Latest / Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling / Criminals of Isla Numus - Lil Sauce's Side Adventure
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- 0:00[MUSIC PLAYING]
- 0:02Hello, weary traveler.
- 0:12I'm not sure what strange magic must have brought you here,
- 0:15but you have stepped into a realm of my creation,
- 0:19a sprawling city filled with danger and glory,
- 0:22and most importantly, lots of gold.
- 0:25I call it, Ilanumis.
- 0:28Who am I?
- 0:28You might ask.
- 0:30The name is Jarjim, and I'm the patron deity of gambling.
- 0:34Long story short, this group of idiots,
- 0:37or as you may call them, heroes, made a bet with me
- 0:41that they had when it took to make a mass trove of gold,
- 0:44but left some of the key details blank.
- 0:47So I filled them in myself.
- 0:50I sent them to this pocket dimension,
- 0:52into the city I had created with brand new bodies
- 0:56they have to attune to.
- 0:58Can these fools pass my test, or will they
- 1:00be trapped here forever?
- 1:03So experience my world of trials and tribulations,
- 1:07and join alongside this posse of pitiful people,
- 1:10or as I like to call them, the criminals of Ilanumis.
- 1:17All right, everybody, welcome back to another episode
- 1:19of criminals of Ilanumis.
- 1:21I am Skylar.
- 1:22I am the Game Master.
- 1:23And you probably were wondering, why
- 1:26hasn't Quinn, AKA Lil Sauce, been on all our episodes
- 1:31eating up until now?
- 1:31Well, it's technically twofold.
- 1:34On one hand, he was on a trip.
- 1:36And on the other hand, he was separated
- 1:40from the rest of the group, right?
- 1:42Lil Sauce was separated from the rest of the group
- 1:44when he went and investigated blank space.
- 1:46We'll get into that here momentarily.
- 1:48But whatever the case, he was separated
- 1:50from the rest of the group.
- 1:51And now you're going to hear the story of what he was up
- 1:54to while the rest of them were out hunting down the monsters
- 1:57for the Coliseum.
- 1:58So without further ado, let's jump in
- 2:01to criminals of Ilanumis, Lil Sauce's side adventure.
- 2:09Let's go, Lil Sauce episode.
- 2:11Hey, yo.
- 2:12All right, so we last were--
- 2:21well, I saw the chief die.
- 2:24And pretty much he told me to go investigate.
- 2:26Who was that again?
- 2:28He gave you a handful of things, right?
- 2:29He said everything was connected as he
- 2:31was laying there dying.
- 2:33Everybody else in blank space, all the other agents
- 2:38and so forth, all dead.
- 2:41You're technically the only person I've--
- 2:43and technically you aren't even an agent of blank space.
- 2:46Well, yeah, because I left.
- 2:47But you know, I mean, you're the closest thing.
- 2:51Since you're days from being an agent of blank space.
- 2:55Yes, and who was he?
- 2:56He told me to go look--
- 2:57Yes, or--
- 2:57Though he told you that everything was connected.
- 2:59There was this huge conspiracy that spanned not only just
- 3:02the city of Ilanumis, but possibly the entire world.
- 3:06He said that there are the legionnaires
- 3:11were incredibly dangerous and somebody to watch out for.
- 3:16He said to keep an eye out for--
- 3:20I think there was another group or organization.
- 3:22And then the third thing he said to start with
- 3:25was the grave robbers.
- 3:26He said, start with the grave robbers.
- 3:29It's the beginning of the connections.
- 3:31You'll be able to figure the rest out from there
- 3:34as far as he was available-- or able to say.
- 3:37And with that, he let out his final breath
- 3:39and the chief died.
- 3:41Now, you know that previously one of the kind of things
- 3:46that was happening behind the scenes when all of this whole
- 3:49situation started where you met the rest of the group,
- 3:51the king had just died.
- 3:52Now, you know that the king, that particular king,
- 3:56was the one that initiated the start of blank space.
- 4:00And he was kind of-- it was a very secretive police
- 4:04department.
- 4:05People were vaguely aware that it existed,
- 4:07but they didn't know much about it.
- 4:08It was kept very on the hush.
- 4:10And so the king was one of the few people
- 4:13that was sort of a leading figure that not only initiated it,
- 4:16but was kind of in charge of it and knew about it.
- 4:19And so with the king dead, and now everybody from blank space
- 4:23dead, as far as anyone's concerned,
- 4:24all of blank space is gone.
- 4:26It is completely wiped out.
- 4:28So you are the remaining agent that even
- 4:31knows of just what blank space was
- 4:36and how much it kind of outstretched into the city,
- 4:38how much they did, how much they were doing to keep
- 4:41the people of the city safe.
- 4:42So with that being said, like I mentioned,
- 4:45the chief had left you with the knowledge.
- 4:47So yeah, so basically, I'll start with this.
- 4:50Just a quick recap, in case something's
- 4:52off again.
- 4:52Basically, I live here.
- 4:55These guys come in.
- 4:56They're from an outer world.
- 4:58From what I see is a jargem.
- 5:00Yep.
- 5:00Jargem.
- 5:01I see him.
- 5:02I see this rock.
- 5:02So I realize that these guys are probably who they say they are.
- 5:06It really messes with me.
- 5:08I come kind of dark.
- 5:09I kind of lose my mind a little bit.
- 5:11And I'm like, man, I, you know, and this is coming off of the McGriddle
- 5:14incident, which I think we may be potentially get into a little bit
- 5:17too.
- 5:18Having to kill my best friend.
- 5:19That's obviously been said.
- 5:21So, you know, and basically what I don't think people do know is the little sauce
- 5:25was actually, I mean, I've always been known as decent,
- 5:30somewhat decent cook.
- 5:31But and I had a sauce.
- 5:34Well, the sauce was actually just something I brought to like potluck and stuff
- 5:37like that.
- 5:37But obviously, so after the death of McGriddle and everything, they put me on
- 5:42basically, and I didn't want to put me in death's duty because they were feared
- 5:46for my mental health, stuff like that.
- 5:49But I also needed to be, within reason, I needed to, that was a traumatic experience
- 5:53for a little sauce.
- 5:54So little sauce needed something to do, but you need to be on the field.
- 5:57So basically the way that they spun it to sauce is, yeah, you're going to watch
- 6:01over the town here.
- 6:03You're going to have a sauce business.
- 6:05Mm-hmm.
- 6:06You know, so that sauce was had been open for too long.
- 6:09It was, it was basically a cover up, but and and and.
- 6:13But also kind of a lucrative business.
- 6:15They do them well.
- 6:16And that's kind of what they, the agency really wanted me just to focus on
- 6:20the making sauce and something.
- 6:21They knew nothing would happen in that district or so they thought until I
- 6:25met you guys.
- 6:26But sauce thought he was actually, you know, every day he was he's keeping an eye
- 6:29out, but they put me in an area where.
- 6:32Well, in the medium field district where you were stationed at and you live
- 6:36at and everything like that.
- 6:37It, I mean, it's known to be kind of like the slums, but nothing that's going
- 6:41to be nothing extreme.
- 6:42Yeah.
- 6:42It's not any of like the big crime, like the limitators aren't doing stuff in
- 6:47there.
- 6:47The Legionnaires aren't doing stuff in there.
- 6:49The beasts are over and usually like they have.
- 6:51So when you guys come along, I'm really impressionable.
- 6:54That's when I go into my dark phase and it's like, you know, I just like, oh,
- 6:58nothing has meaning.
- 6:59You know, you know, we do that thing.
- 7:01Everybody knows about that.
- 7:02The court case, all that.
- 7:03Yep.
- 7:04So now that I, I wanted to be done with blank space and move on, but then the
- 7:13chief comes, he says, he helps me in the monster battle to get out on the, was it
- 7:18the 20, 28th amendment?
- 7:20Yeah, the 28th amendment.
- 7:21So he helps me in that fight.
- 7:22Obviously now we go back to blank space.
- 7:25I say I go back and I go back and find everybody.
- 7:27Yeah.
- 7:27So that's kind of a quick recap.
- 7:30Quick recap.
- 7:31Anybody.
- 7:31So because there's a lot of emotion going on in a little sauce, he did not want to
- 7:35go back.
- 7:35He won because he's, he's riding with this group, new group.
- 7:38Now he's, he's seen what Jarjim does and the rock and everything and our mission
- 7:42and all this and kind of realizes that they just need to make this was a
- 7:47million gold.
- 7:48Yeah.
- 7:48No gold pieces.
- 7:49So a million gold.
- 7:50He just kind of wants, he wants to experience at this point.
- 7:52It comes from more of a, he's so willing to trust you guys because of him
- 7:58killing his best friend.
- 7:59If this isn't actually real, then he really killed his best friend.
- 8:02You know, cause he's in that mindset of, well, you know, if this world is real,
- 8:08if this world isn't really real, that really didn't kill my best friend.
- 8:11I don't really exist.
- 8:12I can move on to these worlds and maybe these guys can become my friends or
- 8:16whatever.
- 8:16If I do some crime here, you know, I saw against crime.
- 8:18I saw against it.
- 8:19But you know, if I do it, maybe it's not going to have, you know, the cotton,
- 8:23maybe there really are no consequences.
- 8:24Maybe I kill, it doesn't matter.
- 8:26Um, I'm doing whatever it could to get to that next world, get out of this pocket
- 8:30dimension.
- 8:31So again, I agreed to go back to him.
- 8:34So I go back to him and the thought, you know, I, seeing him dying and everything
- 8:39looks real to me.
- 8:42So, you know, you kind of changed my mind in that instance again, and again,
- 8:45very impressionable going through a lot of this time.
- 8:47And I think, I think the, the situation, I know this kind of feels almost like a
- 8:51Q and A or something like that.
- 8:52It does, but it's, it's necessary.
- 8:53I mean, this is what we, we have to go through these emotions in order to
- 8:56understand the character.
- 8:56I think there's also the element too of your experience with Gideon McGriddle.
- 9:00Right.
- 9:01It's McGriddle's dad.
- 9:02That definitely did not help things along the way.
- 9:05And with this construct or whatever we fought, Raymond, um, that was pretending
- 9:10to be McGriddle to some extent.
- 9:12Yeah.
- 9:13Um, and had nefarious purposes.
- 9:15And again, that kind of brings, I think it brought a human element into it where
- 9:20this is somebody that you've known all your life, Gideon McGriddle specifically.
- 9:24Um, and even though you want to get out of this world, there are still people here
- 9:29that you care about and that have been a part of your life.
- 9:31And I kind of forgot about them for a short time.
- 9:34Right.
- 9:34But seeing them all dead is really kind of brought back to me.
- 9:37So I know that the character's kind of gone a lot of different ways here, but
- 9:42I feel like coming into the story, people don't realize how close that McGriddle
- 9:46incident was.
- 9:47Yeah.
- 9:47Um, that was not, I might, you know, say all those a while ago, but it was actually
- 9:52fairly recent.
- 9:52Sure.
- 9:53Trying to forget it saying always years ago or whatever.
- 9:55But it was actually within, I think it was in within the last year or so.
- 9:58Probably.
- 9:58Uh, obviously I'm on still on light duty or whatever they would have called it.
- 10:02So go back.
- 10:04I see him dad.
- 10:05He tells me grave robbers and Legionnaires.
- 10:08Yeah.
- 10:08So Legionnaires, uh, amidst the techno technological developments and rise of
- 10:15constructs and other robotic features came with an original or I'm sorry, came
- 10:20with an organization that refers to itself as the Legionnaires, although many
- 10:25call them steamers in my area.
- 10:26This was, so this is actually the group that you and McGriddle were trying to
- 10:31infiltrate.
- 10:31Okay.
- 10:32And then, you know, everything went to crap and you ended up killing kill McGriddle.
- 10:36Yeah.
- 10:37And then they pulled me.
- 10:37Exactly.
- 10:38They pulled me out of there.
- 10:39Obviously I didn't blow my cover.
- 10:41So I think the raid on that group, like it's got sects, right?
- 10:45There's different sects of the Legionnaires across the city.
- 10:48That particular sect, um, got raided thanks to the work that you and McGriddle did.
- 10:53Yeah.
- 10:53Unfortunately, it was a little bit too late.
- 10:55I had, you know, we were forced to, to keep cover.
- 10:58So I think that might work my advantage a little bit later on.
- 11:01Some might recognize me, some might not, but they don't, definitely don't recognize
- 11:05me as an undercover agent or not one of them.
- 11:08Right.
- 11:09So, and, and I know a lot of them, um, they kind of keep to themselves, but if
- 11:13they saw me on public with you guys or whatever, I don't think they think anything
- 11:16of it.
- 11:16Um,
- 11:18So, but still don't know the core, you know, obviously we were working our way
- 11:22up, we know a little bit about them.
- 11:23Don't know everything.
- 11:25Right.
- 11:25Still working our way up.
- 11:26Um, they chase, what we do know is they're in the Wakandao district.
- 11:32Mm hmm.
- 11:32Um, they, uh, believe they can attain eternal life for making cells into like
- 11:37some sort of construct or robot, basically.
- 11:40Uh, one time I saw a guy, so when we're in that, um, when we were
- 11:46infiltrating, I'm gonna undercover.
- 11:47So I got with a robotic arm and it was really, it wasn't just like a normal
- 11:54process.
- 11:55I mean, this thing was like, it made him, it was a function in like easy ways.
- 12:00I mean, it did everything a handed plus some, I mean, you know, they had an
- 12:04old go gadget.
- 12:05I mean, it had a spoon in the pinky finger.
- 12:07Oh, don't you could eat a suit and then you could like look old.
- 12:09Well, I don't know.
- 12:10That kind of looks goofy, but anyway, yeah.
- 12:12Oh, you know, yeah.
- 12:13Yeah.
- 12:14It works.
- 12:14Oh, it works.
- 12:14Um, and then also, so I'm told about that.
- 12:18And I'm also so recently within a city, I believe in multiple districts.
- 12:25The grave robbings have been happening.
- 12:26Uh, a few robbers that have been captured have been found with strange
- 12:30magical items won't talk about their fellow thieves at all.
- 12:34Yeah, they've kept quiet.
- 12:35So there's nothing that the city or blank space before it was destroyed has
- 12:38learned about the grave robbers themselves.
- 12:41Uh, so basically, um, at this point, I'm going to search the office.
- 12:48I'm going to see if there's anything I can find, anything that's maybe
- 12:52no letters or, or, um, and then after I search your office, I'd like to search
- 12:57the main area, the main like gathering area.
- 13:00And once we do that, um, I'd like to search the store.
- 13:05That's our front.
- 13:06Okay.
- 13:07That's our front.
- 13:07So I want to search all three of them.
- 13:09All role here and we'll see if I can't see anything that's maybe any information
- 13:15that maybe the chief forgot to tell me, but maybe he, cause obviously he's got
- 13:18a case, maybe his case notes or that I can find some case notes from anybody on
- 13:23top of that, ideally, uh, more so than looking for case notes.
- 13:27Uh, cause I do know where to find legionnaires, um, for the most part.
- 13:33Um, I'm looking for maybe, uh, footprints or, um, clues along the way of maybe
- 13:41a struggle or something.
- 13:43And I see him because there is a lot of blood everywhere.
- 13:45Obviously I don't think I'd be able to tell whose blood is who unless there's
- 13:49maybe a different color or something like that.
- 13:50Something on those lines, but footprints, um, rope clothing, um, maybe, uh, I had
- 13:57on the floor or something along those lines.
- 13:58So we'll start with the office, um, of the chief.
- 14:02Yep.
- 14:03She if we can't do, uh, yeah, do me an investigation check.
- 14:0619, 19.
- 14:08Wow.
- 14:08Okay.
- 14:08Um, so you looking around the, the office and you see a note that was written.
- 14:16Uh, is what, so when whoever it was that attacked this place, uh, did what they did,
- 14:21they fire was a huge part of it.
- 14:24They wanted, you can tell that they wanted to try to burn records of things
- 14:29that were here at the, uh, headquarters for blank space.
- 14:33And so a lot of stuff is burned, but you do see that, um, kind of underneath the
- 14:38busted desk of the chief, there's a note that's like half burnt.
- 14:44But what you can read is it says, um, ha, or, uh, a sign.
- 14:49S, um, they would call you feather McGregor, I'd assume that's like an official.
- 14:54Did they call you sauce?
- 14:57Probably, uh, if anything that would be official would be feather.
- 15:00Okay.
- 15:01Um, if someone saw me in the hall, it'd be sauce.
- 15:03Okay.
- 15:03Okay.
- 15:03That makes sense.
- 15:04Um, so it says assign feather McGregor to talk to Birkenrock about grave robbers.
- 15:12And you actually recognize the name Birkenrock.
- 15:15So within the city, there's a, it's not really an organization per se.
- 15:20It's more of just a slang term that people use, uh, for this entire group
- 15:27of sort of the lowest of the low.
- 15:29Um, and I'm not talking just financially, these are guys that they've hit rock bottom
- 15:33and they're willing to do anything to get what they want.
- 15:36Um, and they're considered, they, they are often considered pretty dangerous.
- 15:41Uh, but you'll find them on every street corner.
- 15:43They're people that people hire to do the dirty work.
- 15:46Nobody else wants them to do, whether it be, you know, it could be an assassination
- 15:50job, usually it's some small time work, like get rid of this body for me or just
- 15:54something gross or nasty or something that nobody else wants to get caught with.
- 15:57Um, any kind of drug ring usually has these guys involved with it.
- 16:01They're known as the scroungers.
- 16:02These scroungers all across the city.
- 16:05They're not by any means like unified.
- 16:08They're not organized by any means.
- 16:09They're just like a term, a general term for someone who's really crappy criminals.
- 16:14Yep.
- 16:14Exactly.
- 16:15And Birkenrock is actually one of these scroungers.
- 16:18You've actually interacted with him.
- 16:20He's kind of been one of those like pseudo informants guys.
- 16:24Um, you used to go to him whenever you couldn't find answers about something and
- 16:28you track him down and usually he didn't want to talk, but you'd convince him to
- 16:32talk and then he'd give you some information and that would kind of help
- 16:35to send you on leads.
- 16:36And so obviously the chief is trying to say Birkenrock knows something about the
- 16:40grave robbers.
- 16:41I've had feather McGregor do some stuff, uh, involving him before.
- 16:46So I'm going to send him out to go talk to him again.
- 16:47And that's all we find in there.
- 16:49That's what you find.
- 16:49No clothes or anything.
- 16:51No, but I would say that stemming from that investigation role, you do also
- 16:57notice footsteps amidst the, you know, mix of blood and burn marks.
- 17:02Are they human footprints or the animal?
- 17:05They're boots.
- 17:06They're boots.
- 17:07They're boots.
- 17:07They're very large and they actually left because they're so heavy.
- 17:13They left a semi indent in the floor wherever they went.
- 17:19Okay.
- 17:19So what type of preacher could do that?
- 17:22I mean, anybody that wears boots, but you know, but it's the fact that these are
- 17:26so like heavy, almost like they were made out of maybe metal or something along those lines.
- 17:31So it almost like armor or something.
- 17:36Sorry, they came in prepared.
- 17:37Okay.
- 17:38Uh, so I'm going to go out to the commons area.
- 17:40Now, one thing I'll say, as you start to head over to the commons, you start to
- 17:44hear voices coming from outside of the headquarters and it sounds like, you know,
- 17:51just off in the distance, you're hearing.
- 17:52And you recognize that's, you know, the voice of usually the town guard.
- 18:00They might be headed in here to see maybe there was some sounds that were reported,
- 18:06obviously, from when the attack happened.
- 18:08These guys are here to investigate.
- 18:11They're going to be in the storefront, right?
- 18:14Are, are, that's true.
- 18:16That's true.
- 18:16Yep.
- 18:16So I don't, I mean, I would, but they might try to investigate further.
- 18:24Would they find the entrance?
- 18:26If they searched hard enough, I think they might.
- 18:30I think the, the reports of such an amount of noise that came from this whole
- 18:35situation, I mean, they're going to walk into the storefront.
- 18:37There's not going to be anybody there.
- 18:38They're going to be like, oh, that's weird.
- 18:40And then they're going to start looking.
- 18:41You're honestly, my thought, first thought is I recognize these guys.
- 18:44The guards, they're not very useful, but honestly, I've been finding out having
- 18:51allies or is not necessarily the worst thing.
- 18:53Let me ask you this then.
- 18:54And I'm not trying to like lead you in an action.
- 18:57I guess to some extent maybe, because I'm the DM and I, I'm, this is sort of
- 19:00hinting, but if they walk in and they see this, this huge mess of death
- 19:04stretching and you're the only one alive in there, is that going to trigger
- 19:07something?
- 19:07Mom.
- 19:07Um, so I'm not going to be able to investigate the storefront.
- 19:12So let me investigate the, investigate the commons area.
- 19:15And there's obviously multiple ways in and out.
- 19:17I'll take out one of the back ways out.
- 19:21So I guess I'll skip on investigating the storefront.
- 19:23Let's investigate and see the common area where, you know, all the dead
- 19:28agents and everything that agents would have their deaths.
- 19:30Yup.
- 19:31Um, they would have, you know, paperwork and stuff on all their assignments
- 19:36currently.
- 19:36Sure.
- 19:37Um, obviously you think they would have fought back, but I'm not sure.
- 19:41So, uh, see, 14.
- 19:45All right.
- 19:4614.
- 19:46Um, yeah, there definitely looks like there was definitely a struggle.
- 19:49They tried to fight back to the best of their ability, but this happened
- 19:52like so fast that there wasn't a lot of opportunity or so, so intensely
- 19:57you might even do.
- 19:58I know who would have been working on the Legionnaires case and where
- 20:02that desk would have been.
- 20:03That is a good question.
- 20:06Um, because I, I kind of, I was around, I did quit for what a couple weeks,
- 20:10but I would, I know who was assigned to that.
- 20:12Um, yeah, I think, uh, one agent, his name was Fred Ricks was on that case.
- 20:17Uh, he probably had a partner.
- 20:19You're not really sure who it was.
- 20:20Uh, his, um, they were kind of deciding who was going to volunteer for that.
- 20:24Not a lot of people wanted to after what happened with you and the
- 20:27griddle when you guys infiltrated.
- 20:29Um, but interestingly enough, you actually do notice that the, his
- 20:35particular area is smoldered entirely as if someone wanted to
- 20:40destroy those records more than anything else.
- 20:42Um, one thing that you do find scattered throughout the room though, are these
- 20:46little, um, what's the word I'm looking for here?
- 20:50Like clockwork pieces, little cogs.
- 20:53Um, they look shattered, um, as if, and they're, they're kind of stemming
- 20:58around, like embedded into the walls as if maybe there was an explosion
- 21:03that these were involved with.
- 21:03So this was sort of like some sort of explosive projectile that was filled
- 21:08with these.
- 21:08Um, but you definitely know that this is a staple of either somebody from
- 21:14the Wakandale district because they're very technologically savvy, but it
- 21:16would make a lot of sense if it was the Legionnaires given the circumstances.
- 21:20Okay.
- 21:21So, um, I am going to run over to the storefront entrance.
- 21:25I'm going to try and grab some rubble or whatever I can and try and block it
- 21:31to Kai, hopefully keep them out and be like, Oh, this door doesn't open.
- 21:34There must just be the storefront, blah, blah, blah.
- 21:36Okay.
- 21:37Or it hopefully, I don't know if I want them necessarily finding.
- 21:41No, how much time I have though, either.
- 21:44Yeah.
- 21:44Oh, let's just get out of there.
- 21:46Okay.
- 21:46Cause like you said, you have a lead, which is, yeah, them finding me in there
- 21:50is going to be the worst thing for me.
- 21:51And that's just going to put the group behind again on, um, and plus you
- 21:56probably want them in there.
- 21:57So, um, yeah, let's just go ahead and take out the back exit.
- 22:02Uh, as I, as I'm walking out, I turn around, take one last look and I hear
- 22:07them kind of at the door.
- 22:08Yup.
- 22:08I skedaddle.
- 22:10All right.
- 22:10So I get out of there and get back out on the street.
- 22:16Okay.
- 22:16All right.
- 22:17So the first thing I guess I need to do is go talk to Birkenrock.
- 22:22All right.
- 22:23Sounds good.
- 22:23And you know where he's at.
- 22:25Um, he likes to hang around in the medium build district again with a
- 22:28lot of the other little lights and, and so on and so forth.
- 22:31No offense, of course, to you.
- 22:32So, no.
- 22:32Um, and so you find him, he's just in a back alleyway.
- 22:36He's wearing like real grungy, loose clothing.
- 22:39Um, if you've ever seen, uh, if you've ever seen the big Lebowski, this
- 22:44looks like the dude.
- 22:45I mean, he just kind of looks like the dude and he's just sitting there or
- 22:49he's probably leaned up against the wall, um, just hanging out.
- 22:53And as soon as he sees you start to approach, he goes, oh crap.
- 22:57And he starts to hobble away, but he's not very fast.
- 23:00Uh, is there, um, anywhere to selling food around the area?
- 23:06Uh, sure.
- 23:07Like just like a street vendor.
- 23:08Yeah.
- 23:09Yeah.
- 23:09Yeah.
- 23:09There's like maybe like a mobile meal of some sort.
- 23:12Well, there's a mobile, uh, sausage roll cart.
- 23:17All right.
- 23:18How much for, how much for a sausage roll?
- 23:20Uh, just, you can throw a gold piece at him.
- 23:22He'll give you the fixings.
- 23:23I, I, I get two sausage rolls or two gold.
- 23:27Yeah.
- 23:27No, one gold, one gold.
- 23:28Yeah.
- 23:28That'll cover two for sure.
- 23:30These are not an expensive food.
- 23:31If you're paying one gold for anything in the, any food item for in the
- 23:38medium-billed district, I think you're getting ripped off.
- 23:40Oh, it's got lobster.
- 23:41Oh, maybe.
- 23:43All right.
- 23:43So I take those mystery meat.
- 23:45I leave the, I leave the rest for tip.
- 23:46Oh, right on.
- 23:47Um, he and walk over to Burke and Rock.
- 23:50I'm like, he's hobbling away.
- 23:51He's like, Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
- 23:53I'm not here to harm you or take you to jail here.
- 23:57Yeah, but you're going to ask me to sit down, sit down and eat.
- 23:59Sit down.
- 24:01I can't say no to a sausage roll.
- 24:04All right.
- 24:05And he sits down.
- 24:06He takes a sausage roll.
- 24:07He starts munching away.
- 24:08I need your help.
- 24:09Oh, I figured as much.
- 24:11Um, what do you know about the Legionnaires, the, and the, uh, potential of gray
- 24:21robbing in the area?
- 24:22Let me tell you one thing.
- 24:23I don't think that any of the Legionnaires are doing the grave robbing.
- 24:27That's for sure.
- 24:28Could anybody be doing it for them?
- 24:30Hmm.
- 24:31Maybe, maybe it's possible.
- 24:35And he sits there any munches away at his, uh, sausage roll.
- 24:39Uh, do you know, have you been involved in any of the gray robbing?
- 24:43Trust me, I don't care.
- 24:44And I don't want to mess around with the grave robbers.
- 24:47No, not me.
- 24:48So you do.
- 24:50I don't care if you would you mind, uh, I give you 10 goals and another
- 24:57sausage roll if you take me with you.
- 25:00Well, hold on.
- 25:01I mean, maybe a couple of friends.
- 25:03I, because I need to see what's going on.
- 25:07I tell you what, uh, I'll take the deal.
- 25:10Uh, I don't want to take you anywhere.
- 25:12Okay.
- 25:12This is some, uh, this is it.
- 25:14Look, I know that we've had our whole thing in the past, you know, I tell you
- 25:18something, you go deal with it.
- 25:19Uh, you've done a pretty good job of that kept me out of trouble, which is
- 25:22good because I can't have anybody knowing that I'm doing any kind of snitch
- 25:25it.
- 25:25Uh, but I can't take you there.
- 25:28That look, this is some, uh, this might not be Legionnaires level, but it's
- 25:33still pretty dangerous crap.
- 25:34Okay.
- 25:36But I can, I can tell you.
- 25:38Yeah, I can tell you.
- 25:39Interesting.
- 25:41I mean, I, I mean, it's fine as good as it gets.
- 25:44It's going to have to, I'm going to have to take that, though.
- 25:46I'm going to have to take 10 gold in another solid role.
- 25:49That's what it sounds like to me.
- 25:50All right.
- 25:52Here's what I'll tell you.
- 25:54My buddies, uh, Twitch and Bungus.
- 25:59I hang on one side.
- 26:00All right.
- 26:01Little sauce bus out a little like police notepad.
- 26:05Starts writing it down.
- 26:07Twitch and Bungus.
- 26:09Yeah.
- 26:09Twitch and Bungus.
- 26:11Uh, what are their legal names?
- 26:14Come on, man.
- 26:15You know how those scroungers work.
- 26:16I don't tell you nothing about my name, my identity.
- 26:20You don't tell, we don't even really use.
- 26:22Bro, I know your name's Todd.
- 26:23Don't, don't announce that.
- 26:26Okay.
- 26:26Sorry, Todd.
- 26:27It's not, it's not a Birkenau.
- 26:29It's not kosher to use it.
- 26:31And we really don't use it anyway.
- 26:33I don't even, I don't even pay taxes, man.
- 26:36Well, I don't.
- 26:37Of course I know.
- 26:38Much less use my real name.
- 26:39You're not going to be in, trust me.
- 26:41There ain't no trouble coming from my end right now.
- 26:45Look, I ain't got much power.
- 26:47Twitch and Bungus is all you got to know, but you'll know when you see him.
- 26:51Cause they're going to be in a place that nobody else is at.
- 26:54Okay.
- 26:54And this is in a graveyard.
- 26:55Yeah.
- 26:56They're going, how'd you know?
- 26:57Oh, well, wait.
- 26:58Yeah, I guess that makes sense.
- 26:59Okay, what handwear?
- 27:01Norfolk Asgardian Cemetery.
- 27:03Tonight, probably, I don't know, once it gets dark, they'll be there.
- 27:09They're going to be digging up some bones.
- 27:12For the grave robbing job.
- 27:14Now I've thrown a little bonus since you got me an extra sausage roll.
- 27:19And I love these things, but there's a guy that's been going around hiring up all
- 27:24of as many scroungers as willing to take the job to go dig up bones in any and all
- 27:30graveyards.
- 27:31That's all I know.
- 27:32And so Twitch and Bungus, they heard about this.
- 27:37They need the money.
- 27:38Well, I mean, we all need the money, but these guys need the money.
- 27:42Okay.
- 27:42Who is the rock?
- 27:43Do I have to?
- 27:45Yeah, you have to rock.
- 27:45Oh, how much is it to level up in our name?
- 27:49Um, it varies.
- 27:51All right, that's fine.
- 27:53We can continue on.
- 27:54Okay.
- 27:54Um, anyway, you have a lot of gold.
- 27:56So I might call him in a minute.
- 27:58All right, fair enough.
- 27:59Uh, yeah, that's, uh, I mean, yeah, that's that's why I know Twitch and Bungus.
- 28:03Tonight, Norfolk Asgardian Cemetery.
- 28:06They know more, obviously, because they're directly involved in it.
- 28:11I'm not going to go out digging.
- 28:12Look at these, look at these arms.
- 28:14I can't dig with these arms.
- 28:15Okay.
- 28:16That's not what I'm, that's not what I do.
- 28:18No, I know, I know.
- 28:19I appreciate your time.
- 28:21Uh, you've been a real, you know, dare you say friend.
- 28:25Wow.
- 28:26You okay?
- 28:28I don't know why I care, but this is weird.
- 28:31Oh, you got two, I mean, that's two sauces rolls build trust, man.
- 28:35Well, I just, I didn't know that we were like that.
- 28:41You know, I sometimes you got to appreciate who you have.
- 28:44And sometimes you don't have anybody.
- 28:46So when you do have someone, you got to appreciate them.
- 28:48Dang.
- 28:49You're making me want to go tell my mama lover.
- 28:54I do that.
- 28:55That is I stand up and I, I walk away.
- 28:57I'm going to go to.
- 28:58It is getting a bit late because you guys did the Coliseum.
- 29:01You got, you went to go check.
- 29:03It is going to be, I'm going to have no time to go find them.
- 29:06I'm going to have to go invest.
- 29:07Oh, yeah.
- 29:08Yeah.
- 29:09Of course.
- 29:10If you want to maintain this lead, you're going to have to follow this yourself.
- 29:13Also, you have no idea where they are because they said they were going back to
- 29:18your place, but you're not sure they could have changed course.
- 29:20They might have.
- 29:21Like.
- 29:22Does it say dark vision?
- 29:25I for detail.
- 29:27No, an arcane ritual casting mimicry expert forgery.
- 29:33I mean, to be fair, it's not going to be like pitch black by any means.
- 29:39There'll be some torches here and there.
- 29:41And you drive time to go back to my house on the way.
- 29:45Not if you're going to make it to North Asgardian cemetery.
- 29:50Terry and I, what am I wearing?
- 29:52Just your whatever is on your my.
- 29:53Your sheet.
- 29:54Yeah, your road.
- 29:55My little road.
- 29:55Yeah.
- 29:56OK.
- 29:57I'm just going to put my hood up and work my way over to the cemetery.
- 30:04OK, sounds good.
- 30:05Yeah, you you be lining up for the cemetery.
- 30:07You get there.
- 30:08It's still a little light out, so you kind of just hang around for a little
- 30:11bit before it starts to get dark.
- 30:12And sure enough, you see off in the distance, you can hear the sound of
- 30:17what sounds like digging.
- 30:18And obviously in a cemetery, especially in kind of more of a medieval, right?
- 30:23Time period.
- 30:24Digging is not necessarily abnormal, but at this time of night, that's kind of weird.
- 30:29And there's one thing that you know about the cemeteries across all of
- 30:32Isla Numa's and that is that people do not like going to them at night.
- 30:36People in our world don't like going to cemeteries at night.
- 30:39But imagine a world where ghosts and race and so on and so forth are very much
- 30:44a real thing that people are aware of.
- 30:46People don't mess around in cemeteries unless they have good reason to.
- 30:50Right.
- 30:52Can I listen in to anything that they're saying?
- 30:56Are you going to move in closer?
- 30:57So I would like to move in.
- 30:58OK, yeah, you move in closer.
- 31:00And yeah, sure enough, you see there's like a there's three shovels there.
- 31:05You got one shovel that's just jammed in the ground and there's a lamp
- 31:08that's kind of hanging off of it.
- 31:09And then you got two guys there.
- 31:11They've actually got some like crowbars and they're trying to open up this old
- 31:15mausoleum that's there.
- 31:17And as they're talking to each other, you just hear, man, oh, man, I heard this guy.
- 31:23He's he was super magical when he was alive.
- 31:26We're going to make so much cash if we can get these bones, man.
- 31:29Oh, yeah, we're going to get so much cash off these bones, which it's going to be
- 31:34great. I can't wait.
- 31:36What do you want to spend your money on, which?
- 31:39Oh, man, I heard that they did some spinach out there and it's real good stuff, man.
- 31:45They got they got like a whole new type of it that's out there.
- 31:49And it's it gives you a heck of a high man and just boosts you up real good.
- 31:53I heard that stuff is bad for you, which yeah, but, you know, I heard that
- 31:58King Fortuna is back and he's just been just injecting himself with this stuff.
- 32:03And he's just he's going nuts like, man, if I could get my hands on some of that,
- 32:07maybe we could rob a bank.
- 32:09Oh, do you know how easy it would be to rob a bank if we was on burst?
- 32:13I don't do I need to go in for anything else?
- 32:16I mean, I pretty much know exactly what they're doing now.
- 32:18They're digging up the bones and taking bones.
- 32:21Yeah, but you got a magical individuals.
- 32:23But for who and why?
- 32:25What would what would be your next steps if you if you don't get the information out of these guys?
- 32:30I'm going to have to be there.
- 32:31All right. That's what you hope really are.
- 32:34Well, so actually introduce or intro me to where you're headed right now.
- 32:40What so there? I'm I can see them for I'm assuming I'm like in a tree or behind a tree.
- 32:45Yeah, probably behind a tree.
- 32:46What are they? What kind of creatures are they?
- 32:49Bungus is a half.
- 32:54Orc. But he looks really dumb.
- 32:59He's pretty muscular, but he looks really dumb.
- 33:01He's the one that's actually on the crowbar right now.
- 33:03The other dude is a scrawny little gnome guy.
- 33:06And he's like kind of hopping up and down on his feet like, oh, you don't know,
- 33:10you got to get the leverage right there.
- 33:12Yeah, then the pole. Give it a pull. No, you see, you missed it up.
- 33:15You missed it up. You got to put it right there.
- 33:17There you go. Now hold it. Now hold it now.
- 33:19Give it a pull. See, I missed it. It's slid out.
- 33:21Slid out. It's no more full.
- 33:24Yeah, but you got to make sure it doesn't slip.
- 33:26Yeah. All right.
- 33:26So I'm going to take the voice of Burke Rock, Burkin Rock.
- 33:33I'm very interesting.
- 33:35And take the voice and be like, and I'm going to go.
- 33:38I'm going to go say, guys, it's Burke Rock.
- 33:40Don't forget. Don't forget.
- 33:42Everybody quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet.
- 33:43We want to live quiet.
- 33:44Which one we want?
- 33:45Yeah, you know, you know, I'm here.
- 33:47It's urgent.
- 33:50It's not a bug.
- 33:51Hey, Bungus, did you not?
- 33:53You already said he said shut up.
- 33:55Burke, Burke Rock, why are you?
- 33:57I hear you, boys. I don't see you.
- 33:59I am about 40 feet to your left,
- 34:02which I need you to come here.
- 34:04Bungus, continue doing what you're doing.
- 34:08Well, OK, you got a bad burkin.
- 34:10Sorry, Burkin stop.
- 34:14Oh, shut up.
- 34:15Sorry. Sorry.
- 34:17The voice just carries.
- 34:19Yeah.
- 34:20Twitch kind of starts shuffling over
- 34:23in the direction that you told him to.
- 34:25Burke Rock, what are you even doing out here?
- 34:26You're not even part of this whole get up.
- 34:29I've got some I've got news.
- 34:31Oh, hey, am I supposed to come around the tree
- 34:34or stay on this side?
- 34:35Come back to the tree here.
- 34:36Come back to the tree.
- 34:37Yeah, OK, I'm I'm away.
- 34:39Who were you digging up for this time?
- 34:42Who am I digging up this time?
- 34:44Yes, I think his name was Benny.
- 34:48Oh, OK.
- 34:50And who are you taking the bones to this time?
- 34:53We mean this time is always the same.
- 34:55It's right. It's right.
- 34:56Right, I guess. Yeah, right.
- 34:59I guess what's he paying you to do this?
- 35:01Oh, man, he's given us.
- 35:02He he he he.
- 35:05I had a crew guy.
- 35:07He's like, you know, I took a cut, you know, if I'm out here,
- 35:10I it's urgent.
- 35:11You know, this was my condition.
- 35:13But I had a couple guys hired to do the job a couple of weeks
- 35:19ago, they paid me paid me 10 gold to do the job.
- 35:22They gave you 10 gold.
- 35:23They find the magic ones, the magic bones.
- 35:25That's what we're looking for, right?
- 35:27Well, I mean, look, Radica City pay for any bones, but he said he
- 35:32he preferred magic bones.
- 35:34That's where the money's at, right?
- 35:36So I looked into this guy, right?
- 35:39That's Barry, the mausoleum here, this Benny guy.
- 35:41He's magic.
- 35:43He was a magic man when he was alive.
- 35:46He was some kind of wizard or something.
- 35:48I don't know how much is he paying you for these bones?
- 35:50I could pay you more.
- 35:52What?
- 35:53Well, we're kind of trying to maybe take over some of the business here.
- 35:58Why do you want the bones?
- 36:00He won't even tell us why he wants the bones.
- 36:02Well, if you think about it, if we have if I have a stock
- 36:06of magic bones, I can be the middleman and mark them up.
- 36:09Would you be interested in that role?
- 36:14I'm just trying to get as much info as
- 36:17yeah, yeah, yeah, asking all these dumb questions.
- 36:19No, I get you. I get you.
- 36:19Until I end up rolling the deception check.
- 36:22Eleven, eleven, he says, wait, why would we meet?
- 36:26I don't think that he's debating the prices.
- 36:28I don't I don't think you're going to be able to talk him up.
- 36:31Look, he radicals is a dangerous dude.
- 36:33OK, I watch him kill people because they brought him bones he didn't like.
- 36:37So I don't I don't want to mess around with this one.
- 36:40But he gave you direction to come and grab these ones specifically.
- 36:43Well, no, he just told us to bring back bones.
- 36:45Told if you bring back ones, you don't like.
- 36:47Well, I think I think between you and me, I think they was fake bones.
- 36:52I think they got some like clay or something.
- 36:54And then they just painted them white and made them look like bones or something like that.
- 36:58I don't know. Maybe they would just sticks.
- 37:00Maybe they were just white sticks.
- 37:01Do I know who Radicus is? I've ever.
- 37:03I don't think you have ever heard of this guy.
- 37:05OK, so I don't know who this is.
- 37:08As as you guys are having this conversation, you hear bongas or rather,
- 37:13you don't hear bongas, you hear a loud slam sound
- 37:17come from Bungas's direction and you hear him say, hey, Twitch, I think I got it.
- 37:22And you help him. You help him. OK.
- 37:27I'm hiding out of sight.
- 37:29I have people after me. I'm sending a kangaroo to help you.
- 37:31Oh, I don't care. Bungas.
- 37:34Bungas, what's going on? Oh, my.
- 37:36And you see over where they're at,
- 37:39the two of them have made it or at least Bungas has managed to open
- 37:44the door of this mausoleum and there is a glowing figure that is currently
- 37:48sort of swoop is sort of floating in the air.
- 37:51It is swooping down and trying to grab at Bungas at the moment.
- 37:55Twitch has run about halfway to it, and he's just staring at it kind of in his mind.
- 38:00You can tell he's debating.
- 38:02Am I really all that interested in my friend or should I just run away from
- 38:05this situation because that looks like a ghost.
- 38:08Now, I'm kind of curious.
- 38:09So I'm just going to say it's but I also want to kind of go up
- 38:13and be able to help them. So I can say I'm from being sent to help them.
- 38:16I can be with them without being more detected.
- 38:19Chirp, hopefully.
- 38:21Sure, I'm going to see what I'm folding here, though, because at this moment,
- 38:24I'm going to hop down from the tree when I kind of, you know,
- 38:27I'll get down on the ground, but at this point, I kind of want to see what happens.
- 38:30OK.
- 38:32Yeah, I mean, basically you watch as this kind of terrifying figure,
- 38:36this glowing figure starts to cackle.
- 38:39You will dry your eye false and he floats over.
- 38:44And I know I don't think you've ever seen any of the Harry Potter stuff,
- 38:47but there's the oh, you have. OK.
- 38:48You remember the death eaters?
- 38:50He doesn't look at all like a death eater.
- 38:52But when he floats down towards Bungus,
- 38:55he starts to like pull Bungus's essence into him,
- 39:00just like the death eaters do in in Harry Potter.
- 39:03So Bungus is
- 39:07Twits, Twits.
- 39:09Does Twitch help him any?
- 39:11Yeah, Twitch helps him.
- 39:13Twits goes running in.
- 39:14Yeah, he picks up the shovel and he just starts swinging it at the specter.
- 39:19And it kind of just goes right through the specter.
- 39:21Does it interrupt the soul stealing or whatever?
- 39:24Yes.
- 39:25In fact, the specter kind of like pulls back from it and sees that Twitch is fighting back.
- 39:30And it goes, you're excellent.
- 39:32We'll be punished.
- 39:34And it holds out its hand to try to grab him.
- 39:37It fails to grab him as he kind of nimbly dodges out of the way.
- 39:41But it's continuing to sort of fly around and attack these two.
- 39:45It's trying to otherwise, I mean, siphon their life force out, it seems.
- 39:49Can you can you fight something like this?
- 39:52Yeah, you can.
- 39:54It isn't going to be effective.
- 39:55I guess we'll see.
- 39:56I mean, if you know one thing as as a magician,
- 39:59it's that if you're going to fight magical monsters,
- 40:03you might want to do it with magic and not a shovel.
- 40:06Yeah, or even a sword, unless the sword is magic.
- 40:09But that's what you would know.
- 40:12We're going to sneak attack him.
- 40:23OK. I get advantage on that.
- 40:25Yeah, I'd say. Well, technically, no, but you do get to go first.
- 40:28So we'll roll roll initiative.
- 40:32And I'll roll for the other two and the guy didn't attack them.
- 40:35This could have gone so much worse.
- 40:37Sure. No, it's two. Oh, wow, really?
- 40:40Well, OK, but you're going to go first from the order anyways,
- 40:43because this is a sneak attack.
- 40:45I always say I'm going to attack the ghost.
- 40:47OK. What are you doing?
- 40:49I'm going to do Ray of Frost.
- 40:51Ray of Frost. OK.
- 40:52That'd be 11. 11 to hit.
- 40:54Oh, they just shy.
- 40:57You you rush forward and you blast this cone of cold
- 41:01that you can see freezing everything as you hear the wind
- 41:05this howling cold wind go flying towards it.
- 41:07The ghost dodges out of the way just in time.
- 41:11It doesn't notice that you're attacking just yet.
- 41:14It just, you know, there's there's a lot going on right now.
- 41:17It just happens to be swerving out of the way as it goes for one of the two other fools.
- 41:22OK. So with that, it will attempt to life drain on Bungus.
- 41:30Oh, wow. Yeah, that's going to hit.
- 41:31It grabs on to Bungus almost sort of like possessing him to some extent,
- 41:36like its body or its real existence kind of merges with his physical
- 41:41and he freezes up.
- 41:42And again, you see that sort of absorption as life force gets pulled out of him
- 41:47and he just passes out.
- 41:49He might be dead. You're not sure.
- 41:50Twitch screams, Bungus. No.
- 41:53Oh, Bungus.
- 41:55But obviously he's a little distracted with the shovel trying to keep
- 41:59this ghost at bay at the moment.
- 42:00He's not going to be able to attack him or anything.
- 42:03Oh, no, actually, I mean, he does get a turn.
- 42:05You mean is just to hit it like across the face with the shovel?
- 42:08Again, sort of like dissipates the light that this ghost sort of emanates,
- 42:13this sort of magical light for just a moment.
- 42:15It reforms, but you can tell that the ghost doesn't seem to like this.
- 42:19Right. So my turn again.
- 42:20Yes. 12. 12.
- 42:22Are you doing the ice again?
- 42:24OK. This time you get a little bit closer
- 42:27and you're able to carefully direct this ray that fires forth,
- 42:31freezing everything in its path and it slams into the ghost.
- 42:35Roll your damage to two.
- 42:37All right.
- 42:38You see a chunk of this ghost actually becomes physical for just a moment
- 42:43as it freezes over and that chunk falls to the ground.
- 42:46And this portion doesn't reform on this ghost.
- 42:48It turns towards you and says, Oh, dear you insolent creature.
- 42:55And it starts to float towards you at this point.
- 42:58Oh, then I'll do it.
- 42:59It is going to fly up towards you and attempt to drain your life.
- 43:04That is a 10.
- 43:07Misses, misses. Yes. All right.
- 43:09So it tries to fly up towards you.
- 43:11It doesn't get it.
- 43:12It tries to like reach for you and you sidestep out of the way.
- 43:15It's unable to grab you to commence this process.
- 43:18I'm going to say, Twitch, yeah, I'm sent to help you.
- 43:21You have any magical powers?
- 43:24No, I'm more of a ideas guy.
- 43:27I here's the idea.
- 43:29You see him grab onto me.
- 43:30You just swing the shovel and disrupt him.
- 43:32That's your job. You got it.
- 43:35All right. So see if he can actually attack him at all.
- 43:37Oh, yeah, he's going to if you hit him just right, it might
- 43:39catch some of the frozen pieces and rip piece out on every sense.
- 43:44Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
- 43:45This is a 10. That's not going to hit.
- 43:47He's just swinging.
- 43:49He's trying to get through here.
- 43:50Good, good, good try.
- 43:51I was going to say, maybe he slips on the ice that you shot
- 43:54the first time a little better.
- 43:55So we'll do we'll do fire this time.
- 43:58See if fire does anything.
- 43:59So that's going to be one to 10.
- 44:01Did you roll the I did I'm at an 18.
- 44:03Oh, OK, nice.
- 44:04So definitely hits six, six.
- 44:08All right, this time.
- 44:10This flame flies forth.
- 44:12You're you're right.
- 44:13I mean, you and this guy are like right next to each other practically.
- 44:15So it is not hard for you to hit where you guys are currently at.
- 44:18So you shoot this fireball forward, slams into it.
- 44:22You actually see the ghost get knocked back
- 44:25from the impact of this magical blast this time.
- 44:27And it is pissed.
- 44:28It is upset.
- 44:29It's stepping in front of me.
- 44:33Protect me.
- 44:34Well, I don't know about that.
- 44:36The ghost is going to lunge for you once again.
- 44:38That's like a 23.
- 44:41Yeah. All right.
- 44:43Is going to deal 10 necrotic damage.
- 44:46I need you to do a Constitution saving throw.
- 44:4917. OK.
- 44:50You feel sort of this hold this cold hand grasp inside, not to your heart,
- 44:57but more of like whatever soul you have inside of you.
- 45:00It grabs that it's a weird sensation.
- 45:03It starts to pull it, but it's not able to pull it out of you
- 45:06as it tries but fails to drain your life force.
- 45:09OK, you do take the necrotic damage, but it doesn't like steal anything from you.
- 45:14Twish rushes forward with his shovel once again, trying to hit this thing.
- 45:19That's like a 16.
- 45:20So yeah, I'd say that hits doesn't do a whole lot of damage again.
- 45:24Swings kind of passes through this ghost, but you do see a little bit
- 45:29of disruption that kind of happens in there.
- 45:31Hey, I turn. I'm going to move back five.
- 45:33OK, I'm going to move back 10 feet behind Twitch if I can this far
- 45:37so that he attacks him because I'm close to that.
- 45:40You book it and you rush away hiding behind Twitch as you get on Twitch.
- 45:46I'm not to activate this this spell that sort of makes your whole aura
- 45:50just glories in order to make it more difficult for this ghost to attack you.
- 45:54Being that Twitch is in front of you and this thing is just out to get life force.
- 45:59It is going to lunge towards Twitch to attempt to drain him next.
- 46:03It fails. It he's he's swinging that shovel and
- 46:07and something about it away from me.
- 46:10Which is just so intimidating and his shovel is just the flail is just so intense.
- 46:15So you just completely he kind of backs off as a tag. Whoa. Oh
- 46:18It goes back to you it's very hang on a second before you all I'm trying to think if I could give him anything I
- 46:25Would help him in this battle. Oh, you know what I do? I mean them
- 46:30Let's see. I throw him my my staff. Oh, okay
- 46:36Then I go here use this instead. I throw in my staff and he says Wow
- 46:42It is basically a shovel without the shovel part. It's got magic
- 46:46It's got or well, I guess if he's doing the same thing and then yeah
- 46:50It's pretty much the same thing because your staff is a technically magical. Oh, no, I don't have a magical staff for some reason
- 46:57I was just trying to say you can cast magic through it
- 47:00But what's the shovels damaged? I was like 1d6 when you say okay cuz crossbow is 1d6 - but I don't know crossbow do much
- 47:08It just I don't really know what the shovels really do it be honest
- 47:11Oh, yeah, I'm just going with it. All right, yeah, never mind
- 47:13it just
- 47:16Never mind just go ahead and attack him. You don't have anything for me. No the magical is all the wrong looking I'm looking
- 47:22I mean if you don't got anything, I'll just hit him with the shovel. I got 300 tickets to Jar Jim's arcade
- 47:29I don't know what that means. I'm just gonna hit him with the shovel and he takes a swing
- 47:33It's it's a four total
- 47:36You're distracting me man. You got to shut up about this arcade. Okay, it does go back to you though
- 47:42All right, we're gonna use magic missile. Okay six damage. Oh plus one per dart. So 79 nine nice
- 47:50Okay, you from behind twitch you fire these three magical projectiles
- 48:00The third one hits it and as it does where it pierces it almost looks like the ghost is on fire as it starts to ignite
- 48:08Outwards and burns it up and as it comes up towards its head. He says
- 48:12And just fizzles out and the ghost is gone. Oh
- 48:19Checking chicken fungus. Oh, yeah, that's right. Bungus and he rushes over to bungus. He's like bring this wake up
- 48:24Wake up. I guess oh
- 48:26And you see bungus go
- 48:28I'm gonna take a nap. All right guys. I was I was sent to help you. Oh, you're the guy that Birken Rock sent
- 48:35Yeah Birken Rock. Yeah, I'm the guy that Birken Rock sent
- 48:38So he said you guys are you're gonna you're digging up some bones that you were gonna have some trouble with and you tried to one
- 48:47You're something but you just kept going. I don't know. He's he was warning us that not to be messing around with Fratacus
- 48:52Well, yeah, did you see what Ragnos sent you to do? Yeah, well, you know, I mean hey, how many times has this happened to you?
- 48:59Well to us not that many but there definitely some scounders that have died because of this exact situation and I you know
- 49:06You both would be dead if it wasn't for me. Well, hey, you know, I appreciate that. I think I think you
- 49:12Only I don't even know who you are. All right. I you can pay me an information. Oh
- 49:19Okay, I don't know much about what you're doing here. I was just sent to help you for
- 49:23for some gold pieces
- 49:26Somebody's worried about you. I'm not gonna say who
- 49:28Is it my mom? It was your mom. You know my mom. I don't know
- 49:34I say the person that gave me the money said here's some gold people is my mom's money
- 49:39She said protect my son. I don't know. I just went and did it
- 49:42I'm a use of kind of use some kind of private eye or something. No, I'm scrounger just like you
- 49:47She offered me money to do a job. I did it. Okay. Okay. All right. Don't get you don't get your feathers in a knot
- 49:52What do you what do you want?
- 49:54So tell me more about this erraticus
- 49:56Okay
- 49:58well
- 50:00He works over at the docks. I think he's a
- 50:03Doc security over in Atlantic Heights, okay, I guess he runs the night shift
- 50:10At the docks and he's converted his office into kind of his own little private
- 50:16off
- 50:17headquarters
- 50:19He's running this whole
- 50:21operation out of it
- 50:23hiring scroungers to go get bones from across the city and all the various cemeteries graveyards
- 50:29Hell how much you want to kill somebody and get their bones out?
- 50:33I mean, that's a nasty job, but I've heard some guys are doing it
- 50:36How much is it paying you for bones? Well, he gives you like three gold pieces just regular bones
- 50:42But if you can get magic bones
- 50:44That's where the money's at. He'll be dealing with the ball. I don't know he takes him into another room. I
- 50:50Don't know
- 50:53That's all I see
- 50:55puts him in a bag
- 50:56Takes him in the room
- 50:58bones gone
- 51:00Yeah, hmm, but it's like
- 51:0778 gold per bone if you get on per bone if you get the magic one so you get all 200 some bones
- 51:13Yeah, no, right
- 51:15But he's picky right so they're broken
- 51:19or
- 51:21Core quality or really ride it out. He doesn't want him magic or not, right? So that's where it gets tricky also
- 51:28The clean you and me. I'm pretty sure so he's got this fancy device, right? This little like
- 51:34What are those things called like a monocle and he looks through the monocle and he can see if the bones are magical
- 51:41But honestly, I think sometimes he lies to us. I think he doesn't want to give us the money when we find magic bones
- 51:48I think he's like, oh, these are some ordinary bones. I guess I'll give you the low price, right and
- 51:54You know, that's that's just not right. That's not that's not good business
- 51:58So is that why you're out here messing with this magical being? I just wanted the big the big bucks
- 52:04you know
- 52:06They almost cost you your life is it worth it, okay, you know one night it
- 52:11Once once every like ten guys is a ghost that comes out of these things
- 52:16You know and you know you don't think you're gonna be the guy that it happens to and then you do you end up being
- 52:21They think you know, what make it a living out here? You're a scrounger. You get it
- 52:25I you got to take the jobs you got
- 52:27Exactly. I took your mom's money to protect you
- 52:31You gotta stop bringing that up because this just feels wrong, you know, it makes me want to punch you
- 52:36I don't know why it's just some innate thing after all I've done for you
- 52:39No, I appreciate that I know but like you just like in my face you say I took your mom's money
- 52:44Like it's like, you know, how would you feel if I took your mom's money?
- 52:47Mom's dead. No, I'm sorry to hear that
- 52:51It's anything else that you want to know
- 52:54That should do it. I
- 52:56Won't okay. Are you safe? Hey, wait a minute. Hold on. You got
- 53:01See this is this is the mistake I always make right I always guy I can't keep my mouth shut
- 53:05That's what they're always telling me. That's what my mom's always doing me. In fact, she didn't say that
- 53:09Yeah, that sounds like her
- 53:12All right, let me look I need you to do me a favor. What's up? Don't tell don't tell Radicus
- 53:19I said anything. Okay. None of this came from me
- 53:22Absolutely. I mean I can't hardly even remember your name. I appreciate that. Yeah. Good night, Twitch. All right you too
- 53:29Hey, are you are you gonna try to go work with Radicus?
- 53:33Get some bones
- 53:35I might go dig up some bones, but
- 53:37These this is grave robber doesn't for me. Oh, why'd you want to know so much?
- 53:42Your mom paid me to come protect you and I'm curious if there's money it to be made people are gonna pay me
- 53:48I don't think I'm interested in this job though. I mean, I don't want to fight one of these things every night
- 53:52Oh, that's fair
- 53:54Especially if it's you only the magic ones that pay well and you're only searcher magic and I fight one of these every time
- 54:00I know I get you I get your look here just between friends, right? I wouldn't go messing with this Radicus guy
- 54:07He's he's he's pretty dangerous stuff. I said like I said, I seen him kill people on the spot
- 54:13For bringing him the bones he didn't like so I get I get it if you're not really into this kind of job
- 54:19that's probably for the best because it's it's scary stuff and
- 54:23even more so than the ghosts
- 54:25This guy is hopped up on so much euphoria. You would not believe it
- 54:31Euphoria. Yeah, you know euphoria
- 54:35That new drug that's going around
- 54:38It all makes you feel good
- 54:41Radicus been getting spending every gold piece he gets out of this whole job
- 54:47On as much euphoria as he can get his hands
- 54:50So he's making money with his bones somehow and then spending that money on the drugs
- 54:54Yeah, he's he's must have some kind of higher up or something. I don't know who it is
- 54:58but yeah, I
- 55:01Appreciate your time and glad you're safe
- 55:03Yep. Now. I just got to drag my friend to you know the old black market doctor
- 55:09Look out for him. I can tell you guys are good people. You're just wow
- 55:17And if anybody say that before he just made bad choices maybe go home and visit your mom
- 55:22Oh, even my mom doesn't say I'm a good person. Well, he do bad things but that doesn't mean you bad person
- 55:27Go visit your mom say hello. Maybe take a break from a great Robin for a while. Well, you know after the night
- 55:33I think I probably will all right. Have a great. All right. You know whoever you are
- 55:37Dinkle beans
- 55:40Your name is Dinkle. Okay. Have a good night. Everybody. You know nobody uses a real name. No, I get real name is twitch
- 55:46Yeah, look at me
- 55:48He just took a twitch and a little bit as he's trying to drag bongos away
- 55:54All right, then all right, and you guys go your separate ways. I'm gonna go back to my house. Okay, so you
- 56:00Get back to the house and by the point by the time that you make it back all the way across
- 56:05They has Guardia district to get back to the mediumville district. The Sun is already up
- 56:09night has come and gone
- 56:12The fight that you had with this specter
- 56:16Was a lot longer than you realized it was
- 56:18possibly because of some element of the specter you're not sure and
- 56:22So it is morning and by the time you get there nobody's there, but you do see signs
- 56:27Maybe there's old coffee that's still sitting out. That's still warm
- 56:30That they were there, but you're not sure where they would have gone from here. Yeah, so
- 56:37Let's throw I guess I'll just ask the rocky talky
- 56:41But I'm also thinking about leveling up. Oh first of all, let's make this a little more exciting. Let's let's go to the arcade
- 56:48Okay. All right sounds good. So you hop you grab the rock. Yo, it's jargim. Let's play some games
- 56:54Oh, you want to hop into the arcade? Oh, yeah, says the voice of jargim echoing into the rock and with that
- 57:00There's a bright light that
- 57:02holds little sauce into
- 57:05jargims level up arcade
- 57:09You hear the various sounds of all the machines and everything
- 57:12Scattered around you and he says oh just you today there little sauce. Well, all right. Nothing wrong with that
- 57:20What would you like to play today?
- 57:22And what do you want? How many tokens? One of the Crosper tokens?
- 57:25Yeah, so large tokens which give you things like level ups and proficiency about all that the bigger prizes, right?
- 57:32Are 500 gold pieces each and then the small tokens are 250 both so it's half up
- 57:39So let's use a I'm like my one big token just one big token today. All right
- 57:44500 gold 500 gold pieces. Yes, and you put the 500 gold or you sort of hold up a sack of gold pieces in it
- 57:51It sort of just floats there on its own and the bag tilts over and opens up and you just watch this 500 gold pieces
- 57:58quickly shoot out into this machine and then as they disappear inside you hear
- 58:04And this large gold token pops out the bottom
- 58:10So let's just do let's just do something to upgrade my wizard classes and my sales and stuff. All right sounds good
- 58:16So for wizard games, there are two options. You have the one ring toss
- 58:22I think I do that last time which is toss the evil magical ring over the mountains of Rodrom to
- 58:29Ensure the destruction and earn tickets and then the alternate game that you could be playing is called counter spell
- 58:35Slap shot which is basically air hockey
- 58:38It says every time you slap shot the puck to the other side
- 58:41It becomes a different visage of a magical spell as your opponent, which would be probably some kind of robot or something like that
- 58:47Attempts to counter it back to your side of the table
- 58:50So either one of the game them a hockey slaps an air hockey. All right as you pop that token in
- 58:58From the from a couple games down you actually see this this just very like a basic robot dude come walking out
- 59:05He says oh wonderful you played a two player game this right here is my good friend
- 59:13Benji boy Benji boy Benji boy and Benji boy helps me run the games that require two players when there's not two players to play
- 59:22So you'll be playing against Benji boy and Benji boy grabs one of the little paddles
- 59:28Is that what they're calling? Yeah, I'd be a paddle paddle. Okay. Yeah the paddles
- 59:32The little puck comes out and you get to start with the puck obviously and the two of you start to slap shot this puck across the table
- 59:40I'm gonna have you roll me either it's your choice Arkana
- 59:44History or medicine and obviously you want a high roll 20 20
- 59:48Okay, it's added 20
- 59:51Awesome, and then I'm gonna have you roll a roll me a d10 but five. Okay. Wow. Okay
- 59:57So you're slap-shotting this this puck back and forth and sure enough by the end of the game
- 1:00:03You have scored
- 1:00:04Significantly more points than Benji boy was able to achieve
- 1:00:08You earn a
- 1:00:10Little cup that pops out of the machine you pop it open
- 1:00:14It is two new wizard spells of your choice
- 1:00:17They can be whatever level that you want to assign them to
- 1:00:21I and then you also earn tickets you were in a thousand tickets. All right. Well, can I buy for 1300?
- 1:00:281300 tickets. Okay, so there's different categories of items that are scattered across
- 1:00:33There's weapons. There are and obviously all of these are magical. There's obviously armoring shields
- 1:00:40Is it any armor that's gonna give me over 14?
- 1:00:43There's two options within the amount of tickets that you currently have there are two options
- 1:00:47You could upgrade your armor that you currently have which is odd because you just have robes on to either be adamantine
- 1:00:54which
- 1:00:55The only thing that that will do is if ever a creature crits against you
- 1:01:00It becomes a normal hit as opposed to doing the double damage. It'll just be normal damage
- 1:01:04or you could afford to get myth roll armor and
- 1:01:08That one just make sure that you don't take disadvantage to stealth checks
- 1:01:13It's not it's not really beneficial to you because I'm more of a heavy armor thing
- 1:01:18So when you put on heavy armor, you usually have disadvantage because you're clanking around right on
- 1:01:22Stealth check so this would just upgrade it to make sure that it doesn't do that
- 1:01:26So that's really the only thing that you could afford as far as that goes currently. There are some changes once you hit
- 1:01:321500 tickets you could just add plus one to your AC basically you could enhance it so 15
- 1:01:38Yeah, so might be worth waiting to give a little give some more tickets
- 1:01:42Be where some of the magical items like um, let's see. So there's rings. There's a handful of ring
- 1:01:47Or there's one ring that you can for and I don't think it's gonna help you that much
- 1:01:50It's just a ring of warmth and it just means you have resistance to cold damage and
- 1:01:55Everything that you are wearing or holding or whatever else is completely unharmed
- 1:02:01By temperatures of negative 50. I don't think that'd be super helpful for you. Let's see here
- 1:02:07We've got other wearable items. There's the helm of comprehend language 500 tickets
- 1:02:11I have something with language. Yeah, you can use an action to cast the comprehend language spell from it at will
- 1:02:17So that you don't have to use a spell slot
- 1:02:19Unfortunately, there's not a huge amount now then you get into the trinkets. So trinkets actually get kind of interesting so
- 1:02:27400 tickets you could get the ivory goat figurine and what that does is when activated the figurine turns into a giant
- 1:02:37Goat under your command for three hours
- 1:02:41Well, you can reset it because like after that three hours, it's done
- 1:02:45You can reset it but it costs gold pieces. You have to like literally put gold pieces in it
- 1:02:49Like it's a little like coin machine. It costs 30 gold to reset it. So it's a little expensive
- 1:02:54There's a horn of blasting that's 450
- 1:02:57It lets out a huge thunderous blast
- 1:03:00Everything or any creatures within a cone that it's blasted towards have to make a DC 15 safe
- 1:03:07In order to dodge it. What about weapons wise you should was there anything? Oh, yeah, there was a couple
- 1:03:13Okay for weapons you can you can upgrade a weapon you can just give it an enhancement
- 1:03:19So any weapon you have on you personally first of all it makes it my staff, right? Yep
- 1:03:24So first of all it would make it magical so in situations where you're fighting a ghost it would do normal damage
- 1:03:30When a 20 is rolled so when you do you're nat 20 you'll do your double damage
- 1:03:35And then it also will do plus seven damage on top of that
- 1:03:38To that now, of course, that's a rare situation, right?
- 1:03:41You have that for 500 tickets you can get the trident of fish command
- 1:03:45And it has three charges and when you expend a charge you can cast dominate beast on a beast with an innate swim speed
- 1:03:53It has to try to save against that. Otherwise you gain control over it. So it's like Aquaman
- 1:03:59There's a plus one boomerang if you want a boomerang you can throw it enemies
- 1:04:04And it'll come back
- 1:04:05There's a plus one enchant weapon so you can use this on your staff again
- 1:04:10It'll just add plus one to hit and plus one to the damage that it deals and of course, it's magical now
- 1:04:14You know, I think I'm just gonna wait for it to upgrade the armor class. Okay. I'm gonna thank Georgia for its time
- 1:04:21Of course. I'm gonna ask a question for the day. Sure. Yep. You can do that. It has to be yes or no question, right?
- 1:04:27Yes, we're the Legionnaires responsible for destroying bullying space. Yes
- 1:04:32Yes, they were they bring joy to you, Georgian. No, of course not
- 1:04:36Hey, wait a minute. That's a second question. But just so you know, I don't wish ill upon the
- 1:04:43people in this world. I
- 1:04:46Mean I did in fact create it after all
- 1:04:49To some extent. All right. Well, I appreciate your time. Of course. Thanks for stopping by. Thanks for giving Benji boy
- 1:04:56Little something to do he you know if he plays the games all day long and he gets a little bit bored of just playing by his own
- 1:05:02And so it's nice when he gets to play against an opponent and you gave him a run for his money
- 1:05:07So I'm sure he'll be playing the the game over there
- 1:05:09The counter spell slap shot for hours now trying to get better at it
- 1:05:14So that next time if you challenge him, maybe he'll be a little bit more of a difficult challenge. I look forward to it
- 1:05:20All right. Well, you have a wonderful day. You know, we'll see you later. Bye
- 1:05:23There's a bright light that sends you back to your house. All right, so last thing I'm gonna do
- 1:05:31I need some sleep. I need to get some points back
- 1:05:34I take the rock. Yep. I set it down. Let the beam shine. I let the rest by me
- 1:05:40Okay, so as you take your rest and I'm gonna put the rock down next to me
- 1:05:43I'll let the line shine through. Well, you know what?
- 1:05:46I was gonna interrupt my sleep
- 1:05:48No, it's thinking about it. So you'll do your sleep first. No, no, no, I'm gonna just set it on here
- 1:05:54I'm gonna put it out outside in the living room and let the rock shine and close the door
- 1:06:00And go to sleep. I like it. All right. Sound like it back full rest right at 20 full health
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