Speaker A: I would not say I'm a purveyor, but I also received a coin, and I'm trying to. [00:38:53] Speaker E: A competitor. [00:38:56] Speaker A: I would like to say an ally rather than a competitor. [00:38:59] Speaker B: But then it seems you have a [00:39:01] Speaker E: short premonition for the future. [00:39:04] Speaker A: Perhaps I do. I was if. I was wondering if we were allies, I could share what I know. But if we are competitors, I don't want. [00:39:12] Speaker E: Are you looking for allyship? [00:39:15] Speaker A: I would rather that than a huge craft bird. [00:39:19] Speaker B: I just twirl my mustache to the [00:39:22] Speaker E: side and I go, then a kid ally you friends. [00:39:28] Speaker B: What do you have? [00:39:29] Speaker A: Chandra. She looks at you, and with her beak, she kind of like, stroking her. [00:39:37] Speaker B: I get a little, like. Like crazy in the eyes, and I just down the rest of my meter really quickly, and I sand the glass down. [00:39:44] Speaker E: What do you have? [00:39:46] Speaker A: Well, so far, I believe. And she, like, points to the bar in a very nonchalant way, and she says, I believe that elf is purveyor of coins. If we are going to use terminology that we've already established. [00:40:01] Speaker E: King Chundru King. [00:40:04] Speaker A: I've tried to stay keen. [00:40:05] Speaker E: Perhaps I'll have a weird mind if I find anything else. [00:40:11] Speaker A: Yes, please do. [00:40:13] Speaker B: And I take my journal, and I, like. I do this thing where I put my hand on it. I step down off my stool, turning my shoulders away from the desk, and I do this dramatic, like, sweep where I, like, pick my journal up with me, clutch it to my chest, and one quick move, I slip it somewhere in my coat. And then as I pull my hand back out, I'm, like, wringing my hands and I'm walking. I'm 3 foot 9, and I'm, like, in between people's hips and waists. I'm, like, moving toward the counter. [00:40:41] Speaker A: Okay, if you wouldn't mind moving your mini as you move your way to the counter. Give me a perception check. Ooh, that seems good. [00:40:53] Speaker B: You're 12s. [00:40:55] Speaker A: 18. [00:40:56] Speaker B: 19. 18, you uncultured twine. [00:40:59] Speaker A: Gosh. Well, now you're not gonna get the information I wanted you to get with an 18. You weave your way through some of these tables, and you see a smattering of different people interacting with you as you try to go by. A few people, they don't even notice you as they're drinking and having fun. One of them having a red slitted eye as of the Yuan Ti of old that probably haven't been seen in these parts in a long time as he has a huge hood that is covering his head. But he eyes you as you go towards the bar, but he does not follow. And he tries to even, like, go back into a casual conversation that he definitely was not having in a few seconds ago. But as you weave your way to. You can weave your way all the way to the elf. But before you do, Abby, did you want to continue your conversation with the note? [00:41:55] Speaker D: Sure. [00:41:55] Speaker E: Sure, I guess. [00:41:57] Speaker B: For whatever it's worth, I think it's pronounced gnome Okanam. [00:42:01] Speaker C: I have a question. How much were we told? I know we were told to meet at this tavern. Was there anything. When did they give us the coin? [00:42:10] Speaker A: They gave you the coin as a calling card of sorts. [00:42:12] Speaker C: Okay. [00:42:13] Speaker A: Probably a month or two ago. Had the date on it. Unlike rubbed into it. As you looked at the coin, it has a specific date and on different spots, it has a specific place to be. And you've deducted that. Oh, I must be here at this date, at this place. And that was all the information you were given, as if they were wanting you in your scheming ways to figure out what this puzzle, or possibly test would hold. [00:42:42] Speaker C: Cool. [00:42:43] Speaker D: Do I see anyone else with coins? [00:42:45] Speaker A: Ooh, give me a perception check. Or investigation, depending on whichever one you like more. [00:42:48] Speaker B: Dur. Try. I mean, your audio is great. [00:42:50] Speaker A: There's nothing wrong. [00:42:51] Speaker B: But just for the sake of your comfort, try literally moving your mic up, like, just high. [00:42:55] Speaker A: I want to be like this. [00:42:57] Speaker E: Okay. [00:42:58] Speaker A: I got a 10 with a 10. In which one? [00:43:00] Speaker D: Investigation. [00:43:01] Speaker A: Investigation. As you are looking around the room, No one at this table has a coin. You would have to go around other rooms to other tables to see if they have coins. But as you talk, it does seem like these are just people having a night on the town. Especially this gimbal guy. Like, he's trading stories of, like, how he shot people into crowds and, like, destroyed this whole goblin invasion that was gonna happen a few years ago. Like, they're. They're tall tales, but they. He seems convinced of what he's saying. [00:43:38] Speaker D: I'll probably hang out there for a little bit and just chat and laugh. And then I will probably excuse myself at some point and just kind of walk around the room a little bit. He's, like. He's, like, walking over, saying hi. He's, like, pretending a little bit like he just knows everyone. Like, if someone looks like they might be like, oh, hey. He'll go, oh, hey. You know? [00:44:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:02] Speaker D: But I. He kind of just walks down. He's keeping an eye out for the coins. [00:44:08] Speaker A: Sure as you do that. Can you give me another investigation check as you check around the room, that [00:44:15] Speaker D: will be a 12. [00:44:16] Speaker A: A 12. A 12 gets you. As you walk around the room, you notice that this black plumage chickadee lady seems to be not showing the coin to everyone, but definitely has something in her pocket as if she's beholden to it. Kind of is a dead giveaway that possibly another coin. You see the only other person that has it. That has it. [00:44:43] Speaker B: No, no, you were fine, I was. [00:44:46] Speaker A: That has it is a close person to the chickadee, which is a humanoid looking person with a dark hood over his head. As you see, he seems like for most of his body he has covered himself in black and darkness. Except for in the boot of his area in his leg just has the coin sticking out. He's not the brightest, it doesn't seem. But you saw two coins on your venture. [00:45:16] Speaker C: Okay, I was just gonna say after I did the arm wrestling and he said the thing about count the coppers, I think I would have gotten out my coins point and been like flipping it in my hand. [00:45:26] Speaker A: Sure. The Kinku decks to you. Oh, I can mean his description. Oh, I'm sorry. Did you want to talk to any of these people? [00:45:40] Speaker C: I just wanted to throw that out there in case her character likes. [00:45:43] Speaker B: Wait, but I, I didn't mean to take what you were doing and, and if you. [00:45:47] Speaker C: Well, she was looking for coins, so I wanted it to be known. [00:45:50] Speaker B: But I just want to say also [00:45:51] Speaker A: had your coin out. Yes, you would have seen that. But also someone who's ripping it in the air. [00:45:55] Speaker D: Yeah, okay. [00:45:56] Speaker A: Definitely. That person also has a clone. You know, three people. Do you want to go towards any of these? [00:46:02] Speaker D: I'm going to go up to Sandra. [00:46:04] Speaker A: Okay. [00:46:05] Speaker D: And I'm just gonna. She just. She's doesn't have it in her hand, does she? [00:46:10] Speaker A: She has her hand in her pocket and it. From the, the crinkle of the hand, you can see that it's probably holding a coin of some sort of. [00:46:20] Speaker D: Okay, I'm gonna. I'm gonna take mine out and just pass like. I'm gonna say. Well, well, good evening, ma'. Am. What brings you to the tavern tonight? And while I'm saying that, I'm just gonna take it out of one pocket and like pass it to another pocket and just like take it out. Not like a magic trick, but like a little bit of like a. [00:46:39] Speaker A: Give me a sleight of hand. [00:46:40] Speaker D: Like a little bit of a sleight of hand. [00:46:43] Speaker A: Ooh, that's better. [00:46:47] Speaker D: Wow, that's a 19. [00:46:48] Speaker A: A 19. Very eloquently elegantly done as you put the coin and you almost flash the side of which one was on yours. I had the gorgon looking lady one. Right. Yeah. You flash the gorgon, you put it into your other hand, you put it in your pocket. Her eyes, if nothing else, are very keen as she sees them. She gives you a knowing nod and she says, oh. I believe we have been given similar reasons for being here tonight. [00:47:18] Speaker D: It would appear so, yes. [00:47:19] Speaker A: I'm Chandra. [00:47:20] Speaker D: I'm Merlin. [00:47:21] Speaker A: Merlin. Nice to meet you, Merlin. Are you also from the cavern? [00:47:26] Speaker D: No, I'm from the forest. [00:47:28] Speaker A: The forest? [00:47:28] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:47:29] Speaker A: Of the Arden Vale. [00:47:30] Speaker D: Mm. [00:47:31] Speaker A: Fascinating. And you're an. Is that your moose? [00:47:35] Speaker D: This is moose. [00:47:35] Speaker A: That is your moose. [00:47:37] Speaker D: Moose is my beloved companion. [00:47:39] Speaker A: We have mini moose in. In Everdale. Very, very exciting to see one made by. [00:47:46] Speaker D: Well, I. I've. Ever since I was a child, I've loved the moose, so I made one of my own. Couldn't travel without him. [00:47:52] Speaker A: Other moose in the forest of the Ardenvale. Yeah, Fascinating. [00:47:56] Speaker D: Are there a damn sure [00:47:59] Speaker B: in the woods. [00:48:00] Speaker A: Mini moose. [00:48:00] Speaker B: I thought that's what you were gonna say a second ago. [00:48:02] Speaker A: Yeah, it's for the listeners. They're loving it right now. [00:48:06] Speaker B: They're loving it. [00:48:09] Speaker A: She looks at you and she says, interesting. And she's like, are you one of competition or one of allyship? [00:48:19] Speaker D: Well, I wasn't aware of any competition or allyship coming into this, but I am. [00:48:24] Speaker A: I met a very weird gnome who wanted to beat me up and I just wanted to see. [00:48:29] Speaker B: I'm halfway across room. [00:48:31] Speaker D: Well, where is he? I'll be sure to avoid him. [00:48:33] Speaker A: No, I'm sure in his eccentricities he'll probably be helpful. But I did hear that the menu seems to be something of importance. I've been trying to decipher, but I've gotten no other clues. I was really hoping. As she looks towards the gnome, she says, that gnome up there. I was really hoping that he would make a scene so maybe I could glean some information. Perhaps if get closer, listen a bit. Maybe he will make enough of a loud ruckus for us all to get a hint. [00:49:06] Speaker D: Well, that sounds perfect, ma'. [00:49:07] Speaker A: Am, shall we? [00:49:08] Speaker D: Dm. Are we. Is the menu at the bar? [00:49:11] Speaker A: It would be at the bar. We're going to the bar. If you go to the bar, it's hidden underneath and behind the dwarf. But there is an orange thing that I put. Menu. And as you get to the bar. Because you're going to be looking for the menu specifically. This is the Daniel's got A real [00:49:27] Speaker C: menu for a sculpture. [00:49:30] Speaker A: But we will get to that in just a second. As the Kinku next to the corvum does this terrible sound of breaking wood right next to you as you pull out your coin. Like, [00:49:45] Speaker C: are you all right there? [00:49:48] Speaker A: Nods his head. [00:49:51] Speaker C: Do you. [00:49:52] Speaker A: A short can kill Male, so sorry. Wears appropriate attire for those who do not want to be seen or disturbed. He is swaddled in dark clothes and hoods, with the only notable part of him being his almost bronzed daggers that are sticking out of his hips as he looks at you. And he's like. And he like, does the sound of a coin flip. [00:50:13] Speaker B: He's making these noises. [00:50:15] Speaker A: He's mimicking these noises as he cannot speak except for in mimicry. [00:50:21] Speaker C: Do you have. Do you have one of these to you? [00:50:27] Speaker A: He nods, cool, not vigorously, but does [00:50:31] Speaker C: it look like mine? And she shows him the sides. [00:50:35] Speaker A: He pulls it out, not thinking of this. And he shows it to you. And it is. It is the same type of mind flayer on one side and a elven ear, which y' all both kind of look at. And then look towards the elf at the bar. What's up? [00:50:50] Speaker B: Quick DM clarification. Dm None. Like, I'm just asking for my own understanding. None of us know what a mind flare is, right? [00:50:56] Speaker A: None of you would know what a. [00:50:57] Speaker B: You're just giving us the visual. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. [00:50:59] Speaker A: But like a tentacle face. [00:51:00] Speaker B: Yeah, for sure. Understood. I was just understood. [00:51:03] Speaker A: Even like the coins that the two gnomes have also, like, you might have heard of what like a gorgon is and mish. But like, this thing looks weird on your coin too. [00:51:18] Speaker C: Okay, So I. We look at the elf. Sorry, I was just getting back into it. I. I look back to the. To the Kinku and. And I say, have. Have you figured anything out? [00:51:39] Speaker A: He makes more coin flip sounds. And then he makes like a scribbling sound. Like like a. A. A pin going across paper. [00:51:54] Speaker C: Well, that strong guy over there, he said, count the coppers. Have you counted yours? [00:52:05] Speaker A: He pulls out and in. In an almost comedic fashion, he pulls out his pockets. No coppers to be seen. He puts them back in. As he does again, a writing sound. And then he kind of like looks around, but he doesn't seem to know much more than that. [00:52:23] Speaker C: I hold out my. Because it would be known to me that, like, Kinkus can't speak that much. [00:52:30] Speaker A: Kinkus were. Would have been a, like a subspecies of corvums that sadly got cursed by a hag. A Long, long time ago. And so, yes, you would definitely know that the Kinku, sadly, from generations on, have never learned the way to speak. [00:52:48] Speaker C: I would hold out my hand to shake their hand and say, well, I'm Beatrix Feather Sword. [00:52:57] Speaker A: And he hesitates and goes for a dagger as you put out your hand. And then he lets go. [00:53:02] Speaker C: And I go. It's okay. [00:53:09] Speaker A: Is what. He's possibly a name. Who knows? It's hard. It's on the gnome. [00:53:14] Speaker B: Wait, his name is. That's awesome. [00:53:18] Speaker A: It's something. And he, like, looks and nods to the gnome that is obviously walking up to the elf as you all look to see what's going to happen as this conniving little gnome comes up to this little elf. He don't touch that. [00:53:36] Speaker B: That's crazy. [00:53:37] Speaker A: Daniel also is that we may never know. No, no. Okay. Okay. Sadly, some of them are just like I wanted. [00:53:43] Speaker B: Okay. No, I was just curious. I was just curious. [00:53:45] Speaker A: Okay. [00:53:46] Speaker C: I point at the elf on the one side and I go, you think that's. You think that's the same. Same. Same guy? [00:53:56] Speaker A: He nods vigorously. I think she's gonna be on the right side here. [00:54:00] Speaker B: Okay. Over here by the table. [00:54:02] Speaker A: She's gonna be on the left side. [00:54:03] Speaker B: Okay, gotcha. Because they're listening in, right? [00:54:05] Speaker A: Yeah. Possibly at that table. Yeah. [00:54:11] Speaker B: Okay. And you want him here? Yes. Or do you want him in a different spot? [00:54:14] Speaker A: Okay. Awesome. Abby's character. [00:54:20] Speaker D: Yes. Merlin. [00:54:21] Speaker A: Merlin. Merlin. Can you give me a stealth check as you are trying to be a little sneaky as you hear this stuff? [00:54:26] Speaker B: Your character's Merlin, right? [00:54:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:54:28] Speaker B: That's fun. [00:54:29] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. [00:54:32] Speaker D: I got a stealth. I got a stealth. I got a nine. [00:54:37] Speaker A: Okay. You don't feel too hidden, maybe from the person who's gonna be talking right now? I've got. [00:54:45] Speaker D: I've got, like, decorative. Well, I've got little, like, they. They're clinking like spurs. But the idea is that they, like, they click into moose and help me stay right now. [00:54:56] Speaker A: Abby, that's awesome. [00:54:57] Speaker D: But they're clinking like spurs. They're not helping me sneak. [00:54:59] Speaker A: They're not helping you. [00:55:00] Speaker D: I forgot to take them off. [00:55:01] Speaker B: Yeah, that's really cool. [00:55:05] Speaker A: I don't think I've gotten your name again. [00:55:06] Speaker B: I haven't said it yet. [00:55:07] Speaker A: Yeah, I figured out. You go up to the elf, and he's just slowly sipping, like, that same dragonfire mead, and he's just sighing dramatically and putting it down. I knew this day would come. He turns around, and this, like, also weirdly, very pale elf turns around with, like, These bluish rim around his eyes and almost like a kaleidoscope of different colors coming through it. This slicked back black hair with like streaks of gray and white in this, like nice three piece. Not three piece, two piece. Not suitable, but just like a vest and slacks. And they. No, no wrinkle in sight. Very dramatic black. And it almost like it would suck your eyes into it, but it looks so good that it sucks your eyes to the like person wearing it. [00:56:05] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Okay, draw. Yeah, yeah. [00:56:07] Speaker A: And he just looks at you and he says, yes, little gnome. [00:56:15] Speaker B: And I do this thing where I like reach up to scratch my mustache to adjust it. But then as I do, I kind of like slick the coin in between my fingers and I comb the mustache with the coin and I say, I [00:56:27] Speaker E: believe I'm answering sermons. [00:56:31] Speaker B: I slip it back into a pocket. [00:56:34] Speaker E: I understand that you are purveyor. [00:56:42] Speaker A: Yes, yes. [00:56:43] Speaker E: You look disappointed. [00:56:45] Speaker A: Well, Pinion knows how to pick them. Weirdly, yes, I am a purveyor of coins. And your subtlety knows no bounds, little one. [00:56:53] Speaker E: Well, perhaps subtlety is not all I have to offer. [00:56:58] Speaker A: Well, how about you offer me your name and then maybe I will. [00:57:01] Speaker C: Absolutely. [00:57:04] Speaker E: I'm Gartholembu. Arm entrachments to the four. [00:57:09] Speaker B: But I lean in and I say, and I like, kind of turn away from him and I put a hand under my jaw and I flick a mustache of the finger and I say, [00:57:15] Speaker E: but my allies call me Gartholumbu. Almond Trout for short. [00:57:22] Speaker B: So my name is Gartholumbhew is G a r t h a l u m b e w Gartholemview. And then my last name, Armand Troutschman, sir, is R a m a n t r o u t S h m e N S e r the fourth. [00:57:53] Speaker D: I thought you said [00:57:57] Speaker B: Armand Troutschman, sir. [00:57:58] Speaker A: But my friends call me a Carthagu [00:58:01] Speaker E: Ammon Trout for sure. [00:58:03] Speaker A: Well, I'm going to call you Goth, for I'm none of those things. [00:58:07] Speaker E: A man of intrigue. Fair enough. You look of import. [00:58:13] Speaker A: I am of import. And the frustrating thing is we had to have it in this unimportant, stupid little tavern in the middle of a stupid little town. [00:58:23] Speaker B: I like. I like saddle up to his side and I like lean. I'm like. Like I'm casually leaning up against the wall, but it's just the. The side of the bar. Cause I'm so short and I like. Immediately I look out at the tavern also in disgust, and he's already accepted me, which he hasn't. But I'M like, yes, but we'll move beyond it. [00:58:42] Speaker E: You already have. I rat your coattails forever. [00:58:46] Speaker A: So I imagine there's a mystery to solve. I think the first mystery is why they would not alphabetize their menu. This is disgraceful for it not to be in the right order. Right. [00:59:01] Speaker E: I see that unarmed. We've both bought sharp minds. [00:59:05] Speaker B: And I like. I, like, nod strangely. And then I do this, like, weird little tottering like. Like, quick, run over to a table and I sit down. I. I get. Is there anything at the table that, like, would be there normally? [00:59:20] Speaker A: I'd say there's probably just a littering of, like, plates. Okay. [00:59:23] Speaker B: I pick up a plate, I move it toward me, I pick up a fork, and I just start moving it around on the plate. It's. There's nothing normal about it, but I'm, like, trying to behave normally. And then I sit there and I [00:59:32] Speaker A: just study the menu. Okay, give me. I mean, yeah, you can. You may all look at the menu. [00:59:38] Speaker D: Can I take a picture? [00:59:40] Speaker A: Sure. [00:59:40] Speaker B: Can I read it for the listener? [00:59:42] Speaker A: Sure, yeah. [00:59:44] Speaker B: The first one says corn and lentil soap. And I think that's supposed to be corn. Lentil soup. [00:59:48] Speaker A: Did I not put S O U Pete? [00:59:52] Speaker B: I suppose that is on purpose. Corn and lentil soup, Nine coppers. Rafit loin. [01:00:05] Speaker D: Rabbit loin. [01:00:06] Speaker B: Rabbit loin. [01:00:07] Speaker A: I think Zach's just not able to read. [01:00:09] Speaker C: Baby, are you okay? [01:00:10] Speaker B: Sorry. Well, I've slept like 15 hours this week, but. Corn, lentil soup, rabbit loin and salad. Nine copper pieces. Seared pig and potatoes, nine coppers. Brandied ham and carrots. That sounds good. Brandied ham and carrots. Seven copper pieces. Grilled fish and asparagus. Three copper pieces. Ale and cheese. Pastry, two coppers. [01:00:37] Speaker A: That sounds good. [01:00:39] Speaker B: Dragonfire mead cup two coppers or dragonfire mead bottle, nine coppers. Very reasonably priced menu. [01:00:48] Speaker C: May I? [01:00:51] Speaker A: And as you all look at these different menus, many Aladriel sighs, but not a sigh of, like, frustration, but of relief as the little gnome runs away from his bar. And he just, like, bemoans. And he's like, traum, we have got to get better places next time. And then Traum, in a very boisterous voice, says, no, no. You see, brother, you see, I have found someone strong. Strong like me. They're just so, so excited. Hail running down his face and it's getting spit everywhere. It's all over the bar. It's all over A little Adriel. And the barkeep. And the barkeep, she's like. And she's like, come. I like the crop we have this year, Aladriel. It'll be fun. [01:01:34] Speaker C: As he says that, I just, like, lean over and, like, just, like, do [01:01:38] Speaker A: a little nod, like, at Aladriel or Traum. [01:01:41] Speaker C: Aladriel. Because, like, did I hear him saying that? Yeah, he's very. [01:01:46] Speaker B: Saying it very quietly. [01:01:47] Speaker A: Yeah. Traum is not a loud person. Aladriel probably wouldn't have heard his cuz he's trying to be subtle. Traum does not try to be subtle. [01:01:53] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:01:54] Speaker A: Aladriel looks over your way, and as you he get, you give him a salute. He's like. He gives you just a terribly unconvincing half smile. And as he does it, he. He, like, as the alcohol is being sprayed into his face, you see him just, like, flip his hand up and it just catches the dirtiness and cleanses it before it hits him. [01:02:16] Speaker C: This is my kind of guy. [01:02:18] Speaker A: And he's just like, he. He looks to the people who are obviously here, and he stands up just a second, he points, puffs out his vest, and he says, the barkeep can take your password. And he looks at Trom and he says, how much longer are we staying here, Traum? And Trom was like, I see if I get more bites. And he goes to a different table and he just starts trying to arm wrestle people. And Eladriel just hangs his head in just frustration. And he's like, I'll be in the corner. And he goes over to the far corner away from everybody. It seems like all the hints you've been given are the things that will tell you what password is. [01:03:01] Speaker D: Okay, so, okay. [01:03:04] Speaker A: And you can take this to people you've interacted with. [01:03:07] Speaker B: Abby's been furiously scribbling. [01:03:08] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Or you can just. If you are confident about what the password is. [01:03:13] Speaker B: So far, we've been testing combinations of letter and order relative to the number of their price. Abby also added up all the prices, and they came out to 50. [01:03:22] Speaker A: Oh, cool. [01:03:23] Speaker B: If that comes to anything. [01:03:25] Speaker D: So, okay. So he said, count the coppers. [01:03:28] Speaker A: Yep. [01:03:28] Speaker D: That was his hint. [01:03:29] Speaker A: Can I. [01:03:30] Speaker B: Can I see the menu real fast? [01:03:32] Speaker D: And she said, I wish that this was alphabetized. [01:03:42] Speaker B: Is the ninth letter in the first one an E? [01:03:48] Speaker D: What is it? [01:03:49] Speaker B: 1, 2, 3. Am I counting that correctly? 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Is it an E in the first one? [01:03:56] Speaker A: I mean, it does stand to reason. Okay. [01:03:59] Speaker B: E. In the second one, it would be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 would be an I. Okay, let me know if I'M counting that wrong. [01:04:11] Speaker A: No. From what you've seen, it does seem like. That's. Seems reasonable. [01:04:17] Speaker B: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. A G on the third one. [01:04:23] Speaker A: Have you already done this? [01:04:24] Speaker C: Abby, Wait. But should we alphabetize them first? [01:04:28] Speaker A: That might be a good question. [01:04:29] Speaker C: I have them alphabetized. [01:04:30] Speaker D: Yeah. So give us. Give us. [01:04:31] Speaker A: Right. [01:04:32] Speaker B: So if I. If I come up with the letters and then you have them alphabetized, we can just put them in order. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. It'd be an E on the fourth one. It's a lot of ease. 1, 2, 3. An I on the fifth one got two E's, two eyes. 1, 2. An L. 1, 2. An R. Or 9. 1, 2, 3, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Another R [01:05:09] Speaker A: does say or, but it's. [01:05:12] Speaker D: They're both R's. So. [01:05:14] Speaker C: Yeah, it starts with an L. And then. And then it would be. [01:05:23] Speaker D: What was seven, Zach? [01:05:24] Speaker C: E. And then it would be E. O. [01:05:36] Speaker A: One of them should be tin coppers. I was so freaking close. [01:05:42] Speaker D: This time we can figure it out. [01:05:43] Speaker A: We can fix it. [01:05:44] Speaker B: The funny context is that years ago, a couple years ago, Daniel did this one shot and puzzle. If you haven't done it as a dm, making puzzles is hard because it's hard to make them either not too hard or coherent. And the last time he ran this. This part was super broken. But it's just funny because it's much better this time. [01:06:03] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. It's actually makes you. [01:06:05] Speaker B: I completely forgot what the rule. [01:06:06] Speaker A: This. [01:06:06] Speaker B: This wasn't me remembering from last time. I just. It occurred to me anew, Captain, cos Abby was doing all the math over there and I was like, that doesn't seem right. And then I remembered from a different thing I was, I think from another D and D podcast that like, counting the letters. [01:06:23] Speaker C: Well, what I got was L E E R R E I G [01:06:31] Speaker A: E I G. Lirag. [01:06:33] Speaker C: L E, E R R E I G. But you said one of them. [01:06:37] Speaker B: One of them should be the rabbit [01:06:39] Speaker A: and loin salad should be 10, which [01:06:42] Speaker B: would mean that it would be. [01:06:43] Speaker C: So what would that be? An N. An N. So it's leering. [01:06:47] Speaker D: Leering. [01:06:48] Speaker B: Leering. [01:06:49] Speaker C: Leering. [01:06:50] Speaker B: Leering. [01:06:50] Speaker A: Yeah, that's a word. [01:06:52] Speaker C: L, E, E, R I, N, G. Okay. [01:06:55] Speaker B: But we. We also just did this as the players instead of the characters, which was fun. It was fun to. So. [01:07:03] Speaker C: Well, we all heard it as the characters. [01:07:05] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:07:05] Speaker B: All of us just simultaneously have this epiphany. [01:07:07] Speaker D: I didn't hear Counting Coppers only. [01:07:11] Speaker C: You heard that well, he was saying it pretty loud. [01:07:15] Speaker A: I mean, of the two people in the group. Yeah. I mean, the only one who got all of the. Wait, no. Didn't Chandra tell you? Oh, she just told you about the menu. Yeah. So out of this, only Beatrix, right? Beatrix with a B or an Fier. [01:07:34] Speaker C: Tricks. [01:07:34] Speaker A: Fier tricks. Featrix. Featrix. Right. Is the only one who probably has solved this puzzle by now. You can share. [01:07:44] Speaker B: Can I make an investigation check to reason this out at my table? Yeah. A kind of check of your choosing. [01:07:49] Speaker A: Yeah, investigation's fine. [01:07:51] Speaker C: I feel like I got out a. A paper and a quill and was. Sorry, I just. It just hit me that, like, I am a bunch of quills. So, like. Yeah. And started, like, writing it and, like, looking at the kinu and being like. I'm, like, looking at the menu, looking at them, like, being like. What do you think? Like, going back and forth with it. [01:08:12] Speaker D: Did I see Traum talking with Featrix? [01:08:19] Speaker A: I would say you had seen that there were five pints of ale put in front of him, and next to him was Phaetrix. So you could reason that they probably talked a little bit. [01:08:31] Speaker D: Okay. And I. And I saw from. [01:08:34] Speaker A: And [01:08:37] Speaker D: talk. [01:08:38] Speaker A: Okay, well, you could try to go talk to Traum if you'd like. [01:08:42] Speaker D: So is it reasonable to say that I put together that Traum and Beatrix were talking and then. Yeah, I saw them together. [01:08:51] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. In a common way of, like, sitting next to a person. Kind of makes you talk to them, but you don't know what. [01:08:57] Speaker D: Okay, I'm gonna go over, and I'm gonna, like, kind of take Traum's spot and, like, jump up, and I'm gonna say, well, good evening. Now, forgive me for being a might bit intrusive, but what is it that you're working on? And I'm gonna do that same, like, coin pass that I did. [01:09:16] Speaker A: Give me a slide. [01:09:17] Speaker D: I'll, like. I take it out of my pocket, and I, like. Yeah. [01:09:23] Speaker A: Flip it over and then catch it with your other hand. [01:09:25] Speaker D: I, like, touch my face with it. And then. Yeah, just. [01:09:29] Speaker B: And I rub it on my belly, put it on my head. [01:09:31] Speaker A: What'd you get with that investigation, Zach? [01:09:33] Speaker B: I got a 13. [01:09:34] Speaker A: Thirteen. Okay. A 13. You do see, Feature pulls out a quote, quill, and paper, which makes you pull out a quill and paper. [01:09:42] Speaker B: I open up my journal. [01:09:43] Speaker A: Yeah. You put them all in order, and you're like, maybe something with the numbers and the letters. And you start. Yeah. You. You're quite sure that you possibly have something here. All right? Because you do have to have. You have to find a word. [01:09:56] Speaker B: Okay. Now, dm, just for my own player knowledge, have I solved it or I'm just on the trail or something? [01:10:01] Speaker A: No, I think you would have, because it's fine. If I have time. Enough time has passed. You will have solved it without anyone's help, if you'd like. [01:10:08] Speaker D: I got a. I'm not trying to [01:10:09] Speaker B: ask for that, though. [01:10:10] Speaker D: If that's not what's happened, I got a nine. [01:10:12] Speaker A: A nine. A little clumsier. Putting it on your head was a bit weird. [01:10:18] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:10:18] Speaker A: Okay. [01:10:19] Speaker B: Too much. [01:10:19] Speaker D: Too much. [01:10:20] Speaker B: I'm also here. [01:10:22] Speaker A: As you put it on your head, it falls down the back of your shirt, and you're like, oh, it's going down to my pants. Oh, it's cold down there. It's cold. The coins fully in his body. [01:10:35] Speaker D: I sit down, and I turn my [01:10:36] Speaker A: back away, and I get it out. You turn your back away from them so that way they see your back. [01:10:42] Speaker D: I turn my back away from. From. [01:10:44] Speaker A: All right. [01:10:44] Speaker D: Back into the bar, and I'm like, [01:10:50] Speaker C: Very subtly, very suddenly, Beatrix looks over at the Ginku and is like. She just kind of silent, like, what's happening? [01:10:58] Speaker A: The Kinku does that. Definitely shouldn't. Definitely shouldn't. There's a snapping sound that he comes out of his beak, and he says. He looks at the word, and he's like. He does this, like, talking motion. [01:11:13] Speaker C: Leering, [01:11:16] Speaker A: leering, leering. And he, like, taps the bar, and he, like, just goes behind the bar. He flaps himself over, and the weirdest thing is the bar keeps down the other way. It's like, rinsing out some drinks and then, like, cleaning him up. And then he just turns around, and there's just Kinku, and he just says. And the dwarf is just like, I've got to talk to them about this being better. Next time, follow Eladriel in a very whisper. But you don't hear these words. But okay, But I see him do that, and you see him just, like, turn around, and he just does. He, like, sneaks out of the bar. [01:12:03] Speaker B: But he gives him finger crossbows. [01:12:05] Speaker A: Yeah, and then he. The Kinku. If you could put him by Aladriel, that'd be great, [01:12:12] Speaker C: I think. I. I think. I think Fetrix is kind of, like, peeved that he, like, did it first. Like, she gave him the answer, and [01:12:23] Speaker A: then he just took it. [01:12:23] Speaker C: I'm gonna like. And then I look back at the [01:12:26] Speaker A: note, and I'm like. [01:12:27] Speaker D: And I'm Situated now. And I say so. [01:12:29] Speaker B: And he's got a fresh butt coin. [01:12:33] Speaker C: I think that was how his rowan could prestidigitate that. [01:12:36] Speaker B: I was over on the coin, I [01:12:39] Speaker D: put it in my pocket and I save it for a rainy day. I'm like, okay, I'll practice that one. [01:12:45] Speaker A: It's gonna happen again. It's gonna happen again. You put a coin on your head because someone's in attention. It went down your shirt. Wait, I sleep. [01:12:55] Speaker D: I. [01:12:55] Speaker A: Here. Abby, you're going to get a hero coin for that. [01:12:58] Speaker D: What is this? [01:12:59] Speaker B: Don't put it in your shirt. [01:13:01] Speaker D: Don't put it in your. [01:13:03] Speaker A: A hero coin is my way of doing inspiration instead of doing actual inspiration, where you just have to re roll something. Hero coins are more of a story story method telling thing. So you would like something to work or you would like something to almost work or something like this. You, you can just give me the hero coin and be like, I would like this in some way to happen. [01:13:22] Speaker D: Okay. [01:13:23] Speaker A: And that can be what we do. [01:13:25] Speaker D: Daniel intervention. [01:13:26] Speaker A: Daniel intervention. [01:13:27] Speaker B: That's such a good way of putting that gravity. [01:13:29] Speaker A: Very good way. [01:13:29] Speaker D: Cool. Thank you. I'm excited. [01:13:32] Speaker A: And if you would like to. The only way you can use it as a reroll is if you give your hero coin to someone else and then they can reroll their roll. [01:13:40] Speaker B: So it's like, better than that for you, but at a minimum, you could [01:13:43] Speaker A: use it for damage preparation or someone else. Yeah. [01:13:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:13:45] Speaker C: Okay. [01:13:46] Speaker D: Okay. So I say, I cough, and I'm [01:13:51] Speaker C: like, are you, Are you all right there? [01:13:56] Speaker D: Might be fine. So I just, I just came to. I am here to help with that puzzle you're working on. And I, I, I like, I sit down and I'm like, now she puts [01:14:08] Speaker C: her hand on top of the word. Cause she doesn't want what to happen just now. [01:14:13] Speaker D: Well, I overheard Ms. A. Landrill [01:14:19] Speaker B: Daniel and I at the same time. [01:14:22] Speaker C: I, I keep going in and out of. [01:14:24] Speaker D: Of like, hey, did I say the wrong name? [01:14:26] Speaker C: Cowboy Scott. [01:14:28] Speaker A: But just. [01:14:29] Speaker B: Just feel. Feel what you're feeling. And maybe he's a cowboy. [01:14:32] Speaker C: Practiced it. She was like, Sean Connery. [01:14:35] Speaker A: Pirate Sean Connery. [01:14:41] Speaker B: You need a key phrase. [01:14:42] Speaker C: There we go. Feather. [01:14:43] Speaker A: Church. [01:14:44] Speaker B: Feather. [01:14:44] Speaker A: Ch. [01:14:45] Speaker C: Now I felt like Richard Nixon. [01:14:47] Speaker A: I did not do that. [01:14:50] Speaker B: All right, this is. We're delirious listeners. [01:14:54] Speaker C: So, yeah, she puts her in. She goes, I, I believe that it's. I believe that it's. Sure. [01:15:06] Speaker B: Well, you know, there's something I miss. Ms. Eladriel, Ron Glenn. It's always like, Abby's always three degrees to the left on every character. [01:15:19] Speaker D: Well, yes. [01:15:19] Speaker C: I mean, Isaac, you have one of the coins. [01:15:24] Speaker D: He said to me, I overheard him saying, you gotta. [01:15:34] Speaker A: You got. [01:15:35] Speaker C: It's a. [01:15:36] Speaker D: It's a sure darn shame that that menu ain't Alphabet ties. [01:15:40] Speaker C: Yes, and I figured it out. [01:15:42] Speaker D: Well, I'm glad to be of an [01:15:44] Speaker C: assistant and my friend over there, I. What's your name? [01:15:51] Speaker D: Well, I'm Merlin. This is Moose. Good to meet you. [01:15:53] Speaker B: She gets both of their left hand. [01:15:57] Speaker C: She's covering this one, so she's like. [01:15:58] Speaker D: And once he offers his name, cuz his other name was in his pan. [01:16:05] Speaker C: And so Featrix's hand is like turned all the way around to like shake. [01:16:09] Speaker B: This session is phenomenal. This is such a good one shot. [01:16:12] Speaker C: Our Fiertrix Feather Sword. [01:16:14] Speaker D: Well, good to meet you, Ms. Fieratrix. Well, what are you saying? [01:16:19] Speaker C: Well, she holds up the coin and she says, does yours look like this? I mean, I don't want to. [01:16:23] Speaker A: Nope, just tell me it is a different coin. [01:16:28] Speaker D: No, my mind has a. A sort of snakey lady on it and a tree, which I thought was very touching. I love trees. [01:16:37] Speaker B: Abby, this PC's awesome. [01:16:39] Speaker D: So what do you say? So what do you say about you and I make an alliance? We say that we're together and we go talk to our friend Mr. Galadriel [01:16:52] Speaker B: DM at this very moment. Can I be. Can I be at the table across from you? [01:16:55] Speaker C: The other locking out. [01:16:57] Speaker B: I look up and I just go. And I close my journal and I. I like jog over to. [01:17:03] Speaker A: Okay, yeah, yeah. [01:17:04] Speaker B: I'm not trying to steal the scene. I'm just like that to happen. [01:17:05] Speaker A: You do have to tell the barkeep. [01:17:07] Speaker B: Oh, I noticed. That was part of it. Okay, then I hit. [01:17:10] Speaker A: When he stood up, he said, then [01:17:11] Speaker B: I'll go around the table and I'll. I'll like start like creeping around the edge of the bar toward the barkeep. But I. [01:17:16] Speaker D: Well, we better. We better actually. [01:17:18] Speaker C: Okay, okay, fine. [01:17:20] Speaker A: Sure. [01:17:20] Speaker B: I'm around the bar. [01:17:22] Speaker C: But you don't. You don't go ahead of me. [01:17:25] Speaker D: No, I'm a very loud, giving. [01:17:27] Speaker C: First the words. [01:17:28] Speaker A: Leerin, I'm. [01:17:29] Speaker B: I'm at the edge of the bar. [01:17:30] Speaker D: That was on the tip of my tongue. [01:17:31] Speaker A: He's not as scared. [01:17:33] Speaker B: This is the side of the bar. All almost four feet of me is at the edge. And I'm like tracing my finger on the side of the bar and I just point at him and I go, come here. [01:17:44] Speaker A: I don't know if this is creepier than the bird. He comes over and says, just say it in my ear. [01:17:53] Speaker B: And I, like, get really close, and I get up close to his ear, and I go, [01:18:01] Speaker C: yes. [01:18:03] Speaker A: Yeah, go to the ladder room. [01:18:06] Speaker B: And then I go back around the bar, and I jog over to him. [01:18:10] Speaker A: He looks at the two who are now at his room. Well, you keep coming around the back. He just looks at you, and he's [01:18:17] Speaker D: like, no, I'm gonna. [01:18:19] Speaker A: The fact that they recruiting nothing but freaks today. [01:18:24] Speaker D: I have an action. So can I. Yeah. Before we go over, I'm gonna say, now, wait. No, one minute. I'm gonna go get my friend. [01:18:30] Speaker C: Oh, my friend. [01:18:32] Speaker D: Her name is Chandra. [01:18:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:18:34] Speaker C: I thought. I thought this was an alliance. [01:18:37] Speaker D: Well, I'm. You know, your friends are my friends, and my friends are her friends, and we're all. I think we're all friends. I don't know about that gnome guy. We're all friends. Okay. Okay. [01:18:50] Speaker C: Okay. [01:18:51] Speaker D: And I go up to Shondra. [01:18:52] Speaker C: The moment she turns around, I go, [01:18:57] Speaker D: that ain't very. [01:19:00] Speaker B: And he still doesn't know what the password is. Oh, he doesn't? [01:19:04] Speaker C: No, I told her. Oh, told her. [01:19:05] Speaker B: Okay, okay. [01:19:07] Speaker A: Chandra looks at you, and she's like, wow, they made quite a scene, didn't they? [01:19:14] Speaker D: Folk around here. [01:19:15] Speaker B: She says to the guy who dropped a coin in his pants and fished [01:19:18] Speaker C: it out, [01:19:21] Speaker A: perhaps we can work on our stealth skills in the future. And our alliance ship. [01:19:26] Speaker D: Absolutely. I'll take my spurs off next time. I'll be real sneaky. [01:19:29] Speaker A: That's good. That's good idea. [01:19:30] Speaker C: I'd like to say I do a little glide over there. Oh, you do a little. [01:19:35] Speaker B: It's really hard not to start doing her. [01:19:37] Speaker A: I know. [01:19:38] Speaker B: It's so infectious. [01:19:39] Speaker A: You get off of your stool and you just glide down to where the back is. And the. The barkeep just looks at you, and he's like, I can take you at the bar. You know, I can hear you across the bar. You don't have to get this close. [01:19:53] Speaker C: Leering. [01:19:54] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Leering. I'm sorry. [01:20:00] Speaker B: Horror. [01:20:01] Speaker A: Just go over. Go over to that latch. Truth. [01:20:03] Speaker C: I glide over there as you glide [01:20:06] Speaker A: over a few others in the midst of you going to Chandra and talking to her, and she's like, okay, okay. And. And she discusses with you what she thought the word was, and she was a few letters off. And then you help her, and you're like, okay. And she slides you a gold piece, and she's like, I will. [01:20:24] Speaker C: I didn't get offered no gold piece. [01:20:26] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. Should be. She's like, I know things are not free, actually. Perhaps this will keep us gluing as we go to the next one. As y' all start to go up and you see a couple of them are giving the word, or giving what? The word they think it is. And as they. He's. He does not send them to Eladriel. He sends them to Traum. And as Traum, he. He gets it. He gets them at the table and he's like, yes, yes, yes. As he like, claps a little bit, he says, we see who is stronger. I promise I will not go easy. And he puts down his hand and they kind of look and they just dejectedly push their heads down. And he says, yes, yes, we stay here all night. And does not look like you want to be sent to Traum ever. As you and Chandra go up there, another humanoid, big black cloak. He comes up and stands behind you, but far enough away where he's not going to hear what you whispering to the dwarven man. And the dwarven man gives you. What do you say? Do you go across? Do you get behind there? [01:21:47] Speaker D: I sit at the bar and I say, well, it looks like you're having a pretty busy night. [01:21:52] Speaker A: A very busy night. Yeah. I did not know this many people would be coming out. [01:21:55] Speaker D: Lots of folk leering about. [01:21:57] Speaker A: I would say, well, that is the most subtle way. If someone gave me that pass. Yeah, you. He like. He's like, I'm actually quite impressed with how you brought it in. And he's like. And he, like, gives you a tankard of aliens. That's for the road. [01:22:11] Speaker D: Oh, well, thank you, sir. [01:22:14] Speaker B: By the end of this one shot, every PC, every NPC will have Abby's voice. No matter how we all started, we're all going to end the session going. [01:22:22] Speaker A: I do the classic. [01:22:23] Speaker D: The only voice I know what to do, I'm doing. [01:22:27] Speaker B: You're great at it. [01:22:28] Speaker A: And you see Chandra, she says it, and she, like. She says the word, but she says it in avian. And you see the. The dwarven man nod and he sends her to Eladriel. And then the last one comes up and in a terrible voice, in a language that. What languages do you know? [01:22:48] Speaker D: I know. Common and gnomish. [01:22:51] Speaker A: In a language you do not know. [01:22:52] Speaker D: Okay. [01:22:53] Speaker A: Filled with. He says a word and you see the dwarf say, no, you gotta say that for me one more time. As he says it again, he's like, okay, you can go to Eladriel. And as you all head through and finish the first of the trials. Yay. From behind, each one of you in the shadows don't see. Someone puts a bag over your head in different ways. It cinches so you can't take it off. But you hear Eladriel's voice say, very good. Don't be too scared. But a little scared is fun. We walk. Come on. And y' all start walking in a terrible darkness that you cannot see through. You start walking. You bump into each other a little bit. You bump into walls, into things. Was that a table? Was that glass? Who knows? But you keep walking. This old bag smells of tons of different flavors and the underbelly on the underbelly of the world. From dirt to crap. You hear nothing but footsteps as you are carried slash pushed the whole way to the next area. [01:24:17] Speaker B: We don't know how else to say this. This is not tension music girl. How are you confused about that? [01:24:24] Speaker A: What feels like hours of walking finally turns from dank darkness to abundant light. Along the way you smell the seafaring air around you before you are thrown into another room. The smell of fresh clean tables to mugs with various alcoholic beverages fill your nostrils as the bags are slowly removed. And what must have been a terribly long trip over hours away. [01:24:56] Speaker D: We walked for hours. [01:24:57] Speaker A: Hours and hours. [01:24:59] Speaker C: Did we seem like we were outside at all? [01:25:01] Speaker A: It. It ranged from being inside like what felt like a hallway to the open air to the forest back to a hallway to like a moist cavernous feel. [01:25:18] Speaker D: Go up and down. [01:25:19] Speaker A: No. For the most part you only felt straight which way that direction is. The world may never know. [01:25:27] Speaker D: But you were taking keen mind for hours. [01:25:30] Speaker A: That would be a good one. And now you are in an area that I believe. Remind me again where Garth is from. Oh, I'm from Hearthstone in a very familiar smelling town. [01:25:47] Speaker B: Garth, Not a sentence you thought you'd hear today. [01:25:49] Speaker A: You know where you are. [01:25:51] Speaker C: That is best smile. [01:25:52] Speaker A: Hearthstone. [01:25:53] Speaker B: Is the bag taken off of my head? [01:25:55] Speaker A: Almost. I just. [01:25:56] Speaker D: Hearthstone is so far away. [01:25:59] Speaker A: Weird. It only to the mind of Garth would it feel like. Man, there's no way that was more than a day. But you did feel as Garth. You're the only one who knows that. This should have taken way longer. Can you give me an arcana check [01:26:19] Speaker B: or give it two guesses What I didn't take proficiency in. [01:26:24] Speaker A: Oh, well. [01:26:24] Speaker B: But I got a good check. [01:26:25] Speaker A: 1818 for a second. Being an artificer. A man of limited magic, but magic that is filled with [01:26:38] Speaker B: ingenuity. [01:26:38] Speaker A: Yeah, that's the word ingenuity. You did feel just ever so slightly tugged at a certain point as you walked through a gross magic encapsulated you for just a second, as if you were propelled long distances in short amount of time. [01:26:58] Speaker B: If. If I have been aware that there's been some conjuration at play and then can smell my beloved hearthstone through the bag, then as we're arriving at our. At our location, as we get there, there's this moment of realization that's presented simply through me taking a sharp inhalation of excitement. And the bag just goes up against my nose and a couple mustache hairs poke through it. And then as it relaxes back out. [01:27:29] Speaker A: Hell yeah. I need to go to the bathroom. [01:27:33] Speaker B: Yes, this would be a great time for this. Could be part one. [01:27:36] Speaker A: Part one. [01:27:37] Speaker B: Abby's already leaving. We haven't signed off. And Abby said, that's my cue. [01:27:41] Speaker D: I love to stand up. I love to stand up. [01:27:44] Speaker B: That was very loud, [01:27:47] Speaker A: listener. [01:27:49] Speaker B: We'll stop part one right there of crawling through the cracks, which makes more sense now. So that was part one. And if that was our episode two energy in part one, I want to apologize in advance for part two, but life's an incredible adventure. You're an important part of it. And we'll see where all of this leads. Gibbery Wat n dada.