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Ep. 84 The Three Idiot Problem - Bellum Draconis
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In the hopes to help their new found party, Baal and Seth come up with a plan. Nyx is also there......
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Do either of you have the ability to talk to animals? Actually, no.
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Hello everyone and welcome to this week's episode of The Fellowship of the Tabletop, Bellum Draconis. We are a live play 5e D&D podcast set in the magical home-brewed world of Eryth in the Kingdom of Dra'ak. Joining you for this week's mini episode. I mean, many of them will be getting, he's missing a few people. Well, this has gone off piece quickly. And we have Ian who plays the Tiefling Wasser and Nyx Karel. Hello. We've got Ian, and we haven't already said that. We've got Will. Shit. We've got Willy who plays the Dragonborn Druid, Balvalcon. Zencaster! How are you?
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We fly ourselves over to the... The clinking of gold clacks up on the table as we see five old wrinkly fingers with long gnarly nails fingering through a number of gold coins and clacking together like an old
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like a poker expert putting the chips together and then separating them out. Each of them has a slight deviation, a slight difference to each of them as he lays them all out in a circle and puts the orb in the center. He looks down at it for a second and then takes in you listener.
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Oooh, in your endos! Asha gets a probe and Alpha asks her to be gentle, but she's like, bite the pillow kid, I'm going in dry! And when she done says some, I am older, it seems to hurt Alpha, oh shit! Alpha starts to strip, literally, exposing his core while she's trying to find that memory rune, and she's like all dominatrix-y
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poking deeper. He donned us some blacking out about 40 minutes or so. That's not consensual, but never mind. He wakes up and she says, ah, let's keep this between us, shall we? Hmm. Ball donned us some scrounging for more golden items because he's a penniless bitch. And they go back to the halflings for some food.
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and some waters, but there ain't no diamonds and no rubies in there. They find a half-orc person called Rezaian. He got some sort of new quest for relics and shipwrecks and all kinds of cool shit. And he want tier back. Oh, titties. Turns out the sandstorms are moving the ship is in from the seas, maybe following them snakey, snakey paths that we'd unseen earlier. He also shows off a blue saber, some sort of tide sword. Mix is like, let's go.
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But before he can enact anything, that one-handed paladin is on patrol, so he's got to sneak out the back door. And thus begins a skill challenge. Seth does some jumping up high. Baal judges lots of people. Reigns does some stealthy stealth. Emron does some blending. And Alpha makes a stonk stone. He just fucking drops turds and everybody looks around like, what the fuck is going on here?
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They only just survive an escape, making their way back to that mineshaft thingy. And finally, their object in the sky, that second moon, it seems to have changed properties. It seems to be making some sort of blue glow. Let's find out what happens next. So, the partying... Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop!
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I think I spat on my mic when I saw that. So good. I could have dropped the stonks down. That's gonna be my next, that's gonna be my new thing. You're dropping that all the time. Watch out kids, I'm about to drop the stonks down.
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Oh, crack the window before you. Sorry. Sorry. The party. The entire party. All of them. You'll stop talking now, Mark. All of them. Taking refuge in a sort of makeshift
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camp, let's say, outside one of the furthest mines that sits outside Snakerun. Tension in the air given the fact that some party members feel threatened by who they saw patrolling Snakerun hours ago. You settle down for the evening. Seth and Baal elect to take the first watch.
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Rains, Alpha, and Emron, in their own various ways, begin to rest. Nix, you do not have the faculty to sleep any longer. You do, however, spy Seth and Baal exiting the camp with hushed voices in the direction of Snakerun. Baal, Seth, Nix.
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What would you like to do? Well, if I see them being all schniggish nigger and sneaking on out of there, Nix would be also schniggish nigger and kind of snake himself out of there, crawl on his hands and knees, trying to make sure that nothing, no sound is being made.
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Seth, what are you talking about?
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So I don't think using my name to pretend to be someone else is a particularly good way of hiding my identity. And is that what you did first time? Yeah, that's what I did the first time. Someone suggested maybe using dicks. I thought it was a bit on the nose. Dicks on the nose. I missed a party. But I thought best to avoid that. So I just went with Seth as a tiefling
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called Seth. Somehow they still knew it was me. Could it possibly have been the bounty board that had the name Seth quite boldly written upon it? Definitely. Right. Okay. A hundred percent the giveaway. Yeah. I didn't put two and two together. I'm not used to being a fugitive, particularly, but so this time I think I will change my name to Dix. Right. That was the one that was suggested. My idea didn't
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work. So
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and a bold gesture to your face, you're going to cover this up again. I've got a, oh shit. I've got one more option to do it. I'll change it to something generic, like a, like a, um, someone else, not a, not a tiefling that looks like, Hey, can, can you see what I can see? Can you follow your gaze?
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Can you see Nick's crawling on the floor towards us in the distance? But it appears that he's stopped now that you're looking at him. Why is he sticking his tongue out? Like a snake. What's up guys, what you think?
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Nix, we can see you. Just stand up. I'm just making sure that I'm not making a sound. You guys walked off and I was just wondering what's up with that. Look, Nix, it's clear that it's going to be difficult in the morning to go and get our cart and get what we need as a group. Seth and I simply are going to make our way in, get what we need and come back before anyone's even woken up.
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I love that plan. I don't really sleep at the moment, so I'd be just kind of reading books and playing with my instruments. Is there any chance there could be a third person on this adventure? Displaying with your instruments, is that a euphemism? I wish it was, but in this case, it's a
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ball well you might as well come what do you think yeah i don't care either way as long as we get the cart and the elephant actually it works i'll be good i'll be good i'll be good you will you organize to do is in your name so instead of us being there on your behalf we can just say look
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Here's Nix to collect his card. And I strongly suggest you don't use the same disguise that Seth, your other disguise had, if you're going to be this Dix character. Oh, by the way, Nix, this is now Dix. His name is Dix. Oh, you're going with the name change and you settled on Dix.
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He's going to look down to himself. Well, no, I'm still Seth now, but then I'm going to soon, when I put on my disguise, I'm going to pretend to be someone else. But really I will still be Seth, but I will change parts of my demeanor and maybe my appearance and voice to give the impression of being someone else. Will you start thinking like Dix? Or will you still think like Seth?
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Or are you trying to become like someone wholly new when you change your appearance? Because in which case you could be on some level a proper dicks. These are questions beyond my comprehension, Nix. All I know is I am Seth at the moment.
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It's probably best that you do the talking, Nix, actually. I mean, look, hey, I'm the one who stirred wheeling here. I'm just happy to go with the flow. You guys clearly had a plan. Let me just, let me just act as backup. Well, I've seen many carts with two wheels at the back and one at the front. Do you catch my metaphor? Yes, you want me in the front and you in the back. Now, hang on a minute. I've seen most carts have four wheels.
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Yes, okay. So what were you guys doing before I kind of rode it on up here? Were you looking at and a going? Well, yes, we were. I think louder that we're being here, we're going to wake up. Like, could you imagine waking everyone up? You ain't going to be happy. We've been walking. Yeah, they're talking to us. You were crawling on all fours. Yes. I've never been like...
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The stealthiest kind. I've done some stuff in my time. I was just trying. So do you have the ability to alter yourself as well, Nix? Not that you need to, you're perfectly okay. Actually, I do. Yes, I do. But don't we need you to be you so we can pick it up or are we going to go? It depends how open we're being about this. Do you reckon they're going to slate?
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That's like night time. They could be asleep. Put it this way, Nix. I definitely saw the one-handed fuck that almost took my fucking head off the other night. He will know what I look like, and whilst, and Baal will gesture to down to himself in his new arm... Do you want me to disguise you? No, not necessarily. I can disguise myself. The trouble is when I do see... Do you want me to disguise the one-armed dick?
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No. To make him look like something else so you don't get rage on site. I'm not Dix yet. I haven't changed to Dix yet. Fuck, we're going to die. Shall we get out of here first? Yes, let's. I'm going to pretend to be a human. No, I already am. You're doing a good job. I'm convinced. How about, yeah, I know how to do a human. How about I just pretend to be a human with normal face.
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Two eyes? Yeah, of course. I don't like the name Dix. I'm putting it out there. I think Nix and Dix is... I just think that... I don't know if that's a recipe for disaster. Maybe try something... Think of something elaborate with your disguise and maybe pick a very elaborate name. Something that kind of... Could you just give me one? I'm not very creative. Osiris. Osiris? Osiris.
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Osiris. I like that. Osiris. And he is a human. Yup. I've got it. Perfect. Now, my disguise involves me turning into an animal. And when I do so, I lose the ability to talk. So, do either of you have the ability to talk to animals?
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Oh, actually, no. Well, that's obviously going to be somewhat more difficult. But let's comprehend languages for some reason works. I have no idea. I mean, I mean, I understand the literal meaning of any spoken language that I hear. I don't know if I speak a language when in an animal. What animal will you be?
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Depends, I can transfer myself into the form of most things that I've seen. I've got many options at my disposal. I was camel ball.
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the other night, if you remember, when Nix gave me a ride, I could turn into, sometimes I spit, I could turn into a horse, I could turn myself into something smaller, like your fellow that crawls around you most of the time. Yes, yes, I think I can turn myself into a small spider, there are small snakes.
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I mean, most of the things that you know that you've seen around locally, I can turn into just nothing that can fly yet. Haven't mastered that. Well, I've done my time in learning the clandestine arts of being quiet in working for the sleep guard surgeon. We could work on a series of nudges that could give answers or like worry of danger or run. If we work on like, yes, no, stop, run and fight.
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That would cover most bases, maybe. I'll be able to understand everything you say. Yeah, but then you could translate back. If you were like on Nick's back or something, then you would, you know, you could poke him in the back. I mean, I could just disguise self on you. I've got the spell for it. And you don't have to be an animal then. You could be a walking, talking, whatever. Is the clue not in the name, Nick? Disguise self? It's only for yourself. You make yourself including your armour.
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I'm still very new to this, guys. Sometimes I have to read things more than once in this book. I thought for one moment, Comprehend Languages would allow me to speak to a fucking camel, so I'm still very, very green to this. That's fine. Well, all I'm saying is... The self part of this, as Nix flicks to his book, does kind of... Yeah, you're right. All I'm saying is, I mean, I could be... I don't mind being ridden.
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at all. So that's an option. Camel is quite handy. I can turn you invisible. You can? I can turn you invisible. This one I can actually do. How long for? An hour. Fuck. Well, this could work. Let's bloody do that then. Okay, we've got options. We'll turn up in the disguise. Nix, you'll be yourself. You'll obviously get the car. You said you had an elephant.
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We have an elephant? Are we getting the elephant? Because that's, that's, that will wake every motherfucker up. Are we getting the elephant with the cart? I assumed it was pulling the cart. The point was to get it all in. That sounds awesome. We have the plan sorted before that. I want to see this elephant too. So I'm, I'm all for this. Like what time is it? As Nyx looks outside and it's past sunset. So it's like 9 PM.
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That's fine. They'll still be open. They were very busy when we were there. It's like a market, so I assume it's open for a while. What's the soundscape at the moment as you put an ear out? Does it sound like a busy, bustling kind of neighbourhood? You've been here a couple of nights now, you know, by the time that the sun has set.
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those who work in farms and mines outside the town have returned and all the traffic is geared towards the tea house and the the revelry and the music that comes out of that it's it's almost like you know when you're outside a
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club a couple streets away and you can sort of hear the vibe coming that it's the sound is all concentrated around the center of town would it be not easier
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If I was invisible and just... I could make the elephant invisible. Why? Could you? Well, just imagine that. Imagine that. Like, you were just there. The cart's moving by itself. And then we look like super people just moving this cart by itself. We're not touching it. And then, just to impress everyone, we could drop the spell. Bam! This elephant just appears out of nowhere. We'll get gold for that. Yes, inconspicuous. Fantastic.
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Yeah, I think a big part of our problem is we're a bit too brash and brazen with our identity and keeping a low profile. So maybe not the invisible elephant. Maybe, maybe, maybe I should, I think I am the biggest threat here at the moment in terms of us getting caught. I'm not a particularly good lawyer and I sweat when I'm pretending.
00:21:03
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this is a good good like you you you only get better the more you try these things and maybe this is a good reason for you to be the front wheel in this trifecta that we've got going on and you lead the charge and talk that way you get better like as my mom always said as my mom always said
00:21:22
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You're never going to get it good at arm wrestling if you don't have any arms. And I very much think that I am an armless arm wrestler when it comes to speaking words to people to win thoughts and things over. How about, because, Paul, they don't hate you so much. You know, do they know? What do you mean apart from the one that I cooked?
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alive or the one that was with the one that I cooked alive that we saw not two hours ago. Were you on the board for Thingy? Is your name on the board? No, I was left out. I feel a bit... Not actually, do you know what? I'm actually rather glad that I'm not wanted with my name on the board. Well, how about then? You can go as yourself then. I'm the problem. You can make me invisible. Until I'm seen on the streets as the one that, you know, quite literally tried to cook a bitch.
00:22:13
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Well, how about I go invisible. You turn into a camel or a cat or. I cannot lead a conversation as a camel. I think we've established this. So. Nick. I don't know. Yes. Clearly.
00:22:28
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I will front reel this and if needs be, you give me the wink and the nod and I'll turn you invisible. And Seth, you disguise yourself, become a Cyrus. Think of this like a proper act, all right? So there's a script, I haven't written one, but later on I'll write you a script. This is a full performance. I need you to really think about anything that doesn't make you who you are.
00:22:53
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Think about anything else, any attributes that you want to take because now we always sometimes we spend too long wishing that we were someone else. This is your chance to be that person that you've always maybe harbored some internal thought that you wanted to be. You could be Osiris and just think about the character that you want to be and just live it.
00:23:12
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This is exciting. Oh, you're going to love it. Trust me. Oh, you're going to have a knack for it. It's going to be a performing arts show. So is this like Osiris? He wasn't in the sleep guard surge. Exactly. And like he didn't fight the blight. Exactly. He doesn't even know the blight existed. He's too busy entertaining. He has a tongue. He has a tongue. He has a tongue. He can talk. He can talk for days. That would have been a good out.
00:23:41
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Okay. Well, if they opened your mouth and they saw that you had a tongue when you said you didn't have a tongue, that's just, that's not out of my mouth.
00:23:49
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The best lies are the ones that almost seem true. Let's make this as true as possible. The point of this was to speed things up. I feel like we are slowing things down. I agree. Let's get a move on. I'm going to put on my disguise as soon as we get near someone, because I've literally got one more shot at this before I run out of spell slots. And is it, what, for an hour? Well, it's disguise self, so I can put it on anyone, apparently. And yeah, it lasts an hour. Yeah, it lasts an hour. Okay.
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So, if you're heading to the Caravan of Surrey, I even put a note on my phone to just examine that word a bit closer this week and I didn't.
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uh caravanserie uh you need to head to exactly the other side of town than you currently are so you are about six o'clock in snake run you need to get to 12 o'clock in snake run in order to to get there you have options you can go straight through the heart of town if you want like i said this is it's it's darker people are more distracted by the moon while the object in the sky that has changed color um people are becoming more and more intoxicated inebriated and and then some
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and then there are there is that smaller outcrop where the nomads bounty traders lives by the bounty border actually that you were talking about earlier that is sort of on the way and it means you don't have to go straight to the middle of town or you could really just leave town by some distance and come back in and do really do a long sort of hike around so how would you like to proceed are you proceeding particularly cautiously are you confident with this level of disguise that
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You can walk through just straight and see what happens. Talk to me through your methodology now. So it would depend, I think, on whether or not invisibility is the first thing or wild shape is the first thing, kind of mechanically. So I'd probably very quickly just say to Nix, is it worthwhile? Shall I go invisible first or perhaps when I'm no longer able to maintain my animal form?
00:25:52
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I just feel like it given that we're all being all sneaky sneaky and disguise it would be really handy if we could.
00:26:02
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What are you talking in some way? That's fine then if you're happy to make me invisible first and when that runs out I'll be able to very quickly become something small so as to when the invisibility drops. Well how about for now we just kind of we just stealth well let's let's not draw attention to ourselves and when the need comes that you need to be like I need to pop out of this you give me a nudge I'll cast it.
00:26:24
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And we're safe. Sounds good. Yeah. That way, if we don't need to keep your presence around. Yeah, that's very kind.
00:26:33
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Well, if that's the case, then I don't see why we take the long route if the intention is to get back before the others wake up.
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And from here, can Balsi any purple cloaks or any cloaked figures that look like they might be part of the church? No, and you don't typically, from the last couple of nights, you don't recall that they really frequent town at night. They sort of retreat to the retire, not retreat. They sort of retire back to the toll house in the garrison. The overnight
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The overnight sort of guard really is the orcs because they aren't like the mercenaries who sort of also partake in in in revelry in the evenings. They're just sort of dead. Okay. Well, if we come across any of the abcriskra, probably best to give them a bit of a wider berth.
00:27:17
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And if they start on any of you... Hey, that's growth. That's growth. Well, yeah, but you didn't let me finish. If they start on you, I will fucking immolate them. That won't start on me. I've got a very appeasable face. Just be warned or be aware that...
00:27:30
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I hate all of them. Yeah, it's not diminished. I'll be honest, Baal, I don't know that much about you yet. I do know that though. Wonderful. And speaking of which, Baal will cast an eye up to the sky, up to the blue second orb. There is something that I'd like to discuss, but I'd rather
00:27:51
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do it in front of the rest of the group. So perhaps when we get back or perhaps in the morning before we set off, I feel there's information that's worthwhile imparting. Don't quite know what to do with that right now. I don't. On we go. Yeah. So, bile is invisible, is that correct?
00:28:13
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Not yet. Not yet. Balor's going to be in... If he needs to be. One tap on the bum, Nix, and the invisibility, please. I would suggest that we just go... On the bum. ...stealthy, not draw attention to ourselves. That's all I'm going to say. Sounds good. That's going to nod and just pull up his regular...
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I'm just shadowing his face slightly and his bad eye with his eye patch to kind of take away that feature without having to put this guy's self on without having anything else and we'll just walk quite a half step behind the other two just to kind of use their shadow to.
00:28:49
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Okay. Are we moving stealthily like a stealth mission on Metal Gear Solid or are we just sort of trying to blend in and look inconspicuous? Move with the crowd. In which case I'll ask you all to do performance checks at advantage, please. It's a low DC because lots of people here are fucked up. At advantage as well. Yep. Okay.
00:29:17
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I got a 16. Thank you. 11. Thank you. 18. Thank you. So you set off. It takes about 15 minutes for you to get from this mineshaft to the sort of inner town that you are all becoming quite familiar with.
00:29:34
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And as you get there, it is a very familiar scene. There are a few more people not sort of partaking, and there are more who are just looking up at this sky, really, really unsure. And again, they're in their clusters. There are those who are worshipping it like it is some sign from the gods. There are those who are treating it with caution. There are those who are studying it. You notice that various apparatus of individuals has sort of come out a lot more stargazers than researchers, but people are taking a vested interest.
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And as you get into the heart of the town, your perception, definitely yours, Bao, is high enough, but at this point, you're all sort of very aware of each other that you're all looking out for similar stimuli. To the left of you is Nomad's Bounty Traders, which is much, well, it's closed and it is a quieter spot compared to the right of you, which is the central spire that is full of people coming in and out of the tea house. There is someone at the bounty board on the left
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outside no man's bounty traders that appears to be putting stuff up and taking things down. Can we have a quick scan? I want to see if I'm famous. Yeah, absolutely. I get that. There's a certain amount of pride in seeing your name up there. It's just that you've all had your part and I feel a little left out. I want to be a wanted person too now that I'm free. Am I wanted? Am I on that board? Good point.
00:31:01
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I want to know. I'm going to not go near the board. I'm going to stand in a dark shadowed area and look drunk. Good idea, Dix. He's going to lean against the wall and Osiris. Osiris. I am Osiris. God of Dark. Dix is on the tongue is all. Dix on them. Anyway, I'm going to go over there. Just don't spend too long there. It's really bright over there. They might see you. I'll be in the shadows.
00:31:32
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Well, I've got a way of dimming the brightness if it gets to that. So, Nix and Baal, you approach the board, and this individual, they're sort of cloaked, not mysteriously, they're just wearing sort of a desert cloak, but the unmistakable
00:31:50
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iconography that exists around their waist is that of the green crossbow symbol, which matches that above the board. This is an official Bounty Guild member that is changing these over. And as you approach, there is just one removed poster in that individual's hand and about four or five that have been added.
00:32:14
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As you get closer, this individual is a dragonborn, a female dragonborn, no particular scale relation to you, Baal. It's hard to tell in the light and the cloak exactly what color, but it is a brighter color. And she's just there studying the board, looking at older ones, sort of consults her own list that she keeps up on her, but looks very much in this. Occasionally people are walking past as well. It takes you,
00:32:42
Speaker
about 30 seconds to approach and there are revelers going back and forth. Some people popping in just to see if there's any names they recognize, but no one really lingering very long. You're about 15, 20 feet away from this board now. Is there anything you want to do before you approach?
00:32:57
Speaker
No, I'm just gonna walk up to the board and, and look, cast an eye over if there's any familiar names. Seth, myself, anyone from the group, anyone that I'm traveling with. I'll do the same, but slightly from more of a distance. So keeping. I'll go right next to the dragon board. Nice. So as you do next, it's really interesting. You haven't felt cool.
00:33:23
Speaker
in a very long time. As in temperature or swag? Temperature. Swag, you haven't felt that in a long, long time. And as you sort of brush shoulders inches away from this individual, you just feel this coolness radiating off her shoulder. And it's almost like sticking your hands inside a freezer.
00:33:41
Speaker
It is really welcoming, but it has become an alien feeling to you. It's almost like pins and needles. You've become so accustomed to heat that. This is such an odd sensation to experience. And she sort of begins to pack away and step away. And as you do, every name that's on the top layer of this board is completely unfamiliar to you.
00:34:10
Speaker
You dig a couple of layers deeper and you see some familiar names that are already in your memory bank, I imagine. But there is one noticeable absentee. There is no wanted poster for an individual named Seth. I like your temperature. It's got a cool vibe.
00:34:39
Speaker
she turns and as she well as you expect to be stared at or looked at this individual is just sort of faceless there is just a dark blue void where the face would be everything else is akin to the anatomy of a dragonborn but she just stares at you and you can't place eyes you can't place anything it's just a void
00:35:10
Speaker
Like magical darkness type thing Magical something like sick ass dark vision. Yeah, it's not this isn't obscured This is this is almost like a replacement of a face. This is just a blue Disc for want of a better description What's up with your face? She doesn't really animate or respond
00:35:42
Speaker
Nick's corral at your service. And with a bow and a hat of a tip of the hat. As you say that name, her list just comes up in front of her face. Oh shit. She just shakes her head and begins to turn. I mean, nice talking to you. She walks off. One removed, wanted poster in her hand and her list in the other.
00:36:11
Speaker
What, did I catch that one removed, wanted poster? There's one name that you noticed wasn't on the poster. She's got that in her hand. How many has she got in her hand? She has one wanted poster that's been removed from the board and she has her list of new names that she's been putting on. And she's still got that list? The list is still on that left hand.
00:36:34
Speaker
How many of them are there? Is it just one big list or is it like a collection of papers? It's one big list. From that, make a perception check so you can see how many names were on that list. I'm not, I was looking at how many papers she's got in her hands. One single paper for that list. Ah, shit, balls and ass. Okay, I've, yep. Dammit. Dammit, I want to go and get Seth's poster. I don't know how to do it.
00:37:07
Speaker
I'll, uh, saddle up. It's gone. She's, she's walked off. Nick's is literally just going, ah, but I'm going to side up to you and be like,
00:37:16
Speaker
Didn't we say something about using names? I just like, mate, you didn't see her face. She didn't have a face. It's like this blank face. I don't know. I was, I was all called and like, yeah, I don't know. I was trying to get something of an emotion out of this. Like, honestly, if you would have seen what I'd seen, your mind would turn to motion as well. It was like staring into a big black abyss.
00:37:39
Speaker
That's a very racist thing to say against Dragonborn. It's unsettling. Like it was not just like there was a hood and a shadow over her face. It's like she was faceless. There was nothing. Oh shit, really? Yeah. But that made you use your full name. I just thought that if I was maybe wanted, that would invoke something, but it didn't. Like a knife in the fucking gut. I've been stabbed. It's fine.
00:38:06
Speaker
just weird I'm just weird and I'm just a bit freaked out anyway anyway Seth's name is did taking off that board oh I don't know if that's good or bad well it's a bounty board is it not if someone's got the name someone wants the bounty surely but if it's that faceless dragonborn I don't know how we fight that I use charm what why do we fight it I don't know
00:38:32
Speaker
What, we just let Seth go? Anyway, what are we doing here? We need to go and get back. Let's go to Osiris. Osiris, yes. Fucking hell, maybe you shouldn't be the face of this. I did try and say. You did, and I thought for a second this is someone who likes to talk. I've just seen someone's face, but without a face, I'm freaked.
00:38:54
Speaker
Right. I'll be, I'll be fine. I'll be fine. Like honestly, you need to go and catch up with that dragonborn. I don't know if that's a special ability that you all have, but we all have the same ability. We're all the same. Are you saying that you don't breathe fire? Good point. Oh, yeah.
00:39:25
Speaker
I wrote in the shadows. A friend of yours with a name that you recognize. I don't have any friends. Well, shit, I'm not going to be able to beat around the bush, am I? Someone's taken the name Seth off of the bounty board that seems to have the bounty and Baal is kind of head waving over towards the direction of the person that's walked off. Not that that matters to you, does it, Osiris? No, I don't know anyone by the name of Seth or Dix.
00:39:55
Speaker
So I don't know why you'd mention that to me, friend. Right. It's good to know that the board has been updated as per the request of the board handlers. The boundary hunters guild, yes. Right. Should we carry on?
00:40:11
Speaker
I am Osiris. I am a carpenter. You are. And Baal is going to motion over to Nyx and be like, see? I kind of want to follow that dragonborn, yo. I just like, like, if that's part of the faceless bounty, maybe that was freaky. Where are we going? If she was a door, I would, and she was made of wood, I could fix her face because I am a carpenter.
00:40:41
Speaker
Right. And if she was a door... Oh fuck, I think I'm failing here. I think this is a terrible mistake. Which way do we go? I'll just stop talking for a bit.
00:40:51
Speaker
I think we should go back. Follow your feelings. Follow your feelings. We'll be fine. Fuck me. Let's get an elephant. This way. It's just so dysfunctional. I have to figure out why the group as a whole is quite dysfunctional. I think it might be us guys. It's the chaos crew. I'll be the bad guys. No, we're the fucking idiots.
00:41:19
Speaker
nice so you're you're continuing to head north through the center okay yes so you do so and um it's interesting you're about 50 paces behind that dragonborn figure who is also headed north and um mixed with your passive sorry bar with your passive you can't help but notice a familiar figure to your east as you're as you're moving you're moving due north but to your east is clearly where the tea house is and and you know it's not
00:41:47
Speaker
The music doesn't suggest that there's a brawl in there or anything like that, but it's active and it's exciting. But to your east, you just see a very familiar looking dwarf taking a squat in the middle of the sands, trousers down. Is it a hope? Yes. Amazing.
00:42:14
Speaker
A fair distance from you, not like immediately. You just see her having a wee outside. Excellent. I'll just kind of quickly gesture to the other two. Hope's pissing in the sand. We don't need her for anything, do we? Is she like unarmed and easy access to fucking kill? What? What?
00:42:38
Speaker
You say the dragonborn is in front, which is walking about 50 paces. The one with Seth's fucking thing. Yeah. Oh, guys, something stone inside of me. I want to follow her. Why? I don't know. I've got this deep.
00:42:57
Speaker
deep thing inside me saying you should follow her it's a voice it's just a voice telling me follow her find out where she's going and find out where she's taking Seth's fucking bounty poster to and she's got no face I can't put enough of a point on this it's driven me insane
00:43:13
Speaker
Okay, just remember who this Seth person might be working for that starts with a W for both words, and maybe someone has just sorted me out to make me less conspicuous, more inconspicuous, given I've raised a lot of questions and eyebrows recently. It's your people.
00:43:36
Speaker
I don't know for certain, but it seems very, very likely given the clandestine nature of who the Seth person might be working for if I knew a Seth, which I don't because I am a carpenter who fixes doors. But if I was Seth, maybe that would be the case. Can I make an insight check to see if Seth is trying to bullshit Nick's? Sure. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if I am or not. That's the problem. He's just postulating. So, um,
00:44:05
Speaker
I can roll, roll, roll. So 14 to be trying to roll as close to your intentions there. Yeah. Oh God, this is tough. Okay. I'll go with that. Like I'm trying to work out whether this is Seth, like leave this person alone or if it's genuinely, it could be 11. Okay. I didn't even know what you rolled. 14. Okay. He's.
00:44:33
Speaker
being like, fuck, he thinks he's being honest. You don't want Nyx to follow the figure is what you're suggesting. You're suggesting just let it lie. Yeah. Yeah. And that's foul a sentiment you're understanding. Yes. I think Osiris is speaking truth here, Nyx. I think let it go.
00:44:55
Speaker
But the other voices aren't going to go, hey stranglehope. Like, if there's just... Are those the two voices? Don't you have a voice saying, oh, let's go help the party and get a fucking elephant. See, now this is why I need you to lead. Follow me and I'll lead. Okay, go. Oh, I really want to go. Eyes up here, Nix. Seth's going to like shove you a little bit. Follow, follow, follow, follow. Go.
00:45:19
Speaker
You're just watching Nyx as you're walking following Baal, you're just keeping a withered eye on Hope and you watch as she just sort of tips into her own pile of urine and just lies face down in the sand. I'm sorry, I'm going to have to go and Nyx is going to Hope. Okay.
00:45:45
Speaker
Is she just lying there emotionally? Just having a quick power nap, face in the sand, chest in her own puddle of wheat. I want to see if she's got gold on her and steal it. Okay. Make a slight of hand check for me then. There's a few people around as well. It's worth mentioning. Like there are people who have noticed she's... I'm going to cast guidance on myself. Okay. And I'm trying to do this as stealthy as possible.
00:46:16
Speaker
So, slight hand, yeah? Okay, come on. I'm seeing your face and your hands there, Ian. What have you done? I've fucked it, boys. That's what I've done. What else do you fucking have? I've got an eight. Okay. Oh, so.
00:46:45
Speaker
You linger over her for a second, just studying her outfit, thinking what's the easiest way to just sort of reach into somewhere that's going to not cause an alarm. And you opt for a coin purse on the waist of her belt. And as you sort of reach down, I need you to make a dexterity saving throw for me. Sure thing.
00:47:19
Speaker
We should have left him at home, Seth. OK, so that is a natural one. Oh, my fucking God. Jesus. OK. OK. OK. So here's what happens. As you reach down for that coin purse, you grab what you think is the coin purse. But it's it's it's just her abdomen.
00:47:48
Speaker
And you sort of try and give it a pull to loosen it because you think, surely that shouldn't be this difficult. And as you're pulling at her abdomen, you just feel something incredibly sharp digging into
00:48:06
Speaker
the top of your hand starts like a little prick and all of a sudden you're wailing in pain as this knife is just being driven into your metacarpals and being twisted quite aggressively. This is fair.
00:48:29
Speaker
You take eight points of piercing damage. I hate her even more. Jesus. And you can't help. You can't help but to scream in agony as this blade is being driven through the palm of your hand. The whole time, though, she's still got a face in the sand. She just sort of opens her eyes and looks in your direction. But you're in a lot of pain.
00:48:57
Speaker
And she just starts murmuring. Something in dwarvish, but I don't believe you speak it. Oh, ditch him, ditch him. He'll go back to the mines. Run, run. Oh, but I... Oh, fuck me. Oh, did you trip over there? I'm just... Is she okay? I'll erm...
00:49:24
Speaker
Oh, come, come, come, and I'll go and kind of grab Nyx and pull him backwards and away, probably unaware that there's a knife currently in his hand. And as you're pulled away, Nyx, and you see your hand, you just see this rush of blood going down your wrist and what looks like another appendage coming out of the top of your hand. It's just bone.
00:49:52
Speaker
It's in the bow. It's in the bow. Fuck. There's a sixth digit in your hand that shouldn't be there. Oh, come along. Come along. Hope has just sort of rolled into the recovery position and is just sort of smiling at you, Nix, incredibly ominously. Fuck away. I'm dragging Nix back.
00:50:16
Speaker
I told you not to fucking do it. What the fuck are you doing? Have you seen her? She's able to pick someone up and throw them down a fucking well. I want to kill her so bad. Wonderful. Then fucking throw yourself in the well next time and just come on. Let's get the fucking... I've got six fingers!
00:50:32
Speaker
Yes, it's pretty gross and I'm trying to keep it together. I will lift your fingers clean in a healy way when we get out of this fucking situation. That doesn't sound sexy, that sounds painful. Okay, but sometimes people like that just fucking come on. Okay. And I'm dragging Nick's back to West Ethel's. Okay. Fucking of all the luck.
00:50:55
Speaker
So you kind of want, you reunite. Nix a bit more. I kind of want you to feel this pain, Nix, that little bit more. Maybe you'll learn something. I couldn't help it, man. Like, she's there, lying there. I just, I had to, had to. Why did you go squeezing her midriff though? What were you trying to get at? I was trying to find the coin that was given to save Alpha for that fucking gut. In her gut? I just was trying to find the coin. It's dark. I haven't got good dark vision.
00:51:27
Speaker
And I'm not going to heal you yet. I'm just going to keep one arm around you and check you on. That's fair. You'd have seen Seth go into his bag to pull out a potion of healing. It's going to half-ite, but he's going to look to Paul and be like, okay, and just put it back in and close it back up again. Yeah. And do you know, Nix, if she had been wearing a purple cloak,
00:51:51
Speaker
I would have had to fucking try to immolate her and probably gotten myself killed as well. Parme thinks that you'd enjoy that though! Not dying necessarily, I don't wish to die yet. Can we just get on? I'm rather ashamed and embarrassed. Is that... is that bone? I'm not looking! I'm not motioning it to Seth!
00:52:13
Speaker
Yeah, it definitely is bone. And tears by the looks of things. I've seen a break like that before. Doesn't end well.
00:52:27
Speaker
If we, if we can keep kind of, I'm imagining this is like almost like a drunken night out when you're having to carry a friend. Yeah. And if we can get somewhere there's like holding his hand into his mid rim. You probably blend in actually more now to be honest.
00:52:48
Speaker
I'm going to give it several more minutes before offering any respite. If we heading in the northerly direction. Yeah. The intention is if we can, if we come across an area that is slightly more
00:53:02
Speaker
secluded, fewer people around. I'm fully aware that there's magic users and things around anyway, but I don't want to be doing what I'm intending to do next in public. Yeah. And if you're sort of following that Dragonborn figure, they're about 90 to 100 paces ahead of you now, given that sort of momentary distraction. Cool.
00:53:21
Speaker
But eventually, yes, it takes about another 15 minutes and you are you are the north side of town now. And the revelers are way behind you. There's a couple of sort of travelers that are pitched up in sort of tents around you, but it's getting quiet. The caravan history is about a quarter of a mile ahead of you. All that you're really seeing is a couple of cargo workers that have been moving to and from the caravan history and
00:53:52
Speaker
Stopped about 100 feet ahead of you is the dragonborn figure speaking to a member of the Ibercrisco. Right.
00:54:06
Speaker
Okay, I'm going to push Nick's into the best kind of alleyway style thing that I can where it's just off the main. Yeah, he used to be between tents. Yeah, that's fine. I'll push him off. I'll kind of stare directly in front of him and grab his hand in both of mine and take a proper good look at it now. And I'll imagine I see what you've described before as well. And just be like, this is not going to happen every time Nick's next time, maybe listen to sense.
00:54:35
Speaker
I'll get really close to it and similarly to how he kind of cleansed his wounds after the paladin fucked Baal he's going to kind of do the obviously the
00:54:52
Speaker
What are you doing? The components, the verbal component of this, the somatic component of this. But he's going to breathe this gentle flame over your head. And it's going to fucking singe. It's going to burn. You're just going to see your skin almost bubble a little bit. But with that, as it kind of cauterizes, it does
00:55:09
Speaker
bring things back together. So that's just for flavor, really. I'm casting Cure Wounds and you've got 11 hit points restored. Nice. And for a moment, Nix, you go through sheer agony and then your hand just sort of regrows in like the quickest burn scabbing life cycle ever. Oh,
00:55:37
Speaker
And while she's doing that, I'm going to grab two of the fingers and just pull them slightly apart. Oh, come on now. Just pull them slightly apart. Remember, listen to sense. Who are you? Everyone? And I'll give one of the fingers a lick and drop his hand. I don't know how to feel.
00:55:56
Speaker
While that's been happening, Seth's been posted on the alleyway between the two tents working, just to head out, looking towards where that person was. I mean, if she's, well, the blue dragonborn is on the path to where we're going, he'll be watching and watching the crisca to see what happens in that conversation when they move on and when would be a good time to gesture to the others to move on.
00:56:20
Speaker
They're just... They haven't really changed in that sort of few minutes of exchange that the Dragonborn figure is still conversing with the Christopher figure. Seth will turn back. She's still there. There's some purple clogged cunts up ahead as well. Do you want to take a different route or are we just going to walk past them? Depends. Don't suppose you can see how many hands they have. Sorry, next to you soon.
00:56:55
Speaker
It's a bit too far for you to make out facial creatures, but one of the criss-cra and two hands are involved in gesticulating that conversation that they are having. They've definitely got two ends, so it's not going to be our friend from before. We could just risk it. Yeah, well, they're not looking for Osiris.
00:57:18
Speaker
No, of course not. But it seems that your name, if what Nick says is true, is in her hand, she's passing that across, or some information across, perhaps to the of Chryscra. So, Osiris. Yeah, 100%. Absolutely. Right, Nix, you're going to shut the fuck up this time? Don't try and steal anything from the Dragonborn. We're going to the cart. We're getting off really, really,
00:57:45
Speaker
low profile elephant and we're getting the fuck back to the mines no funny business we want to do something good for the fucking group for once don't fuck it up for us okay
00:57:58
Speaker
speeding shit along, you know? I want to get on the road. I want to get to that fucking big tournament and figure out what the fuck that is as well. And he points up to the sky there. We're not going to do that here. Too many people are looking for us in a big city we can hide here. I feel exposed. Right. Are we going to sneak past this guy? Fucking Osiris is going. Are you coming with me?
00:58:23
Speaker
Yes. Let's go. And Osiris is going to walk around the corner, striding towards them. No, not making eye contact, hiding or something. Hiding. Staring about. So just for clarification, you are actually still Seth. That's not changed. You're just Osiris with a hood up. I have a hood up like I do have one right now.
00:58:45
Speaker
Baal, you are Baal, not invisible, and Nyx is straight up Nyx. So currently, yes. You get to about 50 feet, I'll say, from this exchange, and the Dragonborn moves on. The Chryscra just sort of kneels down, like one knee down, two knees down in the sand, but still facing your direction. Not kneeling in a praying way, just kneeling in sort of a restful way.
00:59:14
Speaker
You get to about 30 feet from this individual. And what's people's dark vision? Remind me. Fucking amazing from nothing. Uh, two seconds. It's part of my math features. I have dark vision. Uh, you can see in darkness shades of gray up to 60 feet. Okay. Um, Nick's, you recognize this person. She was the Chris remember who ball.
00:59:44
Speaker
near killed two three three days ago in the sands recognize that smell and she's holding the wanted poster you saw as well in that exchange set earlier that she handed a very small coin purse very small not on the bounty level just like pocket change to the dragonborn
01:00:10
Speaker
Guys, guys, I know you want me to shut up. And I'm not doing anything about this information that I've seen right in front of me. I'm just saying like that, that member of the Ecrusco there, that's Leland L with Seth's wanted poster that just paid for it from that Dragonborn. Uh, that's the, of course, remember that Yuval cooked the other day. Oh fuck. Hang right. Hang right. She's looking straight at you. You're 30 feet in front of her.
01:00:33
Speaker
Walk straight, walk straight. I also think she's seen you. Seth's going to turn around like he's looking at something behind himself and he's going to pull on one of the tabs and he's going to cast Disguise Self. And as he turns background, you've now got the slightly weathered and leathery skin of a carpenter man long, not long, but kind of like he doesn't have a beard. Now he has a beard, quite trimmed.
01:00:59
Speaker
graying brown beard and still got the same hood up but the skin color is very similar but just his face has changed just on that quick wolf back. Can you make a stealth check just to sort of hide that spell as that action? Stealth. That is a 22. Great. You're fairly convinced that you perform that without being spotted. Nice. Thank you.
01:01:22
Speaker
But she's staring at you. She's staring at you like she doesn't recognize who you are. It's just like she realizes she's kneeling down in a road looking at three people walking towards her. Are we walking towards her? Yeah. We're walking past her. We're trying to get past her. Oh, OK, cool. Bal, Nix, are you doing anything? No, I just thought I'd pass the information on. I'm not doing anything. Trust me. Bal is twitching and starting to tap your bum.
01:01:48
Speaker
Tap, tap, tap. But still kind of walking forward. I can't stop making you invisible right now. That would look really weird. If you just disappear, that might look a bit strange. If it goes down, I'll meet you at the elephant. And I'll carry on walking with the group. Okay.
01:02:09
Speaker
You get Seth to take the lead and try and kind of mask Baal a little bit when he realizes that Baal's not going invisible and realizes obviously the same conversation has taken place. Just try and not mask him in an awkward way to kind of take the lead on it and try and, yeah.
01:02:24
Speaker
Okay, you get to about 15 feet. It's like she's looking at you but isn't registering really who you are. It's night, she's not expecting people she just got killed by to just be right in front of her. You get to about 10 feet. She just sort of stands now and looks at you. Really identifies you first, Nix. And just says, well,
01:02:54
Speaker
This is a surprise. I mean, when you think about it, this was the nearest town and we needed supplies just like yourself. It's not that much of a surprise. We were just kind of making our way out of here. Good to see you again. She looks well. She looks over your shoulder. And you, Dragonborn.
01:03:23
Speaker
She doesn't really know what to say, but is threatened, is really threatened, but doesn't seem like she is going for her sword. Cool. No hard feelings? And then she just produces what's in her hand. Your friend... Your friend was wanted. What?!
01:03:53
Speaker
I paid to have the bounty removed. Huh? Yes. As in done? No one's coming to find if he was a friend of mine. Are you saying that that bounty is no longer in process? It's completed, it's done, we're good? He will no longer be hunted.
01:04:26
Speaker
I mean, do, like, thanks. I've got a question. Why? When we returned here after, and she just holds her chest but doesn't really say any words and looks at Baal really nervously after, I was conflicted. We wanted revenge at first.
01:04:57
Speaker
Alito, bid me otherwise. I undid my rash decision for revenge. I can only apologize if you ever see him again. We understand he is not actually one of us. I apologize for any stress this caused. You're apologizing to us?
01:05:29
Speaker
Well, addressing you, even when I didn't mean to, I was following my training. Your friend appeared to be one of us. He was vulnerable and being attacked. I was only following what any soldier would do.
01:05:59
Speaker
It was a very messy situation. I don't blame you or, say, like me entirely. But this is amazing that you would then pay this bounty and remove it. Well, I posted it. It only took a few gold to remove it again.
01:06:22
Speaker
Baal is trying to get a really strong read on this. I want to see if she is stalling, if she has got any disingenuous mannerisms within this or whether she truly seems as she appears.
01:06:41
Speaker
And also, just for a note, Danny, during that whole conversation, Seth would have continued to have walked. If he hadn't been addressed, because he was in the front, he would have just kind of walked past my eye contact. I'm not hitting his face, but he's not my eye contact. Continuing to walk past, and then when those two stopped, he would have just continued walking until he found, however, if I could get
01:07:03
Speaker
out of earshot and then stuck behind a tent or whatever nearby the hide himself and would be poking his head out to basically wait to see if they'd arrive or whether they were going to fuck a bitch up and give up.
01:07:14
Speaker
Yeah, you weren't familiar at all. You managed to hide that change before it was close enough for her to read. And she was more distracted by Nyx immediately. And then you all saw a huge sense of threat in her when she saw Baal. So Baal go ahead and roll insight. But Seth, you were not double checked at any point as you did that pass. I got a 19. Yeah, so you're
01:07:43
Speaker
convinced beyond measure that she's not looking around, she isn't, there is no other epichristic patrol, you understand the patterns of what's happening here at night, that you're not, this isn't a stall tactic, she tried to do this one exchange with this dragonborn individual, so you started this conversation is now just,
01:08:35
Speaker
Okay. I'll pipe up then.
01:08:41
Speaker
You say you were following your training. I was following my code. You attacked first. Yeah, but like, you know, but.
01:08:54
Speaker
When now, she's helped us out massively by taking this bounty away from Seth. And for when Seth's around again, because we don't know where he is right now, it's going to make our lives a lot easier. And that's a pretty cool thing to do when someone's just almost roasted you alive.
01:09:15
Speaker
Code, be code, training, be training. Uh, we appreciate very much what you've done for us. And if there's anything we can do in return, I can do in return. Uh, maybe I can, how much did you pay for the, for the bounty? I can reimburse you. No need. It's my own. Anything I can do. Ah.
01:09:40
Speaker
No, I'm being redeployed. I don't wish to stay in Snake Run any longer. It's very hot. Humid. You going somewhere nice? Scorch Elm, I imagine. Hot, humid, from what I know. You going to be at the tournament?
01:10:07
Speaker
I doubt it. I was going to say there's some easy gold to be made if you bet on a person called Emron. Just a little side tip. I'm not like, it's not inside a thing because I don't really know what's going on. But you know, just, you know, as a thank you, I guess, in some weird way. I wish there was more I could do. You've really helped us out and a little bit on the back foot about it. It's been a weird night and this is really like kind of made it for me. So thanks. I think
01:10:38
Speaker
And she's just trying to not look at you while she's saying this. Sometimes there is a misconception that we are here to do bad things, but I think maybe you've spent too much time up north. We are trying to help people. We are trying to save lives.
01:11:09
Speaker
in a very strange time. We're not bad people, and revenge is not our way. But what do you know of the greater plans of the Abriskra? She sort of smiles at that. There isn't great plans. Protect Eryth and its citizens, that's the plan. By plundering and pillaging.
01:11:39
Speaker
Others? She looks confused. That's not our style.
01:11:48
Speaker
Just to add a little bit of context here, we've had some precious cargo stolen in the form of eggs down some boats not so long ago, and we didn't know. Bartle didn't know. I didn't know. We're all wondering, really, if you knew anything of that or where they would be, I guess is the long story short of where we're trying to get to here. Because they were wearing the same robes, you see.
01:12:16
Speaker
I don't know anything about that. It's more than that. Insight checks. Go for it. Marvel to have been shit all night. 11. You believe her. Yeah, I do.
01:12:39
Speaker
You say that, but you're very Captain Galmoth. Yes. He said he was close with another captain, Captain Yor, the very same captain who was plundering a horde of dragon eggs and shipping them to various locations throughout Dralak. And you're saying
01:13:07
Speaker
You're here for good. You have no other nefarious means. You have no idea of the greater plan. It seems I don't even know your name, but it seems you don't even know the true nature of the very people you serve. Plundering is not our style. Perhaps what you observed wasn't what you thought. Hmm.
01:13:37
Speaker
Choose your next words carefully. Goodbye. I will nod and move on. She turns. Hey, hey, hey, before you go. Has Bal moved on from this? Walking currently. What is your name? You can make up one. My name's Nix. Fucking hell. I'll say as I carry walking.
01:14:08
Speaker
Jesus. My name is Sholty Swift Sand. Sholty Swift Sand. And Nix will hold out a hand. I hope you do not feel offended if I do not shake that. No, that's fine. I actually think that's, uh, wildly of you. Uh, genuine offer of friendship though. And hopefully I'll pass across again.
01:14:36
Speaker
I'm sorry for any mistaken identity between you and the company that you work for. We all have people that we try and impress and sometimes we all get led astray. And I'm not saying that you have. I'm not saying I have. But it just seems that there's clearly a lot more to learn about each other. But this is a good first step.
01:15:04
Speaker
She sort of smiles, a half smile. I hope we don't see each other again, again, just holding her chest at that time. But just consider, and has some courage to stare at Bahal where she says this, just consider we are not the villains in your story. That is all I ask.
01:15:36
Speaker
I know what I have seen. Please consider what you have seen. I was going to try and catch up with. Lick her on her chest. Is Seth miles and miles and miles away at this point? Seth, you're probably at the sort of gate of the caravan history at this point. So he's.
01:16:07
Speaker
About 200 feet away. Okay. Yeah, I'll just, I'll, I won't get there in time for what I want to do. That's not a problem, but I'll try and catch up with him. Okay. Nick, so you do anything else? Uh, good day. Take care of yourself out there. And I, I know you, you want to keep a low profile, especially around us. I understand why, but if you do see us in scorch helm or me, uh, don't be a stranger. Okay.
01:16:37
Speaker
Good luck. It's a safer road than roads you've traveled on, but the sandstorms, the sand streams, there are always surprises. I will genuinely take that on board. I wish I had some sage advice for you to follow. If the wind blows north, follow it. True.
01:17:08
Speaker
I shall, Nyx Carell. Cool. And she begins to sort of limp back in a similar direction, but to where- Oh, is it that one of those awkward things where we just- They're sort of going the same way. They're moving like a degree apart every five or six steps.
01:17:29
Speaker
So we move over to Seth and you're seeing the rest of your companions sort of slowly catch up. But the caravan history that you look at now is so much quieter than it was during the day when you were engaging in that trade.
01:17:43
Speaker
Everything has sort of been put away for want of a better phrase. All of the animals are in various stables. There is only like one or two workers and then just one person sat at a desk. You've seen some people arrive late, but most people don't travel that there's a night or at least get close to here by nightfall. Inside is this very empty compound with a series of buildings.
01:18:10
Speaker
And at this point, you three sort of all meet up. And yeah, about 200 feet into that compound is just one sort of night worker at a desk above sort of a gazebo style shelter. What do you like to do? Right. Um, Nix, what do we do? Uh...
01:18:37
Speaker
Yes, right. We should identify the owner to give us our car that's already been sold, bartered for. This should be fairly standard affair, really. It was Kareem, wasn't it? Yes. The little guy, the short one. Yes. Let's go find him then. OK.
01:19:06
Speaker
you take the lead because I'm Osiris.
01:19:19
Speaker
Your wanted poster is not in void. It's gone. I told you it was taken off the board. I could tell you that edge is to go before you got shanked by hope and before you had a good long chat with our arch fucking enemy there. Yeah, it was taken off the board. If it's not on the board, I'm not a bounty. I thought you knew that. Well, I just thought that someone could have taken it so that they claimed the bounty and was going to come and find you.
01:19:46
Speaker
I thought you just killed people and then you claimed it after. I don't know. Anyway, if I was looking for a bounty, I'd take off the board. So I always had a visual reference. And so when I saw that person, I knew exactly. I thought that might have been the case here. So, yes.
01:20:02
Speaker
Let's go. The elephant in the room, anyone? It's not in this room. I think it's further in there. That's where the elephant would be. Well, let's just get the fucking cart and go before we meet anymore of the people I want to fucking burn. Let's go. Nix, go. Why are you still standing there, Nix? Yes, absolutely. Right, Captain.
01:20:28
Speaker
So you enter into the compound and there is nowhere else to go. And there's one individual in the middle who sat under the shelter, very old dwarf, this huge scraggly beard he looks at. He looks equivalent about 102 in human years. And he just sort of looks up from you from these, these triple extended spectacles that he's got resting on his nose, just sort of announces, yes,
01:20:51
Speaker
No, but circumstances has changed somewhat and to prep for our journey ahead.
01:21:09
Speaker
we would like to collect now if at all possible. Yes, let me just consult my ledger here. Absolutely, thank you for being so thorough. Just sort of goes underneath the desk and has to sort of dismount from a chair and you just see this half the form just sink beneath this desk and moving of wood sort of this book appears on the table and then this old man sort of stumbles up onto his chair again
01:21:36
Speaker
It begins moving through page quite slowly. You can see dates from months ago, weeks ago. It takes about five, six minutes of page turning before it gets to the current date. Just looks at you and says, stable two, and just as a slow point towards one of the buildings. Wonderful. Thank you. And that elephant is probably asleep or feasting in there on something. What's the elephant's name?
01:22:06
Speaker
We don't name them. Oh! Does that mean that the name is ours to give? If you wish to get attached to the cargo puss, yes. Wonderful! This has been Fortuitous. Thank you very much. What's your name? Galdon.
01:22:25
Speaker
Gail Don, that is a strong name, Gail Don. How long you worked here? Here?
Servitude & Moral Conflict
01:22:31
Speaker
Well, I've been in servitude to Karim for about 45 years. Whilst walking towards the stables? So is Seth. Servitude?
01:22:45
Speaker
Yes, and he just sort of lifts his left arm and you see a slave collar that you're seeing on various other bodies around Snakerun. Well, now I feel bad for laughing. Oh, I don't. I'm so sorry, I didn't take into account the slave collar. I don't need to apologize, I shouldn't have murdered those people. Ah, yeah, okay. Now I feel good for laughing.
01:23:17
Speaker
The master of the heartstring. Sure. They had it coming though, right? Yes. No, they did. Those children are bastards. Cool. Do I like.
01:23:34
Speaker
We're not going to return this again. It will come back, which is probably not through our means. I don't. It's yours. You own it. Oh. You just see a very stern looking carpenter staring from Stable 2 right back at you, shooting literal eye daggers and his lip twitching up. So do we just open the door? Yeah, come on, Nix. You wanted to name this thing? Hurry up.
01:24:03
Speaker
I could ask its name, just probably not tonight. Have a good life. I don't think I will. I did. It was a pleasure. Pass my best on to Karim. I will. See him at Scorchhelm. And the bet is mine.
01:24:30
Speaker
don't know what that means he'll know he'll know you uh take care of yourself thank you thank you can we take care of the murderer with us stealing stealing someone else's slave there i don't know what that that's gonna cause you for trying to keep a low profile this evening jailbreak we're riding off elephants just like whoa
01:24:59
Speaker
So there's about seven different larger stable
Plans for Jailbreak & Elephant Theft
01:25:03
Speaker
buildings. You approach this stable too, you've been asked to go to. And it's about a 60 foot long building, large enough you'd expect for sort of multiple elephants and huge carts. It's got height, it's got depth to it.
01:25:19
Speaker
But just one single, sorry, one huge double door that you wouldn't be able to open or close by yourselves, that is clearly for the main entrance. But then there is a smaller door within one of those double door, like a door within a door that you would use in a single capacity. And there's these much bigger barn-like doors that the animals and the carts would be pulled out through. How do you want to proceed?
01:25:47
Speaker
walk in and find bay number two. If we can't find that, find an elephant. Okay. And a card. So. Preferably. You put your hand on the handle, open up this smaller door and it's just one sort of big warehouse, if you will. And you step in.
Suspenseful Stable Encounter
01:26:06
Speaker
Bar steps in. Nick steps in. Oh no. Yeah, yep, yep, yep. Nick's in there. God. It's pitch black.
01:26:16
Speaker
And you just- Pitch black? Pitch black? Yeah, it's pitch black. I'll get to you in a second. You just feel and hear the door slam behind you. Seth, no dark vision? Galdar, no. Bal, no dark vision? No dark vision. You've got means of making light. Nyx. Yes. As you turn,
01:26:40
Speaker
to see the door behind you closed and then immediately turn into the wider space of the room. Staring back at you is this huge, teeth-bearing lion. Low, growling, about to pounce. And that
01:27:08
Speaker
is where we're going to end this week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop, Bellum Draconis.
01:27:35
Speaker
really bad roles as well really bad roles man you got stabbed by an inebriated dwarf she was passed out her own piss and you still fucked it yep yep straight up you felt bad for gailed on if i could tell you how the stories i know about gailed on i know nothing but i'm just kidding he fucked the bodies down very quickly
Humorous Reflections & Farewell
01:28:01
Speaker
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01:28:14
Speaker
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01:28:44
Speaker
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