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Animal Kingdom Ep. 30 - Meet the Glorified NPC

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Nice little episode where we are introducing our mouse friend Silas. Enjoy!

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A Kingdom of Conflict

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Our story begins in a far and distant land. A place ruled by houses of sentient animals and mythical creatures. An environment that is forever tipping the scales towards controversy and conflict.

Adventurers' Journey Begins

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Grave danger lies hidden in every tavern, forest and stranger's glance. In this kingdom we will follow a deviant group of adventurers brought together by chance or perhaps
00:00:30
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by fate. This ragtag group of a tortle, a tabaxi, an otter and a hound will travel across this great kingdom, fighting their way through the unknown and weaving a powerful destiny.

Podcast Introductions and Banter

00:00:46
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This is Rolling Across the Pond. Hey everyone, welcome back to Rolling Across the Pond. And Luke waved again.
00:00:55
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This is democracy now, like I'm becoming majority. Sure, he's the only one, he's the only other one here, so like, you know, I have to introduce him anyways.

Meet Silas: A New Character

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I'm your Jim Jesse. Oh wait, I forgot to. So we're doing Animal Kingdom today, but we are introducing Luke's new character. He will introduce himself, and then we will jump into the story, and here is Luke, here is, yes, here is.
00:01:25
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So fun with zoom because you're pointing in the wrong direction. No, not to me. You're on my left

Escape and Search for Safety

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Where we find ourselves right now, we are at now, is in the forest, and a bright light had just passed, and your character is running away, if I am correct. Yes, to both reader and this unnamed character. How much, how awesome that would be, but for now, he is running away.
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I want you to roll perception. 19. Great. You look back.
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at this moment where your brother and you have just been released from this bondage and you look back and you see the silhouettes of what you can tell is probably a moose probably an owl there and a few others oh no you see a couple of moose
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and fae 9 and yeah just a lot of different those kinds of animals you don't see your brother at this moment no didn't you show up at the same time as running yes but you don't see him anymore okay it's basically this light is so bright that
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It's covering him up somehow. So you're taking off because he's asked you to. And a role survival for me.

A Village Nearby

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Dirty 20.
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3020 okay great you kind of understand that you don't understand but you You've traveled a lot your you Have the knowledge of how to detect where life is where where? civilization is you have plenty of maps and so you get the lay of the land and
00:03:33
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And you know that there is a village nearby that is small but it's inhabitable and you haven't heard anything bad about them from your previous encounters with King Elrass and all that stuff. But as you're running and as you're getting there, what if you describe, introduce your character and describe him for us?
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I'll describe them in this way, and if you decide later on that it's like, ech.
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He is somebody who quite enjoys knowing the world and how the culture and arts and philosophy. And so his clothing is to represent that. So he's got toga-style sleeves come to about the elbow, gloves that are part map and part archers. So it's like two half gloves.
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and like a male corset to button it together and nice thick pants just to be fuffy and be like hard. And then I forget which style, Victorian era or something, coat over top just to be like fancy. So he's cultured.
00:04:59
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And has a bunch of paper flowers, if we're including that. A bunch of paper flowers are connected to his suit. Yeah, great. He is a... I'm gonna say mouse folk because I'm also not sure how to pronounce it. He's a mouse, so he's small or tiny. So imagine all those details on a household mouse?
00:05:23
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I think I wrote down that he has to be like three to four feet tall. So he's just very large mouth. Yeah, in comparison to mice. And what is his name? His name is he's kind of had different accents throughout the years. But majority of the time, it's Silas. And if he's in more northern areas, it's sea less because he doesn't want to correct people.
00:05:48
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That's because, listeners, we have an episode before this and I kept saying C-list. And that's my bad. But it's Cylus, for sure. But it's the Canadian accent to just say C-list because they don't want to correct him.
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Especially since we've been like, we've been texting for like months about this character. Oh my goodness. And I didn't, this whole time I didn't realize that it was Celus. Yeah, in my mind it was Celus. It's fine. It's fine. Too late to correct him now. It's fine. It doesn't matter. I don't mind being corrected.
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So, Silas is heading to this village in his garbs and in haste. Is his friend with him as well? Do you want to describe your friend?

Socrates: Silas' Metal Companion

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Yes. I named him Socrates. I like the idea because he's just a metal... Is he a monkey with a servant? How do I describe him? He's a metal reflection of you.
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Speaker
And so he was built as a friend to me, to Silas, to be somebody who can understand him and communicate with him in his weird philosophical ideas and to keep up with him on his more religious beliefs. He's just an ever-changing form of metals moving and changing shape.
00:07:13
Speaker
And I call him Sock, because it's shorter and easier to say than Socrates. Wouldn't it be able to just call him Ratties? So you can say he's Rat. You really need me to. No, no, no. I just say Socky. Socky sounds so sophisticated. I said Sock, not Socky. Just Socky.
00:07:36
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right so you both are heading out is is he in like his his mouse form is or is he in like a ball form is he yeah i i i imagine he's like part of the clothing like he's trying to be like the hem of the the corset great and just the pen big belt cool mostly just be like this is a lot of running if you could just do it for me feel free to
00:08:05
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great perfect and you enter with the i think it was in 20 dirty 20 uh to get to the village i won't have you roll again and you enter this village it's quaint if you were to imagine you could imagine the softness of melodies of joy and peace and you see animals frolicking and you see
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a little well kind of to the left and you see different little like antelopes and owls and yeah just different little children playing over there and then next to it is is a house full of like quite a lot of flowers around it

Village Life and New Connections

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and then there's yeah just openness they're kind of in the tree surrounding them trees are surrounding them but yeah it's not so dark as if you were like to be under guard or protection or or or like the sun is being blocked because of some sort of reason yeah so you've entered this quaint little town what do you want to do
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Speaker
Is there anybody of tremendous note here? That's not, I'm gonna say no. Anybody? Is there anybody in general? So this town, I mean, probably has somebody in charge, but as a notable as in like there, you would find them in like books and stuff? No, they're all average folk.
00:09:50
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Yeah, as long as there's people there. And it's the... I was running in the opposite direction as the carriage was. Sure. Okay. Hey, it's up to you. If that is what it is, then I'd be like, hey, oh, so weird. The king just came this way. Hello, my friend. It's so great to see the king. Did you catch him? Who are you talking to? To just anybody, whoever, whoever seems the most talkative. So roll perception or insight. 16.
00:10:20
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so yeah there's there's like parents around there's a specific there's a specific elderly person who looks kind of poised he's got a cane he's um
00:10:37
Speaker
Ah, he's a platypus, there you go. So he's quite an old platypus, but he kind of, I mean, you would recognize platypus, platypi as, or platypus as cooks and great cooks at that.
00:10:53
Speaker
so you would know that there there's a lot in the kingdom especially for the king so you probably could approach him with some sort of familiarity and sorry where is he sitting like just on a bench just on a bench nearby he's just hanging out there he might have a grand kid out there i can't say hanging out with the birds because the birds can talk so it's not like he's he's being a loner he's not being a loner he's just kind of just there
00:11:21
Speaker
And yeah, approach him and be like, is this, is this seat available? Can I, may I sit here? Oh, yes. Yes. Please. Sorry, Silas, by the way. Grumpers. Shake his hand, but not the stinger part. Oh, Grumpers. Yes. Nice to meet you. Grumpers? Yeah, Grumpers. Yeah, Grumpers. What's your next name? Yeah, it's a family name. We, we own a restaurant down the road and
00:11:48
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Is it just called the Grumpers restaurant? If I go out and search for it? Yeah, Grumpers. Nice. I'll have to check it out. Yeah. Yeah.
00:11:58
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I heard the king was around here. Did he get a chance to try the food? No, no. We're a small little town. I wish a few of us went, but we're kind of to keep to ourselves. We don't like to make a big deal. If we make too much attention, we can get too much attention. Yeah. Yeah. That's why we're the Grumpers.
00:12:28
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And as he's saying this, he rolled down his sleeve and just took a note of where Grumpers would be. Just be like, try it out later. Just revealing this long, his entire body is just covered in a tattoo of maps of all over the place. He rolls it down again. Yeah, Grumpers does not notice a thing. I don't think he was trying to hide it. I just feel like, OK, I should try Grumpers later after I finish the mission of finding my only friend.
00:12:57
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Yeah, you're looking for somebody. Yeah, my brother was around and stuff. He was a big fan of the king. So if we bumped into him, it'd be even better. I'll keep an eye out. Yeah. Do you know generally where he went? I haven't seen anybody. You're the first new person in this town in maybe a few weeks. A few weeks?
00:13:24
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Yeah, we're a restaurant, so we got other people coming in and out. But I'll keep your secret, though. No, it's not a secret. We just don't want too much publicity, but we want some publicity. I wouldn't be wearing a big, large pin that says grumpers. Oh, no. No, we wouldn't do that. We only have these little stickers that we put on hats and stuff. Can I have one, by the way? Yes, yeah, yeah, but let me see.
00:13:53
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and he's like checking his pockets and he gives you one, but it's, he gives you and yeah, it's kind of like a, no, it actually says, no, it's not a sticker, it's a pin and it actually doesn't say grumpers on it. It says happy hour, which is a completely different restaurant in a different town, different place.
00:14:21
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Not the general concept of happy hour. No, no, no, no. It's a different rush shot. And he's like, here you go. And he tries to poke it into you. What's your armor class? 11. Oh, so he hits you. Sorry, how much? 3 damage.
00:14:42
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He's like, oh, that looks great on you. Thanks. Thank you. Yeah. I just subtly try to correct it, just not to offend him. But yeah, sure, I'll tell people. Happy hour. Happy hour? We're grumpers. Sorry, my bad. Yeah. You guys don't have a happy hour?
00:15:04
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No, we, we, uh, I, my old best friend is in charge of happy hour and, uh, we don't get along anymore. Restart. He like, he does like a thousand yard stare away and he's like, I missed that fella, but, uh, I can't believe he did what he did.
00:15:25
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No, this is the debate between silent. He's so desperate to hear that story, but he knows he's got a... Roll something. You can roll against your... Roll a d20 and see if you make it past 10 you avoid your want for the story or below 10 you have to sit there and listen to it.
00:15:47
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Oh, it's three. So he's happy to hear, like he's just like, oh, I have to hear the story now. If it's not too much trouble. Oh, well, how about we go back to my place and I'll tell you all about it. Let's say buy me dinner first, but I'm not that type. I can buy you dinner. I own the restaurant in this town. Crisp. Let's go.
00:16:12
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So you guys head off and he tells this quite little story of how him and another platypus from a different family kind of became friends and how they grew up together and how they had dreams of starting these restaurants and yeah, and then it kind of fell apart and so you guys are having dinner at Grumpers and
00:16:36
Speaker
That's kind of the day. It takes a long time. You're ending the day in his house, I presume, because he offered to send it for you to stay there because he wouldn't keep talking to you about it. And so that's the first day of Silas being free. And now, from there, we're gonna fast forward a bit.
00:17:03
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Now, I would love to unpack every day of Silas until we reach the future, but we need to catch up. What's kind of Silas' mindset other than Mr. Grumpers? I definitely hang out with Grumpers. She's fantastic. I was like, oh, okay, I gotta find out Ross. I gotta, in his head, not saying this out loud. Okay.
00:17:27
Speaker
But just be like, okay, I got to find out Ross and he probably needs, probably needs my help after all that happened. Also wanting to figure out what did happen. So like, I think early in the morning, I don't know if I'm first like a night owl or what, but.
00:17:44
Speaker
And that was my next question. Do you stay in this village very quick for a long time, for a bit, or do you kind of head out immediately? I think he wants to build connections with people. Okay. Because he's like, Oh, I've had such a long time of like wanting to hear stories, but nobody will ever be able to tell me. Sure. Because they didn't even acknowledge my existence. So I'm still a bit confused about whether or not I can interact with people and they can interact with me. But sure.
00:18:14
Speaker
Could I, could, was I free to like walk around, but nobody can see? Oh no, no, you were, you were very, you were very tied to the coin. Yeah. So Al Ross is like the only person I know. Yeah, pretty much. I mean, he kept you somewhat of a secret. You knew a bit about his wife, but she also didn't want any part of it because she didn't actually like your brother. So as Luke, fair.
00:18:41
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Yeah. You're welcome to kind of go around. Basically what's going to happen is like three months is going to pass. Three to four months is going to pass. So would he still be in that same village or would he have been like, okay, I've got enough stories. This is a smallish village. I think I'm ready to start looking for Al Ross again. I think because I also wanted to be the entity.
00:19:05
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I can normally say that word. I promise. The antithesis to a reader, he's perfectly fine with staying in a place for a while to get to know the place and understand the people. Though the next morning after that grumper, I think he would want to like very early in the morning, go out, find the, find the spot where chaos happens. Okay. Figure out what happened. Okay, cool.
00:19:31
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So I'm trying to think what things I can do. So I mean, if anybody died, yes, people died. Yes. Spoiler. It's not a spoiler. It's probably going to happen already. People died. So I want to go there and be like, hey, what happened? What's up?
00:19:47
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Sure. I would say because it's such a long time, roll. Okay. That's just like the first morning, but then after that, like spend a week or two in this village, move to the next one, tell stories of, tell like the elite and special people about grumpers, the restaurants.
00:20:10
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keep it on the down low for the most part. And yeah, just build connections with people and get to know stories and always have people I can refer to for stories and people that I can be like, Hey, I know you from that one time I had food from your restaurant for free because you told me a story. Yeah, that's cool. I like that. Okay. Then I would say roll investigation firstly with advantage because I cast a small
00:20:40
Speaker
Oh, are you going to cast a spell? Me and Sock are going to... You can call him Socrates if you want, I just call him Sock. Me and Sock are going to do the speaking with the recently deceased through Socrates. So he'll be the head of Socrates.
00:21:01
Speaker
No, but they're not there. Remember, they were picked up and moved immediately. But nobody died at that area. OP. OP, yes. I can talk with OP. OP can't talk with me. But we've specified that I can talk to OP. So I'm going to talk to OP. OK. Sure. So yeah, he spends his time, gets OP spirit, be like, hello.
00:21:29
Speaker
Who afraid to talk? I can hear you. And then he signs, hello? What happened? Hello? Hello. Good news and bad news. Okay. Which one do you want to hear first? I guess the bad news? The bad news is, unfortunately you have died.
00:21:51
Speaker
Well, actually, that's not that bad, because I figured that's the case, because I don't feel like me. So if I felt like me and I was alive, or I didn't feel like me and I was alive, wait. Yeah, that's fine. I'm OK with that.
00:22:08
Speaker
Good, because I didn't actually have any good news, so I'll leave that for the good news. Oh. Okay. Great. Do you know how it happened? What happened? I kind of recognize you. Can I have a real insight to whether or not he would hate me? Yeah, sure. I assume the answer is yes. But it could just be that it's directed at the real one. 17.
00:22:33
Speaker
He's probably not going to be too happy if you figure out who you are. Okay. You're going to roll deception first to see whether or not I do it well.

Spirit of OP and Ethical Dilemmas

00:22:46
Speaker
Okay, that's 23. Okay. So who's going to say this?
00:22:54
Speaker
Yeah, I'm sorry to tell you this. I want to be honest and I don't want you to be confused about what happened. Something happened that there was this moose and this owl bear and toad and they went buck wild for some reason wanted to kill the people around them and unfortunately you were one of the victims.
00:23:24
Speaker
Um, I'm currently trying to look for them and as well as anyone else who had have seen, um, I believe the King was one. They were attempting an assassination. Um, I'm just, do you know where I would be able to find any of them? Oh, that's, that's big news.
00:23:45
Speaker
Oh, I'm sorry, I see. I should have said this a lot slower. I'm so sorry. Yeah. Yes. I don't think so. I think... I don't know. So they killed me? Last thing I remember is I was running away with this coin. With a coin? Maybe they were looking for... Do they seem to have any interest in the coin? That they would kill you over it? Yeah, I was running away from King Elrath.
00:24:16
Speaker
Did you steal the coin from King Olives? Yes. Oh, interesting. And where's the coin now? I don't know. I don't know. I had it and then I don't... It could be on my body. Did you check my body? Yeah, that's fair. You are dead so I won't hold it against you to lose something. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, how long has it been?
00:24:41
Speaker
Uh, it's been maybe a day. I'm sorry. I mean, how many animals walk through this path? You know, I could have been on the, you are in the middle of the forest and that's true. Yeah. Um, but yeah, if, if you stole the King, if you stole the King's gold, they may be also looking for it. Did you happen to know them? That's a good question. Ask the ones who killed me.
00:25:10
Speaker
That would be, that would be, yes. I, my main perspective was the ones that were so desperate for a coin that they would kill. Oh, okay. But, yes, those ones. Um, I mean, I think I did. I can't, I can't put a finger on it, but I didn't, I didn't know them well, I guess. Well enough to know if they would mute me. Yeah.
00:25:35
Speaker
i know wait wait i know that they i was running i was running this this and he like pointed he points to the small village that you were just in
00:25:49
Speaker
He's like, I was running to here to kind of reconnect with them. In that village? Yeah. Interesting. Do you have a meeting place that you know of? And feel free to take your time, I know. This is a lot to be piling on you. I think it was a restaurant or something. Or an ice cream parlor. Ice cream parlor? Okay. And do they have beds there? I don't know. I sleep outside. No, I was gonna make a joke about that, but I won't.
00:26:21
Speaker
Wow. I've not been dead for a day and you're already making fun of me. I'm sorry. Is it because I'm a possum? No. I was going to say I have nothing against possums. Which is a good thing. Long story. Socrates gets it. Is that Socrates? That's him in his, like, transform. Like his mouth came out for a second.
00:26:51
Speaker
just as a letter. Yeah, exactly. Okay, good. Yeah, no, I was just, I was trying to look for anybody I could to try to figure out what happened. You know why? So I can help you. I think, I think I heard King Elrass was going back to his own village from somebody, the Volden Kingdom. I think he was going back to the Volden Kingdom. And you knew that and I didn't.
00:27:20
Speaker
You can roll inside of him. Did he not trust me to know where he was 14? He's lying to you. Ah, that makes a lot more sense. He basically rolled a natural 20 on your deception. He knew you were lying to him, so he's lying to you. Oh, okay. Okay. So does he know who I am?
00:27:47
Speaker
Now he has no idea, he just knows that his friends didn't kill him and he doesn't trust you for lying to him. That's fine. Yeah, that's fine. I'm sorry, I know now that he's lying, or is that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know he's lying there. Okay. That's a real Game of Thrones situation. I know that he's lying. He doesn't know that you know that he knows.
00:28:18
Speaker
I'm sorry. You can be left for dead if you want. Or do you want to stay alive? No, I'm dead. I'm dead. Yeah. Is there just so I can use up questions? Well, not only for that, I honestly want to know. Did you have any family that you want me to tell? No, I'm okay. Anything else I can get you before I leave any last minute bucket list things?
00:28:45
Speaker
Just those, just what you think his reality might not be. Just keep that in mind. I do it. Do I, at this point, do I know what he's referring to? Do you? Um, and again, I'm not again, I'm sorry. You don't have to be, I knew this was part of the job. I have, I have one question left. Okay. So I just, I do want to come to the
00:29:14
Speaker
During a talk with my brother, you decided that it was best to you kill yourself. Okay. I don't know a lot. Not as much. So, I wasn't killed by the others. It was a result of, but it wasn't a direct time. Okay. And this is Silas being 100% honest. Is that like, if they weren't trying to steal the coin, then we wouldn't have tried to kill RP.
00:29:45
Speaker
Are you John? So he's like, look, I knew we're lying. Thank you for being honest. I, not thank you. Uh, and he says, screw off. And then he's just like, leave me alone.
00:29:59
Speaker
If I can't be honest with somebody who's dead, then I can't be honest with anyone. So yeah, sorry. Yeah. And my friends, my friends, the people I work with would never kill me. I knew that. They're good people. Well, they do have a long list of crimes. Well, so do you. And am I done? I don't know. We all have crimes.
00:30:27
Speaker
No, I'm almost spoiled who I was. I lived a life that I hope to be trustworthy and helpful in building up the government. Yeah, but that can also create chaos. Just when you see my friends again, because you probably will, take a chance to talk to them. Hear them out.
00:30:52
Speaker
No. One of them is rubbish at it. Actually, three of them are rubbish at it. But... Wait, which one's the rubbish one? The moose is like... He can't really express himself very well. I'll try my best. For the record, they did kidnap my brother, so... Well, your brother killed me, so... You killed you, so...
00:31:17
Speaker
Yeah, if I hate your brother's hand, probably. You said it yourself. You said your brother enticed me to do something that killed me. You had a conversation with them, so I'll make sure to have a conversation with your friends.
00:31:29
Speaker
Please do. Hear them out. Don't just, cause if I am where I am and I died, the least you can do to respect that is to hear them out. And because you lied to me at the beginning of this is just, just. Sorry. Yeah. I do want to say that I am, I am truly sorry for that. I don't forgive me, but. I don't forgive you. Okay. Are you happy? Just cause I have to have one last question. I want it to be deep. Am I happy? Are you happy?
00:31:58
Speaker
And no sign language needed. He just flips you off and then he disappears. That's fair. I do feel kind of bad. I want Silas to be a good person. I feel bad that he lied, but motivation to be a better person in the future.
00:32:19
Speaker
Yeah, that's good. By giving him more, I want to find sticks and stuff and be like, this is the hero. Cool. Similar to Willy, but very poorly because he doesn't have any magic that can do this. Yeah, like molders. Nice. I like that. By the hero to save the world. There you go.
00:32:48
Speaker
and then go back to regular life of like the village this is a cool this is a cool restaurant yeah great let's eat the happy hour like right and so you kind of do uh do a few things uh give me three things you would like to do i want to go to the parlor what parlor the ice cream parlor there's no ice cream parlor
00:33:12
Speaker
Oh, he lied to me. Keep forgetting that he lied to me. Okay. Sorry, continue. I'm still doing this.
00:33:24
Speaker
Name three things you would like Silas to kind of, not accomplish, but kind of get through while he's in this village for the next three or four months, whatever, or however long he's there.

Settling in the Village

00:33:38
Speaker
One is get to know the people and build connections if I ever need a place to stay or anything. Not that that's the primary focus, but just generally getting to know these people and hearing stories and knowing what life is like
00:33:53
Speaker
in a little city or a big city or just getting to know people. Just to be the opposite of reader. Cool. And that's the one thing? What about the other two? One thing is building connections. Second one is begin building up the
00:34:13
Speaker
what to call it, diviner abilities, like just to be like anybody who needs assistance or had a recent loss, anybody who wants to say final goodbye, somebody who wants to find their car keys, like any way that I can help. And a lot of the times will be like benevolent Dr. Facilier kind of stuff. It's like, this is your future.
00:34:38
Speaker
You're a good person now. But yeah, using the flowers and just a lot of showmanship too. And what I have thought about is a thing called media lethal, divine confirmation.
00:34:53
Speaker
Um, you just be like, ah, yes, you are supposed to be a good person or somebody who's going through like a major change in life, just to be like, uh, this is the card. It generally means this thing. And then they're like, Oh, well that would mean this. And I was like, a hundred percent. I said the magic in the cards, it wasn't definitely your idea. Um, but yeah, just, uh, I guess to be a therapist without being a pig. Sure. Sure.
00:35:24
Speaker
Mostly just as a, like with a sprinkle of magic of like, speak with dead and stuff like that. To build up this major thing of like, you can do it, you're a great person, achieve your wildest dreams. Go ahead. Yeah. What about the third thing?
00:35:42
Speaker
Third thing is to find out what I can about, I'll call them chaos. I, Luke, will call them chaos. I don't know if Silas will know this, but to find chaos and Elros and John. I don't know what Silas saw. Did he see that he got
00:36:03
Speaker
I guess he did see that he got kidnapped, but... Yeah, you kind of stay there long enough for that, that opportunity with the 19, you did see... It was a few, like... Yeah, it was a bit of time, but you kind of did see him get captured as you were running away, so... Yeah.
00:36:21
Speaker
Yeah, so what I want you to do is then roll a d20 to see how you do, I guess, you can use your charisma modifier for the first one, or if they were individual rules, I would have said one more time. I'm sorry.
00:36:42
Speaker
No, no, if I knew that we're going to be individual things, then I would have said them one by one. That's okay. Um, so yeah, I do that first and then it's not that like it'll affect the others. Yeah. I guess if I know people, then like being a shop owner and stuff will be better.
00:37:00
Speaker
And then because I'm a good shop owner and people tell me stuff, tell me their secrets. My wife had an affair before she died. But even then, you know, your abilities can outrank your friendships, if that makes sense. Your usefulness outranks your friendships sometimes. So that's the next role is basically like how useful you were. And you can use your charisma or your performance modifier in that. And then the last one, use investigation.
00:37:30
Speaker
Um, so 16 for the first one. Yeah. So you've got a decent friendships going on. It's not that nobody likes, like no one dislikes you. Okay. Good. But people know generally about me. And yeah, it's a small town can come to find me and be like, I've got this wonderful story about what just happened to me. I beat a dragon. It's like, I'm not going to believe you, but I'll listen to the story.
00:37:54
Speaker
And then the performance or charisma for your ability? Naturally. Your business is booming in this town. Even other towns have been hearing about this ability that you have, and they're seeking you out. Building up the delusional gods in my mind. Exactly. To these people being like, oh, OK, we're
00:38:21
Speaker
Yeah. And then investigation to see how far... 19. Nice. So you're getting... you're... you understand that OP basically lied about everything he said. You learn that King Elrath is actually in the Golden King... or not Golden King, in the winter... in Winterhold Kingdom.
00:38:46
Speaker
which is not, it's not called Winterhold at that time, it's just an extension of Evolon Kingdom. So it's like, it's like the winter held area. And he's staying there for a time. It's kind of like the end of his tour. He stays there for a few months and then he carries on. And you learn that chaos is non-existent. They've disappeared.
00:39:13
Speaker
yeah like after that you you hear of any room or anything there's not been any activity like that and then it just ceased or like yeah they just stopped yeah or or chaos stopped yeah so like so like there was no there's not been another heist if that makes sense okay
00:39:35
Speaker
So not necessarily chaos has stopped, but there hasn't been another heist since that day. It's been three months, just building up the timeline in my mind. I like that I at least know their name. Do I know individually? Yeah, you probably like... Well, no actually, you don't know their name. You know you were looking for these animals and... I don't know the deers.
00:39:59
Speaker
you do know the deers but that they died but you didn't know they died no no you knew that there was years so this is the thing you saw silhouettes
00:40:12
Speaker
Right. No, but I don't know about like the story of a... Oh, you, yeah, you know this is... Yeah, so you know the zombies, but you don't know that you don't necessarily connect it to that. It could be coincidence that they were deers. It could, I mean, it's up to you how you interpret, but it's the, they don't connect in that sense. Have I, have I heard anything about Orasu other than that he's just in the
00:40:38
Speaker
You've heard he's through the grapevine, through the talking of the neighbors and stuff like that, that he is very different. He's more confused, and he goes straight to the brute force decision.
00:40:59
Speaker
like you heard this one story recently where they uh this family came and or these this mother and mother came and they both claimed that this that this baby was theirs and so what he did was he went up to them he grabbed the baby and he said i will decide this and they said okay and he said no one gets the baby and he killed the baby
00:41:26
Speaker
I knew the story. So I was like, if he just jumped to the conclusion of like, that's a good, that's a good model. I'm going to do it right now. No, he, he, he basically just, he, he cut the baby in half, but he just killed it. Technically, that was all that. No, he didn't give it to them. He just killed. He didn't like, yeah, no, if there's, if there's no baby, then they don't have to dispute about it. Not, not justifying his behavior, but like,
00:41:53
Speaker
So he, but in, in the past when this stuff has come, he's taken a moment, he takes a breath and then he comes back out. And that breath is when he talks with you and your brother. Yeah. So it's increasingly growing in Silas to be like, okay, I need to, I need to solve this. I need to help. Fair. He's just trying to figure out where he would be. But I guess, I guess the only thing that he knows is
00:42:21
Speaker
or go to Niflheim, I don't know what to call it. Artic area. Yeah, like the arctic area, the snowy patch. Snowy patch. All I know is that snowy patch, and stories are told, and everything's included, and you're like, please stay in touch, stay grumpy.
00:42:45
Speaker
cool so you travel down there it takes a few days maybe maybe a week or so do you are you kind of this is a this is a distraction question are you distracted by other travelers that are on the road are you distracted by other villages you pass by like how how enticing is it to hear a story for Silas
00:43:09
Speaker
I wouldn't say it's like leaf, shiny things.

Stories and Search for King Elrath

00:43:14
Speaker
I would say it's more of like if he's had a stop and somebody's like, oh, you would not believe the fight I just got in.
00:43:21
Speaker
It's more of like if opportunity arises, but a lot of the things that he does is to prepare in case of emergency, like having extra food, having spare money, just having everything ready and prepared. I mean, Grumpers gave you probably like 20 or 30 gold to kind of set you off. He's an old guy. He doesn't do anything. So he has loads of money. I am his beneficiary.
00:43:52
Speaker
So yeah, you're kind of not set, but yeah, if you need extra food or a place to stay. So maybe it takes you like actually about two weeks or so to get to that area. And, and it is also like, if anybody's heard stories of El Ross, like moving at a, at a decent pace, but like always ready to move somewhere else. If they like, Oh, El Ross is actually over here.
00:44:19
Speaker
Okay, so yeah you do, you hear quite a lot of different stories from Alros, King Alros, and how he's becoming less confused now and being just like, like they say like from the past, like from the olden days when he was younger and he first became king and he kind of has come back to that for some reason.
00:44:43
Speaker
which is the kind of like yeah kind of just the the one that just uses brute force and dislike and and she's partying a lot more he's he you know him and his wife are you know still married and they're still but she's taking more with the responsibilities because he can't control a lot of things and so she's taking up
00:45:09
Speaker
more of the thought process and stuff, and precious as well. Yeah, they are helping out with it. Cool. And now, in this, King Elrath is traveling quite often, quite a lot. And so you never catch up with him, really. You try, you try, and he just keeps moving for some reason.
00:45:34
Speaker
In a way, it doesn't make sense mathematically, and even how you've known him, you don't recognize his pattern because he doesn't recognize his pattern, and it's actually been years now. And you find yourself, I would say you're probably visiting major villages now because you're trying to figure out, oh, it's his next steps, because I'm just one step behind every time.
00:46:02
Speaker
and so which which one would you probably there is no there is no balog kingdom right now okay so it's just a bunch of villages winterhold is built up winterhold is is very populated yeah it's not called winterhold yet though no still not winterhold no balog winterhold
00:46:25
Speaker
The Redwater Territories are Redwater Territories. That's not changed. But he still looks over that. Yeah, because they haven't, I haven't heard of any news from like the court. Yeah, no. Nothing from purity or daylight.
00:46:45
Speaker
Yeah, I think he would, at this point, just try to be helping people. I think a lot of what he does is not necessarily for financial gain, but just to be like, hey, I'll tell you your future if you can tell me the past. Like, just what do you know about Al Ross? Like, things like that. Just try to help people for the most part. Cool. Benevolence, devil. Sure. Megadee, you just have to tell me the name of your first contract.
00:47:17
Speaker
and that role role another charisma check maybe for performance if you want to use that it's better or persuasion 21 21 yeah you you're doing really well actually it people are they don't look at you as like a witch doctor or necromancer or something like that they
00:47:40
Speaker
I was actually just going to say the opposite. Oh really? I use Socrates as like a fake face to be like a plague doctor mask. Oh. And to go around as like a bird. Be like, ah yes, I can tell the future because I'm a bird. But that's not necessarily necromancy. It's more of like, I can tell the future.
00:48:01
Speaker
Yeah. As birds can do, Silas will tell you. Birds can tell the future. Sure. But the necromancy and like a witch doctor, they are
00:48:18
Speaker
More about chaos more about hate more about sure we're gonna we're gonna bring evil spirits about like that's that's the that's the Mantra is they call upon spirits that are not necessarily nice
00:48:33
Speaker
or the genuine ones, they usually go for dark and, at least in this world. But building up, if this makes sense with the narrative, to build up like a warrior, because I still don't, I still remember, correct? Yes, I still remember. Is building up like a, how to say, support and being, I'm trying to think of how to say Godfather without saying Godfather.
00:48:58
Speaker
Um, like to be like a doctor who is like, Oh, you're injured. I will all the good doctor. Yeah. Somebody who was just like more or less just the guy you need and just happened to scrape your arm. It's like, Oh yeah. I got bandages on me. Like I can help you do the mom friend. Yeah. Right. That's, that's how you say it. He's going around being everyone's mom and just be like, Oh, are you okay? Like,
00:49:26
Speaker
Are you, are you happy? Are you nice? Oh, I got bandages. Cool. And being like a doctor that goes around, but just for the sake of like, you're a good person. Yeah, cool. And, and, and they, and what do you say? My name's Silas. No, I, well, how well does the mask work? Like, can they roll deception for me with advantage because the reputation is really good. The first one was a one.
00:49:58
Speaker
23. 23. Yeah, the mess works pretty well. You do look like a genuine bird, like. But mostly just like to hide the, hide, hide his face behind a plague mask. And then like, maybe like, I would say plague doctor uniform, but that's too uncultured. Yeah. Like, fabulous fight. It's the, it's the flowers are more, are more of like pocketful poses now. Okay.
00:50:25
Speaker
But it is like to care for people and be like, but then deceive and be like, I'm a bird named Avery. Avery. Okay. Yeah. So then this eight, your name Avery goes around and you're, yeah, you're becoming a reputation of that and it's doing well now. Cause if the news gets out that like, Oh yeah, this, this mouse who's the brother of John gets out then it's like, Oh, we've got to arrest him. Yeah.
00:50:54
Speaker
Sure, sure. And now is about the time where you wake up in the morning and you don't remember. You don't remember King Alras. You don't remember that goal at all. All you know is today you're going to wake up, you have a little bit of a headache, but you're going to wake up and help people today. Yeah, I think it was partially in like, okay, I've got to travel, got to find Alras. And the other part was like, I got to help people.
00:51:24
Speaker
Like I got to help out Ross. I got to like benefit the kingdom and I got to, I got to help the people that I meet. And it's entirely on like, I got to help the people cause I got to help the kingdom. I got to help the people, but like both of them are just all my efforts are in traveling and helping people. Yeah.
00:51:42
Speaker
Nanny McPhee's style where it's like, I won't leave until I'm done. I'm going to stay here. I'm going to care for all of you. I'm going to be your mother and you're going to be healed and then I'm going to leave and then come back eventually.
00:51:54
Speaker
Sure. And then you do that for a few years. You travel, you help people. Avery is probably a village known name now. It's not even like a... I'm assuming that you don't just walk in with your uniform ready as you walk into a new town. Or do you?
00:52:18
Speaker
Yeah, well until, until about like, I think, yes. But a lot of times he'll be wearing what he was before, neck down, and then Socrates will just be a plague mask. But yeah, if everything's hidden, I'll pretend to be a bird. So you can tell the future of people and be like, oh, you're a bird, so you can tell the future. Sure. Yeah, and this rumor- I'm gonna push that until everyone in the audience believes that. This rumor is becoming very well known that birds tell the future.
00:52:47
Speaker
But only, only Silas says it. Yeah, sure. And every. Now, I want you to roll investigation. Oh, do I still remember Chaos? So this is what you need to do. This is what you need to remember.

Lost Memories and Quest for Answers

00:53:01
Speaker
So actually Insight first. At 20.
00:53:04
Speaker
Nat 20, you, in this, you, in the helping, in this idea of helping, it pains you to remember the loss of your brother. You don't remember how or why, but you remember that this group of animals have been, like, they stole this coin you were trapped in, you don't know when, like, stuff like that.
00:53:28
Speaker
I do remember the coin. You remember the coin that you were trapped in. You don't remember why you were trapped in and what you were doing during the time you were trapped in it, but you remember your coin.
00:53:37
Speaker
Yeah, stuck in a coin all my life. And then I was finally freed. Yeah. And then Sean was taken away from me. Yes. By Moose and Albert and Toad and some other ones that aren't informed. Yeah. For the audience here. Yeah. And so you search for those kind of moments in this time. And now we're all investigation. With advantage because I had an F20. Sorry, insane.
00:54:04
Speaker
Yeah, no investigation. Fourteen. Fourteen? You hear about them, kind of. But their name is established now in certain circles. You had to go deep in like the like heist game. Yeah, like in the in the artifacts and where did the artifacts lead? What's going on with artifacts? Like and and you had to join, not join, but you had to
00:54:34
Speaker
walk alongside different gangs and stuff like that you started with petty thievery people you never you don't necessarily have to join them but you like talk with them you help them out and they gave you information like you do
00:54:47
Speaker
And probably also, if I can say is become a police consultant, like I can tell you the murderer is sure I can talk, I can talk with the victim or something like that. But yeah, just have my own little like badge to say, yes, he is part of the. Yeah, I like that. That's funny. And and you probably know why I want that badge, but.
00:55:11
Speaker
Yes, I do know why. Yes. But it's fine. It's fine. I like it. I want it back. It's justified. At least it's justified this time. So, you're on their trail and... I think because it hurts me so much, I keep on thinking like, I want people to tell me these are terrorists. I want people to tell me these are such bad people because something happened with my brother. They're gone. Sure. Man, that's fine.
00:55:37
Speaker
And so whenever gangs are like, they stole my deck of many things, it's like, I knew it. They're bad people. Yeah. And then it's about, I want to say, in a way, you figure out who they are after they break up. Yeah. After Reader leaves Chaos, you figure out them specifically. So I start to understand them, their names.
00:56:07
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. And you know that there's this mysterious one that no one has seen, but they get help. They've been getting cosmic help in a way, you know? I was trying to get descriptions. I was like, which one are the gods? Yes. It's only his gods. Sure. And then how do you, how do you pursue that? How do you pursue knowing the more an individual kind of aspect, even though, so the chaos is broken up.
00:56:34
Speaker
I think he's also like slowly building up people that will help. Okay.
00:56:39
Speaker
I'll tell you your future is like, ah, your future is to kill this moose named Reed. Ah, cool. You better do it. But in more subtle ways, you're like, ah, if you ever meet a moose, come back. I'll tell you your future something, but just very subtle ways to be like, yeah, did not safe. I sent this thing previously to you where, yeah, that stuff where I was like,
00:57:06
Speaker
woe to you who meets with an owl bear is it not an owl or a bear as though it's bad luck for you sure and roll persuasion give me a give me a flat persuasion roll uh 19 yeah you know you you are creating chaos to be looking like not not
00:57:31
Speaker
Oh, they're looking more scary than they are. I'm just... I don't even have to lie. No, no. First of all, their name is Chaos. Exactly. Second of all, their whole thing is that they steal things. Yeah. And killed everyone in their path. Went to a museum one time and all of the guards were just... Only one guard poofed. Still one too many. And just to find murder.
00:57:56
Speaker
And so, yeah, you do kind of have a crowd of animals and humanoid animals coming with you and understanding you and listening to you in that. And because it's not like financial things with most people, like some people will be like, yeah, give me 20 bucks and I'll pay you for it.
00:58:14
Speaker
But most of the times it is like deals in very like motherly, I keep wanting to say motherly fashion, but this is more of the stereotype I'm going for. Sure. Very maternal being like, just be safe. But yeah, just more so deals. Like, yeah, the only thing that comes to mind right now is tell me if you ever see them. Sure. But you are to a lot of like deal making. Yeah. To my benefit to face these guys. Yeah. Make sure that they suffer. Sounds good.
00:58:44
Speaker
I'm trying to think of needful things. Yeah, you know that moose throw poop on his laundry. Do it.
00:58:53
Speaker
Sure, then you it's now it's been another It's this is a long jump. Okay, because you've been doing this this whole time and now you wake up this day and You've been having headaches. You've been having flashes of different things and All morning or like for like a week or two. I
00:59:18
Speaker
now and actually it's probably been a month yeah it's been a month and you wait if it isn't just me his whole thing is like trying to help other people oh yeah everyone yeah so everyone has been having work leeches but you wake up today and it clicks everything clicks actually no roll roll insight
00:59:45
Speaker
You've been rolling so high today. Thanks, you just changed. I hope I did. Haha, J12 isn't too bad. Nah, it's not too bad. It hurts, so you take...
00:59:59
Speaker
There are five damage, but you remember everything. You remember King L. Ross, you remember the time you spent with him, you remember John and you doing the back and forth thing, you remember everything. And so what do you want to do with that? I think he wants to note down all the things that he's like, okay, I need to make sure I remember this. Parents were zombies, definitely a bad dude, and things like that. Yeah, that doesn't change.
01:00:26
Speaker
But no, yeah, just make sure I understand everything. It's like, oh, I gotta find Elrass. Sure. And you know King Elrass is, or ex-King Elrass is heading to the Voldemort kingdom. Do I know what happened if there are the four kings now? Three kings. Three kings. Yeah, so there's King Baloch, King Deryn, King Stonepaw, and King Elrass now.
01:00:54
Speaker
But no one's ever heard. Nobody's heard from Elros for long.

Preventing Kingdom's Conflict

01:00:57
Speaker
So yeah, but his name has been flowing recently through different towns and villages. Like this Elros person is the head of this thing. And now there's rumors that he's going, he's heading to the Golden Kingdom. Well, yeah, I'll probably spend a day or two more in this city.
01:01:17
Speaker
start moving there. Just make sure everyone's okay. All their headaches are dissipated and damaged. Great. And as you head to the Golden Kingdom, and let's just say time passes, you get there. What is your mental state? Like, are you there? Do you want to keep the peace? Do you want to go back to advising with King Elrass? Yeah, what's your motivation?
01:01:46
Speaker
I think it is a lot of like, I need to find out Ross as soon as possible. In the least rudest way possible, but like, I'm not going to stop seeing people. Just probably be a shorter while, but I need to find him. It's been years since he killed that baby. He's probably done a lot. Not necessarily just that instant, but like a lot of things like that have happened. He's probably getting worse and getting more, more of a tyrant. So I need to find him.
01:02:17
Speaker
Sure. And with the violence that's been happening, because you know about the whole thing that happened in the Winterhold, you know about the different villages being destroyed and stuff like that. That's not, that's old news at this point. Are you for it? Are you against it? Sorry, what is it? Are you like, are you okay with the violence happening? Or do you think there's a more democratic, methodical way of doing things?
01:02:46
Speaker
Yeah, I think, again, to be the opposite of Reader, and the difference between a Roman and a Spartan, to be very like, okay, there are better things to be doing. We don't need to be killing people. Being this bloodthirsty killer that Reader is, just all the time, all about murder and killing people. It's this whole thing, is that he's the most violent person of his friend group. But yeah, Elros, and he's a lot of like,
01:03:15
Speaker
for the public and having the right leadership. And so it's like having a leader who is so willing to just kill and just root for us. And he's like, that's not, you're going to lose people's respect and they're going to want to raise for Darren and all them. So I need to find him and be like, okay, we need to straighten out your campaign plan, be better and move towards peace and everyone can love you again. Cool. I think
01:03:43
Speaker
than willing to do violence and not searching it out. Sure. I think to end this time, as you approach the Walden Kingdom, you enter into, I want to say King Alras' section, because that's where you're going to see King Alras. You are immediately approached by an anteater, and that's where we're going to end today.
01:04:07
Speaker
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01:04:32
Speaker
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