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- 0:10JarJim: Hello weary traveler.
- 0:12JarJim: I'm not sure what strange magic
- 0:14JarJim: must have brought you here, but
- 0:15JarJim: you have stepped into a realm of
- 0:17JarJim: my creation.
- 0:19JarJim: A sprawling city filled with danger and glory.
- 0:22JarJim: And most importantly, lots of gold.
- 0:25JarJim: I call it Island Dumas.
- 0:28JarJim: Who am I?
- 0:28JarJim: You might ask?
- 0:30JarJim: The name is Jojo and I'm the patron deity of gambling.
- 0:34JarJim: Long story short, this group of idiots, or as you may call them
- 0:39JarJim: heroes, made a bet with me that they had what it took to make a
- 0:42JarJim: vast trove of gold, but left some of the key details blank,
- 0:47JarJim: so I filled them in myself.
- 0:49JarJim: I sent them to this pocket dimension into the city I had
- 0:53JarJim: created with brand new bodies they'd have to attune to.
- 0:57JarJim: Can these fools passed my test?
- 1:00JarJim: Or will they be trapped here forever?
- 1:02JarJim: So experience my world of trials
- 1:05JarJim: and tribulations and join
- 1:07JarJim: alongside this posse of pitiful
- 1:09JarJim: people.
- 1:10JarJim: Or as I like to call them, the criminals of Island Dumas.
- 1:16Skyler: Welcome back, everybody to
- 1:17Skyler: another episode of Criminals of
- 1:19Skyler: Island Dumas.
- 1:20Skyler: My name is Skyler.
- 1:21Skyler: I am the Dungeon Master for this campaign.
- 1:26Skyler: And joining me today, we have all the original cast.
- 1:29Skyler: We've got to my right.
- 1:31Skyler: Quinn playing Lil sauce.
- 1:33Skyler: We've got Dave playing Marky.
- 1:36Quinn (Lil Sauce): I'm a little bush boy.
- 1:37Skyler: He's a bush boy hiding in the bush next to him.
- 1:41Skyler: We got Jackson playing Deus.
- 1:43Skyler: Hi. I like to make it sound sexy.
- 1:45Jackson (Dez): Well, it is, it is, it is.
- 1:47Jackson (Dez): Des is the sexiest character.
- 1:48Jackson (Dez): If only he could talk, you would know that's.
- 1:50Skyler: Yeah, that's what's holding him back.
- 1:52Skyler: What's up?
- 1:53Cameron (Rorick): Hey, what's the ranking order for the five characters?
- 1:56Jackson (Dez): Um, as like in sexiness.
- 1:58Jackson (Dez): Yeah. All right.
- 1:59Jackson (Dez): Um, Dez in his mind ranks it like this.
- 2:02Jackson (Dez): It goes um Kato.
- 2:05Jackson (Dez): Kato B Dez.
- 2:06Jackson (Dez): Yeah I go and Dez is mine.
- 2:08Jackson (Dez): This is his ranking Kato uh Roric Dez um.
- 2:13Jackson (Dez): Maki and uh Lil sauce.
- 2:15Skyler: Mhm. Interesting.
- 2:16Jackson (Dez): He doesn't like birds.
- 2:17Jackson (Dez): He doesn't like aviary.
- 2:19Quinn (Lil Sauce): Oh yeah.
- 2:19Quinn (Lil Sauce): That's right.
- 2:20Quinn (Lil Sauce): He doesn't like them.
- 2:21Quinn (Lil Sauce): I remember that.
- 2:22Jackson (Dez): He's a water creature.
- 2:23Jackson (Dez): Hates birds.
- 2:24Skyler: Swimming over to who we now know
- 2:25Skyler: is the sexiest character in
- 2:27Skyler: criminals.
- 2:28Skyler: Violent humans.
- 2:29Skyler: Fatty lumpkins playing Kato.
- 2:31Quinn (Lil Sauce): Yeah. Fatty!
- 2:32Quinn (Lil Sauce): Here. Congratulations, Kato.
- 2:34Quinn (Lil Sauce): Having heard this wonderful
- 2:36Quinn (Lil Sauce): news, kind of looks over at Dez
- 2:37Quinn (Lil Sauce): suavely and.
- 2:39Skyler: Save it for when we're in Game Man.
- 2:41Quinn (Lil Sauce): Because of his washboard abs.
- 2:43Quinn (Lil Sauce): Oh, in that case, I will just.
- 2:45Quinn (Lil Sauce): Kato's go to a suave pickup is just gonna be like the little
- 2:50Quinn (Lil Sauce): decal thing where they just kind of lick their eyeball.
- 2:52Skyler: Oh, I thought you were gonna say
- 2:54Skyler: they offer you a discount on
- 2:55Skyler: insurance.
- 2:56Quinn (Lil Sauce): Mel licks the eyeball.
- 2:57Skyler: And then rolls.
- 2:57Quinn (Lil Sauce): His eyes to the back of his head.
- 2:59Skyler: Do you know you can get fifteen
- 3:00Skyler: percent off right now on car
- 3:01Skyler: sharing?
- 3:02Skyler: Uh. And then last but not least,
- 3:03Skyler: we have Cameron, who is playing
- 3:05Skyler: Rurik, the second most sexy
- 3:08Skyler: character.
- 3:08Quinn (Lil Sauce): Hey, I'm Cameron, I'm playing
- 3:10Quinn (Lil Sauce): Rurik, the second most sexiest
- 3:12Quinn (Lil Sauce): character.
- 3:13Skyler: Congratulations.
- 3:14Skyler: Congratulations.
- 3:15Quinn (Lil Sauce): I'm surprised his washboard
- 3:16Quinn (Lil Sauce): goblin abs didn't carry the
- 3:18Quinn (Lil Sauce): taurine.
- 3:19Skyler: It's because he's going up against kobold scales.
- 3:23Skyler: Washboard.
- 3:24Quinn (Lil Sauce): Oh, hard to beat diamonds.
- 3:25Skyler: Once again, I'm Skyler.
- 3:27Skyler: I was apparently not listed on sexiest.
- 3:29Skyler: Maybe that's a good thing.
- 3:30Skyler: Maybe that's the.
- 3:31Quinn (Lil Sauce): Sexiest NPC we've encountered.
- 3:33Skyler: Uh oh dude.
- 3:34Quinn (Lil Sauce): King Fortuna yeah, that's a good answer.
- 3:37Quinn (Lil Sauce): That's a good answer.
- 3:38Skyler: Better else literally Popeye the sailor man.
- 3:41Quinn (Lil Sauce): Now that he's dead.
- 3:42Quinn (Lil Sauce): Kido's number one.
- 3:43Quinn (Lil Sauce): I think I was the one who killed him, though.
- 3:44Quinn (Lil Sauce): You were the one who delivered
- 3:45Quinn (Lil Sauce): the final blow and claim to the
- 3:47Quinn (Lil Sauce): throne.
- 3:48Quinn (Lil Sauce): He came.
- 3:49Quinn (Lil Sauce): You.
- 3:49Quinn (Lil Sauce): That's what the crown was.
- 3:50Quinn (Lil Sauce): That's what the belt is.
- 3:51Skyler: Oh, the belt of glamour.
- 3:53Skyler: Sexy. Nice.
- 3:55Skyler: I like it.
- 3:55Skyler: Alright, so with that being
- 3:56Skyler: said, we will jump back into the
- 3:58Skyler: episode forty two of Criminals
- 4:00Skyler: of Island.
- 4:08Skyler: All right, so where we left off, uh, you guys had followed the
- 4:12Skyler: Maxwells back to their mansion.
- 4:14Skyler: Maxwell wasn't technically one other.
- 4:16Quinn (Lil Sauce): Maxwell's.
- 4:16Skyler: House. Uh. Not to.
- 4:18Skyler: Yes. You follow the Maxwell's to the Maxwell house?
- 4:20Skyler: Not a sponsor.
- 4:21Quinn (Lil Sauce): Best part of waking up.
- 4:24Skyler: Hey, hey, you can't sing.
- 4:25Quinn (Lil Sauce): That is Maxwell's in your cup.
- 4:27Skyler: Oh, wait, I see we flipped it around.
- 4:29Quinn (Lil Sauce): Yeah, Dave's clever.
- 4:30Skyler: Clever. That is clever.
- 4:31Skyler: You guys have followed them there.
- 4:33Skyler: Uh, two of you had managed to
- 4:34Skyler: turn invisible and sneak past
- 4:37Skyler: the disturbingly strange, uh,
- 4:40Skyler: guard of the house who you would
- 4:42Skyler: have actually met a couple of
- 4:43Skyler: times.
- 4:43Skyler: He is the personal bodyguard of the Maxwell's.
- 4:46Skyler: He's a horrific semi-robotic figure that once upon a time
- 4:51Skyler: flattened, uh, one of Jackson's uh or sorry des's baboons on
- 4:57Skyler: live on stage into a bloody pulp, and now he has just
- 5:01Skyler: flattened one of des tires into a bloody pole.
- 5:07Skyler: I guess technically not a bloody pole because it is.
- 5:09Jackson (Dez): two of them.
- 5:09Jackson (Dez): I'm gonna just.
- 5:10Skyler: He used one.
- 5:11Skyler: He used one.
- 5:12Skyler: The other one was previous date.
- 5:13Skyler: Yeah.
- 5:14Jackson (Dez): I'm going to mark that on my.
- 5:16Jackson (Dez): Okay.
- 5:16Jackson (Dez): Yeah, I think sweet.
- 5:17Skyler: With that being said, two of you
- 5:19Skyler: guys had managed to get past
- 5:20Skyler: him.
- 5:20Skyler: It was Rorik and Cato.
- 5:21Skyler: The rest of you guys are outside.
- 5:24Skyler: Little sauce is currently, uh,
- 5:26Skyler: more or less unconscious, having
- 5:29Skyler: taken euphoria and is currently
- 5:32Skyler: in a just a drug induced dream
- 5:34Skyler: state.
- 5:35Skyler: It was there was a lot of peer pressure.
- 5:37Skyler: It was the most surreal thing
- 5:38Skyler: I've ever seen in my life to see
- 5:40Skyler: like that level of drug induced
- 5:42Skyler: peer pressure or drug forcing
- 5:44Skyler: peer pressure.
- 5:46Quinn (Lil Sauce): I noticed someone.
- 5:47Jackson (Dez): Else's on a high right now.
- 5:48Jackson (Dez): So it was just like, let's let him suffer.
- 5:51Jackson (Dez): Mhm.
- 5:51Jackson (Dez): Okay.
- 5:52Quinn (Lil Sauce): Des, did.
- 5:53Quinn (Lil Sauce): Dad, did you read the recap of what all happened?
- 5:55Quinn (Lil Sauce): Our leading theory, which is why we're at the Maxwell House.
- 5:57Quinn (Lil Sauce): Which is why I probably should
- 5:59Quinn (Lil Sauce): have been included, is that we
- 6:01Quinn (Lil Sauce): think one of the Maxwell's is
- 6:03Quinn (Lil Sauce): one of those two characters that
- 6:05Quinn (Lil Sauce): Jim referenced, that he trapped
- 6:07Quinn (Lil Sauce): down here with us, and we think
- 6:09Quinn (Lil Sauce): one of them is desperately
- 6:11Quinn (Lil Sauce): trying to figure a way to get
- 6:13Quinn (Lil Sauce): back up there since Jim
- 6:15Quinn (Lil Sauce): abandoned him.
- 6:15Quinn (Lil Sauce): So we think one of the Maxwell's
- 6:17Quinn (Lil Sauce): is one of those characters, so
- 6:18Quinn (Lil Sauce): we want to go find them and talk
- 6:19Quinn (Lil Sauce): to them.
- 6:20Quinn (Lil Sauce): Gotcha.
- 6:21Quinn (Lil Sauce): That's the reason we're here.
- 6:22Quinn (Lil Sauce): Kill it.
- 6:23Quinn (Lil Sauce): No.
- 6:23Quinn (Lil Sauce): Okay.
- 6:24Quinn (Lil Sauce): No, we we we.
- 6:25Quinn (Lil Sauce): The only person we want to kill
- 6:26Quinn (Lil Sauce): is sprout, because he is the
- 6:30Quinn (Lil Sauce): chosen one.
- 6:30Quinn (Lil Sauce): They mentioned that with sprout being the chosen one, it'll lead
- 6:33Quinn (Lil Sauce): to a lot of destruction.
- 6:35Quinn (Lil Sauce): So if we kill it.
- 6:36Quinn (Lil Sauce): They said that?
- 6:36Quinn (Lil Sauce): Yeah, I don't recall that part.
- 6:38Jackson (Dez): That sounds important.
- 6:39Jackson (Dez): Now we run into this paradox is
- 6:41Jackson (Dez): if you interfere with the
- 6:43Jackson (Dez): prophecy, will you just help it
- 6:45Jackson (Dez): come true?
- 6:45Quinn (Lil Sauce): That's why we should talk to them.
- 6:47Quinn (Lil Sauce): Well, the thing is, the thing is, if we help them.
- 6:50Quinn (Lil Sauce): What if we can leave two?
- 6:52Jackson (Dez): Okay.
- 6:52Quinn (Lil Sauce): What if the thing only lets
- 6:54Quinn (Lil Sauce): people leave who actually were
- 6:55Quinn (Lil Sauce): never here to begin with, which
- 6:56Quinn (Lil Sauce): would just be us and the Maxwell
- 6:58Quinn (Lil Sauce): guy, and then whoever that other
- 7:00Quinn (Lil Sauce): person is.
- 7:01Quinn (Lil Sauce): Anyways, that's where we're at with our theories.
- 7:03Jackson (Dez): Yeah.
- 7:04Skyler: So now that you're caught up,
- 7:05Skyler: Jackson, and honestly, that was
- 7:06Skyler: probably a good recap for, for
- 7:07Skyler: the listeners, those of you who
- 7:09Skyler: are outside, which include des,
- 7:10Skyler: I, I might pass by a little
- 7:12Skyler: source just given your current
- 7:14Skyler: status passed.
- 7:15Quinn (Lil Sauce): Out little slots.
- 7:16Skyler: Yes. That's right.
- 7:17Skyler: Um, and Maki, what are you guys doing outside?
- 7:20Skyler: So the door's basically been slammed in your face.
- 7:23Skyler: Uh, des, of course, through, uh, one of his fluffy balls in just
- 7:27Skyler: before the door closed.
- 7:28Skyler: I think you probably saw that it was a bear.
- 7:31Skyler: Um, so you know that that's going on inside, you know that
- 7:34Skyler: these two went inside?
- 7:36Quinn (Lil Sauce): Well, they don't know that.
- 7:37Skyler: I think they saw you guys turn invisible.
- 7:39Skyler: They.
- 7:39Skyler: Well that's fair.
- 7:40Skyler: They probably don't know.
- 7:41Skyler: But whatever the case.
- 7:43Skyler: What are you doing?
- 7:44Jackson (Dez): Des?
- 7:44Jackson (Dez): Feels like gut twinge of pain as the bear dies.
- 7:47Jackson (Dez): Just a like a, you know.
- 7:49Jackson (Dez): Oh, there he goes.
- 7:50Jackson (Dez): Oh, gosh.
- 7:51Jackson (Dez): One hit point of damage.
- 7:52Jackson (Dez): Yeah.
- 7:53Dave (Maki): He was connected to you, huh?
- 7:54Jackson (Dez): Like brothers, but closer, like brother bears.
- 7:58Skyler: So you guys are.
- 7:58Skyler: You guys are basically just
- 8:00Skyler: outside this mansion in the
- 8:02Skyler: bush.
- 8:03Dave (Maki): Crikey.
- 8:04Dave (Maki): Alright, we're deep in the bush.
- 8:05Jackson (Dez): You're deep in the bush.
- 8:07Jackson (Dez): Um. Steve Irwin.
- 8:10Skyler: Little sauce is just laying there.
- 8:12Jackson (Dez): Oh, George Gershwin.
- 8:14Jackson (Dez): Gershwin.
- 8:15Quinn (Lil Sauce): Gershwin.
- 8:16Quinn (Lil Sauce): From our.
- 8:17Skyler: Spoiler.
- 8:18Quinn (Lil Sauce): Spoiler alert.
- 8:19Skyler: Oh, this would have been.
- 8:20Skyler: This will come out after.
- 8:21Quinn (Lil Sauce): This is after that.
- 8:21Quinn (Lil Sauce): Oh. Shout out.
- 8:23Skyler: Yeah. So little sauce is
- 8:24Skyler: obviously passed out in the
- 8:25Skyler: grass.
- 8:26Skyler: Uh, I think like it's a weird
- 8:28Skyler: thing because he's just, he's
- 8:29Skyler: just high.
- 8:30Skyler: So he's just unmoving, but his like eyes are open.
- 8:33Skyler: I like to think that like, maybe his pupils are moving around
- 8:35Skyler: like, you know, he's having like an active dream state.
- 8:38Skyler: But yeah.
- 8:38Skyler: And, and you're kind of stuck with all honesty.
- 8:41Skyler: I think the high is starting to wear off.
- 8:44Skyler: I want you to make me a constitution saving throw.
- 8:47Quinn (Lil Sauce): You think.
- 8:48Jackson (Dez): What is.
- 8:48Quinn (Lil Sauce): The half life of euphoria?
- 8:50Quinn (Lil Sauce): Do you think the.
- 8:51Skyler: We're gonna find out how well his body will process it.
- 8:53Skyler: Seventeen seventeen okay.
- 8:55Skyler: You start to snap out of this high.
- 8:57Skyler: If things are still a little fuzzy, you still have a little
- 8:59Skyler: bit of a like numbness to your body, but you're starting to
- 9:03Skyler: come to and you look around and you find yourself just know
- 9:06Skyler: here's, here's what let me tell you what happens.
- 9:07Skyler: I'm telling you.
- 9:08Quinn (Lil Sauce): I sit there, I'm laying there.
- 9:11Quinn (Lil Sauce): All of a sudden I do the undertaker, sit up, sit up.
- 9:15Skyler: Full ninety degree angle, look around.
- 9:18Quinn (Lil Sauce): I'm like, huh?
- 9:20Quinn (Lil Sauce): I just start standing up and I just start walking around.
- 9:23Quinn (Lil Sauce): Okay, what's going on?
- 9:25Skyler: So Mikey and Des, you just see this.
- 9:27Skyler: You see him get up and walk around.
- 9:29Dave (Maki): Get down.
- 9:30Dave (Maki): We're hiding in this bush.
- 9:32Quinn (Lil Sauce): What bush?
- 9:33Quinn (Lil Sauce): Oh, this bush.
- 9:34Quinn (Lil Sauce): Why are we hiding in the bush?
- 9:35Quinn (Lil Sauce): What is this?
- 9:37Quinn (Lil Sauce): And then it hits me.
- 9:38Quinn (Lil Sauce): I know what this place is, and I just.
- 9:41Quinn (Lil Sauce): My eyes go wide again.
- 9:42Quinn (Lil Sauce): Why are we here?
- 9:43Jackson (Dez): Uh, des writes on his little chalkboard.
- 9:45Jackson (Dez): He goes, do you want some more euphoria?
- 9:47Quinn (Lil Sauce): Uh, at that point, I'm all for addiction.
- 9:50Skyler: No. No way.
- 9:51Dave (Maki): What'd you get?
- 9:51Dave (Maki): What'd you get?
- 9:52Dave (Maki): What'd you get curious for?
- 9:54Quinn (Lil Sauce): I don't want more.
- 9:55Skyler: Oh.
- 9:56Quinn (Lil Sauce): It was a one.
- 9:56Quinn (Lil Sauce): You would have been like.
- 9:57Quinn (Lil Sauce): Yes.
- 9:57Quinn (Lil Sauce): Please take me back.
- 10:00Quinn (Lil Sauce): Uh, what'd I say I do?
- 10:01Quinn (Lil Sauce): Hop in the bush because I realize where we're at.
- 10:03Quinn (Lil Sauce): All of a.
- 10:03Skyler: Sudden, you're in this.
- 10:04Skyler: You're in this bush.
- 10:04Skyler: You're waking up.
- 10:05Skyler: All right.
- 10:05Quinn (Lil Sauce): I got a heck of a headache.
- 10:07Dave (Maki): Welcome back.
- 10:09Dave (Maki): How was it?
- 10:11Quinn (Lil Sauce): Oh, it was wonderful.
- 10:12Quinn (Lil Sauce): It was euphoric, as you might say.
- 10:14Quinn (Lil Sauce): Oh.
- 10:16Jackson (Dez): Like des slaps his knee.
- 10:18Dave (Maki): Did you notice any mind control?
- 10:21Dave (Maki): Uh.
- 10:22Quinn (Lil Sauce): Not not that I. I don't think so.
- 10:25Quinn (Lil Sauce): I, I literally think the drug is
- 10:27Quinn (Lil Sauce): just, I don't know, wasn't that
- 10:29Quinn (Lil Sauce): bad.
- 10:30Quinn (Lil Sauce): I don't know.
- 10:31Dave (Maki): So it's just like a normal drug or like, what did it do?
- 10:35Quinn (Lil Sauce): Well, it just, it brought back happy memories.
- 10:38Quinn (Lil Sauce): And, uh, I had these memories of my, of a past life.
- 10:43Quinn (Lil Sauce): I don't know if it's true or not.
- 10:44Quinn (Lil Sauce): I guess I don't know, but.
- 10:46Dave (Maki): A life different to this one.
- 10:48Quinn (Lil Sauce): Yeah, well, I was a bugbear, and
- 10:50Quinn (Lil Sauce): I taught little bugbears and I
- 10:52Quinn (Lil Sauce): was a teacher and I created
- 10:54Quinn (Lil Sauce): schools.
- 10:55Quinn (Lil Sauce): And I don't know that I'm now
- 10:58Quinn (Lil Sauce): I'm outside of the Maxwell
- 11:00Quinn (Lil Sauce): mansion.
- 11:01Skyler: That's pretty.
- 11:01Quinn (Lil Sauce): Accurate.
- 11:02Quinn (Lil Sauce): That's really all that I can tell you.
- 11:04Quinn (Lil Sauce): You guys will have to try it for yourself sometime.
- 11:07Quinn (Lil Sauce): But why are we here?
- 11:08Quinn (Lil Sauce): Where?
- 11:08Quinn (Lil Sauce): Where are the other two at?
- 11:11Dave (Maki): They went inside.
- 11:12Quinn (Lil Sauce): They went inside.
- 11:13Quinn (Lil Sauce): What?
- 11:14Dave (Maki): It's okay. They're. They're invisible.
- 11:16Dave (Maki): At least last time I saw them.
- 11:18Dave (Maki): Or last time, I didn't see them.
- 11:20Quinn (Lil Sauce): You know what kind of creatures reside here?
- 11:23Quinn (Lil Sauce): I can't be seen here.
- 11:24Quinn (Lil Sauce): They'll recognize me instantly.
- 11:26Quinn (Lil Sauce): I did an undercover job here once.
- 11:28Quinn (Lil Sauce): Yeah, so they'll definitely recognize me.
- 11:30Quinn (Lil Sauce): We had a falling out.
- 11:31Quinn (Lil Sauce): You didn't wear a mustache or anything?
- 11:33Quinn (Lil Sauce): Fell off.
- 11:34Quinn (Lil Sauce): Oh.
- 11:35Skyler: That was what got him.
- 11:36Skyler: And he still got the job.
- 11:37Quinn (Lil Sauce): Huh?
- 11:38Skyler: Well, no, that's why he lost it.
- 11:40Dave (Maki): Oh, well, this is great.
- 11:41Quinn (Lil Sauce): A little tiny mustache.
- 11:43Quinn (Lil Sauce): Can't tell it's me.
- 11:44Dave (Maki): He's been here before.
- 11:45Dave (Maki): Well, how do we get in?
- 11:47Quinn (Lil Sauce): Well, you go generally through
- 11:49Quinn (Lil Sauce): the front door, but I don't
- 11:50Quinn (Lil Sauce): think that's going to be an
- 11:51Quinn (Lil Sauce): option.
- 11:51Jackson (Dez): Uh, des writes on his board.
- 11:52Jackson (Dez): I have an idea.
- 11:54Jackson (Dez): A erases it really fast, and you
- 11:56Jackson (Dez): see him writing, like, full
- 11:58Jackson (Dez): length sentences, and smoke is
- 12:00Jackson (Dez): coming up from his little pizza
- 12:01Jackson (Dez): truck, and then he erases it all
- 12:02Jackson (Dez): again.
- 12:03Skyler: Oh, no.
- 12:04Jackson (Dez): And then he writes it, and he's like, could we turn the euphoria
- 12:09Jackson (Dez): into a he does air quotes.
- 12:11Skyler: As they're reading it.
- 12:12Skyler: Yeah, right.
- 12:13Skyler: When they're reading and they
- 12:14Skyler: hit that word, he does air
- 12:16Skyler: quotes.
- 12:16Jackson (Dez): Air quotes, um, perfume and act as perfume salesman.
- 12:22Jackson (Dez): Have the guards sniff the
- 12:24Jackson (Dez): euphoria and become
- 12:26Jackson (Dez): incapacitated.
- 12:27Quinn (Lil Sauce): Oh, the guards are constructing.
- 12:28Quinn (Lil Sauce): You know that.
- 12:29Jackson (Dez): Gotcha.
- 12:30Jackson (Dez): I didn't know that.
- 12:31Jackson (Dez): Well, but now I do.
- 12:32Skyler: He's mostly.
- 12:33Quinn (Lil Sauce): I'm just saying.
- 12:35Skyler: The character who he knows he's right, but he also.
- 12:38Skyler: And to be fair.
- 12:39Skyler: To be fair, des did check last
- 12:41Skyler: time and specifically asked and
- 12:43Skyler: I said, he's like seventy five
- 12:46Skyler: percent construct.
- 12:47Skyler: So there is still a little bit of human there.
- 12:49Jackson (Dez): Would euphoria work.
- 12:50Skyler: Then?
- 12:51Skyler: That's a good question.
- 12:52Quinn (Lil Sauce): Yeah. That's a question for you, the construct specialist.
- 12:56Jackson (Dez): Well, I can just sniff them out real good.
- 12:58Skyler: It's a it's a tricky territory.
- 13:00Jackson (Dez): Can you sniff out whether they can sniff.
- 13:02Skyler: Right.
- 13:03Quinn (Lil Sauce): Do you know what they sniff.
- 13:05Quinn (Lil Sauce): Do they sniff like us.
- 13:07Jackson (Dez): They've got a nose that runs and
- 13:09Jackson (Dez): feet that smell like that makes
- 13:10Jackson (Dez): sense.
- 13:10Quinn (Lil Sauce): Let me ask you this.
- 13:11Quinn (Lil Sauce): Why are we here?
- 13:13Dave (Maki): Well, you see, the Maxwells are
- 13:16Dave (Maki): probably somehow connected to
- 13:18Dave (Maki): charge him, and, uh, we think
- 13:21Dave (Maki): one of them, or maybe both of
- 13:22Dave (Maki): them were the other people who
- 13:24Dave (Maki): were placed in the world like
- 13:25Dave (Maki): us.
- 13:27Dave (Maki): Oh, there's a lot of, uh, questions we need answers to.
- 13:30Dave (Maki): So that's why we're here.
- 13:31Quinn (Lil Sauce): Okay, but do you guys realize what, like, it's gonna be
- 13:35Quinn (Lil Sauce): impossible to get through this place without potentially dying?
- 13:39Dave (Maki): Well, you said you got in here especially Kato.
- 13:42Quinn (Lil Sauce): He's a prime target here.
- 13:43Dave (Maki): How many?
- 13:44Dave (Maki): Well, how many servants do they have here anyways?
- 13:46Skyler: You know that it.
- 13:49Skyler: It was mostly trainees.
- 13:51Skyler: The only.
- 13:51Skyler: You only saw one servant.
- 13:53Skyler: It was more of like a right hand
- 13:55Skyler: maid or something to, uh,
- 13:57Skyler: Cornelia, who's kind of the
- 13:59Skyler: Cornelia Maxwell.
- 14:01Skyler: So there really was only one servant, the bodyguard, who you
- 14:06Skyler: guys have seen a couple of times now would be the only like other
- 14:10Skyler: staff member per se.
- 14:11Quinn (Lil Sauce): So there's not a whole lot of staff there.
- 14:13Quinn (Lil Sauce): Just incredibly powerful.
- 14:15Dave (Maki): All right.
- 14:16Dave (Maki): Mhm.
- 14:17Dave (Maki): So maybe we that angle might not work.
- 14:19Dave (Maki): Maybe we do pretend to be salesman of some kind.
- 14:23Quinn (Lil Sauce): I don't think that's gonna work.
- 14:25Dave (Maki): Well.
- 14:26Jackson (Dez): It might would can I use my
- 14:30Jackson (Dez): knowledge of constructs to see
- 14:32Jackson (Dez): if I would understand if these
- 14:34Jackson (Dez): constructs would be affected by
- 14:36Jackson (Dez): drugs?
- 14:37Jackson (Dez): Does that make sense?
- 14:38Jackson (Dez): Would I even know that information based on the amount
- 14:41Jackson (Dez): of construction that they are?
- 14:43Skyler: I think that's where the one hang up would be.
- 14:46Skyler: You know, that constructs
- 14:47Skyler: typically are like just as a
- 14:50Skyler: whole are immune to poison or
- 14:53Skyler: poisoned effect.
- 14:54Skyler: Um, and often other things like parallel paralysis.
- 14:59Quinn (Lil Sauce): Are they immune.
- 15:00Skyler: To.
- 15:00Quinn (Lil Sauce): Enchantments?
- 15:02Skyler: Not necessarily.
- 15:04Skyler: It depends on the enchantment.
- 15:05Skyler: They can't have their forms changed.
- 15:07Skyler: They have what's called immutable forms.
- 15:08Skyler: Typically most constructs do.
- 15:10Skyler: Um, which suggests that they
- 15:12Skyler: can't have their, their, their
- 15:14Skyler: form, like whatever shape
- 15:15Skyler: they're in.
- 15:16Quinn (Lil Sauce): Charm and charm.
- 15:17Skyler: Charm is no, no. Absolutely not.
- 15:19Quinn (Lil Sauce): So they are immune to that.
- 15:20Skyler: Yes. They're immune.
- 15:21Skyler: But again, I mean, the question, you know, the question kind of
- 15:24Skyler: really just comes back to what what amount is this guy?
- 15:27Jackson (Dez): How much are they human?
- 15:28Jackson (Dez): Exactly that I do not know.
- 15:31Jackson (Dez): Well, I do know.
- 15:32Skyler: Even saying, you know, even saying Darth Vader is more
- 15:35Skyler: machine than man doesn't mean he's entirely machine, right?
- 15:39Skyler: He's not a droid.
- 15:40Quinn (Lil Sauce): Exactly insane in the membrane, are they?
- 15:42Skyler: You know, uh, General Grievous
- 15:45Skyler: still got shot in his fleshy
- 15:47Skyler: bits that were underneath the
- 15:49Skyler: mechanical.
- 15:49Jackson (Dez): You know what version?
- 15:50Jackson (Dez): He was coughing up a storm.
- 15:52Quinn (Lil Sauce): That's also.
- 15:53Skyler: True. His body was rejecting programs.
- 15:55Jackson (Dez): A robot to cough.
- 15:57Jackson (Dez): That's because he was still a person.
- 15:58Skyler: Yep.
- 15:59Dave (Maki): That's right.
- 16:00Dave (Maki): Des, you seem a little hesitant on this whole perfume plan.
- 16:03Jackson (Dez): Des furiously writes on his whiteboard again.
- 16:06Jackson (Dez): Then you start seeing some more.
- 16:07Jackson (Dez): It's gonna get major.
- 16:08Skyler: Carpal tunnel.
- 16:09Quinn (Lil Sauce): From.
- 16:11Jackson (Dez): He. He opens up his cloak.
- 16:12Jackson (Dez): It's just a bandolier of shock marks.
- 16:16Jackson (Dez): Yeah.
- 16:17Skyler: Different colors.
- 16:18Quinn (Lil Sauce): He blows on it once he finishes and then slides it back in.
- 16:23Jackson (Dez): Anyway, he's writing on his
- 16:24Jackson (Dez): whiteboard and he holds it up to
- 16:26Jackson (Dez): you and his whiteboard says,
- 16:27Jackson (Dez): well, now that I think about it,
- 16:29Jackson (Dez): why is it a whiteboard if he is
- 16:30Jackson (Dez): using chalk?
- 16:31Skyler: Oh, sorry, that's what they're called, isn't it?
- 16:32Skyler: I think it'd be a blackboard.
- 16:34Skyler: Blackboard?
- 16:34Skyler: Well, let's not bring race into this, okay.
- 16:36Skyler: She's fatty.
- 16:37Skyler: Come on.
- 16:39Skyler: It's just what he's used to.
- 16:40Skyler: It's what he grew up around.
- 16:44Skyler: I don't see color.
- 16:45Skyler: His slate.
- 16:46Skyler: Is that more accurate for you?
- 16:48Skyler: Okay.
- 16:49Skyler: His slate.
- 16:50Skyler: Um. And it says I. I am hesitant now that I think about it
- 16:54Skyler: because it's a gamble.
- 16:56Skyler: I have no idea how his construct
- 16:59Skyler: parts would mesh versus his
- 17:01Skyler: human parts.
- 17:02Dave (Maki): MM. I see.
- 17:03Dave (Maki): Well, you know, edit source.
- 17:06Dave (Maki): Do you know anything about the security here?
- 17:09Dave (Maki): I mean, is it just this one guy
- 17:10Dave (Maki): or do they have enchantments or
- 17:12Dave (Maki): spells?
- 17:12Dave (Maki): Did you suss any of that out on your your undercover?
- 17:16Skyler: Yes. Uh, the key things that, you know is that this bodyguard
- 17:20Skyler: guy is very powerful.
- 17:21Skyler: He was kind of the primary thing.
- 17:23Skyler: With that being said.
- 17:24Quinn (Lil Sauce): What's his.
- 17:25Skyler: Name?
- 17:25Skyler: I think you would have overheard it.
- 17:26Skyler: His name is Adrian.
- 17:28Speaker 10: Adrian.
- 17:30Skyler: Adrian.
- 17:31Skyler: I knew the second I mentioned his name.
- 17:33Skyler: That's what everybody would say.
- 17:34Skyler: I thought maybe there's some.
- 17:37Skyler: How do you avoid it?
- 17:37Skyler: No, I wasn't gonna avoid it.
- 17:39Skyler: I thought at some point someone
- 17:40Skyler: would be like, inside the house
- 17:42Skyler: and they'd set off some kind of
- 17:43Skyler: alarm, or they'd get noticed by
- 17:45Skyler: somebody other than Adrian, like
- 17:47Skyler: one of the Maxwells, and they'd
- 17:48Skyler: go away.
- 17:50Skyler: And that's when it would happen.
- 17:52Skyler: Then we reveal invisibility.
- 17:55Cameron (Rorick): Yelling it with them.
- 17:56Skyler: So with that being said, uh, he is ridiculously powerful.
- 17:59Skyler: You've seen some him do some pretty crazy things.
- 18:01Skyler: On the other hand, Octavia, she was person that you worked with
- 18:05Skyler: quite a bit.
- 18:06Skyler: She sort of saw herself as sort of the teacher of the trainees.
- 18:09Skyler: She herself was not particularly powerful.
- 18:12Skyler: With that being said, she wasn't really the guard.
- 18:14Skyler: Again, she kind of seemed more
- 18:15Skyler: like the right hand woman to to
- 18:18Skyler: Cornelia.
- 18:19Skyler: Uh, other than that, they were
- 18:22Skyler: always working on mechanical
- 18:24Skyler: things.
- 18:24Skyler: So there was probably some
- 18:26Skyler: things going on as far as
- 18:28Skyler: security measures.
- 18:29Skyler: You didn't really see a whole
- 18:30Skyler: lot of it because you were on
- 18:31Skyler: the inside.
- 18:32Skyler: And it was pretty early stages at the time.
- 18:34Skyler: This was still a few years ago.
- 18:36Jackson (Dez): Okay, so I know that you guys snuck in.
- 18:38Quinn (Lil Sauce): I have an idea.
- 18:40Quinn (Lil Sauce): I will mimic one of the Maxwells and ask Adrian to please go out
- 18:46Quinn (Lil Sauce): to the lawn and clip the lawn.
- 18:48Jackson (Dez): You know, you could.
- 18:49Jackson (Dez): If you're gonna go that route,
- 18:51Jackson (Dez): you by all means do what you
- 18:52Jackson (Dez): want.
- 18:52Jackson (Dez): I would recommend, uh, mimicking the Maxwells and saying that we
- 18:57Jackson (Dez): are allowed admittance.
- 18:58Quinn (Lil Sauce): Um, but I can't be seen.
- 19:00Dave (Maki): All right, well, how about you mimic her voice, and I'll create
- 19:04Dave (Maki): a silent image of her, and you just keep your back to him, and
- 19:08Dave (Maki): maybe that'll work.
- 19:09Quinn (Lil Sauce): Wait a minute.
- 19:10Quinn (Lil Sauce): Does anybody have, like, a fake mustache on them?
- 19:14Jackson (Dez): I'm looking.
- 19:15Dave (Maki): Does she have a mustache?
- 19:17Dave (Maki): Yeah.
- 19:18Jackson (Dez): Yeah.
- 19:19Quinn (Lil Sauce): No, no, no. For me.
- 19:21Jackson (Dez): Des. Des makes a fake mustache out of a long piece of grass.
- 19:24Jackson (Dez): There you go.
- 19:24Jackson (Dez): Nice.
- 19:25Jackson (Dez): That's good.
- 19:25Jackson (Dez): It's like SpongeBob.
- 19:26Skyler: I was just gonna say it's like SpongeBob.
- 19:28Quinn (Lil Sauce): I turn around, put it on now.
- 19:30Quinn (Lil Sauce): Yeah.
- 19:30Quinn (Lil Sauce): I turn back around.
- 19:32Skyler: Whoa!
- 19:32Jackson (Dez): Who's this?
- 19:32Jackson (Dez): This is extremely surprised.
- 19:34Jackson (Dez): Who's this other bird?
- 19:35Quinn (Lil Sauce): I hate you.
- 19:36Quinn (Lil Sauce): I hate it, I take it back off, I take it back off!
- 19:38Quinn (Lil Sauce): No, it's just me.
- 19:39Quinn (Lil Sauce): It's me, it's me.
- 19:40Quinn (Lil Sauce): All right, so I, uh, kind of step out around the door, so I
- 19:44Quinn (Lil Sauce): cannot be necessarily.
- 19:45Quinn (Lil Sauce): I still don't want to be seen, but I go.
- 19:48Quinn (Lil Sauce): Adrian.
- 19:49Quinn (Lil Sauce): Adrian, please let our friends in.
- 19:51Quinn (Lil Sauce): There's one of them that is sick.
- 19:53Quinn (Lil Sauce): Also, after you let them in, we need the pool to be scooped.
- 19:59Quinn (Lil Sauce): There are leaves in it.
- 20:00Skyler: You can't have leaves in your pool.
- 20:01Skyler: That's no fun.
- 20:02Quinn (Lil Sauce): Oh, the pool is pretty far away.
- 20:03Quinn (Lil Sauce): It's kind of bad.
- 20:04Quinn (Lil Sauce): It's not bad.
- 20:04Quinn (Lil Sauce): It's not bad.
- 20:05Quinn (Lil Sauce): So I want him gone.
- 20:06Skyler: That's right.
- 20:06Skyler: Uh, okay.
- 20:06Cameron (Rorick): You didn't mention a pool when we scouted this place.
- 20:10Skyler: It was dirty.
- 20:10Cameron (Rorick): We could have a pool.
- 20:11Cameron (Rorick): Oh, you.
- 20:12Quinn (Lil Sauce): Don't want to jump in?
- 20:13Quinn (Lil Sauce): He's cleaning it for us for later.
- 20:15Skyler: Do me a ro me a performance check.
- 20:17Skyler: I'll give you advantage because you are mimicking the voice of
- 20:20Skyler: Cornelia Nat twenty.
- 20:23Skyler: Oh my gosh.
- 20:24Skyler: Okay, uh, all of a sudden, the door opens.
- 20:28Cameron (Rorick): Yes, yes, my dear, he runs.
- 20:30Cameron (Rorick): This mustache is amazing.
- 20:32Skyler: Well, it was the boys.
- 20:34Skyler: The door opens and out steps.
- 20:36Skyler: Adrian.
- 20:37Skyler: These heavy metal sized footsteps.
- 20:40Skyler: Um. You see him hold the door
- 20:43Skyler: open and he holds one hand out,
- 20:46Skyler: but kind of aggressively, like,
- 20:48Skyler: get inside as opposed to like,
- 20:50Skyler: you're welcome.
- 20:51Skyler: It's more like go.
- 20:52Skyler: Just go.
- 20:53Skyler: And as he looks out towards all of you.
- 20:56Dave (Maki): Uh, we scamper and scamper in.
- 20:58Skyler: Okay.
- 20:59Quinn (Lil Sauce): We shut the door behind us.
- 21:00Skyler: So he shuts the door behind.
- 21:02Jackson (Dez): Des. Des does not scamper.
- 21:03Jackson (Dez): Des saunters.
- 21:05Quinn (Lil Sauce): Do we see him go towards the pool?
- 21:07Skyler: Yeah, he he starts heading around back.
- 21:09Skyler: All right, so you guys are now inside the house.
- 21:11Skyler: I'm gonna put a pause here.
- 21:12Skyler: I'm gonna go over to these two
- 21:13Skyler: guys that were already in the
- 21:14Skyler: house.
- 21:14Skyler: What's up?
- 21:14Skyler: Yes.
- 21:15Skyler: What were you guys doing while all of this was happening?
- 21:17Cameron (Rorick): I go into the house.
- 21:18Skyler: Yeah. You were in the house.
- 21:20Cameron (Rorick): I'm now in the house.
- 21:20Skyler: You two are both now in the house?
- 21:22Cameron (Rorick): I go, but.
- 21:23Quinn (Lil Sauce): How can I follow him if I.
- 21:24Jackson (Dez): Can't see him?
- 21:24Skyler: That is a very good question, wander.
- 21:26Skyler: You just hold hands.
- 21:27Cameron (Rorick): Our options are the doorway or the two stairs?
- 21:30Skyler: Yes. Main entrance.
- 21:31Skyler: This is where the, uh, the like guests would normally arrive.
- 21:35Skyler: The grand entrance to the
- 21:37Skyler: mansion is a testament to the
- 21:39Skyler: Maxwell's wealth and their
- 21:40Skyler: unique aesthetic.
- 21:42Skyler: Adorned with majestic.
- 21:43Skyler: With a majestic chandelier crafted from interlocking brass
- 21:47Skyler: gears and crystal prisms that casts a geometric pattern across
- 21:52Skyler: the polished black marble pillars and floor.
- 21:57Skyler: Uh. Ahead of you, you see two staircases that seem to lead up
- 22:01Skyler: until up to the upper floor, and then there is a hallway to the
- 22:07Skyler: right that seems to lead into a different area of the mansion
- 22:11Skyler: here on the first floor.
- 22:12Skyler: Okay.
- 22:13Skyler: Do you, do you reach out to try to, like, find each other or.
- 22:16Cameron (Rorick): I have no idea where he is.
- 22:18Skyler: Oh, okay.
- 22:18Skyler: You don't even know that he's in here.
- 22:20Cameron (Rorick): No, I know he's in here.
- 22:20Cameron (Rorick): I just don't know where he is.
- 22:21Cameron (Rorick): Well, right.
- 22:22Cameron (Rorick): I just wasn't sure if you guys were just walking around looking
- 22:24Cameron (Rorick): for an invisible dude.
- 22:25Cameron (Rorick): Okay.
- 22:26Cameron (Rorick): Sounds good.
- 22:26Cameron (Rorick): Okay, so I'm just gonna go to the room to the right.
- 22:28Cameron (Rorick): That's where I would go.
- 22:30Cameron (Rorick): Okay.
- 22:30Cameron (Rorick): Is that where you would go to without metagaming?
- 22:34Cameron (Rorick): Like which one would.
- 22:35Cameron (Rorick): Which one?
- 22:35Cameron (Rorick): I would probably go towards the stairs.
- 22:37Skyler: Okay. Um, really quick, I want
- 22:39Skyler: both of you to roll a perception
- 22:40Skyler: check really quick, and then
- 22:43Skyler: we'll move on to where you said
- 22:44Skyler: six six.
- 22:46Skyler: Okay.
- 22:46Skyler: Dirty twenty a dirty twenty.
- 22:48Skyler: All right.
- 22:49Skyler: Uh, rorik, you don't know this.
- 22:50Skyler: This, but you head over into the, uh, the next hallway.
- 22:53Skyler: Nonetheless, uh, Kato, as you're
- 22:55Skyler: heading towards the stairs, do
- 22:57Skyler: you go for the left side or the
- 22:58Skyler: right side?
- 22:59Skyler: They both lead left.
- 23:00Skyler: Same place.
- 23:00Skyler: I'm just kidding.
- 23:01Skyler: Okay.
- 23:01Skyler: As you're passing onto the
- 23:04Skyler: threshold of these stairs to
- 23:06Skyler: your immediate right, you notice
- 23:08Skyler: that there is a figure standing
- 23:10Skyler: there.
- 23:10Skyler: It almost looks like a a suit of mechanized armor, but instead of
- 23:15Skyler: armor, it is actually a living construct guard of some kind.
- 23:22Skyler: So you know that those are throughout because you notice
- 23:26Skyler: that even across from you, there's another one on the other
- 23:29Skyler: set of stairs, not on it, sorry.
- 23:30Skyler: Next to the other set of stairs.
- 23:32Jackson (Dez): And it is.
- 23:33Skyler: It's not doing anything, but it is like on.
- 23:36Jackson (Dez): How do I tell it's on.
- 23:37Jackson (Dez): It's got like glowing red eyes.
- 23:38Skyler: Yeah. You notice that some, uh,
- 23:40Skyler: probably the core of it is
- 23:42Skyler: glowing.
- 23:42Jackson (Dez): Glowing like Robert Downey Jr.
- 23:44Skyler: Very much like, well, maybe not blue, I'd imagine.
- 23:46Skyler: Probably red.
- 23:48Dave (Maki): Oh, okay.
- 23:48Skyler: That's just me, Skyler, the DM who created it.
- 23:50Skyler: But yeah, so you notice that
- 23:52Skyler: those are around, uh, Rurik
- 23:54Skyler: again, you're blissfully
- 23:55Skyler: unaware.
- 23:56Skyler: So now that we've split the party even further, this is
- 23:59Skyler: gonna be interesting, all right?
- 24:00Skyler: Because you're going upstairs,
- 24:01Skyler: and that requires an entirely
- 24:02Skyler: different map.
- 24:03Skyler: I'm gonna stick with Rurik for a moment.
- 24:04Cameron (Rorick): You made a bad choice, apparently.
- 24:07Skyler: Rurik, you turn to the right, and what you find is a hallway
- 24:12Skyler: that goes in two directions.
- 24:13Skyler: You can either go down kind of back towards the side of the
- 24:16Skyler: house that you just entered from, in a sense.
- 24:18Skyler: Or you can go straight ahead in
- 24:20Skyler: which you see a veer off to your
- 24:22Skyler: left.
- 24:22Cameron (Rorick): What's in room three?
- 24:24Skyler: Three?
- 24:24Skyler: Oh, yes.
- 24:25Skyler: And then room three is to your right.
- 24:27Cameron (Rorick): Yeah. What do I see in there?
- 24:28Skyler: Yes. You take a peek into room number three.
- 24:32Skyler: This cavernous chamber serves as
- 24:35Skyler: a dedicated workshop and garage
- 24:37Skyler: for the Orange Clockwork, a
- 24:40Skyler: magnificent locomotive that
- 24:42Skyler: dominates the majority of the
- 24:44Skyler: space.
- 24:44Skyler: Its polished copper plating
- 24:47Skyler: gleams under bright, magical
- 24:49Skyler: lights.
- 24:49Skyler: Because this is a large metal, uh, sort of like freestanding
- 24:54Skyler: train engine, right?
- 24:56Skyler: Like it's on its own wheels.
- 24:58Skyler: It doesn't like, uh, sit on a track.
- 25:00Skyler: Anyways, with that being said, that's, that's what you see.
- 25:03Cameron (Rorick): Okay, what's in room seven?
- 25:05Skyler: Uh, you head a little bit down
- 25:07Skyler: the pathway to peek inside room
- 25:10Skyler: number seven.
- 25:10Skyler: This is a grand auditorium.
- 25:13Skyler: The vast chamber is clearly
- 25:14Skyler: designed for large gatherings,
- 25:16Skyler: though currently it's empty, of
- 25:18Skyler: course.
- 25:19Skyler: Uh, tiered seating slopes down
- 25:21Skyler: towards the central circular
- 25:22Skyler: platform equipped with
- 25:24Skyler: retractable stage.
- 25:26Skyler: The walls are covered in murals
- 25:27Skyler: depicting humanoid figures
- 25:29Skyler: undergoing metallic
- 25:30Skyler: transformations, and they have
- 25:33Skyler: grand like rays of light that
- 25:35Skyler: are shooting out of a central
- 25:37Skyler: glowing orb.
- 25:37Skyler: That kind of lights room
- 25:38Skyler: basically like another
- 25:39Skyler: chandelier.
- 25:40Cameron (Rorick): You should go press the
- 25:41Cameron (Rorick): mechanism that retracts the
- 25:43Cameron (Rorick): stage a bunch of times and make
- 25:45Cameron (Rorick): everyone think that it's a
- 25:46Cameron (Rorick): poltergeist.
- 25:47Cameron (Rorick): That's pretty good.
- 25:48Cameron (Rorick): Um, do I hear anyone roll a perception check?
- 25:51Cameron (Rorick): Twenty two.
- 25:52Skyler: Twenty two okay.
- 25:53Skyler: Uh, you do hear people down the
- 25:56Skyler: hallway to the west side of the
- 25:59Skyler: mansion.
- 26:00Cameron (Rorick): So keep going down this hallway.
- 26:01Cameron (Rorick): Yes, I do that.
- 26:02Cameron (Rorick): Okay.
- 26:03Cameron (Rorick): And further down towards the sound of people.
- 26:05Cameron (Rorick): Yes.
- 26:06Skyler: You follow this hallway down and you pass by a row of bathrooms.
- 26:10Cameron (Rorick): I see that.
- 26:11Skyler: Yep. You come to around room ten
- 26:14Skyler: and eleven and there are glass
- 26:16Skyler: walls, and inside you can see
- 26:19Skyler: three figures.
- 26:21Skyler: You see two individuals who have the same cloaks that you
- 26:27Skyler: remember from on the stage at this big ceremony that you guys
- 26:30Skyler: just came from, except now their hoods are lowered.
- 26:34Skyler: One is a woman with dark hair.
- 26:37Quinn (Lil Sauce): Is she hot?
- 26:38Skyler: Yeah, the other is a woman with deep red hair.
- 26:44Quinn (Lil Sauce): Uh, she.
- 26:45Quinn (Lil Sauce): Huh?
- 26:45Skyler: Absolutely.
- 26:46Skyler: They're both, you know, pretty tall women.
- 26:48Skyler: Uh, again, the one with the dark hair.
- 26:50Skyler: She wears all black clothing.
- 26:52Skyler: Sort of got like the, um, the,
- 26:54Skyler: the small hat with the kind of,
- 26:56Skyler: like lace chunk that swings over
- 26:58Skyler: it very.
- 26:58Skyler: What is that, like eighteenth century English kind of tone?
- 27:02Skyler: Um, she wears, I mean, she has a
- 27:05Skyler: very like steampunk outfit,
- 27:07Skyler: right?
- 27:07Skyler: That sort of like brown leather vest that has kind of the, the
- 27:11Skyler: tails that come off the back.
- 27:12Skyler: Um, she's got those, uh, they're not harem pants.
- 27:16Skyler: They're like aviator pants, right where it kind of looks a
- 27:18Skyler: little bit like harem pants.
- 27:20Skyler: Um, she's got those on the other woman, on the other hand.
- 27:23Skyler: Uh, she has a wizard's hat that she has now put on over top of
- 27:27Skyler: her deep red hair.
- 27:29Skyler: She has very just like classic wizard cloak.
- 27:33Cameron (Rorick): I choose to imagine that it's the deep blue with the stars and
- 27:36Cameron (Rorick): the white trim.
- 27:37Cameron (Rorick): Maybe not that classic.
- 27:38Cameron (Rorick): That's what I'm thinking.
- 27:39Skyler: Not not.
- 27:40Cameron (Rorick): The cookie.
- 27:40Skyler: Crisp wizard.
- 27:42Cameron (Rorick): There's a third person.
- 27:43Skyler: No. Oh, yes.
- 27:44Skyler: And then the third person is sprout.
- 27:46Cameron (Rorick): But okay.
- 27:47Skyler: Sprout looks off.
- 27:48Quinn (Lil Sauce): Is he hot?
- 27:49Cameron (Rorick): Yeah, the other two were.
- 27:51Skyler: Sprout looks hotter.
- 27:53Dave (Maki): Than.
- 27:53Skyler: He.
- 27:53Dave (Maki): Did.
- 27:53Skyler: Before.
- 27:54Dave (Maki): It's just the lighting.
- 27:56Cameron (Rorick): Oh.
- 27:56Skyler: Sprout has in one hand a a bottle that has this glowing
- 28:02Skyler: blue in it.
- 28:05Skyler: It's not really a fluid.
- 28:06Skyler: It like it sort of almost looks
- 28:08Skyler: like a wisp of air, but he keeps
- 28:09Skyler: like lifting it up as if he's
- 28:11Skyler: drinking it.
- 28:11Skyler: And every single time he does.
- 28:13Cameron (Rorick): It's an attractiveness potion grows.
- 28:15Skyler: Ever so slightly in his arms and
- 28:19Skyler: legs bulged slightly with
- 28:22Skyler: muscles.
- 28:22Cameron (Rorick): Oh, okay.
- 28:23Cameron (Rorick): And his.
- 28:24Cameron (Rorick): I thought this was going in different direction.
- 28:26Quinn (Lil Sauce): Is everything getting bigger?
- 28:28Cameron (Rorick): Everything as.
- 28:30Skyler: Far as you can.
- 28:31Cameron (Rorick): See. It really breaks if I oh, if I cast a spell.
- 28:35Quinn (Lil Sauce): I had I had like a huge breakthrough just sitting here
- 28:39Quinn (Lil Sauce): twiddling my thumbs.
- 28:40Cameron (Rorick): You break through the door.
- 28:42Quinn (Lil Sauce): No. If these are indeed the two
- 28:44Quinn (Lil Sauce): other people that Giorgio sent
- 28:46Quinn (Lil Sauce): in.
- 28:46Quinn (Lil Sauce): Right.
- 28:46Quinn (Lil Sauce): Did he give them rocky talkies as well?
- 28:50Quinn (Lil Sauce): Did they get access to the Level Up arcade as well?
- 28:53Quinn (Lil Sauce): If we go in there and we were to call upon him to take us to the
- 28:57Quinn (Lil Sauce): arcade, well, technically he sent them there too.
- 28:59Quinn (Lil Sauce): Would they get sucked up with us to the arcade?
- 29:02Cameron (Rorick): We don't know.
- 29:02Cameron (Rorick): Well hold on.
- 29:03Cameron (Rorick): But he also said he's neglected them for hundreds of years.
- 29:06Quinn (Lil Sauce): Yeah, he's neglected them.
- 29:07Quinn (Lil Sauce): But that doesn't mean they don't have a rocky talkie or wouldn't
- 29:10Quinn (Lil Sauce): get sucked up because he sent us there with the rocky Italian
- 29:14Quinn (Lil Sauce): sucks everybody that he sent into this universe up.
- 29:16Skyler: Well, no, that can't be true.
- 29:18Skyler: Because then every time you've gone into the arcade, why didn't
- 29:20Skyler: they pop up with.
- 29:21Quinn (Lil Sauce): Yeah, well, I'm just saying if
- 29:23Quinn (Lil Sauce): it's in person, if it's in, if
- 29:24Quinn (Lil Sauce): it's within.
- 29:25Skyler: Like it's a radius.
- 29:26Quinn (Lil Sauce): I mean, if it's pretty.
- 29:27Skyler: Sure that he just took the rock from them and gave it to them.
- 29:31Skyler: Okay.
- 29:31Cameron (Rorick): So if they, if he took the rock and gave it to us, would they
- 29:35Cameron (Rorick): still recognize it as a rock?
- 29:37Skyler: I don't got it.
- 29:37Quinn (Lil Sauce): If we would they recognize this rock he talked.
- 29:40Cameron (Rorick): Yeah. If we flashed it like a badge.
- 29:41Quinn (Lil Sauce): And they said, jar jam.
- 29:43Quinn (Lil Sauce): Take us to the arcade.
- 29:44Quinn (Lil Sauce): Would it bring them with us?
- 29:45Quinn (Lil Sauce): Oh, so they've.
- 29:46Skyler: Seen the beacon when it went up.
- 29:47Skyler: Maybe they didn't notice.
- 29:49Skyler: Well, uh, actually, to that
- 29:50Skyler: point, I do want to remind you
- 29:52Skyler: guys that you guys teleported
- 29:53Skyler: said Rock to, like, literally
- 29:55Skyler: their basement.
- 29:57Skyler: That's true.
- 29:57Skyler: Workshop.
- 29:58Skyler: And they didn't see it.
- 29:59Skyler: They didn't see it.
- 30:00Skyler: Yeah, that's what I was gonna say, I don't think.
- 30:03Skyler: Or they just ignored it.
- 30:04Skyler: Yeah, they ignored the thing from the guy who sent them here.
- 30:07Skyler: Maybe.
- 30:07Quinn (Lil Sauce): Maybe they keep trying to get
- 30:08Quinn (Lil Sauce): rid of the rock, and the rock
- 30:10Quinn (Lil Sauce): always finds its way back to
- 30:11Quinn (Lil Sauce): him.
- 30:11Quinn (Lil Sauce): Like.
- 30:12Skyler: That's a that's a whole different magic item.
- 30:14Skyler: That sounds like a cursed item.
- 30:16Skyler: That sounds like our group.
- 30:17Skyler: Yeah.
- 30:17Skyler: That's fair.
- 30:18Skyler: Okay.
- 30:18Skyler: Okay.
- 30:18Skyler: Do either of these two people look like a Maxwell?
- 30:21Skyler: I don't think you would know.
- 30:22Skyler: I could ask you.
- 30:23Skyler: Yeah, you could just ask.
- 30:25Skyler: Hey.
- 30:26Skyler: Hey, Danny.
- 30:27Skyler: I know one of the Maxwell's is a dude, right?
- 30:29Skyler: Because it's a married couple.
- 30:30Skyler: Is it?
- 30:31Skyler: I thought that's what someone said.
- 30:34Skyler: The guard we talked to.
- 30:35Cameron (Rorick): We can't assume that they're straight.
- 30:37Skyler: Fine. We're just gonna assume the Maxwell's are a gay couple.
- 30:40Skyler: Okay, so.
- 30:41Skyler: So I just I Roig really just wants to go talk to him.
- 30:44Skyler: I don't care, do it.
- 30:45Skyler: Okay.
- 30:46Quinn (Lil Sauce): No, he wants you.
- 30:47Quinn (Lil Sauce): He says do it.
- 30:48Quinn (Lil Sauce): I don't, I don't care.
- 30:49Skyler: Do it.
- 30:50Quinn (Lil Sauce): Don't do it!
- 30:51Skyler: Stop stop.
- 30:51Quinn (Lil Sauce): Stop.
- 30:52Skyler: Stop. I'm gonna.
- 30:54Quinn (Lil Sauce): Die.
- 30:54Skyler: I'm gonna cast unearthly chorus
- 30:57Skyler: as I come out of invisibility
- 30:59Skyler: and go.
- 31:00Skyler: Hey, what's crackin?
- 31:02Skyler: And I'm.
- 31:02Skyler: I'm casting bonus action on one of the.
- 31:05Skyler: The wizard.
- 31:06Skyler: Okay.
- 31:07Skyler: She has to make a charisma saving throw.
- 31:11Skyler: Okay.
- 31:11Skyler: Does keto hear this?
- 31:12Skyler: Unearthly.
- 31:13Skyler: Well, I can cast a bonus action with it.
- 31:16Skyler: To do a check.
- 31:18Skyler: So the spell is in action and it lasts for.
- 31:22Quinn (Lil Sauce): Oh my God, it's a.
- 31:25Skyler: Nat twenty. Okay. But I would
- 31:27Skyler: like to say so this is part of
- 31:29Skyler: your chorus.
- 31:30Skyler: Yes.
- 31:31Skyler: And this lasts for ten minutes.
- 31:32Skyler: Okay.
- 31:33Skyler: What are you saying?
- 31:34Skyler: Oh, I'm saying magical voice.
- 31:36Skyler: Music appears and I go, it's my theme song.
- 31:39Skyler: I'm like, hey, guys, I'm Rick.
- 31:41Skyler: Either you or Maxwell.
- 31:44Skyler: Uh, the the woman with the dark hair and the dark clothing.
- 31:47Skyler: She, uh, they both pause and then they both turn towards you.
- 31:51Skyler: I like to think that you came at him from like, the side, right?
- 31:53Skyler: So they both stop what they're doing.
- 31:54Skyler: They both look over at you.
- 31:55Skyler: And then the one with the dark hair and the dark clothing kind
- 31:58Skyler: of like raises her hand a little bit, like with two fingers.
- 32:01Skyler: She's like, that would be me.
- 32:03Cameron (Rorick): Hey, which, uh, which Maxwell are you?
- 32:07Skyler: Uh, my name is Cornelia Maxwell.
- 32:09Cameron (Rorick): Cornelia Maxwell. Might I ask?
- 32:12Cameron (Rorick): Hey, sprout.
- 32:13Skyler: And he goes.
- 32:14Cameron (Rorick): Yo, yeah, hey, what are you doing here?
- 32:18Skyler: And then they look at sprout and
- 32:19Skyler: they're like, you know, this
- 32:20Skyler: individual.
- 32:20Skyler: And he goes, oh yeah.
- 32:22Cameron (Rorick): Uh, way back.
- 32:23Cameron (Rorick): Uh, yeah.
- 32:24Skyler: Yeah, that's the easiest way to say it.
- 32:26Skyler: I'm trying to decide like, who
- 32:27Skyler: would even be talking in this
- 32:28Skyler: situation?
- 32:29Skyler: Like it's just such like an abrupt, uh, Cornelia looks at
- 32:31Skyler: you and goes, well, if you wouldn't mind enlightening us as
- 32:34Skyler: to who you are.
- 32:35Cameron (Rorick): Well, I'm looking for a Maxwell because a Cornelia Maxwell.
- 32:41Cameron (Rorick): Yes.
- 32:41Cameron (Rorick): I have reason to believe you're in the same situation I am.
- 32:46Cameron (Rorick): Do you know?
- 32:46Skyler: Well, I'm not a goblin.
- 32:48Cameron (Rorick): Do you know a guy named George?
- 32:49Cameron (Rorick): I don't well, Frick, do you know about it?
- 32:54Cameron (Rorick): On mission, omnipresent presence is put you onto this world
- 32:59Cameron (Rorick): against your will.
- 33:00Skyler: Okay, now this starts to sound familiar.
- 33:03Cameron (Rorick): Okay, now, now we're cooking with butter.
- 33:05Skyler: You're starting to sound like
- 33:07Skyler: you might be referring to the
- 33:09Skyler: pretender.
- 33:10Skyler: Are you by chance?
- 33:11Skyler: And forgive me if I'm wrong
- 33:13Skyler: here, but are you by chance one
- 33:15Skyler: of his.
- 33:16Skyler: What was the word we used before you?
- 33:17Cameron (Rorick): Said stranger.
- 33:19Cameron (Rorick): Stranger I think that was the
- 33:20Cameron (Rorick): word you guys used, but I'm not,
- 33:22Cameron (Rorick): because I don't know who that
- 33:22Cameron (Rorick): dude is.
- 33:23Cameron (Rorick): Who the pretender is.
- 33:24Cameron (Rorick): That's also why I wanted to come here to ask questions.
- 33:27Cameron (Rorick): Because.
- 33:27Cameron (Rorick): Did you call him avatars?
- 33:29Skyler: Avatars?
- 33:30Cameron (Rorick): Oh, avatars.
- 33:31Skyler: Are you one of the avatars we have been.
- 33:34Skyler: I he told us.
- 33:35Skyler: He said he wasn't sure if you would.
- 33:38Skyler: You would be here or if you'd show up, or if you'd be able to
- 33:41Skyler: even make it.
- 33:42Skyler: And to be fair, I told him, I said, well, as they all say,
- 33:45Skyler: luck favors the prepared.
- 33:47Skyler: So I was prepared, hoping so
- 33:49Skyler: much that you guys would show up
- 33:51Skyler: because I prepared for it and
- 33:53Skyler: I'd be really bummed if I
- 33:54Skyler: didn't.
- 33:55Cameron (Rorick): What?
- 33:55Speaker 16: Oh, all sorts of things.
- 33:57Speaker 16: You know, weapons and gods and traps.
- 33:59Cameron (Rorick): Oh, but I'm not.
- 33:59Cameron (Rorick): I'm not a threat.
- 34:01Skyler: Oh, you're not a threat.
- 34:02Cameron (Rorick): No, I'm actually, you're.
- 34:03Skyler: In my house, which is quite odd.
- 34:04Cameron (Rorick): Yeah. Because I, I want to help.
- 34:07Cameron (Rorick): I want to send to like, what you guys want to do.
- 34:10Skyler: Interesting, Interesting.
- 34:12Skyler: Were you at the meeting tonight?
- 34:13Cameron (Rorick): Yeah, that's how I found out.
- 34:15Skyler: Did you miss the part with my husband?
- 34:16Skyler: Said to go home and take
- 34:18Skyler: euphoria and prepare for
- 34:19Skyler: tomorrow.
- 34:20Skyler: And things have happened different.
- 34:21Skyler: That's an interesting thing to assume.
- 34:23Skyler: And you know what?
- 34:24Skyler: You know what?
- 34:24Skyler: I told I told.
- 34:26Cameron (Rorick): Her.
- 34:26Skyler: Yes, I know, it's my house.
- 34:28Cameron (Rorick): No, no. I'm like, I'm from the
- 34:31Cameron (Rorick): other world and I got put here
- 34:34Cameron (Rorick): against my will and I want to
- 34:36Cameron (Rorick): leave.
- 34:37Skyler: She pauses for a good long moment, and then she says, so
- 34:44Skyler: are you trying to say that you are from the greater plane, the
- 34:48Skyler: worlds above this one, the one that we are trying to ascend to.
- 34:52Cameron (Rorick): I guess because I don't really
- 34:54Cameron (Rorick): understand the planar system, is
- 34:56Cameron (Rorick): that like, I've got a bag of
- 34:58Cameron (Rorick): holding.
- 34:59Cameron (Rorick): So the best I could explain is I've got a bag of holding.
- 35:02Cameron (Rorick): You know what that is?
- 35:03Skyler: Yeah. Oh, of course.
- 35:04Cameron (Rorick): You're a magic user.
- 35:06Cameron (Rorick): Anyways.
- 35:06Cameron (Rorick): Where?
- 35:07Cameron (Rorick): In the bag of holding.
- 35:09Cameron (Rorick): But I'm from outside the bag of holding.
- 35:11Skyler: That's a very astute way to put it.
- 35:13Skyler: And that is exactly, uh, a an ideal description.
- 35:16Skyler: Yes.
- 35:17Skyler: Interesting.
- 35:18Skyler: So you're from the Greater Plains?
- 35:20Skyler: Yeah.
- 35:20Skyler: But you say that you're not an avatar of the pretender.
- 35:24Cameron (Rorick): No, I don't even know if we're
- 35:26Cameron (Rorick): talking about the same person,
- 35:28Cameron (Rorick): you know.
- 35:28Skyler: He is the only one that we have met.
- 35:31Skyler: That is from the greater plain.
- 35:33Cameron (Rorick): Well, now there's me.
- 35:34Skyler: And he's.
- 35:35Cameron (Rorick): Not alone.
- 35:36Skyler: Well, that.
- 35:37Skyler: Why why would you make that sound so threatening?
- 35:39Cameron (Rorick): No, I'm just saying there's more of us that are trapped here
- 35:42Cameron (Rorick): against our will.
- 35:43Skyler: Interesting.
- 35:44Cameron (Rorick): Actually, you could argue that
- 35:45Cameron (Rorick): everyone here is trapped against
- 35:47Cameron (Rorick): their will.
- 35:48Skyler: Oh, yes, I do.
- 35:49Skyler: In fact, I didn't think that.
- 35:51Cameron (Rorick): The only difference is I never died.
- 35:53Skyler: Right. No, I understand the avatar.
- 35:55Skyler: See?
- 35:56Skyler: And that's where it gets really
- 35:58Skyler: complicated, because the only
- 35:59Skyler: people that he said that would
- 36:00Skyler: be here from the other world
- 36:01Skyler: would be sent here by the
- 36:03Skyler: pretender and therefore the
- 36:04Skyler: avatar.
- 36:05Skyler: Who's he?
- 36:06Skyler: He the one who's leading?
- 36:08Cameron (Rorick): Yeah. Who is he?
- 36:08Cameron (Rorick): Everyone calls him he.
- 36:10Cameron (Rorick): Who is he?
- 36:12Cameron (Rorick): It's gotta be a person here.
- 36:13Cameron (Rorick): It can't just not be a person here.
- 36:15Cameron (Rorick): Because if it's not a person here, then it's the pretender
- 36:17Cameron (Rorick): you're talking about.
- 36:18Cameron (Rorick): I think we should ask her if she has a million gold.
- 36:21Cameron (Rorick): And then.
- 36:21Cameron (Rorick): Hey, a million gold.
- 36:24Cameron (Rorick): You give a million gold.
- 36:25Cameron (Rorick): I could be out of here real quick.
- 36:30Skyler: If you're asking about him.
- 36:33Skyler: Yeah.
- 36:33Cameron (Rorick): Who is he?
- 36:34Skyler: We're not really supposed to
- 36:36Skyler: refer to him by name, but since
- 36:37Skyler: you're here, and since the
- 36:38Skyler: things are already in motion,
- 36:39Skyler: and honestly, it doesn't really
- 36:41Skyler: matter.
- 36:41Skyler: I'm not trying to stop.
- 36:42Cameron (Rorick): You.
- 36:42Skyler: Guys.
- 36:42Cameron (Rorick): No, I'm actually just trying to get out myself.
- 36:45Skyler: His name is doom.
- 36:46Cameron (Rorick): Doom doom doom.
- 36:47Skyler: Doom.
- 36:48Cameron (Rorick): Doom like like shroom.
- 36:50Cameron (Rorick): But with a D.
- 36:51Quinn (Lil Sauce): Yes.
- 36:52Cameron (Rorick): Oh, cool.
- 36:53Cameron (Rorick): Ask the rock drummers who's.
- 36:55Cameron (Rorick): I don't we already asked our
- 36:56Cameron (Rorick): question for today, and I wasn't
- 36:58Cameron (Rorick): allowed to ask my frog question
- 36:59Cameron (Rorick): yet again.
- 37:01Skyler: That's what tomorrow's question is reserved for.
- 37:03Skyler: Is this frog desperate.
- 37:04Cameron (Rorick): At this point?
- 37:04Skyler: It's gotta be the frog question.
- 37:05Skyler: And then anything else you guys come up with.
- 37:08Cameron (Rorick): Jerome, okay.
- 37:09Cameron (Rorick): So is Jerome in the same situation as me?
- 37:12Cameron (Rorick): Should I go talk to drew?
- 37:14Skyler: The only one who I have encountered.
- 37:17Skyler: And as far as drew has said, he said that there may be one other
- 37:20Skyler: one, but he's not.
- 37:21Skyler: There is.
- 37:22Skyler: Okay.
- 37:23Cameron (Rorick): There's two of them before us.
- 37:24Skyler: Well, what I'm getting at is
- 37:26Skyler: that as far as I'm aware, room
- 37:28Skyler: is the one that the pretender
- 37:31Skyler: trapped here.
- 37:31Skyler: Yeah.
- 37:32Skyler: Yes.
- 37:33Cameron (Rorick): Yeah. Like me.
- 37:34Skyler: Apparently.
- 37:35Skyler: Yeah.
- 37:35Cameron (Rorick): So I I'm in the same boat as drew.
- 37:38Skyler: Oh, okay.
- 37:39Cameron (Rorick): Wanting to get out.
- 37:40Skyler: Okay.
- 37:41Cameron (Rorick): And screw the pretender.
- 37:43Skyler: Interesting. Interesting. Certainly. Interesting.
- 37:47Skyler: HMM.
- 37:47Skyler: What do you hope to achieve right now?
- 37:51Skyler: What are you.
- 37:52Skyler: What are you here for?
- 37:53Skyler: What do you want to offer?
- 37:54Skyler: What can you offer since you're here?
- 37:57Skyler: Offering.
- 37:57Skyler: See, because you have to understand from my point of
- 37:59Skyler: view, as far as I'm aware, you're an individual that just
- 38:02Skyler: broke into my house.
- 38:03Skyler: I'm on alert.
- 38:04Skyler: I'm on high alert for the pretenders avatars.
- 38:08Skyler: And then you show up basically
- 38:11Skyler: almost saying straight up, I am
- 38:13Skyler: one of the avatars from the
- 38:14Skyler: other world.
- 38:16Skyler: What?
- 38:16Skyler: What am how would you feel if you had big, exciting plans that
- 38:20Skyler: were on the work and you knew somebody was out there?
- 38:22Skyler: Yeah, matching a very specific description.
- 38:25Skyler: Who was planning to try to stop you?
- 38:28Skyler: Yeah.
- 38:28Skyler: And they walked right in.
- 38:30Cameron (Rorick): Yeah.
- 38:31Skyler: And you're like, mm.
- 38:32Skyler: You know.
- 38:33Cameron (Rorick): But then you saw it was a goblin
- 38:34Cameron (Rorick): and went, okay, this must be a
- 38:35Cameron (Rorick): joke.
- 38:36Speaker 17: Well, I, I am one that will not underestimate.
- 38:40Cameron (Rorick): Oh, I appreciate that.
- 38:42Cameron (Rorick): Um, but oh, random.
- 38:44Cameron (Rorick): Does keto hear my music and wander?
- 38:46Cameron (Rorick): Yeah.
- 38:46Skyler: Roll your roll your perception.
- 38:49Cameron (Rorick): Because he probably would have wandered in right about now if.
- 38:52Skyler: Right.
- 38:52Skyler: I would say with advantage just because.
- 38:55Cameron (Rorick): Dirty.
- 38:55Skyler: Dirty twenty.
- 38:56Skyler: Okay. Um, yeah.
- 38:57Cameron (Rorick): You've gone straight to it.
- 38:59Cameron (Rorick): If I would have heard music like, ooh.
- 39:00Skyler: You didn't even just hear music.
- 39:02Skyler: You also heard his voice.
- 39:03Cameron (Rorick): Yeah. No, it was it was like the end.
- 39:05Cameron (Rorick): The music started.
- 39:06Cameron (Rorick): Here's the roaring theme song.
- 39:08Cameron (Rorick): That's how it started.
- 39:09Cameron (Rorick): There's the roaring show.
- 39:11Cameron (Rorick): Okay, so you're like a fake crowd cheering there.
- 39:15Skyler: I would say you're there.
- 39:17Cameron (Rorick): You're walking in. Right. But I'm talking okay.
- 39:19Cameron (Rorick): What did she just say to me?
- 39:21Cameron (Rorick): So did I have to like.
- 39:22Fatty (Keto): Go back down the stairs, go all the way around or is this.
- 39:25Cameron (Rorick): Yeah, yeah, it's not that far.
- 39:26Cameron (Rorick): Yeah, it's probably the minute.
- 39:28Skyler: She had just, uh, sort of put
- 39:30Skyler: the whole thing into perspective
- 39:31Skyler: about like.
- 39:32Cameron (Rorick): Oh, yeah, why should she trust me?
- 39:33Skyler: Yeah, exactly.
- 39:33Cameron (Rorick): Well, who told you to look out for me?
- 39:36Cameron (Rorick): Oh. Drew did.
- 39:37Cameron (Rorick): Okay.
- 39:37Cameron (Rorick): But why wouldn't drew like me?
- 39:42Cameron (Rorick): I start, I start crying, I start getting.
- 39:45Cameron (Rorick): Put your hands in your pockets and you kick.
- 39:47Cameron (Rorick): A rock.
- 39:49Skyler: Oh.
- 39:50Cameron (Rorick): Why wouldn't you like me?
- 39:52Skyler: Because again, drew is aware
- 39:54Skyler: that there is a high possibility
- 39:56Skyler: that the pretender has seen our
- 39:58Skyler: plans.
- 39:59Skyler: And although he is too afraid to
- 40:02Skyler: enter the very world from which
- 40:03Skyler: he created and has trapped us
- 40:06Skyler: all in.
- 40:07Skyler: He might send others in his
- 40:10Skyler: stead to try to stop us that
- 40:12Skyler: way.
- 40:13Cameron (Rorick): Oh, well.
- 40:15Cameron (Rorick): What I can tell you is we were sent here against our will, and
- 40:22Cameron (Rorick): all we were told was to get a million gold and we could leave.
- 40:26Cameron (Rorick): We weren't told to stop anyone.
- 40:28Cameron (Rorick): We had zero context coming into this world.
- 40:31Cameron (Rorick): We just kind of were plopped in
- 40:33Cameron (Rorick): here and told to get a million
- 40:35Cameron (Rorick): gold.
- 40:36Cameron (Rorick): So that's the that's it.
- 40:40Cameron (Rorick): And we've done nothing but cause mayhem.
- 40:42Cameron (Rorick): Yeah, the whole time.
- 40:44Cameron (Rorick): We've actually done quite a bad job of getting gold.
- 40:47Cameron (Rorick): Gold is hard to come by in this world, we found out.
- 40:50Cameron (Rorick): Which is why when I heard about
- 40:52Cameron (Rorick): an alternate way to Get away, I
- 40:54Cameron (Rorick): was like, I want to talk to
- 40:56Cameron (Rorick): those people.
- 40:57Cameron (Rorick): Especially this he dude, because I felt like he might be in the
- 41:01Cameron (Rorick): same shoes as me.
- 41:03Cameron (Rorick): I feel like me and Jerome are really similar.
- 41:08Skyler: Mhm. That's an.
- 41:09Quinn (Lil Sauce): Interesting.
- 41:09Cameron (Rorick): I feel like we both have a strong negative feelings for
- 41:14Cameron (Rorick): this pretender dude.
- 41:16Skyler: She starts giggling at.
- 41:19Skyler: When you say this.
- 41:20Skyler: She, I mean, she she not she doesn't seem like somebody that
- 41:23Skyler: full out like belts.
- 41:24Skyler: Laughter.
- 41:24Skyler: She giggles.
- 41:25Skyler: Right.
- 41:26Skyler: Um, I think that even the the woman standing next to her,
- 41:29Skyler: who's been pretty like blank faced and honestly, probably
- 41:32Skyler: like holding out her hands to the ready to like, cast a spell
- 41:34Skyler: at any given moment.
- 41:35Cameron (Rorick): I guess my bonus action on her.
- 41:37Skyler: Yeah.
- 41:38Cameron (Rorick): It's been 10s.
- 41:40Skyler: What does she have to make another save?
- 41:42Cameron (Rorick): No, I only cast it on one of them.
- 41:44Skyler: Right.
- 41:44Cameron (Rorick): So I could cast it on the other two as well.
- 41:46Skyler: If you wanted to.
- 41:47Cameron (Rorick): Every.
- 41:47Cameron (Rorick): Oh, if she stuck her hands up like that.
- 41:49Skyler: No, no, no, I mean, like she.
- 41:50Skyler: Well, you walked in.
- 41:51Skyler: She was at.
- 41:52Skyler: Oh. So she's like she's just at the ready.
- 41:53Skyler: Yeah.
- 41:53Skyler: Oh well she's been standing
- 41:54Skyler: there like that for this entire
- 41:56Skyler: conversation.
- 41:57Skyler: And when you say that the bit
- 41:59Skyler: about me and drew are pretty
- 42:01Skyler: similar.
- 42:01Skyler: I think she even.
- 42:02Skyler: This woman who's been completely blank faced this entire time
- 42:06Skyler: even goes, oh.
- 42:07Cameron (Rorick): Is he a goblin too?
- 42:08Cameron (Rorick): Is that why that's funny?
- 42:10Skyler: Oh, he he couldn't be more different.
- 42:13Cameron (Rorick): What is he?
- 42:14Cameron (Rorick): Don't say draw.
- 42:15Skyler: He is the.
- 42:18Skyler: I would argue he is the equivalent of a god himself.
- 42:26Cameron (Rorick): But he's stuck in here.
- 42:27Skyler: Yes.
- 42:28Cameron (Rorick): So he's not.
- 42:29Skyler: The pretender is quite powerful indeed.
- 42:33Skyler: And his trickery and
- 42:35Skyler: manipulation has not only
- 42:36Skyler: trapped drew in here, but of
- 42:38Skyler: course, all of our souls have
- 42:39Skyler: been trapped in here by this
- 42:41Skyler: pretender.
- 42:42Cameron (Rorick): Yeah.
- 42:43Skyler: I mean, I would argue he is quite powerful.
- 42:47Cameron (Rorick): The pretender.
- 42:48Skyler: Yes. Yeah. Yes.
- 42:49Cameron (Rorick): Yeah I agree.
- 42:51Skyler: Yes. So before you make any
- 42:53Skyler: assumptions about drew, please
- 42:54Skyler: be aware.
- 42:55Cameron (Rorick): What do you mean?
- 42:56Cameron (Rorick): Drew can't be that powerful because he's like me, trapped
- 43:00Cameron (Rorick): here, just like you.
- 43:01Skyler: Here's what I would say.
- 43:02Skyler: If you go to firstly, come in
- 43:04Skyler: here and disrespect the the
- 43:06Skyler: leading character of our entire
- 43:08Skyler: organization, that doesn't
- 43:09Skyler: really.
- 43:09Cameron (Rorick): Prove well.
- 43:10Cameron (Rorick): If by saying that he's the same as me is disrespecting would
- 43:13Cameron (Rorick): mean I'm disrespecting myself now, wouldn't it?
- 43:15Cameron (Rorick): Yeah.
- 43:16Cameron (Rorick): And I don't disrespect myself.
- 43:18Cameron (Rorick): I'm actually quite proud of who I am.
- 43:20Cameron (Rorick): I killed a giant shark in the ocean.
- 43:23Cameron (Rorick): Have you done that?
- 43:24Cameron (Rorick): Yeah, I thought so.
- 43:26Skyler: What I'm getting at is, if you think that you can join up with
- 43:31Skyler: us in order to leave here.
- 43:33Skyler: Yeah.
- 43:33Skyler: It would be counterintuitive to disrespect the leader of our
- 43:38Skyler: organization who will help to bring us out of here.
- 43:41Skyler: Okay.
- 43:42Cameron (Rorick): How do I work with you guys?
- 43:44Skyler: As Cyrus said this very night,
- 43:47Skyler: go home, take your euphoria and
- 43:51Skyler: prepare for things to come in
- 43:53Skyler: the morning.
- 43:54Cameron (Rorick): Oh, what's supposed to happen?
- 43:55Skyler: Oh, we have many things planned.
- 43:57Cameron (Rorick): Like I'm new to this.
- 43:59Cameron (Rorick): I just attended my first meeting.
- 44:01Cameron (Rorick): Well, I just got my my beginner's patch.
- 44:04Skyler: Let me assure you that anyone who has attended every single
- 44:06Skyler: one of our meetings, aside from a very small number of us, is
- 44:10Skyler: probably just about as aware of what will happen as you are.
- 44:14Cameron (Rorick): I heard.
- 44:14Cameron (Rorick): Cataclysmic events.
- 44:16Skyler: There will certainly be those.
- 44:19Cameron (Rorick): Well, how would that help us?
- 44:21Skyler: Because it will all inevitably
- 44:23Skyler: lead to an opening that will be
- 44:27Skyler: created in this pocket dimension
- 44:30Skyler: that we will all escape through
- 44:32Skyler: and find ourselves in the
- 44:34Skyler: greater plane.
- 44:35Cameron (Rorick): That sounds just like creating a black hole with extra steps.
- 44:40Cameron (Rorick): Yes, but if.
- 44:41Skyler: The black hole was less of a
- 44:43Skyler: black hole and more of a portal
- 44:45Skyler: to a different world, a better
- 44:46Skyler: world, and a world where we plan
- 44:50Skyler: to rule.
- 44:51Skyler: Oh.
- 44:52Cameron (Rorick): Well, Jim said, we're not
- 44:53Cameron (Rorick): allowed to make astral portals
- 44:55Cameron (Rorick): in here.
- 44:56Skyler: Who is this?
- 44:56Skyler: John?
- 44:57Skyler: Jim?
- 44:57Cameron (Rorick): The pretender, I think.
- 44:59Cameron (Rorick): Okay, he said we're not allowed to make portals.
- 45:01Cameron (Rorick): We tried that.
- 45:02Cameron (Rorick): Me and Dez and Jordan said, no, no, no. And we went, oh, dang.
- 45:07Cameron (Rorick): Well, let's just say that that was like our first thought when
- 45:11Cameron (Rorick): we got trapped here.
- 45:12Skyler: What this jar Jim has control
- 45:15Skyler: over even here is somewhat
- 45:17Skyler: limited.
- 45:18Skyler: We have our ways.
- 45:20Skyler: Oh.
- 45:21Dave (Maki): Your ways.
- 45:22Dave (Maki): Oh, cool.
- 45:22Skyler: Yes, indeed.
- 45:23Skyler: And a young sprout here is.
- 45:26Cameron (Rorick): Yeah, as sprout got to do a little of this.
- 45:28Skyler: He is the chosen one.
- 45:30Cameron (Rorick): And you see sprout just.
- 45:31Skyler: Like put up two thumbs and he's got this big old smile.
- 45:33Skyler: He's like, yeah, I'm the chosen one.
- 45:35Cameron (Rorick): Can you believe that?
- 45:36Cameron (Rorick): No. What?
- 45:37Cameron (Rorick): What does that mean?
- 45:38Skyler: He is the one that will work directly alongside Droon to.
- 45:44Cameron (Rorick): I want to do that.
- 45:45Skyler: Oh, sorry.
- 45:46Skyler: You are not the chosen one.
- 45:48Skyler: And again, you've made a bit of an argument, but, uh, as far as
- 45:54Skyler: I was aware, at least maybe within the last couple of
- 45:56Skyler: minutes, I assumed you were an avatar agent of the pretender.
- 46:00Skyler: So if you are.
- 46:02Skyler: Not that.
- 46:02Cameron (Rorick): Yeah. Don't judge a book by its cover.
- 46:04Skyler: Well, no, that's.
- 46:05Cameron (Rorick): That's how rumors are a nasty thing.
- 46:07Cameron (Rorick): Let me tell you.
- 46:08Skyler: Here's what I will say.
- 46:09Skyler: You go home, you rest.
- 46:11Skyler: You prepare for the days to come.
- 46:13Skyler: I will talk to drew.
- 46:15Cameron (Rorick): And I'm gonna talk to drew.
- 46:17Skyler: I don't think that will be possible.
- 46:19Skyler: But with that being said, I will speak with drew.
- 46:21Skyler: And if he deems you somebody he
- 46:24Skyler: finds interesting, then we will
- 46:26Skyler: find you.
- 46:27Skyler: And we will.
- 46:28Cameron (Rorick): Make sure he understands where the exact same situation as him.
- 46:32Skyler: Yes. Well, of course I'll tell him that.
- 46:34Cameron (Rorick): And also that we weren't told to stop him.
- 46:37Cameron (Rorick): Make that clear to.
- 46:39Skyler: All right.
- 46:39Skyler: I will do.
- 46:39Cameron (Rorick): That. We weren't.
- 46:40Cameron (Rorick): We were just told to get a million gold interest.
- 46:42Skyler: That is so interesting.
- 46:44Skyler: And I'm sure drew will also find that quite interesting.
- 46:47Skyler: I will absolutely share this information with him.
- 46:49Cameron (Rorick): Hey. What?
- 46:50Cameron (Rorick): How did Jerome get stuck here?
- 46:52Skyler: Uh, again the trickster has.
- 46:54Skyler: Sorry, the pretender has his tricky ways.
- 46:57Cameron (Rorick): No, no, that's not what I mean.
- 46:59Cameron (Rorick): We're stuck here because one of
- 47:02Cameron (Rorick): us, uh, not naming names, but
- 47:05Cameron (Rorick): one of us pissed off the
- 47:08Cameron (Rorick): pretender, and he sent us all
- 47:10Cameron (Rorick): here as a punishment for pissing
- 47:12Cameron (Rorick): him off.
- 47:13Cameron (Rorick): So my question is, what did Jerome do?
- 47:16Skyler: Drew was cheated in a deal.
- 47:18Cameron (Rorick): Oh, I was not.
- 47:19Cameron (Rorick): One of us.
- 47:20Cameron (Rorick): Was cheated in a deal.
- 47:22Cameron (Rorick): And, uh.
- 47:23Skyler: Well, perhaps you and drew are
- 47:25Skyler: in a very similar predicament
- 47:27Skyler: after all.
- 47:28Cameron (Rorick): You know, there's a third one.
- 47:29Cameron (Rorick): Another one?
- 47:30Skyler: Drew had mentioned the possibility, but he wasn't sure
- 47:32Skyler: if they were even still alive.
- 47:34Cameron (Rorick): I'm not sure if they're alive, too.
- 47:36Cameron (Rorick): I wasn't even sure if Jerome was alive because I didn't know who
- 47:38Cameron (Rorick): the other two people were.
- 47:39Skyler: It's interesting that you knew there was two people.
- 47:42Skyler: Oh, definitely.
- 47:43Cameron (Rorick): The pretender told us.
- 47:44Skyler: Interesting.
- 47:45Cameron (Rorick): Just flat out told us.
- 47:46Cameron (Rorick): He's actually a very.
- 47:47Cameron (Rorick): You can just talk to him all the time.
- 47:48Cameron (Rorick): Well, you can't, I can't.
- 47:50Dave (Maki): He Here's.
- 47:51Skyler: The more you.
- 47:52Skyler: The more you tell me, the more
- 47:55Skyler: it really kind of feels like
- 47:56Skyler: you're an agent of the
- 47:58Skyler: pretender.
- 47:59Cameron (Rorick): Yeah, except he's never told me to do anything.
- 48:02Cameron (Rorick): All he does is answer yes or no questions, but refuses to answer
- 48:05Cameron (Rorick): my questions about frogs.
- 48:06Cameron (Rorick): I tell you.
- 48:07Skyler: What I tell you what, if you had.
- 48:10Skyler: If you head back home at this
- 48:12Skyler: point, I can pretty much
- 48:14Skyler: guarantee that Droom will have a
- 48:16Skyler: lot of interest in meeting you
- 48:18Skyler: and finding out some
- 48:19Skyler: information.
- 48:20Cameron (Rorick): I'm an interesting dude.
- 48:21Skyler: I can certainly see plenty of
- 48:24Skyler: questions he would like
- 48:25Skyler: answered.
- 48:25Cameron (Rorick): Hopefully some of the details attack me.
- 48:27Skyler: Well, I would hope not as well.
- 48:30Cameron (Rorick): I'm sure I'm a sensitive guy.
- 48:32Cameron (Rorick): I wouldn't take that.
- 48:33Skyler: I'm sure he would have many questions to ask you before any
- 48:36Skyler: kind of decisions are made.
- 48:38Skyler: As far as I go.
- 48:39Skyler: Okay, so you go home.
- 48:41Skyler: I will allow you to leave.
- 48:43Skyler: I know that sounds threatening.
- 48:45Skyler: I know that might sound harsh, but you.
- 48:47Cameron (Rorick): Have to sound like you want me to get out of here.
- 48:49Skyler: But I can't.
- 48:51Cameron (Rorick): Said that the whole time.
- 48:52Skyler: We do have a bit of a key steps in the process that we are
- 48:56Skyler: currently working on, as you should be aware of, having been
- 48:59Skyler: to the meeting tonight.
- 49:00Skyler: And yes, it would be in your
- 49:02Skyler: best interest and our best
- 49:03Skyler: interests.
- 49:03Skyler: If you go home, get some rest
- 49:05Skyler: again and prepare for the days
- 49:08Skyler: to come.
- 49:08Dave (Maki): All right?
- 49:09Skyler: Okay, fantastic.
- 49:11Skyler: I'm so glad that we were able to come to a non-violent agreement.
- 49:14Cameron (Rorick): Oh, that's.
- 49:15Cameron (Rorick): All of my agreements are not really non-violent.
- 49:18Skyler: Well, good for you.
- 49:19Cameron (Rorick): Well, not in my past life, right?
- 49:21Cameron (Rorick): My my past life, I, I slashed first and asked questions later.
- 49:26Cameron (Rorick): But now that I'm stuck in a body of a puny goblin.
- 49:29Cameron (Rorick): I kind of have to flip my script.
- 49:31Dave (Maki): Oh, I see, I see.
- 49:33Cameron (Rorick): I was very buff in my past life.
- 49:36Dave (Maki): Have you been taking euphoria?
- 49:37Dave (Maki): No.
- 49:38Cameron (Rorick): I don't need to.
- 49:38Cameron (Rorick): I remember everything, like I said, like I told you, I told
- 49:41Cameron (Rorick): you at the start of this conversation, I didn't die.
- 49:44Cameron (Rorick): I got sent here directly.
- 49:47Skyler: But in a different body.
- 49:48Cameron (Rorick): Like drum drums.
- 49:50Cameron (Rorick): Probably not in his original body.
- 49:51Cameron (Rorick): He probably.
- 49:52Skyler: Insists he is in his original.
- 49:53Cameron (Rorick): Drums.
- 49:54Cameron (Rorick): Well, actually, it might be a different case for him, I guess.
- 49:56Cameron (Rorick): I'm I'm not.
- 49:57Cameron (Rorick): I just know me and the people I was sent with all got put in the
- 50:00Cameron (Rorick): bodies that were already here.
- 50:01Cameron (Rorick): Like we got put in the citizens that were already here because
- 50:05Cameron (Rorick): we had ID badges and everything.
- 50:07Skyler: Oh very interesting.
- 50:08Cameron (Rorick): I'm a dwarf.
- 50:10Skyler: I tell you what.
- 50:11Cameron (Rorick): That's that's who I am.
- 50:12Cameron (Rorick): I'm a dwarf, a mountain dwarf, a pirate, mountain dwarf.
- 50:16Skyler: If you hadn't given me as many details as you have, I would
- 50:19Skyler: think you're absolutely insane.
- 50:21Skyler: With that being said, I.
- 50:24Cameron (Rorick): I'm probably like the second most knowledgeable person here.
- 50:28Cameron (Rorick): Well, after Droom.
- 50:29Cameron (Rorick): With that being said.
- 50:31Skyler: My mind is buzzing with all sorts of questions because I
- 50:35Skyler: don't have nearly the understanding that Droom does.
- 50:37Cameron (Rorick): Yeah, so that's why I should talk directly to Droom.
- 50:39Skyler: Right?
- 50:39Skyler: Right, right.
- 50:40Cameron (Rorick): So I probably could help him fill a lot of gaps.
- 50:43Skyler: It's possible, it's entirely possible.
- 50:45Skyler: And that's why I'm going to
- 50:46Skyler: share this information with him
- 50:48Skyler: and then he will seek you out in
- 50:50Skyler: the morrow.
- 50:51Cameron (Rorick): Sounds good.
- 50:51Cameron (Rorick): All right.
- 50:52Cameron (Rorick): All right.
- 50:52Cameron (Rorick): Bye bye.
- 50:53Skyler: Thank you for coming.
- 50:54Cameron (Rorick): All right.
- 50:54Skyler: Sort of.
- 50:55Cameron (Rorick): Come on.
- 50:55Cameron (Rorick): Keto and I just walk out.
- 50:57Cameron (Rorick): All right.
- 50:57Cameron (Rorick): I don't even know if keto is here.
- 50:58Cameron (Rorick): I just assume he probably walked in here.
- 51:00Cameron (Rorick): All right, sounds good, you guys.
- 51:02Cameron (Rorick): You guys just hear me yell, come on, keto and walk out.
- 51:05Cameron (Rorick): Sure, sure.
- 51:06Cameron (Rorick): They think I'm crazy just talking to myself.
- 51:07Skyler: So then with that question,
- 51:09Skyler: keto, are you following after
- 51:10Skyler: Roerick?
- 51:11Skyler: As he walks back towards the front?
- 51:13Fatty (Keto): He is conflicted.
- 51:14Cameron (Rorick): I walk in and I see all these guys coming to the front door.
- 51:17Cameron (Rorick): Oh yeah.
- 51:18Cameron (Rorick): They go, hey, what's up guys?
- 51:19Cameron (Rorick): I've got my theme music playing.
- 51:21Cameron (Rorick): Hey guys.
- 51:22Fatty (Keto): I think he was gonna stay put and just watch.
- 51:24Skyler: Okay, interesting.
- 51:25Skyler: Okay, I'll jump over to keto real quick and then I'll come
- 51:28Skyler: back to you guys all kind of ganging up back together.
- 51:31Skyler: Okay.
- 51:44Skyler: Quito.
- 51:46Skyler: You see both of them.
- 51:48Skyler: After this exchange, both of them turned to look at sprout,
- 51:51Skyler: very confused, and he goes.
- 51:54Cameron (Rorick): Uh, yeah, those guys.
- 51:56Skyler: I ran into.
- 51:57JarJim: Him.
- 51:57Skyler: Before. Uh, yeah.
- 51:59Skyler: I mean, they're all right.
- 52:01Skyler: And they're like, well, this is quite odd.
- 52:04Skyler: The timing is just you have to understand, sprout, we just
- 52:07Skyler: picked you as the chosen one.
- 52:08Skyler: It's just the timing of these
- 52:10Skyler: people that, you know, and then
- 52:11Skyler: their connection with the
- 52:13Skyler: pretender, apparently.
- 52:14Skyler: And it just it seems very odd for sure.
- 52:17Skyler: Yeah.
- 52:17Skyler: No. Hey, I to be honest, I'm
- 52:19Skyler: gonna be totally honest with you
- 52:20Skyler: guys.
- 52:21Skyler: I didn't even know, like, they
- 52:22Skyler: didn't tell me that they were
- 52:24Skyler: from him.
- 52:26Skyler: Right?
- 52:26Skyler: Like they, I ran into him in court the first time.
- 52:32Skyler: They were, they were defending it, dude, who, like, apparently
- 52:36Skyler: killed people and stole a whole bunch of horse semen.
- 52:41Skyler: Now, what I will say is although jury duty and the law is not
- 52:46Skyler: really my thing, that was probably the most fascinating
- 52:49Skyler: case I could have got.
- 52:51Skyler: And then I ran into him.
- 52:52Skyler: Remember how I was telling you guys that I was like one of the
- 52:55Skyler: rock bottoms for a little while?
- 52:57Skyler: And I was like, this cool dude.
- 52:58Skyler: And I was telling euphoria for you guys, which was pretty dope.
- 53:01Skyler: It was a great gig.
- 53:02Skyler: And then these guys kind of got caught up in that and made me
- 53:06Skyler: stop, which sucked.
- 53:07Skyler: But whatever the case.
- 53:08Skyler: Yeah.
- 53:09Skyler: So that that was my like general.
- 53:12Skyler: Yeah, involvement with them.
- 53:14Skyler: So trust me when I say I'm just
- 53:16Skyler: as confused that they're even
- 53:18Skyler: here.
- 53:18Skyler: I mean, what the heck?
- 53:19Skyler: Like, where did they even come from?
- 53:21Skyler: Interesting.
- 53:22Skyler: No. That's interesting.
- 53:23Skyler: Um, I tell you what, let's again put this past us.
- 53:26Skyler: We'll deal with it when we get a chance to talk to Darren.
- 53:29Skyler: But in the meantime, keep
- 53:30Skyler: drinking up all of that, uh,
- 53:32Skyler: soul juice.
- 53:33Skyler: And, uh, we'll just move on from it.
- 53:36Skyler: You'll get stronger as you
- 53:37Skyler: already am, and I'm quite
- 53:38Skyler: impressed.
- 53:39Skyler: Octavia's up in the bathhouse upstairs, drawing you a bath or
- 53:42Skyler: as we speak so you can have a nice relaxing soak in the tub.
- 53:47Skyler: And, uh, yes, get some rest tonight.
- 53:50Skyler: And tomorrow, uh, we'll we'll start dealing with phase two.
- 53:54Skyler: Well, technically, phase one and a half and two of the steps.
- 53:58Skyler: He goes on.
- 53:58Skyler: Right on.
- 53:59Skyler: I mean, hey, this stuff is delicious.
- 54:00Skyler: I don't know how you made it.
- 54:01Skyler: I don't know what's in here, but like, look at these.
- 54:04Skyler: And he just starts flexing his bicep.
- 54:06Skyler: He's like, I'm freaking swole man.
- 54:09Cameron (Rorick): It's Michael's secret stuff.
- 54:11Skyler: Yeah. It's Michael's secret stuff from Space Jam.
- 54:14Skyler: He just lifts it up, just squirts a bunch into his.
- 54:18Fatty (Keto): Keto was again going to try to remain as indiscrete as
- 54:22Fatty (Keto): possible, discreet as possible.
- 54:24Fatty (Keto): Probably haven't seen all that he imagines he can see.
- 54:29Fatty (Keto): Doesn't seem like there is much
- 54:30Fatty (Keto): more to be seen other than a
- 54:33Fatty (Keto): naked sprout in a tub, so at
- 54:35Fatty (Keto): that he will turn tail and
- 54:38Fatty (Keto): leave.
- 54:39Skyler: Missing out.
- 54:40Skyler: He's missing out.
- 54:41Quinn (Lil Sauce): To be fair, it is.
- 54:42Skyler: A much hotter sprout than what you knew him as.
- 54:46Skyler: And he's in a bathtub, still chugging it.
- 54:48Skyler: I mean, who knows what he's gonna do.
- 54:50Fatty (Keto): As a fighter?
- 54:50Fatty (Keto): There is a small portion of him that is intrigued by this.
- 54:54Skyler: Strengthening juice.
- 54:55Fatty (Keto): Strengthening juice.
- 54:56Fatty (Keto): And he.
- 54:57Skyler: Oh, I thought you were.
- 54:57Fatty (Keto): Gonna say.
- 54:58Skyler: Intrigued by sprouts.
- 54:59Fatty (Keto): No, no, no.
- 55:00Skyler: He's intrigued by his.
- 55:02Fatty (Keto): His by his methods.
- 55:03Fatty (Keto): Yes. At any point is the, uh,
- 55:06Fatty (Keto): soul juice left unattended, or
- 55:09Fatty (Keto): does it seem like it would be
- 55:11Fatty (Keto): easily accessible?
- 55:13Skyler: Yeah, there's like a giant case of it.
- 55:15Skyler: They've got labels on it.
- 55:16Skyler: Drink.
- 55:17Skyler: Morning, day two, drink night day two.
- 55:20Skyler: It's actually a prescription list.
- 55:22Skyler: I wonder if I wonder if, uh,
- 55:25Skyler: sprout had to talk to his
- 55:26Skyler: pharmacist before.
- 55:27Skyler: Before they came home.
- 55:29Fatty (Keto): They are apothecaries.
- 55:30Skyler: Oh, sorry.
- 55:31Skyler: It's apothecary.
- 55:32Skyler: Before they gave all this good, good soul juice in the center of
- 55:37Skyler: this sort of lab, Essentially, there is a sort of a pedestal
- 55:43Skyler: with shelving along the sides of it, each displaying a variety of
- 55:48Skyler: vials of the same iridescent, glowing blue liquid.
- 55:52Fatty (Keto): So as me fatty, do I know?
- 55:57Fatty (Keto): Actually, would you please
- 55:58Fatty (Keto): enlighten me as to the effects
- 56:00Fatty (Keto): of being invisible and then
- 56:02Fatty (Keto): procuring something?
- 56:03Fatty (Keto): Does that then remain invisible or visible?
- 56:06Skyler: Yeah, you would still be invisible.
- 56:07Skyler: The only thing that knocks the invisibility out is, is.
- 56:10Skyler: And in your case, it's actually
- 56:12Skyler: better because it's a magical
- 56:13Skyler: item.
- 56:13Skyler: You don't have to retain concentration, but the only
- 56:15Skyler: things that would knock it out is either you're taking damage
- 56:18Skyler: and you fail to maintain the concentration, which doesn't
- 56:21Skyler: apply here, or you attack or cast a spell.
- 56:26Skyler: Exactly.
- 56:26Fatty (Keto): So yeah, he was yeah, he's going to kind of walk over to this
- 56:30Fatty (Keto): thing and at the same time, um, kind of paying attention to
- 56:34Fatty (Keto): because at this point, the two little or the Two wizard maiden
- 56:39Fatty (Keto): are out of the picture.
- 56:42Skyler: Two of the Throuple know they're still here.
- 56:44Fatty (Keto): What?
- 56:44Skyler: Yeah.
- 56:44Fatty (Keto): Oh, dear.
- 56:45Fatty (Keto): I just thought we'd.
- 56:46Skyler: Go to the other.
- 56:46Speaker 19: Side of the box.
- 56:47Fatty (Keto): Yeah, I thought it was me and sprout, but, yeah, again, he is
- 56:49Fatty (Keto): going to look for an opportunity where he will be able to.
- 56:53Skyler: If you wanted to sneak around like the other side of it, you
- 56:56Skyler: could do that.
- 56:57Skyler: Okay.
- 56:57Fatty (Keto): Because he his only, I guess
- 57:00Fatty (Keto): attention here is that
- 57:02Fatty (Keto): iridescent vial.
- 57:03Fatty (Keto): And he will try to remain as
- 57:05Fatty (Keto): discreet as possible to procure
- 57:07Fatty (Keto): it while paying attention to
- 57:08Fatty (Keto): them for the sole purpose that
- 57:09Fatty (Keto): they don't pay attention to this
- 57:10Fatty (Keto): missing vial.
- 57:12Skyler: Okay. Uh, I need you to roll a dexterity saving throw.
- 57:17Fatty (Keto): Do I have any advantage to this?
- 57:19Fatty (Keto): No. Well, then it's a seven, a seven.
- 57:22Skyler: Uh, you take you take ten lightning damage as you reach
- 57:27Skyler: towards the vial and some sort of invisible shield.
- 57:31Skyler: Uh, that seems to be guarding this or invisible force field of
- 57:34Skyler: some kind, uh, zaps you harshly, and as it does, Cornelia and
- 57:40Skyler: Aurelia both turn towards this pedestal where all the blue
- 57:44Skyler: liquid jars are kept.
- 57:46Skyler: Um. And you hear Aurelia shout out Adrian!
- 57:51Fatty (Keto): Uh. So having taken this damage, am I now visible?
- 57:54Skyler: No.
- 57:55Fatty (Keto): Oh, sweet.
- 57:55Fatty (Keto): Okay. I'd say that's a saving.
- 57:57Speaker 20: Throw then, right?
- 57:58Skyler: Right.
- 57:58Skyler: Well, it normally would be, but
- 58:00Skyler: he because it's a magic item,
- 58:01Skyler: it's retaining the concentration
- 58:03Skyler: for him.
- 58:03Skyler: So you don't have to make a
- 58:04Skyler: saving throw to stay invisible
- 58:06Skyler: unless or.
- 58:07Skyler: But if you attack, you would lose.
- 58:09Fatty (Keto): He's not.
- 58:09Fatty (Keto): In this.
- 58:10Skyler: Case, you.
- 58:10Fatty (Keto): Did.
- 58:10Skyler: Not.
- 58:11Fatty (Keto): That's not his intention.
- 58:12Skyler: Right.
- 58:13Skyler: So, uh, you're still invisible, but you've been zapped.
- 58:16Fatty (Keto): Did I manage damage, buddy?
- 58:18Skyler: No, you did not take.
- 58:19Fatty (Keto): No, I did not even procure it.
- 58:21Skyler: No, your hand didn't get close enough to even touch the vial.
- 58:23Fatty (Keto): Okay, well.
- 58:24Fatty (Keto): I'm not.
- 58:25Fatty (Keto): He's going to turn tail and book it.
- 58:29Fatty (Keto): Okay.
- 58:29Fatty (Keto): Out of here as fast as possible.
- 58:31Skyler: Okay. Sounds good.
- 58:32Skyler: Uh, okay, so we'll jump over to the rest of you guys.
- 58:34Skyler: You guys had just gotten in.
- 58:36Skyler: And as you guys come through the
- 58:37Skyler: front door having been just let
- 58:39Skyler: in by Adrian, um, all of a
- 58:41Skyler: sudden Roderick.
- 58:44Speaker 21: Bam, bam, bam Bam with his theme
- 58:46Speaker 21: song comes up and approaches you
- 58:47Speaker 21: guys.
- 58:48Speaker 21: Hey guys, hey, guys.
- 58:50Fatty (Keto): I always thought goblins.
- 58:51Quinn (Lil Sauce): Would.
- 58:51Skyler: Be.
- 58:51Fatty (Keto): More into ska.
- 58:52Speaker 20: Than.
- 58:53Speaker 21: I could change that.
- 58:54Speaker 21: I change it, I snap my fingers, it goes bam, bam, bam, bam, bam,
- 58:57Speaker 21: bam, bam bam bam bam bam.
- 59:00Quinn (Lil Sauce): It's the a f v theme song.
- 59:01Speaker 21: Yeah, I'm making it for you.
- 59:03Speaker 21: I'm making the music for you.
- 59:04Speaker 21: Okay, okay.
- 59:05Speaker 21: Meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep.
- 59:09Speaker 21: I can do, I can do, uh, mountain folk too.
- 59:11Speaker 21: I'm.
- 59:15Fatty (Keto): Uh, des writes on his board.
- 59:16Fatty (Keto): Uh, learn anything.
- 59:17Speaker 21: Oh, yeah.
- 59:18Speaker 21: Uh, there's this dude named
- 59:20Speaker 21: Droom that we're supposed to
- 59:21Speaker 21: talk to.
- 59:22Speaker 21: I told them my whole life story,
- 59:24Speaker 21: uh, how I was adopted, how I had
- 59:28Speaker 21: a terrible relationship with my
- 59:30Speaker 21: mother.
- 59:31Speaker 21: Um.
- 59:31Skyler: Adopted one.
- 59:32Speaker 21: What?
- 59:33Skyler: The adopted one.
- 59:34Skyler: Just to clarify.
- 59:35Skyler: Or your birth mother?
- 59:37Speaker 21: Both.
- 59:37Skyler: Oh. Fair enough.
- 59:38Speaker 21: And no. I'm joking.
- 59:40Speaker 21: Uh, what we really talked about was the fact that we're trapped
- 59:43Speaker 21: here and that I was asking who the other person was that was
- 59:46Speaker 21: trapped here with us.
- 59:47Speaker 21: And I found out that some dude named Shroom Drum.
- 59:51Speaker 21: And he is who they call.
- 59:53Speaker 21: He like him.
- 59:55Speaker 21: He that's what they call him.
- 59:56Speaker 21: They don't call him Jerome, but the royal.
- 59:59Skyler: The the royal.
- 59:59Speaker 21: Yeah. The royal.
- 1:00:00Speaker 21: He. But he's here.
- 1:00:02Speaker 21: He's not like Jar Gym where he's out of this world.
- 1:00:05Speaker 21: He's here with us.
- 1:00:06Speaker 21: And he's one of those other
- 1:00:07Speaker 21: people that's trapped here like
- 1:00:08Speaker 21: us.
- 1:00:09Skyler: You don't think Jerome is out of this world?
- 1:00:10Speaker 21: I haven't met him yet.
- 1:00:12Speaker 21: Uh. And, uh, so I told her all
- 1:00:14Speaker 21: of this, and she was scared that
- 1:00:16Speaker 21: we're trying to stop them
- 1:00:18Speaker 21: because Jerome warned them that
- 1:00:20Speaker 21: Jar Gym would send people to
- 1:00:22Speaker 21: stop them.
- 1:00:24Speaker 21: Called avatars.
- 1:00:26Skyler: She also used the term agents.
- 1:00:28Speaker 21: Agents.
- 1:00:29Skyler: Interchangeably.
- 1:00:30Speaker 21: But we're here to stop them, and
- 1:00:31Speaker 21: I. I assured her, were not
- 1:00:33Speaker 21: because we I don't we don't
- 1:00:34Speaker 21: freaking care.
- 1:00:35Speaker 21: Um, and and we just wanted to talk to Jerome so we could
- 1:00:40Speaker 21: figure out how to get out of this place together.
- 1:00:42Speaker 21: And she said, all right, I'll relay that information to him
- 1:00:46Speaker 21: and he'll probably want to talk to us tomorrow, because I'm
- 1:00:49Speaker 21: guessing if you were trapped here for one hundred years and
- 1:00:51Speaker 21: you found out there's a lot of other people that say they're
- 1:00:53Speaker 21: the exact same situation as you, you probably would want to talk
- 1:00:56Speaker 21: to them as soon as possible too.
- 1:00:58Speaker 21: You got all that as I watch this, right?
- 1:01:02Speaker 21: All of this.
- 1:01:04Skyler: Does, uh, nods this is a master at shorthand.
- 1:01:08Skyler: Yeah, yeah.
- 1:01:09Skyler: Well, it's actually like word for word.
- 1:01:11Skyler: Oh my gosh, he's transcribing.
- 1:01:14Speaker 19: There's a cloud around him.
- 1:01:16Quinn (Lil Sauce): He has two tablets.
- 1:01:20Quinn (Lil Sauce): That has a finger to his, uh, beak.
- 1:01:23Speaker 21: Did you get all that guys?
- 1:01:24Quinn (Lil Sauce): And he, he has a few questions.
- 1:01:28Skyler: Um.
- 1:01:29Quinn (Lil Sauce): first is he erases everything.
- 1:01:34Quinn (Lil Sauce): And he writes down, uh, meet us after cataclysm.
- 1:01:38Speaker 21: No. Like tomorrow, the cataclysm
- 1:01:40Speaker 21: is supposed to be at the end of
- 1:01:41Speaker 21: this week.
- 1:01:42Quinn (Lil Sauce): Oh.
- 1:01:42Speaker 21: It's like a week on.
- 1:01:44Speaker 22: Well, they said within the week.
- 1:01:45Speaker 21: But I'm guessing it's not tomorrow.
- 1:01:48Quinn (Lil Sauce): Mhm. Then erases.
- 1:01:50Quinn (Lil Sauce): Uh, he writes down.
- 1:01:52Quinn (Lil Sauce): He shows you the board.
- 1:01:53Quinn (Lil Sauce): Why is everyone taking euphoria tonight?
- 1:01:56Quinn (Lil Sauce): Oh.
- 1:01:57Speaker 21: She told me to take euphoria to.
- 1:01:59Speaker 21: And I said, fat chance.
- 1:02:01Skyler: Oh, okay.
- 1:02:02Speaker 21: Because I said I didn't need it.
- 1:02:03Speaker 21: Because I can remember my past life.
- 1:02:05Speaker 21: And that really threw her for a loop.
- 1:02:07Quinn (Lil Sauce): Final question.
- 1:02:08Speaker 21: That's racist because she said she's not even sure if Droom is
- 1:02:12Speaker 21: the weird thing.
- 1:02:13Speaker 21: Droom apparently insists he's
- 1:02:16Speaker 21: the same body he was from
- 1:02:18Speaker 21: before.
- 1:02:18Speaker 21: MM. See, that's where I was also like, something's off here.
- 1:02:22Speaker 21: He's clearly lying.
- 1:02:25Speaker 21: Or he's a weird case.
- 1:02:27Speaker 21: But considering what Georgeham has to do to take bodies and put
- 1:02:31Speaker 21: them into bodies here.
- 1:02:33Speaker 21: I don't know how he would
- 1:02:34Speaker 21: physically do what he's doing
- 1:02:35Speaker 21: with Jerome if he didn't do the
- 1:02:37Speaker 21: same thing.
- 1:02:38Speaker 21: Unless Jerome is jarred Jim.
- 1:02:41Speaker 21: Oh, I might have invited Jarred Jim to kill us.
- 1:02:45Speaker 21: What?
- 1:02:45Speaker 21: But then we could kill him, and that might free us.
- 1:02:48Speaker 21: Mhm.
- 1:02:49Speaker 21: Mhm.
- 1:02:50Speaker 21: Mhm.
- 1:02:51Quinn (Lil Sauce): That des writes on his board.
- 1:02:54Quinn (Lil Sauce): Uh, final question.
- 1:02:55Quinn (Lil Sauce): Three dollar signs, question mark.
- 1:02:59Skyler: The literally million dollar question.
- 1:03:02Speaker 21: I did ask them if they had a million dollars and they glossed
- 1:03:06Speaker 21: over that question.
- 1:03:09Quinn (Lil Sauce): I did.
- 1:03:09Speaker 21: Tell him.
- 1:03:10Quinn (Lil Sauce): I did disappointment.
- 1:03:11Speaker 21: They did ask like, if we were here to stop him because that's
- 1:03:14Speaker 21: what they're worried about.
- 1:03:15Speaker 21: And I told them, no, the only
- 1:03:17Speaker 21: thing we were told was to get a
- 1:03:18Speaker 21: million gold.
- 1:03:20Speaker 21: That was it.
- 1:03:21Speaker 21: Which is true.
- 1:03:22Speaker 21: So, I mean, I don't care about their plan, though.
- 1:03:25Speaker 21: Their plan sounds like a death trap.
- 1:03:27Speaker 21: I'ma be honest.
- 1:03:28Speaker 21: Sounds like they're just trying to open up a second pocket
- 1:03:31Speaker 21: dimension in a pocket dimension.
- 1:03:33Speaker 21: And if I know anything about
- 1:03:34Speaker 21: bags of holding, they tell you
- 1:03:36Speaker 21: never put another bag of holding
- 1:03:37Speaker 21: in a bag of holding or it'll
- 1:03:39Speaker 21: blow up.
- 1:03:40Speaker 21: So I'm thinking they're trying
- 1:03:41Speaker 21: to put a bag of holding in a bag
- 1:03:44Speaker 21: of holding.
- 1:03:44Speaker 21: I think we're all gonna blow up.
- 1:03:46Speaker 21: That's what I think.
- 1:03:47Speaker 21: And that's why I think it's kind of a dumb plan, which is why I
- 1:03:50Speaker 21: want to talk to this drum guy.
- 1:03:52Speaker 22: No, no, I thought they had a
- 1:03:54Speaker 22: well thought out escape plan
- 1:03:56Speaker 22: that we could ride the coattails
- 1:03:58Speaker 22: of.
- 1:03:58Speaker 21: That's what I wanted.
- 1:03:59Speaker 21: But it just sounds like they
- 1:04:00Speaker 21: said they're trying to open up
- 1:04:02Speaker 21: an astral plane to get out of
- 1:04:03Speaker 21: here.
- 1:04:04Speaker 21: But I told them that me and des
- 1:04:06Speaker 21: thought of that day one, and
- 1:04:07Speaker 21: then Jordan went, nope, can't do
- 1:04:09Speaker 21: that.
- 1:04:09Speaker 21: And we're like, oh, dang it.
- 1:04:11Speaker 21: So I don't know how they're gonna open up an astral plane.
- 1:04:15Speaker 21: When we were told on day one, we can't open astral planes here.
- 1:04:19Speaker 21: That's why I think they're just
- 1:04:20Speaker 21: accidentally creating their own
- 1:04:22Speaker 21: plane inside of their world,
- 1:04:23Speaker 21: which is gonna implode on
- 1:04:25Speaker 21: itself.
- 1:04:26Speaker 21: But I'm not a portal specialist.
- 1:04:28Speaker 21: I just know about bags of holding.
- 1:04:30Speaker 21: Because when I got my bag of
- 1:04:32Speaker 21: holding, they warned me because
- 1:04:34Speaker 21: they thought I was a dumb
- 1:04:35Speaker 21: goblin.
- 1:04:36Skyler: There's just a there's just a little note on it.
- 1:04:38Skyler: There's one that says Made in Ireland.
- 1:04:41Skyler: And then there's one that says, do not.
- 1:04:43Speaker 23: Do not.
- 1:04:44Skyler: Caution under no circumstance.
- 1:04:47Speaker 21: And then I, of course, asked them about the thing, because I.
- 1:04:50Skyler: Then on the other side of it, it
- 1:04:51Skyler: also said, uh, this product made
- 1:04:54Skyler: in Ireland has seen cases of
- 1:04:57Skyler: increased cancer.
- 1:04:59Skyler: So I don't know whether it's I yeah.
- 1:05:02Skyler: In the state of Ireland that explains this gross.
- 1:05:06Speaker 21: Growth on.
- 1:05:07Quinn (Lil Sauce): My side where.
- 1:05:09Speaker 21: I've been, oh, I've revealed
- 1:05:11Speaker 21: it's just a massive throbbing
- 1:05:12Speaker 21: rash.
- 1:05:13Speaker 21: I'm like that's where I keep my bag of holding at all times.
- 1:05:17Speaker 21: So anyways, that's the whole situation.
- 1:05:19Speaker 21: So do do, do we just leave now
- 1:05:22Speaker 21: and just wait for drones room
- 1:05:23Speaker 21: tomorrow.
- 1:05:25Skyler: At that point, keto has shown up.
- 1:05:27Skyler: Yeah, yeah, keto comes running well.
- 1:05:29Skyler: You're still invisible though.
- 1:05:30Skyler: Yeah, invisible.
- 1:05:30Skyler: And then as.
- 1:05:31Speaker 24: Soon as he gets there, he takes the ring off and just.
- 1:05:33Skyler: Okay, you take the ring off and visibly.
- 1:05:35Speaker 24: Smoking.
- 1:05:36Skyler: Visibly.
- 1:05:36Skyler: You see keto just come bolting
- 1:05:39Skyler: through the room towards the
- 1:05:40Skyler: door.
- 1:05:41Speaker 21: Hey, keto.
- 1:05:42Skyler: Yes. Just gives a thumbs up to that plan.
- 1:05:44Speaker 21: Oh, to just wait for doom tomorrow.
- 1:05:46Speaker 21: Yep.
- 1:05:47Speaker 21: So I, I just now realized that I didn't tell them how to find us.
- 1:05:53Skyler: They said they'd find you.
- 1:05:55Speaker 21: That's creepier.
- 1:05:57Speaker 21: I could have given him a forwarding address.
- 1:05:59Skyler: I was really hoping.
- 1:05:59Speaker 25: That they'd come out and someone would be like, who's this guy
- 1:06:01Speaker 25: with my mustache?
- 1:06:03Speaker 25: But you guys didn't.
- 1:06:04Speaker 21: I can't, I just walked back to them.
- 1:06:05Speaker 21: Screw it.
- 1:06:06Speaker 21: I'm walking back to him and give him a forwarding address.
- 1:06:08Speaker 21: Oh, hey, can I get your address real quick?
- 1:06:11Speaker 25: Yeah, yeah, it's, uh, two one two.
- 1:06:13Speaker 25: Got it.
- 1:06:13Speaker 25: Four eight nine.
- 1:06:14Speaker 25: Got it.
- 1:06:15Speaker 25: Seven four eight six.
- 1:06:16Skyler: A phone number?
- 1:06:17Skyler: What is this?
- 1:06:19Skyler: Addresses are weird in this.
- 1:06:20Skyler: You live in a tree?
- 1:06:22Skyler: I know, and I gotta go.
- 1:06:23Skyler: There's no other trees on your.
- 1:06:24Skyler: I'm going to give you latitude and longitude.
- 1:06:26Skyler: Oh. Oh, okay.
- 1:06:28Skyler: I know where it is, I got it, I leave.
- 1:06:30Skyler: Two, four six.
- 1:06:30Skyler: I left already.
- 1:06:32Skyler: Four.
- 1:06:32Skyler: Nine.
- 1:06:33Skyler: Seven.
- 1:06:33Skyler: Six two.
- 1:06:34Skyler: Okay.
- 1:06:35Skyler: Got it.
- 1:06:36Skyler: Got a got it iron I point I
- 1:06:40Skyler: pointed my hat and I go iron
- 1:06:42Skyler: trap.
- 1:06:43Skyler: Iron trap.
- 1:06:44Skyler: And I stick my head back into the whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa.
- 1:06:47Skyler: Before you can do that, you hear
- 1:06:49Skyler: the shout coming from behind
- 1:06:51Skyler: Cato, Adrian.
- 1:06:53Skyler: And just as that happens, the
- 1:06:55Skyler: door flies back open and the two
- 1:06:58Skyler: heavy sets of Adrian echo
- 1:07:01Skyler: through this.
- 1:07:02Skyler: This hallway and standing before
- 1:07:04Skyler: you is Adrian Crossbow at the
- 1:07:07Skyler: ready?
- 1:07:08Skyler: Oh, he's between me and them.
- 1:07:09Skyler: No, he's.
- 1:07:10Skyler: He just walked in the door, which would be behind you guys.
- 1:07:13Skyler: They just came in.
- 1:07:14Speaker 22: So he's.
- 1:07:15Skyler: By them.
- 1:07:16Skyler: Yeah. Which you're by them?
- 1:07:17Speaker 22: No. I walked back to the.
- 1:07:19Skyler: You were starting to.
- 1:07:20Skyler: And this happened before that.
- 1:07:22Skyler: Adrian, to be fair.
- 1:07:24Speaker 20: Does not know what's wrong.
- 1:07:27Speaker 20: So.
- 1:07:28Speaker 26: Yeah, we're not doing anything.
- 1:07:29Speaker 24: We still have plausible deniability.
- 1:07:31Skyler: I would say, as.
- 1:07:32Speaker 26: Though they were let in by Adrian.
- 1:07:34Skyler: No no no no, I know.
- 1:07:35Skyler: Okay.
- 1:07:35Skyler: So as you're moving back towards
- 1:07:37Skyler: the the two gals, he's basically
- 1:07:39Skyler: following.
- 1:07:40Speaker 26: Oh okay.
- 1:07:40Speaker 26: Yeah, I walk in okay.
- 1:07:41Speaker 26: I go, hey, also real quick before I leave, I didn't tell
- 1:07:45Speaker 26: you where we would be tomorrow.
- 1:07:46Skyler: We said we'd find you, but.
- 1:07:48Speaker 26: I it's easier.
- 1:07:49Skyler: Why did we just have someone
- 1:07:50Skyler: attempting to steal our soul
- 1:07:53Skyler: juice?
- 1:07:53Speaker 26: I have no idea what you're talking about.
- 1:07:54Speaker 26: You saw me leave anyways, I. I was gonna give you.
- 1:07:57Skyler: Adrian.
- 1:07:58Skyler: Are there others in the premises?
- 1:08:00Speaker 26: Yeah, it's the other people I told you I was with.
- 1:08:02Speaker 26: I told them to wait back there.
- 1:08:04Speaker 24: Cato has put his ring back on, looking at his hands and see
- 1:08:08Speaker 24: that they are charred.
- 1:08:09Speaker 24: The ring is now back on.
- 1:08:10Speaker 26: I just was trying to give you a forwarding address, Adrian.
- 1:08:13Speaker 26: We we live in the big little sauce family tree.
- 1:08:16Speaker 26: All right.
- 1:08:17Skyler: You extinguish these individuals who are obviously agents of the
- 1:08:22Skyler: pretender, and Adrian turns towards you and points the
- 1:08:26Skyler: crossbow at you.
- 1:08:27Speaker 26: I'll leave.
- 1:08:29Skyler: Well, I think they're past that at this point.
- 1:08:31Skyler: Someone just tried to steal their soul.
- 1:08:33Speaker 26: Dude, I wasn't there.
- 1:08:34Skyler: You have to.
- 1:08:35Skyler: They're worried about agents of the pretender coming and
- 1:08:38Skyler: screwing up their plans.
- 1:08:39Skyler: You walk in and then immediately afterwards, they get an A in
- 1:08:44Skyler: essentially an alarm that someone's trying to steal the
- 1:08:47Skyler: item that they're trying to protect their their, their.
- 1:08:49Skyler: They're not asking questions.
- 1:08:51Speaker 27: Maybe I wasn't the smartest thing to do.
- 1:08:53Speaker 27: I'm gonna have.
- 1:08:54Skyler: You guys all roll initiative.
- 1:08:56Speaker 26: Nah, I cast saving throw on him.
- 1:09:01Speaker 22: What does that mean?
- 1:09:03Speaker 22: Oh, wait.
- 1:09:03Speaker 26: I can't charm him.
- 1:09:04Speaker 26: Wait.
- 1:09:05Speaker 27: He can't.
- 1:09:05Speaker 20: Be charmed.
- 1:09:06Speaker 20: Construct.
- 1:09:07Speaker 26: I don't know, he's got some human in him.
- 1:09:09Speaker 26: Charisma saving throw.
- 1:09:13Speaker 20: This is incredible.
- 1:09:14Skyler: That's two in a row.
- 1:09:15Skyler: Nat twenty.
- 1:09:16Skyler: Hold on.
- 1:09:17Skyler: He got a sixteen on it.
- 1:09:19Speaker 26: I moved it down to a sixteen with my ability.
- 1:09:22Speaker 26: I have the bardic inspiration
- 1:09:24Speaker 26: ability where I can cause
- 1:09:25Speaker 26: someone's roll to go down by my
- 1:09:26Speaker 26: d6.
- 1:09:27Speaker 26: I roll four.
- 1:09:27Speaker 26: Okay, so you got a sixteen.
- 1:09:29Skyler: Okay.
- 1:09:29Speaker 26: What does.
- 1:09:29Skyler: He have?
- 1:09:30Skyler: Minus one.
- 1:09:31Speaker 26: So he's.
- 1:09:31Speaker 26: Oh, freak!
- 1:09:32Speaker 26: My spell saves fifteen.
- 1:09:34Skyler: If it meets a beat.
- 1:09:35Speaker 26: So I beat it.
- 1:09:36Skyler: Dang it!
- 1:09:36Speaker 26: I don't have any ways to manipulate my dice rolls.
- 1:09:39Speaker 22: I knew.
- 1:09:40Speaker 26: You. You do?
- 1:09:42Speaker 27: It's only for me.
- 1:09:43Speaker 26: Oh. Oh, I tried my best.
- 1:09:44Speaker 26: I guess we now roll initiative.
- 1:09:46Speaker 26: But I'm just planning on running.
- 1:09:47Speaker 26: I'm just planning on running away, so.
- 1:09:50Skyler: Twelve okay.
- 1:09:50Skyler: Twelve twenty one twenty one wow.
- 1:09:54Skyler: Okay.
- 1:09:55Skyler: Eleven eleven for Cato.
- 1:09:57Skyler: Six six for Marky.
- 1:10:00Speaker 27: Okay. I'm nineteen I apologize.
- 1:10:02Skyler: Nineteen that's fine.
- 1:10:03Skyler: Uh, starting with des.
- 1:10:04Skyler: What are you doing?
- 1:10:06Speaker 27: What it is.
- 1:10:07Speaker 27: Jackson.
- 1:10:07Speaker 27: With the des.
- 1:10:08Speaker 27: What?
- 1:10:08Speaker 27: The des doing.
- 1:10:09Speaker 27: Uh, my first impulse is to leave.
- 1:10:13Skyler: And that's okay.
- 1:10:14Speaker 27: But I also want to know what happens if I die.
- 1:10:17Speaker 27: Do I do I go, do I have to life?
- 1:10:20Speaker 27: Um uh, does leaves okay out the door by Sia.
- 1:10:23Skyler: Burst out the door.
- 1:10:24Skyler: Okay. Sounds good.
- 1:10:25Skyler: Um, exit essentially exits combat.
- 1:10:27Skyler: We jump over to Aurelia, which is the red haired woman in the
- 1:10:34Skyler: group, I think.
- 1:10:35Skyler: She looks at Roric and she shoots a Firebolt.
- 1:10:41Speaker 26: I do want to say Rourke's
- 1:10:43Speaker 26: currently just got his hands
- 1:10:44Speaker 26: raised and he's like, hey,
- 1:10:46Speaker 26: don't.
- 1:10:46Speaker 26: I'm not here to do anything.
- 1:10:48Speaker 26: I want to just leave.
- 1:10:49Speaker 26: Right?
- 1:10:50Speaker 26: I'm not trying to hurt you.
- 1:10:52Speaker 26: I'm just.
- 1:10:52Speaker 26: I'm saying that's what Rourke's doing this whole time.
- 1:10:55Skyler: There's a fifteen hit.
- 1:10:57Speaker 26: No.
- 1:10:57Skyler: Okay. She fires a Firebolt, flies past you just barely.
- 1:11:02Speaker 23: Hey, lady, I'm not trying to hurt anyone.
- 1:11:04Speaker 23: I, I I'm I'm I'm not here to stop anyone.
- 1:11:07Speaker 23: I'm not.
- 1:11:08Speaker 23: I'm I'm.
- 1:11:09Speaker 23: I'm a docile goblin.
- 1:11:11Skyler: Cornelia, on the other hand, she reaches out and you realize you
- 1:11:16Skyler: hadn't noticed that this up until this point.
- 1:11:18Skyler: But as she raises her arm, her sleeve comes down and you
- 1:11:20Skyler: realize she doesn't have a hue.
- 1:11:22Skyler: Even though she is a human, she
- 1:11:24Skyler: doesn't have a human arm
- 1:11:25Skyler: anymore.
- 1:11:25Skyler: It's been entirely replaced by
- 1:11:27Skyler: robotic like steampunk
- 1:11:29Skyler: mechanisms.
- 1:11:30Skyler: And she actually kind of like
- 1:11:31Skyler: flicks her arm and the forearm
- 1:11:33Skyler: sort of like folds back and
- 1:11:35Skyler: twists around and two sort of
- 1:11:38Skyler: protrusions pop out of the end
- 1:11:40Skyler: of it, kind of where the hand
- 1:11:41Skyler: would be.
- 1:11:42Skyler: And you realize that she has like, basically she took the
- 1:11:45Skyler: term hand crossbow very literally is what I'll say.
- 1:11:48Skyler: Um, and there's sort of like a
- 1:11:49Skyler: lever on top and she points it
- 1:11:51Skyler: over at you and she takes a
- 1:11:52Skyler: shot.
- 1:11:53Skyler: I know that's sick.
- 1:11:55Skyler: Uh, thirteen, thirteen doesn't
- 1:11:57Skyler: hit as the crossbow bolt flies
- 1:12:00Skyler: past you.
- 1:12:00Speaker 27: And I go, oh, that's sick.
- 1:12:02Skyler: She pulls the lever and it instantly reloads a second shot,
- 1:12:06Skyler: and she fires it.
- 1:12:07Skyler: Uh, does a eighteen hit?
- 1:12:10Skyler: Oh, yeah.
- 1:12:10Skyler: Okay, so the second crossbow
- 1:12:13Skyler: bolt comes flying, hits you for
- 1:12:15Skyler: ten damage.
- 1:12:17Speaker 23: That's less sick.
- 1:12:19Speaker 23: I'm not here to hurt you.
- 1:12:22Skyler: Uh, with that being said, little sauce.
- 1:12:24Skyler: What are you doing?
- 1:12:24Speaker 27: Yeah, um.
- 1:12:25Speaker 27: I'm leaving.
- 1:12:26Skyler: Uh, little sauce.
- 1:12:27Skyler: You you exit out the door.
- 1:12:29Skyler: Uh, we jump over to Roric.
- 1:12:32Speaker 26: Got it.
- 1:12:33Speaker 26: Um, roric is how far is it from me to make this corner?
- 1:12:39Skyler: Um, here's what I'll say.
- 1:12:40Skyler: If you want to use your full dash.
- 1:12:42Speaker 26: I was gonna say sixty feet.
- 1:12:43Speaker 26: Can I make the corner?
- 1:12:44Skyler: Yeah.
- 1:12:45Speaker 26: Okay. I am going to disengage.
- 1:12:47Speaker 26: Disengage to keep with my bonus action, and then I'm gonna dash
- 1:12:50Speaker 26: with my action.
- 1:12:51Speaker 26: I'm gonna run around this corner.
- 1:12:52Speaker 26: Yep.
- 1:12:53Speaker 26: And then when I make it around the corner.
- 1:12:54Speaker 26: I'm gonna yell my darkness.
- 1:12:57Speaker 23: Let's get out of here.
- 1:12:59Skyler: Okay?
- 1:12:59Skyler: You come running around the corner.
- 1:13:01Skyler: Technically, Cato does get to go
- 1:13:03Skyler: first before Maki can do
- 1:13:06Skyler: anything.
- 1:13:07Speaker 24: Is Cato. I'm assuming he's.
- 1:13:09Skyler: Like, yeah, you're over.
- 1:13:09Skyler: You're over in there.
- 1:13:10Speaker 24: Yeah, yeah, he will, uh, follow the group and.
- 1:13:14Skyler: Head out the door.
- 1:13:14Skyler: Yeah, okay.
- 1:13:15Skyler: Then we jump over to Maki.
- 1:13:17Skyler: You see Rory come running around this corner.
- 1:13:19Skyler: He does one of those things
- 1:13:20Skyler: where he hits the corner really
- 1:13:21Skyler: hard.
- 1:13:21Skyler: He's like, I'm skidding.
- 1:13:22Speaker 27: Yeah, he's got an arrow in his.
- 1:13:24Speaker 27: I do, I have a crossbow.
- 1:13:25Speaker 23: Bolt in my shoulder and I'm like, let's get out of here.
- 1:13:29Speaker 22: On it.
- 1:13:30Speaker 22: And I pull out my hand.
- 1:13:32Speaker 22: Crossbow.
- 1:13:33Speaker 22: A lot of crossbows in this episode.
- 1:13:34Speaker 27: Yeah.
- 1:13:36Skyler: It's just the coolest weapon.
- 1:13:37Skyler: It's just not.
- 1:13:38Speaker 26: As cool as hers.
- 1:13:39Speaker 22: I cast darkness on the end of the bolt and fire it up at the
- 1:13:46Speaker 22: wall or the banister.
- 1:13:47Speaker 22: Up, up.
- 1:13:47Skyler: Up the hallway.
- 1:13:48Skyler: Yeah, absolutely.
- 1:13:49Skyler: As soon as it hits the wall,
- 1:13:52Skyler: there's this huge burst of just
- 1:13:54Skyler: dark, magical energy that kind
- 1:13:56Skyler: of fills that entire radius of
- 1:13:58Skyler: that corner.
- 1:14:00Skyler: Rory.
- 1:14:00Skyler: Right on the end of it, like a cloud's practically touching him
- 1:14:03Skyler: in the back.
- 1:14:04Skyler: Um, but he's popping out of it.
- 1:14:06Skyler: Uh, we jump to the top of the order.
- 1:14:10Skyler: Uh, we all, you know.
- 1:14:12Skyler: Is that the three of them are
- 1:14:14Skyler: making their way towards the
- 1:14:15Skyler: darkness.
- 1:14:16Skyler: And you just hear Aurelia like, give me just a moment.
- 1:14:19Skyler: That's all you hear her voice say as she starts working her
- 1:14:22Skyler: magic to try to get through this, this magical darkness.
- 1:14:25Skyler: From up at the top of the
- 1:14:27Skyler: stairs, you hear a voice call
- 1:14:30Skyler: out and you hear a man say, is
- 1:14:34Skyler: everything all right down there,
- 1:14:35Skyler: darling?
- 1:14:37Skyler: And then we jump over to roaring.
- 1:14:40Speaker 26: Oh yeah, because we're the only three.
- 1:14:41Speaker 26: Two left.
- 1:14:41Speaker 26: Right?
- 1:14:42Speaker 26: Yes.
- 1:14:42Speaker 26: That's two.
- 1:14:44Speaker 26: Yeah.
- 1:14:44Speaker 23: Just says yeah.
- 1:14:45Speaker 27: Just.
- 1:14:45Speaker 23: We gotta go.
- 1:14:47Speaker 26: Okay. And he just uses Dash again, and he probably makes it.
- 1:14:50Skyler: Yep. You head out the door.
- 1:14:51Skyler: Okay, Marcie.
- 1:14:52Speaker 22: I wait to get.
- 1:14:53Speaker 22: Does he come out or do I just hear you?
- 1:14:56Skyler: You hear him?
- 1:14:57Skyler: You. If you head towards the lobby, towards the door, you'd
- 1:14:59Skyler: probably see him.
- 1:15:00Skyler: You hear him coming from the top of the stairs.
- 1:15:02Speaker 22: Marcie's curious what this guy looks like, so he's gonna walk
- 1:15:06Speaker 22: forward like peek around the corner to get a glimpse at him.
- 1:15:09Speaker 27: Yeah.
- 1:15:10Skyler: So you see a very thin man dressed in a lot of the same
- 1:15:15Skyler: style of clothing and clothing as Cornelia was.
- 1:15:17Skyler: Uh, he's got a brown leather top hat.
- 1:15:20Skyler: He's got sort of this leather vest, brown leather vest.
- 1:15:23Skyler: Um, he, on the other hand, has
- 1:15:25Skyler: like a very much more like, uh,
- 1:15:27Skyler: high dress wear kind of a thing,
- 1:15:29Skyler: right?
- 1:15:29Skyler: Like kind of a suit and tie type look.
- 1:15:32Skyler: Um, and he, oh, he doesn't have the suit on right now, but it's
- 1:15:34Skyler: like the vest underneath and the nice white shirt with kind of
- 1:15:37Skyler: the puffy sleeves.
- 1:15:38Skyler: And maybe there's a little bit
- 1:15:39Skyler: of an accent around the collar,
- 1:15:41Skyler: you know, um, very high society
- 1:15:43Skyler: looking.
- 1:15:44Skyler: And you the one thing that you glimpse as you kind of start
- 1:15:47Skyler: running towards this door, moving towards this door, is
- 1:15:49Skyler: that he very much like these clockwork garbs that you saw has
- 1:15:54Skyler: sort of this Iron Man glowing mechanism in his chest.
- 1:15:59Skyler: It's like General Grievous.
- 1:16:00Speaker 22: What was the name.
- 1:16:01Speaker 26: Of that one dude who.
- 1:16:02Speaker 26: We destroyed his factory and killed him.
- 1:16:04Skyler: Uh, Augustus. Stillborn. Oh, okay.
- 1:16:07Skyler: Who also would have had a similar device.
- 1:16:09Speaker 26: Yeah. No, that was the last person we saw like that.
- 1:16:12Speaker 26: Yeah.
- 1:16:12Speaker 26: So.
- 1:16:12Speaker 26: Yes.
- 1:16:13Speaker 26: And she's got a metal arm.
- 1:16:14Speaker 22: I get a good look and then I start running towards the door.
- 1:16:18Speaker 22: Okay.
- 1:16:18Speaker 22: And as I get close, I reach into
- 1:16:22Speaker 22: my sleeve and pull out my crow
- 1:16:26Speaker 22: familiar.
- 1:16:28Speaker 22: And I say hi, and I just chuck him into the room behind me.
- 1:16:34Skyler: Okay.
- 1:16:35Speaker 22: Sounds like there's.
- 1:16:36Speaker 23: A bush right here.
- 1:16:37Skyler: I know he's in the house.
- 1:16:39Speaker 22: I tell her to, like, hide under the couch or something.
- 1:16:43Speaker 22: So you see your.
- 1:16:44Skyler: Crow kind of just disappear into the mansion?
- 1:16:47Skyler: Yeah.
- 1:16:48Skyler: To be fair, that graphic does look like there is a bush inside
- 1:16:51Skyler: the house right there.
- 1:16:52Skyler: Oh, it's, uh.
- 1:16:53Skyler: Yeah, it's like a it's a potted plant.
- 1:16:55Speaker 23: There's a potted plant.
- 1:16:56Speaker 22: On the potted plant.
- 1:16:57Speaker 22: Yeah, it just pops.
- 1:16:57Speaker 23: Right.
- 1:16:58Speaker 22: In.
- 1:16:58Speaker 23: He says, uh, home.
- 1:17:01Skyler: Awesome. Yeah. Your, uh, your
- 1:17:02Skyler: crow disappears into the
- 1:17:04Skyler: foliage.
- 1:17:05Skyler: The interior foilage.
- 1:17:06Speaker 22: And I run out the door.
- 1:17:07Skyler: All right.
- 1:17:08Skyler: Sounds good.
- 1:17:08Skyler: You guys all bolt out the door, running off into the darkness,
- 1:17:13Skyler: heading back to Little Source's house in Illinois.
- 1:17:17Skyler: And with that, we will end today's episode.
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