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Speaker 1: Yeah, that’s what I was thinking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that’s what I was
Speaker 3: thinking. Let me pull up the log. It’s a solid two sentences. All right. Essentially, you guys, in the previous session, you guys started at the abandoned village, made your way over to whatever it was called. Yeah. I cannot English. Give me one second.
Speaker 4: Sorry, it’s the ice people. I know who they are.
Speaker 3: You guys were here. You guys went to Trotonia. You guys talked to Elzin, asking for a group ride down to Brelnada, where the party was going to flit. You guys made your way down here, and then at about here-ish, give or take, you guys were attacked by a group of Vexmortive followers who tried to use the wonderful magic and vanish you all, attempting to send you back to the Nine Hells, believing you to be demons, obviously. That did not work. Then you guys proceeded to terrify them and rob them. Not you guys specifically, but you guys in the party.
Speaker 2: Yeah. We were actually quite nice.
Speaker 1: No, no. Me and Flux, we actually didn’t care for human regard and slaughtered all of them.
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, yeah. We fire-volved them, yeah. Yeah, yeah, fantastic. I’m so glad that you did. I compiled all their atoms in the black hole. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Then you guys finished your journey, heading through Brimstone, which as you guys passed through, it was literally empty. You didn’t even see a single person in there, so you guys continued your journey all the way to Brelnada, where you arrived.
It was kind of dark, and you guys had a long raft. That is except for Fuchsie and Dragon. Sorry, you just get-you’re being volunt told this. Essentially, you guys stayed up late throughout the night, and Dragon utilized his wonderful abilities to create a brand new magic item. Oh, so nice. A total of four of them, actually, to get to the party.
Speaker 1: Oh, oh, wait, huh?
Speaker 3: So every single person will get this. Kind of. It’s called an orb of Zoom. Okay, wait, Zoom? Wait, are we talking about- It’s basically a conference call, but it announces to all of the others that are currently created, basically what you say, to make this work gameplay and realistically.
The further away you guys are apart from each other, the longer the delay is in sending and receiving messages. Gosh. Oh. That’s a totally not convenient way for me to just keep you guys in communication while still not actually playing two games at the same time. True.
Speaker 4: Although if I use the spell sending, I can make this a pain for you.
Speaker 3: You could, but I was a pull-up dragon right now. Yeah, that’s true. But yeah. So you guys woke up in Brelnada. Basically, Shukham said, good luck on your journey. We’ll keep in touch. And kind of left the end. I will say you guys left a little bit earlier than the other two. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 4: So when in terms of leaving, are we on the boat or are we like just- No.
Speaker 3: So you guys are currently at an end. You guys actually would be here. So I didn’t know if you guys wanted to do some shopping first or what you guys really wanted to do here. If you wanted to go straight for boats, you guys know kind of where you would go. You kind of go to this general area right in here. But if you wanted to go shopping, you can do that, whatever, whatever. Mark, this is up to you. My motive is to go instantly.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Shop to your heart’s content.
Speaker 4: I only have any goals. So the most I could do is to steal something.
Speaker 2: But what I will do is we’re in the in currently, correct? You guys just exited the end.
Speaker 4: What time is it? It’s time to look.
Speaker 5: It would be about 8 a.m.
Speaker 3: at first point. I think that’s time for breakfast. Breakfast. Just look over at Aragorn Village.
Speaker 4: Well, I guess I guess I’ll venture ahead and figure out what you’re going to do about this whole situation. It would be when it was an ice people after you.
Speaker 1: Pretty much. I’m only worried that my past kingdom is taken over by them. If so, well, you know what we must do. But hopefully everything is normal.
Speaker 3: And we can figure this out hoping it’s just another cult.
Speaker 1: Most of the time there
Speaker 4: after somebody for a reason, but I mean, there is a reason for you. A very big one. Yeah, you’re kind of the prince. So we should get you there carefully and without hopefully any issues. That being said, I don’t think there’s anything I currently need to do because I am broke. And we probably should save money to afford a boat.
Speaker 3: But we were given 15 platinum, right? At one point.
Speaker 1: Is that this campaign or was that a different one? Let’s see. The last time you guys were given any currency was September 11th. Oh, my God.
Speaker 1: Oh, my God. We did 9-11. Oh, my God.
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. By the way, I still have inspiration because that one time something happened.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he rolled the natural 100 on the transportation wheel. But it didn’t fit with the plot. So you guys got a free inspiration point in exchange for re-rolling. What was the 100? I can’t tell you because I hope you guys roll it in a better time.
Speaker 4: Oh, God. So yeah, I guess at this point, I am Andrew, or sorry, Aragorn C, just my character blur for a second because I need to cast it on myself. Andrew, you know what? You want to roll a… Actually, what do I roll? Hang on, hang on, hang on. I forget because there’s like two different things and I haven’t played them. Me too. This is a 50-50 shot. I turn into the micro forever.
Speaker 1: What do you mean micro forever? Butter, can this happen?
Speaker 4: So when I cast the Dunamancy spell, which I’m trying to figure out which one this was, I have forgotten how to play D &D. I’m sorry, one second.
Speaker 1: I’m a fighter. This is why I chose to strictly not do magic, especially in found treat.
Speaker 4: Butter, I swear I had a spell that gave me a D8. Oh, Github Alacrity. Okay, so Github Alacrity, you got a free cast of it. I need to roll a D6. Can you roll a D6, Andrew?
Speaker 1: Sure, buddy. Oh, God. Let me get this good old dice out.
Speaker 3: They’re probably just D if anything. No, that’s okay.
Speaker 4: D6 or D12? Hang on. I think it’s a D12 last night. Yeah, I think it’s a D12. Should I roll both? Yeah, I got that. I’m having a hard time navigating my character sheet and I don’t know why. Hang on.
Speaker 3: You’ve just forgotten where everything is.
Speaker 4: Yes, I haven’t been on Foundry in probably a few weeks. I’m going to roll both. Yeah, I just rolled both.
Speaker 3: Basically, it was a 3 on a D6 and then a 5 on a D12. Okay, we’re fine either way.
Speaker 4: You’re fine. So we’ll just continue walking and everything’s fine. I’m going to figure out where that is because I need to have that on access. Choose one skill, blah, blah, blah, blah, you gain proficiency. Nope, that’s not it. Dude, I don’t know where that is. Do I have it even as a feature? Butter or no?
Speaker 3: I remember that we put it somewhere but I don’t remember where it is.
Speaker 4: I felt like I know. It’s not bad. I don’t think we have. I don’t think I got one but that’s fine. I think it’s just a D12 anyway. I know it’s a D12. Yeah, well, I guess we’ll walk through it. I found it.
Speaker 3: It’s in your pouch with your Dodecahedron. It has the information there. Would casting Dune I say first level roll a D12 on a 1 roll a percentile dice?
Speaker 4: Got you. Okay. Good, good, good. That’s right. Okay, it’s the Dodecahedron and that’s fine. All right, oracle. All right, so yeah. I start walking towards the most breezy location or where the ocean smells like the ocean because I’m assuming this is salt water. I don’t know that yet. I go to the ocean and turn into a fish. I could and I could swallow you if you want. What do you mean you could? I’m scared. Okay.
Speaker 3: So you’re just going towards the ocean looking for anything?
Speaker 2: Like a dock, boats, boat docking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay. It doesn’t show on the map or anything. Yeah, yeah. But as you get closer to the area, you definitely see a lot of docks with a whole lot of boats. Like I said, this is the only port city in the entire continent. So there are plenty of people coming and going.
However, they do seem to have it laid out pretty logically. It’s pretty clear that the judge going by the map anyway, the bottom half down over here is mostly goods being imported and exported. Both of its cargo ships. Whereas the upper half up here seems to be all tassels or ships. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Let’s just turn and be like, oh my gosh, we’re going to head into. I guess so. I have curiosity here. How much gold do you have on or I got to change? Oh God. Let’s see. I got Shain pulls out 80 gold and doubloons.
Speaker 1: I have two gold pieces.
Speaker 5: We should have bought some money from the boys, but that’s fine. We can always sneak on a boat.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know. Just ethics, that’s all. Ethics, metrics. Yeah. Yeah, I figure they came down to it.
Speaker 1: I’ve seen homeless people sneak on these boats many of time. I’m sure we’re okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we can attempt it. Do you see anyone off in the distance that look, do these people look like regular old fashioned just travelers or do they look fancy? Like what kind of vibe are the people in my garden?
Speaker 3: So right now there are currently, like I said, it’s very busy. So there’s currently two boats that are that have just recently docked. And they are very large boats to be specific. They are. They’re important boats.
Speaker 4: They got lore. Andrew, we got lore boats. Oh God, not lore boats.
Speaker 1: Is there a lore Kraken?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, no. They’re very large boats. They’re galleons. Like they’re good 110 to 150 feet long boats. One with multiple sails. And as you notice, most of the ships that are currently docked here are galleons actually due to the big distance at sea. There’s very few smaller boats.
Okay. But one of them that is currently docking, it seems to be filled to the brim. There are people at every level. All of the cannons have been removed just packed full of what appears to be commoners. The other one that is docking and beginning to unload is sparsely populated, but has people wearing far nicer clothes. There’s very clearly polished cannons, everything like ready to go. So for lack of a better term, if there’s your economy versus first class.
Speaker 4: Gotcha. So here I turn to Eric. Here’s my plan. And you can tell Shain’s being very playful. You’re going to go on the poor people boat and I’m going to go try and make some friends on the rich people boat. How about that? What do you mean?
Speaker 1: What if I get lost? What if I die at sea? Who’s going to kill you?
Speaker 4: Like you? Who’s going to kill me? We’ve basically killed a god. I’m pretty sure. A god? Let’s quote. Yes, of course. Yeah, I’m just joking. We’ll head to the poor people boat. That’s right.
Speaker 1: I love that. I love the God with quotes. I didn’t cite. I don’t believe you.
Speaker 4: That’s a six on persuasion.
Speaker 1: Oh, hold up.
Speaker 3: Hold up. That’s an eight.
Speaker 4: Well, you know that I’m not really good at persuading you and I’m not. Well, I actually, it depends on what butter would say because I had to roll persuasion because I wasn’t lying to you.
Speaker 3: He’s not lying as far as you can. He’s not lying.
Speaker 1: Gotcha. Let’s go, buddy. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Poor people. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Okay. We start trawling over to the boat and see if we can get on or pay our dues or debts. All right. Pay our pens.
Speaker 3: As you go up towards the boat that recently just finished talking, they’re kind of pushing your way through people as they’re kind of offloading off of this boat. And they’re getting to the bridge, the bridge that they kind of have up for people to walk across. And there is somebody standing there in finer clothes than commoner, but certainly not fine clothes. Yeah, not like me. He kind of looks at you as you guys stop near the boat and says, oh, looking for a fare.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I’m not really interested in fare. I’m more interested in boats, but yes.
Speaker 1: Looking to go overseas then. Yes. Well, where are you headed?
Speaker 4: Well, I guess we’re heading over to a place called, and I look over at Aragorn. I’m just like nodding my, or shaking my head like, what was it again?
Speaker 1: You don’t look at my law. People have had a book.
Speaker 4: I was thinking that. Oh man. Gone door? No. No. No. Hang on. Nope. Sorry. I can really just look at world map and it’s right there. Wait butter. Levant, LaVontiane?
Speaker 3: If you’re trying to get to the other going to the door, which is over here, which is out to the car, which means you guys wanted to go to Dessurnia. You didn’t have to go through LaVontia. So Dessurnia.
Speaker 1: Oh, Dessurnia. Well, that’s for most people to come and go.
Speaker 3: So I shouldn’t be surprised.
Speaker 1: Well, fare is pretty cheap. Only about 25 gold per person.
Speaker 3: Although I cannot guarantee that you will get to the other side. All food and safety precautions are up to the rider.
Speaker 4: What do you mean? That’s a little strange. Hang on. Let me consult with my client and I just, I huddle with Andrew. I’m like, what do you mean by that? That seems a little suspicious.
Speaker 1: It means we’re going to die. Do you think we just take the chance anyway?
Speaker 4: I mean, the others are basically like still asleep to him.
Speaker 1: Excuse me. Excuse me, sir. Yes.
Speaker 3: You turn around and see a very finely dressed gentleman. He’s on the younger side, but he definitely, he’s wearing very fine clothes. It’s almost obvious that he either is somebody important on a ship or maybe even a captain. As he approaches and says, if you would like a nicer ride, this ship might be more your speed. As he kind of points towards the nice ship.
Speaker 4: Well, the question would be for you, fine sir. I love nice ships and I’d like to be on nicer ships. I like nice things. However, how much is this nice thing going to cost us between two of us?
Speaker 3: Well, we pride ourselves on comfort and relaxation. It will cost a measly 200 gold per person.
Speaker 4: I cast silence on him. I’m just kidding.
Speaker 3: But all safety precautions will be taken. We have a fully trained staff and crew ready to serve you for anything you may or may not need.
Speaker 4: Well, see, I would love to do that. But between me and this guy, we don’t even have enough to come up with 100. So, yeah, it’s kind of unfortunate.
Speaker 3: Are you Pachance Guild at navigation? What kind? Naval navigation. Okay. On the water.
Speaker 4: So then this is a question for you, Butter, because I know personally as a person who’s near the water a lot because of being in the coastal thing. Some, sometimes I hear, I don’t know if it’s legitimate or not, but Shain used to look at the stars a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. If your character is very familiar with stars and start getting a hobby of yours, your character, I mean, it would stand to reason that you would be at least decent at navigating by stars. Okay.
Speaker 4: Because that’s what he would do on his free time when he wasn’t doing like school or basically working on the whole situation with the Doha Cajun. He would look at the stars. So I guess I would just be like, well, what is it? What is that called? No, not cartography. What is it called? Something constellation?
Speaker 1: Stargazing. I know it’s like stellar. I don’t think it’s stellar cartography. No, Ron.
Speaker 4: I’m proficient with blank insert.
Speaker 1: I used to just look at the stars when I was a little younger. Well, I think, but I am probably more than capable of at least understanding where to navigate. Celestial navigation.
Speaker 3: Yeah. He says, oh, so that’s great. And you, can you mop?
Speaker 1: I mean, I’m decently strong so I can lift things. Not like strong as a barbarian, but I have a decent right for that human sized man.
Speaker 4: Well. Look at his muscles. He’s jacked.
Speaker 1: Look at him. In that case, we could do a temporary work appointment just until we reach your destination.
Speaker 3: However, there is a cost to this. You see temporary assignments cost more, as I’m sure you’re aware. And so it wouldn’t be able to cover your whole fee. Say it would be down to only 50 gold per person.
Speaker 4: If I can somehow get an extra, how much should we need Andrew with 13 gold? 18. 18 gold. I would love to do it. You guys have a charity fund.
Speaker 1: Do you have to wait?
Speaker 4: Yeah, just a little short. At minimum, we have right now in our pocket, sir. About 82. That’s it. The extra sorry, 81, 82. I forgot what it was.
Speaker 3: At this point, he kind of turns towards. Aragorn and says, well, looks like you have some mighty fine weapons. Maybe trade is an option.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, none of my weapons are for sale.
Speaker 3: Well, to even say that short bow.
Speaker 2: You know, I have to get on that. I kind of want to just go along the four people ships because this guy’s doing us too much harassment.
Speaker 1: The short bow is the one thing I don’t care about. The swords are like.
Speaker 4: But do you have any other range weapons? Fuck no. No, don’t do that. I need you in case that happens, dude. Unfortunately, no.
Speaker 3: Well, then I guess the syringe of it won’t work after all. I’m going to kill him.
Speaker 1: I suggest he gives us a free rise. I’m just. I do have suggestions.
Speaker 4: Please. Can’t be shown. The suggestion must be worded in such a manner as to take the course of an action sound reasonable.
Speaker 3: So, okay. I reasonably there’s many ways that you could do this reasonably, but I’d love to hear your idea first.
Speaker 4: So here’s my idea. I haven’t cast them. I’m just thinking like if I do like the behind the back like right and I like send a spell. Okay. I’m thinking I could suggest that he lowers the price because we have an urgent matter.
Speaker 3: Okay. Okay. That is. That’s an option. It definitely is more dependent on the NPC if he is a caring individual or not. If he has no empathy, then even that suggestion won’t work. Not I know not metagaming. I’m just letting you know. If he has no empathy, it’s not really going to work out for you.
Speaker 4: Well, he know if I did this or not. The time was always there to be actions or the best ability to cross the action. You can also specify trigger until Matt.
Speaker 3: It doesn’t look like they know. So I wouldn’t say cool.
Speaker 4: I will make a slight hand check to cast suggestion on him. Oh, honestly.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, you wouldn’t need to. It’s you suggest a course of activity out at the way that it looks like you don’t. It’s not semantic. Oh, you really just speak the words, but you really mean them these minutes mean it this time. Yeah, I mean, I mean, yeah, I suggest what I mean.
Speaker 4: Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. Okay. So I do the spell. He needs to make a wisdom saving term pretty sure.
Speaker 3: All right. First role in a hot minute. Yeah. Okay. I’m pretty sure a four does not be. Unfortunately. So what exactly do you say? Well, how about this? You’ll lower the price of it.
Speaker 4: Me and Eric or and we’ll take care of what you’ve asked us to. And in return, because we have urgent business. You take us to our destination for 50 gold for both. You don’t have.
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, we have. He just got things for a second. And so. Well, I could possibly do that if either you can cook. Yeah, I can cause. Wait, rewind. Hang on. I may or may not have forgotten a very important individual. The girl. The girl.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: She’s invisible.
Speaker 4: So like, well, yes, this is true. If she, if she believes she’s hiding. And yes, however, didn’t we discuss that they were going to go with.
Speaker 3: That’s the problem. I don’t remember who we said the girl would go with.
Speaker 4: I mean, I honestly though. I think it was I was for the choices giving her the decision who to go with. I remember that because I remember that was like a.
Speaker 3: Do I again here. Remember things like this.
Speaker 4: I didn’t write that down. I only write down like locations or names. Or like items.
Speaker 3: I would have written it down if I had time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know. Season’s crazy. Okay. So apparently the girls with you. Oh, okay.
Speaker 3: So, um, suddenly just behind you, she just goes, I can cook. He kind of like takes a step back from going like, where did she come from? She’s my daughter. And he goes, okay, I guess I can make that work.
50 gold for the three of you. Yeah. Yeah. Plus three workers.
That should even us. He kind of like raises his hand. Kind of awkwardly almost as somebody throws him a long, large book from the ship with very, very good accuracy. Surprisingly.
Kind of almost purposely showing off how highly trained they are. A counter spell. He grabs the book and flips through it for a second. I gave him money by the way. Okay. He turns it around to show a contract. Don’t freak out. It’s not a magic contract. Okay.
It is literally just a contract that outlines your duties, the expectations, and a promise to, you know, not kill you all and try their best to keep you safe along with other things. Yeah. But very basic. Like, it’s not like actually type this up. It’s nothing concerning or anything.
Speaker 4: I’m not hiding anything. If you haven’t typed it up, we’re good. I’ll just sign and then give the girl.
Speaker 3: She just kind of follows right after what you do and sign.
Speaker 4: She probably hands it over to Andrews. All right. Well, we’ll do our best and she can appoint me to the where I need to be. I’ll go there and Aragorn can mop and she can cook.
Speaker 3: He folds the piece of paper up and kind of puts it in a pocket on the inside of the book. There’s like a little extra pocket to store stuff. He writes something down on one of the blank pages, tears it off and hands it to you. You can’t read it interestingly. But he says, just get on the boats and hand this to the first mate. He’ll figure it out from there. Okay. Yeah. Well, thank you. He just kind of nods and starts looking around for his next unsuspecting prey.
Speaker 4: Aragorn. I’m assuming he’s gone, right? Yes. I can’t read this. Can you?
Speaker 1: What do you mean you can’t read it?
Speaker 4: I just show him the piece of paper. Do you know what this says?
Speaker 1: What is it? What was the paper?
Speaker 3: The paper. No, you can’t read it.
Speaker 1: I’ll be showing it to you.
Speaker 3: Noree’s just kind of poked her head up and says, oh, I can read it.
Speaker 1: Uh-huh. Yeah. That’s what I was hoping you could do. Yeah, what does it say?
Speaker 3: Uh, he just says that it’s what we’re supposed to be doing with an extra note at the bottom. I don’t like that very much.
Speaker 4: What does the note at the bottom say? Noree, please. This is kind of scary. I don’t know. Something gives me the wrong vibe.
Speaker 3: It says that the mopper should mop 24 hours a day. I don’t know if that’s a joke or not. Erick, I think we messed up.
Speaker 4: I think we just signed a contract with the Miller-Vex Mortis. I doubt. You might be bound to eternal mocking, Erick.
Speaker 1: I highly doubt it. It’s nothing. I think we’re fine.
Speaker 4: Noree, do you think this is a joke or do you think this looks legit?
Speaker 3: I might be reading it wrong. I’m not sure. It’s written in goblin. I’ve only studied it for a year. Okay.
Speaker 4: I appreciate your honesty. I am going to take 10 minutes and just try to figure this out real quick before we get on the boat. Okay? I would like to start with truly casting goblin hand languages.
Speaker 3: Okay. I will warn you though. From what you can make out, these boats probably keep a very tight schedule. From what you’ve noticed of other boats in the region, they dock for five minutes, just enough for everybody to get off and new people to get on.
Speaker 4: What I’ll do then is I will be by the docks and then they’re going to give their row call or warning call or whatever. And then once that happens, then I’ll step on the boat.
But I’m going to walk invisibly slow, acting like, not like I hurt myself, but that I got a sore back, just a little bit. I got you. Yeah. I got you. Okay.
Speaker 3: Are you guys just, not you guys. I’m sorry, I’m used to more people. Andrew, are you going to just kind of chill with him? Are you going to go ahead or what? I’ll chill.
Okay. So, well, as you kind of begin casting that and time goes by, the boat completely unloads. Of course, like I said, there’s not that many people on there. And they kind of waited for all of the main foot traffic from the commoners boats to go before they moved. A couple of people get on to the boat, none of which you recognize.
But most of them look relatively wealthy, shop owners and the like. Yeah. But about three minutes into your ritual casting, a guy kind of calls out and with a very familiar expected final call, we’re leaving soon, get in here or else we’re going to leave you.
Yeah. As you walk across the bridge, but this one is actually nicer because it actually has handrails. The other one for the commoners, if you just, if you got bumped, you just fell off. Well, here we are. As you walk across it, there is a man standing right at the, kind of like the entrance. And he kind of says, sorry to ask, I need your tickets.
Speaker 4: I’m assuming that’s what I’m holding.
Speaker 3: Yes. However, you’re not done ritual casting, so I don’t know. Up to you, how do you want to help us?
Speaker 2: Does he seem like the intelligent type or broody type?
Speaker 3: He seems far more intelligent type. Interesting.
Speaker 2: I just look over and be like, weird request.
Speaker 4: Can I just hang on to this for a couple more minutes? I mean, I can give it to you. It’s right here in my hand.
Speaker 3: He just kind of raises an eyebrow. Unfortunately, we can’t allow that. Some people have tried to use illusions to sneak past here before. So I must take possession of the paper and validate that it is official. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 4: Well, if you are going to give it back, I just want to make sure that this is, I’m not going to be like, just out of my ticket.
Speaker 3: Assuming it’s a real ticket. Of course. Okay.
Speaker 4: And I’ll put it out in front. Hopefully he takes it. All right.
Speaker 3: He grabs it and he begins to read. And he goes, oh, you have the new help. He was wondering where you were going. He kind of reaches into his coat and pulls out three bracelets. They’re just regular bracelets.
They’re black with a little, I can English, I promise, a little insignia kind of on the top. That just has a little boat on it. You can, your intellect tells you that it’s probably just something to signify that you work on the boat. But you apparently seem suspicious. Yeah. In fact, about it saying, there’s random piece of clothing.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Those just would like a good glance at it and like just looking at it. Does this feel like this is magical of any type?
Speaker 3: I mean, that’s the answer to you. It doesn’t seem magical at all. It’s just regular, relatively nice fabric, but it just seems to be regular fabric. Nothing absurd. You don’t sense any magical energy or anything from it.
Speaker 4: And I’m assuming you just want me to put this on?
Speaker 3: Yes. You just head down the hallway there and go to your right, the fourth door on your right. They’ll send us directly and tell you where you need to go.
Speaker 4: Okay. Well, thank you. Did he give me my ticket back? He did not. Sorry, you forgot one thing. The ticket, please. I know I have the bracelet, but I would love both, please. This is just for my sanity.
Speaker 3: Well, this isn’t really a ticket, per se. It’s more just a note from the captain. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Fine. You can take it, but I just don’t want to. I’m not sure if this is a good note. It feels weird. You sure this is like a legit thing, like I’m not being by accidently gypped or ripped off? You seem like a really honest guy. Ah, I see.
Speaker 3: He was to fret the notes and Wicked said, the bottom part is a joke. Inside check. Go right on ahead.
Speaker 4: Where is it blue? Really? A natural 19 before modifiers. So, inside plus that, plus that, is that, sorry, a 19 on anything. That would be a solid 25.
Speaker 3: All righty. You are pretty confident that he’s telling the truth. Okay. He kind of chuckles when I say it’s more of an inside joke, actually. Our previous, we’ll say, Truman, who used to mop the floors for us, he became obsessed one day and couldn’t stop mopping the kitchen. He eventually died of overwork a couple of days later, but we tried to get him to stop, we saw.
Speaker 4: Did you ever report that to anyone?
Speaker 3: Report it to who? We were on the sea. I know, but I mean, he must have had family, right?
Speaker 4: Oh, of course, of course. He reached out to the family as soon as we were able to. And of course, gave him the severance and his life insurance policy. Oh, well, they have the cover here, isn’t it? No, it’s not included in your contract. You’ll get a copy of it tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah, that’s interesting.
Speaker 4: It would be fine, though, at some point for me to go down and just, does the kitchen off limits?
Speaker 3: Oh, no, not at all. The kitchen is the third door on your right. Usually, it’s open to pretty much anyone, but during main meal times, it’s our favorite to pack, and you maybe have to leave. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 4: Well, thank you for your honesty. I will, I guess, get to work then. And I turn to Norese and be like, I guess I’ll escort you down to the kitchen because that’s where you’re going to be, too. And Aragorn, I guess, they’re going to give you a mop.
Speaker 1: I expect the mop instantly. Fourth door on the right, everything will be taken care of there.
Speaker 3: All three of you go ahead and have their first. It’s orientation of a kind.
Speaker 4: I will be very specific. Ken, I don’t feel safe putting the bracelet on for some reason. I don’t know why. Can I just like, can I hang it off like, you know how I have in my head, it’s kind of like a small like component pouch, like not with like my actual components, but more like just inventory, I guess. I guess it would be the best way to put it, like around that bag. Can I just clasp it around the bag or maybe wrap it around the bag?
Speaker 3: Are you asking me as a DM or is it interesting? Yeah, you. Yeah, I mean, I guess you could.
Speaker 4: Okay, as long as it’s there and I’ll make it so that people can see it, but I don’t want that on my wrist for some reason. Okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I’ll give that. Okay, and she sends arcane magic?
Speaker 4: Yeah, but only if I have 10 minutes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that’ll, yeah, we kind of, we don’t really have that.
Speaker 4: This is like the one time is there 10 minute casting is really annoying, but that’s fine. Yeah. Okay. I guess I’ll take them to the fourth door on the right or on the left, either one, I guess.
Speaker 3: It was on the right. As you kind of enter, there is a man with kind of short beard. He looks slightly on the older side, maybe early 50s-ish. He looks at the three of you and he says, I was wondering if you were going to show up or about to depart. Your uniforms are over there. Make sure to turn them in every day. It’s about no later than 8.30 for them to be washed and you can pick them up starting at 6.
You will be expected to work at least four hours a day. I know, gruesome. He kind of says jokingly. We’ve learned from experience that our guests don’t like to see the same people around all day.
Seems to put them off guard for some reason. Whenever you’re not working, feel free to enjoy the amenities as though you were a regular passenger. Thank you. There’s a map kind of behind him of the ship. It has three different layers of it.
The first layer, which you are on right now, is the closest to the water. It is mostly facilities and storage rooms. The storage rooms line the outside and the amenities such as the kitchen, there’s a break, there’s… Just generalize stuff like that. There’s also, it seems to be a workshop of some kind.
I guess to make sure to prepare and stuff while it’s in. The second floor seems to be mostly rooms. It has the entire center of line is rooms. Surrounding it is smaller rooms, although it’s kind of obvious even to you guys that the outer rooms are probably for crewmates and staff and all people like that. Along the very outer ring is the storage along the back and front and canvass along the side.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, just in case you just want to rob it or whatever.
Speaker 3: Then at the very top, what you kind of expect from a big ship like this, it’s… Let me pull up my visual representation again. It has three very large sails and it has some cannons on top. The top is kind of separated into four sections. Each one kind of raised against the others, just like a regular boat. Think of just like a regular pirate boat you’ve seen from Pirates of the Caribbean.
Speaker 6: You guys kind of now know the general layout of most of the ship. As you guys kind of turn to look at the uniforms as you call them. They look basically like suits essentially.
Speaker 4: Like black suit, black tie, white underwear. Pretty much. Shain is going to be looking at the statue. Wait, does that mean Eric is going to go to the other side too while he’s swabbing the deck? Yes. Wow, that’s a fancy cleaner right there.
Speaker 3: Hey, you guys are working for first class. What did you expect? Oh, for first class?
Speaker 1: I’m going to get poorer.
Speaker 4: I’m going to get poorer quick. Andrew, I just spent 50 of my gold. I’m 30 now.
Speaker 1: Is there a… Or not the wagon, what the fuck?
Speaker 3: Butter. Is there an inside… I’m assuming it’s a suit, right? It is a suit, yes. Is there an inside pattern to this suit? There is not. I was going to have fresh Prince of Bel-Air and damn it. Never mind. What a nuisance. I’m sorry, it’s a very mostly basic suit.
Speaker 5: It’s very pretty from an external perspective. But it’s not necessarily the most comfortable. And of course it doesn’t have all the niceties like in our pockets or anything like that. Yeah. Or fur.
Speaker 4: Fur, okay. So did he leave us or is he still here?
Speaker 3: He has started to walk towards the thing. But he does kind of like pause seeing if you guys have any questions or anything.
Speaker 4: I don’t think we have any questions at the moment. I will say the only thing that can come into mind is after our four hours or so of whatever we’re doing, they said that we were allowed to basically be around as if we’re passengers. Are there any areas that is off limits like the captain’s quarters, I’m assuming?
Speaker 3: Well, obviously other people’s dorms and rooms are unacceptable to answer to say at least. Yeah. But other than that, I guess don’t go snooping through the storage if you don’t have a good reason.
Okay. Oh, but please do try to keep up appearances even while it’s working. Only wear the suit while working. But for your regular attire, please be sure to dress nicer as he glances towards you, everyone. No.
Speaker 5: You have anything else?
Speaker 1: Can I buy the suit from you?
Speaker 5: No, I’m not wearing this. I’m not wearing it outside of work? What the fuck do you think I am?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, you are. It’s okay. I could technically just press the digitation to clean your entire body up and make you look like you just took a shower. So that’s cool.
Clean me up. Yeah, okay. Okay. Anyways, I will escort Narisse over to the kitchen because I want to go there myself and I’ll say, Aragorn, I’m going to take you to the kitchen. Something doesn’t feel right about the guy who went insane mopping and I hopefully you won’t go insane either because what I don’t want is you to die a day later after you start mopping. Oh, perfect. Yeah, because we’re trying to- It’s time to mop.
Speaker 1: He says, oh, one quick thing before I leave. Obviously, the cook will need to be in the kitchen. The navigator will need to be on deck. We’ll specify your location for where you’re supposed to go exactly later. Normally, you’ll stay in the- Yes. Normally, you’ll stay in the cruise now.
But you might be required to have other locations as necessary requirements arise. As for you, just generally keep the place clean. Very rarely will the guests be on deck. So normally focus around their quarters and the first level.
Speaker 4: We appreciate you. We’ll try to make sure we stay clear of everybody. I think I can do their job. But yeah, I’ll head up to the cruise nest in a little bit. And actually, now I realize it’s daytime, so I’m supposed to do stars. How is that going to work? Am I going to go to work right now because I can’t see the stars when the sun is out? No, no.
Speaker 3: You just need to- Whenever the sun goes down, you just need to work for four hours and try to give us the general heading and we’ll hold as far as long as we can during the day. Okay. Sweet. Thank you. He just kind of nodded his head and began to walk out.
Speaker 4: Specifically, is there anything on him like keys?
Speaker 3: He does have some keys on him. Yes. He has a belt with a very large ring on it. There’s a good two or three dozen keys on it.
Speaker 4: Okay. I would like to just mentally connect myself with the defeat to the keys, specifically either the belt itself of the keys or just the keys, either one more. Okay.
Speaker 3: I logically you would choose probably the keys. Yeah, probably. All right.
Speaker 4: Good luck, Aragorn. I’ll see you. Actually, I actually don’t have to work for a while, so I can actually explore this. So I’ll give you the rundown, I guess, while you’re doing whatever you need to do. Sure.
All right. So I guess the plan is, he’s going to start mopping. Well, he’s mopping. I’m going to take her to the kitchen, see why is there a magical field of necromancy in there and fix the problem before it becomes a problem. And then, yeah, we’ll take it from there. Very well. All right.
Speaker 3: The boat begins to move. You guys leave dock. It does not have an air horn. It just silently begins to move and wood begins to create. It would be more like from the wind. Yes. However, Mr. Mr. You do kind of sense the use of magic kind of take effect as you guys begin to move. However, stop questioning fricking everything.
Speaker 4: I just do. I could find it fun.
Speaker 3: However, you kind of recognize this feeling almost. The waves don’t feel very harsh and the boat doesn’t seem as jerky as it was when it started moving. You are pretty sure that this is similar to Mr. Eldon’s magic that he used on the cart to keep it steady. Okay. That’s cool. By the way, completely above table, you guys chose the right boat. Good.
Speaker 4: I wasn’t sure. I was like, it’s got to be the guy reached out, right?
Speaker 3: Oh, for the record, I prepared three different encounters. Not encounters, I shouldn’t say three different events. Okay. For this boat ride. So if somebody like to roll a D3 that doesn’t exist. Go for an injury. You could also do a D6 and divide by two. Yeah, we’ll do that.
Speaker 4: Trying to create the ambience. Nope, that’s not the ambience. A two. A two. A two.
Speaker 3: Bro, that got to be the best one. Okay. Wait, flip a coin. What? Somebody flip a coin. Google. Flip a coin. Flip flipping. It has. Yeah. Okay.
Speaker 4: Well, anyways, I’m going to start playing the battle music now.
Speaker 1: You guys are good. So you’re going to the kitchen with Nourise? I assume, well, Flux, you wouldn’t put on the suit yet because you’re not working yet. Yeah, not yet. But Nourise puts on hers.
Speaker 4: Midway walking, she just goes invisible.
Speaker 3: You can’t see her anywhere. And you can’t see her here with a suit on. It’s crazy. There you go.
Speaker 1: Don’t be suspicious. Don’t be suspicious.
Speaker 4: Okay. Well, there you go Nourise. Fast. I’m going to come in there. I’m going to make sure all the ingredients are in a good spot that you need. Sorry, you’re going to what? I’m going to go into the kitchen.
Speaker 3: I’m sorry, you said that you’re going to come in there. Oh, sorry.
Speaker 5: Yes, buddy.
Speaker 1: The way you said that.
Speaker 4: I’m going to go in there and I’m just going to make sure all the ingredients are in a good spot. That’s what I’m saying to her.
Speaker 1: Okay. Thanks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no problem. I’m going to start just quickly cast the technology on my way. Just be safe.
Speaker 3: Okey dokey. On your way to the next door over as that’s the kitchen. As you open it, it is a very big kitchen. Like we’re talking like multiple dozens of stoves, right? A huge, like we’re talking five star kitchen, right? Straight out of health kitchen. Alright. Oh, okay. Multiple different spots. Yeah, he’s pretty much just standing in the corner yelling instructions. Everybody just goes, yes, chef and you.
Speaker 1: It’s me, Isra.
Speaker 3: But no, that’s kind of what you walk in on as one lady nearby, kind of heavy set woman. She appears to be human in origin, but has definitely eaten enough that she could be classified as a, you don’t know what I’m talking about.
Speaker 4: Well, technically speaking, if she big, then she big.
Speaker 3: Yep. She kind of walks up and says, are you the new chef? We need somebody to make more soups. Go over there.
Speaker 1: Show it to the sassy black woman. Basically.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that’s what you were trying to say.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, no. I don’t know what I would.
Speaker 4: I suggest she could make a 50% of the crying.
Speaker 5: Oh, thank God.
Speaker 3: She can have two bits of the kitchen.
Speaker 4: There you go. She will do some cooking and I guess she’ll get on the soups assuming that’s what you want. Yes, clearly. Okay. And what are you here for? Well, I was here to escort her. I was also here to make sure everything was good. I heard about the tail a while ago, the guy who couldn’t stop hopping in here. Really?
Yeah. What exactly did you hear? Simply put it, a guy one day for some reason started hopping and the tail couldn’t stop. I’m not sure if it’s a crew banter or what it is, but I’m curious because I like this kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: Well, how about you come back in about an hour. We’ll be done cooking by then. Okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that’s fine. I’m navigating anyway, so I have some time.
Speaker 3: She’s going to go back to directing the kitchen.
Speaker 4: I get down on one knee in a reason just because if this lady treats you bad at all, just if you have a minute, find me and I’ll get her to calm down. Okay.
Speaker 3: She’s kind of smiles and goes right to cooking. Good.
Speaker 2: Good.
Speaker 4: Anyways, what is the, did I actually, did she interrupt my casting again? Hang on. I’m going to lose it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she probably would have. Fine.
Speaker 4: I’m going to stand in the room for 10 minutes. I’m just kidding. No, I’m going to walk out the door and sit somewhere while I wait with no one watching me. No one looking at me. I’m just going to ever on site. Just the whole thing. Okay. Magic. Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 3: All righty. Sounds like a game plan.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And you’re going to throw another D12. Nothing bad happens.
Speaker 1: All right. That’s right. I got it. I got it. Five.
Speaker 3: Okay. Fantastic. We’re going to take a slight intermission while you ritually cast because I have to use the bathroom.
Speaker 4: No worries. I’ll be just over here. No. Oh, All right. This is a message for the DM’s bot. I am currently holding what is known as a doha caedron. And if by any chance, this lady who is the head chef here, Gordon Ramsey, black efficient, right? If she by any chance hurts Narese or makes her uncomfortable or unhappy, I’m going to hand her the doha caedron and tell her it’s a very pretty. And her brain will pop. And say it was an accident. Anyway.
God. I have a feeling that something is wrong with the ship. Like hardcore.
Yeah. Something does not sit right with me. Like why did they take the bracelet? Why is this thing like a joke? Why is she upset?
Why was she concerned about what I said? There’s just little tiny things and I know butter is laughing right now. I know you are.
I can hear it. Okay. However, it just doesn’t sit right with me. I don’t know if it does with you. Something don’t feel right. I’m going to like go to navigate the stars and they’re going to be they’re going to have a. It’s like that smiley face, you know, the legend is Zelda.
I think it was just like the whole just looked at me smiles. That would really suck if we made a contract with someone that was magically bound. That way you are literally forced to mop the floor for 24 hours every day for the rest of your life.
Geez. I would have to find the contract user. Actually, I would know who it is because then the contract’s broken. I’m dead. I’m going to die.
Well, if I kill you and then bring you back to the contract. No, it’s soulbound. Never mind. Yes, it is. No, it’s not.
I guess I’d have to be up to butter. You think Narissa’s behind this? She seems like person because of madness. Yeah, I think it’s a child squabbled. Yeah. Did I?
I actually saw Mantis gameplay like I’m a bit of a watch. Wow. From Marvel.
And dude, why? Why is it that healers specifically in Marvel Rivals, when they heal, they get a little bit of HP back? So, you know, like the reason why like Spider-Man is really hard is because if they heal anybody and including themselves, but clearly, but they have like passive regen. So, you know, like Spider-Man’s one shot quotation marks combo, right?
Yeah. So if they even heal to HP, it doesn’t work. It does exactly 251 damage. Which every healer in the game can at least heal six HP or more per thing.
It doesn’t matter what it is. So like if they just have any source of healing at all or any damage reduction at all, just doesn’t work. Right. So Spider-Man is a like a high skill-ceiling character, 100%, without a doubt. But his reward for doing so is actually pretty bad. It’s not like the greatest. I mean, so good. But it’s like Genji in Overwatch.
Like it’s really great and low elo. Okay, I’m back. Hello. How are we going to put him? So the intermission took place. We, I sat there with my dark cloak at the stars. That was clearly that there were clearly in front of me because I’m not in the ship at all. And then a fireball went off. Of course.
Speaker 3: But yes, you can now see magic. Okay. I would just like to. Oh crap.
Speaker 4: What a crow in a kitchen. Crow in a kitchen would be weird. Yeah, well, I guess it would be weird. That’s like, you know what? This is the first valid time a crow wouldn’t make sense. It wouldn’t make sense. Okay. Fine. Do, is there a lock to the kitchen door? Or I guess better question. Are there people walking in and out?
Speaker 3: Yes, people are walking in and out. No, it’s for each other. It’s not a lock. Okay.
Speaker 4: I will just open the door, look in. Does anything look suspicious or any like magical sight? Anything at all?
Speaker 3: Not really. Okay. The whole ship as a whole. It does kind of glow with magic. The enchantment magic. But it’s just a faint glow. So it’s applied to the whole ship. But as far as you can tell, nothing specifically in the kitchen. Okay.
Speaker 4: I’ll just close the door and then walk away as fast as possible without looking suspicious. And I am going to… What would Shain do? What would he do in this situation? He feels suspicious.
There’s some weird stuff going on. He would look into it. But how would he look into it? We talk with someone. Maybe. He’s not social. But that’s also like the only way I can get information.
And last, the cargo has something. And they told me to stay away. But I could do it. Just say, oops, I’m new.
Yeah, that’s what I’m going to do. Shain’s a curious individual. Yeah, a little basic construction. So yeah, he’s going to go over to the cargo area assuming there in time the duration of the attack magic, which is 10 minutes. Okay.
Speaker 3: Like I said, this is a big ship. And you do note there’s cargo on two different floors. And even then the cargo is around the entire ship. It’s split into sections. Where exactly are you wanting to go?
Speaker 4: Is there a place with like personal belongings or like basically something that there is like personal belongings area?
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: Then I’ll head there if possible. Okay.
Speaker 3: When you get there, it’s pretty clearly split into two separate things. This is all very well documented because obviously you’ll find their stuff. Yeah. And basically there’s guest items and then crewmate items. Okay.
Speaker 4: I will split this assuming this works. And I don’t think there’s an actual, but I’ve never heard of it. If I send my, actually, Crow wouldn’t work indoors because we’re on a boat inside a sealed area. Because I was going to send them to one side and then have them like scout out something and have me go together. But if anyone sees the birds are going to be like, what is the person doing down here?
Speaker 3: That would be a little bit suspicious, but I don’t think you’d be enough to raise any alarms, by the way. Okay. Because I mean, we don’t have like glass windows. These are just open windows, open like side areas. Are we far out to see? No, you guys just recently departed. Okay. So birds wouldn’t be completely.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess. Yeah, I’ll make it the bird stealth. If that’s the possibility. He’s bird. Okay. What’s the stealth? It’s always a plus two dog. Let me just pull that real quick. Oh, that’s crazy. 16. Okay. And I’ll send them down to the, I’ll send them to the passenger like belonging stuff.
Speaker 3: So guess and you’ll look through. Assuming that I can get there. Okay. Yeah. You get there with a good like four minutes left on your time. But there is a lot of crates, most of which have names on them. Yeah.
Whenever you kind of, I assume look through your familiar vision, your familiar eyes. There are very few crates. There’s only like two or three. And they’re very basic. I mean, they’re kind of smaller. It’s very clear that the storage is just a option that most guests don’t take. Okay. Now with the crew stuff.
Speaker 4: Is there anything that stands out magically at all from just or because apparently I can sense anything. Unless it’s blocked by like lead, I think it’s not like the only thing it’s like Superman stuff. I don’t know. Hang on. Second, because I should be able to identify it. So as your eyes are going to be or is I just going to decide which is base. Let me just take a magic approach.
I’m not sure if that’s actually the tech mabic rate there. The spell can penetrate most barriers, but if it’s blocked by one for the stone, one inch of common metal, a sheet of lead or three feet of water, dirt. It will be blocked.
Speaker 3: In that case, you can kind of see through all of them. There are like, you’re looking, are you looking at the next thing for the guests. There is a couple of magic items of the side of boxes. Apparently one of the guests is either a merchant or somebody that’s very much like having magic items.
I’m just going to say you straight up get Superman vision with X-ray on magic items. One of them appears to be like a dagger. There’s a belt and clothes, a small piece of armor. It’s not exactly clear what it is from your vision because it’s kind of like put together, but you would assume probably gauntlets or gloves or something along both lines given the size. Possibly boots. Then some other interesting items. One of them appears to be sort of type of chalice.
All kinds of glowing with different types of magic. Is this in the passenger or in the crew? That is in passenger. Inside the crewmates area, there are very few magic items. However, there is one. In one of the far boxes towards the back, there is a little… Go hop, I took my notes. Very good.
Speaker 4: I feel like I’m doing well.
Speaker 3: There is a headband. Oh, Naruto? It seems to be metal of some kind. So it is not.
Speaker 4: Is there a hidden leaf symbol with a cross out of it?
Speaker 3: No, it has a small grudge tool in the front. But overall, it seems…it doesn’t seem super important.
Speaker 4: What type of magic is it? Is it like…do or…I don’t know… …location, transmutation, stuff like that? I forget.
Speaker 3: Did the tech magic actually show you exactly that?
Speaker 4: I’m pretty sure it shows…
Speaker 3: It shows you how strong the magic is. Like Bi-Ora.
Speaker 1: It shows you how strong it is.
Speaker 4: You sense the presence of magic, you learn its school of magic, if any. Okay.
Speaker 3: Then it would probably be enchantment. Okay.
Speaker 4: So then with the other one, the passenger, could you name what is in there or no? Name it Al. Name the schools of magic of the things that were gauntlet.
Speaker 3: I could, but that’s pointless. Like I said, he has a whole bunch of them. Just assume all different… Okay. All of them. Multiple.
Speaker 4: I will…if there’s enough… I mean, I will work up the band. I will inspect it, assuming that no one’s watching. Okay. Which is kind of odd that no one’s watching and thinking about it. But it’s fine. When you…what the crap?
Speaker 3: When you work up to…it’s in a box that’s just labeled old items. There’s cobwebs on it and layers of dust. It’s where nobody has been over here in other…long time. Okay.
Speaker 4: Then if no one’s watching, open it and be extremely careful that there is no draft at all or anything. All right.
Speaker 3: When you open it, you immediately kind of like step back. It smells horrible. Inside is some rotten food. Some clothes that appear to have…like holes appear to have formed in them as… there’s also a hole in the back of the box.
It’s very clear that some type of animal or creature has come and gone. But as you brave through it and kind of push things to the side, it gets to the objects. You kind of pick it up and look at it as you cast…identify. For what you can tell, it appears to be a headband of intellect. However, it seems to have something else appended to it, but you’re not exactly sure what. Like it gives you a
Speaker 4: 19 in intelligence and then like a minus 12 in wisdom. That’s so stupid. That’s what I’m thinking. Cool. Yeah, because I know I will take that. I’ll put it in my bag.
Just the regular bag. And then if there’s nothing else in the room that really caught my attention, I will make my way over to the quarters of guest stuff. And we’re going to take a look at that because you said there’s basically nothing else in the room.
Speaker 3: In the crewmates area. Yeah, there’s breakfast and everything else.
Speaker 4: We go over to the passenger stuff. Yes, I’m feeling. Yes, I know it’s oily room. Do I care? Sort of. But Shain doesn’t. Okay.
Speaker 3: You go over there. And you’re just kind of a head towards that box labeled on the front is. Are you curious about the name or do you just not care? I love another name. The name is Riven Night Shield.
Speaker 4: Riven Night Shield sounds like one of the most popular. Crazy legendary heroes in Tennessee. Let’s just put that down R. K and I, JC.
Speaker 3: You cut out a bit chief. K and I, JC.
Speaker 1: Is it K and I, Ght night.
Speaker 3: No, N I Ght. Okay. Sorry, we’ll cross that out.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, I will be very careful with this one, but I will. Hmm. There’s no. Yeah, we’re sensitive. So. Why are they not watching? I don’t know. This could be a mental game. I’m just gonna. I’m just gonna double check that no one’s watching or nothing magical like actually here. I know there’s.
Speaker 3: Okay. Roll an investigation check if you’re like, are you searching the area basically to. Yeah. Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 4: I rolled that. So we rolled a 13 which becomes a 24. Right.
Speaker 3: With 24. You look around and kind of. Inspect the area. And you’re pretty confident that nobody is currently down here. And you’re definitely confident that there doesn’t seem to peer. There doesn’t seem to be any magical alarms or anything like that.
Speaker 4: And I will go in this box carefully and. Move it. Move the box to position that is away from line of sight, basically. Okay.
Speaker 2: And I will open it
Speaker 4: and just take a look at each item. And I can cast identify just as a spell if I wanted to so I could do quickly. Okay. For each item I go as you open it.
Speaker 3: Good sir. I’m going to need a 30 to say thank you.
Speaker 4: That’s fine. Shilling.
Speaker 3: As. We got sorry. Which is 19.
Speaker 3: Okay. As you open it. It kind of feels tight just for a second as you open it. You kind of assume it to be just creaky box. As you open it. You see a string that kind of snaps on the inside. As smoke.
Of some sort or missed. Appears to start exiting the box. At first is white. And then it very quickly turns purple. As you look down and see kind of settling on the floor. You realize that it is staining your clothes and shoes to be a dark purple.
Speaker 4: Oh, that’s unfortunate. Yeah, I just use a presentation.
Speaker 3: Fantastic. Then the miss just comes back and stains them once again. Like I said, the mist is not stopping. It is pouring out of the box. It is still magic. Okay. Do I need to roll for it? No, no, no, you don’t. Because it is not magic. And it is still going. Interesting. Would you like to look in the box to see the direct source?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think. If it is not stopping, then sure.
Speaker 3: As you kind of open the box and look into it. There appears to be some kind of homemade creation. It is basically a series of glass tubes with what appears to be an area for a stopper in the center. As you realize that whatever you open the box, it pulled out basically a cork that was keeping the liquids separated. And now that they are combining, it is what is causing the mist. Okay. So, yeah.
Speaker 4: So, I can clean it, correct? Is just restaining me? Correct, yes. Okay. Then the liquid eventually has to give out or the chemicals have to give out at some point.
Speaker 3: Right. Yes, absolutely. That would be if it doesn’t, at the correct rate, you are pretty confident that it could keep going for at least another 30 minutes.
Speaker 4: That’s fair. Let me, can I, you said it’s liquid, right? It is, yes. Hang on a second. Can precipitation for a liquid that is a very small amount? Because you can chill warm or flavor. Chill to me sounds like you are making it colder.
Speaker 3: Yep, chill would make it colder, warm would make it hotter, but not to the point of boiling or freezing. Okay.
Speaker 4: Can I, like, remove this contraption? Like, just this one thing? Just, like, take it out of the box? Yeah.
Speaker 3: It appears to be kind of securely mounted to the side of the box. Do you try and break it out of there?
Speaker 4: But, I don’t want to do any of it. So, I guess you know what we are going to do. We are going to keep using precipitation to clean it. And if someone comes along, I am going to panic pop a disguised self and put on the other crewmate impression. But we are going to wait this one out. Right.
Speaker 3: As you do that, you realize to your horror that A, it is producing it way faster the longer it is going. And B, it is not staining just your clothes, but also the wood and flooring around it and wall as it continues to spread and spread to the point that you are unable to keep up with it staining.
Speaker 4: Can everybody do that? How about this? I mage hand it. Is there a window down here?
Speaker 3: There is not a window directly down here. Can I create one? How? Black hole?
Speaker 5: I am going to be a little bit too much, I would think.
Speaker 1: That is going to be a bit much.
Speaker 4: Wait, why don’t I just do this? I could have done that instead. Why don’t I just use fabricate to change the contraptions so it is just sealed again? Or like, I don’t know. You totally could. Yeah, why not? I will use 10 minutes to do that. Sure, why not? Fabrication? I fixed the problem.
Speaker 3: As you finish casting that, the purple mist finally stops. However, since you spent 10 minutes doing that, you look around and the purple mist is a deep, heavy fog up to, not up to your waist or nothing, but up to like your, like your eyes or knees? Knees, there we go. Thank you. And it has stained pretty much everything, the walls, the floors, and unfortunately it has spread all the way out, likely to be through.
Speaker 4: Hey Andrew, I’m going to send you a message real quick with sending. And you’re just going to hear a little, hey, you said you’re a cleaner with a mop, right?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: Can you come downstairs?
Speaker 1: I will go downstairs.
Speaker 3: I don’t know if that’s something that works, but I’m sorry. That’s fine. As you do that, you hear from down the hall, somebody just be yelling, what the hell?
Speaker 1: I will disguise myself and, you know what? No. No, actually, wait a minute. I could do it here. Does it sound like one person or multiple? It sounded like one.
Speaker 3: It’s just a gas leak. Don’t worry about it.
Speaker 1: Gas leak, gas leak. Is this stuff flammable? I’m not going to like burn it down.
Speaker 3: There is no way for you to know without lighting it on fire.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I’m not going to do that yet. Yeah. From the reminder, this stuff is thick.
Speaker 3: If it was flammable and you lit it on fire, it would likely explode and kill you all.
Speaker 4: That’s fine. You see, that’s fine. You know what I’m actually going to do? I’m going to polymorph myself into, let’s just say, a rat. We’re going to polymorph myself into a rat. We’re going to scurry out, but A1, I’m leaving the item there, the stupid little spray box with infinite smoke.
And two, I’m going to be extra, extra, extra careful to make sure that when I am scurrying that I don’t draw any attention to the best of my ability, however that might work. Okay. I’ll do that. Can you roll a compensation save for me, please?
Roll a comm save. Yeah, we’ll be fine. Andrew, I think I might have just killed us. That’s fine. Oh, that’s fine. No, no, no, no, no, it’s actually sick. This dice is so good. It’s a 20. Right.
Speaker 3: With a dirty 20, as you turn into a rat and begin to scurry your way, you kind of, of course, as a rat, you’re tiny and you’re breathing in this thick gas. You kind of feel yourself get very sleepy, but you kind of hold on to consciousness and keep making your way through the mist.
It’s thick enough that you can’t really see where you’re going, so you’re relying mostly on your memory of how you got here. But luckily, you are able to kind of exit the mist. However, you realize that you are a completely purple rat at this point.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, to be fair, though, if I’m turning into something different that isn’t there and it’s magical, like, I would so probably be covered, like, externally, but I’m not purple like myself.
Speaker 3: That is correct. Yeah. Polymorph, basically, it’s poor man’s wall shape.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I’m fine. It just looks like the mouse broke into the box. That’s all it is. Sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because the mouse can lift a big, heavy box.
Speaker 4: Can I, with, because magic, hang on, do mice have fingers?
Speaker 3: I would imagine they have something like…
Speaker 1: They have fingers, but I don’t know if they have opposable thumbs.
Speaker 4: No, all I need to do is just make the verbal and somatic. Oh wait, I need verbal and somatic. Can mice speak?
Speaker 3: Yes, mouse can go squeak-squeak. Would that count enough?
Speaker 1: Absolutely can.
Speaker 4: Okay, so can I, like, press the station myself?
Speaker 3: Sure, absolutely can.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that would be great. And then just turn myself, obviously, to the best of my ability, unpurple. Okay.
Speaker 3: You are now a normal rat. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Four mouse, whatever you want to be. Maybe a mouse. Yeah, and then I’ll just scurry to, literally, far away as possible from here. Okay. I’ll just answer down, and then I left him, but that’s fine. Dude! You just go downstairs, and I guess…
Speaker 3: No, as you’re scurrying away, you pass by this man in a suit holding a mop.
Speaker 1: Do you say anything to him? You just laugh and go…
Speaker 4: I look… I just sit there, I’m assuming on the step. Sure. Yeah, I look at him, and I’m imagining this, like, this cute little mouse just looks at Aragorn, and if Aragorn is anything perceptive at all, he would see this. And he’d just look at him and go, please take…
Speaker 1: What a cute little mouse. I need not to get distracted. I need to go there instantly. Squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak. Maybe he’s trying to tell me something. Squeak. Can I grab it? Absolutely you can. No check needed.
Speaker 4: I’ll bring it with me.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no. And then I will use my crow to just summon it on the shoulder, and because mental capacity, you just go… Don’t touch the mouse. Hmm. Can I grab the bird? No. I try to get out of here, man. I would take it with me. I’m joking. I would put the mousey down.
Speaker 4: Squeak, squeak, squeak. And then we just scurry upstairs, and the bird disappears.
Speaker 1: I just love the idea of me gorilla grabbing the fucking mouse. Oh my gosh. Like the way the fucking linguine grabs a ready.
Speaker 3: Like the whole body with the head sticking out. Yeah, quite a puppy. Alrighty. Now we’re just going to fast forward to that here. Yeah.
Speaker 4: You get to clean up the mess I made, sorry, Andrew.
Speaker 3: As cleanup goes underway, the crew is gathered later that evening and given a strict talk to you about the importance of… Basically, he does the corporate speak for don’t ever open up somebody else’s property again, but I’m not blaming you. I’m not saying you did it, but don’t ever do it again. Corporate speak.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes. All staff was. You guys kind of just hang out for a bit.
Speaker 3: You explore. You obviously get off of work. Are there anything specific that you wanted to do?
Speaker 4: Do something cool, like burn the building down. Burn it down.
Speaker 3: Okay, I’ll take that as a no. And flux you being your whatever it’s called shift. You kind of go up to the growth nest basically here’s kind of guiding the way and learning the ropes while you do it.
One of the other. Hey. Yeah.
One of the other as finders kind of seems a little annoyed at your obvious level knowledge, but kind of just accept it and teach you the ropes. And you’re going to take your long rest for the day in your appointed rooms. Yeah. As you guys awake the following morning, slid under your door or your copies of the contract. Oh boy.
Speaker 4: I’ll get up. I didn’t hear from the Reese actually shouldn’t even know where to get me really. Okay, so we did take a long rest. Yes. Good. First things first.
Injury rule of D12. Oh, fine. It’s only a record in the case. Don’t roll a one. 11. You’re fine. Right. So I guess assuming it’s fine and I don’t have anything I need to do. I’ll just walk over pick it up. We’ll get it.
Speaker 3: All right. As you kind of reading through it. Like I said last time it’s pretty normal. Nothing too out of place. But as you guys kind of read through it again this time. You’re kind of stopped on something.
As you guys really never asked in order to pay much attention to how long this journey would be. And it says that you will be under their care for two months.
Speaker 4: I crumpled the paper and put it in my pocket.
Speaker 1: I will neatly fold it.
Speaker 3: Let me be clear. It is not that you will be journeying back and forth working for them for two months. The journey takes two months.
Speaker 4: Wait, the boat takes two months to get there? It’s a boat. Oh dog. Why? Okay. Never mind. Okay. I thought this was as in oh they’re holding a hostage. I was about to kill the captain. Yeah. No, no, no.
Speaker 3: Yeah. That was why I wanted to be clear.
Speaker 1: I am now captain of the boat. I am captain now. I am captain now.
Speaker 3: I am so glad that you guys know that because my sister doesn’t and she’s a loser for it. Dang.
Speaker 4: Kind of an L. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Kind of an L. Killer? No. No. Just fireball. Lightly. So killer.
Speaker 3: Okay. Get a bear mace and mace her. Wait, I just realized it’s going to be two months.
Speaker 4: Butter, two months on a boat has been longer than every single session put together. I know.
Speaker 6: Oh God. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 1: We did not think this through.
Speaker 5: We did not think this through. Can I like haste to the boat?
Speaker 1: Please. Can I make the wind go faster?
Speaker 3: I’m going to tell you right now. No, you cannot haste to the boat.
Speaker 4: What if I find a really creative way to get more air through the sails? Then I will allow it. Okay. I’m going to start brainstorming. Okay. In about 20 minutes, I’m going to think of some matter in the surreal.
Speaker 1: How to make boat fast? How to make sail boat fast?
Speaker 4: Wait, with the material on the ship, can I fabricate something that’s like a big wheel that turns like ship with fabricating? Excuse me.
Speaker 3: Are you talking about a propeller?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And how will you power it? With my feet. So we throw out all the children.
Speaker 3: My guy developed a row boat with extra steps.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I’m so down. We got to make it a sea boat. We need to make an engine.
Speaker 4: I’m just going to go to Andrew and knock on Narissa’s door and bring her over to Andrew. And I’m like, I just go…
Speaker 3: Come in. Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 4: I go in, assuming there’s a place to sit down. The floor. The floor. I will sit on the floor. Hey, have a seat for me. So, you know, we’re pretty used to Eldon, right? He’s a fast guy. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize that this could take a while. I kind of just forgot about that.
Speaker 1: It’s a boat. It’s going to take a while. I know, but I don’t like taking… Did you not realize this?
Speaker 4: I didn’t realize that Cernia is two months ish away.
Speaker 1: Yes, it’s a boat.
Speaker 4: No one told me that. It’s a very big boat. No, I understand.
Speaker 1: No, I needed to tell you. You know what?
Speaker 4: I have a spell for self-harm. I’ll use the life-transfer. I’m just kidding. I have a spell for self-harm. It’s called noose. Noose? So, yeah, we’re just… You and I are going to be here for a while. We’re going to learn a lot about each other. But I guess so. Well, we might as well start off. How’s your mom and dad?
Speaker 5: Yeah, don’t do… Oh, wow!
Speaker 3: I just realized you’re Batman.
Speaker 5: Wow! About that! They’re kind of dead. Oh, well…
Speaker 4: Sorry about that. Mine probably are, but I don’t know.
Speaker 1: I’m Batman, but if he had dementia… I’m Batman with dementia. He’s like, why am I Batman? I don’t know. Oh, no! That was a terrible question! What about your parents? I… Any siblings? Yeah, any siblings at all.
Speaker 5: Oh! They’re all so dead.
Speaker 3: Any love interests?
Speaker 5: Yeah, any love interests.
Speaker 4: Just looks over at Narisse.
Speaker 1: Love interests? I have no time for silly things like women. Any favorite mates?
Speaker 3: Winky?
Speaker 1: Favorite mates? I’m not gay! Zestades. Servants. Oh!
Speaker 3: No! Don’t you know the wonderful lore behind medieval maids?
Speaker 1: This is not… Yes, but this is not Romeo and Juliet. This is Batman. And… I’m Batman and friends. Batman and friends.
Speaker 4: So, I look over at Narisse and like… Yeah. Sorry, I didn’t realize you’re going to be here for so long. I mean… I hope you can find something fun to do, because I’m… Kinda… Trying to figure out how to make this faster.
Speaker 1: We could use the blowy up thing and make an engine. An engine? What’s that? What? I do not know. It just kinda came out, sorry. I was thinking of a word. We make something to make it go faster. You mean a V…
Speaker 5: Yeah. I need a V… I need 8 cylinders with a… Core Bat trans.
Speaker 4: I have 2 months, Butter. I could learn how to make…
Speaker 3: No, you quedence with the material.
Speaker 1: Butter, I have 2 months. I’m going to kill everyone. So, I guess…
Speaker 4: So, then here’s the thing. Right, if this is actually 2 months, Butter, do we actually have to do all 2 months or no?
Speaker 3: Oh, no. We were going to skip through most of this and do the thinking… What’s your macaw? There’s a specific terminology.
Speaker 1: Montage. Oh, I love those.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it’s just going to be like funny clips of me and Andrew just bumping into each other and like… Laugh, laugh, laugh. No, no, no. Naurise walks through the kitchen door that opens and it gives the name. It’s like Naurise and she’s like, oh, stop it with the… like a B-bunch intro, dude.
Speaker 3: It’s like the really cringy sitcom. Yeah, no, hang on. Let’s see if I can…
Speaker 1: No, it’s just us laughing and then it’s… He’s kidding. Gel that. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Freakin’ intro. I don’t even know what it was. Was it a B-bunch, dude? I don’t even know who… I don’t even know, man, but I’ll have to look this up and I’ll send it later. Put a girl on. Put a girl on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Brady Bunch. I think that’s exactly what you’re… I think that’s… Put a girl on. Yeah, this is it right here. This is exactly what I was thinking. Sort of.
Speaker 4: Wow, this is actually really old number. Anyways, we’ll get back to the topic. Yeah, the only thing that I would like to do, is to figure out if you can…
Speaker 3: I’m going to just go ahead and tell you this right now. I know for a fact that if I took what you guys are going to say now and then we continued, then you guys would think of me messaging me later going, oh, well, actually, I thought this was a really cool thing to do. So, instead, here’s what we’ll do. We will go ahead and in session here and you guys have the whole week to figure out what’s going on. And then, what you would want to be doing during this downtime.
Speaker 4: That works completely for me, if it is right.
Speaker 3: I am also incorporating this Technically Homebrew Rule where downtime can be treated kind of like a currency, if that makes sense. Yeah. So, if later on down the line, and you’re like, oh, well, you know, I would have done this during my downtime, I’ll let you do that. Of course, with the rule being you can’t use your downtime to prepare for something that you learned about after the downtime would have happened.
Speaker 4: Or something ridiculous that’s over
Speaker 3: the course of like some time. What’s that murder mystery with the train? Train murder mystery movie?
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1: Orient Express, please. Let’s make this a little easier.
Speaker 3: Alright, back up. Orient Express. It’s basically a whole thing about this train with a bunch of bougie rich people. It’s really good.
Speaker 1: I think there was an older version of it.
Speaker 3: Now, slight rewind. This is slight, slight metagaming, but I’m just going to go ahead and let you guys know that whenever we come back to session for things to happen, we will only have skipped about a month into the journey. Okay. Just for the record. I think that is like
Speaker 1: I’m glad we have access to communicate to
Speaker 4: everybody without the whole party because that’s kind of a…
Speaker 5: I can’t wait to know what Nate and the wagon are going to do for…
Speaker 3: Oh, I can guarantee you. I already know what it is. There’s no way you… Nate is going to attempt to try and rob every single person on the boat. I’m glad we have access to communication because Dragon will attempt to be friend and then probably sink in defraud every single person on the boat. And it will culminate in them probably owning the boat if I were to gamble.
Speaker 4: I’ve become the know. I mean, we could…
Speaker 1: And then they’re going to get hit with property taxes. We could… Oh, we could… I don’t want to take over the boat. I could just haste… Oh, never mind. I don’t want to pay taxes.
Speaker 2: I can’t haste the taxes. As much as I want to like have a boat…
Speaker 1: I’m pretty good.
Speaker 5: My trust fund doesn’t kick in. My trust fund doesn’t kick in. I inherit the kingdom.
Speaker 3: So… But guys, just so we’re on the same page. You are on International Waters. I’m sure you know what that means.
Speaker 4: Oh, God. Wait, hang on. Hang on. Does that mean if I can… It could be considered an act of war. Oh, well…
Speaker 3: Any crimes committed in International Waters aren’t crimes because there are no balls. Oh! However, that being said, the way that it works in the real world is that the flag that you are… Yeah. However, that doesn’t exist here.
Speaker 4: So… We can do anything. Anything. Murder them all. Everyone. You see, I would do that. But I don’t know… Control like Galleon?
Speaker 3: We kind of need more people.
Speaker 4: It’s okay. What I can do is I can use Speak with Dead and they can tell me how to control the boat. I know we just revolt with the butlers. We cause an uprising.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. Get this. You could wait to do all that whenever you’re like three days out just outside of the border. And then kill everyone. No!
Speaker 4: Because then we would be close to the… the barrier water… Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: See? I know what I’m thinking about. Yeah. You’re just so smart. Yeah, yeah. We’re gonna kill the captain. Why kill the captain now? And we’re gonna make you the captain. Yep.