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- 0:10>> Skylar: Hello, weary traveler. I'm not sure what strange
- 0:13magic must have brought you here, but you have
- 0:16stepped into a realm of my creation. A ah,
- 0:19sprawling city filled with danger and glory and
- 0:22most importantly, lots of gold. I call it I La
- 0:27Nomis. Who am I, you might ask? The name is
- 0:30Jarjeev, and I'm the patron deity of gambling.
- 0:34Long story short, this group of idiots, or as you
- 0:38may call them, heroes, made a bet with me that
- 0:41they had what it took to make a vast trove of
- 0:43gold, but left some of the key details blank. So I
- 0:48filled them in myself. I sent them to this pocket
- 0:51dimension into the city I had created with brand
- 0:55new bodies they'd have to attune to. Can these
- 0:58fools pass my test? Or will they be trapped here
- 1:01forever? So experience my world of trials and
- 1:05tribulations and join alongside this posse of
- 1:09pitiful people. Or as I like to call them, the
- 1:12criminals of Isla Numis.
- 1:16>> Skylar: Welcome back everybody to another episode of the
- 1:18Criminals of Island Numis. My name is Skyler.
- 1:20>> Skylar: I'm the game master. The dungeon master, you might
- 1:22say.
- 1:22>> Skylar: Although not dungeon.
- 1:23>> Quinn: Very handsome.
- 1:24>> Skylar: Thank you.
- 1:25>> Skylar: Wow. I don't accept bribes or excessive
- 1:28compliments, but I do appreciate them. With that
- 1:31being said, I'll quickly go through.
- 1:32>> Cameron: He's leaving.
- 1:33>> Skylar: Yeah, he's done.
- 1:33>> Cameron: He's mad. He thought that would have worked.
- 1:35>> Skylar: Everybody wants to kill my character, so Quinn.
- 1:38Quinn left. With that being said, I will quickly
- 1:40introduce the players and their characters that we
- 1:42can jump right back into. Things to my right,
- 1:45we've got Dave, who is playing Maki, the shadow
- 1:48sorcerer Kenku. Next to him we've got Fatty
- 1:51Lumpkins, who who is playing Keto, the Cobalt
- 1:55Fighter barbarian, who has dealt a copious amount
- 1:58of damage in the last, like ten sessions probably.
- 2:01I mean, honestly, since the beginning he's been
- 2:03doing quite a bit. Jackson across from me, who
- 2:05plays dez.
- 2:07>> Skylar: The silent hunter of the group.
- 2:09>> Skylar: He is also a Kenu. Next to him would be, if they
- 2:14didn't get up and go to the kitchen for a moment,
- 2:16is our goblin. Our only goblin, who's played by
- 2:19Cameron, who goes by the name of Rorick. Used to
- 2:23be a dwarf, but now he's a jack of all trades,
- 2:26sort of rogue bard, artificer mix. it's
- 2:30complicated. It's complicated for sure. And he's
- 2:32got a grudge on his shoulder about the last player
- 2:35that we have, which is Quinn, who plays Lil Sauce,
- 2:39the ex NPC now sort of an awakened NPC you almost
- 2:43might call him, who is been chosen by the group to
- 2:46hopefully lead them through this world. Although
- 2:49it sounds like things are currently on the rocks.
- 2:54And with that, we're going to jump into today's
- 2:56episode. All right, when last we left off, you
- 3:04guys were at the Rock Bottoms Club. You went
- 3:06around, you got some information. Some of you had
- 3:08a few drinks, some of you said a few things that,
- 3:11you know, we'll see where those go. but whatever
- 3:13the case, you guys were searching for an
- 3:16individual calling themselves Cheeky McCool. And
- 3:19right at the end of last episode, Lil Sauce, you
- 3:22found out through slick the. The tling that cheeky
- 3:27McCool is sprout, the little halfling who you guys
- 3:30actually would remember from the court case he
- 3:33served on the jury. Yeah, that was the same
- 3:37halfling. And he, as you guys have kind.
- 3:39>> Skylar: Of been picking up, has been trying.
- 3:40>> Skylar: To become a member of the rocks, which is sort of
- 3:43the secret gang that sort of, runs this Rock
- 3:46Bottoms club. So far, he's been unable to join the
- 3:50organization. They have not let him onto the
- 3:53proverbial council. And so you guys were scanning
- 3:58or. Well, specifically, Lil Sauce and Maki were
- 4:02scanning alongside Grizzle tooth the bouncer,
- 4:05scanning the crowd of dancing people and clientele
- 4:09of the Rock Bottoms Club to try to find Sprout
- 4:12Ant. We left off with you guys having him cornered
- 4:15by the bathrooms, and he is about to run. So with
- 4:19that being said, I need both of you guys to roll a
- 4:21dexterity saving throw. See if you can snag him
- 4:25before he gets too far.
- 4:27>> Quinn: 19 plus, 23.
- 4:30>> Skylar: Wow.
- 4:31>> Skylar: 15.
- 4:31>> Skylar: 15.
- 4:32>> Skylar: Okay.
- 4:33>> Skylar: Maki leaps out of the shadows from behind Lil
- 4:36Sauce, trying to grab onto this halfling. Teenage.
- 4:41Like a young adult, basically. He's in his. He's,
- 4:44like, older than 18 or whatever.
- 4:46>> Cameron: Halfling he's got to be if you serve jury duty.
- 4:48>> Skylar: That's also true. Exactly. Which I had to remind
- 4:51myself when I was, like, you know, theorizing this
- 4:53character. Anyway, but he's, like, fresh into
- 4:56adulthood, right? So he's still. They always call
- 4:58him a kid, right? He, manages to duck and roll.
- 5:03Out of your way, Maki. but just as he hops back up
- 5:07from his little tumbling, gymnastics, he hops
- 5:11right into the arms and the embrace of Lil Sauce.
- 5:17>> Skylar: Let me go.
- 5:17>> Skylar: Let me go. No, you ain't got me for nothing. I,
- 5:20have, ah, my rights.
- 5:21>> Quinn: You. I ain't gonna arrest you.
- 5:23>> Skylar: Oh, you're not gonna arrest me? Oh, it sounded
- 5:25like you knew a little something. Something about
- 5:26what I was doing.
- 5:27>> Quinn: Yeah, I do Know a little something to somebody
- 5:28ain't gonna arrest you. I ain't got that power.
- 5:30You. You know nothing. know I ain't got that power
- 5:31no more.
- 5:32>> Skylar: Oh, yeah, I heard that blank space is down.
- 5:33>> Quinn: Yeah. Ah, you didn't even know what you. You talk
- 5:35about. You didn't even know what blank space
- 5:36existed until, like, a week ago or a couple days
- 5:39ago.
- 5:39>> Skylar: Yeah, but I know about it now.
- 5:41>> Cameron: Yeah.
- 5:41>> Skylar: Kazam.
- 5:41>> Skylar: and he holds.
- 5:42>> Skylar: He kind of, like, points to his T shirt, and he
- 5:44says, cheeky, but cool.
- 5:45>> Quinn: I admire the hustle. I admire you wanting to get
- 5:47in with these groups and just keep saying no, no,
- 5:49no. And you just keep saying, yes, yes, yes. But I
- 5:52feel like you might be, dealing with a little bit
- 5:54of something you shouldn't be dealing with here. I
- 5:56think you might have gone a little bit too deep.
- 5:58>> Skylar: You sound. You know who you sound like right now?
- 6:00You sound like Gravestone, always telling me
- 6:03you're just a kid. You should go do something with
- 6:06your life. Not get involved in illegal activities
- 6:09and questionable acts. Go get a degree.
- 6:13>> Skylar: Go to the magic college.
- 6:15>> Skylar: Go to whatever. Join the priesthood. I don't want
- 6:19to hear it.
- 6:20>> Quinn: You want to. This is the life you really want to
- 6:22live.
- 6:23>> Skylar: Yeah.
- 6:23>> Skylar: I want to be bad and McCool.
- 6:28>> Quinn: And get yourself killed.
- 6:30>> Skylar: yeah, you sound like you.
- 6:31>> Skylar: You just sound more like Gravestone.
- 6:33>> Skylar: Every second you can get yourself killed.
- 6:36>> Skylar: You'Re gonna get punched. You're gonna get.
- 6:38>> Quinn: I punch him.
- 6:40>> Skylar: Yeah, okay, fair enough. You know what? Fair
- 6:44enough. Can you let me go now?
- 6:46>> Quinn: Where are you getting the euphoria from?
- 6:48>> Skylar: I ain't going to tell you nothing because I'm bad.
- 6:50>> Quinn: I pull back to punch him again.
- 6:53>> Skylar: And then as you. As you pull back to punch him,
- 6:55you hear from behind you, oh, you got him. And you
- 6:59look and you see Grizzle Tooth standing there.
- 7:00>> Skylar: Nice work.
- 7:01>> Quinn: Now we're just interrogating him, seeing where
- 7:03he's getting the euphoria from. How much
- 7:05euphoria's got on him?
- 7:07>> Skylar: Ooh, That's a good question. Grizzle Tooth, as you
- 7:09hold him, Grizzle Tooth walks over and starts to
- 7:11pat him down and turns him upside down and just
- 7:14shakes him, and ding, ding, ding, ding. Like, four
- 7:16vials come out. And he. And he kind of just looks
- 7:19at. He kind of looks at Sprout, and.
- 7:21>> Skylar: He goes, sprout, where's the rest?
- 7:28>> Skylar: And sure enough, he walks over, and, you guys kind
- 7:31of all walk into the men's room, which is a little
- 7:33bit crowded, and you see, Grizzle tooth reach up.
- 7:36Actually, it's uncrowded. It's. People have left
- 7:39the area because they see the situation that's
- 7:41going on. And Grizzle to the. Reaches up. There's
- 7:43a vent in the, the men's bathroom above the sinks.
- 7:46Any. It's loose. Like, the screws have already
- 7:49been removed. And he pulls it out, and he reaches
- 7:51in there, and sure enough, there's, like, a box.
- 7:54it's not, like, huge. I, would say it's about the
- 7:56size of, like, a cigar box. And he pops it open,
- 7:59and sure enough, there's, like, a number of vials
- 8:01in there, probably two dozen small vials of this
- 8:05Euphoria drug. And he closes it, and he goes.
- 8:07>> Skylar: Sprout, you are in a lot of trouble. I think we
- 8:14need to go have a talk with Gravestone before he
- 8:18does.
- 8:18>> Quinn: I need to. I need to interrogate him. If you don't
- 8:20mind, Grizz.
- 8:21>> Skylar: Oh, you can come along.
- 8:22>> Dave: Maki's picking up the vials off the ground.
- 8:26>> Quinn: Where are you getting. Where are you getting
- 8:28Euphoria from?
- 8:28>> Skylar: Sprout, you can come with us to talk with
- 8:33Gravestone.
- 8:34>> Quinn: I kind of want to do it now.
- 8:36>> Skylar: Well, let's just all do it.
- 8:38>> Quinn: All right. I never met Gravestone, so I'm kind of
- 8:41excited.
- 8:41>> Skylar: I was gonna say, like, you've been.
- 8:42>> Skylar: Asking, like, I want to meet Grace. I want to be
- 8:44Gravestone the whole time.
- 8:45>> Quinn: And then I think he's. I don't actually think he's
- 8:47involved now. I really don't.
- 8:48>> Skylar: But at least it's your chance.
- 8:49>> Quinn: But it's my chance. Yeah, I guess. But I wanted to
- 8:51interrogate him on the spot because I could go
- 8:54into his thoughts, too.
- 8:56>> Skylar: Maybe you can do that upstairs with Gravestone.
- 8:58and then, of course, Sprout is like, you're still
- 9:00holding Sprout?
- 9:00>> Skylar: And he's like, no, wait, no, wait.
- 9:02>> Quinn: We don't have to go knock at Gravestone.
- 9:03>> Skylar: We don't have to bring him in.
- 9:04>> Skylar: And then.
- 9:05>> Skylar: And Grizzle two says, oh, yeah, we do.
- 9:09>> Skylar: It's.
- 9:09>> Skylar: This has gone too far.
- 9:11>> Skylar: And so he starts to lead you guys to that employee
- 9:14only door. Are the rest of you guys. I mean, Maki,
- 9:18you're with him. the rest of you guys are still
- 9:20hanging out over at the bar? Yeah.
- 9:21>> Skylar: Yeah.
- 9:22>> Skylar: Okay. Okay, sounds good. Do you guys have
- 9:25something that you're doing at the bar, or do you
- 9:27want me to keep going with these guys?
- 9:28>> Cameron: you are welcome to keep going with those.
- 9:30>> Dave: I won't.
- 9:30>> Quinn: I won't.
- 9:30>> Cameron: I won't stop you there. They're kind of, they're
- 9:32kind of knee deep.
- 9:33>> Skylar: So.
- 9:33>> Skylar: Okay, yeah, we're just ankle deep. So Grizzletooth
- 9:37leads the. Well three of you and then himself, he
- 9:40goes up to the employee only door and he pulls out
- 9:44a key. He unlocks it and he gestures for you guys
- 9:47to go in. It's just a stairwell that goes straight
- 9:49up. There's like a carpeting that goes down the
- 9:52center section of the stairs. and then he closes
- 9:54the door behind you guys and relocks it. And all
- 9:56of you head upstairs. you turn a corner and
- 9:59there's a big office. And you realize that it
- 10:02actually has like glass and it outlooks over the
- 10:05rest of the club. But it's not something that you
- 10:07would have noticed because it must be some kind of
- 10:09like one one sided glass. It's a big open office.
- 10:13There's bookshelves. It's kind of classic. There's
- 10:15a big wooden desk. There's a, one of those like,
- 10:17wooden office chair type things that can swivel
- 10:19around and stuff. and then there's a handful of
- 10:22chairs as well. you set down Sprout in the center
- 10:26one. And then everybody kind of just sits around
- 10:28him to keep him from going anywhere. Grizzle Tooth
- 10:30puts his hand on his shoulder to like give him
- 10:34the.
- 10:34>> Skylar: Don't go anywhere.
- 10:36>> Skylar: And as you guys sit there waiting, you hear
- 10:38footsteps slowly coming down the wooden floor. And
- 10:44all of a sudden a figure steps into the room. This
- 10:50figure is probably about 6 foot tall. He wears
- 10:56bright purple, a bright purple cloak, long cloak
- 11:02that stretches all the way down past his feet. And
- 11:06he's got sort of the, the very classic kind of
- 11:10classy, looking. He's got a white shirt that kind
- 11:13of peeks out of a brown vest. He's got a big top
- 11:17hat on and he has his collars that come all the
- 11:20way up to create a really dense shadow around his,
- 11:23his face so you can't see what he looks like. He
- 11:26looks very, posh Pirate would be a way to put it.
- 11:30He's got big old like brown leather gloves on his
- 11:32hands and big old brown leather shoes on his feet.
- 11:37He's got dark brown pants that stretch down and
- 11:40kind of tuck underneath those. And he comes in and
- 11:43he sits down in his chair and he says.
- 11:47>> Skylar: Well, well, well, Sprout. Got yourself in some
- 11:52trouble, have you?
- 11:53>> Skylar: And Grizzle two says, yeah.
- 11:56>> Skylar: Turns out he's been dealing euphoria.
- 12:01>> Skylar: He sets the box down and he Slides it over, and
- 12:04you see one of Gravestones, leathered hands reach
- 12:07out and open up the box and sees the vials inside.
- 12:10He closes them, and he kind of puts it over off to
- 12:12the side of his desk.
- 12:13>> Skylar: And he says, man, this is bad. This is pretty bad.
- 12:20>> Skylar: Sprout.
- 12:21>> Skylar: You've been a bad boy, and I am very disappointed
- 12:27in you, and you need to be punished.
- 12:35>> Skylar: Sprout is sitting there, and Gravestone kind of
- 12:37pushes Sprout's chair closer to the desk, and
- 12:40Sprouts just like Sprout at this point, Sprout
- 12:42just has his hands out, and he says, like, it's
- 12:44not fair.
- 12:45>> Skylar: Graves. No, I was just trying to impress you guys.
- 12:48You know, ever since you. You let me sit in on the
- 12:50meetings. But then you wouldn't grant me the title
- 12:53of a member. It just. It doesn't make sense. It's
- 12:57not fair. So I was just trying to prove to you
- 12:59guys that I. I could be of use, you know, that I
- 13:03could do something.
- 13:04>> Skylar: I, don't want to hear it, Sprout. I explicitly
- 13:07told you that euphoria, was off the table. Now,
- 13:12you need to be punished.
- 13:14>> Skylar: And you see. You see Gravestone's leathered hand
- 13:17just start to reach out slowly towards Sprout. And
- 13:22as it does, you see all his fingers, fold inwards
- 13:27into almost a fist, except for his index finger
- 13:30and his thumb. And he tucks the index finger under
- 13:34his thumb, and he reaches out right up to Sprout's
- 13:38nose, and he flicks it. He flicks his nose. That
- 13:46stings.
- 13:47>> Skylar: I was already broken because this guy punched me.
- 13:49>> Skylar: Well, you've been a bad, bad boy.
- 13:52>> Skylar: Anyways, and he.
- 13:52>> Skylar: He pulls down his.
- 13:54>> Skylar: His collars, right, that have been up this whole
- 13:57time. And he takes his hat off, and he is a
- 14:01skeleton underneath. And he takes off his. His
- 14:06glove that he just finished flicking Sprout, with.
- 14:09And it's just a bone hand. And he reaches out to
- 14:12shake yours, and he says, sorry about that.
- 14:14>> Skylar: didn't mean to be rude or anything like that. My
- 14:16name is Gravestone. You look quite familiar. Lil
- 14:20Sauce, right?
- 14:21>> Quinn: Yeah, that's right.
- 14:22>> Skylar: Wonderful to meet you.
- 14:23>> Skylar: Wonderful to meet you. And I don't think I've had
- 14:25the pleasure of meeting you, sir.
- 14:27>> Dave: Marky.
- 14:27>> Quinn: Marky, attorney at law.
- 14:30>> Skylar: Oh, an attorney. Very nice. Well, it's great to
- 14:33meet you.
- 14:34>> Dave: Shake his hand.
- 14:34>> Skylar: All right.
- 14:35>> Skylar: Well, whatever the case, it seems that you boys
- 14:38must have been instrumental in capturing the
- 14:41misguided, youth in our presence. Sprout here, and
- 14:46I want to say a strong thank you to both of you
- 14:49for that. And, oh, as reward.
- 14:52>> Skylar: And he reaches into one of his desk drawers, and
- 14:54he pulls out two little tickets, and he hands them
- 14:57to you guys. And on it, you see there's, like, a
- 14:59little circle. And then popping out of the circle
- 15:02is gravestone. He's got a big old thumbs up, and
- 15:04it just says, free drink. One free drink.
- 15:07>> Quinn: On it.
- 15:09>> Skylar: He says, why don't you guys go downstairs and
- 15:11treat yourselves to a free drink on me. just let
- 15:14Rusty know that I sent you down there.
- 15:16>> Quinn: Great.
- 15:16>> Skylar: Guy.
- 15:17>> Skylar: Rusty.
- 15:17>> Skylar: You know, you can try one of those cookie shots. I
- 15:19don't. I don't personally like them too much. I
- 15:21think they taste like Hydrox, but that's just me.
- 15:24Out of curiosity, what, What tipped you off about,
- 15:27my little. My little problem here?
- 15:30>> Skylar: More than a problem.
- 15:32>> Skylar: Be quiet, Sprout.
- 15:33>> Skylar: You.
- 15:34>> Skylar: You don't need to talk.
- 15:35>> Quinn: You have nothing to do with this euphoria?
- 15:38>> Skylar: Oh, no.
- 15:38>> Quinn: Big bad.
- 15:39>> Skylar: I explicitly banned it.
- 15:41>> Skylar: I. I say each morning at our m. Meeting, I say,
- 15:44sure, you've.
- 15:45>> Quinn: I'm sure you've seen. Well, you know what happened
- 15:47to where my former employer.
- 15:49>> Skylar: Oh, yes.
- 15:50>> Quinn: I. As you know, I'm. I've got no legal power
- 15:53whatsoever. I know there's some things that you
- 15:55like to do that I don't necessarily agree with.
- 15:57>> Skylar: Yeah, we have had our differences in the past.
- 16:00>> Quinn: A lot of our agreements, too. We haven't.
- 16:02>> Skylar: You know, we like to be the good guys of the bad
- 16:04guys, so.
- 16:05>> Skylar: Yeah.
- 16:07>> Quinn: You have nothing to do with this?
- 16:08>> Skylar: Oh, no.
- 16:09>> Quinn: You know of anything about magical bones?
- 16:13>> Skylar: He looks at his hand and he goes, What do you want
- 16:16to know?
- 16:17>> Quinn: No, no, no magical bones. Not yours, of course.
- 16:20Right, right.
- 16:20>> Skylar: Yeah, we've established that.
- 16:23>> Skylar: not that I can think of.
- 16:26>> Quinn: But I would not be able to read his mind, would I?
- 16:29Because he doesn't have a brain, right?
- 16:30>> Skylar: He has a mind.
- 16:31>> Cameron: He has a mind.
- 16:32>> Skylar: Yeah, he has a mind existing.
- 16:33>> Quinn: Here's.
- 16:34>> Skylar: Here's what I'll say. Here's what I'll say.
- 16:36>> Skylar: Ah, I don't know anything about magic, brother
- 16:38here. look, maybe we can both get some answers. If
- 16:42our friend Sprout here might be able to enlighten
- 16:46us about some things about where he's getting
- 16:48euphoria, maybe that'll give us some answers.
- 16:50>> Quinn: All I'm saying is I know there's bad things coming
- 16:52down these towns, and there's bad things coming,
- 16:56and,
- 16:56>> Skylar: Hey, Trust me.
- 16:58>> Skylar: I, did a little.
- 16:58>> Quinn: Your robe that you're wearing, do you know
- 17:01anything about ascension?
- 17:02>> Skylar: Ascension? Like going up? Some of the things you
- 17:07say are.
- 17:07>> Skylar: Kind of broad here.
- 17:08>> Skylar: Give me a little bit more. Like, what do you mean
- 17:10by that?
- 17:11>> Quinn: I don't know of anything about, rituals for the
- 17:14Chosen One or anything like that.
- 17:15>> Skylar: I've heard talking to you about that. We've had
- 17:17some guys come into the.
- 17:19>> Quinn: They're not important. No use. Purple cloak.
- 17:22>> Skylar: Just a coincidence they got purple cloaks out
- 17:25there.
- 17:26>> Quinn: No, they were red ones.
- 17:27>> Skylar: Oh, I've got a purple one on.
- 17:31>> Quinn: Okay.
- 17:31>> Skylar: Yeah.
- 17:31>> Quinn: Ah, they were purple. I was just seeing if you.
- 17:33>> Skylar: Now you've got me confused. Are they purple or are
- 17:35they the purple. They're purple. Okay, well, not
- 17:38me. I mean, I guess that's all I can say. Do you
- 17:40want to hear what Sprout has to say about the,
- 17:44>> Quinn: Okay, yeah.
- 17:45>> Skylar: Let's get to work.
- 17:45>> Quinn: He.
- 17:46>> Skylar: He, sort of.
- 17:47>> Quinn: I was very confused. This book. I really thought.
- 17:49This guy is going to be like, big time
- 17:51instrumental, and we're looking for. It's not.
- 17:54>> Skylar: He might. I don't know.
- 17:55>> Skylar: He might.
- 17:55>> Skylar: He might.
- 17:56>> Skylar: Maybe.
- 17:56>> Skylar: Maybe he's. Maybe he's able to offer you
- 17:58something. He reaches over like, he. He's gonna
- 18:01poke Sprout's nose again.
- 18:03>> Skylar: And Sprout's like, oh, please don't do it again.
- 18:05Oh, gosh, it hurts so bad.
- 18:07>> Skylar: And he goes, just calm down for a moment.
- 18:10>> Skylar: And he lightly taps his nose. And you see Sprout,
- 18:13all the blood, dries up. And Sprout's nose
- 18:15replaces itself back into place.
- 18:17>> Skylar: And he goes, oh, that wasn't so bad.
- 18:20>> Skylar: Now, Sprout, you're going to tell me.
- 18:22>> Skylar: The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the
- 18:25truth.
- 18:26>> Skylar: Something that I'm sure our attorney friend here
- 18:28is actually quite familiar with. Now, for the two
- 18:30of you, I apologize for this, but I feel it is
- 18:33necessary. And he snaps his fingers and you guys
- 18:35need to make I believe it's a wisdom saving throw
- 18:39zone of truth token.
- 18:41>> Quinn: Okay, I rolled on that one.
- 18:43>> Skylar: Oh, well, I mean, it's just to find out if you're
- 18:45telling the truth. I mean, if you're gonna hide
- 18:48something, I don't know, it's up to you.
- 18:49>> Quinn: On, what's he asking now?
- 18:51>> Skylar: He hasn't asked you anything. He's mostly doing it
- 18:53for to ask Scrout.
- 18:55>> Quinn: Okay.
- 18:55>> Skylar: It's just you guys are in the room. It's a. It's
- 18:57an area.
- 18:58>> Quinn: Well, let's try again. That's the liable.
- 18:59>> Skylar: Okay.
- 18:59>> Skylar: Yeah, yeah.
- 19:00>> Cameron: He goes, I killed him.
- 19:01>> Skylar: I killed McCrilla.
- 19:07>> Skylar: What'd you get, Dave? I got an eight. An eight.
- 19:09Okay. So both of you are currently compelled to
- 19:13answer thinks truthfully to the best of your
- 19:15ability. whatever the case, he looks over at
- 19:17Sprout and he says, I never.
- 19:19>> Skylar: Wanted to sell the sauce.
- 19:20>> Skylar: When prompted.
- 19:21>> Skylar: When prompted. Oh, wow.
- 19:25>> Skylar: There's some deep rooted issues there, certainly.
- 19:28>> Skylar: let's focus on Sprout for a moment.
- 19:30>> Skylar: Sprout, you're going to need to explain to all of
- 19:34us here in the.
- 19:34>> Skylar: Room where it is that you are.
- 19:36>> Skylar: Getting your euphoria from. well, you see this.
- 19:42There were these guys, they were scroungers and
- 19:45they said they had a connection and they needed
- 19:48somebody to get it into the club when they found
- 19:50out that you abandoned it. And I said, I've gotten
- 19:52in with the club, I can do it. So they took me
- 19:56over to this facility place out in the Condale
- 19:59district. it's called Steel.
- 20:02>> Skylar: Steel Born Industries.
- 20:05>> Skylar: It's an old thing.
- 20:06>> Skylar: It's not.
- 20:07>> Skylar: Is. I don't even know if it's the Steel words
- 20:08running it. I don't know who's running it, but
- 20:10whatever the case, they gave me a pack and they
- 20:14said, you better go sell this and then bring us
- 20:16the money and you'll get a cut.
- 20:18>> Skylar: And then.
- 20:18>> Skylar: So I have been. And that's where I get it from.
- 20:21Oh, the Wakandale district, you said? Steel Born
- 20:25Industries. Got it. Understood. All right. Do you
- 20:30have anything that you wanted to ask him? Either
- 20:32of you? Lawyer, attorney? I'm sure you're full of
- 20:36good questions, huh? Or the secret police blank
- 20:40space guy?
- 20:41>> Quinn: Well, the former.
- 20:43>> Skylar: Well, of course, but you. You still got the.
- 20:45>> Skylar: You're an inquisitive mind.
- 20:48>> Quinn: This is true. Who are you working for exactly?
- 20:50Anybody else? Name everybody you were working for.
- 20:53Anybody that you know, acquaintance, anybody
- 20:55that's paid you money to run. Any Euphoria is just
- 20:58that guy.
- 20:58>> Skylar: All right, I'll be honest. The guy I was getting
- 21:01the drugs from, his name, his alias was McCool. I
- 21:08just thought it sounded neat. So then I took it
- 21:10because I figured he's not at Ah Rock Bottoms, he
- 21:13won't know that I used it, but that's what he said
- 21:16his name was.
- 21:17>> Quinn: You're an idiot.
- 21:19>> Dave: I'm gonna need a. Or is there any, like, paper or
- 21:21anything on.
- 21:22>> Skylar: Yeah, there's like a little notepad on the desk
- 21:24and there's a pen just like, waiting in the ink.
- 21:27>> Dave: Well, I'm gonna need a detailed list of all your
- 21:30customers.
- 21:32>> Quinn: You know, gravestone. I was not expecting a
- 21:34skeleton. You kind of caught me off guard. Oh,
- 21:36sorry, sorry, sorry.
- 21:38>> Skylar: That's telling the truth.
- 21:40>> Skylar: okay, let's see. There was Steve McCrawley.
- 21:46>> Skylar: There was anybody important.
- 21:49>> Skylar: Oh, well, I sold the Radicus.
- 21:52>> Quinn: There we go.
- 21:53>> Skylar: Yeah.
- 21:54>> Quinn: Tell me more about Eradicus.
- 21:56>> Skylar: Well, he's a big guy. He's very fat, and he's also
- 22:02not very nice. he would pay for the euphoria, and
- 22:10I had to take. Usually he came here, but there was
- 22:13one time that I had to go over to his office,
- 22:15which was over in the docks at the Gotham
- 22:18District.
- 22:19>> Quinn: Oh, you don't say.
- 22:20>> Cameron: Yeah.
- 22:21>> Skylar: Yeah, I, don't like selling to him.
- 22:23>> Quinn: M. I don't think you like to worry about that
- 22:25anymore.
- 22:26>> Skylar: Oh, good. Well, I figured I don't have to.
- 22:29>> Skylar: Worry about selling any of it because I'm in a lot
- 22:30of trouble right now. Needless to say, though, I
- 22:35mean, he was a great customer because he bought a
- 22:37lot. A lot.
- 22:39>> Cameron: Like this box.
- 22:40>> Skylar: He was going to buy the whole box.
- 22:43>> Skylar: That doesn't even count the stuff in my pockets.
- 22:45That was extra. I was gonna sell that per bottle
- 22:48to the.
- 22:48>> Quinn: What'd she sell it for?
- 22:50>> Skylar: like a, thousand gold pieces.
- 22:53>> Cameron: Maki, how many of those did you pocket?
- 22:56>> Skylar: I take it to the.
- 22:57>> Skylar: To the real McCool, and then he.
- 22:59>> Skylar: Gives me a cut.
- 23:00>> Quinn: Do you know the real McCool's name?
- 23:02>> Skylar: No.
- 23:03>> Skylar: That's why he called himself McCool.
- 23:05>> Quinn: Where were you supposed to meet him next?
- 23:08>> Skylar: McCool?
- 23:08>> Quinn: Yeah.
- 23:09>> Skylar: back at the facility. Midnight tonight.
- 23:13>> Quinn: All right, well, guess where you're going to be
- 23:15tonight at midnight.
- 23:17>> Skylar: Oh, man, I got to go with you guys.
- 23:19>> Quinn: Yeah.
- 23:19>> Skylar: Oh, man.
- 23:21>> Skylar: Is that true, Gravestone? Is that true?
- 23:23>> Skylar: Well, actually, I was planning on having you go
- 23:27because this is your mess.
- 23:28>> Skylar: And you need to get out of it.
- 23:29>> Skylar: And I'm also planning on going.
- 23:31>> Quinn: Whoa.
- 23:33>> Skylar: And because this is going to be a hell of a fight,
- 23:35I wondered, and this is up to you, Grizzletooth,
- 23:39but perhaps you and, Rusty might be interested in
- 23:42joining us.
- 23:43>> Skylar: And Grizzletooth kinda sits up looking real
- 23:46confident. Got a little bit of swagger in his
- 23:48adjustment on his seat.
- 23:49>> Skylar: And he says, you know, I'm always up for a fight.
- 23:52Greystone.
- 23:54>> Quinn: Grizzle.
- 23:55>> Skylar: Eh?
- 23:55>> Quinn: You got my back?
- 23:57>> Skylar: Sure.
- 23:58>> Quinn: He can't lie. He can't lie.
- 23:59>> Skylar: He can't lie. I've got your back if you got mine.
- 24:02>> Skylar: Fist bump.
- 24:03>> Quinn: Fist bump.
- 24:03>> Skylar: Nice.
- 24:04>> Quinn: I feel like, I've Got some friends that may or may
- 24:06not join us. There's one of them just been
- 24:09rambling on, like about random stuff on the rob
- 24:12banks and stuff. And I heard him from a distance,
- 24:16you know, just talking real bad about me earlier.
- 24:18I think he might be a few drinks in. But he's
- 24:21talking. He's talking real bad about me. I'm just
- 24:23not sure if he wants to help me anymore. But Maki
- 24:28here. Maki, are you. You gonna help me?
- 24:30>> Cameron: Yeah.
- 24:31>> Cameron: Yeah.
- 24:33>> Quinn: So it might just be us. I think we take down the
- 24:36leaders of this Euphoria Ring.
- 24:38>> Skylar: Well, we. We could use all the help that we need
- 24:41because I have a feeling that they're gonna be
- 24:43fully staffed tonight. Giving out the drugs.
- 24:45>> Quinn: This could lead to the Ascension.
- 24:47>> Skylar: Yeah, you meant. Oh, yeah, you mentioned that
- 24:49before.
- 24:49>> Skylar: What?
- 24:49>> Quinn: Oh, it's ritual. There's this ritual. We, We. We.
- 24:52We went and found Radicus and I was. I've been
- 24:58sent on this mission by.
- 24:59>> Skylar: My dying boss from blank space.
- 25:01>> Skylar: Chief.
- 25:03>> Skylar: All right, all right.
- 25:04>> Quinn: And sent. And they said to look up the grave
- 25:07robbers and the. The legionnaires.
- 25:09>> Skylar: You're going to go after the legionnaires?
- 25:13>> Quinn: I think they might be behind all of this.
- 25:15>> Skylar: I wouldn't be surprised, but that's.
- 25:17>> Quinn: There's. There's euphoria mixed in with ascension
- 25:19and. And magical bones, so you might want to watch
- 25:22yourself. They're going after magical bones? Can
- 25:24you imagine them finding live magical bones?
- 25:27>> Skylar: Oh, yeah, that would, If they want magical bones,
- 25:29I might.
- 25:29>> Skylar: Have the most magical bones of all. With that
- 25:32being said, I, think it's important that you know
- 25:34that I. When Euphoria first started coming out on
- 25:37the streets, I did run a few tests on it. And I
- 25:42can't really describe it, but there's something
- 25:45off about it.
- 25:46>> Skylar: It.
- 25:46>> Skylar: It's not just a drug. It feels like there's more
- 25:49to it. And I couldn't quite figure out what that
- 25:52was, but I knew it was bad, which is why I banned
- 25:55it.
- 25:55>> Dave: Could you feel it in your bones?
- 25:58>> Skylar: You know, that's not the first time I've heard
- 26:00that.
- 26:00>> Skylar: But that was good.
- 26:01>> Quinn: That was good.
- 26:01>> Skylar: yes, I could feel it in.
- 26:03>> Skylar: My bones and in the magic that.
- 26:05>> Skylar: I was experimenting with.
- 26:08>> Quinn: do you have a spell book around by chance? Are you
- 26:10a wizard at all?
- 26:11>> Skylar: I tinker.
- 26:12>> Quinn: You know, a spell book that I can look at.
- 26:14>> Skylar: That's kind of private.
- 26:16>> Quinn: I don't know if we maybe can teach me or something
- 26:18or two.
- 26:19>> Skylar: Perhaps. Perhaps that's a discussion we can have
- 26:22after we deal with this Euphoria situation.
- 26:23>> Quinn: Oh, this is going to be a big fight. Maybe you
- 26:26have one.
- 26:27>> Skylar: Just to clarify, it usually takes a lot. I think
- 26:29it takes like two hours and 50 gold, if I remember
- 26:32correctly, to like copy a spell over,
- 26:34>> Quinn: While we almost really have two hours.
- 26:37>> Skylar: It's 11 o' clock right now, boss.
- 26:39>> Skylar: I think we better get going if.
- 26:40>> Skylar: We'Re going to get to the Wakandale district on
- 26:42time.
- 26:42>> Quinn: Let's go see if my three other associates want to
- 26:48go. And if not, I guess not.
- 26:50>> Skylar: So he's got a point.
- 27:06>> Quinn: Going to walk up to Rorick.
- 27:07>> Skylar: Okay, you guys come down the stairs.
- 27:09>> Quinn: Rory and Rourke, you want to kill stuff. That's
- 27:12not me.
- 27:13>> Cameron: I did want to ask. Did he actually hear that?
- 27:16>> Skylar: He would. He might have heard fractions at best. I
- 27:19don't think he heard. Well, it's also a really
- 27:22noisy.
- 27:22>> Cameron: He said it was a club and he said he was beating
- 27:25up some kid over by the bathroom.
- 27:27>> Skylar: Yeah, I don't know.
- 27:28>> Skylar: I mean, we'll say that he caught like a fragment
- 27:30here or two, but not like.
- 27:32>> Quinn: I feel like we were in the same room when he was
- 27:33doing that.
- 27:34>> Skylar: He was. Yeah, but I mean, it's also like the dance
- 27:36room, right? There's like all those people in the
- 27:38music and everything. Like, I don't know, he might
- 27:40have caught like a couple of words, I don't know,
- 27:42as they were walking away.
- 27:44>> Cameron: Which words? I guess if he caught words.
- 27:47>> Skylar: Stupid.
- 27:48>> Cameron: Yeah, I said stupid a lot.
- 27:49>> Skylar: You just heard him say stupid and I don't know.
- 27:53>> Skylar: I don't know.
- 27:54>> Cameron: I did. I said little, saw stupid.
- 27:57>> Skylar: I don't know, a lot.
- 27:58>> Cameron: Those are the big three. Those are the three words
- 28:01or three phrases.
- 28:01>> Quinn: I mean, we're in the same room. I feel like him.
- 28:03He'd be screaming at drunk. Him would be screaming
- 28:06it.
- 28:06>> Cameron: I was yelling. But again, it's a club.
- 28:08>> Quinn: Okay, I guess he can go either way.
- 28:10>> Skylar: Anyway.
- 28:11>> Skylar: Anyway. Anyway. Let's move.
- 28:12>> Quinn: You want to kill stuff?
- 28:14>> Cameron: Yeah, I want to kill stuff.
- 28:15>> Quinn: You want to kill stuff?
- 28:17>> Cameron: Dez, holds up his little sign and it says money,
- 28:20question mark.
- 28:21>> Cameron: Oh, yeah. Do you get money?
- 28:22>> Quinn: I didn't get money per se, but I did get a free
- 28:25drink on the house.
- 28:27>> Skylar: That's the start.
- 28:29>> Quinn: but anybody we can kill. You can Ludo.
- 28:32>> Cameron: I mean, is okay, but who are we killing? I guess
- 28:34that's what DEZ is wondering.
- 28:35>> Quinn: Well, we're going to the straight to the source of
- 28:38the euphoria.
- 28:39>> Cameron: Oh, euphoria. Hey, that's worth money, right?
- 28:43>> Quinn: There you go.
- 28:44>> Cameron: Do you know how much it's worth?
- 28:45>> Dave: Turns out it's worth like a thousand. A vial.
- 28:50>> Skylar: Hold on. There was the box. The box of, vials.
- 28:53>> Cameron: Oh, you said a vial.
- 28:54>> Skylar: No, I didn't.
- 28:55>> Cameron: Yes, you did. Then we all freaked out
- 28:58collectively.
- 28:59>> Cameron: Asked Maki how many vials he had.
- 29:02>> Cameron: Yeah, because you said said bile. I mean if you
- 29:05need a retcon right now.
- 29:07>> Skylar: I thought I said. When you said bio.
- 29:09>> Cameron: We all together like not.
- 29:14>> Skylar: We didn't say anything.
- 29:15>> Cameron: But all of us looked around the table and all I
- 29:17saw dollar signs everywhere.
- 29:20>> Cameron: We are now becoming drug dealers.
- 29:21>> Skylar: That was exactly where our minds.
- 29:23>> Cameron: Oh, I think all four of us thought the exact same
- 29:26thing.
- 29:26>> Skylar: I saw you guys like all like a light up, but I
- 29:29just thought I had said the box. And then he said,
- 29:32and that doesn't.
- 29:33>> Skylar: Even count the vials I had in my pocke.
- 29:35>> Cameron: So just to clarify, how much is the individual
- 29:38vials?
- 29:39>> Skylar: The individual. Okay, so I said there were about
- 29:41two dozen.
- 29:42>> Cameron: There's two dozen and one. So take a thousand
- 29:44divided by 2450.
- 29:45>> Skylar: A vial.
- 29:46>> Cameron: Still something.
- 29:47>> Quinn: Yeah.
- 29:47>> Skylar: And I mean they're little vials.
- 29:49>> Cameron: Yeah, there's still something.
- 29:50>> Skylar: You assume a factory full of this stuff would have
- 29:52a lot of sell a thousand cases.
- 29:55>> Cameron: I mean if it's a factory full of stuff, I mean.
- 29:58>> Cameron: Well, also this Des would not know this. But I'm
- 30:02going to put this out there. If the McCool guy is
- 30:05getting all of the money from these boxes and he's
- 30:08getting bought a thousand gold a box, he's got to
- 30:11have that money stored somewhere. And it's been
- 30:14going on for a long time. So there's got to be
- 30:17lots of gold somewhere.
- 30:19>> Cameron: Non taxed money.
- 30:20>> Cameron: That's also tax money. And we don't have to worry
- 30:23about no insured banks.
- 30:26>> Cameron: Oh yeah.
- 30:27>> Skylar: There's no insurance.
- 30:29>> Cameron: Stealing from criminals is the best way to make
- 30:31money. Because they can't hell on you. Because
- 30:33what are they going to say? Oh, my drug money was
- 30:36stolen from me.
- 30:37>> Skylar: That's a fair point.
- 30:38>> Cameron: They'll be a criminal then like, oh, dang it. All
- 30:42right, so we rob the. We go kill the Euphoria
- 30:47people. Stopping Euphoria, which is what little
- 30:49sauce wants. And then we take all the money from
- 30:52the Euphoria people and start a.
- 30:54>> Skylar: Rehab center to charge. Oh, that's good. That's
- 30:57good.
- 30:58>> Skylar: DEZ breaks the whiteboard over his knee.
- 31:02>> Cameron: DEZ is really into us and he's gonna need a new
- 31:06whiteboard.
- 31:07>> Quinn: Question.
- 31:08>> Cameron: Gravestone is here. I'm guessing he just followed
- 31:11this.
- 31:11>> Skylar: He's made an appearance in his club. He has his
- 31:13collars.
- 31:14>> Cameron: I was gonna say. Does he look like a skeleton?
- 31:17Gravestone costume.
- 31:19>> Skylar: Yes.
- 31:19>> Cameron: Okay.
- 31:19>> Cameron: He's in costume. And the grizzle tooth there.
- 31:21>> Skylar: Okay.
- 31:21>> Cameron: And Rorke's like, hey, who's the big guy?
- 31:24>> Quinn: Sauce. I'm sorry, what?
- 31:26>> Cameron: Who's the big guy?
- 31:27>> Quinn: Gravestone.
- 31:27>> Cameron: Oh, that's Gravestone. Nice to meet you.
- 31:30>> Skylar: He puts out a gloved hand.
- 31:31>> Skylar: He says, nice to meet you, too.
- 31:33>> Cameron: Can I roll a perception check to notice his hand
- 31:37shape?
- 31:38>> Quinn: Sure.
- 31:39>> Skylar: When you feel it.
- 31:40>> Cameron: I shake a lot of hands. I'm, a very friendly guy.
- 31:4212.
- 31:42>> Skylar: It's a glove.
- 31:43>> Cameron: Yeah, it's a little. How leathery?
- 31:45>> Skylar: It's leathery bone.
- 31:47>> Skylar: He's got.
- 31:47>> Cameron: You whisper that to me.
- 31:49>> Skylar: Everyone's made a bone, stupid. He's got a point
- 31:54on a fragment of his broken whiteboard.
- 31:56>> Skylar: He writes, everyone's made a bone, stupid.
- 32:00>> Skylar: That's good.
- 32:02>> Skylar: Even gravestones laughing at that.
- 32:05>> Cameron: So, anyways, we're gonna go break into this
- 32:08Euphoria place, kick some butt, kill some people,
- 32:11take their money, and. Why are these two here?
- 32:16>> Quinn: We're gonna destroy all the Euphoria.
- 32:18>> Skylar: Nah.
- 32:18>> Cameron: they're coming with.
- 32:19>> Skylar: When you say these two, who are you pointing at?
- 32:20>> Cameron: Gravestone and Grizzle tooth.
- 32:22>> Quinn: Well, and then Rusty's coming, too.
- 32:24>> Cameron: Oh, rustic.
- 32:25>> Skylar: Yeah, Rusty.
- 32:26>> Skylar: You just hear Rusty from behind the bar.
- 32:28>> Skylar: What?
- 32:28>> Skylar: Where am I going? And Grizzle two's like, oh,
- 32:30yeah, we're.
- 32:31>> Skylar: Gonna go rough up. We found out where the Euphoria
- 32:33is being made, and now we're gonna go take it.
- 32:36Take it down.
- 32:36>> Skylar: We found.
- 32:37>> Skylar: We found the drugs.
- 32:38>> Skylar: Where are they set?
- 32:40>> Skylar: Oh, we're gonna. Hey, I'm in. Are we, shutting
- 32:43things down early, then?
- 32:45>> Cameron: You're the only bartender.
- 32:47>> Skylar: Well, I mean, we. We've got another one.
- 32:49>> Skylar: It's just they're not here.
- 32:51>> Skylar: Like, I'm.
- 32:51>> Skylar: Like, I was on the.
- 32:53>> Cameron: Yeah, I'm on the Popular Club. Only has one
- 32:57bartender working at a time.
- 32:58>> Skylar: and Greystone, he leans in.
- 33:00>> Skylar: He says, well, I like to keep things to people I
- 33:03can trust.
- 33:04>> Cameron: Oh, yeah, that makes sense.
- 33:06>> Skylar: Yes. yeah, absolutely.
- 33:07>> Skylar: Give me just a moment.
- 33:08>> Skylar: And he goes.
- 33:08>> Quinn: He.
- 33:09>> Skylar: He lifts up his hand. He snaps his fingers, his
- 33:11gloved fingers. And, you see a fairy float up.
- 33:15>> Skylar: She says, yes, sir.
- 33:17>> Skylar: What, what do you need?
- 33:18>> Skylar: Yes, we're going to close things down early
- 33:20tonight. If you could take care of that. Oh, of
- 33:24course, sir.
- 33:24>> Skylar: Yeah.
- 33:25>> Skylar: Whatever you need.
- 33:25>> Skylar: And you see her float up, and she, like, starts to
- 33:29tamper There's a, there's a dial box or like a
- 33:32control box that's inside the, the disco ball that
- 33:35hangs from the ceiling. And she starts to touch a
- 33:38few things and then like all the lights basically
- 33:40just go out and the music stops.
- 33:42>> Skylar: And then you just hear her voice say, everyone get
- 33:45out.
- 33:47>> Skylar: And everybody, the door grizzle, Two walks over
- 33:50and he opens up the, the entrance door. And it's
- 33:53the only light that anyone can see. So you just
- 33:56hear a whole bunch of people just kind of like,
- 34:00like, just stumbling over like furniture and
- 34:03chairs and tables and booths and all this other
- 34:05stuff. People from the back rooms. Like, who even
- 34:07knows how they're getting out, but somehow they
- 34:10managed to find their way. and as, as everybody
- 34:12else is, just before everybody else starts piling
- 34:14out, you guys manage to get out of the pub first
- 34:16and you guys head off towards the Wakandale
- 34:19district. Once again, ironically, just after
- 34:21getting back from the Wakandale district. This is
- 34:23a shady district. That's right. There's a lot of
- 34:26questionable things going on down there. Whatever
- 34:28the case, you guys, make it to the Wakandale
- 34:31district and to the building that has this sort of
- 34:36rundown, old sparse, signage on it that says Steel
- 34:42Born Industries. And you guys are kind of like
- 34:45away outside. There's sort of like a perimeter
- 34:49fence around it. There's bushes around there. You
- 34:51guys are kind of hidden amongst those. Greystone
- 34:53leans forward and he says, so.
- 34:55>> Skylar: how are we breaking into this thing?
- 34:56>> Skylar: I, I, I'll leave a little bit.
- 34:58>> Skylar: Of the decisions to you.
- 34:59>> Cameron: I was just gonna ask little Sauce the same thing.
- 35:01What's the plan, boss?
- 35:03>> Skylar: Yeah, what's the plan, Sauce, what's the plan?
- 35:06>> Quinn: Greystone.
- 35:07>> Cameron: What, fights?
- 35:10>> Skylar: Yeah.
- 35:10>> Cameron: Kito.
- 35:11>> Cameron: Oh, no, I'm just the muscle. I'm not the brain.
- 35:14>> Skylar: What is this? Good night at the Waltons house.
- 35:16>> Skylar: What is this?
- 35:17>> Cameron: Fine, fine. The brains. Dez, what's the plan?
- 35:21>> Cameron: DEZ whips out a new whiteboard and he writes, I'll
- 35:26sneak in and open the door from the inside.
- 35:28>> Cameron: Vomit.
- 35:29>> Skylar: All right, there are some guards that are posted
- 35:32outside the doors, but yeah, go for it, Whatever.
- 35:34>> Cameron: Yeah, sneak in. Okay, I'm a sneak in. I'm going to
- 35:38distract them with my very trusty bag of tricks.
- 35:42Yep, I think this will be my last one for the day.
- 35:44>> Cameron: Oh, so we'll need to long rest if I want any more.
- 35:46>> Skylar: Better be a good one.
- 35:47>> Quinn: Boo M. All right.
- 35:49>> Cameron: Okay, so first of all, hop in the wall. Second of
- 35:53all, bag of tricks. It is A giant hyena.
- 35:57>> Skylar: Oh, okay.
- 35:58>> Skylar: Just out there.
- 35:59>> Cameron: He just threw it out there.
- 36:01>> Skylar: It's got that weird, creepy laugh that hyenas do,
- 36:04and it just kind of struts out and it just, like,
- 36:06glares at the two guys, and they're just like.
- 36:08They're a little freaked out at first because this
- 36:10is a giant hyena.
- 36:11>> Cameron: Before they move.
- 36:12>> Skylar: Yeah.
- 36:12>> Cameron: Do they have, like, a key ring on their belt? No,
- 36:16no, no keys. No, no keys.
- 36:18>> Skylar: Okay. Okay. Are you having the hyena do anything
- 36:21in particular?
- 36:22>> Cameron: I'm going to have the hyenas cackle loudly and get
- 36:26their attention.
- 36:27>> Skylar: Oh, it has their attention.
- 36:29>> Cameron: It's going to kind of like charge at them and
- 36:32then, like, fake. Fake an attack.
- 36:35>> Skylar: Like feints. Yeah, yeah.
- 36:36>> Skylar: Run.
- 36:36>> Cameron: Run away.
- 36:37>> Skylar: And these are, like, havoc. Yeah. These guys start
- 36:39to kind of panic a little bit. They pull out
- 36:41they've got crossbows, and they start to try to,
- 36:43like, take a couple of pot shots at it.
- 36:48>> Skylar: Oh, they both miss.
- 36:49>> Skylar: Those are bad. Those are really bad.
- 36:51>> Skylar: they're both missing.
- 36:52>> Skylar: The hyena keeps, like, kind of pouncing at him and
- 36:54stuff like that. They decide, okay, you know,
- 36:55after one shot of the crossbows, you got to do a
- 36:57whole thing, got to reload it. And all this other
- 36:59stuff they just kind of toss on the ground. They
- 37:01pull out maces and they start to kind of like
- 37:04start swinging at it, trying to hit him. Gotcha.
- 37:06Is it like, leading them off?
- 37:08>> Cameron: yeah, it's gonna try and lead him away.
- 37:09>> Skylar: Okay.
- 37:10>> Cameron: I'm gonna mentally tell it. Just lead it away.
- 37:13Absolutely.
- 37:13>> Skylar: All right, so it goes, like, around the building.
- 37:15They go chasing after it, kind of leaving things
- 37:17open for you. so what you had is like this big,
- 37:20giant door, like, big garage door type thing. Like
- 37:23they were ever gonna, like, back a wagon into this
- 37:26place or something like that. But then next to
- 37:27that, there's just a regular sized typical door
- 37:31that you could get into.
- 37:32>> Cameron: Okay, I'm going to open the door, let everybody
- 37:35in.
- 37:35>> Skylar: Okay, you guys all make it inside. The seemingly
- 37:49abandoned warehouse, which features old fading
- 37:51imagery for Steelborn Industries, obviously an
- 37:54abandoned and unused facility previously owned by
- 37:57the company. Yet it looks as if the facility is
- 38:01thriving. And as you guys enter, you see people in
- 38:05bodysuits that are hauling barrels and crates in
- 38:09and out of kind of a back section, between
- 38:11different, like, sections of this warehouse where
- 38:14things are being processed in a variety of ways.
- 38:17Additionally, within this facility, you see a
- 38:21variety of different things. First of all, up near
- 38:23the far end, up on top and Kind of making its way
- 38:27all the way around. There's like these big
- 38:28walkways, or not big walkways, but there's like
- 38:30walkways made of like metal. there are these
- 38:35stairs, that lead up to those walkways on either
- 38:38side of the warehouse. And then at the end of
- 38:41those walkways, kind of in the center, on the very
- 38:44back end of this warehouse, you see what looks
- 38:46like the main office. Right. Whoever's in charge
- 38:48of this place is probably either up there or
- 38:50that's where their, their stuff is usually at. the
- 38:53facility itself, for lack of better description.
- 38:57If you imagine in Shrek 2, the fairy godmothers
- 39:02like potion facility, that's kind of what that
- 39:04looks like. it's all white. You know, it's got
- 39:07those like really annoying lights that like kind
- 39:09of give you a little bit of a headache. one
- 39:11interesting thing that you notice is that
- 39:13throughout one processing section of this facility
- 39:16where it looks like they're getting, a portion of
- 39:18the chemicals that they need for this drug, you
- 39:21see these sort of vats, these glass vats that
- 39:24reach up and there's sort of a makeshift ceiling
- 39:28piece that goes up there that's only, you know,
- 39:29you could reach up and touch it. It's only that
- 39:31high. And inside these vats you see these human
- 39:34sized mushroom looking people. if any of you are
- 39:40from any of your characters might be familiar at
- 39:42all with like some of the underd. Dark stuff.
- 39:44>> Quinn: We were in the underdark, where we.
- 39:45>> Skylar: Were exactly before we, before you guys got
- 39:48transported here. These are myconids and we met
- 39:52them. Yes, you did.
- 39:53>> Cameron: So full circle.
- 39:54>> Skylar: Yeah. You guys recognize those? Next to those, you
- 39:57see vats which look like these big like cauldrons
- 40:00where it looks like they're mixing the chemicals.
- 40:02they're dumping things in. There's people in the
- 40:04full body suits, like I mentioned before, that are
- 40:06dumping things in. And then there are like tubes
- 40:09and stuff that extend from these, these vats. you
- 40:12see nearby there, there's a bunch of these sort of
- 40:16wide lockers. And you see they are going to these
- 40:19lockers and taking a lot of the ingredients out,
- 40:21which they take over to the cauldrons and they mix
- 40:23in. And finally another thing that you see is on
- 40:27the entire other half of this warehouse facility,
- 40:31there are crates full of knitted hats. And as you
- 40:36watch, you see a person in a full bodysuit take
- 40:39one of these hats out. They take one of the vials
- 40:42of fully processed euphoria and they slide it into
- 40:46a little pouch on the Knitted hat. And then you
- 40:49see them pop a little button that was there. into
- 40:52place. Smh.
- 40:54>> Cameron: Dude, I can't believe it.
- 40:56>> Skylar: Smh. So what are you guys doing now that you're
- 40:59inside the facility and you've got a good view of
- 41:01everything that's going on?
- 41:02>> Cameron: Des writes on his whiteboard and it says, he
- 41:05discreetly shows everybody else act like we belong
- 41:09here.
- 41:10>> Skylar: Straight to the office.
- 41:13>> Cameron: That would be his initial plan.
- 41:15>> Skylar: We go straight to the.
- 41:16>> Cameron: We go straight to the boss.
- 41:18>> Cameron: Only we had a clipboard.
- 41:19>> Cameron: We went, we went past the guard. So no, no common
- 41:23worker is going to be like, ah, the guards didn't
- 41:25stop him or whatever. You know, they're just going
- 41:28to assume we belong here.
- 41:29>> Skylar: I like it.
- 41:29>> Cameron: Is it just all of us? Yeah. Oh, everything seems
- 41:33to be business as usual there.
- 41:34>> Skylar: No one's. Nobody's noticed that there's a rabbit
- 41:37hyena running around. Well, that was outside.
- 41:39Nobody's noticed you guys. You guys are like,
- 41:41right just inside the door. Most of the operation
- 41:44takes place, you know, a good 50ft or so before or
- 41:46past you guys.
- 41:47>> Dave: Mark is going to, take a moment to turn one of his
- 41:51spell slots into sorcery points.
- 41:54>> Cameron: Okay, sounds good.
- 41:55>> Skylar: There you go.
- 41:56>> Dave: So it takes a third level slot.
- 41:58>> Skylar: Anybody else need to do any preparations or
- 42:01anything like that?
- 42:01>> Quinn: Oh, we're going fight.
- 42:03>> Cameron: No, that's not. We're going to walk calmly to the
- 42:07office.
- 42:08>> Skylar: You guys start to walk towards. Do you choose the.
- 42:12The stairwell on the east side of the building or
- 42:14the west side of the building? The west side is
- 42:16the side where they're doing the hats and stuff.
- 42:19The east is the side where they're doing most of
- 42:21the mixing and processing of the drug itself.
- 42:24>> Cameron: Probably the west.
- 42:25>> Skylar: The west side. Okay, so you guys start to move
- 42:28towards the west side. And as you do all, one of
- 42:33the, I think one of the workers that are doing the
- 42:36hats sees, you guys and he takes off his, his full
- 42:41body suit. He walks over to you guys, he says he
- 42:44sees Sprout and he goes.
- 42:46>> Skylar: Sprout, what's going on here?
- 42:48>> Skylar: Well, McCool, these are, some perspective dealers.
- 42:54and they're hoping that they can help because I
- 42:57know you got the new operation that might be
- 43:00coming that where you guys distribute differently.
- 43:02I don't know.
- 43:03>> Skylar: You guys were talking about it and.
- 43:05>> Skylar: I was thinking, you know, maybe these guys could
- 43:07join and then they, they could help, but they were
- 43:10gonna go talk to the boss man, or whatever.
- 43:13>> Skylar: Well, you realize, Sprout, that whatever needs to
- 43:16happen here goes through me first. You're. You
- 43:19were supposed to go through me, and I didn't tell
- 43:23you to bring any new people into the facility.
- 43:27This is a pretty. Pretty problematic breach also,
- 43:31if I'm being completely honest, Sprout, you're
- 43:34getting fired.
- 43:35>> Skylar: Supposed.
- 43:36>> Cameron: What?
- 43:37>> Skylar: What. What. What did I do?
- 43:39>> Skylar: Well, be honest. We're doing a new distribution
- 43:42method, and.
- 43:43>> Skylar: He kind of looks back over where they got the
- 43:44hats.
- 43:45>> Skylar: He says, we, sell hats now with the drugs inside
- 43:49of them.
- 43:50>> Quinn: Nah. I knew it. Well, I think that to myself.
- 43:54>> Skylar: Ah.
- 43:54>> Cameron: you didn't think that when we saw them put them in
- 43:56the hat. But as. As he says it, now you're
- 43:59thinking of.
- 43:59>> Cameron: It all makes sense now. You just got to spell it
- 44:03out for me.
- 44:04>> Skylar: So, needless, to say, this, makes things a little
- 44:08bit awkward.
- 44:10>> Skylar: Well, I mean, I should say so.
- 44:11>> Skylar: No, no, no, no. You don't understand. Like, I
- 44:13mean, this is a little more awkward because you
- 44:15brought people here, and they're not supposed to
- 44:17be here, and then you're not really even supposed
- 44:19to be here. You know, if it was just you, I could
- 44:22fire you and all is good, but I think we're gonna
- 44:26have to kill you.
- 44:27>> Skylar: Are there people behind him, or is it just him?
- 44:29Yeah, there's, like, a couple of people that are
- 44:31starting to kind of, like, form into a group
- 44:32behind you.
- 44:35>> Skylar: Who are you?
- 44:36>> Quinn: I'm, a potential buyer. He's probably. I just
- 44:39wanted to buy.
- 44:39>> Skylar: okay, well, here's the thing, is that, See,
- 44:42nobody's. Nobody's supposed to be here that
- 44:44doesn't, like, work here. I mean. Hey, look, look.
- 44:47Hey, look. I'm sorry. This really sucks because, I
- 44:50mean, it's not your fault, right?
- 44:53>> Skylar: He points at Sprout.
- 44:54>> Skylar: He's like, he shouldn't have brought you here.
- 44:56>> Quinn: Oh, okay. That's not the personal.
- 44:58>> Skylar: No. Oh, no. Absolutely not. I mean, you seem like
- 45:00a nice enough guy.
- 45:02>> Quinn: It just sucks. Can I kill you?
- 45:04>> Skylar: No.
- 45:04>> Quinn: That's fair. Can I, like.
- 45:05>> Skylar: No, I know.
- 45:06>> Quinn: Can I take out your hit, though, before, like.
- 45:08>> Skylar: Oh, of you for him?
- 45:09>> Skylar: No.
- 45:10>> Skylar: This is merchandise, man.
- 45:11>> Quinn: I'll pay for it. I got, like.
- 45:13>> Skylar: You're tempting.
- 45:14>> Quinn: I got, like, 600 gold on me. How much they give
- 45:16me?
- 45:16>> Skylar: Six.
- 45:16>> Quinn: Six vials, six files. So, my friends, we can all
- 45:19take a hit and enjoy it before he kills.
- 45:20>> Skylar: I mean, I guess I don't see why not.
- 45:22>> Quinn: It'll be pretty cool. I mean, that'd be a little
- 45:24bit.
- 45:25>> Skylar: And one of the. One of the people, like, hands him
- 45:27A, small box.
- 45:28>> Skylar: All right.
- 45:29>> Skylar: 600 gold. There's six bottles in here.
- 45:31>> Quinn: So you guys want to do this? You guys want to take
- 45:33it, like, a hit before we.
- 45:34>> Skylar: Like, before you die?
- 45:36>> Quinn: Before we die. How are you gonna kill us?
- 45:37>> Skylar: what do you guys got? mace. Mace. this guy's got a
- 45:42javelin, so, I mean, you know, you do a.
- 45:45>> Quinn: Little more humane, like, unquipped.
- 45:47>> Skylar: I can only. I've only got what I got, man.
- 45:49>> Quinn: I mean, can you do a little bit quicker?
- 45:51>> Skylar: I can't, like, overdose you on Euphoria. That's
- 45:53wasted good stuff. I mean, if you want to take all
- 45:55six of these, that'll probably kill you.
- 45:57>> Quinn: Can I persuade them into, just, like, breaking our
- 46:01necks? I. Sit down.
- 46:03>> Skylar: Oh, you want something quick?
- 46:05>> Skylar: Yeah. Roll.
- 46:05>> Quinn: Roll. Persuasion.
- 46:06>> Skylar: Sure, why not?
- 46:07>> Cameron: He said that three times.
- 46:08>> Quinn: It's persuading. Yeah, I said.
- 46:10>> Skylar: I just assumed that the tools were efficient, you
- 46:12know? look, I'm not gonna touch you.
- 46:15>> Quinn: But I don't want that. A javelin's gonna take a
- 46:18long time for me dialogue.
- 46:20>> Skylar: Not if I stab you in the right spot. I mean, I
- 46:22guess it's not up to me. It's up to Steve. Steve,
- 46:24can you stab him in the right spot?
- 46:26>> Quinn: Hey, why are you stabbing me? I don't. Stabbing
- 46:28the heart, right.
- 46:29>> Skylar: He's in a full bodysuit, but that's.
- 46:32>> Quinn: Gonna take at least, like, a couple minutes for me
- 46:35to die. I'm gonna be in complete agony. Bleeding
- 46:37out, misery. Oh, I guess I never thought about
- 46:40that.
- 46:40>> Skylar: For all the guys that I scam.
- 46:42>> Quinn: Well, yeah, but you understand, I'm like, this
- 46:44isn't my fault.
- 46:45>> Skylar: You sound like.
- 46:46>> Skylar: You sound like a Karen who's debating with a store
- 46:49manager about how she's gonna get killed by them.
- 46:52She's like, yeah, but this isn't my fault, so why
- 46:55should I have to suffer when I could just die
- 46:57quickly?
- 46:58>> Quinn: Well, seriously, I don't want to have to. I. I
- 47:00came here looking to get high and not die, so now
- 47:02I'm gonna hit.
- 47:02>> Skylar: Hey, hey, hey, hey, Steve, when we do our
- 47:04marketing meeting tomorrow? we better. That's a
- 47:07good one. We're gonna use that.
- 47:09>> Quinn: you can't offer me a job or nothing.
- 47:11>> Skylar: No, we're minimizing staff right now.
- 47:14>> Quinn: Can't you. None of you are, like, magical enough.
- 47:16Like, wipe our minds. Hey, hey.
- 47:19>> Skylar: No, we're pretty, like, low tier, for lack of
- 47:25better terms. I mean, hey, we don't even. We don't
- 47:28even have dental.
- 47:29>> Quinn: They don't even have dental.
- 47:30>> Cameron: They don't Even have dental.
- 47:31>> Quinn: None of you guys have magic flowers or dental.
- 47:33>> Skylar: I mean, we might like, like some like, like, I
- 47:36think. I think Calvin, he can cast
- 47:38prestidigitation. Calvin, I'm showing that cool
- 47:40trick you.
- 47:41>> Skylar: Did and he like snaps his fingers and a couple of
- 47:43sparks go out.
- 47:43>> Quinn: That's cool.
- 47:44>> Skylar: Hey, can I show you something?
- 47:46>> Skylar: Oh, yeah, sure.
- 47:47>> Skylar: What do you.
- 47:47>> Quinn: I hit him with Fireball.
- 47:49>> Skylar: Although normally I would say with that.
- 47:52>> Skylar: We're gonna roll initiative. We are coming up to
- 47:54about. We're gonna have to find out what happens
- 47:57in this combat next time.
- 47:59>> Skylar: Thank you so much for listening to Criminals of
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