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Ch. 37 - O Brother, Were Rat Thou? | Those Who Wander
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Don't get your hopes up, there are no dinosaurs in this episode.
Meet the cast:
Dungeon Master – Zach Meikle (IG: @zachabee)
Clay Campbell – Prima Zhao (IG: @primbdraws)
Faunalyn Vaydark – Shannon Meikle (IG: @sharsharbinks)
Glimki Treefellow – Jordan Johnsen (IG: @jordan_johnsen)
Edited by Zach Meikle
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Forgotten Days / Ys IX: Monstrum Nox vol. 3 / Copyright © Nihon Falcom Corporation (1:15:40)
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Beyond the Horizon (2:36)
Greenlands (13:56)
The Cavalier King Charles (16:11)
Heartbeat (17:44)
Dreamy Interlude (36:18)
Forest Walk (49:56)
Fantasy Ambience (51:08)
The Basset Hound (1:00:47)
Looking for Treasure (1:02:38)
Night of Mystery (1:04:55)
8-bit Tavern (1:46:16)
Peek-aboo (2:05:32)
Tropical Harmonies (2:29:03)
Crossroads (2:31:51)
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Age of Sail (11:41)
Open Water (18:52)
Steampunk Airship (1:03:24)
Quiet cove (1:57:36)
Docks District (2:00:29)
Dark and Stormy (2:07:21)
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Transcript
Ptolemy's Concerns and Klarb's Silence
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Ptolemy Henkel was beginning to get worried. Klarb had fallen into a prolonged silence that Ptolemy found unnerving. Perhaps he was getting bored. Perhaps the Mengen part of the story had gone on too long.
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Perhaps Klarb was a staunch capitalist. Or perhaps his hunger was beginning to overpower his limited attention spans.
Carrot Boat Challenges and Dinosaur Promises
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To make matters worse, the boat Ptolemy had carved out of a carrot had started to take on water.
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Or rather, broth. If he didn't get things under control, his whole plan was going to dissolve around him. He decided to say something. Something. Ahem.
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Ahem. Uh, Clarb. I can't help but notice you've gone a little quiet. Clarb responded by saying nothing. I hope I'm not boring.
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Klarb shrugged non-committally, although in reality it was no different than his more committal shrugs. Is the story lacking something, Klarb? Does it need something to recapture your attention?
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Whatever it is, you can tell me. Dinosaurs. Excuse me? After all this time, I thought the story would have some dinosaurs.
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Why would you think that? All the best stories have dinosaurs. Ptolemy Henkel vehemently disagreed. I couldn't agree more. As luck would have it, Ptolemy Henkel was fairly certain the heroes of this story actually encountered some dinosaurs in an upcoming chapter.
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He knew for a fact they visited an island with dinosaurs, so undoubtedly they would have encountered some dinosaurs while there. Who would leave a dinosaur island without stopping to see at least one dinosaur? Of course, there was the business with the baby kraken poachers, and the chapter where everyone swapped bodies, and the thing with the war crime tribunal, but Ptolemy could just skip over all that and jump straight to the dinosaurs.
Rebellion Recap and Mine Battle
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It was what Klarb wanted, and Ptolemy would do just about anything to keep Klarb entertained. Well, lucky for you, I'm pretty sure this next chapter has some dinosaurs.
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Really? Of course. If you recall, our heroes were only a short distance from Elotenicar, the home of Xav's dinosaurs. And there's no chance they would leave without seeing at least one dinosaur, right?
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It would be inconceivable to conceive otherwise. I couldn't agree more. Ptolemy took off a boot and started to bail out his carrot boat. If it was dinosaurs Clarb wanted, it was dinosaurs he would get.
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Now, let's see. Where were we? After spending numerous days on the island of Mengen, the long sought rebellion against the Korak Mining Company began.
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Our heroes reunited outside Chariah Mine, guided through the sprawling network of tunnels by Booth the Bryganok. He brought them to an abandoned portion of the mine where he revealed a crack leading to the heart of Etikin.
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Our heroes used some of their stolen blast powder to expand the passage and gained access to a large hidden chamber with an immense stone tree that was producing the endless stream of riches that had first drawn the dwarves to Mengan.
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However, as they entered the chamber, they discovered they weren't alone, as a strange three-legged, three-armored creature with rocky skin had taken up residence in the heart chamber.
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Meanwhile, the remains of Fat Sal, the worm-riddled dwarven security officer, appeared out of the gloom behind them. A prolonged battle ensued as rebel after rebel was slain by these two foes.
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Clay fought the Zorn, and Farnelan fought Fat Sal, while Glimke was instructed by Etigan to destroy the heart hidden within the stone tree, an instruction that alarmed him and caused him to hesitate.
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However, he took a leap of faith and began to hack at the tree, eventually finding the strength to break the stone, revealing a dazzling crystal heart at its center that overwhelmed Glimke with its brilliance, blinding him.
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With time running out, Glimki, along with the help of Booth, struck once more at the heart and shattered it, restoring Etigan's power and triggering the collapse of the mine.
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Burakan pulled Fonulin through the stone itself to safety, and Glimki insisted Etigan save Clay, leaving him behind in the crumbling mine. Just as it seemed he would be buried, an avatar of Mulari appeared and carried Glimki out of the mines, reuniting our three heroes.
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Upon returning to Onkiel, they saw a flock of glowing butterflies congregating above the city, the symbol of the Edda Gang, brought to life by Edda Gan's return, and they learned that the dwarves had surrendered,
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and the island once more belonged to the people of
Restoration and New Beginnings on the Swift
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Mengen. Though their work was done, there was still much to do, our heroes stayed for a week helping to restore the city. Statues were built, monuments were erected, and an interim government was established.
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Amongst these efforts, Fondolin sought to free Fishhead Franny's indentured servants by offering her Boontar Strigamol. but Franny had left Mengen along with her captives. Glimke eventually regained his eyesight, but not before learning that his new friend Callum had secretly been killed in the Battle of Onkyil and replaced by the same shapeshifter that had replaced the island's governor so many years ago.
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Eventually it was time to depart With all signs pointing towards Bogatyr, our heroes began to look for passage, but passage found them. Which is to say they were gifted a steamboat, equipped with two large paddle wheels that Glimke named the Swift.
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Every ship needs a crew, and the Briganox of Hothtown offered their services and came aboard. And as a new day began on Zav, the Swift began to carry our heroes away from Mengen, onto new adventures.
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would You already said all that. Yes, but I don't feel like you were paying attention of late, so I wanted to recap it for you before we get to the dinosaurs. Dinosaurs.
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Come gather round, travelers, and sit on the stoop. We'll tell you a story about Batsu. Three lovable scamps in our traveling troop.
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We'll tell you a story about Batsu.
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What a great day for singing our new song. Good time, good time, great taste, great taste. That's why this is our place.
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Our place. The good time, great taste.
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Oh, happy new year. You might not know it, but we record our episodes a little bit in advance. Sometimes. Right now, it's the first week of January, and I got resolutions on my mind. Now you might be thinking, bitch, it's March 15th. Why am I listening to your resolution now?
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Well, that ain't my problem. But guess what? I've resolved to eat a lot more fast food in 2026. That's right. I'm going to be eating McDonald's every flipping day. going be flipping burgers into my mouth. but I'm a little tired of the meals they got. So that's why I knew my three best chums in the world to tell me what's a barred soup value meal or whatever the bullshit prompt was. God damn it, were so close. were just coming in smooth. There was a crosswind. You were bouncing it out. About to touch down on a perfect landing and just fucking veered into a
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was I started to
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i so i start to say revolution instead of resolution and that's the moment that I'm like I'm not I'm not putting down the like a little bit of turbulence it was like okay i was like he could take it again but no he's riding through it
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ah Anyway, Glimke's value meal will be a spicy veggie patty thing or something. Wow. And what's it called?
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ah fuck. Yeah. God, this is hard. The McTree fellow. God damn it. That's good. Yeah. All right. not Now, actually, Prima, what's your value meal?
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Oh, Clay's value meal would be like 20 piece nuggets. Okay, just like a thing that exists already. But is it chicken? No, it's... It's Clay.
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i know It's some questionable... Is it real meat? i don't know. ok ok You tell us. It's your value meal. so So it's a current thing, but maybe worse. But maybe not. Maybe the same, but maybe worse. It's a meat from things that Clay helped kidnap. Yeah. yeah And what's it c called? The Mick.
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Nuggets. Nice.
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Oh, yeah, Dave. All right. We're back, baby. This is my favorite intro. And last, but certainly not least, ah Shannon, what's Fauna Lin's value, Mio? And also, I guess, who do you play or whatever bullshit? Yeah, no one else did this, but hi, I'm Shannon and I play Faunelin Veidark.
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I think that my value meal, because Faunelin was loosely visually inspired by Marie Antoinette, would be like a cake, a little cake. Let them meat you let them eat the cake. Yes.
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And it would be called... The McNuggets. God damn it. It's a real buffalo buffalo Buffalo, Buffalo, Buffalo, Buffalo situation where you go in, you order McNuggets, McNuggets, and McNuggets, and they give you three different things. and No, it's okay, I have i changed my mind. It's going to be called the McRumpet. And then Q cut away straight into the episode.
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Well, but but but but but I'm Zach, you're i'm your grease-filled dungeon master, and I'm choking your arteries. And guess what? I got supersized this year. That's right. Bard soup to the moon, baby. Let's go. We're going to live forever.
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We join our party on the deck of the Swift. Mangan has disappeared into the distance. You might be asking, hey, Zack, this is a flat world. How come things disappear over the horizon or whatever? Don't worry about it. If you don't think about it too much, you don't need to worry about it. Okay. I think we answered that during the Kobarus arc, or maybe we didn't. I don't remember.
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I like the implication that if you stood on a flat surface and
Exploring the Swift and Creative Cabins
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something got really far away from you you, would just, you would still be able to see it forever because they're like, I like that implication that the only limitation on eyesight is curvature. I think it is right. Cause I look up and I see the stars and I was like, damn, those are real way further away than an island.
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Yeah, but they're light. They're light emitting. Regardless of that, Mangan disappears into the distance. The wheels, the paddle wheels of the Swift are turning. There's this large copper pipe in near the center of the of the vessel, which is emitting steam, little puffs of steam up into the morning air.
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And you, for the first time, have a chance to look around the ship. As I have mentioned, it is a dwarven steamship with this rich wood that makes up the body of it. It's got gray metallic flooring that kind of pangs or pings with each each step, little tiny clangs.
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There are these two large paddle wheels that are slowly turning and these various metal pipes that are sticking up from various spots. There is a central cabin filled with charts as well as the steering wheel.
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along with a couple levers that you can use to cut power to and from the different paddle wheels. There is a cannon on top of this cabin with a ladder leading up towards it, so you can shoot forward.
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There's also a quarter deck, which is just a an raised area that's connected by a pair of staircases at the aft of the ship, the rear of the ship, that also has a cannon on There's several hatches that lead below decks and you see the briganox, the thousand briganox that make up your crew are coming and going in a steady stream up and down, loading up supplies. Some of them are doing the thing where, um, from, uh, from spirited away where they're just carrying like one piece of coal down into the, into the hatch towards the boiler. And that's kind of like the immediate stuff you see.
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But as you look around more, you see that there is a intricate glass dragon head at the helm of the ship. It makes up the figurehead of the ship. It's like this glass dragon that's roaring into the morning sun. The pharos is beating down and refracting through it, creating this like dazzling, prismatic display.
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You also see at the aft of the ship, there are... Three doors, each of which leads into a separate sleeping chamber, one for each of you.
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So, going in no particular order, Glimke, as you go to drop off your your belongings into this personal cabin, you look around and you see that the room has been custom decorated for you. Wow.
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Could you please tell me what it looks like? Hmm. I think good what would be cool is if he had a lot of hanging potted plants that are native to Mangan. I think that could be really nice. so they're like hanging and swaying from the the ship's rafters, maybe like lightly bumping into each other in their little terracotta pots.
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And his um bed would definitely not be a cot, it would be like a hanging hammock as well, like more similar to what you'd see below deck on a ship. Just so he can yeah feel the the ocean when the ship sways.
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And yeah, I don't know. Maybe some some intricate carvings of vines around the the portal of the door could be kind of neat.
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And it would be awesome if there was a porthole that I could see out of. But, you know, beggars can't be choosers. Well, I'll ask, who has the middle room? Is there an advantage to the middle room?
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No. It just doesn't have a porthole. I think the implication is it has no windows. but I went first. um I pick in the... I'm picking port, which is the left side of the ship.
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There we go. look The right side. Fonelin, you are left with the middle room. It's a weird corner i would like to find the captain's quarters.
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that It turns out that is, that is, it's a little bit bigger. I would just add, Glimke, there is a door at the back of your room as well.
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There's one at the front that you entered into and there's one at the back. Okay. And as you open it up, you see that there is a a large balcony that extends across the entire back half the ship, like the back, the width of the ship, which is about 30 feet away.
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And there's a little bit of seating and this yeah this railing. And you can see the sign that was painted that says the name of the ship is hanging from the bottom of it. And there's just like a bit of a wake behind the ship as you see Mangan disappearing rapidly into the distance.
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And we will cut Faunelin. You step through the middle door. You see, nice, there's like five extra square feet of room in here. Could you please tell me what your room looks like?
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Faunelin hangs up some of her cute dresses. i think she assembles some curtains out of extra sail material with like frills and hangs them up on the wall to imply that there's a window behind there that she just doesn't feel like using.
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She steals pillows from Clay in Gleimki's room so that she can have like this comfy, squishy bed nest. Yeah, I don't think Clay's ever given Faunelin any art.
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That's interesting. So she doesn't have a single thing to put up on her walls. You could put up the portrait of Jarrah. Like a pinup. Okay, Fondalyn puts up a portrait of Jarrah.
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I have dozen copies of that. Oh god. She hangs it next to her vanity. Yeah, I don't know. she She doesn't spend that much time in there. I feel like she usually like, she ends up in like Clay's room or Glimpy's room, like taking over a bunch of their space and being like, you will not believe what Boof has just told me about the drama between him and Josephine. i don't know. I couldn't think of another name for a little creature. Zach's the one who names them. I've named some of them, but I haven't named a thousand. So there is now one named Josephine.
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Oh, that's cute. Amazing. And I'm going say in this instance, you step out through the back door onto the balcony as well and see that it is this shared balcony and Glimke is out there. And before you could say a word, we're going to cut away to Clay.
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Clay, you step into your room. It is on the starboard side. There is a porthole that you can see out of. Could you please tell me how your room is arranged? I think she has made her room basically into an art studio.
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So like the center of the room is like a ah big desk table with like sketches and stuff laid across it One corner probably has like an easel propped up, probably stocked up on all the art supplies she could want in Mengen.
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It's probably like a place with if Fonelin were to visit her room for her to like sit for portraits and stuff, which I think would be fun. Yes. Yes, right now. Yeah, you you can't really tell where Clay sleeps. I think she just like lies down on the floor somewhere, probably like her bedroll and just sleeps there. Yeah.
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Nice. Hell yeah. And yeah, I'd say you step out through that your own balcony door and see Faunelin and Glimke. You're standing there staring out at the water.
Heroism and Friendship Reflections
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And yeah, the other three of you, for what feels like the first time in weeks, have a second just to exist without any major threats or plots or dangers looming.
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Well, I feel like I haven't seen the two of you in ages. What have you been up to? Overthrow any regimes? Wow, ah that was like such a whirlwind.
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but we did it. We overthrew the regime. I know. Isn't that crazy? Like, what do we do now? Like, we're going to do exactly what we were going to do before, except now we're burdened with the knowledge that we're...
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you know, capable of rising to any situation and willing to sacrifice ourselves for the greater good. It's horrifying. Yeah, it's pretty crazy that we got ourselves into that whole mess. I think we should come to some sort of agreement that maybe the next time there's an oppressive government, we just like take a pass on it.
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We can do the one after that, but maybe we just take a break on one. Learned out of being a hero already. It was just the one time. It was a lot. I think we did a lot of good. i just, I mean, a lot of lives were lost. Maybe there could have been a better way than involving ourselves so directly. no I think what we did was right. Like we, Ana's right. We rose to the occasion and that's, I mean, pretty spectacular. We we should be really proud of ourselves. a Bunch of nobodies looking for some missing princess, digging down a crazy conspiracy. It's pretty great, but yeah, I don't know. It was tough.
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ah kind of, I don't know about you guys, but i kind of, kind of don't know what to do with myself now. Like, we did that. And we did it just because it was the right thing to do.
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Like, who does that? You know, do we keep doing that? Like, every time we see someone in need? I mean, how did you, how do you feel now?
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I feel like I didn't know I would be so willing to die for people that I don't even know. Man. Yeah, I know. I feel kind of like unhinged. Exactly. Like I found myself in the middle of all that. at some point I'm in the tower about to drown and I'm thinking like I would die before I quit this.
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But like... probably name like five of the people I'm dying for and even then I'd probably get their name wrong by accident or on purpose as a power play. i didn't even know. Like I guess I'm a good person, like a great person. Like I guess I'm like a, I always thought I was more the gray heroine, but I suppose I'm like a shining beacon of virtue and it makes me feel- awa of what what? like a liability to myself. I mean, I have aims, I have things that I've got to accomplish, and how am I going to accomplish them if my bleeding heart is giving me anemia and making me lightheaded and making me stop what I'm doing, which is, by the way, on a time cons constraint. Somebody else could have found the princess by now. We have things to do because I'm too busy being heroic and having statues erected in my honor.
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Wow. That's all I have to say. Wow. That's what you got out of this? You're the one who just said we should pass by the next in insurrection. was just saying take a break. here Take a little break.
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but We can't take a break. We've got to find a princess. I mean, I've got another government to overthrow and I've just had very tangible proof that it's something that I'm capable of doing in, by the way, two weeks time.
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Okay, well, we're we're back on the track now of this missing princess. Yeah, I think that that situation was really hard to leave the way it was. And I think we did good, and I'm proud of us and what we accomplished there.
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But we also didn't gain nothing for our original objective. We have a new lead, we have a new ship, and we have a thousand Brickernogs.
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That'll snap to attention. Yeah. The Legion turns its eyes on us. I mean, what about you guys though? I mean, I always knew my name would be in history books, but Glimki, this is a hell of a a story to tell your siblings. Oh, is it ever?
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i I don't think they're going to believe it if I ever make it back home. therere a Yeah, i think they're going to be pretty surprised about the old Glimki. Well, we'll back up your story. We were there and we saw everything you did. True, true. I'm gonna need you guys to come too.
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but Yeah, I would love to meet your family. If they know you, they won't be too surprised. Oh, no, I think they will be. You can trust me on that one.
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I suppose your hair looks different too. a little. yeah Are you cool with your god... gods now? Are you polytheist? They're spirits.
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I can have multiple, I think. Okay. yeah You poly, that's cool. Yeah. yeah Whatever you say. You're with the hip lingo. I don't know what that means.
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You're engaging in ethical non... What's the word? Non-monogamy. For God-worshipping. Non-theicism? Theism? Yeah. Yeah.
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There it is. i don't... I don't know what happened down there in the mine. I thought I was dead. But Malari came through again.
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just can't seem to shake this guy. I'm glad that he came through for you. Yeah, no kidding. Do you want to shake him? There was a period of time where I thought maybe him and I weren't the best of...
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uh friends if you would but you know what i think he likes me and i think i like him too i saw malari when he saved you from the cave and yeah i think he likes you if my opinion means anything i'm still angry that you tried to to leave yourself behind and made etiquette take me out of the cave and I would do it
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ah Please don't do that again. promises. I don't see why you both couldn't leave the cave. i don i really don't see why you couldn't both just leave the cave. Like, Dreamki, I admire and respect the sacrifice.
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If you die for me, I'll be very grateful. But i don't understand why you both just couldn't leave. sounds a bit dramatic. I wasn't it didn't feel like it was up to me. It was more of an Etigan thing.
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Etigan's dramatic. Yeah, a little. That's the actual as hell. He was trapped in stone for, you know, who knows how long. yeah What was going on on that island? What was in the tree?
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heart. And it needed a new heart? Dude, I don't know. I I could tell you. That was Etigan's heart, I guess. Yeah, the heart of the island. It was being exploited. Oh, it was being exploited. So it had to be destroyed so that Etigan could...
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Sometimes you just gotta go with the flow, you know? Okay, so valid. You know what? It's honestly none of my business. Don't look back. And now have this cool flower in my hair. It looks really nice. You know, before it looked messy, but now it's starting to look intentional.
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Oh, that's good. That's good. I think it suits you. It kind of tickles my scalp. I don't know what it does yet. What it does is it dictates that you can't really wear red or purple anymore because you'll clash. Damn, good thing green is my color. Green and pink are gorgeous together. Congratulations.
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Be cautious with yellows. What are we doing now? Wait, ah actually wait, wait, wait. The emotional rundown is not yet complete. Oh, shit. My bad.
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How are you? Yes, look at me. Look at me. Everybody admire me. i am not only a beacon of heroism, but also a beacon of friendship. Clay, my friend. You good, bro?
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Yeah. um That was a whole lot, that island, I think. I don't know. We... i don't know. I'm like speechless, I guess. The butcher followed us and we dealt with that. Oh, yeah. You dealt with that.
00:27:22
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yes And i I just, I've never felt so close to McGraw in both like the creative side and the seeking justice side. And I don't know where we stand in trying to like bring justice to people who have done wrong and i think I'm glad we did that on that island but i kind of hope we can go back to just trying to find the princess yeah I don't know I i i hope things are calmer from now on Lady Fondolin it's your turn how do you feel So like I covered it with the whole like I don't know what to do with myself, I'm a liability, apparently I'll die for any important cause and that makes me feel unhinged in a way but also I've opened a door to morality that I thought I had shut.
00:28:12
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Basically, i still want everything I've always wanted and I feel more capable of getting it but I also kind of think that I might get in my own way and I fear that the only thing that can stop me from getting what I want is this newfound vulnerability which compassion.
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i but Well, for a moment, I was worried that you were being drawn in by franny And I was really worried, i don't know, that you would make a deal with her that you couldn't get out of.
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I walked Franny like a dog. I'd do it again. i would run that bitch around the block. She scared me a little. You you scared she didn't hear me little. Good, I'm scary. She's not. She was a fish turned into a person. Would you be scared of a chihuahua with long legs?
00:29:06
Speaker
Would you be scared of a gerbil that does taxes? Chihuahua with long legs would be terrifying. Actually, that is terrifying. yeah Okay, all right. That's fair point. Yeah. I would be too. And and now you have Bir... Bir... Burakan.
00:29:22
Speaker
Yes! Fonelin, like, knocks on her wig twice. She's like, yes, I have a good feeling about her. I'm very seldom wrong about people. I think the only time I've been wrong about people... i didn't think I've ever been wrong about a person, actually. I was looking for an example to comedically undercut myself, but actually, no, I've never been wrong about a person, and I have immaculate judgment, which is unfailing, other than the blackmails.
00:29:48
Speaker
Well, I think that even with all of our other situationships with gods and spirits and blackmail targets and whatever, I don't think that this relationship between the three of us has ever been more solid.
00:30:05
Speaker
I think genuinely we stepped up every step of the way, not just to help the people of this island, but each other. And I think that's really special.
00:30:15
Speaker
I think so too. I think that's what helped us all get through that. It got very dangerous in those mines, but I think the way we worked together. And even when we were apart, o we just had faith that whatever we were doing was all gonna work out in the end somehow.
00:30:35
Speaker
So don't I don't know. Maybe that's it's a good lesson of trust. Yes, I hold you both in very high regard. Not just because you're useful, which you sometimes are, but also because you were both... yeah You were both very exemplary. You were both...
00:30:53
Speaker
and him you You both have admirable qualities, which makes me want to be a better person, and and I am grateful to be friends with you guys. Ahem. Klimki puts his hand out in in the middle of us and says, Here's to future rumpus and rumpus and rumpus activities.
00:31:20
Speaker
To Rumpus, Rumpus, and Rumpus. Uh, Clay will put her hand in the middle. all Rumpus, Rumpus, Rumpus! Because that's the thing, Fauna Lynn says that she puts her hand in the middle That's the thing, is you guys might get sick of me. You guys might be reviled by my future actions. You may not want to overthrow a largely stable government with me. The is, you can never take away the fact that we did that together. You know, our statues will always stand side by side. So no matter what happens, we are a permanent and established chapter of each other's lives. We are hallmarks of perhaps one of the most significant events of our lives so far. Just saying, you will never get rid of me.
00:32:00
Speaker
yeah I think you two are honestly my closest friends. And I'm happy to do this with you guys. What about Pieter or whatever that guy's name?
00:32:12
Speaker
why is my being What was that guy's name? Something like Ross D. L. Sweeney back in Erdenene, Sten Dexter suddenly gets a pain in the back of his neck. Sorry, let me take that again. What about Sten Dexter?
00:32:31
Speaker
You mean Sten-Peter-Dexter? His name was Peter or something. I think that's the guy who served me like salty tea at the artist. Yeah, he brought you like a sausage roll or something. Parkly.
00:32:46
Speaker
Oh, Parkly. Not even Peter. Who's Peter? Parkly. Park. No. It was who I was referring to. Oh, he's my friend too. But I feel like he hasn't gone through the things we've gone through together.
00:33:01
Speaker
yes Yeah, you guys have seen me at my worst, I guess. i'm At my lowest. And... So far...
00:33:10
Speaker
you what the fuck what is it a threat no just so far let's see how low we can go great you avoided going to hell i think it could have been worse
00:33:29
Speaker
well we don't know where our adventure will take us Yeah. I feel very grateful to be one of your best friends. You're one of mine. Fallows number one, but your you're a very close number two.
00:33:40
Speaker
I'll take it. i'm honored, Lady Fonnellin. Glimke, you're also number two. You're tied for number two. wow I was just silently brooding, so I guess that makes me three.
00:33:51
Speaker
Around that time... and and no, no, no, no. All right. Fonnellin is staring at Glimke like, hmm, don't you have something to say?
Navigation Choices and Trade Route Debates
00:34:04
Speaker
do you What? are you mean I think, like, about your friendship status? Mm-hmm. Yeah, I think you guys are my best friends.
00:34:19
Speaker
I knew it all along. It doesn't surprise me whatsoever. Anyway, transition away. Around that time, you see a brigadock being lowered lowered down from above, attached to by a rope.
00:34:34
Speaker
They are wearing a traditional sailor's uniform. And as he is lowered down to your eye level from the quarter deck above, he says, Greetings, captains.
00:34:46
Speaker
Pleasure to... make your acquaintance properly my name is boy donnie and uh i i have been instructed by ah acting captain boof to request your presence in the cabin he has a matter of navigation to discuss with you Do the friggin' orcs have a ca- cabin? Does it have a window? Well, you see, it's it's the central- it's the central cabin where the steering mechanism is. ah Acting Captain Booth has stationed himself there so that he might steer the ship.
00:35:16
Speaker
I think you've been on ships before. Is that standard ship anatomy? I thought cabin explicitly and specifically referred to the rooms. Maybe they have different terms on this ship, I don't know.
00:35:27
Speaker
Have they grown a mushroom to live in? That's a little bit racist as he boy on pulled away. Come on now. I don't know. i thought he needed those drugs.
00:35:40
Speaker
here who you think he has drugs? Oh shit. Yeah. his and what we They all have to house one. Okay. To Captain Booth.
00:35:51
Speaker
So I have one important question in. It's do the three of you go out through the same door or through your three individual doors? Three individuals. Perfect. All right. See you in a second. When you first said there was a door at the back of Glimke's room, I thought it was going to be like a connected bathroom situation. With like shared doors. In a way it is, if you think about the balcony. Like in a suburb house between the two kid rooms. That's cute. Yeah.
00:36:20
Speaker
The three of you step out onto the the deck of the Swift. You see that there is this central cabin, of course, and everyone agrees this is called a cabin and that there's no other possible word for it.
00:36:32
Speaker
And you step in through one of the the door, the door leading in. And you see that it is this this chamber. There's a big, large window at the front to see out of. It'd be crazy if it was a window to do anything else with, but it's a window to see out of. There's a steering mechanism with several levers that control the paddle wheels. And...
00:36:53
Speaker
There is a vast table with various charts. There's a big old map of the Anchor's Chain pinned up to the wall. And you see about 10 Bryganox per lever are standing at attention.
00:37:07
Speaker
And Boof, who has somehow acquired a captain's hat, turns to look at the three of you as you enter and says, Oh, good. Right on time. Okay. Hello, Captain.
00:37:19
Speaker
You've requested our presence. You're the captains. I'm just the acting captain or something. I don't know. We can figure out the hierarchy of this. mate I don't know. I mean, I'm the one steering the ship, so I don't know. I figured maybe something a little bit better than first mate. I said first mate, the next thing down?
00:37:36
Speaker
Well, I don't know, but like... It could be, if you're not first, you're last. I've always said. First mate? More like last mate, am I right? No!
00:37:48
Speaker
What do you think of Skipper? Oh, I could get behind Skipper Boof. Skipper Boof? Skipper Boof. Nobody knows. Skipper Boof. Well, come with me, step into my office. And he is going to walk across the room and cough loudly. And you see the 20 Brighanox manning the levers come running over and form a bit of a staircase. And he climbs up them and stands on the table and gestures up at the map.
00:38:17
Speaker
Now you see, we're roughly here. And he points to an island that is labeled Mengen. It's just, you know, a little bit above that. And here's our destination. And he points at another island. It's sort of crescent-shaped and it says Bogatir.
00:38:32
Speaker
Now, there's two paths we can take. i was talking to some sailors at the docks before we took off and got some ideas. And I don't have a preference. It's entirely up to you. Kind of depends on your timeline, what you're trying to get out of this trip.
00:38:49
Speaker
But you see here, and he gestures up at the at the map again, there's an eastern sea lane. It's a pretty common shipping route. It kind of cuts around the eastern end of the Anchor's Chain. You take a bit of a longer route to get there, but it's generally pretty steady waters, less prone to storms or...
00:39:08
Speaker
various nasties. And then over here, we've got the Minta Current. And he gestures at a line that leads between a couple of the islands, between the Serpent's Fang and Isla Tenokar.
00:39:20
Speaker
It's a more direct route, and there's a bit of a, and by a bit, I mean a pretty strong current that could probably shave a full day off of our trip if you're looking to get to Bogatyr real quick, if you just cannot wait to vacay.
00:39:35
Speaker
And that's my presentation. i mean, there's like other routes, but it'd be like, why are you going the exact opposite direction? That's going to add months to your trip. Why are we going to Nervaldir first? Why are we crossing the entire world to get to this place that's only a few days away? So I would say it's probably one of those two routes, unless you've got pressing business on another island first.
00:39:54
Speaker
I mean, do you guys think it's worth shaving a day off and taking this other route? Well, Boof, how confident are you and the other crew in navigating a strong current like that?
00:40:04
Speaker
Well, we've had about two hours of practice, and so we're feeling pretty good. You're doing amazing. You're doing awesome. Thank you. You're doing amazing. You're doing amazing. He pulls out a joint. You want some? um Hey, quick sidebar, gang. Quick sidebar.
00:40:20
Speaker
Funnelin grabs the joint. Yep. Okay, first order of business. Skipper is captain, so we can't call him that. skipper is not Captain? Skipper is the skipper. Skipper is the captain. The skipper is the captain. What impertinent crew is giving their captain a cutesy little nickname? I don't know. All the best ones, I think. Secondly, I don't think I'm going to trust him with the currents.
00:40:42
Speaker
And we didn't really sail the last ship either. We were just on the ship. And the boats that I was on with the Dragonborn, I didn't do much of anything either. Okay, I mean, if it's only going to take one day off, I feel like we should take the safer route and kind of take the time to really recover and think about what we're going to do once we get to Boca Tier.
00:41:02
Speaker
See, that i I think is right. My concern, my only concern is I loudly declared myself to be Lady Faradeth Thrillwyn on, uh, back on, back on the island there.
00:41:14
Speaker
And, um, you going the way that's, like, more common amongst traders, there is, of course, a significant amount of trade coming out of Ulethor Thyad, where I am, in fact, a wanted criminal. Not criminal!
00:41:28
Speaker
Political criminal. Is Fondlin the wanted criminal? Or... I'm not, I haven't done a crime. I'm just, I'm on, my family was ousted and I'm, you know, i got away. right So wait, so is Fondalyn the criminal or is No, Throben.
00:41:48
Speaker
They're looking for you as Throben? Yeah, and I loudly declared my name and then a bunch of people left the island to go to all corners of the earth. So it's not, and then we waited like several days there. We were there for like several. So it's not impossible that on the popular trade routes, I might lay low should anyone hail us and should anyone that hails us seem to be a pointy of the ear and naturally elegant of demeanor.
00:42:17
Speaker
Well, now that you mention the whole high trade route thing, like do you think there's probably pirates out there? ah I guess it's just like we we just ousted an entire populace of dwarves. What are some pirates gonna do?
00:42:29
Speaker
You know? Last time we saw pirates, we sent them... I put booze in its s spine and piloted it like a kaiju. It went great. So I don't see any reason why we wouldn't be able to take on pirates now.
00:42:40
Speaker
On one hand, yes. On the other hand, last time we were on a ship, the pirates had portals and were wearing strange masks and had a weird dragon creature. Oh, yeah, those guys. Glemke's going to look up from our sidebar and be like, just one more second. Yes, I forgot about the portal pirates. yeah Those are some pretty bad pirates.
00:43:04
Speaker
Yeah, but they were tracking that object, which we don't have anymore. So I think we're fine, right? Yeah. You know what? That's so crazy. That was so long ago. We never closed that loop. That loop is still very much open.
00:43:16
Speaker
Hey, we're back on the seas, so maybe we might run into another cube. Yeah, we might run into Captain... What was her name? Gotta write a book about them. Zoralo Deathsbane. Yeah, Zoralo. Zoralo Deathsbane.
00:43:31
Speaker
Oh, that bard. That untalented bard. Oh, that guy sucked. He sucks. sucks. Just kidding, we have a music deal with him. We do a rare cut to Ptolemy and Klarb in the future.
00:43:42
Speaker
how did you know they said you sucked? Just a general idea, I suppose. da la we don't want good more self aeeamer ship
00:43:56
Speaker
like the idea that like whenever eventually Ptolemy learns our story, we explicitly tell him that he sucked and we thought he sucked. We are not fans of you. and By the way, we talked mad shit.
00:44:10
Speaker
Very important you remember that part. Most people do it behind your back. We're here to set things straight. And Glimke's your agent. It's called a lost leader.
00:44:20
Speaker
are we talking about? Okay, sorry, Boof. Yes. and Wait, hold on. Just another second, Boof. okay No problem. and so we got a few hours, so we need to turn. Okay, right. So, okay. So we could go the slower route, trade route.
00:44:35
Speaker
We need to make sure that you're all covered up in some other disguise or... hidden away on the ship in case we run into some elven traders. And then fingers crossed, no, i don't know, magical cube falls into our lap again. So a portal pirate comes and attacks us. Or we trust the Briganox to navigate through the heavy currents and I'm assuming shallower rocky coasts of these islands.
00:45:02
Speaker
What do we think? When you say the second option, it sounds absolutely insane. And Farnaline holds up the joint. It's like, our captain lives in a hallucinogenic mushroom and has been doing this for two hours. I like the guy as much as the next person who doesn't like the guy that much, but I don't think he can do that.
00:45:22
Speaker
Let's go the trade way and I'll just be discreet. I'm very good at that. What if he's some kind of ship c savant? And what if he's not? His name is Boof. Blimki, his name is Boof.
00:45:32
Speaker
You think he you think you showed a lot of potential? I think that's a pretty respectable name in the Brighanoc community. Is it not? That's what he told me. the one who told me what Boof means.
00:45:45
Speaker
I think um we have a paddle boat and if we hit shallow rocky waters, we might just get absolutely fucked. Yeah, and that's putting it politely.
00:45:58
Speaker
Yeah. I don't want to be dismissive, but it just feels like the choices presented to us were like, do you want to go this normal way that's like slightly longer, but it's also pretty short? Or do you want to go this terrible, crusty way with like a significant chance of shipwreck? It's one day short. selling twelve hours of likeness But that also just feels like, you know, classic laughing God, you know, be like, huoo you can go the easy way, but then the easy way is actually the hard way, you know, bait and switch, you know, curse those gods.
00:46:29
Speaker
Are we pairing medical serious trust issues? Let's go the safe way. Let's go the safe way. Yeah, yeah. i was just trying to be, um you know, what's the devil in this world's name?
00:46:42
Speaker
Oh, take your pick. There's many. Would you care for the Archdevils of Sustilis or the Demon Lords of the Abyss? Yes, it must be. Octad, the Divine. I'm just trying to, I was playing the Divine Octad's advocate. Marwell would be the closest thing there, I suppose. a few nice few I was playing Marwell's advocate. Sorry. since you want that cleaner or is that good? Yeah, no, that's great.
00:47:10
Speaker
Okay, boof, we're going the safe way.
00:47:14
Speaker
Safe way. All right. Just out of curiosity, ah just from like a general wondering of of thought processes, if it had been say like five days to you know say Bogatier the Safeway and maybe three days via the shortcut without a made difference or like six days, three days, five days, two days, well what's the what's the cost benefit analysis where you take the more dangerous for just for personal yeah wondering?
00:47:45
Speaker
Booth, how many days is it going to take? If everything goes according to plan, three and a half. If we take the eastern ah shipping lane, in the eastern sea lane. So it's not even a problem. Glimki squints through us us a cloud of weed smoke. It's like, we're going to take the safe way. Yeah, three and a half is perfect.
00:48:07
Speaker
All right. Well, you folks sit tight. Enjoy the amenities. There's food. Our kitchen team is busy preparing lunch and should be ready in a bit. And ah just between you and me and the rest of us girls, and he looks over at the other 20 Brighanocks,
00:48:23
Speaker
We managed to steal a couple casks of really good dwarven whiskey from Boontar Strigamol's office. So, uh, help yourselves if you want. It's in the forward storage bay.
00:48:37
Speaker
as Let's go get fucked up. Clay, you're going to smoke this for me and blow it near my mouth. Let's go party! Okay. So we begin our travel.
00:48:49
Speaker
Is there anything you wish to do on this first day? Looking around the ship, drinking dwarven whiskey, chatting amongst yourselves, chatting with certain briganox, chatting with a shrunken genies and wigs, anything you wish to accomplish on this day?
00:49:05
Speaker
I am getting drunk and posing for a portrait. Clay can paint me if they want to, but I'm lying there. yes Yeah, I'll paint you. And I'm also slightly drunk, so the painting is very abstract. Amazing. Dreamki, get in here. Pose for the painting with me.
Glimke's Spiritual Conversations
00:49:21
Speaker
Okay. if i could put my foot on you like you're a deer I've just killed. What? No. I think that would be dynamic. No, the Brighanox can do that.
00:49:32
Speaker
don't want to do that. That's weird. Okay, well, what do you propose then? No, no, no. By all means. you get your Get your portrait painted. I'm just going to enjoy the air, I think.
00:49:44
Speaker
Play's room is a hot boss. Glimke opens the door, steps outside, and just a cloud of smoke follows him. A couple of birdie knocks, fire, fire! is As you travel, could I get a d12 roll from everybody?
00:50:04
Speaker
12. Oh my god, I got a 12.
00:50:10
Speaker
That doesn't sound good. Ooh, I got an 11. Ooh. and got a four. four. Nice. The day continues. I'd say as you get further away from the landmass of Mangan, the sky gets a little cloudier. Not overcast, but some big white fluffy clouds fill the sky. Bits sun filter through. It's a very warm, pleasant summer's day on the sea.
00:50:35
Speaker
Faunalyn and Clay are hanging out, getting painted and painting. respectively. Glimke, is there anything specific you want to get up to during this day of travel?
00:50:46
Speaker
Hmm. I think if he is hanging out on this balcony, he's never done this before. He feels the tickle of the flower on his scalp and he wants to focus on that, whatever that feeling is, this energy. And I would like to try summon Faye because I can do it one once per day. I want to see what happens.
00:51:09
Speaker
Okay, you focus on this flower and for a brief moment, you are now manually breathing. You can feel your tongue in your mouth. You can feel your pants on your legs.
00:51:24
Speaker
All of those sensory those sensory inputs that you're able to ignore so often, you are suddenly aware of the weight of the flower on the back of your head, the feel of it in your hair, the feel that it the the weight that it pushes down ever so slightly onto the base of your neck.
00:51:40
Speaker
And you feel it like a limb, like you can extend it, like you can reach out with it. and you close your eyes and you focus on it and you feel it blooming and growing and spreading and when you open your eyes you see that there is a stream of petals coming from the flower embedded in your hair that starts to swirl around you and then pull back in front of you and swirl and swirl and start to coalesce
00:52:13
Speaker
into the familiar floral shape of edigan it looks at you and says green knight you've summoned me uh i i did you did so are you are you here and not on the island how how the hell does this work a part of me is here with you a part remains on the island wow It is perhaps a less harmful version of a version of my strength that I employed in the mines.
00:52:49
Speaker
Wow. Well, I mean, thank thank you for for being here. let's That's awful kind of you. I know, I feel like last time we talked, I asked a lot of you, especially with whatever's going on with Malare.
00:53:05
Speaker
I don't know if you know anything about that whole situation. Maybe. I don't know. You've been isolated for some time. I have been isolated for some time, but the issues plaguing you and the old Crow are ones that begin far beyond my personal time of troubles.
00:53:25
Speaker
The Parishad is as old as this world. The Gua Sotmal, less so, but still an ancient pact. And where do you stand?
00:53:37
Speaker
I mean, before, of course, I asked for this alignment. That is difficult question. If you had asked me hundred years ago, thousand, I believe you would have found me neutral.
00:53:54
Speaker
It is the order of things. It is the pact that binds worlds together. Asking me now in light of recent events, perhaps I am a little less Amenable to being bound by the authority of another.
00:54:15
Speaker
And who is the Guasatmal? Not a who, but a what. A pact between my kind and the entities that you would call the Divine Octad.
00:54:35
Speaker
Oh. Oh, and the perish of? The gathering of my kind to pass judgment.
00:54:47
Speaker
So the... what? So the spirits have a group to judge the actions of other spirits, but it's all because of a pact that they have with the divine octet?
00:55:01
Speaker
Enforcement of the Gua Satmo is not the only... purpose for the Parashad. It is for any matters of importance that would bring us all together.
00:55:13
Speaker
But in this particular instance, it is Mulari's testing of the bonds that hold us, his potential aggravation of the gods, and ultimately his investment in you.
00:55:33
Speaker
That'll bring the Parashad together this time. So here I was thinking that I just ticked off all the spirits, but in fact, I may have pissed off the gods.
00:55:44
Speaker
out And the spirits as well. Right. Don't forget about us. Oh my goodness. Well, it is not your fault, but you may be destroyed all the same.
00:55:59
Speaker
And I suppose you too. Well, in the grand scheme of things, I believe I'm innocent of any true breach of the arrangement.
00:56:11
Speaker
So far. Realistically, well, so far. As it stands, should you summon me forth a day from now, perhaps two, then I would pray <unk>umably i would be presumably be in breach
00:56:31
Speaker
of that ancient magic. But... Thus far. Glimp, he's like shaking his head with the flower in it. This floral shape, which, you know, sometimes has facial features, often does not, stares at you.
00:56:46
Speaker
And then after a second.
00:56:53
Speaker
Glimp Kichwe fellow, you are, you are an odd one. And we're an odd group. We got three of us now. Indeed, I suppose we do. Well, I won't keep you from the island. I know you're you're just getting back to business, so I'll come calling next time when I really need you.
00:57:11
Speaker
But yeah, as Mara was just scratching my head, I needed to figure out what was going on, and glad to know that you're here. Call me whenever you would like. I consider you dear friend.
00:57:22
Speaker
Oh, likewise. Number three, though. One two are taken. Well, maybe four. i forgot about Malari.
00:57:30
Speaker
Jury's still out. Ah!
00:57:37
Speaker
Be careful, Glimkitree fellow. ah Might I ask where you were where you are headed? No, because I forget. yeah We're going to Bogatier to look for Prince Elling Malfurth, who has been a thorn in our side for weeks.
00:57:58
Speaker
We're searching for a missing princess. This whole freeing Mangan from the chains of oppression was kind of a side quest for us.
00:58:08
Speaker
Appreciate, i appreciate being a side quest in your quest log, Blimkitree fellow. When you arrive in the lands you call Bogatia, keep watch for my kin, Nainik.
00:58:22
Speaker
What? She is perhaps less warm than myself or Mulari, but would no doubt be interested in meeting you all the same.
00:58:34
Speaker
Okay, sorry, Eadigan gave Glimhi a warning to watch out for who? Nainik. It wasn't like a warning though, right? It was like, ah i have a friend there, she's kind of crazy, but you can say hi if you want to, right? That's how interpreted it. Is that the vibe that I got?
00:58:48
Speaker
Yeah, it was it was less of a warning and be like, just so you know, you're you're going to the home of... and Sorry, and this is like a sister spirit or a friend spirit? Indeed.
00:59:01
Speaker
The Mother Crystal... o Oh, she sounds fabulous. Okay, well, if run into her, I'll say that you said hi. Or maybe I should leave your name out of it I imagine she will be aware of our recent interactions.
00:59:18
Speaker
m But we have not spoken in some time, so it would be good to hear from her. Please extend my well wishes. Okay, I will and do that.
00:59:29
Speaker
All ah best wishes with the island. If I'm ever in the area, I'm sure I'll stop in. Would love to see, you know, that island flourish again with with art. It is coming along quite well.
00:59:41
Speaker
I believe Sapfiend has awoken another one of the trees. Aww. Aww. Boyfriends.
00:59:50
Speaker
Slowly but surely. Sapfiend has a boyfriend? Aww. What's his name? His name is Sap. That's crazy. They're perfect for each other. yeah Until next time, Glimki Tree Fellow.
01:00:04
Speaker
And the petals begin to disperse, leaving a trail behind the ship as you continue sailing forward. Can I just say really quick, it's really funny that two minutes ago, Jordan, you were like, yeah, I think Malari likes me. i I guess. I didn't think he liked me, but I guess he does. And we've just found out that he defied all of spirits and the gods so that you could hang out.
01:00:29
Speaker
like guys i've guess he likes Yeah. Yeah. He risked it all for you. i think this guy's kind of dumb. what's What does he want from you? now I'm suspicious. Yeah. He's a, what's that Japanese term?
01:00:45
Speaker
Tsundere. Tsundere! We cut from the balcony over to the hotbox cabin. Clay, the portrait is coming along quite well, though it's perhaps a little more impressionistic than your other work as the lines. It's very it's very hard to maintain tidy lines at this time.
01:01:03
Speaker
Faunelin, you're sitting there. We'll say you're holding like ah a chalice or a goblet and getting painted. And you go to take a sip and realize it's empty. And you reach over to the nearest bottle and it is empty too.
01:01:17
Speaker
Why is the rum always gone?
01:01:21
Speaker
reference, dude. Yeah, nice.
01:01:26
Speaker
Skipper booth. Skipper booth! She's in a completely different part of the ship. Does this ship have like a comm system? It does not have a comm system.
01:01:39
Speaker
You love asking about future tech. Well, it's crazy because the previous ship we were on didn't have one. almost that one That one had a speaker system.
01:01:52
Speaker
They didn't. No, didn't. Oh, that's really funny. Fawnalyn just saw Glimke talking to Ed again, so Fawnalyn probably is just like, well, that's enough for me, and reclines and continues yapping and posing for the portrait. And she keeps trying to like sneak peeks.
01:02:12
Speaker
Clay offers you her glass, and it's like full of paint water.
01:02:18
Speaker
I feel like Fawnalyn gets like a few sips in before she notices, and she's like, ew. Yeah, Clay's obviously already been drinking from it.
01:02:28
Speaker
Okay. All right. Enough. Enough. Rest your brushes or whatever. I'm fetching us more dwarven whiskey. And Farland will like toddle off into the ship.
01:02:39
Speaker
Okay. You toddle off across the deck. You see that there's about 50 Brighonox holding a single fishing line, like fishing pole, as it bends in the middle.
01:02:51
Speaker
And like, hurry, hurry. It's going to pull us all overboard. Hurry. Hurry. As Fauniline walks by, she uses like one finger and just goes up, up, up, up. And she like helps them reel it in. A single sardine flops up onto the deck of the ship.
01:03:08
Speaker
They're so cute. Oh, I love
Matty Leoun's Stowaway Secrets and Lycanthropy
01:03:12
Speaker
them. And we get to the front of the ship. There is a hatch that you open up and a ladder leading down.
01:03:19
Speaker
And on somewhat shaky legs, you wobble your way down below decks. and find yourself in a sizable cargo hold. There is shelves and stacks of rations and ingredients.
01:03:36
Speaker
There's a lot of fresh food that was gifted to you from the people of Mengen as part of your departure. A lot of stuff that is seaworthy and preserved.
01:03:47
Speaker
Salted meats and basic ingredients that could be used to make some bread or what have you. Nothing too, too, you know, no dairy, for example, or at least no milk, nothing that'll spoil too quickly.
01:04:01
Speaker
But you look around, it is dark, and through your your dark vision, enhanced eyes, you look around in this keep, and eventually you see a small stack of casks that bear the symbol of the Korak Mining Company.
01:04:19
Speaker
Why are you having me look down here? I would like to ask that I get to roll an investigation since you've just said that I'm looking around and pawing through things.
01:04:30
Speaker
and mostlysley just said you I was just mostly just painting the scene of where you were, but okay. I'm suspicious now. Make an investigation roll. That is 10. a ten You wander over to the casks of whiskey and you go to pick one up.
01:04:46
Speaker
And as you do so, you hear a slight thump from behind the casks. I would like to inspect.
01:04:56
Speaker
You notice now in this moment, we'll say, that there is like a stack of cloth, like fresh material might one might use to perhaps make a sail. But this is not a sailing ship. There are no sails. And that strikes you as perhaps a tad suspicious. And you push it aside and you see a d dwarf hunched up in this little hidden spot.
01:05:21
Speaker
stowaway. He's got sort of salt and pepper black hair with a medium length beard. He's got a pair of like large wire rim glasses.
01:05:34
Speaker
He's got dark eyes and he looks up at you. ah shit. Oh, oh my gosh, is do a stairway. That's very fun. ah Or bad.
01:05:47
Speaker
Do I know you?
01:05:50
Speaker
i don't think so. We haven't met. You look so familiar. um no, yeah, I think we perhaps met on, uh, on Mengen in Onkiel. Uh, name's Maddy Layoun. Uh, how you been? It's been, it's been a while.
01:06:03
Speaker
And he holds out a hand and you see that he is missing his pinky finger. Maddy, my friend. I am going to confess it to you. it was so drunk.
01:06:15
Speaker
I have had, canonically, an entire barrel of dwarven whiskey because my friend Clay was drinking paint water. So I suppose this is a situation whereupon I will be asked to use my judgment, and ah I don't think I should do that. So I'm going to request you.
01:06:34
Speaker
sorry, your name was so silly. Can you say it one more time? Matty Leune. Matty, like, matted hair. Matted hair. Well, okay, i I wouldn't say that, but all right. My name's Faradeth.
01:06:45
Speaker
I know, yeah, we go way back. You know? of course, yeah, yeah, we we we we we, we, we, we went to that party together, uh, in Onkyil. The revolution.
01:06:56
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, that was it. Yeah. Oh my god. Okay, Matty, here's what we're going to do. You're going to carry the whiskey. I'm going to carry these sails because I'm going to make Glimki a dress.
01:07:07
Speaker
And I'll make Clay some pants. If there's enough fabric. oh Overalls. And we're going to go upstairs. And if I fall down the ladder, you're going to help me up.
01:07:18
Speaker
And then Glimki and Clay are going to decide what to do about you. what What do you mean to do about me? I'm just... I'm just hanging out. That's... of course. That's what I meant. Nothing sinister.
01:07:31
Speaker
Right. Hey, between you and me, I'm not really supposed to be on this ship. So maybe I should just hang out down here and wait for us to, you know, get to where we're getting.
01:07:43
Speaker
Which is where, by the way? Of course. No, it's totally cool. We're going to Bungo Teeth. You're going to stay here.
01:07:54
Speaker
Stay right there. And Farnalyn walks over to the ladder and she, she like looks up through the hall and goes like, Send for Glimke and Clay please. Ah, shit, shit, shit, shit. Don't do this. Don't do this. I'm begging you. Don't do this. I can't. I can't. I can't.
01:08:12
Speaker
I can't stop what's going to happen if you force me to do this. What? What? What? No, stop it. Stop it. Relax. My friends are cool. I just, I, I'm not in judgment-making place. You get it. Have a booze. Have a, have a whiskey. You're a dwarf. You like dwarven whiskey?
01:08:36
Speaker
Give me a persuasion roll. ah Okay. Ooh, that's not good. That's a six plus a six. That's a 12. 12. 12. twelve Okay. Okay.
01:08:47
Speaker
Okay. And he pops the lid off a ah cask and just like dips two hands in and... Ew!
01:08:56
Speaker
Use this! And Fondalyn dumps out the paint water. You notice that, like, he started to look for just a second, and it's probably it's probably the whiskey talking. He started to look more angular, maybe.
01:09:08
Speaker
But then he takes a sip of the the whiskey and just, you know, you blink, and he's Matty Leune. Nothing weird about him. You have very sharp cheekbones for a dwarf.
01:09:21
Speaker
Thanks, thanks. Yeah, I, uh, you know, I'm you. yeah
01:09:29
Speaker
Yeah, I just... Where the hell is Clay? ah Clay, you hear a tap, tap, tap, tap. tap And Glimke, you hear a fainter tap, tap, tap, because it's through two layers of doors.
01:09:41
Speaker
Oh, I opened the door. Yeah, you look down and see a Brighanoc in a messenger uniform. They have a lot of costumes. Cute. She looks up at you and says... Greetings, ma'am. Sorry to be a bother, but the lady Fondlin has requested your presence in the front hall.
01:10:01
Speaker
She's ah shouting quite loud. And you can hear Fondlin shouting from below decks. Oh, okay, yeah. I go peek my head out on the balcony. Is Glimki still talking with Etigan?
01:10:13
Speaker
Etigan is gone. Oh, okay. I think Lady Farnalyn wants us to help her carry some wine back. Can you come help? Okay, hasn't she had enough? i don't know.
01:10:25
Speaker
A whole cask of whiskey. Do they just like metabolize things like at a different speed? don't really get it. I don't know how much would kill me? All right, downstairs we go.
01:10:37
Speaker
The two of you make your way across the deck of the ship and you see, yeah the the hatch is open and Faunlin is standing at the bottom of it. Just looking up at the two of you.
01:10:48
Speaker
Hey, what's up? There's a person here. Her name is Funnalyn. What's going on down here? Hilarious zinger, but um no there's like a person here. Like in the in the hall, there's like a person.
01:11:02
Speaker
Oh. Okay. Okay. Oh. It's not a Brickernog? It's actually astonishing that I have inhaled, I think, like 40 liters. I don't know how much goes in a barrel of straight whiskey. And I'm still the most competent of this trio.
01:11:21
Speaker
I would love a cutaway to real funnel. And like, this is her perception. And like real funnel is like, oh, oh, oh Okay. We're coming down, story.
01:11:37
Speaker
Okay. ti tik tik tick here you can This is Matthew. Matty. The two of you get to the bottom of the ladder and you look over to where Fondland's gesturing and you see a little brown rat perched at the edge of this barrel of whiskey. Fondland, this is a rat. Did I see this rat transform from being a man?
01:12:01
Speaker
You looked up, you look back, there's a rat. Can I insight check the rat? Because we have met rat people before.
01:12:13
Speaker
That's true. we have precedent to think this is a rat. Yes! Oh, my friends believe me. How kind. I've been rolling so poorly, though.
01:12:24
Speaker
Eleven. Do I see a glint in this rat's eye? I would say more than a glint. As you're looking at it, you see the eyes go from these little dark beady rat eyes into a humanoid eyeball and then snaps back into just a little black pinprick.
01:12:47
Speaker
ah stumble over to Faunalyn and rip the rope of climbing out of her off her person. Because know she's got that thing on her. You know she's day drinking and hanging out in in her best friend's room and you know she's still got that rope on her though. I believe it's like in her wig somewhere. So I like grab it. And I say Slytherforth Magic Rope and I try to catch it.
01:13:13
Speaker
The rat. Okay. Give me a contested. You can either do athletics or arcana. Athletics is slightly better. If I have the rope, do I have advantage on athletics?
01:13:25
Speaker
No. It's not. It's just for climbing. it's It is primarily. ever Once again, thing moves slow. Oh, man. Oh, man. I rolled like shit. ah Ten.
01:13:36
Speaker
I rolled a nine. oh The plus one really did something for me. And this rat tries to run away and you watch as it's running, it begins to transform anamorph style into a dwarf who's sprinting away down deeper into the hold. And you just throw this lasso and catch him around the waist and just hold tight. And he's just like running in place.
01:14:02
Speaker
And then he stops. Okay, okay, okay, hey hey hey, hey, hey, no need to get violent. I was just just trying to get a free ride. That's all. Sorry, I didn't pay my fare. I can i can pay you when I get there, wherever there is.
01:14:15
Speaker
Who are you? How did you get on the ship? Yeah, what the hell are you doing here? ah My name's Maddie. Maddy Leoun, I needed to leave Mangan and for reasons that I'd rather not get into ah being in close quarters with a bunch of dwarves on a dwarven ship felt like a bad idea.
01:14:43
Speaker
So I snuck onto this one, hoping that it wasn't going anywhere, and when I woke up we were out at sea. Uh, well, even if you'd rather not, I would ask you to tell us your reasons, or we'll just throw you overboard.
01:14:57
Speaker
oh new clay. Give me an intimidation check. With advantage. Oh, hell yeah. Okay, 23. twenty three o
01:15:09
Speaker
ochre He stops running and turns to look at you, shoulders slumped. He takes these little wiry glasses off his face and rubs at his eye. You also notice that he is he's missing his pinky finger.
01:15:22
Speaker
Okay, okay. But if I tell you, you can't kill me, right? That's the deal? We'll see. well okay. That's kind of a raw deal for me, but ah fine. Okay, fine. I won't throw you overboard, at least. That's a vague threat. That could mean anything.
01:15:37
Speaker
Okay. It all started a couple months ago. i was on vacation, took a break from the mines, and I went to Airdenine. You familiar?
01:15:48
Speaker
Yes. And, you know, I was i was enjoying the sights. Pretty interesting place. Not really my cup of tea, but, you know, had some had about a week there and saw the sights, saw the drifting terraces, went and looked at the castle, all that, Balefire Palace.
01:16:04
Speaker
You know, pretty pretty good. And then ah one of my last nights, I was out drinking for a bit and I went for a walk. and i guess i took a wrong turn because i i i went i went down an alley and uh a guy stepped out and he said your money or your life and uh i you know me i i like i like both those things you know me and so i said how about neither and so i tried to fight him and uh he he had a knife and he he uh you know he
01:16:40
Speaker
cut off my finger and uh we we tussled i tried to get the knife off of him and he he bit me and um oh no no no no no no i freaked out na no for a while and uh i think he i think he gave me something bad hey quick question do you think it says the demeter on the side of this ship I actually- No, it says Swift.
01:17:11
Speaker
that's That's a good name. That's a good name for ship. Yeah, it's also perfect because I'm going to swiftly remove you
Were-Rat Dilemmas and Group Ethics
01:17:16
Speaker
from it. Sury, can you please come with me? Come on. No, no, come on. Come on. Come on. I'll be good. I'll be good. I'll be good. You let me off at Bogatier and then no one- No, no, no, no, no. Oh, no. Fuck. Come on. Wait, what?
01:17:27
Speaker
Why do we hate this guy? He was mugged and bitten, and now he's a stowaway on this ship. Were you... Hold on. Were you always a rat guy? Were you always a rat guy? No, I think he was he was bitten by one of the rat lycanthropes Erdenine. There are a lot. There's too many of these were-rats going around.
01:17:46
Speaker
But how did you get back from Erdenine to...? I took a ship. Got a private room. You know, things get a little weird when night comes out. I get a little ah somewhere in between, you know, on the Animorphs transition. Mm-hmm.
01:18:03
Speaker
Mm-hmm. No, I've heard enough. Yeah, you're a way rat. Okay, So you're to let me go, right? Of course. Give you a that's ah buoy and you can swim ashore. What? Why are you guys being mean?
01:18:18
Speaker
i did get it. We just saved a billion in strangers, but this stranger we can't be night even nice to? you so Because he's a little ugly? gonna go ask no he's a little ugly and stupid? no because he's going to... What?
01:18:31
Speaker
Excuse me? No, because he's a were-rat and he said he gets spooky at night time. He's gonna come bite some more people. I won't bite anybody. i didn't bite anybody last night. He's not gonna bite and anybody? I wouldn't bite anybody. gonna bite anybody.
01:18:45
Speaker
look at me. look Look at me, man. Would I bite anybody and he smiles at you with like yeah these rat-like buck teeth? ah We have enough rat friends, okay? The rat quota is full.
01:18:59
Speaker
um you We have enough rad friends, so we're going to send this man adrift a day away from land because we have enough rad friends?
01:19:11
Speaker
When did I become the moral compass such that you two psychopaths are going to condemn Mati Thayun a well watery grave for the crime of being ugly and stupid?
01:19:27
Speaker
Well, he's a dwarf from the Korak mining company. Okay, yeah, I did i did i did work for Korak. Yeah, I thought so. So like a Korak were-rat. I'm kind of out of the loop now, you know? like i don't know if you know, but like they were kind of thrown off the island. That's why I had to leave.
01:19:50
Speaker
yeah How long ago did you get bitten? like When was your trip to Airdenine? A couple months ago. ah So you've been biting it up a storm, I bet. no no No, no, no, no, no. I was good. I spent a lot of time in the mines, so the moons couldn't touch me. And that seemed to help when I was at the I got a little crazy, but I didn't bite anybody.
01:20:12
Speaker
but just like, okay. Can we figure something? If I can't put them we're not putting them overboard, we got to put them in a box or something. No, put me in a box. Like a coffin? You're fucking sick. How well can you control it?
01:20:24
Speaker
The transformation? He just said he went a little crazy last time. Really good. And you see a tail like sprouts out yeah from now on behind him. He like tries tucking it away. No, no, no, no. What if you just stay as a rat?
01:20:40
Speaker
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, I can do that. And he shrinks back down to rat size and the lasso falls off of him. And then immediately like his head elongates as a dwarven head and just like bowling ball crashes to the side. and around How's this?
01:20:54
Speaker
How's this? My neck is killing me. Very normal for us, actually, shockingly. Yeah, I have seen this before.
01:21:06
Speaker
See, I'm just like you guys. we We eat, we drink, we fall in love with bad women. We're not so different. So what are your plans, though? Where did you want to go I don't know.
01:21:22
Speaker
i just knew I couldn't be on Mangan anymore. And I really think it would have been bad if I was on the on one of the dwarven ships. Those things were packed. So, you know, just needed needed something different.
01:21:36
Speaker
Hmm. Hmm. I didn't understand playing Glimki why you guys were being not nice. Because this guy could run around biting people and turn more people into were-rats. Then we'll lock him down here. He was already gonna be down here.
01:21:51
Speaker
Okay, well, it better be really secure. yeah, it'll be so secure. You don't even need to worry. I'll be good. When did we start executing people for the prospect of future time? I said we'd give him a buoy and he can swim to shore. i didn't say we were going to cut his head off, right? Unless Clay, I don't know, unless you're feeling... No, I mean, we can drop him off at an island. I just... Oh my god, oh my god, my god. I just wanted to make sure he didn't have any bad intentions. No, no, my intentions are really good. He's really good.
01:22:26
Speaker
Can I get a read on this guy? Like, he's sketchy as hell. Nice and nice and good. Yeah, go for Make an inside roll. I got 13. Hard to say. You get the sense he would say anything if it meant not getting thrown overboard. Yeah, yeah, yeah, You did just fight a bloody war to get Korak dwarves off of Mangan.
01:22:48
Speaker
And now you've got, less than a day later, Korak dwarf in the hull of your ship. Mm-hmm. He does not seem to have a good level of control over his were-rat abilities.
01:22:59
Speaker
ah You know, seems to be still figuring out that aspect of things. Well, okay. If we could, I don't know. If there's like a box that we could lock him in, I guess. Is there a way to stop him from transforming? Because ah if we lock him in a box as a rat and then he transforms back, he's going to get crushed.
01:23:24
Speaker
Wait, what? Right, like if it's a tiny box, a rat-sized box, and then he turns back into a dwarf. No, Omega, like, it it should be a people-sized box. But then, what if he turns into a rat, he can just gnaw his way out? Exactly!
01:23:37
Speaker
Like, I can't tie him up. whip I don't, like, okay. I don't think this is smart. He's psychos. Here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna take everything important that we like. We're gonna take it upstairs. We're gonna put it in Gleamke's room. Gleamke's room is now the storage. You sleep there also. And then we're gonna... No, this and this and this and this. We're gonna take this stuff upstairs. And then we're gonna leave Mati Lahoot down here.
01:24:01
Speaker
And we're going to lock the door. And we're going to lock the door. And then we're going to let him go at an island. That's not- i don't think that's enough. What? He's gonna get out and he's gonna nibble on somebody.
01:24:15
Speaker
You didn't know that. You know what Hypocrisy! I call foul. This is sickening hypocrisy. Clay literally kidnapped. Somebody, a woman. And would you, would you, that's a crime. Would you send clay adrift on the water? I'm going to command my legions to murder a bunch of elven nobles in public e a execution form. Does that mean that I should be set adrift on a buoy? And you're doing crimes too also.
01:24:44
Speaker
Sometimes. Should you be set adrift on a buoy? What the fuck? Funnel, why are you defending this rat man so closely? are you being mean to him?
01:24:57
Speaker
I'm so confused. this This thing, this best friendship, two and three, this doesn't work if I'm the good and nice one because I'm not...
01:25:08
Speaker
really all that good and nice. I have evil little aspirations. I have machinations. So I can't be the moral compass of this group. I reject that. Which means that you two evil bastards need to remember who you are Simba style and start being nice again.
01:25:30
Speaker
We just spent the better part of a month working to overthrow a corrupt mining company that was pressing an iron thumb down on the sit the citizens of this island.
01:25:44
Speaker
And here we find one of those workers, one of the evil Korak mining employees hiding on a ship to escape the persecution that he so deserved.
01:25:58
Speaker
And now we're going to forgive him because why? He just so happened to be on our ship. Maddy looks up at you and says, I'm sorry. she's like I once knew i once knew a political escapee had knife just needed a little compassion and I didn't really get it.
01:26:24
Speaker
But I like to think that if I had met you and Clay earlier, my life would have been easier. But now apparently I find out you would hear that I had some controversial affiliations and sent me adrift.
01:26:34
Speaker
Were you, okay, and maybe like don't be honest right now, were you at the helm or in a big portion of suppressing a whole peoples of their entire way of life and then draining the life force of the very island so that it would become essentially a husk of its former self and then potentially killing all of them?
01:26:54
Speaker
So no, answer is no. This person is worse than you. This is a random guy we don't know and we found him hiding on our ship. And and I swear to God, if you just, if you so say he was just doing his job, I swear to God you can both get off. I was just doing my job, man. i just went to the mines and dug a lot. i was just doing my job. was just following orders.
01:27:20
Speaker
Wasn't Clay just following orders when Clay kidnapped an innocent woman? See, that's what I'm saying. and I could go to the cops and talk about the innocent woman kidnapping, but I haven't.
01:27:31
Speaker
So i maybe we just need to all like chill the fuck out. Hold on. Clay confessed. Clay tried to turn themselves in. Clay cried about it. Clay has done everything in their power to right the wrongs. This guy's foolish.
01:27:46
Speaker
o Like, here, why don't we put him in a box that floats with a paddle and he can row to shore. Do we have a, what is it called, a brig? Like a like a place to hold prisoners? You can turn to a hat! He'll get ah You neither have a brig nor... You do not have a brig.
01:28:10
Speaker
What if we use silver chains? To kill him. to lock them up. and So we're locking him up because we are scared that he'll one day commit crimes? No, that's why he'll run a rampant and make other crew members also wear mask. This is a stranger, we just want to make sure he's not here to just stab us in our sleep. And also, yeah, he knows that we vehemently are opposed to his ideals. he could kill us in our sleep.
01:28:38
Speaker
What was wrong with my plan of locking him up in the ship?
01:28:44
Speaker
We're trying to figure out how to do that. No! I said, we took the stuff, we put the stuff in Beam King's room, gave the speech with the stuff. Get the Brygganox!
01:28:58
Speaker
You hear... da da da da da da da da but but but but bu but bu but but but um but but but but but but bu And a thousand come streaming down the ladder and for like i in groups of a hundred I think I should wait, but Fondlin, you can be mad at me about this when you're sober. Brighanox, please dispose of this man. And I don't mean kill him. I mean, put him on a plank of wood or something.
01:29:27
Speaker
Some titanic-sized door. To you, that's probably not that big, but it'll be enough to support the weight of one half-sized man. ah Well, first of all, did you know he was hiding here?
01:29:38
Speaker
ah no, we did not. Hi, it's me, Stump. It's been a while. Hello, Stump. Oh my god, Birkenox, relay that order until I finish delivering this heart-wrenching speech. I was once driving through the streets of Airdenine and I ran over a person.
01:29:55
Speaker
Let's go. A person that I, that I called speed bump. Okay. so called you what don't remember What if we him up? st you know what what i talk What if we tie him up and we hang him we hang them over nine hundred others hang over the edge of the ship We tie him up and we hang him over the edge of the ship.
01:30:13
Speaker
So if he transforms into a rat... He'll crawl on the ramp! No, he'll fall into the ocean. He'll fall into the ocean. I don't want to be a weird rat.
01:30:24
Speaker
When did you... When did you... Glinky, Glinky, look me in the eyes. And Farnaline tries to like get on your level and she just falls over. you have to deliver my high-wrenching speech.
01:30:37
Speaker
Remember who you are!
01:30:41
Speaker
They're glimki of the tree feathers! What would the halflings say about this treatment? They'd applaud, I think. You once saw a crying tiefling in the streets and you said, hey, whatever crimes you may have committed, whatever wrongs you may have done, i accept you anyway. i love you anyway. That is what you said and now you turn your back?
01:31:03
Speaker
does guy's full of shit. He doesn't care. does! Yo, I feel really bad, dude. I feel really bad about everything here. didn't mean do the mechanic-based insight check that guy's full of shit. No, I feel really terrible about all my crimes, and I just want to make right by people.
01:31:22
Speaker
He feels bad! Who have you This is the second most I've believed in something since freeing the people of thinking. Who have you become?
01:31:37
Speaker
Okay, what if we just knock him out? yeah
01:31:41
Speaker
I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what. I've obviously pissed everybody off, so I'll just i'll just go. And he tries to climb back behind the whiskey grates. He's going.
01:31:53
Speaker
Slitherforth, Vagic Grove, and I try to catch him again. Give me another athletics check. Oh my god. Oh my god,
01:32:04
Speaker
this is worse than the last one. A six. You throw the the the rope at him and he his head shrinks down to a rat head and just the rope like passes right past him like right over him and then his head springs back up. He says, no, it's fine, guys. It's fine. I'm just I'm over here. I'm over here. You're over there. This is my territory. That's your territory.
01:32:26
Speaker
We don't need to cross the streams. No, no, no, no. We're good. We're good. ah No, this this ship, it's our ship now, and you can't just stay here.
01:32:37
Speaker
but okay You cannot. You have to get in this box and go there. I can still see the light just over there, just over yonder on this flat earth, flat planet. I can see the shore just over there. yeah But I can't go back there. They're going to arrest me for my crimes.
01:32:56
Speaker
Cookie Slow turns to the light. I'm seeking refugee status. This is... I didn't want to do this, but I would like to be a refugee on this ship, please.
01:33:09
Speaker
He wants to be a refugee. You can't give away a refugee. You're going to be arrested for your crime. Boof, boof, boof, boof, boof. I need you to listen to me closely. As the skipper of this ship,
01:33:23
Speaker
Yeah, that's right. I'm the skipper. I need you to make a call here. These two are inebriated, okay, and can't make good decisions. So I need you and the Brighannock people to make a call. Do you want to harbor this man of a criminal state who is clearly a were-rad looking to bite and feed off of you in the night?
01:33:44
Speaker
Or do you want to put him in a box and just kick him into the water and hope he makes it the shore? I think he's got pretty good odds. Is this a, is sorry, captains, is this like a a democracy to sit situation? Do we all have a vote here?
01:33:57
Speaker
I would say it's Brigham Knox get a vote and the rest of us also get a vote. Then we could be at a gridlock unless we're giving him a vote, in which case I think I know how he's going to go. I'm abstaining. I would like a vote, please.
01:34:10
Speaker
this is Stump gets a special vote. Stump gets a vote. Booth gets a vote. Josephine gets a vote. Josephine gets a vote. Well, then I would like a vote, says Brighanock with suspenders and a monocle.
01:34:24
Speaker
All right. the booofs get of The Boofs The Boofs, the Brighanocks get a vote. Each of us individually get a vote, says a sassy Brighanock you haven't met yet. Yes, and they're all worth the same. And let me be clear, sir, this is a binding precedent for all major decisions on the ship henceforth in perpetuity.
01:34:44
Speaker
No, just this one. Hmm. Deal.
01:34:52
Speaker
Okay. Well, is this going to a vote? Yes. If it is, I'm going to roll 10 percentile rolls. so Each number is the number of yes votes that this bid gets.
01:35:06
Speaker
Let me begin. Wait, I don't get to make any persuasion checks. Okay, okay. I presented my case, I thought it was pretty clear.
01:35:17
Speaker
Okay. Pretty clear, you've lost your moral compass. What if we just make a quick detour to one of the islands on the way to Bogatier and drop this man off instead of making him swim?
01:35:33
Speaker
Boof, what are the two islands in between us and Bogatier? Technically, if we want to, if we want to real technical, the Serpent's Fang, Isla Tenacar and God's Basket are all between here and Bogatyr. Because you chose the eastern shipping route, we'd be closest to Isla Tenacar and God's Basket, but we're still giving each of them a pretty wide berth to avoid dinosaurs and other stuff.
01:35:58
Speaker
I recently found out about dinosaurs. That shit's crazy. So which island are we closest to? Right now or like ever? Like right now, the the the closest detour we could make to drop this guy off.
01:36:11
Speaker
Well, the closest would be back on Mangan. Next closest would be Ilatenikar. How many days travel is that? It would probably add like half a day, maybe a day.
01:36:22
Speaker
We could drop him off and I get to see a dinosaur and then we move on and he can find his own way back to wherever he's going. And we make a report at the next town about this criminal that we saw.
01:36:38
Speaker
It seems extremely reasonable. Yes. And in the meantime, he learns to control his transformation better. It's like a trolley problem where on one side there's a thousand Brighanocs and us.
01:36:50
Speaker
And instead of a trolley, it's a vampire murdering criminal. And then on the other side, it's that murdering criminal. Instead of...
01:37:07
Speaker
It's like a classic case of... Moral ambiguity. What are your crimes? That's what I'm saying. I don't even know what I've done wrong.
01:37:18
Speaker
You said you're a criminal. Where in the criminal code does it say no biting? Literally, biting ain't a crime. but Mining an island while it slowly crumbles under you. Not a crime. Okay.
01:37:30
Speaker
Alright. Do you have any family? No, don't ask those questions. I do. I do I don't think so. I don't i doubt it. No, they're really good kids.
01:37:41
Speaker
And my grandma, she's very sick. Fuck off. I you think we should kill this guy. That sounds
01:37:53
Speaker
yayest and sounds more like you, Lady Fonelin, honestly. think I'm supering up. We don't have to kill him. That's what I'm saying! We just put him in a box!
01:38:04
Speaker
Kick him overboard! With a panel, it's fine! What if... We keep watch over him and I take a long rest and then I'll be able to cast a Zone of Truth in the morning.
01:38:19
Speaker
And we ask him what his intentions are because he's clearly lying. Okay, time for the pose. I've made my case.
01:38:29
Speaker
If this somehow goes the wrong way, if there is one less Brigannock in the morning, or I swear to God, if I get feverishly rat-like under the moonlight tomorrow, I don't know what I'll do.
01:38:45
Speaker
You could probably bite someone, but it's not a crime. If you get turned into a were-rat, do you want us to kill you do you want us to try finding a cure? Listen, it's not the were-rat. Listen, it's not the were-rat thing by itself, okay?
01:39:01
Speaker
I think that's where the confusion is happening.
01:39:06
Speaker
It's that he is a were-rat, and he's a criminal. That's why, yeah, the were-rat is a lot of problem. that Okay, you know what? no it's fine. Go to the vote.
01:39:19
Speaker
If it was just a guy that was a wearout, I'd be like, damn, that's that's tough. you know If it was also just Korak mining guy, I'd be like, damn, you know what? Maybe we can come to an accord.
01:39:32
Speaker
It's the fact that it's both. Really a two-strikes-zero policy, huh? let See? Okay, Briganox, line up.
01:39:45
Speaker
And Squid Game style, I want you to hit the red button on whether this guy lives or dies. It's really funny to me that we've been playing this game for two years and we have never seen Jordan get us heated in his games.
01:39:59
Speaker
Because I just talked about, hey, you know what? I think we've come together and we understand each other we're good friends. And then Fauna Land's like... I think this guy's my best friend. Yeah, why did you defend this guy? Charlie, you should be the first person trying to throw him over.
01:40:18
Speaker
Did he do it? I don't understand why you bit a few people. hasn't bit a few people in their day? That's crazy to me. You're gonna throw away everyone who bites sometimes?
01:40:31
Speaker
Lock me up. you We're voting. We're voting. Okay. I vote to do what Glimke wants. God damn it.
01:40:41
Speaker
Okay, we'll do the Brigham's vote. Now we have 999 votes to go. Okay, so we've got two votes for merking this guy. clay No, we're just sending a up We're gonna put him in a box. We don't need to kill him. Okay, put him in a box. to Put him in a box. Okay. Maybe he'll find happy living on a tropical foreign continent like some other people escaping persecution at and a different turning point in history.
01:41:05
Speaker
the my vote is to drop him off at an island. Okay. That's like ah a nice bonus third option sort of or almost like a separate. Ooh, the second voting block voted 96% in favor of throwing this guy in a box. Okay. Wait, what over what are the voting options? Put him in a box or let the guy chill.
01:41:25
Speaker
and let the guy chill is not an option. I think let the guy chill falls under We'll drop him off in the morning. ok yeah That's just, we we'll lock him up, but we'll keep him on the ship until we can drop him Which i disagree with. Five. Ooh. That offsets 53. Uh-oh. really excited for the listeners for this point of the show, where we are sitting quietly waiting for a percentile dices to determine what we're doing. Yes! You the Peruvian Oxi voting power. Well, I felt guilty that only a few of them got them, so it's only fair. It's only fair.
01:42:04
Speaker
They have to live with this guy on the ship, or they have to live with the guilt of throwing him off the ship. I think they'll be okay. How dare you. I think they'll be okay. Okay, guys, the the numbers are in. 34 plus plus plus plus plus plus plus in box. Yeah.
01:42:28
Speaker
plus seventy three plus eighty nine means that plus claim key and faunlin there are four hundred and ninety seven votes in favor of throwing this guy in a box And 503 in favor of keeping him and bringing him to the dinosaur island.
01:42:50
Speaker
To the dinosaur island! Sorry, Goonky, I tried really hard to work that one out for you.
01:43:01
Speaker
you Did you really? You saw how I voted.
01:43:08
Speaker
Democracy sucks.
01:43:13
Speaker
Democracy and capitalism are a lie.
01:43:20
Speaker
I'm right, shall we go to the dinosaur island? i do I don't have a choice. we voted. That's democracy.
01:43:28
Speaker
We're going to see dinosaurs. Good job, Boof and the rest of you. Thank you, sir. we We appreciate the opportunity to vote. Now remember, you all have to respect the outcome, just like I have, as Glinky walks up the stairs.
01:43:42
Speaker
Good luck, Martin or whatever. tonight, yep, we'll deal with that in the morning. We'll let the dice decide, won't we, sir?
01:43:56
Speaker
And you head back above decks. Matty climbs back into his pile of linens, takes another handful of whiskey from the cask.
01:44:06
Speaker
That is good stuff. That is good stuff. Much obliged. He looks at you, Clay. Thank you. Always wanted to see a dinosaur. Much obliged. oh All right. Well, see y'all in the morning, I guess.
01:44:19
Speaker
Uh, can I roll to catch him with the rope again?
01:44:27
Speaker
Ah, we have to respect the vote. Well, I didn't say letting him chill was not an option. I still want to lock him up. He can't just run around the ship for free. Okay. hey I think if that is the consensus of the larger group, I think the rest of the Brigadocs, you get a consensus. The vote is 1,003 to 1, with Maddy being the one dissenting vote, that he should be locked up.
01:44:53
Speaker
And we'll say you you pour out one of these whiskey casks and throw him in and hammer on the lid. And he's like rattling around inside of me like, hey, come on, come on. I'm just a little guy. Come on Let me out. Come on.
01:45:09
Speaker
Okay, Boof, you have to set up a watch. Okay, make sure he doesn't escape from this barrel as a rat, because he could turn into a rat. Can't we all?
01:45:21
Speaker
Can you? I like to think there's a rat inside all of us, just waiting to be out. Waiting for the right piece of cheese, you know?
01:45:31
Speaker
That being said, yeah, we'll keep this guy in a barrel. No problem. Yeah. He's too much rat, okay? You got to be careful. If he bites you, then you'll become a were-rat also. Whoa, that'd be crazy. Because I'm like already kind of mouse-like.
01:45:45
Speaker
Yeah. And if it's proportional, you might turn into a really tiny, tiny rat. Whoa! That would be crazy! Very dangerous for you. Well, I should try it, right? No, no. Just like to see what would happen?
01:46:00
Speaker
I think you're rat-like enough. I don't think you need were-ratism. Thanks. Maybe we could see if the dinosaur island has any cats that we can pick up.
01:46:11
Speaker
I'm going to tell you right now, it doesn't. It doesn't. a clay doesn't know that. Okay. Is there anything else you wish to do on this day after a heated debate about the morals of throwing a wanted criminal were rat overboard?
01:46:28
Speaker
Anything else you wish to discuss before the sun goes down, sun explodes? I don't know that much about were-rats, but Glimke is going to raid the kitchen and get stalks of garlic, and then he's going to lock his door, and he's going to lay a salt line in front of the doorway.
01:46:43
Speaker
Perfect. He's going to rub garlic all over himself and then wrap himself in his hammock. Amazing. Amazing. And don't, hey, and just because I didn't say it doesn't mean it didn't happen. I'm also putting a salt line at the other door.
01:46:58
Speaker
Ahhhh! There's a hanging garlic there. Amazing. Uh, Clay? Phonelin? Phonelin sleeps in Gloomkey's room.
01:47:11
Speaker
Oh, interesting. It's all fun and games until there's a were-round afoot. you know, maybe I just like the way garlic smells and want to... Maybe I just like the way garlic smells.
01:47:29
Speaker
I'm sorry, no, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm all worked up and I had maybe one too many sips of dwarven whiskey. That's funny. You become an angry drunk and I become a really nice one.
01:47:44
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
01:47:48
Speaker
Clay, any things from you? guess she'll also go hide in Glimki's room. We're having a sleepover. Yeah. You know what? Brighanax!
01:47:59
Speaker
Trubadar! Trubadar! Brighanax, get in here. It's the only safe room. Wow. About 800 of them pile into the bedroom. It's kind of filling up the space. That's okay. Just a big pile of these guys kind of all over you. It makes a blanket. A few hundred stay out to man the ship that night. And the night passes. I assume i i assume you're not keeping additional watches. You trust the crew at large.
01:48:26
Speaker
Clay will take one watch. She'll trade with the Brighanox because this it was her vote, I guess, to keep him here. So, yeah, the sun explodes.
01:48:38
Speaker
The waves are, you know, reflecting the moon's light. The ship continues on. Maybe you cut speed a little bit just to be safe, but... know, there's a few lanterns that are lit on the deck of the ship and a skeleton crew keeps it going.
01:48:54
Speaker
And couple hours into the night, Clay, you get up out of the Bryganok pile. You like nudge each of them off of you one by one and climb through a mass of them out onto the deck and back down below deck and into the hold. And there's that barrel and there's maybe 15 Bryganoks keeping watch and you excuse them and you are left there in the dark.
01:49:17
Speaker
And you hear voice from inside the barrel. Hello? is anybody there? Yeah. Hey, my name is Maddy.
01:49:30
Speaker
I don't really, i don't really understand how this happened, but I'm stuck in this barrel. Do you think you could let me out? Um, no, I'm the one who puts you in the barrel. Ah, damn it.
01:49:42
Speaker
Ah, damn it. Yeah. Do you think that you could just like not take me to the dinosaur island? I don't, I don't really want to go there. You shouldn't have tried to stow away on a ship. Like, even if you didn't want to get on a ship with dwarves, to we had just kicked the dwarves off of the island. There would have been other ships. I know. I was one of the dwarves you kicked off.
01:50:04
Speaker
But you're not with the other dwarves. Well, physically, no. ah What about, like, morally? and who I'd say I'm morally flexible.
01:50:20
Speaker
um I tell you what, I got a great idea. You let me out of here and I'll go rat mode and I'll just hide for the next few days.
01:50:31
Speaker
I'd much rather go Bogatier than the dinosaur island. But what are your plans? You can't control your rat mode. Well, maybe I'll learn. Are you lying to me?
01:50:44
Speaker
Because let's be real, you've been lying this whole time. Well, not the whole time. I told you my name was Maddie. That was true. Is it? No. What's your name? It's Matthew.
01:50:55
Speaker
Matthew. You should go by Matthew. It's way better than Maddie. i thought Maddie gave me like a boyish charm, but I'm like 250 years old, so Okay, so we're in agreement. You'll let me go.
01:51:07
Speaker
nah and i'll Okay. Well, it was nice trying. how How do I... Have you bitten anyone since you became a were-rat? If you have to think about it, then I can't let you out of the barrel. like what what What would you define as a ah a bite?
01:51:25
Speaker
What do you define as a bite? What did you do? don't know. Is a nibble a bite? You get nibbled on a person? Maybe. that I can't let you out of the barrel. see You're being so judgmental. You don't know me.
01:51:39
Speaker
Why would you nibble on someone? I don't know. I've got a ravenous hunger inside me. Oh oh my God. tied to the moons. i don't know, when the the sun goes away, i just like become like a fucking monster and just like want to kill some people. I don't know.
01:51:56
Speaker
Look, I want to get better though. So if you let me go on a place with doctors as opposed to a fucking island full of dinosaurs, then like I'll probably have a better chance at getting better.
01:52:07
Speaker
i can i can I can get better. i just need the right kind of treatment. Okay, question to the DM. What does Clay know about the Dinosaur Island? There's no doctors there? There's no people there? If we were to pull the information that you have received or gleaned from Glimke's book on the Anchor's Chain,
01:52:29
Speaker
You would know that Isla Tennekar is believed to be the only place in Zav that one can find creatures known as dinosaurs. The island is tightly guarded and the only way to visit it properly is by traveling to the town of Gelendilar, where you can book any number of tours into the interior of the island where you'll see all manner of strange and marvelous beasts. Gelendilar is on Isla Tennekar?
01:52:53
Speaker
Yes. So they have a porch. They have like a town with people. Yeah, so I'm going to bring you there and you can find your own way, your own passage on a different ship back to wherever you want to go. Okay, yeah, with what money?
01:53:09
Speaker
That's your problem. See, that's what i'm talking about. Or you can just give me a free ride to a better place. No, you don't have money to pay me, so...
01:53:22
Speaker
Yeah, okay, fair enough. Well, he goes quiet after that. Yeah, Clay will finish the rest of your watch. A couple hours later, a couple more Briganox come by and relieve you.
01:53:36
Speaker
in the early morning hours, you feel the power shift in the paddle wheels and the ship begins to to veer to the port side, starts to veer to the port side. And as the sun bursts back into life above you, a new day begins in your travels.
01:53:54
Speaker
You all awaken in a pile. LOL, we didn't die. Mm-hmm. Anybody got any bite marks? Nope, no bite marks here. No bite marks here. bite marks here. Okay. Okay. Nibbling counts. Any nibbles? Oh, I got one nibble here, but that was Jacko.
01:54:15
Speaker
Jacko did that. It's consensual. He's a nibbler. It was consensual. Everybody relax. Okay. I'm not relaxed. He's just steaming under a pile of brick and hugs. know.
01:54:29
Speaker
Boof greets you outside. so yeah, we'll be there probably around midday and we can make just a quick stop. And yeah, we'll add a bit of time to the overall journey, but maybe no more than half a day. So hopefully we'll get in like late in the evening rather than midday in a few days. Anyway, enjoy the sights.
01:54:47
Speaker
And can I get everybody to roll another D12 for me as the new day begins? Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's only been a day since we left Mangan, right? Yes. Ooh, I got a 12 this time. Out to sea, kind of once again out off to the port side, you see dark clouds beginning to form, flashes of lightning, but it's not regular.
01:55:20
Speaker
storm pattern. There is flashes of green and red. You see lightning bolts shooting straight up out of the clouds. It is a bizarre storm. You see water like pulling up from the ocean itself, like flowing upwards into the clouds before cascading down.
01:55:38
Speaker
And though the storm begins to move closer to you throughout the day, eventually the wind shifts and pushes it away from you and it does not cross your path. Hmm.
01:55:49
Speaker
Around noon, maybe one o'clock, the Briganox form a small stack and shout in unison, We don't have a sound system, so we'll do this to share announcements.
01:56:02
Speaker
Good job, everyone. We're speaking at the same time. We are arriving at our destination, Hila Tanokar. If you look outside, you'll see it's basically right there.
01:56:14
Speaker
they usually talk like this?
01:56:19
Speaker
Do they usually do that? It's a new thing for them.
01:56:25
Speaker
Relax, Glubkey. He didn't leave the barrel at all last night. He's still in there. That's right. I didn't leave the barrel at all last night, says a man inside the barrel.
01:56:37
Speaker
what's off hey We just drop him off here in the barrel. We're not going to let him out. And then we move on. not going to let him out. He's not a savage. No, we have to hand him over to the authorities here.
01:56:50
Speaker
He's a criminal. Does your face burn when you say that about someone else? Are you still drunk? you know just I'm actually on board with handing him off. I just like the audacity of hearing Clay, bold-faced, say, we've got to turn him into the authorities. He's a criminal.
01:57:07
Speaker
Doing damn well. I turned myself over to the authorities. Yeah. Clay actively turned themselves in. and Okay, let's do it. Let's summon the Policia. We'll just leave him with the dock workers.
01:57:21
Speaker
no Should we write like, do not open without cops present on it? Just say like, dangerous wear rat on it. Dangerous wear rat, yeah. I'm agreeable.
01:57:33
Speaker
I see no issue with that. Yeah, honestly, I think that's fine. You look out at the sea and you see this island not too far into the distance, couple miles away.
01:57:45
Speaker
It is this lush, tropical island. You just see sprawling green trees and these massive hills. It's very mountainous, perhaps volcanic in nature originally.
01:57:56
Speaker
Although... In a way, that's all islands. and she You round a corner and you see that there is this massive inlet from which a river flows.
01:58:08
Speaker
And you see that it is barricaded by this large wooden wall. It's got these slats in it so water is able to flow out. It's not damning the river, but it is blocking it off so that no ships can enter freely.
01:58:26
Speaker
And... As you get closer, the power is reduced, the steam stops billowing from the copper pipes, and the ship comes to a stop near the entrance to this river.
01:58:39
Speaker
You see that there is a guard station of sorts, this large wooden structure built alongside the fence, and an elven individual steps out onto the balcony and shouts. And Clay would recognize that his voice is amplified with thaumaturgy.
01:58:56
Speaker
And he says, Ahoy, vessel! You're not on our manifest. What brings you here? Just kick kick it the barrel off. Kick about kick the barrel.
01:59:07
Speaker
And just turn around. is I cast Thaumaturgy back and I shout, We were just passing by the island. We discovered a stowaway on our ship. We just want to drop him off with the proper authorities.
01:59:23
Speaker
You bring criminals to our island! Yay, but he's in a barrel.
01:59:31
Speaker
Very well. but And the gate begins to lift up. it goes...
01:59:44
Speaker
and provides access upriver. There's a surge of water is the as the gate pulls out of the way. The ship kicks back into gear and you are able to enter the river.
01:59:56
Speaker
The ship travels upstream for a ways and you see that there is a fenced-in city. There's this massive wooden wall with these basically tree sized pillars of wood with sharpened spikes at the top that completely envelop the town. It's not a particularly large place, but there is a small port and you watch as the boat navigates its way in It's kind of like parallel parking. with somebody who's doing it for the first time where Booth and the Briganox in the piloting bay, they start to pull in and then they stop and then they back it out and then they start to pull in and then the angle's not quite right so they back out again and then they pull in and after about five or six attempts they pull up next to this dock and about a hundred of them jump overboard with ropes and tie the ship to one of the docks.
02:00:50
Speaker
Phonelin, as you are looking around, You see, you're kind of watching this spectacle and like, you're used to probably having better servants than this. There's a bit of embarrassment, but you glance around and you see that the denizens of this town are primarily elven.
02:01:10
Speaker
Uh-oh. You should stay hidden, Lady Fondalyn. I should. i really should. or at least disguise yourself? I really, really should.
02:01:22
Speaker
Yeah. Faunilin is going to flag down the nearest elf. but What? What say? In Elvis, she says, like, ahoy there. It takes a really long ass time. Ahoy there. Ahoy there.
02:01:39
Speaker
push la i hide sweet with that all way there the An elven woman, she's wearing kind of these like flood pants and a pair of suspenders and a very practical utilitarian top, these heavy combat boots. She's walking by and you greet her and she looks at you and nods her head and says, know, Elvish, ahoy yourself.
02:02:04
Speaker
Climbs, I just had to flag you down. i i didn't know that there were elves living all the way out here. Oh yeah, it's a and primarily elves, in fact.
02:02:15
Speaker
How did this come to be? well you left the forest. Trees weren't tall enough for you? Well... I don't want to give you a whole history lesson here from the docks, but ah the short version is ah a group left the ancient forests generations ago to set up a sort of ecological preserve on this island, protecting the special creatures that live here. So I guess you could say they, and by extension, we found a higher calling.
02:02:44
Speaker
Are you expatriated? Like, are you no longer subjects of the monarchy? I was born here, if that's what you're asking. wonder, like, what's your citizenship?
02:02:55
Speaker
Like, do you answer to the queen? Oh, man. ah think I answer to the director. Understood. Very interesting. Okay. I don't suppose you're very savvy with ah updates out of Ulethor Thayad.
02:03:10
Speaker
Do you keep in touch? I mean, we we get funding from a from the monarchy, so, you know, we get occasional news from back home, I suppose, of some folks who try and keep up.
02:03:22
Speaker
Not really my thing, I'm more focused on the work, but yeah, you know, you get you get news every once in a while. Right, right, right. Okay, well, nice speaking with you.
02:03:33
Speaker
ah You as well. have Have a good one, I suppose. May your path always be shady. Well, I hope not. Sometimes that means there's a T-Rex standing above you. And you see she's definitely serious.
02:03:46
Speaker
Oh, right. that's gonna That's a Chekhov's imagery. Fonelin returns to Clay and Cliffy and she's like, yeah, I think I probably should lay low on this island. She didn't look politically savvy. I didn't have a feeling that she would recognize me.
02:04:01
Speaker
I didn't think I need to be like super discreet. I'm not terribly worried, but we'll never know. yeah Also, so this is an ecological reserve funded by the monarchy. So that means it's really funded by the Vedarchs.
02:04:13
Speaker
Hmm. Oh. Mm-hmm. Should we call you an alias then instead of Faunal and Veidark? Yeah, you should definitely not call me Faunal and Veidark on this island. i think we just got to drop this barrel off and go.
02:04:25
Speaker
What are we doing? Don't call me anything. What are we talking about? We're going to drop the barrel off. We're going to get lunch. We're going to see the dinosaur and then we're going to go What the fuck? I'm kidding. who was hi ice getting I I was kidding.
02:04:36
Speaker
I'm only going to be so difficult. I was just kidding. We'll drop off the barrel and then we'll see a dinosaur and then we'll go. I mean, this would be a lot more interesting for a listener if we did take a break and go see the dinosaur. And get into some sort of hijinks along the way, probably. Yeah.
02:04:50
Speaker
God, we're going end up saving this island too. did see Okay. Can we just drop the barrel off? Yeah, we just... They turn around after welcoming us. They turn back around. There's a barrel in the dock and we're waving goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye now. Enjoy the barrel.
02:05:11
Speaker
We were kidding about the dinosaur? Are you joking? We were kidding about the dinosaur? We rode on a dragon's back already. a once and a next time opportunity. a dinosaur is just a wingless dragon. That's lame. yeah Exactly. It's just a dragon with no wings. I just feel like there's been such of a role reversal in this group. But fine. guys want to go? Let's go.
02:05:32
Speaker
You drop the gang flank. You kick the barrel containing Maddie Leung. He rolls down, it comes to a stop. A passing by sailor says, oh, Dwarven whiskey. Don't mind if I did. It's labeled with dangerous were-rat. He rolls it over and says, ah, shit. hate it when that happens. The were-rat's literally biting his wrist. Yeah.
02:05:59
Speaker
you you who back the ship out my the guard at the guard station says with palmaturgy but you only just arrived goodbye very well and the gate
02:06:18
Speaker
opens up and so and You paddle your way down the river downstream and back out into the open seas. Perfect. I cannot believe we easy people just turned down to role playing seeing a dinosaur. Are you joking? We could have fought a dinosaur. Have you heard of to of a Tarrasque?
02:06:40
Speaker
Have you heard of a familiar? ah You want a dinosaur? This is so crazy. feel like those elves wouldn't have let us fight a dinosaur. Yeah, it's a nature reserve. Yeah. I guess we'll never know. You unleash Typhoid Maddy on the shores of Eulatanatai. We gave you warning, okay? We said, we said, we're just a little weak criminal and this is a were-rat.
02:07:06
Speaker
Cannot wait to see what happens when he bites a T-Rex. We'll do it later, I guess. And the ship carries on through the day and into the night.
02:07:17
Speaker
As you rest, storm clouds kind of roll in and the waves start to pick up. It begins to get a little choppy. It's a rough day at sea. Winds are kind of howling.
02:07:28
Speaker
And could I get everybody to roll another d twelve I've night. Nine. I also got an eight. Wow. As these waves are picking up, these winds are howling.
02:07:43
Speaker
It's a pretty miserable day out at sea. But perhaps you spend some time together. Perhaps you spend some time in your individual cabins helping out. Perhaps you spend some time with Booth and the crew looking at charts and making sure you're still on pace to get to Bogatier. Clay.
02:08:00
Speaker
clay At one point, you are in your room, in your cabin, and you look out that window, and you think you see something amongst the waves, something bobbing.
02:08:16
Speaker
And it kind of disappears as a wave kicks up and then, you know, the ship rocks and then the ship settles back down again. And it seems to be ever so slightly closer. And if you didn't know better, you would say it is a hollowed out apple.
02:08:34
Speaker
but an apple that's the size of a rowboat it's got this red skin on it and like the interior of it looks very apple-like and there is a mast that looks like an apple core and Standing in it is a tall, lanky individual with just these long arms and a big oar. And they see you and start to wave wave this oar in the air.
02:09:02
Speaker
They scream something, but it's lost in the wind and waves. This ocean's just full of wacky characters. You roll a nine, you get a guy and an apple. Okay, I run out onto the deck and I like try to gather Fawnal and N'gulki to see what I'm seeing. You guys see a guy out there on an apple core?
02:09:21
Speaker
What? Look over there there! I don't see that. Clay, you're hallucinating. Wait, do we see it? You look and there is a guy in a boat sized apple. Clay, have no idea what you're talking about. He's bobbing up and down and he's kind of like climbing up. He's got these long arms. He's waving vigorously.
02:09:38
Speaker
you don't see that guy? He's in an apple core. What the hell? No. Have you been smoking one of Boof's mushroom houses? No. Wait, you actually see it? all the mushrooms behind in Mengane. I was doing a prank. Yes, I see Oh.
02:09:53
Speaker
Okay. I will cast Thaumaturgy and shout. Ahoy! He cups his hands over his mouth and hollers back. Ahoy. Oh my god, it's so quiet.
02:10:07
Speaker
Um… What the hell? Do you need help? I bet he's from the Gods' Basket! They're known for giant fruits! Oh. My apple is taking on water. I could use some help.
02:10:20
Speaker
Hey, look, guys, a new friend descended adrift on a fucking door. What the fuck? What happened to you? told you I developed compassio and I'm working on it. I didn't care for it. This is feels like something else.
02:10:36
Speaker
Yeah. You see a big wave swells in and washes like, you know, half submerges his apple boat. Okay, well, we can keep debating my moral philosophies, but he's drowning. Yeah, can we roll up close to him? Yeah, let's go up close to him, yeah.
02:10:51
Speaker
And if he turns out to be a were-rat who works for the Korak Mining Company, we'll send him on his way. ah More barrels of Torven whiskey to empty out. You draw closer. Is this apple ship like the size of a like a dinghy, like a rowboat or like a proper ship?
02:11:09
Speaker
Like a rowboat. Is our ship big enough to lift his whole ship onto? Well, it's got space for it. There's the matter of lifting it out of the water, I suppose, which is a challenge in and of itself.
02:11:20
Speaker
How do ships usually do it with like when they have those, you know, those like escape ships? Little robos? Oh, yeah. we know a little of Use a little crane or something. Yeah, a little pulley system. system Yeah. Do we have a little? I'm to say your ship does not have that.
02:11:35
Speaker
We don't have a police... How do we load anything onto the... You don't have a rowboat. We got barrels. yeah how up here How do we load the ship with bigger cargo? Up a gangplank at port. Damn it. Damn it. He's right, and the thousand Brighanox carried them up.
02:11:54
Speaker
okay Shoot. Alright, we can lower a ah rope down for him to get up, right? Oh, if only we had some sort of magic rope. I feel like a magic rope
02:12:13
Speaker
Dude, if we had budget, we could give the magic rope a riff. Like a theme, the magic rope theme. Slither forth, magic rope, and then it, yeah. Oh, yeah. So the the rope slithers forth, and he he grabs it, and he ties it around the mast of his his ship, the apple core mast of his ship, and he's closer now. He says,
02:12:35
Speaker
so you Thank you, sirs and madams. I much appreciate your helping me on this wintry day. on me see Send him back. Send him back. No, no. Let's hear him out. Why are you out here? Where are you going? He wipes us like ocean spray back. He's got like long hair. He pulls it back. Well, you see, I'm ah departed from God's basket not too long ago on my boat here. I had some...
02:12:58
Speaker
fish by which i mean fruit to sell and i got a little turned around at sea i was on my way to another island and i now i'm here god there's i just i don't know if it was the way that you said it because you you screwed a lot of things up sir I'm sorry, I'm a bit dehydrated and a touch famished. I don't eat my own product and all I have is product.
02:13:25
Speaker
Put him in a barrel. Yeah. Well, we're still pretty close to Ila Tano Car. Well, maybe. That's interesting. my god. It was supposed to take us five days to get to this island and now it's gonna take us like fucking ten days to keep making fucking detours.
02:13:45
Speaker
Your ship looks like it's taking on water. We can drop you off at the nearest island. Well, the nearest island would be either Ila Tinnico or God's Basque, where I just came from. Well, do you want to go back to God's Basque? You said you were fishing for fruit. I mean, fish. Well, no, no, um I've got fruit to sell. So you can sell it at lieutenant car, then. Hi, my name is Johnny Tsunami. Good to meet yous.
02:14:06
Speaker
wo and Would you like to buy some fruit? Where were you going? Well, I was gonna go probably here or there. Maybe Mogatir, maybe Illitenica. Couldn't really decide.
02:14:18
Speaker
Decided to let the winds take me. Man of the world, that's what I am, Johnny Tsunami. What kind of fruit do you have? Oh, enchanted magical fruit from God's Basket. Let me see them.
02:14:29
Speaker
He opens up his his jacket and reveals just rows of fruit. His jacket? What kind of fruit? Oh, well, we got here some magical banana, apple, pear, cherries, oranges, and kiwis. we you've made it a very, I think, understandable mistake. We said, what kind of magic fruit? You've discerned the fruit. I want to know the magic part.
02:14:52
Speaker
I hate just like doubt your abilities, but do you know which ones do which?
02:15:02
Speaker
well i'll tell you in short each of these fruits will give you a temporary pep in your step might boost one of your vital statistics for a period of time maybe a day i hate to just like doubt your abilities but do you know which ones do which Oh, I know what everyone does. Apple makes you stronger. Pear makes you harder. Chair makes you more dexterous. Orange makes you more intelligent. Banana gives you a more charisma, if you know what I mean. And kiwi makes you wise.
02:15:30
Speaker
How much for a fruit? Five gold pieces of fruit. Oh, we've got so much gold, dude. Yeah. How many fruits do you have? I have five of each fruit. If you'd like all of my fruit, it would cost you 150 pieces. to no discar rough water us Wow, must be nice to be rich. Actually, I mean, that's a lot. Should have charged more, actually. Yeah, probably. And also because we pulled you out of the ocean and saved you, maybe you give us a discount.
02:15:59
Speaker
Maybe I don't. I kind of stole this fruit. You stole the fruit? Well, let's just say, I think. So everything's a profit. Okay. okay I'll tell you what. i don't think I don't think you can steal what grows on the ground or flies through the air. I think it is the God's given gift to all of us on this flat planet of ours that we call home.
02:16:22
Speaker
And I think just because some organization sets up shop and says we've got exclusivity on the fruit and we control the supply, I don't think that means I have to change my business of taking some fruit and selling it on the side off island for a bit of a squish on the side. Okay. Well, you know what?
02:16:41
Speaker
I mean, do we want to try the fruit? Like we could buy one. Sure. Yeah. So let's all buy 30. I don't know buy one, get one. Well, Is that a thing? Do you have that BOGO? Do you have a BOGO offer? yeah I tell you what, for fishing me out of the drink, I'll give you one for free.
02:16:59
Speaker
Okay. Okay. Okay, I would like you to eat this fruit that you gave me for free. You want me to eat the fruit? Yes. Huh. I'll eat it. You've tested your luck with a lot of things ingested randomly on the word of strangers.
02:17:15
Speaker
So I guess, yeah, if you want to try again. Well, it's up to you. I'll eat it, but I'm not sure what that'll prove. That it's not poison. if Man, you have had a hard life, huh, sir? You see a man in an apple boat and you assume this guy's out to kill me.
02:17:30
Speaker
This guy's definitely out to kill me specifically. He's traveling across the ocean in a storm so that he can as the off chance of running into me and giving me some poisonous fruit. That's what you think? That's your first thought, sir?
02:17:41
Speaker
Okay. If you say so. don't know what to tell you, man. I don't know what to tell you either, sir. I don't know what to tell you. You've had a hard life, and I'm sorry.
02:17:52
Speaker
We've gotten given potions that were supposed to make us big. They made a small. Sheesh, I hate when that happens. Having a little trouble down there, huh? Okay.
02:18:03
Speaker
I know what that's like. Well, up to you. I'll eat one. You eat one. Up to me. Up to you. Okay, eat one. Clay, you can eat it if you want.
02:18:14
Speaker
Yeah, I'll take one. Alright, well, what do you want? Do you want an apple, an orange, a banana, a cherry, a kiwi, or a gosh damn pear? um Gosh damn. What does the pear do again? Oh, I really wish you stop asking me questions, because then I have to flip through tabs. Makes you more constitutional. oh Constitution. was it easy Okay, ah give me the constitution one, because then if it's poisonous, at least I'll have the constitution. Oh, amen to that. All right.
02:18:42
Speaker
And he tosses you a pear. Cool. I take a bite. It is without a doubt the best pear you have ever had. It is crisp and it is sweet and it is juicy.
02:18:57
Speaker
Wow. Then you all see Clay take one bite and then like she tastes it and then she eats the rest of the pear like. Amazing. You ingest the pear and for the next 24 hours, your constitution is increased by two, which means you also gain five HP for this duration.
02:19:19
Speaker
Buy the lot of it. 100 pickled pieces. Fondland, get the coin purse. We're buying all of this man's fruit. Okay, but doesn't fruit get back? You know what? I love everybody enough.
02:19:30
Speaker
I have, oh yeah, we got a lot of money. let me see how much money got. We got so money. 146 gold pieces each. Oh, uh-oh. So how much minus 145 gold pieces if we want all of the fruit he has?
02:19:46
Speaker
And there's five of each. There are five gold each. Do they stack? Only Hey, can I have another fruit? Clay, I'm i'm going to need you to eat another fruit. Can I another free fruit for saving you from the ocean? First hits free. Can't give you more. Sorry.
02:20:02
Speaker
Oh, man. Do you think this is a good deal or what if if we just go to the island that he took them from? Oh no, too many side quests! We're gonna have to free this magical island would of fruit from corporate takeover. He just said that this- some thing held all the rights to the fruit. Oh no!
02:20:25
Speaker
Well, you see, in in Port Keeley, that's where the Reaping Sodality has their headquarters, and they ah they they kind of are real experts on getting fruit. It's hard to get fruit before they can.
02:20:36
Speaker
So really, if you manage to get some without them noticing, you've done a good job. so i'll give you 100 gold oh come on you said you were rich and then we counted our money and i found out that actually we're not that rich yeah i thought we were more rich i thought that we had thousands or something well i could give you a hundred gold worth of fruit would that make you happy four of each fruit that's not the math nope that's not the math that's not the math forward true stop put it there
02:21:07
Speaker
No, i hold up, hold up, hold up. I'll tell what, you buy all of my fruit and you tow me back in the direction you're headed because I think I got a little tossed asunder and then in the morning maybe I go my separate way and maybe we throw in a little discount.
02:21:24
Speaker
So 100 gold for the rest plus a ride. 140. hundred forty 80 gold. That's crazy. No, no, you can't negotiate against yourself. Hold up now. 130. 100, yeah. 130, 100? 100. 120. one thirty hundred yeah hundred and thirty hundred one hundred hundred and twenty You gotta meet me somewhere in the middle. Come on. ah on The middle is 100. I'm Johnny. Clay said 80. 90 would be in the middle, technically. now Don't say deal. Don't say deal. Don't be all cute and say deal now. No, I wouldn't do that to you 100. You would. 100 is such a good bargain for what you're getting. You understand that, right? That's almost all I have. 110. 110. Well, you... I see three people there. I see a thousand and three people on the deck of this ship.
02:22:10
Speaker
they dont don't Don't worry about the Brighamawks. They don't have money. They have their own things worry about. Are you paying these people? They're rich in culture and in friendship. Yeah. Well, if we could all be so lucky.
02:22:22
Speaker
You could be a hundred gold richer.
02:22:29
Speaker
One ten. And you're getting a ride. Can you throw in dinner? All I have is fruit. Well, all we have is mushrooms, I think. So sure Oh, we can make a nice skewer.
02:22:41
Speaker
Yeah. All right, deal. A hundred, you carnivores. Weird that you're buying fruit when you're clearly bloodsuckers. And, uh... Wow, okay, you don't need to be rude. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm getting little wet under the collar. is mine You could say no.
02:22:57
Speaker
I could, but... Get back on your boat and leave. That's actually an excellent point. What if I sold you a hundred gold worth of fruit instead? And then left? yeah All right, fine. The ride back to shore is very tempting. I'm kind of out of my element here in this storm.
02:23:11
Speaker
Okay, fine. 100, you can have the lot. 80 it is. yeah We have a deal for 100. Sounds good.
02:23:22
Speaker
I'm Johnny Tsunami, a character that I'm sure will be remembered well in the in the in the mythos of Bard Soup. I think a character that we really think made a strong entrance, found a strong voice early on, got some good zingers in, and then will be remembered fondly. Not kind of like a middling country gentleman mixed with a guy in an apple boat and a storm that everyone's gonna kind of forget happened for the most part. I'll be remembered good for sure. Tell me I'll be remembered, right? I'll be remembered in some bard's tale.
02:23:49
Speaker
As long as these fruit live up to the the first one. Oh yeah, they'll do exactly what I promised. That sounds so much sketchier now. No, I'm being convincing. No, i'm being I'm being so real with you. These are magic fruit and they will make you better people for 24 hours. I guess we have to... Well, wait, so you don't need to be dropped off at the... Nah, just get me get me closer to home and I'll i'll sneak back ashore and get some more fruit and then I'll go selling. Well, we're we arere going to a different island. Would you be interested in comingy coming with us there then instead of us making another detour? No, you don't need to make a detour. Just get me closer on your way. it's God's basket's between here and wherever you're going. Oh, so you're comfortable with being put overboard.
02:24:32
Speaker
Well, not overboard. do You make it sound so violent. No, just like with your boat. yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That makes things a lot easier. I'm not here to be a burden. I just think like, hey, you know, I mean, honest honestly, on for the discount I gave you, I should be demanding you deliver me straight to my grandmother's house. Is your boat an actual apple or is it made to look like apple? No, that's an apple.
02:24:53
Speaker
Is it a magical apple? Well, it's a big one. And that's the magic of it? I'd say so. Cool. Thank you. Well, all right I'm going to go drink myself blind below Dex.
02:25:07
Speaker
Sounds good. The day carries on You have a hall of magical fruit that will give you temporary bonuses to your stats. Nice.
02:25:19
Speaker
The sun splodes behind the clouds. Night passes. Johnny Tsunami departs in the morning. a cask of dwarven whiskey is reported missing later that afternoon. damn it.
02:25:32
Speaker
Oh my it. And I'm going to have everybody roll one more d12. Has my pair worn off yet or am I still? We'll say it lasts until the middle of the day. So if anything happens in the first half of the day, you'll have five ever extra HP.
02:25:47
Speaker
I rolled an eight. I rolled a nine. i rolled it two. I'm really glad you didn't roll a 10. It would have been another zany character out at sea. And you know, frankly, we've had two of us this episode already. We didn't need a third.
02:26:00
Speaker
Maybe another time, maybe in another place. The ship travels through the day. The sky clears up as you travel further northeast along the eastern sea lane that Boof has identified as the sun begins to burn bright in the sky.
02:26:19
Speaker
Boof comes out and informs you that you'll be making your destination slightly after sunsplosion. Despite the um the delays, you made decent time and you'll be you'll be getting in later tonight, kind of in the late hours of the evening.
02:26:38
Speaker
As you approach Bogatyr, is there any discussions you wish to hold before you arrive? Should we try to, i don't know, find out what Prince Malfourth has been doing? Yeah, I think it's it's crazy because when we left Mangan, I was like, wow, we're all on the same page. And then over the course of these four days at sea, have come to realize, wow, I don't think we're on the same page. So what are we doing with Prince Malfourth? If you two have your way, probably ripping his fingernails out and dowsing him in acid. What the? What the?
02:27:15
Speaker
Well, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm kidding today. We probably will ask him, like, where's the princess? i mean, we're fairly certain that he took her. And she might even be here. So I think we have to search his house and ask him some questions. I'll also be visiting my brother.
02:27:33
Speaker
So, no can we be you do we do the brother first or do Prince Malphurth? Do you think we can stay with him? Maybe we should, if we could find your brother, maybe he knows something about the prince and his presence here.
02:27:46
Speaker
That might be a good place to start. Sure. We should be discreet while we're here, though, because, like, we don't want to loudly announce that we're here looking for Prince Malphurth and give him time to, you know. and No, no, of course not. Are you a fan of that? And then when it comes to Prince Malfour, we're just cornering this guy and being like, where's the princess?
02:28:05
Speaker
I think that's the general plan. i don't know if he will tell us because we kind of did that at the ball and he punched me in the stomach and ran off. Yeah, and also, i mean, we dealt with one of his henchmen, the butcher.
02:28:19
Speaker
Who's to say he doesn't have more of those kind of people surrounding him? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think once we know more, we'll have an easier time establishing a plan. I mean, God knows we'll step foot on this island and then find out we've got another government to topple. So really, you can't plan for too far ahead.
02:28:33
Speaker
Yeah, but we just, maybe we gotta be on the same page. So, are we um if things go south, are we trying to kill the prince? Are we trying to keep him alive? What's the plan?
02:28:44
Speaker
We know he's involved with the princess. We just need to know, like, if we don't find the princess here, he's still our only lead. Right. So we can't
Arrival at the Vibrant Island
02:28:54
Speaker
just kill him. Okay. Because I wouldn't want to. Fair enough. Makes sense to me.
02:28:58
Speaker
I think so. Okay, we're on the same page now. Find out as much as we can. The swift carries through the late afternoon into the early evening.
02:29:12
Speaker
The blue sky turns orange above you as Pharos burns bright and explodes, casting cosmic shimmers across the night sky. it is a clear evening. You can see the stars burning bright in the distance above you.
02:29:28
Speaker
A few hours later, the light of the stars above is mixed with the lights of dozens if not hundreds of structures across the coast of a vast island over 70 feet long,
02:29:45
Speaker
70 feet. Oh, it is over 70 feet long. Over 70 miles long. You see clusters of light. Some of them appear to be large structures or almost like miniature villages. Some more solitary, these individual resorts.
02:29:59
Speaker
The details are lost. in the darkness, but you know that this is Bogatyr before you and each of these beacons of light is a resort or a villa or some expensive hotel that you can pay up charges for margaritas and daiquiris.
02:30:20
Speaker
As you get closer, Boof reduces the power and the ship slowly starts to come in closer towards the island. There is a glow in the water and you look overboard and you see there's a bioluminescent coral that wraps and winds its way across the length of this lagoon, slowing waves as they approach.
02:30:44
Speaker
It's difficult, but Boof is able to identify a channel where you can safely push the boat through into the lagoon beyond. In the dark, it's hard to make out details, but you can see fires and lanterns burning on various ships throughout this long stretch of land, far off into the distance.
02:31:05
Speaker
As you're getting closer, a warm ocean breeze passes over you, and off in the distance you can hear tropical music playing.
02:31:16
Speaker
Suddenly, the night sky erupts.
02:31:22
Speaker
with an evening display fireworks. Ooh.
02:31:26
Speaker
explosions of green and silver and blue shoot up into the night sky and come raining down, each explosion illuminating the ships docked in this place. You can see some of them bear the mark of the Boas Kola Peninsula, ships from Sunfall or Sarposan or Erdenine.
02:31:45
Speaker
Glimki, you recognize a few with symbols from Al Arshah dragonborn vessels carrying wealthy families from far off lands to this place. But Faunelin, it is a ship that's not too far away that catches your eye.
02:32:01
Speaker
An explosion of red and blue lights up the night sky. You see a pair of tall ships. Sails drawn up, but flags waving calmly in the evening breeze, each bearing the house Fadark symbol.
02:32:17
Speaker
Oh no.
Bard Soup's Episode Conclusion and Revealing Encounters
02:32:18
Speaker
And that is where we will stop tonight's episode of Bard Soup. whoa it's my brother Is my brother like a, like a, what's the word, like a defector?
02:32:41
Speaker
Thank you so much for listening to chapter 37 Bard Soup. I have been your dinosaur-less dungeon master, Zach Meikle, joined by my dear friends Prima Zhao as Clay Campbell, Jordan Johnson as Glimke Treefellow, and Shannon Meikle as Faunalyn Veidark.
02:32:58
Speaker
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02:33:10
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02:33:20
Speaker
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02:33:33
Speaker
bob I swear I thought they saw a dinosaur. I don't know how they could have gone there and just not at least taken a riverboat ride or walked into the forest for a little bit, just just for a chance at seeing one.
02:33:45
Speaker
It's truly inconceivable.