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Ep. 15 Time for a little Fizzle – De Profundis
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there some kind of racial undertones in that though?
Introduction to the Fellowship of the Tabletop
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Hello and welcome to this week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop. Thank you so much for joining us. My name is Mark. I'm the DM for this session and all sessions to come. Sounds like the start of the Lord's Prayer. Oh, wow. Anyway, we've got a couple of our staff from Tabletop. It's Christmas time. It's Christmas time. I'm reading of a white summer. I wish I had practiced them. I'm glad that they're not practiced. Well, I wait till the very last second to think of what I'm going to do. Like with my... One day you're going to have a break as well. One day I will. I'll just go, hello.
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and that's what I'll say. Around the table, we've got our normal players with us today. Thank you so much for coming, guys. I appreciate it. We all managed to find time out the day to sit around the table and nerd out, and it's fucking
Character Introductions and Christmas Atmosphere
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British. Especially on this holiday time. Time for family. I feel very cold at the moment. Well, this is our D&D family. And you at home listening or in your car or whatever, you're our D&D family, too. Thanks for sticking with us. We've got Ian. Where's Drago?
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What is up Merry Christmas, one and all. We've got Robin. No, every bloody time. It's like I haven't known you for like 12 years. I know. We've got Danny who plays Robin. Hello. Please change your name to Robin now. We've got Danny who plays Claude. Hey everyone in the fallout shelters, stick with it.
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We've got Will the Plays out there. I don't really know how I can follow that up. That's fine. I think that'll do it, I think. And that's us for now, because obviously if you've been listening to the last couple of episodes, it's been a bit sad at this Christmas time. Obviously we had a bit of a character loss. Who? Hashtag
Reflecting on Lost Characters and Community Appreciation
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Bring Back Callum.
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Yeah. Is that your Christmas wish? That's my Christmas wish. To bring back Callum. To see his festive cheery face with a collection of dice ready to slay. Just a quick actual proper shout out that Ian can't cut out. Ian spent a hell of a lot of time working on his podcast. Yeah bro. Make sure you follow him on Twitter as well because he is awesome and he works
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Bloody hard on this thing, so thank you very much to you as well. You can't cut that bit out, okay? Keep going, guys. Make it all worthwhile. Shut up. Anyway. Can I ask everyone to roll a... I just threw my D20 away. Can everyone roll a D20? Yes, you're not rolling. I want the D20. Did anyone roll a 20? All I want for Christmas is a natural 20. You were laughing. She went up and down in your sheet. I rolled a 19, which was so close yet so
Humorous D20 Rolls and Shader's Memorial Recap
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far.
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Darren Page, you get to pick. I get to pick who is going to do the festive recap. Do you know what? Have we ever had a Danny recap before? I don't think we have, have we? I think we want a Danny recap. You're about to disappoint the listeners. Why is it? Because he doesn't make notes.
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In the last episode, it was more of a in memoriam, a more of a celebration of the life of Shader. Shader, who I never learnt his surname in time, but I'm sure someone will- Steel Fool. Steel Fool. Claudia's not smart.
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And so we had the memorial, we spent some time in the tavern, around a fire, talking about the experiences Drago, Arthur and Robin had with their companion.
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There was a celebration we all took to where we encouraged the sternest member of the group to engage in some sort of frivolity and as he did, Drago took it upon himself to don the cape of batting. What is the official cape of the bat?
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Dragos the new Batman. And through encouragement of most of the town of Clay Peak and the party. We also charged them, I believe I made money out of that. Dragos got to reenact his Andram days from the Sword Coast Academy.
Music Jokes and Festive Gratitude
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and uh yes performed performed dragon to bat bat back to dragon quite eloquently and yes i think the rest of the session was a movement of the nightcap moment where we all had our final final moments of
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Shader's achievements. And that is where we ended. Absolutely. And you'll forget the most important thing that I gave as a beautiful rendition of a song I made. You did so well. Just saying, not being cocky or anything. Let's say I forgot that accidentally. We're going to be releasing that as an MP3. I definitely didn't plan that at some point anyway in the future, so it might be a theme song. I don't know, I'm just saying. Oh, okay. On my releasing album, X Factor. Yes, because our theme song needs changing. No, hashtag Britain's Got Talent.
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He doesn't. There's not any changes. It does not. It's amazing. Legitness. Shout out to Joe. Amazing. So good. When I hit my car, I literally just start headbanging. In a safe way, but I do kind of like headbang to myself because it's rocking. I have sex to that song. Oh, that's a lot of information. That is a lot of information, but I love it. I last the same amount of time. Please throw this to the rhythm as well.
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Excuse me, that's what I say at the end. I am so out. Thank you very much, Danny, for that really open.
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God bless us, everyone! You know what? That's it. I'm done. I'm sorry. I'm... I'm... Yeah. We did great. Thank you listeners. You hung on in there. You've dealt with it all. And now that we choose to wrap it up. We were never going to survive until 2020. I mean, who are we kidding? I think the festive spirit's getting to us a little bit now. Yeah, I know. Thank you for being here. That intro is awesome. Thank you very much, as always. It takes
The Clay Peak Adventure Begins
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pressure off me and also it means I can remember what we did last week because I totally make notes too. We've all hit the hay.
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Night has fallen long ago, and the cold night returns. Not the Game of Thrones cold night, but just a cold night. There's a cold breeze entering in through the windows of your rooms. The night passes, the exhaustion that you feel from the adventure you've been on, the sorrow you felt runs through your head, the memories of Shader run through your minds as you lower your head to the straw pillow.
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morning dawns. It's a cold but clear morning here in Clay Peak. And as you wake up at the tavern of the Beggars Hall, you can hear the noise of commotion outside. You can hear
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something outside of the usual realms that you would have heard of the normal day-to-day movements, the people at the dragon pottery complaining about the quality of their clay, or the usual man by the well that after trying to kick down screaming and shouting about the undead being part of the good, none of that's really audible. What you can hear though is the hustle and bustle of people with a real sense of urgency
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You can hear a tone in their voice. You can't hear the words the same. You can hear a sense of urgency in their voices as you wake up. Who would probably wake up first mate? Elthea would probably up first. When you're thinking about your four hours of meditation. Yeah, so... Kord went to bed like... Kord and I were the last ones up.
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Yeah, you were the last. So I was sat by the fire. A lot of people would have stayed there for a while and then obviously gone to bed for your lovely little introduction
Investigating the Commotion and Fire
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and then also would have woken. He... we have to have windows for him? Yes. Okay, he might... Elf here sort of gets up, sort of shakes himself off, sort of does a quick check of himself and then just leans out the window and...
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sort of see what all the commotion is about so it's a new place not sure what's going on. Your room looks over the front of the Beggars Hall so you would see directly below you the entrance to the Beggars Hall on the street on which you come to the right you can see down the street towards the well and the centre of the time further away from that you can also see the remnants of the port and where you came from previously from the Osran Islands.
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You can see people, though, running from the well down and then right before the beggars' hall to a nearby street. Some people are running with buckets.
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That's, which seems a little odd because the mode of transportation for the clay in this area is mainly through larger wheelbarrows. Does it look, is it panicked or is it organised? It's organised but rushed. Okay. You get a sense that you can see because of your high perception, a real kind of, they have a mission to do. There's something different in the town at the moment that you can see and sense, okay? Leaning out the window also, I'm just thinking you've got an 18 perception, you can definitely get a very, is it 18? It's hard, isn't it?
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You can smell very clearly the smell of smoke. There's a fire going somewhere and you get a real sense of that in your nostril holes.
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I was about to bleed into a mirror. Would you say that was like the most perfection you did so well? So good man, nostril holes. Who just said nostrils? Hashtag nostril holes. Elphir grabs his gear, he might throw on the rest of his clothes, sort of grabs his gear, not sure whether they're going to stay here or not.
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opens his door, walks down the corridor and gives a sharp rap on Robin's door. Oh, I thought you meant you were actually gonna rap. Yo, yo, Robin, let's get up now. It's time for some breakfast and shit's going down. Oh! Crap, man. Yes! Yes, this is gonna be a good episode. That was awful and brilliant at the same time. It's kind of like...
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Pineapple on pizza, anyway. Pineapple pizza is brilliant, shut up. It's amazing. So, okay, we wrap on the door. I could do a knock if you wanted, I didn't know. I mean... Either one of those. The sandwich face. Robin, that probably, I'm gonna say, would have stirred you if you weren't already up. Elfie, to what do I owe the pleasure? There appears to be some kind of commotion outside.
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Okay, this strikes me as a strange place. I've only been here once. The commotion doesn't... Is it that out of the norm? I don't know. Well, I just thought I'd let you know when I was the first up. I thought I'd let someone else know there was a commotion just in case we're in danger or, you know, being great heroes, we want to see what's going on. Anyway, great heroes is the business that we are so often about. Allow me to...
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Wake the others, do you wish to go and investigate? Er, I'll go downstairs, yeah you can wake, er, Claude and Talia and... Yeah, I suppose we'll have to get drive all up. Johnny Goode. Okay, so, Elton, you head downstairs towards, erm... Yeah, is Brandon down there? Erm, well... Sorry, I'll let you... Yeah, we'll take you down there, but, erm...
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Robin, do you want to, who would you, who would you want to go wake up? If you did, do you want to wake anyone up? I would immediately go to Drago's door, and I'd knock on the door, and I would just say to Drago, Drago, I'd just say, Drago, we may have, we may have trouble. Ain't waking up, man. How loud did you knock? I'm not louder. Goddamn Dragonborn on a scale of thick ears. I open the door, Drago!
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and you see as you walk in a splayed out dragonborn on the bed face up just conked out and this is something you've seen before obviously this is alcohol induced this is exhaustion layers upon layers of fury and frenzy have just been laid out on this massive beast of a dragonborn that is just
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For all intents and purposes seem dead to the world. Oh for the love of God. I come out of the room and I go and knock on Claude's door. So Claude was last to bed because he was cleaning the entire communal area of the cabin. So the snores would have been thunderous all night almost. How would they have gone?
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Nice. Wow. Just wow. Like Gary from SpongeBob. Nice. Yeah. I've never seen an episode. Carry on. What? You go up to those who do know. There you go. Yes, so your knocks would, for even deeper ears than the... Just for editing future purposes. Let's not knock on the table. Just to give my life a little bit of a breeze. No, no, no. I wanted me to work for it.
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Play a note. I will instead assume the form of knocking via my voice. Knock, knock, knock. Yeah, you get as the same level of response as you got when you knocked on Drago's door. Nice. Wonderful. I'm really glad we travelled with these people. Tallya! There's a couple of seconds. One moment, please! Just don't come in! I'm not going to come in. Just wait! Um...
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Okay, Talia, I think we may have trouble. Just, don't, don't open the door. Just, wait, just a second. I mean, I mean, I- Don't stop, just stop talking. Just give me, just please. You can see I'm rummaging around for a couple of seconds, then the door kind of opens to a disheveled.
00:13:46
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Talia kind of yeah what's that? Elphir says we may have trouble um what are you doing? I was in bed and no I'm not so I was just getting up after
00:14:05
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We may have some trouble. Are you only good with water for a chance? What do you mean? Well, I was thinking that two of our comrades aren't waking up and you may have the means to rouse them from their son.
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thinking maybe splash a cold water to the face. Oh right yeah I've got a glass here actually I could just use that actually. Oh do you need a lot of water? No just the means to wake them up but maybe you deal with Claude that way and I'll deal with Drago in a more succinct and tactful way. I don't think he'll appreciate cold water to the face. No I think if anyone he'd cut your head off I think if you did that. Well I'd get you to
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Okay, lovely, thank you. And Talia, you don't pick up a glass of water and you just hear her going, Claude, Claude, it's time to wake up. And she's kind of deafened by the sound of these massive snores as the door opens and you can hear the noise. Oh my God. She sees a man in the fetal position sucking his tongue. And Talia walks into the room, is horrified at the noise that's coming out of this room and just very quickly just
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Tosses the water
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into Claude's face and hopes for a reaction. Do you want to make some kind of check to see if you wake up? Does Claude sleep in his armour? That's an interesting question. No. It would have been more fun to reveal this to... Sorry! Had you been there to see it, Claude has a set of bespoke pyjamas.
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Please say they've got gold embroidery with your name. So they were basically pyjamas that did not fit the king of Slicar any longer and they were gifted to Claude. So they're like gold embossed silks. Oh my. Silk pyjamas.
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I hope he wears that all the time, actually, just under his arm. I mean, it takes up about a third of his backpack, so it is most of his travel gear.
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or borrowed from someone else because Claude is poor as fuck. And she knows that, doesn't she? And Claude, wake up! Claude! Hello? Are you okay? Sorry I had to douse you in water, but there's a bit of a problem. Is it morning now? Aye, it's definitely morning. I like your pyjamas by the way. Oh. Yeah.
00:16:52
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That's a, that's a, that's a funny thing. You weren't supposed to see me in these. Right, well, you should be a lighter. Why are you in my room? Well, mainly because Robin came in and said that Elfie came in and said that there's a bit of trouble going on outside and that we need to probably do something about it. Is it normal for everyone to be in my room? No, but...
00:17:15
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Apparently we've all tried to knock on your door and you didn't answer, so I don't know what... I might have got to bed about two hours ago. Right. I was cleaning. That probably means you still have a point of exhaustion, doesn't it? Just saying. At this rate, I've been exhausted since the 70s.
00:17:41
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So you have actually only had that two hours, so I think you do probably still have... I thought I was awake after him. Yeah, I see you still have a point of exhaustion. I think you do. If you really slept for two hours, you certainly... I really hope that that's just you, always. Yeah, just criminals. There's always bags under the eyes. You wouldn't believe the mess that the dragon Dribbo made when he batted around. No, sometimes he gets a bit full of himself, and anyway... Are you feeling better today? Because when we were...
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We were... Do you have a hand scaring? You're sounding a bit weird. You have to sit you up a little bit. There you go. Just kind of helps kind of sit you up. When we were at the scary place, you got scared too and are you feeling better today? She kind of takes a second and gives a kind of quiet nod. Doesn't say anything, but she nods. Right, well, if you need anything, I'll punch anyone what hurts you, right? I appreciate that, thank you. But it's...
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You can't punch something that's gone, so... I punched a few gone things. For some reason, it doesn't surprise me, Claude, but I appreciate it nonetheless, but I just want to get on, you know. Why are you in my room again? Well, because, like I said, there's some shit going on outside and Robin told me to wake you up and... What's going on? I don't know. I don't know. Really, nothing. Communication's not the best thing in this party, really, so I don't really know what's going on. He just said...
00:19:06
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Wake up the others. Should I get my axe? Drag or you do the other one and that's what happened. Oh, so you got the long straw, not the short straw. I don't know which one is better, but yeah, I got you a bit. Would you like some milk? That
Suspicions About the Fire
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sounds a bit euphemistic. I'd like to start the morning with some milk, to be honest. To be honest, I'm fine for now. I just want to figure out what's going on. So, you're awake now. Your fear built some lovely milk.
00:19:33
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Right. That doesn't sound any better. This, I don't, why am I the only man, girl on this party? Bunch of fucking men. Uh, listen, um, I'm gonna go and just got my boot just in case. Okay. You're gonna sort yourself out, um... I'll be downstairs in a jippy. We'll just won't tell anyone about this conversation because I think it's just a bit of a...
00:19:54
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You're in your jammies and I've had milk and you've been... But you're in my room! Yeah, that's why I think it's... I like to put my pajamas on when I go to bed. That makes sense, but I don't need to know that, so I'm just gonna awkwardly leave the room and we'll just... So make a knock, tomorrow. Well, I did, and you didn't wake up, so... Oh, we could share! We could get a twin! That's worse! I mean, I'm 16, it's just... I know, you know... A twin? I... Well...
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He's just gonna walk out the room slowly. You don't have fair hearing in this. You've gone downstairs. Not quite, but he's running at all at the same time, so you've got to walk downstairs as this very long shortcomings took place. Robin, you've gone to wake the monster that is Drago, the monster sleeper that is Drago. This time I just walk in the room, I walk straight over to the bed, and the snore you hear is... And that's accurate, because that was the noise you made the last time you had to do a snore as well. Continuity, baby. Right here, just without thought. What about the inhale?
00:20:53
Speaker
Like Squidward. Yeah. Not Squidward. Zweigberg. Zweigberg! I tap him on the shoulder. Drago. Oh man, getting new is drunk. Drago in the performance shape this time. And he doesn't respond. Dead. He's poisoned. He died.
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For any suspense, thanks Will. At which point I immediately kick on that something might not be right here and I want to start to investigate the room and just see if I can find anything that suggests... Okay, roll for investigation. Pause roll tonight, baby. It's one of my expertise, investigation. Ooh! You alright? Can't quite. It's 15. That's 15. Okay, so you look around the room and you can see, propped up, very close to the bed though, the sword you sleep with the sword.
00:21:45
Speaker
Okay, he's got the sword. But you can see Olaf's axe, which is the axe of Shader. You can also see a couple of the items in the satchel that Drago has around about the room. We can see that he sat at the desk for a little bit of time, but he hasn't seemed to have touched any of the items that were kind of displayed in the room that you also found in your room as well. The room seems pretty much untouched. It seems to you that he's walked in, sat down,
00:22:10
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kind of de-rogue the items he needs to take off him, etc. and then just collapse on the bed. Is this sleep natural? Is there anything unnatural about it? Does it appear to be just a... Give me a medicine check. No, I'm not good at that. Well, an 18 will help. So, 20, not natural. Okay. From what you can deduce, you...
00:22:31
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not only have seen this before but know from his breath as well that this is an alcohol induced sleep that this is nothing out of the ordinary he's just
00:22:48
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At which point the Robin just says, feeling quite foolishly for looking around, he just says to himself, naturally, and this time I go, is there any water in the room, anything ale? Next to the bed on the table, you know this large jug of water that seems to have been there for a couple of days. Yeah, it seems to have gained a little bit of film on top of it, hasn't been changed. Brandon probably forgot you couldn't induce anything.
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I pick up the jug of water, I go over to the bed,
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I think about it, I really think about it. He's not going to like this. I put the jug, I go! And I try but I'll shout to wake him up. Okay, you think? Is that loud enough to? I mean that could have been worse. Yeah, I'd say maybe one more time.
00:23:39
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I would have chosen a chamber. I'm liking this. Back to the water. Oh god. Thinking about having... I've seen this thing hit things. I'm not sure I fancy that. DIGO! Can't even hide her. Go away! We might have trouble. We may need you. Oh my head.
00:24:09
Speaker
Robin, is that you? It certainly is me. How much did I drink last night? I'm guessing by your reaction quite a lot. This water's not particularly fresh, but it will do. We move out of the way. Johnny good, I open the window.
00:24:34
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You've got water. I just grabbed the... It's a massive jug. I just grabbed the jug and I... Down the water. Can you make a Constitution saving photo? Oh, lovely! What's the Constitution saving photo? Comm save. Just straight up. 26.
00:24:49
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26. Pong saves. Absolutely. No, not saved. Just a constitution plus your, just your role plus the mock-up. Can't check. Yeah, can't check. Oh, sorry. 22. Yeah, you're fine. The effects of the slightly fermented water have no impact on your iron belly. And you start to feel a little bit more alive. Oh, my head. Why, why are you, how long have you been watching me sleep? Indefinitely over the past few minutes. I don't know about, um,
00:25:19
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Probably
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about four minutes in total. You're loud, just so you know. I'm a dragonborn. That's true. What about me is anything screaming quiet to you? Nothing. However... Why are you waking me up? Our other really sociable friend, Elphir, has detected that we may have trouble, perhaps. When don't we have trouble?
00:25:48
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downstairs. Just as that happens, you can see Talia walk past the door and just go, oh, Drago, you're up. Robin, I want to have a call. Just leave him for a few minutes because... Because he's called. Well, yeah, just, I wouldn't, just, and she walks off down the stairs towards where Elle theories.
00:26:11
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Right, so moving that on, so we'll head downstairs. Elphir, as we approach downstairs, you can see Brandon kind of moving around the space a little bit. So Elphir, after popping down the stairs quickly, you do see Brandon just kind of moving around the space a little bit, looking over tables, just kind of looking a little bit concerned actually as he kind of moves around, looking unsure of himself as he scampers around a little bit.
00:26:33
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Braden, what is wrong? Everything's really clean. Yes. Oh, Lord. Lord cleaned the place. I watched him do it. He cleaned the place? Yeah, he cleaned. He's that kind of person. Well, that's fantastic. Yeah, I watched him. It was fine.
00:26:49
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Why didn't you help? So are you watching? That's a bit weird, isn't it? Well, because we pay you to run the inn, so it's your job to clean the place. You haven't paid anything yet, actually. The lioness is doing all the paying. Yeah, exactly. Good morning. Good morning. Would you like some eggs? I'll go bless them. Well, what's going on outside? What? There's a kerfuffle outside. What is a kerfuffle?
00:27:11
Speaker
There is a commotion outside. I see. What is a commotion? Something's happening outside you uneducated so-and-so. Right, that makes sense. It all counts and he sticks his head out. All right. Uh-huh. And he goes, he kind of hollers down. I like it. What's happening?
00:27:30
Speaker
Right you are. You just told me fuck off, so I don't really know anything at the moment. I imagine you get that a lot. I do. It's a bit mean. Okay. Um, I don't know. Smells a bit funky. Can you smell that? I thought that was just the bar. No, no. This bar usually smells much worse.
00:27:47
Speaker
Thanks to Claude, he's probably made it better then. I mean, no, I liked its original smell. It now smells like soapy and stuff, and it smells... I like what it smells like. You've sawn out the eggs, because Drago's probably hungover. Right, and he starts taking a shot. If I were to put my eggs in, he'd go... I'm gonna go and... So, Elphir... Apologies, not I. Elphir then sort of looks around.
00:28:06
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What a goody-goody, ah, Claud is. And Elsby will then go and sort of stand in the door, open the door and sort of stand in the doorway and sort of have a look at what's going on. You can see a few other people now moving from the well area. You can actually see them kind of pulling on the ropes, pulling it up. A bucket then rises, they lift it out and you see them trundle off around the corner. So the bucket
00:28:30
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seconds later you hear, oh good, you know, is Braddon around? He's blessing the eggs Talia. Blessing the eggs, I forget that's a thing. Yeah it's probably not a thing, Braddon's probably a rather impressionable boy and Drago was winding him up. Anyway, how are you? I'm better, thank you. The sleep helped a bit but I'm, you know. Time will
00:28:57
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Oh my god he's just, he might be wearing it, it was hilarious. Oh it's just some pajama thing and it was, it looked ridiculous because it was too big for him and, oh sorry, too small for him, sorry, it was too small for him and it looked ridiculous, it looked like some rich pajama thing, it was so funny. Well sometimes we all need some
00:29:18
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moment. We do and you look like a prick. I've woken him up and Robin's getting Drago up so it might be another hour or Robin might be dead either way. Robin will be fine. Drago, oh well. So what is it? What's going on? I don't know. They appear to be filling buckets more well. I would assume that
00:29:40
Speaker
They're trying to put something out maybe. You need like a fire or something? Probably. That was what I would imagine. Given people are filling buckets and coming back with empty buckets. Unless they're trying to fill a pond maybe, I don't know. Some kind of weird mass egg blessing ceremony, I don't know.
00:29:57
Speaker
Well, I hope not. And as you look at, you do see Brad and topless just running towards the well, holding three or four eggs up to the well. You can hear him shouting. Someone walked past him looking very odd and concerned at him for a couple of seconds as he starts to lower his trousers, as he stands there with the eggs high in the air. And you can just hear him echoing, I bless these eggs.
00:30:20
Speaker
And then he very quickly pulls him back up again, puts his chair back on, and you see him running back looking very happy for himself. They have a high tolerance for nudity around here, it seems.
00:30:27
Speaker
Yeah, I've noticed that he's a bit weird, that one. Yeah. We meet a lot of weird people. Funny that, isn't it? By this time, probably, Robin, you, Drago would have been a riot, oh, not riot. Whoa! What was going on in that room? Jesus. I mean, oh, what's the word? He has a reason. He's awake, basically. Praise be. He's not gonna wake. Praise be. And I guess you would have come downstairs as well.
00:30:52
Speaker
Have I come out, do I catch a glimpse of Claude? It depends, did you... I think, given the sense of urgency, I would have come down very quickly in your... Well, how I'm picturing it is Claude is wearing his pyjamas underneath his plate armour. Okay. And come downstairs thinking that there's some sort of emergency. So you've got that in your plate armour? With the pyjamas underneath. Okay.
00:31:18
Speaker
So you'll see him kind of trundling down the corridor, getting the last piece of playmelt of his shoulder armour, clicking it into place maybe, as you kind of see him walk past you. And as I do that, I see him putting on his armour and I go, that's probably a good idea. And I go back into my room and I take off the finery clothes that me and Alfie have bought. Nice, yep. And I put on the armour, grab the bow.
00:31:43
Speaker
As I'm going, I'm going, we may need you sooner rather than later, Drago. I'd bring that sword and I head downstairs. I ain't never heard of it. Why are you armoring? What's going on? Elfie says there's a fire or some form of disturbance. Maybe we should. Elfie is a fire? Where?
00:32:04
Speaker
No, I think I've summarised, given that they're filling buckets from the well and going somewhere and coming up with empty buckets. Sorry, I don't know what you're saying. They appear to be trying to put out a fire or filling a large pond.
00:32:19
Speaker
Which is it? Because one requires me to help and one I can just go back to being. Oh for God's sake. They look like they're having to be rather urgent. We're all kind of mustered in the front room there and as Brandon kind of, you can smell the slight hint of eggs in the background and everyone's finally kind of joined up downstairs. The whole party's kind of there. The whole party. But most of the party are there. Out of curiosity, which one is it you'll be willing to help with?
00:32:45
Speaker
I've had enough of this and Drago just leaves the tavern with a headache. I'll follow Dribbo. Elph, they will also follow Dribbo and Claude. Okay, so as I guess, Robin, you're coming with? I'll kind of just gesture to the tavern, shall we? Why not? I'm following. The party kind of leads out through the doors of the Baker's Hall.
00:33:08
Speaker
as we take a right turn and we see still another person go to the bucket and run around the corner as you approach that left that's where that right turn away from the well towards kind of lands inside you see another quite long street and quite far down the street on the left you see a single building that seems to have been stood on its own about let's say about 15 20 meters down the road that path that's a modern mud path that has been absolutely destroyed by fire it's just
00:33:38
Speaker
the ashes and embers of a building there. You see a young woman run up and throw a final, the fires are pretty much out by this point, it's just embers, they seem to be trying to pull out the last couple of embers, she throws a bucket of water onto him.
00:33:53
Speaker
as his steam kind of was swept into the air. There's another man standing nearby, just kind of looking over, which he recognises, Captain Drew Larnas, who's woken up and is looking over it. And to his right, the woman, sorry, the woman runs back round, what runs trundles in her own pace, round to get another bucket of water and kind of nods to you each as you walk by. He just says, hi everyone, thank you again, thank you again. And she kind of wanders off again. You see Drew Larnas standing over at his arms, cross looking concerned at the
00:34:22
Speaker
fire or the the burnt-out remnants of the building. He also notices to the side of this fire a small figure which Drilana seems to be looking at. It looks like a large box of some description from where you are and as you approach it seems to move and move and Drilana's finger on the kind of centre of his face looking concerned at this
00:34:49
Speaker
then small embers or pieces of charred wood being kind of thrown out of the space as to what I understand is looking perplexed. Are we approaching? Captain! Ah! My friends, good to see you again. I trust you slept well. What's going on? A fire took place in the night. I'm trying to figure out what happened here. Was this another party or was this just a fire gone
00:35:18
Speaker
You might have remembered him. He was the chap who, when we stood by the well. Is there any casualties? Yes, there is one dead person. Or is this the chap what you seem to induce physical harm on the well? This is his house. I don't know. The man that usually... The preaching man. Yes, yes, you might refer to him as the preaching man. Alfie, did you hurt this man's house?
00:35:44
Speaker
No, I don't hurt people's houses. When did this happen? Well, he was quite annoying at the time. So you burned his house? I didn't burn his house. When did this happen? It seemed to have happened in the night. Joseph Kessel was his name. He was a troubled man, but he was a good man of Clay Peak. He lived there many years.
00:36:09
Speaker
And he seems to just take himself to the side for a second. Do you think it's an accident or not? No. It seems to have just been started in this house. From what we can tell, it seems to have been aimed at this house. A worrying thing, however, is that his body was still in there. He was still in there, but the position we found him in seemed questionable. And he gestures over to this inanimate object that seems to be moving around this thing.
00:36:39
Speaker
was interested and seemed to want to have a little look around. I've never... What is that thing? It's just a...
00:36:46
Speaker
What? What am I seeing here? What you can see as you approach closer is a backpack. Large backpack that just seems to be just kind of vibrating and moving slightly. And every now and then it just twists ever so slightly. What just suspended it, yeah. No, no, this is like in the ground. Oh, okay. It's in the rubble. This backpack kind of just moving slightly around. And every now and then you just see a small hand reach into it and then return back to it again. Oi, backpack. Callum.
00:37:13
Speaker
Would you like to describe what and who it is or what they see or what they see? Callums back! Callums back! Callums back! We didn't kick him out. Ho ho ho adventurers. Oh my gosh. Santa Claus. Santa! It's Santa's sack! Okay, as elthea...
00:37:35
Speaker
Shout out, oi, you, oi backpack. The backpack turns around and you see a small, no mission like character in a green velvet cloak.
00:37:50
Speaker
dark blonde hair and just riddled with so much stuff that's hanging off this green cloak. If you look at the backpack, it is open at the top and there is just a absolute smorgasbord of knickknack bits, bobs that are just attached to the side and even when he acknowledges you, he is still just chucking stuff.
00:38:11
Speaker
Seemingly up into the air and some of it dispersing elsewhere, some of it going straight into the backpack itself. What? Sorry. You all good? Yeah. Um... What are you doing? Hmm? You mean me? Yes. Well, this stuff's no longer needed, is it? Literally, as far as I know, this has just burnt down this instant and someone... Exactly. But there's a body in there. Oh, I don't want that. You can have that.
00:38:41
Speaker
Did you burn his house for his stuff? This? No, no, no, of course not. This, this was a ritual gone completely mad, completely wrong. He has no idea what he's doing. You can see the squads past here. What do you mean? Whoa, all right, let me roll that back a moment. Hang on, hang on. You didn't mention absolutely when you started going through this a ritual, you say? You didn't ask. Well, I just assumed you'd tell me weird, no, ma'am.
00:39:06
Speaker
What would you mean, a ritual? Well, if you look down there, you can see a pattern made from the sort of wash a lot of his way, but there's certain symbols that have been done over there, and the escalating scale of the fire from this epicenter right here clearly means he was trying to summon something, something good, something bad, I don't know, it's not important, but he did it wrong. He did it very, very poorly, and he died. So, there you go.
00:39:36
Speaker
Is that Eric Kass? Um, I don't know, but one other thing I don't know. Who are you? Are you Eric Kass?
00:39:45
Speaker
No! No! Folly Fizzlebang, gentlemen. Folly Fizzlebang, but I'm absolutely pleasure to meet you. Now, leave me alone. Follum Flum, son of a bum. Folly Fizzlebang, get it right or don't say it at all. Oh my god, there is a lot of information in a short amount of time and I am hungover. Folly Fizzle... Are you hungin' over? Oh god, I'm going. Jugger, may I touch your... No, just right foot. I said... Okay, everyone, just, shush!
00:40:12
Speaker
Fuzzy! Folly! Folly! What are you actually doing here? Looking! Looking for things! For what? Anything! Anything that can be useful. Drolanis, what is the next step? What do you need done here? To be honest, it seems like a cut and dry as this Folly fizzle bang. Yes, the ninth. The ninth? The ninth. There's nine of you.
00:40:39
Speaker
Yes. I am the knife. Right. Have you found the body? Yes, it's right. We can be that black thing over there, mate. Okay, Claude, do you need to perform some sort of sending in your weird way? It is not a weird way. Whatever you bloody do to dead bodies. You're excessively grumpy this morning. Yes, you try this hangover.
00:41:01
Speaker
I'm Folly. Oh, I can help you with that. Not right now. People wondered why I acted weird the other day. Folly, sorry, you said that you're looking through here as this is a matter of premeditation. Were you expecting this house to burn down? No, just good timing. He's a tinker, I think. Where have you come from? Where did you go? Catnigh Joe.
00:41:28
Speaker
I hate you all sorry may I please make a history check to figure out how common that race is to sleep guard you can do
00:41:46
Speaker
Oh, I like that. Okay, looking at this creature that seems to be in front of you, your mind instantly returns to many, many, many times where the Clay Peak area has been overrun with gnomes, where you remember literally thousands of gnomes pouring in off the coastline, like the sea, and just infesting all kinds of places. But they were all really happy, and they all gave you money.
00:42:17
Speaker
I'm not sure how much of a reliable memory says Robin in your head I'm going to run up to this person pick them up Shake them upside down and try to shake coins. Okay, so as you approach Holly as you approach me if you wanted to try and lift me you cannot my Backpack is extremely heavy. So as you approach technically make a strength check to see if you can lift this person
00:42:49
Speaker
Good, good, good, good, good, 16. Okay. With that, you are still incapable of lifting him as you get your arms under him. Give up if I'm with you. It won't work.
00:43:04
Speaker
I like her. You're heavy. Oh, I don't like that you're that close. Could you please get away from me? I've heard that you've got lots of money that you give to people who want money. I've got three friends that are obsessed with money. Claude, don't involve us in this. I've got two friends who are... He says friends. I know a person called Robin who likes money. Talia likes money. I noticed one of your friends. Is that a Dragonborn?
00:43:33
Speaker
You can't call in that. It gets very sense. Can I put you down? Oh no, I am a dragon. You haven't lifted me in the first part. Can I stop trying? Yes, you can. Stop trying. Is it like being called a dragon abundant? Bun? Dragon bun? I don't mind the name. Dragon ball.
00:43:49
Speaker
You can't say that. Apparently it's racist. You can't say that. Okay, I'm done with you. And as he says that, Folly has a court staff that is about four and a half foot long. He just bonks you on the head. That's nice. Nice magic wand. He goes to approach the Dragonborn. And he starts investigating the Dragonborn. So as he gets closer, he's basically going round and basically grabbing your legs. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. No, you do not get to touch me.
00:44:20
Speaker
I said, I'm following fizzle back now, stay still. And as he's still basically trying to investigate you, he's trying to just test these scales. They're actually a body, see how sturdy they are. Okay, Jago is gonna reach down at you as you do this. And I'm gonna attempt to lift you myself by the collar of your shirt and just pick you up to ideally eye level. And we're gonna see this. Okay, roll, check please. Okay, how is a, how's a 20? Not natural.
00:44:51
Speaker
You manage to and you put your whole kind of seam in your back, your legs, everything is kind of tensed up together to try and lift him. You manage to lift him like four or five inches off the ground but this is an incredible weight that doesn't seem to match up with his size or stature at all.
00:45:15
Speaker
Actually, you just got a handful of his material. It just hits the ground again. I don't like strangers touching me. That's right, it won't be for long. You're a very fine physical specimen for a dragonborn, aren't you? Fit? A little bit too much alcohol in the blood. Bit of an alcoholic guy with a wager. He doesn't like it when you say dragonborn. Good, I am a dragonborn. It's okay to call me a dragonborn. Oh, good. I'm confused.
00:45:45
Speaker
Um, can I do some kind of at-distance check to see whether the source of the weight from their lifting is from his backpack or from him? Yep, do an investigation check for me please. Actually, if you'd be an Arcana check, what exactly are you looking for?
00:45:59
Speaker
For me. So that's a natural 20. That's a 21. You can definitely tell it's from the backpack. It seems to have some kind of eminent magical features to it. Thank you very much. Sorry, dragon ballons are very rare around here. I've never seen one actually in person. Nor have I.
00:46:17
Speaker
Let's not make this all about me. Why? Why are you here? Oh, for things. I'm after things. I need things for my craft, you see. You seem to know this. And what's your craft, if you don't mind us asking? I'm an algae.
00:46:35
Speaker
He's a probably tinker. Sorry, alchemist. What would you call it? Liquid craft, potion crafting, that sort of thing. Okay, can you craft anything to get rid of a hangover so I can just try and understand you a bit more? Actually, I might have just the thing. Just give me one second. And as he does, he puts his backpack onto the ground. He jumps inside his own backpack because his backpack is about five and a half feet
00:47:05
Speaker
So he literally jumped into his own backpack. You hear some rummaging. He comes out with a potion, just a very, very small blue vial. Did I just see you jump into your backpack or am I still drunk? Robin, please tell me you saw this. I do believe I saw this fellow jump into his backpack. Your eyes do not deceive you. Who are you?
00:47:33
Speaker
I'm fully fizzle-banger night! Now here, I hand-give a vial. Right, drink that! And this wall. You said you wanted to get rid of your hangover, yes? I've made that a little tired. I'd make it a little tired to investigate that first, I don't know this. May I suggest not drinking so much? I'd drink it, Drago. Um... D-d-d-delarian.
00:47:59
Speaker
Captain Drallanus. Drallanus. I thought you were throwing me at some kind of 80s car. Yes, Drago. Do you know this man? This man, I've seen him once before a few years ago. He comes in, he looks through usually our rubbish supplies. He sometimes asks about rare and weird items we've never heard of before. Do you trust him?
00:48:25
Speaker
No, but no one here really trusts outsiders except for you. That makes us special then. Yes, I know. Should I go and corks and corks? Yeah. And cooks the vial and downs it in one. Okay. What the hell did I just drink? Callum, what do you drink? Let's find out. What?
00:48:47
Speaker
Basically, as he drinks the potion, Hangover does indeed dissipate, but after a 2-3 second wait, a light green mist just starts surrounding Drago's face.
00:49:01
Speaker
You seem to have something round your face. Do I see this as well? It will be in front of you. Basically, if you imagine going round the entire round your face, it will go to the point of your nostrils. Right. How well... It's thick. It's very nice to throw it. It's almost transparent, but it just has light green waves. It doesn't affect your vision. My senses have come back. I haven't got a hangover anymore. You've not got a hangover now. What did you just give me? What the hell did you just give me?
00:49:29
Speaker
Fascinating. Not fascinating. I mean, my hangover is gone. I feel good, but there's this weird mist in front of me. Anyone else seeing this? Yes. Yes, you're rather green. Yes, definitely. Okay. I like your shoes. Withdraw my sword. Can you make a wisdom saving throw for me? Ooh, damn, Daniel. Back at it again with a wisdom saving throw. Damn. Okay, 15. You, I have cast Hold Person on yourself and you are now paralyzed.
00:49:58
Speaker
Oh my God. I like this man already. You see this dragonborn drink it and for a couple of seconds starts to kind of nod in agreement with what's happening. He becomes totally, totally still. And suddenly this around his face, a moving slight green mist just starts to emanate and kind of circle around him like a really small cloud or like the wisps of black smoke that you can see around the fire.
00:50:23
Speaker
Am I stuck with my sword over my head? That's fucking mint. Your couch is awesome. Now while the rest of you can see as you look over this scenario that seems to have evolved here, you've got Drago, your friend and colleague and confidant, standing
00:50:41
Speaker
monstrously high height with his gleaming sword held over his head frozen what seems in time with his mist moving like his head. In front of him looking up at this figure is the smallest of gnomes seems to just almost be hidden by some of the rubble. It seems quite antithetical that you've got these massive massive body and this tiny tiny figure stood kind of opposite each other and Drago is not moving.
00:51:07
Speaker
Master Fizzle Bang. Yes. I assume you did this to Drago. Of course. So when he stops being still, he probably wants to step to the side slightly. He will just keep swinging.
00:51:20
Speaker
Is he an angry dragonborn? Yes. Yeah, anger is his default position, I think. Is that correct? I think it's fair to say that. Gentlemen. Is this by design that you've managed to achieve this or is this... Oh yes, yes, yes, definitely. I couldn't have him attacking me like that. It certainly simply won't do me. He does that a lot. Can you do that? Was that the potion or was that just something you can do? Oh no, that was me.
00:51:40
Speaker
Excellent. We need to know this more. Can he hear you right now? He can hear and see everything. He just can't do anything. I would definitely take a step back then. Yeah. Noted. Noted. You say he can't do anything. Yes.
00:51:55
Speaker
I'm gonna go, I'm trying my face and just go, and wave my hand and like, check his pupils for sort of reactions. Then pupils tap him on the nose. The pupils don't seem to react, but you can sense as a person of your candor and knowledge that there's life behind the eyes. Okay. I just try and go, blink twice if you're in trouble.
00:52:24
Speaker
There are no blinks. Gee, he's fine. Oh, I don't know what to do. Oh, he'll be fine in a few minutes. Don't worry about him. Are you sure? Yes, yes, yes. It's only temporary. Whilst this is happening, can I ask you what is it that you're looking for? And do you turn up after impending date, after... Start again. This sounds like a very difficult question. May I just ask, what is it that you're looking for?
00:52:48
Speaker
Anything, everything. As a part of alchemy, I just need the things, the ingredients. What are you a play peak, sir? Looking for things. I travel around wherever and just see what I can find. And you happen to turn up after a quite severe fire and just pick through the rubble. Yeah, it's quite fortunate, isn't it? I've had a friend who likes to chase forest fires, so I don't think that's odd.
00:53:16
Speaker
Okay, that's not what I'll roll with it. I'm going to go and investigate, start investigating the ruins. Joining them. Captain, do you want us to look into this or are you happy? I mean, feel free to look through the rubble. Your eyes, many eyes is better than mine and this gnome's eyes, I'm sure, but I feel it's quite cut and dry. As the gnome says, there seems to have been some mistake. We all knew him for being a rather
00:53:43
Speaker
Inepts member of Clay peek and he might have tried to summon the undead. I was he known for it. Yes I mean is he known as being someone who could do such a thing? No, but people give themselves to themselves. Yeah cap many people
00:54:09
Speaker
course Claude come with me and he kind of steps through the rubble and kind of gestures to where you can see quite clearly now a chart the charred remains of someone his arms and legs are kind of splay what you think is he armed the legs are kind of splayed out and it looks almost like the fire is just ravaged over his can I do a sort of medicine check to see if this is a natural
00:54:30
Speaker
Okay, yeah, sure. Position to someone to respond to a house fire. Okay, give us a motion check. Yeah, absolutely. Oh, sorry, is it a single-story house or a toy story? It's two stories and this has the roof of it has kind of collapsed down.
00:54:45
Speaker
kind of building layout. It has collapsed in the centre a bit. The back walls are still kind of in place in the second story as it's burnt up. But the body has kind of fallen through. You've been found as well. I was going to say I want to speculate whether he was on the ground floor or whether he was on there. Yeah. So it seems to be that a large portion of the kind of first story has kind of fallen through down. I do not bother me. It's kind of on top of where you would assume the downstairs area would be.
00:55:11
Speaker
What did you get for your medicine check? I rolled a disadvantage because of my point of exhaustion, and I stuck him out with a 28. Excellent. What? What? Looking... Oh my god, what did you roll? 219s. Jesus. What was the... A medicine check to see if he looked like he's been burned as a result of a natural cause of a house fire, or as if it's like, there's no way someone could have died in a house fire and been in this position. Gotcha. Okay. Your experience and training you had... House fires.
00:55:41
Speaker
with that of bodies, with that of the unliving, would tell you that this kind of position has been set by someone. This is not the position someone would burn to death in. You have had some experience of that from academy business in the past and working with the king previously. That bodies are in the corner, they are normally at their feet of position, they normally look for trying to protect their face and body. This is a very exposed, open kind
00:56:13
Speaker
out on the middle of the floor. This is absolutely not the way one would die in a house slice. I'll report that verbatim to the captain, Health Bear, Robin and Fozzie. You probably hear it called Fozzie by Claude. Fozzie, Health Bear, Robin and the captain. I'll report that and then I'll go to the body and start doing my ritual. Okay, so as the ritual's taking place,
00:56:37
Speaker
the effects on drago's snap off drago what happens so it comes swinging straight down it hits the ground and there's a kind of a large piece of masonry that just gets split in half and there's this kind of icy cold
00:56:52
Speaker
that comes away from your sword emanating from your sword as you suddenly regain control of your body. My eyes look up from the the blade in the masonry and searches for a folly and my as soon as my eyes set on you the lids of my eyes narrow deep I begin charging towards you. I okay I'm gonna I'll sort of step
00:57:16
Speaker
away from what we're doing and sort of be looking to get ready to win to seed. Okay. What are we looking to do, Dragosacuristic? To make a grapple. Okay. So I lift the sword, eyes have narrowed onto Folly and I just begin moving towards you fiercely going, what did you just do to me?
00:57:43
Speaker
the path of life. Elvish is going to be like, Drago, perhaps we should just, let's calm down and not try to kill this person straight away. Did you just see what he did to me? Yes, he did. But, you know, you did, like, draw your sword on him. He fixed you. Are you hungover anymore?
00:58:00
Speaker
No. No. So I think the mist, perhaps that was just part of the alchemical process. Is that the least, the right terminology? Mr. Mistel. Mr. Fizzbang? Very simpleton, yes, yes. It's good enough, but yes, definitely.
00:58:20
Speaker
The mist is only temporary. It was going to dissipate eventually anyway. I just didn't know whether it would last five minutes, five days, five years. Who knew? The mist is still currently with you. I may have another potion that can get rid of it. No, I'm okay. I'm okay. I don't need another potion. Good, good. But let's just not try and kill this.
00:58:44
Speaker
Yes, I apologise for possibly protruding into your personal space, but you certainly are just a fascinating specimen. I've never seen anybody quite like it. He's one of a kind. Yes, yes, there's definitely no argument there. What are we doing here? Well, good question. What are you lot doing here? Well, we heard a promotion and we thought we'd get involved. Why? We saw the fire. We're that kind of people. Oh, so you go around and help people then?
00:59:14
Speaker
You go to disaster, and you try and sort it. Is that right? For monetary gain. For monetary gain? Usually. Well, it is. And what about you two? Any points to Elthea and Robin? I'm in the rebel. I'm currently doing an investigation. I've taken on board what Claude's saying, and I've gone to sleep. I have been known to aid freely when necessary, and when it has been.
00:59:42
Speaker
Prudence, you know, I don't want to take one if people can't so you any points to drago and I'm interested in money and you as he points out
00:59:59
Speaker
Just money. Power. Not everything comes at a cost. I couldn't agree more. Now, tell me, are you interested in things? Define things. Yes, they are. Objects. Um, bring them back. Like, um, like this. And he reaches down into the rubble and he just pulls out some kind of cracked, um, porcelain mug. No. No? No, that's a broken mug.
01:00:24
Speaker
Ah, to you! It is a broken mug. To me, it is not. And he just casually chucks it up in the air and it goes into his rucksack. Right. So, okay. This is a house. Someone recently died here, and you're picking up broken mugs and putting them in your backpack. I don't understand what you're about, but you're making me angry. Would you like to find out? How could you...
01:00:53
Speaker
Why don't I come with you? Oh my god. What do you mean, come with us? I'm sure you've used somebody of my particular skills. We don't even know where or what is going on. Well, this is nothing but a mistake, but you guys rush into danger. And when there's danger, there's accidents. When there's accidents, I can find things. So do you like helping people?
01:01:14
Speaker
As a side product of getting things, I can help people, yes. I wouldn't mind. Right. You can already see what I can do, and I'm sure I can be of help on your journey. As this is happening, Joelana kind of steps into the conversation slightly and nods, and the last time he was here, he did manage to help some people, and despite what he says, it wasn't for any particular game. I mean, we let him look through the bins, and look down the well, but that's all you really looked for, I think.
01:01:43
Speaker
Yes, but that ogre was just in my way. I didn't mind. Ogre? Yeah, yeah, some ogre who came barging in here demanding this, that and the other, and I couldn't let him take it from me, so I dispensed it. Are you meaning to tell me that you took on an ogre? Single-handedly, yes, yes you did. You? Yes. You, you tiny thing, took on an ogre single-handedly.
01:02:06
Speaker
Yes. How? Well, Talia's smaller, she does great things, so... Hello. Hi, Talia. I'm pretty sure if Talia's smaller and she does great things, then this guy, even smaller, can probably do great things as well. I've not even seen her. Hello. You're tiny. You're big. Thanks. You have a book.
01:02:27
Speaker
Careful. Sorry. Sorry. It's just my book. Would you like me to nick your backpack? You can try. I don't think you can lift it though. Well I think the same about this book. It's a bit bigger than your face.
01:02:39
Speaker
It is. I wouldn't like to see it. I just want to read it sometime. No, you can't. You go away, you little fucking weird little man. Drag all these weird, why don't you stop them yet? He tried all the way to work. Yeah, I saw that, but try again, he ain't got all those potions. I mean, no, I can't. It wasn't the potion that did it. Was it not? Elfie's walking away and good. It's me. Oh, well and good time. It's all well and good you wanted to join us, but we don't even know what us is right now. And we don't know where we're going.
01:03:09
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And on that, we'll just come up with a hat over to where Claude and Robin are at the moment. What are you guys up to? I would say to Claude, and you say there's something unnatural about this death. I have seen many people die. In fact, I have somewhat become a professional in the deaths of people. And I don't believe that this is a correct way for someone to die in an accidental house fire.
01:03:40
Speaker
For one, he's not in the fetal position in the corner of the room. For two, there's clearly no defense-based gesture in his posture. I believe this person has been presented to us in a way what doesn't ring true. Right. I carry on. I take all that on board and I start to look around and I start to investigate for any other signs of halfway. Okay, do you want to give me a role for investigation, please? Damn I do.
01:04:11
Speaker
Okay, that halve a 28. 28, okay. As you continue to look through the rubble and kind of pick up bits and turn things over, you start to come across a number of belongings you can make out. You see some kind of porcelain mugs. You see a series of plates. You can see a number of small, seem like wooden items that seem to have been charred and burned. They seem to, you can make out the shapes of kind of horses and what looks like the beginnings of some kind of
01:04:38
Speaker
board game of some description. It seems to be pieces that you're locating as well. Digging a bit deeper you find the charred remains of a number of books but upon flicking through the pages the fire has engulfed the majority of that as well. As you continue to look through you realise quite quickly that the house aside from a number of these items is quite sparse. You realise there's two floors, one has collapsed onto the other but even with that you would expect
01:05:06
Speaker
So it seems like it was quite an empty.
01:05:15
Speaker
I would call my shoulder. Yes. You say this house was lived in, as in the chap who lived here was here as his permanent resident. Absolutely, yes. He did live here. Doesn't it strike you as quite strange that there aren't that many things? He didn't have many things to his name, to be honest, Robin. He lived a stoic life. He believed so truly in what he said and performed that
01:05:44
Speaker
Belongings must have been a secondary to him. And what had he said and what had he performed? Well I'm sure you've heard him by the well preaching that at the end of the day. Oh no, he lives in a book on that day.
01:05:55
Speaker
Maybe this is a conversation for another day, Captain, but he likes to live in books for the past of the year. He means I'm a passionate reader and I often get lost in a good book. Wonderful. Thank you, Claude, for that introduction. You're welcome, Robin. You're fun.
01:06:18
Speaker
Yes. What did this man do? Ostensibly he stood upon the well and preached that the undead were a force to befriend and to work with, not to fight against. Upon that note, I believe the number of your party I heard that someone, I believe Althea, chose to kick him
01:06:41
Speaker
we should we call him. He wasn't in court. He did come to us asking to press charges but since your heroic actions in bringing myself back and saving us from in the basement to win Swamp we have pushed those charges aside obviously but he had been for quite some time he had a quick change where he went from a very quiet home and like man to one that believed so passionately in what he said
01:07:06
Speaker
We heard him many times speaking of a dream he saw where he had spoken to a number of forces outside of this kingdom. When he had these forces, had names? Yes, we believe it was Erichas. That's true. I, at this point, would turn away from Durianus and as Robin walks back past Claude, he just says to Claude under his breath.
01:07:29
Speaker
Perhaps you should do one of your checks for the unders to see if anything fingers. I was planning on doing it, but then you started talking and I was worried that I might, we should think about what we're going to say.
01:07:44
Speaker
I say to Claude, I appreciate your concern and courtfulness. I think we're going to be fun friends. Yes, if you would like to clear the perimeter I must perform a very important thing. As you say, and I clear the perimeter. Do you want us to walk back with you? I assume I probably met them as they were coming back out.
01:08:06
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and then they're starting to move away. I would just say to Alfred as he comes up that Claude's doing a Claude thing, I would stay back. Do we know what happens? Someone mentioned a ritual. I think we're going to see what Claude can discover. Oh dear, Robin. Drago. This is all well and good. Claude. Donkey! This is all well and good, but this is not our home. We need to try and get up.
01:08:38
Speaker
You've got his remains in your bag of holding. No, I've got them. You've got them. I've got them. I took the end. Elthir, you've still got his remains. I hear you, Drago. I honestly do. I mean, we cleared the undead. What are we still doing here? That thing was coming through a portal. It was bringing other things through with it.
Discussing Mission Purpose and Geography
01:08:59
Speaker
I don't think our business is done here. But I don't understand why else we can go to.
01:09:07
Speaker
Believe me, my friend, when I say this, I have every reason to wish to get back to the Sword Coast to get home. However, I think we were sent here for a reason, all of us, and we need to keep focus of what that voice said to us. Well, we need to find the Order of Whisperers, that's what we were told to do. Um, excuse me.
01:09:32
Speaker
Perhaps when we are not in the middle of the busiest part of this town, I can tell you a bit more about the undead. You haven't even scratched the surface of it. We killed the undead. Well, no, he spoke about the blind. For the best of my knowledge, there are more than a million undead still around. You have maybe killed fourteen. What are you not playing at?
01:10:00
Speaker
Friends of Inkle, I'm... Yes, Lou Pearson? Thank you. I would like to tell you more. Perhaps you could join us at our very friendly establishment. Just to interject here, you'd like to tell him more. He is not part of our group. He cured your hangover. This establishment?
01:10:21
Speaker
Please, let me... I will be back in 10 minutes time. He does a very important thing where he can do things regarding to the undead. We don't understand it, but we have reason to believe that his methods sincerely work, so perhaps we should... Am I right in thinking that we are going to bring this little thing with us? I do have a name.
01:10:46
Speaker
He's literally stood by next to you at this point. I'm pointing. Yeah, I'll point down to you. Yeah, this thing. I don't have a name. Why do you watch travels? Because he can find things and we cause accidents.
01:11:01
Speaker
There you go, that's basically it in a nutshell. What was your name again, Elfman? Elf here. Close enough. I hear you guys travel a lot and find disasters, so...
01:11:16
Speaker
Disaster gives me things, and all I want is things. So I will come along, I will help you, in your cause, as long as you don't interfere in mine. I'm with Drago, I don't think we need more pathetic creatures with us. More pathetic creatures? Yeah. Why? What can you do? Lots of things, but I'm with Drago.
01:11:33
Speaker
I'm curious to actually know when you say you wish to find things and you find disasters. If you find disaster frequently, I presume you have a way of handling yourself in such a situation. Oh, most certainly. I mean, some of the disasters that I've thwarted, they've showered me with things like jewels and diamonds and rubies. And it's just, I'm not interested in any of that stuff. It has very little purpose to me. I'd rather help myself to the things that everybody else seems to chuck away. Talia.
01:12:01
Speaker
You study magic. I do. Upon glancing at this fellow from what you've seen with your knowledge, do you feel he'll be of use to us? She looks
01:12:21
Speaker
mainly dying because he's so blurred to the ground there. He sees a strange figure smiling and waving back at him. She looks a bit quizzically at him and... I mean... no? I don't know really, I'm not very good at reading people. I just don't really like him. He seems a bit... small. As pleasant as this is. Joanna sees you getting rather irate and may I interject, Drago? Please.
01:12:49
Speaker
Perhaps I heard some of your plikes and your worries of not belonging. I share that feeling, I come from a land far away, not down under. Not down under, I really wanted to say that. I heard that, I was like, I come from a land down under. I come from a land, no, I come from a place far from here and I feel your sentiment but I feel that I do not...
01:13:09
Speaker
live as far away as you all do. But as Claude rightly said, the forces you fought in the Beethoven Swan is for the fraction of the force of the emberscarb lights to the east.
01:13:24
Speaker
is the major area of the blight that covers a large swathe of sleep guard. You have done us a great service here at Clay Peak, but there is much more to be done here. What's east of here? East of here is the forest.
01:13:42
Speaker
that we have renamed the Dead Forest. Is that where we're just going from? No, you were in the basin when swamped to the west, northwest. If you travel along this path, it will take you along the coast through some of the Shallowview Forest. You there, you can get to Evershire, then to Highhaven, and then near there is where we will be, and that is where the underscarbed light begins. Is that where we'll find the hailstorm surge? No, the hailstorm surge is Bleakmore.
01:14:12
Speaker
Blakemore is where the Academy is and that's where they train a lot of the hailstorm so much. I'm new to this kind of place but I do have a question about a specific location. Of course. Moonrise. Does that mean anything to you and where would I find it? Moonrise is a land quite far from here, south of the Scarlet Realm. It's a highly religious area. Why is it that you ask? Not many people visit.
01:14:38
Speaker
Moonrise. Let's just, uh, got lost in a good book reading about it. Oh damn, I love you.
Strategic Locations and Plans
01:14:54
Speaker
to Goldview travel across the Bronze Storm Sea. It will take you a few days across the ocean, but you could make it there. Goldview would be your best bet for that. But as Claude mentioned, the MSK Blight is far from defeated. You have quite literally scratched
01:15:12
Speaker
surface of a much, much larger beast. If indeed more information is what you require, I unfortunately know very little, but Gilda Arcward over in the Hailstorm Academy, she is much more au fait with what's happening over there. She's in touch with the Obsidian, she's in touch with
01:15:31
Speaker
the Hellstorm Surge and all the forces that are currently fighting on the eastern front against the Hellstorm Surge. I nod at that and I turn to Folly and I say to him, how well do you know these land?
01:15:49
Speaker
I've traveled many, many lands and I'm part merchant. It's kind of what I do. We don't know these lands. Someone who does might expediate our travels. Oh, really? I know every nook and cranny of every mountain because basically with the height disadvantage, I have to know every route. Insight check on him. Okay, thank you.
01:16:10
Speaker
Do you want to roll either whatever you need, be that persuasion? I am going to counteract with a... Don't have to tell us what it is. Well, passively I'm 17. On my own site. Good for you, man. Okay. I don't know what you need. I'm checking as well, but I don't need that as well. Lovely, thank you very much. You're a sarcastic sod, aren't you? Coming from you. There's some burnouts going on at the far end of the table. Darren, for your inside chat, what did you roll?
01:16:39
Speaker
9. 9, okay. You get the sense that everything that he's saying is above board and that there seems to be nothing, even as you try and read into his features, the twitch of an eyebrow, the movement of a lip, the performativity maybe of him that might give away that he's trying to put on too much, nothing seems to...
01:16:55
Speaker
But then again, this is a very new person to you, but you seem to think everything's on the level. I mean, Claude barely makes sense to me. This man also barely makes sense to me. Between them, they may start to make tangible sense.
Rewards and Group Dynamics
01:17:07
Speaker
I mean, we need to sit down and, like, decide what we're actually doing here, because I'm with Drago, like, what are we actually doing here, other than we came to help Drilani's, because Drago's basically going to the pub, and they offer a reward.
01:17:20
Speaker
We haven't decided what our purpose is here. You've talked about this moon, shadow, whatever place. I like the idea of going to see, uh, Q in what, uh, Mark just told us. Uh, Gilda Archibald at the Silverstone Academy. Silverstone? Well, Shader did say that the Hailstorm surge reminded him of something from our adventure, so it may be that that is where we all get answers then.
01:17:50
Speaker
like that's the only place that makes sense right now to me so let's go it's a heading at least i don't know about you guys but i feel like it gives us a purpose i mean in terms of purpose the only purpose we have is the one in front of us and i agree i guess you're right some people who have been here and know the lands are better than us three
01:18:15
Speaker
Well, they're not that better than us three. No, but they know the area. Folly? Yes? Do you know anything about the hillstorm lands? Yes. Could you take us there? Absolutely. Claude? Still in my ritual. It's not been tested. Captain Drulanas, you mentioned a reward? Yes, I did. I will go and get that sorted post-haste. Would you like me to leave it in your rooms? I assume you're...
01:18:41
Speaker
Don't know whether we're going to be sticking around, driver. I feel OK. I mean, I was hungover, but that's been seen too. You're welcome. We could hit the road as soon as possible to perhaps get to a goal. How about we gather our supplies? I'm happy to sleep on the road. I am. I'm starting to feel uneasy here.
01:18:59
Speaker
Okay, so we want to go collect supplies. The captain quickly wanders off and collects up your money, which he gives to you. I think it was 200 gold each. 200 gold each? Yep, we'll have it. Come on, she said no bugger. You're the DM, man. Well, you said 20. No, it wasn't 20 gold each. That's why I had my notes from last time. Wow. I got this. I got this, you bitch.
01:19:30
Speaker
at my moneys and then you just open up my previous section here on Google Docs because that's how I put it off. Why are you all doing that? Yep. Could I ask, um, Darren to the end, would I be able to find the means of recuperating my arrows in this town? What arrows? The arrows I've lost in the file. Oh, uh, no, there's no, there's no places to kind of blacksmith. There's a clay, there's a clay making place, but apart from that, there's, there's very little that will help you there. Is there a forge? Sorry. No, there isn't a forge there.
01:20:00
Speaker
All right, my visual Kevin Delanis, your people agreed 200 gold each. For all perception. Okay. Natural 20. Natural 20. I know 21 is right.
01:20:14
Speaker
And he looks at you, his eyes narrow slightly and goes, well tried, Elf, well tried. We'll give you your fair rewards. It's a nice round number, 200. And he walks off and comes back with 200 gold to hand over to you. And he says, this gold is more than it's worth. You have the support of Clay Peak, and you have the support of me, he says this to all of you, mine is folly, for what you did to me. I understand.
01:20:47
Speaker
and I and my family appreciate that more than you will ever know. So please take this gold. It's what we can afford to spare at the moment. We wish you all the best from your travels and please feel free to come back and visit Clay Peak. I'm sure there's some talk of fixing up the Osborne Islands to your your homeland, so to speak, he says with a smile. So if ever you want to help that effort then
01:21:17
Speaker
Landon starts to walk away. Claude, you said Stern, the ritual. Oh, so I give 50 gold to Drago, 50 gold to Robin, 50 gold to Talia, 50 gold to myself. 50 gold? I haven't been given any gold, this whole adventure! I'm rich! Because he's not there, I'm like, I'm pretty... So, Elphie thinks to himself, I'm pretty sure that Claude said he was doing this because it's his duty to defeat the undead, so... To be honest, he's been pouring over that dead body now for a while. That's fine.
01:21:44
Speaker
Maybe we should just wait for the ritual to finish. I've given out the cold. As much as I hate to admit it, we do need to wait for him.
Claude's Ritual and Symbolic Actions
01:21:51
Speaker
Okay, we will pass over to Claude where he's completing his ritual. Can I ask that everyone except Claude leaves the room? Is that okay? Hello. Hi. So this is...
01:22:04
Speaker
We'll go back to the last session when you talked about wanting to contact Akiva, asking about Shader.
01:22:16
Speaker
the commune necklace to ask a singular question, his shade out with you now, and then say a general focused prayer about what my next steps should be. Gotcha. As you approach the charred remains of this individual and start performing the necessary movements for your right to take place, you start closing your eyes and your chants and prayer begins. You feel a cold sensation run up your spine
01:22:46
Speaker
This is a sensation you felt many times before when these kind of rituals take place because it seems to be the natural time where Kiva speaks to you through that connection between that of the living and that of the dead and the passage between the two. It seems to be a natural kind of communication point for him or it. You feel almost reminded of the questions you asked
01:23:08
Speaker
in prayer a day or so ago, those questions come flying back to you. The first question, you feel in yourself a sense of comfort and ease roll over your body. For the second question though, you can hear that kind of echoing in your head a few times over and over and over and then a voice kind of powers through its life
01:23:43
Speaker
What is it you wish to know? Master, I have found some friends from a different realm. They could be helpful. Should I go back to the academy or should we try something greater?
01:24:05
Speaker
hear that your words kind of echo in your head and echo down somewhere. You hear your question disappear into the ether and kind of be engulfed by darkness and misery really. There's a moment of silence where you think for a second that you might not get a response but another tingle comes up through your back and you hear the voice return to you.
01:24:28
Speaker
Yes, they are friends of Threshtan from the Order of Whispers that have decay and rebirth. He is a brother of mine. He is one of us. He brought them here to help us
01:24:57
Speaker
to save this land for the good of their souls. Stay with them, Lord. Soon, our paths will cross at the rift of the emberscar blight.
01:25:20
Speaker
And you feel the kind of grip that seemed, cold grip that seemed to have held your back fall away slightly as you almost feel the sun begin to brighten in your eyes and you realise actually your vision had darkened slightly around you as well.
01:25:35
Speaker
realized that your vision would have been slightly impaired but of course you wouldn't have been thinking about that as this feeling kind of washes over and leaves you. You also realize that some of the party are looking over at you and you've still been mouthing the words of the ritual and your ritual is complete. Is there anything else you'd like to do before? The last few moments of the ritual I'd just say thank you master
01:25:59
Speaker
I will look after them, you look after their dwarven friend. Okay, nice, brilliant, thank you. As Claude bounces to finish his ritual and turns around and starts working towards you, the rest of the party are finally now together with this edition of Folly and your additional money of 200 gold and the thanks of Drew Linus. Claude approaches you. I would like a moment with Drew Linus.
01:26:27
Speaker
but you can stay, actually. It's not that. Just, yeah, maybe learn something. Captain? Claude? I'd like you to have this, and I'll take out the tabard of the, uh, hailstorm surge deserter that was in town a couple of days ago. I would like you to display this somewhere in town to let everyone know that there is someone fighting the undead, and they just need to look for these colours.
01:26:58
Speaker
Please. That's the only reward I would like for your safe capture. Drulana's... Rescue, you mean? This is Alfred Artis, we're interrupting. You mean we rescued him, we didn't capture him, we rescued him. He was captured though. Yeah, but we saved your rescue, not safe captured him. But we made safe his capture.
01:27:15
Speaker
drill-ass reaches over and just takes the table and says, I understood what you meant. And we will put this over the highest point of the well with a message at the base. At the bottom of it, we shall put an emblem describing what you have told us. And then also just below that, with thanks, the Clay Peak heroes.
01:27:40
Speaker
Thank you. We don't have a name yet, that is true. Claypig Hero sounds so nice, ring to it to me. Yeah, I think we just got christened. Oh, I'm going to gesture the Bresson party away from Captain July. He started to walk like that. Claypig's a bit of a dive. Nice of places to be heroes. Well, we can start small.
01:28:10
Speaker
All right. Bye. Bye. Why not? I liked what you just did there, Claude.
Reflections on Purpose and Social Media Promotions
01:28:16
Speaker
I have to say, saying that there's someone out there fighting the undead, maybe giving hope to common people, maybe making them sleep safer at night, there seems to be a good purpose in that.
01:28:36
Speaker
One that I didn't realise until now. You've changed, Drago. I'm gonna smack you, Alfie, and that's how much I've changed. There we go, back up. Tanya's gonna quickly pipe up. No, I do agree. I mean, I didn't really like the sword coast anyway and it doesn't. I'm quite happy just as long as you lot are around and that weird small thing stays away from me. I mean, it sounds like a big place. Cool.
01:29:03
Speaker
The master and I have spoken. He is looking after Shader.
01:29:17
Speaker
What do you mean, looking after Shader? You stay out of it, you little thing. What is the shade art? No, it's not. No. Quiet, fizzle bang. This is serious. What do you mean, looking after Shader? And as that happens, the camera kind of pans back as there's this continued kind of argument of a shade art and all this kind of happens. The sun's starting to rise over a warm day here in Clay Peak. The birds are tweeting. The docks are busy. As the sun slowly, sorry, the camera's imagining imaginary camera, slowly pans out of this shot.
01:29:45
Speaker
And before coming in black, and that is where we'll hold this totally RP no combat episode. Nothing, like 20 minutes. It's 20 minutes. There was a little bit of fighting, but very much. So, just a very quick message out there. Thank you to everyone for listening. Thank you for this. Thank you to Calum for coming up with a fucking awesome calendar. Yeah, it is. Well done, man. Welcome back. That one episode away was way too much. We missed you big time, but when he gets a chance, listen to it because it's a cracker.
01:30:14
Speaker
Thank you very much everyone for listening and more importantly, Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! Anything that you're doing to celebrate or not celebrate in whatever you feel like, just enjoy it and peace be with everyone. Is that what they say? Peace be with all? Kick back for the men. God bless us everyone.
01:30:35
Speaker
if you want a tiny tim oh my god you're christmas time and you've made tiny tim oh my god you have i actually have a limp though or anything i don't have a limp that's one of a twist yeah but still another tim
01:30:51
Speaker
Whenever I hear Tiny Tim, I think of the Muppets Christmas. Anyway, thank you all very much for listening. As always, you can follow us on our Twitter page, which is at the, no, it's at fellowship table. And then from there, you can follow us individually. If you so choose, you can follow me, at Iroder1. You can follow Darren at. Darren page 06. You can follow Danny at.
01:31:14
Speaker
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01:31:45
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created the most awesome initiative trackers, which we didn't even get to use. I tweeted a bunch of ages ago about it and I'll keep tweeting more of them because they are amazing and he is such a talented motherfucker and it's awesome. You can't buy them, they're ours. So don't ask. They are very, very good. They're awesome. He's very talented. They smell lovely. But anyway, thanks very much for listening everyone. Until next week. Farewell.
01:32:19
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Hi everyone, this is a special and really quick shoutout to our main man Danny who plays Claude. He's set up his own Etsy page and it's called, funnily enough, Crafts by Claude. He's currently hand making and selling personalised initiative trackers. Each comes with a logo of the character or creature type because you can also have them made for baddies as well.
01:32:36
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and they can be personalised to include specific character names or indeed nicknames if you want them. But wait, I hear you exclaim, where do I put these awesome trackers made by the world's single nicest person? Luckily they fit perfectly on your DM screen, or in my case, my laptop screen.
01:32:52
Speaker
We've all been there in the heat of battle with six or seven rounds in. It's been five straight hours of playing D&D and your mind's a little bit frazzled and you're losing track. These are perfect just for letting you know who's going when and who's next. Check out his work on Etsy. Search Crafts by Claude.