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Ep. 169 Fetch The Clean Men - Bellum Draconis
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Stop whipping them
Introduction and Scene Setting
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them! They can't whip me! um They can fetch things clean men, fold clothes like fire. Clean men!
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That is perfect! They can clean men!
Podcast and Cast Introduction
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Hello and welcome this week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop. We are a live play 5e D&D podcast in the magical homebrewed world of Aerith in the kingdom of Sleetgaard. With us for today's episode, we have the wannabe hipster Ian playing Nick Scorrell.
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Hi! We also have our resident chef, Darren, playing Tharok. It's fucking raw!
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We also have our fiery recapper, Will, playing Bal Valkon. I love lamp. And our apple pie-smashing lover of pies, Callum, playing Alpha.
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He was like that when I got here. And also, to tell our story, we have the bringer of drama, danger, and dazzling deeds. The dealer of dice and dreamer of dungeons. The man who drapes our destiny with dread, delight, and discovery. The Dungeon Master Danny. Good afternoon, good morning, good evening.
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That was a solid pull there. Well done. Thanks. Now, Will, there's inspiration weighing here you get this segue right.
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And speaking of segues, you see resident recapper, Old Gel. And speaking of segues, he appears to have constructed some sort of scooter out of random bits of junk that he's found
Old Gel's Comedic Journey
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lying around. And as he scooters through the destroyed realm of Sleetgarden, the city of Goldrude, dodging the odd crisp body here and there, he drops his ball, stops, picks it up.
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blows the dust off his balls, and then turns to look at us.
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Come Dusty Balls.
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Clean it up life now. please it up nice oh There's a Christmas character right there, Dusty Balls. Thank you, I'll take that next time. I'll have a bit more dust on it
Teleportation Plans and Messages
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now. Ooh, Slaves Morality, Letters and Pisswine, the group Oopchat death and goblin turds, it's time to cement a plan. Farrak suggests that the group finds a means of teleportation to get up to the steel nightmare after phase one and two, and then a bird from Snake Run has arrived with a message for Nix, and it says, Nixie boy, uncork the good wine, and Nix is all like, is it Karstan?
Arrival of Kareem and Discussions
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And then he sees a camel-drawn wagon with very rich kind of people on it arriving with some slaves, and they're is it Kareem? And actually, yes, it is Kareem with Lord Vaughn. And Baal gets some goblin piss wine and laces that shit with Alpha's salmon re-taster, then gives it over. And the group enter the keep, but Emron heads to the slaves and spends the next 20 minutes playing Morality Cluedo. Nyx and Kareem drink the piss wine, but Alpha helps Nyx out by converting some of it to milk, hopefully most
Negotiations with Kareem
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of it. Kareem has a sealed letter from Varsan, and he also says that he wants 1,000 gold pieces for fixing up Goldport Keep. Nyx convinces him to do it for Renown alone, almost like sponsorship in a way, and he's like, well, okay, maybe, but if you rename this keep Kareem Snake Run Keep, I'll do it. And they agree. Emran takes issue, and Kareem pretty much states that the keep is now his, and shit gets heated. and Baal offers an alternative. Maybe they could pay to release the slaves.
Varsan's Letter and Threats
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Nyx eventually reads Varsan's letter, and it mentions that Trace murdered Fizzlebang and threatened Varsan, and Big V also surrendered most of his wealth and the Trichown agreement over to Trace. Varsan also says that he's going to commit his entire pirate fleet to help kill Urian in exchange for the crown to shadow mend the group. Talk it over. And then in the distance, Baal's old brood arrive.
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Goldport Keep, or soon to bear the name Snake Run Keep, stirs with renewed life. The echoes of your earlier meeting with Kareem, Snakeron, and Lord Vaundan still cling to the air, their proposal from Lord Varsan lingering like an aftertaste of something sharp and dangerous.
Dragonborn Arrival and Urgency
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His ambition towards the vacant or imminently vacant throne of kingdom of the Kingdom of Shadomend has set new gears into motion, pressing upon your party the weight of choice yet again.
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The calm fractures as movement swells at the gates. A wandering host of golden-scaled dragonborn, road-worn, hollowed-eyed, and heavy with urgency.
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They make their way past the goblin pitfall traps and the bilious pond towards you. Dust clings to their robes. Exhaustion bows their shoulders.
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Yet a palpable wave of relief seems to ripple through them as they spot Baal amongst your company. Nearly three dozen of your kin draw near, their expressions laden with unspoken need and faces of friends amongst this convoy.
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Varyon, Aurelia, two you have not seen in over a year, Baal, begin to gather before you. And in that breathless moment now of recognition and revelation, a question hangs.
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What do you do?
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Biles got rush out with renewed vigor ah pace and just kind of... His attentional first will be brought to, specifically his old friends, but kind of to everyone. And and like, almost...
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Like this is a place of refuge and they are war-torn kind of ah refugees. I know that's not necessarily it, but he'd he'd he'd be kind of looking over them and and kind of motioning over his shoulder over to the keep, probably apologizing a little bit at the ah state of piss and shit and stuff like that everywhere. um But yeah, specifically to his friends as well, he's going to pull them into a massive, massive embrace and just be like, you're you here. Yeah.
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I did not think i would see you again. what ah how
Baal's Destiny and Kinship
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How was your journey? yeah You must be tired. We've got we've got a chef. um it so It's pretty amazing. Come in, please. I've i've got so many questions and you probably don't want to answer them all straight away, but here, come on in.
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And he's going to kind of motion for them to follow. And wearily, they kind of separate themselves from you after they embrace. Aurelia just gasps the word water, whatever you've got, please.
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Varyon kind of marks you a bit more confidently and has this heavy, heavy palm upon your shoulder and kind of uses you almost as like a bit of a crutch to walk into the space.
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But they enter and kind of slowly these this two and a half dozen a group of golden-scale dragonborns from from um no no children, but certainly young, very young adults amongst them, all the way up to elders.
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And they move into the unkept tidiness of
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The common area, the common room here at Snake Run Keep. And one's going to lean over to Nyx and be like, we're going to need a bigger castle at this rate.
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Yeah, we we seem to be... yeah Well, I mean, it's like I said, we're playing host to the conversations that will lead to the savior of the world. So i guess...
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Mark this occasion. We might need to think about where everyone's going to sleep and perhaps clean the place up a bit quicker than we are doing at the moment. um Yeah.
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Big yeah. Do we have enough supplies for everybody? No. No. Hmm. Okay. Yeah, this could get interesting. This is where, again, we can lean on old Kareem here. Like, I know you feel uncomfortable about it, but if we're going to fucking extort him, let's fucking extort him.
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I mean, I don't mind leaning on him, like, really hard. Just saying, like... If he wants his name on this, if he wants to travel his name to travel the world, he needs to be seen as a real gracious host so he can deal with the food and the upkeep and all of that stuff. Let's let's extort him. Let's twist him into it.
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I would say we could send someone to Goldview, but not quite an option right now. So, yeah. He's got the money and, you know, just food for thought.
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Or Thoughtful Food. what, why don't you go talk to Kareem about seeing if he can, you know, sort that out. All right, right, right. Everyone, yes, that's in my wheelhouse. But are you okay with me making those choices and decisions? Because I can wheel a deal, absolutely. As long as we in Norway have to talk about how great Kareem is, then that's fine.
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How about if some of us have to talk about how good and great Kareem is? You can make whatever deal you want. but Okay, awesome. Because, you know, sometimes you know when you're watching, like, yeah i don't know if you've seen any sports in Eryth, but sometimes, like, when you're watching them, they've got their names on the back and, like, numbers and stuff. I wouldn't mind. I'm just saying that I reckon I could i could make that work. Anyway, I'll go and do do that. Didn't you do that already in the Duel of the Desert Champions? Yeah, I mean, you know,
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yep
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yeah If you want to haul yourself out to Kareem to get stuff, that's fine. I mean, there's a better word for it, but, you know, I understand what you're saying. Where are you two during this exchange? Are you inside the keep? Are you outside trying to talk over the waves Dragonborn's kind of brushing past you? imagine we probably took a step to the side, maybe, because obviously... But outside?
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Yeah, i think I think we all went outside because Barl rushed to go see everyone. I think probably probably all followed at the end of last episode, so... Yeah. Okay. DM question. Is it still hailing?
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Is the weather still what it has been? that It's still hailing. That's a relenting hail. Yeah. That'll clean the place a bit. Yeah. It has, it hasn't really stopped since Leopold's death. Oh, how convenient.
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I'm sure it's just coincidence. Um, Right, so you're going to to Kareem. I'll go talk to Tharok and Alpha and see what we can do to help. We'll see what Baal needs us to do with his family. You look up Baal and Baal still has this one sort of um slightly older male dragonborn with a heavy hand on his shoulder just watching as the last of their company kind of go into the keep for some respite.
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respite
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And pushes it pushs up use it pushes off your shoulder bar to help himself get into the space. And as he does, he just says, brace yourself, kid. Brace yourself.
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What for?
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You'll see.
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Come in.
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Right. ah Okay. I'm a bit more worried than I was, very honest. Okay. Okay.
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Yeah, no following. Bal, do you need some, like, private family time? you want us to leave? How do you want all to play this? I'm... i He'll turn back to Beryon.
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ah this This is the adventuring group that I've been with for quite some time and more. Undying champions. The undying champions. ah that's that's ah Anyway, I can fill you in another time. um we We saw some of them.
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Some look familiar. Yes. When you visited before your exile. yeah
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Hi, Nyx Corral. I am one of those that you would have seen before, ah before, before, before. And Nyx snakes an arm around Baal's side. Before his ex-Ryle, we've gotten quite close. Just saying, like, um good lovely to meet you. Baal, introduce.
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Not matching your energy, but matching your intention. This Dragonborn just puts his hand out towards yours to gesture a handshake and just says, bright scale, very.
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Charmed, Nyx.
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And this, yeah, this Dragonborn is butlk more bulkier than Baal. Baal is quite a skinny, ah on the skinny spectrum of Dragonborn, whereas this individual is a bit more muscular, but also...
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not in um not Not bruised or battered. Incredibly clean. Like someone who hasn't really seen combat.
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Nix looks him up and down. it's say You're not all... I mean, Bill, you're different. Okay. They're all the same. yeah What does that mean, Nix?
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Nothing. He's just clearly LAUGHTER
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um This is ah my... Do we label it? I don't know. i don't know. i don't know. i got stuck on that as well.
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Partner. weve Partner. Yes. but This is my partner. Nick's Corel. Yeah. And, uh, Captain. Captain Nick's Corel. He, he has a ship.
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Soon to be Commodore. Uh, I mean, I'm not saying anything. Sorry. It's in the way it's a promotion in the works, isn't it? nix Yes. Yes. Working my way up the shaft. Big deal of the seas. Um, you should see his cannons. So you had something to say,
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Not me. yeah ah Come in. And it just really gestured towards kind of a slightly older Dragonborn in that group.
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You don't really recognize this one particularly. um that this one's kind of instantly making themselves at home, kind of and tending to the the the fire that was used for cooking earlier that morning. It's kind of helping the ah sort of younger ones or more more more injured ones to find somewhere to sit.
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um It's kind of looking around cupboards for supplies like they've been here before, but just kind of trying to show some kind of um ah leadership really amongst them.
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And Varyon just shouts across the room, Fascal,
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we're all here.
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I'm sure
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I'm not going to call him that. And points at you, Bal. I'm sure he'd like to hear what's going on.
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Pascal just kind of nods with intent at this point, clears his throat, kind of checks on a few people around him just to make sure they're comfortable, just to make sure you know they're able to kind of find some kind of provision, that they're they're finding some warmth, kind of taking off overrobes and things like that and placing it near fire, trying to occupy everything until the very last minute where he has to speak.
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um
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Behold, and raises a hand almost in servitude to you, Baal, almost as though you are being mildly worshipped here.
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We have found him, the harbinger.
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but And a few just fly a few people just kind of nod to their head and kind of bow their head in in in almost like a... um obedience and compliance towards you and sorry Nick so you're about to kind of make some sort of gesture ah yeah I was just gonna create some prestidigitation effects behind Baal like some golden sparks maybe some licks of fire um just coming from his shoulders um
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Harbinger what And as you kind of repeat that word as Nyx kind of gives that flourish, nearly all the dragonborn are kind of bowing, kneeling, or at least dipping their head towards you.
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No, no, no, no, no. well what What are you doing? Stand up. Vaskel stands.
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We were sent to find you, harbinger.
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You are to lead us home again. Oh shit.
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Four nights ago, we all shared a dream of sorts, a calling.
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We were to find
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We were to find you. And you were to... And he's getting quite emotionally emotional at this.
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Take us back to her. Take us home again.
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The Sovereign Mother
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evicted us after she returned from the desert.
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Uh, yeah, that's... That's... Yeah, I am um'm to blame.
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She also killed...
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The rest of us. We are all that remain. What?
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Our number's quartered. They're... They're all gone. this is This is all that we have?
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Yes. Yes. And she said, she said that the exile has cursed us.
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And he kind of goes to kind of shelter the the ears of of younger um Dragonborn as he kind of hears a couple of slurs being said in Draconic around the room.
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But, and he kind of interrupts those slurs. We all saw it. We all saw the image of our mother. The image of Galefire, a younger.
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We all saw it. And she told us to find you. And you will take us home.
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Do not deny it, Denise Cleanser. Direct these at some of those that were kind of avidly swearing in your direction for a second, Baal. Do not deny it.
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And now assure us Harbinger that
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we will have a home again.
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Please. We are weary. ah
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but i was going to turn back to Varyon.
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I guess that makes sense now.
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Listen.
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I am to blame for your pain, for your being outcast like me, but
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the other, the hope that I have to give you is very real.
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The heir to our mother.
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She lives. She is strong and she will be stronger still.
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Valkyreth, the sleet, lives in her mother's name and she's here. I've seen her.
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She is magnificent, and I promise you, I will return you to her.
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There is a a murmur that grows into...
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excitement, it grows into joy, it grows into jubilation, and almost as if the unknown that they've been carrying for days dissipates within a second, and you are amongst a very lifted, empowered, and emboldened group almost instantaneously with your words.
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We will be home again.
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Together, united, not cowering, not living under the sovereign, but here in our homeland, we will be strong again. That doesn't take away from your pain, I know that, and will do what I can in the time I have to atone for your losses.
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I am truly sorry.
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Pascal kind of summons more courage again and says the harbinger has spoken. Hope rekindled.
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How are we age your cause, harbinger?
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For tonight, you need rest. You need food, you need drinking. I mean, many of you could probably smell what Therok is cooking. So, eat hearty.
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And
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maybe we can think of these things in the morning. There's a big task ahead of me, ahead of my group. And I'll let you know everything I can, but don't let that weigh you down tonight."
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And they kind of raise in ah and a draconic cheer and sort of turn back to their circles, a bit excited. A few come up to you, kind of rush to you, kind of grab your hand and shake it like you're some kind of celebrity.
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Others, those who are more prone to kind of swearing at you earlier and cursing you, kind of more reserved and appreciative from a distance.
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And then Varyon just kind of turns his back on the room, speaks over your shoulder, and I imagine sort of all of your friends are nearby, but tries to keep his voice toned underneath the hubbub.
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There's something you're not telling us, isn't there? There's lots I'm not telling you yet.
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I meant what I said. You can wait till the morning. Okay. You've been weary on the road. You need rest.
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I'm not wanting to pry. He just smiles at you.
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There's small tap on Nix's shoulder with a heavy hand and walks past and joins the rest of the group in jubilation.
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see I'll see you in a bit. And this was, this is quite heavy. Like you must to get knocked back by the kind of recoil of this. ah Yeah. He's pretty strong.
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You did good. is pretty strong, Nick. You did good. You say that, I've also now been the cause of...
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yeah yeah Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's... There's a lot... ah Yeah. That's a lot. I can only imagine the fucking breaks that just went on in your mind right there. ah Yeah, I would...
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probably take your own advice and give yourself some time to just let this news absorb in try really hard not to blame yourself.
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So much of what's happening, Val, is
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literally beyond our control. Yeah.
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Here if you need to talk.
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Well over a hundred. Yeah.
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Fuck.
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Yep.
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Baal's going to kind of see his the rest of his brood, the rest of his brethren, people he's grown with, people he's fought with, people he's cleansed with And so many not there. He's going to kind of stand there beside Nyx for a bit, probably take his hand, give it a squeeze, watch them for a bit, and then he'll take himself away for a bit as well.
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Just go and plot himself down outside in the snow. Numb.
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What are you doing, Alpha? Ha ha ha ha.
00:29:12
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I think Alpha will have um it will have kept quiet mostly. this is clearly a very intimate moment for Barr being reunited with um what is like his family before us, as Alpha would see it. That's not like you.
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quiet. Yeah, it's not like you to want to kill people either, is it? You're a holy righteouser than thou shit. Wow.
00:29:39
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I think Alpha will be kind of doing what he was doing before. He's trying to clean up the place of Goldport Keep a little better. He does feel responsible for the goblins. He will be trying to remove more shit off the walls, disposing of piss and trying to serve actual fresh clean drinks to some of the dragonborns. Yeah.
00:29:58
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At least until they ah decide that yeah they are going off to sleep wherever they may be. There will be some stuff i want to do before the end of the day, but ah while this encounter is going off, that is what Alpha will be doing.
00:30:10
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Okay. Tharok? Tharok has busily been going around the keep in and out of the kitchens, in and out of pantries, just trying to muster what supplies he can.
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Emron comes looking for him, he will just say, well, he's still busying. It's great that there's lots of people here who are finding refuge here, but a lot of the mouths that have turned up today, not many of them can contribute much in the grand scheme of things. Feeding them all is going to be tough.
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Yeah, um I think Nick is going to talk to Kareem about that, you know, and see what he can wheel and deal out that. My worry is where everyone's going to stay because we've got the bunkhouse, but that's going to get pretty full pretty quickly.
00:30:52
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Yeah, this fucking rain isn't holding up either, which means we can't put up tents outside. Well, not easily anyway. No.
Resource Challenges
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I mean, we have got the building in the middle that's never really had anything in.
00:31:05
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So we could always convert that into another bunkhouse, but we need to try and... Either build some stuff in there. Do you think we could sling up hammocks? Do you think that would be all right? You've got our supplies. You've got our traveling packs. I suppose we don't need those anymore.
00:31:20
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Yeah, I mean, we we could raid some stuff. Like, Kareem's cart's got a good roof on it. We could probably turn that into some so but hammocks, you know.
00:31:33
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I'm just roof but the sides are open and this tail is going to get no no I mean I mean we take the material tear it up and turn it into material to make amok's with um yeah I'll yeah I'll have a scrounge around see what we've got and then see what we can try and start putting together to actually make people comfortable because I feel like this is one bunch but I feel like we've got a lot more coming or We still haven't had anyone turn up yet who can actually help us in the fight, which we know they're coming, so we know at least there's more to come.
00:32:02
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Yeah, but I mean, yeah, we've still got to be able to house them all. so okay Yeah, I don't dispute that. We have to look after them, but the question is how. Yeah, right. I'll i'll go have a reconnoiter around the castle, see what we can see what we've got, see what we can try and put together.
00:32:16
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and I'll try and make most of supplies that we have. um Yeah, um i think we've I think we left all of our packs in the bunk room, so you could probably try and use all the rations that's in there, try and stretch things out a bit, probably.
00:32:34
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um Stew and soup it is. I'll do what I can. Yeah, short of us putting in a hunting part together, and unfortunately hunting is not exactly my... um thing and in this weather I don't know how good it'd be okay you talk about we're about feeding people fresh water is going to get interesting we might need some magic for that is this rain do you think fresh is this natural
00:33:05
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i I don't know it'd be very easy to create some form of water baths we just need empty barrels and we can easily fill up very quickly There's probably barrels, so we can point but the problem is trying to condense that rain into barrels. it's We'd have to have some sort of flume mechanism. I just don't trust i don't trust anything being very clean around here. That's my problem.
00:33:26
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Yeah. Yeah, those goblins have done an absolute fuck on the place. Yeah. Okay.
00:33:35
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Nick's, maybe converse with Nick's, he might be trying to sort out some stuff out as well. I'll see what we can do about accommodation. Fair enough. Farok is going to head to the kitchen, he's going to head to the pantry, any area that he can, and he's just going to to muster up what he can to get through the next meal.
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Knowing that that any help Nyx can get from Kareem is not going to solve the immediacy of the next meal, but it may solve the future. and Farok, in the meantime, is just focusing on ensuring that these Dragonborn, who look to the point of exhaustion,
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can have something to soothe there their woes.
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So if you spend probably a couple hours then scavenging and seeing what resources are around, the sounds of it, and
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it's going to kind of occupy best part of the day if you're then kind of assuming turning some of that into that water butts and and catches, things like that. He's got nothing better to do than than try and be functional. Farrakh's getting a bit antsy. There's been a lot of standing around and and chatting. So did this for him is a conduit to to move towards action. He knows the game is waiting, but it's not something that he is inherently good at. Hence why he got himself stuck in a trap when he went looking for McBunner. So instead he's going to conduit that into something useful, which is water butts and food.
00:35:06
Speaker
Nice. And Alfie, you're keenly aware that Sparrowhawk is probably returning tomorrow with everything you need to start working on the on the
00:35:18
Speaker
reins schematics for the yeah pocket portals,
Alpha's Crafting Contribution
00:35:22
Speaker
if you will. yeah and So any kind of preparation to spaces is probably keenly on your mind as well, I imagine.
00:35:29
Speaker
Yeah. um Alpha will probably be trying to focus his time um crafting said item in the forge. um He wants to... going to use one of my traits.
00:35:45
Speaker
um I can create different types of tools after an hour, kind of specialise them um to what I need. and I'm under the impression and safe assumption that I'll probably need Tinker's tools in order to craft said item. So I'll be using at very at least one hour of the day um to prep the tool set that I have ah to create, to transform them into Tinker's tools just to add a proficiency on things.
00:36:17
Speaker
um What time of the day actually is it while all this was going off?
00:36:24
Speaker
a We are now in early morning. Sorry, early afternoon. Apologies. Early afternoon.
00:36:33
Speaker
Okay. So, I... um ah feel as though I got this right, and Darren, by all means, correct me if I am wrong.
00:36:45
Speaker
But I believe I can change my infusions um twice a day, as long as I've had them prepared.
00:36:54
Speaker
Callum, my artifice died like months ago. Okay, fair enough. As I understand it, I have... You've got literally what Will is here for, for this sort consultation. I'm looking now for you. I believe at my level I can have six infusions prepared, but I can only at the moment have three of them actually being used.
00:37:13
Speaker
Okay. um So my most recent one that was done was the homunculus servant. Yep. Which you did yesterday. Which I did yesterday. whenever you finish a long rest, you can touch a long magical object and imbue it with one of your artificial infusions, turning into a magic item.
00:37:31
Speaker
So it has to be at the end of a long rest. just Well, so technically you have had a long rest since yesterday. Yeah, yeah. you have one one slot available now. Are you saying at your level you get additional slots to do that? No, no, no, no, no. I did one yesterday in time, but then we've had a long rest. So I can still do one today.
00:37:49
Speaker
um Just to try and help out, I...
00:37:59
Speaker
changed that, so that's not going to slightly work. But instead, I'm going to pull out of my satchel, just while I'm in the forge, something that's been in my inventory from the very start of the campaign, which is a ah signet ring.
00:38:17
Speaker
One that is based off Shadow Man. For Alpha, it's kind of always been something that just reminded of him of home. And I'm just going to do some engravings on the inside of it.
00:38:33
Speaker
And if there is a moment where Baal is alone throughout the day, I would just like to go and have a quick word with him. Okay, Alpha. Alpha. As you you kind of exit your um space of ah preparation um and you kind of just mark across the field of bilious ah grossness, um slush now forming from the hail, but a motley crew of indentured servants doing their best to kind of um begin to make this space more presentable, you kind of see a very solemn-looking baal
00:39:16
Speaker
Very tentatively, so not with kind of stride of purpose, but just more of a casual walk. I'm going to walk up to Baal. I'm just going to kind of stand side by side with him, facing in the same direction rather than full on. So it's almost like we're both of looking out into the distance just for a moment.
00:39:40
Speaker
How are you doing, Baal?
00:39:44
Speaker
Oh, hi Alpha. Yeah, yeah, I'm good. Just, you know, found out I killed over a hundred of my closest somewhat indirectly, but otherwise good. How are you?
00:39:56
Speaker
Yes, i I still maintain that was probably mostly my fault rather than your own. No. Due to unforeseen things, but I believe more of that rests on me than it does of you.
00:40:11
Speaker
No.
00:40:13
Speaker
No. I can't change what's happened. Can I? No. Keep moving on. No, unfortunately you cannot. If it were a possible, then I would be doing everything I could do to bring back Reigns.
00:40:32
Speaker
Nevertheless, I have a small friend here. He's going to gesture you to the little parrot that's on his shoulder. um That, while not Reigns, is...
00:40:43
Speaker
Certainly a nice reminder.
00:40:48
Speaker
You should always look to the future, Paul. Plan for... After this.
00:40:57
Speaker
What will you do after? We succeed. I've made a lot of promises. And I intend to keep them all. So...
00:41:09
Speaker
yeah I guess lead what's left back into Valkyraeth's warm and loving embrace. Try not to get anyone else killed.
00:41:21
Speaker
um And is that what you want? To lead your tribe? Is that the correct term? I don't want to lead, Alpha.
00:41:36
Speaker
I was... i
00:41:42
Speaker
I'm here to serve.
00:41:45
Speaker
But what is it that you want?
00:41:48
Speaker
What is it that I want?
00:41:54
Speaker
That's the question, isn't it? Have a think.
Baal's Introspection
00:42:01
Speaker
we
00:42:04
Speaker
Going into this fight, is it is much easier to have something to hold onto, I believe.
00:42:12
Speaker
Yes, I'm there, Alpha. Please, yeah don't worry, I don't intend to do stupid things, hopefully. Although that always does seem to be the case.
00:42:24
Speaker
um No, I'm not not dying here, I'm not dying on this adventure.
00:42:32
Speaker
I'm not the one to make that heroic sacrifice. I have too much to do. I never thought you were the dying type. But nevertheless, I do have a small gift for you, if I may.
00:42:49
Speaker
You do? Yes. You can do with it as you wish, but my only request is that when this is all over, perhaps you could find some way to um maybe return it to me, if you see fit.
00:43:08
Speaker
I could make another promise, I suppose. And Alpha's going to reach into his satchel and just pull out um the c signet ring. It's obviously got the Shadow Mendian kind of twin sphinxes just on the top of it.
00:43:28
Speaker
This is something that I have carried from Shadow Mend.
00:43:34
Speaker
I see, it looks like Raines his shoulder pads. Very much so. But I have made a few modifications.
00:43:45
Speaker
I entrust it to you that you may do with it whatever you see fit.
00:43:53
Speaker
ah Many things are born and die from an infinity, which is what the ring represents in my eyes. Right.
00:44:07
Speaker
I mean, it looks beautiful, Alfa, yeah, it does. um
00:44:17
Speaker
don't want to sound like a bitch, but does it does it do anything fancy, or is it just does it just look good? and i mean, um he slips it on his finger. It fits nicely. that's ah It's a good fit. there There is kind of bit of energy that you do ah feel from it. um shit.
00:44:33
Speaker
It's a spell refueling ring. Oh, shit. That you've got. um So... like do do i Do I wear it down there? Does it vibrate? You can wear it wherever you wish.
00:44:49
Speaker
Great. But if I believe if anybody might need a bit of extra power going into this combat, a little bit of extra resources, I believe you would make the most of it. Oh, shit. That's incredible, Alpha.
00:45:03
Speaker
Yeah. Basically, once per ah day, you can spend an action to recover a third level spell slot. Yeah! awesome is it do i Do I need to attune to You do have to attune to it.
00:45:16
Speaker
Okay. Absolutely fine. That's awesome. ah So if I need a bit of extra power, this thing will you know keep me going keep me going in the fight, if if you know what I mean. is that ah that's not You didn't give it? No.
00:45:30
Speaker
you didn't give it wasn't a It's not a sex ring. Of course, I'm so sorry, Alpha. This isn't a sex ring. It's one of your family heirlooms. And I will use it to keep our party alive. Of course.
00:45:42
Speaker
I know you'll make the most of of the gift. Absolutely. I will. Thank you, Alpha. That's Yeah, that's really sweet. Thank you. Can I get you both to roll perception, please?
00:46:00
Speaker
My perception? like everything Take your passive if it's higher. 15 alpha. Mm-hmm.
00:46:06
Speaker
fifteen for alpha Okay. rolled a 13, but my my character sheet suddenly died, so I can't quite work out what my plus is. I think it's a plus 7, unless it's higher than that. So here we are.
00:46:23
Speaker
little bit of waffling more. It is indeed a plus 7. um Yes, so I get to roll it with advantage, apparently. Yeah, it's 20. It's a 20, non-natural. Your passive is 22. Well, I'll take that, thank you, Dunnys. Why not?
00:46:42
Speaker
Alpha and Baal. Alpha, you're kind of distracted by the first thing that's listed here. But you notice that the hail is stopping. the the The deluge that's kind of consuming the skies for about two and a half days solid now is stopping.
00:47:00
Speaker
And Biles, you kind of also look at that, looking up at the ah the clouds as they begin to break and then taking the rest of the scene around you. You spy approaching the keep, a caravan, six wagons long, headed on a very similar route to those that your kin just walked from the south.
Caravan Arrival and Resource Strain
00:47:28
Speaker
We're going to need a bigger keep. We're going to need a lot more space. Yeah, we're going to need more food. I mean, some should be able to... Some of my kin should still be able to create good berries for some.
00:47:43
Speaker
I'm going to need a date before I can prepare that spell. of Shit, shit, shitsh shit, shit. ah He's going focus his eyes. Can he make out any heraldry? Can he work out any... Like, is it is there a big fat man with lots of rings and lots of slaves in the back dryer? What can he see specifically? if with the red hat They're all kind of um unbranded, unmarked ah wagons pulled by camels also.
00:48:12
Speaker
um Definitely native of Dralak. ah but no no reinforced iron cart that's caged at the back.
00:48:24
Speaker
um the the sixth ah The sixth wagon in this caravan seems to have a lot of um humanoid figures wrapped in cloth, laying prone and unmoving.
00:48:49
Speaker
But the other five seem occupied. Okay. ah Right, but I guess we should let some of the others know. we aren' well Are we the lords of this manor, this keep? I guess we welcome them, don't we? I suppose, yes.
00:49:06
Speaker
Nyx, darling, ah Emron, I guess Tharok. We've got more people, more arrivals, more from Dralak. Still got any more of that soup, Tharok? Any more to stretch?
00:49:18
Speaker
Stu can stretch little more.
00:49:22
Speaker
emron comes out of like the the central building he's got his arms sort of like um ah sleeves rolled up and he's got like his like his smith's like apron it looks like he's like been trying to do some some form of carpentry to try and make some bunks or whatever in the spare room in the middle of the keep um to try and make some space out like he's been trying to find any wood he can try and make some bunks oh what we got is it is it more of kareem's fork I don't know. Camel is definitely Dralak, doesn't quite say, and I think they're bringing some dead and possibly wounded.
00:49:57
Speaker
Fucking hell. I don't know. Okay.
00:50:02
Speaker
Right. ah
00:50:06
Speaker
Okay. well gay It's getting pretty full in there, and Emerald points to where the main sort of um keep is. Is there a dozen Dragonborn in there, Danny, do you say?
00:50:18
Speaker
ah Two and a half dozen. well three three Pretty much three dozen. Okay, so it's 36. Okay, there's a lot of people. Okay, and Kareem's stuff's over there.
00:50:29
Speaker
The hail has stopped, Emron. You note that too. You're you're you're not like wincing under kind of being buffeted. I mean, at least the weather's better. Okay, so if we need to put wounded, there's there's... Okay, the room I'm just preparing now probably the best place for them.
00:50:45
Speaker
ah Let's hope they've got supplies with them. Otherwise, we're fucking winging it. What about the dead? ah I mean, I know Shadow Men likes to burn their dead. Not Shadow Men. Sleet Guide likes to burn their dead. um I guess we find out when they get here.
00:51:07
Speaker
There is the graveyard. ask first. Yeah, we'll we'll find out what they want to do.
00:51:15
Speaker
And Tharok? Yeah, Tharok will um come into the keep and will glance up at the sky. and We'll immediately just look at where all of the um that the wagons are arriving. and we just Are these wagons roofed that are coming in? Do they have roofs? Some are. There is no uniformity to it. Some some are roofed, some are open, and but all kind of have figures in in and dark clothing kind of moving around within them.
00:51:47
Speaker
Farrakh will come out and well um we'll just look at it and go, we need to find the means of forming fires out here. people We're going to have to have people camping. We're going to have to utilize the wagons that have roofs. We have no choice.
00:52:02
Speaker
mean, that's a good idea. Yeah. Like you say, no choice. Fair enough. You have the means to create fire easily, yes, Baal? Darling, do I have the means to create fire? He holds one nostril and snorts a bonfire out with the other.
00:52:20
Speaker
Good. oh what one the protein Now we've got burning shit on the floor. Everyone puts it out. i'll kind of yeah You stamp it um Yes.
00:52:33
Speaker
Farrakh's been exploring the pantry and just general food supplies for a while. How's he feeling about the prospects of feeding everyone with what they've
Food Scarcity Concerns
00:52:43
Speaker
got? There are no provisions here. There is nothing jarred. There is nothing pickled. Everything that's edible has gone.
00:52:51
Speaker
You've got by so far, based on what you've brought here, you'll kind of be at the mercy now of foraging, hunting, etc. People actually going out and providing food. we We need Nick very quickly to get...
00:53:05
Speaker
ah to help us get people out in the field because we are absolutely fucked for food. Anything that Karim can provide, we need. If I may, Tharuk, we've just had an influx of lots of my kind, lots of Druid folk, so we can provide. I'm sure that they'll be willing, if I maybe have a word before this evening, if we can just get by for tonight, if we can if we can find what we can for tonight, I'm confident.
00:53:35
Speaker
I'm confident. I mean, two of my best friends are in there. They'll be able to... to create good berries. I can create some chilies if I need to, that will see us through a day at a time. yeah, but they're not exactly. I'll need to come with me. You've become distracted from this conversation around feeding and provisions as,
00:53:58
Speaker
the wagons get within a bit more perceptible view and you're seeing the robes of the winged watch amongst your incoming ah visitors.
00:54:12
Speaker
Yeah. Farok will turn and he will just say there's winged watch amongst them and he will, without really showing much more emotion than that, just start to walk over towards the wagons and see if there are any faces that he recognizes. Yeah.
00:54:28
Speaker
Tharok just remember the last time we left a lot of the group there was a lot of fighting and and he'll kind of ah he'll say that as Tharok's head away shit are they definitely gonna I don't know don't know how turns out that fight was going before we had to go outside and face that demon ah okay this could be um interesting yes just be on your guard just in case
00:54:59
Speaker
And Therok, as you kind of stride 50, 60 feet south to meet these wagons, there driving the four wagon
00:55:11
Speaker
is Beauregard, the Bolt, Bluehill, and Carstan, Finbin, Valhorn.
Reinforcements Arrive
00:55:20
Speaker
As you two
00:55:23
Speaker
Approach this very familiar looking half-orc and behind him a very familiar looking motley crew known as the Undying Champions. Farrakh will approach you and he'll say, thank fuck, lots of people have arrived today who need our help.
00:55:39
Speaker
It's good to have someone arrive who we need help from. Well, crack out the ale, Farrakh, and get the feast going because let's we've got some very hungry people with us.
00:55:55
Speaker
Farrakh will hold out his hand to you for a hearty handshake. he' He's heard a lot about Karstan and then he met never met you directly. And he'll go, I can make do for some goblin pish that's not actually that bad. And I don't think it's literal pish, or at least I hope it's not.
00:56:10
Speaker
And Karstan sort of takes your hand. He he looks battered. like he's he's not like He's wearing his finery, but it looks quite... um dusty it's dirty it's it's clearly had better days he's not managed to change his outfit since the last time he ever he had that chance so he's just looking quite road sort of we ah weary and weathered yeah this place looks i'm not gonna lie thro it looks shit yeah they felt like it too
00:56:41
Speaker
They left it to the Warforged and his goblins. How back do you think it went? Oh, Jesus. Okay. um Right. um
00:56:51
Speaker
Okay. We've brought... At this point, Nyx, Baal, Alpha, Seth all come into view. a View cast down.
00:57:05
Speaker
Ah, the Undying Champions...
00:57:09
Speaker
Oh, good, good. It's Carstan. Oh, thank God. Hello, welcome. I'm here as well, just saying, you know. I don't really know you too well. I've heard a lot about you, I guess. This is Balty.
00:57:25
Speaker
Only for you, Baltic Baltic's just for you, Carsten, please Beaugard Sorry, this is Beaugard, Bluehill Mighty, mighty fighter Oh, um you do me too, kind ah ah you know Ah, but the Undying Champions The people who are telling songs about And I'm disappointed I don't have an exclusive But you know we'll talk about that later um So We have We have fallen to late arrest um there are wounded is there is there somewhere we can take those that are perhaps a little bit more injured than the rest of us
00:58:07
Speaker
it's not overly sanitary yet but we can sterilize with fire if you don't mind with regards to your fallen if there is preference again that can be arranged through fire know that I know Kennard is a proud son of Blackmouth would want to be laid to rest as per Sleekguard traditions.
00:58:32
Speaker
He would want to be burned.
00:58:37
Speaker
He fell in battle as he would as he wanted to.
00:58:47
Speaker
Shit.
00:58:51
Speaker
Look, I can appreciate this as a bit of a shock, but You know, time's a waste. Nothing will happen if we just sit on our asses here. Yeah. Okay.
00:59:05
Speaker
How about I sort us out for the for the for the night? um i can I can sort out some accommodation. um I've still got enough in me left to to sort that out. um Food. How you guys sit for food?
00:59:22
Speaker
Shit. ah For one better way of putting it. Almost in a literal sense, yeah. Okay. i'm fine for that Is Nix around? Where's Nix? He's right... he Where is Nix?
00:59:36
Speaker
Okay. He is around, but he's not here immediately, but he is somewhere. Okay, right. ah I will start sorting out the mansion, and that will be able to accommodate pretty much everybody.
00:59:51
Speaker
um And there'll be there'll be a banquet. that'll That'll suit everyone, right? It's a keep. It's kind of run down. no, no, no. I mean my mansion.
01:00:04
Speaker
yeah ah Many of the people here, they can't travel. is it oh no it You're about to see something very special. It's wherever I want it to be. My dear Bal, and Emron sort of hops down off the cart. Emron Karstan off the cart.
01:00:20
Speaker
Oh, God. But Emron is right there as well. Schizophrenia. Yeah, Karshal hops down and sort of gives ah gives Bala a friendly pat on the on the shoulder. Right. um I need to make a door somewhere. This will do perfectly. Yes, this will work. Okay, yes.
01:00:40
Speaker
um Right. ah If you give me a minute, I can get the doorway sorted. um And we should be able to accommodate everybody. um There's about 50 bodies here. Okay. 60. Is there 60 bodies? Yeah.
01:00:56
Speaker
but Roughly. Are that alive people or actual corpses you're talking about? 60 living people are currently in this property, around this property. Okay. i can i can I can accommodate that much.
01:01:07
Speaker
Better upcast it.
01:01:10
Speaker
can't cast it. You can't cast Okay, never mind. Carry on. car So, Karstan is going to cast Mordecanian's Magnificent Mansion and create
Magical Mansion Solution
01:01:20
Speaker
a doorway. And it's going to conjure a shimmering door against ah the main wall of the keep that leads to an extra dimensional dwelling space. It leads to a marvelous ah foyer.
01:01:31
Speaker
ah If Nix was here, there would he's been there before, so he he he knows this. um It also has in it um ah sufficient food to serve a nine course banquet for up 100 people.
01:01:42
Speaker
Great. wish people could see expressions on faces at this stage. um it's also so it's got It can't exceed 50 continuous 10-foot cubes, it can accommodate everybody. It's also got 100 near-transparent servants to attend on our needs.
01:02:03
Speaker
Well, partner that with the indentured servants, and you've got to labour here. But they can't leave i don't like they can't leave the... um They can't leave the dwelling. They are. So, yeah, Carson's going to cast Mordekin's magnificent mansion for a minute, create this lovely doorway, and he's then going to, like, right, you can stay in here for a bit while he sort of gestures to the goal port keep.
01:02:34
Speaker
This place gets cleaned up. I assume you've got people to do that.
01:02:40
Speaker
Slaves.
01:02:43
Speaker
Okay, I think we'll all just pitch in, yeah? wellll well We'll all just pitch in. We'll all just pitch It's fine. I'm just going to grab my normal room, Carsten. Yes, that's absolutely fine. Well done. ah Well done. Thank you, all Bolte.
01:02:56
Speaker
Yeah, and Carsten, I'm just just a group. I know this is your house and this is your place. um I hope you don't mind. I thought this might at least help things out for a bit. you look You look a bit stressed. I'm not going to lie.
01:03:07
Speaker
Fuck the keep. You've got a fucking mansion. Have you got you've got room for 30 plus dragonborn? Yeah, yeah. um there there there There are enough rooms. um It'll be fine. There's a lovely there's lovely library, many leather-bound books, smells of rich mahogany.
01:03:21
Speaker
Oh, shit. Nyx! Nyx! He's going to kind of run off inside in search of Nyx. ah Where do we find Nyx? I think they may be planning to fuck in your mansion, just so you're aware. Yeah.
01:03:35
Speaker
And you'll hear Baal shout over his shoulder, every room! cast i what tears The cast goes, well, I would say that'll be the first people, but I beat them to it, so no, no, and no.
01:03:49
Speaker
anyway You watch as the wagon that's, that's ah the the caravan, sorry, that's complete with wagons for members of the Winged Watch, the surviving members of the Winged Watch from the ambush, all kind of descend into the the mansion also. like they Almost like they've been doing it every night, really, that you've been traveling with them, cast down.
01:04:08
Speaker
Yeah. But Abba, as you dart back towards Goldport Keep's, well, Snake Run Keep now, um proper to find Nix.
01:04:19
Speaker
Where is Nix? What is Nix doing? Well, so at this point, Nyx would have been making good on his um errand from Emron. And ba as you get closer, you just hear Nyx, after finding Kareem, just like, Kareem, Kareem, need you to listen to me. I'm not trying to spin you a tail here. I'm not trying to charm you here. But have you walked this hole recently? There's a lot of Dragonborn. We're getting more people in here. There's sick There's hungry people. Your name is attached to this whole endeavor now. And I'm worried for you that if this goes sideways and we start burying people because we're not feeding them or they're getting some sort of illness because of the place is just so fucking filthy, that ain't going to do your rep any good. This is meant to be your thing. This is meant to be like, oh, do you remember the time that we all went to Kareem Snake Run's Keep and we...
01:05:14
Speaker
Found a way to save Aerith. Right now, my friend, you're going to have... Oh, remember the time we all went to Kareem's snake run keep and everyone died? ah need you. We need you. We need food.
01:05:27
Speaker
We need warmth. We need your... We need you. Nick! Only you can sort this... Nick! Hang on. Only you can sort this out, Kareem. Sounds like you're needed, Nick. Sounds like you're needed.
01:05:41
Speaker
ah Yes. And so are you. Just take a look around here and remember your name, right? It's tied up in all of this. Yes, Bob. Nick, yes. Hi. Yes. ah Hi. Hi. Hi.
01:05:54
Speaker
Kareem, can I just have a quick word with Nick's? I'll be my guest. Excellent. Okay. Next. Remember what I said? As Nick leaves the room. He just sort of nods and smiles.
01:06:06
Speaker
Oh, next. that there's ah There's a dog nearby. That's strange. i I don't know if I managed to get through to him. I'm trying to get all your friends some food. Don't.
01:06:17
Speaker
Don't. Stop. Have you ever fucked in a mansion? I mean, like, of all the things to us, many- We're going to fuck in a mansion. Oh, me and you. That's a wonderful dream, but right now, like, there is- It was outside. No, no. but it's It's there. It's ready. We can, I mean, yeah I overheard some of your conversation there. think yeah i Fuck you. We've had a really heavy day, and sometimes the mind does crazy things. There is a mansion in the key. I hear you, on but maybe we should get you some water.
01:06:47
Speaker
darling Sit down. Darling, Karsthan's here. He's done some funky magic. There's a fucking mansion in the keep. We can house everyone. He said we can feed everyone. Feasts. The problems are solved. Don't tell that cunt. Let him sleep in the piss and shitty beds. In fact, say, hey, you can have the beds all to yourself. We'll sleep outside for tonight.
01:07:07
Speaker
Fuck him. Let's get the guys. Let's go into a mansion. We've got at least five or six different rooms we can fuck in before, you know, they start to fill up.
01:07:17
Speaker
I'm in. I'm in. You said... I i was hoping you would be. i was hoping you would be. and Spin that shit to... kind when When you're ready, come up. But obviously, tell him that he needs to stay out here because fuck that guy and he can... Well, I think I just... He just didn't seem to give a shit anyway. I don't know. I didn't really have time to read him. I was just trying to work him. But not in that way, so let's go and work in the mansion.
01:07:40
Speaker
I've got a new ring I'm going to hopefully try out in it, he'll say as he's taking... There's a lot of new information happening all at once. I'm excited though. So everyone kind of takes a few hours this afternoon to kind of... Fuck.
01:07:56
Speaker
Yeah. To delight to delight in in the kind of comfort that's afforded them now by Carstann's magical power.
01:08:11
Speaker
And I imagine people feel their boots. you you see... you see everyone took into the ample amount of foods available to them, except the intentioned servants that are kind of, you know, there' there's ah theres ah a balance in a negotiation that kind of happens throughout the afternoon.
01:08:28
Speaker
um And I don't imagine for one minute, Emron would allow them to not get fed. So i will um kind of speed run the fact that that conversation will happen and Emron will probably get his way.
01:08:45
Speaker
And that everyone at Goldport Keep, Snake Run Keep, will be fed by Car Stands Magics. Apart from karee
01:08:56
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Kareem. So nothing can be taken out of the mansion. Yes, I understand. If anyone like tries to take food out, it literally turns to smoke when you leave the thing. Furniture, anything like like anything that that exists in the mansion will disappear. And when anyone tries, it just turns Question. smoke If I eat a belly full of food while in the mansion and then I walk for or go for a brisk walk afterwards, does that feeling of fullness evaporate? No, so so it's only furnishings other objects. The food is um fully sufficient. it's It's genuine food and that kind of stuff. So you can take the food out?
01:09:31
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No, no, the food will disappear unless you've eaten it. i mean So what's the difference between me carrying the food in my stomach my stomach? as opposed to my hands apologies it just says furnishings and other objects created by the spell dissipate into smoke if removed just so in in theory you could insert an object and walk out the door and not have to remove the object in theory if you wanted in theory okay right so if there is a really fucking creepy stuff with nix today It just disappears. so so
01:10:05
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So the dwelling's atmosphere is clean and fresh. It's magician's sleeve. that there There's a hundred servants and the servants are like near transparent. They're wearing like like monk's habits and you can't quite see faces and like hands are there but like not quite armed. It's very weird, but that's they're there and they are performing tasks that a human could perform before anyone gets any... We should try these guys out. I mean, they're willing. They're willing, Nix. They can't attack or take any action that make me harm another creature. So, you know, just in case that affects your plans, Val.
01:10:37
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Stop whipping them. Yeah, they can't whip you. They can't whip me. yeah um They can fetch things. Clean men, fold clothes, light fires. Clean clothes.
01:10:49
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That is perfect! They can fetch clean men! Get me your clean men! I need clean men! I'm so sorry, I'm selling these men again. They're just normal men!
01:11:11
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It's not a whorehouse. Give us two clean men, please. Stat. They never pour the wine and so on. ah you just We get it. We get it. We get it. we get Yeah. like but we We get that you're trying your best for not to be this, but now it will be this. You're too outside. You're too soiled, I'm afraid. We need two clean ones. It's just a fuck mansion in the side of Gulf War King.
01:11:35
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ah Well, it's actually a door, so it's really weird. So the doorway's there. Obviously, it's into a solid wall, but you go inside. ah yeah and then obviously Yeah, that's the weird thing. Yeah. That's the weird thing you brought to this situation.
01:11:48
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Rather than that polishing everyone who went to the door. Fuck God. ah
01:11:57
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Condom dispensers in every room. Leave me. Leave me.
01:12:03
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ah right As I was saying, you spend a few hours enjoying the luxuries that this space affords until you're kind of all gathered in the early evening in what I imagine is this incredibly opulent dining lounge space.
01:12:20
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And it is this weird snapshot of of personnel gathered here. You have the already...
01:12:32
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diverse group of the undying champions, peppered in associates and complete members of the Winged Watch, two trade lords and a caravan of indentured servants.
01:12:46
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And as you all kind of take in this moment of of sort of post-food fullness, kind of look back into the
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the real perils now once again, No one's seemingly wanting to move first here, but Kareem just eventually breaks through the silence. And I imagine in Karstan, some really um wonderful enchanted music is kind of playing on a kind of ah a well-rehearsed repertoire of of of orchestral ditties.
01:13:24
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Kareem just kind of announces a bit too loudly and and has been consuming wine a little bit, but, but you know, not, not, not uncharacteristicistic uncarrot uncharacteristically drunk, just kind of brave.
01:13:39
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Castan, tell us about Scorch Hell.
01:13:45
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What happened? I'm dying to know.
01:13:51
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And you see Carson, he's sat in his sat of chair at one of the heads of the table. And so he's been lounging and and chatting to the people near him. And he sort of pauses.
01:14:04
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And.
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Puts down his glass.
Tales of Scorch Hell
01:14:14
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Do we really want to
01:14:18
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Sully this with that, Kareem.
01:14:30
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Everything's... Everything's fucked, I can't stand. Fire.
01:14:44
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Fire.
01:14:48
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I remember near snake run, there was the clash of steel, the pounding of drums, the the fight had been long and hard from the capital, even to snake run. And then it just got worse.
01:15:13
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Just
01:15:17
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like a golden wave, these armored demons barred the road and we were
01:15:35
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desperate. We knew we had to get here.
01:15:41
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There was fire and far, far too much blood.
01:15:55
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Dralak.
01:16:00
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Dralak's going to hell.
01:16:08
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Even as we travel here, the weather.
01:16:15
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I've not known things like this since
01:16:21
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since the days of the blight. How it felt. like that again. Like...
01:16:31
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Yeah. your Your keep out there really epitomises how things are going right now.
01:16:40
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It's all gone to shit.
01:16:44
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It's in fucking ass.
01:16:50
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And we're just gonna be okay with that. Well, of course we're fucking not, Kareem.
01:16:59
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There are plans in motion.
Strategic Planning and Alliances
01:17:01
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And I'm sure, and Karsan glances to the undying champions, that the heroes of the hour have a plan, have some sort of idea of what's going to happen next. Some of us do.
01:17:19
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Now's the time for us to start putting things together. There are still more of us to gather here, Kareem. We're not all here yet. We're not all gathered. On that deflection to the Undying Champions, you all kind of see 60 heads slowly turn towards Emron, towards Nyx, towards Alpha, Baal, Tharok, and Seth.
01:17:50
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And then there is a knock.
01:17:53
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a very heavy knock at the door to the mansion. Can you see out of it? ah No, it's it's literally a solid door as far as I... i imagine In fact, technically, it's... I mean, it's the door won't shut...
01:18:17
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um Technically, it's imperceptible. um But I imagine we've left the door open a bit in order because we were expecting more people. Sure. um Then then it's it's the sound of knocking in an open door.
01:18:31
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And that still moment where all eyes were on the six of you will now turn to the doorway as insteps a lizard kin.
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takes off his hood.
01:18:54
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It is Ghostwing.
01:18:59
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Followed by a red-skinned tiefling who takes off her hood. It is the Red Rook.
01:19:09
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Followed closely
01:19:13
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by three more figures. Two are Dragonborn. One are Half-Elf.
01:19:21
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as Drago, Syngar, and Ren step into the doorway. That's where going end this week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop, Bellum Draconis.
01:19:36
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We got both groups coming together! Look who's back. Back again. The party's back. Ah, the heroes of the blight meet the undying champions. Boom, let's go, baby. I mean, we've got a feast. It's great. Don't worry. I've got you guys.
01:19:54
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I've got a feast and clean men at my disposal.
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