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Criminals of Isla Numus - Episode 12 - Silly, Frilly Willy · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

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>> Cameron: Hello, weary traveler. I'm not sure what
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strange magic must have brought you here, but you have
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stepped into a realm of my creation. A
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ah, sprawling city filled with danger and
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glory. And most importantly, lots of
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gold. I call it Isan
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Numis. Who am I, you might ask?
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The name is Jariv. And I'm the patron
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deity of gambling. Long story
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short, this group of idiots, or as
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you may call them, heroes, made a bet with me that
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they had what it took to make a mass trove of gold,
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but left some of the key details
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blank. So I filled them in myself.
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I sent them to this pocket dimension into the
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city I had created with. With brand new
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bodies they'd have to attune to. Can these
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fools pass my test? Or will they be trapped
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here forever? So experience my world of trials
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and tribulations and join alongside
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this posse of pitiful people. Or as I
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like to call them, the criminals of
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Isan Numis.
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All right. Welcome Back to episode 12, of
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Criminals Ofun Isum Muists.
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So, Criminals of Frankie Muniz. Yes.
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Aw winning. We're doing
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Frankie Muniz at one shot. That makes no
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sense. You guys arenna be doing. What was it? Liar. Liar.
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You guys arenna be doing. Obvious. What? It's
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me, Franky Munes.
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You're gonna do Malcolm in the Middle. Throwbacks. You're gonna
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do. Why can't I think Cody Banks. Cody Banks. Thank you. Cody
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Banks. Throwbacks. It's gonna be great. No, no. This is Criminals
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violin Numus. So if you got the wrong show.
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If you're looking for something about Frankie Muniz, I'm
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sorry, you will not find that here. On another
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note, I would like to say, obviously, I'm assuming you
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listened to previous episode. If you have not, please do that. But we
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did find out that it is the 1996
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Pinocchio movie is a live action
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movie. And to top it off, it
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stars, Our group. One of our group's favorites.
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Jonathan Taylor Thomas. so definitely
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go check that out. I guess. If you want nightmares.
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I don't know. The cannoli scene really freaked me out as a
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kid. Whatever the case, we're gonna jump
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into things. Let's introduce the characters. Am my
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right. We got Dave. Dave is playing
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Maki, not Frankie Muiz. He is playing
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Machki. Who is Maki? What is
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Maki? Maki. Otherwise known
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by the name in his wallet, maybe.
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Sureeah on his badge. Quill
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Smith. Nice. Which. I don't know if we
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talked about that before, but it's been mentioned. I think it has been
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mentioned. Yeah, absolutely. he is a
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Kenu shadow sorcerer
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and mysterious. He has an
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interest in the arcane
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in testing the limits of his new
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powers. Sounds pretty
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dang dope. And I'll be excited to see more of
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that as we go in. Sitting next to Dave,
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we've got quinn playing Feather McGregor,
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aka L Sauce, the expert of this
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city for the part. Little. yeah, Little Sauce.
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Kenu wizard. I am the only one in the group that's
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not, you know, from this other world, this other
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dimension. I am basically their guide or their
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chosen one to guide them along with their spirit guy. I
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am their spirit animal. If he doesn't help
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them, he will be trapped in this, pocket dimension forever. That's true,
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pretty much. So my whole goal, you didn't realize was a
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prison up until now? Y. I, pretty much realized,
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yeah, that this real really isn't a real world.
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And I guess I don't really know that the other world is in real
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world, but it's more real than this. Po.
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Poor Feather McGregor is just going toa be moving from some
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dimension to dimension to dimens dimesion to another one.
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But I want out. I want to experience new things. So
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I'KIND of changed my ways from a good guy. They're kind of doing what it
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takes to get this money that we need. Oh, boy. And
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your DM is terrified. Moving on,
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we got Jackson.
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I'm Jack. I play Des. he was a trident
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fighter. Now turned Kinku Ranger.
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fun fact. He believes
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that handicap, stalls
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are not actually for handicaped people. because
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handicapped people do not exist. Oh,
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interesting.
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Interesting. What does he believe there'for
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Nobody knows. Because you're not allowed in there without a
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wheelchair. So if he can find
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a wheelchair and he or crutches, I suppose. Sure, sure.
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All right. Fair enough. That'll be interesting to see
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moving forward if that ever comes up.
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fantastic. Fatty Lumpkins over here next to
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Jackson. Fatty, you are playing
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keto? yes. You are the one of the
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very few non Kinkus in
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this m campaign. Yes,
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Kido, who in this
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world goes by Theo, is a
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kobold who functions as a echo
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knite for those who are unfamiliar. Kobold is
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like a little lizard person. Kind of like a small version of
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a Dragonborn. without all the fancy powers that a
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dragonborn has, unfortunately. You know, I always
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picture them with wings. But they don't have wings to e. They don't have
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wings usually. No. That would be scary.
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Awesome. Fantastic. Right next to Fatty
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Lumpkins, we've got our last
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player, our last character associated
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and that is Cameron with Roick
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playing Manky Fumes. Manky
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Fumesain
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Roick. Are you regretting now? Are
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you regretting the opportunity to not or to
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take Thanky
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Frumez's wishing that you would
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made that character? Yeah, write that down. I'mt
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no, I could play Agent Bode Kinks and no, I'm
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joing who Bodie.
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What? Anyways, I play
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Roick. He's a former barbarian. Now he's
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a goblin rogue. his badge name is Fizzle
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Fingers. and he gets up to
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mischief also. He just discovered that he can just
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pick pockets as a passive income. So I think I'm just
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gonna be doing that non stoping. Sky's gonna hit me anyways on
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the use Skyler. I mean I might just like do that as
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like a thing where you think people are goingn to start locking up their
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pockets. They're gonna be like national warning. Like
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it's gonna be on your pockets. We'll just
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pockets on the front of your bodies, people. We've on a road,
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on the choo. Zipper pants. Zipper pants right
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here. No, we'll probably just do like out of
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campaign. after each like session, I'll just roll
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up a bunch of whatever. We'll see how much you make
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or whatever and then that'll be your intro. Every episode is
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like, and how much money did Rourg make last
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session? You'll be like, oh, good. 5,000.
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Thanks. That's a lie. No, but whatever
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the case, for those that have not listened
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to episode 11 again, please go back. You don't want to miss out on
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that. basically what happened was there was a brief,
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boat encounter where you guys, experienced some
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racism against you, which was disturbing and
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unfortunate. you made up for that, ah,
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hatred by robbing from the people
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that were, holding b us against you,
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to some extent. And then you guys made your way to
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Gideon's gizmos to discuss a little bit more with
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old Gideon McGriddle, to find out a little bit more about
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this mysterious case where he brought back
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his son from the dead, allegedly, putting him
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into the body of a puppet that he had built, very
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much like Pinocchio, which is why we referenced
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that, and then told you a little bit about
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the ritual that he used, which suggests maybe
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dark magic was involved. Which to be fair, pretty much any
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time you're doing anything necromatic, it's probably considered
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dark magic. I digress. whatever the case, that's where
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we're at. It's episode 12 season finale.
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Let's jump into it.
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All right. And we're back. All right. So you guys awake?
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The next morning, bright and early, you
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smell the delicious smell of, what smells like
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pancakes and syrup wafting from the
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downstairs kitchen? Actually, it would be upstairs because
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the upstairs section is kind of his. So you smell
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it from one of the adjacent rooms to where you are sleeping.
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I, think probably maybe two to three of you
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maybe sleeping in a room together, but not all of you together.
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I don't think all of you would have fit. so, yeah, you guys are kind of
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scattered between two to three different rooms. One of you is
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just sleeping in the bathtub. Me
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like Will Smith and I am legend. I am.
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Okay, and then Roa is. And then Ro's gonna
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smell the pancakes and immediately go sprinting towards them. And while he
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does, he's gonna slap keto on the face.
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Pancake time.
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Steping out of the room. Go on. In a
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stress of a
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strange green. Just, flash of light go
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shooting past you. Oh, also, you get like. You forgot your
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pants. You say
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that as you'get electrocuted.
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Not bad. Just. You got shocked as well as.
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It just stings a little extra. Well, I'd be shocked too, if he
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forgot his pants. That's awesome. Double shock.
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Gosh, I saw three things I wasn't expecting to see this
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morning.
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Electricity, naked goblet
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pancakes.
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you guys all come to the kitchen, and sure enough, old man
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McGriddle is there standing over his McGriddle
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making some McGriddle cake.
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You were worried McDonald's was. You
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were worried. You pull that stu
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n. I wasn't worried. What is
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this? These. It's such a
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portable
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breakfast'delicious.
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I made them, just so you guys could take with you for whatever
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investigating you need. Like, a sandwich.
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Sausage, egg and cheese
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in between pancakes. Oh, I didn't know you guys
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wanted sausage. Jacgen cheez. I just made
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pancakes. And how'you get that imprint on the
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pancake? Oh, you know me,
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just whipping up gadgets all the time. You do
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it like. Yes. Have you commercialized this?
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You could make a rank about.
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I've been thinking about it.
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I thought, you know, you can't teach an old dog new tricks. But
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then I thought about it and I thought, well, I've been making pancakes all
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these years. It's not really a new trick. It's Just a new style
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of selling it. You name it. Mcaldo's or something like that.
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Mcaldo's. The
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griddles. Mcaldo. the McGriddle part.
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Well, that's my name. How are people gonna know it's me? They'll
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know. Okay. Name your main
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dish after then. Oh, yeah. There you go.
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Okay. Anyway, we. Are you guys off to
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today?
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I'm gonna take the rock and just head outside real quick.
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Okay. Oh, well, I guess he didn't
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want pancakes. I'll be back. I
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scream. And,
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over he le over to Roke. Don't worry. He'll be. He'll
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be back. I wanted his pancakes'll make you
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more.
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Oh, boy.
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I go outside, okay? I'm gonna, you know, get
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to activate the rock. All right? You give the rock a little.
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A little rub, and all of a sudden you hear a voice.
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Well, well, wellather mcer
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just by himself with none of the others. It's
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interesting. How can I help you today? You got a
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question, old Jo Jim? Where's
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McGriddle hiding the children? Where'that's who
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question. That's what you want to go with today? Yes.
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Well, let me see here. he, like, fakes the
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sound of, like, Keith
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ma printing
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dial up. And then you
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just hear as he rips the paper and put on
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hold. Thank you
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for holding. Here's some music.
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There are,
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No. he gets back to pretty quickly and he says
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u. I don't really know what to tell you this.
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It's not gonna be it a yes or no answer, but u. I'm
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not seen any readings for your old friend
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McGriddle? Of course you're not.
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Well, you can only. Can we only ask yes or no questions?
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Isn't that a technicallyipulation? He answered
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no, McGrdle.
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You know, I like to. I like to help you
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guys out as much as I can, so, you know, I try not to be too much of
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a stickler for the rules, but, don't be surprised if one day I
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just say, o. I can't really help you with that. You gotta re. Ask the
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question. But, you know, this time, it just seems a lot
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simpler to just tell you that I'm not getting any readings
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for any McGriddle. Aside from Gideon, of
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course. Awesome. No McGriddl on
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this plane's been
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shot to the afterlife. Well, stabbed.
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Ye. Sorry. O.
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no McGriddle on the plane, you said? That's
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right. Des didn't hear that. That's true. So
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I just keep. But Jack will remember that. Yes. There
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are some McGriddles in the pan sp
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side. Hey. I just.
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I hang up. I don't know how I hang up. I just put the
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wrong.
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I go back inside and I just.
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It's got a little he on it. Who
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would be the closest to me when I walk in the door,
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they all just. I just take the rock and I
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throw it to ro. Okay, here, take it.
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I don't want it. Catch it. I to
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three. It, definitely just hits me on.
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I just walk.
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Wait, what was that? Oh, I don't
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know why I always quote this from the old, old,
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old, 12 angry jurors. Theres a part where a guy just
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throws a paper ball at the old man. Just goes, that's a damn stupid
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thing to do. So that's what just. That's a
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damn stupid thing to do. Ring his head.
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I get his pancakes. Now I get his pancakes.
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It falls into your pancakes. Gets. You're in
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my pancakes. He's jumping on the stool.
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Now I'm
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an angry goblin.
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An old game of rock em sock'em
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ros. Oh.
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Roy grabs the rock on his pancakes
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covered in syrup. Make sure as they get extra
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syrup. And then he aims for
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keto. And he throws one. Keto
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has keto. Excellent dexterity.
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Are you gonna dodge and is going to
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crash into the gizmos.
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attempt to catch it midair. Oh,
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do a dexterity saving throw.
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Oh, there goes the dice. 3.
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Yeah, well, that
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one just flew right out the window.
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No, you reach up to grab it and instead of
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going like to your hand, it just right under your
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fore. Does it stick? it kind of slides down really
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slowly. Oh, most excellent. The syrup made
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it a knuckleball. S a little spin on
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it and slides down until it's just resting on your
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nose, your muzzle or whatever lizards
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have ro this p.
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Assuming I'm a reptile, I'm gonna use my
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fork tongue to lick the syrup off
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and proceedas if
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nothing happened. All right, well, you've got the rock now, so keep
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doing of that. Okay. Or Don
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or this
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Roly all of us. We can leave it and it
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just kind of grow'leg Someone should just tie a
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tether to the rock and just drag it.
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Gim jar will eventually just glue it to one of us and
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we just can't take it off. And we'll just have to, like, talk to
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someone's hip and just. It's jaroo.
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So anyways,
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that was definitely his voice from above, correcting me
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like it'judge.
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Why do you have the rock anyways? yesah. So I went
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out and I used it to,
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see where McGriddle was. And your
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God couldn't even
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tell me where he's at. Your.
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Yours. I was very angry. I had to. I threw
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my fist down. Ah.
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Wait. Our God. Hey, man, this is your world,
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man. My God? Your God. His guy. He's not a
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God. Whatever he is,
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I threw him in the rocks. He
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died. Obviously not. Yeah,
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it was a bab.
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Her Roacus looks up. you hears the rock go, Im not
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freak. Whatever the case, you guys finish up eating
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your pancke, and the day is yours
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to go investigate. I
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missed that. you
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asked. Is McGriddle got the kids?
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I asked where McGriddle was with the kids. And
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he says can't even find him. McGriddle. Except for
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Gideon. Yeah. Didn't you hear what I said yesterday?
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What'd you say? That's not McGriddle. He'summoned
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a demon. He didn't summon McGriddle.
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We'll ask a different question tomorrow. You
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said. You guys said I ask dumb, questions.
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And I waste star rock questions
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every day just because I wantna know how many.
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How many frogs are in the local lake. I
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feel like it's important. That's not a yes or no
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question either. Is there over
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200 frogs?
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Well, yeah. From my experience of summoning things,
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yeah, a good portion of the time you just end up with a
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demon no matter what you're trying to do.
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Some odds are that's
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probably what it is. I'm gonna assume you
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guys aren't with Gine at the
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momentah.
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Second time I've talked in front of Gideon about, he just summoned
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a demon. Just. Oh, you kids.
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Always of the
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under involved. He's just
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over his griddle, trying to hold back tears and
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trying not to believe it. Or he's just bending a
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wire into an. Into like a whole McGriddles
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full word. well, seeing as we're
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inside, this gives Mai a chance to ask Gideon
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a question. He's been wondering,
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is he
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Gideon? Oh, yeah.
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Do you think God lives in heaven?
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Because he too lives in fear of what
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he's created,
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and this way he knows all of your names. So he says.
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Oh, jeepers cats. Well, you know,
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Maki, that sure is u. That's a deep question
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for sure. u o. I don't know. I suppose I probably have
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thought about it. You know, as somebody that creates things themselves, you
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know, is u, kind of one of those things that you wonder
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who created you. And, you know, what do they think about your creat?
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Sometimes I make a doll and I think, this wasn't very good. And
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sometimes I make a doll and I think, dang, this might be my
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magnum opus, you know? U and so I wonder, you know,
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and whatever God created me, when he looks
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down and sees me and he thinks, was I
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a piece of junk or was I something
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special? And I like to think he thinks or
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she with they thinks that I am
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pretty special, whether they fear me or
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not. Well, shoot, they made me. I don't
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imagine they'd have anything to be afraid of. I mean,
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what's somebody gonna do, right? Capture a God?
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Put them into the very dimension that they created,
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Torture them, take their powers?
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Sounds ridiculous to me. I like to think
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as he was rambling on, all of us left the house.
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Yeah, I was definly thinking Rog
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just walks out. I saw where this
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was going and he did not care anymore.
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You guys are all outside and it just kind of like
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there's a cut back to Gideon as he like, finishes his
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statement. Then he looks up and New York. That's what I
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I'm still staying there. You're still stay. I'm still there and
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you made a mistake. Gide. I just walk out.
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he said he has nothing to say to that. he just kind of looks. I
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think at this point he knows he darn messed up.
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s Whatever remainder of his sanity is still
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there. Probably recognizes, the
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fault and his choice of. I'm sure whatever the case, you guys
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are outside in Trinket Square. a couple of
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people that are walking by kind of stop and
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watch with a little bit of a look of awe as they see you guys
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come out of Gideon's gizmos.
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Ah, I get it. They're racist.
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So the next whole area is rich
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people area, right? Not necessarily rich. These people seem
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pretty like middle class for the most part. it's kind of the same
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setup with Gideon's shop. So, the first floors of
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like all the buildings in the area are probably shops of some
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kind. but then the upper floors are
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where these people live. So, you know, they're not like
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wealthy necessarily. They're making do. It's not a
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super nice place. To be clear, Gorthham district is
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not the wealthy district like Centerille
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Orer Stark. There is s an od assortment
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of shops here, right? Yes, I have a very
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odd shop oay wondering if it's
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here. Okay. Is there any pet
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stores? O. Sure.
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Al right. Al right. I'm gonna go straight
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to the pet store then. I
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Nothing to do with the mission, actually.
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I know I wrote. I feel like we all need bes.
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Right. I also need to check out their frogd
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quantity. Roick
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wakes up every day with just a new obsession about
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random things. Today's frogs. Oh, he's looking
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for a frog specifically. Cool
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one. A cool frog. Cool frog. He
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can name boa. O right. it's just
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an ice frog. It ice frog, little hat
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and goes.
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You look for a particular FR that says
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you do. In fact, see what seems to be a pet
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store. is called Creature Comforts.
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Excellent. And that's what it's called.
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Goodation. Nice.
23:11
A little like. Wait a second. I can read that.
23:15
It features a little puppy like one of those, like white.
23:18
No, he can't read. He just sees two c'and go.
23:21
Nice. It's a little white puffy
23:23
Pomeranian with like a top hat and a monocle
23:26
on. That's what's on the sign. Oh,
23:29
yeah. Okay.
23:32
And then it. Who follows Broric? Or do you guys just kind
23:35
of. Ye. we'll catch up later. We have the
23:38
beacon. Des will go with him. Allgh.
23:41
as you walk into the store, you're greeted by a wood
23:43
elf. is a female. And she says, welcome to
23:46
Creature Comforts where we. Oh, ah, shoot. where
23:49
our pets are. Ah, posh are. What can I
23:52
interest you in today? do I see any
23:55
birds, specifically crow type birds
23:58
in the pet shop? That's a great question.
24:01
you see variety of. Yeah. Are you looking
24:04
Ye. I'm asking you as a dm. Ok. Okay.
24:07
You see a variety of like kind of your classic small birds,
24:10
your parakeets, any crow, any
24:12
corvid type. That's a crow orcard.
24:16
you don't see any. At least right up
24:19
front. Okay. You see all the kind of flashy,
24:22
colorful. Huh? She
24:24
asks what are you looking forg? Says
24:27
frogs. Oh, frogs.
24:30
Sure. We've got all sorts of amphibious
24:33
creatures. Lizards and, lizards in
24:36
amphibians. Different creatures of course, but yes, we have
24:38
amphibians. We have creatures. Whatever you're looking for, those are going to
24:41
be over in the cold
24:44
blooded section. Lead the way.
24:48
sure. Des will just wander to the back of the store where he's
24:50
not supposed to be while he goes and looks at
24:53
the frogs. You like the back rooms? I'm
24:56
bringing her Showing frogs.
24:59
I'm going to be very distracting because I'mnn ever
25:02
pull every frog out, hold it in front of me
25:05
until it ribn and I'mn toa either go yes
25:08
or no. If it sounds rich to me. And she does,
25:11
she takes you over to this one tank where they have a variety of frogs. They
25:14
all just swimming together. There's some big ones, there's some smaller
25:16
ones. there's like a netting that's kind
25:19
of around it to a keep the frogs in. And then whenever they release,
25:22
they like to just, like, let the bugs fly in there. It's like a big
25:25
w than, like, almost like a pool,
25:28
that these things are swimmin in. It's like a whole swamp environment or
25:31
whatever inside this pool. Yeah. And so, you know, she
25:34
makes her way around, and she'll lift the thing and she'll grab one of these
25:37
frogs and pull it out. You go,
25:42
put's that one back, it's another one
25:47
gonna do frog sounds. I t see how many
25:50
frogs Skyler can come up. I'm waiting until there's one. I
25:53
was like,
25:57
if there's one that gets close, Roick will
26:00
hold on to it and
26:04
hold, on to the one that sounds closest. And then he'll wait to get
26:07
through all of them. And if none of them come closer than the one
26:10
he thinks sounds close, he'll keep that one. All right, Sounds
26:12
good. currently, the one that sounds closest goes
26:17
one more time. Proggy.
26:21
Oh, this isn't abovea, but it sounds like a.
26:23
Rob.
26:26
Listen, bro. I
26:29
hear Rob. I hear Rob. Okay, I want this
26:31
one and some frog flinks to go. Oh, all right.
26:34
Make it too. Okay. They're
26:37
delicious. They do enjoy
26:40
their frog flakes, but do be sure to make sure that it gets its
26:43
other nutrients through any live insects. They do like
26:46
insects. I know. Way to get live
26:48
insects. Awesome. And
26:51
she certain beacon we've discovered.
26:55
And would you like, the carryinging case as well?
26:58
It will come with an additional char. Char
27:01
carrying case. Yes. Oh, no, I'll be good. she
27:04
points over to the section in. Actually, no, I'll take a cart.
27:07
Wait, why am I just talking? Yeah, I'll take
27:09
the carrying case. All right. Fantastic. They have
27:13
various colors. Comes in red, blue, or
27:15
yellow. And she shows you two
27:18
them. And, they're basically like, like little cat kennels,
27:21
but a little bit smaller and more like boack
27:24
u. I don't have black on me.
27:27
See, I'm hesitant to use the paint because I don't want it to be
27:30
fresh when frog inside that. I've got a friend that can paint it for me.
27:33
I'll take the red one. Oh, fantastic. Okay. And of course,
27:36
just make sure that you don't paint it within
27:38
yourably is a spell o. So it won't even
27:41
be bad. oh, sure. Magic usually doesn't cause
27:44
any kind of a problem for, for animals like that. Don Lead
27:47
pain. Yes. No, absolutely, yes. I'll ring you right up.
27:50
And she takes your mot register. Big problem now here in the
27:53
streets. And while she's bringing you up, Des is
27:56
in the back room of this. Yeah,
27:58
It'facility Yeah. So you see a variety of animals,
28:01
sort of just, I want to say overstock
28:04
animal. It's like the main kennels,
28:07
the display kennels are full. So they've got, you know,
28:10
additionalim. They have nice little. They have nice little.
28:12
Little more frogs.
28:16
You don't know that saf
28:18
bubba. you
28:21
see a handful. Like I said, they're not in, like,
28:24
nasty cages or anything like that. It's just you can
28:26
onlyploay so many animals at a time, of the same
28:29
type. So shes got some nice cages back there. Theyre all clean.
28:32
Theyre all maintained and taken care of. some of the
28:35
less asked for animals. Theres some,
28:37
like, tarantulas. theres
28:40
some, some of the, like, uglier lizards and things like that.
28:43
Some snakes. but you do see that theres also
28:46
a little section that shes got set up as sort of like a little
28:49
animal hospital. and inside you
28:52
see a little sort of box
28:54
that'propped up on a tall shelf in a case.
28:57
And out hops a little
29:00
raven. It looks like it might have
29:03
an injured foot. Well, thats fine
29:05
because I will just do
29:10
cure wounds. Oh, nice on the little
29:12
raven. Sure. Ill prop him on my shoulder and
29:15
well just walk out without a word. All right.
29:18
Is she still with the. Yeah. She still have to register with you
29:22
or she the frog thingick
29:25
there for a while? Yeah, yeah.
29:28
Do. Do an animal handling check, but do it with an advantage
29:31
since you like. I mean, you literally heale it. You touched its
29:34
foot and all of a sudden it felt better. And it looked a little confused at
29:37
first. Surprised, but it was definitely great. Wow.
29:40
I'm actually really good at this.
29:43
That was a ranger. I would hope so. 12.
29:46
17. 17. Wow. Yeah. this bird definitely
29:49
seems to take a liking to you. You kind of peek around the area a
29:52
little bit and you find some grubs that they have
29:55
stocked in the back, and you take a couple of grubs out, feed
29:58
it to him, and he definitely seems,
30:01
to like you. So he kind of hops up onto your shoulder.
30:04
He's definitely curious. He's excited that you healed him. And he's
30:07
like, man, this guy seems like a nice guy. I think
30:10
I'll stick around. We are
30:13
brothers. You are brothers. Awesome.
30:16
All right. He's perched on your shoulder. Couple
30:19
minutes later, Ro's gonna come walk out also. But first,
30:22
I gotta finish my purchase.
30:25
Yeah. Yeah. so she says, that'll be five gold
30:28
pieces. Roick pulls out his pouch.
30:31
He's still rolling for
30:34
a Hasor 8. Oh.
30:38
Oh, okay. Yes. Donations are always
30:40
appreciated. It helps us to, sustain our operations
30:43
here. Y her a question named. And
30:46
go. You're also foundation.
30:49
Yes. The extra gold pieces, I give
30:52
you too many. yes.
30:54
Oh. Oh. Did you do it
30:57
unintentionally? I. I can't tell. Oh,
31:00
I'SO sorry, sir. Well, here's your three gold
31:03
change. Thanks. Yes, of course. And
31:06
here's one. But being honest.
31:08
Oh. we do our best here. Thank you. And for
31:11
charity, take care of those frogs. Yes, of
31:14
course I will. Absolutely. They'll be able
31:17
to, get a little bit of a refresh on their environment
31:21
area. And then I'm gonna. I'm gonna
31:24
attach the who thing. Imagines the
31:26
carrier's kind of tiny, so I'mnna attach it to the back of my
31:29
belt. Okay. Yeah. And then I'm going
31:32
toa hold the frog, and I'm going to feed him some frog
31:35
flakes, build up some, you know, chemistry. And
31:38
then what I'm going to do is I'm going to hold him off to the
31:41
side, and then I'm going to have my mage handle hold
31:44
him, but then go invisible. So that's just
31:46
likeating in the. It's a
31:49
floating frog beside me for a moment. M its
31:52
eyes just kind of p big. And it
31:55
just starts like he's swimming.
31:58
He being hel. He's like,
32:01
whoa. He's just like. His body is, like, in the
32:04
palm of the ch and he's just, like, swing
32:07
through the air with his arms and legs
32:10
outstretched. I pat him on his head. I go, don't
32:13
worry, Rob. It's okay. I've got
32:16
you. And I'm just going to start walking
32:19
there, after, d as he's got his birth friend, and
32:22
we're gonna start trying to track down our friends with ar
32:24
new. so he flashed back outside
32:27
and ma, he's like now Keito, lift
32:30
that box there. I think I heard something underneath of
32:33
it. I mean, there's gotta be rats around
32:36
here.
32:39
If we catch him, we can sell them to this pet
32:42
shop.
32:46
Kele complies, opens the box or lifts
32:49
it. Yeah, lifts. I'm guess that there's nothing there.
32:52
But, there is a mouse. Not
32:55
a rat, but just a regular little mouse that
32:58
comes screing out. It's a mous
33:04
that's only good as food for the
33:07
larger pets.
33:10
I still haven't been able to make any sense of this
33:14
book either. I think we need to go
33:17
find where's the little street urchin he was
33:19
talking about. Let's go find the town
33:22
guards and see if they can point us in the direction of that little
33:25
street urchin. Good idea. Sounds like
33:29
this all dirty
33:30
streeterty
33:37
know what a street rat is looking bo
33:41
Dirty little street room
33:43
outdoor that you got around here. But you
33:46
don't have to even look for guards. Although you do see some
33:49
over in a variety of different corners. one of the corners of
33:52
Trinket Street. But you also hear the sounds of
33:54
a young child's voice saying get your
33:57
papers. Get your papers here.
34:02
Why? Coin for the Gotham district.
34:05
Harald, find out
34:08
the news on the dead king and how the
34:11
elections are going. Is this the dirty little
34:14
street rat appare? Grubby little
34:16
guy. Find out more details on
34:19
the death of horse breeder God
34:22
Pendleton. Lord Pendleton recently
34:25
killed his own house?
34:28
No, he was in the house. He was outside in a
34:31
carriage. Are you walking up to him
34:33
saying
34:36
I just crying. This what the kid? Yeah,
34:39
I was just making sure article. Yeah. If that
34:42
was intentional. Yeah, I grew up and bit
34:45
Paper. Let's see how old
34:48
Noodle Wiggles doing in the polls
34:51
get o thanks mister. Here's your
34:54
paper and you open it up to look at the election
34:56
results. Noodle Wiggle is o Shoot,
34:59
I gotta come up dead last. No, Noodle
35:02
Wiggle is in third
35:05
place O
35:08
that's, that's what got rem how many
35:11
people we had not exactly squirming his way to the top
35:14
there. Out of
35:16
1, 2,
35:18
3, 4s. Third
35:21
place out of one guy running O that's
35:24
hey, he spend more writings above
35:27
him. They won the
35:30
dead mar
35:33
Bring back the dead king. Use the ritual
35:35
magic know you have no he has
35:38
third place out of six candidates. That's not
35:41
terrible. So he's king and then anything and then the
35:44
second most is anything but new to
35:47
he's still considered very wealthy. Would you
35:50
like the names of everybody that's currently
35:52
running? All right, you have
35:55
Lupin Grimall. Are younna put them in order?
35:59
Yep. Okay. Yep. Go.
36:02
these names are fun. You have Lord
36:04
Blunderggruff Goldenhiield.
36:08
Also see that I misspelled a word on my notes. There we
36:11
go. there is Sir Percival Noodle
36:14
Wiggle. What? Who was in the third
36:16
personal. Lord
36:19
Bartholomew Maximil
36:21
Beauregard. I
36:23
thirdang. I shouldn't name my
36:26
f O. Shoot. He. Oh, that's
36:28
fine. Lady
36:31
Cornelia Maxwell. And
36:33
finally, in a hefty
36:36
last place like it shows like the numbers
36:39
or whatever. And he is significantly lower than all the other
36:42
candidates is Sherman Extreme.
36:45
Found our man
36:48
Sherman. Sherman Extreme.
36:51
I found we were taken to the top boys.
36:56
And I'm gonna rig this election so
36:58
hard. That's everybody. You
37:01
see.
37:15
Man, this political landscape is wild
37:18
here.
37:21
Anyways, back to the main
37:24
event. I look at the article about the
37:27
murder o the murder of Pend Pendleton. Lord
37:30
Pendleton. Let's see if they have any
37:32
details. so it lists out Lord
37:35
Pendleton. talks about how he was
37:37
allegedly murdered. some sort of
37:41
freak accident at his home involving
37:43
his own carriage.
37:46
Did you say murder and freak accident?
37:50
Yes, a freak accident murder.
37:53
Those are both listed in the article. and then it
37:56
also doesnt like this news source. It also very
37:59
explicitly makes note of murdered in a pool
38:02
of his own horse sen. Wow.
38:04
And thats pretty much the gist of it. Theres a bit in there from
38:07
his wife. She says she swear she saw
38:10
him that night. and it was at a time that
38:13
must have been after the murders, which is why she was really
38:16
confused. So then it follows up by
38:19
his body was taken from the premise
38:22
and left off in an alleyway
38:25
in the Mednville district.
38:27
Sources his wife says well I
38:30
would never have seen him ever visiting the medium
38:33
district for any reason whatsoever.
38:36
So they must have taken his body off the
38:39
premise of our home and brought him there
38:42
for whatever reason to hide their
38:44
evil disgusting deeds. And then it talks about
38:47
how she'll be inheriting basically all
38:50
resources per chance. Mention a.
38:53
A horse cart that went off the side of the
38:56
road of his place and inside of it was his
38:58
dead. It. Yeah, I mean it mentions the horse
39:01
carriage house. Strange substance
39:04
that. Yep. Ye was mentioned. Yep. And then. But
39:07
it doesn't say that he was found inside of his carriage. It
39:10
says that he was found a good 50ft from his
39:13
carriage face down in the ground in a bloody heap.
39:16
Oops.
39:19
Which is what happens when you crash the Courseors carriage
39:22
in such a way. What about the slice?
39:25
Oh, yes. it simply
39:28
says, suspects include
39:31
a known criminal and member
39:34
of the Thieves Guild who
39:36
is also found dead,
39:40
which has confused the. The
39:43
local guards, quite a bit. Yeah.
39:46
couldn't live with what he did.
39:50
The working theory, murder suicide
39:52
situation classic. and then
39:55
monkey'gonna look for any other clues about, I don't
39:58
know, more missing children or anything. Oh, man.
40:01
So, yeah, this newspaper is littered with just
40:04
various little bits in there of like,
40:07
current missing kids. And it just has this huge list
40:09
of kids that are currently missing. Some of them are labeled with
40:12
like, rewards it found. some of them are labeled with
40:15
contact information of, who to talk to or who they
40:18
can, bring any information to
40:21
or whatever the case, whether that be parents or loved ones
40:24
or even just the town guard,
40:28
Maki takes special note. It circles the one that
40:31
have rewards. Yeah, that's very. Draw
40:34
lines to the side and there's pictures.
40:37
He makes sure to get a good look at the pictures.
40:40
Absolutely. Some of them don't have
40:43
pictures just because, you know, the parents didn't have. I
40:45
mean, you know, it'd be paintings or whatever the case. Back in those days,
40:48
they could technically print pictures, but that would be
40:51
expensive. So only like, probably the wealthier families could
40:54
probably put a picture in there. Mister, why
40:57
are you standing in front of my spot? I got toa sell
41:00
these papers. And although you look like a happy
41:03
customer, it's probably better if there's a little bit more space
41:06
here. If you
41:09
wouldn't mind. This is a good spot. I don't want to have to move.
41:15
It's got good light here. What's the, problem?
41:17
It's got good light. It lets me show off the papers. It
41:20
shines down on me, showoots me off. I can't go hid
41:23
in some corner with some shadowy spot to sell more
41:26
papers. Keino, is this a kid he
41:29
wanted to talk to? Yes. Who?
41:32
You. What do you want with me? Just
41:35
wanted to ask if you've seen
41:37
anything strange lately. How is it
41:40
that all the other kids are missing, but not
41:43
you? Would you do right that they all did
41:46
wrong? I 42.
41:50
I'm a full grow to do. What are you trying
41:53
to say? No, he says, feel like we've done that
41:56
choke car. I think we have.
42:00
U. oh, I don't know. I just hang
42:02
around. You know what? Honestly, it's
42:05
kind of weird. I Haven't really talked to anybody
42:08
about this because nobody listens to me anyways, so I don't
42:11
give a crap. But you, you came looking for me, so
42:14
that's kind of different. You, I like that. But whatever the
42:17
case, there's this new kid around
42:20
here. His name is Raku. He wears all
42:23
these crazy colorful clothes and he plays
42:26
with kids. And those are the same kids that go
42:28
missing. But the guds are too
42:31
stupid to notice it. Maybe it's justus they're not
42:34
looking at us kids playing. But I don't play
42:37
because I got a job to do. I gott sell papers. That's
42:40
how I'MAKE me money. That's how I ear a living. You
42:43
planning on moving down to Santa Fe then? I don't know.
42:46
His a' sorry.
42:51
anyways, where's this playground that
42:54
you would this? Oh, he just comes out.
42:57
Very interesting question for Yeah, he just comes mal to
43:00
being a kid. Yeah, he just comes out
43:03
to Trinket Square. He just plays with the kids here. You know,
43:06
they're go run around the buildings, they're playing tag.
43:09
He's kind of a weird looking dude. It's we pointy.
43:12
When was the last time you saw him? O. I think I
43:15
saw him yesterday. He was
43:17
talking to Susie Lee
43:20
and as she's missing, I think, let me see. He pulls
43:23
out one of his papers and he flips to the same page that you were looking at
43:26
Markie, where it had the list of the kids. He goes,
43:29
it's not in here yet, but I haven't seen it today so
43:32
I won't be surprised. I'm not trying to sellnd morebid or
43:35
nothing, but kind of the same
43:38
memo with all the other kids they just haven't listened to
43:40
yet. They're probably. I'll be. Her parents are sitting there right now
43:43
just hoping for the best. Maybe she snuck out last night.
43:47
Maybe she's coming back. Parents are
43:49
stupid, that's why ain't got none.
43:53
Wow. I got rid of min. Yeah, I gotid of
43:56
min, just
43:59
no
44:02
sauce. Are you here? Yeah, I'm with you
44:05
guys. I'm just kind of taking
44:08
this all in. Kind of looked around, trying to
44:12
see anything strange, you know, because I kind of know the area.
44:15
Kind of know a little bit about what goes on. Sure don't really
44:18
see anything weird. you see
44:21
a woman in what almost like
44:24
nonun esque clothes have the
44:27
spiritual one? Yeah. As far as you
44:30
would assume, she's actually sitting on the side of the fountain and
44:33
she has her hand in the air in such a way that, like,
44:36
almost looks like she's dealing with some sort of,
44:39
stressful situation or something like that.
44:41
Yeah. Let's go up to her. Okay.
44:44
Say, do you know anything about these.
44:48
What? Do you know
44:50
anything about these missing children?
44:54
Feather. Feather McGregor, right? You re from
44:57
around here. Yeah. Close. Close by.
45:00
I feel like I used to. Used to
45:03
play with oldle little mcgriddle.
45:06
I did. I did, Yes. I remember you.
45:09
How are you? good. Currently.
45:12
I'm on a mission to find these missing
45:15
children. Oh, yes, please.
45:18
There's something. Something dark
45:21
that's been here as of late. I think it connects to
45:24
the missing children. They must be famd.
45:26
Oh, I hope they're still safe.
45:29
I get these dreams. The horrible,
45:32
horrible things are happening. I don't know what they
45:35
are. I just can't quite make them out.
45:38
There's a figure. I think
45:41
he's taken them. Do you know
45:43
where? I see
45:46
very. It's vivid
45:49
visions, but also blurry.
45:52
They're in a dark place. Very vivid, but very
45:54
blurry. I know it's hard to explain.
45:57
I, have these dreams. These
45:59
nightmares even. They're in a
46:02
icy children. They're all wrapped up in
46:05
blankets. They're all kept inside of a
46:08
dark area lit only by candlelight.
46:11
Is it rocking back and forth potentially? No,
46:14
it'it's. Completely still, yes.
46:17
this wood, it's all wooden.
46:21
does des notice any,
46:24
signs that the construct might be here?
46:28
not at the moment. You kind of scan the area, and you
46:31
don't see anything that suggests the construct is here
46:35
or has been here in the immediate future.
46:39
Immediate past. See the future. There we go. Yeah. Sorry.
46:42
Nice. I will'see be here
46:45
anytime soon. She continues on. She
46:48
says, I hear a, creaking sound,
46:51
Both of wood and of
46:53
metal. And then
46:57
something leaps out from the shadows, and then
47:00
I wake up. Wood and metal?
47:02
Yes. Anything else? All I know
47:05
is that it's some sort of dark force. Something. Something
47:08
evil. Something not of this world, Even this
47:11
realm. Even this plane.
47:15
Would you be interested in coming with us?
47:18
We could use you. Can you feel
47:21
the darkness? Oh, do you
47:24
feel the darkness? I don't feel it in a direction. I feel it
47:27
all around me, as if it's.
47:31
It's emanating in this whole
47:34
square, this whole area.
47:38
I have reached a radius of it.
47:41
Okay. It's sort of probably,
47:44
a blocked radius in every direction
47:47
around this square. Can I roll? See
47:50
if I see anything? Maybe with this fountain or
47:53
turning Think telling what? This fountain. Maybe this is the
47:56
center of the. Sure. Do a perception
47:58
check.
48:02
15. 15.
48:05
Yeah. So there's a variety of different structures in
48:08
this area that both feature sort of
48:11
wood and metal. The fountain doesn't necessarily
48:14
feature much. but there's definitely plenty of
48:16
shops that all have, like,
48:19
creaking hinges or, they might have
48:22
metal built into their structure. There is
48:25
obviously the church where you assume this woman is
48:28
probably from. that one also features, you
48:31
know, there's a bell, there's some other
48:34
hinges and other things that are metal that are part of the
48:36
structure. there's the old clock tower.
48:39
Those are probably the big ones. Well, if you'd like
48:42
to come with us, I think you might be of some
48:44
use. I'm happy to help in any
48:47
way, but do you have any.
48:50
I mean, where are you going? Do you have any
48:53
actual. I don't mean to sound rude by
48:56
asking this, but do you have an actual direction, Some.
48:59
Some sort of leads?
49:02
None. So far. You're the best. We've got
49:05
none here, but you're the best nonun we have.
49:09
I was trying to formulate that joke in my head when you said that.
49:12
U. She says, I
49:15
tell you what. I'll be at the church when you need me.
49:18
If you do get anything, don't hesitate
49:21
to stop by, and I will come with you.
49:25
Okay? Okay. Am I suspicious of hear at
49:27
all? Like, a little bit, maybe you might be. You want to roll
49:30
ins. You feel like. Is there something specific?
49:33
I feel like, what if
49:36
she. She obviously isn't the evil being
49:39
because it's not a giant doll, right. That I
49:42
assume, you know, so. But I wonder if she
49:44
has anything to do with this. Okay. Yeah.
49:47
Roll insight to see, you know, just what you gauge from her
49:50
tone. If it feels sort of legitimate or if
49:53
it feels a little s S. I mean, she
49:56
seems fairly genuine. She seems
49:59
strained. she has, like, bags under her eyes that really
50:02
suggest, like, she's probably been losing sleep as of late.
50:05
But however you interpret that,
50:09
it's up to you. Did you have
50:12
anything to do? You know where this
50:15
evil comes from? Because obviously I do. I'm asking.
50:18
Sure, I know where it comes from. It doesn't.
50:21
Like I said, it's evil in nature, and it
50:24
definitely doesn't come from this plane. It comes
50:27
from some other world or
50:30
dimension or something. I'm not sure.
50:32
I'm not a studious
50:35
person within the realm of other worlds, other
50:38
dimensions. Don know how it was summoned here?
50:41
I can only assume some Sort of dark ritual might have brought it
50:44
here. I don't imagine it can just get here on its own. It had
50:47
to have been. Do you know whooted this dark ritual?
50:50
No.
50:52
Algh. Thank you. Of course. Please let me know
50:55
if you find anything.
50:58
These children are in danger. Have we left the pit so
51:01
yet? Yeah. Yes. Yeahise. Have we
51:04
walked? Y. Absolutely. Because they're all. All we
51:07
righteah what we see. Can we dress him
51:10
up as a child? You? Yeah. Wow.
51:13
Our minds were on like the same pathway.
51:16
Because I already had a plan cooked up.
51:19
All right. Well, perfect. It's
51:22
good to see you put him in a littleell hand.
51:26
I have an idea, but I'm not sure you'll
51:29
be.
51:32
Yes, I'm talking to Roick.
51:35
I do. Nice N just. He points at the
51:38
floating frog next to you
51:40
who's still swimming in the air. What'd
51:43
you name him?
51:46
I poke.
51:49
Grub. Oh, that's good too.
51:52
Name Grub. Just rub
51:55
grub. Dry rub grub.
51:57
People g on that grub
52:00
Rub. His name's Rob
52:03
Frub Rub.
52:10
We really don't have time to be getting and
52:13
looking for pets. But I seen any kids. But if you were,
52:16
I would have named him Buba but with a bird on his
52:19
shoulder. Right as you said that.
52:22
Where'd you find that? I just point
52:25
it. You do see a couple of kids. Okay, I'mnna follow
52:28
the kids. Let's grown
52:31
men just follow this. M. Golin. I'm
52:34
Goblin. Okay, Please allow me to finish the.
52:37
You see a couple of kids that are, So they
52:40
look like they're with what you would assume to be their mom. And she is holding
52:43
them very tightly.
52:46
She's got them each by the hand and she hasn't pulled like as
52:49
closely as she can to her sides. She looks
52:51
absolutely terrified. What?
52:54
Just being outside with children, I gu y.
52:57
you also see a few looks, from people
53:00
around. they glance over at the kids and they. They have sort of
53:03
this like angry some of them. This is just a few people. But you notice they
53:06
have sort of an angry look to them. maybe a
53:09
look of jealousy. Maybe their children have
53:12
been taken. And then they see these children still
53:15
not taken, and they wonder to themselves,
53:17
why do you get to still be
53:20
here? They should. Those kids
53:23
too.
53:26
Yeah, man, I'll steal him if no one else does.
53:29
Gott even Steven. We
53:32
all need to communistically
53:35
really spread out who gets, an even
53:38
amount of children in this neighbor.
53:42
This is just socialism.
53:45
Yes. all right, well,
53:49
where do the kids play.
53:53
Everybody turns and looks at you. What did he
53:55
say? Who are you? Ask
53:59
u I guess I'm talking to, little sauce. well,
54:02
kids play all around the city.
54:06
It's neither really here nor there. It's
54:09
based where they gather, decide to togetherather that day.
54:12
There's really no certain spot.
54:15
That's what makes this all difficult. I did talk
54:18
to. I forget her
54:21
name, but I know
54:23
Gideon mentioned somebody and I,
54:26
spoke with her. She said she's got these visions
54:29
of wood and metal
54:32
children wrapped up,
54:35
within a radius, close to here, within a few
54:37
blocks at radius. So I assume the
54:40
evil has to be emanating from somewhere
54:43
in this area. So I would assume, if he would be
54:46
willing, we dress you up as a nice, pretty
54:49
little girl,
54:52
and we have you just walking around at night,
54:55
just saying, I want to play. I want to play
54:58
here within this area. This is just a
55:00
street Japanese horror story.
55:03
Okay, all this o roik's
55:06
just goingna float his frog over to you. Go.
55:09
And he's going. Just set him on m my shoulder. Sure,
55:12
he's on your shoulder. Den points
55:15
to his shoulder. Yeah, sure. Goes on your other shoulder.
55:17
No, no, no, no, no. I'm just pointing to my bird.
55:20
Nice. I like the bird.
55:23
Anyways, Roke's going to,
55:26
just open up his sack, his
55:28
pouch, and he's going to pull out a costume. He
55:31
has. He just has a child's
55:34
costo o. Okay. Okay. It is
55:37
a purple, fluffy
55:39
outfit with a little
55:42
hat with a feather out out of it.
55:44
Nice. And it's like frilly. It's
55:47
like frilly. And
55:50
roick's then going to start skipping around,
55:53
going. Wait, wa.
55:56
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. It's, not. It's not time yet.
55:59
What got you mean?
56:03
Don't you think this should be better at nighttime? He's not pretending to
56:06
be better. Kids will play night. That's
56:09
right. Mai. Well, should
56:12
we all go hide and see what happens? Say the line. I'm
56:14
frilly, silly. And my name's
56:17
willie.
56:19
Okay. And I'm ro play ro skipping around. I'm
56:22
reallyill. I'm silly. My name is
56:25
willie. Play with me. Play with me.
56:28
Play with me. Do a performance.
56:31
You skipping around, he
56:33
dancing. I love what players come with interesting
56:36
ideas, but I kind of hope this fails.
56:40
No
56:43
performance. You just get that
56:47
11. Yeah. you as you're ju a lot worse
56:50
in my performances. And so good as you're jumping and
56:52
skipping and frolicking all of a suddenom, you just kind
56:55
of hit a wall and it's two guards that are standing there,
56:58
and they look down at you and they say, what are you. What are you
57:01
doing there? Little that guy,
57:04
he say his name was, I think he
57:07
said Willie. Will? Yeah, Willie.
57:10
You heard your song. Hey, u what are you doing out
57:13
here all on your own? You know, what's with me? I'm
57:16
notnna do that, little one. It's actually
57:19
me. It's actually time for us
57:21
to play with
57:24
me. See, this is gonna
57:27
be a weird question, but, you wouldn't have by chance have the time, would
57:30
y? The oldle clock tower's not
57:33
been working as of late. I just have a little bit of difficulty
57:35
figuring out what time it is. Is he talking to me?
57:38
Yeah, I'm a Will.
57:41
Baby doesn't what she
57:43
knows what time it is. Look, all I can tell you is
57:46
that it's not time to play right now. It's not really
57:49
safe out here. I'd say you probably better go back in
57:52
with your parents there a little
57:55
my parents house. and I'm gonna go skipping
57:58
away down an alleyway while going. I'm
58:00
silly. I'm really. My name is
58:03
Wherey. You just hear him shoutow to? Oh, I don't know.
58:06
Okay, play with me with.
58:09
You know, I don't think that kid's all there.
58:13
Perfect. You ever seen that kid before? No, I
58:16
ever seen that kid. Kind of looked like she had a skin
58:19
condition. I'm gonna put on.
58:21
I'ma. I didn't
58:24
actually. I just put a feather in my hat.
58:27
is it getting dark at this point? Ah,
58:32
I'm gonna use my, Well, shoot. I mean, how m many
58:35
people around. You want to skip time, that's fine. But, no.
58:38
How many people around right now around
58:41
you? Not as many because of disappearances
58:44
ors. They're all adults. Yep, there's a
58:46
decent amount of adults. So I said Willie for a name and they went
58:49
right. Well, so you're
58:52
re. You're dancing down side
58:55
streets. Yeah, I'm down an alley right now,
58:57
skipping. I want to keep an eye on you.
59:00
Well, you can. You can still hear me, I guess. O I
59:03
can use spider time and climb up on top. Good
59:06
God, make it. My frogs got a bond to
59:09
me. He'll lead the waykay.
59:18
As you start to approach the alleyway, the two guards turn you and
59:21
they're like, oh, excuse me there, buddy. Where do you think you're
59:24
going? Trying to find my
59:26
kid. Oh, I'd be seeing.
59:29
He's silly. Silly.
59:34
His name's Willie.
59:36
That'coincidence we just saw stey Freely
59:39
Willie just head down the alleyway there.
59:43
He's pre come. You can't miss.
59:47
He's sillyilly. Imagine
59:50
you going to like your kids lost in the mall
59:53
and you go through a mall co he if you seen my kid
59:56
they're like what do they look like? Well they're silly
1:00:03
was really
1:00:09
and they're Willy. What what
1:00:12
it about what did you see about there Willie?
1:00:15
I don't think that's appropriate discussion when we're
1:00:18
talking about a kid. You're there bud.
1:00:20
No. Oh yeah.
1:00:23
We'll tell you what. Let's u let's
1:00:26
hold let's all go looking for little silly
1:00:29
Freey Willy down the alleyway here. No way. We can
1:00:31
help you all give back to your own jokeie. Kill
1:00:34
them. Hang on one second. Yeah, I'd like to
1:00:37
bring a couple friends along Mrs. Uncle. It's
1:00:40
a a question. Well he got his
1:00:43
uncle uncles.
1:00:46
des just points to the bird on his shoulder.
1:00:49
Daddy's uncle too. That's his uncle with
1:00:52
that's his pet uncle too. Uncle Quail.
1:00:56
Well, aren't you just a colorful bunch. Who's this
1:00:59
guy over here with the scales
1:01:02
Rubop
1:01:05
un uncle by marriage. Oh, right
1:01:07
on. Okay, well yeah let's all the whole group of
1:01:10
us go see if we can find Silly Freely Willie and
1:01:13
we could get you all back to where you're
1:01:19
I heard there's disappearances here
1:01:21
lately. Really? Like I really like to find so
1:01:24
really well they here it sou okay. Yeah. Trust me. We were
1:01:27
both just commented about how bad of an idea was is she just
1:01:30
went off into a dark she?
1:01:33
Oh sorry. It's a he.
1:01:35
I didn't mean to make assumptions or nothing. I just
1:01:38
was pretty darn confused.
1:01:41
But he's silly. If you don't mind me asking this
1:01:44
your son have a bit of a skin condition?
1:01:47
He doesn't look like you at all. Lost all his
1:01:50
feathers. Oh, I just what they look
1:01:53
like here.
1:01:56
That's. That's okay. O hey I'm not training
1:01:59
so my apology I start crying it like oh
1:02:02
it but patsy on the back you
1:02:04
can't grow feathers cheaper
1:02:07
cats. It'a terr
1:02:16
I feel like these guards might be on to something.
1:02:19
They're on. You want to. You want to do a
1:02:20
performancec? Yeah, because they're like we'll go with
1:02:23
you Y And that makes me feel feel a little untrusting towards
1:02:26
you right Now. Yeah. I am trusting towards them. Right?
1:02:29
Performance. Yeah. Or deception, whichever's
1:02:32
higher. they both apply in this situation. 17.
1:02:35
Okay. Wow. Okay. What do you. Are you trying
1:02:38
to get anything out of or you just. Guards might
1:02:41
be in on it. That would
1:02:44
be something you least expect. But, hey, let's
1:02:47
go down that. I just thought it was weird. Well, let's go down the alley with
1:02:49
you. Okay. Okay. Well, whatever the case, they. They
1:02:52
really didn't want anybody else coming along.
1:02:56
Sure. Well, they're not just gonna be like, hey, you on
1:02:59
the side of the street, come with us. Right?
1:03:02
That's it. I'd like my friends to come along too. No,
1:03:05
that's fine. That's fine with us. Let's go look and
1:03:08
let's make sure we find. Really? I
1:03:11
notice anything? you don't notice anything, but they. They definitely seem
1:03:14
to trust you a little bit more. They seem like they
1:03:16
legit believe that you are. For his
1:03:19
father or whatever the case.
1:03:22
so you guys go walking down the alley. We'll cut over to, Roick skipping
1:03:25
down the alleyway. Willy. Yes, Willy.
1:03:28
That'as, you're skipping down the alleyway saying, you know,
1:03:30
I want to play. I want to play in. To play with me. you hear
1:03:33
a voice, speak out from the shadows. O.
1:03:36
Excellent. Yes. It says, hey,
1:03:39
I'll play with you. And then
1:03:42
a Rourke'snna creepily turn towards the cor
1:03:45
angle. Play time.
1:03:49
And it creepy chairs likee. Never mind, buddy.
1:03:52
I might be a demonic entity, but you're a little far
1:03:55
from me. No. no. As you turn, a
1:03:58
face peeks out from some of the darker shadows of this
1:04:01
alleyway. It is a very pointed nose,
1:04:03
very, wooden features, and
1:04:06
very brightly colored hair and collar. Although
1:04:09
it's like skin you could say is, very
1:04:12
pale white. And it says.
1:04:15
I say it. He sure. it says,
1:04:18
ah, I have a fun place that we could
1:04:21
play. We could play tag. We could
1:04:24
play hide and seek. We could
1:04:27
play marbles. What do you want to
1:04:30
play,
1:04:32
Jack? I love Jax.
1:04:36
Let's play Jax. My name's
1:04:38
Raku. What's your name?
1:04:41
I'm silly. I'm free.
1:04:45
I'm Willy. That's a fun
1:04:48
name. Do you just go by Willie or do you
1:04:51
like the whole title? Roarg's starting
1:04:54
to get nervous and forgetting his lines.
1:04:56
oh, I like to play. Play
1:04:59
with me.
1:05:03
The head sort of tilts kind of like like a dog when they're
1:05:06
curious. Tilt my head in response.
1:05:11
You're a silly Frilly. One for sure.
1:05:13
Willy, let's go play. And he kind of
1:05:16
just disappears into the shadows. Okay, I follow
1:05:19
him. All right. Oh, hang on. How far away are
1:05:22
we? It's hard to say. It's
1:05:25
a whole series of back alleys right here.
1:05:28
I look down, pat
1:05:31
the frog on my shoulder,
1:05:34
say, rob. Ro lead
1:05:37
me. Ro lead this
1:05:40
way. Rob once for
1:05:43
yes. Rob twice for no.
1:05:49
I want go to. I hope
1:05:52
you have a good connection with this frog. I gave him a lot of
1:05:55
frog flakesun
1:05:57
m. Okay, what about
1:06:00
that way?
1:06:02
Rob, let's go that way.
1:06:05
Voice
1:06:08
it's randomong way.
1:06:11
Why in the world this frog no
1:06:16
right direction? I have no idea. Why are
1:06:19
you believing wrong? He says a frog
1:06:22
will lead you to me. I don't know. all
1:06:25
of the people'just like, yeah, this frog and
1:06:28
I have a connection now. He can lead you to
1:06:31
me. the gu bring in this world that magical
1:06:33
frog that can lead, you know, is close to him.
1:06:36
You know, the guards both look at you, and they're like,
1:06:39
u I don t. I don't Almost did
1:06:42
Kermit there.
1:06:45
I don't know much about you there, bud, but, are you
1:06:48
talking into the frog there?
1:06:51
When I get nervous and silly frly
1:06:54
Willie runs away. He does this a lot since his
1:06:57
mom. Geez. Since his mom died, it's.
1:07:00
That's a real bummer. This is how he finds free
1:07:02
and he likes to experience the fresh air and
1:07:05
sure, sometimes just talking to
1:07:08
this is a fet frog, Rob. And
1:07:11
sometimes just talking to Rob calms me down.
1:07:14
Oh, I see. I'm out of curiosity
1:07:17
there. Were you asking it for directions as
1:07:19
well? You know, sometimes I feel like they have an
1:07:22
emotional connection. Oh, that's. That's great and
1:07:25
all'm out of curiosity, and this is an honest
1:07:28
opinion for you? I just. I noticed some
1:07:31
footprints that are going in that direction over there.
1:07:34
But if you really think that there's an
1:07:37
emotional connection there with that,
1:07:40
we can follow it and we'll just cross our
1:07:43
fingers. Or maybe if you want, Steve and I to
1:07:45
go that way with the footprints, and then you can go that
1:07:48
way with the frog. Totally up to you. I'm not trying to
1:07:51
tell you how to find your son. I'm just here to
1:07:54
help. Does des, smell the
1:07:57
construct? Oh, it would be nearby.
1:07:59
Yes, it would. Absolutely. And it is in the
1:08:02
direction that the footprints are going. Okay,
1:08:05
maybe we should go in the way. Suggesting
1:08:08
Tez gets on all fours and just goes
1:08:13
and follows the footsteps. Oh, jeez'follow him. We got
1:08:16
a frog and we've got a little feathery
1:08:19
dude that both seem to have a direction go. You know
1:08:21
what? The feathery dude'following the footprints
1:08:24
again'm not trying to tell you what you do you want to go
1:08:27
that way with the frog? We'll find
1:08:30
youa after we find Willie
1:08:33
and we'll hand him off to you. But we're gonna follow the
1:08:36
creepy little, feathery guy for the time
1:08:39
being, and we're go goingna head in this direction. Okay.
1:08:41
Sounds good to me. Are you gonna. Are you gonna join? Are you
1:08:44
following? No, I'll come with you. Okay. Sounds great.
1:08:47
Thank goodness. I was starting to wonder if he wasn't
1:08:50
all there. all right, little buddy. U you follow
1:08:53
the lead the way, but, we're gonna keep an eye out for
1:08:56
footprints as well, Just, you know, in case you
1:08:59
following a creepy bird crawling on the ground is a little weird.
1:09:02
But thatch s fine. And they follow after you,
1:09:05
jumping back over to Cameron. roick.
1:09:08
So as you were following along,
1:09:11
this shadowy figure seems to kind of like disappear
1:09:14
into the shadows and then reappear further down. It slowly
1:09:17
leads you through the shadowy back
1:09:19
alleys until eventually I wish I kept the
1:09:22
rock now o
1:09:26
look at just someon the peak of wherever it leads, man. Oh,
1:09:29
that's true. Anybo even see. And this is why
1:09:32
it was important that we clarified that you
1:09:35
keto had the rock right now. So, whatever
1:09:38
the case, eventually it leads you to.
1:09:41
Gosh, that's gonna bite me in the butt. Oh, it
1:09:43
will. It leads you to you, fight
1:09:47
you. We can see, too. So literally,
1:09:50
we can just outmaneuver the game. Because's
1:09:53
true. You find yourself
1:09:55
standing at, the stairs
1:09:58
of an old clock
1:10:00
tower. And as you look up, you see that the
1:10:03
clock tower is no longer functioning. The
1:10:06
second hand, or whatever, the minute hand, doesn't seem to be moving
1:10:09
at all, no matter how long you stand there, which is for a good minute.
1:10:12
But eventually, the door doors open from the
1:10:15
inside, and the same face peeks out.
1:10:18
And it's raku. And he says, well,
1:10:21
are you gonna play with me? I'm sure.
1:10:25
Then come on in. Can you hold my hand?
1:10:27
I'm scared. Sure.
1:10:30
And, as you stand there, a hand reaches
1:10:33
out and it just keeps coming and keeps coming,
1:10:36
and it just elongated and eventually reaches
1:10:39
you and softly puts itself into your
1:10:41
hand, shocking
1:10:44
grass. Oh, gosh. All right. Does it
1:10:47
make a save
1:10:50
or do you do an attack? I assume it makes a
1:10:52
save. I'm pretty sure
1:10:55
it's an attack roll. I have advantage on
1:10:58
attack roll if they're wearing armor or made of
1:11:00
metaleah. He is wood.
1:11:03
O He could be wearing metal. I think he
1:11:06
would probably have metal underneath the
1:11:09
wood. And to sunk'got mechanical parts, Right?
1:11:12
Yeah. And, me electricity does
1:11:14
burn through wood, Right? Right, right.
1:11:17
And so I would say go with the advantage.
1:11:20
Okay. With a handshake. And
1:11:23
that's it. See? That's right, everybody.
1:11:26
I'ATTACKACK roll. So I add my spell
1:11:29
thing, right? Yep. Yepeah. Spell attack
1:11:31
bonus, right? Yes. 15. 15.
1:11:35
Ooh, that matches. But I'll count it. you
1:11:38
let out a burst of electricity. How much damages
1:11:40
it? Eight if it meets it
1:11:43
beats. Right. Seven. Yeah. Seven damage.
1:11:46
All right. As you release the shocking
1:11:49
grasp into its hand, you hear its face
1:11:52
just kind of contorts and opens up. sort of like a
1:11:55
creepy Five Nights at Freddy's where the animatronics, like the
1:11:58
hinge on the mouth kind of just comes all the way down and it goes.
1:12:02
And it pulls its hand back really quickly and slams
1:12:05
the door of the clock tower. I'm silly. I'm
1:12:07
free money. Roick just
1:12:10
blankly stares at the door and, he just goes
1:12:13
oops. And then just walks up to the door
1:12:16
and starts knocking. You knock on the
1:12:19
door and all of a sudden it just kind of slowly
1:12:22
opens with a creak. And it's just. It's almost
1:12:25
pitch black in there. There's maybe a little bit of light that just kind of
1:12:28
comes in, obviously from. From the sun. the door creaks
1:12:31
open ever so slowly and there's
1:12:33
nobody there. But all of a sudden you hear
1:12:36
and you go and you feel a sharp push from behind
1:12:39
you. And next thing you know, you're
1:12:41
standing in essentially pitch black darkness
1:12:44
as the door slams behind you.
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