Crooked Crossroads

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Session Summary

Setting & Arrival:

Party approaches Ballader through ash-filled Ashway Town in freezing conditions
City mobilizing for war with citizens being armed and trained
Kingdom of Mara revealed as oligarchy where people must pay to breathe air
Party chooses Falling Stars Inn over military Lost Dream Inn

Major Events:

The Magical Heist:

Kaz successfully pickpockets a size-changing coin from mysterious wizard (natural 20)
Coin allows size manipulation but tracks user and returns when discarded
Wizard (later revealed as Alsdair) deliberately allows the theft

Anarchist Recruitment:

Manny and Wilfred meet “the Oak” at Lost Dream Inn
Discover Oak works for anarchists, not government
Both receive anarchist signet rings and take binding oath
Learn Manny’s mother Edith was an anarchist
Tasked with warning “the Birch” in Alberfeldi
Escape through tunnels as soldiers raid the inn

Shopping & Acquisitions:

Vincent sells equipment for 550 gold at armory
Kaz steals necromantic gem from magic shop (contains bound soul for animate dead)
Vincent purchases enchanted cart with warmth, space expansion, and camouflage for 450 gold
Acquires trained mare named Starlight who loves apples

Magical Learning:

Alsdair offers to teach Kaz magic in exchange for future thievery
Kaz learns Thunderwave spell
Agreement made to steal wand from Alberfeldi bank

Notable NPCs:

Alsdair: Mysterious wizard enabling Kaz’s chaos and offering magical tutoring
The Oak: Anarchist spy master who recruits party members
Starlight: Intelligent mare eager to travel

Important Items Acquired:

Size-changing tracking coin
Anarchist signet rings
Necromantic gem with bound soul
Enchanted cart with multiple magical properties
Thunderwave spell scroll

Mission Updates:

Primary goal: Warn “the Birch” in Alberfeldi about incoming military threat
Secondary goal: Steal wand from Alberfeldi bank for Alsdair
Party now bound to anarchist cause through magical oath
Two weeks travel time to reach Alberfeldi

The session transformed the party from simple adventurers into anarchist agents carrying powerful magical artifacts while being tracked by a mysterious wizard’s enchanted coin.

Session 5: The City of Shadows and Secrets

A Pulp Fantasy Adventure Narrative Summary

The Approach to Ballader

The bitter wind howled across the frost-covered plains as our unlikely band of adventurers approached the imposing silhouette of Ballader through the ash-choked streets of Ashway Town. The acrid smell of countless charcoal fires filled their nostrils, a constant reminder of the city’s desperate preparations for the coming winter siege. Ice crackled beneath their boots with each step, and the very air seemed charged with tension and dread.

Ballader rose before them like a fortress preparing for war—and indeed it was. Citizens who should have been tending shops or farms now marched in ragged formations, hastily armed and trained for conflicts they barely understood. The clatter of weapons and the sharp commands of drill sergeants echoed through streets where cold protection rings were being forged by the hundreds, magical talismans against the supernatural winter that threatened to descend upon the realm.

The Kingdom’s Dark Truth

As our heroes made their way through the city’s outskirts, the grim reality of the Kingdom of Mara revealed itself in all its dystopian horror. This was no true kingdom, despite its name—a magical contract signed by long-dead rulers had bound the land to an oligarchy so absolute that citizens were forced to purchase contracts merely to breathe the air in their own cities. Outside these urban prisons, anarchy reigned supreme, with hidden Confederate cities scattered like secret refuges across the endless plains.

The social stratification hit them like a physical blow as they witnessed well-dressed nobles strolling past alleyways where the desperate huddled near heating vents, seeking warmth from the city’s centralized system that ran through tunnels beneath their feet. It was a world where breathing itself had become a commodity, where freedom was a luxury few could afford.

Sanctuary Among the Falling Stars

Avoiding the military-controlled Lost Dream Inn—named with bitter irony after the crushed aspirations of those press-ganged into service through magical conscription—the party found refuge in the Falling Stars Inn within the affluent Blue Crest district. Here, among the strange fashion of completely shaved heads and eyebrows that marked the elite, they secured lodging for six gold pieces in an establishment that catered exclusively to travelers.

The inn itself held mysteries—bars that appeared on windows at night only to vanish by dawn, enchanted silence that fell like a shroud over their quarters, and magical devices embedded in the walls that remained tantalizingly beyond reach. It was a place where even rest came with invisible watchers and unknown protections.

The Fateful Theft

In the inn’s common room, over bowls of steaming beef stew and rough rye bread, destiny came calling in the form of a mysterious wizard whose robes bore the insignia of Alsdair Lost. Manny’s arcane senses detected the powerful magical aura emanating from the stranger, and with a guidance spell whispered like a prayer, he aided Kaz in an act of thievery that would change everything.

The halfling rogue’s fingers moved like quicksilver, and with a roll of the dice that spoke of divine favor—a natural twenty—they liberated a seemingly innocent coin from the wizard’s possession. But the mage’s knowing wink revealed this was no random theft; it was an invitation, a test, perhaps even a trap.

The coin’s true nature soon revealed itself: a device of size manipulation that could shrink its bearer to the size of a mouse or expand them to giant proportions. Yet with this power came a terrible price—the coin’s creator could track its user’s every movement and see through their eyes. Worse still, the cursed thing would return to its wielder’s pocket no matter how many times they tried to discard it.

Divided Loyalties

The next morning brought separation and revelation in equal measure. While Vincent and Kaz ventured into the city’s markets and shadows, Manny and Wilfred sought out the Oak at the notorious Lost Dream Inn. What they found there shattered their understanding of the conflict brewing around them.

The Oak, far from being a government spy master, revealed himself as an agent of the anarchist underground—freedom fighters working to topple the oligarchy that strangled the kingdom. With anarchist signet rings pressed into their hands and ancient oaths binding their souls, Manny and Wilfred found themselves sworn to a cause they barely understood. The discovery that Manny’s own mother had once worn such a ring added a personal dimension to their newfound allegiance.

Their recruitment came not a moment too soon. Government soldiers, marked with glowing brands that proclaimed their indentured servitude, stormed the tavern with crossbow bolts and flashing steel. Through hidden hatches and forgotten tunnels, the new anarchists fled as flames consumed the Lost Dream Inn behind them, erasing another sanctuary from the city’s already diminished store of safe havens.

The Marketplace of Wonders and Terrors

Meanwhile, Vincent’s silver tongue and magical charm worked their own kind of sorcery in Ballader’s commercial heart. At the armory, he divested himself of adamantine scale mail and finely crafted short swords, earning 550 gold pieces while learning of the soldiers’ reluctance to fight—men and women magically compelled to serve against their will.

Kaz, ever the opportunist, created chaos by toppling weapon displays before slipping away to even greater mischief. At an enchanted items shop, the young rogue’s nimble fingers claimed a prize beyond mere gold: a dark blue sapphire that danced with inner light like captured northern aurora. Unknown to them at the time, this gem housed a bound soul capable of animating the dead—a necromantic artifact of considerable power and terrible potential.

The Wizard’s Bargain

The mysterious wizard revealed himself at last as Alsdair, a practitioner of arts both subtle and profound. In him, Kaz found an unlikely mentor willing to trade magical knowledge for services rendered. The first lesson came in the form of a Thunderwave spell, inscribed on parchment with color-changing ink that seemed to write itself. In exchange, Alsdair requested assistance with a future heist—the theft of a wand from a bank in distant Alberfeldi.

This bargain sealed with words rather than contracts represented something new for the party: an alliance built on mutual benefit rather than magical compulsion, a relationship where chaos and learning walked hand in hand.

Preparations for the Road

As their final day in Ballader drew to a close, the adventurers gathered supplies with the methodical precision of those who understood that the road ahead held perils beyond imagining. Vincent’s tinker’s tools produced experimental exploding shot—though not without singeing his eyebrows in the process—while the party visited a cheerful baker whose rotund form and warm smile provided a brief respite from the city’s oppressive atmosphere.

Yet even simple errands carried reminders of their precarious position. Wanted posters bearing the image of a raccoon in suspiciously familiar clothing served notice that their activities had not gone entirely unnoticed by the authorities.

The Enchanted Conveyance

Vincent’s negotiations bore fruit in the form of an extraordinary cart, black as midnight and equipped with enchantments that spoke of serious preparation for the trials ahead. Warmth spells would protect them from the killing cold, space-expansion magic created a hidden compartment large enough to house secrets or supplies, and camouflage enchantments would render them nearly invisible under cover of darkness.

Their new mount, a sturdy mare named Starlight, proved as remarkable as their conveyance. Through Wilfred’s communion with the natural world, they learned of her love for apples and eagerness to travel—a kindred spirit ready to carry them toward whatever destiny awaited.

The Journey Begins

With supplies secured and alliances forged in shadow and flame, the party loaded their enchanted cart with everything from expensive rations to field manuals that would teach them survival skills for the road ahead. The hidden compartment swallowed their more sensitive acquisitions—necromantic gems, anarchist rings, and other items that might prove difficult to explain to curious authorities.

As they rolled across the bridge spanning Ballader’s icy river, the sound of ice grinding against ice served as a grim prophecy. Winter was coming, and with it an army that would march across the frozen waterways to bring war to lands already scarred by oppression and fear.

Behind them, the city of Ballader continued its desperate preparations, unaware that among the travelers departing that morning were agents of change carrying tools and knowledge that might tip the balance of the coming conflict. Ahead lay Alberfeldi and the spy master known as the Birch, whom they must warn before soldiers arrived to silence another voice of resistance.

The adventure had truly begun, and with each turn of their enchanted wheels, our heroes carried themselves deeper into a web of intrigue, magic, and rebellion that would test not only their skills but their very souls. The road stretched before them like a ribbon of possibility and peril, leading toward a confrontation with forces that would determine the fate of an entire kingdom.

Epilogue: Seeds of Revolution

In the space of a single day, four unlikely companions had transformed from simple adventurers into something far more dangerous—agents of change in a world that desperately needed it. They carried with them magical artifacts of considerable power, oaths that bound them to causes greater than themselves, and knowledge that could topple governments or save lives.

The wizard Alsdair’s coin linked them to mysteries they barely understood, while the necromantic gem offered power over death itself. Their anarchist rings promised aid from hidden allies, and their enchanted cart provided both mobility and concealment for the trials ahead.

Most importantly, they carried hope—hope that the oligarchy’s stranglehold on the Kingdom of Mara might finally be broken, that people might once again breathe free air without payment, and that the coming winter would bring not just war, but the possibility of genuine liberation.

The Falling Stars Inn had lived up to its name, for in its halls, new stars had been born—bright points of light that would navigate by their own moral compass through the darkness ahead. Their journey to Alberfeldi was more than a simple mission now; it was the first step in a revolution that would either free a kingdom or see them all destroyed in the attempt.

As Starlight’s hooves beat a steady rhythm on the frozen ground and the cart’s enchanted wheels turned silently in their wake, our heroes rode toward a destiny that none of them could fully comprehend—but all of them were determined to face with courage, cunning, and the unbreakable bonds of friendship forged in the crucible of shared adversity.

Crooked Crossroads, Kaz Sirota, Manny Green, Seeking Loramigs, Wilfred Stump

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/elias-werner4/episodes/Entering-Ballater-e354ble

Transcript

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Yes, we’re going to pick up as you’re getting to the outside of Ballader.

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As you’ve been rolling down the road, the smell of ash and smoke from many, many campfires has been growing thicker.

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The smell of burning coal in the city is filling the air.

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As it grows colder, people are burning more to stay warm.

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An oak is in Ballader?

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Yes.

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Okay.

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I don’t see my token.

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There’s no tokens on the map right now.

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Okay.

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You should just be able to see the map right now.

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Is that correct?

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That is.

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Yeah.

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As you’ve been traveling, the cold has been settling in, the frosts becoming more frequent.

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And every morning as you get up again, there’s ice in the road.

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The wind is howling as you approach the city.

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If you look at the map, you are coming from the west into Ashway Town.

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As you approach Ashway Town, you smell its namesake.

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It’s the home of most of the charcoal burners around.

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Charcoal being one of the primary ways people heat their homes in the city.

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Their business is overflowing right now, and the smoke is filling the sky.

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Like a forge in here.

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Yeah.

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Has anybody ever been to Belator?

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I have not.

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Would I have been to Ballator?

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I know I’m from but more up north.

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You would have passed through while traveling there.

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Okay.

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I’m going to tell you a little bit about the kingdom of Mara.

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Just a little bit, not too much.

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I don’t want to just dump a bunch of lore on you.

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But the kingdom of Mara is not actually run by a king.

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It’s known as a kingdom due to an issue with a magical contract the kings made.

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And it cannot be referred to as anything other than a kingdom until the dead kings consent to it being renamed to a different type of country.

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Now, I’m going to go over it in brief, but I am going to share the wiki page for Mara in the chat.

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Mara is a country that is primarily run by an oligarchs who control resources and many natural occurring things.

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There’s even to such a degree that some of the people of Mara in the cities have to buy contracts just to be able to breathe the air.

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I’m on such a state.

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Now, the reach of the oligarchs doesn’t extend too far outside of the cities.

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And outside of the cities, it is primarily anarchy, as they don’t care to enforce the laws without any corporate interests involved.

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Now, the groups of anarchists have loosely formed Confederate cities, which are hidden in between the plains.

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It is difficult to tell who is an anarchist and who works for the corporations at first.

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But once you find them in one of these cities, you know that they are one of the anarchists.

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Now, the city of Ballatur is currently being mobilized.

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The everyday citizens are being given swords and being trained for war as rings of cold protection are being mass-produced to prepare for a winter invasion.

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Seems like we tend to attract war.

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Yeah.

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Anyway.

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I guess we should find an inn or something.

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Yes, we’ll have the one in the will be going to for business, but that should be our home base, especially since we don’t want to be seen.

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Have I, when I passed through, do I have an idea of like what a good place for us to stay?

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That could be a good place to lay low versus the that would also be a decent distance from the dream lost dream inn.

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Because I want to make sure that we are keeping these separate enough.

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So what I also know more about are yes.

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So you would know, you two would know that the lost dream inn is a military inn by the military ward.

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If you look where you see Greenfall Rock, it’s that black building right underneath the O of rock.

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It’s named from the lost dreams of those who are conscripted into the military due to magical contracts that they signed unknowingly.

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Oh gosh.

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So don’t sign any people up here.

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Got it.

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You know, a good place to stay, Trix, where you’ve stayed before, is an inn in the Blue Crest.

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It’s much smaller than the Lost Dream, but it is known as the Falling Stars.

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In which case, I think I just start walking and kind of.

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Save my shoulder.

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Come on, follow me.

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I’m our place.

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Okay, let’s follow her.

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Yeah, we’ll follow them to that inn.

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As you’re walking through the town, you see many people of various classes.

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The majority of people you see on the streets are well-dressed, but as you look past them into the alleys, you see people dressed in rags, barely holding together against the cold, huddled up against vents where the warmth is rising from underneath the city.

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This city is built with centralized heating for the majority of the city, which is what the charcoal burners are usually making the charcoal for.

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So there are vast channels where normally a city might have sewers.

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Above the sewers, there are these large tunnels for heating.

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Pleasantly warm outside, even in the dead of winter.

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Yes.

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As you walk approaching Blue Crest, you see the people becoming much higher brow, the clothing much nicer, and strangely, they all seem to have shaved heads as you get towards Blue Crest.

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Not only that, but they’ve shaved their eyebrows as well.

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And the majority of people walking here are elves, humans, and half-elves.

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You don’t see many of other races.

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Hey guys, why are they all shaved?

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Have I heard of anything about why there’s the shaved heads in this area?

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But you do remember being told in the swamps that the people of the cities have strange and rapid fashion trends.

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Must be a new trend.

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The city folks in the cities always try to keep up with ever the latest fashion is.

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Oh.

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Okay.

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Walking through there, you find yourselves outside of the Falling Stars Inn.

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So if I’ve said it before, like, how many times would I say it here?

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Like, would I know the MP robot under here, or would it just be like, oh, I know of this place?

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You know of this place.

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You haven’t been here many more than two or three times.

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As you enter the Falling Star Inn, you see a variety of people inside, mostly traders.

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But you notice no one with the shaved head is going inside the Falling Star Inn.

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On the outside, you see a sign that says exclusively for travelers.

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Stepping inside, you find it pleasantly warm and well lit.

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There’s light music playing in the back of the tavern, and you see people being served a variety of delicious foods.

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There is no bar here, only tables.

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And everyone being served, it’s being served by people coming from in and out a back room where the kitchen is.

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The right, you see stairs leading up to the rooms available for rent.

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The barkeep, how much for a room?

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The man looks at you with long flowing hair and thick bushy eyebrows.

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He says, Rooms are two gold piece a night per bed.

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Per bed?

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Per bed.

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Okay.

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Some rooms have one bed, some have two, and a few have three.

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Do we all want our own rooms?

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Do we want to try to make money?

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We just.

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I mean, because if it’s good bed, then wouldn’t it still be?

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Even if we got a room with two beds, it would still cost the same as buying two single rooms.

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Is that correct?

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Yes.

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Yes, it is.

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It’s up to you guys if we want our own rooms or not, I guess.

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Fine, either way, if you feel we need safety and numbers, we could share otherwise.

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I mean, financially, it’s the same.

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I’m kind of tired and hungry.

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So, and I can sleep with like next to any one of you.

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It’s all okay.

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I mean, we could all look at what size of the bed are these like single occupants.

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How fifty do we need to get here?

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This could normally hold two people at most.

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I’m good asleep in a floor, so do we want to get my bedroll?

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I’ll be good.

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We just get we could get one of the three-bedroom rooms and then just someone in the double bunks or four asleep save some money.

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So that’s a seat as well.

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What, six gold for getting one of the one three-bedroom room?

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Yes, six gold.

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Okay, I will pay two of the gold.

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I’ll pay two.

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I’ll pay two.

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Yeah, I think I think Kazm just kind of watch you putting money forward.

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Just kind of be like, Yeah, last time I was here, I kind of slept in the stables without them knowing, so I’ll happily strip them in one of your beds.

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They make sure to say that without the bartender listening.

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So, you don’t need to know.

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The button doesn’t need to know how I know this place.

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Yeah.

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And hotels don’t normally like.

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I have shoved way more people in a hotel room than is actually allowed.

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Oh, yeah.

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I am yet to be open.

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The hotel did not care about.

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Oh no.

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If there’s a small little fox in the stable with the horses, why would you see them?

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You know, just curl up in all of the hay, hide behind it, bail yourself in it, nice and warm.

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Yeah.

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As you hand him the gold, he hands you one key with a long rope attached.

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Who feels the most responsible?

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I’ll take the key.

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Okay, I’ll pass it on as you will bed then.

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What is the special for food-wise?

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Tonight, beef stew with rye bread.

00:11:20.559 –> 00:11:21.440
Sounds good to me.

00:11:21.680 –> 00:11:22.320
How much is that?

00:11:22.879 –> 00:11:25.919
That’ll be five silver a plate.

00:11:28.720 –> 00:11:30.799
I think we all kind of look at Cass.

00:11:31.440 –> 00:11:32.960
He didn’t pay the room.

00:11:36.000 –> 00:11:46.639
As you look at Kaz, Kaz just kind of looks back and says, There’s a really nice bakery a couple streets down, and at the end of the day, they always throw out all the stuff that they weren’t able to sell because it would vegetate otherwise.

00:11:46.720 –> 00:11:51.600
And admittedly, it’s not as fresh as it would be in the morning, but it’s still pretty tasty.

00:11:51.919 –> 00:11:52.639
Okay, okay.

00:11:52.879 –> 00:11:54.240
I pay for the room.

00:11:54.720 –> 00:11:55.680
A little bit of booty.

00:11:58.480 –> 00:11:59.519
It’s on my tab.

00:11:59.840 –> 00:12:01.200
I’m tired of eating goodberries.

00:12:01.360 –> 00:12:02.480
No offense, my friend.

00:12:02.559 –> 00:12:05.759
But I’ll get your good berry.

00:12:05.840 –> 00:12:06.799
I’ll take it a little bit.

00:12:08.000 –> 00:12:10.799
Well, maybe we’ll buy the flesh bread.

00:12:10.879 –> 00:12:13.360
I’ll take the cas, but maybe we’ll buy the bread when it’s fresh.

00:12:13.600 –> 00:12:17.519
I don’t know about you, but at least I’m not hurting for coin that much.

00:12:17.840 –> 00:12:18.559
No, not yet.

00:12:19.200 –> 00:12:21.600
I mean, fresh bread would taste even better.

00:12:22.480 –> 00:12:26.879
But no, I mean, yes, Kaz is like a long, nice cloak, but you can tell that is years old.

00:12:27.039 –> 00:12:29.519
Lots of like patches on it.

00:12:32.240 –> 00:12:34.399
You are definitely a survivor.

00:12:35.360 –> 00:12:35.680
Yeah.

00:12:37.680 –> 00:12:39.200
Let’s find us a table.

00:12:40.399 –> 00:12:42.879
As you walk through, there are many open tables.

00:12:43.200 –> 00:12:46.080
Would you like a booth or a table in the center of the room?

00:12:46.399 –> 00:12:46.879
Booth.

00:12:47.200 –> 00:12:47.519
Booth?

00:12:47.840 –> 00:12:48.799
Yeah, booth.

00:12:50.080 –> 00:12:56.960
As you climb into the booth, you see the sides of the booth going up to the ceiling, providing additional privacy for conversation.

00:12:57.279 –> 00:12:58.399
Perfect.

00:13:00.240 –> 00:13:03.440
Sort of scanning the room while I eat.

00:13:03.680 –> 00:13:06.639
See if anything pops out suspiciously.

00:13:06.960 –> 00:13:17.759
As you scan the room, it is mostly wealthy travelers and people who would normally be avoiding the kind of lodgings adventurers typically go for.

00:13:18.720 –> 00:13:27.279
You see lots of nice clothes, lots of well-kept hair, and lots of money being casually thrown around.

00:13:27.920 –> 00:13:35.360
Do I see anyone that has like any items on them that kind of exude some kind of magical energy?

00:13:35.680 –> 00:13:36.559
Roll our Kana.

00:13:36.639 –> 00:13:38.000
Let’s see what you can pick up.

00:13:38.319 –> 00:13:38.720
Sure.

00:13:39.680 –> 00:13:42.879
I make grandpa noises and slightly dose off.

00:13:50.399 –> 00:13:50.960
Damn.

00:13:51.279 –> 00:13:54.720
You notice various small magical traces from around the room.

00:13:55.039 –> 00:14:01.680
However, across the room, there is something in someone’s pocket that is exuding a great deal of magic.

00:14:02.000 –> 00:14:06.720
Far more than you would normally expect to find from an item someone carries with them day to day.

00:14:07.680 –> 00:14:11.840
Hey, I’m just going to go to the little fox’s room and then I’m going to get up.

00:14:12.159 –> 00:14:16.720
And as I pass this person, I’m going to see before you get up.

00:14:18.399 –> 00:14:22.559
I sort of touch you on your shoulder and say, you alright?

00:14:22.879 –> 00:14:24.480
And I cast guidance.

00:14:26.399 –> 00:14:28.240
Guidance to go to the loop.

00:14:29.200 –> 00:14:30.160
Well, you don’t know.

00:14:30.720 –> 00:14:32.319
I kind of figure out what you’re doing.

00:14:32.639 –> 00:14:32.879
So.

00:14:33.440 –> 00:14:34.399
Fair enough.

00:14:36.240 –> 00:14:36.480
Yeah.

00:14:38.160 –> 00:14:45.680
I’m just going to nod and slight smirk as I go off tailwagging.

00:14:46.000 –> 00:14:48.799
And then I’m going to try and pickpocket this person.

00:14:49.680 –> 00:14:51.600
And that’s why I did guidance.

00:14:52.480 –> 00:14:52.960
All right.

00:14:53.120 –> 00:14:56.480
You’re going to have to make a sleight of hands.

00:14:58.240 –> 00:14:58.799
Oh, no.

00:14:59.360 –> 00:15:00.799
But I can add guidance, right?

00:15:00.879 –> 00:15:01.759
Which is a default.

00:15:01.840 –> 00:15:01.920
Yes.

00:15:03.320 –> 00:15:03.639
Yes.

00:15:03.960 –> 00:15:05.159
You have a plus 10?

00:15:05.320 –> 00:15:06.279
God damn.

00:15:07.559 –> 00:15:08.200
Holy shit.

00:15:08.440 –> 00:15:09.480
That’s a dirty 20.

00:15:10.360 –> 00:15:11.000
Dang.

00:15:11.639 –> 00:15:13.960
I got 30 20 by rolling a seven.

00:15:16.519 –> 00:15:17.399
God damn.

00:15:17.720 –> 00:15:19.879
Hey, like I said, Kaz isn’t a survivor.

00:15:20.440 –> 00:15:28.919
As you dip your hand in, you feel around and you pull out a single coin that radiates magic.

00:15:29.879 –> 00:15:36.440
I pocket it and steal myself to not look at it until this evening.

00:15:37.080 –> 00:15:49.879
You know, this is a wizard wearing robes that are notably from the city of Alsdair that’s lost over in Droidk, far to the south of here.

00:15:50.200 –> 00:15:53.720
Is it that same wizard guy we traveling merchant we found?

00:15:54.360 –> 00:15:54.600
No.

00:15:55.080 –> 00:15:55.159
Okay.

00:15:55.720 –> 00:15:58.519
I sort of tap on Wilfrid’s shoulder.

00:15:58.600 –> 00:16:00.039
It’s like, all right, let’s get to bed.

00:16:01.000 –> 00:16:01.240
What?

00:16:01.879 –> 00:16:02.120
What?

00:16:03.720 –> 00:16:04.840
Is the food here?

00:16:05.480 –> 00:16:07.399
No, the food hasn’t arrived yet.

00:16:08.600 –> 00:16:09.080
Never mind.

00:16:09.159 –> 00:16:10.360
I thought we ate already.

00:16:10.680 –> 00:16:18.200
As Kaz comes back to the table, you’ll see someone walking over towards you with four large bowls and four loaves of bread.

00:16:20.919 –> 00:16:27.559
As they set it down in front of you, they also set down a small bowl of soft butter in the center of the table.

00:16:28.440 –> 00:16:30.039
This is going to be great.

00:16:34.200 –> 00:16:37.000
Yeah, even though Kaz is a fox, they’re going to wolf it down.

00:16:41.159 –> 00:16:42.919
Sorry, how to say that.

00:16:44.840 –> 00:16:50.600
Anyone who watches, this is probably the first proper meal Kaz has had in a while.

00:16:52.840 –> 00:16:55.399
Like, we haven’t been eating berries for a week, so.

00:16:57.799 –> 00:17:02.919
Like, even before meeting up with you guys, Kaz probably has a matter of presentation.

00:17:06.039 –> 00:17:17.720
As you listen to the sounds of the tavern, Kaz, you notice as the wizard walks away, he catches your eye and winks and continues walking out of the tavern.

00:17:18.920 –> 00:17:20.599
Can I make an insight check?

00:17:20.920 –> 00:17:21.559
Yes.

00:17:24.039 –> 00:17:25.880
So the wizard knew you took it.

00:17:26.200 –> 00:17:28.519
No one else noticed, but he knows.

00:17:29.480 –> 00:17:31.160
And he’s letting you keep it.

00:17:31.799 –> 00:17:32.680
All right, screw it.

00:17:32.920 –> 00:17:34.599
I’m not going to hide the fact that I have it now.

00:17:34.680 –> 00:17:36.680
I’m going to take it out and look at it and investigate it.

00:17:37.000 –> 00:17:37.960
What will I get?

00:17:42.759 –> 00:17:47.720
As you hold this coin, you see it shimmer and change shape.

00:17:48.680 –> 00:17:54.360
As you hold it, whatever image you think of it being, it slowly melds itself into that shape.

00:17:54.680 –> 00:17:56.920
What do you imagine it becoming?

00:17:58.440 –> 00:17:59.720
Oh, good question.

00:18:00.599 –> 00:18:04.759
I think I imagine it becoming.

00:18:05.400 –> 00:18:15.400
So is it like it stays the size of a coin and it just changes up to about twice the size of a coin or a quarter the size of the coin?

00:18:16.039 –> 00:18:32.680
Okay, in which case I think it kind of grows and in kind of into a flat disc twice the size of the coin and it seems to be like a portrait of someone.

00:18:34.519 –> 00:18:42.519
As you feel the coin grow, you feel yourself growing until you are sitting at about twice the size you were before.

00:18:45.720 –> 00:18:45.880
What?

00:18:48.039 –> 00:18:49.160
Can I shrink the coin?

00:18:49.880 –> 00:18:53.319
Wilfred doesn’t notice as far as his good soup.

00:18:55.880 –> 00:19:01.160
What is with all of the glowing inch magic that this group now has?

00:19:01.799 –> 00:19:05.240
What happens if I shrink the coin and make it into something smaller?

00:19:05.559 –> 00:19:07.400
Then you shrink as well.

00:19:08.920 –> 00:19:10.440
This is so cool.

00:19:12.599 –> 00:19:17.799
Coin, you can become large or tiny and anything in between.

00:19:19.400 –> 00:19:20.599
You can become tiny.

00:19:21.240 –> 00:19:23.880
Does that mean I can lift you up with mage hand?

00:19:24.519 –> 00:19:25.000
Yes.

00:19:26.519 –> 00:19:29.799
That just spends the rest of the evening just becoming different sizes.

00:19:30.680 –> 00:19:34.279
Hey, I can now levitate you essentially.

00:19:34.920 –> 00:19:36.759
Did the fox shrink?

00:19:39.000 –> 00:19:42.759
I think at some point we are me and Kaz are testing out the whole mage hand theory.

00:19:43.079 –> 00:19:48.279
I’m just like slightly hovering you above the above the table with the mage hand.

00:19:49.240 –> 00:19:49.639
Yes.

00:19:51.799 –> 00:19:53.559
That’s crazy.

00:19:54.920 –> 00:19:55.720
How did you do that?

00:19:57.160 –> 00:20:01.240
Oh, a wizard that just left gave me a coin.

00:20:01.880 –> 00:20:02.200
Oh.

00:20:04.160 –> 00:20:07.119
I didn’t even notice his going going to a table.

00:20:07.440 –> 00:20:08.640
Nice for you.

00:20:14.960 –> 00:20:16.960
I really want to know who that wizard will smell.

00:20:17.599 –> 00:20:20.079
I’m sure we’ll run into them again.

00:20:20.319 –> 00:20:22.000
I have a feeling.

00:20:22.640 –> 00:20:23.839
Roll history.

00:20:24.160 –> 00:20:24.720
Sure.

00:20:26.319 –> 00:20:27.759
You know where he’s from.

00:20:28.079 –> 00:20:34.559
You know he’s an important wizard from Al’s Dair Lost, but you don’t remember really, really what he does, and you don’t really know who he is particularly.

00:20:34.799 –> 00:20:36.240
Just what area he’s from.

00:20:36.559 –> 00:20:37.839
Gonna see that little coin.

00:20:38.000 –> 00:20:40.079
I’ll give it right back, I promise.

00:20:41.119 –> 00:20:47.119
Or Bengal has a type, but I will give it to you, but won’t take my eyes off it until I have it back.

00:20:47.759 –> 00:20:50.000
I cast identify on it.

00:20:50.559 –> 00:20:54.720
As you identify this coin, it has several magical properties.

00:20:55.359 –> 00:21:06.319
The most prominent being able to change your size, but also there’s a spell on it that allows the creator to identify who uses it and wherever they are.

00:21:06.799 –> 00:21:10.720
Wizard knows exactly where you’re at at all times, pretty much.

00:21:11.680 –> 00:21:16.480
Not only that, the wizard can see through the eyes of whoever has the coin attuned.

00:21:18.079 –> 00:21:19.920
That’s not a good thing.

00:21:20.240 –> 00:21:22.480
If we want to be sneaky.

00:21:22.799 –> 00:21:25.680
And finally, there’s a bit of an enchantment.

00:21:25.839 –> 00:21:33.279
You could look at it a curse one way or a blessing another, but no matter what you do to the coin, it will show up in your pocket again.

00:21:33.599 –> 00:21:39.279
I hand the coin back and tell her the properties of the coin.

00:21:42.640 –> 00:21:47.440
So, does that mean the wizard will see it if I do this?

00:21:47.680 –> 00:21:54.880
And then I’ll just kind of put the coin in my mouth and just kind of like chew on it.

00:21:56.799 –> 00:21:58.319
You can hear me chewing, Nick.

00:22:02.640 –> 00:22:03.680
Probably.

00:22:06.559 –> 00:22:08.240
Don’t put the coin in your mouth.

00:22:08.400 –> 00:22:09.839
It’s a bit of a bacteria.

00:22:11.440 –> 00:22:13.279
I’ve put worse things in my mouth.

00:22:14.400 –> 00:22:18.559
As you are finishing eating, your bowl’s empty and your stomach’s full.

00:22:18.880 –> 00:22:23.279
You see, the light outside has faded, and the streets are growing quieter.

00:22:24.240 –> 00:22:25.839
Let’s go to our room.

00:22:26.160 –> 00:22:26.400
Yeah.

00:22:27.200 –> 00:22:33.920
Go to our room and get along resting before we take care of business in this town.

00:22:35.839 –> 00:22:36.400
Let’s go.

00:22:36.720 –> 00:22:37.599
I have the key.

00:22:37.920 –> 00:22:38.400
Yes.

00:22:38.720 –> 00:22:43.119
As you go up to your room and you enter, you notice something strange.

00:22:43.680 –> 00:22:50.720
The windows have bars over them, and the door has a thick, sturdy bar to throw across it to keep it closed.

00:22:51.039 –> 00:22:53.279
The locks are heavy.

00:22:53.920 –> 00:22:54.799
Hmm.

00:22:55.759 –> 00:22:58.000
I think we took the prison suit.

00:23:01.599 –> 00:23:04.799
Like the bow throwing over the door, that’s on the inside.

00:23:05.119 –> 00:23:06.319
Yeah, that’s on the inside.

00:23:06.640 –> 00:23:16.319
Okay, so we’re not gonna get locked in, but it definitely seems like they might be expecting trouble or prepared for it here.

00:23:16.880 –> 00:23:17.440
Yes.

00:23:17.759 –> 00:23:19.680
Okay, I thought it was on the outside.

00:23:21.039 –> 00:23:23.519
Let’s try to put the coin outside the door.

00:23:23.759 –> 00:23:25.839
Let’s see if it end up in your pocket again.

00:23:27.599 –> 00:23:27.839
Okay.

00:23:29.039 –> 00:23:33.759
As you set the coin down and you watch it outside the door, it doesn’t move.

00:23:34.079 –> 00:23:38.799
But as soon as the door closes and it’s out of sight, you feel a heavy weight in your pocket.

00:23:39.119 –> 00:23:39.920
Oh, that’s so cool.

00:23:40.000 –> 00:23:41.119
I’m going to try that again.

00:23:44.720 –> 00:23:47.440
We’re all just looking at the coin when you pick it up again.

00:23:48.960 –> 00:23:50.559
How did you do that?

00:23:50.880 –> 00:23:53.360
I’ll be the greatest wizard of all time.

00:23:56.880 –> 00:24:00.319
Now, what do you want to do before you prepare to sleep?

00:24:01.920 –> 00:24:05.039
I don’t think there’s anything that Manny needs to do.

00:24:05.680 –> 00:24:09.920
Do we feel the need to have any sort of sleep rotation?

00:24:10.240 –> 00:24:12.640
I think this is a safe area.

00:24:13.680 –> 00:24:19.599
Maybe put the heavy bow down just in case and hopefully get a good night of sleep.

00:24:20.559 –> 00:24:27.039
As you prepare to sleep, you hear the music in the tavern stop and everything grows quiet.

00:24:27.680 –> 00:24:30.960
And then all sound from outside your room is gone.

00:24:31.200 –> 00:24:36.799
As an enchanted silence falls over your room, you fall to sleep peacefully.

00:24:40.240 –> 00:24:40.720
Yes.

00:24:41.599 –> 00:24:47.920
You awake to the sight of light coming through the windows, and you don’t see any bars.

00:24:49.119 –> 00:24:49.519
Sorry.

00:24:49.759 –> 00:24:53.840
The bar on your door is gone as well, but the thick locks remain.

00:24:55.039 –> 00:24:56.160
Interesting.

00:24:59.039 –> 00:25:01.440
Just a safety precaution at night?

00:25:01.920 –> 00:25:03.840
This is otherwise looks like the safe.

00:25:05.319 –> 00:25:05.640
Room?

00:25:06.119 –> 00:25:08.440
You know, the magical silence is gone.

00:25:08.759 –> 00:25:13.240
You can now hear the busyness of the streets and the sounds from the tavern below.

00:25:13.880 –> 00:25:14.839
Interesting.

00:25:15.799 –> 00:25:30.599
If I look around the room, can I see any sort of like magic symbol or ward that might have had those effects of like you know the silence like the code of silence-ish or any of that?

00:25:30.920 –> 00:25:33.960
You see a couple of intricate devices on the wall.

00:25:34.599 –> 00:25:41.720
They thrum with magical energy, but they are locked from the outside and you cannot get in to access the controls.

00:25:43.240 –> 00:25:44.119
Interesting.

00:25:44.599 –> 00:25:45.319
Pretty cool.

00:25:45.640 –> 00:25:50.680
Yes, seems like this inn has some unique features.

00:25:52.279 –> 00:26:01.240
Well, do we want to move in our group and have those of us head off to the lost dream?

00:26:01.559 –> 00:26:09.720
Or is there anything we want to take care of as a full group before we go temporarily separate ways?

00:26:10.039 –> 00:26:12.359
I don’t think we need to do anything as a full group.

00:26:12.680 –> 00:26:12.920
No.

00:26:13.480 –> 00:26:16.359
You guys can go meet this oak.

00:26:17.240 –> 00:26:19.400
And I think I have the note still.

00:26:20.680 –> 00:26:24.200
Yeah, I had some of the information in the ring.

00:26:24.519 –> 00:26:25.960
Yeah, here’s my snake.

00:26:26.200 –> 00:26:28.359
And I can take out the picture snake.

00:26:30.440 –> 00:26:32.680
I give it to Vincent.

00:26:33.960 –> 00:26:40.839
I give my snake to either Manny or Wilfred.

00:26:41.079 –> 00:26:42.200
One of you guys.

00:26:42.839 –> 00:26:43.000
Yeah.

00:26:43.960 –> 00:26:45.720
We’ll happily take the snake.

00:26:46.039 –> 00:27:00.200
Well, before we leave the room, though, I’m going to kind of turn the coin into a merry just so I can then say to my reflection, hey, wizard guy, anything that you hear, we promise we’re not doing anything bad, we’re just doing it right now.

00:27:02.039 –> 00:27:08.920
Like just ignore us or just use us as a kind of fun play that you’re watching.

00:27:09.880 –> 00:27:14.680
Anyway, and then I just kind of put a front of my lap in my mouth again.

00:27:16.759 –> 00:27:20.039
Yeah, this wizard is going to be so annoyed at me.

00:27:20.759 –> 00:27:24.440
Well, isn’t it that he sees through your eyes and not through the coin?

00:27:25.079 –> 00:27:26.839
What does he see through the coin?

00:27:29.640 –> 00:27:31.960
He sends all of Kaz’s senses.

00:27:34.119 –> 00:27:37.000
The reason was the methyl in my mouth with the coin.

00:27:37.400 –> 00:27:39.880
This wizard is going to find me so annoying.

00:27:40.039 –> 00:27:42.680
He’s going to regret letting me take that coin, basically.

00:27:43.480 –> 00:27:44.039
Love it.

00:27:44.360 –> 00:27:44.920
I’m going to go.

00:27:45.160 –> 00:27:46.360
I’m going to go sell some stuff.

00:27:46.519 –> 00:27:48.119
You want to come with Kaz?

00:27:48.440 –> 00:27:48.680
Yeah, sure.

00:27:49.319 –> 00:27:49.880
Alright.

00:27:50.519 –> 00:27:51.480
Can you give me…

00:27:51.720 –> 00:27:56.119
If you’re going to go sell some stuff, can you give me one of those antifreeze rings?

00:27:57.240 –> 00:27:58.759
Like cold resistance ring?

00:27:59.079 –> 00:27:59.240
Yeah.

00:27:59.880 –> 00:28:00.119
Okay.

00:28:01.000 –> 00:28:01.880
If I could find one.

00:28:02.200 –> 00:28:04.200
And it’s not terribly priced.

00:28:05.400 –> 00:28:07.480
I do not have a lot of gold.

00:28:07.799 –> 00:28:08.360
That’s right.

00:28:08.440 –> 00:28:12.200
I got some things I could sell, so we’ll see how much I can get.

00:28:12.519 –> 00:28:13.000
Yep.

00:28:13.319 –> 00:28:13.559
Yeah.

00:28:14.039 –> 00:28:14.759
I can sell enough.

00:28:14.920 –> 00:28:17.960
We can get a cart and a horse.

00:28:18.360 –> 00:28:19.880
Make travel a lot easier.

00:28:21.319 –> 00:28:27.960
I can temporarily summon horses, but I do not have the ability to temporarily summon coats.

00:28:28.519 –> 00:28:31.160
How long does my horse last?

00:28:32.039 –> 00:28:33.079
One hour?

00:28:33.400 –> 00:28:36.680
I can get us one hour of horse, but that’s it.

00:28:40.119 –> 00:28:41.559
Normal amount of horse.

00:28:41.720 –> 00:28:42.360
One hour.

00:28:43.000 –> 00:28:43.480
Yes.

00:28:46.119 –> 00:28:46.599
Sundown.

00:28:47.799 –> 00:28:51.960
Yes, we’ll make sure we’re back before the sun sets.

00:28:52.279 –> 00:28:55.000
And we’ll be in touch if anything comes up.

00:28:55.319 –> 00:28:55.960
Oh, good old.

00:28:56.440 –> 00:29:01.160
Then yeah, Wilfred and I will make our way towards the Lost Dream Inn.

00:29:02.440 –> 00:29:09.319
As you step out into the busy streets, you see people of all kinds going about their business.

00:29:09.640 –> 00:29:15.799
A lot of the ones with shaved heads are walking to and fro here, but none of them go near your tavern.

00:29:16.440 –> 00:29:18.440
They don’t even seem to notice it.

00:29:20.279 –> 00:29:22.519
Now, which group would you like to focus on first?

00:29:22.759 –> 00:29:26.840
The one heading to the Lost Dream or the one heading to the market?

00:29:27.480 –> 00:29:28.680
Mm market?

00:29:28.840 –> 00:29:30.519
Or no, no, Market, uh, Lost Dream?

00:29:32.119 –> 00:29:33.319
Tie it with me.

00:29:35.799 –> 00:29:47.079
Manny and Wilfrid, as you are walking towards the military ward, down the streets of Blue Crest, over to Greenfall Rock, you see more and more of the military personnel.

00:29:47.400 –> 00:29:50.360
You see some of them with large swords and bows.

00:29:50.680 –> 00:29:52.200
Some have guns.

00:29:53.720 –> 00:29:58.759
Some are walking through the streets with other weapons that you have never seen before.

00:30:00.360 –> 00:30:04.759
But all of them, all of them, have a brand around their neck that glows red.

00:30:06.319 –> 00:30:08.160
Marking them as indentured.

00:30:09.119 –> 00:30:10.400
I’m sorry, what does that mean?

00:30:10.559 –> 00:30:10.720
Sorry.

00:30:58.319 –> 00:30:59.599
Let’s go over talk to him.

00:31:00.559 –> 00:31:02.880
So I shall approach.

00:31:04.319 –> 00:31:06.079
As you walk up to the bar, the man looks at you.

00:31:06.240 –> 00:31:07.359
What can I get for you?

00:31:19.440 –> 00:31:21.599
He looks at you a lot very suspicious.

00:31:22.240 –> 00:31:23.440
Why do you know that?

00:31:23.759 –> 00:31:24.799
Who are you here for?

00:31:25.359 –> 00:31:28.799
Well, we are here to deliver a message to the oak.

00:31:29.359 –> 00:31:36.000
Something that was, I will take the ring and I’ll put it down on the table.

00:31:36.480 –> 00:32:05.920
Unfortunately, this individual had been taken out by some, well, unsure of at what point, but we through a series of we became we acquired this ring not from its previous owner, but from some bandits and found out that there was some important information that needed to make its way back to you as it deals with quiet eyes.

00:32:06.240 –> 00:32:08.960
Doesn’t say a word and just keeps looking at you.

00:32:09.279 –> 00:32:13.119
Manny will meet his gaze and just stay right back.

00:32:13.759 –> 00:32:20.400
Smiling, just, you know, the is it okay to discuss the business here?

00:32:20.960 –> 00:32:23.759
Or do we need any more private?

00:32:24.640 –> 00:32:26.799
You say what you say is true.

00:32:26.960 –> 00:32:28.559
I need you to do a job for me.

00:32:29.119 –> 00:32:38.000
Well, see, would you like the message first, or what is this job?

00:32:38.480 –> 00:32:39.839
Tell me the message.

00:32:40.480 –> 00:32:43.920
The agents in Albane have been exposed and are being routed.

00:32:44.240 –> 00:32:53.839
There’s someone to blame, so there must be seems like a traitor or someone who has sold out whatever agents you had hidden there.

00:32:54.160 –> 00:33:00.960
He looks around quietly around the room, and you notice the soldiers are listening intently.

00:33:01.920 –> 00:33:07.039
You notice none of them have drinks, and none of them have sheaths on their swords.

00:34:01.759 –> 00:34:04.240
No, you must keep it a secret even from them.

00:34:05.200 –> 00:34:05.680
I see.

00:34:53.599 –> 00:35:00.480
Well, I guess if you do not wish to do this, you can sign a contract saying you will never tell anyone of this.

00:35:01.119 –> 00:35:04.159
But either way, you must leave with your silence ensured.

00:35:07.159 –> 00:35:17.239
Silence is easy enough, and I do believe we were going to be making a way at least not too far from Alba Felty.

00:35:21.079 –> 00:35:25.000
The Spy Master leans at you, and he pulls out a signet ring.

00:35:25.239 –> 00:35:27.400
We don’t work for the government here.

00:35:28.039 –> 00:35:28.280
Oh.

00:35:29.079 –> 00:35:30.679
We are here to undermine them.

00:35:31.000 –> 00:35:34.760
That is why the Spy Master must flee before the army arrives.

00:35:35.400 –> 00:35:39.320
And he hands you an insignia ring, which, Manny, you recognize.

00:35:39.480 –> 00:35:42.760
This is a ring of the anarchists of the country of Mara.

00:35:43.079 –> 00:35:43.400
Oh.

00:35:44.760 –> 00:35:48.920
He says, While you wear this ring, you will be able to find the nearest enclave.

00:35:49.239 –> 00:35:57.960
Should you wish to enjoy us in these efforts, we will be able to find you more work, and we will be able to help you in your endeavors.

00:36:00.840 –> 00:36:07.639
See, now Manny is conflicted because Manny was only doing this because I thought it could help me get in good with someone who I need to meet way down the line.

00:36:07.960 –> 00:36:12.199
But if you need to infiltrate the government, we can get you along those lines.

00:36:12.840 –> 00:36:18.679
I do have favors for favors here, so we’ll need something from you as you get higher up.

00:36:19.960 –> 00:36:31.800
Yes, there’s just I have business with someone in someone in Gordon’s fallen health here.

00:36:32.920 –> 00:36:35.239
Yeah, we are trying to stay pretty neutral.

00:36:35.480 –> 00:36:37.400
But we’re as neutral as it gets.

00:36:37.719 –> 00:36:39.079
We’re not a part of any government.

00:36:39.400 –> 00:36:43.400
We only believe in freedom and the end of oppression.

00:36:44.440 –> 00:36:57.960
Yeah, and I assume you mentioned you would have ties that could help me get in with someone because they uh part of the existing ruling class of yes, we can.

00:36:58.920 –> 00:37:05.639
How how much of a favor would me delivering this message earn me?

00:37:06.199 –> 00:37:08.599
We can give you some introductions in the city.

00:37:08.920 –> 00:37:11.880
Get you started on your way to meeting the people you want to.

00:37:12.199 –> 00:37:13.639
That would be helpful.

00:37:13.960 –> 00:37:16.840
Mother will be upset if I take too long on this.

00:37:17.480 –> 00:37:19.239
Well, kind of turned to Wilfred.

00:37:19.719 –> 00:37:34.440
I, for my own means, may need to accomplish this, but if you just wish to only sign the contract and be done with it, I will not force you to do any more of the business with me.

00:37:34.760 –> 00:37:35.800
No, but it’s okay.

00:37:37.400 –> 00:37:39.559
I follow you as you follow me.

00:37:40.920 –> 00:37:46.840
It sounds like we’re we will deliver this message for you.

00:37:47.159 –> 00:37:47.639
Yes.

00:37:48.599 –> 00:37:53.159
You must tell the spy master that he needs to flee to an enclave immediately.

00:37:53.480 –> 00:37:55.960
That among the soldiers there are those who will come for him.

00:37:56.280 –> 00:38:01.320
If he is not out of the city by the time the soldiers arrive, he will surely be killed.

00:38:03.559 –> 00:40:06.840
And just so we you said when the river freezes is when the soldiers will be coming as soon as the river is frozen thick enough to march in general about how many days a week would one expect that to be based off of previous seasons three weeks at the soonest five at the latest feel like that should hopefully match our schedule if you leave now you will get there before they march on foot it is about two weeks march from across the river to alberfeldi but you should be able to travel lighter and faster than the army can yes you need a physical signature he holds out a glowing sigil it’s a stamp with runes engraved in it says hold out your hand and this will be your signature and it’s just we do not tell anyone we complete this mission for you and if we break any of those we uh cast asunder and into the fae wild there’s i i know not that i assume this of you but i just know there is many contracts that are signed unknowingly in this city i want to make sure that i am being thorough yes we don’t believe in the trickery that others do here can i insight check yeah can we do an insight insight i feel like he’s on the up and up but i think you can roll with an advantage if i check too right yes oh so i have all voice on this roll again then we okay nice manny you realize he’s telling the truth but also you recognize something you remember your mother had one of these sigils as well oh like this exact one like she may have dealt with the ogo event heart of done work for this

00:40:08.880 –> 00:40:13.280
Oh, she was an agent for the anarchists like the oak.

00:40:13.920 –> 00:40:14.559
Heck yeah.

00:40:16.000 –> 00:40:18.320
I was kind of like, oh, hmm.

00:40:18.639 –> 00:40:22.159
Didn’t know that mother was had worked with you before.

00:40:22.719 –> 00:40:25.920
Had I realized that, would have said yes sooner.

00:40:26.239 –> 00:40:31.199
I think my eyebrows go straight up like looking at you, but what did she say?

00:40:31.760 –> 00:40:32.000
What?

00:40:33.519 –> 00:40:34.960
But I keep quiet.

00:40:36.159 –> 00:40:36.719
Hmm.

00:40:38.239 –> 00:40:42.159
Most intriguing to talk to her about the next time we catch up.

00:40:42.800 –> 00:40:44.800
Uh I’ll turn to the else.

00:40:44.960 –> 00:40:47.119
Are you familiar with Edith?

00:40:51.920 –> 00:40:52.559
Hmm.

00:40:53.519 –> 00:41:02.719
She doesn’t too often leave the northern parts of my but seems that my mother has done well with you.

00:41:02.800 –> 00:41:06.079
I recognize the sigil here.

00:41:06.400 –> 00:41:09.360
Yes, it is common to all of us who do this work.

00:41:09.679 –> 00:41:14.639
Well then, I have I have you seem honest and truthful.

00:41:14.800 –> 00:41:20.719
I have no reason to think you will hide anything, so yes, I will agree to this deal.

00:41:22.800 –> 00:41:23.519
I shake.

00:41:24.000 –> 00:41:30.400
As he shakes your hand, he says, We all walk in freedom’s name and he waits for you to repeat it.

00:41:31.039 –> 00:41:33.199
We all walk in freedom’s name.

00:41:33.519 –> 00:41:38.719
As you repeat it, you feel a bit of a magical echo as you are bound to a pact.

00:41:39.360 –> 00:41:45.920
You don’t know what the exact details are, but you’ve been magically marked as one of the anarchists.

00:41:46.559 –> 00:41:47.199
Heck yeah.

00:41:48.800 –> 00:41:50.480
Do I shake shake too?

00:41:50.800 –> 00:41:51.360
You can.

00:41:52.000 –> 00:41:53.840
I hold my hand out.

00:41:54.480 –> 00:41:59.440
He holds out to shake your hand and again he says, We all walk in freedom’s name.

00:41:59.760 –> 00:42:03.119
Yes, we all walk in freedom’s name.

00:42:03.440 –> 00:42:05.760
You feel a similar flash of magic.

00:42:06.079 –> 00:42:13.119
And it feels like there is a small string connecting you to things far away now, tugging in the distance.

00:42:14.400 –> 00:42:21.039
You also notice after you have shaken his hand, the soldiers in the tavern seem much more relaxed.

00:42:22.320 –> 00:42:34.400
And will this you mentioned this mug will help guide us to where we need to go with any other information that we’ll need to make sure we find the spy master or what can we find the spy master?

00:42:34.719 –> 00:42:35.360
I do not know.

00:42:35.519 –> 00:42:37.679
You’ll have to search the city for him.

00:42:38.320 –> 00:42:40.559
But he goes by the name the birch.

00:42:41.840 –> 00:42:43.519
Yes, thank you.

00:42:43.840 –> 00:42:48.000
And then you hear a thumping on the door from behind the tavern.

00:42:48.320 –> 00:42:52.000
And you see a panic look shoot through the Oak’s eyes.

00:42:52.320 –> 00:42:53.119
And he looks at you.

00:42:53.519 –> 00:42:54.960
It’s time for you to go.

00:42:56.000 –> 00:42:59.280
And you see the soldiers standing up and drawing swords.

00:42:59.599 –> 00:43:02.000
Uh, is there a back door we can leap through?

00:43:02.159 –> 00:43:03.920
Or yes, yes.

00:43:04.239 –> 00:43:05.920
He points you to a small hatch.

00:43:06.000 –> 00:43:07.840
This will lead out into the tunnels.

00:43:08.480 –> 00:43:09.599
Thank you, Kaimi.

00:43:10.079 –> 00:43:10.400
Thank you.

00:43:10.719 –> 00:43:12.320
Good doing business with you.

00:43:12.639 –> 00:43:25.039
As you are going down into the tunnels, you see the door of the tavern being kicked open, and someone immediately shoots a crossbow in, and you hear arrows flying through the door as you close the hatch.

00:43:26.639 –> 00:43:30.800
You begin making your way through the tunnels back to the streets.

00:43:31.119 –> 00:43:33.920
And now we are going to go to the shopping.

00:43:35.199 –> 00:43:37.199
So Vincent Trix, are you ready?

00:43:37.920 –> 00:43:38.079
Yeah.

00:43:41.599 –> 00:43:44.800
If you look at the map, you see there is a large central square.

00:43:45.119 –> 00:43:48.960
That is where most of the free trade happens, this kind that you will be doing.

00:43:49.280 –> 00:43:49.519
Okay.

00:43:50.000 –> 00:43:51.360
Is there like a armory?

00:43:51.840 –> 00:43:57.599
As you walk through there, you see a variety of tents of people selling wares and trading goods.

00:43:57.920 –> 00:44:01.519
Around the edges, there are many shops, and one of them is indeed an armory.

00:44:01.920 –> 00:44:03.519
That’s my first stop.

00:44:03.840 –> 00:44:13.840
As you step into the armory, it smells of cold steel and polish, grease, and oil, and all things needed to maintain leather.

00:44:14.159 –> 00:44:14.800
Greetings.

00:44:15.119 –> 00:44:18.239
A small woman from behind the counter greets you.

00:44:18.480 –> 00:44:19.039
Hello.

00:44:19.360 –> 00:44:20.719
What have you in need of today?

00:44:21.360 –> 00:44:26.079
Well, I have an old set of armor I’d like to sell to you if you can.

00:44:26.400 –> 00:44:28.320
Yes, can you tell me about it?

00:44:28.960 –> 00:44:30.559
Uh, I made it myself.

00:44:30.880 –> 00:44:33.840
Uh it’s out of a it’s out of adamantine.

00:44:34.320 –> 00:44:37.039
I present the adamantine scale mail.

00:44:37.440 –> 00:44:38.159
She looks it over.

00:44:38.400 –> 00:44:39.760
This is fine quality.

00:44:40.079 –> 00:44:40.639
Thank you.

00:44:40.960 –> 00:44:43.119
How much do you intend to sell it for?

00:44:43.760 –> 00:44:48.320
Uh make me an offer just to see if we’re in the same ballpark.

00:44:48.639 –> 00:44:52.559
I will offer she looks it over three hundred gold.

00:44:52.880 –> 00:44:55.119
Three hundred a little bit lower than what I was thinking.

00:44:55.280 –> 00:44:56.720
Can you do six?

00:44:57.920 –> 00:44:58.800
How about five?

00:44:59.119 –> 00:45:00.000
Five fifty.

00:45:00.320 –> 00:45:00.720
Five.

00:45:01.280 –> 00:45:01.519
Okay.

00:45:02.159 –> 00:45:07.920
And I also have some short swords if you would uh I can sell those for four a piece.

00:45:10.360 –> 00:45:35.480
Can I kind of, um, as I’m wandering through, act as if I’m not with Innocent, and kind of, while looking interestingly at like a display of weapons, just kind of accidentally knock it over in order to kind of provide enough of a distraction that the women will like not be as willing to haggle as I see and so Vincent’s the other kind of deal.

00:45:35.800 –> 00:45:37.079
Rural performance.

00:45:37.639 –> 00:45:38.199
Sure.

00:45:39.480 –> 00:45:43.239
The woman behind the counter swears as she sees the rack fall over.

00:45:43.559 –> 00:45:45.480
Excuse me, some pest got in.

00:45:45.719 –> 00:45:47.400
Looks like a raccoon or something.

00:45:48.440 –> 00:45:49.079
Take your time.

00:45:49.480 –> 00:45:53.880
You see her walk behind the counter, grab a crossbow, and begin shooting at Kaz.

00:45:54.840 –> 00:45:57.159
I kind of yelp and scorry out.

00:45:58.039 –> 00:45:59.159
The old woman swears.

00:45:59.320 –> 00:46:01.320
That’s gonna take forever to clean up.

00:46:01.639 –> 00:46:04.519
The city ought to do better at dealing with these pests.

00:46:04.840 –> 00:46:06.679
We pay them so much for services.

00:46:06.760 –> 00:46:08.039
They ought to do well.

00:46:08.360 –> 00:46:09.480
Yeah, you’d think that.

00:46:09.800 –> 00:46:12.199
Now, what were you selling again?

00:46:12.519 –> 00:46:13.800
Some short swords.

00:46:14.119 –> 00:46:15.559
Alright, how about ten each?

00:46:15.880 –> 00:46:16.840
Ten gold each?

00:46:17.079 –> 00:46:17.800
I can do that.

00:46:18.119 –> 00:46:19.480
She looks over the short swords.

00:46:19.559 –> 00:46:21.000
How many of them do you sell?

00:46:21.320 –> 00:46:22.679
Uh, I have five.

00:46:23.000 –> 00:46:25.400
Looking over the short swords and the armor.

00:46:25.960 –> 00:46:28.440
Alright, this looks like it would be 550 gold.

00:46:28.760 –> 00:46:29.880
Is that agreeable?

00:46:30.199 –> 00:46:31.320
Yeah, we can do that.

00:46:31.639 –> 00:46:36.599
She hands you the gold and begins hauling the armor back into the back of the shop.

00:46:36.920 –> 00:46:39.400
Surprisingly strong for her small size.

00:46:39.719 –> 00:46:41.239
She walks back out to the front.

00:46:41.559 –> 00:46:43.639
Was there anything you’re looking to purchase?

00:46:43.960 –> 00:46:47.880
Uh, yeah, do you have any um what was you needing again?

00:46:48.519 –> 00:46:49.719
Cold resistance ring?

00:46:49.960 –> 00:46:50.199
Yep.

00:46:50.519 –> 00:46:52.280
Any cold resistance rings?

00:46:52.599 –> 00:46:54.360
Oh no, we don’t have any for sale.

00:46:54.519 –> 00:46:56.199
The army’s been buying all of them.

00:46:57.880 –> 00:46:59.639
If you have something to sell, now is a good time.

00:46:59.800 –> 00:47:01.559
The army’s paying premium.

00:47:01.880 –> 00:47:03.000
I actually do not.

00:47:03.320 –> 00:47:07.719
Yes, we had a good stock, and they came in and paid us three times market price.

00:47:08.039 –> 00:47:08.840
Oh, wow.

00:47:09.159 –> 00:47:11.000
Unfortunately, I don’t have anything like that.

00:47:11.239 –> 00:47:13.000
Just a simple gold ring.

00:47:13.320 –> 00:47:14.440
She looks well.

00:47:14.599 –> 00:47:16.360
Is there anything else you would like to buy?

00:47:16.679 –> 00:47:23.480
Uh, where could I find someone to sell a horse and a cart for a decent price?

00:47:23.880 –> 00:47:28.039
Horse and a cart you would want down at Old Greatwood in the south of town.

00:47:28.360 –> 00:47:32.920
On the edge of town there, they have stables and quite a few carts for sale.

00:47:33.239 –> 00:47:33.480
Okay.

00:47:33.880 –> 00:47:35.800
Alright, well, thank you for your business.

00:47:36.119 –> 00:47:37.800
Have a good day and watch out.

00:47:38.119 –> 00:47:39.480
Watch out for what?

00:47:39.719 –> 00:47:41.320
The soldiers are getting anxious.

00:47:42.039 –> 00:47:42.360
Yeah.

00:47:43.639 –> 00:47:44.760
They’re wanting to fight.

00:47:45.000 –> 00:47:46.360
It’s normal.

00:47:46.679 –> 00:47:48.679
No, they have to fight.

00:47:49.000 –> 00:47:51.159
They don’t have a choice and they don’t want to.

00:47:51.480 –> 00:47:52.039
Oh, yeah.

00:47:52.360 –> 00:47:54.679
They’re getting anxious because they want to leave.

00:47:55.000 –> 00:48:00.039
I’ve always preferred volunteers over conscription myself, but anyway.

00:48:00.280 –> 00:48:02.760
There aren’t many who are volunteers in this army.

00:48:03.079 –> 00:48:03.719
Interesting.

00:48:04.039 –> 00:48:04.440
Alright.

00:48:04.679 –> 00:48:05.719
Well, thank you much.

00:48:06.440 –> 00:48:07.000
Walk out.

00:48:07.320 –> 00:48:07.880
As you walk out.

00:48:09.639 –> 00:48:14.360
Oh, Kaz is like, like, immediately in your face as soon as you enter the shop.

00:48:14.519 –> 00:48:16.440
So did, like, did you get a good deal?

00:48:16.679 –> 00:48:20.039
Like, I mean, that’s a prospect both of you, man.

00:48:20.360 –> 00:48:21.559
Yeah, we got a good deal.

00:48:22.039 –> 00:48:23.559
I’m going to go find a cart, though.

00:48:23.800 –> 00:48:25.800
All right, my next, I can do the same thing again.

00:48:25.960 –> 00:48:27.239
Or should I do something else again?

00:48:27.800 –> 00:48:28.280
No, just.

00:48:28.599 –> 00:48:30.920
You don’t have to risk your life, my friend.

00:48:31.559 –> 00:48:32.199
Gotcha.

00:48:32.440 –> 00:48:33.480
Best dangerous method.

00:48:33.639 –> 00:48:34.119
Gotcha.

00:48:34.280 –> 00:48:34.599
Right, right.

00:48:35.079 –> 00:48:40.360
Is there anything else you want to look for in the general markets before heading to go look for the wagon?

00:48:40.679 –> 00:48:41.559
Um, is there.

00:48:42.119 –> 00:48:43.880
Are there any magic shops?

00:48:44.199 –> 00:48:44.840
There are.

00:48:45.159 –> 00:48:52.519
There are two distinct magic shops: one specializing in potions, and one specializing in enchanted items.

00:48:53.480 –> 00:48:53.960
Is there.

00:48:56.519 –> 00:49:13.000
Can I get like an idea of like if there’s like a storage area or like um or like an alleyway that acts directly onto one of these like let’s go to the artifact shop?

00:49:13.239 –> 00:49:15.000
A roll investigation.

00:49:15.320 –> 00:49:17.719
I think investigation is one of the ones I’ve got expertise.

00:49:18.039 –> 00:49:18.360
Nice.

00:49:18.760 –> 00:49:19.800
At house 28.

00:49:21.000 –> 00:49:30.039
As you’re sneaking around, you do find a back door into the shop selling magical enchanted items, and it seems to be unlocked.

00:49:31.239 –> 00:49:33.079
I sneak in.

00:49:33.720 –> 00:49:36.599
I’m just waiting outside the door, keeping watch.

00:49:36.920 –> 00:49:45.079
As you sneak in, you hear an old man begin laughing, who is perusing the wares, talking to a young woman who is the shopkeeper.

00:49:45.400 –> 00:49:47.159
You recognize his robes.

00:49:47.480 –> 00:49:49.400
He’s the one you took the coin from.

00:49:53.400 –> 00:49:55.880
Oh, I’m going to be a cheeky ass little motherfucker.

00:49:55.960 –> 00:49:59.079
I’m going to take the coin out and whisper into the coin.

00:49:59.239 –> 00:50:01.880
Hey, do you think you could keep that woman distracted for me?

00:50:02.519 –> 00:50:07.239
And then I’m going to look for the shiniest artifacts I can find.

00:50:07.720 –> 00:50:08.679
Doesn’t really matter what I can do.

00:50:10.400 –> 00:50:16.719
Even if it’s like a useless magical effect or a funny magical effect, I’m gonna look for something that’s pretty shiny that catches my eye.

00:50:18.159 –> 00:50:22.000
The shiniest thing you find is a gem with a glowing light inside.

00:50:22.320 –> 00:50:28.800
It’s a dark blue, and the light shines from within, glimmering, dancing like the northern lights.

00:50:29.119 –> 00:50:32.880
Looks like a small fire trapped inside this sapphire.

00:50:34.000 –> 00:50:35.679
I have to have that.

00:50:36.559 –> 00:50:41.280
Um, so yeah, I’m gonna take that thing.

00:50:41.599 –> 00:50:47.440
Roll sleight of hand with advantage as the wizard distracts the winter.

00:50:49.840 –> 00:50:50.639
Oh, jeez.

00:50:51.119 –> 00:50:52.400
It’s 28 again.

00:50:52.880 –> 00:51:01.119
As you slip the gem into your pocket, you notice the shopkeeper looks a bit alarmed, but the wizard keeps her attention.

00:51:02.079 –> 00:51:13.679
I’m gonna whisper thanks into the coin and say, Hey, if ever you want to just like tell me what your deal is, that would be so cool.

00:51:14.000 –> 00:51:18.159
Um, hi, I guess you’ll know how to find me, and I’m gonna sneak back out.

00:51:20.960 –> 00:51:27.039
I think this wizard just like loves chaos and mayhem and like that sounds like it.

00:51:27.280 –> 00:51:28.960
Yeah, what’d you get?

00:51:29.599 –> 00:51:30.480
I don’t know.

00:51:31.039 –> 00:51:32.159
It’s pretty though.

00:51:32.480 –> 00:51:36.159
Keep it on you until we get to the hotel or to the end.

00:51:36.639 –> 00:51:37.199
Alright.

00:51:37.519 –> 00:51:39.039
Do you need anything?

00:51:39.360 –> 00:51:46.480
Well, you already got something, but let’s go find our priority as a horse and cart make travel easier.

00:51:46.800 –> 00:51:47.599
Then that’s what I need.

00:51:47.679 –> 00:51:48.639
I need a horse and cart.

00:51:48.719 –> 00:51:49.199
Let’s go.

00:51:49.519 –> 00:51:49.920
Alright.

00:51:50.320 –> 00:51:52.000
Make our way to the stables.

00:51:52.639 –> 00:51:57.440
As you make your way to the stables, the streets are busy and lively.

00:51:57.760 –> 00:52:08.559
People going to and fro, and you notice in an alleyway someone choking as if they cannot even breathe the air around them, and you see them fall to the ground and collapse.

00:52:09.199 –> 00:52:10.000
Hmm.

00:52:10.800 –> 00:52:12.320
I observed the situation.

00:52:12.400 –> 00:52:13.920
Is anybody helping that man?

00:52:14.320 –> 00:52:14.719
I don’t know.

00:52:15.440 –> 00:52:15.679
Okay.

00:52:16.239 –> 00:52:19.920
Does it seem like anyone is watching, making sure they die?

00:52:20.239 –> 00:52:23.440
He’s like, I don’t want to accidentally become someone’s enemy by helping.

00:52:24.000 –> 00:52:24.239
Yeah.

00:52:24.719 –> 00:52:26.639
We’re just minding our own business.

00:52:26.960 –> 00:52:30.480
There’s another man sitting in the alleyway and he notices you watching.

00:52:30.800 –> 00:52:31.599
Calls out.

00:52:31.920 –> 00:52:33.440
There’s nothing to be done for him.

00:52:33.519 –> 00:52:35.199
He fell behind on his payments.

00:52:36.559 –> 00:52:38.960
I immediately have that like I said and continue walking.

00:52:39.280 –> 00:52:48.800
As you continue walking, you begin to smell fresh horse manure and sawdust as you approach the stables where the carts are built.

00:52:49.679 –> 00:52:52.320
Go inside one of those stables.

00:52:52.960 –> 00:52:58.880
As you enter one of the stables, you see an old man sitting at a counter working on ledgers.

00:52:59.519 –> 00:53:00.400
He looks at you.

00:53:01.440 –> 00:53:03.280
Hello, what have you need today?

00:53:03.920 –> 00:53:05.519
A cart and a horse.

00:53:05.840 –> 00:53:07.039
How much would that run?

00:53:07.360 –> 00:53:08.400
Depends on the cart.

00:53:08.639 –> 00:53:09.760
Depends on the horse.

00:53:10.079 –> 00:53:11.440
Do you want a covered cart?

00:53:11.760 –> 00:53:13.199
Yeah, that’d probably be best.

00:53:13.519 –> 00:53:15.440
Do you want any enchantments on it?

00:53:17.199 –> 00:53:17.920
Like what?

00:53:18.239 –> 00:53:21.360
Oh, for our covered carts, we’re doing enchantment of warmth.

00:53:21.599 –> 00:53:23.039
That’s fairly popular.

00:53:23.360 –> 00:53:23.679
Yeah.

00:53:24.079 –> 00:53:25.599
Depends on the price, though.

00:53:25.920 –> 00:53:30.079
Can I try like so?

00:53:30.559 –> 00:53:34.800
One, I would like to do, like, charm person, but two, I would also.

00:53:35.119 –> 00:53:57.039
Can I use prestigitation to kind of create like a temporary, like, illusory kind of scar mark kind of thing on a cart that looks like particularly nice in a way to try and convince this person to sell it to us for a discount because it is like damaged.

00:53:57.360 –> 00:53:57.679
Yeah.

00:53:58.559 –> 00:54:00.320
That’s genius.

00:54:01.280 –> 00:54:02.559
Yeah, I’m a little menace.

00:54:03.119 –> 00:54:03.760
Yes.

00:54:05.119 –> 00:54:06.400
That cart right there with the.

00:54:06.880 –> 00:54:08.400
Looks like it’s got some damage to it.

00:54:08.480 –> 00:54:10.239
How much would you let that one go for?

00:54:10.559 –> 00:54:13.519
I’ll put the spell in there and then I’ll roll the wisdom saving throw.

00:54:13.760 –> 00:54:14.400
Oh, okay.

00:54:14.719 –> 00:54:18.960
Oh, uh, for uh charm person with some charming person as well, aren’t I?

00:54:19.360 –> 00:54:19.599
Yes.

00:54:19.760 –> 00:54:21.519
Or should I do prestigitation as well?

00:54:21.840 –> 00:54:25.519
You don’t have to for the prestigitation, just roll for just for the charm person.

00:54:26.239 –> 00:54:26.720
Yes.

00:54:27.039 –> 00:54:28.880
He fails and is charmed.

00:54:29.760 –> 00:54:31.039
He looks at you.

00:54:31.360 –> 00:54:33.920
Well, I suppose there’s something wrong with this.

00:54:34.239 –> 00:54:39.599
How about we throw in the enchantment for free, just for the sake of making the fair deal?

00:54:40.239 –> 00:54:41.599
That’s a good deal.

00:54:42.239 –> 00:54:45.199
The cart itself is 250 gold.

00:54:45.840 –> 00:54:50.000
Okay, with the enchantment 250, so how much would a horse be?

00:54:50.320 –> 00:54:53.519
We sell our horses for 50 gold when they’re fully trained.

00:54:53.840 –> 00:54:55.679
Alright, that’s a good deal.

00:54:55.920 –> 00:54:56.639
300.

00:54:56.880 –> 00:54:59.360
How would I interest you in any of our other enchantments?

00:54:59.679 –> 00:55:02.239
We have one that increases the space inside of the cart.

00:55:02.320 –> 00:55:04.239
It’s a bit spendy, but it’s well worth it.

00:55:05.119 –> 00:55:06.239
What other enchantments?

00:55:06.559 –> 00:55:08.480
Well, we can increase the space of the cart.

00:55:08.639 –> 00:55:09.920
We can increase your speed a little bit.

00:55:11.320 –> 00:55:11.559
Bit.

00:55:11.800 –> 00:55:14.840
We can make it so the cart is difficult to see at night.

00:55:15.159 –> 00:55:19.559
We can add an enchantment that allows the cart to travel over water.

00:55:19.880 –> 00:55:21.880
We can do just about anything you imagine.

00:55:22.199 –> 00:55:23.719
It all just comes with a price.

00:55:24.039 –> 00:55:25.239
How much per enchantment?

00:55:25.559 –> 00:55:29.000
Typically, a hundred gold, but more if it is a difficult one.

00:55:29.320 –> 00:55:29.960
Hmm.

00:55:30.280 –> 00:55:33.639
So we’ve got the warmth one right now.

00:55:34.280 –> 00:55:40.599
I think the space one would be fine, but could you do 75 instead of 100?

00:55:40.920 –> 00:55:43.000
Roll persuasion with advantage.

00:55:43.800 –> 00:55:45.079
I don’t have a character sheet.

00:55:45.239 –> 00:55:46.760
Where is my character sheet?

00:55:47.000 –> 00:55:47.960
There it is.

00:55:48.280 –> 00:55:48.760
14.

00:55:50.199 –> 00:55:52.519
Yes, we could adjust that price a bit for you.

00:55:52.840 –> 00:55:53.239
Alright.

00:55:53.480 –> 00:55:56.519
And it can fit how many people with the increased space?

00:55:56.840 –> 00:56:00.599
See, the increased space, it’s a bit different in the covered wagons.

00:56:00.920 –> 00:56:08.920
So there’s a small compartment on the inside that is about 15 feet by 15 feet by 15 feet, and there’s a ladder that will drop down within.

00:56:09.239 –> 00:56:11.719
And you simply open the hatch from the top.

00:56:12.039 –> 00:56:12.280
Okay.

00:56:12.920 –> 00:56:16.679
And one more for the what is that total up to?

00:56:16.760 –> 00:56:18.119
375 right now?

00:56:18.440 –> 00:56:18.840
Yes.

00:56:19.239 –> 00:56:21.719
You do one more enchantment for 75.

00:56:21.800 –> 00:56:22.760
We’ll call it a deal.

00:56:23.079 –> 00:56:23.480
All right.

00:56:23.559 –> 00:56:24.360
What would you like?

00:56:24.679 –> 00:56:26.519
Difficulty at seeing at night.

00:56:26.840 –> 00:56:27.079
All right.

00:56:27.400 –> 00:56:27.960
The camouflage.

00:56:28.199 –> 00:56:29.159
Camouflage, yeah.

00:56:29.719 –> 00:56:31.960
Yes, we can camouflage the wagon for you.

00:56:32.280 –> 00:56:34.360
Alright, so that’s 450.

00:56:34.679 –> 00:56:36.199
That’s a good deal, my friend.

00:56:36.519 –> 00:56:37.480
He smiles at you.

00:56:37.800 –> 00:56:39.480
Well, I’m glad we could do business.

00:56:39.800 –> 00:56:43.559
He shakes your hand and accepts your gold and leads you out to the wagon.

00:56:43.880 –> 00:56:46.679
It will be about a day as we finish the enchantments on it.

00:56:46.920 –> 00:56:47.400
Alrighty.

00:56:47.719 –> 00:56:50.760
So come back tomorrow around this time and we should have it ready.

00:56:51.079 –> 00:56:51.559
Alright.

00:56:52.440 –> 00:56:56.280
Does the horse matter at all or will any horse of good stock do?

00:56:56.599 –> 00:56:57.559
Good stock.

00:56:58.199 –> 00:56:58.679
Very well.

00:56:58.760 –> 00:57:00.519
We will select an excellent horse for you.

00:57:00.840 –> 00:57:02.280
Alrighty, we’ll see you tomorrow.

00:57:02.760 –> 00:57:04.840
I think Osfa walking away wants Rider May.

00:57:05.320 –> 00:57:06.440
I think How’s we’ll come up?

00:57:07.000 –> 00:57:11.800
I hope it doesn’t matter to set the mark with his hair off for about 50 minutes.

00:57:13.320 –> 00:57:16.840
All right, is there anything you would like to take care of else while shopping?

00:57:17.400 –> 00:57:18.760
That’s it, pretty much.

00:57:19.079 –> 00:57:23.480
All right, then we’re going to take a 15-minute break here and pick up after that.

00:57:23.800 –> 00:57:24.599
Well, we’re ready.

00:57:25.400 –> 00:57:26.440
Thank you guys.

00:57:33.639 –> 00:57:35.639
So, question for you, Mr.

00:57:35.719 –> 00:57:36.440
Elias.

00:57:37.000 –> 00:57:37.320
Yes.

00:57:37.880 –> 00:57:40.679
Where was last night’s group at on the map?

00:57:41.960 –> 00:57:47.159
So if you’re looking at the map right here, I’m going to draw a little circle where they’re at.

00:57:47.639 –> 00:57:49.960
That’s going on concurrently with this group.

00:57:50.280 –> 00:57:52.199
Yes, this is happening at the same time.

00:57:52.519 –> 00:57:53.079
That’s so funny.

00:57:53.480 –> 00:57:58.199
So right here, this mountain pass.

00:57:59.239 –> 00:57:59.480
Okay.

00:58:00.199 –> 00:58:02.519
This mountain pass is where they’re passing through.

00:58:02.840 –> 00:58:07.719
So right now they’ve left Melrose and are going up through this mountain pass over to Linlithgau.

00:58:08.039 –> 00:58:08.280
Okay.

00:58:08.840 –> 00:58:18.840
And so to give you some more background on that, they unleashed an existential horror upon the world, and they have to go and resolve that.

00:58:19.800 –> 00:58:22.760
Yeah, is that the giants that we were fighting?

00:58:23.079 –> 00:58:25.800
No, those are a different existential horror.

00:58:26.039 –> 00:58:26.519
Oh, God.

00:58:28.360 –> 00:58:30.199
How many existential horrors are all about?

00:58:30.920 –> 00:58:39.159
You see, in one setting, I try to keep about 45 different existential horrors on hand for when adventurers are doing stuff.

00:58:39.719 –> 00:58:45.400
And that comes from about usually having up to 10 games in a week.

00:58:45.719 –> 00:58:46.519
Jeez.

00:58:47.400 –> 00:58:50.599
Having, you know, four or five on hand for any of them.

00:58:50.920 –> 00:58:51.480
Wow.

00:58:51.719 –> 00:58:57.400
And you just started on start playing and you only had the two.

00:58:57.719 –> 00:58:57.960
Yeah.

00:58:58.599 –> 00:59:00.840
So I’m still building up an audience on start playing.

00:59:01.079 –> 00:59:02.599
I think you’re fucking amazing.

00:59:03.800 –> 00:59:04.199
Yep.

00:59:04.920 –> 00:59:08.280
Do you want to know about some of the other existential horrors in the world right now?

00:59:08.599 –> 00:59:10.840
Oh, I love hearing about existential horrors.

00:59:11.880 –> 00:59:19.159
So one big existential issue that’s going on right now is the army that’s amassing at Bollater, preparing to invade Abhane.

00:59:20.360 –> 00:59:23.480
That’s the one that’s kind of in the spotlight with you guys right now.

00:59:24.280 –> 00:59:24.519
Yeah.

00:59:26.519 –> 00:59:40.519
Another one that’s further up here by Spear McGregor is an issue where a bunch of creatures from the ocean have begun to come out and abduct people from the land.

00:59:41.159 –> 00:59:43.159
That’s some love crafting.

00:59:43.960 –> 00:59:44.280
Yeah.

00:59:45.480 –> 00:59:51.639
And that’s this whole thing that will, if you get up there, will spiral off into a big seafaring adventure.

00:59:51.960 –> 00:59:52.840
Oh, wow.

00:59:53.880 –> 00:59:56.760
What were the horrors that they released upon the world?

00:59:57.079 –> 01:00:01.880
So they unleashed a celestial that was cursed with vampires.

01:00:02.199 –> 01:00:02.679
Ooh.

01:00:03.320 –> 01:00:06.519
So it’s technically immortal and undead at the same time.

01:00:08.519 –> 01:00:10.840
And they’re basically having to go to.

01:00:12.159 –> 01:00:16.239
Track that down and resolve that somehow.

01:00:16.559 –> 01:00:17.280
All fun.

01:00:17.760 –> 01:00:19.840
But this thing that they unleash, right?

01:00:20.079 –> 01:00:21.599
It doesn’t have any experience in the world.

01:00:21.760 –> 01:00:23.119
It’s completely innocent.

01:00:23.440 –> 01:00:27.360
So whoever gets to it first will determine if it’s going to be good or evil.

01:00:28.320 –> 01:00:31.679
So they’re kind of in a race to get to it before someone else does.

01:00:32.719 –> 01:00:40.800
So they want good people to reach it and not just, I mean, ideally good nor evil, but what if someone just purely chaotic reached it first?

01:00:41.119 –> 01:00:43.599
Then it will just be a creature of chaos.

01:00:43.920 –> 01:00:45.199
Oh, I love that.

01:00:46.079 –> 01:00:47.840
Can we make that happen, please?

01:00:49.760 –> 01:00:58.320
If you guys booked it, the fastest you could make it down there to intervene would be in about two months.

01:00:58.639 –> 01:01:00.719
So you’re a little too far away to do that.

01:01:01.039 –> 01:01:01.519
Oh, well.

01:01:02.000 –> 01:01:05.360
It’d be fun to just hazard it and just see how the alternative would become.

01:01:10.159 –> 01:01:10.559
Yes.

01:01:10.880 –> 01:01:25.199
Some other existential horrors, the one that was recently resolved in Drowning Wallace, was there were these ghouls, which are like extremely debased vampires that just feast on flesh.

01:01:25.519 –> 01:01:27.360
And they were infesting the city.

01:01:28.079 –> 01:01:30.719
And they had been for thousands of years.

01:01:31.360 –> 01:01:35.840
And so the other group went and got an artifact that was causing this.

01:01:36.159 –> 01:01:37.440
And now they have that artifact.

01:01:37.519 –> 01:01:40.639
So they could go anywhere they want to make ghouls if they chose to do that.

01:01:40.960 –> 01:01:43.679
And they could just create another infestation wherever they wanted.

01:01:44.000 –> 01:01:48.239
They’re generally not predisposed to that kind of chaotic violence, but they could.

01:01:52.320 –> 01:01:57.119
And then a lot of stuff centers around the crooked crossroads right here.

01:01:57.440 –> 01:02:02.000
Where that spot in the middle there is where a lot of stuff will emanate from.

01:02:03.199 –> 01:02:07.679
I wrote a fun little thing in the, and I think I put it in the Adventurers General.

01:02:07.840 –> 01:02:09.360
That’s the wiki page for that.

01:02:09.679 –> 01:02:12.320
It’s the general wiki page for the whole region here.

01:02:12.880 –> 01:02:15.760
And it’s Krobakan, Nangist.

01:02:16.559 –> 01:02:26.480
And that is just the general thing where this was an old empire that was ruled by an immortal for about 5,000 years before he left.

01:02:27.039 –> 01:02:31.440
And I could go into that story if you want to for a little bit.

01:02:31.679 –> 01:02:33.519
If you guys want to hear about that.

01:02:34.320 –> 01:02:37.519
Maybe after the session, or yeah.

01:02:39.199 –> 01:02:42.480
Existential horrors that would be of interest to you.

01:02:42.800 –> 01:02:57.519
There is, this is the one that was the main hook for this: there is some artifact that is a bit the ways out of Aberfeldi, up here in the mountains, that you are being sent to reclaim.

01:02:57.840 –> 01:03:00.000
And there are other groups that are going after that.

01:03:00.159 –> 01:03:02.480
You haven’t really ran into many of them yet.

01:03:02.800 –> 01:03:08.480
But do you guys want something that’s kind of spoilery, but not too much?

01:03:08.800 –> 01:03:10.159
That’s up to the group.

01:03:12.320 –> 01:03:16.079
It’s something you would put together in the next couple sessions, anyways.

01:03:17.360 –> 01:03:17.679
Okay.

01:03:18.000 –> 01:03:19.440
So you want to hear it now?

01:03:21.760 –> 01:03:24.239
I can not spoil it.

01:03:24.559 –> 01:03:25.519
Not spoil it?

01:03:25.840 –> 01:03:26.079
Yeah.

01:03:26.320 –> 01:03:26.719
All right.

01:03:27.039 –> 01:03:28.400
Let us come to it later.

01:03:28.719 –> 01:03:31.519
Then we’ll come back to that when you guys get there.

01:03:31.840 –> 01:03:33.199
It’s okay with you guys.

01:03:33.519 –> 01:03:34.880
Yeah, that’s okay with me.

01:03:35.440 –> 01:03:42.559
Yeah, with something like spoilers, it should always be like if one person doesn’t want the spoiler, if we don’t get the spoiler, I kind of think that’s what that’s always how I do it.

01:03:43.280 –> 01:03:45.119
Yeah, I want to see how it plays out.

01:03:45.440 –> 01:03:49.840
I had actually completely forgotten that those artifacts we were trying to get.

01:03:49.920 –> 01:03:51.840
I was only thinking about all the little jobs.

01:03:51.920 –> 01:03:52.800
I forgot about this.

01:03:56.000 –> 01:04:02.320
I was like, oh, all we got is those pink mass mystery paintings to go investigate and then we’re done with all of our quests.

01:04:02.400 –> 01:04:02.639
No.

01:04:03.280 –> 01:04:06.400
Oh, those were just the stuff on the way to your quest.

01:04:06.719 –> 01:04:08.559
You guys haven’t really gotten to it yet.

01:04:09.360 –> 01:04:10.000
Which quest?

01:04:10.880 –> 01:04:14.800
It’s the main quest you got in the crooked crossroads that you made the deal to go complete.

01:04:15.119 –> 01:04:15.679
Ah, yeah.

01:04:16.000 –> 01:04:16.239
Okay.

01:04:17.039 –> 01:04:18.480
I must have forgetted everything.

01:04:19.039 –> 01:04:25.039
Yeah, so there’s this magical artifact that is in the northwest of Aberfeldy, up in the mountains.

01:04:25.199 –> 01:04:29.920
It’s hidden deep in the caves there, and you need to reclaim it before anyone else can.

01:04:31.119 –> 01:04:36.159
Because one of those most is that, like, you guys are on this amazing quest, and I’m just literally tagging along.

01:04:39.840 –> 01:04:40.559
The painting quest?

01:04:41.199 –> 01:04:43.119
Well, because that was one of the mini quests.

01:04:43.920 –> 01:04:45.760
Yeah, painting is one of our mini ones.

01:04:45.840 –> 01:04:47.360
That’s just along the way.

01:04:47.679 –> 01:04:48.720
Where’s the painting?

01:04:48.960 –> 01:04:50.000
I forgot about that one.

01:04:50.239 –> 01:04:54.960
Oh, so the paintings, that’s kind of right here.

01:04:55.599 –> 01:04:56.400
You know what you should.

01:04:57.039 –> 01:05:08.880
This may be too much for you, but on the wiki, I don’t know if you could have it like a locked post or something where the other groups couldn’t see, but like our active quest and stuff.

01:05:09.199 –> 01:05:11.519
I don’t know if that’d be too much work for you or not.

01:05:13.719 –> 01:05:16.840
Yeah, let me draw the line that you guys traveled so far.

01:05:17.159 –> 01:05:20.599
So, this is more or less the path that you guys have taken so far.

01:05:20.920 –> 01:05:24.679
You left the Crooked Crossroads, gone to Pitticree, and then headed up to Ballator.

01:05:25.000 –> 01:05:26.840
With a couple of stops on the way.

01:05:27.159 –> 01:05:27.480
Yeah.

01:05:27.800 –> 01:05:35.239
So, future, you’re probably going to go over to Aberfeldi, play around here a little bit, and then go up into the mountains to claim the artifact.

01:05:35.559 –> 01:05:39.800
And then, past that is spoilery stuff, but we’re not going to get into yet.

01:05:43.800 –> 01:05:46.039
But, yeah, I can make a page for that.

01:05:47.079 –> 01:05:48.840
Just so we don’t forget the quests.

01:05:50.119 –> 01:05:54.119
Oh, so for that, you guys are going to have to make accounts on the website.

01:05:54.440 –> 01:05:54.679
Okay.

01:05:55.159 –> 01:05:57.639
So that I can control who can see it and who can’t.

01:05:58.760 –> 01:05:59.400
That works.

01:05:59.639 –> 01:06:01.960
But yeah, I can definitely make posts like that.

01:06:02.280 –> 01:06:05.960
No, me, I’d have to make two accounts because I’m in both.

01:06:07.639 –> 01:06:10.360
No, I can set your permissions so that you can see both.

01:06:10.679 –> 01:06:10.920
Okay.

01:06:11.239 –> 01:06:14.119
Because I can control permissions on an account level.

01:06:14.360 –> 01:06:14.519
Yeah.

01:06:14.760 –> 01:06:16.119
I won’t metagame at all.

01:06:19.079 –> 01:06:22.840
It’s kind of hard to metagame effectively with how big I run the game sometimes.

01:06:23.159 –> 01:06:26.920
Yeah, this is damn near Matt Mercer level shit.

01:06:29.000 –> 01:06:34.119
Because I run a setting where I’m used to having sometimes 10 groups running around in there.

01:06:34.440 –> 01:06:40.119
So I’ve gotten used to having to set things up so that there’s space in between so they’re not stepping on each other’s toes all the time.

01:06:41.719 –> 01:06:42.760
I love it.

01:06:43.079 –> 01:06:43.320
Yeah.

01:06:43.880 –> 01:06:45.239
This has been really cool.

01:06:45.559 –> 01:06:46.039
All right.

01:06:46.360 –> 01:06:46.840
Wow.

01:06:47.159 –> 01:06:48.280
How are you guys doing?

01:06:48.440 –> 01:06:52.039
What have you enjoyed in the game so far, and what would you like to see more of?

01:06:52.360 –> 01:06:54.039
Honestly, everything’s been great.

01:06:54.360 –> 01:06:55.079
Yeah, it’s been great.

01:06:55.400 –> 01:06:55.559
Yeah.

01:06:56.119 –> 01:06:57.719
This has been a really fun campaign.

01:06:57.880 –> 01:06:58.840
I’m enjoying it.

01:06:59.159 –> 01:07:02.119
I’m surprised how much I’ve been enjoying now the political intrigue.

01:07:02.280 –> 01:07:10.920
I haven’t explored that much in games before, but I’m excited that I know I confirmed my witch mother is confirmed anarchist.

01:07:11.159 –> 01:07:12.119
That is fun.

01:07:16.360 –> 01:07:17.719
What’s up, Madame Dexter again?

01:07:19.000 –> 01:07:23.239
I mean, this is only my second stuff with you guys, but I’m definitely enjoying it so far.

01:07:24.599 –> 01:07:28.280
So it’s my father, so he was also listening in on the game.

01:07:28.519 –> 01:07:31.159
He’s just been going, Love nobody in the background.

01:07:33.639 –> 01:07:34.679
That’s great.

01:07:35.960 –> 01:07:38.519
Yeah, you bring a certain chaos with your character.

01:07:39.880 –> 01:07:45.400
I’m realizing most of the characters that I’ve had with Christian always have a colour chaotic element in them some more.

01:07:45.559 –> 01:07:49.320
And others, Kaz is definitely more chaotic into the section.

01:07:50.199 –> 01:07:57.000
I’ll try to derail things to an absurd degree, but I am incessant into writing things.

01:07:57.400 –> 01:07:58.280
I swear to God.

01:07:59.960 –> 01:08:02.760
Kaz has been a great energy to add to the party.

01:08:03.880 –> 01:08:04.119
Yeah.

01:08:05.719 –> 01:08:08.280
I’m already loving the Don Abbasid, you guys is right.

01:08:10.119 –> 01:08:15.400
And so if you look at the path I just drew there, that’s the path that the other party has taken so far.

01:08:15.719 –> 01:08:15.960
Okay.

01:08:16.600 –> 01:08:21.720
And so, like, you guys have had these little side quests that you’ve taken care of, they have had as well.

01:08:22.039 –> 01:08:28.520
And so in the game, there’s a mix of interactions.

01:08:28.840 –> 01:08:34.680
There’s the little side quests, which are the stuff that you do to make money to keep going on your big adventure.

01:08:35.000 –> 01:08:38.600
Then there are the incidental things, stuff that you just kind of run into.

01:08:38.920 –> 01:08:46.039
Things like the ring and the intrigue, stuff like that, where it’s just like you interacting with the world and finding stuff.

01:08:47.239 –> 01:08:52.279
And then there’s the big quest where this is the thing that you are on your way to go accomplish.

01:08:54.439 –> 01:08:58.680
And so these games run fairly long.

01:09:00.279 –> 01:09:06.920
The shortest one that they ran all the way through was about 45 sessions, and the longest went over 200.

01:09:07.239 –> 01:09:07.800
Jeez.

01:09:08.199 –> 01:09:08.840
Dang.

01:09:10.119 –> 01:09:14.600
Yeah, there’s a game that I’ve been playing with some of my friends for over five years now.

01:09:14.840 –> 01:09:18.439
And we just reached level 200 last night.

01:09:18.680 –> 01:09:21.319
And we just, yeah.

01:09:22.119 –> 01:09:22.359
Yeah.

01:09:22.680 –> 01:09:27.479
And we’ve at level 19 and we’re close to reaching level 20.

01:09:27.560 –> 01:09:31.960
It’s very much the case of like, we’ve only got like maybe three months left to go campaign.

01:09:32.039 –> 01:09:35.479
And we’re all kind of like, we don’t want it to end.

01:09:37.960 –> 01:09:38.199
Yeah.

01:09:39.159 –> 01:09:39.560
All right.

01:09:39.640 –> 01:09:41.880
We’re going to pick up in the streets of Ballator.

01:09:42.279 –> 01:09:47.079
Going back at the inn, or you’re making your way back to the inn.

01:09:47.159 –> 01:09:48.760
You’re two separate groups.

01:09:49.079 –> 01:09:49.319
Okay.

01:09:51.479 –> 01:10:00.600
Wilfred and Manny, as you’re making your way away from the lost dream, you see smoke rising from behind you.

01:10:01.239 –> 01:10:03.720
And you catch a glimpse of the building burning.

01:10:04.039 –> 01:10:04.279
Oh.

01:10:04.760 –> 01:10:05.880
Oh, gosh.

01:10:06.199 –> 01:10:07.880
We get out at the right time.

01:10:08.359 –> 01:10:09.560
Seems so.

01:10:10.199 –> 01:10:12.760
Hopefully, folks are okay.

01:10:15.520 –> 01:10:19.039
Yeah, it definitely seems like we got out just in the nick of time.

01:10:19.359 –> 01:10:19.600
Yeah.

01:10:20.800 –> 01:10:22.159
So your mom’s not a kiss?

01:10:23.600 –> 01:10:24.800
Apparently.

01:10:26.399 –> 01:10:27.279
You didn’t know?

01:10:28.159 –> 01:10:30.720
My mother is an interesting one.

01:10:30.960 –> 01:10:38.560
We live out from the city, so I guess it does not surprise me that she is, but it’s not like we have a.

01:10:39.119 –> 01:10:51.359
I knew she had no real allegiance herself to the ruling here, but I was unaware that she was so involved with the group here.

01:10:51.680 –> 01:10:52.800
Oh, okay.

01:10:53.359 –> 01:11:00.800
As you’re making your way back towards the tavern, people are thinning out on the streets, and you begin to see military patrols.

01:11:01.119 –> 01:11:03.039
They are looking for someone.

01:11:05.600 –> 01:11:08.560
You might need to quickly make a way back.

01:11:08.880 –> 01:11:09.039
Yeah.

01:11:12.079 –> 01:11:16.479
I have a feeling the streets might be getting chaotic tonight.

01:11:16.800 –> 01:11:18.000
Yeah, let’s hurry.

01:11:18.319 –> 01:11:23.279
As you’re making your way back into your tavern, you run into Kaz and Vincent in the street.

01:11:23.600 –> 01:11:24.000
Hello.

01:11:24.319 –> 01:11:25.279
Hello, human.

01:11:26.239 –> 01:11:28.319
So we were productive.

01:11:28.479 –> 01:11:30.239
We got a cart.

01:11:30.560 –> 01:11:31.840
It’ll be ready tomorrow.

01:11:32.000 –> 01:11:33.119
That’s a horse.

01:11:33.760 –> 01:11:36.640
We know with snakes.

01:11:39.359 –> 01:11:42.239
You know a lot of stuff that you shouldn’t know about.

01:11:42.560 –> 01:11:42.800
Okay.

01:11:43.279 –> 01:11:44.239
I don’t know.

01:11:44.560 –> 01:11:46.000
I wasn’t paying attention.

01:11:47.279 –> 01:11:47.600
Oh.

01:11:48.560 –> 01:11:53.680
Yes, we cannot divulge what business was today.

01:11:54.319 –> 01:11:54.880
And I will.

01:11:55.439 –> 01:11:56.720
Fine with me.

01:11:58.479 –> 01:12:03.279
Can I get like a rundown from my snake familiar who was with them about what happened?

01:12:03.840 –> 01:12:04.399
Yes.

01:12:05.039 –> 01:12:05.520
Cool.

01:12:05.840 –> 01:12:10.399
And the snake didn’t have to sign a contract, so it won’t go warping off into the Fey Wild.

01:12:12.319 –> 01:12:12.640
Great.

01:12:13.199 –> 01:12:21.199
I just have that kind of quick mental telepathic update from my little snake buddy.

01:12:21.520 –> 01:12:26.079
As you walk back into the tavern, you see a familiar wizard sitting at one of the tables.

01:12:27.600 –> 01:12:28.000
Uh-oh.

01:12:28.479 –> 01:12:29.199
He knows.

01:12:29.840 –> 01:12:39.119
I think I’m gonna start kind of jump up excited to jump excitedly a bit, kind of walk towards him, and then kind of look at the back of the path.

01:12:40.720 –> 01:12:42.000
Oh, do I say?

01:12:43.600 –> 01:12:48.479
And then I just kind of run over and sit at the table across from the wizards.

01:12:49.119 –> 01:12:49.840
It looks you.

01:12:50.079 –> 01:12:51.520
Have you been having fun?

01:12:52.479 –> 01:12:54.159
Yeah, I mean, you know, right?

01:12:55.119 –> 01:12:56.800
Thanks for the help in the shop, by the way.

01:12:57.119 –> 01:12:57.760
No problem.

01:12:57.920 –> 01:13:00.239
A little chaos is well worth it.

01:13:00.880 –> 01:13:01.760
What’s your name?

01:13:02.079 –> 01:13:04.239
Oh, you don’t need to know my name.

01:13:04.880 –> 01:13:07.600
It’s better not to speak your names in this town.

01:13:08.560 –> 01:13:10.560
Then what should I call you?

01:13:10.880 –> 01:13:12.159
Call me Alsdair.

01:13:13.600 –> 01:13:14.560
Okay, Olska.

01:13:14.960 –> 01:13:17.039
He looks at you with a twinkle in his eye.

01:13:17.359 –> 01:13:19.520
What are you going to be doing now?

01:13:19.840 –> 01:13:21.039
Where are you going?

01:13:22.239 –> 01:13:28.239
Well, what I’m going to be doing anything that takes my fancy.

01:13:28.560 –> 01:13:29.520
Where I’m going.

01:13:29.840 –> 01:13:32.800
Well, I’m just going to keep on following those guys as long as they let me.

01:13:33.760 –> 01:13:36.079
You have a knack for acquiring things.

01:13:37.039 –> 01:13:38.479
I need some help with that.

01:13:39.119 –> 01:13:39.359
Okay.

01:13:39.920 –> 01:13:42.720
So in the city of Alberfeldi, there’s a bank.

01:13:43.039 –> 01:13:47.199
I need someone who can get inside and get a wand for me.

01:13:48.159 –> 01:13:49.119
What’s in it for me?

01:13:49.359 –> 01:13:50.399
What’s in it for you?

01:13:50.640 –> 01:13:51.600
What do you want?

01:13:51.920 –> 01:13:52.479
Food?

01:13:52.960 –> 01:13:53.760
Beverage?

01:13:54.079 –> 01:13:55.520
A flying broomstick?

01:13:55.840 –> 01:13:58.000
Curtains that close automatically.

01:13:58.319 –> 01:13:58.960
You could have…

01:13:59.359 –> 01:14:01.439
You could have a horse that runs and never tires.

01:14:01.680 –> 01:14:03.199
What is it that you desire?

01:14:03.840 –> 01:14:06.319
Just don’t say anything as boring as coin.

01:14:08.239 –> 01:14:08.800
Ooh.

01:14:12.319 –> 01:14:14.079
What would Kaz say to that?

01:14:16.560 –> 01:14:20.079
I think he kind of looks down.

01:14:22.399 –> 01:14:25.119
Like, they don’t have much to their name.

01:14:28.560 –> 01:14:29.600
You’re a wizard, right?

01:14:29.840 –> 01:14:30.880
You know a lot of magic?

01:14:31.520 –> 01:14:33.680
I know all sorts of magic.

01:14:38.640 –> 01:14:41.039
Like, what kind of spells do you know?

01:14:41.600 –> 01:14:45.439
Oh, I know more spells than you could imagine.

01:14:47.600 –> 01:14:49.600
I could turn you into a troll.

01:14:49.920 –> 01:14:52.880
I could turn a toad and toll into a bullfrog.

01:14:54.399 –> 01:14:55.840
Okay, you’ve convinced me.

01:14:56.079 –> 01:14:58.800
In exchange for your help, I want your help.

01:14:59.119 –> 01:15:00.319
I want to be your student.

01:15:00.640 –> 01:15:02.239
You wish to learn magic?

01:15:02.560 –> 01:15:02.880
Yeah.

01:15:03.199 –> 01:15:04.159
I can do some things.

01:15:04.319 –> 01:15:08.720
Look, and then I’m going to use precedentation to kind of like create a fire in my hand.

01:15:09.039 –> 01:15:09.520
Yes.

01:15:10.399 –> 01:15:12.079
Very fun tricks to begin with.

01:15:12.720 –> 01:15:13.520
And I can do this.

01:15:15.159 –> 01:15:21.640
Then I then cast catapult on like a tiny penny and just kind of shoot it across the room.

01:15:21.960 –> 01:15:24.039
What sort of magic would you like to learn first?

01:15:24.199 –> 01:15:26.039
I can give you something to study.

01:15:27.000 –> 01:15:29.159
I’m not able to cast second-level spells yet.

01:15:29.239 –> 01:15:30.439
I’m not high enough level.

01:15:30.760 –> 01:15:32.600
Oh, trust me, you’ll get there.

01:15:33.239 –> 01:15:35.159
What do you want to learn?

01:15:35.720 –> 01:15:38.920
Can I just quickly look up some first-level wizard spells?

01:15:39.239 –> 01:15:39.800
Yes.

01:15:41.000 –> 01:15:48.600
Oh, while she’s doing that, can I say I bought some more alchemy supplies for those potions and some other stuff?

01:15:48.920 –> 01:15:49.399
Yes.

01:15:49.720 –> 01:15:50.760
How much would that run?

01:15:51.000 –> 01:15:51.960
Depends on what you’re buying.

01:15:52.439 –> 01:15:54.039
What potion supplies do you want?

01:15:54.920 –> 01:15:57.560
More of the alcohol, definitely.

01:15:57.880 –> 01:15:58.199
And.

01:15:58.760 –> 01:16:02.680
In this town, alcohol is running about one gold a bottle right now.

01:16:03.000 –> 01:16:05.159
I need three bottles of that.

01:16:05.720 –> 01:16:07.319
And that’d be it for right now.

01:16:07.640 –> 01:16:08.119
Alright.

01:16:08.680 –> 01:16:10.199
Why are there so many spells?

01:16:10.439 –> 01:16:12.439
Well, it’s because wizards have lots of spells.

01:16:13.159 –> 01:16:13.479
Yeah.

01:16:13.800 –> 01:16:13.960
Yeah.

01:16:14.600 –> 01:16:18.039
Oh, and some like black powder to make like exploding shot.

01:16:18.279 –> 01:16:18.359
Yeah.

01:16:19.399 –> 01:16:25.079
Um, black powder, a pouch that you can make about 20 shots with will cost five gold.

01:16:25.960 –> 01:16:26.279
Cool.

01:16:28.760 –> 01:16:30.520
What sort of magic do you want to learn?

01:16:30.680 –> 01:16:33.000
I can give you a recommendation for a spell.

01:16:33.319 –> 01:16:45.319
Yeah, I don’t know if I want to go like with another damage spell or if I want to just go with ritual, another ritual-based spell so I don’t have to worry about swapping things out and then not having something I want.

01:16:46.920 –> 01:16:49.720
Alternatively, I noticed I couldn’t.

01:16:50.039 –> 01:17:00.439
I initially wanted to get silvery barbs, but I couldn’t find that on DND DMs, so I couldn’t put it in my spell list.

01:17:00.760 –> 01:17:03.880
Yes, we’re not going to do that one for now.

01:17:04.199 –> 01:17:04.920
That’s fair.

01:17:05.239 –> 01:17:09.960
Maybe later on, but that one’s a bit too powerful for early in the game.

01:17:10.279 –> 01:17:13.000
Yeah, yeah, it is a bit of a.

01:17:14.199 –> 01:17:15.319
What spell was that?

01:17:15.640 –> 01:17:16.840
Silvery Barbs.

01:17:17.000 –> 01:17:20.920
Basically, it’s a reaction like an impose disadvantage.

01:17:21.239 –> 01:17:21.800
Oh, yeah.

01:17:22.359 –> 01:17:24.920
In which case, yeah, let’s go Thunderwave.

01:17:25.239 –> 01:17:25.880
Alright.

01:17:26.520 –> 01:17:33.800
He begins writing out a small script for you, dripping his pen in the ink that changes color as he writes.

01:17:34.119 –> 01:17:39.399
And he hands you a paper with the spell and instructions for casting it written onto it.

01:17:40.039 –> 01:17:40.680
Thanks.

01:17:41.560 –> 01:17:46.359
And should you want to learn more, you’ll find me in Alsdare Loss.

01:17:47.000 –> 01:17:47.319
Okay.

01:17:47.880 –> 01:17:51.800
And when I get the wand for you, like, will you teach me more spells?

01:17:51.880 –> 01:17:54.119
And will you teach me even more if I get more stuff?

01:17:54.359 –> 01:17:54.680
Will you?

01:17:56.359 –> 01:17:59.479
I’ll keep assuming stuff for you as long as you keep teaching me magic.

01:17:59.800 –> 01:18:00.760
He grins at you.

01:18:00.920 –> 01:18:02.760
I think that’s a good arrangement.

01:18:03.079 –> 01:18:03.319
Yeah.

01:18:04.520 –> 01:18:05.319
Thank you, teacher.

01:18:05.479 –> 01:18:08.119
And then I’m just kind of going to go running off.

01:18:08.760 –> 01:18:10.840
You all are standing in the tavern.

01:18:11.479 –> 01:18:16.840
As you see the sun slowly setting, what do you want to do to prepare for tomorrow?

01:18:17.159 –> 01:18:20.680
I’m going to try to make some exploding shot.

01:18:21.000 –> 01:18:21.479
Alright.

01:18:22.359 –> 01:18:23.000
See.

01:18:23.640 –> 01:18:24.039
What are they?

01:18:24.359 –> 01:18:25.640
Smiths or Tinkers?

01:18:26.279 –> 01:18:27.560
That would be Tinkerers.

01:18:27.880 –> 01:18:28.119
Okay.

01:18:28.600 –> 01:18:30.439
Just roll Tinker’s Tool.

01:18:30.920 –> 01:18:31.239
Yeah.

01:18:31.560 –> 01:18:31.720
Okay.

01:18:33.560 –> 01:18:35.319
Hopefully nothing blows up.

01:18:36.520 –> 01:18:36.680
Yeah.

01:18:38.920 –> 01:18:41.079
You get a bit closer to figuring it out.

01:18:42.039 –> 01:18:43.880
Your eyebrows are a little singed.

01:18:43.960 –> 01:18:46.119
Your fingers have a bit of black powder on them.

01:18:46.439 –> 01:18:48.920
You smell like an explosion ready to happen.

01:18:51.399 –> 01:18:58.119
And as you guys are in the room with him, you’re just seeing small puffs of smoke as something blows up a little bit while he’s working.

01:18:59.079 –> 01:19:00.920
It’s safe, it’s safe, I promise.

01:19:01.319 –> 01:19:07.640
I was gonna say, I feel like our fee was gonna increase if we leave this room a bit more singed.

01:19:08.199 –> 01:19:15.159
I don’t think the magics they have in place in this room cover preventing explosions or fires.

01:19:15.479 –> 01:19:17.640
Yeah, I’m done for the night anyway.

01:19:17.960 –> 01:19:19.479
Just tinkering around.

01:19:19.800 –> 01:19:38.920
Well, so we’ll get a horse and then we’ll take care of the enchanted paintings on our way to Albafeldi and then we can finally start heading up to the mountains for that artifact.

01:19:39.239 –> 01:19:40.279
Oh, you guys are going.

01:19:40.760 –> 01:19:42.279
How’s your pronounce the name of the city?

01:19:42.760 –> 01:19:43.720
Was it Alvafeld?

01:19:44.439 –> 01:19:45.319
Albafeldi.

01:19:45.399 –> 01:19:48.039
Sorry, the only name that goes on mine just then was Albuquerque.

01:19:48.199 –> 01:19:49.800
I was like, that’s definitely all right.

01:19:53.479 –> 01:19:56.199
You guys know if they can Albafeldi?

01:19:57.800 –> 01:19:58.439
Probably.

01:19:59.399 –> 01:19:59.560
Yeah.

01:20:00.279 –> 01:20:01.399
Great, because we need to go there.

01:20:02.359 –> 01:20:02.600
Oh.

01:20:03.079 –> 01:20:04.199
Well, I need to go there.

01:20:05.079 –> 01:20:07.319
What business do you have with the bank?

01:20:07.880 –> 01:20:09.720
Oh, I’m helping out my new mentor.

01:20:10.039 –> 01:20:12.199
Oh, that wizardy folk.

01:20:12.439 –> 01:20:14.840
He’s like, yeah, that’s why he.

01:20:16.159 –> 01:20:25.840
Gave me the coin just because he was looking for apprentices, and he said if I meet him at the bank and kind of help him out with his finances, he’ll teach me a new spell.

01:20:26.159 –> 01:20:30.640
Oh, and are you skilled in the way of finances?

01:20:31.520 –> 01:20:34.479
Well, it’s more the fact that I can carry things for him.

01:20:34.800 –> 01:20:35.119
Okay.

01:20:36.000 –> 01:20:37.359
Oh, nice of you.

01:20:38.239 –> 01:20:41.359
You know, if you like learning magic, you should meet my mother.

01:20:41.520 –> 01:20:43.600
She is such a lovely casso.

01:20:43.760 –> 01:20:45.520
She’s taught me most of what I know.

01:20:45.920 –> 01:20:49.520
Those sources didn’t learn to learn, didn’t mean to learn magic, and that was the whole point.

01:20:50.159 –> 01:20:56.399
Well, yes, there’s certainly some that was innate, but she has also taught me a handful of spells herself.

01:20:56.960 –> 01:20:59.439
She is quite the accomplished caster.

01:20:59.760 –> 01:21:04.159
Folks come from very far to get magic from her.

01:21:04.800 –> 01:21:07.439
Hey, Kaz, let me see that jewel that you got.

01:21:07.760 –> 01:21:08.399
Oh, yeah.

01:21:09.039 –> 01:21:13.279
I take out the jewel and I start ritually casting identify on it.

01:21:13.600 –> 01:21:14.560
You do it.

01:21:16.159 –> 01:21:17.840
I didn’t know you had identify.

01:21:18.079 –> 01:21:20.479
As a ritual, yeah, I can’t do it instantly.

01:21:21.760 –> 01:21:29.119
As you’re casting identify, you slowly begin to see what is inside of it.

01:21:29.439 –> 01:21:34.720
Despite the blue appearance, this gem contains necromancy.

01:21:35.920 –> 01:21:39.439
Does it have like a specific effect, or does it have a soul in it?

01:21:39.760 –> 01:21:45.439
It has a soul, but that soul is bound to powering a spell for you.

01:21:48.319 –> 01:21:56.239
So, this gem lets you cast animate dead and put the soul and the gem into the body you have animated.

01:21:56.560 –> 01:22:00.479
And as long as you hold the gem, you will control the animated body.

01:22:01.279 –> 01:22:03.119
Is this like a once-a-day thing?

01:22:04.319 –> 01:22:10.079
So you can cast it any amount of times, but yet it can only animate one body at a time.

01:22:10.399 –> 01:22:10.640
Okay.

01:22:11.119 –> 01:22:12.159
How long does it last?

01:22:15.039 –> 01:22:19.359
The body stays animated as long as you have the gem.

01:22:20.000 –> 01:22:21.840
Or until it’s destroyed.

01:22:22.159 –> 01:22:25.520
If the body is destroyed, the soul will go back into the gem.

01:22:25.840 –> 01:22:26.399
Ooh.

01:22:27.039 –> 01:22:28.560
Can you control the soul?

01:22:28.880 –> 01:22:29.520
Yes.

01:22:29.840 –> 01:22:30.159
Okay.

01:22:30.800 –> 01:22:33.760
Whoever controls the gem will control the soul.

01:22:34.079 –> 01:22:34.319
Okay.

01:22:35.840 –> 01:22:43.039
Now, depending on how powerful of magic you have available, it can create different undead.

01:22:43.359 –> 01:22:46.800
Right now, it can just create a skeleton or a zombie.

01:22:48.319 –> 01:22:49.279
That’s cycle.

01:22:49.840 –> 01:22:51.600
Is that a new thing you got today?

01:22:51.920 –> 01:22:52.720
Asking Kess.

01:22:53.680 –> 01:22:55.199
Uh, yeah.

01:22:56.079 –> 01:23:01.760
Um, can I is there like a dead rat or a dead spider or something nearby that I can practice with?

01:23:02.239 –> 01:23:03.840
In the room, it is very clean in here.

01:23:04.159 –> 01:23:04.800
Oh man.

01:23:05.119 –> 01:23:09.279
And it has to be on a medium corpse or big corpse.

01:23:11.520 –> 01:23:17.600
Um, well, it means I can pretty much always create a servant whenever we need to.

01:23:18.960 –> 01:23:20.960
That could prove quite useful.

01:23:21.520 –> 01:23:24.800
I mean, we will need a dead body in order for me to create the dead servant.

01:23:25.119 –> 01:23:27.840
Um, but dead bodies are not half come by, right?

01:23:28.399 –> 01:23:31.600
No, especially with what’s going on.

01:23:33.359 –> 01:23:35.119
How much did you pay for it?

01:23:35.439 –> 01:23:38.000
I paid for it with experience.

01:23:39.520 –> 01:23:42.880
You did a task for that?

01:23:43.840 –> 01:23:45.760
I paid with experience.

01:23:46.079 –> 01:23:46.560
I see.

01:23:47.119 –> 01:23:50.720
I did someone a favor and they helped me get the gem.

01:23:51.039 –> 01:23:51.279
Okay.

01:23:52.159 –> 01:23:54.079
Wilfred is confused.

01:23:55.039 –> 01:23:59.760
Will someone be upset that this has been taken?

01:23:59.920 –> 01:24:02.960
Do we have to be watching our back?

01:24:03.520 –> 01:24:06.880
The soldiers did look like they were looking for someone today.

01:24:07.199 –> 01:24:07.920
I don’t think it was.

01:24:08.640 –> 01:24:10.319
I don’t think it’s worth it.

01:24:11.840 –> 01:24:18.720
I think as you ask that question, Kaza’s ears are going to droop slightly and be like, are you mad?

01:24:20.159 –> 01:24:21.600
I can’t give it back, but.

01:24:22.000 –> 01:24:22.720
No, no.

01:24:25.600 –> 01:24:28.239
I’ll leave if you guys don’t like it.

01:24:30.800 –> 01:24:33.199
They charge people to breathe this town.

01:24:34.239 –> 01:24:42.960
I simply wanted to be aware if we needed to use any means of disguising you when we were out and about tomorrow to make sure we made it out of this town.

01:24:43.199 –> 01:24:48.239
I do not care if you take things that are not yours.

01:24:48.319 –> 01:24:53.439
I just want to make sure that we are prepared to handle other reactions to it.

01:24:53.760 –> 01:24:55.199
Yeah, we’re just going to hug.

01:24:55.520 –> 01:24:57.920
Yeah, Kaza’s just going to hug you as you say that.

01:24:58.239 –> 01:25:08.720
Oh, Manny will return the hug and just kind of pat Kaz on top of the head, because I think Manny’s at least a decent bit taller than Kaz as Kaz is fairly short.

01:25:09.039 –> 01:25:12.800
Yeah, Kaz is only a few inches over five foot.

01:25:13.039 –> 01:25:14.239
Like, they’re tiny.

01:25:14.560 –> 01:25:15.279
Yeah, no, I think.

01:25:17.239 –> 01:25:21.239
And it’s probably just shy of six feet, I think.

01:25:21.560 –> 01:25:22.520
So, I have five.

01:25:22.840 –> 01:25:25.000
Oh, the height difference is adorable.

01:25:28.199 –> 01:25:28.760
All right.

01:25:29.079 –> 01:25:30.520
Y’all ready to go to sleep?

01:25:30.760 –> 01:25:34.279
Because I’m tired and we need an early day.

01:25:35.239 –> 01:25:35.720
Yes.

01:25:36.039 –> 01:25:36.520
Yep.

01:25:37.159 –> 01:25:40.039
We’re good to get some rest before we’re back on the road.

01:25:40.199 –> 01:25:42.279
Oh, we should check out that bakery.

01:25:42.439 –> 01:25:47.079
Get us some lovely bread in the morning before we head off.

01:25:47.399 –> 01:25:48.119
I’ll go get the cart.

01:25:48.439 –> 01:25:51.239
You guys need some rations and some breads and stuff.

01:25:51.560 –> 01:25:52.119
Yep.

01:25:52.760 –> 01:25:53.479
Sounds good.

01:25:54.760 –> 01:25:56.039
I couldn’t find the ring.

01:25:56.840 –> 01:25:58.840
The army’s buying them all up, so.

01:25:59.399 –> 01:26:00.279
Oh, yeah.

01:26:00.600 –> 01:26:01.159
Makes sense.

01:26:01.479 –> 01:26:03.319
But the cart is pretty sick.

01:26:03.640 –> 01:26:08.840
I mean, if you guys are okay with stealing, I could try and see if I could grab one from a passing soldier.

01:26:09.159 –> 01:26:12.520
The soldier dog might get switchy here.

01:26:12.840 –> 01:26:15.319
I would caution you.

01:26:16.680 –> 01:26:17.399
I won’t do that.

01:26:17.640 –> 01:26:18.359
We can keep an eye out.

01:26:18.680 –> 01:26:22.359
People will come across a soldier’s corpse and we can loot that instead.

01:26:22.920 –> 01:26:23.159
Okay.

01:26:23.399 –> 01:26:27.720
Oh, and then we can use the corpse to become a servant.

01:26:28.680 –> 01:26:33.479
See, we really, I see you really are quite the thrifty person.

01:26:33.800 –> 01:26:35.960
We do, we use, we cycle.

01:26:37.560 –> 01:26:39.319
Everything’s falling to place.

01:26:40.520 –> 01:26:41.079
Yes.

01:26:41.720 –> 01:26:43.000
Did we get a room yet?

01:26:43.159 –> 01:26:43.399
No?

01:26:44.039 –> 01:26:46.439
Oh, do we have to repay for our next night?

01:26:46.760 –> 01:26:47.079
Yeah.

01:26:47.640 –> 01:26:50.520
I’ll do it since I sold a shitload of stuff.

01:26:50.760 –> 01:26:51.479
You sure I can.

01:26:51.560 –> 01:26:53.479
I’m happy to pay a share of it.

01:26:53.800 –> 01:26:53.960
Yeah.

01:26:54.439 –> 01:26:54.840
What is it?

01:26:54.920 –> 01:26:55.000
8.

01:26:55.239 –> 01:26:55.479
Thank you.

01:26:57.479 –> 01:26:57.800
Yeah, 6.

01:26:58.600 –> 01:26:58.920
Yeah.

01:26:59.560 –> 01:27:00.039
Hiya.

01:27:00.359 –> 01:27:01.319
Oh, damn, cat.

01:27:01.479 –> 01:27:02.039
Shit.

01:27:03.319 –> 01:27:05.800
She just head-butted me in the face.

01:27:06.119 –> 01:27:07.000
Oh, gosh.

01:27:07.640 –> 01:27:13.079
My dog is being mysteriously well-behaved, so we’ll see if it lasts for the rest of the session.

01:27:15.880 –> 01:27:17.239
My dogs are all out.

01:27:17.479 –> 01:27:19.479
We had a kid’s party at this house yesterday.

01:27:19.720 –> 01:27:20.119
Oh, yeah.

01:27:21.000 –> 01:27:22.039
Just leave me through the.

01:27:22.520 –> 01:27:22.680
Yeah.

01:27:23.079 –> 01:27:25.800
My dog had a pretty busy day yesterday.

01:27:26.439 –> 01:27:32.520
Took on a road trip with a friend and went for a walk on the beach, so she seems to be tired.

01:27:33.479 –> 01:27:36.439
Yeah, maybe that’s why she’s well behaved because she’s exhausted.

01:27:38.119 –> 01:27:39.319
She’s a little tucked it out.

01:27:39.880 –> 01:27:40.119
Yeah.

01:27:41.319 –> 01:27:41.880
All right.

01:27:42.119 –> 01:27:49.319
You begin heading to the bakery, where you smell pastries and breads of various kinds being prepared.

01:27:49.640 –> 01:27:55.000
As you step inside, you are greeted by a very happy and very fat baker.

01:27:55.319 –> 01:28:01.399
He is about as wide as he is tall, with long arms and a chubby chin.

01:28:02.279 –> 01:28:04.920
Looking at you, he says, Hello!

01:28:05.239 –> 01:28:06.520
What are you here for?

01:28:06.840 –> 01:28:08.520
Bread or pastries?

01:28:09.159 –> 01:28:09.800
Ooh.

01:28:10.680 –> 01:28:24.600
I think has just kind of goes over to the display and seeing all the ones that like they point to like the flavor and pastries that were always their favorite when they were money when they got on sale.

01:28:26.119 –> 01:28:29.079
I was going, that one, that one, that one, that one, and that one.

01:28:30.920 –> 01:28:32.920
You have a variety pack.

01:28:33.079 –> 01:28:39.560
We are going to be heading out on a journey soon and thought that some pastries to set us off would be nice.

01:28:40.359 –> 01:28:45.079
Yes, the pastries start at one silver, and then you can have as many as you like.

01:28:45.399 –> 01:28:45.960
Ooh.

01:28:46.840 –> 01:28:52.600
I may end up spending, I’ll spend one gold’s worth, so I’ll get ten pastries.

01:28:52.760 –> 01:28:54.039
And just kind of like a variety.

01:28:54.119 –> 01:28:59.239
I’ll pick some of the ones that Kaz points out and some other ones.

01:28:59.399 –> 01:29:01.479
Hopefully, try to guess if it.

01:29:01.640 –> 01:29:05.239
I’m not sure if anyone else has preferences, but yeah, I’ll get a variety.

01:29:05.399 –> 01:29:08.520
I’ll pay a gold and buy ten pastries.

01:29:09.159 –> 01:29:15.239
You’ve got a variety of pastries with different fruit preserve fillings, jellies, and creams.

01:29:15.560 –> 01:29:16.279
Delicious.

01:29:16.600 –> 01:29:18.920
Are there any savory pastries?

01:29:19.159 –> 01:29:23.479
I ask a son who myself is a fan of like the Haven cheese croissant.

01:29:24.119 –> 01:29:27.159
Yes, there are a variety of meat stuffed pastries as well.

01:29:27.479 –> 01:29:28.199
Heck yeah.

01:29:28.600 –> 01:29:29.640
Much really ham.

01:29:30.119 –> 01:29:30.920
And some bacon.

01:29:31.800 –> 01:29:33.159
Ooh, delicious.

01:29:33.479 –> 01:29:34.520
Yeah, big mix.

01:29:34.600 –> 01:29:42.920
And then I’m trying to think if I want to get a what would like a loaf of bread cost?

01:29:43.239 –> 01:29:44.680
Maybe like that’s probably a loaf.

01:29:45.000 –> 01:29:49.319
I might ultimately get us a loaf of bread to go with a single berry each night.

01:29:49.640 –> 01:29:52.119
We’re going to have a slice of bread to the berry.

01:29:53.319 –> 01:29:54.920
Yeah, I’ll get us their nice gold.

01:29:55.720 –> 01:29:56.439
Yes, I know.

01:29:56.520 –> 01:29:59.000
I spent a whole one gold in one silver.

01:29:59.319 –> 01:30:01.239
We’ll be eating like kings.

01:30:01.880 –> 01:30:06.039
So we’ll take out a nice hoody loaf and purchase that.

01:30:06.359 –> 01:30:07.720
Do you have any sourdough?

01:30:09.640 –> 01:30:10.760
I love a sourdough.

01:30:11.720 –> 01:30:13.000
How much sourdough would you like?

01:30:13.319 –> 01:30:15.239
One bread was one silver?

01:30:15.560 –> 01:30:16.359
One silver.

01:30:16.520 –> 01:30:16.600
Yeah.

01:30:19.760 –> 01:30:26.399
He pulls out two big loaves of sourdough bread, wraps them in a light paper cloth, and hands them to you.

01:30:26.720 –> 01:30:27.520
Oh, thank you.

01:30:27.840 –> 01:30:28.960
And here’s the sailor.

01:30:29.199 –> 01:30:30.399
Takes the silver.

01:30:30.720 –> 01:30:32.640
Would I get you anything else?

01:30:33.439 –> 01:30:34.239
Not sure, dude.

01:30:34.479 –> 01:30:36.319
Is there anything else we need?

01:30:37.199 –> 01:30:37.840
At least.

01:30:38.960 –> 01:30:42.720
I mean, if we’re getting supplies, there’s not much else we can get in a bakery.

01:30:42.880 –> 01:30:50.399
We’d have to go to like a general store and get like dried meats and dried fruits and things like that and like cheeses, things that last.

01:30:51.359 –> 01:30:54.560
I feel like this is all we need from the bakery.

01:30:54.880 –> 01:30:55.119
Yeah.

01:30:56.880 –> 01:31:03.760
Excited to dig into all of our new goodies because now we have ten pastries and a bunch of bread.

01:31:04.079 –> 01:31:04.720
Bread for the bread.

01:31:04.880 –> 01:31:10.720
Yeah, you’ll have to keep hold of the pastries because if you let cows hurry them, they will eat all of them in one sitting.

01:31:12.000 –> 01:31:14.159
Yeah, I maybe will hold the pastries.

01:31:14.479 –> 01:31:23.680
I might give you, like, let you pick your first one, but you’ll have to get your one for the trip to the to get to the stable.

01:31:24.560 –> 01:31:29.920
Yeah, you, you, you, you give Kaz the pastry and literally, like, you look away for a second and it is gone.

01:31:32.800 –> 01:31:34.319
I just look in my lips.

01:31:35.199 –> 01:31:40.000
Oh, well, let’s wait how long it will be to have your next one.

01:31:40.479 –> 01:31:46.159
Want to make sure these, you know, gotta save them, make sure that everyone gets to pick out their first choice.

01:31:47.039 –> 01:31:48.560
You guys are awesome.

01:31:49.520 –> 01:31:55.279
As you control along the road, you see soldiers posting a wanted poster.

01:31:55.600 –> 01:31:59.359
And on it, you see a raccoon dressed in Kaz’s clothes.

01:32:03.680 –> 01:32:08.720
And now, Wilfred understands the pay with experience.

01:32:09.039 –> 01:32:09.359
Oh!

01:32:11.840 –> 01:32:12.560
Half.

01:32:12.880 –> 01:32:16.079
Okay, they’re clearly looking for a raccoon.

01:32:16.399 –> 01:32:17.840
Yeah, they clearly look raccoon.

01:32:18.319 –> 01:32:20.560
Yeah, definitely not you.

01:32:21.840 –> 01:32:27.520
I might look to be like, how recognizable would at least like the outfit be?

01:32:27.600 –> 01:32:31.600
Like, would someone get suspicious, do I think from the outfits being the same?

01:32:31.920 –> 01:32:33.279
Outfit is fairly generic.

01:32:33.359 –> 01:32:34.880
It doesn’t stand out that much.

01:32:35.199 –> 01:32:39.279
You only really recognize it as Kaz because you travel with them every day.

01:32:39.600 –> 01:32:48.800
Okay, so then I’ll be keeping an eye out in case I see anyone watching us too closely, but we let’s make a way quickly.

01:32:48.960 –> 01:32:51.039
I have a feeling we’re not going to be.

01:32:51.600 –> 01:32:54.640
It might get a bit heated in this town soon.

01:32:54.960 –> 01:32:58.000
Plus, we got places to go and timelines.

01:32:58.319 –> 01:33:02.720
Yep, as you’re making your way towards the stables.

01:33:03.359 –> 01:33:04.960
Vincent, you are there.

01:33:05.279 –> 01:33:05.920
Oh, good.

01:33:06.399 –> 01:33:08.000
Here to pick up my horse.

01:33:09.359 –> 01:33:12.319
Yes, we got a sturdy horse for you.

01:33:12.640 –> 01:33:18.319
And he leads out an old mare with thick, strong legs and steady eyes.

01:33:19.279 –> 01:33:20.239
That’s the animal.

01:33:20.560 –> 01:33:22.239
It looks at you sideways.

01:33:23.600 –> 01:33:26.720
Doesn’t make any other noises and just stands quietly.

01:33:27.279 –> 01:33:28.319
It’s well trained.

01:33:28.720 –> 01:33:30.800
Seems it, but all right.

01:33:31.119 –> 01:33:32.720
Uh the cart outside.

01:33:32.800 –> 01:33:33.039
Let’s.

01:33:33.439 –> 01:33:35.039
He leads you out to the cart.

01:33:35.600 –> 01:33:42.079
And you see a cart covered with black canvas over the top, and the sides are painted black as well.

01:33:42.399 –> 01:33:45.840
This is a discreet, one of our discrete carts for you.

01:33:46.159 –> 01:33:48.239
Stays warm even when it’s cold outside.

01:33:48.399 –> 01:33:51.119
And on the inside, he leads you into the cart.

01:33:51.439 –> 01:33:53.359
He lifts up a hatch from the center.

01:33:53.680 –> 01:33:55.279
You see a ladder leading down.

01:33:55.600 –> 01:33:59.520
It goes down about 15 feet and you find yourself in a square room.

01:33:59.840 –> 01:34:00.560
He points around.

01:34:00.800 –> 01:34:03.199
As you can see, there’s plenty of extra storage space.

01:34:03.520 –> 01:34:04.079
I like it.

01:34:04.239 –> 01:34:05.359
Thank you very much.

01:34:05.680 –> 01:34:06.640
Yes, you’re welcome.

01:34:06.960 –> 01:34:08.640
Thank you for doing business.

01:34:08.960 –> 01:34:14.079
And the cart can be enchanted further and have other upgrades done to it as it goes.

01:34:14.319 –> 01:34:18.079
I sort of tip them two gold for the good business.

01:34:19.359 –> 01:34:21.680
He smiles at you and climbs out of the cart.

01:34:21.920 –> 01:34:23.680
He begins hitching up the horse to it.

01:34:24.000 –> 01:34:25.920
Do you have anything you need loaded?

01:34:26.239 –> 01:34:30.960
Uh no, I’m gonna go meet my friends at the squares and we’re gonna take off from here.

01:34:31.279 –> 01:34:32.000
But thank you.

01:34:32.560 –> 01:34:36.800
Best of luck on your journey, and he goes back to attending to the horses around him.

01:34:37.119 –> 01:34:37.680
Thank you.

01:34:38.000 –> 01:34:42.479
The mare is very steady and doesn’t startle at anything in the city as you roll through.

01:34:42.800 –> 01:34:47.039
As you’re going, you find the others in the center square of the town.

01:34:47.359 –> 01:34:50.960
Should we get some supplies and load up to the cart before we leave?

01:34:51.279 –> 01:35:01.760
Sure, we have plenty of baked goods and bread, but if anyone needs more rations or supplies, take the time to pick that up.

01:35:02.079 –> 01:35:04.800
Yeah, we should buy some extra rations.

01:35:05.840 –> 01:35:11.119
I believe I still have some rations, and I know we always have wheels bed for food.

01:35:11.439 –> 01:35:11.680
Yeah.

01:35:12.000 –> 01:35:14.319
Can you pick some rations up for me too?

01:35:14.479 –> 01:35:16.000
I’m going to stay with the horse.

01:35:16.880 –> 01:35:17.760
How much rations are you?

01:35:19.239 –> 01:35:19.800
Looking for.

01:35:20.119 –> 01:35:23.319
I think ten is okay for me if you want to pick it up for me.

01:35:23.640 –> 01:35:24.680
Yeah, I think two weeks.

01:35:25.159 –> 01:35:27.640
I mean, if yeah, it’s like two weeks lost for all of us.

01:35:28.439 –> 01:35:31.640
Yeah, I think I still have how many matches do I still have left over?

01:35:31.800 –> 01:35:34.279
Would they still be good from when we picked them up when you lost it?

01:35:37.800 –> 01:35:38.199
Have we?

01:35:38.520 –> 01:35:38.680
Yeah.

01:35:38.920 –> 01:35:39.399
Yeah, yeah.

01:35:39.960 –> 01:35:40.359
I’m going to go.

01:35:43.159 –> 01:35:45.319
Yeah, because I had 14 listed.

01:35:45.640 –> 01:35:47.319
I had four, but they’re gone now.

01:35:47.880 –> 01:35:49.960
If you pick some up for me, it would be nice.

01:35:50.279 –> 01:35:59.159
And I walk over to the horse and I put my forehead against its forehead just to get a feeling what kind of horse it is and then, you know, talk to him, talk to animals.

01:35:59.479 –> 01:36:02.760
It looks at you with a curious eye as you begin speaking to it.

01:36:03.000 –> 01:36:04.039
What do you say?

01:36:05.640 –> 01:36:06.680
Hi, friend.

01:36:07.000 –> 01:36:07.720
How are you?

01:36:08.039 –> 01:36:09.800
Hello, I am well.

01:36:10.119 –> 01:36:11.960
I’m eager to get on the road.

01:36:12.279 –> 01:36:13.159
How old are you?

01:36:13.479 –> 01:36:15.960
It doesn’t understand the idea of age.

01:36:16.279 –> 01:36:16.439
Okay.

01:36:17.399 –> 01:36:18.920
Yeah, you’re a fine horse.

01:36:19.239 –> 01:36:20.199
Nice to meet you.

01:36:20.520 –> 01:36:24.760
It stands a little taller and struts a bit as you praise it.

01:36:25.079 –> 01:36:25.640
Looks too late.

01:36:25.800 –> 01:36:26.119
What’s his name?

01:36:27.399 –> 01:36:28.840
I love to pull the cart.

01:36:29.159 –> 01:36:29.720
Nice.

01:36:30.039 –> 01:36:32.760
What’s the horse has favorite snacks?

01:36:33.079 –> 01:36:35.640
Yeah, what’s your name and what’s your favorite snack?

01:36:35.960 –> 01:36:37.159
I love apples.

01:36:37.479 –> 01:36:39.239
And my name is Starlight.

01:36:39.560 –> 01:36:40.600
Okay, Starlight.

01:36:40.840 –> 01:36:41.880
I’m Wilfred.

01:36:42.520 –> 01:36:43.720
Nice to meet you.

01:36:44.039 –> 01:36:45.640
And then I shout to the other guys.

01:36:45.800 –> 01:36:48.039
Can you get some apples if you find some?

01:36:49.399 –> 01:36:51.000
Yeah, we’ll pick them up.

01:36:51.319 –> 01:36:53.720
We need s stuff for the horse anyway.

01:36:53.880 –> 01:36:54.840
How much would that would be?

01:36:55.159 –> 01:36:57.319
Two weeks’ worth of stuff for the horse.

01:36:57.560 –> 01:37:04.119
Well, the horse can graze as you travel, but you’ll need hay once you start to once it gets colder and begins to snow over.

01:37:04.439 –> 01:37:06.680
Yeah, definitely gonna need hay.

01:37:07.000 –> 01:37:10.199
So a day’s hay will cost about a gold.

01:37:10.520 –> 01:37:10.760
Okay.

01:37:11.079 –> 01:37:15.880
So two weeks of hay, two weeks of rations, fourteen gold.

01:37:16.439 –> 01:37:17.640
Fourteen gold for the high.

01:37:18.359 –> 01:37:22.119
The rations will be about one gold per ration.

01:37:22.439 –> 01:37:24.600
Jeez, expensive.

01:37:25.560 –> 01:37:30.039
Yes, cured food right now is a premium as the army is buying it up en masse.

01:37:30.840 –> 01:37:31.720
We might need to start.

01:37:32.439 –> 01:37:45.800
Um, if I I was gonna look for maybe if there’s a book or something where we can learn how to start making our own rations, how to cure meats or better information about what foods are safe or stuff like that.

01:37:46.119 –> 01:37:49.319
Maybe we can start making our own rations as we go.

01:37:49.640 –> 01:37:54.920
You do find in a bookstore in the center a feed manual for rations.

01:37:55.479 –> 01:37:58.439
Ooh, how much would that cost me?

01:37:58.920 –> 01:38:03.479
Let’s see eighteen gold.

01:38:05.800 –> 01:38:07.319
I can give you the money for that.

01:38:07.640 –> 01:38:11.079
I have the I have the coin.

01:38:11.239 –> 01:38:13.399
I’ll get us the book.

01:38:14.039 –> 01:38:19.960
Oh yeah, I’ll pick up that book and I’ll get myself, you know, my new two weeks of rations.

01:38:20.600 –> 01:38:30.840
I feel like between the goosebus we can make sense of this book and hopefully, you know, further travels, you won’t have to purchase as many rations with their cost going up as they are.

01:38:31.159 –> 01:38:34.840
I got the horse supplies and rations for myself.

01:38:35.079 –> 01:38:41.399
If somebody can get Wilfred’s rations, I’ll pay you when you get back to the horse.

01:38:41.720 –> 01:38:46.359
Okay, so then I’ll, yeah, I’ll pick up the rations for Wilfred as well.

01:38:46.680 –> 01:38:46.840
Yeah.

01:38:47.319 –> 01:38:48.119
Carry them.

01:38:48.520 –> 01:38:51.560
I got a bag of holding, just keep shoving all of it in there.

01:38:51.880 –> 01:38:53.720
I went from 600 gold to 100.

01:38:55.800 –> 01:38:56.520
I was at.

01:38:57.079 –> 01:38:59.399
I’m still hanging around the 150 zones.

01:38:59.479 –> 01:38:59.800
I haven’t.

01:38:59.960 –> 01:39:01.479
I’m not too broke, but.

01:39:02.039 –> 01:39:04.600
I’m used to being broke my whole life.

01:39:04.920 –> 01:39:07.079
So my 49 gold?

01:39:07.399 –> 01:39:09.239
I don’t really care that much about money, right?

01:39:09.560 –> 01:39:10.760
Never been bothered.

01:39:11.079 –> 01:39:11.239
Yeah.

01:39:12.199 –> 01:39:13.399
True Druid speak.

01:39:14.279 –> 01:39:14.520
Yeah.

01:39:15.319 –> 01:39:20.199
Anything else anyone needs, Kaz or you all said, or something else you want to pick up?

01:39:21.560 –> 01:39:25.880
Yeah, I think Kat is very much just along for the ride.

01:39:26.520 –> 01:39:28.199
Were you able to get your rations?

01:39:29.560 –> 01:39:37.720
Um I mean do you I shouldn’t steal rations, right?

01:39:38.359 –> 01:39:46.119
Mayhaps not, especially with there being a heightened awareness of the dream about in volume.

01:39:46.680 –> 01:39:49.640
If you need help with the coin, I am happy to.

01:39:50.279 –> 01:39:51.479
Yeah, we’ll put you.

01:39:52.279 –> 01:39:55.159
Yeah, you don’t need to get like the full rations for the full week.

01:39:55.239 –> 01:39:57.079
I’m used to eating light.

01:39:57.720 –> 01:40:00.520
This is mainly to supplement the good berries.

01:40:00.840 –> 01:40:03.800
Yeah, just take a lot longer.

01:40:03.960 –> 01:40:09.560
But the horse I will purchase seven rations for Kaz.

01:40:10.039 –> 01:40:10.760
Thank you.

01:40:11.479 –> 01:40:13.000
Yeah, I’ll pass those over to you.

01:40:13.239 –> 01:40:14.439
I think we’re ready to go.

01:40:14.760 –> 01:40:15.319
I think so.

01:40:15.399 –> 01:40:18.520
And I believe we already all purchased winter cloaks, so.

01:40:20.159 –> 01:40:25.119
Between that and the warm coat, we should be pretty ready for the weather to come.

01:40:25.439 –> 01:40:25.760
Yeah.

01:40:26.560 –> 01:40:31.039
Yeah, so make our way then back to Willford and the coat.

01:40:31.359 –> 01:40:34.079
Oh, we get some yeah, did we include apples?

01:40:34.399 –> 01:40:34.960
Yes.

01:40:35.279 –> 01:40:35.600
Okay.

01:40:36.000 –> 01:40:42.800
Our horse rashes included apples, so we want to make sure we got two sweet solate to some yummy yummy apples.

01:40:43.119 –> 01:40:43.359
Yeah.

01:40:43.680 –> 01:40:52.960
And when you come to the cart, I quickly grab one, like, um, you don’t know, twist it into halves and give one half to Starlight directly.

01:40:53.600 –> 01:40:54.239
Here you go.

01:40:54.560 –> 01:40:59.359
Starlight munches the apple happily and is eager to get on the road.

01:40:59.680 –> 01:41:00.079
Yes.

01:41:00.399 –> 01:41:04.640
And I take the other half for myself and jump up into the cart.

01:41:04.960 –> 01:41:05.119
Yeah.

01:41:05.600 –> 01:41:06.960
I’ll be driving, I guess.

01:41:07.279 –> 01:41:08.640
Oh, yeah, hop in the coat.

01:41:08.720 –> 01:41:16.319
I’ll probably start stashing some of our rashes in the help stash the horse feed into the like secret hatch storage.

01:41:17.279 –> 01:41:22.640
I’d keep it on in the like cart where it’s visible in case we get stopped by soldiers.

01:41:22.960 –> 01:41:24.560
We can say, hey, we’re just traitors.

01:41:25.199 –> 01:41:25.680
Oh, true.

01:41:25.760 –> 01:41:26.720
We can keep stuff.

01:41:26.960 –> 01:41:31.439
I just want to make sure if there’s four of us in here, I feel like we’re going to run out of space soon.

01:41:31.760 –> 01:41:31.920
Yeah.

01:41:32.239 –> 01:41:36.560
You can always keep like here’s a couple days, but then stash the rest.

01:41:37.039 –> 01:41:37.199
Yeah.

01:41:37.600 –> 01:41:38.880
Just to save space.

01:41:39.199 –> 01:41:39.600
Alrighty.

01:41:39.760 –> 01:41:40.079
But yeah.

01:41:41.279 –> 01:41:44.720
Yeah, I’ll start setting my new book as I’m on my way.

01:41:45.039 –> 01:41:50.800
We’re going to leave off here as you head out of town into the forests and down the road across the river.

01:41:51.119 –> 01:41:55.439
You cross the bridge, across the river, and you hear it rushing.

01:41:55.760 –> 01:42:05.920
And you hear the crystalline sound of ice crashing through the river as it flows, foretelling us that it will soon freeze.

01:42:06.239 –> 01:42:08.960
Is there anything you guys would like to prepare for next session?

01:42:10.159 –> 01:42:11.840
No, I feel pretty prepared.

01:42:12.399 –> 01:42:17.199
Swim spells where I’m gonna soak out absorb elements for Thunderwave.

01:42:18.560 –> 01:42:23.520
Can I change out spells like a wizard or sorcerer can as an artificer?

01:42:23.760 –> 01:42:26.560
I believe so, but give me a moment to just double check.

01:42:30.000 –> 01:42:34.880
I’m not sure what they follow, what rule set, especially in the new rule set.

01:42:36.800 –> 01:42:42.159
You prepare spells like a wizard does after a long rest.

01:42:42.479 –> 01:42:44.720
So you can change out what spells you have prepared.

01:42:45.039 –> 01:42:45.199
Okay.

01:42:45.840 –> 01:42:49.760
Alright, is there anything else you would like any of you would like to go over before we end the session?

01:42:51.199 –> 01:42:53.680
No, I think it’s all good.

01:42:53.920 –> 01:42:54.960
I think I’m good.

01:42:55.279 –> 01:42:55.600
Yeah.

01:42:55.920 –> 01:42:58.720
Thank you guys, and I look forward to seeing you next week.

01:42:59.520 –> 01:42:59.680
Yeah.

01:43:00.000 –> 01:43:00.159
Yes.

01:43:00.479 –> 01:43:01.680
Even though no combat.

01:43:02.560 –> 01:43:03.439
No, no combat.

01:43:03.520 –> 01:43:05.039
It was a good roleplay session.

01:43:05.119 –> 01:43:05.439
I liked it.

01:43:05.600 –> 01:43:05.680
Yeah.

01:43:06.319 –> 01:43:10.880
Definitely some good OP this session, some good world intrigue and plot hooks.

01:43:11.279 –> 01:43:15.760
I love the chaos Gas brings to this.

01:43:16.319 –> 01:43:16.560
Yeah.

01:43:17.840 –> 01:43:18.079
Yeah.

01:43:19.039 –> 01:43:22.960
And I’m now going to teach that gives me more excuses to steal the shit.

01:43:25.359 –> 01:43:26.880
You always succeed, too.

01:43:27.520 –> 01:43:31.119
Well, yeah, I’ve got like a plus ten to slide of hands.

01:43:32.079 –> 01:43:33.119
That does help.

01:43:33.439 –> 01:43:34.720
I, yeah.

01:43:35.359 –> 01:43:41.119
The most I can ever get on anything is a plus five, which weirdly is with stealth.

01:43:41.359 –> 01:43:42.479
I don’t know how.

01:43:43.279 –> 01:43:45.840
Yeah, expertise is like a game changer.

01:43:46.479 –> 01:43:50.880
It really is, especially as you get up in those levels and your proficiency goes up.

01:43:51.520 –> 01:43:52.079
Yeah, I know.

01:43:52.159 –> 01:44:00.560
Like, I’ve seen like high-level roads where like even rolling a two, they can get like 20 plus on their spells checks.

01:44:00.720 –> 01:44:01.920
It’s just like, how?

01:44:02.960 –> 01:44:07.359
And don’t Milk eventually get this thing where like you can’t roll be a low at 10 or something?

01:44:07.680 –> 01:44:09.039
Pretty much, yeah, reliable time.

01:44:10.079 –> 01:44:10.319
Yeah.

01:44:11.359 –> 01:44:13.920
Yeah, between all that, pretty set.

01:44:14.800 –> 01:44:20.239
Yeah, the only things I even have a plus five on is um stealth and cartographers tools.

01:44:20.479 –> 01:44:21.840
Will that ever come in handy?

01:44:22.000 –> 01:44:22.560
Who knows?

01:44:22.880 –> 01:44:24.239
I mean, it means we’ll not get lost.

01:44:25.119 –> 01:44:26.880
I’m so good at maps.

01:44:27.199 –> 01:44:30.960
No, I’m not great at nature, but maths, heck yeah.

01:44:31.920 –> 01:44:33.439
All right, well, thank you guys.

01:44:33.760 –> 01:44:34.560
Thank you.

01:44:34.880 –> 01:44:35.760
Thank you.

01:44:36.079 –> 01:44:36.399
Yeah, thanks.

01:44:36.720 –> 01:44:40.079
Let me know if there’s anything you want to address in between sessions.

01:44:40.239 –> 01:44:42.079
Just send me a message through Discord.

01:44:42.399 –> 01:44:46.000
Just the quest thing on the wiki.

01:44:46.319 –> 01:44:49.760
Because I completely forgot about the couple of the quests.

01:44:50.399 –> 01:44:50.800
Oh, yeah.

01:44:50.880 –> 01:44:54.960
No, I had fully blanked on the fact that we were supposed to be getting an artifact.

01:44:55.119 –> 01:45:02.239
I literally only was like, we got the painting, and then I guess we go back to the crooked crossroads.

01:45:02.560 –> 01:45:02.720
Yeah.

01:45:02.960 –> 01:45:03.359
Not the cards.

01:45:04.800 –> 01:45:07.039
I don’t remember the artifact at all.

01:45:08.640 –> 01:45:10.640
Alright, well, I’m glad I brought it up then.

01:45:13.279 –> 01:45:15.600
If we promised someone to do something.

01:45:16.319 –> 01:45:19.520
Yeah, I’m sure it’s in the beginning of my notes.

01:45:21.319 –> 01:45:28.920
Yep, cultists have an artifact for reviving the and then I didn’t finish that sentence.

01:45:29.159 –> 01:45:33.399
I just have cultists have an artifact for reviving the great note-taking.

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All right, well, I’ll see you guys next week.

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Thank you.

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See you next week.

01:45:40.359 –> 01:45:40.760
See you guys.

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Bye.

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Bye.

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