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Savage Worlds - The Phony Express 3.1: I'll Take Everything From You!
47 Plays6 months ago
Your favorite cow-folk are back to investigate the explosion at Sinner's Canyon Mine! Throughout their excursion, they discover mysterious handkerchiefs, coated in crimson, and an unsettling visual of their forest compatriots.
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Transcript
Session Introduction and Character Setup
00:00:24
Speaker
We're counting down. Good morning. Jesus Christ, Adrian. Good morning. Good afternoon and good evening, ladies, gentlemen, non-binary folks and Germans out there. This is role players and welcome back to the Phoney Express, guys. I'm not Australian. And we are back in the Phoney Express land, the land of Doodad, Montana, with all of your favorite cow people. Not people that are cows, but people who live around cows, potentially. We've got Justin. He's playing Kuttero too.
00:00:52
Speaker
I'll say hi, cut a row tool to your fans out there. Howdy. All right. Well, good. And then we got we got cash play and rain. Sup. Sup. And then we got Adrian, who is playing, believe it or not, an old man named Maverick. Hello there. And he's also playing Ishi now. Go ahead and do your Ishi.
00:01:16
Speaker
I noticed the chicken. She says pecker. She ate a chicken. Tell me the chicken came out of my head first. You said papa, but as a chicken, you're like papa. Don't get us back on the chicken debate again now. I was just rehearsing my voices before the podcast started and I forgot
Recap of Previous Session's Explosive Events
00:01:40
Speaker
about the chicken. How could I forget about him?
00:01:43
Speaker
All right, Justin, what happened last time on Phony Express in the Wild West? Oh, man, we gave a guy some dynamite. It was a very good call. Very trustworthy gentleman. He blew up an entire settlement of people in the mines. Those pirate people we met, I think they were pirate people.
00:02:03
Speaker
Land pirates. Yeah. Yeah. And they were land pirates. And he he blew them up with the dynamite we gave them. And we also helped help some nitro dynamist learn. And he also we also we helped the people that got lost and unhorsed on the night of the demon attack. But mainly, you know, they put the demon aside, we killed a demon, NBD. But there was an explosion. Yeah. Adrian, did we miss anything?
00:02:33
Speaker
We missed that we save people in the desert, like good people.
00:02:40
Speaker
Well, he said he saved the people that were unhorsed. All right. And I just didn't listen long enough. And active listening skills, you nod your head, you make eye contact, you go, aha. Yeah. And then you can learn reflective listening skills where you reflect back like a little summation of what you've heard so far. That way you can show them you were listening. I was too busy remembering to nod and say yes, that I didn't hear anything you just said.
00:03:06
Speaker
So, yeah, and also she got fucked up and then now is like part like mechanical. Right.
Character Dynamics and Backstories
00:03:12
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. She's totally cyborg now. She's like a cyborg birdie now. And she goes now, apparently. So.
00:03:21
Speaker
OK, so the last thing that happened that you guys remember, oh, we should also say Cass Rinn, excuse me, was the one who delivered the nitroglycerin to spinny Todd and Jensen. And then shortly thereafter, after she got back to do that, the explosion happened over at Sanders Canyon Mine sometime later. So she was being kind of a a a criminy criminal for a little bit, taking people's wagons and stuff. Criminy crimes.
00:03:51
Speaker
many crimes and she did the deed. There was some guy you went and met, but I don't know what his name was, but you met some guy who was the guy who bought that stuff with. I had it written down, but it's been forever, so I don't remember where I read it. It has. Like when you don't do like a story for maybe a month or two, that's almost like a year.
00:04:09
Speaker
Um, so anyway, so let's get into it. So the last thing that you guys all heard was a big explosion down towards sinners Canyon mine. You guys, it was getting later in the day after you were doing, excuse me, hold on. Did you say explosion? Yeah, I think it's an explosion.
00:04:26
Speaker
You mean, did I say explosion like a baby? I think, yeah, I think you accidentally did. I might have. There was an explosion, boys and girls. Just point out there was a, there was a little bit of a explosion. There's a little explosion over there when you see those canyons hanging. Okay, let's talk. So anyway, so you guys saw the expenders.
00:04:54
Speaker
What'd you say? You should have Mr. Torque in this. Mr. Torque, I don't know if I can do a good Mr. Torque. Like, in theory I can, but I can't actually do it. But I could probably bring a guy in that has at least his energy, but I could never do. He has Hercule Satan's voice. I don't know if I have that in me. I believe in you. What the fuck's a ref?
00:05:15
Speaker
Um, so, um, he is, uh, not, he is Mr. Troy again in this game. Uh, you guys are back at do dad. The explosion happened at Sino's Canyon mine. Uh, but it was getting late today after all of the heroic rescues of the people out in the desert and, and the deliveries and everything.
Debate on Sinner's Canyon Mine Explosion
00:05:33
Speaker
So, um, we'll just say that you guys all met up or roughly at the, uh, the front porch of the, um,
00:05:42
Speaker
What the fuck is your brothel called? Matching carpets, of course. How does that ever get? Literally, how could you forget? Because like two months of not playing is like a year and my brain doesn't function well over time. That was like the greatest brothel name decision of all time. And I still have no regrets.
00:06:05
Speaker
I was going to say, it says cast the person who sent it. I know the greatest name of all time. So says me, the inventor of the word of the name. One hundred percent. Come at me. Tell me there's one better. Met me, bro. Met me. So you guys are outside matching carpets. Take it away. What do you do?
00:06:27
Speaker
Actually, we did and it looks like I remember I yelled at slave sloppy not slave. What's his name? Fucking bird butter chop Joe mutton chop Joe yelled at him a little bit So yeah, you didn't yell at him for you definitely came back because you yelled at him about like trust in his delivering and shit Yeah, sorry for talking yelling at us speaking out before you started trying to Adrian, but I just remembered that so I'm coming out of his place all of them just growing up pulling my best And then you can do every year saying Adrian. I'm sorry. I
00:06:53
Speaker
OK, Adrian, so cutters coming out of the the Phoney Express office. He's not at matching carpets. Yeah. Were you with him? I don't remember if you were with Carter when he was chewing out mutton jobs or not. Let's just say that you're out on the porch when he comes outside just for sake of. So how did it go in there? I can't even remember that. I'm just so irritated. I don't remember what he said to me. You know, that fellow, he's never going to change his ways. I don't think he will.
00:07:22
Speaker
Nah, we gotta, I don't know, we gotta be more mindful about this kind of thing anymore. And really, I mean, I don't even know. Do I, do we meet you, Maverick, especially, do we even need to work at this dang Phoney Express company? I mean, damn. For some reason, I have problems hearing testing
Camaraderie at 'Matching Carpets' Brothel
00:07:42
Speaker
a bit. He asked you, he asked you if you, why, if you wouldn't, why you and Cutter still even work at the Phoney Express anymore.
00:07:52
Speaker
Okay. Uh, maybe serve as an accent. It might be still getting used to having heard it in a long time in the Western accent. Um, I mean, I've never really true officially worked for the Phonix press. I always just take along with you. That's true. Yeah. Um, I don't know. If you want to like quit, you can quit. I mean, yeah, I mean, maybe you can find some other work.
00:08:18
Speaker
Yeah, well, I've actually been thinking, man. I mean, I know you, but we just went through all this crap with that, uh, that demon feller with you and everything. And we were, it was all about not settling down, but I mean, maybe, I mean.
00:08:29
Speaker
I was running around, ain't, ain't, truly ain't good for us, you know? I mean, it's kind of, we killed the feller because we, that demon feller, we didn't want to stop running around, but now I'm thinking, oh, maybe he was wrong or something, you know? Um, uh, like, uh, I'm trying to get money back to my boss. We can save my family farm, but I think I'm going to be trying that forever, Maverick. I think I ought to bring her out here. Bathie's out here. Oh, you guys are out here. I mean, this is where I belong now, I think. And, and I remember.
00:08:56
Speaker
Yeah, I've been remembering kind of pal, he was a little bit of a curmudgeon, that fella, that scaly dude you were trying to hunt. It's been a while. Yeah, he's buried up there at Dickey Lake. I mean, and that place is kind of a campsite for a lot of just aloof people. I mean, maybe I don't think anybody owns that area around there. I mean, I'd go up there, maybe make a farm up there, bring my mom back out here, take bathy up there. You could be like my head honcho up there.
00:09:25
Speaker
May I? Keeping it safe and help me out and I don't know, Ren got her brothel. She can probably come up around, though. You know, I really like the idea that we don't have to, like, stay at, like, Ren's brothel all the time. Yeah, I'm homeless. That's not great. Yeah, your bill's starting to stack up, Maverick.
00:09:45
Speaker
I don't have a bill. My name's Merrick. Of course you have a bill. You owe me. Maverick with a dad joke. I mean, I kind of, I don't know. I really like the idea.
00:10:03
Speaker
That's good, Maverick. I'm glad you, I'm just hoping you'd be interested in something like that. I mean, it's nice. I worked on the farm back when I was younger. It was a lot of, I mean, I did some various work on my way across the country here to get to this place. And it's nice. It's good, honest work. You know, it's not much, but it's honest work. Yeah. I'm sure we can like make a nice place out of that with some elbow grease.
00:10:24
Speaker
Yeah. And you know, you've been talking about wanting to build things with wood and all that. You will up there and build a little house together. I have been. Yeah. Thanks for acknowledging that. I noticed you, I think in another life matter, you might've ended up being a carpenter. You just got a lot of interest in that kind of thing. You know, it was always kind of my dream before I became a bounty hunter.
00:10:45
Speaker
Well, I mean, let's go, I guess let's go talk to Ren. I mean, she got a place here, obviously, as we were just saying, but I mean, at least let her know what we're kind of thinking about. I have been. Thanks for noticing that. I guess, I guess as we walk in there, I'm just like, oh, I guess we do got to kind of check on the people of that place that got blown up by this hooligan that we gave this dynamite or whatever the hell it was, too. That's true, because it shouldn't have exploded by the mind.
00:11:13
Speaker
Yeah, that's not exactly at all what was supposed to be done. Probably a lot of people did on account of us giving this over to this feller. Yeah. Yeah, Rinz. Where's Rinz? Where have you been hanging out? Or have you been there actually talking to them this whole time? Oh, she was standing there talking, like listening to them. I just thought I was imagining your voice, Rinz.
00:11:35
Speaker
No I've been standing here the whole time but it's fine you know I was thinking about going over to you know the Bulls Bulls Bulls girls and seeing if they wanted to you know make a deal and see if they want to you know sell some product to the brothel and then we could call it a bacon brothel you know what I'm saying because then like people come get all stoned get all relaxed and then go up to their room and you know have some fun so that's what
00:12:04
Speaker
I was thinking I was getting into some business ventures around here, so it's fine. Whatever you guys want to do. You could also sell bowls at your brothel. I could, you know, I could put them on like the shelves and stuff and be like, you know, if you want these, it's gonna cost you. And Sheffi could also use some bowls, I'm sure. Oh, you know what? Sheffi could use all the bowls in the world, really. Yeah. Just brilliant.
00:12:36
Speaker
So he's trying to start a new venture, it would seem. The only thing I'm not understanding is when's the bacon come into play? You didn't mention the bacon. You said bacon brothel. I like the idea of having bacon at the brothel. You too, yeah. I thought you already had bacon there, but I mean, I don't, I don't, I usually eat the goulash, I suppose. No, no, no cutter, bake and brothel. Oh, you want to have some baked goods. All right, I get it. That's a good idea. Yeah. I'm going to start the first B&B, man.
00:13:02
Speaker
That's great. That's good. Yeah, I mean we won't be too far from town if we do get this whole thing set up But I mean as I was just saying there we do got if well, I guess it's on us to figure out what's going on up there that old What was that? Oh, he was out near center Canyon Crazy people out that way Cool man. Well, you guys always got a place to stay whatever you ever come to town. So it's whatever I
00:13:30
Speaker
Well, um, I mean, you want to, you want to come with us to rinse the heels out. She's like, yeah, that plays bluff. I don't really care now. So whatever. So I mean, yeah, those guys were menaces anyway, you know? So yeah, you go on to come along with us. We're in check on those people. We probably should get, I mean, sheriff, Jess, if we can, I mean, if there are people are buried underneath rubble, we're going to need more than just our three selves to hoist them out.
00:13:56
Speaker
I guess I should check on my friend Tabby. Hopefully she's okay. Hopefully, I don't know. That was a lot of high explosives. It was, yeah. I don't know. She had some really big bazongos, so I'm sure she just like had some padding. That's the right stuff over. All right. Well, I mean, maybe we will set out in the morning. We ought to let Sheriff Jeff know we might need a hand again doing some more search and rescue.
00:14:27
Speaker
All right. You just hear like off in the distance. I'm like, God, I think he just found that lady. That one lady he saved, he was banging her. Oh, yeah. Who was that? Fuck. I don't know. He gave her a name. You said it was a lady you found. Oh, a lady he found like when he was helping rescue people. I forgot all about that that he had like a lady in there. He was looking around with. Love Sheriff Jeff. That's my favorite. So you guys are just going to go to bed.
00:14:58
Speaker
Yeah. All right. Is there anything you want to do? Anybody you want to talk to before you turn in or do you want to just fast forward to the morning? You know, I would like to do something, but I should not do that now. I opened up my character sheet and I noticed I have still like level ups open and I haven't done yet. Oh, my God. Now that you actually have level ups open. Yes.
The Mystery of the Blood-Stained Handkerchief
00:15:19
Speaker
You have to check on that make sure Adrian ain't trying to give himself some extra shit like you did when he first made his character It's like guys I have 80 skills what the fuck Two skills that are like still missing But hmm. Yeah, I'll do that often All right, I thought you're gonna like I have something I want to do but it wouldn't be appropriate on stream Pekka Pekka
00:15:45
Speaker
Yeah, I think you tucked Ishii in when everything was going down eventually. I think you put her to sleep or something. You didn't put her to sleep, but I mean, like you put her in bed to sleep. I stood there if I'd gone to her head and put her to sleep. You better not fucking leave us pillow. OK, so is there anything Rin wants to do before you turn in or do you want to just go straight to or do you just want to insinuate the little party you're looking to do or whatever?
00:16:15
Speaker
Oh, no, she she's going to go to bed and get ready for tomorrow. She feels like there's going to be a lot of like physical exertion that she's going to have to do. And she's not going to want to have to do that all hungover. Like you can get weed hungover. It happens. So, yeah. All right. What about Cutter? Anything Cutter wants to do?
00:16:42
Speaker
I would probably go see Beth. I'm just going to go see her and say goodnight, maybe. Maybe we share a bed, nothing sexual, just to sleep in side by side as people who have feelings for each other do. Yeah, she has a headache tonight anyway.
00:16:57
Speaker
Oh, I'll always be this damn headache. The next thing you're going to tell me is back in town. It's like old school style. They got two twin beds in the in the room and they're each on separate beds. Yeah, you know, we won't push the beds, you know, and we can do it tonight, but you have to stay in your bed, not stay in mine. We have to do it just with our words. Oh, not another not another not of the handies. I'm still sore from the last one.
00:17:27
Speaker
That's right. All right. So you guys make it through the night sleeping sleepingly with no interruptions, although so when you guys come downstairs for breakfast, chef's where they always are doing their thing. Of course, they have the freshest batch of goulash you ever did see.
00:17:49
Speaker
Um, uh, but Sheriff Jeff is also down there and he's looking a bit, you know, confuzzled as like, he's kind of like, he's kind of like leaning on the bar with like, you know, on his left hand, just kind of like keeping his chin up. Uh, he just kind of like half asleep. I come down. Uh, Oh, Oh.
00:18:06
Speaker
Feeling pretty rested and everything. I slap on a bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow bow
00:18:37
Speaker
Yeah, what? Yeah, what would you do last night? Oh, I slept a gentleman's three feet from my lady last night as is the custom of traditions and respectfulness and whatnot. Yeah. And I had three sets of feet in my office.
00:18:57
Speaker
Oh. Well, all right. That was like, why, why did I have three feet in the side? I ain't going to ask. And I said, I said, yeah, I want to see your toes. All right. You've been talking to Maverick too much. Well, I'm going to get, I'm going to belly up this bar here and get some of this goulash in me. I swear Maverick was there last night. Damn.
00:19:31
Speaker
He was the other cookie in our Oreo He was the other cookie and we had a sweet cream if you know what I mean
00:19:55
Speaker
Sheriff Jeff, it's a good thing you're here, feller. It's unfortunate you're tired. I don't know if you've heard that big eruption up north-ish a ways. Did you hear my big eruption?
00:20:08
Speaker
please there's I know there's thanks thanks drummy glad you're a new hire
00:20:32
Speaker
That heard the good of you guys. Pretty good. Good job on that. Thanks. That's all on its room. Can you believe it? Oh, I thought that was a whole different thing. Okay. Yeah, that's great. Yeah. Geez Louise is here as well. You want to talk to her? No, no, thanks. I'm like, I do like a real like, uh, like, um,
00:20:49
Speaker
Deprecating smile, I don't know what you want to call it, like a, yeah, okay. A sarcastic smile. You're just like, all right. Hello, okay. Sheriff, we probably got to go help them folk up there. It was, I mean, at least me and Ren and Maverick do, because it was part of a funding express job. We took some explosives to a fellow. He was going to level Jensen and rebuild it, but he went and did that instead, blew up that Sinner's Canyon area, we think.
00:21:18
Speaker
No, I mean, if you go up there and you find out that's a, that's what happened. Yeah. Maybe I can round out some people come and help. But I mean, I did hear about a guy who wanted to blow up Jensen, like good for him. I don't give a fuck. I mean, that was kind of the direction, wasn't it? Um, it might've been, but I mean, seemed a little off to me in my thinking.
00:21:38
Speaker
All right, well, I mean, you find, you find some proof or you go up there and you confirm that it's collapsed and you know, yeah, we'll get, you know, I'll go, I'll go maybe round up some people, see if anybody wants to volunteer and take a ride up eventually. But you know, I can't be taking all these people away from their homes. If I ain't got anything substantiated by collapsed mountain and whatnot. Right. Right. At least get the word out and people might need to help, but, um, see if anybody's got any good big old beasts of burden they can haul out with.
Morning Plans and Sheriff's Involvement
00:22:04
Speaker
Yeah, like a cow.
00:22:05
Speaker
Yeah, something. Yeah, I think a big legs and a big body is leggy is leggy around. She'd be helpful. Oh, you know what? I ain't seen leggy. Is that what he actually said? If he came from, I don't even know the name of the girl for being honest. At least I hope it was a girl.
00:22:22
Speaker
Otherwise, I'm discovering something about myself. But anyway. I've enjoyed it last night. We did get someone new named Leggy around here. She's she's really tall. So that sounds about right. You know, it could be I did. I did feel like when I hugged her, I just had a face full of butt cheeks. I thought them was boobies, though. But you know, could be kind of she has long legs.
00:22:47
Speaker
Yeah, definitely. Yeah. Well, how you been there, big boy? What's the ruckus in the morning? What are you guys doing all down here? Oh, you know, just talking about, you know, unmentionable things and apparently could hear things. Some candy got blowed up up northwest. No, yeah, I heard it too. Oh, we were planning to go up there like later on.
00:23:15
Speaker
Well, we already talked about that. I'm going to round up some people later, maybe, but right now I just need to. Oh, the coffee in the world so far hasn't been able to get rid of this ringing in my ears and the stinging in my butthole. So I'm just going to chill here for a bit. I mean, if that's what you got to do, sure. Yeah. I also want some breakfast goulash. Well, of course you have some goulash. Thanks very much. How are you, by the way?
00:23:44
Speaker
I'm doing fine, thank you. Excuse me, I was talking to Renipu. Oh, okay. Yeah. Hey, Chefie, you know, I'm doing good. Can I get an extra helping of the breakfast goulash this morning? I'm hungry. Yes, of course. I should say, you know, I know we talked about this briefly before, but there's still word around town you've been a bad, bad girl, Renipu.
00:24:14
Speaker
I don't know what you're talking about, Chefie. I was doing nothing wrong. So how are you doing? Oh, you know, thinking about buying myself a new spatula. Oh, a spatula? Well, you know what? Let me see if I can find you a special one in town sometime. OK, cool. Yeah, that'd be cool. Yeah, I'm just thinking about changing up a bit. I love goulash, but I have so many more things I could cook. I just don't have the materials.
00:24:43
Speaker
You know, anytime you need me to grab you anything, you just give me a list and I'll grab it for you, chefy. Don't you worry.
00:24:50
Speaker
Okay, yeah, could you get me some fingernail clippers, a zipper if they've been invented yet, a spatula, you know, one of those spoons that has a hole in the middle, you know, one of those, you know, that's more of like picking up piscat. Could you get me some Spimoni, if that's available? And, you know, that's what I'm for. Oh, and a hairbrush, a nice one.
00:25:18
Speaker
A head rush. A head brush. A hair brush. I'm so sorry. I thought I heard head rush. I can get all of those things for you. I was going to run by Bulls, Bulls, Bulls and see if they want to, you know, maybe get into business with us. Do you want to get do you need some bulls while we're at it?
00:25:42
Speaker
I mean, if you want to give me some more bowls, I'm never going to say no to more wares, but definitely emphasis on the spatula, you know, the holy spoon for sure, and the brush. Okay. You got it. Also, Maverick, I'm sorry. Also, how are you? You know, for a second I was feeling really ignored, but thanks for actually asking me.
00:26:07
Speaker
Of course, you know what? I'm gonna put a little extra cayenne pepper in your goulash. You get a little bit more of a kick this morning. No, thanks. I'm sure I'm going to need it later on. Oh, yes. I heard some nasty, nasty explosion last night. Yeah. It really shook up the town. Thanks to your cooking, we all get right to that. I'm sure of that. Yes. Oh, Carter, you got a letter, by the way, that showed up. I think Sucky has it.
00:26:36
Speaker
Oh, thanks. I'll head over there now. I just finished my goulash. Okay. That'll be finishing it. Well, you're a hungry boy. Hey, wait, hang on. Here comes the train. Choo choo. There you go. Oh, you want some more too here? Here comes the train, the steel horse. Chika, chika, chika, chika, chika, chika.
00:27:00
Speaker
Uh, and then Sheffield tries to feed Maverick as well. And then Sheffield has like a tiny little spoon that they do, uh, with a, with a very tired looking Ishi on the bar. It's like, here you go, little guy.
00:27:18
Speaker
Yeah, she looks particularly tired. You know, their their feathers are still kind of like all strung out and everything. Like even after you bathed her and put her to bed and everything, like she's still she still looks like she just had one hell of a weekend. And it's just kind of very slowly recovering. So she just kind of she looks like a drunk bird at this point, just kind of hungover. Do you want to like stay like at the brothel for today to like rest a bit more?
00:27:48
Speaker
Ishi just kind of like kind of just kind of flattens themselves like on the bar and then just immediately goes to sleep. I'll take that as a yes. Hongshu, Hongshu, pack it, pack it, pack it, pack it, pack it. I'm going to carry you up to the bed. I'll be right back.
00:28:06
Speaker
I take her back up to bed. The other two downstairs cutter. Sucky is over there. She's over where she usually is behind her little bar. She is carving out some new fire sticks with a big blade and like some logs. Well, not really logs, I guess they're like big branches, but. Ah, good work there. So I heard you had a letter. What? I heard you had some correspondence for me.
00:28:31
Speaker
Oh yes, I gotta be honest with you though, it's a very moist letter and it's not because of me. Oh, alright, I suppose. I'll take it either way. Right, well, um, so how's things with Bassey? Uh, pretty, pretty, you know, good, you know, we, we, uh,
00:28:53
Speaker
I look kind of look around and I'm like, we actually moved our bed a few inches closer together last night than normal. Oh, that's what that scraping waste on the ceiling. We're going to keep them that way. You know, don't don't nobody know. Oh, I'm going to tell everybody. I mean, give me that letter. And she hands you the letter and then goes back to carbon. She goes one slice to say.
00:29:18
Speaker
Hold on a minute. They must not be somebody who knows me very well. They know I can't read. I got the there's in here. I know that one. That's the I know that one. I know that one. So I get the. That's just that's just the address. It just says the matching carpets on the front.
00:29:41
Speaker
Oh, oh, I got to open it up then. So you open up the envelope and you like, again, as Saki said, it's very heavy and very, oh, she didn't say it was heavy, but like it's heavy ish and it's very wet. Grody.
00:29:58
Speaker
And like you you pull it you pull it out a like like a kerchief that is just like very heavily stained like an old light like a reddish brown and it's still like some red dripping off it like onto the floor and under the envelope. And that's just what it is. It's just a blood soaked kerchief and stuffed in an envelope. I took it back in so nobody sees it. Oh, you kind of what the hell are you all right?
00:30:27
Speaker
No, so I think they used red ink on his here thing. Oh, this scarlet letter. Yeah, this is a scarlet letter I received. Ooh, sexy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, Ren. Yeah, what's up, Cutter? Can we go back around your office or something? You got a room down here we can go to real quick? Sure. No one else is going in.
00:30:56
Speaker
We can go to my office. All right. Let's go. Let's go in there real quick. Uh, chef, you tell Maverick we're in Marin's office. When you come down.
00:31:04
Speaker
Okay, you see chef he's still trying to put like a little spoon in his mouth like come on you gotta eat come on So you escape over to oh no, I guess no that he's not doing that because you took bird upstairs So he's actually he's feeding he's feeding himself I guess I will
00:31:28
Speaker
So, uh, so before we cut back up to Maverick, uh, yeah, so we'll just complete that. So you go to with her into like, I guess a little side office or something. Yeah. Uh, I mean, I just, sorry, you just got a small office with a small desk where she keeps like all of her, her fight, her, her things that are official in there.
00:31:49
Speaker
Mm-hmm, official things. I received this envelope here, and here's the path. Look, I don't know what to make out of this here. Someone sent me, it was like a bloody neckerchief. What? Yeah, I got it. Look, I pulled it open. Look in there. Do you recognize it? I mean, I don't know. It could be anybody's handkerchief. You know, anybody's old neck where, who knows?
00:32:19
Speaker
That's weird. Why would they? Yeah, what the hell? Who's going to send me some? I mean, I know we kind of just blew up a town and all when we didn't, you know, indirectly. That's a little too soon. People will be sending us a hate mail already. Did it have a letter with it? I don't think so. Didn't have a letter with it. It did not. No, it just did. It's just a blood-soaked handkerchief. Just said D-mashing carpets on the front. Probably my name too. I know how to say it. I know how to read my name. That's one of the first things Beth told me.
00:32:46
Speaker
Cutero tool right there. It says it. Yeah, that's weird. Um, it doesn't have any thing. Also, let me see the front of the envelope here. Take it, take it. It's a little sucker. They get a little sicker. Does it have anything else written on the front?
00:33:16
Speaker
It just says it has a misspelled cut a row tool on it and then misspelled the matching carpets written on the front of it and like a very, very crude handwriting. Like you could tell that whoever wrote it, like either just learn how to kind of start writing letters or, you know, or they're just bad at it. Hmm.
00:33:43
Speaker
Well, I guess we're going to have to figure out this next mystery cutter, but maybe we'll just have to wait until we get more information because I don't recognize this either. Do I? I mean, I wouldn't think that you would. It's just just as crudely written.
00:34:04
Speaker
Letter on the front or a writing on the front and just blood to kerchief Nothing special about the kerchief. It's just like it's some average run-of-the-mill. You probably get it at the general store for like 50 cents Okay, I was just wondering say I mean I've seen some that have like really delicate like embroidery and stuff like that on it
00:34:22
Speaker
Yeah, it just looks like when you get into three pack, probably. Okay. Sounds good. Um, uh, well, do you just want to put it in my safe for now cutter and then we can like come back to this and we get a chance. Yeah, probably that's good. Yeah. We keep it somewhere. Nobody's going to find it and get freaked out. Buddy old letter. Gross. Yeah. Sounds good. She's going to put it in her safe.
00:34:52
Speaker
Okay, and then what? We got away from Africa. You're gonna go wait for Mavarino Maverick. You take your bird up to the room and then do you do anything else while you're up there or you just come straight down? I'm going to tuck her in like put her some water to the other side if she gets like thirsty. And I'm sure it must have been really hard to like go through all of these like procedures.
00:35:18
Speaker
flag metal you have on you now. But I'm sure I'm sure you'll be fine. Just rest a bit now. And she she just kind of lets out like a little bit of like a little pecker. And it just kind of like goes back to sleep. She's you nail it right on the head. You know you know your your ego better than anybody. She's just like really just worn out from everything that happened to her. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:35:45
Speaker
OK, you leave, you come downstairs, we'll say just for expediency. The other two come out of like a little side office and meet your back at the front. So what do y'all do? Let's do hero stuff. Yeah. Well, let's go make a make try and help people. We helped screw over, I suppose. Yes. I mean, when that we didn't.
00:36:12
Speaker
I'm not talking about anything. I mean, I mean, if we wouldn't have been trying to say it was we wouldn't help help her get the natural glycerin. We didn't know that feller was going to do something stupid with it. That's also true. Yeah. Let's let's go. I guess I'm going to get on our horses and ride on out of here. Exactly. Yeah. All right. So you guys are heading up towards heading up towards the centers Canyon Mine.
00:36:42
Speaker
That's good. That's good. So, yeah, is there any place you want to stop along the way or did you want to just head straight there? How about we go to a core junction? She's a what? It's like they're a really big city, like to the, I guess, south of do that. That's the opposite. I wouldn't matter. You can cook. Oh, yeah. You've only been out in the sun for a few minutes and you're already cooked.
00:37:09
Speaker
I'm just joking. Oh, man. We're such a human retreat. I'm just kidding. J.K. Kidding, guys. No jokes. You pull them ever crazy. It's like I know we have something that could be very urgent, but let's go.
00:37:31
Speaker
Let's go explore the big city. You know, they probably got something cool. A big city. Yeah, let's go. Let's go northbound and up and westwards to. Northwest West West West West Coast. All right. So you guys head up there. I forget how long I said I took you up before, but probably maybe like a couple of hours tops, like if you stop to let your horses eat and drink and all other stuff or whatever.
00:38:01
Speaker
Um, so we'll say like about an hour and a half to two hours. It takes you to get up to sinners Canyon minor. At least first of all, you pass by do that era by Jensen, which, um, you can definitely see it wasn't used on Jensen. Like it still looks roughly the way you left it with all the burnt buildings and everything else around. Like, you know, it doesn't look like any explosion has happened here except for the ones you guys left behind. Um, so, uh, did you want to inspect anything in Jensen or did you want to continue one to sinners Canyon?
00:38:32
Speaker
I mean, if it looks around the same than before, then I don't really want to investigate it.
Discovery of Sinner's Canyon Mine's Destruction
00:38:40
Speaker
Cool. All right.
00:38:41
Speaker
So you continue onward to Sinner's Canyon, just past, what do we call the forest where Mothmeh left Piccadilly Forest or something like that? Yeah, just past Piccadilly Forest, where all the woods people live. And you do see, firstly, as you guys approach towards where the mountain meets the forest,
00:39:05
Speaker
There are a lot of trees down up here too. It looks like big chunks of the mountain crumbled over. A lot of trees toppled. You can smell smoke throughout the woods and throughout the canyon. So the forest definitely took a huge hit as well as the canyon itself.
00:39:27
Speaker
And as you guys continue onwards towards where at least I believe Cutter and Rin went to Sinner's Canyon Mine, yeah, the entrance is not remotely there. There's no sign of it. There's at least probably a good 10 feet of rubble blocking between you and where you know the entrance was. Huge chunks of the mountain above it and the rock avalanche on top of where the entrance was. Damn.
00:39:55
Speaker
Yeah, it's pretty bad at the mountains going. Yep. And a big crater being filled in. Oh, that's a problem. I don't think that the three of us can like get rid of all this rubble. Probably not. I climb up onto a, I climb up onto a rock and try and like look far as I can through all the rubble through the rubble. Like, I mean, just like to get to higher advantage. Like it looks like, you know, down further along it since it's just like, you know, a big field in front of us of rocks and shit. So I can see.
00:40:25
Speaker
You want to do a want to do a notice roll I could fucking do First of all didn't do that forgot. It's been a while since I played a game player play the character Did it 10 10
00:40:46
Speaker
Yeah, so you don't see a whole lot trying to see through the rubble but you do hear like very faintly like almost superhumanly like how like you're really trying to like attune yourself to like what's going on around you but you can hear very very faintly like like kind of like a
00:41:03
Speaker
like people try trying to scream like through the through the rubble like beneath the all the all the wreckage. OK, so you can kind of hear you can't see anything, but you can hear that there's still somebody. It seems to be alive under there somewhere. Does it seem like?
00:41:19
Speaker
it was exploded like above the actual place of the mine. So it would just collapse and crumble over top of the entrance area and, or maybe some inside was only, they actually blew up the whole like, like area that, you know, we know to be where like the settlement was inside the mine. Uh, it, it looks like, Oh, you know what, actually, uh, since you're looking for that, it looks like there was a concentrated explosion, like rates,
00:41:47
Speaker
where the entrance was. But now that you're really looking and you're looking down, actually, there is something that you do see as well. As you can see that there's like scattered like throughout towards the woods and everything like a month like the down trees and everything and kind of among some bits of the rubble. You can see that there is like some like splatters of like charred blood or like stained blood on the rocks.
00:42:11
Speaker
And you can also see there's like an old wagon like like a couple of bits of like a like a wheel somewhere off in the woods that you notice So like it looked like the the wagon was used as just like to concentrate the blast all at once and whoever did it probably died too Hey, I think I found a feller we you gave the explosives to I
00:42:36
Speaker
He's a smudge. He's a smudge. And Princess Lance are laughing. But I also think I hear some people- Oh, there's people. Oh, no. Here's some people crying out somewhere, buried somewhere. It's going to be fun. People in a rubble stack. Yeah, we should go get them.
00:43:02
Speaker
How about we like get our rope and like try to pull it away with our horse or something like that? Well, I think I got some rope. I mean, I don't even know where these fellers, how deep they are in this pile of rubble here. It's a whole thing. We got to like, we got to like search or something. All I can hear is, all I can hear right now Maverick is,
00:43:24
Speaker
I mean, I'm kind of fly science and we got to do something. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I've got to kind of pinpoint it. I think let's, let's, let's, uh, snoop around. Then do your snooping, I guess. Okay. You want to help me, Maverick? That's a big field of rumble. We got to fan out, Maverick. Um, yeah, sure. Um, I know I told you about resting, but this ain't time for resting now. Nikki lakes later.
00:43:53
Speaker
Let's do it. Yeah. All right. So, Maverick, what would you like to do in this situation? Since we already know there's people in there, I want to also see what's kind of the best place to start to get the rocks away and then get
00:44:21
Speaker
my horse ready to pull it away, like some stones. Okay, so you're going to try to have your horse pull away some of the rubble? Yeah. Okay, you can do that. Although I will say, you have been around the block for a bit, this is going to be like
00:44:40
Speaker
with just a couple of horses and some rope, just with supplies alone, like this is gonna be like weeks of work to pull that much rubble, which is how much has fallen off the mountain to block this path. If you're trying to unblock that path, unless you, I will say, unless you can find a way to blow that all up and not cause another avalanche in the meantime, one, like just a couple of horses with some rope is gonna take you a really, really long time. These people are probably gonna suffocate or, you know,
00:45:09
Speaker
That's not the best approach. Yeah. Yeah. You can start at some rocks if you want. How about we like go and see if there are people in the forest that they are, they're like close by if they want to help us.
00:45:28
Speaker
Oh, that's a good dad. You go. Yeah. Fetch them fellers. Uh, forgotten all those creepy fellers you hung out with before. Yeah. Yeah. Fetch them maybe. And, uh, I'll keep poking around here and maybe help me poke around here so we can pinpoint where people are. Yeah. That's a good idea. Yeah. That's a good idea. And maybe send one of them, the little fellers down to town as a runner with the weirdest, the least weird looking one that they won't get to tell when he comes in. Um, send him down there, tell the chair of Jeff, you sent him and we need some more people.
00:45:56
Speaker
Yeah, that's some good thinking you're doing there. I try, man. Baffy's been teaching me how to think. He's been teaching you how to read, but he's always been a good thinker. Thanks, Maverick. Sometimes I'm too hard on myself. You're right. You're the dad I wish I had had when I was younger. And you're the son I wish I had.
00:46:19
Speaker
Get the hell out of here, you son of a bitch. Yeah, I was going to say, do you want me to break up this make out party? Because I thought we had to rescue people over here. Over my dead body. Over my dead body, you're going to interrupt this make out session. Over my dead body. And I've already died once, so it isn't actually false. Me too.
00:46:46
Speaker
Pretty cool. Yeah. A third of you have died at some point. Anyway, yeah, that's a good idea, Maverick. You go on and find them, fellers. I'm off to the forest. Bye. All right. Rin, what would you like to do? She's going to try to see if she can find a way through. Try to see if you can find your way through the rubble. Yeah, try to use her robot arm to try to shift stuff around.
00:47:17
Speaker
I mean, yeah, you can you can certainly give it a go. You could maybe do. Well, we haven't done like Savage Savage World's rules in quite some time. You could do just like a straight up strength role to see how well you can start chipping through the rubble to see if it's going to be worthwhile. OK. So that'll be just a straight up strength role. That's a four. Yeah, so you are.
00:47:46
Speaker
You're able, again, like, you know, metal versus rock, most of the time metals going to win. So you are kind of chipping away at it and breaking through some of the rock. But like, much like how Maverick was discovering as he was trying to survey if he could pull stones with his horse. This is if this is like where you're at, you're probably going to end up injuring your or wearing your arm down before you break through this amount of rock by yourself. OK.
00:48:09
Speaker
I feel like she'll just like she'll start moving a couple roll around and like start punching a few breaking them and then she's going to be like. And go sit on a rock and watch the boys do something with the horses and smoke joint.
00:48:27
Speaker
Well, I mean, you would know because you've you know, you know, people here that there is there are two ways into Sinner's Canyon mine or to the Sinner's Canyon bar. But but you'd have to go on the other side of the mountain range to get in there. OK, but but it would take you a lot longer because it's mostly it's mostly located towards the front of the of the canyon. So it would take you probably to get all the way around the mountain range and get to the other side maybe a day.
00:48:57
Speaker
Uh, but you could, there is a back entrance that they, you know, like kind of like little, little mining dwarves. Like they kind of like, were like setting up like a little tunnel that they were beaten through the other side. Um, so you, you would know that for sure.
00:49:11
Speaker
All right. Uh, so she's going to, well, okay. So she's, she's going to get tired after a few minutes of trying to clear the rubble and she's going to sit on the rock and she's in a lighter joint as soon as smoke for a minute. And she's going to go, Oh yeah, there's like totally another fucking entrance to this place. Um, Hey guys, do you just want to like go and see if we can get them out of the other side? Cause there's like two entrances to this place.
00:49:41
Speaker
I'm like halfway up to pile, or a pile of rubble, like with my hands, my ears like, hello? Wren, what'd you say? This here is another, oh yeah, let's find another entrance, damn. I mean, it might take a little bit, but it's at least better than, it might take us less time to get there than it would to just move all this shit. So like. Yeah, this is, this is a whole thing here. Yeah, let's try and find another way back around so we can hoist them out the other way. Yeah. All right. Lead the way, Reni-poo.
00:50:10
Speaker
That happens after I'm gone, right? Yeah, you've started going off towards the forest as they're doing that. So, Cutter and Wren will start taking their trek around the mountain, it would seem. Yeah. As you make your way towards the forest, towards Piccadilly Woods, I think is what we called it. Wren, do you have any paper we can tack to something? We can make that way. Maverick knows we went around the back. He ain't going to know how to get it.
00:50:35
Speaker
Yeah, I've got some papers. Okay, Lee Lee Lee even knows what he knows. He can try to front, I guess, with everybody else and we're going to be going around the back. Yeah, hopefully he'll see it. They're kind of small, but it'll work.
00:50:47
Speaker
He's got special eyes. Yeah, he's. Look with your special eyes, Maverick, with your special eyes. My brand, my brand. So Maverick, we'll say you're heading towards on what was your horse's name? Midnight, I think, right?
00:51:17
Speaker
Uh, you and midnight are headed towards Piccadilly Woods. Uh, it doesn't take you too long to get, you know, into like where, where you know, their little, their little town is. Um, uh, but you can see that like some of the destruction like really went far. Like when some of the trees were knocked over or blasted apart, like it really, you know, it's like, it's like in Valheim where when you knock down a tree and then it rolls and it knocks on other trees and shit, like this like had such a apocalypse.
Maverick's Grim Forest Discovery
00:51:43
Speaker
Yeah, it was such a significant blast of that much nitroglycerin that went off all at once that it really leveled a big chunk of the forest along with it. Plus with the mountain range crumbling into the forest, you can see big hunks of rock that weren't there before that are scattering throughout the forest as well.
00:52:04
Speaker
And then, uh, like as you get towards where like the big stump was that you shared the big feast. Yeah. Uh, you, you notice that it's awfully quiet. Uh, you don't really, you don't really see a lot of people or any of your familiar friends around right now. Um, hello. Anyone here? I guess here's your own echo coming back to you from, from the mine or from the Canyon nearby.
00:52:32
Speaker
And that's a bit concerning. I'll try to like write on and see if they're like someone like the closer vicinity. Sure. You want to do maybe a notice roll, see what you can see, see what you can hear, see what you can smell, perhaps. It's a good one for Ishii. For some reason, my character sheet is being a bit weird right now. She tired. She tired, little birdie. Your character sheet's being a wiener.
00:53:00
Speaker
It's being a bit weird right now, and now I have to open again. There you go. Sometimes, roll tenies, just a little finicky. It's a two. Two? But I have tenies, so I'm going to throw up any. You do have Benjamins. I do start you guys with two every round. Reroll that beautiful bean footage. See if you can get something better. I have three because I have a luck edge. Okay.
00:53:27
Speaker
Oh, there you go. There's a five plus your luck edge, I guess there's a luck edge count against good rolls to. A lot like luck just gives you like one extra penny each session. Oh, right. Oh, excellent. Perfect. OK, I forgot all about that shows how long it's been since we played this. OK, so you you make your way towards
00:53:52
Speaker
towards throughout the rest of the town, their little village within there. And then you can see that there is, as you're looking around and you're riding through a bit, you can see very, very faintly off in the distance of the woods. You can see some white smoke. It looks like it's an old flame that's starting to finally dissipate. Maverick's been around a while. He knows what that looks like. Yeah. Somebody's been there. So I'm going to write there.
00:54:22
Speaker
Yeah, you make your way there and there are two two flames or two old fires. You should see that one. There's just like maybe like as you get a little bit closer to the. Well, you see a little campfire and you see a giant pyre with a bunch of people on it.
00:54:39
Speaker
a bunch of the residents of the forest you see like the big hairy guys on there you see your friend the moth man is on there you see some of the other elven people that were in the woods are also on the pyre and you can recognize them somewhat from like the clothing that they wore some of their features are still kind of intact but it looked like but they're mostly very charred and it's a very kind of
00:55:05
Speaker
very unsettling smell that you walk into as you approach it. Like the moment you kind of step through the clearing where the big pyre is, it just a smell just hits you of just like burnt people that you walk upon and looks like they've been there for probably about a day or two. I got what happened here. I like try to like
00:55:27
Speaker
put my Clove Art album on my nose, and I'm just going to try and look if anybody is alive and if I can see any clues as to what happened here.
00:55:44
Speaker
Sure, we can ride the notice that you rolled the first time. But like, as you're looking around, like the site, you go back to that smaller campfire, that's like a little bit away from the from the pyre. And there is right next to it, the little remaining embers, there is like a little
00:56:06
Speaker
Like a like a rudimentary like like a like an old box kind of flipped upside down like to make like a rudimentary table and on top of it It's just like a bloody cloth Okay, I like a handkerchief covered in blood It's going to take that with me then Okay, and because maybe the earth like recognize it's from somewhere. I
00:56:32
Speaker
And then, like I said, I want to see if, like, on a pile, like, in the surrounding area, if, like, somebody is maybe still alive.
00:56:40
Speaker
Yeah, you let's just say you probably ride around for a good maybe 10 15 minutes just trying to check where you know people hung out like maybe some safe spaces, you know, like from the the people that you got to know. But like, you know, as you ride back around pretty much everybody that you could think of is on this pyre. Yeah, every single one of them looks like they're here. You haven't gotten anybody calling out to you as you call out to see if anybody's home if anybody's alive.
00:57:09
Speaker
All you hear is just like a slight echo in the background as you shout into the into the forest. And that's it. I think I'll just stand before the pyre then. And you can see like to like running down like my face and he's like holding his head to his chest. I will find out who did this to you guys. And then I'll write off again. All right. You write off and then we go back to
00:57:40
Speaker
Ryn and Cutter on the other side over by the mountain. You guys are going to try to ride around towards the back, is that right? Yep. That's the plan. Are you looking for something in particular? Are you trying anything else? Are you just trying to literally ride around the mountain range? I don't know if Ryn you told Cutter, but it'd probably be like a day before you get all the way around to get to the other side where the tunnel is. Oh, I would tell him as we started going.
00:58:08
Speaker
OK, just so he knows it's going to be a trek. Damn. Well, I mean, hey, they probably need time to get everybody orchestrated together anyway, so. Maybe we can have some good news for them when they get here. Yeah, I mean, we could try. Yeah, yeah, let's yeah. Lead the way there. I'll follow you. All right. All right, go ahead and. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right. Are you still riding on buddy like like with the wagon attached to him?
00:58:37
Speaker
No, I don't have your wagons fucked up. I forgot about that. Yeah, it got blown up or got broken and the other one got blown up. Stan, RIP. So why don't you go both of you go ahead and roll a survival roll for me.
00:58:55
Speaker
Um, just to kind of see, cause it's going to be a bit treacherous going around the mountain. It's still getting pretty steep as you do that, uh, as elevation changes. Finally, six and survival. I'm praying to roll shitty. I got a 10. Hey, that's a 10 and 11 respectively. It's pretty solid. Ain't nothing for a couple of adventurers like you.
00:59:12
Speaker
Survival is if I've ever if I've ever seen him, uh, bitey has is having no problem. Like all of the way to the world of that wagon is off his shoulders. He is clearing this place like nothing. He's a strong little boy. But he's a damn magnificent animal. He's off on his own holding him down. So happy.
00:59:34
Speaker
As like he's I know, right? He's like snagging like little bits of like like grass coming up between the rocks or like little flowers and shit like as he's running. He's he's he's free. Butternut is also doing excellently as she comes around the mountain when she comes when she comes. That's my girl. The whole time I was seeing that in my head.
01:00:04
Speaker
So you guys aren't riding six white horses, but how does one woman ride six white horses? How does she do it? Some some horsey centipede shit. So, yeah, so this is going to take you guys a little while. So let's do one more survival check for each of you. And then we'll do we could do like a little bit of a time jump as you guys get closer.
01:00:30
Speaker
That's a four and ran. That's still a success. And that's 11, two. All right. Yeah, I think I think my butt's just hurt real bad. So, you know, it's just.
01:00:44
Speaker
having to like stop every little while and just kind of get a stretch in my legs. You've been out of the saddle double not wagging too much. You got the cushion for that nice wooden platform. I got spoiled cutter. It's okay. It's fine. I'll get used to it again. I got brat butt. I do got brat butt. It's fine. Have you seen this? Have you seen my brat butt?
01:01:13
Speaker
Um, so you guys are heading around the mountain. Um, and then, uh, when, when you both come, um, so you come around the mountain, uh, and you find, uh, as you're laughing, I'd say you've probably been riding for a few hours. Uh, Maverick, I will say that by the time you come back is you've probably only been gone. Maybe it's probably like a 10 minute ride out. You spent probably 10 to 15 minutes, maybe 20 searched around and riding back, maybe an hour tops. You've been gone.
01:01:43
Speaker
Um.
01:01:44
Speaker
When you return, you're eagle eyes that Ishii gives you. You spot a little note that says, hey, we're going around the mountain when we come, when we come. So you know. And there's like a little arrow to show you which way that they went.
Mountain Shadows and Mysterious Encounter
01:02:02
Speaker
I turn around like a paper in a different race. Yeah, you're like, oh, wait, damn it. I shouldn't have turned it. Now I don't know which way is left. Do you follow or do you head back to town?
01:02:13
Speaker
I like follow them. So you follow around the mountain when you come when you come. OK, so it'll take a little bit to catch up with them. They're probably, like I said, maybe about a little under an hour's ride ahead of you. Mm hmm. Matt, Rin and Cutter.
01:02:33
Speaker
Before we get to the next leg of this, is there anything you guys would like to do, talk about, address, look for anything like that, use any of the skills that you have equipped with you before you continue, or would you like to just continue? So, Cutter, I kind of noticed that things with you and Bathie were getting pretty serious. Are you guys thinking about tying the knot or anytime soon?
01:03:00
Speaker
Well, you know, I don't like talking about these kind of things. It makes me uncomfortable and whatnot, but she did. It also kind of makes me a little embarrassed to say it is, but she asked me, she asked me to question her the other night. But I, you know, sort of, I think that's why I've been thinking about settling down because I can't give her the right kind of life right now. But I mean, if I get a nice place up there for her to live, I mean, I don't want to, I'm sorry if I take her from you, but I mean, you know, I want to give her a nice place to live and everything. You know, I don't want to have to
01:03:30
Speaker
Be bad if she loves it, but I don't want her to bathe an old stinky man all the time. Yeah, it's all right. You know, I was thinking about hiring Appany to like, you know, be my bath girl. And then that way she could like, you know, get benefits of working there and then like selling stuff there too. So I think a trainer and so she's got her all like, you know, good to go man.
01:03:55
Speaker
Oh yeah, Beth is a good teacher. I can tell you for certain first-hand experience. I know. Tell me many things. You taught me how to read. Really? Well, hey, she's so modest. She didn't even tell me that. Wow. She's so great. Yeah. And yeah, that's real nice. She's a real nice lady. Yeah. Well, I just thought I'd, I thought I'd just make sure cause you know, I, I just see you guys together and you're so cute and you know.
01:04:22
Speaker
I just want to make sure protect my girl, you know. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I want to have a nice place for all of that kind of thing. You know how it is. Yeah, I do. And I guess also I would probably be hoping to look at people in danger or like may have wandered away out the backside of the mountain. It might be out in the woods anywhere. Keep an eye out. Maybe I just want to go. Hey, hello.
01:04:52
Speaker
You transitioned from having that conversation with Rin to like telling me what you were doing and I was really confused Oh, yeah, we're gonna do this we're gonna settle down and then I'm gonna look for you You know what I'll give it your option you can either roll a notice or perhaps another survival role if you like I
01:05:18
Speaker
Well, I think they're the same so I'm just gonna do notice cuz it sounds like what I'm doing looking I got a for a notice Yeah, you
01:05:35
Speaker
Uh, calling the desert for hours. Um, so you, uh, you, I feel like, I feel like at least once a week I referenced space balls now because of Justin or because, um, so, um, it's either one of the, yeah, definitely.
01:05:57
Speaker
Cutter, as you guys are riding and coming around the big, the big stone crag that grows out of the ground. Huh?
01:06:07
Speaker
The mountain, as it were, around the mountain. Oh, yeah. I just I'm trying to refrain from saying riding around the mountain because I can't help to say when you come, when you come afterwards. But it's like I've been trained. So anyway, when you come around the Stony Crag, the big pointy hill, you recognize something that's a little bit off in the distance or cutter, something that's a little bit. Oh, man, I see something that's a little bit off in the distance over there.
01:06:38
Speaker
You do? Like what? I don't know yet. What do you see, Cutter? What do you see? What do you see? I only wrote a four on my notice. I can't quite tell. I got to get closer. Oh, oh. Well, do you want me to try? Yeah. Yeah. Maybe you can notice some. I can't notice about that thing. I'm noticing. Okay. All right. I've got binocular thingies on my hat. We're good. Let's try it. Yeah. Use them a little things. Yeah. A little monocular.
01:07:06
Speaker
I also got a four so you know we don't really see a whole lot just saying I mean you see I'll say that you see like like as like amidst the shadows that the mountain is already casting as you ride around it you see a few that are moving
01:07:25
Speaker
Not with the wind, not with not with the movement of the sun. Like there are not so much that the sun moves with the earth movement to the sun, I should say. But like there's a couple of just like quick moving movements of shadow, probably about maybe about 100 yards up. Oh, what are your what are your mechanical I see? Uh, something's definitely over there, but it's definitely shadowy. It's kind of ominous. Do we go check it out?
01:07:54
Speaker
Oh, I mean, yeah, I mean, yeah, we are. It could be it might be a bear, but it might be somebody who is looking for safety for me to be a bear. I need help. I know. Oh, I'll chuck my rifle and get it ready. In this case, it is a bear out of its little saddle holster. You got your you got your raffle ready.
01:08:20
Speaker
maverick your I don't know just for your own education are you are you running are you like trying to make your horse move quickly are you trying to like keep it a right at a medium pace as you continue up the path and around the mountain when you come when you come I come really fast
01:08:39
Speaker
You're going to come as fast as you can. Okay, so Maverick is riding his big-ass steed around the mountain when he comes as fast as he can. So we'll say that, again, you're not going to catch up to him right away, but if you keep up that pace, especially now they're slowing down to investigate, you probably trim a good 15, 20 minutes off, but your horse is going to be dead tired.
01:09:01
Speaker
Um, so real quick, roll a survival roll for me just for shits and gigs just to see if you get slowed down by your sprinting up a mountain. A 10, no fucking way. He's been riding up mountains his whole life. This guy, um, like when he, he, he puts, he puts midnight in like fucking Billy goat mode. And like that thing just hits that fucking mountain. Like no problem. Um, uh, okay. I'm happy with that. Uh, so we go back to cutter and man, uh,
01:09:28
Speaker
So you put you said you pull out your rifle and cock it in case it's a bear. Yeah, yeah, he's got it ready. Here's the case. You never know. You never know. Yeah, he's going to pull out her colt. Just have it ready. Well, not that cold. OK, OK, OK. So you guys are approaching
01:09:51
Speaker
are approaching like we're like you see the shadows you're kind of coming a little bit more of like a slower pace you got your weapons I guess I guess we would bring maybe we should call out as we come in and let them know we're friendly if there's anybody on edge here or if it's a bear maybe it'll it'll hear us say hey we're not gonna hurt you and it'll be okay cool
01:10:15
Speaker
All right. Oh, yeah. I mean, oh, that's so tough. I don't want to like. Yeah, let's just do what you're doing. Let's do it. Why don't you call out because they know you around here more than they know me. They might know your voice. Maybe. Hello. Is anyone there? You want to roll up persuasion? We come in pies. I mean, peace. We might have pies.
01:10:44
Speaker
Is there a speech I don't remember? I would just say that's patient. As you as you call out, you hear your voice echo amongst the amongst the cliffs. As you guys are increasing elevation, the winds kind of pick it up a little bit. But all you can hear is just like a faint whistle amongst like the kind of croppings of trees that are growing across the mountain. But you don't know when yells back at you, but also you don't see or hear any movement either.
01:11:19
Speaker
Well, I guess let's keep going. Oh, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to get down off the horse. I'm going to tie her up with this little Bush here and uh, yeah, I'll be more maneuverable. If they start, if they do get the frisky shooting. Oh, I guess that's true. Yeah. Okay. I'll do that too.
01:11:42
Speaker
OK, that's me. She gets down as well. It's my old butt injury still playing up. All right. Can you both roll one more survival role for me? I'm going to survive in the wild. I got a five. OK, that's a five of four respectively. Very good. We lost our freaking double digits for sure. That's OK. In this game, you only need a four to succeed at basic check. So you're good. Yeah.
01:12:11
Speaker
So, yeah, you guys are kind of making your way a little bit farther up with your weapons drawn. Like the footing of this of these paths are like real rigid, narrow, craggly. You know, there is risk of like, you know, slipping down the side of the mountain, falling off probably to your death. But you guys make easy work of it enough as you guys continue upward from to where you saw the shadow move. Cutter, would you please roll a notice for me?
01:12:40
Speaker
Yes. A three. I'm going to use Benjamin. Okay. Use that Benjamin. Notice. I got a 16 at that time. Jesus Christ. Nice. As you guys approach, you got your rifle drawn. You're walking up. Just you feel like a slight rustle.
01:13:01
Speaker
in the wind just somehow just like as the noise of the wind carries through the trees that are around you and up through the cliffs making that whistle. You hear just a very slight like as like like like little bits of like little pebbles and tiny rocks are kind of like slipping down the mountain a bit towards you. And you see like a big shadow fast approaching exactly where you're standing.
01:13:29
Speaker
Oh, shit, wringing down. I tucked behind a tree and point my rifle up that way, I suppose. You duck behind a tree and you point your rifle up. And as you point your rifle up and you duck just in time, a body splatters on the ground right where you were standing, just like with like a really loud thud, just like, Holy, oh, hey, who's up there chucking bodies down?
01:13:57
Speaker
And as you look up, you see just like a very faint like just looks like some kind of cloth just like turning very quickly and moving. But like they're so far up like on the on the ridge and all you could see was just like a quick like it's not exactly a cape, but just kind of how somebody wearing a cape would turn and move. You just see like a quick just like flip of their cloth and then whoever was up there is gone. Hey, we're here to help you. What the hell is going on here, Ren?
01:14:25
Speaker
I don't know. That was really weird. I've never seen that happen before.
Headless Body and Unsettling Discovery
01:14:31
Speaker
Um, I guess we ought to make back for that entrance play. Whoever this is. Um, well, maybe they're keen to be in a bush person now. Maybe. All right. Well, hey, let's just find that entrance. I suppose let's double back to the horses. Yeah. Let's try to get to those people in the, in the mine.
01:14:51
Speaker
Cutter, as you step out of the tree, the tree cover with Rin to make your way back to the horse, you see like a slight glint of light bouncing off of the body that was thrown down at you. And you notice when you look that it doesn't have a head. Holy damn, Renf filler ain't got no head. Fillerly. Oh. Jeez, oh, Pete. And you see, as you look at it, what's that read?
01:15:18
Speaker
Can I touch it better? Can I touch her? Yeah, I mean, yeah, I saw something shiny on them. Oh, maybe a gun or something. I don't know. As you get closer, you notice that this is a shirtless person, a little shorter than the average Joe. Their body is covered in like this kind of scale like skin. Hmm.
01:15:46
Speaker
their face is completely blown off and out from the neck you see a handkerchief covered in the blood inside of his neck. Is the body in a state of decomposition that would mean to presume it was very old long dead? Yes. It looks like it's been dead for quite some time.
01:16:11
Speaker
Um, Cutter, do you recognize this portion of the body? I think I do, Raina.
01:17:27
Speaker
Does it look good already?