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C2 Fallen ☁︎Chancing It☁︎ Episode 16
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Making it to the Macardi Isles to finally retrieve the token from Hayden, Who better to help get the item than a child from the Deity? Let's party all around this isle to get the second piece of this long journiespuzzle to get these demigods back home!
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00:00:44
Speaker
cruise
Boat Cruise and Suspicion
00:00:47
Speaker
and found some suspicious shit. You went on a boat, you found some rum. ah Serena drank said rum, now is having the time of her life.
Solas's Mysterious Email
00:00:59
Speaker
Y'all remember that fun little email that Solas wrote in the little office that for some reason they held her up and there's like, this seems like a good idea. This seems like a fine idea to just like, keep this one in the office.
00:01:13
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Well, um the email said, hey, this is Solus, Marcardi Isles. And while you guys were on said ship, while it just docked, there was a ping that Solus got back on her phone. And Solus does take it out as soon as you guys dock and you guys are trying to like get a hold of Serena.
00:01:37
Speaker
and Before you guys can, like, officially say you're off the boat and you're officially on the McCarty Isles, the email says, greeting Solas. I hope my card has found you well. I will definitely be at the McCarty Isles.
Chance Haddinson: Who Is He?
00:01:55
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If you would like to meet, please find me at the Emerald Gates, a club in the corner of Aaliyah in Aurora Street after 9pm on a night of your choosing. Ask the bartender for me and they will point you in the right direction. Looking forward to it, chance.
00:02:15
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Solas reads that out loud. Yeah, no. If you remember the card that was on the desk said Chance Haddinson. Mm-hmm. To be fair, we don't know Chance the Rapper's last name, so it could be Chance the Rapper. I promise you it's not. And honestly, I can't promise fully that, because I don't know what's about to happen with Chance. It's gonna be so clear.
Dockside Adventures and Pretzel Lore
00:02:41
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It just immediately dies.
00:02:45
Speaker
So Solas, it's around like 845-ish, so Solas is like, do you guys just want to go to the Emerald Gates now? I know what we're dealing with. I'm looking at Serena.
00:03:02
Speaker
so are we Are we at dock one or are we at dock two? We're at dock one. Dock one. Okay. So we're literally right by the emerald gates and I'm still, I'm vibing or am I drunk? I would say you were drunk. You were just having the time of your life though. And you were just like, you know what? I kind of want to meet this Ricky guy that's on all these bottles of alcohol. You're straight having the best time of your life.
00:03:30
Speaker
Okay. Uh, Ina, I feel like is off the ship and she's like still waving.
00:03:38
Speaker
so but still literally like <unk> She thinks they're going away. They're literally five feet in front of her. Yeah. Um, they still are on. You're still the captain mode. So there's like, have a wonderful trip captain. Like that's very much how a lot of them are.
00:03:57
Speaker
I'm just waiting. I'm vibing. I'm like, don't let Lace get to keep the hat. Solas has all the bags, takes the hat off. Serena's head, throws it. come on. Ena goes into child screaming mode. I want my hat!
00:04:29
Speaker
stompy stomps away. Do you think they have like corn dogs or something around here that will like help get her back to normal? Ina has immediately found a knockoff pretzel cart.
00:04:45
Speaker
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Bobby, for your knowledge. Bobby, for your knowledge, you remember how I was talking about Avatar the Last Airbender in our first little conversation together? Like the cabbage cart, we have a pretzel cart and they will not stop. They have added more lore to this pretzel cart than I ever want to admit to. We spent like 30 minutes last time. Pretzels, coffee, hot dogs, popcorn, gelato, tacos, churros and muffins, bagel smoothies.
00:05:15
Speaker
those are all his brothers Are these one sister ah these just following you around as adventurers and you're funding like all the kids college at this point? you're just there ah so I simply can't tell them no, this is a knockoff one and you could tell like they're stealing the whole idea of the original pretzel car guy and he totally believes it's regular pretzel car guy. I would prefer this to be like just metagame for a second. I would prefer this to be our usual guy.
00:05:50
Speaker
One of his brothers. Do you want it to be one of his brothers? No, I want it to be the same guy. If anything, it could be a cousin.
00:06:00
Speaker
i but like i I think should be stalking you guys because you just keep buying his wares no matter what the quality is. Like he quickly got off the butthole pushing this cart and set it up waiting for you. No, that's the thing that we wasn't on the boat. It's what I kind of get here.
00:06:20
Speaker
We end up running out at the very end of the campaign he was just had in the whole time. Oh, yeah it's a little goblin guy too, so you like get the vibes of it. It's like very much looks like um a newsy goblin sort of situation. And they all have varying forms of facial hair. But then he's the one that doesn't have facial hair and we don't trust him.
00:06:47
Speaker
I think there's, it's just one goblin with like 13 different beards and moustaches. That's a lovely joke to pass. Groucho marks glasses with the mustache under the fake nose. You know, see, that was the original joke and then we were like, you know, it's an entire
McCarty Isles: Light and Party
00:07:04
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family. This is very crazy. What's so funny is I have not introduced anybody to Bobby yet. They're just going to hear his voice and they're gonna be like, what the fuck's happening?
00:07:13
Speaker
and everyone's gonna be like what the fuck is happening yeah um I like that sort of intro. All right, we're on the docks. When you guys get off the docks, because it's now nighttime in the McCarty Isles, the places are popping. There is lights, there's parades, Hi, there's parties, introduce your there's a lot of drunk people. There's a lot character and of everyone's gonna be like, drunk people. what the fuck is happening?
00:07:42
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um food The food smells are everywhere. It's like probably it's like one of Solis's clubs and raves. However, it's on the outside. It is not on the inside. It is full on party mode up in this place. And Solis is just like, oh, yeah, I forgot this place. was This was it. This was it. Last time we went to a club, though, y'all got mad at me. So I'm just going to keep going.
00:08:13
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Murphy's like, I didn't, I didn't get mad at you. I got mad at the person controlling all of us. Yeah, but from what I can tell the person controlling all of us was also a child of Haddon. And this is basically Haddon's main domain in and all is the McCarty Isles.
Murphy's Pretzel Trick
00:08:31
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So yeah, I suppose we'll figure out how that goes.
00:08:36
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So ah do you guys just want to go to the Emerald Gates now? She like has her little phone out and she's just like googling it to like get to the place. Ina is already on it. Ina is vibing already. and Unfortunately, the pretzels are not doing their job. no That stuff's lingering. Ina is just dancing in the middle of the street.
00:09:02
Speaker
She's not doing her usual arms up in the air twist turn. She's actually starting to dance now. She's learning. She's learning. That's what she's doing. So are we good to go? She's like, looks at you, Murphy. Yeah, I'm fine. OK, cool. ah Do you want to drag Ina? Do you want me to drag Ina? Ina's very much a lot bigger than me.
00:09:31
Speaker
Murphy goes to the pretzel cart, buys a pretzel, and so looks at the guy and is like, how did you get here? You weren't on the boat. I don't know what you're talking about. Take this. I mean, Murphy just kind of
00:09:53
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And then a bunch of party motorcycles drive by.
00:09:59
Speaker
They all have little bells and chimes on them. It's great. It's fine. Whatever. Hey, at least we're not doing this on a weekday where there's construction right next door. All right. So Murphy gets the pretzel, finds a stick, ties the pretzel to a rope on the stick, and then sticks it. Oh, we're going full Mulan little brother mode. Got it.
Meeting Chance at Emerald Gates
00:10:21
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Got it. And then sticks it somewhat down the back of Ina's shirt so that it kind of hangs in front of her.
00:10:30
Speaker
Can I roll to see if I fall for this shit? Absolutely, yes. Is this an adult? Do I need to roll anything to see if this works? No, I don't feel like you need to. I think it's all you that at this point. I think it's just a straight intelligence check. I believe it is too. This would actually work on me in real life. All right. Did I need to roll low or high for this torque? You need to roll. Probably low. Low, yeah, it's a low roll. How low is your roll?
00:10:58
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I got a total of five on the die plus one is six.
00:11:05
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It works so fucking well. You had to be a 10 on a 3D. You're okay. It works so well. The dice knew. The dice were telling a story. Yeah, no, you failed. That's why I always go with the dice. All right, I'm following the pretzel.
00:11:25
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you're Like, how did you know that that was going to work? I just, you know, just luck, I guess. as We're going to have to adjust the pretzel depending on direction. oh no We're definitely going to have to move it like a video game. It's definitely going to be like a weird thing that we now have to do. And it's not running around in circles chasing the pretzel. And she yells, do you guys see this ghost pretzel? So it's like.
00:11:55
Speaker
straightens out the pretzel and she's just like, is just walking behind, you know, going, this will work, this will work fine. Follow these directions and she gives you her phone, Murphy, and she was just like, take us to the Emerald Gates. Murphy kind of like looks at the phone, looks up, looks at the phone, looks up, and then like points, like looks confused and like points down different roads. It will point for you. Just tell me where the little cute blue line is taking us.
00:12:23
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hi It's bringing us back to Gen Con going back to the fucking breakfast air. Murphy's going to look at solace and be like, I'm just messing with you. I'm already stressed. Look at this one. Nina has somehow figured out that if she like she might have a chance to bite it. Yeah, Murphy leads the way.
00:12:49
Speaker
So this is like pushing it back and forth. um Okay, after about like a 10 minute walk, you guys end up at this big green sparkling building. um It has a few doors, a part of it, it kind of very it has like the style of New Orleans French Quarter, but it's like all green and sparkling what you can tell on like the front of like all the arches is it looks like they're made from real emeralds. um There's the lighting on here is ah like it looks like fire but it's also like has like this glowing sort of feature to it and in gold and like a scripted font says the emerald gates and there is a doorman out front in like a big thick like
00:13:41
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burly looking dude kind of like the ah avar barbarian style um and he just looks he just looks angry he does not look happy to be there and solace just goes okay um cute bunny girl time give me a moment um So he just goes, hi. And he just looks
Quest for Honesty: Seeking Chance's Help
00:14:03
Speaker
like, and keep in mind, just got off a boat, guys. So we're we're not looking our cutest. We're not looking the best. Murphy Murphy looks pretty cute. Murphy always looks cute, but also you've just been traveling. um So that's that's never a cute look. Should I roll to see how cute Murphy looks? um Sure.
00:14:24
Speaker
What am I rolling for? Roll for communication. Roll for communication. Communicate how cute you're looking to me right now. I do get a plus two. That's, whoa. That's a six, a five, and a three. That's a plus two. That's a 16. Okay, you're looking pretty good. You look a lot better. You're looking arrested. Murphy's cute. Extra cute. Somehow cuter than Solas in this moment. Solas is tired, even though she's been napping in an office all day.
00:14:56
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You look at Murphy and you see there's like a there's like a glow around them. God damn God shit. So Solas just goes, hi, we're here to see Chance Haddinson. We got this email and we're supposed to talk to like the bartender or whatever.
00:15:18
Speaker
The guy like looks at Solace's phone, looks at Solace, looks at the rest of the party, sees one that's being absolutely just like controlled by a pretzel. Just goes, this seems like some chance bullshit actually. You know Haddon's up there just like slapping his knee and laughing.
00:15:46
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Just eatin' popcorn. Where'd you get the popcorn? Oh, Haddon. I was like, where did you get the popcorn? Now Haddon's just eatin' popcorn. so
00:15:58
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like looks around, goes, give me a few auras, I'll let you in. I won't even look. his So it's like done. And just like gives him three or three, ah three fellas, not auras. Sorry, my brain is not working right now. Three fellas and just sort of like walks in with you guys. Sol is grabbing the pretzel stick and just is like controlling Ina.
00:16:26
Speaker
All right. It's been like, what, like 20-ish minutes since I drank? Can I roll to see if I'm sobering up? Yeah, you can. I don't want to be an idiot the whole time, guys. I mean, you can try. I mean, it's enough. Is it Constitution? Is that what it was before? Yep.
Chance's Magical Abilities
00:16:46
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Constitution's a plus three. ah Okay, that's decent. A five, a four, that's nine, plus three is 12, plus two is 14.
00:16:58
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Yeah, you're out of it. You have to be like a 13. Perfect. I'm sobering up and Ina goes, wait a minute. And then she takes the stick out from her back and starts chomping on the pretzel. Yeah, she still failed that intelligent role, so we're still in the clear. And then she leans down to Solace and she goes, it wasn't a ghost pretzel.
00:17:30
Speaker
It wasn't a ghost pretzel. It wasn't a ghost pretzel. It was floating in front of me because of, and then she pulls, she yanks the stick off of it because of this stick. That's crazy. Who could have put that there? I don't know. I guess it was some kind of a goat. Do you think it was the, the Mr. Pretzel cop man, because we went to a different pretzel cop than we usually do. No, that was the same guy. I'm pretty sure it was the same guy. Yeah.
00:18:00
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i asked him I asked him how he got here, and he just said, I don't know what you're talking about, and then- Well, that tells me that's a different person then. No, it's definitely the same guy. Hey, Mark, somebody asked the bartender about Chance. I just want to meet the guy.
00:18:30
Speaker
They just look at you, and they look at the pretzel that's now leaking cheese on their bar. you This is self-choosing pretzel. And that joke will never get old. We started here. we We're ending here.
00:18:45
Speaker
um
00:18:48
Speaker
They look over. Bobby, what were you guys chances doing at this bar right now? Bobby, introduce yourself. Introduce your character. How are you? Hold on. I have to realize that I'm in a world with self-cheezing pretzels existing. I know. Yeah. Isn't it paradise? Literally, you can make up any kind of food you want. It doesn't matter. Don't. No one's going to stop me. Oh, no. No. Because here's the thing. Because if you give Bobby that, I'm going to have to make it canon because I have no self-respect on this world. I think we've made literally everything we've done in canon so far.
00:19:28
Speaker
We made churro muffins exist. We literally sat there for 40 minutes and discussed the the family lineage of the Pretzel Cartman. Of goblin bros.
00:19:47
Speaker
who owns a vineyard and manages the whole empire. and there's one golin brother does have a beer I I'm going to say the link to the mafia. No one's going to stop me. god like the but pra mafia be a part of the of like some form of goblin mafia I would love to do that ah no one remusled their way before we get too derailed.
00:20:16
Speaker
oh So the bartender will point up at the stage and the band is in full effect with this ah tall lean ah pointy eared ah ah lead man on the microphone and he's wearing a button up shirt and pinstripe ah pants and really fancy shoes.
Chance's Rebellious Background
00:20:38
Speaker
and is just nailing a song. And the the song will ah just about like finish up and the bartender will kind of wave at him and he'll just give a nod and ah excuse himself and some other ah singer will come up and and take the place.
00:21:00
Speaker
And this this lanky guy steps off the stage and is handed a towel and just ah starts cleaning himself up. Looks like he's been singing for a couple hours.
00:21:14
Speaker
And we'll kind of walk over your ways it' like and still ah literally like ah getting the the sweat of himself is like, ah even what can I do for y'all?
00:21:29
Speaker
Okay, hold on. Before we start, we found his business card in the files on the ship. It was on the files. It was on top of the desk. On top of the desk. Okay. I thought it was in the files because I have it when I have it under searching in the Pursher's office. So I wasn't sure where it was located. Solas found it immediately on top of the desk in the Pursher's office. It was just like there as a gift for her. And she was like, Oh, fine. Okay, because I just knew that we were searching. I didn't know if it was on the desk or if it was in the files. No, it was on top of that desk. Sweet. All right. Hi, I'm Solace. You emailed me after I emailed you.
00:22:12
Speaker
Oh, you are the one that found one of my cards. Excellent. Come over here. And he he'll point his way to a ah there's like a booth VIP area that he'll just go ah step over into. And he slides into one half of this booth. And um it is obnoxiously large booth. It looks like it's made for many different sizes. Before Solas follows all of you, she just looks at the bartender and goes, Can I get it?
00:22:43
Speaker
dirty chai martini and the guy's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And she's like, thank you. Yeah, so ah she like scoots in and then scoots in with you guys following. Solas grabbed the last piece of that pretzel and is still dragging Serena. I am sober now, thank you. Are you telling me I still can't leash you around with a pretzel? Not anymore.
00:23:12
Speaker
I don't believe you, actually. Haiki, don't believe you.
00:23:20
Speaker
um Hi, thank you so much for getting back to my email. I know it was super vague and it really said ah nothing on it. So, hi, how are you?
00:23:30
Speaker
and I'm doing quite well. This has been a good night. and No problem with that. my ah My cards have a tendency of seeking out people that need assistance and help and I just kind of learned to roll with it. um there's a There's a faint messenger system that you can put these out in and they just, they they end up where they need to. So what what ah what seems to be the situation with y'all?
00:23:55
Speaker
Yeah, it's a big one. Do we you the truth? Do we just give them the full truth, or do we give them happiness? I think we just want to get this done quicker. Ina is just looking back and forth between Solas and Murphy, and then she gets a little annoyed at the indecisate indecision, but she's also like, I don't know if I'm supposed to tell that much. And she goes, we're looking specifically for something of your dad's, I presume?
00:24:24
Speaker
What do you hold on one moment and you see who reaches behind him and pulls on this ah this little ah rope and the booth itself will have little curtains that ah close around it and you can't hear the music outside of it anymore. Oh my God. That's so fucking cool. That is cool. He's like a little more privacy. ah Dad's always listening, so let's let's leave him out of it for the moment.
00:24:50
Speaker
yeah i wish i could say the same for me and serena's dad but we don't have the same dad our dads you know what i meant you have to be more and what my friend
Mission: Gods and Tokens
00:25:05
Speaker
vincent likes to call specific Your friend Vincent wants to fuck you. Sorry. No, that's Marco. Sorry, they don't want to be working at that craft shop, I promise you. Well, Vincent's up for a promotion soon. Okay.
00:25:41
Speaker
I'm sorry did we just assume that Chance's correct parentage was Haddon and we were correct I just want to make sure we I
00:26:07
Speaker
little on the nose. I didn't really pick it. I really do have dad to thank for that one. Murphy, do you have a last name? Nope. I don't either. Why don't we have last names? I don't know. I think it's just because we never got one. We never chose one. Lane.
00:26:28
Speaker
I have siblings that have last names, but like they don't really use them all that often. My last name is Walker. That means nothing. What kind of last name do your siblings have? I can't remember in this exact moment. What is it things like? Tulip? No, Tulip is the first name of one of my siblings.
00:26:49
Speaker
This has been my entire trip. We were literally very far, far, far, far, like generationally, just like far from past. And i've just I've just been dealing with these two, and now you're, there's another one. Now there's, have you guys just Have you guys just been actively just chilling in this and all? And everyone's just been, there's a lot. Technically the only,
00:27:14
Speaker
God children that are allowed down here are Haddon's children and Iz means children.
Token Illusion and Trust Issues
00:27:22
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, i I picked that one up from the stage. Yeah.
00:27:36
Speaker
Can you guess which one is which? I was honestly just going to tell him we're I'm romant this that one's not the players forgetting the name of the God. That's fine. So my brain is not here right now. I'll send her. I'll send her. So Murphy says I'll send her.
00:27:58
Speaker
I have so much stuff to do today. I just might find some more. Okay, baby, it's okay. hi Yeah, so... i thatlon alinder That one, that one, Robanthus, me, great great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother of a daughter of past. Counting the greats on his hand. I've just been here. I've just I've honestly I just met them and maybe they are just here now. So we fell from a hole or sorry, fell into a hole.
00:28:40
Speaker
I don't know about you, you jumped, I was pushed. Okay, anyways, we are looking for the tokens for all of the gods so we can get them back on the
00:28:58
Speaker
Oh, hold on a moment. He'll he makes a couple of little more. He makes a couple of motions with his hands and an image of some green, like a green token will appear. It's like I think this is what it looks like. Something like this. It's like intrusive thoughts, check.
00:29:23
Speaker
And it's going to immediately see that, like,
00:29:35
Speaker
this is an illusion? You do notice his eyes will glow like an emerald green when he does make this like image appear. okay So the image is what looks to be a stone of an emerald and the emerald is within like a teardrop shape. um It's about the size, it's like three to four inches.
00:29:56
Speaker
Okay, can we say that Ina, because as soon as I heard, like and then it's just there, Ina immediately was like, grab it. Is Ina smart enough to understand that this is an illusion? I don't know. Have you guys loved done your proper leveling up? I have, yes. Are we supposed to level up? I didn't do that.
00:30:17
Speaker
i did You're not doing that today. You're not doing it right now. I'm not, no.
00:30:29
Speaker
think it did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I have my stunt bonus there now. um Yeah, I feel like Ina is because she's had to go and steal shit from Haddon's realm enough that she might know. But I feel like she's still going to try to reach out and touch it.
Chance's Autonomy in Assistance
00:30:48
Speaker
Maybe that's as far as her intrusive thoughts go. She's going to try to reach out and touch it. OK, B to 16.
00:30:54
Speaker
B to 16 for an intrusive thought check. See if it's going to be and
00:31:21
Speaker
What's the reaction here? Oh, and let it happen. But when you when you open your hand to see what you've got, it's just a cookie.
00:31:34
Speaker
I got the token guys, it's a cookie! Don't miss cakes, the cookie needs it. Hey, that was all right back home! That was not, I promised you. A handle reached through the curtain with a tray on it that ah chancel grabbed and it's got dirty chai martini and a a couple different bottles. ah One's just a crystal to cancer with what looks like whiskey in it. And that's the,
00:32:04
Speaker
The poor and the go. Yeah. So it was like, dips the cookie into the martini and just eats and she goes, this is great, actually. um Yeah, so that's the token. That's great. We didn't know what that looked like. So that's that's good that we have an idea. Oh, God. oh Do you know where we could find it to make our lives easy or no? um Well,
00:32:32
Speaker
ah Dad, as it were, um likes to keep things ah moving, because a lot of his stuff gets into different hands and things. And even though it always usually ends up back with him, i because he keeps good track of things, I don't know exactly where it would be right now, but I could ah offer some assistance in finding it. ah the The services I offer, And you'll see that he he will actually ah pull a jacket that matches the suit pants off the back of ah the booth. And from a pocket, he pulls a full size like paper packet out of the impossible to fit in that pocket, but just a and it looks like a contract.
00:33:24
Speaker
It's like, I work for ah mostly for the community and for other beings needing help. I'm contracted through a lot of different entities and mostly the fates. I like to help. And he puts this big toothy grin on his face. like like But you're also a child of Haddon. So what sort of trickery are you trying to do? I was about to say, what's the cost of this?
00:33:52
Speaker
Oh, well, actually, here's the deal. In this, I'll be straightforward with you. um I like to think I have the best qualities of my dad and enough of the qualities that are opposite of him to piss him off on a daily basis. And the good thing is that works mean really well for you. let me Let me ask you this. If somebody asks you a question, do you draw a dick in dust and then laugh?
00:34:24
Speaker
That's not really my style. Cool. Cause I was talking ahead and like a couple of days ago and like, or no, more like a week ago at this point. And, uh, yeah, that's all he did. Bobby, just so you have like the ideas of like what had been sort of personality is think of the looks of Aladdin, but has the personality of Jeannie. That sounds like about him. yeah Um,
Exploring McCarty Isles
00:34:54
Speaker
i i don't know why I don't know why he's so silly. And honestly, it infuriates me to no end. But I have found one of my favorite things to do is to, um and leans forward and whispers,
00:35:11
Speaker
I really like to piss him off as much as I can as often as I can. And he really, really needs me to do all the things that I do. So he kind of lets me get away with it. And it's kind of a little game we have going on. And so he'll pull out this coin that is about like it's it it looks more like ah a seal or a sigil. And it's got ah a image of ah of Haddon on one side of it. And on the other side, it has an image of Haddon with like a silly like scrolling over it. He's like, so I'll make you a deal.
00:35:50
Speaker
Heads, ah you have to ah pay me, um some poultry figure will figure out. Tails, I will take on your case pro bono with the caveat of i i if I travel with you, you have to assume that you have to put me up with the rest of you and other things. So I don't want to take care or have to figure out lodging or, you know, ah I'll take care of food. I probably can pull that out of a hat if needed. But um I will let things ah fall where they lie in the fates. So if this falls on one side, we'll negotiate a payment. If not, I'll consider the aggravation this is going to do to dad more than payment enough. Does this sound acceptable?
00:36:39
Speaker
and As he's talking, the words that he said fill out on the paper. It's it's like a full contract going. Okay, Ali, what would I roll for an insight check? ah Probably an intelligence. An intelligence? Okay. I was looking in the book, and the only thing that I could see was like searching, and it was under communication. But like, I feel like this would be more intelligence, right? Yeah.
00:37:09
Speaker
Okay, that was actually a decent roll. That's a five,
Malcolm Manor and Cedric's Notoriety
00:37:12
Speaker
a five, and a three. So that's 13 plus 114. I wanna see if this dude's a lion. Like if there was anything in there that's just like, that doesn't sound right. What's a 14?
00:37:31
Speaker
Do you, I think you're more of having an issue trusting people right now. So it's not more of a, you can tell if he's lying or not. It's more of a, i thank and I think wouldn't it be like, wouldn't have Alcindor taught us at like, as young as we physically can, like which of the God's children to trust and which ones not to. Oh yeah.
00:37:52
Speaker
Oh yeah, oh yeah. And your dad does not like Haddon. And Haddon doesn't like your dad, so. Yeah, I don't know. I just, any clues. Stone Face Bobby.
00:38:16
Speaker
ah Okay, so I don't really get a read. I feel like, and I'll do, I guess I can do my own insight check as well, but I feel like at some point we have to do some stuff we're not going to like to get to the point to get to the point. yeah I just don't want us to like sign a contract. And then it's like, you have to hand over your first born son kind of shit.
00:38:40
Speaker
You do see the only words on there on that contract are the ones he's just said out loud as as he went through. So it's a if the coin is one way that there's payment to be negotiated in good faith. And if it goes the other way, it is all pro bono work and he will do his best to assist you in in your quest. OK. I mean, it doesn't sound that bad. No, but I feel like the coins going to be rigged. Murphy's going to take the coin and flip it.
00:39:12
Speaker
I don't know if there's anything I should roll for that, but. Bobby, do you want to roll for that? Oh, no, I've ah per negotiation. That is to be rolled by you. Okay. I'm about to say that the head is going to crack in.
00:39:39
Speaker
Yeah, it's the Kraken, but it's going to be the one that has the scrolling on it, and the tails is just going to be the normal hat and head.
00:39:50
Speaker
Heads. Kraken? Kraken. So does it go our way? Bobby, does it go their way? Heads with payment, I think. Heads is payment, right? ah Heads is payment. Shit.
00:40:09
Speaker
Hmm, so he he he he looks at ah each of you is like so payment. um
00:40:22
Speaker
Let's see, I will take one coin from each of you. so Plucks out a fella and puts it on the table. Same.
00:40:38
Speaker
Ina reluctantly like she is hesitating. She does not trust this.
00:40:49
Speaker
Murphy is going to look at Ina and try to make eye contact and just kind of give this look of sometimes we have to do what we have to do. and we're I think, okay, is there a way for me to communicate with like, is there like God's speech at all? Like, is there a way for me to communicate with Murphy?
00:41:09
Speaker
No, especially because you haven't really done that before. You guys definitely don't have any like. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if there's anything like that. I feel like Ina is going to communicate with her eyes like, I don't trust this, but I'm following your lead. And so she puts the coin on the table and then she slides it over. Murphy's just going to nod.
00:41:35
Speaker
All right, excellent payment made. He sets the coins actually on the tray. And now I don't have to worry about tip tonight. And you will slide the little paper away and start scrolling on it with his. ah He has a a pen that he'll pull out that looks way more like a wand than a pen.
00:41:56
Speaker
And the letters will all glow in various other things. I, Chance Hadinson, agree to help adventurers. He, like, formal names asks, and he'll jot them down as you tell them. ah With their quest is to the best of his ability for as long as mutually agreed upon. And we'll sign, and just, he will slip the thing around to let you all read.
00:42:26
Speaker
Murphy signs it. Is this agreeable? Yeah. Sola signs it with like a heart ah no added to her name. Oh, one more thing. I think we need to establish a little trust and a sign on bonus of three cookies for her troubles. And we'll slide three cookies over to Sarita in good faith.
00:42:51
Speaker
There's one way to get Serena to do anything. Intrusive thought check.
00:43:03
Speaker
you know Motivated. I think she is a Taurus.
00:43:09
Speaker
Yeah, girl rolled a six, a three, and a two. All right, no, you failed that. So it's a six. Well, hold on. It's a six plus two, or a six plus three equals nine plus two equals 11 plus one equals 13. Yeah, you failed it. All right. Her intrusive thought this time, push the cookies away. She doesn't want them.
00:43:36
Speaker
No problem. She's out. No, I don't think she's being rude. I think she's trying to, she doesn't trust this situation. And every time that they've had an encounter with one of Haddon's children, whether it's drinking something or be in the general vicinity, Ina's lost her like mental faculties. And I think she's just not trust in this situation. So her intrusive thought is just like, I'm pushing the cookies away from me. I'm not gonna eat them.
00:44:06
Speaker
Just to make sure um your name is Chance Haddinson. It's not Cedric Malcolm. No, no, that's that's my brother, Richard.
00:44:18
Speaker
Ricky or whatever. Richard usually gets him to look at me in a certain way. But i no, that's my brother. He does a lot with a lot with booze. Yeah, we we noticed some of it it kind of fucked us up a little bit at a club and on the ship. It's been a little bit weird lately.
00:44:41
Speaker
i I would honestly apologize for my siblings, but if I were to do that, we would be here all day. All I can say is um I can assure you that I have good intentions. I can't say that about everyone from my family, and I especially can't say that about my father, um but I like to live in a way that ah is my own path.
00:45:03
Speaker
ah some a little bit of background, if I may, and he'll kind of gesture to the table. And like, I ah begrudgingly am a scribe and a contract mage, the term usually used
Cedric's Carnival and Brand Influence
00:45:20
Speaker
around here as a lawyer, very few and far between.
00:45:23
Speaker
I've heard of lawyers before. I was required to do that as part of my, if I want to live in my father's house, I need to do these things. um i That's not my least favorite profession. I would have rather been what you saw earlier, pointing at the stage.
00:45:42
Speaker
ah fun man I like to express myself, I like to live, I like to adventure and do various other things. I just have a lot of skills and begrudgingly I got this skill which my father thought was going to be great use to him and and technically it is.
00:45:59
Speaker
But I also like to use it ah to twist the dagger a little, as it were, towards him, because my dad is a bit of an asshole. And I like to remind him that because not many people can tell him he's an asshole and live to tell about it later. But I find myself impeccably useful. So there's not really much he can do. And I think he likes the fact that I frustrate him if that's even possible. But ah that being said, that's one of the reasons why I like to do jobs like this, because it really messes with the higher ups and makes the world just a little bit better, a little bit more tolerable for me, because if I had to go to fucking law school, pardon the language,
00:46:49
Speaker
ah then I want to use what I was forced to do in the the ways that will amuse me most and mess with the the gods just a little bit here and there. The fates are usually pretty good at helping me do that as well.
00:47:05
Speaker
So which is why, since they brought you to me, why I have a moniker of trust for you. So I know that trust for me hasn't been earned yet, which is why I'm hoping this contract will at least help in the fact of like, i I am not, I am my father's child, but I'm not after my father, if that makes sense. I mean, I've had worse contracts over my phone plan than the one you just gave me, so.
00:47:35
Speaker
So with that being said, ah if the contract is in order and everybody's agreed, then I can ah do my ah best to render services. And at least for a while, join you and see if I'm able to help. That sounds great. We did just get off a boat, so we don't really have a place to stay yet. The boat was interesting.
00:48:04
Speaker
Yeah, the chef was the only cool one there, in my opinion. Well, um what manner are you all wishing to stay ah in our fair city? Are you looking for a hostel, which I would not really recommend? Are you looking for a little bit of luxury?
00:48:24
Speaker
um I mean, I'll just take a bed in an enclosed room that I can like, you know, have some privacy. That's all I really need. We like luxury, but we can't pay for luxury. we get it Well, boy, if that's not a reflection of real life.
00:48:42
Speaker
and Well, I can tell you what, I do have a suite here. um How about, and and looks over at the three cookies on there. um How about we trade three cookies for three nights and you all can stay in the suite. There's about six bedrooms in it. Wow, that's more than the current accommodations we have now. So, yeah. Yeah, and I feel bad for just, you know, doing three cookies. So what if I gave you like 50 fellas, just as like a thank you.
00:49:13
Speaker
It the suite costs me nothing. It's my perk for singing here, pro bono. So that's fair, but that I still feel like I should give you something. Oh, dinner, dinner, train for dinner. How about that? So wait, this island is technically your father. So does that mean like basically everyone on here is a child of Haddon or no?
00:49:41
Speaker
yeah There's a lot of us around here, but no, this this island tends to attract people that would want to be here. So um yes, you can usually tell some of the ah children by various traits and things that they're doing and assume that the the buildings are probably owned by ah by family or operated by on one level or another. But yeah, not everyone here is a child. ah He's busy, but not quite that busy. OK. All right.
00:50:20
Speaker
Yeah, I think that would be good. I hate to like ask you all these questions. Do you um happen to know like an idea of where like the token would be because we don't really we don't want to like stay we have a lot of other tokens to get this is only our second one so uh and we don't even have it yet so we're just trying to like collect as quickly as possible because i don't know what will happen if they're gone for too long especially because they seem to be important up in the citadel um Yeah, I don't know if you're too privy. Murphy's just going to be honest right now. Like, I don't know if you're too privy to what's happening, but like Ravi's trying to retire and I don't know what's going on with Alcindor. So. Well, I can put the feelers out. Actually, I can send a page out to figure out. I'm assuming it's with one of my siblings, because
00:51:24
Speaker
ah Dad doesn't like to hold on to anything personally. He doesn't like pockets. So he puts things in places or entrusts them to his various ah children. So ah we could find out, but um first and foremost, Eddie, he'll lean a little closer.
00:51:47
Speaker
Um, there are private baths in the suites upstairs and you all look like you could use refresher. don We were just on a boat. Yeah. Yeah. It was a pretty, pretty nasty cruise and I was in the kitchen. So I wonder if like, you know, a is like party wise outside, is it like this every night?
00:52:11
Speaker
Oh, yeah mostly every night, like Saturday and Sunday are the big nights. So it it'll be like double this. um the The average night around here looks like a ah ah a city festival. Got it. Got it. OK, great. Amazing. Great. OK.
00:52:33
Speaker
Okay, so yeah, let's go and do a fun little refresh on us and ah we'll reconvene in the morning, I guess. Yeah, that sounds good to me. i real Real fast, I know that I like you know appear cute, because you know that cuteness check I did earlier, but do I smell like a ah shitty cruise ship kitchen? You
Suite Return and Next Plans
00:52:57
Speaker
smell like a shitty cruise ship kitchen, yeah.
00:53:00
Speaker
wonder I think you just smell like cotton. I know you decided to tell me that.
00:53:07
Speaker
I know what Alzheimer's Domain smells like. ah For a chance, just so you know, i'm I was one of those people that would like visit each domain up in the Citadel and like kind of stay there for a while. I'm a lot older than I look, just...
00:53:25
Speaker
Just say yes. Something that you'll get used to in this city for even the short time you're planning on being here, nothing is as it appears to be. Yep. That's why I like these contracts, because it's hard to not be what you say you are with something like that. That's extremely valid. And I appreciate your, you know, at least your appearing to be honest so far. So
00:53:50
Speaker
So Chance will ah pull the cord in the booth. ah Curtains will pull back and he tips the last of his drink out and sets it down and grabs one of the bottles that's on the tray and goes with it. You see, he's left the the money you gave him on the tray know as a as a tip for ah the server. OK. He's like, shall we? And we'll lead you all to a elevator door.
00:54:20
Speaker
And so it's just like hops in. She goes, OK. He will hit one of the numbers. It's not the highest. It's not the like it's around the midsection of the place, but it will open up and ah there's only a single door there and you'll pull out a key, open the door and it's a sweet, sweet like. Yeah. He walks in like, whoa, sweet.
00:54:49
Speaker
Oh, God, we need a new place to stay. Not here. I'm talking about like at my house. um weird and Like your apartment's kind of small. And I know that like it was a studio for just me. I wasn't expecting two giant half gods to come in and play sleepover. I'm not that big.
00:55:10
Speaker
Looks like Ina Murphy is supposed to be. Holy shit. I tower over you only. But also.
00:55:20
Speaker
Yeah, you do. That's probably the Just curiosity. Oh, man. He's taller than me. And just just just just just the lanky. Yeah. Just lanky guy.
00:55:38
Speaker
yeah
00:55:40
Speaker
So fully stocked kitchen over there, the bars over there. ah And each of your rooms has a ah full a rest area as well as a bath. ah If you need anything at all, um you can ring the bell by the front door and make a request of room service. Everything is part of my contract with the venue for my services here.
00:56:09
Speaker
So please don't worry, ah but I am going to go get some rest and a bath myself. So if you need anything, my room is through the double doors there. Just knock. And other than that, enjoy yourselves. If you need to go downstairs or anything, you can actually just come back to the elevator. It registered that you came up with me and you should be able to get back without any hassle.
00:56:36
Speaker
Thank you. Just out of curiosity, you said you perform here? Yes. what like what are you i know ah I don't remember what you said. Do you sing? Is it that you do? Yes. When do you usually do that?
00:56:50
Speaker
um Whenever I'm in town, a standing contract for ah music, song, guitar, drums, and he'll just start rattling off various instruments. she While you're rattling that off, Sola slowly goes to her room to go to a bath. She just goes, I'm done. 15 minutes later, you're done listing instruments.
00:57:15
Speaker
And then he realized he's like, what were we talking about? I was just asking what you do, yeah. Yeah. Maybe we can come by and view a show just as a thank you for helping us out on top of letting us stay here and everything else.
00:57:29
Speaker
Oh, that'd be ah that'd be fantastic.
Meeting the Manic Cedric
00:57:31
Speaker
um let ah Oh, before he forgets and he actually walks to the front door and rings the little bell and you hear a little speaker come on, he's like, yes, sir, what can I get for you? It's like, um I need an item located and he will whisper into the ah into the little speaker and you hear, yes, sir, I'll see what I can do.
00:57:58
Speaker
It's like the concierge service here is amazing. Yeah. I mean, if if if you said what I think you said, then that's pretty good. So now they can't acquire anything like that for me, but they can at least give good hints as far as where it goes. Fair enough. Thanks for all your help. Go get some rest and I'm going to do the same.
00:58:19
Speaker
OK. um Does Ina do anything or does she just go to her room? I think Ina's standing there waiting for Chance to leave, just like nods.
00:58:34
Speaker
um After Chance leaves, I think Murphy is going to like kind of just look around for a bit. And then after like a few minutes is going to look at Ina and be like, I'm going to go downstairs and just kind of like hang out in the bar area and just observe. So. OK. I don't know. Did you want to talk about anything before I head down there?
00:58:54
Speaker
Uh, I don't trust this one bit. I mean, I don't blame your head and it's a bit of an asshole, but it's more than just that. Something just feels off. I very much agree. But it's like I was trying to, I don't know if you got my community, my full communication earlier, but.
00:59:14
Speaker
You know, sometimes we got to do stuff we don't like to get to the point that we want to be at. So no something we want to if we want to get home, we got to do we got to do some stuff. Something's just a little fishy. Bobby, I want to be so clear. I'm so sorry. Every time we've had a guest on here, they've tried to kill them. And so so now they don't trust no one.
00:59:44
Speaker
I'm not trying to kill you at all. So we trust nobody. Yeah, that was on me. I should have warned you. I'm sorry. It's all good. I think if you could have seen through the this is a little meta, but if you could see it through the only deception that even remotely came out was he said that he likes to piss his dad off a little. the And that was the tip of the iceberg. He likes to piss him off.
01:00:11
Speaker
Really? Like he is he is a brat to his dad because his dad is an ass to him. So yes, this is one of the things that Chance lives for is what can he do to piss dad off today? OK, but he's so damn useful that his dad does little about it. Yeah, is just like.
01:00:40
Speaker
Doesn't trust being here because all the crazy shit that's been going on. She just doesn't trust nothing. That's fair. Do you guys wanna do any checks? Do you guys wanna call it a night and start it in the morning? I feel like Ina's gonna like move some furniture out of the way. Like make like a giant area for herself if that's even humanly possible in the suite. I don't know how big the suite is. It's a big suite. It's a big suite. And she's gonna practice using her sword because she has not
01:01:14
Speaker
Like she hasn't been able to practice in it because she was focusing on making money for this trip and then being on the boat. So she hasn't practiced in like a week. So she's just going to do some fighting practice. OK. And Murph, what are you exactly are you doing downstairs?
01:01:32
Speaker
Well, before Murph goes downstairs, they're going to um you're gonna like shower, clean up a bit, put on some new clothes, and then go downstairs and just just observe. Grab like a soda or something and just observe. um should i do um I feel like I want to do like um perception checks or like intelligence or whatever. You can do some perception. You can do some perception checks.
01:01:58
Speaker
um
01:02:01
Speaker
Well, so that's a six, a six and a one plus four, it's a 17. Okay, so anytime you see somebody drinking a can that seems to have the this four leaf clover sigil on it or seems to like be drinking something that definitely had a four leaf clover sigil on it, you notice them to be acting a little bit more sporadic and ah in a little bit more like dazed than the other people that just seem to be drinking just like the normal beer and wine that's around.
01:02:34
Speaker
i'm This sigil you already know is ah connected to the Cedric Malcolm guy. That Chance has already said, that's my brother and I hate him. so Yeah, it had a tiny cat on it too. No, the cat and the snake I believe was Chance's logo.
01:02:59
Speaker
Oh, well, it says Murphy's in the kitchen. We're now actively looking for shit. Murphy finds bottles of McCarty I'll run Cedric Malcolm owned tiny cat on label. Oh, okay. It was a cat and a clover. Sorry. I was about to say it's probably both. I mean, it wouldn't yeah surprise me.
01:03:15
Speaker
Yeah, Murphy's also going to double check their drink that it doesn't have that to do. Patrick, you've been actively steering away from it after you've been noticing the effects and also you notice the sigil is the same from the one that's been on the ships. And there's none at the bar that's actually in the suite. Like that's all like either sealed bottles of liquor or various other things. But none of the cans are there. um much you want to bet How much you want to bet the stones at Malcolm Manor and there's some crazy shit going on.
01:03:49
Speaker
um I mean, there probably is. ah We should have asked Chance about the storm.
01:03:56
Speaker
Sorry. It's just Milton. Don't worry. Sorry. Too soon? It's just Milton. Milton. Why would they name it that? I'm sorry. Out of everything they could have named it, they named it Milton. OK, sorry. It's like Helene yelling at their son, Milton, get inside. I'm sick of shit. All right.
01:04:27
Speaker
here? No. No? Okay. I was about to say. If Ina knew how to get there, she'd probably go on and do some and investigating. I'm pretty sure Chance would have no problem taking you guys there in the morning. Yeah, I was about to say, that's probably where we're gonna go in the morning. So Ina is finishing up her lovely fighting routine, practicing forms and swings and shit. And then she goes and takes a nice little shower bath. She wrapss she wraps herself up in like a fluffy little towel too.
01:05:02
Speaker
They're heated towels. There's full robes, too, which you'll see chance come out in one with his hair up in like a big towel. And he goes over to the area ah to the little kitchen area and just grabs all these little snacks and a cocktail. Sees that you're sees that you've been working out and he's like, oh, there's a gym over through the door on the left if you need and then walks back into his room and shuts the door. You know, should have looked for that, but she did not.
01:05:33
Speaker
I think cat has something she wants to add. Okay. Yes, marphy Murphy. Murphy. Yes, Kyle's cat is also named Murphy. We're not talking about it. She's looking right at the camera. What a witty girl. Best special guest ever. Sorry, Bobby. You've been replaced.
01:06:07
Speaker
is locked, because as we all know, Ena sleeps buck-ass naked. Yeah. i think I think Murphy would come back like maybe an hour after Ena goes to sleep, because they want to spend some time and just get a feel for the people, the place, and stuff. He almost has been asleep for two hours. Yeah. Fair enough.
01:06:29
Speaker
Okay, so that has been, that was your evening, going into morning. Uh-huh. Okay,
Preparing for Cedric's Confrontation
01:06:37
Speaker
Bobby, would you say Chance would probably wake up around like 10 a.m., that's when? 10 a.m., it's when the buzzer goes off at the front door and you open it up because he had already pre-ordered like enough food to feed everybody.
01:06:52
Speaker
So, yeah, a little carts come in with all the things like this only works when I'm here. But while I'm here, I'm going to enjoy as much of this as I can. He's already awake before you and just kind of like I don't know how much I've talked about like Murphy's hair, but their hair is like very long. So very, very like thick hair. So they're like, yeah, they're they're up maintaining it. It's very like fluffy hair, too. So they're just kind of like doing their usual hair routine.
01:07:21
Speaker
And they see you wake up and they're like, oh, hey, good morning. Good morning, walks past, opens the doors. All these carts come wheeled in with like the bell hop type of people. It's like hazelnut coffee, I smell. Well, they have that and a vanilla and this one's mint and just three different decanters.
01:07:47
Speaker
I think Murphy's going to take like a mug and pour half of the vanilla or no, like three fourths of vanilla and then just like a little bit of the mint. Oh, a little bit of the mint because that's an interesting combination.
01:08:01
Speaker
Nina. Solas walks out, pigtails that's kind of like hiding her bunny ears. ah One of those ah joggers that has like the openings on the side and like a tied up crop top. And she's just like walking out going, oh, thank God there's brunch. Nina comes in through the front door closing it because she's already been awake for five fucking hours. we And she's coming in from her run, and she just goes, good morning, sleepyheads. Did you enjoy sleeping in? Murphy's still brushing her hair and sipping coffee. I'm going to have for like two hours. So Solas comes by, takes Murphy's brush, and starts brushing it for them.
01:08:53
Speaker
Murphy just sits down and relaxes.
01:08:58
Speaker
Also, I described like the coloring of Murphy's hair. It's white with like, it's like a beige. it's It's like a whitish beige with like green, like very dark green highlights, but like the highlights are more towards the tips. And so this just has white hair. Yeah.
01:09:18
Speaker
and happy But um yeah, so this is just like brushing your hair for you and just like, you know, we have brunch. Chance got it for us because Chance is very nice. Chance is the only one from Haddon's children that I officially trust. Thanks. I feel like this is going to end with Chance dying tragically.
01:09:40
Speaker
Everybody dies. know just And Ina, she's gonna literally take one of every food item and just pile it onto a plate. Alcindor. That one's from Alcindor. I have to eat at least 7,000 calories a day. That explains the pretzels. That does explain the pretzels, actually, yeah. I burn at least 10,000 every day.
01:10:14
Speaker
Hey, Murph, do you want me to braid your hair? Actually, yeah, I feel like that'd be nice. Last question who did that was, um I think they were in, like, Paz's domain and it was just some random person. and Yeah, do you want, like, fish, do you want fishtailed or a friend? Whatever you want to do. Okay. Remy is just stirring. He's like, I'm complaining.
01:10:40
Speaker
um edit After she inhales food, she's going to go get a lovely shower and her hair's going to be up. Well, you guys are dealing with that. Solas just goes, so today, do we have an idea of where we want to go or where or we would want chance to take us?
01:10:58
Speaker
um I mean, maybe my first thing is I want to scout and I want to see like, you you know, for for lack of a better term, I want to scout and see what's what's around, like where's safe to go, where's not safe to go. um When you say that we figure out.
01:11:15
Speaker
When you say that, there's a little chime and it's the ah elevator chance. And you notice one of your siblings, that's rather small, like very tiny of your siblings, comes rushing in and then looks at you and like gestures you down so you could like hear them as they wanna whisper in your ear. And yeah for um everyone else here, you hear the, and chance what you hear is,
01:11:44
Speaker
Cedric has the token. And yes, they run out. I was about to say, can I do a hearing check to see if I hear that? You can see if you can hear that. Yeah, I have a hearing in perception. So I have a focus.
01:12:00
Speaker
Holy shit. All right, so that's a stomp point. All right, 6, 6, 12, 13, plus 2, 15, plus 1, 16. You definitely hear it, like especially if you have a focus on it, you definitely hear that. And and then they scurry out, like they're trying to get away as fast as possible. i feel like yeah but He's given a coin before he goes. I feel like that's when Ina's coming out, and this is horrific to me, but Ina's hair care, wrap it up in a towel, and let it air dry.
01:12:39
Speaker
So she comes out and she hears that. you're doing And she goes, so Cedric has the coin, huh? I don't think it's a coin. I think it's an emerald, but. I don't know. I heard token, coin, something. I was too busy drawing my hair. You know, we've been calling them tokens to the gods for forever now. Yes, but some of them look like coins. Some of them might look like bubbles.
01:13:08
Speaker
Not necessarily, but I mean, i i I understand the thought process. I also understand in the thought process. However, we were literally shown it's an ah's a teardrop emerald. So I don't know. Same. So we're going to see your brother, Cedric.
01:13:29
Speaker
So, OK. Oh, no. So, if set so since he has it, um he's not he doesn't give anything away ever. OK, please tell me we don't have to kill him. and I hope not, because I would have to see so much paperwork. ah We're going to avoid paperwork at all costs. Bobby, you just gave me flashbacks to my job. Same.
01:13:58
Speaker
The same. Same. But. um I. So my brother's into things and nefarious little dealings and such like that. And, you know, King Ching.
01:14:15
Speaker
information is probably the best bet of um either threatening to expose something with evidence or other things to kind of muscle him into doing whatever we want. um I've done this since we were kids and he tried to steal my lunch money and I negotiated it to where he'd be paying for my lunches for the entirety of my childhood. So ah We just need a little bitty plan. But while we think of what we want to do, let's go on a little tour of the town, shall we? Yeah, that sounds great.
01:14:54
Speaker
Because ah we also might dig up some information or dirt or other fun things. And and you who were saying you've already had dealings with him and his his latest ah alcoholic concoction, correct? Yeah, not directly, but yeah made it it's made its way to Astridale, which is crazy because that shouldn't be there. I don't like it.
01:15:22
Speaker
I don't know why you drank any of it. Well, I wanted to see if there was something up with it. And turns out there is. Also, Ally, since I did a run this morning, how close would I have been able to get to Malcolm's Manor before people were like, oh, there's a portion near here. I would say you can run past it, but you can't go up to the main gate. Yeah. OK. Would I have noticed anything significant?
01:15:57
Speaker
Just that the gates looked ah like the Wizard of Oz Golden Gates. Okay. Perfect. All right.
01:16:12
Speaker
ki We all sit in silence.
01:16:20
Speaker
Take us on a tour of the McCarty Isles and anything you say I have to make canon. That's the law. Don't say anything too game-breaking. We're going to immediately start seeing things pop up on the map like magic. We're going to see the exact same Goblin Brothers show up everywhere.
01:16:41
Speaker
Well, this is one of the hubs of goblin brothers pretzel company. So yeah, so that's so here. ah but you like Wait chance. Do you know if they have like underground tunnels or Lex is like, I don't know teleportation that gets them here because that I swear to God, that guy was not on the boat.
01:17:00
Speaker
uh, goblin magic is weird even for me. So I don't, I don't even want to spend the time wrapping my head around what they can and can't do. I just know that at three in the morning when you're hung over there, their pretzels can save your life. ah Fair enough.
01:17:17
Speaker
But we'll take you on the tour. During the daytime, it's still very festive and but it's very much more street fair versus street party. you know And this and the whole island is just um like ah endless clubs and various other things and restaurants and shops, so many shops and different street vendors and fairs and So just going through ah the various areas, he he's deliberately not going south to where the manor is. It seems like that's going to be the last place he takes you. But um there is ah different ah clothing and costume shops and they actually have a lot of stuff you could rent versus buy. Murphy's going to take note of that because they need to update their wardrobe.
01:18:07
Speaker
um As he gets over to the eastern end of the island, the docks there are bringing in lots of different goods and and various, ah like a lot of food and things like that are all imported because most of the island is, ah there's there there is no farm, there is no growing things here. This is you know wall to wall. Notice the boat just popped up.
01:18:33
Speaker
but the um It seems like everybody comes in on the the Western end, but all the supplies come in on the Eastern end. And then ah taking you around there the the beach area, um it's not advertised as a nude beach.
01:18:52
Speaker
me But no one's stopping anyone for any reason. And the the whole place is just the sand is covered with people and the water is beautiful and crystal clear. And ah there are ah various vendors walking around with like the strap around their neck and the big ah ah wares, like, cover their hearing. And those get elaborate to the point of like, some people have these, they look like beetle from ah Legend of Zelda, like just big huge packs of wares and various things. So you you can literally sit on the beach and the vendors will come to you as you wave and just about any food you can think of is on a stick and ready to go.
01:19:41
Speaker
um But the as he's taking you to the rest of the the place, ah the manneror before you get to Malcolm Manor, there's a full carnival, like actual with rides and things like that on the southern end.
01:19:54
Speaker
that um And in in that area, it is almost exclusively ah got products branded ah with Cedric's logo and stuff on it. Like a lot of this this carnival, all the prizes and various other things all have this branding on it and various games you can play and stuff. And it's it's very cheap to play. And it seems like you can win like really good prizes, but a lot of the prizes are like booze and other ah other vices, like, you know, when cigars for a penny when, you know, illicit bag of pills, only a quarter.
01:20:38
Speaker
Anyone else getting the feeling that this is the Lotus Hotel and Casino? the I really did go through a Percy Jackson phase when making this going. I'm still in it. I was about to say, are we all still in our Percy Jackson phase? Yeah, that's fair. Legitimately, I'm dressing up as Percy Jackson for fucking Halloween. Like, let's go. Nice. I'm doing a boogie boogie this year. It's like, yeah I don't know what I'm doing for Halloween at all. OK, so.
01:21:13
Speaker
After getting pointed out that, would Murphy have told us that as they were observing everything last night, that it's like, oh yeah, people are drinking this stuff that has the Cedric Malcolm shit posted on it. They're acting erratic. that Would Murphy have told us that?
01:21:32
Speaker
Yeah, I feel like, you know, during the morning conversation, and obviously, I forgot to do this earlier, so it's a small metagame. But like, um yeah, I feel like Murphy would have sort of like relayed the observations to Solas and Ina. Okay, so then can I do a perception check?
01:21:51
Speaker
of them of people who are in this carnival and they're because like the prices are you win alcohol and like just see like if it's the same deal like if people are acting erratic.
01:22:05
Speaker
Um, you don't really have to do a check for that, especially if everything's already very much Cedric Malcolm branded as Chance said it was. So you can kind of tell that they're kind of already acting like that for the ones that are actually drinking it. Okay. The McCarty Isles is not for children. hu Or is it?
01:22:29
Speaker
No. No, it's not. No one under the legal drinking age is here. Which the legal drinking age is 18 because, you know, fuck, Europe is doing something right there. Well, sometimes it's as low as 16. I want this very badly. Okay, thank you. Your ADHD is going in. I just I need the extra input, but I'm i'm still here. OK, so we're basically scoping out Malcolm's manner. Yeah, ah his manner has a full like factory like size thing behind it. it really long it It's like distillery, right? like Yeah.
01:23:13
Speaker
like full brewery, like his manner is connected to his full warehousing of all the things he produces. And different color smokes are coming out of the plumes and the smokestacks from behind it. Willy Wonka, corrupt Willy Wonka. OK. Ali. Huh?
01:23:32
Speaker
ah The Johnny Depp version is a corrupt Willy Wonka. I refuse to believe the Gene Waldo version is a corrupt Willy Wonka. He just likes to accidentally murder children. You're actually gonna ask me a question or were you just putting that out? As we were coming up, would Ina have noticed that the island, like is it, cause I know there's two beaches based upon the map, is there like cliffs?
01:24:02
Speaker
There's like... You know how like some islands where it's like raised almost a little bit and the beaches are the only way on or off? Yeah, so the beaches and the docks are the only ways on or off. um It is like a little cliffy around the edges, but I wouldn't say it's like dangerous cliffs. It's just kind of like ah I'm keeping up this little part of land. So what I'm hearing is we could go in the back way.
01:24:32
Speaker
I don't want to go in the butt. Cause that's what I think Ina was going to try to do is see like, could we go through the back? Okay. But there's also someone here who's literally his brother. Yeah, but he might not let us in.
01:24:52
Speaker
I think it's still worth trying because Murphy's very much a backup plan. All I'm thinking of is all these players from DMS before me that have been fighting for three hours about how to open a fucking door and the doors open the entire fucking time.
01:25:26
Speaker
you know, like plan. Okay, we can have a backup plan. All right. On the flip side of that, what if Cedric is just a really nice guy and you say, hey, we need that token. And he's like, sure thing, dude, no problem. I would bet a million dollars. Oh, it's going to go down. Give me your tax money. All right. We're here. We're at the gates. Who's doing what?
01:25:57
Speaker
I feel like Murphy's gonna kind of look at um chance and be like, I think you should lead the way just because there's a little speaker box. By the way, there is any guards, but there's a little speaker box. Yeah, like Murphy's gonna look a chance and be like, I mean, you're the one that knows him. And I don't think he's gonna respond kindly to three strangers. So Uh, he will chance. We'll go up to the little speaker box and look very refined. Hit the button. Richard opened the dip and just start swearing right now. You can swear on this one, buddy. Open the goddamn door. My friends want to tour of the facility and I swear to God, if you keep me waiting, I'm going to tell dad h it will do you hear a crackle. And then you hear
01:26:44
Speaker
okay Ain't no way this man is happy sunshine. i I didn't ask for conversation. I said I wanted a tour of the facility. I will give you a tour of the facility. I will give you this tour, right? I will do that. You have to say hi to me at least. I haven't seen you in like a decade.
01:27:09
Speaker
Fine. I find your terms acceptable. Yeah! You hear a boop and it just like opens the gate ever so slowly. Serena turns to Chance. Your brother's annoying, isn't he? Shit! What the fuck was that?
01:27:25
Speaker
side You have no idea.
01:27:32
Speaker
So when you guys walk in to what the man has sort of like it's it has like a walkway going up like a very nice like brick walkway. And when you get to the actual door, the door opens by a butler and they just go.
01:27:49
Speaker
Mr. Heddinson gets, and the they then't escort they then escort you guys to Cedric's office. And one thing you guys notice about Cedric when he turns around in his giant office chair is he kind of has like this little bit of a crazed look in his eye. um but he He's kind of, he's very happy smiley. um He has hair that's poking out around everywhere. um He looks very skinny, very lengthy, very lanky, almost like Chance, but Chance looks like he has his shit together. like He he like looks put together, he looks clean, he looks happy. Cedric looks a little bit crazy, a little bit deranged, and he just goes, Chance!
01:28:44
Speaker
Hello, brother. How are you? I'm doing wonderfully. I am making a full distillery in my backyard. You see that? When's the last time you slept? One, two, three, four, 14 days ago. Have you been taking your medications, brother? Yes. He just like holds up his little bottle. There's like seven pill bottles on the window. All unopened. Yeah. they're from my pet
01:29:19
Speaker
Ah, yeah my friends have ah seen the wonderful carnival and have seen your brand about and I said that we could give them a tour of your facilities here. Is that acceptable? Of course, yeah. Walk yourself around. Do you need me? Do you need me to help you?
01:29:38
Speaker
Yes, yes, you should come with us. Okay, sounds good. And he like jerks like a jerky motion and then he gets up and he stands up. He is around the same height as you maybe like an inch shorter chance. And he just like wobbles over to you guys. um Guys, the best way I can explain Cedric's mannerisms and how he's talking and how he is is very much King Boomi. Yeah. He goes,
01:30:16
Speaker
ah he goes all right, let's go. Let's go. We've expanded since the last time you've been here, Chance. I can see that. Also, dad's been giving me some secret magics to put into the, to put into the bottles. What is that up to? I wonder.
01:30:39
Speaker
I came down here the other day and he was just like, I have a special thing for task for you. And I said, what is it dad? And he said, put this in all of the alcohols. And I said, you got it. And I'm just doing what he tells me to, you know. Okay. So hearing that, are the gods actually allowed to come down? I think they are. I just don't think they do.
01:31:06
Speaker
Like, would we know that as, like, children of the Citadel? Like, are the gods actually allowed to come down? You actually don't know a lot of the rules that the gods can and can't do. You have been only told your rules. You have not been told theirs. Okay. What about Murphy since Murphy traveled to almost every government? Yeah, would Murphy know?
01:31:25
Speaker
Do I roll? Do I roll? What do I roll? You can roll for that. You can roll me an intelligence for that. I was about to say military lore is under intelligence, so I feel like a lore check would be intelligence. Intelligence? Would that be under evaluation? Oops, I didn't mean to do that. Evaluation? Or just regular intelligence? I think it would just be regular intelligence. You're not evaluating a situation here. I mean, that evaluation role was a 17, so.
01:31:52
Speaker
Take two off of that, buddy, and you got 15. I threw that away. That's not bad. I got all fours, plus one, 13.
Gods, Magic, and Mystery
01:32:02
Speaker
Um, you know, there are some gods that come down every so often just to like fuck around and find out. Then a lot of Haddon's lore is that instead of actually procreating with other people, he will go down twos and all and be like, you seem like a scrappy little fellow. Come with me. And that's how his children are really born. So, okay. Like we knew that kidnapping is great.
01:32:31
Speaker
No, they can consent to it. It's consensual kidnapping. Magic only works if the contract is agreed upon mutually. Okay, I don't know.
Cedric's Secret Liquor Magic
01:32:43
Speaker
So you see the chance for a momentary break look really pissed off and he seems to get a little taller and his hair stands on it for a second and then he breathes out just like Brother, did you put a notice on your liquor that there is a new addition to the formula? It says what dreams are made of. That's kind of like a notice, right? Murphy's going to be like, no, no, no, it is not. What notice do I put on it?
01:33:17
Speaker
What does a notice have to say, Chance, that, oh, Haddon came down and said, put this shit in this shit. And that is what is in this shit. And I don't really know what it is, but it's some magic stuff. How much do you want to bet it was in Haddon?
01:33:34
Speaker
Can you show me what this was that that father gave you? sure
Distillery Tour and Intrigue
01:33:39
Speaker
ah he Well, you guys are going down to the distillery. He goes, it's actually down in the ah basement area where all the kegs are. So if you guys won't follow me down there.
01:34:00
Speaker
yeah Murphy's going to look at Chance for like confirmation. I'll join you, brother. These ones could be taken on the tour. Do you have a guide that can show them around the factory?
01:34:13
Speaker
Yeah, of course. Hey, Gabriel. And Gabriel's ah another little like half goblin, half dwarf just like walks out and he just goes, yee. He says, don't take them on a factory tour. I'm in fucking love. I'm in fucking love. He's going to look at Gabriel and be like, are you in any way related to the goblin?
01:34:38
Speaker
No. Are you sure? yeah
01:34:46
Speaker
I feel like I need to join this cult at some point. All right, so while you guys- That's why Murphy doesn't go back to the Citadel, just join the cult. Okay.
01:34:57
Speaker
a I think this is what Ina's gonna do. How much is Gabriel, who's the tour guide, right? How much is Gabriel paying attention? Oh, he is behind you guys watching. He's not, he's like talking to you guys about what you guys are looking at from behind you. He is not walking in front.
01:35:18
Speaker
Mmm, damn it. So I was gonna try to go sneak off to go follow Chance and Cedric. And just so you know, this entire tour, it's like, this is where we brew shit. Like, that's the entire... This is where we brew shit? This is where it comes out of?
01:35:37
Speaker
As Chance is walking away, you see he's got his phone behind his back, and he seems to be typing something, and then a little email will ding on one of your phones. I don't have a phone. I don't have a phone.
Chance's Teleportation Twist
01:35:51
Speaker
Before any of this, before Soulus looks at that, when you get downstairs to the basement area, Chance,
01:36:05
Speaker
your brother looks at you the smile that you had almost gets bigger and he goes this is what it was and it's like a glowing purple vial and he goes by the way dad said he wants you back in citadel in the moment in the moment he says that you poof out of existence here into this plane and back up into the Citadel and you're in sort of like this chair room. Like this room of where your father is on a throne and there's like red velvet v bean bags everywhere, which you landed in one. ah cha And Chance, been a while. but
01:36:53
Speaker
ah Before I get to dad, ah the little message that pops through on the the phone, because I they have the email, because we already have been corresponding. It says, my brother's an idiot. If you find something locked, his password is 12345.
01:37:21
Speaker
Nah, that's not as fun. And that's where we'll end it.
01:37:39
Speaker
are are a
01:37:55
Speaker
Hey, hi. Hello,
Closing Remarks and Guest Bobby
01:37:56
Speaker
friends. Thank you so much for tuning in to this week's episode. ah We had our good friend, Bobby, join us. We met Bobby with Green Ronin at GenCon this past year. They are an amazing friend and a great ally. They are currently working on something amazing with their partner to help neurodivergence in the TTRPG in gaming space.
01:38:23
Speaker
um Currently, it's still in the works, so there isn't really a lot to talk about yet, but I know good things are coming, and next time when Bobby comes on, maybe y'all can talk about it more.
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Speaker
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01:40:31
Speaker
What are they doing on this phone?
01:40:35
Speaker
<unk>s scar It's It's security walking around, but they're not feeling well. They haven't been, but they refuse to go home. I was about to say, I've been hearing Will hack, so I think he's about to get a cold. Oh, wonderful. know yeah but ah