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C2 Fallen ☁︎Familial Bonds☁︎ Episode 11
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Transcript
The Owl Tunnels Adventure
00:00:53
Speaker
OK, hi. So last time we were here. You guys went through some tunnels that were in the shape of an owl, what which you guys gave me ah a lot of praise for. You're welcome. Photoshop is a hell of a drug.
00:01:09
Speaker
um
00:01:13
Speaker
So in those tunnels, Ina found some fun ah fun glowing key. um I thought it was an orb. Hold on. It was an orb. Orb key. Whoops. Hold on.
00:01:32
Speaker
I want to make sure I didn't write it down. it It's a weird orb. It might have been also a key. I was like, hold on! And then I was like, did I fuck up? Did I just tell you something I wasn't supposed to? Because we're all very awake right now. um you for you You don't know why you have a key. You got a key. And you guys ended up with the ah steampunk goggles that are Iz means token.
00:02:02
Speaker
Do you know what that means? Absolutely not, but you know you
Mysterious Falling Object
00:02:05
Speaker
got it. um Right before we left, I did a fun little ah side side low little sidebar where I was just like, by the way, something fell out of the sky. Oh, no, you didn't didn't you didn't see it. It was so small. It was a person, maybe. And um that's where we are. I will say um in the last, like,
00:02:33
Speaker
you well before you guys went home solace did take you guys to the healer again was just like heal them and there's like why are they always hurt and she's wet and why are you asking me questions um so everyone was healed including solace who did also get hurt in that fucking tunnel um and you guys are now it was fine
Healing and New Plans
00:02:57
Speaker
Fine. Solas and fucking Murph got destroyed and Eda was fine. Eda lived our best life. I'm fine. I just fell on a spike trap.
00:03:14
Speaker
Solas has taken the next week off from the ah antiquities. um like her family's antiquity shop, just sort just so she can get more of a handle on things of what's going on. I'm going to say right now, you guys are sort of just like in her studio apartment. And if you guys feel like, oh, I want to go somewhere else or I want to do somewhere something else, that's totally fine. This is going to be a rather chill sort of episode.
00:03:53
Speaker
Okay, so I know you have the goggles, by the way, like you didn't drop them. I know exactly what I want to do. But I'm gonna let Kyle take the lead because I feel like I've been doing a lot of taking the lead
Murphy's Romantic Considerations
00:04:08
Speaker
recently. So I will let Kyle go first, because I've been thinking about exactly what you know, would want to do over the past weeks.
00:04:16
Speaker
I feel like Murphy is going to want to like take a break and they're going to want to go see, um, what was it? Yeah. Yeah. They're going to want to go see Garak. Murphy has one thought and that's Garak and that's like all the time. Yeah. Because at first like little insight into Murphy's thought process, they didn't think Garak was going to, they thought Garak was just going to be like a one time thing. And now they're like, the more they get to know him, they're like, okay, potential.
00:04:46
Speaker
Oh, are we actually going to see you romance someone, Kyle? Maybe. Maybe if Ally ever just brings Garak. Yeah, I have to tell Garak about his shoulder plates. We're not bringing it here. We can't bring it here. Not in this universe too.
00:05:14
Speaker
Anyway, so yeah, Murphy's gonna like, once they get like settled in and relaxing from that and fun adventure, Murphy's gonna text Garak and be like, hey, are you up for like going out for a coffee or something? Now, have you told Garak at all of kind of what's going on? Or how exactly do you explain your life to Garak? Like, I just need to know.
00:05:38
Speaker
I think once we established that like student and fib, like they're gonna stick with that because they don't look that old. No. Right? Like even though they're 250, they look like they're in their like late 20s, early 30s. So it's realistic to think that they could be a student. so but Excuse me.
00:06:04
Speaker
um
00:06:06
Speaker
They're just kind of like following that student thing and then they're using that professor as cover. So, okay if Garak ever wants to like check up on that, which they don't think that he will, but you could never be too careful.
00:06:26
Speaker
Well, I can tell you right now, which it was definitely told you more about his life than you have him at the moment. And he's trying to get more and more out of you at this point. So I think the conversation that they're going to have about that is like Murphy is going to tell them that they've been sort of researching every single God's domain. Oh, OK. Because that's that's not exactly a lie.
00:06:54
Speaker
Yeah, since they know a lot about each. Well, like they not not a lot, but they know like a decent amount about each God. So they're like, yeah, I've just been I've just been going around, you know, checking out other temples, checking out like reading books and like learning more about the gods because it's it's genuinely interesting in learning about all these gods and like how they how they work, what they're about. da So.
00:07:27
Speaker
Yeah, that's gonna be... That's gonna be Murphy's whole thing. are you going to be Are you going to be doing anything? Huh? Can you spell Garak's name real quick? I was writing it down. Um, you know Garak from Fourth Wing?
00:07:46
Speaker
Oh, yes, yes. Okay. I spelled it like that. And I was like, I just wanted to make sure I'm so sorry for interrupting. Nope, nope, nope.
00:08:00
Speaker
Um, yeah, but and do you do anything else than just like hang out with Garak? Because it's gonna be like a few days where you guys are just like, sort of, talking, learning, just sort of looking at the totem or a token. Sorry, i code them that. OK, so I think I'll I'll I'll separate it
Library Mishaps and Negotiations
00:08:22
Speaker
out by days. So like day one, Murphy's going to relax, not really going to do much, just going to hang out with Garak and just chill. and That's when they have the conversation about like the past and like all the gods and whatnot.
00:08:35
Speaker
ah Day two, Murphy's gonna try to inspect the thing, maybe like go back to the library and look for any relevant books.
00:08:46
Speaker
Try to make amends with that library that they pissed off. I fucking hate you. yeah why like Murphy's gonna walk in and be like hi I'm so sorry about how I acted the other day she's more of like holy shit you're alive like that's where she's at with that if you only knew the half of it you're like barely but hey yeah then Murphy's gonna be like what what can I do to make amends I'm sorry I acted like an idiot
00:09:22
Speaker
She just is like, well, can't you like, what did you did you find what you needed in the tunnels?
00:09:32
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, we did. We found more. We answered one question and discovered like 30 more. So. Oh, good. OK. Yeah.
00:09:46
Speaker
I'm happy. So now I'm here trying to look at books and whatnot. Okay. So so what did exactly you find down there? Maybe I can help you look for something.
00:10:01
Speaker
We found some stuff about what were the gods that we found out like about I forget. I mean, you have is means actual goggles. um And I believe you actually did write notes because I said, at Kyle, I swear to God, if you have pertinent information, you forget about it like you did with Oswald. I'm never going to forgive you when you giggle. Well, no, I wrote I wrote I wrote those notes, but I just forget which gods like we learned about because I don't want to give too much. No, it was Ismene, Haddon and So, yeah, Murphy's is going to be like, yeah, we found some is mean stuff down there, which is like, you know, fair enough. It's an is mean place. But we also found had and stuff down there. so Well, that makes sense. Haden and is mean are best friends. So it would make sense that they are in each other's spaces. Murphy almost set out loud, like, yeah, I've seen them like go out on many occasions.
00:10:57
Speaker
Yeah. It's because I almost said that a lot. Yeah, I've heard stories about how like, you know, they yeah they're really good friends and they like, you know, do yeah it I think the story goes back to they were like best friends at the age of creation from the goddess, the three goddesses and Through that, their friendship got a lot tighter and tent since they tend to be more of the outcasts of the god other gods, goddesses, deities, um they tend to just more go toward one another. Also because Izmin is the goddess of discovery and Haddon is more of the
00:11:51
Speaker
you know, gambling type, um, risk and possibility. Um, you take more risk with discovering than not. So it really makes more sense that they sort of circle one another. So it doesn't surprise it make sense so it doesn't surprise me that anything hadn't related was down there or whatever they're going by these days.
00:12:14
Speaker
Okay, but so basically after after they say all that Murphy's gonna be like, yeah, ah do you have books about their relationship so I can like, you know, learn more because Murphy has their like personal experience um about it, but they want to know like what the mortals think. Yeah, we have books on like past lore between Haddon and Izmin, but it's nothing that's going to go too into depth. It's just more of like stories I've been spoken about. If that's something you want. No, I mean, like literally anything helps, because I think yeah if I remember right, we just you know, it's it's a process. They have no idea that the tunnels are now destroyed, by the way. They have no idea. They don't go down there.
00:13:05
Speaker
Oh, so they didn't hear the giant explosion? No, no one was there. you It was like the library closed by the time you guys got back. OK. OK. Is that something that way you think I can tell them? If you want to tell them, Kyle, that's your own discretion.
00:13:30
Speaker
ah Murphy's just gonna kind of lean in and be like, listen, I'm gonna tell you this now. Because when we were down there, we like uncovered some stuff and there were traps and whatnot. Okay. um We triggered a trap that collapsed the entire cave. You what? Yeah. Didn't really know that that would happen. You so you came here asking for a book.
00:13:59
Speaker
Zoe's on the table. Zoe's up. So you came here asking for a book after you just... No, but you you're telling you you destroyed an ancient temple of tunnels that we've had... We didn't destroy it.
00:14:20
Speaker
The trap did.
00:14:27
Speaker
but So you destroyed an ancient. Temple of tunnels that we had underneath the library, and now you're asking me for books. Red alert, red alert, red alert. Your your boss knows about it.
00:14:48
Speaker
Um, I guarantee you they do not. Hmm. It was a big noise. I have a hard time believing that they didn't. No one was here by the time you guys emerged, I'm guessing. So I'm going to say no. No, I thought the dude was here. so No, no one was there, Kyle. It was closing time. Well, I didn't know that. hi I said it four times.
00:15:14
Speaker
how often How often did I say that it was closed and no one was there? That there was like no one there, it was nighttime? So when we left, it was mentioned that ah we when we left, it was like time worked differently. We felt like it was an hour, but it was definitely a different time of day. I assume that the curator was still there. No, no one was there. OK, well. Yeah, whatever. They were going to find out eventually anyway.
00:15:55
Speaker
um Yeah, we were honestly just exploring. It was a, you know, whatever. It happens. What did you guys trigger to destroy the tunnels? You ever seen um Indiana Jones?
00:16:11
Speaker
No, that's not a thing in Miss Universe.
00:16:16
Speaker
I'm trying to find a... Do they not have movies? They do, but why would they have specifically Indiana Jones? You know, like you you see a thing on a pedestal and you pick it up, although I'll be honest with you, I wasn't the one that picked it up. Well, do you have it? Do you have the artifact?
00:16:38
Speaker
Yeah, it's back. ah It's back where we're staying. Are you bringing it back? Are you bringing it back here? Yeah, once we're done.
00:16:48
Speaker
So he's like, so ah so he's like, I was going to be put in the jail. yeah I'm sitting here as a player and I'm just like, I'm just like, motherfucker, stop talking. Whereas the same situation would say the exact same thing.
00:17:06
Speaker
Yeah, Murphy talks when they're nervous.
00:17:12
Speaker
reggie but the same they need you I'm going to need you to bring the artifact back like now or else I'm going to get the authorities on you because you stole an artifact from a actual temple. yeah We'll bring it back. That's a promise. Um, no, that's not going to work for me.
00:17:34
Speaker
In fact, I'm going to hold you here until it's in my hand. All right. Let me talk to your curator.
00:17:42
Speaker
if
00:17:45
Speaker
Let me talk to your manager, but let me talk to Bring me your manager. a All right. Little dwarf dude comes out. A little guy. He goes, how can I help you? Oh, you're mad.
00:18:03
Speaker
No, we almost did but we didnt Yeah, yeah um Yeah, so the tunnels don't exist anymore. There's a trap that was triggered You destroyed our ancient ah ancient temple don we we did not destroy it No, I don't so it wouldn't have been destroyed if you didn't trigger anything. That's the thing. So there's like costway going to know there's a trap down there and I mean, I feel like it's implied. um If you go into a dark tunnel that was supposedly powered by the gods, you're not expecting a little bit of trickery in a tomfoolery of traps? There was a spike fall trap that I did fall into. Well, you probably deserved it, so. ah Probably. I tried to run on the wall to get around it. It didn't go well.
00:18:55
Speaker
Um, so they found an ancient, uh, totem, I guess, or token from Izmin down there. Oh, would you come bring it back? No. Yeah. We're just doing our own research on it and we'll bring it back as soon as we can. Uh, yeah, that's not, so, uh, yeah, that's not going to work. I mean, you need to, that should have just stayed here.
00:19:22
Speaker
That should have never left. That's sort of like, you know, like a museum artifact now. Okay. Well, if you hold me here, I can't go get it. So that doesn't seem like... No, but you have a phone with your friends that were with you that you can call. It's not charged. Um, then you can call on our... I'm new to having a phone. It ain't charged. Then you can call on our library phone. And if it's not here within an hour, I'm going to set the authorities on everybody.
00:19:52
Speaker
Well, doesn't hold on. Doesn't Murphy have a pretty good stealth? I can't. Listen, it wouldn't be it wouldn't it wouldn't be our podcast if I didn't do something stupid. This isn't why I had planned today, but sure, it can be break Murphy out of prison, I guess.
00:20:17
Speaker
ah You guys ah don't like allow for any wiggle room, huh?
00:20:23
Speaker
Imagine if you went into a ah museum and you decided, huh, I really like that painting. And you just went and grabbed that painting. You don't think there's going to be any ramifications for those actions?
00:20:38
Speaker
I mean, if it was for study. No, that is a word for study. I swear that we bring it back. No, we don't go by the honor system here. We live in the city. Hmm.
00:20:51
Speaker
I think being raised as a child of romantas kind of made me a little too relaxed. about god motherruing dana saw the go matter I don't mean a child of romantas. I mean like a follower. I meant to say you said the word child. Excuse me. I meant follower. Listen, it's been a long day. I've been studying romantas for way too long.
00:21:20
Speaker
So I'm gonna need you to come in back of the library with me and we're gonna hold you there until this token shows up.
00:21:32
Speaker
a Well, I guess we have to say what I do on the first day of the second day in order to get Murphy out of jail. If Murphy goes to Murphy, I'm going to say right now, Murphy's in back of ah the library and they're waiting for you to get in contact is either Solis or Ina.
00:21:56
Speaker
I think Murphy is going to try to call Solas. That's smart. That's probably a smart plan. That's probably the smartest thing you've done right now. Well, mostly because... So here's Murphy's plan. Obviously, like they don't want to give up the actual artifact. Yeah. So since Solas works at an artifact shop, they don't know what the artifact is. I never told them what the artifact was. All I said was we saw something on a pedestal and we took it.
00:22:27
Speaker
So, so do you call soulless? I don't call because they're going to hear the conversation. I use my phone and text because I'm going to be like, yeah, I'll be I'll be honest with you. I lied. My phone is like got 10 percent battery. So.
Sneaky Artifact Exit
00:22:45
Speaker
OK, are you messaging your person? Yes. Yeah, that's what I just said. I was sending a text to soulless to tell them exactly. Oh.
00:22:56
Speaker
oh um So. Well, yeah, I'm I'm sending a Texas solace that says something that says basically like, hey, I'm at the library. I slipped and mentioned the artifact. They want it back. Can you just bring something similar to like an is mean artifact? They don't know what the artifact was. This is what happens in six things with the solace. Oh, fuck. All right. um.
00:23:27
Speaker
Hey, Ina. You don't sound fucking there. She doesn't have a phone, dummies. No, but ah she's at, are you, would you still be at Solace's studio? Nope. Well, this is happening. No? Nope. Ina's doing something else. Ina has a fucking plan. She was doing shit. She's not going to do so many thumbs, you dumb ass.
00:23:50
Speaker
Okay, fine. So, Solas right now, after about 30 minutes, Solas walks into the Izmin Library Temple. Solas is wearing a pink lacy bandeau top.
00:24:09
Speaker
And just like a glitter sparkly mini skirt with like pink go-go boots on, hair in pigtails, bunny ears out, just looking like the most chaperone hooker, hooker bunny you could possibly do. like do it that It's amazing. um Wait, so we're in we're in like the curate the curators office, right? Yeah.
00:24:37
Speaker
Okay, so is there anything like cool or fancy Murphy can look at while we're in there? There's a lot of bronze and gold stuff just like around. There's like steam pipes just like going up and down the office. There's like tomes on like the back wall. Murphy's going to be talking the character's ear off about all of this stuff because they're genuinely curious. Oh God.
00:25:01
Speaker
um So you hear from down a hole just like the clicking of the go-go boots, you knowing instantly that that was probably Solas because there's no way anybody in here has those, that sort of like footwear on. And Solas walks in like, oh my God, hi.
00:25:23
Speaker
Murphy's just going to wave with a smile on their face. It's like, oh, my God. Hi. So like, why is my bestie here? And she like looks at Murphy without the curator like noticing because he's like looking at something else on the wall while talking. She looks at Murphy slaps the back of their head.
00:25:48
Speaker
Don't mess up my hair. That was mean.
00:25:52
Speaker
What's mean is the fact that I have to come save your ass because you couldn't keep your fucking mouth shut. ah I talk when I'm nervous. Leave me alone. um Sola sits down, goes, OK, so um really funny what happened in the cave tunnel things. Let's yeah I'm just going to be so clear right now.
00:26:18
Speaker
Murph fell into a pit of spikes and lost so much blood. Okay, great. They lost so much blood, like to the point where they were hallucinating, like so hallucinating. Wait, so hold on. You're telling me that that whole thing was a hallucination and you didn't tell me until two days later? Murph, you were sitting on your bed crying after we sent you to the healers because you can't handle pain.
00:26:47
Speaker
Okay, but why didn't you tell me this? is I'm honestly upset. Because we didn't. We immediately catches on.
00:27:03
Speaker
It's a web of lies. The world was built on a web of lies. yeah you do
00:27:14
Speaker
I will say there was a pressure plate that was accidentally pushed on our way out because there was nothing in there that then did destroy the tunnels. though So tunnels are destroyed. That is not a lie. However, um you shouldn't have just allowed some three randos just like in there peeping around because you guys are spiteful. I'm just saying that seems more of a you problem than that.
00:27:37
Speaker
problem. Um, but no, there was no artifact. And because that was such like an ancient tunnel area that everyone was so afraid to go down in the first place. yeah they so us Did we, did we go see a movie like not too long ago about some dude who like treasure hunts? Trying to remember that. And Carcias Jones.
00:28:04
Speaker
Yes.
00:28:10
Speaker
That was a lot to note, baby. It really was. She's been holding on to that. Oh my Jesus.
00:28:23
Speaker
Is that where I'm getting all this from? I swear, I didn't think that was that much blood. You started talking about some weird golden mask, dude. Like, it was it was bad. And then things started falling, and you said, no, the mask, because we were trying to pull your like bleeding body out. It was really embarrassing, actually. it I honestly have to text Garak now and make sure, because I saw Garak yesterday, and I got to text him.
00:28:50
Speaker
yeah Okay, so you're saying there was no artifact. There was no artifact. It was just empty and dank and dark and smelled like like bronze steamed metal because you know like a whole steam thing. It was like a weird sort of situation like weird maze thing.
00:29:10
Speaker
OK, yeah, I can believe that is mean like has that little diabolical sadness. Yeah, she totally does. And again, y'all don't have CCTV down there because y'all were too afraid to like go in there and look anyway. So I guess it's our word over yours. OK, and she like drags Murphy. What the fuck is wrong with you?
00:29:31
Speaker
no It's like once I start talking, it just doesn't stop.
00:29:40
Speaker
Alright, okay. Yeah, you're lucky. Don't say shit about shit that we're doing right now. It's very illegal. Yeah, no, that's fair. I just wanted to read books about, you know, Izmin and, uh... We have an entire university library we can go to because of Pippin! Yeah, I forgot about the university. I will see. I was... I think I got distracted by Garak yesterday.
00:30:07
Speaker
That's fair. That dick probably rocks. Stop. Murphy just gives her a look.
00:30:17
Speaker
So okay. We still got two days, right? We have like a day left. What the fuck did you do on the third one, smarty? Went back to the library. guy can' get there for by That plant.
00:30:39
Speaker
is dead, but I don't know what to tell you. It's not going to be that way. I'm just fucking with you. I don't actually go back.
00:30:52
Speaker
No, Murphy's going to try to go to the Rebecca's temple and, you know, which one if they can, whichever one is closest. um from where? Closest from where? Solace's apartment? Yeah, I figure we're at Solace's. Okay, then yeah, it's like across the way and like, it's a one of the smaller ah greenhouse temples. Catty Corner. Yeah. Yeah. So Murphy's just gonna go there and see if they can't like, I'm sorry, but the city looks like a kidney. The map looks like a kidney and I can't stop seeing it.
00:31:30
Speaker
Well, stop looking at it like that. but Um, no, they're just going to go and they're going to like try to contact Revanthus again, but yeah they know that it probably won't work. Yeah, it's just dial tone signals. Are you doing that all day?
00:31:48
Speaker
Not all day, but like just and then they're going to like, you know, is there like a romantas based library there or something like that? No, there's only romantas greenhouses. There's no libraries. OK. All the libraries are is mean because this is an is mean city. That's fair.
00:32:07
Speaker
Yeah, so that's what they do. They're just going to go to the temple. They're going to try. They're going to look around. They might talk to like one or two of the um or just one of the people that are there. Well, every time you talk to one of them because the first one you talked to gave you the ick, I'm promising you that the other ones are going to give you the same ick. You're welcome. That's fair. But then they're just going to go back.
00:32:31
Speaker
Maybe they'll get a self-cheezing pretzel on the way home. Great. um While you're walking... Two, actually. One for Ina. While you're walking on this third day, can you give me a vibes check? I'm kidding. Don't say... I didn't mean vibes check, but I meant vibes. I'll just do a 3D6. Can you give me... Let's do a perception. Okay. Seeing or just regular? Regular.
00:33:04
Speaker
That is an 11. While you're walking just like sort of like doing what you need either just like trying to get out get like some air trying to like figure out what's going in the robot this you do feel like
00:33:28
Speaker
it It feels like there's a shift in like energy that just sort of was this was this a pass or a fail? It was a pass. It wasn't like a was super good pass, but it was a pass. I have a thing called observation where if I fail ah perception test a perception perception. Yeah, perception test.
00:33:52
Speaker
then I can reroll it, but I have to keep the second roll. If you want to reroll it, you can. You didn't fail, but you didn't pass. Like that makes sense. Like you didn't like you didn't go over and above of. Oops, that's seven. That's worse. OK, well, then nothing is wrong and everything's OK. And you're just walking. Fair enough.
Ina's Gear Upgrade Mission
00:34:20
Speaker
Um, Ina, what have you been doing these past three days? Okay, so first Ina realizes on the way back to the house, ah like smash cut immediately as soon as they left. Ina is sitting there um as they're walking and she's like, oh my God, I just lied, I just lied, I just lied, I just lied, I just lied. And then as they're walking middle of the street, Ina immediately erupts, I'm so sorry, I lied.
00:34:55
Speaker
What did you lie about? Jeff screams and she produces the weird key and she goes, I lied to Murphy. I found this weird key. I didn't like the lies.
00:35:14
Speaker
Oh, where did you find the key? In the weird cavern tunnels when we went over to ah when we went to go find the other eye plate, Murphy decided to go in one direction. I wanted to go in another. And then I ended up finding, ah well, technically it was before the spiky trap that somehow I thought that they could run across a wall for some reason, but I went into this little area and then it was weird because it was covered in mushrooms, even though mushrooms
00:35:57
Speaker
ah not inherently weird, but they were weird because it was like, ooh, I'm meant to be here and I didn't like that feeling. And then as I went deeper in, there were some more traps, which was really cool. Though Murphy did have no cares over the traps that I had, but I was pretty smart by throwing this weird thing called chocolate everywhere. And then I found this weird orb, Murphy, and then she started shaking Murphy. Murphy, you remember me telling you about the orb?
00:36:27
Speaker
Vaguely. I was losing a lot of blood. This was before the spike trap. Oh, well... No, I don't remember. I really wasn't paying attention. I was more stuck on the fact that you were wasting my chocolate. Oh, okay. You're supposed to eat it. It smelled weird. I didn't like it. And then...
00:36:49
Speaker
I have to put that in the lore that Ina does not like chocolate. a may Well, she hasn't tasted it yet. She just thinks it smells weird. ah then I think you should try tasting it next time. No, I don't really want to. Then I you Chocolate is not important. It smelled like old people.
00:37:19
Speaker
Oh, people smell like chocolate. Yeah, you need to get your senses worked out. I just smelled weird. Anyway, any who's hot. And then she slowly- Murphy pulls out another chocolate bar. And slowly produces the key. And then I found this weird orb and I tried everything to get it out. And so then I was like, what if I touch it? Which is a really stupid move, I know. And then I touch the orb and then it melted. And then there was this key inside and then she produces the key. Did you ever take a time to like look at the key?
00:37:58
Speaker
No. She literally just shoved it in her pocket. So when you hold the key, it has... um It's very ornate. It has like a three sort of like bump out design and um within in the design in the very center there is a skull but around the like three sort of bump out design it has a bunch of vines that are wrapping around it
00:38:34
Speaker
And on the actual in like on the actual like long of the key, right before the prongs hit it, it says um to the under, one.
00:38:51
Speaker
To the under. Is anything capitalized? ah Under is capitalized. lo One. It's like it has it has the number one on it. Oh, to the under number one. OK.
00:39:14
Speaker
Weird. And then she says, and then this key has a weird inscription and I'm not very keen on it. I don't know what it means. It's not like the riddles that I was able to solve. It says to the under and then it has the number one on it. Solace looks at.
00:39:33
Speaker
I think we've established I'm not good at riddles, so this is your all's thing. I don't think this is a riddle though.
00:39:41
Speaker
um Solas looks at it and goes, do you guys remember? Probably not. You probably didn't even catch it. Let's be so for real. I figured that out with you guys. um When you said, well, I believe it was Murphy that said, you can't get lower, we're already at the lowest point. And I said, I mean, yeah. And I said, well, and then I kept going, and like it didn't like it didn't happen. There is technically a lower part. It's called the under.
00:40:16
Speaker
And that's just like sort of like where a lot of like demons and like angry monsters sort of are. But like it's kind of like a myth. It hasn't really been like proven that's like an actual thing. So then why would there be a key for a place that doesn't technically exist? Well, I mean, the key kind of implies that it exists. What? Ooh.
00:40:48
Speaker
Maybe it's another mystery. Maybe. There's technically one more time plays.
00:41:00
Speaker
i Oh, are we going to get to talk to my mortal? That'd be so maybe that. OK, so I guess we go home after the healers and shit and go and do sleepy times and stuff.
00:41:15
Speaker
Ina does her morning routine, the huge solace yells at her about being naked. So Ina realizes that Even though she was- This is the first day. This is the first day. Even though Ina realizes she wasn't totally underprepared, but she realizes that her friends are underprepared, which then makes her underprepared. So what she does, she is going to have a tiny shopping day for herself. And she is, oh, I was trying to bring up my character sheet and my character sheet is already up.
00:41:59
Speaker
ah so So Ina is going to first go to the Alcindor ones, because I feel like she, I think we established that she went to all the other Alcindor ones and got them to work on shit, right? Yeah. He goes specifically to the Alcindor temple that she set up as the blacksmithing forge.
00:42:27
Speaker
OK, she is going to make. um Because I don't know, I think Ina would know this, so it's technically not metagaming. I think she's going to make. Light leather armor for both solace and for Murphy, she secretly took their measurements while they were sleeping. OK, even mine, so this will not wear it unless it has her midriff out.
00:42:57
Speaker
She, Ina knows what's up. um So, is that gonna cost her any money? to do this, to make the light leather stuff for them. You need to have the leather material and they pretty much have all of the metal stuff that you would need at the board. Okay, so then she immediately like goes and tells them she's going to come back. She needs to run a quick errand. like She tells Solas and Murphy this at like seven o'clock in the morning, at the an ungodly hour of the morning. She's like, I'm gonna be back. I'm running some morning.
00:43:35
Speaker
Murphy's on the window. Slams the door. Murphy's dead asleep. Ena goes to Vincent's shop. The craft store. I like to think when there's only two of them in the studio apartment. We're all snuggling on Solus's bed, just one big bed. Just one big bed. For sure. So it's just Murphy and Solus just like snuggled.
00:44:06
Speaker
They put like a pillow wall for Ina so that her naked body doesn't touch him. Okay, so she goes to Vincent's shop because she could talk to him and ask, where can I find the leather?
00:44:24
Speaker
So she goes into Vincent's shop and she goes, or is it even open? She's like knocking on the door to see if it's open. Oh yeah, it's not open yet. Okay, so then she's like, hmm. And then she goes over and she's just like, is there any breakfast place places are open? Oh yeah, there's like little bistros just like all over. Because in the crap the craft area is like,
00:44:49
Speaker
right outside of where the town center is and the town center has like all of the bistros and like cute little shops and everything. Okay, so she goes into the first cafe that she sees. Wonderful.
00:45:06
Speaker
hoping that it's like close enough where she can see if Vincent were to walk by. I think it's like strategic enough where if she sees Vincent go in, she's gonna be like, aha, this is like the perfect spot. It's called the blue topaz and they specialize in craft espresso beverages and teas.
00:45:26
Speaker
Okay, perfect. Do they also have like food stuffs? They have like the Starbucks variation of food. So they have like croissants and like little pastries. Perfect. So then she says as she comes in and she's like, again, like super tall buff woman, yeah wearing her leather still because she has no other clothes ah because her clothes before were ripped. So then she like goes,
00:45:54
Speaker
Hello! Shop Kate! And then Ben's down to look at, like, gets really close to look at their name tag. What is their name? Uh, the person in front of you's name is, uh, Sorella. Spell it for me. Why? I'm adding it to the list of friends. I fucking hate you. S-I-R-E-L-L-A.
00:46:24
Speaker
She goes, hello, Sarilla, is this your establishment? It's quite nice. I just work here. so Well, I'm here to procure some sustenance. What do you have on offer? um Our menu is right above me and she like points to above her where everything is on the menu.
00:46:52
Speaker
It's like a laugh flashback. You get a flashback to a conversation with Murphy where Murphy's basically just like, yeah, you got to read a lot of stuff down here. Ina is now terrified. That's when we first got here. Ina is now terrified because she can't read bre very well.
00:47:20
Speaker
No, Zoe, Zoe, just just do the thing where it's like, do do the thing where it's like, I'll take whatever your most popular thing is. So, you know then, Ben's down and she goes, I'm sorry to excuse me, my new friend, Serilla, but can you read me the menu? I'm not very good at reading.
Cafe Adventures and New Friendships
00:47:40
Speaker
She gets very sad. Are you dyslexic? No, I can only read up to a certain level because my and that she about it for a second. She's like, my dad? Yes, my dad ah said that we can that it's not good for us to read up to a certain level, only enough to understand. But all of this stuff is written up there and it's very close together and it doesn't make much sense.
00:48:07
Speaker
You had an abusive household. I'm so sorry.
00:48:19
Speaker
We learned how to survive. That was cool. OK, I'm not going to ask you about your abusive household anymore, but like what flavors do you like? Do you like sweet or do you like my more bitter or? The conversation with Murphy about chocolate shows up.
00:48:35
Speaker
I drink pretty much anything as long as it's alcoholic, but I don't... You're telling me they don't have alcoholic Irish coffees here? That's a damn lie!
00:49:05
Speaker
remember we talked about how they would have like, she would drink like whiskey and stuff. She wasn't sure about mixed drinks and stuff like that. That was new territory for her. so Remember it was like hard liquor or nothing. That's how Asinder was. But she doesn't drink tea or whatever. She's like, as she's saying, I drink mostly things that have alcohol in them like whiskey and stuff like that.
00:49:32
Speaker
Solas has been giving Serena a green smoothie every morning and she she's just been saying, yeah, it totally has vodka and it totally drink this. But I don't know what all these tell this other stuff is. My new friend Solas has been giving me this weird green drink that I kind of like a whole lot. It's almost like it's milky.
00:49:54
Speaker
But hey, I'm gonna do an intelligence check. I'm gonna see if Solas has been able to, or if Ina has been able to tell us about Solas. Solas has been secretly feeding Ina fruits and vegetables for the past month. No, I wanna, I think Ina obviously knows how to eat a well-balanced diet and shit. It's just that alcohol is a huge thing. So she's gonna roll to see if she's like aware that Solas is being a good friend. Nope.
00:50:23
Speaker
That was a five, a three, and a one. That's a nine. She's not she's like, but it tastes really good. It was kind of thick and it was green tasting. Do you know what I'm talking about? She's been a green smoothie? Such a good friend. Oh, a green smoothie. Is that what it's called? Okay. So I would also like that.
00:50:46
Speaker
Uh, exactly how my friend Solis makes it, and then... Oh, we don't have smoothies here, hon. We only have espresso drinks, so it's like stuff to wake you up to keep getting hyper. Oh. So then what would be similar to that?
00:51:00
Speaker
Um, well, those are usually a little bit more like earthy and fruity. So probably kind of, I guess like our hazelnut raspberry latte with oat milk would probably be really tough. Okay, can I have one of those? And then I start hot. Well, I start hot.
00:51:32
Speaker
Zoe the player wants it iced because fuck hot drinks. Which we would eat though.
00:51:42
Speaker
It doesn't matter. Okay, I'm gonna make it iced because I like it better iced. Okay, and then my friend Murphy has also been trying to teach me about this new thing called like chocolate. we have chocolate croissants.
00:52:00
Speaker
Okay, may I please have a chocolate croissant? There's no way she would know how to pronounce that for real. Okay, so croissant wheeze?
00:52:18
Speaker
That's too close. That's not how she would say it.
00:52:24
Speaker
She's just going to pronounce it wrong every single time. ah Yeah, sure. um This is going to be like 10 fillas. Okay, and then she slams down 10 fillas. I see that coffee is also expensive in this world.
00:52:45
Speaker
so level of re To be fair, it was coffee and a pastry. That's $5 each. That's not that bad. Oat milk. At Starbucks, that's 1783 or some shit. It would be like 11 bucks.
00:53:05
Speaker
how much this was hmm five bucks this was five dollars because I found a cheap but tasty coffee place oh yeah we yeah in areas where those don't exist ah that means five dollars for the croissant and five dollars for the fucking why is the croissant five dollars that should be three chocolate i It has the chocolate thingy in it. That should still be a lease for at most like $4. A plain buttered croissant from Starbucks is $3. Exactly. A plain buttered croissant. So then the chocolate chips would make it like $3.75. No, that's not how the Starbucks works maybe. This is the hell we're dying on right now.
00:53:56
Speaker
It's not that if you fucked up earlier. Exactly. It is exactly six dollars. Sixteen dollars and twenty eight cents at Starbucks. I know what the fuck I'm talking about. and Starbucks is shitty. I'm still I'm still being cheap, technically. I was like, I should do 15. And I was like, no, I'll drop it to 10 because I want to be nice. Yes. Shut the fuck up, Kyle.
00:54:23
Speaker
Just saying, it should be less. Ina is now ah sitting and waiting for her food. She doesn't know what to do. When you go to edit this a month later, um I'm going to need you to make that entire thing. You do not cut that out, bitch. Bitch, you do not cut that. Put that then. Thanks. um I was going to say that. No, that should stay. That should stay in exactly where it is. OK, or it should go right at the top.
00:54:54
Speaker
So it takes like 10 minutes for your coffee to come out. They're a little bit packed right now with all the other people that are coming in. Nina is good at waiting. Yup, and she and you just hear, Serena, and your cute little coffee and your croissant gets put up. So tiny in her giant hands. It's so small. So small. What'd you get, a six and eight ounce?
00:55:23
Speaker
No, it's like she should still be small. Oh, that's fair. whatever So now she's gonna go sit, I guess, is there like a place to sit outside? Yeah, there it's like a bistro area. So it's like a little outside seating area. Okay, so she sits outside and she's going to eat and drink and wait for her friend Vincent.
00:55:42
Speaker
Her close friend Vincent. It takes about an hour, but Vincent finally shows up to open up. And you're lucky that Vincent was the opener today because it could have very well and just not been Vincent. Well, if anything, she would have marched in and made a new friend. So ah so as she's waiting and drink it she's drinking, she like I'm going to roll to see if she likes to drink.
00:56:07
Speaker
Oh, good. She likes the drink because of that. She likes the drink. She sniffs the croissant and she's like, still smells like old people. And so she brings it up and she takes like, like the tiniest bites. Completely misses every single part. And she's just like, I don't know why Murphy likes this. This tastes Awful, it smells bitter, it tastes bitter, it smells like old people. And so she eats it, doesn't enjoy the chocolate. And then she sees Vincent, and so then as she's finishing up, she then throws her stuff away in the proper receptacles, and then she runs across and she's like, Vincent, my best friend Vincent! And I was like running up at him as he's like in the middle of opening the door. right Vincent looks and goes, oh shit.
00:57:02
Speaker
And then she reaches her hand out and she goes, hello, friend Vincent, I'm here to buy some more items from you. You didn't really buy any items from me last time. Well, this time I have money. Oh, OK. That's good for you. um I have a question. OK. First, do you sell leather?
00:57:30
Speaker
Oh, we have a fabric section. We might have some leather in there. Leather hard enough for armor.
00:57:40
Speaker
How's that larping thing going? Did you find them? Is that what I was able to get the armor or get the money before the armor? I made a lot of money there. Oh, pretty decent money. I might end up going back just to make some more money.
00:57:57
Speaker
Cool, that sounds great. um Yeah, just you're not technically supposed to be in before I count the registers, but just like come in. I don't care. Okay, I promise I will stand right here and guard while you do what is called counting of the registrar's. Thanks. So she's standing guard.
00:58:20
Speaker
Um, it takes him about 15 minutes to like properly open up the store and everything. He goes, okay, um, come with me to the fabric section. And there's like, there's like a few things of like leather. It's like maybe four different like areas that has the leather in it. Um, and then the rest is just like cotton or polyester or whatever.
00:58:49
Speaker
Not the leather she needs. It's like a thinner leather. um It would be leather that you could definitely see solace definitely just wearing something skimpy with like it's like that kind of leather. It's not like thick at all. Okay, she goes, Well, this doesn't help me much. Do you know where I could find leather? Um,
00:59:14
Speaker
I mean, probably back at your RP station, I guess, over in over in the park. OK, so I'm going to have to go and I'm going to have to go and make a visit to my friend Marco. But before I leave, I'm also going to need a few things here first, if that is OK with you, Vincent. Uh, yeah, sure. What do you need?
00:59:41
Speaker
Okay, I'm going to need fabric scissors. I'm going to k need some needles and some thread. I'm going to need at least four rims of fabric as much as I can carry or as much as I can use with my money. And she's essentially just buying like outfit making supplies. Yeah. Like she's listing off all the things she needs.
01:00:07
Speaker
Yeah, um he gets all of those things for you. ah Make sure it's everything that you like actually properly need and not like anything that you really don't unless you see something that you're just like, oh, I want that with it. But yeah, ah he gets everything for you. um The total for that ends up being like 50 fillers. OK, so now. to do So that would leave me with.
01:00:38
Speaker
9.95. Sweet. Okay. She's like, thank you, Vincy. This has been a lot of hell. Uh, would you like a chocolate croissant?
01:00:54
Speaker
For being my friend. Sure. Glass can tip me with a pretzel. So this isn't even surprising. OK, so she goes over, buys the exact same drink and thing that she had over there and goes over and then gives it to Vincent. OK, Vincent goes, um thanks. Have a great day. It tastes exactly like a smoothie. And then she walks out.
01:01:24
Speaker
So then she goes back to Solace's place. draw Actually, hold on. Do you want to go to Sidious Park? Hold on. No, she's thinking she doesn't want people to know that she knows how to make dresses and clothes and shit. That's still a secret.
01:01:44
Speaker
he Remember, Solace also lives above a cafe that has two lesbians as the owners of it. So if you want to hide it in the cafe, they'll probably they they know y'all by now. They're like, somehow Solace got roommates in a studio apartment. We don't know how that works. So she walks. Yeah, she walks there and then she pauses and she's like, wait a minute. I don't have my closet to hide things in anymore.
01:02:12
Speaker
So then she like sneaks in and has all of the stuff hidden behind her. Very clear as day, you can see it. not my Very funny. So then she goes up and she talks to the two lovely ladies and then she goes, hello, I'm wondering if there is an extra space that you are not using so I can stole a secret supplies.
01:02:34
Speaker
I believe their name are is Isabelle and Roxanne. Isabelle and Roxanne are halflings. um They both look at you and they go, oh, we have a back room. Yeah, we can set it ah aside for you, no problem.
01:02:55
Speaker
Do you mind if I come in here at certain points just to do my secret work? No, not at all. Actually, can you do us a favor? Mm-hmm. Murph is down here basically every morning asking for like a blueberry muffin or like a donut or something. And we just like, we love them. We think that they're great. We just love their energy. Can you like go upstairs and give them this? And it's just like a box that's just like filled with like day old treats that for Murph.
01:03:31
Speaker
that just weren't sold. Of course, my new friends Isabel and Roxanne, I would certainly do that. If you don't mind, I'm gonna go set this up in the back. And then she goes, cleans out like a little area for herself, trying not to take up too much room. And then sets herself up and then she goes, I'm gonna come up and I'm going to drop off these treats. And then she checks the time. It's probably like what, like 8.30.
01:03:58
Speaker
Yeah, it's like, yeah, it's probably like, almost nine, like 845 ish. Okay, so she's like,
01:04:09
Speaker
They're probably still sleeping because Solis and Murphy like to sleep in very late, which is kind of counterproductive, but I get it. So then she like salutes and then walks upstairs and then opens the door and yells very loudly, I got you to breakfast, and then slams the door and goes on her other errands.
01:04:31
Speaker
You scared the shit out of them, so this was definitely cuddling up to Murph because Murph was warm. Murph did not care. Murph doesn't care. Murph is dead asleep. OK, so you are going to the RP area
Sidious Park Mysteries
01:04:50
Speaker
again. You're in Sidious Park. Yep, she's either going to try to make some more money to get some leather or she's going to get while you're headed to Sidious Park. ena Can you give me a perception?
01:05:01
Speaker
What is my perception? It's not a searching, is it? You wouldn't know if you're searching. Okay. Okay, that's a decent roll. A five, a four is nine, plus three is 12, plus one is 13.
01:05:26
Speaker
You feel an energy that you felt before. It's very similar to um something you felt from home. It feels very like you've felt it before. If you want to do another searching for me, you can, because now you have that sort of about you that you know what's going on.
01:05:52
Speaker
Okay, I earned myself another stunt point. Geez Louise, just rolling all of the sixes.
01:06:02
Speaker
Okay, so there's a six of five makes it an 11 plus four makes it fifth. 11 plus four is 15 plus one is 16 plus two is 18.
01:06:21
Speaker
OK, you went above and beyond and beat that. Do you notice once you start feeling that energy, if you look in a tree that's like catty corner, like going to the larp grounds in the park, you notice something shiny sort of like sticking out of it. I go and investigate the tree. It's a tiny axe. A tiny axe. Tiny axe.
01:06:52
Speaker
Little tiny axe. Okay. I remove the axe from the tree. You've seen these axes around, but it's been a while since you've seen them.
01:07:08
Speaker
Is this one of my siblings' axes?
01:07:14
Speaker
It's like this big, it's like a little cocktail axe. It's like little cocktail axe. Yeah. God, I feel like as a player, I need to know what this is. It was something that we've, we've very much touched on on the very first episode, like prologue. I'm going back.
01:07:37
Speaker
It's either Gemma or Dorian.
01:07:43
Speaker
Which one? I didn't write down which one used axes. That's because neither of those did. I was about to say it's either that or an ear. No. No. Those are the only people I really talked to other than Murphy. I didn't say you talked to them while you were.
01:08:11
Speaker
Can Ina do like an intelligence check? Cause I'm not gonna yeah remember this shit. Yeah. Okay. Come on Ina. Come on Ina. You got a plus one to intelligence, baby. I didn't add that in there for nothing. Come on, baby.
01:08:29
Speaker
Okay. Not bad. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. So that's a five and a five. That's 10 and a two makes it a 12 and a one makes it a 13. That's not bad.
01:08:44
Speaker
Remember having this conversation on the day that you fell with your father? Mm hmm. About going to my mortem if something were to happen. And at the beginning of that conversation. Elcinder said, why did I give Mars the coolest name only for them to make tiny axes?
01:09:10
Speaker
Oh shit, i didn't I would not have known that. Holy fuck. So then she like says out loud, just ah barely above a whisper. She goes, awes.
01:09:22
Speaker
like She's like, now she's like looking around. like She is now looking for one of her siblings. Right now it's just quiet, but you do notice while you're now sort of in the moment that these little axes are are kind of scattered everywhere, almost like place markers. OK, she follows the axes.
01:09:53
Speaker
They start going a little bit away from Sidious Park. you they They like go like more into it, more into like the foresty area of it. OK.
01:10:07
Speaker
She follows the axes and she's picking them up along the way so that she can use them potentially as weapons. They're like cheese knife size and you make that so clear. I don't care. You can I can use anything as a weapon baby.
01:10:25
Speaker
You don't find anyone. You're just following. if You don't see anyone. You don't find anyone.
01:10:37
Speaker
She's still following the axis. Yep, they stop sort of in a clearing, and you don't see them anymore. So then she says a little bit louder, she goes, Mars! I found your tiny axes! You've been droppin' them everywhere!
01:11:04
Speaker
doing this, she's just like slowly turning around and she's searching to see if she can see anything in like hidden and the shadows. It's absolutely silent.
01:11:20
Speaker
I'm going to just roll my searching now. OK. That is a six. that's free And And a four. Makes that a 12. And my searching makes that a 14. And my plus one makes that a 15.
01:11:44
Speaker
You don't see anything, but you hear something behind you, but it's running. It sounds like it's running the other way, like toward back toward Cityas Park. She follows.
01:12:00
Speaker
When you get to, when you end up at the area of Sidious Park where the R.P. is, because that's where it was going, there's absolutely no one there except for Marco at the front desk that just goes, Anna! Huzzah! Okay, so she doesn't know who it was, saw them running. Did she see where they went after it they come back? Like, no trace?
01:12:30
Speaker
Nope. And then she's also another child of Alcindor. OK, so do I know what Mars looks like? Was Mars ever described? Mars is a transmasculine.
01:12:46
Speaker
They have very beefy shoulders, um very like good biceps, sort of more of like swimmers body type or like they're toned and like the abdominals area always ah has already had like the upper, the ah upper surgery where like they no longer have, a they no longer have breasts or whatever. ah They,
01:13:15
Speaker
Um, they have, uh, more of like stoic features, very, um, stark jawline. Um, and when you last saw them, they were just starting to actually fully grow, like a goatee, but they also more have, uh, like subtle feminine features to them, which they don't mind, but they would rather like keep it a little bit more masculine.
01:13:45
Speaker
Did you mention what their race was again? They are, I think I had it down somewhere. I believe that they are one of the ah human barbarian types. The avar? Yeah, that's it, the avar.
01:14:09
Speaker
Yep, avar.
01:14:12
Speaker
Okay, so just almost just as tall as Ina if I'm if correct me if I'm wrong. They're they're almost they're like two inches taller than Ina. I was about to say like Ina's tall for a fucking elf. Ungodly like not normal elf height. ah So yeah. Um,
01:14:36
Speaker
Okay, so, and then she's like, Marco, Huzzah, have you seen someone who's a little bit taller than me come by? Almost, and then almost all of El Cinder's children have red hair, correct? um Mars has black hair. Mars. Black hair, kind of short cropping, really cool looking goatee.
01:15:02
Speaker
Um. No, I haven't really seen anyone like that around here, but like, hey, if they want to like get into the RP, just like have them sign up. Hey, Marco, two favors. Well, probably possibly three to ask you anything.
01:15:23
Speaker
Marco's in love with Nina. Anything? Anything. Marco goes, I'm blessed now.
01:15:37
Speaker
you know then goes um So Marco, I want to ask this first and she pulls out one of the tiny X's and then she puts it down and she goes, if anyone comes by and they're sporting some tiny X's, can you please call my friend Solis or my friend Murphy because I'm not allowed to have what is called a phone.
01:16:02
Speaker
Oh, yeah, totally. Oh, these are awesome. Are they made with obsidian? I know, like, you came in with some obsidian stuff and that stuff's super rare. How do you know them? They sound cool. Uh, one of my... I'm just trying to think of a life that's not a life. Because one of my half siblings likes to make them and I heard that they were in town, but I haven't had a chance to see them yet. They're quite shy.
01:16:33
Speaker
Oh, yeah, no problem. That's fine. Great. um Yeah, totally beyond the lookout. ah And then she gives you ah most and then she goes, I mean, if you want to.
01:16:47
Speaker
And then she like opens up like her little pockets that are just like overfilling with them because she still have like a bag yet. And she's like, I got at least, and she's like, want two, okay, four, five, six, here you go. And she's like, I got at least 10. And she goes, definitely more than 10 there. Yeah. He looks at yeah looks at how much you have and immediately goes, do you want my satchel? Do you want to do you want to hold them in a satchel? Well, I would feel bad about taking something that is yours. You can have anything of mine. Really? Is it because we're friends? Yes.
01:17:25
Speaker
perfect. And so she takes it and then she in exchange is just like, I don't have any more pretzels, so I don't have anything to give you in terms of friendship. Our friendship is not defined on pretzels. This was a favor.
01:17:41
Speaker
Oh, I just found that making friends is easier if you give them food because that's how I became friends with and then she proceeds to list all of her friends in a row. That's how I became friends with Murphy and Solis and Slorshire and Sawyer and Star and Marco, which is you and Carl and Vincent and Pretzel Guy and my new other friend named Chipping and Franklin and Amory and Well, Emory didn't become my friend because of food, and neither did Franklin. They're just a little bit weird. They're more is-me followers. And Serella is my new friend over at the town center. And she is one of those people that runs one of these things called a cafe. And she introduced me to something called Tea. And also my friends Isabella and Roxanne, even though I asked them first. But Murphy really likes them because they always buy muffins.
01:18:34
Speaker
You don't have to ever give me anything. I just like being around you, Ina. Cool. So ah ah she I guess now has a backpack to put stuff in now. It's like a little like it's like a little like leather satchel situation. OK, so she may she I'm going to add that to my inventory leather satchel.
01:19:02
Speaker
Yeah, e I was like, hmm, okay. And then I'm gonna put it as one and I'm gonna say fill the tiny axis.
01:19:15
Speaker
Obsidian. So those could be good for Murphy for throwing axes. They're this big. Yeah, they could be used as throwing axes. That's a dexterity weapon, baby.
01:19:30
Speaker
That's a missile weapon. Murphy can use that. Now do you want to go into the RP area and get your leathers? So she then asks, so I was told by my friend Vincent that I could go and I could get leather here. I'm trying to make some more armor.
01:19:49
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Come right on in. um We have a leather shop that would have like all the hide that you would probably need. Sweet. And then she signs herself in before. And how much did it cost before? Like, what, five? Oh, he doesn't charge you. Because you became their blacksmith, he no longer charges you for anything. OK. I go. I buy the leather. i don't I feel like I've been taking over control for so long.
01:20:19
Speaker
The leather is going to cost you like 200 fellows. It's not going to be cheap. That's fine. Anything for my friends? OK, so now I'm down to that much. OK, so then she asked, would I be able to work as a blacksmith for a little bit just to make up some money?
01:20:42
Speaker
Yeah, totally, yeah. Okay, do I have to do all the fucking rolls that I did last time? No, I'll just do how much you make that day. um Do you do anything for the second day or because you even said you said, I'm not at home? Yeah, so for this, so finishing out the day, she does, she makes that,
01:21:08
Speaker
She makes the stuff to make some money. She also, while she's there, she makes the stuff for ah Murphy and for Solis. Okay, now you did leave your sewing stuff with Isabella and everybody, so unless you're like going back home. I feel like you can make leather without using sewing materials. Okay.
01:21:32
Speaker
Like it's light, leather like this is what the point is. It's light leather armor. So and um the sewing materials is for something else. got Oh, got it. OK. Secret stuff.
01:21:47
Speaker
OK. There we go. Um, you made 200 fellas even so you actually just like made it back. I broke even sweet. OK, so I feel like that's enough from the first day. Second day she goes back to the Alcindor place. Hold on. Let me look. Let me look.
01:22:12
Speaker
OK, so what she does is she asks them, I need you to make me some light. Well, it says male armor. I don't know what kind of male armor it would be. So ah dooo do to do let me look. In the book. Because she wants mail. It's chain mail, but like if you want to make it leather, you can make it leather. So she can make I can wear
01:22:45
Speaker
I can wear up to heavy male armor because I'm looking at like the stuff that I can wear because it says you can wear leather armor and male armor without suffering a penalty to dexterity.
01:22:59
Speaker
Okay. Okay. So I feel like she would want to make herself light male so that she can move around easier.
Goggles and the Underworld
01:23:07
Speaker
So she tells them, I would like ah you to make, uh, to begin at least the process of making it, like get the materials and the stuff ready because she likes to make her own stuff. And then, um, did.
01:23:24
Speaker
I don't think, and murph does Murphy have their own weapon other than the gun? Yes. Okay. ah I feel like Ina is going to, like she's going to give all this stuff in one go.
01:23:39
Speaker
but um God, I can't wait for us to level up again because I can i just leveled you up. I know. But the reason why the reason why is because I can add, um since it'll be an even level, I can start enchanting stuff as a black and three. That's why I can't. Yeah, we're only level three, baby. It's fun. I'm loving this.
01:24:05
Speaker
Um, but I want to be able to enchant stuff when I make it. So I don't want to make them. I think the way that she like has, because I don't think you can enchant leather, but she's going to hold off on making weapons for them so that she can do that with enchantment. Like she knows she can do it, but she just can't right now. because she's not gone anymore. um So second day, I feel like she wakes up, does the same routine, goes to the same place, orders different food this time. She's trying different food. I'm wiping down that I'd spent another 10 things. um And so she goes, and I feel like as, how early was it that Murphy went and did this thing?
01:24:54
Speaker
like It was like first thing they did. So we'll say like nine to ten. Yeah, we didn't wake up till 10. So we'll like we'll like say 11. OK, so smash cut as this is happening at the exact same time. ah
01:25:11
Speaker
Ina walks up to a door and then knocks on it heavily and she goes, my friend, are you in?
01:25:22
Speaker
I don't know your schedule yet!
01:25:27
Speaker
Pippin goes, I have a class in like 20 minutes. What do you need? I have two. I have something that I would like to give to you. And then she hands over coffee and stuff. OK. And so she goes, I was told by one of my friends, Marco, that this is not the only way that you can make friends. But I feel like this is the best way for me to make it right now.
01:25:53
Speaker
So, anywho, I have two questions I would like to ask you. I might have the answers. Okay. ah One, and she ah pulls out of her. ah Because I imagine like while she's at like this Ren fair play, she's buying like stuff for them yeah to go on adventures, right? So yeah, spends $200 spends does another thing. And then I feel like she spends the $200 she just made by buying like
01:26:27
Speaker
backpacks, things like that you would need to go traveling with and like go on, like basic adventure kit stuff. And then you can tell me later, like what comes in all of that. um she got She pulls out of one of the satchels that she bought yesterday that doesn't have the tiny axes in them. And she goes, this is what we found in the cool temple place.
01:26:55
Speaker
she goes can Can I hold it? Of course. And then she delicately hands them over and she goes, when I, cause didn't she wear them at some point? Like she, she did cause she put them on and she looked at the map and she goes, when I wore them, I got to see some cool things, but I was looking at a map while that happened. I don't know what else it does. All I know is that these are some cool goggles. And that is me herself told me that I was worthy of wearing
01:27:27
Speaker
Um, so these are my mother's first set of discovery goggles, meaning that they are able to show what you are looking for the most through them and where and what continent they would be at. OK, so then God, I'm so behind on writing down notes.
01:27:55
Speaker
Um, so she goes through some discovery vocals and they show you what you want most. Um, she then says, did they do anything else or was it just looking at stuff to make it look cool? Um, they are, it means first like actual real token that showed that she was a goddess.
01:28:23
Speaker
um So this is what is considered her token, if that's what you're asking. So this would be the token in order to get into the special mirror thingy? Yes, this is one of the tokens to get into one of the special mirror thingy, or the Versailles mirror.
01:28:47
Speaker
So I have another question and then she proceeds to pull out the key and she goes, but I would rather have you not tell my other friends that I have this key. I wasn't sure what it is, but if they ask about investigating it, could you please ask them that you don't know what it is or what it's for? I just need to know what it is and what it's for.
01:29:13
Speaker
um okay can i hold it sure and then she delicately puts it on and she goes i found it in the weird a weird part of the cave system and it was behind a red orb and when i touched it it melted and there was this key inside Okay, when you put the key in Pippin's hand, um it's almost like the key rejects Pippin and goes immediately back to you, Serena. Well, that's cool. That's never happened before. It doesn't like me, it seems. um Could you just hold it and I can look at it? Sure, and she holds it like super awkward.
01:29:57
Speaker
yeah Keep in mind Pippin's so small compared to Ina too. Like she is a lot smaller than Ina. She's like bent over. Yeah. um She's like looking at it and she goes into the under. Huh.
01:30:21
Speaker
How what exactly did you see with the goggles? Like, do you know or did you just like put them on? Well, I put them on when we were out of the tunnel and on the map, I was able to see all these weird dots and then she pulls out the map that they were using and then she like shows where all the dots were.
01:30:47
Speaker
um on the world and shit and she goes, and that's pretty much all that I saw. I haven't tried the goggles on the key yet. No, I don't think that would work. It says number one here. So there's probably a chance that there's more. Okay. So let's let's start with that assumption.
01:31:14
Speaker
um
01:31:18
Speaker
Being one of the daughters of the goddess of discovery, we discover things, you know, on a day-to-day basis. The myth of the under is like sort of a dicey one, especially when it comes to children of the Citadel, especially because we're not technically supposed to be allowed there. There are some rumors that a lot of the sisters of the last death from a mortem are from the under, but they're always in those robes. You can never really tell.
01:31:58
Speaker
Okay, so quick recap. ah The under references is the sisters that follow my mortem and they're able to come and go as they please through the under, correct?
01:32:13
Speaker
The Ender does not reference them. It almost sounds like a place that needs to be opened. OK, so sorry, I'm trying to catch up on all of the notes that I've been missing while I've been role playing so well.
01:32:27
Speaker
ah OK, so she then says, thank you, Pippin. This was very what is called enlightening.
01:32:40
Speaker
I'm happy I couldn't lighten you. I have a class in like five minutes, so I'm going to have to ask you to leave so I can start actually getting everything ready for that.
Secret Reading Lessons
01:32:49
Speaker
That is fine. um Just one other quick question. I promise it will be very quick. You can say yes or no. Feel free to. Would it be possible for you to help me learn how to read better?
01:33:06
Speaker
You don't know how to read? Uh, not very well. Our sender thought that that wasn't stuff that we should know how to do. It's more, you know, hands on things and learning how to survive and how to fight. And so I thought in this world where I have to do a lot of reading, it would make more sense for me to learn how to read better.
01:33:26
Speaker
Um, yeah, sure. Um, just have solace, get in contact with me and we'll get a schedule together. I don't want them to know. I don't know how to read very well. ah Then I don't know how to tell you my schedule because it changes every week. It changes every week. Um, what time do you get up in the mornings? Nine. Hmm.
01:33:54
Speaker
I can be here early ah because I like to wake up pretty early. Does
Crafting and Personalization of Armor
01:34:00
Speaker
that work for you? And I promise I will always bring you something to eat and to drink as a part of our friendship agreement. but There isn't any agree. Sure. um It would have to be in every other day thing, though. It can't be in every day.
01:34:20
Speaker
Okay, um is there anything else you need? No, you need to go to class now and she i shoves her out the door. Come on then, students are trying to learn how to read here and then she runs away.
01:34:37
Speaker
OK. And then she goes and she makes the armor for her friends and then makes the armor for herself. But then the armor for herself, she makes sure that she puts little slots in so that she can put runes in later so that she can enchant the armor. OK, so Ina comes home and she goes, I have presents! Murphy's still asleep. It's like late in the day, dude. It's like evening time now.
01:35:06
Speaker
Wait, is this day two? Yes, this is like the end of day two. Oh, OK, so Murphy would have just gotten back and they're napping.
01:35:18
Speaker
So this would be at our kitchen table, just be like, I saved Murphy from the police today. Well, I found out some cool things. Just to do a quick recap, I have a secret project present that I'm going to be giving to you to today. And then I have another present that's just for Murphy, if that is okay. Murphy walks in and is like, why are you being loud? Because I have presents. And I found out stuff about the goggles.
01:35:56
Speaker
Okay. Murphy's still groggy. So she pulls out the goggles and she says, my good friend Pippin said that these are discovery goggles that whoever wears them is able to discover what the heart most desires. I feel like if Murphy put it on, it would be those muffins that I brought up yesterday.
01:36:21
Speaker
Murphy's eating a muffin. but And then she then like puts the goggles down and then she says, but Pippin did say that these are in fact a token of Izmin and so that we need to keep them in a safe place. And then she then proceeds to then go now for the presents. And then she busts open the door and runs out to where she had the presents hiding outside and then she pulls them in.
01:36:49
Speaker
So I thought the last time that we went on on an adventure, we were heavily underprepared, even though that's not anyone's fault of their own. But I wanted to make sure that you guys were prepared. So I got two gifts. And then so she ah pulls out the satchel that has all of the tiny hammers in them. And she goes, this is filled with a bunch of tiny axes.
01:37:17
Speaker
yeah I mean, I suppose I can use those as like throwing knives. Exactly. These were made by my brother, Mars, and they do a pretty good job. But ah I do think they're in town because I don't know how else these axes would have gotten it. And these are very specifically made by Mars. And then she like shows like Mars is I feel like it's just like a M, like it's like the most like M, like the most like carved into a tree looking M you've ever seen in your life.
01:37:53
Speaker
And she goes, that tells me everything I need to know. If you need to know what they look like, Mars is taller than me, about two inches or so, has pretty short cropped hair, black as night, ah has some scruffy stuffs going on here, starting to build a little bit of this, and um a little bit of a crazy look in the eye, if I'm being quite honest, because who makes tiny axes like this? What the fuck?
01:38:20
Speaker
um So there's that. And then she goes, I'm pretty sure later when I get back into the swing of things, I could probably enchant them for you, Murphy, so that they can return to you or to return to the bag. That would be nice. Also, like, I wish I could grow a beard. I've tried 250 years, got nothing. Might be a romantic thing. Anywho, he's got like a full beard, though.
01:38:47
Speaker
Yeah, they've been working very hard on that beard. It took them a long time before they couldn't make a beard, and now they wanted to build a beard, and then Alcinda said, sure, you can make a beard now. Anywho, so I also made you guys these. And then she pulls out the light leathers, and she goes, I wasn't sure if you'd be able to wear heavy leathers or not, because you're not really trained in wearing armor, but I figured you need something to help protect you.
01:39:17
Speaker
So here's the fun thing. I was looking over it when you were talking about making leather armor. Murphy can wear leather armor. Hold on. okay Ignore armor penalty if leather armor altogether. It affects neither speed nor decks. So I can wear any kind of leather armor. Do you have armor training?
01:39:39
Speaker
It's just part of being a rogue or whatever class I am. I have no idea if I can, I don't know if I can have armor or not because I'm a mage. Well, that's why I got light leather because light leather, from what I saw, like I didn't see anything about robes and stuff or like armor restrictions for mages in the DA book when I was making them. We can double check when we go to Gen Con.
01:40:06
Speaker
ah Yeah, because like in the D.A. book, like eat in Dragon Age, they were nothing but like robes and stuff. But in like later, you can have like robes and like D.A.I. where it's like you can wear like enchanter mail and stuff like that. So like if we want to play it that way, like play by Dragon Age Inquisition rules, you probably could wear light leather, but she wanted you to have something of some kind of protection. for Yeah.
01:40:35
Speaker
um So this looks at it and goes, I mean, it's cute. It's not really my colors, though. Okay, but hold on. I haven't described it yet. Okay, so Ina made them very specific for each person. So who wants to have theirs described first?
01:40:56
Speaker
I think it's ah it should be after like Solace's comment, you know. So then she goes up to ah Solace and she goes, ah I know this looks like a plain brown drab, but it's not. And so she then like, da and like throws it into the light and it has like little like silver speckles on them to make it look like glitter. And she goes, I did something really cool. And I figured out that if I chisel away at some silver, I would be able to add them into the curing process and make it kind of glitter. But if you look and then she like shows like on the
01:41:38
Speaker
one that would look like it's like the breastplate part. Yeah. um There is a cute little Oh God, I don't have it up because I was thinking about it when I was coming up with this shit last week. Oh God, the symbols of Absalom are bunnies.
01:41:58
Speaker
flowers. I'm trying to remember shit. but
01:42:04
Speaker
There's bunnies, there's flowers. Okay, so she goes, so she goes, I know that you're a follower of Absalom. And I figured that even though you can be super violent, it would be something that would be nice to have at least with the blessing of some kind of goddess or another. And she points out there is this beautiful little like Dove on the front that has like the little piece thingy Whatever it carries the like an olive branch like the olive branch thing. Yeah, and then underneath it has like along like the sides and like around like where all of like the edging is is like
01:42:42
Speaker
like runes and like basically like god tongue whatever the fuck. yeah That like essentially says I am a bringer of peace like I am a protector of friends like essentially like a chant that people of Absalom would say like up in the citadel and then there's also like cool like flower vines and like stuff like along the stitching. And like, it looks very much soulless. And she goes, it took me a long time to figure out how to make it sparkly. It's beautiful. Thank you, Ina. Plus, I could figure out how to make a change color. And then but it it would be so cool if instead of it being like a brown, it's like a mauvey tone.
01:43:32
Speaker
So this would definitely wear it then if it was more of like in the pink family. It's like she figured it out and made it like turn into like a different color. And so like it's like a mauvey tone. Like that's why like she spent a long time figuring this shit out. And she goes, and now for Murphy. And then pulls out Murphy's. And so Murphy's is dyed like this really cool like green brown kind of like it's green in some areas it's brown in the others so it looks almost like just like a almost like an outfit where it's like sleeves are different top different but on like the leather and stuff like on the breastplate instead of it being like just romanticist stuff it's like a circle and it has all of the different uh
01:44:23
Speaker
places that Murphy has visited and has spent time in and even though like haven't spent time with my more to my more to miss still on there and then it has like as like this like circle thing it like as you can see it has like a like it looks like it's like a flower that is blooming on it to like nod to robanthus but like it would be really cool if it's like a flower that Ina doesn't know about and she's like I don't know I just thought it was cool and I thought of this flower and it looked really cool and then um along like it the stitching itself is like green and the parts where it's brown and the parts where it's brown or where the parts are green the stitching is brown
01:45:06
Speaker
And it has almost like an um like an ombre effect. Is that what it's called? Yeah. Where it goes from like a dark green up yeah to a light green, a dark brown up to a light brown. And that's Murphy's fucking cool stuff.
01:45:23
Speaker
I like that a lot as a player. And then Murphy's going to be like, oh, wow, this is like really thoughtful. This is nice. I like this. I need to make sure I got all the measurements right when you were sleeping.
01:45:37
Speaker
As Murphy's putting it on, ah they're going to ignore that comment. also ignoring that garlet but you know Can I just say something really funny? Can Solas's armor be like the ones in Skyrim where it's just like the bikini?
01:45:57
Speaker
Yeah, like it has a really good armor rating, but it covers nothing. I mean, essentially, if we want to be real, it's essentially a banddo like bando top. It's like where the sleeves come down like this, and it's like a crop top. And leather pants. That's like the whole vibe. That's how Ina knows her audience. Yeah. She was just like, Solace would not wear this if it covers her entire bedroom.
01:46:23
Speaker
And then like I feel like it the one for ah Murphy, it like allows for like that cloak that you wear, whatever, the like the thing that goes proofful out in like the picture that you have of yourself. Yeah. Like it's thin enough for you to be able to put that over. OK, it definitely fits Solas perfectly. She's just like, you know, you got my tits like perfect. It's like hugs.
01:46:53
Speaker
Well, that's because I measured, and it works out very well, and I know exactly what I'm doing.
01:47:02
Speaker
As Murphy's putting theirs on, they're going to be like, I really hope my Mortem doesn't see the symbol on here. they she She knows I haven't been to her domain, but... No, but you are going to be romanticist, and it would make sense for you to be able to represent all of the domains and not just one.
01:47:21
Speaker
True. Very, very true. Maybe one day I'll actually meet Mortem too. That'd be cool. I don't know. She seems kind of scary. yeah I think that's just stories. I think she... I'm i'm pretty sure she's not like that.
01:47:37
Speaker
Who knows? Anywho, I also made something for myself. And then she goes and she takes the time to like put on her totally cool now armor. And ah I didn't think about mine doing depth. So I'm going to have to just think of it on the fly. Because I spent literally days thinking about what make yours. um So I feel like true enough behavior. True enough behavior. So I feel like in us, it would be like,
01:48:21
Speaker
I feel like for Ina's, it would almost resemble for the friends who know like in Dragon Age, it would almost resemble like the Templar armor, but it and it's like the sword and it faces upwards and it has, or it faces downwards and it has like these lines. But I feel like for Ina, it would be really cool.
01:48:44
Speaker
if she had hers and it was like, um, had like, you know, like the, ink d ink like the cool little etchings and stuff. And it had like, vines and stuff, wrap like just a very Ina type.
01:48:59
Speaker
a male armor. And so she has it where it's like, I want to say it's like the color of like the fancy elven stuff from Lord of the Rings, like that white one. um Yeah, where like a white gold platinum. It's like the chain male part. But I feel like where it's like covering her arms and stuff. But like the main thing, I think it would be really cool if When she like stood in the light, it almost like flickered like fire, like she was able to figure out how to make it work like that, like with colors so it would look like it's like a white fire that like
01:49:38
Speaker
I feel like you could put like some kind of glitter or something on there that would do that. Yeah. Like she figured out how to make that happen where it looks like almost like Alcindor, like with the fire and stuff. ah But she has like these cool like interconnecting thing. Like again, like same with Murphy, same with Solas where like along like the sides and stuff are like the prayers for like certain things of like protection, keeping safe, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But then she has like on her back, she has like, I how many slots do you think we should have Ali as a game master for enchanting things? Like how many slots would we have on armor and weapons? Because typically it's two on weapons, two on armor.
01:50:29
Speaker
I was going to say four total, so that's basically. OK. Two on armor, two on weapons. yeah So what she would have is she would have one on one shoulder blade, one on the other. And on the inside, she has like a lotus flower for one of the enchantment rune slots. And then on the other, she has like one of the symbols of Alcindor would been like the wolf, right?
01:50:58
Speaker
That's one of his symbols as a wolf. So she has a lotus flower, she has a wolf. And then I have feel like she would have, um like the sword and the stuff on the front is smaller, but it also almost like ah Murphy's, it block it looks like it's blossoming out of like a lotus flower. And then on all of our armor and stuff, it has her maker's mark and stuff on it, which is the lotus flower with like a little eye in it.
01:51:29
Speaker
And that's what I did. So Solis
Intriguing Tiny Axe Gift
01:51:35
Speaker
is sitting at the cafe downstairs of her apartment, the Prism and the Prism Cafe and Bakery. And she's outside reading, looking at her iPad, not really an iPad tablet. There's no way in hell Apple will ever sponsor us. um Looking at her tablet and just sort of scrolling and as she's scrolling and looking at a book a shadow of a person kind of looms over her and she turns around to see a very stocky build with very
01:52:20
Speaker
intense shoulders, ah dark hair, has the newly formed facial hair, is looking down at her saying absolutely nothing. And she's looking up at them saying absolutely nothing. They give her a tiny axe and they walk away. And she just looks at it and goes, huh?
01:52:45
Speaker
a
01:52:49
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so
01:53:03
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Closing Remarks and Fun Chat
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