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The Party Went So Wrong · Rotgrind - Narrative Declaration

• are you all excited for another amazing episode of rot grind no oh yeah oh wait we're meant to scream the bed's gone oh it's just a big rectangle on audacity when your waveform looks like a solid wall it's time to start all over again i don't know i think the audience is really going to appreciate it actually yeah it's okay chat screen for us already welcome back everybody to another amazing episode of rock grind i want to introduce you to the amazing players that bring you this show where we play pathfinder second edition and we suffer long in it starting off with odoroshi hi hello uh i'm odo uh i am going to be playing uh vena the sylph swashbuckler the artist formerly known as volley uh and uh my my my veggie tail sauna is spinach uh just if you even care oh this is our bit is it okay is it is it is it like boiled or is it like the we're in i'm gonna go for a walk around the block i'll see you guys later okay next up we have the ever stalwart hulky crow that is me i am hulky crow today i will be playing the ever resolute and always chaotic rohua the cleric the kanwasu cleric and my veggie tail sauna is a romanesco broccoli because i am fractal turgid and constantly spiraling in on myself of course that's a lot of good verbs yeah yeah the adjectives i've never had a romanesco i wonder if it looks around is it clear i'm about to hold a gun to you get on with it the one holding the gun to me is erindale i uh i've got a gun uh no i'm gonna put that down now oh yeah i'm playing as uh baldrick weathers the alchemist and uh i'm looking forward to continuing this stuff and not the veggie tales discussion but knowing that speaker is going to come up with something to say after this to countermand me as he always does i look at him i i point at him there's the one he is looking at is he ever is the ever mystified speaker d hi guys i'm speaker d i'm the original veggie tales fan i love all veggie tales media um all the all the books the comics uh i know all the lore i know everything about veggie tales and i will be playing um tan hauser who is this is less important but he is a magus he's an android he's a revolutionary you know all about him but what's more important is that if i were a veggie tale i believe that i would be an artichoke thank you and of course we have uh ever illusionary gang master the one who will make us all suffer thurston hillman illusionary like i'm not real you're not you're not okay well i really love that or azoran never introduces himself it's very funny no one ever knows what you're playing no one ever asks who i am i have to do it why do i have who are you wait a second are you like so here's always the weird thing i've actually had people like um like message me and stuff going zorn why don't you just let them introduce themselves and you just have to tell them well there's an order and also since we're online doing stuff there's lag and then sometimes people forget their order so it gets disjointed so that's why i do it and i mostly go like mostly go for odo hulky arendale speaker because you're in the order of the overlay that we have on twitch and stuff and then i skip me and go to thurston because i go last because i then either fill people in on what's going on after and all that stuff so it's kind of weird to go i'm this then it's thurston then it goes back to me so it just makes more natural just be like i do this and here's all the updates of what's been happening you know or like give people notice you twice he's got a good point and we still don't know what your vegetal so also wait if you end on wait no zorn if you end on thurston then that just means he can get right into telling us what we're doing yeah but sometimes people need to know what's what what's what you know any updates or tell people going like hey they could watch on twitch or there's podcast i mean there's tons of people who will watch till like episode 30 something and go i never knew there was a podcast even though we mentioned it like 50 times it's a huge it's a weird thing you have to keep saying it corals people will not listen guys there's a podcast oh i'll fucking choke you i'll hang you like that my daylight anyway thurston's here to make us suffer hi thurston hi sorry i've just been fallen into the deep hole of veggie tales stop raging all right all right the bit's over i'm officially thurston i'm officially tired of it move on hi my name's thurston i'm gming fun game today oh fucking hit i'm gonna all are you like we're really on it today guys yeah yeah you're on it all right you're on it all right on my fucking nerves my my nergal team is not doing fucking well right now i'm taking an emotional beating had a lot of star players been fucking killed or taken out i'm just trying to get over some shit right now get into this is that your trauma today fucking afforded a rot spot for my team his name was the bold figure and then he fucking got a niggling injury and like the first god anyways hi yeah i'm looking forward to this it's gonna be fun i'm gonna die thank you for the soundboard now we're gonna be right strong now we're great now beetlejuice has all of our money anyway i'm zorn the bear i play oran the strix druid and uh i am your i am your host i'm your host for this evening um basically as an update we are if you are new to the streams is that we do highly encourage you come over to the live streams if you're watching this on youtube but of course twitch is here people on live can can mess with us do funny stuff by donating bits they've increased our bit bars that's the bars down below that help us get hero points and all sorts of stuff but remember just like as auto didn't remember we do have a podcast obviously youtube channel all that types of stuff if you're watching the youtube channel and stuff or going on our website narrative declaration.com you'll find everything patreon stuff campaign assets art all that stuff to help out the show but thurston what adventure do you have for us today well i was gonna ask who wants to recap last session get a fancy hero point uh odo and hulky don't have any it'll be good for you two to do it maybe wait hold on we've already done it i thought we were going down the list i was voluntold last time sorry wait i was too i didn't do a good fucking job i think all right i got it i'm on the ball then i'll take an extra hero point thurston are you yeah bogart the hero points bring it on baldrick weathers all right so what happened last time was we had received an invitation from a delightful gilded skeleton he came up to the door like he's like hey you want to come they didn't say anything but he came up to us and offered us the invitation to the party there was a large party being held by some rather prestigious individuals in regards to uh what was the name of the i'm sorry names are the part where i fall apart who was the uh the person who invited us again thurston i remember the rough like what's the word i remember are you talking about sandal deckland the no i was talking throwing it yeah okay okay okay oh you uh i see i see i see you're looking for the uh the chamberlain's name is that correct yes thank you uh yeah so in this instance let me just pull up my my things here um as i you know yeah you got to get those visual aids ready so they know what we're talking about yeah yeah let me gotta i gotta pull it up here because it's i'll i'll get to sans it it's in a prior session i'm pulling it up i always love when i i try to get like like some music kind of go in the background like very minor you know this thing as you guys are like where the fuck's this shit like all these horns are now blaring chamberlain and nathian there you go yes chamberlain and nathian we were we nathian invited us to a soiree where a number of interesting individuals would be at and so we we strove to look our best we went out and acquired some rather foppish and dandy clothes to arrive at the gala with and uh upon arriving we uh first we came across our good friend and compatriot who i can't seem to find where's the where's our friends list where's our friends list please tell me opens up brought your friends list oh yeah dina neeson yes we came across her in a side room chatting with an older woman who did not fucking like us at all because old women don't like us we're too young as you know and we uh we proceeded to enter into the party after which we all fanned out about the room to try and get an idea of what exactly the purpose of all this was what we could learn about well anyone here because we also found our good friend the uh oh the guild the tyrant's guild person whose name escapes me because this was several weeks ago already who is who would give us the rank again first infillium vadir there you go darth vader vader yeah darth vader you're fighting darth vader no yeah infillium vadir was the the ranking individual from the tyrant's guild yeah they're here and they are inspecting a delightful statue uh that was actually a piece of equipment taken from the perfectite siege tower out in the swamps of the solitude which we helped the denise and fine and now it's likely irking rahua to no end that they're just kind of sitting around the room we also met uh a particularly fascinating an individual named after a shoe sandal deckland and uh he's pretty something he's a large man he's a little lecherous so naturally auto gravitated towards this guy here who who was introduced to us as indicated on the object here as punchable man it's a very very good use of it uh and we've just been kind of schmoozing and introducing ourselves around the room to various people the party split up at this point we're just kind of uh mingling and not trying to grab too much attention and we basically left off in the midst of that as we were taking part in uh conversation by combat or combat by conversation because you're having us go about this in turns and making checks and it's been uh really great oh yeah that's right i'm talking to this dude moral pam more help him and it's he's uh very interesting and he is definitely someone i would talk to in my spare time thirst and also also uh dankwart's here he's playing the piano for some reason he's just there we'll see in a minute oh yes i'm sorry i don't remember every individual person regrettably the great punkle tomt punk punkle compt ponsel tomt punkle compt he was the uh the the snake oil salesman oh yeah the snake oilsman who uh oh who got put on him that was tanhauser wasn't it yes tanhauser gets to talk to a man that he definitely wants to talk to as well everyone gets to talk to people they want to talk to yes pop open a cold one popping open a cold one with the great ponsel compt yeah rahua went over to talk to the infilium voli went or excuse me veena went over to go talk to uh sandal deckland i'm talking to morel pan and tanhauser is talking to uh ponkel compt and orrin is just kind of satelliting around and looking around and he caught a glimpse of yeah exactly he caught a glimpse of the hegemon through a uh through a crack in the doorway or i guess through a sighting through a nearby alcove and so we're kind of piecing together that well at least orrin is that maybe something's a little up but we'll have to get to that because that's roughly where we left off last time i believe correct absolutely you may uh bestow upon baldrick an extra hero thank you for the help with the names the names are really where i fall flat i remember roughly what we were doing and all that it's just the names the names jimmy i'm right there with you dude i'm trying to cut off all these handout cards as it's like i feel like a detective going all right we got rid of these shuffling where we specifically left off last session was each of you had sort of come back to the entrance and we're having a little a little little gathering a little discussion time uh to decide your next moves and that is where we're going to start today orange looks everyone i want to murder all right you're going to have to be more specific no we're not we're not doing that right now at all now so quiet let me do it later oh an opportunity that to murder someone that has it coming that we shouldn't at least consider now then before we get talking about that let's talk about what intelligence we've been able to gather so far all right well in terms of uh sandal our good our good friend over there on the couch i haven't been able to glean a ton but i can tell exactly what his weak points are i can tell he's definitely perhaps a bit undue uh a bit too proud of his connections to things that are a bit shady and with the right prodding i think he'll spill everything do we have any idea what in particular he's connected to from the way i understand it uh given what the infilia or not the infillium the the chamberlain told us he's going to have something to do with the stuff that the medics guild was doing out in the swamp indeed that's the same information i got from ponselcomt who himself seems to be a grifter of some description he has access to no doubt some snake oil that he's been peddling off as a miracle i intend to deal with him later for now it seems the fat man is more worthy of our attentions did anyone else obtain information uh baldrick will kind of nod his assent yeah i was talking to the fellow over at the bar over there uh moral pam more help him uh apparently he's also the head of the uh farmer's guild i believe right and i'm looking to thirst him for this one that's what the name is right yeah the farmer's guild yes yeah so he's a he's the leader of the farmer's guild naturally he's a little bit more well-to-do than a lot of this but i mean couldn't really guess that from always carrying himself but regardless uh he seems to have an inkling about who was throwing this party which is specifically you know sandal he's gonna just kind of waggle a finger over it uh sandal declin what first remind me again what did i pick up last time because again we it's been a while since we did this um yeah okay so you had spoken with more hell and learned a little bit uh particularly uh you learned that sandals kind of like the heir apparent uh to the declin family uh his parents had passed away in some event and so he is set to inherit from his uh grandfather um and his grandfather's kind of like shacked up in in the the family manor um that that was kind of the the little bits and bobs you've been able to piece together from talking to more hell pam just a bit so yeah he's the uh heir apparent to the declin fortune so doesn't doesn't surprise me he's a nepo baby he has the uh the air about him moral had some uh well it's rumors mostly but he's seemed convinced that his inheritance was not exactly naturally timed thinks he uh took care of his parents supposedly just a rumor not like it really much matters in this case that's mostly just rumors well i think with the right bit of flattery and the right buttons to push i might be able to get him to brag about some crimes that shouldn't come out he doesn't seem to be all that discreet about it so then what's our next step we have the butcher's guild on one hand we have a grifter on the other and then we have someone with information we actually care to know in the presence of a member of the tyrant's guild we need to find out where this connection with the medic's guild goes where to strike where to find what we have been tasked with finding seems to me the best person to talk to in that regard would be sandal is there any chance we could get him alone doubtful he is surrounded by a bunch of sycophants doesn't seem keen on leaving that couch what if the party was ruined ruined what's your idea well we obviously can't pull out our swords and start massacring the rich and wealthy no no no we're not far enough in the revolution for that but what we can do is make it to where the party seems stale everyone will be forced to move to another location and into the intervening chaos we can take our prize that is assuming we can't coax out the words with some well-placed manipulations but i would say that if rotten meat started drifting through the air vents or perhaps all of the alcohol suddenly went off at once something awkward and embarrassing that socialites would care about like murder well no not like murder yeah yeah we might stop we might have a i did learn something important and we might actually have a sycophant who who may be in line with killing everybody here oh wait really that's way better than my plan yeah i and rahua will very obviously turn around to point at anfilium vidir yeah they they said they want to kill everybody in the room oh okay well that's probably more of a metaphor than a direct uh declaration of intent i don't mean they are going to kill everybody overtly but they they were pretty clear about what they wanted to do all right i'm going to cut you off there rahua i don't really want to work with the tyrants guild even a sycophant like that on any level so that's that's a kibosh on that we can think of something else i agree with that the tyrants guild are useful to manipulate but i do not want to be their pawn oh also they know exactly who we are well yes i would be insulted if they didn't hmm regardless uh hang on i think i might have an idea mentioned ways of making a party sound stale and boring right that's right without making it obvious that it's us that did it no no no see i got an idea he's gonna point over at uh the individual playing the piano i think hey thurston could i possibly make a knowledge check of some kind to know if there's a tune that nobility might find distasteful that can be played on the piano oh yeah there's like you give me a society check for that that would be appropriate i'll give it a shot here's the first world of the day folks they're playing wonderwall decent 27 yeah yeah yeah yeah uh very very much wonderwall absolutely you want to get you want to wing something or should i make it up after you you can you can you can come up with some awful thing that the nobility despises here baldrick all right so i was actually i've drifted in the circles around here long enough especially been in college long enough to know that there's a particular tune that causes some nobles to chafe it was played uh long while ago uh history books nonsense but it's a well-known tune uh arcad's juggling act you can play it on the piano like that one but uh suffice to say it was played at a great many beheadings uh well what's not to like about that well if you're a noble it's probably not probably a bad reminder if you wanted i could try and get their attention like a distraction or something and then you could probably go up to him playing the keyboard up there and then i don't know bribe him or convince him make give him a change to his uh his work see if he knows anything about arcad's juggling act i imagine that'll make them a bit uncomfy this is not a bad idea an orrin yeah you can transform into animal yeah he's now scared have you ever i grab him by the shoulder have you ever transformed into a skunk a couple times why don't you find a way to crawl into these air vents crawl above this party turn into a skunk and then i don't know what it is skunks don't shit i'm sorry goo everywhere got it yeah there's a musk everywhere i don't think that's the term the goo watch out for the goo whoopsie doo here comes the goo not the goo glab how do skunks it's a spray smell bad all right we'll look look at dan how do you go uh yeah uh uh can i roll a perception check to see if there are any vents around as he's like looking left and right to find anything yeah sure give me a perception check excellent with the plus 16 i roll the dice it tumbles and bones and that's not that 28 28 28 okay so there aren't like there's some like ventilation holes but like there's not like duct work in the city so like you don't have any kind of like immediate die hard uh vents or whatnot but like there's places to maneuver through some of the walls any of them chunk sized yes okay uh he looks at tan hairs going you're gonna have to throw me to one of them i take a look and i realize that we are surrounded by curtains yes is there any chance you could crawl amongst the curtains i'm gonna have to make so many athletic checks i'm gonna die i can haste you if it will help i can haste me too i'll still die oh yeah that horrible look and he looks at tanhouser like super serious like he was finally given a purpose in life like a secret agent mission he goes got it mr tanhouser i'll stink up the place all right i believe in you now give me one moment come with me oren the rest of you find people to endear yourselves with once this happens and the party disintegrates what's our next move well the next next move is that sandal declin no well at the very least sandal declin shut up no at the very least we need to get him on his own and we need to get him to confess to what is going on with the medics guild i think that we can start prodding him start inflating his ego and i think that enough people gassing him up can get him to brag about the things that he's done at the very least enough to say bring back the information to the the chamberman yes but we need to make sure he doesn't rest control of the party once we scatter it i look at baldrick baldrick what you make disgusting concoctions all the time thanks perhaps you could poison his drink make him feel ill then when the smell infiltrates the place he might vomit throw up become more visibly sick at that point he will likely attempt to excuse himself for certain from festivities rather than attempt to party hard while his entire body convulses in endless unfollowable pain that might be overkill at the theater you really should have seen it yes well something perhaps less extreme than that what do you understand yes i think that bad music and a bit of a stink will be more than enough to send a bunch of nobles on their way very well now then while our two operatives gauge with their actions what shall us three be doing well one i think we should have eyes on uh the hegemon it doesn't sit well with me that he's here and that he's not socializing and i don't know frankly the guy gives me the willies oh yes you'll have to be dealt with in time no doubt and i think that at least whichever whoever of us are the best at talking uh this is vena's way of saying is anybody here trained in any sort of diplomacy anyone i'm trained in terror tactics or only has a plus one to diplomacy i got my plus one i think i think regrettably that is you it's just me it's just me well if anybody would like to assist with whatever social skills the rest of this group can manage to scrape together have any of you ever spoken to people just in general have you heard spoken to people i've spoken with people previously but they're mostly very mean patrons ah well food service will do that oh food service is hell don't ever work it do not worry vena i tan hauser will help you in this social encounter i'm just imagining tan hauser salivating through his mouthpiece you know what tanning that's that's a great thought we're gonna put a pin in that one maybe you should go and check out what the hegemen is doing i i would trust nobody else to particularly um a deal with a man like that the small one's doing something he points over where is he comped he's he's wazing to us what is it that you require oh hi hi there i just stood up for about a lot of talking yeah i just had a little little drinky poo and i think it went a bit through me oh boy okay oh yeah clear clear the way we're kind of in the door wait i want to roll insight on this guy it's not a skill yeah well i want to i want to roll the thing where i figure out if he's hiding something perception perception excellent you see we got there i just gotta find how how is it that i have lost perception my god there it is uh clean your eyes there you go ah with a natural two there's no doubt i've discovered all the secrets uncle cop staggers by and seems to depart out the front but that was weird well when you gotta go you gotta go anyway i'm going to walk uh like look side to side who was serving his drinks did anyone see did i see from my previous uh encounter encounter who was handing him his drinks counter counter because i was talking i'm gonna stop talking like this because i was talking to poncel comp um uh you saw that he had some there you you didn't see who exactly was serving them if anything it's probably came from like the bartender like she's been going out back and forth a bit i'm just gonna march over to the poncel comp table give me a moment i have a hunch i gotta walk over to poncel comp's table hello friends hello don't hello and i'm going to reach down and i'm going to grab his drink that he was drinking assuming it's still here okay um you can see that there is a like mostly completed glass of sparkling liquid poncel comp asked me to make sure that he's just shut up you all weak and i'm going to leave what and i'm going to exceptional charisma it's true uh and i gotta come back uh he's such a way with words who here can tell me if this is poisoned i can do that all right baldrick is going to use his immense power uh thurston what am i doing what do you want a crafting yeah crafting is appropriate here uh or medicine either or uh what would i what would i get a bonus from this with should i use alchemical savant or uh i would allow that yeah i'd allow that i think that should be fine go great solo 23 um yeah so um you you take an action to sort of look it over uh identifying it um you are able to identify that it is like a particularly hard liquor um like someone poured this guy a triple basically hmm uh but there's no poison in it uh mexican do a better job but unfortunately it's not really poisoned it's just exceptionally strong damn so you're saying this won't kill someone uh enough of it might but no all right i walk over to this table oh i found a free drink for you and then i walk back that's not a table it's just a crate yeah whatever this is a display piece you just put it on that guy yeah just oh no ten houses dissociating i just i just put this drink here i've got a free drink for you and then i go back to talking over here all right why is that tyrant's guardsman here then if they hate this so much social obligation more than likely all right i believe they're here keeping order but also it does not seem like they want to be here based upon my conversations with them uh uh rather not fond of the assemblage of nobles here yet they recognize the importance of keeping order there's more to it but i don't feel it's exactly relevant to the situation at hand regrettably even though they are a bunch of bastards they do still have an outward facing obligation to not look quite as monstrous as you'd think very well fail at that well at this juncture i say we fan out vena do you want my assistance in dealing with sandal or would you prefer rahuas you know oh i almost doesn't look like chris redfield right now yeah okay yeah crisp redwood hold on true crisp redwood um in that case i think you're probably better served elsewhere tanny you're right i will go talk to the tyrant's guardsman perhaps i can get more information about the image to be him the him he's having a stroke i press the reset button on his chest those ten hours are just usually shout when we're trying to be quiet no he's updating the three people by the cube has probably heard everything by now and just be like oh gosh we'll have to kill them we'll have to kill them all no i presumably we've been silent save for the two times where tanhauser has shouted which has mostly been because i got tongue tied uh baldrick is gonna pat so who's who's going to sandal that's tanhauser and vena no vena and okay uh baldrick is gonna pat tanhauser on the shoulder and say all right so i can make a distraction and probably get their attention if you want to go convince the uh piano player to play you know the juggling act oh i thought that you were going to do that well i kind of can't you don't want it tied to us right the best thing to do for that is to do when they're not looking and i can more easily distract than i think well you can so you're saying i should intimidate that small feline person behind the piano or pam whichever one so you're saying i should intimidate them i'm saying do what you're gonna do just don't leave a trail very good it will be done um all righty then so uh i will um you know i did notice these fellas left yeah this door has been open and i'm presuming we have not been stealthy or quiet about anything so we're probably hosed now but hey that's life i i presumed we were being quiet up until the two times where i screamed something yeah we can't we can't exactly stage whisper to one another uh in the call but i'm assuming that the the crew is trying to be subtle yeah we're not like complete brain dead numbskulls uh is there anything is there anything you would prefer us to roll to ensure that we kept uh a relative like um silence as to what we've been getting together and muttering thurston hmm hmm stealth all right so we're all rolling stealths mm-hmm hey thurston uh hang on a second i've got a thing for this i think yes hey so i have a question i have an answer maybe i have the i have the feet quiet allies oh that's that's that seems very appropriate when you are avoiding notice and your allies follow the expert you and those allies can roll a single stealth check using the lowest modifier instead of rolling separately that's nice mm-hmm now that'll mean that whoever has the worst stealth is going to be rolling for us oh oran's got a 14 i've got a fort uh i've got a 14 as well i also have a one all right well so odds are the only person who would probably be standing at would be him anyway so okay well you are following the expert which is the exploration activity which this would be exploration mode you match your tactic or similar no no no wait wait um you match the their tactic or tim similar checks thanks to your allies assistance you can add your level as a proficiency bonus so rahua you can add your level to the check as well so you would effectively follow baldrick and then you would get your terrible bonus but he effectively counts you as being trained so nice so you'll be actually rolling at a plus nine instead of not bad not bad at all there you go there you go do we want to do that or do we want to wing it with the stealth because odds are probably the best for the best that we only get one roll because uh i i imagine it's a situation where only one of us needs to fail to completely fuck it up yep and uh if we just have one person fail even if it's the weakest person uh they can hear a point that it's just less chances to roll in that one now i want to ask am i rolling that for rahua or is rahua rolls it damn it because he doesn't have oh he never mind he just got one nice thanks chat thank you guys i love you all right uh you want a smoke stick we'll be kidding no that'll be distracting and large don't do that all right rahua give us uh d20 plus nine i guess okay here we go be prepared to re-roll in case it's uh well tell them what you're telling what you're i rolled a three on the die with a plus nine for 12. so would you like to hero quest that sir i i'm thinking i should hero quest that i think i'm gonna take a sip of this you have a 10 chance you have a 10 chance to roll worse so that's fine oh but you know my odds my uh my dice rolls are buns so never tell them the odds never tell me the odds let's hero point it and accept the consequences i took a sip let's see what happens hey that's significant for 28 in total let's go just imagine that the stealth is represented by occasionally when tanhouser like gets animated rahua just turns and goes yes that is exactly what so yeah thurston there's our there's our collective stealth role whoo that was a pretty good use of a cool feet everybody see it's pretty useful when you need them to be i took i took it for a reason now we'll never use it for 30 more episodes i appreciate it it is literally i don't trust my companions which is the most baldrick of feats it really is it is i i fucking adore when skill feats work that way uh yeah no you've uh somehow despite everything you have managed to keep everything on the dl thank god we are so powerful we'll see how long it stays that way hey hey hey hey don't call me out like that don't call me out like that all right no no no no no wait wait wait wait wait wait okay uh yeah so we got our game plan we've got uh baldrics on catboy duty uh me and rahua are going to talk to uh sandals uh oran is gonna go skunk mode and is probably gonna wait for the queue to make the room stinky what's the queue uh i don't know uh just do it in what would be hang on uh if you're so the queue should probably be something that doesn't mean anything to anyone else obviously so maybe just like pickles clear your throat three times and that is when oran will know when to go well because we're distracted me and tanhauser are coordinating to get the fucking distraction on our end i have an idea just scratch the top of your helmet that's true that's something that it probably wouldn't be noticed but is just just obvious enough sure why not sure who who cares it'll probably work out just fine well don't say it like that it always does we're so good at our job well let's see if we can put that to the test then yeah yeah i'm worried hold me i need to go to the little druid's room and he leaves to go turn into a skunk oh my god or notices that the door to the artifacts is open is that intention yes yes it is it's like oran comes back he goes to vena vena the treasure room's open is anything missing not yet uh hold on i'm gonna lean out uh and a peek into the treasure room uh is anybody in there no one is currently in there that you can see uh is there any like weirdness do i notice anything missing we had kind of gotten a peek into the room so i i don't know like if somebody stole like a trinket i wouldn't notice but if somebody stole like a statue you see like a a very ornate um what almost appears to be like a a communion like a the equivalent of like a communion bowl um but like a very like ornate basin of uh representing the first house and the sort of core pantheon of outset and the wider predominant continent there's like a bust in there that's marble it has like the face of this like stern man and it's got like a plating on it and then there are several like closed chests of uh goods and equipment in here that have just been sort of left here for inspection hmm um so yeah i i don't notice anything out of the ordinary or do you want me to give you a perception you want to go in there and start perceiving you absolutely can all right well i don't want to get too distracted because i'm on i'm on i'm on sandals duty uh but yeah i'll just give it a look see sure my perception is okay all right natural 20 i'll give you that one the door slams shut on you as you uh as the the face of the bust turns to you and begins staring so uh you come here often and you will save i genuinely can't believe we've already failed i i genuinely that's that is a record for us greed laid low many a good hero earned ill and we will be no different checking something oh i i can't wait i can't wait for you know to get hit with the rot gaze i'm about to die again bro oh great now that one's bad you got a hero point though oh you got a hero point if you're here if your hero point curious today uh god the natural 20 into the immediate dick punch thank you thurston you're welcome you're absolutely noticing the weird shit that's happening in here good job thank you okay i'll hero point that hero quest all right oh oh that's better that's a 29 oh okay um you feel as though this is like some kind of mental effect that's just like clawing at the edge of your skull you you don't feel that the um the bust has any kind of like magical power there's something else going on here um you feel like the the best way to to resolve this is just like if you go and touch the bust like you'll prove that it's not like this weird fucking magic-y hocus-pocus stuff and that'll ground you in reality yeah i gave it i gave it a little experimental touch just just barely and i'm gonna look around the road feeling the door slamming behind me what my natural 20 uh per chance net it sort of noticed the like the the the ambiance it it sort of gave you this sense like one of the crates here um had something that like triggered like the edge of one of the crates where it's sort of been um nailed down like you feel these like almost tendrils of darkness seeping out um but then they sort of manifested in in the distraction that was the the bust okay i'll i'll meander on over to the boxes i want you to give me three acrobatics checks three yes okay uh first one uh well even with the two on the die that's a 21. that's cool okay second one another two again a 21 a 21 fucking christ and a 28 have you ever seen that like simpsons episode with sideshow bob and the rakes um you kind of have a similar situation as you start walking and every step you feel something but you're like so you're so compelled to go to this this box and figure out what's in it um and like after a moment you realize that like your your boots have been somewhat cut up what the fuck um and that you uh now have um some persistent bleed damage oh damn it as you realize and look down that the floor here has been scattered with caltrops i didn't notice the caltrops no you didn't natural 20 correct what are they invisible um you notice that you've been like so absolutely intent on like the the reality warping in here you can also tell that like this could have been a way effing worse but your perception kept it so that like you weren't directly stepping on them like you're taking one point of persistent bleed if you would like not been as as alert as you were you might have taken a lot more damage from just like willy-nilly stepping in here and not being as as alert as you are but the thing that you do notice now that you like take stock of these is you've seen these caltrops before fair enough where have i seen these in your feet they're often beyond in my head by a member of your party what yeah who's always you've you've seen these used against various foes throughout this campaign including at one point and it sticks in your your memory a tree i don't actually were you there for the tree you might not have been there for the i was not there for the tree that's right so okay you've seen caltrops before but not not a tree because do you know tanhauser loves to use caltrops tanny did you drop your fucking couch drops as you turn to the door that is currently closed or unlike well i ever like to come up to the door nausea and i try to open it yep yeah yeah it it opens immediately and yeah what are you doing in here you see like caltrops scattered on the floor vena's there what are you doing there's some bullshit happening in this room yeah you're bleeding and stepping on everything just get out of here tanny did you drop your goddamn caltrops where did he go uh i presumably when the door slammed we would have been alerted right yeah okay and you would see like oren sort of like rushing towards what's going on are these your caltrops i look at them i mean it's impossible for me to tell but i didn't lay any caltrops your caltrops are missing oh someone stole my caltrops huh oh um so with volley's nat 20 would she be able to tell if anything had been recently moved or stolen like anything that had been like resting here that maybe would have made any like imprints or like well we did say that the box was fucked up yeah um so so um i i like that you're you're asking on behalf of uh of a natural 20 of another player i appreciate this level of teamwork i i just figured that it would have been revealed revealed um what you notice is that there were some things you remember standing atop some of these barrels in the corner of the room uh particularly like some fine like little gemstones that are now missing fucking ponselcompt ah yes somebody go get that bastard i think if we manage to tell our good friend sandal that ponselcompt's been fucking stealing from him he'll tell us everything ow my feet that is a good point let us go still want me stink up the place uh hold off on that but keep it in the back of your mind okay now that's that's definitely our our next order of business i'll uh i'll take vena and i guess we'll go speak to mr sandal himself okay all right i guess i'm taking oren to go talk to that guy then yeah we gotta go get ponselcompt in fact we might want to go confront him first before we go to uh uh he is he's not in the accessible place right now he's on the uh oh he came back where did he go uh he he left elsewhere i said i saw him like wander toward the balcony yeah he's not here right now yeah we'd have to go find him uh the entire point of doing all of this is to get sandal alone but if we can get sandal alone by convincing him that he has been stolen from and then convincing him that we can help him find the thief which we probably can because we have enough physical evidence that we are not the thieves um then that defeats the purpose of even fucking with the party in the first place so so what you're telling me is we just got undercut and there's no reason to do any of what we just did i think so well we'll keep it in our back pocket keep it in our back i'm introducing events to to shake up events oh my god he's so mean ruining our plans mr do you want me to be annoyed at you because that's a good way to do that well no you can be annoyed at me for another reason because today i learned that the first episode of veggie tales oh we're going on a break all right let's go talk father let's go all right what does it even look they're gonna point to it well we'll find out and i mean again there's a fair chance given our history of charisma roles that uh we will go talk to sandal and then uh not accomplish our goal and so then we will probably have to resort to funny shenanigans like skunk time exactly yeah go talk to him yeah so i think the the order of business should be uh myself and rahua go to sandal uh everybody else try to find ponselcompt all right i'll be on the lookout um i will start marching after uh this tiny gnome and somebody please help my poor aching feedies oh i can help with that use magic like like i can help with that or goes into a potted plant just reaches into like the dirt and fertilizer oh oh wonderful why are there worms in a potted plant that's disturbing and uh you know you know helps keep it alive and um you just start muds it up a little bit going here you go vena he comes out with open hands and oh oh oh oran oran oran we are we are literally at a rich people party please put your muddy hands away oh sorry he wipes it on the curtains uh i i think i can help you out with that but uh bear with me here rahua will bring his hand down to vena's achy achy hurtie foot and he will shoot out a black inky tendril of star stuff and i will just try and perform a medicine check on her that's what i was doing yeah but you were doing with mud i'm doing it with like weird space shit okay oh it's okay oran i i usually love your fun muddy shenanigans just between you and me we are we are the two different tiers of those misleading mobile game ads where you're starting off at like street thug i'm like ceo here i'm level one thug you're under level 100 bob boss i get it but if you take my gold out of my briefcase i become a level zero thug that is true yeah we didn't account for that you would be wise to join my gang at a seven twenty one oh boy the success oh we're on it let's go you managed to heal the one hit point that vena was missing yay okay what's going on here as you all turn okay yep sweet roll the attack roll okay hi so sorry about that uh there seems to be i ran into some trouble with my boots i'm gonna like like uh exaggeratedly pout and show where my my poor aching what happened to my poor feedies what look fucking no sorry thursday i just i feel like i've been flash banged no no no no you flash banged me here like oh my poor boot and i'm gonna show him how the fuck do you show this to him oh i just like i just gesture down you gestured out of the veggie tails bandage on your foot presumably there is well you said it fucked up my boots and stuff yeah on the boot yeah like yeah like so you're like lifting it up like like look at the bottom of my boot it has a hole in it is that what you're going for no chat sandal is not a feat man leave that the fuck alone right now i um you guys knew where you were going with this i unironically did not okay anyway jesus i'm canceling this show yeah you know what i'm i'm i'm in agreement with you zor and we've gone far enough all right we're playing fallout now sorry guys foot ride is over we had a good run all right i i'm gonna take i'm gonna take a step back there i'm gonna i'm gonna rewind a little bit so we all get our giggles and i'm just going to say oh my gosh i think there's been a problem i saw that the door was open to the to the the room with all the artifacts in them and i saw poncel comp running off oh okay what's the problem well i think that some jewels have been stolen okay what's the problem what you don't care but he's just jewels but i mean it's because they're your they're your jewels how dare he do that to you hey give me a deception check i i will gladly gladly i will gladly deceive um oh god does does why to me apply here lie is naturally as you backflip this guy has to be nouveau rich there is no way someone that was old money would ever be like able to let go someone stealing a single dollar from them he goes up and is like why this guy's trump rich not my god all right that's a 21. yeah okay okay i need to refresh this goddamn page why can't i you might need to refresh your mind sandal declin comes swaggering towards you vena places an arm around your uh your shoulder and it's like listen here i can be generous i'm a generous man and uh a couple gemstones they don't mean a thing to me you know i put this on so people could come here and have a good time like the children and he pats oran on the head with his other hand the children can i roll a fort or will save the not growl absolutely like a like a like a corrupted kid in the forest i apologize to everyone i give you so many trigger warnings of how fucking awful this no that's fine we're we're playing it out this is perfect good he's literally a teenager i'm i'm literally three years old it's like i roll a 27 why do i care yep so don't worry about it babe it's if people want to take take some money here that's okay i got a lot to spare have i mentioned i'm building an airship wow you're like so generous that's really kind of you yeah no i'm pretty kind his arm comes off also i've been standing for a while i'm going back to my couch oh okay well thanks so much he doesn't care he doesn't care what the fuck nothing important was stolen i mean i i gave the place a pretty thorough look over i would like to roll a perception check to basically kind of gather what exactly he super cares about which i would imagine would be his image and his reputation he wants people to fawn over him i'm imagining so i would like a perception check i mostly established that see where i can really get him i rolled a 29. um so this is like an art exhibit right like these are all fancy things that he's showing off um what oran gets is that he wants to add to his um metaphorical art exhibit and he has found a new piece in vena i cannot wait to electrocute this man to death oran oh sorry uh oran picks up on this and they're like vena yeah i have something horrible to suggest to you but we have your back like if we want to get this guy alone we could probably try you could probably try to encourage him a little bit we'll follow along with you or so and then when he's alone we could like crash through the windows or something or like crash through his door and then we'll we'll have him where we got him is it still too late for you to become a skunk i would love to hey uh hey thurston i got a quick question yep while this is going can i prepare a dosage of belladonna yes you absolutely can prepare some poison oh it's for me baldrick is just like standing around just casually putting some stuff together and he's gonna just like call vena over just by like beckoning with like two fingers like hey yo yo yo uh so shall i am i crafting jack i i'm like i i i'm gonna like bypass the regular crafting rules because this is narratively amazing ah again with that but it's a 22 is that you got a point you got to hear a point i'm asking you is that fine it's not gonna be enough to make it in the time you desire to make it all right i'm gonna i'm gonna redo that with a hero hero point that's much better that's a six yeah you're able to like like put together ingredients very quickly you've got this and it's you're just about finished as the time as you see someone like walking with purpose towards your group and it's morhell palm the um the dwarf head of the of the farmer's guild uh as as he's approaching baldrick is gonna put the finishing touches on the the thing i presume and he's going to stuff it quickly into his coat pocket and he's passing by the the rest of your your companions and it's just sort of like baldrick where's baldrick right there orl is right next to us he like walks past you stands through the hall stairs um sorry walks walks past yeah stares right up to you looks into like the visor of your bucket raises a hand and points directly at you 10 feet away baldrick dots points to the bar dots baldrick will sigh all right sure why not more help palm approves come on while while while he's going past again i'm presuming he had tried to beckon vena over yep and baldrick is going to palm the small uh volume of belladonna into her inventory good idea so is this is this uh a killing amount or is this a hurts very bad amount should it's not gonna be very nice i'm sure he's not going to enjoy the feeling it gives him but it's mostly just to uh confuse and sicken him it'll take a about 30 minutes for it to all go off but after 10 he should be at least a little bit more uh clouded fine all right yeah i feel like this is a anything this is a bit of a don corneo situation i'm gonna pocket that yeah give her a give her a belladonna what can possibly go wrong this is the point where in the corner of the screen it says the gm will remember this uh how do i can i share the belladonna with the chat yeah sure is that how that works how do i do yeah um it's in your inventory right yeah you just collect the icon i did i didn't uh oh it might not have like a chat oh hang on no i didn't i didn't craft it i had the that was the thing now we get the bobject for you you know where's the bobject the object i don't want to edit the item yeah i can't i can't post it but that's fine if you click on the icon it does it and here i'm on it also i yeah i just realized i'm on private sorry about that oh yes belladonna it's it's a light poison but it's a little poison it's just a little poison considering most civilians have at least 10 hit points it's unlikely to kill them he's got one hit point he just explodes yeah unless he's got an immunity to it but yeah boldrick's gonna palm that very quickly and move past as though nothing is happening all right okay i'm going to take rahua and we're going to split up to go and speak to our good uh uh friend sandal well as as you you make your your your way away um yourself and rahua i'll just start moving you um you pass by more hell and baldrick and more hell leans towards you baldrick and it's like that entirely depends on your definition of cool it's kind of kind of boring to buy shots of two people who's cool well regrettably i think they're all heading off but he's gonna he's gonna feign trying to call vena and rahua over but he's gonna just kind of he's just kind of got that raise your hand and then like curl in your fingers like eh never mind get oran drunk uh he's gonna call oran over oran he's a nervous wreck he comes with him yeah yeah it's mr baldrick wait wait wait wait wait uh more hell pushes you out of the way baldrick and sits in the seat in the middle now great my name's motor bomb and he like sticks out his hand towards you oran will very adding this homeless guy to our shots roster or will very nervously shake his hand going hi i'm oh good oran you got a strong grip on that arm it's like it's made out of wood or something he looks at his arm yeah how old are you he starts sweating like i'm uh i'm 19. excellent triple for the boy what he looks over and there's like a colossal glasses and it's just like it's legal here and outside you're fine it's forced perspectives like ah drinking agent outset is uh like 11. yeah exactly yeah because the water's not very good okay oh god uh look upon thy death or and don't forget the child the the yeah exactly i was just about to pull out the art and be like as evidence bye i don't really like rock because they have this peasant child constant draw they promote child dragonness listen we promote child preparation for work exactly it's true if this session is i just um i'm just looming in the fucking corner like batman actually i screen oh my god i'd like to point something out yeah um so we all agree right that chasing after the gnome would be of no help to our endeavors at all oh and in fact would just be detrimental right oh no well that was the last thing you guys told me to do and then you did all of this yep and i i feel like i have no choice but to continue with that mission so is it okay i'm gonna roll this perception and see if i find the no okay here's the good roll here's the one good roll one two three i really wanted to there you go show me your face as you as you move over five squares from your current position and look to the north you see that ponkelcompt is on the balcony um do like standing atop the table uh just articulating wildly and like uh to a group of onlookers like this because of your microphone on the discord you sounded like a bee oh perfect he's just sitting on the table going froggy looks in chat do we want to talk about the bee movie script moving on if we can't talk about our veggie sonas we can't talk about the bee movie uh the presence of the hegemon meaning that i cannot do what i wanted to do which was uh grab him and then viciously beat him into a bloodied pulped mass on the floor um i'll just go back tragically forced to be useful to the encounter now wow i mean the hegemon is there you can't you can uh uh socialize with the man who murdered us yeah this is probably not a good idea to to engage the hegemon i don't trust myself to do anything other than antagonize him and understandable that's not useful to our to the mission give me a perception check tanhazer another one yeah another one another one and another another one that's okay uh as you are before you like head back here so like as you're having this like stare off at ponkel comped on the table tanhazer notices the hegemon is flipping him off and must go and engage him now no the hegemon like certainly has taken note to you and like gives you a smile and a nod i look at him i take my thumb i run it across my neck and then i turn back okay um oren you feel a little jibe in your side from uh from more hell kind of giving you the elbow so i got a question yeah it's the metal man over there with you you seeing like tanhazer coming through the door looking around assessing the scene um or tries to think of a tactical way to do it where it's like it's like obviously he's seen with us with the group he's like he's like yeah he's he's with our group hold on i gotta knock at the door he leans in towards you is he cool oh at that point yeah he's pretty cool wow did you have to roll to see if you thought tanhazer was cool i think he's really cool well he's he's done so many amazing things and he really puts his passions into a lot of stuff and and i think he's i think he's pretty spectacular sir for our podcast people i just want you to know that zoran the bear had to roll a d20 to answer the question of if tanhazer was cool or not is that is that a deception check or don't worry about it now did he pass or did he succeed what is my opinion of tanhazer is it low or is it high as the person controlling all of your characters all the time i have decided that baldrick has a particularly high opinion of tanhazer i i'm gonna walk back has this guy been drinking the drink i gave him no no take it back ungrateful and then i'm going to walk back over here bartender i need another one of these uh he like more help palm nudges you again with simple oh he's cool hey friend hello there how are you today good good we're about to do some shots are you in we're shots eh i like the cut of your jib show me the gun i need a shot i thought you were gonna say i like the cut of your jib no that was no he's just going to shoot him but you know he pulls a holdout pistol out of his boot and puts it yeah yeah i'll play right with a semi-automatic pistol uh or moves over god like i win like step around for me mr tanhazer i get a sense that you and i are going to get along together i reach into my coat pocket and i pull out some of my literature i'd like you to take this home and read this and tell me if you have any questions it's like a pamphlet all right a revolution with you you're funny you think i read i have people to read for me bartender triples all around vena is the only one not drinking can everybody can everybody have a moment to pour one out for a fallen soldier oh yeah later we're gonna be at the party oh sorry vena i didn't know that you even like to drink well on the note of i thought you got tired of drinking after all that alcohol go back to the drinking go back to the drinking we're who will like very subtly tug on vena's sleeve vena vena they're socially pressuring me into drinking i want to feel cool too can i go get drunk can all of you leave vena alone with this man again i i don't i don't think i'm good i i'm merely obeying the winds of fate they want me to go drink rahua far be it from me to deny anybody anybody the chance to go and get roaring drunk at a function where it is a little appropriate a little inappropriate to be roaring drunk go i'm gonna feel for the first time i just imagine as you're coming towards like more hell's like banging on the desk like yeah yeah yeah no we're all like um oren also gets into and he's not excited like shots shots shots shots shots shots shots see if he wasn't polymorphed i just would have had him go tree tree tree tree but but alas and a lack the road less traveled so abandoned vena you approach the gaggle surrounding sandal deckland who was sprawled across the entirety of the couch a little a little sliver of stomach cleavage visible under his slightly too short shirt and his arms like and uh that's where we'll take our break oh he's gonna ask like a tray of champagne how did we get here again i would like to point out that who is the worst bar boyfriend i know like i'm fucking worst wingman 2023 all right well we'll be right back shots shots shots shots shots shots shots shots shots shots shots short but that's that's what i thought that's going on the camera will zoom in oh we don't have to wait wait oh yeah dude dude dude dude dude you know hey vena odo needs to take a shot yeah once again i'm just gonna share this image with everyone just to remind them punchable man all right so given that like we sort of had half of a plan and then my friends went off to go and get drunk um i'm assuming the goal is still to try to get him alone and to try to press him for details about the medics guild and about that sort of thing yeah because if i recall from last session and again please correct me if i'm wrong thurston it's been a hot minute he didn't give me any solid information about his connection to what's happening with the medics guild correct very little no yeah okay uh and we have reason to believe that he does okay excellent just making sure we're on the same page so as as you come up to this uh punchable man he currently has a a woman fawning over him oh he's standing close to the arm of the sofa um and it's just like taking in every word that sandal deckland has to say this is like a a younger maybe like maybe like early latest mid-twenties woman uh in a fine noble accoutrement um it's very stylized to be green she has somewhat like almost like a like a dull um reddish pink hair and she's just she's just enjoying the company of this man interesting all right um pretending as if i don't notice her i am just going to walk up and just oh my gosh i'm so sorry so sorry i got all cleaned up um so what did i miss um sandal is like kind of fawning over this woman a bit and there's like like this this brief like turn towards you and you can tell give me a perception check actually give me a check vena oh that is the wrong thing why is zilly in here that's a good question yeah i wish i wish zilly was here that's a good question mega man uh i'm gonna give you a 25 okay a 25 is enough to know that sandal deckland the punchable man noble is having a a crisis um on which woman he currently wants to give his attention to oh what what uh what a shame yeah um and currently he's really really enjoying this like woman who's kind of like lackadaisically stroking his hair oh petting him yes boy does he purr like a walrus do you do you want this is her you know just sitting there just listen you know that's what he's like it's on the couch oh well i'm an ally to women first and foremost so i gotta get her out of here i gotta get her out of here oh god okay okay oh all right what are you doing vena i look chat i gave them every warning under the sun how awful this person would be and they sent vena alone so i i i was meanwhile in the background shots shots shots she was not sent alone she was abandoned yeah that's very gotta say you didn't have to come over here you could have stayed with vena you just chose to come over here you chose i want rahua to drink vena would never tell rahua not to drink look my original plan was so thankful for you for that my original plan was going to have froggy join the call and play this npc you're lucky that didn't happen i i would have loved for froggy to do this actually we had froggy in chat okay yeah um i'm gonna give this girl just a quick once over is she is she into this guy or is she trying to get something out of him because if so i might be able to uh i mean maybe i'll uno reverse card him and just start hitting on her instead oh that's a genius fucking idea that's that's a play oh no out here cutting the gordian knot jesus that is the play i think i mean yeah all right i'm yeah fuck it i'm having fun with this i'm going to uh smile it i'm gonna smile at sandal and i'm gonna i'm gonna lean over to this girl and just oh my gosh you are so pretty what's your name oh oh you hit me where it hurts um i need name for this npc uh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah chat come up with a good one or froggy lock in chat her name is froggy lock it's no oh gosh the names the names yeah veronica all right april her name is loggy frock loggy frock what what a name her full loggy is a is a is a pet name her full name is lagartia lagartia thank you erndell coming in with the clutch gming thank you for backup gm uh erndell uh baldrick can have another hero point please waiter more hero points please waiter waiter waiter more narrative waiter waiter more narrative fields please um you want to type the name in chat so you so oh no doesn't have to keep remembering it every time oh yeah okay in the in the boundary chat uh yeah no no i got it there you go so do you whichever one oh her name is logertia all right there's a look there's a look there's a look there's a show wow where's that name from i've never heard anything like it i i hate how you've heard uno reverse card this on me welcome to my game thurston not not not in utica no it's not master the game game master have have no sympathy for a game master no sympathy for the devil you set this fucker up now you get what you saw oh one sec i have to i have to collect myself now oh my god oh no roshi please please please bully thurston into getting this character out of this conflict so that he doesn't need to generate your back story oh no lagertia frock is now in the setting everyone chad gpt time time to get chad gpt in on this shit no no we don't we don't don't do ai nope nope nope don't do that lagertia frock turns to you and as she does the the the the light pink hair bobs slightly and you see the the green sort of tasseling that's holding it meticulously in place she stares at you vena and begins to casually walk without speaking a response she she begins to walk down standing at the opposite end of the couch watching past you and she looks at you and without even acknowledging you she turns and she begins brushing the belly hair of sandal declin's exposed belly if you would fluffs the belly cleavage of this man i am i'm gonna go to take a shot of garlic what does this become a war all of a sudden like i i guess this is a war of attrition okay you know you could poison her instead i'm okay with that too okay uh what are my skills here just do a backflip if you need if you need to tap if you need to tap someone in just call for i've got this i've got this i've got this oh no we're we're uh yeah we're in this now we're stuck here we're stuck here all right okay so she she's got it she's got her eyes on uh mr mr sandals uh and i am just going to smile at the both of them and just wow the three prettiest people at the party all right here together this is amazing and i'm going to sit how much room is there on the couch um so she like luggy frock is standing she's not sitting on the couch oh she's standing she's not yeah yeah yeah she's like she's standing tickle okay okay okay okay okay uh in that case i'm going to smile at the both of them is there like a uh a tray of like champagne or anything um they're they're like fancy party waiters and so forth coming around absolutely yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna beckon one of the waiters to come and i'm going to get three glasses of fancy champagne um i'm going to get one for myself i'm going to get one for lugersha and i'm going to get one for our good friend sandal and i'm going to very subtly just slip the belladonna out of my bag when nobody's looking and tip it into his drink okay i require you to give me a stealth check i would love to do that for you who is that froggy just why is froggy here keep going keep going oh boy all right uh stealth check uh oh thank you thank you chat for the hero quest um i'm going to do my damnedest here to make something work it's a natural one why do i even bother oh why do i even bother a complication occurs oh boy you can't re-roll that yeah so as you live for a complication i'll re-explain for people who probably haven't seen this yet who may be new or whatever need more pressure so basically the rule that we did because chat's able to give us hero points and stuff like basically doing money and stuff and thirsting gets filling points a bit too uh to balance that because we've learned from warhams we don't want people just to pay to win us all the time so as a detriment and also to make the patrons make us suffer whenever you roll a natural one you cannot re-roll it so uh what happens is that people on patreon you submit to a pool on patreon at patreon.com force that's narrative declaration where you too can mess this up and you submit to a pool and we just basically get it all in this excel sheet and we just pull from it just pull random suggestions we change things because we're like hey don't make it character specific because that doesn't help us at all so we just pull from stuff that might work out here and uh funny stuff happens sometimes so what did you find thurston okay so i'm gonna double whammy this i'm gonna double whammy this thank you thurston you're welcome you're welcome so i would like to thank drunken finn for this amazing amazing complication entitled bitch slap 2.0 um as you're offering these drinks two things happen much like the 2.0 one vena you find yourself slapped in the face by lagership but also you find that your intended recipient of the poison was not the one to take the glass you intended instead lagership takes the poisoned drinks quaffs it back slaps you across the face and then what does lagership say to vena please frog you're such a bitch oh my god who do you think you are calling me beautiful you don't know beauty you can't recognize beauty and she splays herself over the big slappable fat man and she's like i wrote a haiku for you and she traces a little circle around his belly button and she's like belly like a beach ball chasing after ice cream truck rolling not a stroll and then she promptly vomits and dies i'm sorry the the comedic timing someone has brought in a bird oh no it's been flying around the room i'm a i'm a collector that's just the one i've got in my pocket today that's my little bird i caught in my hamster wow you like birds that's that's really cool yeah i'm gonna reach into my uh belt yep i'm going to pull out my gun okay i'm going to cock the safety back i'm going to press it against lagership's head wow this escalated i'm going to press the gun against her head and i'm just going to say all right matey i'm going to need you to do me a favor i'm going to need you to get on your knees and i'm going to need you to say that you are so very sorry oh god she does she gets down on her hands and knees sniveling and she's got birds in her pockets and she's like oh i'm so sorry oh no oh my god oh my birds oh my birds give me the bird i'm taking the bird i'm taking the bird catwalk walks in and interjects as the pistol comes out like hand up she doesn't say anything but this like cheetah arm the the catwalk who has been the sort of like quiet bodyguard for sandal like like gently pushes the gun back i'm so sorry friend you know that your good friend sandal isn't in any danger here and i'm going like she like looks at you and like looks at the holster and looks back to you and is like you know not speaking but it's like put the fucking gun away this is a party all right are you very sorry ma'am and as this happens as you go to turn and say that and you get it out whoa ladies there's enough sandal deckland to go around he has his belly please don't take my birds i'm ever so sorry it's just that my having my my birds is the only way to cover for the screaming that's coming through my microphone please prefer please preserve the immersion please thank you all right for the sake of immersion you can have your bird back i'm watching you i'm so sorry i'm so sorry your lips are actually quite plump now that i get a better look oh well thank you dear you actually have very nice complexion oh thank you i'm so blue such a sweetheart so mr declan with this little aside now finished i think that um i think i really need to get some air if you'd like to come join me oh can we like talk here kind of sprawled out it's nice i did a lot of walking to go talk to you earlier just tell there's a chair outside aren't there so many chairs outside your manor is so beautiful you have so many wonderful chairs that i'm sure are just begging to be sat in oh uh this isn't my place i just rented it well all the more reason to grace these chairs with your presence that's so hot what if you spread your lumps around on more chairs that would be so hot of you thank you lagarsha you are such an ally okay and i think it's it's best when you give your legs a little stretch before we keep talking and hanging out and she she twiddles her little finger around his belly button and his belly hair it's like girl i i would have also accepted shooter um we're gonna we're gonna cut back to the bar momentarily are we can we recover from this i can't why not oh yeah i'm in pain all right i think i like all of you are we drunk at this point enough of the sapphic romance it's boys night uh no the first shot has been laid in front of you we're gonna role play all of this lads strap in for the more hell palm experience you know gentlemen i don't think anything could ruin this night unless of course someone brought their bird in that would really piss me off the bird enters in through the door or looks at tanhauser offended as a spirit he looks at his bird wings and his bird legs and he looks at him when he goes and he's like bro oh i i think i think not cool tanhauser not cool yeah you can't backpedal out of that one you you screwed yourself that's that's on you that shows me what i get for trying to yes and the bit i see it's been long established that tanhauser is the most racist of the party yeah yes it is so hard you tanhauser became racist again i reiterate thurston are you sure we can recover from this abso-fucking-lutely we can all right i'm gonna sit on palms in the house and it's like baldrick you got some you got some fine friends here uh yeah of a sort no not of a sort you're brothers and i can see that and he has this like serious moment as he like looks down the bar towards or and then to tanhauser then over to baldrick and rahua sort of nods i've seen this camaraderie before it's important it means something do you know what it means baldrick he stares you in the eyes and the soul into the depths of your being yeah why don't you tell me it means we're gonna do two triples back to back another please the bartender's just like oh my fucking god and she begins like pouring more drinks all right this is the brotherhood my name's moral palm you don't forget that from the farmer's guild i started off in the inheritor lands far away but i came here i made something of myself and you you all look like you're gonna make something of yourselves well some of you already have you're from the inheritor lands are you that's right which part do you really want to know i'm curious all right well and he like has this this pause and this is the point probably where like um oh this is this is like the point where very clearly there would be like a an option that would pop up of like join our patreon uh and find out more about more help palm in the outset guilds and i'm just saying that because i need to actually pull up the exact notes because he is an npc listed in our outset guilds guide we released um and he stares into you and your eyes tanhauser and says oh yes far east inheritor lands started off there uh dealing with all sorts of uh furs and leathers between the city states ever made your way out as far as the gorgoth and dominion fuck that place he drinks a shot immediately i'll also drink a shot and like as as tanhauser you and more hell bond over the hatred of your estranged homeland more hell like looks over to baldrick rehu and then orrin and like kind of like shakes their empty shot glass oh fuck the gongothans right baldrick's gonna drink good do we we don't have to make drink alcohol tests for this do we not yet okay only because i'll get it cancelled someone say something kiss kiss kiss kiss kiss kiss kiss kiss kiss kiss kiss uh huh no me me well then um looking at the rounds of drinks we've been doing at which point in the eta do we see the gun come out and the commotion you know after the first shot is had the gun comes out and like i just tanhauser like get up to intervene i have a feeling that violence is in the air would you give me a moment uh more hell palm puts his stout but also like very long like he's almost like a human-sized dwarf his hand goes across your chest no no no no no no you have to let them handle it themselves why because they're strong independent women and they don't need us another round please you know you're the most progressive oligarch i think i've ever met why the farmer's guilt here is so damn successful drinks drinks all right let's call drinks like 50 fucking times i imagine a mountain of glasses oh yeah at this point it's getting it's getting ridiculous all right let's cut back to the show wait hold up hulky yeah just put an image are you watching twitch on light mode what so am i you monster what's wrong with you yeah my eyes aren't i have astigmatism my eyes aren't as good as they used to be i do too it helps me definitely the the shade final turn on dark mode fine turn the on you fucking monster play the audio oh my god oh my god i'm being castigated on twitter i gotta be here for another 40 minutes at least at least what what is that beautiful blue drink you have hulky yeah that's a sour patch cocktail are you okay with me showing oh my god showing the video folks please we're so far off the rails at this point please show it look at this monster speaker can you tell noel to go and bring me my jack and coke oh yeah i think i left it at y'all's place yeah you totally did yeah i'm about to go prepare a drink get on it we're gonna go to the we're gonna go back to the ladies for a bit so you're oh my god is it okay if we drink on stream is are we gonna get like car bombed well now that you said it now that's a problem yeah yeah yeah way to go you are you are drinking tasty adult beverages called dr pepper you know they're very adult dr pibner okay that's what you're drinking i would never drink anything that had anything inside of it exactly at all i would never drink anything ever yeah ever i am drinking jones soda i love jones soda my favorite carbonated beverage and premium glass bottle soda they don't pay us enough grocery we have been sponsored you see no okay let's jump back the only drink sponsor we have is grind and go coffee all right we're back so um lagertia yeah yeah tell me lagertia tell me how what you're doing right just tell me what you're doing right now oh yeah so lagertia she's you know she's hanging off of his arm there's a bird in her pocket screaming doing all that stuff in the background and she's like oh don't go stretch those legs pop some buttons yeah go stretch your legs and spread yourself all the other furniture oh my goodness and we can hang out later give the lady what she wants she goes away i will i okay first of all sandal deckland immediately takes your advice and undoes a button and has like a an audible sigh of relief like uh um also i just want to relay this comment from chat that just reads i have to give it to thurston for making social encounters even more painful than boss encounters hold on there is a knock at my door oh there's a drink that's noel hi noel um all right narrative declaration we always have room service for our cast members i am sure i'm so happy on the floor it's gonna be so great i'm gonna look at like the analytics waiter waiter more awkward social interactions please you know someday someday we're all gonna die i'm just thinking about that for some reason i'm gonna be balling out when i do this is chat it's up to you to evangelize this episode is the best episode we will ever have rock grind really went down here after the guy to go up to your social media and be like y'all haven't seen art until you've seen episode you know four of season three of rock grind because that is art guys i think the swamp just fucking rotted our brains we're done yes all right all right all right all right let's get back to it let's get back to it the love of crawdadamus let's get on task so true is is trying to help me now she's trying to get a buddy boy here to get up and stretch his legs and start walking around to whether that's to limber up for activities later or or it's a strange unity of it's a unity between women right now whatever the case she does seem to be trying to help you oh thank god the women are looking out for each other yeah i'm just gonna give sandal a smile and just come on don't you want to come with me uh where don't you want to go get some air oh yeah you know what yeah come on all right i'm gonna lean in close to licorice he like liquefies off the bed and is momentarily on all fours before he gets up placing one hand on the slight stage ahead of him and pulling himself up and he does this like he does it like he's trying to be smooth like oh i'm just arching my back like and he does the whole like oh mr creosote what the are we doing what are we doing i want to make it worse is the couch leather oh yes so what do you hear this like just peal how did you do that and there's like this these two couples from the couch there's just this slick stain on the couch oh my god oh my god look everybody i understand if you just leave the show at this point i'll i'll understand i'm gonna i'm gonna super into it i'm oh i'm gonna lean into la gersha girl go to the bathroom and threw up you just drink fucking belladonna you fucking moron what what go throw up you idiot even her bird is shocked her bird is suddenly quiet the bird that was screaming and she she turns and she goes sprinting she grabs her skirts up and she takes off and you can see her already fingering the uvula at the back of her throat as she's running to the bathroom oh my gosh bye girly i'll see you later she's got it she's got it up to natural 20 ruled on behalf of lagertia um lagertia will ignore that belladonna thank you very much oh my god she's been micro dosing belladonna this whole time you know what's really funny thurston she literally would have had to roll that because it's a dc 19. yeah oh my god that's so funny she has a lot of practice feeding her birds at home wow that's awful she's all right back to the floor i go she's she literally did the princess bride bit where it's just like i've been building up her resistance to belladonna for my whole life people have been trying to poison me for being repugnant for years you know i've been saying for a long time that the rock grind crew needs the six character lagertia welcome bring do not bring this npc back ever again we're gonna be we're gonna be calling her constantly lagertia's about to come live in the people's house she's our new bestie he's the people's concubine conspirator acquired frock freak lover of big chungus embracer of birds i wish i had a glass can't wait for the chapter and boss to be lagertia oh okay she's all right let's we got 30 minutes left we have plenty more time to drink god knows i do i can't it's so true okay so yeah i'm i'm going to sandal manages to pull himself up the like two foot thing on the stage doing kind of like a half hearted like i'm just sort of turning myself over to sit and pull myself up but really i was about to fall and then he stands up on the stage and is like pauses momentarily breathes and then reaches out a hand and looks at you and says uh milady what a gentleman i'm gonna take the hand don't you want to go somewhere a bit more private uh the balcony over there gotcha come on uh-huh and that's when immediately as you walk out onto the balcony vena uh you notice that the gnome punkle comp stops as soon as he sees sandal walk out here uh um i did some stuff and then he sits down uh do you uh do you like the air here it's great do you want to uh go stand by the fountain and he points south to like this bubbling fountain that's on the balcony here of course of course okay me too yeah yeah yeah oh look it's a fountain that's lovely you want to get out of here what we just got here i hate you god do i need to spell it out for you well letters weren't my 40. oh boy why don't we go somewhere alone you and i would you like that and as you say that something cuts through the air oh sandal my good friend would you to come bring your new companion and look at this fine view jesus christ as the hegemon speaks of course he talks like that and sandal has like vena give me a perception check actually yeah i roll a nat one and fall into the fountain i can't wait it's so good oh never mind what do you roll 19 and one are so close our total total 31 thank you yeah um vena you immediately tell that when like this man speaks this the hegemon um sandal like has this moment of like oh shit sobriety his eyes become like more alert and he like grabs you by your hand and is like oh we should we should go over there yeah come on sure i'd love to go talk to the hegemon oh and as you like approach the side of the balcony like a lot of the people here begin to like just take distinct note and start to how shall i put it fuck off immediately out of this room they begin like rushing out in towards the open area uh even punkle comp and his and his like little current coterie go into the room in fact punkle comp does he leaves like closes the door behind him um there's just this like sudden like oh shit stuff's happening and people just depart um and then the the doors are all sort of closed here and the hegemon this red-haired imperious individual turns to look at you vena and vena you can see at this point that actually uh one other person departs madam broke myer quickly escapes um escapes um vena you can tell that as the hegemon is looking at you sandal has like turned over the balcony and is just looking away um and seems to like be distancing himself from everything oh it's such a pleasure to see you again vali was it yeah so glad you recognize me what do you think of the view here and he takes a step back and sort of ushers you towards like the edge of the balcony oh i don't know it's pretty high up yes i like high vantage points and then you have like this brief flashback to the hegemon on top of the chainsaw car can i ask to what i owe this pleasure sir i wanted to talk to you i wanted to talk to all of your friends but they all seem so scared no not scared just eager to get drunk which i very much am in this moment sandal could you go get me a fucking glass of he vomits over the side of the balcony all right as one does been there anyway so what did you want i'm sure i can pass along the message to my friends or call them inside outside what are you doing enjoying a party is that illegal that's not why you're here what are you doing sorry let's cut through the jib jab social dueling that would happen no i want to know what you're doing here is it for that thing uh as sandal continues to just um extricate himself over the edge is that why you're here some people are apparently into that he rolls his eyes oh please i try to be a good person do you yes i do i pride myself on it in fact really yes and i would hope that whatever you're doing here is not causing well more problems in the city of course not you know one of the uh driving philosophies of my people is to uh really just help the common man and outset has a lot of common people that need happen that need helping so that's what we're here for really sorry if you think we have some kind of untoward intention here we're nothing if not servants of this city as i'm sure you are there's like the slightest smile from the hegemon at that and then a look at you and a look at sandal like vomiting over the side do you want his airhip is that it his airship yes i know that's what you materially possess you you want airships it's your thing i wouldn't say no to an airship but no that's not why i'm here besides if i wanted his airship then i would have approached this very differently i have an airship i wouldn't even bothered with this fucking party i would have stolen it ah i see uh so someone sent you here no i'm here on oh yes uh oh god would lie to me apply here let's see uh well he's not is he trying to deceive me i guess i wouldn't know that yet um he's analyzing your deception so oh another 19 plus 16 that is a 35 for you thurston cool um there is like a stare into you all right then i apologize for the problems below it seems you've recuperated from that though to be fair it was only your winged friend that was the real recipient even indirectly of what i did your situation was entirely due to some prior association with a man an elven man ah yes well duchelf is in ashes and a swamp good good good good and i don't want to keep any hard feelings between us and your winged friend so please take this he hands you a small pouch i'm gonna peek cautiously into it full of gold oh interesting so your winged friend tell him we're even i don't think so he stops between the two like stone tables as he begins walking away there's an audible sigh uh that is only broken by the from sandal deckland thank you sandal you know how to create an ambiance he sure does i don't want your fucking money you killed my friend you're gonna have to do a hell of a lot more to make up for it he turns around stares at you momentarily and then begins to speak in a very clipped tone tell me what have you done you have created an insurrection in this city you have caused numerous deaths both the tyrants guild and the local population your attempts at whatever your allies consider to be revolution are nothing more than a base misunderstanding of the city's governance and the abilities and various shrugs slightly the various opportunities available to the city and yet you indicate that you are some sort of champions for justice i don't believe so i believe you and your allies are a threat if anything it's my understanding that you came into this place and looked for various opportunities to kill people myself included perhaps at some point you should look into a mirror and decide if you are being the just people or otherwise good day miss vena he begins to walk away hmm hi there baby i'm mr hegemon as he opens the twin double doors and ponkelcompt is there like clearly having listening listened in and the hegemon just sort of waves no not today and paul like quickly closes the doors behind ah i'm i'm i'm the ball of vena uh-huh can you hold my hair one condition oh god you tell me you tell me what the fuck the medics guild is doing you i know you i know that you know you're going to tell me as you say that the the cat folk advances towards you not another step he's not going to be hurt i just have a couple of things that i need to know and then i'll hold his hair why don't you go inside and get a drink my feline friend she takes another step challenging you so i i just would like to say yes from the moment it became apparent that volley was going to go outside onto the balcony and people were filtering out i think it would beggar belief to imagine that we would not be on our way especially if then the cat man bodyguard and hazard give me a give me a fortitude save sure yeah about to say you want you you want us to all do that because we're probably not going to be sitting around yeah this uh alcohol would be considered a diseases poisons radiation etc yeah poison yeah oh breastplate adds so for for rolls it's okay sorry sorry i don't want to say let me that for podcasts and then do your thing uh oran got a 28 uh uh who i got a 34 uh 10 hours i got a natural one now not for you i'm sorry for podcast yeah so for some reason my fortitude saving throw is factoring in my breastplate to this i take it that's a no right one sec why that shouldn't when you when if the window shows up does it say like armor penalty or something that's no i literally just one sec one sec does your does your breastplate have resilience on it now oh it might ding ding that would be why because if you have a resilient breastplate that adds to all of your saves uh it just says it's magical i don't know if it has that or not one sec if it's magical i will check give the roll it is a plus one resilient yeah that's why okay cool i'm fine yep sorry all right yeah 29 so oran brisp redwood and baldrick you are all enjoying the camaraderie here you're you're having a good time now speaker d tan hauser mm-hmm oh god i love it i get to use one of these uber specific ones oh this is always good you don't encourage it we don't encourage it i'm doing it no you're encouraging it right now thurston by putting on that breathy tone i know but literally this this one was called a certified tan hauser moment um so how could i not but don't do it seriously we ignored these 99 of the time um give me a d20 plus your intelligence modifier okie dokie uh let's see what is my end that's right that's an eight okay you believe that the best course of action at this point in a certified ten hauser moment is to keep drinking clearly you're making inroads with this individual so you are hushing down any other discussion what what more hell palm you're gonna keep drinking with more hell palm you're thinking that you're making inroads with this this npc and you're just gonna keep drinking with him so please give a boisterous speech on why the dwarven head of the farmers guild is your new best friend i i don't know that that feels very out of character is there okay like spending uh a hero point on re-rolling that or ignoring the is there uh i would i i don't think that's a good complication because it's forcing speaker to do something he doesn't want to do is there something we can change it that occurs and do some role play that he wants to do i mean yes but i'm not going to let you like quickly shift away from this you've you've failed a save rather significantly right yeah so you know you we can get the negative outcome for this i just if you have a different negative outcome feel free oh okay uh i guess i'll just be drunk then can you give me like a poison condition or what have you oh yeah you basically like have the equivalent of like a sickened condition sure cool um as you're kind of just like overtaken by some of the the the intoxicants that are in your system okay um yeah so uh what where are we doing because we would have started making these moves earlier so like where in the process are we at this point it's just been like drinks being ordered and more hell is kind of this this like you know very um persuadable like oh tell me about yourself what's with the the thing on the face and like points to your mask apparatus well you see my friend i obtained this faceplate after being ripped apart by the machines of war in the deserts of the dominion and if you will excuse me i believe it actually behooves all of us gentlemen to immediately begin applying such bloody lessons in preparation for whatever is occurring on that balcony if you'll excuse me and uh i will start moving i presume others will as well yeah bulgic's gonna take the the door to the door to the north and i will enter forward this way i will wait for this tyrant's guard to try and stop me yeah you tell us where we stop thurston you keep moving okay sure oren basically just takes all the shock guys and um and he goes like hey thanks for all these drinks i need to go get some fresh hair oh yeah no problem he's like well i'll be back for i'll be back for more and he'll tap him on the back and then fall along with baldry okay yeah so as you walk out onto the balcony um and like each of you sort of take a different approach to it um you can see that you know vena's there alone with sandal deckland but also the like the the the cat folk who's been guarding him and sandals just kind of like um but you come out to this exactly where we left off on venus side i was muted i'm just gonna that would do it i'm gonna yeah i'm gonna turn to the cat folk just can you give me just a second my friend i just really need to have this conversation with mr deckland so please why don't you tell me what you know and then i'll hold your hair and we'll walk back inside together okay okay baldrick's gonna open the door and he's gonna have an he's gonna quickly put together an alchemist fire moderate and is going to gesture to the guard hey why don't you stay where you are and i'm gonna i guess i'll intimidate the guard you're giving intimidation check fuck yeah oh fuck i forgot i'm not victrix oh no uh i could i possibly uh assist with this i have a decent intimidation if you want to take the action too uh uh um i i should probably save it for persuasion i suppose yeah 13 is not gonna get me much yeah no not against this individual uh all right um yeah i'll let i'll let the rest of my friends kind of congregate in sure you know even if for who is just gonna sit there i guess rua's gonna ask uh ask our gentleman here so i i hate to kind of put a damper on things but do you have like a business card i really need to learn how to up my cooking skills before i go i'd hate to leave empty-handed you you know how that is cooking that's right okay so first with cooking it's all about temperature see what i mean temperature temperature okay okay after that come to the farmer's guild i'll show you around okay i didn't learn much but i'll take you up on that later it'll slap him on the back oh do you hear like a tree i know because i'm mostly made of wood and metal what yeah and he'll walk away okay yeah yeah wait no i need to go this way like turns to you oren you got some good friends kid is he talking to himself because i left uh for some reason your token's still standing beside him in my screen so not on mine i think you're just hallucinating him there's like a standee there like a cutout board of oran just saying yeah i got it there's a log wearing a hood he did a he did a fucking like shadow clone some shit from naruto yeah substitution standal recovers himself and looks at you vena uh medic skill my my grandpa did some stuff with the medic skills that's good so why don't you tell me what they were doing in the solitude the whatitude where can i talk to your grandpa he's dying okay excellent oh man yeah we we were told to just look for stuff having to do with the medic's guild correct that was our goal i'm not i'm not told to figure out how sandal might be involved in schemes that could affect the city the medic's guild stuff is from your own personal knowledge okay so your grandpa works for the medic's guild okay is there any way i could speak to him or is he completely kaput um as you do that you feel a hand on your shoulder coming from the cat folk all right do you work for this guy you hear a voice but it's not spoken aloud it's in your mind that will be enough you can go now not until i learn what i'm here to learn what do you know about this guy huh are you turning to her yes do you know who you're working for several individuals appear out of thin air oh finally it's an even fight the cat folk continues to keep their hand on your shoulder you can go now no blood needs to be spilled today who do you work for sorry i work for this man and you will go now i think you work for something else listen blood doesn't have to be spilled you're right you tell me what i'm asking and we will go on our way i could use the medic's guild right now i'm going to give the cat folk a look like really you're working for him at this point this is more of an impugnment on you like just your standards and employer you should have higher standards for yourself he just looks at you i would prefer not to have combat today i wouldn't if i were you either you would die you can't hear she is telepathically communicating to vena my apologies i thought that she was uh i thought she was like a mind flayer like open channel no hmm i'm gonna get a look at the uh the uniforms of the people around here just kind of looking around assessing the situation um just kind of society please society and i will say one of my feats is uh criminal connection absolutely uh i don't know if that will affect my dc at all uh so society uh my society's terrible could i give you lore underworld perhaps oh i'll allow that sure yeah because i imagine these people are criminals and if they aren't then i'll give you a society oh happy with that no no i'm not want to change that with a hero point yeah go on oh oh my god it's cocked on my screen it looks like an 18 oh but it's a two you have no idea who these individuals are okay all right so no no familiarity and no like are even if i don't know what the like uniforms look like are they wearing like a distinct uniform or anything like that you have enough to know that they are like they are garbed um in like very combat fitting attire so they all have sort of distinct clothing that you can't quite um well you could give me a society check for that um but like several of them are currently wielding like double-bladed sort of curved daggers others are in a like martial arts stance like they're getting ready to kick and or punch at a moment's notice oh my god we got fucking kung fu in here uh i can give you a society for um for the the clothes that's not good either they are a 17 is enough for you to tell that like this has like hallmark traits of like kwan sheer attire okay okay so like from the the continent to the west okay very interesting i'm gonna turn to sandal where'd you hire these people uh book book like did you just find them in the phone book you guys are in the phone book i'm gonna look at the the the the cat folk you guys are just in the phone book or pops up he looks at you you can go now he starts like walking around you and sort of like puts her arm under sandals ah thank you i i want you to know thurston real quick if anyone other than the cat folk makes any move at this point baldrick is gonna throw something at them yeah absolutely light them all up the cat folk is very like methodically leading sandal out of here oh i'm gonna stand in his way oh okay excuse me gentlemen i don't think we've been properly introduced cat folk looks at you doesn't say anything i'm afraid this is a matter that can't be solved by simply walking out of here if you take another step i'll have you flayed now would be an excellent time for us to speak or failing that for you all to die that would be a good intimidate that would be a really good intimidate give me an intimidate please absolutely please for the love of god please god all right rock nanite surge let's go uh i will hero point that because there is no way on earth that isn't enough uh continue my name yes there we go 30 there we go 18 she somewhat recoils a bit from you like taken aback um like it's not enough to get her to like hand over her master though um and she seems more like this has stalled her slightly are you familiar with the gate the great cataclysm of the black wind there is no response it was an event in the dominion's history explosive archaeo tech taken from the zescoran empire it was said that an entire span of a town was vaporized in an instant isn't that interesting and wouldn't it be dreadful of such a thing or to be employed here in your midst perhaps if my heart were to stop on the off chance you achieved victory no my friend you have no choice but diplomacy or battle um and i'd like to make another intimidate all right uh if you prefer i could use lore warfare or zescoran um you can give me another intimidate if you want i'll give it to you uh i might never mind there we go there we go that's just what we need yeah she she stares at you she is like suitably just like holy fuck this guy is is something and what she does in response is she like pulls her master back a wise choice now diplomacy or the alternative i can't be the only one speaking here when you have information i need and i live unwilling to strip you of everything you have for it the cat folk opens her mouth and you notice she has no tongue i see and sandal decides to uh unleash another torrent of his um insides how much crap does this dude have in his system most of it's just like thank you it's a fat man's world we've been ah hello everybody oh as panklecompt comes through hey we're a little busy friend we'll come talk to you later okay bye bye rahua rahua will follow in behind panklecompton very firmly claw into his shoulder i thought you're just about to pick him up and just toss him there oh no our friend has listened to so much of this conversation and he will very coldly pivot his head downwards towards panklecompt i think it's in our best interest if he sees it through i'm i'm a skilled medic i can help him oh we i'm with the medics guild how old are you now dig his his talon and oh that really hurts the old lady comes up to orin and baldrick uh baldrick's gonna turn towards her you still got his eyes on the uh the backup that has mysteriously appeared arm raised with alchemist fire in hand but he is going to turn slightly so she can see a single eye pointed at her through the slit are you going to cause an issue here we have no intention of it but we would like some information can i save you some time and some unwanted bloodshed what is it you need to know uh i presume that everyone else can hear this as well or is she just no she's being very quiet to you and orin we're trying to figure out exactly what this uh individual as he's pointing towards sandal declin we need to figure out what his plans are with regards to the uh oh it was the governance right yeah how he's in like how he's influencing current events in the assembly and like just the city at large we're trying to figure out how he's influencing the assembly at the moment as well as whatever else he might be planning uh the old sort of crone lady leans in a bit sandal declin is a useless nobody he has more money than brains it's how he can hire the gudule all right so then kindly explain how that doesn't affect the assembly or anything else plenty of plenty of brainless people sit on that couch he's building an airship for what purpose the the old woman stares at vena back at you women foreign turns to baldrick i think we have the wrong guy mr baldry he's gonna sigh in a guttural manner now if i may you're all skilled i know you've dealt with deg sanren house you killed the martinet very good those people out there will put you to the test you don't want to do it here we have no intention of picking a fight if we can avoid it we're just trying to get some information and buzz ball over there is making a kind of well fuck it fine do whatever you want and she turns and walks away from you hops off the stage and starts walking okay whatever okay damn lady i can't tell if that was thirst and being fed up with us no no that was very much her regardless he is going to take that on note or we go escalating this any further how about we try and speak to this fellow's granddad then first huh well we've also got a friend with the medics guild so why don't we all sit down and have a chat huh i do have it on good authority that you are at the very least now confirmed to be connected via this eternal relationship engaging in experiments regarding the rot that is the city's interest as well as ours and i have no doubt that it is similar curiosity with such things that has allowed the tyrants guild to overlook the presence of four terrorist revolutionaries at the gala that are willing to do what they cannot to save public face now then we can have a conversation you can hand over your charge or we can continue this date we've all made with the butcher's block do you want the gnome what what did you say you're slurring no stand up you want the gnome the gnome is he more than a charlatan i don't have the gnome pongo whatever go talk to them okay mr deckland rihua will not let go of pongo comes i'm not moving beyond a five-foot radius of you oh good just like spinning on his axis yeah just like turning he just so happens to have switched to the side of rihua with the even sharper metal hand oh free time i want to go sleep i want to go sleep but bulgark's gonna flag down tanhauser tanhauser i don't think this boob is who we want well he's clearly got some important connections i'm willing to believe that this imbecile has no more masterminded his digestive system or the ability to read than he has whatever endeavor we are here to solve what i'm curious about are these armed gangsters the one with no mouth i assume they're all equally as silent or at the very least perhaps they're simply dumb no she can speak huh i'm gonna tap my head the vault doesn't quite understand what the fuck she means i imagined our conversation uh i'm gonna how much money did um uh that had probably didn't give me enough to pay off this uh this grouping away now now he's starting she's starting to walk so yeah i would i would step in her way before she got far because we haven't finished our conversation that she has okay so you're stepping in her way yeah of course okay she looks at you she turns to ask you do i have to hit her with another intimidate to get her to speak to me she she's not speaking to you well yeah there's something yeah you can communicate and none of her com peers seem able to communicate and she's not using any kind of like seems to have no intentions of answering my questions so do i need to hit her with another intimidate or like someone else could step in it's clear to the point of she's not going to like give up someone she is like incredibly incredibly like linked to i i i understand that but she's also not willing to tell us who she is she's not speaking to you correct yeah yeah so would anyone like to come in and help this not be a combat situation i i don't know would i would i have to roll intimidate again to get a conversation i i will admit thurston this is kind of beggaring a little belief right now this this is literally a case of she can sure communicate mentally maybe once and has used that already okay that if you want the metagaming reason there it is but you could say like oh you would you'd like to make this i don't know man fucking like that's i'm sorry it's just like this is a little hard at this point yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna step in with vena and just if you need to communicate through me you're welcome to i will tell tannhauser what you would like to say to him he shakes her head like the expiration window has expired on me communicating with you i see hmm and is this a condition shared between all of your compeers you're all sworn to silence like you it's very like like some of them like open their mouths very quickly and like reveal yes they they cannot speak oh the love of oh that's grand and violent do you have a business card well i have one all right give me your business card sandal deckland provides a card thank you oh it's a little sticky put it in my back pocket i think we've accomplished everything we're going to accomplish without murdering them all let's speak to ponsel comp and hope he has something that we need and should we find that you are all holding out on us we'll meet again and you'll see one last kidding about the bomb one last question mr declan where's that amazing airship of yours docked oh where's it going to be over the rocks blaster thank you so much you have a great day okay um i uh i'd like to to allow this to kind of wrap up i just would ask since it might as well behoove me is there anything i can roll to try to identify a you know a circle of people they all have no tongues they seem highly ritualistic yeah underworld lore um society society i can take society because i i heard what they were but i didn't have anything to make that one 29 um you've heard like organizations of kwan shiri assassins that tend to take this kind of approach um it's very common in that end of the woods typically um they like have communication between themselves and their client and that's it okay so um are they usually just bodyguards or do they usually carry around and like oh well you'll usually see kwan shiri hanging out with this mafia or uh they're so see about this or that um you're not like like it kind of varies per organization like this isn't enough for you to get like a sense of the the specific organization here um they're probably like a rare organization that is fairly like hidden um but you'd know like yeah you've heard of like these type of assassins before where they they take on this approach and it's very intentional to prevent them from negotiating or making you know agreements or giving information that their patron isn't providing i see okay and in this case when their patron is a giant roving dick hole who is super drunk it's really infuriating uh certainly um what kind of context would i know these assassins to be employed if i like i mean even if i don't know generally right like everything like would i know at least two instances of them being used um like certainly they've been utilized as bodyguards before typically for high-ranking members of you know nations in the inheritor lands have used them um they're sort of like renowned as boogeymen um they're they're really what they're notable for is that they can be bodyguards but then if someone exerts pressure on an individual they can be used to reach out and touch those individuals hmm i see okay um uh do we want to see if sandal deckland's holding out on us or do we want to let them go no i want to let them go this is yeah this this is already turned long enough i believe yeah i agree yeah i think that he's probably uh the the red herring the fat herring the fat true yes uh and with that like the group sort of like closes around him and they all sort of like we make their way out uh leaving you with poor ponkle comp um and like as a almost uh insidious ending to our episode infillium videre walks up and just closes the door to the to the main entrance leaving the rest of you to uh to have a fine conversation with ponkle comped on the balcony i i i hope that the infillium slips their bro rahua thumbs up through the door kill everyone um and i think that is where we will end today's episode all right chat everyone i hope you all had a fantastic time today thank you all so much for watching this exciting episode of rock grind and reintroducing all the amazing people who bring you this show starting out with odo roshi oh it's me i am odo i was playing veena the silk swashbuckler and ultimate ally to women she's uh also bird kidnapper yeah you guys have a great night next up we have hulky crow that's me i'm hulky crow i played rahua the party animal and frat beast kanrasu cleric you can find me on my usual socials of twitter i'm not calling it its new name at hulky crow as well as on discord by the same name and most other places at again that same username i had a absolute blast playing i'm so happy we got back to actually doing this love your faces then there is the ever amazing erondale howdy i have been playing as baldrick weathers he's an alchemist you've seen it you've experienced it you've heard the explosions next time maybe who knows uh you can meet me on twitter at arondaleo and that's it i'll see you next time and then we have the other star what speaker t excellent hi there i've been speaker t you can find me on twitter for now at super snake kick you can watch all of the excellent things that we make with alphabusa and over popening on alphabusa's channel and you can find the bodies at a latitude and longitude that i will not and then there's thurston hello hi my name's thurston um go check out our patreon for the starfinder game that we have it's really cool you should go check that out also big thanks to froggy lock for for coming in and doing that 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