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The Soul Of Frost Episode 22: A Cranberry A Day Keeps The Doctor Away
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The party takes a day of rest in Wilckow while waiting for the ferry to arrive
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Transcript
Introduction to Episode 22
00:00:00
Speaker
Hey everyone, this is Cam, the GM for Life and Dice channel. You are currently listening to episode 22 of our Soul Frost campaign, A Cranberry a Day Keeps the Doctor Away. Thank you so much for tuning in, we hope you enjoy.
Poetic Beginning: Heart and Ice
00:00:16
Speaker
A heart without a soul cannot beat.
00:00:24
Speaker
A heart that cannot beat turns to ice.
Recap Chaos and Humorous Struggles
00:00:33
Speaker
the ice hides what once was until the soul to awaken
00:01:05
Speaker
last time i'm alone actually no i've done the last couple months forever someone else do it done the last couple ones as in he started and gotten them completely wrong i have not i got to i got to fish one right morning now I volunteer with Jacob to ah to lead us in this. wonderful right oh no makes may lead us in prayer literally I feel like i'm I feel like I'm leading Grace. This is what this is basically leading Grace. All right. except The stakes are higher. All right. Because the DM here won't forgive you. That's true. of That is true. yeah Okay. So last time on I'm a lawn.
00:01:51
Speaker
We fought the saber two tigers. Was that the last one? Yep. Yeah. OK. We fight the saber. We fought the saber two tigers and the people that were on the saber two tigers. And then another one came up and was like, hell nah. And then he dipped. Did he dip? Oh my god. I really have a terrible memory, don't I? um Yes, he dipped. We dipped. Yeah. Yeah, yes. Yes, there was there was dipping involved.
00:02:21
Speaker
This physically hurts me.
00:02:26
Speaker
but Well, you know what? It was your decision, so... you your It really wasn't. It was actually Colby and Yono's decision to have you recap. Okay, well I'm sure they're getting a kick out of it. We used the electoral college here. My votes were more.
00:02:46
Speaker
Oh, man. Oh,
Crystal Bomb Incident Discussion
00:02:48
Speaker
yeah. So the same two tiger fellas and they came up to us and they were like, hey, yo, y'all gotta get shanked now. And we were like, no. And then we killed them all. And that was the session. Would anyone else like to try? He got lost in it. There's also a crystal.
00:03:14
Speaker
yeah crystalistol that's right they were falling crystal bombs and then I and then I was like oh this will be funny if I blow it up and then I blew it up and then everyone got mad at me and I was like listen bro like I like i look i didn't i think the important detail has to vibe check I think the important details why they got mad at you for blowing it up yeah cuz I know i I just said I blew it up
00:03:44
Speaker
Okay fine, I blew it up within range of of some of the party members. No it was basically
Understanding with Locals
00:03:50
Speaker
everybody. Basically everybody is not everybody. It was everybody minus yourself and thicket, I think. That's that's like half the team.
00:04:01
Speaker
No, it's more than half. There's five of you, so it's more than 50%. Okay.
00:04:12
Speaker
Okay, fine. It was a thin range of most of us. And then, yeah and then everyone got mad at me and I was like, well, listen, y'all pass the vibe check. So I don't know why you guys are mad. And that was, that was the session.
00:04:30
Speaker
know I know I did a great job. i accept I accept every form of award, including but not limited to Purple Hearts. Okay, so um what else for performing what what else what else happened? Please, somebody. We went back to town. I think I tried to warn...
00:04:52
Speaker
the lady and she was like, oh yeah, like we have an agreement. Like they don't really hurt us. So she didn't say that they have an agreement. She said they have an understanding.
00:05:05
Speaker
I understand the difference, but implied. under Yes. Implied agreement. Right. We're like, hey, we stick here. We don't do anything. You stick over there. Right. Yeah.
Arrival at Grass Bottle Inn
00:05:18
Speaker
So that was weird.
00:05:22
Speaker
Uh-uh. Did Thicket go to a... Was it Thicket or Wyatt who went to an altar of the Sea God? Wyatt went to the little shrine in the corner of the Angler's Guild, the shrine to Dov, patron of sailors. Ah, yes. Yeah. He's heading back to the tavern last time we checked for it. Yes, last time you were heading to the tavern in the first place. You've never been to this tavern before.
00:05:52
Speaker
So you've been you've been referred to the Grass Bottle Inn. oh um And yeah, I'm assuming you all are heading that way. Yep. Yes, of course. Excellent, excellent. So yeah, it's you know it's getting kind of late. It's by the time you get to the actual Grass Bottle Inn, it's...
00:06:34
Speaker
it seems to be fairly busy right now it is the equivalent of sunday however so it is a work night not everyone is it seems not everyone in the town is out and about But there definitely is a good amount of ah the population here.
00:07:00
Speaker
um
00:07:02
Speaker
And yeah, you you enter in and there's definitely a few spaces open at the bar, a few tables. Not a particularly huge establishment, but big enough.
00:07:25
Speaker
Is it big enough for a bunch of team foes? On that note, I need some drinks. Bastion's going to follow Thicket in. OK. Lovely. um So Thicket and Bastion, you head on over to the bar. Bartender is a Solar Elf woman.
00:07:52
Speaker
oh Oh, lovely. What can I do for you?
00:07:58
Speaker
We're looking for some rooms and some drinks. Rooms? All right, we've got a couple of rooms available. And drinks we definitely have available. What can I get for you?
00:08:11
Speaker
Just take a beer. I need something strong after that.
00:08:20
Speaker
All right. All right. So, are we looking for private rooms or just beds in the common suite? Beds will do. All right. That'll be one silver for each of you. And for the, you said you wanted a beer.
00:08:49
Speaker
Yes. That'll be three copper. And what can I do for you, my good Nontan?
00:09:01
Speaker
As I said, something strong. Whatever you got. I'm in a lot of pain. All right. um Local poison it is.
Vodka Well Myth and Tavern Jokes
00:09:15
Speaker
And i see she pulls out a ah bottle of vodka from the well and just pours you a glass over ice. From the well? Yeah, the the drinks well. Ah.
00:09:33
Speaker
Not like a literal wishing well. no I was really hoping this is Vodka in the groundwater. No, the the well as in it is the in the the quick access area of the bar. I see. That would unironically be the greatest well and on I'm aware. There is unfortunately not a vodka well here.
00:09:53
Speaker
as in like on this continent. Right. As in in this tavern in as an in this in. So so can why it make ah as he overhears that is he allowed to make perhaps like a check or call knowledge to see if that exists. Sure.
00:10:13
Speaker
I just I just I just want to torture our GM for a minute. A society check with that work. Sure.
00:10:26
Speaker
ah That's a 23 23 yeah, you actually would know that there is in fact a a tavern with a ah ah A vodka well um It's sort of a it's not a real. Well, it's ah more of a decoration than anything else um But ah yeah newest egg cog the big They have the largest distillery in the entirety of Salter and they have a well in the center of their taproom that just sort of goes down to the actual distillery floor so you can get fresh, like fresh strong ass vodka straight from the source.
00:11:19
Speaker
Deep.
Bar Interactions and Ice Crystal Debate
00:11:21
Speaker
Salter. Lore, everyone. Now we're welcome. I can remember that eight to twelve months when you eventually get to newest adcock. You will not. I will not, however. So. um So, yes, I think you've got yourself a
00:11:46
Speaker
Cheers to you. ay I knock my beer against his drink.
00:11:57
Speaker
Wyatt and Thub, are you also acquiring beverages? sure yeah sure actually i think i think theb is gonna have a flashback to the last time he he drank too much and he's just gonna say you know what i think we need to set this one up you don't want to sleep through another hermanthony encounter nope i want to sleep for another in-game week thank you how much is uh how much is a bottle of that bottle of the vodka vodka yeah
00:12:33
Speaker
ah For this one, I'd say five copper. By all. I had five copper over. Don't you have a fuck ton of rum, mate? Yeah. Oh yes, and for you, Mr. Nuntime, that'll be one copper.
00:12:52
Speaker
Oh, he's one copper. Hi. I, uh, pass him over the copper. Excellent. Um, and I will say, fake it as you, as you take a sip. This is definitely, uh, not particularly high shelf stuff. Um, you can definitely, you get quite a few, uh, quite a few vapors in the back of your throat. Um,
00:13:17
Speaker
And it's a little rough going down, but you know, it it seems to definitely be strong, so it does the job. and That's the good stuff.
00:13:30
Speaker
So, Wyatt, you now have a bottle of this vodka. All right. um Which is approximately 10 drinks worth. Um, whoa. Thub, you're not drinking. And Morgrim is just going to ask Bastion to pay for a room and just glare at Thub and say, I'm just going to turn in early. I pass over the coin. All righty. We forgot the accent. And Morgrim does just that and turns in early.
00:14:12
Speaker
So,
00:14:15
Speaker
yeah, y'all are y'all are here now in the in this tavern. Are you sit or in this inn? Not a tavern, it's an inn. um Are you sitting at the bar or are you moving to a table now that you have your drinks? I'll go to a table. At table this. Yeah, okay a you find yourselves an empty table. You set on down.
00:14:41
Speaker
um
00:14:44
Speaker
I need... I'm gonna say I need Yono to pick a D20 for me. I feel like I haven't asked Yono to do this in a while. Yono 1 through 14. Go for a solid 3. A 3, huh? MMA's, what do we think of 3? It's been at least a month since we picked 3, so... Any notes? No notes on it.
00:15:12
Speaker
All right. It's a fun adventure. Something, as you sit down, something you'll definitely notice, Bastion, is that ah you have definitely got some eyes on you from the from the local Waffamelians.
00:15:34
Speaker
Waffamelians here. Well, yeah, there's this Solar Elf that you were just talking to. There's hobgoblins, goblins, goblins
00:15:44
Speaker
orcs. So it seems racially motivated then? ah seems Yeah, you'd gather that for the most part, when people are staring at you, it tends to be because you're a Vofit, at least from the neck up. Makes sense. um I'm gonna make sure to pull off my gloves as I drink. Or i confuse them even more. ah A few of them just kind of, you you see you see a few of them kind of notice this and they're just like, what the fucking, just go back to minding their own business. But you see a few, mostly hobgoblins just staring at you even angrier.
00:16:36
Speaker
Is anyone else sitting at my table? Yeah, your party. Yeah, Wyatt and. I'm going to lift my beer glass in a mock toast to the hobgoblins who won't mind their own business. ah You see them sort of just grumble themselves and bury their noses in their drapes, but they do look up at you every once in a while.
00:17:02
Speaker
OK.
00:17:06
Speaker
okay So, y'all are around a table now.
00:17:14
Speaker
What do? What say? I take two uses of the vodka. Okay, Wyatt takes two shots of vodka in quick succession. Make a fortitude save. Wow. All right. And trust me, I am accounting for you being an alcoholic. Thank you. Ah, that's 20. Yeah, you're feeling fine still.
00:17:37
Speaker
Damn it. Even after two uses out of ten? Like I said, I'm accounting for the fact that you're an alcoholic. Oh, let's push the little four. Let's go, let's go halfway. oh Okay, so Wyatt's getting alcohol poisoning tonight. ah Okay. um How about while Wyatt's taking the first two, ah would someone like to speak? So,
00:18:06
Speaker
What now? Yeah.
00:18:11
Speaker
We fought some... Tigers, I think. And you said there's there's a crystal from from the sky. Yes. What is it with all the crystals, by the way?
00:18:37
Speaker
Though these seem to be different kinds of crystal. Aye,
Insights into Explosive Ice Crystals
00:18:41
Speaker
but I've got a crystal in my chest. Got crystals back on. And now we've got some crystals. Aye, aye, the, uh, back in, in a crotial, you know, we, uh, we just got some, uh, crystals under the oat springs, just, you know, natural mineral formations.
00:19:08
Speaker
But now we've got crystals falling from the sky. I will say, I don't know. if I don't know if they'll ever shared it, but Thub did notice that the explosive crystals appeared to be made of ice.
00:19:27
Speaker
I did notice this. I thought it was so that everybody else noticed. No, you were the only one who really like was able to put two and two together on it. I apologize for that. Is this something Thub would share now? Yes, it is something that Thub would share now. Okay. Thub would hear everybody else realize this and go, you know what? I'm going to stay out of this one. No, I'm going to share it. All right. So Thub has brought this into the conversation.
00:20:04
Speaker
We're still so kind to me of would mean that somebody controlled ice, but... I don't think anyone in their party was a spellcaster.
00:20:34
Speaker
around the... over the hill, around the corner. It could have, but why didn't they come to their buddy's aid when we were... winning? Perhaps this is true at all. We just... we do not know. It is much more... It should also be that they're not related. If, uh, if this is someone that can control ice, and the crystal fell from the sky, you don't suppose, uh, they're walking on the clouds, do you?
00:21:03
Speaker
I've never heard of anything like that. Thub looks up at the ceiling and goes, dear God, they've found a way. No one actually looked up during the attack, did they? Uh, no, you did. I'm afraid i yeah I won't be much help in that regard. No, I'm pretty sure. hurry out jesus actually He was a bit preoccupied. Fair enough.
00:21:30
Speaker
If I remember correctly, during the attack, nobody looked up, but after the attack. I did. Wyatt did look up, remember? Did you? I i don't remember. He looks up, looks up, and then you're like, you can't see anything. I was like, fuck. Well, then there's your answer. You looked up and you couldn't see anything. There we go. Wyatt looked up, did see anything. Turns out there's something incredibly obvious there, and Wyatt just got a nat one on his perception. and The funniest thing in Pathfinder, we never know, because it's all behind the screen.
00:22:00
Speaker
That's my favorite part. Yeah, it sure is, you sick fuck. Yeah, but yeah that's not surprising. Anyway.
00:22:16
Speaker
I don't think they would have done that to random fishermen. Which means we have something they want.
00:22:27
Speaker
Now it could be this I point at the soul of frost in thicket's chest.
00:22:36
Speaker
We considered making you wear a shirt so people can't see that. I mean, you could. I'm not sure how long the ah shirt would last though. I'm a bit, uh, a bit of a furnace here. Well, damn.
00:22:58
Speaker
I will say to everyone else, I think it radiates cold.
00:23:05
Speaker
anti-cam fire i speak ready forward Maybe because he's got a fucking soul of frost in his chest. yeah that's really hey just like the type whoa Whoa. I'm glad it took you 22 episodes to get that. Oh, you don't be.
00:23:34
Speaker
So anyway.
Drinks, Camaraderie, and Reflections
00:23:38
Speaker
Wyatt, you were drinking more? Yeah. Okay. Thank you for the dude's save. Here we go.
00:23:49
Speaker
Finally 14 14. Yeah, you're definitely feeling it now We're not quite having fun with it, but you're definitely feeling it. That's good enough for me I'll cut myself down to five uses left of that intent No, that that makes me realize I don't think I've had any sips of my alcohol yet. ah You've been sipping it. He's been shooting. Ah, I see. So I don't need to take any ah saves. No. Gotcha. You also aren't an alcoholic, so you're allowed to fail your first save voluntarily. Which I'm saying at this point, why it is not allowed to do.
00:24:36
Speaker
So.
00:24:39
Speaker
uh y'all are y'all are just sitting around the table here uh bastard i will note your uh your beer is um it's pretty lightweight definitely some sort of a lager um very much on the light side as far as beers go um
00:25:06
Speaker
Not quite piss water. It's like a small step above piss water. Love that small step. Yeah.
00:25:20
Speaker
Thub, your nothing is Is the boat meant to come tomorrow?
00:25:32
Speaker
Uh, it is meant to come not tomorrow, but the following day. So you have one more day of downtime.
00:25:53
Speaker
We have that time. I have a general idea of what I want to spend it What's that? I got to pray. A.K., I need to retread a feat. So did your people ever have any connection to the saber tooth hunters?
00:26:19
Speaker
Cam, the diet, whatever. What did you say? Make a society check. Ah, that thing I'm bad at. Yeah.
00:26:34
Speaker
13 I'm fucking oblivious, you know, to be fair I want to say Yeah He did he he he is from a tribe out in the and the book in the boonies. So it doesn't make sense I mean all of them are from the boonies compared to you because this was their land first. Yeah Sorry, we stole it So, Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
00:27:23
Speaker
so are we the bad guys um picket what you would remember you would definitely remember there you would very definitely remember conversations about um about saber tooth uh back in back in the day i guess for you um
00:27:49
Speaker
And, you know, you never really paid too much attention because you were young and stupid, but, uh, you definitely remember them being mentioned by your parents and by other townsfolk and you don't remember anything hostile necessarily. It always seems sort of like a neutral thing, but that might've also just been your people.
00:28:18
Speaker
ah yeah ah too young and stupid I'm afraid I yeah don't remember a whole lot, but we never had any trouble with them in the past.
Advice from Kelly of the Anglers Guild
00:28:28
Speaker
We've mostly just kept it themselves.
00:28:40
Speaker
At this point, Into the Inn walks Kelly, the leader of the Anglers Guild, who you, you know, rented your boats from.
00:28:53
Speaker
She goes over to the bar, gets herself a drink, sort of looks around, notices you, walks on over to your table. Good, just the just the folks I was looking to see. Mind if I join you for a minute?
00:29:20
Speaker
vodka on the rocks. um All right, so I did a little thinking about about the saber tooth encounter that you told me about earlier. I feel like if
00:29:41
Speaker
It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, especially since, you know, you're not from around here. I don't know why they'd be so hostile.
00:29:54
Speaker
And they also typically don't really come this far. They don't typically come into our fishing grounds. They tend to fish down river. Um,
00:30:06
Speaker
But I think I might know someone who can give you the information you're looking for if you're looking to investigate more. Sure. I'm assuming you're going to be traveling downriver further into their general territory. Probably wouldn't have to talk to Dr. Branken. Dr. Branken?
00:30:33
Speaker
Yeah, he should be at his office in the morning.
00:30:40
Speaker
Who is he? I don't know where he is now, but he's the town doctor. I see. e He knows... Well, he's he's got sort of an inside scoop on these on saber-tooth folk.
00:31:00
Speaker
so uh yeah i definitely feel like if anyone can answer your questions it's probably him um yeah um to my knowledge February is supposed to still be here uh in a couple of days um supposed to be here on midless so
00:31:26
Speaker
I guess, uh, come back fishing if you want to come back fishing, but I won't blame you after today's experience if you don't. No, we'll probably stay in town, but I appreciate the tip. Of course.
00:31:44
Speaker
Alright, well I guess I'll leave now. And she gets up and leaves.
00:31:56
Speaker
goes off and joins another table of folk who you'd assume are probably your friends, um among which are a couple of those hobgoblins who are staring at you, Ashton. And you see that they pretty much instantly start questioning. Pretty much instantly start questioning Kelly.
00:32:24
Speaker
Reasonable, all right.
00:32:28
Speaker
Who's coming with me to the doctor tomorrow? Oh, I should probably go. Probably not a bad plan. I will go as well. I will go as well. Keep forgetting the answer. OK, so the three of you are going to the doctor while Wyatt goes and prays, I guess. And retrains a feat. I'm sorry, guys. Retrains a feat. All right. OK.
00:32:57
Speaker
So what do you do with the rest of your evening?
00:33:04
Speaker
That's a good question. I didn't spend my focus point, did I? ah i don't I don't think so. Yeah, so no need to do that. Hang on, I'm going to pull up the cheat sheet of downtime activities.
00:33:35
Speaker
I'm gonna go find someplace that I can go and practice my music and do my devotions. Yeah, where would you look for for that? Would you look for somewhere outside? Would you look for somewhere in the in the inn?
00:33:59
Speaker
I'd probably look for somewhere indoors, not necessarily in the inn. But far enough away from thicket that it won't just sound like I'm a discordant cat wailing. Right, right. Oh, yeah. Well, the inn is kind of the only place open right now. um You could head up to the stables and go hang out with Hetrick. Sure, I'll go do that. All right. You go up and hang out with Hetrick. So Hetrick is not being left alone for once.
00:34:33
Speaker
um
00:34:36
Speaker
All right. So yeah, you, you take a couple of minutes to, to charge on up the road. you make it to the stables where the snowmobiles parked. Patrick is sitting inside. Hey, welcome back. How did your Diego complicated?
00:35:05
Speaker
Aye, as it tends to be, it feels. Aye, though I didn't expect the Sabretooth Raiders to... sick a bunch of fish on us. Huh. I- I- That- You know what? That's very fair. I don't think anyone would quite expect that.
00:35:27
Speaker
Yeah, we're gonna go talk to a doctor who might know something tomorrow. That's a good idea.
00:35:35
Speaker
Always good to see a doctor no matter what. You never know what could be going on that you don't know of. I suppose so.
00:35:46
Speaker
So where's everyone else? Do they get eaten by fish or, er... No, they're at the tavern. I... I... I see. I wanted to do my devotions, but, er... I'd rather the locals don't think that I'm tone deaf as well as strange.
00:36:05
Speaker
You know that's fair, that's very fair. Well, I won't mind if you want to do that here. I've got a little more work to do on the on the base day, and he slaps the side of the snowmobile.
00:36:25
Speaker
Alright, so Bastion, you're uh, what are you doing? What what is your music about? Um...
00:36:38
Speaker
She's going to start by running through some stuff she's already written, and then she's going to work on trying to condense the story of Jean-Tique Lamatimo. Oh, Lord.
Bastion's Memory Issues and Morning Bustle
00:36:49
Speaker
Into something comprehensible, and it does not work. There's nothing comprehensible.
00:36:57
Speaker
I will say make a performance check for me. Why don't you?
00:37:12
Speaker
That is a natural 20 natural funny, you know, you actually you make a surprisingly solid melody you managed to you know start putting Some lyrics together that like actually kind of make some sense um but then it's it's almost like a It's almost like when you try to recall the details of your encounters with Jean Tique into words out loud, you just become completely tongue-tied. It's like the details are refusing to come out. Yeah, that's only marginally horrifying.
00:38:02
Speaker
So you're able to write them down. but yeah, you're not really able to sing them out loud.
00:38:15
Speaker
That being said, definitely seems like, well, would you say this is more of a more of a poppy tune, more of a sad tune? What's that what's the general vibe? I think the intended vibe is more of like a folk ballad.
00:38:31
Speaker
Mm-hmm. All right. All right. So yeah, Patrick definitely seems somewhat entertained by it. Even though you can't quite get the lyrics, right?
00:38:48
Speaker
So, um, the rest of you, what are you doing? Are you just going to bed? Are you doing something else before you go to bed?
00:39:01
Speaker
I'm gonna vomit. Alright. Oh gods. You do just that. You head on into the little restroom and yeah you vomit in the piss bucket. You know, i have I have a legitimate question here. I have a legitimate question. Yeah. If sub... sub were to go out on the street,
00:39:27
Speaker
right like just like he's he's walking home one day and oh god he just can't hold it in anymore and he vomits on on just like the side of the road would he be they they yeah I guess it depends on my context and also people know about rakison yeah um I mean, I mean, I don't know how many people would know about it, but just like from a fundamental standpoint, because the part about public urination that's illegal, I feel, is the public exposure. So like without that, it's just kind of like, you know, if I thought it was just like, you know, he just kind of goes onto the sidewalk and just kind of barfs
00:40:20
Speaker
I'm so glad that we're having these important legal discussions. These are very important discussions, okay?
00:40:29
Speaker
This is about the interpretation of laws. True, true, true. You know, I feel like it definitely is on a case-by-case basis of um who the guard is that is dealing with you. So there's no standardized law for this? That's kind of...
00:40:48
Speaker
Law enforcer. Well, there are in which case that feels right for abuse. There are standardba laws However, most people don't ah Go to the bathroom by vomiting. Well, you know so institutionally. What are the rights of drachison within? Salter there is no constant action your objection your honor argumentative. Oh There is no, I would like to hear this. There is no constitution for p Salter. There are no, there aren't really any standardized laws for the Salter colony. So then, so then is public urination in general just like kind of legal? It's more that things are frowned upon and then other things will get you thrown in jail. So public urination, it'll probably get you in a little bit of trouble, but you know,
00:41:41
Speaker
Well, like how do they know I'm urinating? For all they know, I'm just vomiting. Well, exactly. that It's a little different for Dracosyn because you don't urinate in the same way that people normally would. So, you know, and it's not like you've even got anything to expose. So they'd probably more just get mad at you for, ru you know, vomiting. No, that's not even be rude. That's just true. Thub just Drackison don't have genitals. It's just a true truth Really funny if a cop like came up to me and he was just like and he was just like alright mr. Thumb and I was just like no and He's just like what do you mean? No, he's like not mr. He's like, well, Which are you know
00:42:33
Speaker
play ra trackcuit back i see you're under arrest or public urination get on the ground um no oh felt catch shly indeed times my police officer feel like i'm not ready i'm just throwing up there's no articles on that right I'm going to call SWAT teams to all of your homes.
00:42:59
Speaker
What did I do? Well, I wasn't referring to you. You weren't involved in this conversation. What did I do? ah Look, they were involved. They and could have been involved. They could have stopped us, but they didn't. All right. They did not stop us. And that's the problem. This is like proactive.
00:43:16
Speaker
yeah Sorry for party rocking. Oh my god, I'm going to kill you all. Remember when you were a kid and there was anti-bullying stuff or whatever? And they were like, by the way, if you're a bystander and you see bullying happening, you don't do anything, you're basically bullying people. All right, give me a sec. I need to roll some dice. Oh, shit. Oh, we fucked up, guys. Yeah, that's 58 points of mental damage to all of you. um i surviv za a amount of hp is so that actually wait no i forgot our standard i got replenished um
00:43:51
Speaker
So jokes on you I have 10 health left. Oh, look at that it critically hits that's 116 metal damage to each So You all go to bed
00:44:09
Speaker
Um, yeah. Bastion, would you be staying in the inn, in the room that you bought, or would you be sticking around with Hetrick? Um, I would stay in the room and I'd offer to pay for a room for Hetrick if you wanted one. Aye, no need. There's plenty of watermen here.
00:44:32
Speaker
See you in the morning then. See you in the morning.
00:44:38
Speaker
all right so you all hit the hay and yeah it's uh it says you're all in this this sort of common area um you definitely do have to deal with a few snoring people um but uh
00:45:06
Speaker
Other than that, it's a mostly peaceful night.
00:45:14
Speaker
Though Bastion, you definitely are experiencing so some ah some internal conversations, as you tend to do. Love it.
00:45:33
Speaker
It very much seems that the be hands and the fingernails are disagreeing right now on the logistics. That's a new and very specific issue. They're disagreeing on the logistics of the music you were playing.
00:45:56
Speaker
Of course they are. Why why wouldn't they? yeah The heart is surprisingly silent though.
00:46:07
Speaker
So, you all wake up the next morning. Bright and early. Around eight in the morning. You can hear the hustle and bustle of town outside.
00:46:35
Speaker
here.
00:46:38
Speaker
So here is, here's Wilco. And there's a, there's a key in the bottom left for the landmarks that you can see marked there on the map. Thank you. I was going to ask.
00:46:53
Speaker
it so
00:46:56
Speaker
Yeah. Uh, Hetrick is up at the municipal stables. Uh, and you are at, uh, the grass bottle in, which is point G over here.
00:47:08
Speaker
Um, which is right off of the, uh, the town, I would say town square, but it's more of a town triangle. Um, yeah.
00:47:27
Speaker
So, um, why, I guess, where, where are you going to do your, uh, your thing?
00:47:37
Speaker
Wherever there's space, I guess. Okay. So just a random patch of snow? Yeah, sure. Let's sit in the snow looking at the frost coffee farm. So ahead and make a religion check for me.
00:48:03
Speaker
little cold so it takes a little drinky winky before he starts, you You know, you definitely feel... Wait, why? Oh, 18, yeah, 18. You definitely feel connected to Sursheen right now. um Sort of taking in what little bit of life there is in this desolate landscape.
00:48:36
Speaker
It's pretty comforting, honestly.
00:48:43
Speaker
um So remind me, where i called you which you retraining? I was retraining a radiant fusions direct channel, and I'm three out of five days in. Cool, cool, cool. All right. um So yeah, sorry, continue with your your conversation with Sir Shane.
00:49:01
Speaker
That's it. I know that's the thing that comes that comes to my comes to Wyatt's head. Sorry, I called you a bitch. Order. Yeah, I'm sorry.
Meditation and Visit to Dr. Branken
00:49:14
Speaker
You don't get do continue to feel that sort of warmth.
00:49:27
Speaker
You stop shivering in the cold, it means you're hyper hyper.
00:49:36
Speaker
you You say that to yourself. um And then you sort of like look down and you check your you check your vitals and all that. And yeah, you're you're definitely not hypothermic. You just are all right. Warm. Sorry, I'm fucking scared right now.
00:49:54
Speaker
So are you going to talk to me or not? You don't really get a you don't really get a verbal response. It's more just the feeling. Why it's going to try and meditate as best as he can in that case. All right. All right. Are there any like specific questions or anything you want to ask, Sir Sheen? Oh, sure. I forgot I could do that. Oh, I know you can do that. It's a day. Oh, God. Actually, well, I got I could i can have fire come out of my out of my hands and all that crap.
00:50:32
Speaker
ah Uh, shit. Uh, why it's just going to ask, uh,
00:50:40
Speaker
Oh yeah. That's actually a good question. He's going to ask. He says, is this asks that we have been granted even possible? Like, is it feasible for us right now? He adds a few more swear words. Of course. Of course. Um,
00:51:02
Speaker
You know, you, as usually don't really get a direct verbal response, but, uh, you,
00:51:13
Speaker
you sort of look down at your hand and realize that you've sort of unconsciously taken one of your gloves off. Um, and even though the, excuse me,
00:51:32
Speaker
even though the cold air is still whipping against your skin. And by all accounts, it is below zero right now. Uh, you, you know, you don't, it's almost as if your hand is just kept at a consistent, comfortable room temperature.
00:52:00
Speaker
almost as if Sarshine is saying that she's protecting you.
00:52:15
Speaker
I guess why just spend the rest of his day on the field, right? Sure. Yeah. And it it is, since it is a mornlass, uh, you actually do see the workers out tending the frost coffee fields. Um, it seems like they're, they're mostly Nantan actually, um, who are sort of tending this area. Uh, it looks like they have their own little houses out here. Um,
00:52:42
Speaker
and yeah it's it definitely appears to be a frost coffee farm just you you watch as they sort of go through and they pull up, excuse me, they pull up some plants like out of the snow and you can just sort of see these tubers at the end of the at the end of the plant itself because they're sort of a blue-green root sticking out of the ground or not root stem sticking out of the ground
00:53:14
Speaker
um
00:53:17
Speaker
And as they pull one out, they chop the tuber off, throw that in a basket, and then they just plant a stem back down.
00:53:29
Speaker
So the rest of you are heading over to the doctor, heading over to Dr. Bronkin. Over here, it's further away from the river.
00:53:42
Speaker
So you head on through a few alleyways, little side streets, until you find the, uh, the sign that just, you know, looks like pretty standard medical symbology, just scalpel bandage, standard stuff.
00:54:05
Speaker
So you, uh, you open the door, little bell rings as you, as you do. and you hear a voice from somewhere you can't see you as you sort of step in there's like a sort of a front desk little area the desk is covered in like papers and all that so maybe it's not really a receptionist desk so much as it is a working desk and you actually see a couple of little um like sleep or not sleep medical medical beds over behind the desk just shout
00:55:01
Speaker
You hear from ah behind the curtain just some some grunts of pain.
00:55:10
Speaker
And a few moments later, the curtain rolls back and and a an orc sort of steps out, rubbing his shoulder.
00:55:26
Speaker
um as he sort of as he sort of puts back on over his his chain mail, which you would imagine is guards' chain mail, because it's quite similar to what the guards of Gallinan wear. Just turns around. Thanks, Doc. I'll try not to get into too many more fights with Kelly.
00:55:55
Speaker
ah All right, I'll see you in the tavern tonight. And as the orc leaves, the curtain rolls back a little further and out from behind it steps a sabertooth man.
00:56:14
Speaker
Tall, as sabertooth tend to be. um Probably pushing seven feet, similar to thicket. And as the orc says that, He just is, you know, so rubbing his hands, ah like sort of cleaning them, it seems. Oh, yes, I will see you later. So you made him German. My friends, what can I do for you? We were told you might be able to help us out with information about the saber tooth tribes in this area.
00:56:50
Speaker
Ah, yes, of course. That makes sense, that's okay. All right, well, he goes over and sits behind the desk, takes off the glasses that he was wearing, sort of rubs them on his coat. What would you like to know?
00:57:13
Speaker
Don't look at all of my companions.
00:57:19
Speaker
I don't know why, but like the face that I have for this guy in my head is just medic from TF2. I'm just imagining himself talking to medic from TF2. It's a medic from TF2 but a cat. Yeah, no, not even, like I can't even imagine him as a cat. I'm just imagining him as a medic from TF2.
00:57:39
Speaker
ah yeah Like we're all like like this the party I have the party in my head and then I have us just talking to medic from TF2 like it's some kind of weird crossover val So no one says anything when I look at them um um i do they Do they ever does anyone ever actually respond when you ask them for something?
00:58:07
Speaker
No, I just thought that maybe I would see if anybody else wanted to, you know, take charge. It's okay to answer your question. No, but also fuck you. Uh, yeah, I don't remember really know what to say here. Okay. Um, as my lovely group of friends stands in absolute silence, I'll say we were attacked by a band of hunters yesterday. They baited the fish into a feeding frenzy that nearly got us killed, and then we get to shore in the attack directly.
00:58:49
Speaker
Well I can tell you pretty easily those were not hunters then. That is a warband tactic. And I also don't know why hunters would ever be out this far.
00:59:00
Speaker
What did you say as they used to bait the fish I look to my companions. Aye, deer. It definitely did appear to be a deer carcass. Deer carcass. That is very strange. I don't...
00:59:25
Speaker
Well, that would not have been from anywhere around here. So yes, you very definitely did not encounter a hunting parties. That was a warband. How many did you say you well you were fighting?
00:59:43
Speaker
We fight two or three and then we saw a third or fourth. You you fought to both on tigers and then you saw the third one.
00:59:55
Speaker
I relay that piece of information.
01:00:00
Speaker
Fairly interesting. So that is... a Have you had any other encounters with the sabre-tous? Our snowmobile coming back into Galenod was...
01:00:35
Speaker
Interesting. And they didn't have tigers that first time? No. All right. Very interesting. And Well, that first one would have been a raiding party. Most likely. They were after soil that we had in the in the snowmobile. That makes sense. That makes sense. They could use that as a gallon of soil blend is very proprietary to say the least. So it makes sense why they would want it.
01:01:20
Speaker
and
01:01:24
Speaker
And did any of them survive your encounters there? One, maybe they are not quite so vindictive as to send a warband out after someone so quickly though.
01:01:51
Speaker
At this point, His eyes lock onto the soul of Frost. But he quickly just sort of shakes it off. All right, so I would say what you most likely encountered was a warband out for revenge. Perhaps you killed someone's brother or something.
01:02:21
Speaker
That's most likely what it is.
Soul of Frost Examination and Chaos
01:02:24
Speaker
And why did the last one just watch us and leave? and
01:02:31
Speaker
Well, I don't know. that That is somewhat confusing for me. it's a To me, that sort of leads as they were testing you.
01:02:46
Speaker
they thought they were able to use their ambush tactics to defeat you and they were expecting that to be enough but that was apparently not the case lucky for you so i suppose that was them sort of i maybe acknowledging you maybe sort of a granting a mutual understanding of sorts to sort of put themselves out there like that.
01:03:28
Speaker
It implies to me that they were most likely the leader of that warband.
01:03:37
Speaker
and they were sort of saying that they could by putting themselves out there like that they were saying that you may have defeated that force but parties like that using
01:04:08
Speaker
Thub, how did you describe them? Um, I'm assuming you're asking this a Thub? Yes.
01:04:24
Speaker
Jacob? Yep, sorry, what was that? Describe the ice crystals. Describe the ice crystals, so the ice crystals. And character, yes. The ice crystals. I'm doing it in character. Shut up. I hate this. Who are you talking? At the sky. I don't want you to shut up. What happened to the fog? Anyways, don't worry about it. So the ice crystals. Yes, you must tell me. You must understand, it falls from sky.
01:04:56
Speaker
ice crystal falls from sky I get closer look at it and it and it has little room on edges that look as though it is fusing ice crystal together right that's um
01:05:25
Speaker
That is interesting. um
01:05:31
Speaker
Well, as the best case that I have is that they had some sort of a shaman making these crystals. they're not That that's kind of an explosive weapon is not something I'm entirely unfamiliar with from my people.
01:05:52
Speaker
So typically they are used definitely as weapons of war, not even by warbands. They are typically used by propel armies when we have to pull together a real fighting force.
01:06:17
Speaker
So I do not know. Normally they are just thrown to my knowledge. and Sometimes they may use some sort of a catapult or a slingshot or some other method of propulsion. I've heard of them being used as arrowheads.
01:06:46
Speaker
um
01:06:49
Speaker
But if they were being yours as arrowheads, you would have or almost definitely, you know, seen the other part of the arrow.
01:07:06
Speaker
Well, I appreciate your time. Of course.
01:07:19
Speaker
And I suppose I will leave things with one last warning. and
01:07:29
Speaker
These people, they can definitely be very dangerous. and Don't underestimate them. They are mostly... They are mostly... How to put it?
01:07:47
Speaker
um
01:07:50
Speaker
functioning of rage at this point.
01:07:54
Speaker
um There are not that many of them left to my knowledge. and No small part due to them, you know, taking such a war pass against people like you.
01:08:14
Speaker
So be wary of them, don't underestimate them and their abilities just because they are a little more primitive than your colonial selves
01:08:39
Speaker
keep that in mind whatever you did that brought this vendetta onto your heads it's not likely something that will fade until they feel as though their vengeance has been sated if this is ify this is of course a matter of vengeance you don't suppose you might have to do with the go I'm gonna I'm gonna tap the solar frost in my chest. This thing right here.
01:09:16
Speaker
I can't especially say that I know what that is. Well, it's another ice crystal, I think, and it might be alive. So it's called the solar frost, if you know what that is.
01:09:41
Speaker
You see is why his eyes widen at the mention of this. I see. With these folks using vice crystals, well, part of me thinks it might be related. What did you say your name was? Thicket, of course. Now, now Colby's character, I will note that you you actually don't know your name. Funny enough.
01:10:14
Speaker
sort of thinking on it. yeah You don't think you've known your name since you woke up. That's weird. My name is Zom.
01:10:31
Speaker
Take it. He's thicket. Huh? Thicket. Yes. ah Yeah. Yeah. My name's thicket. You're not entirely sure that that's correct, but I'm going with it, though. You're going with it. um So ah let me just wait. Let me just go. ahead Wait, it was a Raphael at Bruce Christo or says it's a Keyla. You went with thicket. Seriously.
01:10:57
Speaker
so if you look at essence stone 30 or essence zone 388 also baller reference yono thank you um that is that is something that i am finally remembering to uh to to actually use um So, yes, you are you are now at least a little bit convinced that ah your name is Thicket. This is an insane crystal.
01:11:28
Speaker
ah i didn't figure We haven't figured out the the other part of that one, have we? You have not. Epic. We still don't know what these fucking dragonflies around my head do, do we? Let me let me look. I don't gotta think oh you do. I think...
01:11:49
Speaker
Let's see. um
01:11:57
Speaker
Oh, huh. I think you probably would have... Excuse me, you probably would have come across both effects for this one, actually, yeah. um So this is the one that makes you terrified of your own reflection.
01:12:10
Speaker
Yes, I remember that part. But the ah the dragonflies seem to ah make it so that healing magic is more effective against you or not against you, but more effective on you. What was this attached to again?
01:12:27
Speaker
This one was attached. What? I want to say the pipes was it attached to the pipes. uh might have been i don't see pipes in your oh yeah yeah no you do you do have pipes okay so yeah it says probably attached to your pipes on all right no no it was on your sword oh i thought the first one was on my sword no the first one was on your crossbow which actually do you still have your crossbow even i don't think i do
01:13:04
Speaker
We'll say you put it on your alchemical crossbow. Okay.
01:13:13
Speaker
Sword. Okay. So yeah, to your knowledge, that is what it does. So yes, thank you. You are now somewhat convinced that this is your name.
01:13:34
Speaker
Yeah, my name's ticket I'm sick. It isn't alright if I take a look at this sort of frost oh ah Yeah here come and come over here and he gestures to one of the one of the sick beds I Make my way over there Yeah, he sort of guides you down into the bed.
01:14:06
Speaker
um
01:14:13
Speaker
all watch as he unfurls a full like medical surgical kit onto a little stand next to thicket. And you watch as he pulls out ah a pair of very pointed looking tweezers. I wouldn't try and remove that if I were you. Oh, yeah oh you're you're trying to what? I'm not trying to remove it. No, I'm simply trying to remove it to see what happens. I'm just trying to take a look. I think we might all die if that happens. And um I think we shouldn't take I think we shouldn't take it out to see what happens.
01:15:01
Speaker
uh so he sort of places one hand uh one gloved hand gently on your chest near the solo frost itself sort of like right at the edge of the gem takes the tweezers and says this might be a little uncomfortable but shouldn't be too bad and he takes the tweezers uh closes them and sort of puts them in between the crystal and the skin and sort of lets them pull apart a little bit it's definitely quite uncomfortable not painful but very uncomfortable just just a moment just a moment i just feel like you're digging inside of me a little bit um let's see that is very interesting indeed
01:15:56
Speaker
i'm very alert and if he starts like actively trying to pull on it or anything i will deck this doctor yeah he's not trying to like pull on it or anything he sort of is he's it looks like he's just examining where the crystal meets the skin itself um all right and he takes the tweezers out So it is strange. The solar frost is not directly bound to your body. It seems as though there is some other and crystal or something
01:16:51
Speaker
I think it now might be the moment for, you know who. Aye. So there is ah more crystals in my chest, as I'm sure you can see. I'm going to summon Cranberry. All right, you summoned Cranberry. And ah the the doctor just sort of backs up and hisses at it.
01:17:21
Speaker
Such as a, what is it? Unburied. Garedy into the crotial.
01:17:34
Speaker
Now obviously, Pickett, you can't see this, but ah everyone else, you can see this absolutely wild look in the doctor's eyes.
01:17:49
Speaker
as he stares at Cranberry, who at this moment is acting surprisingly neutral. um
01:18:04
Speaker
This thing is... this creature is bound to you. Well, either that or I'm bound to him. Right. And...
01:18:21
Speaker
Okay. Um.
01:18:30
Speaker
Okay. I don't. That would not be advisable, sir. No, I mean, put it away. Oh, oh yeah. All right. Come on back in.
01:18:50
Speaker
Make a cranberry lower check. Oh, son of a bitch. ah
01:18:59
Speaker
17. 17. You attempt to pull cranberry back in, but your attempt is unsuccessful.
01:19:07
Speaker
seventeen seventeen you attempt to pull cranberry back in but your attempt is unsuccessful as instead Cranberry resists you ro oh and is instead going to slide across the floor and over to within inches of the doctor's face going to lean down because cranberry is of course like
01:19:44
Speaker
Cranberry is really tall. Yeah. How tall is it? Yeah, I think it's seven foot. Cranberry is like nine feet tall. So Cranberry is like towering over this doctor right now. That's not good. And the doctor is sort of backed into a wall and is very clearly in some form of distress.
01:20:16
Speaker
As Cranberry just kind of. Not kill the good doctor. I try not to come on, come on, but what are you doing? Cranberry gets down even closer. Raises one of his hands up towards the doctor's face, one of the cold hands.
01:20:45
Speaker
And.
01:20:49
Speaker
gently gently puts one of the doctor's ears between his fingers you can see the fur on the ear start and then melt almost just as quickly
01:21:22
Speaker
cranberry removes then it's going to bend down almost as if on one knee is going to grab the doctor's wrist in one of his hands one of his cold hands the wrist hole of the hand holding the tweezers and is going to guide the tweezers towards the soul of frost which is now in cranberry's forehead of course
01:22:15
Speaker
The doctor sort of looks past Cranberry at all of you as if asking what to he want it out? asking thicket.
01:22:39
Speaker
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. The, the, the Solar Frost, you mean?
01:22:46
Speaker
yeah i mean the the safest place for it is is with us and with with cranberry cranberry looks at you thicket
01:23:16
Speaker
And you make a cranberry lore check. Oh.
01:23:27
Speaker
Dirty 20. Dirty 20. In your mind, you hear just the word patience.
01:23:47
Speaker
i think that you just wait as cranberry guides the hand further towards towards the soul of frost and unless any of you want to try to stop this the hand or the the the tweezers are going to touch the edge of the crystal and cranberry is going to allow them to open as they had done with thickest skin and thicket you can you can feel it's not discomfort it's
01:24:46
Speaker
from like your sinuses.
01:24:53
Speaker
I think he's trying to take it out thicket. This cold energy sort of gets released from around the soul.
01:25:04
Speaker
and thicket you can just sort of feel cranberry relaxing and the rest of you can even sort of see it's as if cranberry's shoulders fall a bit as though he's just become less tense all right the cranberry removes the tweezers and goes back into thicket's chest
01:25:36
Speaker
what you're not gonna I thought he was I thought he was gonna take it out you hear a different voice in your mind leave you release
01:26:09
Speaker
I'm getting a lot of mixed signals.
01:26:17
Speaker
Yeah, I will note thicket that you would remember. You would remember Chief Brave Walker telling you about how the soul of frost should be able to grant you abilities. Should be able to grant you. Access to power.
01:26:41
Speaker
And you think about how whenever you kill drawn into the soul of Frost in some respect.
01:26:59
Speaker
See. So if if I wanted to listen to the voice that said release, how would I do that?
01:27:11
Speaker
You'd have to try to release.
01:27:17
Speaker
I'm going to try to release whatever that means. OK, so maybe maybe not, maybe maybe not in the crowded building. um I feel like I'm about to explode. So thicket.
01:27:40
Speaker
you you try to release and you do actually release mark off uh that you've used two souls okay of the ones that you've of your kills so you've you've used two of your kills you should be keeping track of your kills uh treat those as a resource gotcha as you attempt to release and this
01:28:11
Speaker
burst of chill wind releases from the soul of frost and sort of spins around the room. I need everyone to make a reflex save. I apologize. What have you done? As an 18. Okay,
01:28:37
Speaker
that is a 25 1825 okay, and the doctor Isn't that 20 okay, and that is against thicket spell DC Yes, which is I? Want to say 21 hang on? Would that just be my class DC? It's your spell DC Which is the same as your class DC I think okay, okay, then 21 it would be okay
01:29:08
Speaker
So in that case Bastion fails, Thub succeeds, Doctor succeeds.
01:29:18
Speaker
So um everyone in the area you're hit by this wave of cold. Bastion you take seven points of cold damage, Thub you take three, the Doctor also takes three.
01:29:35
Speaker
ah And this layer of ice forms across the floor, making the ground quite slippery.
01:29:49
Speaker
Uh, I am sorry. I'm sorry. Uh, uh, what do I do? What do I do? I don't know. What did you do? I don't know what I did. I just, I felt like I had to release and so I released.
01:30:10
Speaker
Right.
01:30:15
Speaker
I think I'm understanding perhaps what the warband was doing out here. Oh. And what would that be? They wanted that. Well, that's what I was afraid of. I was just hoping we'd killed somebody's brother.
01:30:38
Speaker
You may have done that, but that may have only compounded.
01:30:46
Speaker
Of course. I don't even know how they know about it. You were a popsicle when we fought them. Yeah, they saw him freeze. Oh. Oh, yeah.
01:31:00
Speaker
So I apologize that the the formatting of this table is broken, um but I'm gonna put sort of the information of what the Soul of Frost can do at this moment into its item description. So you now should be able to see ah what you can do with it. You just used Call of Frost.
01:31:41
Speaker
It's definitely not cursed at all. and So um yeah, you now know what the Soul of Frost does. And I will note that ah while Cranberry is out, that means Cranberry is the bearer.
01:31:56
Speaker
Not you. So Cranberry is technically the one in control. And that means that Cranberry might choose to, Cranberry might choose to release on his own. That's frightening. And might not always yeah do what you ask.
Aftermath and Social Dynamics
01:32:14
Speaker
His murderous
01:32:32
Speaker
Well, sorry about that, Doc. yeah I yeah oh apologize. i I have no idea what a and oh what's going on. It is all right, I suppose.
01:32:46
Speaker
and
01:32:50
Speaker
I don't really know what to what to say or do about this.
01:33:03
Speaker
um
01:33:07
Speaker
Um... Yeah, I don't think I have anything. I'm sorry, I don't think there's anything I can do to help here. That's alright. We'll, uh... We'll get out of your hair.
01:33:22
Speaker
Yeah. ah do Do you need any any any yeah ah copper pieces or or or any compensation? No, I think i think this is all fine.
01:33:35
Speaker
and
01:33:42
Speaker
If you need medical attention, come back. Or if you have any more questions, come back. But don't do so in such a rush.
01:33:55
Speaker
Sure thing, pal. All right, so you leave. Thub, I want you to make a reflex save, please.
01:34:16
Speaker
Three, two, one. All right, Thub critically fails his reflex save and falls flat on his face, breaking his nerves. I'm sorry I was viewing it, fuck. Roll a reflex save. 22. 22. Yeah, this ice is real slippery. Shut up. Yeah, you almost slip and fall, but you don't.
01:34:45
Speaker
So y'all head out. Yeah, it's only been around an hour.
01:34:57
Speaker
What do y'all wanna do with the rest of your day? way I'm gonna go and try and get more training on how to drive the snowmobile. Okay. Sebastian's going to drive the snowmobile. Thub, what are you doing? Thub is just gonna go out like like right out over here somewhere. And he's just gonna do pushups all day.
01:35:25
Speaker
Okay, Thub is just going to do pushups all day. Ficket, what are you going to do? I'm gonna try to meditate on whatever the fuck happened there. All right. So we'll start out with, why don't you make an athletics check for me?
01:35:56
Speaker
oh yeah you're you're you're doing push-ups for eight straight
01:36:09
Speaker
and uh yeah you you don't even you don't even break a sweat because you don't sweat you're a reptile um and then i walk and then i come back into town and i use that as a flex i just push up all day nothing to break the sweat aren't you a reptile kid can you even sweat show up um Yeah, you get all the all the local tavern ladies are on your arm. ah Oh, yeah Yeah, because because that's so useful for me
01:36:41
Speaker
Yeah, and the tavern gents, of course. Oh, great. Bastion. Bastion just has a tavern harem when I come back. Oh, yeah, 100%. I mean, look at those. I literally have them on my arm. She walks in and I'm T-posing with five people on each arm hanging from them. Five people on each arm, five people on your tail. They're holding on to me like children on a statue.
01:37:11
Speaker
um So anyways, Bastian, you're attempting to learn um how to pilot the snowmobile. So ah yeah,
01:37:22
Speaker
you spend eight hours learning that.
01:37:27
Speaker
and you're definitely starting to get more of the hang of it as you know Hatrick just has you sort of go out and around but you can't really do too much because there's nobody to help pilot um or to like pedal so you're you're mostly just learning the ins and outs of like what all the levers and pulleys do
01:37:51
Speaker
And Hetrick teaches you a little bit of basic, like, mechanical maintenance.
01:38:00
Speaker
Thicket. You do what do you exactly do for your meditation here?
01:38:25
Speaker
So I, uh, I'm going to go out into the snow where it's just calm, peaceful, and, um, just going to sit down and try to, uh, meditate on the soul of frost and on cranberry. Uh, cause I get the feeling he knows a bit more than he's letting on. So I'm going to see if I can get any more information about that.
01:39:06
Speaker
Jesus Christ, and that one. Oh, wow. I think I've succeeded maybe one cranberry Lord check. Yeah, you don't you don't succeed very often with these. So, yeah, you. You're not getting anything out of cranberry right now. Cranberries just staying dead silent in your head.
01:39:33
Speaker
Come on, anything?
01:39:38
Speaker
absolutely nothing right then keep your secrets I guess would I be able to ask cranberry any other questions you can try but uh who knows if you're gonna get a response Gotcha. Well, then my next question is, does he have any recollection of what happened to Crocial? You get no response.
01:40:31
Speaker
It's almost deafening silence in your mind.
01:40:50
Speaker
I give up on meditation for now. He's uh, he's giving me the silent treatment. I Guess is there anything that I well
01:41:09
Speaker
you definitely can feel obviously that it is extremely powerful. You can also feel that what you just did in the doctor's office barely scratched the surface of its power of what it can grant you.
01:41:33
Speaker
And you sort of get the feeling that by not releasing, at least every once in a while, it seems to be causing Cranberry some distress.
01:41:54
Speaker
So you sort of get the feeling that, yeah, if you if you don't use it for too long a period of time, then Cranberry is probably just gonna start doing it on his own. Stay.
01:42:12
Speaker
I'll have to be on top of that, then.
01:42:17
Speaker
All right. Okay. I ah believe that's all I can do here. All right, so your days pass what do you all do as a tourist evening?
01:42:41
Speaker
You all had head back to the Indecent Club and their tavern harem. I suppose so. What is that smell? oh That smell is actually white. Go take a bath.
01:43:06
Speaker
Yeah, I've been sitting out in the snow. Past day. No bathroom breaks. Oh, yeah. Oh, I was happy. You're really, um for you know, you know, beyond that close. You're that close to your deity. You can stop for nothing. So this is one of those moments where I feel like Bastion is really wishing she had press a digitization right about now.
01:43:36
Speaker
Yeah. Wyatt cleans himself off and has to have his fingers to cast presentation on himself. Do you have frosted dissertation? I do. I do. Yeah, you clean yourself off instantly. It's such a helpful RFP spill. It really is. All right, so. Yeah.
01:44:03
Speaker
Thub is surrounded by people admiring their ah rippling scales and muscles.
01:44:17
Speaker
i guess that is that is in fact what i'm doing i'm just i'm just like standing in the i'm basking in it at this point i'm just in the middle of the bar just like flexing pub of course this muscular oh yeah thub thub is i i guess you never really noticed it until this moment but like thubs thubs a pretty thubs a pretty muscly individual not like Uh, absolutely built, but like, you know, pretty broad shoulders, you know, they're, uh, for, for my, for my species is probably average, but for like, but for like, just like the one around it, it probably looks a little bit more built. Yeah. Than the average person. Yeah. Definitely, definitely more, uh, well put together than the average person.
01:45:11
Speaker
Vastion is haunted by this.
01:45:17
Speaker
As she is with everything else that Thub does. No, I will say though, Thub might be ah surrounded by all of these people. Thub is absolutely scared shitless to talk to any of them because Thub can't talk to women. Yes. True. That is true. That is true. so that's why that's why he' flexing so That's why he keeps flexing is because he knows that if he stops, he's going to have to talk to somebody and he really doesn't want to. So he's just hoping that they like tire out and go away before he gets tired. Oh, he's getting tuckered out.
01:45:58
Speaker
But yeah, why this is the first time that you really sort of processed of their muscles, their musculature. Do I notice Wyatt looking at Thub?
01:46:13
Speaker
how how How stealthy is Wyatt trying to be? ah I think you catch like the first 25 seconds and then you're like, oh wait, I shouldn't be doing this. Oh, bye. Please get a room. Look at that posterior.
01:46:33
Speaker
It's basically large. How is it so large? ah You want to touch it, don't you?
01:46:45
Speaker
i'm going back to galanard thank you you folks have fun killing that bird ah this my shit all the girl shook yourvas like this
01:47:00
Speaker
So anyways gorgeous Freeman references aside Yeah, what what do y'all do as you've reconvened here
01:47:19
Speaker
That's a good question. What do we do? I don't know. That's why I'm asking you.
01:47:27
Speaker
Well, we've reconvened. What time is it? It's like quarter past five. What time does the fairy come in the morning? You don't know. Probably relatively early.
01:47:48
Speaker
okay well i'm gonna try and find out what that timing is like with some specificity yeah we should we'd probably need that all right it comes at eight in the morning approximately excellent thank you it's like a train it never actually arrives on time but
01:48:17
Speaker
All right, so I guess y'all go to bed. Yeah, that sounds about right. About to go to bed.
Journey Preparation and Ferry Boarding
01:48:26
Speaker
Does this count as a full day of downtime so that we can heal? Sure, yeah. Oh, sweet. I'm already at full health. Also, you're not fatigued anymore at this point, Bastion. Oh, awesome. And one of my essence sonums does a thing that lets me heal a little more?
01:48:49
Speaker
An additional four hit points. Yes, see you get an additional four hit points. Look at me go. Look at that.
01:49:03
Speaker
So. Um. Yeah, I guess if y'all don't have anything that you want to do,
01:49:22
Speaker
before going to bed, then you go to bed at 5 p.m. I mean, I imagine we would have Yeah, a little bit to eat. Yeah, of course. And Bastian, you're just struggling the whole time to choke food down. Of course. Because it's, you know, not bravo's brew, slow cooked beef. Of course.
01:49:47
Speaker
Yeah. But you horbly manage it. Yeah, it really to yearn for for alchemical beef is just calling it all chemical beef is unpleasant.
01:50:06
Speaker
Chemical beef. That's basically what a Beyond Burger is. Microplastics.
01:50:14
Speaker
um Yeah, and Bastion, as you get to the ah the bottom of your your plate, ah yeah, it's a metal plate, so it's all shiny and you're absolutely scared shitless by your own reflection. Make a will save as you try to and so you instinctively almost whip the plate at the wall. Love that for me. Yeah.
01:50:37
Speaker
Not one Rip the plate it not not in the wall, but it thumbs head make an attack roll oh Like an unarmed attack account for it being in improvised Yeah ah twenty So it it just barely misses Thub. Like Thub, you just look up just in time to see, whoop, that's a plate flying at my face. ah You duck to the side and the plate flies off into the into one of the hobgoblins at the table across from you.
01:51:32
Speaker
And at this point, everyone in the Inn just stops and looks at you. Sorry.
01:51:49
Speaker
Did you just throw this fucking plate at me? but No, I threw this plate at them, and I point it at Theb.
01:52:01
Speaker
the hobgoblin stands up holding the plate sort of takes their napkin and wipes off the food that was still on the plate that is now on their face throws the napkin down onto the table stomps on over as the other other hobgoblins and orcs at their table stand up and follow
01:52:32
Speaker
slams the plate down onto the table. You're trying to tell me
01:52:52
Speaker
Legitimately, yes.
01:53:01
Speaker
What do we think, boys? It's just a Vafit trying to finish the job. A Gemini spy, maybe? Much of a Vafit anymore. He certainly looked like one to me. I'm gonna flip him off.
01:53:27
Speaker
Sleep with one eye open.
01:53:33
Speaker
And he leaves. Like, the the in outright. Wyatt turns to Bastion. So, uh, you want him to go get a fish?
01:53:49
Speaker
Do I want him to go get a fish? Yeah, you know, go fishing. I don't think I'd like to go fishing with that gentleman. Oh, you know.
01:54:01
Speaker
more of a solo fishy I don't care whether he fishes or not, Wyatt.
01:54:14
Speaker
I'm more concerned that he's going to go and call me in my sleep. not the right why it's gonna take us as a up from the river so if you ask someone to go fishing in the city of ships yeah if you're if you're you know crime family and you're like oh that kind of fishing you're like yeah that kind of fishing uh
01:54:50
Speaker
solo fishing adventure you're like ah okay how a good fishing trip that just sounds unpleasant well he's not saying this in character he's saying that in character so um yeah that is now an experience you've had the rest of the tavern goers slowly go back to their meals
01:55:32
Speaker
probably uh go over to the snowmobile make sure i'm not being followed and then sleep there is anyone else going to the snowmobile with bastion or are y'all staying at the inn I won't go on a snowmobile snowmobile snowmobile I'm saying so yeah minus one silver to anyone who's staying at the end. Oh ah That's so much money I guess not money much but silver oh so um you know silver is worth its weight in gold god damn it i don't know it's not it's not true i hate you so much gulpy i just i i like fun currency facts is that actually true though
01:56:27
Speaker
No, no, I don't think so. If silver was worth its weight in gold, it would it would be worth the same as gold. Yeah, I was going to say, I was like, wait, what? Silver is worth its weight in silver. Yeah.
01:56:46
Speaker
OK, so Bastion and Thub, you head over to the snowmobile and
01:56:58
Speaker
Yeah, so, Thub, you're just sort of la-di-da, hanging around. Bastion, you're still on edge. And you definitely are, you're noticing every, every shadow, every form in the as far as your ah your low light vision will allow under this pale moonlight.
01:57:28
Speaker
As it is quite pale, both, both moons are in crescent right now. So, but, uh, you don't, you don't have any direct encounters or altercations on your way. And you arrive at the stables where Hetrick is very glad to have company. Um,
01:57:56
Speaker
yeah.
01:58:01
Speaker
so y'all take your rest once again bright and early around six the next morning
01:58:31
Speaker
My throat hasn't been slit, that's an upside. As far as you're aware, yeah. Upgrades, people. Upgrades.
01:58:54
Speaker
yeah i i guess uh at this point since you know the uh fairy should be coming in just a few hours is there anything else you want think i'm good yeah i i'm all set really all right wider sub anything you want to do anything you want to buy I think I'm all set, personally. I think two buyout here, is there? There's a small market, we've got basic the basic stuff. some stuff buy me
01:59:30
Speaker
What's the um shit? What's the shit? No, I can't think of the right word. Is there a local specialty around here? Fish. Fish, damn.
01:59:43
Speaker
yeah I see it's frozen because the moment they pull it out of the river, it just freezes. Um, yeah, they keep it cold. They keep it on ice or on snow rather. Let's put it on the ground, right? I've got little stalls. Okay. Yeah. All right. I find it to be something fun, you know, like, uh,
02:00:10
Speaker
Wilco Frost Coffee, I guess it doesn't exist. I mean, they do have Wilco Frost Coffee here, too. They do grow it. Yeah, I imagine they do. But, you know, their specialty, if this is a fishing town, so. Yeah. All right. Their specialty is fish. Disappointed. All right. Very disappointed in this place.
02:00:32
Speaker
So in that case, yeah, you you navigate the snowmobile over to the over to the the dock at the anglers guild
02:01:11
Speaker
Yeah, if y'all wanna buy ferry tickets, it'll to get to the river port.
02:01:31
Speaker
And then, well, it is it is a long journey. This is a multiple day journey. This, you're basically paying for, you're basically paying a hundred bucks for a three day train ride.
02:01:46
Speaker
not That's actually a damn good deal. oh Yeah, it's go to say that's a pretty damn good deal. we We're not getting robbed. We're robbing this ferry company right now, guys. We're actually like we're literally robbing them. I will say, though, they do request for your vehicle. ah They do request a fee of two gold for the vehicle itself. I'll put up one gold.
02:02:16
Speaker
I'll put up another gold and my fair as well. Okay. How much is the fair again in silver? it was two silver. Two silver, two. Okay.
02:02:30
Speaker
So I paid half off the ah thing. I paid off my one. So I guess we're good on the, uh, good on the fairy, right?
02:02:41
Speaker
Yeah, and Morgrem is, of course, with all of you at this point. She forgot about her. I'm just passing over the money because otherwise we'll just be handing cash to everyone in town. How many people, wait, how many people are going on this ferry right now? It's probably around, including you, probably close to maybe, maybe 20?
02:03:11
Speaker
at most that are waiting here. You can't necessarily say if all of them are getting on the ferry. But yeah, there's there's a good amount of people here.
02:03:27
Speaker
And yeah, you wait around for a couple more hours. And, uh, yeah, the ferry definitely, it is late by a little under half an hour. So around eight 30 in the morning, the ferry does arrive. Uh, and it's definitely, I don't know what any of you were expecting from it necessarily, but it basically is, uh, a set of three large, um, Lake
02:03:59
Speaker
35 by Like rath um a barge. Basically, it's three three of these, yeah, basically barges um that are seemingly connected together, as each each barge has a pair of crystals sort of embedded in fixtures on each corner.
02:04:28
Speaker
um And there appear to be larger ones at the ah the front and back. um And the crystals themselves have lightning arcing between them. And it looks almost like they're acting as couplings.
02:04:48
Speaker
And the the larger crystals are sort of ah built into engines, kind of like the ah kind of like the magical engines that you saw on some of the fishing vessels. um
02:05:02
Speaker
And yeah, the ferry itself pulls up to the dock and there's this couple of people on it some ah some vehicles with cargo and all that little caravans which You know dis dismount disembark and make on their way
02:05:30
Speaker
There appears, as everyone gets off, as this is sort of the last stop on the journey, um there appear to be only
Ferry Crew and Journey Details
02:05:40
Speaker
three crew members here. You see a viviratus, one of the the robot people from Vofmel.
02:06:01
Speaker
at first glance is a solar elf with horns and then you sort of realize that her skin has almost a almost a green tint to it and you realize that she might be a ah hellite um meaning that she's Got the she's got connection to Hellas, the the world, Hellas. Oh, it's actually outer space. A.K.A. Hell. um So she's basically half devil or thats fiend of some kind. And you also see another solar elf. This one does not appear to be a hellite.
02:06:55
Speaker
um But he he stands tall, he's got long hair, scar under one eye, um and he's the one who takes your tickets from you, takes a look at him. Alright, just going to the river port I see.
02:07:14
Speaker
Alright. A very talkative bunch, I can tell. Uh, right- I'm sorry, you cut us off guard, alright? You just jumped at us. If you were to bring your vehicle onto the final, the final barge over there in the back, then that would be the best place for it. I believe you're the only vehicle on this. Oh, nope, never mind. We've got a caravan over there, and you look back and see there's a very large covered wagon that is being brought along as well.
02:07:47
Speaker
All right then. Welcome aboard. We'll be leaving in around an hour once we've had some time to ah step on land.
02:08:00
Speaker
Break them. Make yourselves comfortable. It's going to be a long journey, so I hope you've brought to bedding for yourselves. He's at this point addressing all the passengers who have stepped on.
02:08:14
Speaker
And yes, I hope that if you've not brought provisions for yourself, then you've at the very least brought fishing equipment to get yourself provisions. It's been fairly calm waters on our way over here.
02:08:34
Speaker
And we expect this journey to be a little bit faster as we'll be going down current. um I would estimate that easily within our standard three-day timeline we will be ah able to arrive at the river port and you will all be able to disembark.
02:08:54
Speaker
if you so choose. sir um The Yask have been behaving recently, haven't had too many troubles with them, nor have we had any run-ins with Sabretooth Raiders or any other unpleasantness. um But if we do, then worry not, myself and my fellow crew members are perfectly capable of defending all of you.
02:09:20
Speaker
So that being said get yourself settled and we shall disembark shortly So as you all get yourselves settled in the ferry That is where we're gonna leave tonight's session Oh, OK.
02:09:50
Speaker
Love that for us.
Reflections and Anticipations
02:09:53
Speaker
Wyatt, how are you feeling? Oh, he had a calm day and it's hopefully going to be a calm journey. It's very rare he's calm, so he's feeling calm.
02:10:06
Speaker
Bless you. Thank you. Colby, how are you feeling? We are 100% crashing that fucking boat. it's It's not making it to the river port. Not a chance in hell. I will note that once again, Thicket did have to be reminded of his name this morning. Yes. As that is something that occurs every single day.
02:10:33
Speaker
Bastion, how are you feeling? I'm not thrilled that the Sabretooth people appear to be hunting us. Like in a hole.
02:10:47
Speaker
Fair. Thub, how are you feeling? Thub like kind of like perks up for a second, looks up at this guy and says, I'm doing okay, how are you?
02:11:05
Speaker
my god it's god
02:11:12
Speaker
so how are we all feeling this players pretty good ah kind of terrified of ah the the power-up that I got hmm
02:11:26
Speaker
that's yeah That's fair. did you Did you look at what all the things are that you have access to now? I did. Looks pretty cool. um some pretty neat Some pretty neat stuff there.
02:11:37
Speaker
um yeah yeah I'm pretty excited to see what happens now with the Soul of Frost. all With all that now that you've got your you've got access to your powers.
02:11:57
Speaker
Or at the very least, Cranberdy has access to your powers.
Supporter Shout-out and Gratitude
02:12:00
Speaker
And that is scary!
02:12:06
Speaker
want to give a special shout-out to our first member on by mea coey jane mire thank you so much for your support jane it really means the world