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C1 Ep.2: Rags, Bags, and Price Tags · Smooth Critical

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  Welcome back to Smooth Critical. I'm your DM, Avni.
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  Hey, actually quick question. Avni, are you OK?
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  Wait, Avni, are you OK? Are you OK?
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  Yes, I am OK. In fact, I'm great because my
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  three wonderful players won their first gladiator battle
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  last session. But before I get into a recap,
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  let's meet our three gorgeous gladiators.
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  He my. It's Abdu Kadir.
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  Harry. Buntu Willowinds, but my friends
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  call me Bon. And Charlie?
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  Bo. Great, let's start our recap.
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  We started in the UGNY arena, located in Scenario, the capital
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  of Ignovarum. We met our PCs Abe, Bon, and Bo,
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  AKA the Manos in the gladiator pits, ready to fight for
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  entertainment. We learned Abe wants an audience
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  with the Imperidor, Bon has a vendetta against the Imperidor,
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  and Bo, well, Bo actually never really explained why he was
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  there, though he did share some weird looks with the Domino.
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  Our 3 heroes won their battle against the Dwarven Gear
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  grinders and were allowed the freedom to explore the
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  festivities. After watching the headliner
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  matches and learning that the Emperor's use gladiators as
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  collateral for bets, they went to the winner's booth where they
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  met a strange figure named Vox RM Vox offered to sponsor them
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  and give them the freedom to travel the world and compete in
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  combats as they saw fit, as long as they complied with some
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  missions for him. They agreed and were told that
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  they had until midnight the following day to find a piece of
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  a tablet that was hidden beneath the east side of the Ogney
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  Arena. Additionally, our players are
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  now in the heart of Scenario, a bustling city with thousands of
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  people from all over the world conglomerating here for the
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  festivities. There is a large shopping
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  market, street vendors, games, and much more happening.
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  What do you guys want to do? Well, I feel like there's a one
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  one thing that's a little more pressing than everything else
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  right now. Of course, of course.
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  And I forgot to mention Abe might have gotten his hand cut
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  off. Oh, actually, I was saying that
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  Abe owes Bunty a bath right now. Oh.
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  Yeah, yeah, it's bat time, baby. Let's go hostel or something.
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  Bunty, not right now. Why 'cause you're bleeding.
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  I'm not bleeding actively anymore, but I do need a hand
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  and maybe an honor. Well, I actually know someone
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  who I think could give you a hand if if you're looking.
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  Yeah, but before we do that, Bon Bo, do you have a sword?
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  Yeah. OK.
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  And I, I outstretch my my arm with the stump on it and I say
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  take it off, just clean at the shoulder.
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  Bond, Bond, get the bond. Get the Gladiator patch ready.
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  Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait out and.
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  I. Hand it to I I, I go to do it
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  without any hesitation, no questioning or just like, OK, I
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  just you know, I can pull out my sword I'm.
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  Going to try to step in for a second.
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  OK, great. Bond, you step in the middle
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  right before this happens. What do you say?
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  You know that the surgeon could do that for you, and we wouldn't
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  have to waste a gladiator patch on another mortal wound.
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  You just got a full rest. No, I know the.
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  Healers just healed you. These doctors, they're greedy,
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  they want more money. I'd bet they charge me extra and
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  I only have enough for for both a hand and an arm.
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  What it's What's it going to cost?
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  An arm and a leg. This is the last time I'm buy
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  you a gladiator patch. But I do really appreciate it,
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  Bunty, do you think you could Like, have you ever tried
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  morphing your body? No.
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  Should I try? Yeah, try.
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  All right. Bunty.
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  Bears down on all fours, his little bean body and his butt
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  stuck up in the air, and he closes his one eye and he
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  really, really concentrates. And you see shit fly out of his
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  butt. No, Bunty, don't.
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  I need a bath right now. Whoops.
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  Oh bunty, that smells. All right, well, we can go away
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  from you if you want. Bunty, go, go, I am point to the
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  corner. Are we still in the the winner's
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  tent right now? Are we out and about?
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  Yeah, you're trying to get your arm chopped off in front of a
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  bunch of people. Do you want to do it right here
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  or do you want to kind of go somewhere in like an alley?
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  I definitely don't want to be close to like the recent feces
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  with an open wound. So let's let's get out of here.
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  Let's go. Let's go to an alleyway, OK?
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  Great. You guys head over to the
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  alleyway, Bon, I assume a little begrudgingly, and Bunty offers
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  to hold down your hand so Bo can chop it off.
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  No, no, Bunty, I don't want you anywhere near my arm right now.
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  I mean, you told me to concentrate, I just happen to
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  take a shit. Concentrating is not the same as
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  as as pressing as pressing on your insides.
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  You were making me push push. I mean I could have given verb.
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  I feel like this is a better option.
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  Could I use a either my Cure wounds or Channel divinity to
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  avoid having to use a gladiator patch for this?
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  Yeah, I'll say that you could throw a cure Wounds right as it
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  gets chopped off to stop the bleeding.
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  OK. All right.
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  Great. Let's do that instead.
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  So do you want me to hold down your arm?
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  Do I look around? Is there any like like water
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  spigots or anything like that nearby, like on the street, any
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  sort of like city plumbing? Yeah, sure.
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  There's there's probably some something in the alleyway.
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  OK. Bunty, wash your hands and and
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  just take a quick bath please. Oh, yeah, yeah.
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  He goes under the water spigot. You see him catch the water into
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  his mouth and kind of spit it like he's he's just having fun
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  in the water. He takes a bath.
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  You see so much grime come off of his body, just like the water
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  turns black as he's showering. And at some point the water
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  turns a light Gray. And he's like, yeah, I'm good.
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  I think this is good enough. OK, OK, yeah, you can hold my
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  arm now. Great, so if Bunty is holding
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  down your arm and Bow is swinging at it, bow, I'll count
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  that Bow has to do enough damage to chop off the arm clean in one
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  go. I know.
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  So with Bunty holding down the arm bow, it's going to count as
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  an automatic crit for you. So roll your dice as if you crit
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  and I guess you can add sneak attack damage because you do
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  have allies within 5 feet. Cool.
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  Forgot this is going to do damage to me. 18 it.
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  Is it is going to do too 18? I am down.
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  That's what I thought. I am down just.
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  Immediately passes out from the pain.
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  Yep. Yep.
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  I Yeah, the arm comes completely off.
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  It's clean, yeah. I'm not saying anything you're.
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  Passed out on the floor. I'm not, I'm not going to heal
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  him. No.
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  No, no, no, of course, yeah. I cast Cure Wounds at a first
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  level because that is what level I can cast it at.
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  So that will be two D8 that was AD 10-7 and five.
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  So that is 12. So you regain 12 hit points.
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  Nice. Not bad.
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  So I come back to. Yeah, and you're above you.
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  You see Bunty holding your arm in one hand just like the slab
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  of meat, and your hand in the other.
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  And he goes Toys. These are some fun toys.
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  We're going to be smacking people around now.
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  I guess I should have asked beforehand, but why?
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  Why? Why my arm?
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  Yeah. It just feels like the metal
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  hand, if it has a an arm behind it made of flesh and bone, am I
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  really getting the same amount of force?
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  You know, it feels like the whole thing should be metal.
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  Does it? Are we going to have to get both
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  an arm and a hand? Indeed, but I have just enough
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  money to get a level 1. I won't get any upgrades at this
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  point, but it'll set me to get upgrades in the future.
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  Yeah. So basically there are 6 levels
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  of mechanical limbs. The mechanical limbs that you
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  can replace are your hand, the arm portion and your leg, which
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  your leg includes your foot. I didn't want to distinguish
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  those two because it's pretty infrequent in gladiator battle
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  that you would get your foot cut off without the whole leg.
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  So the level 0 mechanical limb is going to be worse than if you
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  just had a standard flesh limb. I'm sorry to say it like that.
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  Level 1 is equal to your flesh limb and then upgrades 2 through
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  5 give your limbs abilities. You have to at least start with
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  a level 1 limb to upgrade further and it has to be
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  consecutive so 12345 so you don't have to start with the
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  level 0. Level 0 is an option if you just
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  don't have enough money and you just need something.
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  Each empire boasts different upgrades starting at Level 3, so
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  my players have a handy dandy spreadsheet that shows them what
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  upgrades they could get where. But as you upgrade, it gets more
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  expensive and it takes more time to actually augment the body.
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  So we flashback to the alleyway where you are no longer
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  profusely bleeding out, but you are pale in the face and laying
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  on the ground as Bunty stands over you with your two limbs in
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  his hands. What do you guys want to do?
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  Let's go to let me find the name of the place.
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  I think it's Brimstone. I was going to get that.
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  How do you How do you know where that place is?
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  You don't. You've never been here before.
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  I'm the one who knows the place. I'm sorry.
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  Don't hurt. Me and I hold up my other arm
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  up. There's there's a nice shop
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  nearby that called Brim steel and Bone that should be able to
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  replace the arm. And the hand so.
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  And the hand. And the hand, how could I
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  forget? So you guys head over to Brim
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  Steel and Bone. It is a limb upgrade shop in
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  Ignovarum. There's also another one that
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  you could get your limb upgrade at called Magnika Integrated
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  Solutions. But Magnika does upgrades from
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  all of the different empires. You could get any type of
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  upgrade from there, but it does cost 1.5 times more.
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  So if you're just looking for a level 1 upgrade, it does make
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  more sense to go to Brim, Steel and Bone.
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  So you guys head over to Brim, Steel and Bone and inside you
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  see two dragonborns, a sister and brother who are working on
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  mechanical limbs. Yonlin is the sister and Pedro
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  is the brother. Pedro.
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  Yes, yes. Oh Bon, we have you finally
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  gotten the limb chopped off? No, no, no, no.
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  I will not do that anytime soon. I like to keep my win limbs on
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  my body, but I have a fresh wound for you.
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  This is Abe. Hi.
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  And I kind of shake my shoulder joint around.
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  Oh geez, that looks really fresh.
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  When does this happen? Like a minute and 30 seconds
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  ago, no. No, it was in the gladiator.
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  It was in the gladiator fight, our first gladiator fight.
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  They just took the arm clean off and then later on during the
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  fight one of the guys cut my hand off as well so.
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  After the after the arm. He got the hand off after the
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  arm. It was like an intimidation
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  tactic. So you'll see that the arm
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  doesn't have a hand attached, because you might be wondering
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  like, why is the hand not attached to the arm?
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  That would be why. Yeah, look at these two.
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  These two things are separate, you see.
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  Separate, not together. My short sword out, dripping
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  with blood. Abe, roll a deception chick and
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  he's going to roll insight because you just just lied about
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  your arm. I am not the most charismatic
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  guy 16. OK, yeah, you beat, he got a 15,
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  so you just. Yeah, he goes.
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  That's incredibly strange. I I myself am not a fan of the
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  gladiator fights, which I know is crazy considering I run the
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  shop with my sister and we put augmentations on gladiators all
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  the time. But it's just, it's too much
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  blood for me. And you look over at him and his
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  sister and you see that neither of them actually have
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  augmentations on themselves, despite running a shop that that
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  specializes in augmentations. How did you get?
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  Into the business well. My sister, she's more the brains
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  of the business and you look over at her and she's the one
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  tinkering with a bunch of the mechanical stuff.
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  And, you know, she promised me that there would be money.
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  And we've made so much money. I mean, you don't know the
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  amount of limbs that I've replaced.
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  It is absolutely insane. This is a very lucrative
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  business. Have you ever?
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  Added a limb to someone that didn't need it.
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  I have not. That's an interesting point.
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  I just don't know how our technology would merge with the
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  body so that you could control it.
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  You know, like the way we do with the arms and the hands.
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  It becomes a part of you. So your brain knows that this
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  spot is where the arm is supposed to go.
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  So when we attach the arm and the hand, your brain kind of
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  like with the magic and the technology, fills in those gaps
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  so you're able to control it. But if you add 1 to, let's say,
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  your rib section, your brain's not going to know what to do
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  with the hand right there, so it can't actually make that magic
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  body tech seal. Has anyone?
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  Tried it. Not.
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  Here we do not have insurance for that.
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  No, we do not have insurance for that.
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  No, No I don't. Want to, I'm just curious if
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  anyone's tried it anywhere. Not trying to get a.
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  Prehensile tail A prehensile. Tail.
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  OK, if you could fix me up that'd.
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  Be great. I have.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I look at the.
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  Menu. Yeah, you lay back in a chair
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  and he gives you a He gives you a menu that suspiciously looks
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  like our Excel spreadsheet. Yeah.
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  I will take a level one hand and level 1 arm for 500 gold pieces.
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  Great. Yes, we could totally do that.
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  And he starts working on your limbs, he turns to the other two
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  and he goes, this might take a while and by a while.
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  I can definitely get it done in 4 hours.
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  Is there a timetable? I mean it's what it's about 5:00
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  PM now. Do you guys have anywhere you
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  have to be or is you can pick up your friend at 9:00 PM?
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  Is that OK? Yeah, we'll.
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  We'll pick him up at 9:00. That's that's no problem at all.
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  So, Abe. As you're getting your arm and
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  your hand upgraded Bo and Bon, where do you guys want to go?
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  We'll just have a a fun little shopping trip before we.
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  Leave Abe is. Is there anything else you need
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  us to do or pick up in the meantime?
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  Oh, actually, yeah, give me the money.
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  I'll, I'll, I'll get itself. I'll get stuff for us.
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  Oh oh. Bunty's coming.
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  Oh, excellent. I figured you'd be here for
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  emotional support, Bunty. I thought you were.
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  Going to stay. What?
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  What? Why do I need to be here?
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  Can I have your money? I just thought.
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  You were going to stay you half. The.
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  Time you don't want me around, half the time you want me
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  around. Just give me your money.
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  Please brother, please. Abe's just like afraid right now
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  and just looking. Yeah, I I my face.
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  Is a little like roll. Roll a.
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  Persuasion Check with Advantage for Bunty to see if he stays
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  with you. Neither of them were good.
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  It's an 8 Bunty. Turns to you and it's like, bro,
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  you're OK. You're literally OK.
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  You crushed a man's body. You're fine just.
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  Give me the freaking money. OK, OK, OK.
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  I hand over like the 500 gold pieces to the to the surgeons
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  and then the rest of my money, which is 18 gold pieces.
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  I hand 2 to Bunty and I say to Bon Bon.
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  You clearly know a lot of people around the city.
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  There was this one thing. There's this, there's this
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  amulet that lets you detect living things in the vicinity.
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  From what I remember, it might be more expensive than the money
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  that I have, but you were able to get a gladiator patch for for
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  like a pretty good price. So I don't know if you could get
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  it. That'd be great.
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  But if not, I'm OK. Sure.
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  I'll keep an eye out for it. I think I know a good, good shop
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  for that. And I was going to head there as
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  well as we're leaving. I'm going to just say it like a
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  quick prayer to Thesmira and place like the pocket watch on
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  the the pocket watch that's embedded in my hand with the
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  symbol of Thesmira on it on your stump, and just whisper some
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  words in a language that you probably wouldn't recognize.
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  Thanks. So Bond.
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  Gives a little prayer. I assume that.
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  Was a positive thing. And you're not cursing.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course of. Course.
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  Thanks, bye Bo and Bond. I'm assuming Bo's just been
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  standing awkwardly to the side. I I.
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  See, Bond do this and I, I walk over to your shoulder and I, I
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  kind of of bow to it and I feel like I should do something too.
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  So I just had to look around awkwardly and then kiss the top
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  of your shoulder and then leave. Thanks Bo as.
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  He kisses your shoulder. A roll of perception check.
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  1717. Great.
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  You could tell that his lips are not enjoyable.
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  His lips were. They did not feel good on your
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  shoulder. It felt weird and wrong and you
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  don't think you liked it very much.
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  It was. Strangely cold.
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  Yeah, it was strangely cold, unlike.
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  Bunty or similar to Bunty when he's tried to kiss me.
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  Bunty. Doesn't have a temperature
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  regulating system in his body, so his kisses have ranged to
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  really hot to really cold to wet to dry to chapped everything.
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  This felt just odd and cold and bon as you put your hand on
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  Abe's shoulder, the hand with the compass on it.
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  You remember not so long ago, just probably like 1/2 an hour
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  ago, when the Vox was walking away and your hand felt a little
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  tingle in it as you saw him walk away.
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  That's definitely fresh on my mind.
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  I'm thinking about it a lot, yeah.
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  OK, Bon and Bo, where do you guys want to head off to?
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  Do you want to stick together? You want to go separate places?
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  What's the vibe I want? To go to Vail and vow the
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  religious store religious accoutrement and do you want to
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  go anywhere? Beau probably doesn't want to go
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  there. He's like, Oh yeah, yeah, you
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  know, that sounds, that sounds great.
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  But oh, you know, I got AI, got a thing all.
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  Right, well then why don't I just meet you back here at
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  Brimsteel and Bone at 9:00 PM? Cool.
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  Sounds good to me. OK, sounds.
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  Good. So let's start with Bon going to
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  Vail and Vow, and then we'll jump to you, Bo and.
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  Is Bun, Is Bunty joining me? Yeah, I'll go.
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  With you, buddy, I think that's where, yeah, yeah.
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  Yeah, the petal. Rose thing is so you 2 head over
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  to Vail and vow. When you.
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  Enter. You hear the small tinga linga
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  Ling of a bell and there are dark vibes everywhere, dark
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  purple walls, a lot of shelves, there is a bead curtain, some
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  tapestries, and you see a large orc man behind the counter.
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  He is kind of spooky and mysterious and he's an orc who
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  has hair kind of like the emo side swept hair.
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  And he's got some eyeliner on and some black lipstick and he
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  turns to you and he goes. Welcome to Valenvo Val Fuck, let
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  me do it again. So many things on my mind.
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  Welcome to Valenvo. What the fuck?
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  What? Is wrong with me right now.
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  Val Val, welcome to Valenvo. My name is Lob.
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  Hello Lob, it's me again, Bon and I, I think you know what I'm
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  here for, but I, I also want a little bit of something else as
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  well. And.
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  So I've been a repeat customer at this shop for a couple weeks
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  now. I've been buying Dreamsalt
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  vials. So Abney, what is the what is
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  the vibe of dream Salt like? Is it a is it something that
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  people consider to be a heavy drug?
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  Is it something that there would be shame or secrecy around?
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  It is. Heavily used in the religious
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  communities. It's not really used outside the
• 23:42
  religious communities because let me describe what it is
• 23:44
  first. It's a fine powder made from
• 23:46
  plants that is used before sleep to induce vivid and occasionally
• 23:49
  prophetic dreams, and it can be used recreationally as well.
• 23:54
  So the types of people that use this drug are teenagers who get
• 23:59
  high before bed and like to have crazy dreams.
• 24:02
  But more frequently it's used in the religious communities, so
• 24:06
  it's not super uncommon. A lot of people don't love using
• 24:10
  it because some of the prophetic dreams or the things that they
• 24:15
  see at night are not the most pleasant, OK.
• 24:19
  So, but it is commonly used in religious communities, yes.
• 24:23
  Definitely all right. So I am going to try to buy a
• 24:29
  Dreamsult file and then I also am going to cast real quick
• 24:34
  before I enter the shop. I'm going to cast Guidance on
• 24:36
  myself and choose Persuasion to try to give myself a little bit
• 24:41
  of a leg up on Convincing for a better price.
• 24:46
  I say a vial of the usual, some some dream salt, and one of my
• 24:51
  acquaintances was looking for a small amulet that helps with
• 24:56
  seeing living things. Oh.
• 24:58
  Yes, the amulet of the petal, Yes.
• 25:02
  Yes, that's the one. So the.
• 25:04
  Emulated the petal is it's a preserved flowers sealed in
• 25:07
  resin. While worn, it glows faintly
• 25:10
  when a living thing is within 10 feet, including hidden animals
• 25:13
  or unseen plants. It's good, but it's also bad
• 25:17
  because if you just have a tree or a buddy right next to you,
• 25:23
  it's going to glow. So it's not the best compass,
• 25:27
  but it is very fun, excellent. So yes, 11 vial of dreams, 2
• 25:34
  vials of dream salt, you know and.
• 25:38
  An. Amulet of the petal, please.
• 25:40
  Great. Bunty turns to you.
• 25:43
  How much is it? I only have 18 gold.
• 25:46
  Let me. See if I can talk him down a
• 25:48
  bit. Oh, thank you.
• 25:49
  Thank you, thank you. And he kisses your legs so.
• 25:52
  Lob, you know, I've been a repeat Custer.
• 25:56
  I feel like I've probably contributed to a large portion
• 25:59
  of your dream Salt purchases in the past few weeks and I was
• 26:03
  wondering if maybe, you know, you could give me maybe, maybe
• 26:07
  throw in the amulet just completely.
• 26:09
  Free. Well, I.
• 26:10
  Mean it's either that or you know, give me a better price on
• 26:14
  the dream salt vials, OK? Roll Persuasion.
• 26:18
  All right, so. That is going to be a 9 on the
• 26:23
  dice. And then guidance gives me a,
• 26:27
  what is it a 1D four? That is a four, so that's 13 and
• 26:33
  I add 0 so 13. LORB turns to you and he goes,
• 26:39
  This is a business. We have to make.
• 26:42
  A profit. So no, I look to.
• 26:46
  Bunty and I kind of just shrug and I I hand him the money from
• 26:52
  my pouch. I'll just pay.
• 26:54
  For it all, it's very kind of you.
• 26:56
  Bunty gives you Abe's last 18 gold pieces and it's like that
• 27:01
  was a very kind thing of you to do.
• 27:03
  Very kind man. And because of that, I'll give
• 27:07
  you a little DM inspiration that was very kind of you to do.
• 27:11
  So on one die roll you could just get advantage.
• 27:16
  If you want, you can call it after you're ready roll so that
• 27:20
  you know if you when you want to use it.
• 27:22
  Excellent. Well, thank you.
• 27:25
  I'm feeling very inspired right now.
• 27:27
  Amazing. So while you're in, sorry, do
• 27:31
  you want to do anything else in? Nope, that's.
• 27:33
  It Val. OK, we jumped to Bow.
• 27:37
  Bow where? Where have you headed off to?
• 27:39
  I'm going. To an Arbor or a weapons
• 27:43
  merchant, some of that kind of thing, yes.
• 27:46
  OK, so you head to Gearhart and Daughters, which is the armor
• 27:50
  and weapon shop. You might remember them as the
• 27:53
  people who have sponsored the gear grinders.
• 27:57
  Yeah, I wonder how they'll feel about me.
• 28:00
  I I. Noticed that and I kind of like,
• 28:03
  you know, pull out my collar a little bit like who?
• 28:07
  So I, I'm going to go into an alleyway next to next to the
• 28:10
  shop and I'm going to change my appearance.
• 28:15
  Fantastic. I.
• 28:16
  I'm not going to do anything too drastic, I'm just going to look
• 28:19
  like another human. Also kind of nondescript, but
• 28:23
  kind of like on the other side of things so I couldn't be
• 28:26
  confused. My clothes changed too.
• 28:28
  The only thing that stays the same is my flat cap and then I'm
• 28:32
  going to walk inside. Great.
• 28:34
  How? Do you think your disguise self
• 28:37
  looks like? Does it start from like top down
• 28:40
  as your body slowly changes? Is it like an all at once thing?
• 28:44
  And my head. Like illusory magic is like kind
• 28:47
  of, it's like something that's kind of hard to look at straight
• 28:51
  on. So it's kind of this, this like
• 28:53
  mirage sort of change where my features get a little bit hazy
• 28:58
  and shift and, and it's like if you saw it out of the corner of
• 29:01
  your eye, you wouldn't necessarily even notice it was
• 29:03
  happening. Incredible.
• 29:06
  So you walk in the store. It's a classic Armory.
• 29:10
  You can hear the sounds of metalwork happening somewhere in
• 29:14
  the back. You see a lot of beautiful
• 29:16
  swords and armor that are up on display.
• 29:20
  And you also see some of the, I'd say lesser weapons like a
• 29:24
  normal dagger or this and that kind of hanging there so that
• 29:28
  people are allowed to just kind of pick it up and check it out.
• 29:32
  So you could see two Dorvin sisters up in the front right
• 29:35
  now. I walk up to.
• 29:36
  Them. Hello, I got a couple of items
• 29:39
  I'm looking for. Do you have some like studded
• 29:42
  leather armor some. Oh yes.
• 29:44
  Of course, Yes, yes, of course there any is there?
• 29:47
  Any chance you guys make like switchblades here or anything
• 29:50
  like that? Oh.
• 29:52
  Yes. Which blades?
• 29:53
  They're becoming more common, especially with today's youth.
• 29:57
  Well, that's. Concerning, but OK, sure.
• 30:01
  So I'll take I'll take two switch blades and some some
• 30:05
  studded leather armor. And I'm a I'm a friend of
• 30:09
  tinkle. So I was wondering if I could
• 30:12
  get the the friends and family discount.
• 30:15
  Oh. Tinkle poor match that he had
• 30:17
  today. That was very sad, very sad.
• 30:20
  The. Other team, they were just too
• 30:21
  good. Well, yeah, OK.
• 30:24
  That's one way to put it, yeah. Yeah, very good.
• 30:27
  So roll your persuasion with advantage 'cause you name drop
• 30:33
  Tinkle. Can I do a?
• 30:34
  Deception check. Yes you can.
• 30:36
  Do a deception check. Yes, with advantage.
• 30:41
  Oh, it'll be. A 25?
• 30:45
  Oh my. Gosh, Incredible.
• 30:47
  Incredible. Oh my God, yes.
• 30:50
  Friend of friend of Tinkle. So great.
• 30:53
  Yes, we can give you let's do a 20% discount.
• 30:57
  Does that work with you? Yeah, that works for.
• 30:58
  Me OK 20. Percent discount and and if you
• 31:02
  want, we'll border something into the studded leather for
• 31:05
  free. Oh, really?
• 31:07
  Yeah, yeah. Interesting.
• 31:09
  Oh boy, there's so many choices. Most people get their name in it
• 31:13
  so that if it's stolen, they know it's yours.
• 31:16
  Cool. Could you put Bon on it?
• 31:21
  Oh yes. Bon.
• 31:21
  Great. Yes.
• 31:23
  Oh, Bon, you share a name with one of the gladiators that
• 31:27
  fought the gear grinders today. Wow, that's crazy.
• 31:30
  Wow, yeah. Never heard that name before 2
• 31:33
  in a day. Whoa, crazy.
• 31:35
  And they start embroidering in the other armor.
• 31:40
  So it's his bond right across the chest.
• 31:43
  Perfect. So you could take.
• 31:44
  Away 39 gold pieces OK. We'll.
• 31:48
  Round down 39. Cool, I will.
• 31:50
  Exit that shop. As I walk out the door, my, my
• 31:53
  form shifts back into the original.
• 31:56
  And then from there, I, I've heard about these shadow pocket
• 32:01
  patches and I'm going to, I'm going to try to acquire some of
• 32:04
  those. Amazing Bon, is there somewhere
• 32:07
  else you would like to go also? I'm OK.
• 32:10
  But the shadow pocket patches are also from the religious
• 32:13
  store so I don't know if that influences.
• 32:18
  Shadow. So you.
• 32:20
  You. Drove.
• 32:21
  To the religious to to veil in. Val.
• 32:25
  Val to Valen Val as Bon is leaving Valen Val and you guys
• 32:30
  have an awkward exchange and I'm wearing.
• 32:32
  I'm wearing armor with your name on it.
• 32:35
  Did you? Did.
• 32:36
  You buy me that I I have my own armor.
• 32:40
  I don't need a breastplate. But thank you.
• 32:42
  I'm very flattered. It's honestly an armor.
• 32:45
  No, this is. This is for me.
• 32:47
  Oh. I just thought because you, you
• 32:51
  know what, never mind. I'll.
• 32:53
  I'll see you back at 9. All right?
• 32:55
  Cool. OK.
• 32:56
  Actually I want to go back into realtor store.
• 32:58
  There's too many good things in there.
• 33:01
  Bunty. Bunty turns around and goes with
• 33:04
  you. Bo back into Vale and vow.
• 33:08
  Yeah. And I'll, I'll.
• 33:08
  Cast guidance on on Bo on my way.
• 33:12
  I'll pat him on the back. I think it's a touch spell.
• 33:15
  Let's see. Yeah, touch so cute.
• 33:18
  Maybe you can do a bit better than I did in terms of
• 33:21
  negotiating in the store. He's a he's a tough sell and I
• 33:24
  cast guidance. So that's one D4 towards
• 33:27
  persuasion you enter. The store and lore be standing
• 33:31
  behind. Welcome to Valand.
• 33:37
  Welcome to Valand Val. Thank you.
• 33:42
  I'm I'm looking for for some shadow pocket patches.
• 33:46
  Oh. Yes, one of our best selling
• 33:50
  items for teens who want to hide things from their parents.
• 33:55
  Well, yeah, I mean, how many? How?
• 33:57
  Many do you want? Take 2. 2.
• 34:01
  So the shadow pocket patch is a black cloth square and placed
• 34:05
  over a small object which I defined as iPhone sized or
• 34:09
  smaller and pressed. It hides the object in an extra
• 34:12
  dimensional space, but it can only hold one item at a time.
• 34:16
  So it's 50 gold pieces each. Are you going to try to haggle
• 34:20
  with them? Yeah.
• 34:21
  I'll haggle. What do you say to?
• 34:23
  Him do I see. Any indication of what religious
• 34:27
  figure he worships? Yes.
• 34:30
  You can tell that he worships Vedris.
• 34:34
  So Phaedrus, also known as keeper of the drowned son.
• 34:38
  His domain is secrets, water, dreams and you can tell that's
• 34:42
  kind of the vibe he's got going on.
• 34:44
  You also see on his menu, I guess all these stores have
• 34:48
  menus or a little list of things they sell.
• 34:51
  You can also see that there's a vague prophecy from the seer at
• 34:55
  this store. So you could tell that's kind of
• 34:57
  the vibe that they have going on here.
• 35:00
  They worship Vedrus. Is this?
• 35:02
  Store also the place where we would get the prophecy.
• 35:05
  Yes, yes. This is where the prophecy is as
• 35:07
  well, yeah. So I'm gonna not to abuse the
• 35:10
  disguise, but I'll I'll modify my wrist a little bit to give
• 35:15
  myself like a Vadris tattoo. And I'll be like, I'll take a
• 35:19
  two of those patches. And I'm also interested in
• 35:22
  getting a reading, a fortune telling.
• 35:25
  Would you be willing to to take a few gold off for, you know, a
• 35:30
  member of the faith? OK, Yeah.
• 35:32
  Roll roll your persuasion and I knew a deception.
• 35:35
  Again. Oh yes.
• 35:36
  Deception. Excuse me?
• 35:37
  You can roll deception with advantage because you you
• 35:39
  smartly put on the tattoo. All right, that'll be a. 19 This
• 35:45
  time did you add AD? Four.
• 35:47
  I did not. 22 Amazing. Yeah, you beat ADC 20, so Lorb
• 35:53
  goes you can have 20% off Cool. Absolute coupon queen, I know.
• 36:03
  He. Turns and he goes.
• 36:04
  My mother, she is the seer. She's in the backroom if you
• 36:10
  just go behind these bead curtains.
• 36:15
  Cool. You go behind the bead curtains.
• 36:17
  You hear the clacking of the beads as you push your way
• 36:20
  through, and at a table sits a large orc woman with a crystal
• 36:27
  ball in front of her. She's wearing nothing that you
• 36:31
  would imagine a Seer wears right?
• 36:33
  None of that veiled this or that.
• 36:35
  She wears just some simple slacks and AT shirt, and she
• 36:40
  looks more like just a nice old lady orc than the mysterious
• 36:45
  seer that you imagined. Her name is Balandita.
• 36:51
  Hello. Balandita, oh, hello.
• 36:53
  There, sweetie, are you here for a prophecy?
• 36:56
  I I. Think so?
• 36:58
  Is this the place? Yeah, this.
• 36:59
  Is the place. This is the place.
• 37:01
  Please sit, sit, sit down. Take a seat for you across.
• 37:03
  The table you see that her crystal ball swirls with what
• 37:09
  looks like dark ocean. As you sit down, she asks you
• 37:16
  what's. Your name.
• 37:17
  Good Sir Bo. With with Bond.
• 37:21
  Just written on your chest. To be fair, Bond is supposed to
• 37:25
  what BAN? So it just looks like ban.
• 37:30
  That's true, yes. So Balandita turns to you and is
• 37:37
  like Bo. What?
• 37:38
  A very nice name, but I can tell you've deceived my son earlier.
• 37:43
  I can hear, I can tell. I can see Bo.
• 37:47
  Gets like a little bit nervous. Oh.
• 37:50
  Sweetheart, it's OK. And she reaches over to take
• 37:54
  your hand but hesitates. She goes, oh, you know what?
• 37:58
  I know why you don't want to be touched.
• 38:00
  It's OK. I won't touch.
• 38:03
  You OK? Please.
• 38:05
  Put your hand on the crystal ball.
• 38:07
  I I do so. She puts one of her hands on the
• 38:11
  other side of you and she starts to hum, and she hums this sea
• 38:17
  shanty to herself as the crystal ball shows waves and crashing.
• 38:24
  You see her eyes roll into the back of her head.
• 38:29
  You mistake yourself for the seed when you are the root that
• 38:33
  never died. Another story beats within your
• 38:36
  blood, bound to the promise of kingdom's fallen.
• 38:40
  Through you the forgotten shall be summoned, and the silence of
• 38:44
  ages will break into song. For a life does not leave you,
• 38:49
  it circles back. And.
• 38:52
  She whips her head forward, her eyes roll back into position and
• 38:58
  she goes. Sorry I told you it was going to
• 39:00
  be a little vague, but Beau looks.
• 39:03
  Shook. He's like, Oh yeah, you know
• 39:06
  that That's that's fine. Cool.
• 39:09
  Yeah, that's great. Are you?
• 39:10
  Are you? OK, sweetheart, What?
• 39:13
  Are you OK? Sweetheart.
• 39:14
  Yeah, yeah. I'll be good.
• 39:15
  Are you? Sure.
• 39:17
  I mean, I could. Like I could use like a quick
• 39:19
  hug, but yeah, I'm OK to. Touch you you're OK with that
• 39:22
  Yeah yeah, yeah that's. Fine, she leans.
• 39:24
  Over and gives you a big hug and surprisingly to you, she doesn't
• 39:29
  flinch when she feels your cold body and she just hugs you even
• 39:33
  tighter. You should be true to yourself.
• 39:36
  You have some good friends. I can tell that they want what's
• 39:38
  best for you. Well, I, Yeah.
• 39:40
  I know that about Bunty, I'm not so sure about the other ones
• 39:43
  but. We'll see, She laughs.
• 39:45
  And she goes, is Bunty the name of that creature out there who's
• 39:48
  bothering my son? Oh.
• 39:50
  Oh, did he? Did he shit on the floor again?
• 39:52
  I'm so sorry about that. Yeah.
• 39:54
  You hear Lord blowing Stop shitting on the floor and
• 39:59
  Bunty's going. I'm trying.
• 40:01
  To transform. We're trying to transform.
• 40:07
  Oh man. So Bellandita walks you back out
• 40:11
  to the front of the store and wishes you and Bunty well and
• 40:16
  she turns torresan and goes Thorp sweetie but please just.
• 40:19
  Clean up the shit. You know, we have customers all
• 40:21
  the time, just just clean up the shit.
• 40:23
  And he goes, Mom, stop, this is just a summer job for me.
• 40:28
  And she goes, yeah, 'cause you couldn't get an internship, so
• 40:31
  please just clean the shit up off the floor.
• 40:32
  Thank you, Thank you. This feels.
• 40:34
  Like it's, it's just like the guy who works at like a magic
• 40:37
  shop, like selling magic tricks to to children.
• 40:41
  That's his vibe. Exactly.
• 40:45
  So you guys exit Vail and vow. Meanwhile, Abe is just going
• 40:52
  through war right now. Yeah, let's, let's, let's.
• 40:55
  Let's role play some Abe stuff. So Pedro didn't give you any
• 41:00
  sort of numbing meds or anything.
• 41:02
  He turns to you and goes, you seem strong.
• 41:05
  Just kind of grit your teeth a little bit and he starts to take
• 41:10
  some metal and start opening up your wounds with some pliers and
• 41:16
  putting little wires into your arm, just kind of shoving them
• 41:20
  up into your arm and it is incredibly painful.
• 41:23
  Roll little Constitution saving through.
• 41:28
  Pretty. Good roll, but let's see.
• 41:30
  I think my cons pretty high. It's not 1919.
• 41:37
  Yeah, no, with a 19 you stay awake.
• 41:40
  You could have passed out, but instead you stay awake this
• 41:44
  entire time. This the ones the.
• 41:46
  Pain, Yeah. You're you're gritting your
• 41:49
  teeth and he's just going into your arm.
• 41:53
  How do you want your arm in your hand to to look like?
• 41:56
  Aesthetically, they're just going to be simple.
• 41:58
  Like I said, level one hand and arm, none of that extra floof
• 42:02
  and decoration. But how do you want it to look
• 42:05
  like I do? Like black, black metal, black
• 42:10
  metal. For both of it.
• 42:11
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 42:12
  He, he's like, oh, perfect. We have, we have so much of
• 42:16
  that. That's kind of the aesthetic
• 42:17
  that Ignovarum has is like this red and black.
• 42:20
  So that is, do you have any purple?
• 42:21
  That's right up our wheelhouse. Purple, purple.
• 42:24
  I could get my sister to to paint some of the paint, some of
• 42:28
  the metal purple if you'd like. And we can.
• 42:30
  Could you do this shoulder? Set up for you.
• 42:32
  Just OK, just the shoulder, purple and the rest of the arm.
• 42:37
  And the whole thing? No, let's do the shoulder purple
• 42:41
  and let's do the middle finger purple.
• 42:45
  Odd. OK, well, that yeah, he kind of,
• 42:51
  he kind of flustered a little bit, as you say, the middle
• 42:53
  finger. And he goes well, OK, fine.
• 42:55
  He calls over to his sister, Yonlin.
• 42:57
  Yonlin, please paint the shoulder and paint the middle
• 43:00
  finger. And she turns over and she goes,
• 43:03
  I do all the work around here, I make all the augmentations and
• 43:07
  now I got to paint it purple for this dude.
• 43:10
  And she kind of Mumbles and goes, you don't have to paint.
• 43:12
  It if you don't want to, will you want a?
• 43:14
  Purple. Now paint a.
• 43:16
  Purple. And she kind of stalks off and
• 43:18
  shuts the door behind her and Pedro turns to you and he's
• 43:21
  like, sorry, she's a she's a little temperamental.
• 43:25
  Who's the older? Sibling.
• 43:27
  Oh, she. Is 100% I'm the baby brother?
• 43:30
  Oh yeah, I get it. I'm a younger sibling.
• 43:34
  Yeah. Do you?
• 43:35
  Your younger sibling too? Yeah, Older sister or what?
• 43:39
  Older brother, But yeah, I guess I'm kind of like an only child
• 43:44
  now. Oh.
• 43:45
  Oh. He gets really sad.
• 43:48
  Oh, he's not. Dead.
• 43:49
  He's not dead. Oh, OK, OK, OK.
• 43:51
  He's just, he's in. Prison guys don't talk.
• 43:53
  Anymore, he's in. Prison.
• 43:55
  And he lost his mind. Oh.
• 43:58
  OK and Bajo gets really quiet and starts working on your arm
• 44:02
  again. Just trauma doesn't know what to
• 44:05
  say to you. OK, so while that's happening,
• 44:09
  we'll jump back to Beau, who I think still has Bunty with him.
• 44:13
  Where are we going now, man? I think.
• 44:15
  I think. We're heading back to to meet
• 44:17
  up. OK, Louis, I guess we still got
• 44:19
  like 3 1/2 hours. So we could, we could chill, we
• 44:21
  could do something else. Yeah.
• 44:24
  Well, how do you feel about me robbing a place?
• 44:26
  What kind of? Place.
• 44:29
  I passed the. Store.
• 44:31
  All it has is. Bags inside of it.
• 44:33
  Nothing. We can't see anything, just
• 44:35
  bags. I want to rob that place.
• 44:36
  I want to grab a bag and run. Interesting.
• 44:39
  Very interesting idea. I don't know if I can let you do
• 44:43
  this without Abe's consent. Oh, come.
• 44:45
  On man, Abe doesn't control me. He just summoned me.
• 44:48
  That doesn't mean I'm under his ownership or whatever.
• 44:51
  What? You think I don't have rights?
• 44:53
  You think I don't deserve rights?
• 44:56
  You're making a, you know, while.
• 44:57
  While this is I have a telepathic bond with with Bunty,
• 45:01
  right? Oh yeah, you have a.
• 45:01
  Telepathic bond with Bunty starts messaging over to you
• 45:05
  when he's starting. To get like a little unruly.
• 45:07
  Can I feel like rowdy? Yeah, yeah.
• 45:09
  You can tell. When he's getting a rowdy.
• 45:12
  OK, I I. Immediately tell him to calm
• 45:14
  down like I said that, yeah. I'm just trying to have fun.
• 45:18
  Here, there's just like so much time before your arm is done.
• 45:22
  I thought it'd be fun to commit a light crime.
• 45:25
  Bunty No. Crimes.
• 45:26
  No crimes. Listen to what Bo tells you to
• 45:28
  do. What if?
• 45:30
  What if I go in and I politely ask to take something for free?
• 45:36
  Tell you what. Bunty, we're not going to commit
• 45:38
  any crimes, but I'll buy, I'll buy one of these bags and we
• 45:41
  can, we can open it together. Oh.
• 45:44
  Really. Yeah.
• 45:45
  Oh my God. You're my best friend, Beau.
• 45:48
  You're my best friend, my brother.
• 45:50
  He doesn't let me do anything. And also I think over our
• 45:54
  telepathic bond, he told, he told that Dragonborn that he was
• 45:59
  a younger brother, but that's only partially true.
• 46:02
  He's a middle child. He's got me, his younger brother
• 46:05
  as well. We're all family.
• 46:08
  I. I start sending shut up, shut
• 46:10
  up, shut up, shut up through the telepathic I'm closing down.
• 46:13
  This link between us and here click as if a phone hangs up.
• 46:19
  So. You guys head over to Plorsons,
• 46:22
  Blorsons where Bunty saw all those random bags and Plorson is
• 46:29
  standing at the front of his store and he's crying outside of
• 46:35
  his store. His store is not open right now
• 46:37
  and he's just crying outside. He's this tall human blonde man
• 46:42
  with these striking blue eyes and he's just crying.
• 46:45
  Excuse me? Sir, can I help you?
• 46:47
  Oh, you know, no one wants to come to my store because it's
• 46:51
  just bags and no one wants to. No one wants to buy anything
• 46:54
  because they think, oh, what if I get ripped off?
• 46:57
  But that's the fun of things, you know, the fun.
• 46:59
  Of things is getting ripped off. Well, no the fun.
• 47:02
  Of things is not knowing what you're going to get.
• 47:04
  You may get something good, you may get something bad.
• 47:06
  OK. Tell you what, open up your
• 47:17
  shop. You got 2 customers right here.
• 47:20
  Oh my. Goodness, Oh my goodness.
• 47:22
  Thank you, 00 And he frantically opens the shop.
• 47:27
  That was very kind of you, Sir, to stop and ask how I was doing
• 47:30
  and come into my store. You are very kind, man.
• 47:34
  I I like you a lot. Thank you.
• 47:38
  I I so bags. Tell me about them.
• 47:43
  Oh yes. Oh yes.
• 47:44
  So there are the variety of bags.
• 47:48
  You can choose small bags, you can choose big bags.
• 47:50
  They have crazy things in there. The size of the bag does not
• 47:53
  correlate to the size of the object, which is the fun of it
• 47:56
  all. You may get things that are very
• 47:58
  cool and very rare, but you also may get things that are less
• 48:02
  cool and less rare, which is I, I think my the problem with my
• 48:05
  business model, you see, because I think a lot of people got a
• 48:08
  couple of things that kind of sucked, but.
• 48:12
  You have to. Try OK.
• 48:14
  I'm I'm feeling, I'm feeling lucky, OK.
• 48:17
  How about this? You are a very nice man.
• 48:20
  Are you influential in any way? Yes.
• 48:24
  Oh good. Good.
• 48:25
  OK, if you spread the good word of Plorescence Plorescence, I'll
• 48:29
  give you 2 bags for the price of 1.
• 48:32
  I I have a personal relationship with the the Domina OH.
• 48:37
  She is scary, lady. Yeah, yeah, she is scarier than
• 48:41
  our Imperator. He is scary too.
• 48:44
  But the Domina, she is very scary.
• 48:47
  Do you know her? Like, are you friends?
• 48:50
  Are you family? It's it's kind of a working
• 48:55
  relationship. Hmm.
• 48:58
  Well. Maybe she would be interested in
• 49:00
  my fluorescence. Fluorescence.
• 49:03
  It's possible, you know, I'll, I'll tell her about it next time
• 49:07
  I see her. Oh yes.
• 49:09
  Spread the word please. Please spread the word.
• 49:11
  You will be my greatest asset to making sure that this business
• 49:15
  runs smoothly. Well, let's you know, let's see
• 49:18
  what what you got. Great, the price of one bag is.
• 49:27
  40. Gold.
• 49:28
  All you have to do is roll 2D 20 and give me the numbers.
• 49:34
  OK, 914. OK, great.
• 49:42
  Wait, which? One which before?
• 49:44
  Before you open them. Which one's Bunty's?
• 49:47
  Which one's yours? Yeah, the 9 or.
• 49:48
  The 14 So I'm gonna, I'm gonna. Hand one of the bags to Bunty
• 49:51
  and I'm gonna be like, just so we're clear, you're you're
• 49:53
  opening the bag. But I'm, I I keep what's inside
• 49:57
  of it, right. Like this is like, this is a,
• 49:59
  this is an unboxing. Yeah, that's OK.
• 50:01
  I just want to open some bags. This is, like, fun.
• 50:03
  Yeah, I love unboxing. It doesn't really let me watch
• 50:07
  unboxing videos before bed, but it's the only thing that calms
• 50:10
  my mind. That and like mukbang ASMR.
• 50:14
  Perfect. You know what I take out to go
• 50:16
  to speaking show and I set it up.
• 50:18
  I make sure that we're both in the shot.
• 50:21
  I'm like, hey, what up, gang? We're here at Porsons, Blorsons.
• 50:27
  We're doing a little bit of an unboxing here with my best bud
• 50:31
  Bunty right here. Hey.
• 50:34
  Buddies. All right.
• 50:36
  And you see Plorson in the background waving.
• 50:38
  Oh yes, me Plorson. This is my school.
• 50:40
  This is the guy. Let's see, let's see if he's if
• 50:43
  he's legit. I open up the bag.
• 50:46
  OK. The first thing that you get is
• 50:50
  the Whistling Stone. The Whistling stone is activated
• 50:54
  by touch, and when you touch it, it makes a whistling sound that
• 50:57
  lasts for one minute or until it's deactivated again by touch.
• 51:02
  Roll AD 4. 1. Fuck.
• 51:07
  No, no, no, no. This is not a bad thing.
• 51:08
  It's not a bad thing. There's just four different
• 51:10
  types of whistling stones. So the whistling stone that you
• 51:14
  got sounds like a bunch of people whistling.
• 51:19
  So it sounds like maybe four or five people whistling at the
• 51:23
  same time. Cool.
• 51:26
  The second one that opens, the one that Bunty opens, so stupid.
• 51:31
  It's called the Jokester Mic. Is a.
• 51:34
  Handheld mic that once per day after you make a joke.
• 51:38
  It allows you to cast Tasha's Hideous Laughter without using a
• 51:41
  spell slot. Oh no, that's.
• 51:43
  Actually insane you must. Say a joke and you have to end
• 51:48
  the joke with is this thing on while tapping the mic?
• 51:54
  After. Each use roll A1D4 on A1, the
• 51:58
  mic explodes, dealing you one D10 damage.
• 52:01
  Damn, I'm gonna make a highly set nowhere joke and it's gonna
• 52:05
  explode in my face. Yeah, it's gonna.
• 52:07
  Explode in your face. So the jokester mic and the
• 52:11
  whistling stone, those are pretty good pulls.
• 52:13
  You could have gotten a lot of things that were not great, so.
• 52:18
  Are streaming services Canon? Yeah.
• 52:21
  Streaming. Streaming services are are
• 52:24
  Canon. There's there's.
• 52:25
  Actually, there's like an Internet in exumoria.
• 52:28
  People who are have sending stones can send videos to each
• 52:34
  other. It's less Internet where
• 52:37
  everyone can search it up and more like chain e-mail where
• 52:39
  everyone can send each other videos and things.
• 52:42
  OK, this is a. Good Lord to know, yeah.
• 52:45
  I would assume and. Both.
• 52:47
  Fights are. Are like streamed Yeah some of.
• 52:50
  The some of the gladiator fights are recorded and sent out, but
• 52:53
  it does take time to reach the broad audience.
• 52:57
  You have to send it and then that's your send for the day on
• 53:01
  the sending stone so. Who did you send that to Bo or
• 53:04
  did you just record? I was.
• 53:06
  Just doing a bit, I don't know. You don't have anyone in your
• 53:11
  contacts to send that to. It's just a.
• 53:14
  Video for yourself. I just type in random letters
• 53:20
  until it auto fills like an e-mail address and then I send
• 53:23
  it to those. Yeah, you.
• 53:25
  Send it to gb716@hotmail.com. I signed out.
• 53:31
  The video all right. Thanks for this is unboxing with
• 53:35
  Bond and I gesture at the name on my armor.
• 53:39
  I, I hope, I hope to see you guys next time.
• 53:42
  You guys, you guys keep me going and remember for for just the
• 53:46
  price of a cup of coffee a month, you guys could, could
• 53:50
  join. You could become bonafide and
• 53:56
  peace. Bunty turns.
• 54:01
  He goes I didn't know I was in the presence of a celebrity oh
• 54:06
  man this is so cool. We're going to be best friends,
• 54:09
  celebrity duo. We can have like we can go to
• 54:12
  like different brunch places and rate brunch together.
• 54:15
  We'll. We'll do some collapse, Bunty.
• 54:17
  Yeah, yeah. That sounds great.
• 54:19
  Yeah, Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
• 54:21
  So Plorson turns to you guys. Oh, thank you guys so much for
• 54:25
  buying from Plorsons. Plorsons, make sure to tell your
• 54:27
  friends. And you see that he has his eyes
• 54:30
  are still a little red and puffy, but all of his tears are
• 54:33
  gone. And he looks quite happy that
• 54:35
  you guys were there. Oh, you know.
• 54:36
  What? Fuck it, I'm going to buy
• 54:37
  another bag. Oh.
• 54:39
  My God, you. Buy another bag, roll.
• 54:44
  Roll your D20. 5 You pull. Out a children's toy called the
• 54:53
  Bonk It. It was a children's toy that was
• 54:55
  recalled due to dangerous effect.
• 54:58
  Bonk it, yank it, rotate it. If you miss an attack, you may
• 55:03
  use the Bonk It as a bonus action to attempt to stun the
• 55:06
  creature you just missed. So it's a Con DC-13 save, and
• 55:11
  the object may only be used like this five times before it
• 55:15
  breaks, so if you miss an attack you can still.
• 55:18
  Would I have to have a free hand to use it because I usually
• 55:21
  fight with two weapons. Yes, you.
• 55:23
  Would need to have a free hand to be able to.
• 55:26
  Access the bonkin. So you have to just.
• 55:28
  Carry the bonkin with you, fucking with your dagger maybe?
• 55:32
  Maybe this one I think I might give to Bunty.
• 55:36
  Yeah, Oh my God, this is going to be so great.
• 55:40
  All right, use it. Use it wisely, as you tell.
• 55:42
  Him that he's holding it above his own head, ready to bonk
• 55:45
  himself. So don't do this like no.
• 55:48
  Yeah, not like that man. OK, but I can.
• 55:52
  Still play the game normally, right?
• 55:54
  And he turns it on, beeping, flashing lights, bonk it, boop,
• 55:59
  yank it, whoop, rotate it and you see him playing with it as
• 56:04
  you guys leave the store. It keeps him.
• 56:06
  Out of trouble? Yeah, he's like so hyper fixated
• 56:10
  on this toy and he follows you down the streets just playing
• 56:14
  with it and giggling with the travel around the town square,
• 56:20
  buying all the things, interacting.
• 56:23
  You guys get back to Abe as his arm and hand are finished up.
• 56:30
  Yeah. So you guys reconvene.
• 56:32
  Abe has his new arm in hand. He paid for his upgrades and you
• 56:36
  guys are outside the store. I'm like.
• 56:40
  Rotating my hand, I'm going like just shadow boxing a little bit
• 56:46
  and the. Hand is the hand is partially
• 56:49
  the hand is black, right that. Yeah, basically everything's
• 56:52
  black except the middle finger and the the shoulder is also
• 56:56
  purple. Oh.
• 56:58
  Look at that. You got something to match
• 57:00
  Bunty, did you? Oh yeah, we're.
• 57:02
  Matching OH. No, subconsciously.
• 57:07
  You wanted this, you guys. Now you're really brothers.
• 57:10
  You look, you look even more like than you did before.
• 57:13
  But I haven't. Met my Big Brother, yet Abe is
• 57:16
  not taking me or see him in prison.
• 57:18
  Oh, wait. Was that a secret?
• 57:22
  Oh, he doesn't know if Bunty shut.
• 57:24
  Up. Oh my God, he's my brother.
• 57:27
  Too I. Don't.
• 57:28
  I don't correct him, and I usually don't when he calls me
• 57:31
  his brother. But I turn to you guys kind of
• 57:35
  like my face is a little low. And I say, yeah, my brother is
• 57:38
  still alive and he's in prison. Oh.
• 57:41
  You know. Everybody, everybody's got some
• 57:43
  some back story stuff. He didn't he.
• 57:46
  Didn't do anything wrong. Just to clarify, they put him
• 57:49
  there because he lost his mind and he went on an expedition
• 57:53
  that is technically illegal but oh.
• 57:56
  I'm sorry to hear that. I I come up.
• 57:58
  And I put a hand on Abe's new shoulder and I say we'll break
• 58:04
  them out for you. We'll do it in a heartbeat.
• 58:06
  Both. Bon and Abe roll perception
• 58:09
  checks. That is going to be a 7 on a
• 58:14
  dice SO13A4 on the. Dice.
• 58:17
  So A9 I had nothing. It's just a really sweet gesture
• 58:21
  from Beau to you, Abe, that he's willing to break out your
• 58:26
  brother. He's very sweet of him.
• 58:27
  Thanks, Bo. I don't know if I need to break
• 58:30
  him out right now though, he really only says like a few
• 58:33
  words and they're pretty much always the same.
• 58:36
  Can I, can I ask what those words are?
• 58:39
  Yeah, He just. Says they found it.
• 58:42
  Cool. That's not ominous at all.
• 58:45
  No, I mean, it was very ominous at the time for me and that.
• 58:52
  Led me. Down the path of and I gestured
• 58:55
  A bunty accidentally summoning him, so thanks to my Big Brother
• 59:01
  for that. Fortuitous.
• 59:02
  Accident. It all works out for the best.
• 59:05
  Yeah, I mean. If you didn't have Bunty, who
• 59:07
  would be here to shit on the floor and.
• 59:11
  Bite people. 'S faces off.
• 59:14
  I look, I look like a pretty just generally unhappy right now
• 59:18
  at the state of this conversation and where it's gone
• 59:21
  and being reminded of my brother and the fact that Bunty is here
• 59:24
  also because of my brother and all of these things that have
• 59:26
  happened and I'm like so the. Tablet.
• 59:29
  Yeah, the tablet Bon. Did you get the amulet bunty?
• 59:34
  Has it so oh Oh yeah, here. You go buddy, and you put it on
• 59:38
  and it starts glowing immediately because there are
• 59:42
  living things within 10 feet of you sick.
• 59:45
  I say. I got this thing and I pull out
• 59:47
  the whistling stone and I press it and it starts whistling and
• 59:50
  was like I don't know what what to use it for but it's pretty
• 59:54
  cool. I let it whistle for the whole
• 59:55
  minute and then I immediately press it again.
• 59:59
  And then as the whistling. 'S happening in the background.
• 1:00:02
  You hear. Bonk it.
• 1:00:04
  Pull it. Rotate.
• 1:00:05
  It or yank it? Sorry, I'm trying not to get the
• 1:00:09
  the trademark infringement. Shall we go to the the east side
• 1:00:15
  of the Colosseum then? Yeah, let's do it.
• 1:00:17
  So you. Guys head back to the pits in
• 1:00:20
  the Colosseum. So the pits are on the West
• 1:00:24
  side. The underground of the ugly
• 1:00:26
  arena is split up into four quadrants.
• 1:00:30
  You guys are in the West side. Are you trying to go to the door
• 1:00:35
  that leads to the north section or the door that leads to the
• 1:00:39
  South section? Let's.
• 1:00:41
  Do the South section you guys go?
• 1:00:43
  To the door that goes to the South section, you notice that
• 1:00:48
  it requires 3 keyholes at once. Do we have keys?
• 1:00:56
  I tell. No what?
• 1:00:58
  You guys know about this place? Is that like the anything
• 1:01:01
  outside the West area is restricted this?
• 1:01:04
  Is the part of the arena where the tablet is right so you're.
• 1:01:08
  Going to the South side to get to the east side, does anyone?
• 1:01:11
  Have like a like like a little Shiv or something, a knife maybe
• 1:01:17
  I. Can I I can walk, pick stuff and
• 1:01:19
  I have these tools, so would I be able to do all three or does
• 1:01:23
  it look like it's like the kind of thing where like three people
• 1:01:26
  have to have the key at the same time?
• 1:01:28
  Good question. Yeah, it looks like 3 people
• 1:01:30
  need to have the key at the same time.
• 1:01:33
  I can. I can do another one bond if you
• 1:01:36
  can. Do you guys all have?
• 1:01:38
  Thieves tools though, like you have to have that as part of
• 1:01:40
  your character. I know that Bo has some You guys
• 1:01:44
  are going to have to line it up pretty perfectly with the
• 1:01:47
  thieves tool. All of you getting above ADC 20
• 1:01:50
  Sleight of handcheck I. Don't have that.
• 1:01:53
  What are? Our other options to get there.
• 1:01:56
  As far as you know, just the north and the South entrance.
• 1:02:00
  Bon, you remember that you've actually seen this captain,
• 1:02:07
  Captain Tosh Lumiere, He sometimes comes down into the
• 1:02:12
  pits. You've seen him grab 2 guards,
• 1:02:14
  he hands each of them a key off of his belt, and you've seen the
• 1:02:17
  three of them open the door. But after that, only he enters
• 1:02:22
  the room. He gathers the key back from the
• 1:02:23
  guards, enters the room and closes the door.
• 1:02:27
  And you've seen him do this on both the north and the South
• 1:02:31
  entrances? I relayed this information.
• 1:02:35
  We could jump. Him we.
• 1:02:36
  That that sounds like a good way to get thrown in prison very
• 1:02:40
  quickly. Is there OK?
• 1:02:42
  Is there any way to go around from the outside?
• 1:02:45
  No. This is underground completely,
• 1:02:48
  so you have to take the steps down to the West side, which is
• 1:02:52
  the only entrance to the underground area, and then you
• 1:02:55
  have to go around in a circle to get to the east side.
• 1:02:59
  It is very complicated to get to the east side.
• 1:03:02
  Understood. I don't think we have.
• 1:03:03
  Another choice than to jump him, I mean.
• 1:03:06
  We could try to do something a bit more sneaky.
• 1:03:08
  Yeah, I could. I.
• 1:03:09
  Could we could like distract him and I could try to swipe all the
• 1:03:12
  keys off of him? Bond you.
• 1:03:13
  Said you've you've met him before.
• 1:03:15
  I've seen. I've seen him around.
• 1:03:17
  I I don't know him personally, but I I know what he looks like.
• 1:03:22
  I have an idea, Bon. You and I let let's the three of
• 1:03:26
  us find him. You and I with Bunty should just
• 1:03:30
  chat with him, introduce ourselves.
• 1:03:31
  Bunty, that that new toy you've got, right?
• 1:03:35
  Yeah, the. Bonk it, you should ask.
• 1:03:37
  Him to bonk it, but while he goes to bonk it you can stun
• 1:03:41
  him. Do you think he'll pass ADC 13
• 1:03:45
  con saving throw as a captain? Say, I think, I think that's
• 1:03:51
  just as bad as jumping him, isn't it?
• 1:03:53
  Well. It would it could be chalked up
• 1:03:54
  to a mistake it seems like. Beau is pretty good at this kind
• 1:03:58
  of stuff. I I've seen him kind of sneak
• 1:04:00
  around and he seems light on his feet, quick with his fingers.
• 1:04:05
  Beau, what do you think? I think I think it's.
• 1:04:07
  Worth a shot the bunk it. Not maybe.
• 1:04:09
  Not that I think maybe if like some of you distract him, chat
• 1:04:16
  with him a little bit, I could try to get close, swipe some
• 1:04:20
  keys off of his belt definitely. All right, so let's go look in
• 1:04:24
  the festival, everyone. Roll a perception or
• 1:04:27
  investigation check to try to find the captain.
• 1:04:31
  Captain Tash Lumiere, net 20, not 20, not 20.
• 1:04:36
  So before you guys get up there, Bond gives you shit.
• 1:04:39
  I should have. Saved that for the I just.
• 1:04:42
  Got a dirty 21 Damn. You guys all killed it.
• 1:04:47
  So Bond gives you this like very, very detailed description
• 1:04:51
  about how the captain looks like he's this tall, 6 foot 6 buff
• 1:04:57
  fire Jinasi man. He's got orange and red flames
• 1:05:01
  that kind of radiate around his body.
• 1:05:04
  He wears the outfit of the Ember Guard, which is heavy black
• 1:05:09
  plate mail and a smoky black helm with three long narrow
• 1:05:15
  spikes protruding from the top. It is quite scary looking and
• 1:05:20
  because of his helmet, you guys are able to spot him pretty
• 1:05:24
  quickly in the crowd. Only captains of the Ember Guard
• 1:05:28
  get to have the spikes on top of their helmet, so you can tell
• 1:05:31
  that he is right there in the middle of the crowd.
• 1:05:34
  So you see him standing next to a horde of children who are
• 1:05:39
  watching someone do the shell game, and he's standing there
• 1:05:43
  with three guards next to him, and they seem to be in a very,
• 1:05:48
  very heated discussion. I'm going to walk up to them and
• 1:05:55
  as they're having this. Discussion.
• 1:05:56
  Yeah, before. Before I do I'm going to cast
• 1:05:59
  guidance on bow and say you know if there's an opening in the
• 1:06:04
  next minute this will help and so you'll get 1D4 to sleight of
• 1:06:09
  hand. Sounds good.
• 1:06:10
  And. I sort of whisper, whisper a
• 1:06:12
  prayer to this mirror as you. Approach.
• 1:06:15
  Do you want to roll an insight check onto him?
• 1:06:17
  Sure. That is a 25.
• 1:06:21
  Incredible. He is incredibly pissed off and
• 1:06:26
  in a bad mood right now, and you see him kind of shouting at one
• 1:06:30
  of the guards as you're approaching.
• 1:06:33
  You can tell that something specifically has him on edge and
• 1:06:38
  that he is kind of taking it out on this guard.
• 1:06:42
  And as you get closer, you can hear this conversation.
• 1:06:45
  And the little halfling guard goes, captain, I didn't mean to
• 1:06:49
  let him get away. And the captain goes, you
• 1:06:53
  imbecile. And he spits at the halfling.
• 1:06:55
  They defaced the posters of the Emperors with silly mustaches
• 1:06:59
  and devil horns. This is a serious crime.
• 1:07:03
  Neither of the other guards say anything in the halfling's
• 1:07:06
  defense, and all is quiet and tense for a moment before the
• 1:07:10
  Dragonborn guard speaks up. Sir, she says in a concerning
• 1:07:14
  tone, your flames. And you see that the captain's
• 1:07:19
  flames have now grown to be over a foot long, emanating from his
• 1:07:24
  body. As he's gotten more angry, the
• 1:07:27
  fire has approached more. Make a perception check bond as
• 1:07:31
  you're approaching. That is a nine A9.
• 1:07:37
  Bunty will give you the help action.
• 1:07:40
  He'll smack you on the butt as you're approaching.
• 1:07:43
  That is. A Nat 20.
• 1:07:45
  Thank you. Thank you, Bunty.
• 1:07:48
  Oh, I can tell you. Needed that.
• 1:07:49
  No, I just. Noticed something when you
• 1:07:51
  spanked me, my eye actually twitched in the right direction.
• 1:07:55
  You. Catch him adjusting this sort of
• 1:07:58
  dial that was on the neck part of his armor and as he twists it
• 1:08:03
  down the flames seem to be sucked back into the armor
• 1:08:07
  completely. So without the flames he looks
• 1:08:11
  kind of like a human or elvish type of man.
• 1:08:14
  You can't see any flames on him at all and he turns to the
• 1:08:18
  guards and he goes. Stupid fucking guard Ollie, Paul
• 1:08:22
  in with your stupid fucking name.
• 1:08:24
  I would have been able to control myself if it wasn't for
• 1:08:26
  you. He says as he's gritting his
• 1:08:28
  teeth. And Ollie goes.
• 1:08:30
  Well Sir, I didn't, I just didn't mean for them to get
• 1:08:33
  away. And you see him backhand Ollie
• 1:08:36
  and Ollie falls to the floor. I I.
• 1:08:39
  Step in. At this point, you step in.
• 1:08:42
  He turns to what? Was was.
• 1:08:44
  That really necessary and who are?
• 1:08:46
  You who am. I at this point.
• 1:08:48
  Abe is going to step in, I'm assuming, like I'm.
• 1:08:51
  I'm near like I've been, because the plan is for us to distract
• 1:08:54
  him together and I'm going to get between them and say sorry,
• 1:08:58
  Is he? He's a captain.
• 1:09:00
  Yeah, Captain. So.
• 1:09:01
  Sorry, Captain. Excuse me, Why are you?
• 1:09:04
  Why are you stepping in the middle of a captain disciplining
• 1:09:08
  his underlings? His.
• 1:09:13
  Underlings, I think everybody has an equal right to not be
• 1:09:16
  treated like garbage the way that I've just seen this, this
• 1:09:20
  little man be treated, Ollie. Speaks up at this point from the
• 1:09:24
  ground and goes, I deserved it, yeah.
• 1:09:27
  Yeah, you did. You did, Ollie.
• 1:09:29
  I know. I I.
• 1:09:30
  Messed up, I messed up. I should not let them get away.
• 1:09:34
  He's just laying prone on the floor right now.
• 1:09:36
  Who do? You think you are he.
• 1:09:38
  Deserved it. Who do you think you are?
• 1:09:41
  I yell at Bond and I'm winking at him.
• 1:09:45
  Of. Are the keys visible?
• 1:09:47
  Yes, the. Keys are jangling kind of off
• 1:09:50
  his pocket so as this is happening roll your still check
• 1:09:54
  with advantage because he's with the other three guards that you
• 1:09:58
  have to pass all of their passive perception.
• 1:10:01
  So is it a? Stealth or a sleight of hand?
• 1:10:03
  A Stealth. To get up to him or actually are
• 1:10:05
  you just approaching him like unstealthily and trying to like
• 1:10:08
  nick it off? What I'm what?
• 1:10:10
  I'm doing is I'm going to go up and I'm going to kind of feign
• 1:10:13
  interest in the cup game and just stand like behind him close
• 1:10:18
  to like where this commotion is going on, but like look like I'm
• 1:10:20
  really interested in the cup game and perfect.
• 1:10:24
  Yeah, I'm gonna like. Sleight of hand.
• 1:10:26
  With advantage, OK. And sleight of hand with
• 1:10:28
  advantage. You said OK, and don't forget.
• 1:10:30
  Your guidance? Thank God it's with advantage.
• 1:10:37
  And it's. Not cuz I rolled lower on the
• 1:10:40
  second one so that'll be 1616. OK, 16 passes.
• 1:10:46
  All of their passive perception. They're not looking out at you,
• 1:10:50
  they're looking at the argument that's happening between Bon and
• 1:10:54
  Abe and the captain. I'm.
• 1:10:56
  I'm a Paladin of Thesmira, here to protect anybody who needs my
• 1:11:00
  help. Oh, A.
• 1:11:01
  Paladin. A paladin.
• 1:11:03
  You think you know more than the captain.
• 1:11:05
  I push him with my. Shield the captain.
• 1:11:08
  Then speaks up at this point and he goes stop.
• 1:11:10
  There will be no fighting on the street right now.
• 1:11:13
  During this momentous celebration, he turns to you,
• 1:11:16
  Bond. I did what I have to do.
• 1:11:19
  It is not for you to question me.
• 1:11:22
  And you see that the flames start pouring out again,
• 1:11:24
  dishonouring. You, Captain, let me let me
• 1:11:26
  fight him on your behalf. No.
• 1:11:28
  Fighting in the middle of the streets.
• 1:11:31
  Period. Unless you both want to be
• 1:11:32
  thrown in jail for the next night.
• 1:11:34
  Is that what you want? You know what?
• 1:11:36
  I I'm above this, this is this is below me and I walk away.
• 1:11:40
  I'm going to. I'm going.
• 1:11:41
  To pipe up and I'm going to say the captain.
• 1:11:43
  So you're not allowed to attack anybody on the streets, right?
• 1:11:46
  I am. I have privileges.
• 1:11:48
  OK, cool. That's what I was getting at.
• 1:11:50
  All right, I'm done. Did you not?
• 1:11:52
  Just steal this man's keys. He's this guy.
• 1:11:54
  I. I.
• 1:11:55
  Did yeah, you know, have? A great night, Captain Ollie,
• 1:11:59
  Polly, you keep doing you and I walk away as well at this point.
• 1:12:05
  Yeah. So the three of you walk away in
• 1:12:08
  different directions to kind of give the illusion that you're
• 1:12:11
  not you're going to do a sleight.
• 1:12:12
  Of hand to turn up the dial on his neck really high before I
• 1:12:15
  leave. I'm just kidding.
• 1:12:19
  OK, good. That would have been really bad.
• 1:12:22
  As Bon. As you're walking away, the
• 1:12:24
  guard, Ollie Polly runs up to you and goes, hey guy, I mean,
• 1:12:29
  thanks for speaking up for me. I mean, I did deserve to be hit.
• 1:12:33
  I, I, I definitely messed up, but it was very nice of you to
• 1:12:37
  stand up for me. My, my name is Ollie Polly.
• 1:12:39
  I'm a guard here. I've only been a guard for like
• 1:12:41
  a month now. I reach.
• 1:12:43
  Out and shake his hand up. Ollie Polly, I'm Bond.
• 1:12:46
  Maybe I was a little deceptive about, you know, I'm not, I'm
• 1:12:49
  not really a paladin. I'm a I'm a cleric.
• 1:12:52
  But you don't deserve to be hit for just something going wrong.
• 1:12:56
  That's very. Kind of you, Mr. Is there
• 1:12:59
  anything I can do to you to return the favour?
• 1:13:02
  Is that? Are you coming on to me?
• 1:13:04
  No, no. No, he, he, he turns incredibly
• 1:13:07
  red in the face. Oh my God, not at all.
• 1:13:09
  You're like, way too tall, all right?
• 1:13:12
  I. Would just say, you know, if you
• 1:13:14
  could show the captain a good time for a little while, you
• 1:13:17
  know, maybe get him in a better mood so that he doesn't.
• 1:13:19
  Is that supposed? To be sexual, No.
• 1:13:22
  No, no, treat him to some games or something, OK.
• 1:13:26
  Well, I don't think he likes me very much, but I'll try.
• 1:13:29
  And you see him run over to the captain and you hear him go.
• 1:13:32
  Captain, Captain, let's play the shell game together.
• 1:13:34
  And the captain backhands him again and all he's on the floor.
• 1:13:38
  I will, He goes. All right.
• 1:13:39
  Fair enough, Fair enough. You got me there, Captain.
• 1:13:42
  I walk. Away so fast.
• 1:13:45
  You. Guys walk away.
• 1:13:47
  Have you guys decided that you want to go through the South
• 1:13:51
  entrance are either? More or less like attended.
• 1:13:56
  Do you see? That when you go to the north
• 1:14:00
  entrance, so you guys went to the South entrance before and
• 1:14:02
  that was unattended because you guys were checking out the
• 1:14:04
  locks. The north entrance there seems
• 1:14:07
  to be a guard permanently standing outside of the door and
• 1:14:12
  make a everyone can make a perception check as they kind of
• 1:14:16
  are checking out the north entrance.
• 1:14:20
  Usually only guard valuable places.
• 1:14:22
  I'm like whispering to you guys, 6619.
• 1:14:28
  Not one. OK.
• 1:14:30
  So Abe and Bo, you think to yourself, yeah, this we're both.
• 1:14:35
  Playing the bonkit? Yeah, you're playing.
• 1:14:37
  Bonkit with Bunty You're not really paying attention.
• 1:14:40
  Bond You hear some sort of growling on the other side of
• 1:14:46
  the door in the north entrance. There's a reason we went to the
• 1:14:51
  South entrance first, I'll say that much.
• 1:14:55
  So you guys turn around and head back to the South entrance.
• 1:14:59
  No one is really there right now.
• 1:15:01
  The gladiators who lost are mostly healing and laying down
• 1:15:06
  and taking some rest, and the beds are far enough away from
• 1:15:11
  the door to the South quadrant that you guys are alone, though
• 1:15:15
  you have the keys all right, I. Hand a key to Abe and I hand a
• 1:15:19
  key to Bunty. I I reach.
• 1:15:25
  She takes the. I reach my.
• 1:15:26
  Hand out for a key and then kind of pull.
• 1:15:28
  No mine. Mine don't touch it.
• 1:15:30
  Oh. Oh, I.
• 1:15:31
  Just thought that no. OK.
• 1:15:33
  Yeah, yeah, Bunty. Oh no.
• 1:15:35
  Yeah, of course. Sorry.
• 1:15:38
  I I hand bond my key OK? Good.
• 1:15:42
  Yeah, the three, eight of us. Oh, but you know what?
• 1:15:46
  I feel bad here. And then Bunty gives you his key
• 1:15:49
  bow. Oh.
• 1:15:50
  You you really, you really don't have to.
• 1:15:52
  Oh, thank you. And then?
• 1:15:53
  Before we do the keys. Yep, Bunty, it's cloak time.
• 1:15:56
  Yeah, get in. Oh, really?
• 1:15:59
  Yeah, yeah. We need to lock in.
• 1:16:01
  We need to lock in or more like. Unlock in, gesture at the key,
• 1:16:04
  get. On.
• 1:16:07
  So Bunty gets under your cloak with a little bit of protesting.
• 1:16:12
  The three of you put your keys into the door, twist
• 1:16:16
  simultaneously, and you see another door as you open this
• 1:16:21
  door. This door does not have any sort
• 1:16:24
  of keyhole, and as you touch the knob you can tell it's unlocked,
• 1:16:28
  but on the door itself is a sign it reads Turn BACK.
• 1:16:33
  You're not smart enough to make it through.
• 1:16:36
  Well, this must. Have been written for someone
• 1:16:38
  who is far less intelligent than I am, so let's keep going.
• 1:16:42
  I see no other. Way to get to the east side.
• 1:16:45
  So I'm definitely smart. Enough and as.
• 1:16:48
  Three of you have these very different but yet very similar
• 1:16:52
  thoughts. You push open this door and as
• 1:16:56
  the four of you enter the door shuts and locks behind you.
• 1:17:02
  What you see is an all grey room with jagged stones sticking out
• 1:17:08
  of the wall and the floor. It was not made smooth and in
• 1:17:13
  the center is a giant greystone scale.
• 1:17:18
  It is about 10 feet long and made out of one continuous
• 1:17:24
  stone. Across the room from where you
• 1:17:26
  are is a large stone door, the type that looks like it can
• 1:17:31
  raise, but not one that has like a handle or keyhole or anything.
• 1:17:37
  Can anyone read Dorvan? Yes, Abe.
• 1:17:40
  You read weight is not what it seems, value is hidden in the
• 1:17:45
  stones and as you read this and you kind of mumble it aloud as
• 1:17:51
  you read, do you notice 5 stones on the ground, each with varying
• 1:17:58
  size? So we'll say stone number one is
• 1:18:00
  the smallest in size and stone #5 is the biggest.
• 1:18:05
  What do you guys want to do? I'm.
• 1:18:07
  Sorry, what did it say again? Weight is.
• 1:18:09
  Not what it seems. Value is hidden in the stones
• 1:18:13
  guys. I think there's gold inside
• 1:18:16
  these stones and I think we have to break them to get inside.
• 1:18:22
  So Avni, do I have to do an intelligence check for this or
• 1:18:25
  can I to? Try to figure this out, yeah.
• 1:18:30
  Do you want to? Do anything to the stones first.
• 1:18:33
  Do you want to like, pick them up?
• 1:18:34
  Do you want to touch them? Yes, Sir.
• 1:18:37
  Will you guys see? Or do you want to do an?
• 1:18:38
  Investigation you guys do? Notice that like Abe is very
• 1:18:42
  locked in. Now.
• 1:18:43
  This is a puzzle. This is like a test of intellect
• 1:18:46
  and he rates himself very highly with these kinds of things and
• 1:18:51
  he just, he just stops talking after he Mumbles the dwarven
• 1:18:54
  inscription, walks over to the first stone, picks it up and
• 1:18:59
  walks it over to the scale. OK.
• 1:19:01
  You pick up the smallest stone. It is far heavier than you
• 1:19:06
  thought it was going to be. You thought it was maybe a
• 1:19:10
  couple pounds, 5 lbs Max. You you can pick your skill that
• 1:19:14
  you want, but you need to roll something so that you can guess
• 1:19:19
  how much this stone weighs as you pick it up.
• 1:19:21
  So tell me what skill you want to use and and justify it to to.
• 1:19:25
  Guess the weight of it. Yeah, To guess the.
• 1:19:27
  Weight of the stone as you pick it up.
• 1:19:30
  I'm going to use. I mean I don't think like the
• 1:19:35
  physical stats would really help here it.
• 1:19:40
  Depends, like if you if you like work out a lot you could maybe
• 1:19:42
  justify doing an athletics check because you know the weight of
• 1:19:47
  weights as you work out right? I do.
• 1:19:48
  Actually have the proficiency in that.
• 1:19:53
  But you can also make some sort of wisdom or intelligence check.
• 1:19:56
  I'm going to do an. Intimidation.
• 1:19:58
  That's OK. Intimidate the stone into
• 1:20:00
  telling me it's weight. I'm going to do insight.
• 1:20:04
  Insight. Yeah, to tell how how packed the
• 1:20:07
  stone is. You're kind of staring at it as
• 1:20:09
  you lift it up. Sure, go for it.
• 1:20:13
  Bunty will give you the help action.
• 1:20:15
  Thank you, Bunty. Oh, so advantage, right?
• 1:20:20
  Yeah, the first row was better. It's a 17A. 17 This stone is 60
• 1:20:27
  lbs. It's packed into this.
• 1:20:30
  Imagine a a baseball sized ball. It's £60 Dwarves.
• 1:20:35
  I say out loud, kind of like smiling.
• 1:20:38
  Always. Trying to trick us.
• 1:20:40
  And I and I say to Bobo, try picking up the big one.
• 1:20:44
  Sure, Yeah. I go up and I I lift up the big
• 1:20:46
  one. Bo what type?
• 1:20:48
  Of skill do you want to use to guess the weight of the biggest
• 1:20:51
  one I'm. Trying to reason a way to use
• 1:20:54
  sleight of hand but I don't think it works.
• 1:20:58
  I think insight cool. Go for insight.
• 1:21:04
  I'm going to I'm. Going to look at Bond and I'm
• 1:21:06
  going to be like, can you, can you do that thing that you did
• 1:21:09
  earlier? Sure.
• 1:21:11
  And I cast guidance again. Cool.
• 1:21:18
  All right, That'll be a 10 in total.
• 1:21:22
  A10 in total you can tell it's somewhere between 20 to 50 lbs.
• 1:21:30
  OK. Is.
• 1:21:31
  There any other? Like do these stones look
• 1:21:35
  different at all? Do they just look like stone?
• 1:21:37
  Are there any inscriptions or anything on them?
• 1:21:39
  Nope, no. Inscriptions inland.
• 1:21:40
  There's some very they're they're like balls.
• 1:21:43
  They're stone balls of various sizes.
• 1:21:46
  So imagine baseball, softball, football, soccer ball,
• 1:21:49
  basketball in size, and you just see the inscription that says
• 1:21:53
  weight is not what it seems. Value is hidden in the stones,
• 1:21:56
  and you see the giant Gray stone scale behind it.
• 1:22:00
  And when I'm talking about a scale, I'm talking about, like,
• 1:22:02
  the balance. Yeah, Yeah.
• 1:22:04
  Yeah. Yeah, legacy song, that's what I
• 1:22:07
  had so. Initial initial thoughts.
• 1:22:10
  We we find stones of of equal weight and we put them on either
• 1:22:14
  side and we try to balance the scale right?
• 1:22:16
  Indeed, that seems to. Make sense to me?
• 1:22:20
  I'd already. Figured that out before you said
• 1:22:21
  it out loud, but so. The smallest has 60 lbs.
• 1:22:26
  So. So when did you say that?
• 1:22:28
  Because I didn't hear it. Are we?
• 1:22:34
  Are we able? To just try to pick up all the
• 1:22:37
  stones 1 by 1 and judge the relative weights of each of them
• 1:22:42
  based on that? Yes, you.
• 1:22:43
  You can. You can do that if you'd like,
• 1:22:45
  yeah. So without.
• 1:22:46
  Knowing the numbers exactly, I'm going to try to pick up each of
• 1:22:48
  the stones. Well, so we know the first one's
• 1:22:51
  60, right? Yeah.
• 1:22:53
  Yeah, you know, the first one's 60 lbs.
• 1:22:55
  And then the. Last one was somewhere between
• 1:22:58
  20 and 50 because. You're picking up all the stones
• 1:23:02
  bond. You can order them.
• 1:23:03
  So the lightest stone is the so one through 5, right?
• 1:23:08
  One is the smallest, 5 is the biggest.
• 1:23:10
  The lightest stone is the fourth stone.
• 1:23:12
  The second lightest is the second stone.
• 1:23:15
  The third lightest is the fifth stone.
• 1:23:19
  The second heaviest is the first stone, which is the one that a
• 1:23:23
  picked up, and the third stone, the middle stone is the heaviest
• 1:23:28
  stone and bond you can make one roll with advantage if you now
• 1:23:34
  that you've kind of organized the stones by weight to try to
• 1:23:37
  get the weight of the other four that you don't know.
• 1:23:41
  Huh. He says out loud.
• 1:23:43
  He he wasn't expecting this, and he's like, often quick to jump
• 1:23:47
  into things once he thinks he's figured them out.
• 1:23:50
  Sorry, what was that? I can roll a check, yeah.
• 1:23:52
  Whatever check you want, like some sort of wisdom,
• 1:23:54
  intelligence, all right? Anything that you can justify,
• 1:23:57
  like how you guessed the weight of the other 4 stones based off
• 1:24:00
  of knowing, obviously. I'm gonna go with religion I
• 1:24:05
  think. I'll do an insight check.
• 1:24:07
  I use the. Power of this mirror.
• 1:24:11
  That is an 11. With advantage.
• 1:24:14
  Oh, with advantage. All right.
• 1:24:17
  And you can cast guidance on yourself.
• 1:24:18
  Sure, I'm. Not sure I'll need it but.
• 1:24:21
  That. Is a 26.
• 1:24:25
  Fantastic. Fantastic.
• 1:24:27
  So stone one is 60 lbs. Stone 2 is 15 lbs.
• 1:24:32
  Stone 3 is 80 lbs. Stone 4 is 5 lbs and Stone 5 is
• 1:24:40
  30 lbs. So we just.
• 1:24:41
  Need the the 60-15 and five on one end and the 80 on the other.
• 1:24:47
  6060 thirty on the other. Wait, no, wait a minute.
• 1:24:58
  No, I thought, yeah, Abe was right.
• 1:25:02
  Yeah, I know. OK, so. 6015 and five on one
• 1:25:09
  side and 80 on the other side. Yeah, and just.
• 1:25:12
  Leave the 30. Yeah, just leave.
• 1:25:14
  The 30. OK Abe, you place those, make a
• 1:25:18
  deck saving throw. Oh shit, 18.
• 1:25:22
  OK, you're. Good.
• 1:25:23
  As you place those 4 stones down in their respective positions,
• 1:25:28
  the scale animates itself and flings the stones at you, and it
• 1:25:34
  rejects what you've put on it instead.
• 1:25:36
  I think we should place the 80 and the 15 on one side and the
• 1:25:41
  60, the 30 and the 5:00 on the other side, OK.
• 1:25:45
  Bon, you go and do that. Roll the Dexterity saving throw.
• 1:25:49
  Oh fuck. That is going to be a 14 + 0 +
• 1:25:57
  115 you pass. So the stones get launched at
• 1:26:00
  you. You avoided.
• 1:26:02
  Everyone here can make an intelligence check to try to
• 1:26:06
  figure out the Riddle. Possibly just straight.
• 1:26:09
  Intelligence. Nice.
• 1:26:11
  Just yeah, straight intelligence or that'll be a. 5 So you can
• 1:26:15
  do. You can do inside.
• 1:26:17
  Yeah. But you need to smash all of
• 1:26:20
  these rocks on the ground right now.
• 1:26:23
  I shrug. And I pick up the stones gills.
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  22, 20. 2 Great you. Said Insight.
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  Insight's wisdom. Oh, sorry.
• 1:26:33
  Insight, Wisdom. Wisdom.
• 1:26:34
  Excuse me. So Bo, does that change what you
• 1:26:36
  get? Yeah, if it's.
• 1:26:37
  Insight then I would get a nine OK, you.
• 1:26:40
  Want to smash the stones on the ground I got.
• 1:26:43
  A21A20. One and Abe.
• 1:26:47
  It was a 2222. So Bon and Abe, you're reading
• 1:26:52
  it over and over again. Wait is not what it seems, value
• 1:26:55
  was hidden in the stones. Wait is not what it seems.
• 1:26:57
  Value is hidden in the stones and you think about the weights
• 1:27:01
  of the stones and suddenly it comes to you both at the same
• 1:27:06
  time and simultaneously. You say we need to put equal
• 1:27:10
  value in gold pieces on the other side to the weight of the
• 1:27:13
  stone. Oh.
• 1:27:16
  At the same time. We.
• 1:27:20
  I guys, I have 18 gold pieces. No, you don't.
• 1:27:24
  Your gold is gone. Oh, did you?
• 1:27:26
  Use. It went to.
• 1:27:27
  It went to Bond. I thought you.
• 1:27:29
  Bought it for me, he he covered. The 12 extra gold What if we
• 1:27:33
  just. Put the the the £5 one up there
• 1:27:36
  and then 5 gold pieces. Bo, do you want to?
• 1:27:39
  Go do that. I'll do that.
• 1:27:40
  Yeah, and everybody else has done something already.
• 1:27:42
  I'll do it Bo you. Do that, and as you put the five
• 1:27:45
  gold pieces down, the stone door opens.
• 1:27:48
  Guys, I figured it out without any help.
• 1:27:54
  Oh yeah, Oh my. God, smartest man alive, Bunty
• 1:27:57
  shut. Up.
• 1:27:57
  You're under the cloak. You're not supposed to talk when
• 1:28:00
  you're under the cloak. Oh.
• 1:28:01
  Sorry, I didn't even get to see this room.
• 1:28:03
  I didn't even know what was happening.
• 1:28:06
  You. Jumped out of the.
• 1:28:06
  Way and I flew with you under the Cape.
• 1:28:11
  We just hear muffled bop it sounds or excuse me, bonk it.
• 1:28:17
  Bonk it. Sounds Yankee, yeah?
• 1:28:19
  Underneath the. Cloak, do you leave the five
• 1:28:22
  gold pieces there with the stone on the other side and the door
• 1:28:25
  opens and you guys go into the next room?
• 1:28:27
  Sounds good. Yes, so.
• 1:28:29
  You lose those 5 gold pieces. I'm sorry.
• 1:28:32
  OK. I will never financially recover
• 1:28:34
  from this. As you.
• 1:28:38
  Spent so much money on random bags.
• 1:28:42
  So the next room you walk in and the stone door shuts behind you
• 1:28:49
  and now you're in this room. You see a door that has a
• 1:28:53
  keyhole on the other end and you also see 12 identical small
• 1:28:59
  chests about the size of a tea kettle just kind of around the
• 1:29:04
  room, 4 on each of the three walls facing you.
• 1:29:08
  Everyone make an intelligence saving throw.
• 1:29:12
  Saving throw, right? Not a check.
• 1:29:15
  Saving throw. 18-5 dirty, 20 Perfect.
• 1:29:20
  Abe and Bond, you're OK Beau, you take you take tool psychic
• 1:29:28
  damage as a voice whispers in your head.
• 1:29:33
  Don't think very. Easy for me.
• 1:29:40
  My stare goes blank. Wonderful.
• 1:29:43
  So there are 12 chests around the room.
• 1:29:47
  Sorry. Can you repeat one more time?
• 1:29:48
  What the There's just 12 chests, is there anything else?
• 1:29:51
  And there's just. A door on the other side with a
• 1:29:54
  keyhole. And the.
• 1:29:57
  Do the chests have keys like like have keyholes or can you
• 1:30:01
  just open them like are they do? You want to roll an
• 1:30:03
  investigation check or do you want to go up and touch him or
• 1:30:06
  don't? Don't touch the chest, I'll roll
• 1:30:09
  an. Investigation check.
• 1:30:11
  OK. 1515. You notice faint claw Marks and
• 1:30:18
  drool under all of the chests, and you can tell that they all
• 1:30:24
  might be mimics. As you roll your investigation
• 1:30:28
  check, you take 4 psychic. Oh fuck.
• 1:30:31
  OK. I turn to Abe and I say, Abe,
• 1:30:36
  you have that amulet, don't you? Yeah, but I need you guys to
• 1:30:40
  back up like 10 feet and take Monty with you.
• 1:30:43
  Sure. And I I reach under your cloak
• 1:30:46
  to grab Bunty's hand. Yeah, he.
• 1:30:49
  Took me. Away, Abe.
• 1:30:53
  You walk forward as your friends back up and go towards the
• 1:30:58
  chest. You stay within 10 feet of them,
• 1:31:00
  and yeah, your necklace is glowing as you approach every
• 1:31:04
  single one of them, meaning that they are alive.
• 1:31:07
  Hey, Abe. Check the door too.
• 1:31:10
  I kind of look. Back at them, I'm like, OK, And
• 1:31:14
  I pull out my quarter staff and I try to like just like push the
• 1:31:18
  door from a little bit of a distance away the door.
• 1:31:22
  Is a door. The door just stays shut as you
• 1:31:25
  push at it. Try the key.
• 1:31:27
  Yeah, yeah, I'll walk up to it. I'll try the handle you.
• 1:31:31
  Try the handle, it's locked so I could.
• 1:31:33
  Like I could just try to pick the lock.
• 1:31:37
  You. Could definitely go for it.
• 1:31:39
  You want a roll? Sleight of hand, Yeah.
• 1:31:41
  Is this? Does this sound like an
• 1:31:42
  advisable idea? Do it.
• 1:31:45
  Well, yeah, do it, Do it. Could I?
• 1:31:47
  Get the that little. I don't know what it is that you
• 1:31:49
  do, but it makes me feel very good.
• 1:31:52
  Oh oh. Yeah, yeah, sorry, massages
• 1:31:54
  your. Shoulder.
• 1:31:55
  I cast I. I cast guidance.
• 1:31:58
  That's the. Stuff all right as.
• 1:32:00
  As you put your thieves tools inside the lock, the lights turn
• 1:32:05
  off suddenly. You take one psychic damage and
• 1:32:10
  when the lights turn back on, the door is on the other side of
• 1:32:15
  the room. It looks like everything flipped
• 1:32:17
  in here. Fascinating.
• 1:32:19
  Are we? In the same place, yeah, you
• 1:32:22
  guys. Stay in the same place, but are
• 1:32:24
  we just closer to? The previous room now again
• 1:32:26
  well. You're you're still stuck in
• 1:32:28
  this room, so it seems like the door and the chest just flipped
• 1:32:31
  to the other side. Oh man.
• 1:32:34
  As you. Guys stand here thinking make
• 1:32:37
  intelligence saving. Wait. 16. 13.
• 1:32:44
  Did. Bo, tell us what he what he what
• 1:32:47
  he heard in the voice. I don't know.
• 1:32:49
  Bo, did you? No.
• 1:32:51
  What did you roll in? 13.
• 1:32:53
  For the save 13. OK, you guys all passed, nothing
• 1:32:57
  happens and you're still standing in the room, by the
• 1:33:00
  way. Guys, I heard a voice telling me
• 1:33:01
  not to think. Oh.
• 1:33:03
  Interesting. I go up to a chest and just open
• 1:33:06
  it. OK.
• 1:33:08
  You go up to a chest and just open it and there's a key
• 1:33:11
  inside. Oh.
• 1:33:12
  I wish you had told me that. So stupid.
• 1:33:22
  Oh, you should have. You should have said something
• 1:33:23
  earlier. OK, I grabbed the key.
• 1:33:26
  Great. You grab the key, you head over
• 1:33:29
  towards the doors, the chest shuts itself, and you're able to
• 1:33:34
  get into the next room. Wow.
• 1:33:39
  Just as. Just as a side note, if you
• 1:33:42
  deliberately like specifically chose a chest, it was going to
• 1:33:46
  be a little mimic. But if you don't think and just
• 1:33:49
  choose a random chest the keys inside of it, that's funny.
• 1:33:52
  I like that. Yeah, there's a good.
• 1:33:54
  Alternate reality where we fought 11 mimics.
• 1:34:00
  No, there's an alternate reality where you fight all 12 and even
• 1:34:03
  more because they just keep resetting.
• 1:34:05
  So man, when you guys open the door it creaks into what looks
• 1:34:11
  like a dingy old storage room. All of the shelves are bare with
• 1:34:16
  nothing on them except dust. Roll an investigation check.
• 1:34:21
  1017. All right, that'll be.
• 1:34:25
  A 12 OK. Abe, You notice that there are
• 1:34:30
  some fresh footprints and they lead you to around corner where
• 1:34:37
  there's a bookshelf that's kind of that room.
• 1:34:40
  That part of the room's blocked off from the bookshelf.
• 1:34:42
  You go around the corner, follow the footsteps around the
• 1:34:45
  bookshelf, and what you see is a giant hole in the ground roughly
• 1:34:50
  10 feet across. It appears to be a roof of a
• 1:34:55
  tower poking out of the ground. And as you peer into the hole
• 1:35:01
  with your investigation check, you can see about 40 feet down
• 1:35:06
  from where you are now. There's like a platform with
• 1:35:10
  stairs. So does that make sense to
• 1:35:14
  everyone? Yes, There's no.
• 1:35:15
  Doors in this room, right? No, just the door that you came
• 1:35:19
  in. No other door.
• 1:35:21
  What you can tell actually is that you have made it to the
• 1:35:24
  east side of the underground area.
• 1:35:29
  It's just this dingy storeroom with this giant hole in the
• 1:35:32
  ground. So then.
• 1:35:33
  If that's the case, I'm going to spend I think what is what is it
• 1:35:37
  for Ritual casting in TND 2024 additional 10 minutes I think it
• 1:35:42
  is. Yes, so.
• 1:35:44
  What are you ritual casting? I'm going to ritual.
• 1:35:46
  Cast Detect Magic as you. Cast Detect Magic.
• 1:35:49
  Yeah, I remember. That there was the description
• 1:35:52
  that that Vox gave us was it would have a magical aura on it.
• 1:35:58
  Yes, a strong. Magical Aura.
• 1:35:59
  The room itself has no magical aura, but as you peer down into
• 1:36:07
  the hole, you can see heavy magic coming from deep, deep
• 1:36:13
  down this hole. Like I said, there's 40 feet
• 1:36:16
  between you and the stairs. Like the top of the stairs,
• 1:36:19
  there's a spiral staircase heading down.
• 1:36:21
  The strongest detect magic presence that you're getting
• 1:36:25
  goes beyond that, down and down and down the stairs into this
• 1:36:30
  hole. As you guys are all looking into
• 1:36:33
  this hole, give me one last perception check. 10 Hell yeah
• 1:36:40
  11. 20 dirty as you're. Looking down, you hear little
• 1:36:48
  footsteps of some creature, and you're able to catch a glimpse
• 1:36:52
  of something as it sees your faces.
• 1:36:55
  Peering down it goes. Oh shit.
• 1:36:58
  And then runs down the steps. And with that, that's where
• 1:37:02
  we're going to end our session. Aw.
• 1:37:05
  Man. Staring.
• 1:37:06
  Into the dark abyss. Excellent.
• 1:37:10
  Nice. Oh man.
• 1:37:11
  Puzzles, Puzzles. I thought that'd be a fun change
• 1:37:14
  up from just straight fighting, yeah.
• 1:37:16
  Awesome though if you took. The north entrance, you could
• 1:37:19
  have taken some fights if you wanted.
• 1:37:21
  Yeah, it's. Fight a beast.
• 1:37:23
  Can we get a peek behind the screen as to what creature it
• 1:37:26
  was or you gonna you're gonna keep that one too close to your
• 1:37:29
  chest. I'm gonna.
• 1:37:30
  Keep that one to myself because there are some other fun ways
• 1:37:33
  maybe I could use this creature down the line.
• 1:37:36
  We'll see, totally. Fair.
• 1:37:38
  Great. Oh my God, so.
• 1:37:39
  Fun. I'm glad you.
• 1:37:41
  Guys, really enjoyed that. I love shopping episodes.
• 1:37:43
  I love seeing you guys interact with the world, especially
• 1:37:46
  seeing Bo haggle with everyone and use disguise self to kind of
• 1:37:51
  give him an advantage. And I also like that really
• 1:37:54
  sweet moment that you had with Balandita.
• 1:37:57
  There there are. A few things I love more than a
• 1:38:00
  cryptic fortune. I can't wait to to listen to it
• 1:38:04
  once again and write it down. Like, yeah, I'll say.
• 1:38:07
  I'll send it your way away, yeah.
• 1:38:11
  Fantastic. Just a.
• 1:38:13
  Logistical question, did I regain my health points when I
• 1:38:17
  went to the surgeons? Got my arm.
• 1:38:19
  No, no, they they don't heal you.
• 1:38:22
  No, they don't hear you. Really.
• 1:38:25
  They're not heal. They're not healers, they just
• 1:38:26
  put a metal arm on you. Oh damn.
• 1:38:28
  OK. I think you.
• 1:38:30
  You have what? What Bond gave you when?
• 1:38:33
  Yeah. Yeah, you have.
• 1:38:33
  To loans. I have 12, yeah.
• 1:38:36
  You're. Well, I mean did you use any HP
• 1:38:39
  from the? Theoretically.
• 1:38:43
  Yeah, he could have. He could have taken a short
• 1:38:45
  rest, right? You guys can take a.
• 1:38:46
  Short rest between now and next episode if you'd like, we'll
• 1:38:49
  just. Let this thing run away.
• 1:38:51
  I don't want to. Let that thing get away.
• 1:38:52
  Yeah, right. Awesome.
• 1:38:56
  Thank you so much to everyone who listened to episode 1 and
• 1:39:00
  all of their continued support. Please don't forget to like and
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• 1:39:08
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• 1:39:13
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• 1:39:16
  Awesome. Thank you 3 for playing with me
• 1:39:19
  for this session and we'll see you next time.
• 1:39:22
  Bye. Bye.