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Ep. 09 Welcomes to the Unicorns Arsenal – De Profundis
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Intro written and produced by Joseph McDade - https://josephmcdade.com/
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Transcript
Shader's Unexpected D20 Giveaway
00:00:00
Speaker
Hello everyone, welcome to the podcast. Last week we kinda happened upon a competition ran by our very own Shader when he shamelessly threw a tweet out there advertising the podcast by giving away 3D20s.
00:00:17
Speaker
How little did he know? There were often no giveaway. I have been betrayed by my fellow podcasters. There was then a giveaway once we all saw this tweet. We thought it was shameless. So let's make him give up a d20. Make him eat his words. Make him eat his words. Literally almost.
00:00:35
Speaker
if that was possible and it did work we asked you lot to get a tweet his tweet to 50 likes and if so he would randomly or we would randomly pick one of you from the 50 and tell Callum who plays Shader to send his d his very own personal d20 to you
00:00:55
Speaker
It took a
00:01:13
Speaker
likes and he didn't think we could do it did you? No I bloody well did not but did it we did thank you to all of you so we have now just gone through the 50 there was 52 in the end to choose from and we did it very randomly by the fact we grabbed someone's mobile we got all the likes and we just scrolled through it real quick and they just stopped on one
00:01:36
Speaker
And he doesn't know. Shader doesn't know. Calum doesn't know, even. No, no, I do not know. I currently hold in my hand the very first D20 that I have ever bought for Dungeons & Dragons. Oh my god. And yes, we are. Legitimate series is going to be sent to somebody anywhere in the world.
Podcast Introduction and Cast
00:01:53
Speaker
I have no idea where it's going to go. I'm going to miss it terribly. You're all bastards and I hate you. I hope we have some Antarctica. Can we edit some Quiet Violins into this?
00:02:04
Speaker
It's really, really violent. Yeah, yeah, there you go. And send it around the world, he will. I mean, we've got people from the UK who liked this, all the way to people in Australia who like this. So all the import tax will be paid for. And so there literally will be nothing. It will just arrive. The plan is for it to arrive through your letterbox one day. It's not going to be a big parcel. It's just a D20. So without further ado, I'm just going to scan through. We should have all those built. Can I get a little?
00:02:33
Speaker
Scan through and stop! Congratulations at Ariana87. I hope I pronounced the right way! All right interests, where are they? So the person we're sending it to is Lisa. I want to say your second name for privacy reasons, I don't know. People can find you on Twitter, everyone can. But you are located, if Twitter is correct, in Indiana, US of A.
00:03:03
Speaker
So Lisa at Ariana87 who lives in Indiana, USA you will be receiving a d20 dice from our very own Callum who plays Shader which is to trade in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, UK.
00:03:16
Speaker
Congratulations to you. Amazing. How do you feel about that, Callum? I've said it once, I've said it, I hate you all, you can all die. I'm half tempted to kill your characters in the podcast myself. Wow, that, enjoy your dice Lee, certainly. Yeah, Jesus. That's a lot of hate coming from Callum right now. It served me...
00:03:34
Speaker
moderately well. I mean, at least we'll have a bit of better luck. Lisa, in your Twitter handle, you have the hashtag positivity in there, so this is real good for us. The good thing about Indiana is that all your salty tears to the dried off D20 for the time it gets there. Thank you. Thank you very much for that. Lisa, we would have already been in touch with you, hopefully, by the time that this episode is out and we'll get your address. But once again, we'll keep that very private as well.
00:04:02
Speaker
So thank you to everyone who liked, who retweeted, it was a great, what started out as a joke, then into a competition, then turned out to be pretty fun for all of us, pop and count, which makes it even funnier for us. Pretty bad I am not doing this again. He saves, he saves, he'll forget. Okay, without further ado, on with the show.
00:04:50
Speaker
Welcome to this week's episode of The Fellowship of the Tabletop. My name is Mark, I'm the DM. With us we have Ian, who plays Drago. Hello Ian. What up? This guy on the table always getting his order. We've got Danny, who plays Claude. Hello! And we have Will, who plays Elfia. Hello there! Oh god, I don't know how to feel about that. And we have Callum, who plays Shader. Greetings! See, I like what I like about your start. Callum, is he so consistent? He's got a
00:05:15
Speaker
I was just missing Darren. I'm just boring. Darren is consistent to be perfect. Hello there. Hello there. He's more suave than that though. Hello there. He's very suave, he's a suave person. He uses that turn of phrase in bars all the time. Well he's not a player, he's a gentleman. Well he's a D&D player. He is. He's a player in game as well. I feel like selling him is like to wenches across the cabinets. I mean if there are wenches out there.
00:05:45
Speaker
We need to stop this before we go down a very bad road. We do. Thank you for joining us for the session, as we are, as you've probably guessed, a live play 5e D&D podcast. Hello there. And we are currently in episode 9 of this...
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The Party's Boat Capsizes
00:06:24
Speaker
The party were on a boat and we had a skill challenge which due to Claude already having a point of exhaustion the party rolling relatively well but still a couple of failures here and there left with a capsized boat everyone was alive a little bit bruised a little bit battered but everyone exhausted after the boat capsized a couple miles off the coast and they had to swim inland
00:06:43
Speaker
We landed, we'd managed to get on the shore and we walked the mile or so along the beachfront towards Clay Peak, started meeting some people, Hailey had disappeared, we entered the tavern and we started talking to a couple of the patrons there. At the end of the episode Drago had spoken to an old man in a corner
Restless Night and Long Rest
00:07:00
Speaker
who looked rather worried by what was going on and why he looked so concerned and he found out that he was related to Captain Drew Linus. He was the captain and kind of leader of the time who had gone missing and Droga had just undertaken to take that mission on, which was very interesting.
00:07:22
Speaker
It's like you felt uncomfortable in the party and needed to get out to try and find something to kill. So when you say it like that, very Drago-esque.
00:07:34
Speaker
Cool so we find ourselves it's late at night now the fires are burning below the embers embers are glowing the patrons of the tavern are starting to teeter out either going up to rooms or leaving and stumbling down the mud from the street towards their homes in clay peak it's still raining it's a sodden solid rain
00:07:53
Speaker
Though no one seems to bat an eye, nor even talk about the weather, seems to be that normal. We find ourselves at a table, drinks are emptying, but there's still the young boy stood there, hopefully looking up at you for more guidance or help. He was kind of fitting in for his father as the kind of innkeeper at the time. You have your keys for the night, is there anything you want to? I'm very sleepy, so I think it's best to
00:08:20
Speaker
So it's like, I should have finished the last episode. With us going to bed. With us going to bed, that would have been fun. You're not coming to my room. No, I'm going to my room. I'm glad. I am glad. Okay, so Claude and Elphir take up separate rooms upstairs, sorry, along the corridor into the tavern sleeping quarters, and you have your two beds in your full escape. But then you still have Talia. Talia's probably gonna head to bed as well. She's gonna follow along, take her away room as well. And we have Shader and Drago still awake. Drago's gonna...
00:08:50
Speaker
see himself at the table and have a couple of ales and he's going to open the book that he saw robin kind of disappear into last episode a couple of episodes ago so i'm going to just get his ink well and start recapping to him what has gone on and it would be in a very drago kind of bullet point
00:09:08
Speaker
Got a new member. His name's Claude. He's a dickhead. Found ourselves in Clay Peak. In a tavern. Met with a captain. People are lost. Going to help out. Hope you are well. Wherever you are. Draggo. Nice, nice. Is that a real logo or are you going to write that? Close it in. Looks towards Shader as he closed the book. And without a number word, turns away and goes upstairs to his room. Okay, nice. Shader, anything else you want to...? No, Shader is basically going to finish his drink, head upstairs and head to
00:09:42
Speaker
We have a night's sleep. Can I just mention that all of you have really restless sleep. You still get the benefits of a long rest, but you have a restless night's sleep. You have these kind of annoying dreams that just kind of repeat on you. It could be of the sea, it could be of mountain ranges, it could be of places you've been, it could be of training for Claude at the Sweet God Academy, it could be of home and run.
00:10:05
Speaker
It's something that just repeats over and over and over and over and over and over again. And the noise keeps you up and you're tossing and turning a little bit.
Exploring Clay Peak
00:10:12
Speaker
You've still got benefits but your sleep is disturbed and everyone has that similar sleep pattern. So morning comes and you can all smell what smells like eggs downstairs.
00:10:21
Speaker
Or below you in the tavern itself. Probably, I think you're probably up first, is what you need. The four hours of meditation, you're probably the first one up for it. Has anyone else got any perks that means they sleep less or need less rest? No, no, no, no. Cool, so we'll go up at the same time after all. So Arthur would have had his meditation and after his restless night's sleep, he may have, if I'd taken an early morning walk around the town,
00:10:47
Speaker
So early morning around Clay Peak you'd see a real absence of movement around the dock. You can see off in the distance the odd boat fishing off in the distance. Moving more away from the poor area of the town you move towards the south district and Citadel you see a couple of really prominent features. Firstly you see the Citadel itself which is a sturdy
00:11:06
Speaker
Building with kind of an internal polished black stone walls You can also say this is a military defense But from looking inside the gate is almost rusted open and in the side you can see people starting to set up shops You can infer what you want from from that and you notice in the middle of town There's a bit of an open plaza esque area now with a wish or the well in the middle of it And you do see an old chap
00:11:28
Speaker
walk up to it, kind of say something under his breath and flick a copper coin into the well. You see the beggar's hall which you come from which is obviously behind you and you've also got a guild hall, it's a half timbered building, quite a large prominent building that says the guild hall across the front of it as well. You can see some of the more prominent members of society of the time standing around talking, conversing as they kind of go about their business early in the morning.
00:11:51
Speaker
because it's like still early i expect that like i can still perhaps see the moon what cycle is the moon in right now because then what is the moon full is it half what what is it in at the moment it's half okay it's a half moon at the moment and you would have probably noticed that with your perception last night actually it was clear it was really cold that's the very sky you see so it's a nice day actually as well it's relatively sunny i think the storm seemed to have cleared up a little bit as well
00:12:17
Speaker
So Althea will probably go find, probably go to the well and perhaps offers up a, cause he did ask about whether there was a temple to any of the gods in and he was told that there wasn't. Haven't seen it, so we'll probably go to the well and perhaps take a morning leak, flick the silver coin into the well, then perhaps offer up a small prayer to his god, S, and then you turn to the tavern and probably wait for the others to awaken. Okay. Okay, out of the other three of you, you kind of wake up, come downstairs, does what, do what you want to do, really, what do people want to do?
00:12:47
Speaker
Breakfast. Shader has been through some weird-ass shit with this area castle, whatever. It's still slightly disillusioned about the entire thing. First night's resting. He doesn't really know how long. He's waking up and he's having some food. Okay, so downstairs... Are you guys going lunch as well? Yeah. Okay, so as you go downstairs, you see little... Rather than downstairs in the kitchen, you can hear him kind of singing a little sea shanty song to himself. How'd it go?
00:13:20
Speaker
to see you along the coast and so on. He potters and he breaks up because he's like, ah, fucking he- Shut up in there and get us off food! Okay. Put his doors up. I got you, man, don't worry. I've got eggs. Do you like eggs? Do you want any help, young master? Oh, actually, yeah, that'd be great, please, actually. I don't know. Do you know how to cook eggs? Oh, you just crack them on the hot thing, innit? I can cook. Yeah, Claude, can you let Althea cook the food?
00:13:49
Speaker
Oh, okay. Are you a special? Why? He's very good and I don't trust you. He's not from here. That's true. He doesn't know how to cook sleet cards. Food? No. In sleet cards, you've got to do a special ritual before you go.
00:14:07
Speaker
You have to do a special ritual, you might poison everyone in this club. Do you want to teach him the secret ritual? So you've got to take the egg that you want to cook, you take it into the centre of town and you bless it at the well.
Mission Ethics and Logistics
00:14:21
Speaker
But to do that you have to remove all your clothing and say I bless this egg with my naked pegs. Well why don't you do it first?
00:14:39
Speaker
I don't want to cook the egg that way. You said you want to cook the egg. Drogon said to do it that way too. Hold on, hold on. Two important things, Drago and Elthea. I mean, you are the chef.
00:14:55
Speaker
It sounds pretty important. We don't want to cause a disturbance. I don't care. You, of all people, are always preaching that we shouldn't cause disturbance wherever we go. So it sounds like you do actually have to get naked in front of this fountain. Give me the eggs. For the peg. Yeah, well, you've got eggs. Okay, Elphin drops eggs on the floor to smash them.
00:15:14
Speaker
Fine, no eggs. Rhonda starts crying a little bit. You have just upset our host, it seems. Actually, no, I am the host. It's okay. I've got another 40 eggs in the bag. I'll just run round to the well myself. Healthier, are you okay? That was very unlike you. I'm fine. Can you not bless your eggs where you're from? No, none of that. Oh. It's very particular.
00:15:42
Speaker
I've never thought of that until now, but it makes a lot of sense. Elthea, are you a eunuch? No, I met one of them.
00:15:55
Speaker
Maybe I'd like to do an insight check to see if he's really a eunuch. I'm lying. I'll let you do an insight check to see if you think he's lying or not. 22. 22? Holy shit. My best skill. You're pretty certain he's telling the truth. That he is not a eunuch.
00:16:19
Speaker
About this time, after you've kind of eyed Eltha up and down to judge whether or not he does have sexual organs or not, by this time you see Braden does come back in, kind of putting his shirt on. Okay, I've done it. It's not quite the way I remember doing it, but he wouldn't lie to me. And then he goes about cooking the eggs in the back and very quickly brings you out some very nice actually tasty eggs. It's just kind of scrambled on a small piece of
00:16:42
Speaker
salad dough bread with some dried seaweed just crumbled on top as well so it's actually quite a nice, what looks like quite a nice meal. I'll comment that this is a well-blessed egg. I blessed it loud as well. I probably could have made it better. Okay, sure. And Bradley's going to take himself away into the kitchen to start washing up or sing at the beginnings of his sea shanty again because that's all you can remember or create. So we've got
00:17:05
Speaker
So, I had a walk around town. You're from here, aren't you? I've been here before. I don't live here, though. To Draugr, you mentioned the Captain Drallinus last night. Indeed. Something about going to find him. Yes. Because he's lost. Yes. Against the undead in the swamp.
00:17:25
Speaker
We have in the past, yes. I wouldn't say, well, it's for noble reasons. Do you want us to get paid while doing it? Yeah. There's always got to be an award. Did you ask how much you get paid?
00:17:38
Speaker
But if they don't pay, we just keep the person we've caught. Do you want to grab him from the people who've got him at the moment and then hold him to ransom ourselves? No, no, no. So I want to save him from wherever he is and then give him back for monetary value. Actually, and Talia looks up for her. I forgot about Talia. She looks up for her eggs. Actually.
00:17:59
Speaker
That's a really good point, though. Don't all people who get rescued for money, technically, are just held at ransom with the new person. Because they're getting paid. Are we the bad guys? You are. Well, yes, you are. I think we should save this man. I agree with you, Claude. But do we spend a day? Because it will endear us the locals. Even if they don't pay us, it doesn't matter. We'll do it anyway. You know what would endin? We're getting paid. Or he's dead. Endin-din yourself to the locals would be doing it.
00:18:29
Speaker
and the ritual for the eggs yeah you've actually probably made a more mad at you well you know what someone did the ritual so he's actually fine the people outside don't know we didn't do the ritual well this is the thing if we see smash
00:18:42
Speaker
I didn't do it and I know Brandon says in the back shut up you but I think we should save this man okay now do we spend a day getting supplies and rest again or do we head out straight away no we spend a day we get supplies we find out the trouble you're full of life and energy I'm sure you can plow on I'll just be a day ahead of you then I'm okay to go now if that's the challenge I'll fear I don't mind going by myself if that's the way that you're going about it
00:19:12
Speaker
Okay. Considering for someone who's woken up earlier than us, you're very cranky this morning. Throwing eggs on the floor, refusing to look naked in front of a fountain. It's not like you, Althea. Yes, because I've never before refused to be naked. I don't mind either way, I'm happy to go now. I mean, I don't feel totally with that, but... We could get supplies. How long is it to this... is he in the swamp, you're saying? I have no idea where we are. I would like to look around first.
00:19:37
Speaker
No, no, but did they tell you where you're going to sit? Driver gets up from the table and walks out the door.
Visions of Harmony with the Undead
00:19:41
Speaker
Excellent. Are we going to the swamp? We should go to the, does the Citadel, is that where the guards are in the Citadel? Maybe. I've only been to a bit. Brandon. Hello. Where's the guard house or guard post in the village here in the Citadel? Yeah, they usually just, there's not much in the guard presence here really, because it's quite protected. So yeah, if there could be anywhere they'd be at the Citadel overlooking the stores and shops that are in there.
00:20:03
Speaker
So we can go to the Citadel, find whoever's acting in charge and work out what we can to find out what we can. He was in there last night. He did speak to it. No, Drago spoke to him, but I can't remember whether they said the Swampthorpe or not. No, it was Lombard. He came in. He does it every day now. Okay. But he'd be there. He's always there. So where do we need to go? He's normally at the door of the Citadel. He asks everyone as they walk in. It's really off putting for the locals. He says, how's everyone? Have you seen?
00:20:26
Speaker
Have you seen Duralanis? Have you seen Duralanis? Have you seen Duralanis? How long has he been asking for? How long has Duralanis been on a walkie? He's four days, five days. It's not long. It was only supposed to be, he's only supposed to be away for two days. It took me like a week to get the boat over to the Osrin Islands to see where yous were. Yeah, but they're worried still because you saw a long body, it's not exactly the best person to be in charge here. I don't want to remember where Captain Duralanis got lost.
00:20:56
Speaker
Oh, I wouldn't know we'd find him then, wouldn't we? No, but we know what direction he went in. Do you know what we know? Have you spoken to him?
00:21:06
Speaker
You guys. Lembub will know more, I'm sure. He's the only one that seems to care. I don't know where the swamps are, if we're going to the swamp. I thought you were going to the swamp, I don't know if I... For sure. Okay. Let's go. Shaydard, what are you doing? I have to eat eggs. I feel like taking everyone's spare eggs and just... Shaydard has just been gawing himself, I think, this morning. Dramatting himself? Gorgeous. Okay, okay, good. I wondered what we were doing then. It's not that kind of talent.
00:21:39
Speaker
He's had his breakfast, he's just rushing out the door trying to grab a bit more food as Claude and Elthea leave. And Talia. Talia, sorry, I didn't mean to remember Talia. I never remember Talia. That's right, she doesn't remember you either. It's fine. Okay, so we kind of walk out the door, you're a bit ahead at this point and you'll see it first actually, near the centre of the plaza area that's kind of open.
00:22:01
Speaker
in the middle of the town you see a well stood there and you see a man stood on the well he is probably about five foot 10, five foot 11 kind of thick black head it seems to be kind of poking out all over the place he's wearing just regular kind of brown kind of layman's shirt like a fisherman or something like that regular trousers and he's standing up shouting pretty much at anyone who who's there or who can listen or will listen who can shine people as they walk past
00:22:29
Speaker
I told you they're absolutely fine. They're not, they're not here to hurt us. You need to just cut everyone. Calm down. They spoke. I've spoken with them. It's fine. And it's not a problem. People, he wouldn't return. It would be absolutely fine. There's a little.
00:22:46
Speaker
group of people now kind of stood around him as he talks and by that time the rest of you have kind of caught up now as i've said multiple times and i will continue to say until you people understand me the undead here they are not here to hurt us i've seen it in a vision they are here to join us and befriend us and work with us in eryth one of the people in the crowd goes how'd you know that?
00:23:13
Speaker
And these visions of the humans and the undead working in simpatical workings at the same time, saying to Boris Johnson, good work, you know.
00:23:29
Speaker
That's how I know. We need to find some of these and befriend them. I don't like the sound of them. Is this someone we've seen before? No, this is someone you have not seen before, no? I'm going to approach him. Oh god. You there! Good man of sleep guard! Yes? You must understand what I am talking about. You're like a well-traveled man.
00:23:47
Speaker
I don't agree with what you're saying. Well, you know, it's not a question of whether or not you agree or not. Justin doesn't lie. Justin speaks the truth. Justin has heard and spoken to those above and below. Justin sounds like an idiot. I turn to Shader and I just mumble, slow wit meets slow wit by the looks of things. This is not a question of, you know,
00:24:08
Speaker
if I'm right or wrong or anything. This is the question of what I know. What do you know? And I know the undead are here to be friends with us, to work alongside us.
00:24:19
Speaker
I've seen it. How? In a vision. What did they say? They didn't say anything. What proof do you have that they're our friends? I was told it. By... Ericas. Hey, Drago, you could push him in the well. Hang on, he's talking about Ericas. Where did you talk to Ericas? In a vision, in my head. He spoke to me. Where were you when he spoke to you? What, I was in bed. Where's your bed? In the house. Tell me where you live, please.
00:24:46
Speaker
A points down the street, a down the street and then you take a first left and then you take the next left. Okay, I'm going to go to your house now. Is that okay? Well, no one will be there because obviously I am, I am here and the door is locked. I'll wait for you to come home. Okay, that's okay. Well, we could just talk about it here if you like. What's your name, sir?
00:25:15
Speaker
Claude, whose name is Claude. Oh, good lord. Look at you. You're a sight. Eraqus. No, Jossen. No, Eraqus spoke to you. Yes, he did. Last night. Four nights ago now. Wait, hold on. Where were you four nights ago? You might just trip him up and put him in the well. You can try. Yeah, okay. Yeah.
00:25:39
Speaker
Okay, roll... What side of the bed did Elphir wake up on this morning? Let's go with a... Acrobat, I was going to just go... Athletics, just kind of grabbing his legs and just kind of pulling that from under him. Well, he's actually going to like roundhouse kick, so use that for that.
00:26:00
Speaker
I would, I don't know what's that as well. What, sorry? I would again also attempt to stop Elfia. Okay, so actually stopping Elfia and Claude you're trying to grab Justin. Okay, so what did you get? 15. So let's say, because you're going through it, Charlotte's going to be trying to pull you back to roll again, we've got disadvantage on us. Hang on, we've got an ice cream van coming in for the name.
00:26:27
Speaker
Is there ice cream vans in Clay Peak? Do they have ice cream vans in Clay Peak? I have seen it in a vision. The ice cream man, Mr. Kit Clay, they joined up together in 13 or 15. I guess we were in the 13 then, so the chair's trying to pull him back. That does still succeed at his half token to you, Claude. In a vision, Claude Drago, he's a good lord. Look at you, what? And his legs get swept from under
Interrogating Justin's Claims
00:26:51
Speaker
him. Claude, can you make a desk?
00:26:53
Speaker
Athletics, go with athletics with disadvantage because you're still knackered. 17. 17, yep, that's fine. So as he starts falling down the wall, he makes you grab a hole in the bottom of the waist and you pull him back up to stationary. The other thing about an eyelid, it's, oh, you're a dragonborn, aren't you? Four nights ago. Four nights, yes. Eraqas. In a dream. In a dream. Definitely a dream. 100% a dream. When did we kill Eraqas? Like two days ago. I told you. He's dead. Eraqas is dead.
00:27:20
Speaker
Don't know about that, can it be? Are you friends with Eraqas? Not really, but I thought it was very hard to kill. Was this the first time you had talked to him? The only time, yes, but he spoke to me very clearly, telling me exactly. Did you know of Eraqas before this? Oh yes, everyone knows about Eraqas. He's a joke. But actually, he's not a joke. He's quite serious, actually. Everyone knows him for the wolves' accident on Traitor's Bay, where he summons... He tried to...
00:27:49
Speaker
Get this right. He tried to summon Orcus. He didn't summon Orcus. He summoned some rabid wolves and they attacked him instead. It was very funny. Everyone found it very funny. So he left. He went to the Ozrin Islands. Right. So what was he saying to you? Undead ROK.
00:28:06
Speaker
You don't have to worry about it. To let them in and to, you know, invite them into your town or settlement of choice and they will work alongside you. They'll replace some of the more menial jobs that perhaps you don't want to do. Right, and right now where are the undead? You're saying invite them in as if they're out the doors. I don't really, he didn't explain that much. Well, we know they're in this one.
00:28:28
Speaker
and we know they're just at the blight. So I think it was just more, less for me, more for everyone. So it's my job to explain that to people. I feel like I'm a prophet from Ericast. Excuse me. My arm is getting tired. Do you have any more information or I will let go?
00:28:47
Speaker
I'm going to turn to say that and say none of this information is new. We knew Eric has a dead. We've killed him. Maybe we should just leave this mad lunatic alone and get on with what we're going to be doing. Joseph, this one is staring at Claude and he goes, oh, you look like you've seen some stuff. You're a bit scary in the face. Scary as your mind. What was your question again? Are you hiding any more information from the dragon or I will drop you? Down the well.
00:29:14
Speaker
Your mum's getting tired now. Oh, so deep, no. Oh, he's aching. Oh, no, the swamp, there's stuff in the swamp and in the forest. Be careful, the path to Bleakmore. Yeah, that's all the places I know that have the undeadness. One more thing before you let go. This is Captain Jalanis. Do you know where he is? In the swamp, that's all I know. Fair enough, you can let go. All right, run along. I'll see you later.
00:29:38
Speaker
And what do you do with him? Just place him on the side. Okay, I'll put you there, see you later. Bye! See, I imagine, like, small pond, I forgot that it was actually a deep well. Yeah, it's a damn deep well, like, it goes... God, damn quite a distance. Don't think you know you would have killed him.
00:29:52
Speaker
He was mean. He was just madly rambling and no new information. He was mad. Your reactions were un-elfier like. It's just... Okay, fair enough. I'm just eager for us to deal with whatever we're dealing with so we can learn more information about this area. Agreed. And on that point, we should find out more about Clay Peak rather than just rushing off to the swamp. Not to sit at all, there's not killing more of it. There's an open path right there. But also in deer, you two of them.
00:30:19
Speaker
Great. Well, look, what I'm doing right now is nothing sort of what Drago will probably do at some point to annoy someone. So, you know what? Maybe one maverick in the group is enough. So where are we headed then, guys?
Mission Preparations and Supplies
00:30:33
Speaker
Is there a supply shop of some sorts in Clay Peak where you can find goods, weaponry... Let's go to the open plaza. It's venturing. Okay, I will turn to... I walk to the plaza where I saw the market store setting up.
00:30:49
Speaker
Yeah, I go to the Citadel. I just walk off to the Citadel. Alfred's going to the Citadel. What are you going up to? God. Hello! You did very well at the well. So did you. Good catch. Good. Not good catch. Good catching either. And intimidation.
00:31:08
Speaker
I don't suppose you know of any place where we can kind of gather supplies maybe find some equipment weapons as the such yeah we could go to the guild hall or we could go to the pork district or we could go back and get more milk where's the best place
00:31:27
Speaker
in your opinion? Well, if you want a bit of everything, the Guildhall's got a bit of everything. To the Guildhall then, Shaidar, you're coming along, you seem to be very quiet. Shaidar's still kind of getting in shock at Elfia's actions during the world, he doesn't like it. So he's staying away from Elfia for a bit and he's just going to accompany Drago to the Guildhall.
00:31:47
Speaker
Okay, so we'll do the other person and then we'll go to the guild hall after. So you walk into the Citadel, it's quite an imposing building compared to the other low-level buildings that you have around when you play peak. In and amongst it, you have lots and lots of shops, mainly here, they're selling food items, or lots of food goods as well, so you could stock up on some. Though my idea is to just stock up on travelling gear, travelling, droid goods, all the stuff that we need for travelling. Okay.
00:32:12
Speaker
You can see, uh, Sergeant Lambard, who you saw before, and he is there looking at him. Did you- have you seen him? Have you seen him? Have you seen him? I believe you spoke to my dragonborn companion last night. We're gonna go find him. Dragonborn? Yes. Uh, uh, uh, Beggars Hall. Yes, yes, yes. You're going to go find him? Yeah. Oh, amazing. Oh, that'd be fantastic. Um, when do you leave him?
00:32:32
Speaker
Well, we're hoping to get supplies today and then leave straight away. So any assistance the guy could give in getting a supply, that'd be great. Absolutely. Traveling supplies, water. Traveling supplies, water, you name it. Fantastic, Eddie. Come on, come on, come on. This man comes over, he looks about six billion years old and he has got a...
00:32:52
Speaker
The world had a long, grey, wispy beard. Think of the old man in The Emperor's New Groove that gets thrown off the... Oh, off his groove! I'm thinking he's like really, really, like a whole comedically small person. Hello! Surprised you need me. Yes. Sergeant Lambard here told me that you could finish this with supplies for...
00:33:16
Speaker
Five people? Yeah, of course. Come out here, come out here. Takes you over towards him, like his little stall he has. And in amongst these you've got lots of kind of wooden, rickety stalls with kind of material hanging over the top. There's some light beaming in over the top at this nice day. Gives him a nice kind of bustling atmosphere to be to the place he pulls you around in. Up on a stall behind him. Now, you need water, you need rations. What else might you need? Water, rations, any...
00:33:43
Speaker
Rope and that kind of stuff you might have. Torches. Do you have...
00:33:49
Speaker
What about weapons and all that kind of stuff? Where can we get that kind of thing? Oh, I don't have weapons or anything like that. That's over in the guild hall. You have to switch to one of the guild masters there, you see, yeah? But anything else? What you can say, he's been stocking up in a little satchel, all the elements you might have, kind of counting them up, times eight by five to kind of build him a nice pouch, and then he realizes he needs two of these. He fills a second one up as well, and he's totting up the prices, writing down numbers in his head, and writes down a nice round number of circles that points to Lombard. Yeah.
00:34:17
Speaker
I hit any hands there with you. There you go. Thank you. You're not paying, are you? No, Sergeant Lamb. It'll deal with all the money. Yes. Fantastic. Fantastic. Very good. And if anything else you need. That would be good, thank you. Excellent. Excellent. He hands them over to you. And then you can feel free to kind of wander around the rest of the map. Is there anything else? Is there just food and that? Nothing else? Mainly food and perishables and things like that. But you feel free to have a one run. I'm probably going to head back towards the Guildhall. Head to Guildhall. OK, great. Over at the Guildhall, you see this building.
00:34:46
Speaker
quite a large half-timbered building kind of what stood out on its own just opposite the plaza actually as well decorated with kind of finely carved kind of wood entries that kind of stick out as you walk in the front doors you have a large meeting room and inside you notice groups of people talking jostling a few of them drinking and eating you see a small stall off to the left selling a kind of cooked meat as you walk into the second room following in from that it suddenly opens
00:35:12
Speaker
into a rather small conservative sized room which has on it five or six specific stalls. At this time there's a man right at the far end who's staring directly at the party. It's him stood there, just a human, and he has a small girl next to him. It's a five of you, four of you, sorry, walk-in. He's just staring directly at you. Drago meets his gaze and kind of growls at him in a low, like,
00:35:42
Speaker
And it kind of gives you a come-hitter kind of head. I've seen films like this. I'll show you something.
00:35:53
Speaker
Well he says it. The dragon comes over. He gestures the dragon. Thank you. I like the look. Does he do the head thing? I haven't described the head thing like that. The head twitch. Head twitch. But come over here. Come hither with your forehead. Come hither with your forehead. But come hither is like a creepy finger. It's not that. Don't see many dragonborns here. No.
00:36:20
Speaker
Specimen. Dragonborn. I mean, there's a girl next to me just staring up at you like in awe, just like, whoa. I'm going to always put a shader. Shader. What? He might be in trouble. Which one? The scary one. My lizard. Yeah. Okay. He might want to pretend he is. We'll see how this plays out. They might want to try and buy him. We'll see how it plays out. Right. Thank you for the warning.
00:36:47
Speaker
We've got quite a bit of wares here, though. What are you in the market for? Have you explained to me what you've got? We need general supplies. We're going to rescue some Captain Dondarrion, Dorian... Oh, great. Joolanis. Joolanis. Finally, we've got some folk who are willing to go and rescue, and that's brilliant. What have you got? Well, welcome to... Point up to the sign. The Unicorns Arsenal. Arsenal? It's not my name. My daughter chose it, and she's there like, Unicorns? No.
00:37:15
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, I know. I know. But if I change it now... Anyway, fair enough. I've got a couple of things here that you might be interested in. I've got a mace. I've got some long swords over here. I've got some silver daggers. What is it in particular you're after? Good sir. Potions. Armor equipment. Potions. If you've got potions. This guy looks round a little bit. Yeah, I've got some potions. Okay, why the secrecy? Because it's...
00:37:46
Speaker
Stop magic. You're not from around here, are you? You've said yourself you don't see many dragonborns. That's a very good point, I did say that. I do the other two, are you kind of with him now? I'll stand back a bit. But it's still within kind of earshot? No, probably not. Oh, you already will know this anyway.
00:38:02
Speaker
Elton, you've probably kind of wandered in at this point and kind of... I wonder where the dragonborn is. And he's looking at you. Stop magic. Has anyone told you about that? You've heard anything about that? What, I'm from potions aren't really that hard to come by. No, no, you're totally right. And most of the time potions are relatively easy to come by here, but I've got the special kind of potions, you see. Stop magic. Like magic's coming, you never heard of that, have you?
00:38:28
Speaker
No. Basically, years and years ago, all these little wisps came out of the ground, massive aurora across the world. Everyone can do magic. There's no one told you about this. No. Well, loads of us did do magic for a while, but everyone kept casting fireballs, and it got a bit messy, so we stopped. Are you saying that anybody who was anybody could just cast magic? Yeah.
00:38:51
Speaker
But the problem is it's unrefined. We don't really have any control of it. Not like those guys over in Sanguine in places that could control it and know how to deal with it and people who are trained. Everyone just has that roar ability. It's like anyone can go out with a fishing rod and try and fish. It doesn't mean you're going to catch anything though. So what we have is these potions that we've made.
00:39:11
Speaker
sleep guardians, erythians, the ones that we've made, they're amazing, they're absolutely fucking brilliant, but they always come with a little side effect, something that can fuck you up a little bit, maybe, maybe. So this is a potion that will heal me? Possibly, depends which one you want. Right, so you have other potions that would give me magic?
00:39:33
Speaker
Yeah, in other form, yeah. I'll talk you through some of them in a minute. I think that's a good idea. It looks random. Do you want to go somewhere quieter? You seem uncomfortable. What the fuck is that noise? That fucking bard is coming again! Justin! Take your bagpipes! Fuck off! We've heard that song so many times today! Jesus Christ, I'm here! My lord!
00:39:58
Speaker
Does he often come in here? He does have an arm there and he's a little proud of him. Haven't you got a potion to get rid of him? Well, finally enough, I've got a potion of silence and boom! Pulls out this deep blue aurora liquid. It's a messy coloured glass bottle vial, but the liquid seems to be pulsating, but it's not like a nice... kind of a glowing pulse. It's kind of a bit electric on the inside, doesn't look totally controllable. Now, the catch alarm of this is they say silence is golden. Get used to it. Now, what this does is, and kind of...
00:40:27
Speaker
What this does is, it means you are silent as the night. You can walk behind guards, you could pickpocket not that you would, you're upstanding citizen, you could pickpocket... No, I kill you right. Yeah, you could nick stuff from people, they wouldn't even know you were there. You're not invisible, but they know you're there. The problem is though, you're mute for three hours. So that's what I've got. I'll reach on the group and he'll come in packed. So I've got our travelling supplies for Wietwirth's
00:40:56
Speaker
We can get some milk in the way, don't we? This is the last one I've got, though. Now, I really shouldn't show this, because this one I'm actually looking for, and it is blacklisted, and he opens up a small box and pulls out this deep black, tiny little vial, puts it on the desk, holds it there for a second, and puts it back under again. That one's the madness of invincibility. Yeah, so...
00:41:16
Speaker
What it means is, and he lowers his voice a little bit more now, you're invincible to damage magical, normal spells for 10 minutes. But there is a highly probable chance that you will go insane. For how long? I don't know. It really depends. And what that is, that is invincible to all damage for 10 minutes, but then you roll on the short-term madness table. If you roll a 1 to 20, you roll again, but on the long-term madness table.
00:41:46
Speaker
10 minutes of absolute invincibility. What's your price on all of these? Well, the stock prices are a little up there. You know, the invincibility is going to cost you at least 2,600 gold and the potion of silence. I could probably get that.
00:42:04
Speaker
I could get that at you for 400, I reckon. What about some cheaper potions? I've gone through quite a bit. I've got, um... What else have I got? Did you hear any of these on these potions? They're quite interesting. I did. But do you have any, like, the normal health potions? It looks a bit deflected. Yeah, I've got a few. Goes, like, for 300... What did it say there? How much for the... 300 gold apart, but how much gold have you got on you, Draghead? I've got enough. What, for one of them? Yes. Okay. Would you like one of them, sir? I am thinking about it for now.
00:42:34
Speaker
You look like a strong man. Don't. Don't do this. Did you like? I have a fourth potion. I've saved just for you, my man. Right. If you're interested. You only got to say yes now. That'll be silly. That'll be silly because you know what it is. Yes, then how about you tell me what it is? This one's called Blind Strength. Right? Brain's ever-brawn. I don't think so.
00:42:59
Speaker
This makes you hella strong for 24 hours, but it means you're hella dumb for 24 hours. Basically it's a plus three strength for 24 hours, you're intelligent and wisdom drop both to six. So it makes you just this dumb, dumb ass and just fucking strong.
00:43:22
Speaker
That's amazing. How much is that? 600. What kind of interest are you in then, sir? Not to rush you at all, but I shouldn't particularly be selling these numbers. No, I appreciate you showing them to me. No, I'd like to live an extra stocky, if you know what I mean. Absolutely. Talk to my friend Althea for now. I need to account my coins. Okie dokie. Do you buy items of people? Depends what really we're selling. What have you got? Pulled out the Rod of the Pact keeper.
00:43:50
Speaker
you're looking to buy it? Sell it for? Well, I know what it is. Okay, that's fair. That's a good starting point. Elfia, is that your name? Thank you for that. Do you know what it is? Well, I've seen them in pictures and I know of the rods and what their capabilities are and I do know, now that you mentioned Pactkeeper, I get a sense of its ability. I know some people in Obsidian are really interested in buying that. Okay, okay. I mean, if you want to take it off my hands and that's
00:44:18
Speaker
I trade. Okay. I give you the madness of invincibility for that rod. How much does the madness of invincibility worth? Two thousand. Two thousand six hundred gold. How about I just, you just give me the coin. I don't have that much coin. What else? Perhaps we could trade for some other things. I'm not endeared to these potions. You should trade for the potions. Okay. Can you buy it self-driving?
00:44:41
Speaker
What the fuck is wrong with UL Theatre today? I swear down I am going to end you right here. I'm going to lead over to Claude just for a minute.
00:44:50
Speaker
I've got five gold on the dragon ball. About your silver, the silvered bag. Silvered dagger and he pulls out a small dagger there and he turns on the side this and he kind of spins it round with his finger showing you it. This comes with a very reasonable 322 gold pieces. Right. And as you read the inscription on the side and it is in common and on the side it just says foes slain by this weapon are transformed into glass statues.
00:45:17
Speaker
The effect doesn't actually affect how you can kill if you need to kill or maim or whatever it is you need to do, but it's a nice touch. Yes, it is. You know what I mean? And it reaches down a little bit. This one, this was created by some elves quite some time ago actually. It's a small dagger, it's a plus one dagger. What's really interesting about it is in the dark it sheds light.
00:45:42
Speaker
that basically acts as like you've got the spell light on at all times. An ornate weapon created by the elves of an ancient dominion many, many, many years ago. How much for that? 2,000. Well how about I give you the rod? Careful, we're coming at the unicorn's arsenal.
00:46:03
Speaker
The rod is going up. We've got to take you the rod for the two daggers and one of your, those healing potions. That's a lot. How about, how about we make an arrangement, meet somewhere in the middle. How about I'll give you the healing potion and I'll give you the second dagger, the elven dagger that sheds light for the rod. We'll call it evens and you shake hands in it and have a good day's business. Well, how about,
00:46:32
Speaker
I, sweet with you, I've got to hear a scroll. Does the spell entangle? How does that feel about if I add another item to this? Yeah. Can I have a look at that, please? Yeah. Can I have a look at the scroll? He looks over at it, and he starts tracing his hands around. Oh, fucking excellent. Oh, yes, yes. OK, yep, yep, deal. Yep, you've got it. And he takes the run, takes the scroll. He puts the rod on the floor and starts reading through the scroll and looking at the scroll in a little detail. Oh, this would be very handy, actually. This would be very handy, indeed.
00:47:02
Speaker
I take the glass dagger for myself, I take the plus one dagger, and I give it to Tali. The one that creates light. Yes. And for you, we give the light of the elf. Oh, thank you very much. That's very kind of you. I think you might need something just in case things get a bit up close and also it will help you in the dark. Thank you. And she slides it into a... Keeps your hands free for casting out spells. It does. That's a very good point, especially with the heavy boot as well. And he's still looking at it.
00:47:31
Speaker
He's looking at Drago and saying, to get this, do you get, there's a scroll, do you know? No. You're very excited about it though. Yes, I am. I feel like you got a very good deal. Well the thing is right, proper scrolls like these are very hard to come by, but what you can do, you can start rubbing out sections of it, replace it with shorthand magica, and what you do is you start to fucking upgrade it. You stock that.
00:47:57
Speaker
so you can upgrade hold on are you saying that you've taken this scroll or you will take this scroll and bottle it into some sort of potion nope i'm gonna keep it as a scroll i'm gonna keep it as a scroll but these scrolls right you obviously don't fucking know anything do you you've got three tiers of scrolls dude you've got three tiers of scrolls you've got tier one like this one which is your bog standard one safe as they come you've got tier two stop magic trusted though yeah but
00:48:24
Speaker
They always have a little side effect. There's always something, but I get the bolster a little bit, not tightly controlled. Then you got TF3, like my potion I got, which makes you a bit mad in the head. That's our blacklisted scrolls, right? These scrolls, I'm not gonna use it for that though. They make absolutely no sense. But what it does is, right? Get this, it's fucking brilliant. You just read it out. You semantic, you verbalize it. You do what you read, whatever you see on the page. If you get it right, a random spell happens. You have no control over which one it is. But imagine this, my friend Rago.
00:48:52
Speaker
Imagine if it's a wish. You fucking imagine if you get a wish. But the downside is, obviously, if you get, like, fireball or, you know, lightning bolt, you just cast up yourself and you die. You're a special kind of person, aren't you? Oh, it's not just me. There's many of us all around. You keep an eye out, you keep an eye out. We're usually the ones with chaos in our eyes. Okay. Yeah? And normally people don't like to know we're stockies because they don't want to live near us because we blow shit out. I feel very, very good for your daughter.
00:49:21
Speaker
Yeah. If you could convince her to change the name of the store though, that would be great. Okay. Because the unicorn's arsenal, it has a certain... Arsehole sound to it, yes. It has a certain ring to it that, a kind of literal ring to it. You don't think you want that? No, no, no. I think I was a really good... What's your name? My name. I have a bog-standard name that you would expect to hear from any other place. 10. My question to you would be, why the fuck do you want a nail?
00:49:47
Speaker
of one of those. Because, you know, if you then go and tell me or... Well, no, I was just thinking about return business, but you're really that kind of kid. Oh, no, no, no, I'm so sorry. I thought you were just... I thought you were just... you were going to go dog me in or something like that. Tell me. Dog you in. You know... Get me in shit. Get you in shit. Get me arrested, you see. Why would... Because I'm not allowed to be selling these potions. So, I don't care. Okay, I didn't know that, do I? I don't know you, do I? I mean...
00:50:18
Speaker
What, is my silence worth something? Is it worth a discount on those potions? Not really, no. My name's Boritio. So if I just went and grabbed a guard and brought him here, I mean, what would happen?
00:50:30
Speaker
Well, here's what would happen in a step-by-step place. You have a choice right now, you can either give me some discount on these potions, then you've worked real hard, or you've just kind of slipped up here and let me know that what you do shouldn't be done, and I can just kind of rain on your parade. Can you roll perception for me please?
00:50:48
Speaker
And meanwhile, like, and you guys can play when I start that, you can sort of shake down, you can sort of also shake off something you need to buy. You very clearly see, as he starts explaining to you, well basically, what would happen first of all, you very clearly see him start taking his potions down.
00:51:05
Speaker
and start packing away all those belongings as you start saying. Very simply, what would happen is you would lumber off to go and get a guard and then as you were doing that, I would literally tell him to try and sprint away. I go to grab him. Could you roll the athletics check please? 23. You've rolled a five.
00:51:26
Speaker
I think this is exactly good for protecting the castle. Calm down. I'm not going to tell anyone. You said you would though, that's all I'm going to say. I was trying to have a discount. Yeah, well, you just made me shit myself a little bit because now I've got a dragonborn hanging on my neck. You need to chill. No one's coming for you. Keep your shop here. I'm not going to hold on.
00:51:54
Speaker
I threatened the stocky. I'm not threatening, I'm trying to calm it down. He was scrolling me and I turned into a vlog for four days. No one's going to hurt you. You've got a daughter. You've got your shop. Just stay where you are.
00:52:12
Speaker
Well, for that, and let's just call it quits, and let's say, return business sounds like a fantastic fucking idea. I'll give you one of these, and these slides are one of the deviating healing potions to you, and just said, just to keep you sweet. Not being racist or anything. Is that a racist thing to say, keep you sweet? He's already sensitive. That's what I thought. I can't figure him out either. It's very kind of you, and I accept it. We will be back for a return business. Okay, just, you know. Look after that daughter of yours. Yeah, where the fuck's she gone? Oh shit, I'll be back in a minute.
00:52:41
Speaker
packs the last of potions away and wanders off looking around for sweet so that potion is heals 5d4 plus two yep and then you roll a constitution saving throw yeah on the 14 plus everything is fine
00:52:57
Speaker
If you fail it, you're poisoned, and you take half the healing properties. It'll be fun when Elthir invariably can get some conscious, and that's what I used to get him up. What's my dagger blasting? It's your bug-standard dagger, except that if you kill a creature with that dagger, they instantly turn to glass. Because it counts as magical.
00:53:20
Speaker
The strikes. So normal blows and then it's just imbued with magic for that final hit. So it's normal up until that last blow? Yeah, fair enough. Let's give my 10 drops to zero, then it's nice. Cool. Elphir, you said you had all the supplies. I have got the travelling supplies for a week.
00:53:42
Speaker
I spoke to Sergeant Lambard, who pointed me directly at a man, and Sergeant Lambard carried the cost. Where is this Sergeant Lambard now? Back at the Citadel. Okay, I suggest we go and visit him one last time to talk about payment. Okay, so we're heading back over to... What other stalls are there? We've been to one, yeah. We have indeed. Two of them are currently out of business at the moment. You look at one which seems to specialise in selling scroll.
00:54:06
Speaker
and ones. It doesn't have a name above it and the one off to the other side and then the last one is a specialist store that just deals primarily in kind of body armour and leathers especially. The room we were in and the entry room where they were feasting, was there anyone wearing similar colours to me or anywhere in the town centre on the walk through? To a natural perception, 18. Yeah. I had it out. No. No, 15 sorry. Oh, roll for it then.
00:54:36
Speaker
with anything, any of your kind of colours that you would recognise in that.
Claude's Tavern Adventures
00:54:41
Speaker
I'll just follow them. I can't afford anything in this place.
00:54:45
Speaker
So we head over and the star of Lombard is still stood outside and he sees Althea approaching. Is this the group? This is the party that will go and rescue Captain Grulani. We really need a name. My name is Drulani. No, we as a group need a name. My name is Claude. Oh, that's not them. I'm Lombard, nice to meet you. Now, you probably need to know where you're going. Before we do, because we're going to save your comrade.
00:55:15
Speaker
Your captain wants the payment for this. Well, accommodation, food, gold. Gold? Okay, now you're talking our language. How much gold? Oh, drillers would be best for that. Two thousand, three thousand gold? The each? No, for the group. There's a small settlement here, you see, that's all we've really got. So, if I... It's a lot of money. It is, but I kind of really needed that. Three thousand gold and it's done. Deal. He puts out a hand.
00:55:45
Speaker
So, you're going to the swamp and you're heading west of here and you're pretty much just
00:55:54
Speaker
walking into the swamp. Where in the swamp were we last seen? The last, well, the reason Drelalis went out there to begin was to try and find that there was some talk of some undead movement they'd seen in the basement of the swamp. I need to ask, do you recognise my tabard? Have any of the Academy come this way recently?
00:56:20
Speaker
headed to the swamp if there's undead chances are we'd be interested it's all now hearsay at the moment i didn't realize you were from the academy um no but there is a guy over in the in the beggars hall he's been in there for the last couple of days where's a similar setup to you actually oh and what did he look like
00:56:45
Speaker
Long black hair, roughly beard, angry, swore a lot. Very drunk. Quite old. I'm going to head over there now. Be careful, because he's a bit of a dick. It's alright. We've all got some baggage in the way. Yeah, okay. But then we're going to rescue through Linus and find him at least. How far is it to the swamp?
00:57:10
Speaker
Had days travel so we could we could very we could I'm sorry. Sorry the swamps just the outskirts the swamp just Oh, probably four hours walk so we could we could we spent a few hours in town? We could spend a few hours camp just outside of the swamp and then I'm okay with camping head off fresh cuz that way we're not wasting time. That's a good idea Claude He's gone. I think Yeah, I used to it yourself
00:57:37
Speaker
can talk to this chaglier man okay we'll come with you thanks you you you should because I don't trust you if there any milk in the citadel you should be careful with stock magic it kills people you know I see magic what remove people's bodies from their skeletons I've seen magic what removes skeletons from people's skeletons
00:58:05
Speaker
turn animals into other animals, and I've seen magic what did funny colours and hurt. I've seen magic what put people to sleep. Claude, you seem to know a lot about magic. I've seen some magic, did I say? Are you a magic user yourself? That's a bit personal. I don't, you don't sort of ask people that. How much do you know of the arcane arts?
00:58:36
Speaker
with magic. I think it's best if you go walk away and see your friend. I don't think he's going to be friendly by the sound of it. Okay, well.
00:58:45
Speaker
you lead on but please don't drink that potion you near me i will probably give it to you to drink and i might oh i won't be drinking now lead on lambard's still kind of stood there looking a bit perplexed he still hasn't told you where you're going i haven't told you where you're coming um you said the swamp the swamp but outside west and side keep right in the middle just head for the center that's what he was looking for that'd be a good place to do i'm looking for some milk
00:59:12
Speaker
Yes, the end time will probably be best. I don't have any... Okay, I'll go buy some milk. And there's a vendor who happens to sell it by the pint and you jog with the lid on there. How many would you like? A bit of the milk, because I have a few, you see. I'll take three pints. Three pints? For my friends. Eighteen gold, please. Eighteen gold? Yes. Yeah, all right then. Why not? There you go. Excellent. Eighteen gold! What have you got done? I've made it for the other sellers at that point. Thank you.
00:59:44
Speaker
It's a three for one, it feels bad. Tosses you a fourth. Carton of milk. For 18, maybe just give me a fifth. Oh, you're haggling. That's fair, that's fair. It gives you a fifth. I got after the deal. Now, get out of here, you scum, you rinse me of a really good deal. What was your name, I'm sorry. My name, Mirena.
01:00:06
Speaker
Okay, thank you Lorena. The milk store, you see? I want Lorena on the milk store. If you need milk any time, you know, £18 for five. Cats. Who's calling them Dale Cats or are you calling them? It's a goal. It's a goal for five. So we're heading back to the... As we walk in, it's getting... I'm going to say it's kind of late afternoon at this point. We've had some snacks and food during the day as well. We can go to the welfare.
01:00:34
Speaker
You walk in and it's empty and it's just Brandon kind of stood in the store facing the door as you walk in he goes hello I'm glad you're here. What happened? Well nothing happens and he just points to the corner and in the corner you see a man with again long disheveled black hair through down to like his chest. He's wearing kind of underneath kind of
01:00:57
Speaker
Rested bits of armour and you can see very clearly on the front of his kind of abdominal region the white crest which you would recognize But it's kind of muddied and dirty and he's kind of stood there He's got eight or nine ale glasses on front of him and he's just sat there staring at them Um, hello, don't take them. I know that look and you're gonna take my fucking
01:01:22
Speaker
Tails. I won't take no ale. I don't drink. Helps me keep my head fresh. It's true. I've just seen him drink milk. Do you want some milk? You know it. You're not a place to drago. You're not a human thing. Oh, he doesn't like that. Well, he's not a fucking lie. He's not a human thing. He doesn't like that.
01:01:45
Speaker
He's not wrong, Claude. I knew how pointy he is. He's not very engaging. And he's not endearing himself to this table. Claude, I've got five pints of milk. Fuck, that's a lot of milk. How much did you pay? Thank you, Elvin. That must be like five silvers worth, Elvin. If you're gonna get fucking flossed, it'll be like a copper piece of ball. That's how much I pay.
01:02:14
Speaker
He'd rather pay you for them! You're a dwarf! And he points to Shae like that. I thought you'd say you wanted, but he points at him and like pokes him in the cheek because he's that close and pokes you a couple of times. If I may fill your cup up, sir. Well, I would be so very honored to, sir. And I'll break into the first pint of milk. You put fucking milk in my ale, man. Please. We must shake hands first, and I'll replace it for ale. I promise. Right, okay. Well, this is the fuck is this. You all right? And he shakes his hand.
01:02:49
Speaker
Do I notice that this is going on? Or is it just a pretty long handshake? Give me a perception. If you like, it's all a wrong perception. I'm not trying to hide it. Okay, fine. You all notice. Do we see a sign? I assume it's a semantic name. You're the first spellcaster we've got in this group.
01:03:06
Speaker
Yeah, I got a dart in it. Sorry, you punched wood as well. I'm confused where you're coming from. So, yeah, cat step on touch. And what are you hoping to achieve with... We're coming with some of his mental state. Sobriety. Okay, nice, okay. And he kind of looks a bit funny at you and kind of shakes his head once or twice. Are you feeling better? No, I feel sober. Good. That shit. I will let you return to your drinking if you answer me this question. Yeah.
01:03:39
Speaker
I was drinking until you touched me up and sobered me up and now... It's called a handshake. Well, I know the weather you fucking call it. I now sober and I want... I need your answers. Hang on a minute. What are you doing? Yeah. Claude. I recognise your... Not many people know my name. The head that's on top of your body. I recognise it a little bit. Your face. Thank you. Your academy.
01:04:08
Speaker
Well, yeah. Because of the thing. We got the same thing on our chest. Oh, bloody hell. What are you doing? What is your mission? Why are you here? Oh, I'm out. I'm out. I would like you to explain why you're out. I was out two years ago. Fuck that. Have you been there? Yes. No, have you been there? Have you been... Have you been to the Blight? Yes. Fuck that.
01:04:35
Speaker
Are you serious? I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, look I'm not a wuss. We swore an oath to contain it. Yeah we might have done that but I've seen some shit there and I cannot be going back there.
01:04:49
Speaker
I can't be dealing with that. It never leaves my head. I can't sleep. And when I do sleep, I don't dream. I have nightmares and it never fucking ends. But we can end it if we stop it. Have you seen how many there are? Millions. Millions. There's no fucking chance of stopping them. We're just going to get overrun. So I might as well drink in Clay Peak until they fuck me up now. They're in the swamp.
01:05:12
Speaker
No, they're probably not fucking us, they're just surrounding us. Relax gonna fall, and then boom, sleep guard goes, and we're all fucked. So we've got a very negative outlook on life. Yeah, the dead are coming back to life. That's a pretty negative outlook to be alive in. I see. I will leave you to your drinking, but I will require you to hand me that road back, please. It takes a second
Prophecies and The Blight
01:05:36
Speaker
and processes what you're saying. Fair.
01:05:40
Speaker
I appreciate you not doing me in anymore and he takes it off and hands it, I kind of tosses it over to you. You might want to know though, people talk and you're a lot, people know you're here. Just saying, it's not me. What do you mean by long? You just hear voices, you lot, look at you, I mean you don't exactly blend into the world. I know, we're trying to blend in, it's really difficult for us to blend in. I'm just saying that, I'm just saying that, you know. Well, at the start, that's bad.
01:06:06
Speaker
There's this lad in Silverlight, at the moment, he was there passing information on, he's gone all over the place and... But we've not been here very long, how does someone know about us already? And more importantly, what are they calling us? They don't got a name, they're just... Claws. Uh, not sure. Shader Elphinias. Antalya. Antalya? You got my name wrong.
01:06:32
Speaker
Um, but just like people know you're here, just saying, obsidian will know, drought will know, it'll know. Good, let them know. I think it's best if you leave. Alright. When we come back to Clay Peak, don't be here. Fuck this place anyway. What's your name?
01:06:52
Speaker
Rename? Yeah, you know mine. I need to know yours. Hedra. Hedra. H-E-D-R-A-H. Hedra. Thank you, Hedra. It's fine. I don't intend to stay alone. I'm off to Ford or Cleardale or anywhere that's furthest away from them, this car. This side of sleep guard.
01:07:12
Speaker
You won't see me here again when he gets up. Finishes the milk ale. That's probably separate. Has them enjoy. And then puts the glass down, turns it over and kind of pushes past Talia and kind of walks out of the place. And you see Brandon just audibly. Hello. What's that about? Maybe another time. What's the blight?
01:07:39
Speaker
Blight's the area where I'm dead that Rose has named itself one of the kingdoms because there's a prophecy about this. Do you know about this? Yeah I know about this. What do we know about this? I thought you weren't from here. Hailea told us. Awesome. I thought you weren't from these lands. Hailea told me. Do you have a blight in your land? There was something like the blight at one time. It's the blight.
01:08:01
Speaker
something you're scared of or your land is not scared of it. There was something like the Blight that has been fought before. It's your organisation, looking at Claude, designed to defeat the Blight. Yes.
01:08:17
Speaker
What do you call yourselves? Well, we are the Academy, the Hailstorm Academy. We are training to join the Hailstorm Search. They are the forces on the front lines.
01:08:33
Speaker
They are led by a very courageous man, my former know. Well, some say he's very capable of many things. I used to serve his family as the royal executioner of Sleetguard. But he's not of the Sleetguard family anymore. When he took over the hailstorm, Sergey gave up his royal titles.
01:08:57
Speaker
That would be Lucian. Lucian Blight Bane, they call him, leader of the search. Well, one of the leaders. There are a few commanders. And one day when I finish my training, I will join the ranks at the search. And defeat the Blight.
Journey to the Swamps
01:09:14
Speaker
Yes. Although I quite like to think I could do it quickly. It'd be nice to get on the front lines. No time like the present. Let's head to the swamps. Thanks for telling us that, Lord. Yeah.
01:09:28
Speaker
So where are you from? What's this about? A new place? How about we tell you on the way to the swamp? And we'll start packing up our stuff. I thought we were sharing. We are sharing, but we can share and walk.
01:09:42
Speaker
And as we were going to stand and start packing our stuff up and we head out of town and start heading across to the west towards the swamp lands, which you did see when you first landed. It's kind of misty area off to the west where the colours seem to blend into sepia tones and browns and dark blacks and greens. And the swamp lands and trees start to kind of encapsulate to get closer and closer to the swamp. And that is where we'll hold it for this session for today.
01:10:09
Speaker
Thank you very much everyone. That was a solid bit of RP and zero... So much RP. Zero fighting. Is that the third episode? No fights, I think it might be. I was literally like, you're gonna get to this fight. Well, you know, next time it will make it even more... Can we try other times to pick a fight? Yeah. And so do you. I've tried to pick a fight. Elthir went... Elthir tried to kill somebody. Yeah! In a world! It sounds like he couldn't swim.
01:10:34
Speaker
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01:10:39
Speaker
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Speaker
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Speaker
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01:11:34
Speaker
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