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Animal Kingdom Ep. 28 - Wait what are we doing?
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House arrest is getting to the players heads. Chunk enacts Hava's plan and recruits animals. They try and figure out how to escape. They meet a new friend and an old friend. Goro takes a huge fall, hopefully everyone is ok.
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Transcript
Introduction to the Kingdom
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Our story begins in a far and distant land. A place ruled by houses of sentient animals and mythical creatures. An environment that is forever tipping the scales towards controversy and conflict. Grave danger lies hidden in every tavern, forest and stranger's glance. In this kingdom we will follow a deviant group of adventurers brought together by chance or perhaps
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by fate.
Episode Setup
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This ragtag group of a tortle, a tabaxi, an otter, and a hound will travel across this great kingdom, fighting their way through the unknown and weaving a powerful destiny. This is Rolling Across the Pond.
Host Introductions
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Hey everyone, welcome back to Rolling Across the Pond. I'm Eugeum Jesse and
00:00:55
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I got, I don't know, I'm in a different house today. So it's a bit weird. And I might need to go check on my daughter. And yeah, and you know what? You know what? I haven't said this in a long time and I always say it in the tea break, but I'm your boy wonder today. Because, you know, I'm bringing it back. I haven't said it a long time and I'm excited for this episode and what's to come.
Character Introductions
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Okay, welcome back boy wonder. Thank you. I appreciate that.
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Hi, I'm Davida. I'm here. I was talking earlier. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have. I'm kidding. I'm not sorry at all. I play Hava. I'm really excited to get to this new next part. And yeah, I'm eagerly awaiting this next part of the story.
Character Dynamics
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Hi, I'm Sam. And I play Leaf on the way. No, no, I don't. Yeah. No, I play Avalon Flame Feather.
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a wonderful warlock kingfisher so you'll get to know a bit more. Hey guys it's your lovable monk god of mischief shall we say Goro. I'm just gonna have to just just stand around being quieted because every time I seem to do something a kingfisher either freezes time so I can't actually move
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And I believe the word screw wizards is definitely muttered multiple times by this guy. So yeah, we'll see what happens in this episode today. We'll see. And our special guest.
Chunk's Quest
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Hi, I'm Mike. I play Jackson, a tabaxi jaguar.
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Nice. And, well, I will introduce our next person soon. For now, we find Chunk searching, casting guidance, trying to find these different animals to join the cause. As he rolls a natural 20, so he is diligent in doing so, and he sees
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Well, let me ask your guess. What does he see? What do you look like? You mean me, correct? Yes, Luke. Welcome back to your new character. Voila, it is me. I have returned because this is the only thing I'm not in, so I have to return.
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I'm telling you now, we got rid of him and then he had his own sideshow and he's back again. I'll tell you. We just can't get rid of this guy. We just can't get rid of him. He's not paying me at all. Oh, okay. That's a shame. No, that's right. He'll never say no. He's too kind. He's Canadian. Well, I mean, sometimes Luke is busy, but he tries. So what does Chunk see?
Kingdom Politics
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he sees a two foot tall mouse wearing as elegant of clothes as he can. It's a full like tapered look. He's got mascara on but that's to be determined later of why that is. And he's just like writing frantically letters and this this raven's like come on come on we gotta go we gotta go we gotta go come on. As this little crow on his shoulders like
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I gotta go now if we and uh chunk walks up to you and he's like hey hey man uh what what you doing um signed hamlet uh nothing what's up uh sorry i i my apologies i'm chunk uh cool wizard dude you know and he like shows like these they just showers a shower of sparks i was um oh oh wait wait i'm not i i'm not allowed to talk about it
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want to. Oh, you seem pretty cool. We just met. Yeah, but I've got vibes, man. I get vibes. Anyways, I actually you're vibing pretty good. What's your view on the King? My what? Your view? Like, dude, you like not not not King Darren, you know, late King Darren, but Al Ross, you know, what's been bugging in our heads recently?
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King L. Ross or old King L. Ross. What's your opinion on him? And he's like, he's picked up his large, like long mouth and it's like waved in the air.
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Can I roll inside to see what exactly he's asking? 16. Yeah, you can see he's genuinely curious about how you view King Elrath or old King Elrath. You can see there's no malintent. There's literally just a curiosity in it.
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Yeah. He, he did quite well. And so yeah, I'm probably older than I look. Thank you very much for asking. You look amazing, dude. Thank you. Great too. What is he wearing? Uh, he's kind of wearing like, like a really like beached out tank top. Like, so it's like, it's like flowy cargo shorts, almost like, and sandals, obviously.
00:06:16
Speaker
Paternal chic, I love it. It's great. Thank you. Yeah, dude. But yeah, I, so I was alive back in the days that he was like, king, king. Dude, you were alive then? That's incredible. For real. It's like mocking, but it's great, yeah. He didn't say that out loud for the record. I didn't hear it, dude. Yeah. Is he on anything?
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No, he's just this is this is chunk. He's always on something. Yeah, I like I don't see any problem. Yeah, he kind of ducked out after that, didn't he? Yeah, he's kind of. I mean, I, I respect the dude and and he, you know, we're we're, you know, he does sparks again, shower sparks. And he's like,
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us wizards, you know, we're with him. And, you know, he's not he's not up for malicious intent or anything. He just wants to get his kingdom back. Yeah. So, yeah, he's sincere about that. I think so. This is never, you know, when we were training and stuff like that, he told us never to kill or at least purity told us never to kill. And then all that, you know, are you that old to your back? No, no, no. I'm like six. How'd you know what he says, though, then?
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because I'm in the army. Oh, sweet, bro. Dude. Like you speak directly to him. No, I can't do that. Ah, man, that would have been cool. Yeah, right. I've always wanted to talk to him, just see what he's like. You want to talk to him? That'd be great. Yeah. Oh, wait, wait, wait. What did you see about violence? Do you like violence or not? Uh, yeah, it's, I feel there's necessary time for it, but you don't, you don't go punching people just for the sake of punching people, you know?
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Like if they said something bad, then share a punch, you know, and like what's necessary. Cool. Well, how about you? I'll take you to the royal tent where you can meet the daughter and she's got some plans, dude. And we're gonna come together and we're gonna, you know, we're gonna help that out. Oh, yeah?
Quest Planning
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Yeah. Cool. How did you do that like sparkly thing though?
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Oh, I'm a wizard. He does it again. Oh yeah. He's like wands for that. And as he does that, he's, he's sparkling his fingers as well. Just walk him. No, I wish I could do something like that. And he's still, wait, you're doing it now. Man, you blow my mind. What's going on? How'd you do that bro? I don't know.
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Dude, let's go show everybody. I don't know who you are, what's going on? You seem cool. I don't know how you did that, that's so cool. Amazing, amazing. And he like, he takes the tent to pause there. Jackson, what's going through your mind?
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I think I'm, uh, so I'll walk up to Goro and be like, Hey, uh, Goro, any of you, uh, tried to split earlier and, uh, I dunno, it's not cool, man. No, no, that's not cool. But I mean, I just want you to know, like, I'm here for you and like, I'm trying to be here for you. So, uh, if you, if you want to split later, like, let me know and, uh, I'll, I'll help you out, but I want to be there for you. I don't want you being alone right now.
00:09:53
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Yeah, um, yeah, I'm sorry. Um, I think my intention was my dad is on the other army. Me being here is a huge threat, not just for myself, but for everyone else. So my thinking in that situation is get out. You guys will be okay. I'll deal with whatever it is, but I need to go have a hard time with my dad. No one will let me go see my dad. Probably that is.
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looking back on it probably the worst mistake probably going to try and talk to my dad but like looking back and thinking about it now is my decisions got my best friend killed so probably my my thinking needs to take a back seat
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And I just need to basically be there for my friends, no matter what. And less, less me thinking is probably going to not just on a leaf's life, but also just probably keep me alive for a little bit longer. Cause.
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The outlook is bleak for me knowing
Hava's Persuasion
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who Hava is, who her father is, and who's on the other side of the army. I've just got frets all at every single outlet that I can see. So I was only thinking of myself when really I should be thinking of all of you as well. So I need to probably just look after Hava and all of you to be honest. So
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Yeah, I need to I need to think of my actions before I do them. So Yeah, I'm sorry. Cool. I mean no threats here. Just I know you probably know that but yeah, you're not you're you're you're Just look at you. It's fine. You're you're good. You got me out of a sticky situation So I owe you one so don't worry about that. So when the time comes you can catch that in whenever you need to
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Now, Avalon, were you in the tent with everybody else? I think so. I was when I was telling Chunk what to do. Would you still try and be in there or are you trying to get out? At the moment, I think I'm still that I've kind of committed to Harvard's side. So I'm probably trying to like, basically, I would have told the guards that I'm interrogating Harvard and their companions and trying to get to the bottom of it to give
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having reason to be in there as much as I am. Roll deception, unless you are doing that. Do I get advantage?
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No, either way. Okay. Well, it's a 19. It's 19. Nice. Perfect. These guys, they, I mean, that was exactly what you needed. Let's just put it that way. They rolled really high. They're like, oh, amazing, sir. And they like give you like their salute and they allow you to stand there and then you can leave whenever you like. Now I want you all to roll perception. It's a solid eight for Goro.
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I think we were both too involved in our conversation because I got a five. I got 12. Trying to remain calm, but like.
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and try to take in this new surrounding that's 22. First, Hava, you notice there is a crowd of about nine other animals. There's a crowd of nine animals coming to the tent. Avalon, you notice that it's chunk with nine other animals. Hamlet, you notice that
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you're with eight other animals seven other animals including excluding chunk but you also notice that there are scorch marks on the tent there's like i mean it's been it's been fixed but there's still like different marks here and there and you notice there's two guards that are very sternly standing in front of the tent you haven't reached the tent yet but you're walking to the tent and what
Guard Distraction Strategy
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do you do with that and that's it looks new
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It is the royal tent. It has the royal insignias. It has the cautious look. And you have definitely passed through loads of other tents, so you know the difference. First of all, to conclude things that have been brought in, I do want to kind of turn to Chunk. Did I have a chance to meet the other seven? Sure. Just to be like, hey, what's up? What's your name? The name's Bob. Bob. To make people up for this.
00:14:23
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Is he a trucker? I do the caravaning with the wagons on the 10-4. He takes out his hand. That's an iguana.
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Okay, yeah, I just want to make sure before I shook his hand that I know. Yeah, nice to meet you. Is he wearing like a trucker outfit? Yeah, yeah, he's got like this. He's got like a hay hat and it's like a baseball cap, hay hat. So it's made out of hay, but it's a baseball cap. He's got like, like these dungarees or overalls that are made from different leather and stuff like that. Yeah, he's got to, he's got a wand in his pockets.
00:15:09
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Is there anybody that is of more horse-ish variety? This is Zebra. That's purple stone. Purple stone, okay. I just want to keep a mental note of that. But yeah, after that, I want to talk to a chunk and be like, is everyone okay? What happened to you?
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Well, apparently, I'm not 100% sure on the details. I was just told to bring those who are not for fighting unless it's necessary to the tent by my boss, Avalon, who's my best friend, actually. We live together, you know. He wakes me up in the morning, we have breakfast, and yeah, this is amazing. He's a good guy.
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I don't worry, Sam, I rolled a really high insight.
00:16:10
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But just how we talk about, like, we're the best of friends and we're the coolest of guys. Oh, he thinks Avalon is the is the most amazing thing. The only thing the only thing he says, though, he says Avalon's, you know, like one of the best wizards, he knows, which, again, is a lie. And so you notice a little bit of a hiccup in that in that that.
00:16:33
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worked in that conversation, that part. I'll even, I'll roll for it just in case. Yeah, you can only roll it in 11. So, yeah. As I see everyone coming to the tent, I'm blatantly gonna send Pip out to whisper in chunks here, discretion, chunk, discretion. Oh, dude. Okay, what does that mean?
00:16:55
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I'll help I don't I don't it's like okay so this little dude is Pip he's Avalon's little dude our little dude yes oh okay so like he'll put like two fingers on him and be like it's okay I it's fine you don't have to tell us but obviously like a little bit grossed out by like the ants on him be like it's okay you don't
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All right, I guess, dude, okay. Well, I just, I wouldn't give away all your secrets. And Wink-Wink could be like, I'm joking, but I wouldn't give away all your secrets. Oh, dude, I don't have any secrets. I'll tell you anything you want to know. I was just told, and I'm doing what I'm told, to take you here. And he's standing right in front of the tent now with eight other animals in front of the two guards. He's like, oh, discrete.
00:17:55
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Uh, I'm not supposed to talk to you guys about this. Can we just go in? It's going to roll persuasion. Do I have to roll like a wisdom save or? They have to see if they let him in. If we're let in. Yes. Okay. Um, both guards are like, why? Why? Actually, you know what? I'm going to roll disadvantage and I'll tell you why in a moment.
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You know what they they're like, Oh, of course, Chuck. Like, yeah, dude. Thanks for thanks for what you did with my daughter. That was really nice. You really made you made that beautiful doll set for her. She loves it. And the other one's like, Yeah, you saved my life. So I owe you big time, Chuck.
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So go ahead, take them in. There's no worries. We know you're fine. You're not upset any bad shenanigans. And he's like, yeah, see, cool. All right, guys, get in. I do want to grab Chunk and be like, I really want to hear that story. That sounds amazing.
00:19:05
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Oh, yeah, don't worry, dude. It was nothing. It just... Do we have time right now? No, we don't have time. I don't think so. As you're walking in, you say this, and you see, he looks at Avalon. Hey, this guy wants to tell me... He wants me to tell him the story. When I saved Trevor's life, do we have a moment to do that? Later, Charlie. Oh, okay, dude.
00:19:30
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All right. Anything else? I can go back to our house, make dinner or breakfast. It wasn't there this morning. Yes. OK, I'll go. But everyone else needs to stay. Right. OK, everyone, you're not getting the breakfast, I promise. I'm sorry. They can come out for breakfast later, I'm sure. Oh, OK, cool.
00:19:53
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And they were like, bye, chump, bye. Yeah, I don't know how to handle it. I bow. I bow immediately after seeing Avalon. I was like, okay, I'm so sorry. You were the coolest person I've ever met. In body language, not, I would never dare speak before him unless he wanted it, but I bow. And everybody else, all of you see these eight other animals coming, the chump. Okay.
00:20:21
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I want to probably do some planning. I don't want to make decisions on my own here, so I want to gather everybody up. Sorry, what were you going to say? Oh, I just want to shoot a look at the zebra to be like, pow, now, kind of like pow. Persuasion? I guess, yeah. Or intimidation, I'm not sure. Now, if it were a dog, you could have said pow wow. 19. Yeah.
00:20:51
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Oh, oh, I know Avalon. Why have my ballot? But he's like, obviously just going for a ballot. Or she, sorry, she's going for a ballot. Yeah, just like, shoot a look, like, how dare you, like. I mean, this is, this is just Avalon. He lives next door to me. I don't, Avalon's just shaking his head. I don't know why I'm doing this, Avalon. I don't, I don't get it. Rise? Do I need to tell you to rise? They're like, so why are we here?
00:21:19
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Okay. Hi, everyone. My name is Hava. I am the long-lost daughter of King Elaras, and he and the rest of our army is going around the long way. We were able to sneak through the short way because the peoples of the People's Republic, I can't remember what they're called, they were nice and they led us through.
Executing the Plan
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And okay, so they're going to be here in about two weeks to a month, depending on how fast everybody's walking,
00:21:46
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slash running slash whatever flying uh yeah anyway so i am kind of trying to take control here but seven doesn't like it he kind of likes like battling and fighting a lot so um and i think my dad kind of likes that too but i am not okay with that um and i hope you guys are not okay with that either because i think there are better ways to solve our issues than battling outright although i may have had the
00:22:16
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a different opinion a little bit ago. I've had a lot of loss in my life recently, all my honor people. Okay, it was a bad choice that I've learned from my errors, but I am now turning the page and we are going to do this in a nice and hopefully peaceful way.
00:22:44
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But since the rest of the army doesn't like the fact that I'm kind of just like taking over for my dad, they don't like the direction I've chosen, I needed to get you all together to join me so that we can come up with a plan to end this conflict in a reasonable and peaceful manner. And as you're talking, you just like, Caesar like comes up behind you.
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the pyramid. And because there has been a large facility dropped upon our castle, and the strange things are happening there are wonderful. What are you Caesar? This light? God? Oh,
00:23:38
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This wonderful lion, which is not King Darren, but may be partially related, but is very good in this sense, is a lion who wants to check out the pyramid that has appeared because there are mysterious happenings in this facility.
00:24:06
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But they can't see me. It doesn't matter. He don't need to talk about me. Hamlet is like, I'm with you, but I have no clue what line you're referring to or anything of what you're saying. So anybody want to help out with this? Because I'm about to ask for the role of persuasion.
00:24:27
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And I'm not sure if it's advantage or disadvantage. I'm not sure. If I have any, I know these people they'd like. How long were we talking for? I will say. You and Trump? Everyone. Oh, like a few app. You were probably one of the first, so maybe like two or three hours. OK. This isn't magic, but they can roll a wisdom save to see if they like me or not.
00:24:57
Speaker
It would basically be the same as a charm. And I know if it went or lost. Only one rolled a 14, one rolled a 16. One rolled an 11. Does that also pass? Oh, let's see. It depends on which one which rolled a zebra took. That was a very, very bad roll. Okay. Yeah. And what were the other ones?
00:25:22
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16, 14, 11, and it was like a 5 and a 6 and then a 3. And I think that's true. Yes, 16 I think is the only one that does pass. Okay. So everyone likes me. And so I'll help Hava. They all idolize me now and be like, just listen to... She's cool. Whatever the heck she's talking about, let's do it.
00:25:48
Speaker
Oh, and I am Hava. What is your name? And I point to the mouse in front of me. Hello. I am. Hi. I'm taking this like an AA meeting, I guess. Appropriately, yes.
00:26:03
Speaker
My name is Celis. Most people call me Silas, but there are weird ones. And yeah, so I've never been good at these like introducing yourself segments. So you have to... Okay, well, I love introducing myself. And I also want to get to know every single one of you. So you guys are all gonna have to tell your names.
00:26:31
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Sorry, I, no, I just, oh, you're so cool. What do you want me to do? I,
Coffee and Daggers Shop
00:26:40
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you're so cool. Girl, you are also there, and Avalon, you are there, and Jackson, so just make sure you all know that so you can jump in if you ever want. As Avalon doesn't, as long as Avalon doesn't do anything, I'm gonna fan over Hava for like the longest time. I'm just gonna be here being like, you're so,
00:27:00
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Okay, best friend. Now it's time for other people to share. So what is your name? She's gonna just point to I don't know, the zebra, I guess. And they all kind of do their spiel. Okay, wow. And then Goro, go ahead and introduce yourself.
00:27:22
Speaker
Sorry, I'm just going to have everyone introduce themselves. I'm sorry for doing it. All I'm going to do is from leaning on a crate in there, I just get up and just walk over to have her put my hand on her shoulder and was like, you're trying so hard. And then look at the group and just go, I'm Goro and just turn my back and just walk back and go back to leaning and shaking my head going like, what are we doing right now? He's a good guy, guys. He's a good guy.
00:28:00
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Yeah, that's a 17. Basically, he's like listening to have a for God knows how many hours and he's just slowly get these teeth are grinding. And he's just like, she's trying to hard this, but she really just needs to get to the point. What did you roll? See this? All right. Sorry. I thought you said 17. I was like, Oh, just barely. Well, I think he got 17. So, so you're not intimidated. I mean, you're a PC. So technically, anyways, everyone else is intimidated. All the other animals are like,
00:28:14
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Roll intimidation, Dora.
00:28:31
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My friend, and if you guys mess with him, and you're messing with me, and we're both, yeah, you got it. He's my friend, okay? He's a good guy, all right? Okay. Again, you feel, this time you feel like Caesar's paw on your shoulder, and he's like, you're doing great. Just, you gotta take it back. Maybe you and I can talk later. I can walk you through inspiring speeches and stuff. We can go through. Okay. Yeah.
00:28:53
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And he is...
00:29:04
Speaker
Do you want to do this instead? No, no, no, no, no. This is yours. I am. I am full support of you. I just think you are like girls.
00:29:13
Speaker
Like, look at him. He's like, look at his face. Just, you know, it's gonna, it's gonna work out. They're here for you. They're here because you asked them to be here. They're on the same page. Just rile them up and let's head out. Okay. I don't know what we're doing now. So, any ideas? Do you just say that to Caesar or is it like an open invitation?
00:29:39
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That's kind of just a Caesar I think at this point. She's like ready to go but not exactly sure what the game plan is because there's guards outside and I don't know a lot of us. There's like 17 of us. I just 18 of us. Quite a lot.
00:29:57
Speaker
So she's just like, well, I don't know. I mean, you don't want to hurt the guard. So you can do it where there's a lot of us. So some of us can actually literally go distract the guards. And the rest of us can sneak out unless you want all of us to go. And then we can all kind of just bum rush out. But do it like in a, oh, no, collapsing kind of way. It's just, you know, just.
00:30:23
Speaker
figure you know figure out how to get those two out of the way and then we're pretty much home free if we can just pretend like we own the place here we can say Goro okay so i've talked to my invisible friend here and we have decided that uh actually i don't know what he decided so i'm open to suggestions so uh let's see there's Avalon you know this place pretty well don't you
00:30:51
Speaker
So as all of this has been going on, Avalon's just been slowly shaking his head from side to side, kind of wing over his face, going, what is going on? But as soon as Hava addresses him, he kind of steps up and goes, so you all know me. I have been in this camp for a while now, and you know that us wizards are powerful. So basically there is stuff happening as
00:31:21
Speaker
As Hava has mentioned, there is this pyramid and it's causing problems. We would like to deal with it. But for some pretty good reasons, this group are under tend to rest and therefore to deal with said pyramid, we need your help distracting the guards outside so that I can smuggle them out and then smuggle them back in later. You know, hopefully before people realize we're not there.
00:31:52
Speaker
how many of you here as wizards can disguise self there's three wizards do they all know disguise help let me see are any of the people the same animal as the guards outside no the guard the guards outside i think i said one was a rhino and the other one but they're skinny
00:32:15
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And they did say they were large animals. So do the wizards know this guy's self? Two of them do. Okay. And what size, are they roughly the same size as however? No. Okay. So that's not going to work. So we got Yini as a rhino in one of our guards as a rhino. So.
00:32:35
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You can call the. So I'm a smuggler by trade. I got some ideas. We can, we can try and call the guards in here and knock them out or freeze them with the, you wizard people and like swap clothes with them and put our own people out there as guards.
00:32:57
Speaker
If that is possible, I don't know what your guys' powers are like. Yeah. Yeah, it's power. That's easy. Everyone's like, I don't know how to do that. Yes. But Skinny, you can pretend to be a guard, right, Skinny? Yeah, I can do that. Yeah. OK. Anyone can be a loxodon.
00:33:21
Speaker
I thought the wizard's good. A Loxodon are as big as Goro. So they can only transform into what's the same size as them? You can do it bigger, but it is so much more obvious. The bigger you go, the basically more impossible it is to be disguised. There are other guards in this camp. So as long as people were wearing guard uniform and played their role,
00:33:51
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Not too many questions should be asked. However, if there is a way of doing this without knocking out the guards outside this tent, it would be more advantageous, I would believe. Can we persuade them? You possibly could persuade them. I think what is possibly best is if I go and relay some other orders to them that will keep them occupied for a while and have some counterfeit guards come to replace them.
00:34:21
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I'll tell you, roll insight from me, Halva. Yeah, 15.
00:34:26
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With the 15, I will tell you, it's a very similar situation to Winterhold, to where it is not one armor. It is many different kinds of armors of the different kingdoms still, because they don't have a custom King Elrass armor. They are literally taking armor and people from the kingdoms
00:34:54
Speaker
Right. Okay, so I know that and I know that some of us are wearing different armor type things, right? Yeah, I mean, there's somebody who's raising their hand quite pink. Celius, Celius, Salau, yes, you. Trust me, it is an honor that you don't know my name.
00:35:18
Speaker
I was just going to suggest that people could do things that the guards deem chaseable and need to detain, and then we just run in the opposite direction and distract them doing that way. But it's up to you. Right. I have a pretty good persuasion, but sometimes I don't roll well enough in order to make that work. But I have a plus five on that.
00:35:45
Speaker
Okay, I know I'm you're crazy about talking about your invisible friend, but now you're talking about rolling some dice. We got to just should we take a moment? Should we take a moment? It's a form of it's a metaphorical way of saying I have maybe a better bet at giving the persuasion portion of this plan a try.
00:36:15
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May, should I touch the other animals as well? Because if there's a right now, you're still talking to your invisible friend to others. Yes, I think that would probably not be. Lucas shaking his head, so I'm trying to decide.
00:36:41
Speaker
Okay, okay, this is a bit confusing. I'm just going to step back. I'm just going to step back, okay? I'm just going to do that. Okay. I think you should say it just for the moment. Let's see. I want all of you animals, but I don't think that the master of this world is going to allow us all to go into the pyramid together.
00:37:02
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So I do think we should probably regather after we solve this. It sounds like she's... Or that. Because I'm like, I'll take everybody. But I just don't think the god of this world is going to let me take everybody because he does not want to play all of those characters all the time. And if he did want to, I don't think he would let me.
00:37:32
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Now, I believe, however, that taking a large group would draw way too much attention. It's true. Yeah, but like... So I was guessed a smaller group. Flashback to Winterhold. We don't want another Winterhold to happen.
00:37:49
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another okay sure so but there is another thing that i want all of these animals for and that's the peaceable negotiations i wonder i think these animals should all roll persuasion to convince the rest of the army that's here and try and persuade them to all lay down their arms if jesse wants to do that sure i will have them go set off and do that
Mysterious Pyramid
00:38:20
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Because even though they're great, I don't know. What do you guys think? Goro and Jackson and everybody? What do you guys think about them trying to persuade the rest of the animals? How many animals are we talking here? You have seven. Well, oh, including, including sealers. It's eight animals. And we're in a camp of how many? Yeah.
00:38:47
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Would it be more prudent for now to maybe recruit a few more before we start playing our hand? I mean, maybe we could pull it off quite well with eight, but I feel like the odds may not be in our favor. So if we had more, but I mean, I mean, like Chunk did his best, but he only got eight and there's a whole army here. Chunk is one.
00:39:15
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Chunk is one of them. Well, no, Chunk is one animal, and we have eight more animals. If each one of the eight were to find another eight, we would have 64 or something like that. Cool, pyramid scheme. Let's do it.
00:39:33
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Pyramid scheme to stop the pyramid scheme. We're going to stop the pyramid. Exactly. And we also need to convert everybody. Do you think we should talk to the free peoples? Maybe they would be a better army for us to move to. Do you think everybody would want to go there and we then just like take over their army? I'm kidding. But like, but like join them. Because they want peace, right?
00:40:02
Speaker
I don't remember what they want. Yeah. But what the heck are you talking about? I'm so confused. The free peoples. We came through the camp earlier. You hear. I actually know where all of you roll for perception. Okay. Okay, fine. I'll just make a decision, but I just wanted to get everybody else's ideas first. Do I have to make this decision?
00:40:31
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perception yeah yeah I got 21 oof that's very good okay 11 I got a really really impressive for 15 18
00:40:45
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Yeah, so Celus, Goro, and Jackson. You hear one of the guards at the entrance go, she's trying to do a pyramid scheme. She's trying for you guys. And he's like, he's like, and we hear everything. This is a tent and you're just talking to eight other people, like,
00:41:08
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Obviously we are hearing everything you're saying. We have sent a message to seven, and I know you can either stay here, or if you want to get rid of the pyramid, do it, but like to do something like this is getting
00:41:27
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We were told to be here, but look, and we did our part with seven has the message. You guys, you guys had chunk on your side. So we gave you a benefit of the doubt. We're giving you the benefit of the doubt. You're going to get rid of that pyramid. Please get rid of that pyramid. Go now. If you're going to go. Okay. I will make a deal with you. If we managed to make, get rid of this pyramid, you join our cause. Role persuasion. 18.
00:41:53
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Yeah, they're like the, uh, so Ryan was like, fine, just, just go. I mean, you guys are so loud. We heard everything. I'm sure the people next to us heard everything. And you just hear, yeah. It's like, we, we annoyed our way out of the situation.
00:42:11
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Typical Hava, I love it. She's just so loud, yelling all about like, we should take over this air, like literally madness. And we're all just like, we're going to just get into so much trouble here. All right, let's go. Everybody, come on. And, and, uh, yeah. So if you, do you all go? Do you all eight, eight, 17, 18, you go? Yeah. How about we all go? I go wherever Hava goes. Mm-hmm.
00:42:39
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I go wherever Goro goes. Cause I'm not being, I haven't really told her, but I do not trust her dad. I know who her dad truly is. Like he's not a nice guy. So I'm literally looking out for her and her best interests only.
00:42:55
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Three of the animals are so confused that they're like, I mean, I don't I don't agree with fighting, but I'm not sure what to do. So I'm just going to go go on wait here. And if you have you kind of come back with a better mind. I've got it. OK, we're going to need you later. So is there a way we can contact you easily? We'll see for the right here. Got it.
00:43:22
Speaker
Hopefully it won't take us too long. See you later. I'm not entirely sure. I just want to do what's best. So I'll probably like be following along. I'm not going to be standing out at all as much as I can at least. I was kind of following the animals that are.
00:43:43
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Okay cool. Avalon is like basically trying to make sure that Harvard doesn't get into trouble so he will follow but he's still really cautious of this guru person and the and this Jackson smuggler type creature so yeah isn't quite sure whether or not
00:44:08
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like, yeah, he trusts him or not, but he's going to go at him. So you are actually being escorted by the rhino, so that way, others, if they are like, you're not supposed to be, he's like, he just waves his hand up, he's like, no.
00:44:24
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and they all know because he was posted there and he leads you to the exit not from not to the free area but to get to the temple the pyramid it is a
00:44:40
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massive building it is. It looks like a shop. And on the shop's front logo, it says coffee, coffee and daggers. And daggers, daggers and coffee incorporated.
00:45:01
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This isn't in a... This is like the dead center of where like all like the different sections are meeting. This is like the in-between. I roll the history check to see if... It's either going to be the brother that we know or his other brother, because he said there was two of them with the same thing, wasn't there? So it could be his brother, or it could be him, or it could be both of them. Or did they go into business together? But I wasn't there for that.
00:45:27
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No, they didn't like each other from what we can tell. So, let me see. You can either literally walk along the walls, that way you don't touch either of the homemade fences, or you can go in and through the side to get to the pyramid and out of King Elrassa section. This podcast is sponsored by Better Health. Mental health has always been important, and Better Health
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00:47:05
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It's 1988. Do you know where your children are? Sneaking out of detention. Again. Playing that evil new game Dungeons and Dragons that your friends on the PTA warned you about. Arguing amongst themselves. Battling monsters and the other children at school. Guiding a herd of goats into a swimming pool. And arguing amongst themselves. Find us wherever you listen to podcasts. Dungeon Calling. Who buys a possum? That's what I was asking you. Dungeon Calling.
00:47:35
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They meet every other Monday. So keep an eye out wherever you listen to Pat. Because we need to get to the pyramid. We have to go through the three peoples or. Yeah, you have to go either through the building or around the building, but it's a little bit harder to go around the building.
00:47:55
Speaker
Well, we should go through it because we know these people. Come on. Yeah, it's up to you. Maybe. And you're not going through the free peoples. You're just literally going through this building. And then you're going to enter the right before the sand hits the grass. And you see the queue of animals on the other side. You all enter and you see until you enter and you see no one. Hello. Hello. Hello.
00:48:26
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Anyone here? Perception. Yeah, investigation. I'm looking for the bat. So that is only a 10.
00:48:40
Speaker
uh in that how about you all if you want to look for the back oh you're only the only one that knows about the back i'm only actually knows about the sea list can roll perception as well see this investigation or investigation and hearing so what you all see
00:48:57
Speaker
is a fountain of coffee like it is fountain of coffee you see a bar that has the like mugs and different different desserts and different everything and then like on the other side and around it surrounding it
00:49:15
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It's like so many daggers, so many different weapons, some arm or some, like, it's just encompassing of both coffee, coffee, and daggers, and daggers, daggers, coffee, and it looks like, it looks like Be United. And then from behind, Hava, you have a baton. Ha, ha, ha. Hello there. Ha, ha, ha.
00:49:45
Speaker
Hi, welcome back. Oh, you have friends. Yes, I you know, you know what you said when we met you and and you sold my friend that awesome dagger. Yes, we we gather. I told everybody about coffee and coffee coffee. And look, I brought all my friends and we're here. Amazing.
00:50:14
Speaker
Well, uh, as you can see, my brother and I, well, my brother died in the, in the winter hole thing. So I've, uh, I'm so sorry, consumed his building. And, uh, now we have this bloody. Yeah. So, yeah. So unfortunately we lost Leif as well, but you know what? I am going to get his, I, I will want to buy a dagger in his honor.
00:50:43
Speaker
Oh, okay. Wow. This is a shock. This is a shock. I can't. Who's Leaf? Leaf was my spokesperson, my confidant, my
00:51:00
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go get her he has brought so much customers to me so many there was this penguin of course the penguin is also dead but this penguin came in and and and others that were yeah just just off of off of what leaf has asked others to come
00:51:18
Speaker
And it was, yeah, it's just been amazing. I mean, not that we didn't do well before him, but he's the only one that's actually, actually spreaded our name. So yes, yes. Well, yeah, come in. You know what? I will give you a dagger for free, because he was your best friend. And I know that he meant a lot to you.
00:51:43
Speaker
Oh, that's so, wow. That's so generous. And, and I, I will buy an extra one as well. So I will get two daggers. Okay. Cause I gave both my away at the battle of. Wonderful. Let's say, I mean, if it, it depends on, it depends on what kind of dagger you want, but. Right. I mean, one, it can just be a regular one. Okay. Out of curiosity, when leaf died.
00:52:13
Speaker
And the dagger that was so bound to leave, did that end up back in daggers daggers and coffee? No. So it's gone gone. Yeah, gone gone. Just like leave. Ouch. I just want a bad regular dagger because that doesn't need to be anything special. But if the one he gives me is a special one, I won't complain about that.
00:52:40
Speaker
The one he gives you is more of a like memorial one and he was starting a like one for leaf to promote so it like instead of it being a leaf as a dagger part it actually has loads of leaves on the the hilt and the handle and and then it's just a point dagger but it's it's it's on it it does say oh there's no leaves here that's obsessed
00:53:08
Speaker
And it's more of like a commercial one. So it's not, it doesn't change. It just looks nicer than the actual dagger, but the damage is still the same. It costs more, but it's free to you. Okay, so that one's free. And then I'll buy a specialty dagger then. 50 gold pieces. Oh, okay. You want to go big. Okay. So the one he gives you that's for a leaf that's free is just a deform damage.
00:53:38
Speaker
the so bound one he says 50 gold because sam just said that no no that's how much it was that's how much it cost before okay i have that money because i am royalty so that's fair that was supportive so i will generously give him 60 gold because i enjoy because i've also won some coffee
00:54:08
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Anybody else want to buy something so yeah so he's like oh perfect and he like gives you the mold and he says grab it and see what happens. How much is your coffee? Depends do you want the good stuff or the bad stuff? Does anyone want the bad stuff? Surprised. Okay how much is the good stuff? Gold. Okay sure I'll take I'll take your coffee.
00:54:35
Speaker
and he takes you over to the fountain and he says, don't eat the fountain, it's disgusting. He takes you over to the machine and he says, sit, just wait a minute or two, then there's your coffee and sugar right there. Thank you, good sir. Once I've got my coffee, I cast Prestidigitation on it so that it has caramel flavour.
00:54:58
Speaker
So like, anybody else want to buy something? What does your dagger look like as well? Because it won't look like... Well, the one that looks like leaf, that will be my memento of leaf, but this one will be made out of like red metal. And it has gold inlaid on the handle in a spiral.
00:55:24
Speaker
leather and gold on the handle basically. Cool. Yeah. Amazing. Anybody else? With red metal. Yeah. I mean, his specialty is daggers. I was looking at maybe armor, but... No, you can't get armor. There's armor there.
00:55:39
Speaker
yeah i just don't know how good his armor is compared to his daggers although anyways i also don't have a deck oh i need javelins too once you're done wow once you're done yeah uh what kind of what kind of daggers you got
00:55:57
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Oh, we have rusty ones, we have clean ones, we have sharp ones, we have dull ones, we have custom ones, we have... I mean, I think just a simple, sharp, clean dagger. How much would that run me? Five copper. Okay. What's the conversion from gold to copper? Like, I think, a hundred. Wow. What can I get for two gold pieces?
00:56:24
Speaker
two gold pieces, you can get leather armor, you can get a helmet, you can get the shields, you can get all these daggers, you can get- All of the daggers? No, all these daggers. He's pointing it in this direction. Like you can get some cake, you can get some coffee, you can buy the fountain.
00:56:50
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I'll take the fountain. I'll take a set of armor and two daggers. How much is that gonna? Two daggers. That'd be ten copper. And the armor would be... It depends what kind of armor. If it's just leather armor, it'd be like maybe one gold.
00:57:15
Speaker
So I have a question about armor. So like my armor class right now is 16. What is, I don't remember. He can give you a better armor. Okay. But that would give, that would mean like probably like five gold. Okay. I'm going to give you plus two to your armor. Okay. So on top of the 16, it would give you an extra plus two. Yeah. Okay. So I'll do that. And then the two daggers. Okay.
00:57:42
Speaker
Anyone else? Oh, I need javelins because I gave mine away. Well, over here, our javelin section is like, what kind do you want? Four, please.
00:57:57
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You just, okay. I can give you, I can give you this one. It's rested. I can give you the clean one. I can give you the old one. I can give you the funny looking one. Oh, can I have that one? Is it sharp? No, it's not sharp at all. It's a toy. It's like, can I get sharp ones please? Okay. You want a normal one. Okay. That's in total about one gold. Okay. Here you go.
00:58:26
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Cool. Great. Anyone else? No, please. And he's like, uh, well, um, if you're still in the markets, we do have other unique items. Uh, if you, if you want to spend a little bit more cash, anyone. Wait, what? You have unique items? Yes. What do you got in the back there, sir? Well, we have, uh,
00:58:50
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Let's, we have very, we've accommodated a few underground items from a certain, and he like looks at Caesar and he's like, is this okay? And he's just like, yeah, why not? Caesar knows him. He can see Caesar. Oh yeah, he can see Caesar. Okay, tell me more. He's like, well, what are you looking for? Are you looking for a weapon or an item or a companion?
00:59:20
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Are you looking for a companion? I mean, that sounds interesting for me, but I don't know if they're my character. I look at Uber and I go, it's not that kind of companion either. OK, well, I would be my interest as well, you know. Yeah. What do you got in the the weapons categories? Well,
00:59:52
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he's like, follow me. You know, for a non-combative kind of people, I'm being really like stocking up here. Sorry. I was thinking that, yeah. See, listen, just in the back, this is a test. I'm not falling for it. This is 100% a test to see if we are aggressive people, and I'm not falling for it.
01:00:16
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Avalon's just drinking his coffee. And he's like... And so you follow him to the back, and he shows you, and you see a lightning crossbow. You see a dark blade dagger. You see... Or not a dagger, a dark blade sword. And you see a large metal sphere. Sphere or sphere? Sphere. Not spear, sphere.
01:00:45
Speaker
Okay, none of those really interest me. So, what are the companions? I'm just really curious now. And he's like, oh, oh, oh, it's right here. And you like, you turn the corner, you see a sword, you see a gelatinous cube, and you see a rabbit. Does the rabbit talk or is it a...? Hi! Rabbit rabbit. What about the sturdy hand grenade of Antioch?
01:01:15
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to defeat the rabbit. No, not that. Not there. Didn't we run into a rabbit before? Hello. Yes, we did. Readers, readers, little bunny. Wait, can we stop happening with Jackson right now? Yeah. Like we showed him the back. I don't think anybody else, he didn't ask anybody else to come with him and no one else said they were coming with him. So. So I'm just in the back.
01:01:39
Speaker
Everyone else is in the store. Hava is talking to PJ because she knew PJ wanted a companion at some point. And so she's talking to PJ saying, Hey, do you want to go see what kind of companions they have? So Hava goes back there with PJ? No, you get a role persuasion. With advantage, right? No.
01:02:07
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Yeah, I rolled one. That's so funny.
01:02:12
Speaker
That is so funny. Oh my goodness. Wait, well, like I have a plus five modifier, so. He's still, he's still, you're like, hey, we should just let them campaign. And he's like, yeah, no, have a, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm not really in that place anymore. I, you know, I actually, you know what, just let me have it. I'm just, I'm going to wait outside and he. Okay.
01:02:41
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i'm gonna go take a look okay okay i'll meet you there i'm gonna take a look so you see the lightning crossbow the dark blade and the metal sphere but she doesn't see the button not yet jose uh what is your name i don't know the bat's name carl no what was your
01:03:10
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Actually, Carl does sound familiar. Carl! Right? Right? No, dear. No. He's like, uh, my name is Gus. Oh, I'm sorry. I never introduced myself. That's right. No, no, it's fine. Gus. That's right. I'm Hava. Hi. He opens the curtain so you can see him and Jackson and
01:03:37
Speaker
Oh, is that where you have the companions? Is that where you have companions? I just want to say hi to them. Oh, OK. She's welcome. Yeah. Hello, companions. And the sword goes, well, ain't she a beauty? And then the rabbit's just like, hi. And the giant cube just kind of just sits there. Wait, hi. You're a bunny. Hi.
01:04:05
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And the source like, hey, I can be a buddy for you. But this bunny looks like readers bunny. Are you snickerdoodle?
01:04:14
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And he like shakes his head, hi. Can I do a vest, I don't know, investigation? Yes, sure. I want to see if this is a reader. You're not in there. OK, so that's 15. Yeah, you can see a snickerdoodle. Remember, snickerdoodle was the one with the mustache. No other rabbit had that. Oh, yes. So this has a mustache. Yes.
01:04:42
Speaker
Okay. Wow. Snooker snooker doodle. Hey, what can I buy this rabbit? I can't. I'm sorry. Why? You can't buy it because it's a companion. You need to befriend it. I know this rabbit already though. How do I Oh, then
01:05:05
Speaker
Go ahead, Snickerdoodle. Okay, so I'll grab Snickerdoodle. Hi. Hi. Hey, come be here really quick. So I'm gonna run out and find Caesar and be like, Caesar, look who I found. So I thought you had Snickerdoodle with you, didn't you? He looks behind him and he's like, oh, this is awkward. And he, in his like,
01:05:31
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He had, like, in his bag, he had another rabbit that he thought was snickerdoodle the whole time.
01:05:38
Speaker
Oh, because I was like, Caesar was supposed to be taking care of Snickerdoodle this whole time. This is Snickerdoodle. He's like, uh, yeah, this is egg on my face. Yeah, I'm sorry. I totally thought. Sorry. Sorry, Rabbit. And he's like, like, just hops away.
01:06:04
Speaker
Can I add flavor that says reader had a heart attack? Because he's still listening in. Sorry, sorry. Sorry. My easy mistake, you know, all we have is to say, but this is all right. He's still got his axe, right? He's got his axe. Yeah, you gave him an axe, remember? Caesar, can I have your earpiece really quick? I want to talk to reader. No, please. No, please. No, I'm going to wait outside with PJ.
01:06:34
Speaker
I love it because I know Cesar cannot. I mean, if you see Cesar just walks out of the front as well. I will follow him. Continue begging and you guys can keep going, but I'm still begging. Are you going to get any of the companions, Mike or Jackson or Cesar? Some weird companions. I don't know what I was talking about.
01:07:02
Speaker
okay great um so you all exit this and you see before you please please please before you sand like basically at the at the steps of this building um but in that like right before that there's a there is a slab of grass that there's a queue to get into the pyramid well half is completely begging people i'm just going to be
01:07:30
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using precipitation to make some random music playing in my ears. That sounds good. Cool. Now they look behind, the queue looks behind and they do see Hava and there is a reputation of Hava and they know about the dog folk so immediately the those who are in the queue that are from King Elrass' corner or side run to Hava and they're like hey
01:08:00
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What are you doing here? What's going on? What are you doing here? They're like, are you going to do it? Are you going to save us? Are you going to take care of this pyramid? What? You guys want to get in? We want to get rid of it. This is the one thing we all agree on.
01:08:18
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OK, so can I send you guys to this here? In a way, sure. Yeah. OK, you guys don't have to worry about this because we're going to we're going to sort it. So stop killing yourselves and get out of this line. Make way. Stop hurting. Because they're just committing suicide here. They can't do anything. Can they do anything? Oh, 17.
01:08:47
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they listen to you. So they all rush back into M.K. Alaros' section. There are still some from the free nation, free corner. And then there's like one or two from the militia area.
01:09:02
Speaker
OK, so who is really good at investigating things but won't get burned by sand or just just investigating in general? I guess we should all investigate this to see the best way to cross the sand without getting burned. Let's all do that now. You heard the lady. Yes, Miss Hava. Jesse, Avalon has the research ability, so whenever I attempt to
01:09:31
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learn or recall a piece of law. If I don't know that information, I should know where or yes, obtain it. Yes, I knew that. Okay, so do I know anything about this? Or what can I learn about this? Don't you need to roll first? Just as when I attempt to learn or recall. Yeah, when you attempt to learn. Okay, so investigation. Yes. The 12. What about other people?
01:10:01
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11. Eight. It's okay. I mean, I'll give you what. Yeah, he doesn't care. That's just like four. He doesn't really care. Okay. What about all the other animals that are with me? Wait, wait, wait. So with that, Avalon, you would know that because it's an ancient
01:10:29
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pyramid. It looks ancient, so it's obviously ancient. So you need an ancient historian on that. But even in that, the only person that would probably, I will tell you this, probably know anything about this is sitting on this screen with you.
01:10:53
Speaker
Okay, so... Glad it's not junk. No, it's not junk. No. But it is a very ancient mouse. Yes. That could be. Celis, you know anything about this? Now you can roll history. 22. So, Celis, you know...
01:11:16
Speaker
You can say Silas. It's just the one person that calls me Celas. Okay, Silas. You know that when you were young, you know to set the foundation, there were certain things that did that. And there's certain homes to those things. And
01:11:37
Speaker
from your history, from your calling, what's in front of you, you know this is what set the desert section up. And you know, because of that, you know now, all of you know that the desert is not harmful now. So you don't exactly know why it's harmful now, but you know that the foundation of this pyramid is to set the land of the desert area.
01:12:04
Speaker
And you know it's because there was a being inside the pyramid that set the land. And that was its house. That's what you know. And that's what you can recall to the others. Do you say all that? Yeah, I think I'll just get you to repeat it, but less vague. Maybe not the person.
01:12:26
Speaker
Well, no, you wouldn't necessarily know even a person. It's just you know that there was beings that were going in setting their section. And that is what the end. This is what housed this being. And so that's what could be taking place again. The desert realizes this is not desert, so it's making desert. That's that's fair. So that is what you all know. So there's a being in there. There's a being there. A being made for a being.
01:12:57
Speaker
being uh do we know if it's a bad being you don't but you don't even know the being is still in there you just know that the pyramid is is causing this right okay do we know how to get rid of it sorry go ahead i never really met them but we do have a weird relationship if i could if that's that's perfect no that's that's great we we can talk i don't know how nice he'll be but
01:13:26
Speaker
If he is even in there, just complete non sequitur. Be like, Avalon, is he in there? I don't know. I haven't been then. Caesar goes, Caesar's like, well, from the marble, if I'm correct. Yeah. Yeah, I knew it was already. Hava, I already knew that. Sorry. Yeah, we need to stop it. So I'm going to get in there one way or another.
01:13:54
Speaker
Avalon, you have some nice wings there. Do you feel like flying over there and distracting this being to get it to come out? So as soon as Hava starts looking at my wings, you suddenly see this three foot tall rabbit complete with mustache and monocle instead of a kingfisher.
01:14:26
Speaker
Hi. It's, it's, it's you but big. That's really weird. Uh, Avalon, where'd you go? This is him. The role of investigation or insight maybe.
01:14:45
Speaker
uh 13 uh what's your disguise yeah what's the what's the spell say 15 so you don't know it's him uh okay anybody else have wings
01:14:58
Speaker
Or can anyone else fly? I'm happy to make a run for it. I mean, I can, I can move. No, no, no, no. You're going to burn your feet off. You're going to burn your feet off. Did you see those other animals when we were coming in? Oi, that does not look nice. The rabbit size and turns back into Avalon. Like, okay, fine. Have her. What do you need me to do? Well, there you are. Where'd you go? Uh, nowhere.
01:15:25
Speaker
Okay, so I need you to fly in there and I don't know. Yeah, is there like an opening? I'll go with you mate. If you take me, you don't even need to go in. I will go in. Just throw me to the hole and there is a opening right there. You can see it. How much do you weigh?
01:15:48
Speaker
find a good day probably almost like 250 pounds 300 okay i mean as a three foot tall kingfisher you expect me to carry you and then throw you or i can jump you're gonna burn yourself you're gonna die it seems it's just
01:16:13
Speaker
Look, okay, I'm gonna take the chance. I will bring a rope, some day of any rope. I think I've got some rope. Oh, no, of course. I have rope. How long is your rope? I think that's about right. I think maybe. Let me actually roll it. Oh, he's like, actually, that's not enough rope. Yeah, we need at least 80. Anybody else have rope?
01:16:38
Speaker
I have wrote, but I think that we should probably not touch the sand. I'm scared that you're going to just burn your mouth. Look, I'm I can do it. It's okay. Okay. I'll be fine. Do you like have like God feet? Yeah. Let's put it that way. Sure. I do. Why not? You can say that.
01:17:04
Speaker
He like, he's like, look, watch, just, just wait a second. Okay. And he steps on the sand, just one paw and he's fine. Oh, you're okay. Oh, wow. What, what, what, what, what, what? I thought he blew up. I'm sorry. I, I reacted. I'm sorry. I'm fine. See, I will walk there.
01:17:32
Speaker
And I'll try the rope, and everyone else can climb the rope. It's there, easy. I'm the only other one that can see him, right? No, everyone else can. I can't. Caesar? Oh, yes, yes. Which is why I was like, what's happening? Oh, right, yeah. That's right. So everyone else can. That's my invisible friend. Hey, Caesar, just tap this dude, please. No, what? No, don't, what?
01:18:01
Speaker
Are you sure? I'm not sure. Yeah, this dude. Okay, and he steps off the sand and he... Don't, don't, don't, don't. Whoever he likes... Please don't. He tickles his chin. He tickles your chin, Silas. Hello. And you see this massive fly. Lions and mice don't go well together, do they? Only if there's a stone in a pool. Yeah.
01:18:29
Speaker
And he's like, hey, hey, mate. She's talking about me. Don't worry. It's fine. I know. I'm a lion. You're a mouse. We're good, right? Okay. Well, I'm going to go do this and I'm going to take some rope and then I'll see. I mean, Avalon said he could take you, so you don't have to worry about it. I'm going to do this, okay? But he was talking to me? Yes. Oh, okay. I could also go ask Gus if he wants to fly. Should I do that?
01:18:55
Speaker
He's already gone. He's already on this. He doesn't need to listen to you. Did he take my rope as well? If you offered it to him. Yeah, I did. Then yeah, he took 12-0, which is both 50 feet, I believe.
01:19:13
Speaker
It's mine's 50am. Yeah, so that's perfect. So he goes and he kind of sticks his head, not in, but like in front of it. And he tries to listen and he hears nothing. And he's like, what do I tie it on? Why do I tie this? Oh, wait, I found a leg.
01:19:36
Speaker
And he, like, he found a giraffe's leg that's there. He just shows it in the sand. And he ties it with it. Okay. Evelyn, can you tie the other to the top of Gus's store, okay? The top of the store. Yeah. Then how are you? Okay. I think we're zip-lining. How tall is Daggett's eggs and coffee?
01:20:02
Speaker
uh i mean it's a massive thing so i would say it's about 30 feet high okay so i kind of take my head a little bit then and fly to the top and shower down all the way up here uh yeah i don't know what else to tie it to is there anything up there that i can tie it to
01:20:26
Speaker
Yeah, there's like a post like literally like it like sticks out and that's where like the start of the banner is it like to hold the rest of the banner it's like there. Yeah, so yeah, I would try the right stuff. What are you guys doing. I guess everyone else now needs to climb to the top of.
01:20:44
Speaker
So, so wait, what is Goro doing this time? He is literally standing on the doorway, leaning, going, what's taking everyone so long? We're supposed to be going to a pyramid. Like, literally. Doesn't really care about coffees, coffees in daggers or daggers, daggers in coffee. He just, he looks at a gold coin that he had and the gold coin has it etched in, like, crudely. I'm just looking at again, like, what the heck were you doing with these things, Leaf? This is actual currency. What the heck?
01:21:13
Speaker
Nice. Yeah, yeah. So did everybody climb up to the top of the coffee, coffee, dagger, dagger, dagger, coffee? Yeah, is there a ladder? No. Or an access from the inside? Or access from the inside, yeah.
Rooftop Zipline Adventure
01:21:29
Speaker
You know what? Yes, there is an access from the inside because I rolled a 20 on if there was a place to tie it up. So yeah, I'll say there's also access up to the top to help put the banner up.
01:21:41
Speaker
I go through this place and ask, what was his name again? Yes. Yes. If I can go up on his route. Yes, of course. Yeah, why not? A friend of ours is friend of mine. Come on. Come on, Goro. Are we all out there now? I think so. I think you're all well. Yeah. So I guess somebody has to go first.
01:22:05
Speaker
And the rotation, like the line up of animals. Who's going first? Do we have like, Stan, Xur? Jackson, you were up there first. I'll go first. I'll take the, I'll take the parental list. It's fine. So what are you using, firstly, to try and do the zip line? I have a... Use a daca.
01:22:34
Speaker
No. I have, I have a crowbar. So I'm going to like hold the crowbar. Cool. Roll a strength save. 12. 12. Like it's not pretty, but you make it. You, you, but you land in like the pyramid. Like you stop like at the entrance, like foot. And so you don't have any pain or anything.
01:23:02
Speaker
I'm gonna move out of the way from the landing spot. Do you move inside or like to the left? Towards Caesar. Caesar's outside of the pyramid. Oh, okay. He's still in the sand? Yeah, he's still in the sand. I'll move in a couple steps, I guess. Okay, sure. Okay.
01:23:23
Speaker
I mean, I don't want to get knocked over by Goro. Who's next? Who's next? Let's see. Do we want the other animals to go as well? Who is next? You're next up there, so. OK, I have these four javelins, so I can use these as the stick part for the zipline thing. Does anybody want one? You have to give it back to me, though.
01:23:52
Speaker
And then I'll take one. I'll, I'll, I'll have a PJ either. Well, either climb on my back or yeah, I'll take PJ with me as we zip line across. Okay. Roll a strength save. To hold onto the zip line, right? To hold on to the javelins. That's what I meant. Oh, good. Okay.
01:24:18
Speaker
24. 24. Oh, man, you make it like, proceed. And again, you land in the pyramid at a safe distance where you don't get any pain in your feet. Okay. Are you gonna take the zipline? Is the wizard nearby? Yeah, there's Oh, I didn't know actually, they're not because actually, I need to roll something.
01:24:44
Speaker
Lee's face during this whole thing has been priceless. This is like Mission Impossible. You really expect me to go ziplining down this road.
01:24:57
Speaker
Everyone has this great idea and then I'm literally like, I'm an eight foot tall guys. This is not going to work for me at all. One of the wizards had stayed, but when Hava was like telling all of her people to go back in, they were like,
01:25:15
Speaker
this is freaking and they and they ran off and then the other one also is like not ran like not scared but they are like I'm gonna go with my people so you have one person left okay so we only have one of the the seven animals with us still okay so my question is when it comes to this old person what are the characteristics to hold person
01:25:43
Speaker
A whole person basically paralyzes you. Yeah, it doesn't make you move. They can't, you know. Cool. This is not going to end well for me. I'm just going to wait for all of them to get across before I attempt to even use this robe. Sure, sure. So then the last one's going to go. They fall into the sand and just basically burn to a crisp. This is one of the wizards.
01:26:11
Speaker
So I literally just see a guy fall off. I'm going to roll for them now. Wait a minute. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I pull Uber back before he even goes there. And I'm like looking at him and look and I'm like looking down at what just happened, looking at him. And I was like, are you sure about this? I'm Uber. I, you know, we're, we're supposed to go. Well, I hope you make it, bro. Thank you. Nat one.
01:26:39
Speaker
Not in that one, but not good. I mean, although. Quick question. What did he roll? He rolled a five. Okay. Immediately. Does he, is he get on the rope and immediately fall? No, no. He'd go down and like stumble quite a bit and then fall. But I'm going to roll for Caesar. Caesar catches Uber. See, I was going to do that just in case.
01:27:06
Speaker
So Cesar runs, he's like, oh, oh, oh, and he's like, try and he goes and catches Uber. He's like, mate, what, he kind of, he kind of, what, what, what, what, just, and he like walks him over to the, to the pyramid. He's like, seems like people get safe here. It's okay. And he was like, well, you win some, you lose some, right?
01:27:28
Speaker
You have a really strong strength modifier don't you Lee. yeah I do, I do i'm i'm perfectly fine with this it's just the structure of this rope is really questioning. there's also Clara and skinny and I don't know if they're coming. Yes, they will suffer there.
01:27:46
Speaker
Oh my gosh, I'm letting them go first, I'm not going. Skinny does very well. She doesn't like, it's not perfect, but she's okay, which is good. Oh, yeah, yeah.
01:28:00
Speaker
Clara elegant, beautiful. Like she skates down it. Like she's like Tarzan's. She doesn't even use like, and then it's just you girl. So I just need to do a strength check with this. Yeah. All right. All right. So I rolled a five, but I got a plus seven on strength. So that's going to be like 12. So here we go. You're fine.
01:28:28
Speaker
You make it to the end, but I need you to make another strength save. Not one. Like, not even Jenna King. So, as much as I wanted to get into the pyramid today, it looks like we are. But, to end this time, I'm going to say, Goro. You fly faster than anybody.
01:28:52
Speaker
harder than anybody down this rope, it snaps behind you. You make it, but you roll into everyone except for Caesar who is still on the sand.
01:29:07
Speaker
And you bull everybody else up here. And all you hear is... And that is... That could have been way worse. That could have been so worse. Well, you're also going to roll damage. So we'll see. And everyone else is going to roll damage. I want you to roll a d6 damage, Goro. Of course I do six. D6? Six damage. Yep, d6, six. Like, of course, it's this guy. It's this knight, guys.
01:29:34
Speaker
And I'll roll for everybody else, but Jackson roll a, what is your strength modifier, girl? Seven. And then that is where we're going to end the session today.
Session Conclusion
01:29:46
Speaker
Oh yeah. Um, also before I end the recording, I'm going to say you all level up. So we get our health back. Yeah, sure.
01:29:59
Speaker
All that damage that was just inflicted is now like, Goro lands on everyone. You all level up. No, no, no. So you level up and then you get the damage. That's not how you said it just then. No, no, no. Keep that in the edit for all you guys who are wanting to be GMs out there. Yes. Make sure your players are in pain before they start their actual painful adventure.
01:30:24
Speaker
And by that he means make sure that you have inflicted physical pain upon them so that their characters also feel the pain that they are.
01:30:34
Speaker
themselves. Yeah, that's it. If you all enjoyed that, I'll hand it over to Hava. Dang, it was so good the other times. All right. Thanks for listening, guys. Follow us on our Instagram, Rolling Across the Pond, and check out our website, rolling across the pond.com. You can send us emails with any questions or fan art that you may have drawn.
01:31:00
Speaker
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01:31:28
Speaker
Bye. Right? I am so sorry for sneezing in the middle. No, it's fine. I'll edit it out. Then loop wait.
01:32:16
Speaker
I just have to say, Jesse, you're really good at improvising. He's great at improvising, but every single character has the same voice.
01:32:30
Speaker
um there's charlie there's there's pineapple there's um there's uh not stuff that's in the room where i have no pineapple in my room there's uh flower no there's um i don't remember the first guy's name i just think of pineapple um there's no no definitely i remember ball but the middle guy there's
01:32:59
Speaker
Salad? Salad. Salad, there you go. There's Brandon, there's Ugg, there's Purple Stone, and... That's it, that's all you have to do. I thought there was one more. Oh, there we go, yeah. Because I forgot the middle guy. Yes.