Episode 4
C1 | The Sewer Runs Through It | S1E4
Shaken by what they learned and what they survived, the crew tries to stay moving before the city can decide their fate. Old connections, new complications, and a rising sense of wrongness force quick choices. A desperate pivot lands them somewhere loud, crowded, and dangerously improv-heavy.
Content warnings
Implied Cannibalism: 2:41-2:45, 10:07-10:10
Sewage: 51:45-52:38, 53:18-53:30, 1:28:26-1:28:30
Vomiting: 52:22-52:27
Spider descriptions: 1:02:21-1:02:55, 1:11:06-1:11:17, 1:14:29-1:14:40
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S1.E4.Paper
Warnings:
Implied Cannibalism: 2:41-2:45, 10:07-10:15
Sewage: 51:45-52:38, 53:18-53:30, 1:28:26-1:28:30
Vomiting: 52:22-52:27
Spider descriptions: 1:02:21-1:02:55, 1:11:06-1:11:17, 1:14:29-1:14:40
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Intro Music, heavy guitar and drums, fade in
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Kurt: Hey, everybody, welcome back to Tales by Daggerlight.
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We're here recording session four of us friends, sitting around a table playing Daggerheart.
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Speaking of friends, let's go around and introduce ourselves.
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Kai: Hello, I'm Kai, and I'm playing Severian.
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John: If you need a royal blood test, come on down to Basagar.
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Jenn: Hey, I'm Jenn, and I'm playing Seraphina.
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Kevin: Wait, what do you mean royal blood test?
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I'm Kevin, I'm playing Zeph.
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John: We'll get there.
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Geoff: Also confused; Geoff, playing Kua.
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Luke: Luke, playing Ciaran.
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Kurt: Sweet. And I am your humble GM, Kurt Wild, here to facilitate the chaos you guys are about to ensue.
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Start out with four fear crossed over from last time,
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make sure you guy cross over….
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I see what you guys did.
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Players laugh
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Kurt: I see what you guys did.
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Kevin: I don’t know what you’re talking about.
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John: Kurt
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stepped away for just a small moment and we were like, ‘Change something.
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Change something on his screen!’
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And we moved one fear over.
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Kevin: Yeah, one fear, and he sees it.
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Kurt: Yeah.
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That's the benefit of having it on my GM screen that was just like right front and center.
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Kevin: Fair
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Kurt: Before we get into today’s game,
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I know we’re all anxious to get into it, but we have somebody special here to talk about one of our sponsors, Luck Factory Games.
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Intro Music Fades
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Upbeat Pop Music picks up
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Prince Manny (Geoff, high pitched tight voice): Uh, hi!
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So, umm, I was told that I should tell you that Tales by Daggerlight was founded at a tavern-
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or wait, this says a café?
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Yes! A board game café called Luck Factory Games.
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Apparently it’s like, really big, and fun!
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Oh, and they have snacks!
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Well, I don’t know about the rest of us, but I’m gonna go find out what kind of cool people are there.
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Maybe I’ll see you, too?
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Sponsor music fades
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Dramatic rock style orchestral
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Kurt: In every city, every kingdom, there's a story that never sees the light.
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The one that falls through the cracks, bleeds through the floorboards, and smiles when the sun finally goes down.
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Where heroic promises, broken oaths, bad decisions, and desperate prayers all sit at the same table.
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Six heroes emerge out of the edge of the shadows.
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Ciaran;
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Ciaran (Luke): No matter what, there will be consequences.
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Kurt: Zeph;
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Zeph (Kevin): That asshole needed to die.
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Kurt: Pi N’kuwa;
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Pi N’kuwa (Geoff): You said we were talking, but you're not saying a
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lot.
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Kurt: Seraphina;
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Seraphina (Jenn): Look, I have the voice of an angel, we all know it.
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Kurt: Severian;
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Severian (Kai): It's not a murder…
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if… he’s food.
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Kurt: and Basagar;
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Basagar (John): We need to get to the castle.
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Kurt: Together, they walk the line between mercy and ruin, rolling bones against hope and fear in a world that wants them obedient, or worse, dead.
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So lace your boots, check your blades, and hold your breath.
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Meet us at The Blade's Edge.
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Once this story starts, it doesn't let you go.
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This is Tales by Daggerlight.
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Music Fades
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Light pensive music slowly fades in.
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Kurt: The Fun Aunts surged into Gutterrun,
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Fungal curse-born things that didn’t butcher crowds,
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they inspected them.
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One person wasn’t so lucky.
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On that crushed body, a Virel signet ring and a name that hit like a knife in the ribs,
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Prince Wilhelm Virel, son of Prince Rhydian.
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You dragged the situation into an uneasy sanctuary of St. Kevarin’s Hollow, where Father Ulrich Vane tried to keep the peace.
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But the hollow had its own rot.
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Issava Khelt of The Guild made it plain.
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Zeph's face was circulating, and there's a contract on his head he can pay off with two chests or two favors. (Light and high tone pings)
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Then Basagar and Severian found out that Wilhelm wasn’t dead, just broken.
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He jolted upright clawing for breath and grabbed Basagar with terror in his eyes.
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Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): They’re after the first blood.
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You’re all gonna die!
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Kurt: He babbled about visions.
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Blood running down the steps of Ashrelm,
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building falling,
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the dead rising,
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and root ripping through Lowthorn.
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Father Ulrich focused all the Lumora that he could muster into keeping Wilhelm alive,
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and afterward, went white as ash as the Lumora was gone.
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Outside, the city snapped as they found out that the Virelian guards drew first blood inside St. Kevarin's Hollow.
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Guards moved in,
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panic spread,
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and the weapons were seized, including Elyndra, Zeph's sword, until you forced it back into your hands and fled to the Grates of the Gutterrun, hiding in a sewer-side safe house.
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Down there, you found Prince Manny. A tiny, noble fairy desperate to reach the castle to speak with the King about a missing person from the Fey Realm.
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You used the safe house to hide and seek from some of the guard, and you overheard the conversation about a hit on Prince Rhydian and that it might go down tonight (light and high tone pings).
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The guard discovered the hatch to your hiding spot, and Zeph pulled him down into the depths of the Grates, and Basagar ended the threat with one brutal stomp.
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You bought silence with gore.
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On the body, a tracking chit with ‘M - Zeph Virel, typically seen in the Gutterrun’, signed only with the initials E.D.
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You tied up Issava for good measure and asked him a few questions, and he spat the next poison.
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The raid wasn't just about Wilhelm.
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They were asking for Caelan, another of King
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Alric's sons.
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And then Severian tasted Zeph's blood, and the world cracked open.
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A shared vision seized Severian and Basagar in a field of briars, and two lovers spoke in secret.
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Alric and a pregnant woman named Linessa, promising to hide their child, promising he was Alric's son.
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And when the vision snapped shut, the room went dead quiet,
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because Zeph swallowed hard and said words that turned the safe house colder than the sewer wind.
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Zeph (Kevin): Linessa's my mother's name.
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Kurt: You guys are in the bottom of the Gutterrun, literally in the sewer safe house.
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Kevin: Literally the bottom of the gutter.
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Repetative four note suspenseful music begins
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Kurt: Literally the bottom of the Gutterrun.
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John: We've had rock bottom.
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Kurt chuckles
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Luke: Can't go much lower, right?
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John: Hopefully.
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Others laugh and agree
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Kurt: Hopefully,
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yeah.
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Only way is up.
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Others laugh and agree
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John: So we’re out of- Severian and I are out of the visions?
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Drum thumping gets added to the four notes
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Kurt: Mmhmm, yes
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John: I'm assuming we're like conscious and like-?
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Kurt: Yeah yeah yeah,
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you don't take anything.
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There's nothing that is holding you back and that you are fully aware of where you are
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and what you just did.
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John: I peel, I retract my hand away from Zeph's face and I look at you for a moment,
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and I look to Severian.
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Basagar (John): Did you see, did you see that as well?
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Kai: Severian's still behind you, Zeph,
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tongue hanging out of his mouth,
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just like wide-eyed.
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Severian (Kai): Uh huh.
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John: We- just for clarity's sake, would Basagar know the king's name?
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Jenn: Oh.
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Kurt: I would say no.
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Kai: Great.
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Chuckles
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Kurt: If you want to roll a knowledge, I mean… the king's name would be widely spread across the Ternion Gorge.
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Deep ominous music begins, mixed with the four notes
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John: For Basagar's sake, and you can let me know if you'd want me to still roll.
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I think there would be no… Basagar does not know of this royal lineage or anything of that sort. Or how the system works in this city.
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All he knows is whatever’s in the castle is important, that’s it.
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Kurt: Then if you think Basagar wouldn’t know it, then there’s no need to roll.
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John: I don’t think he would actively seek it out.
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Four notes begin to slow
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Kurt: Then yeah.
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John: I think Bagagar looks…. pauses at first and looks at Sevarian and he goes;
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Notes fade completely
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Basagar (John): What does this mean?
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What-
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he has the blood?
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Severian (Kai): Tasted like it.
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And we saw him as a baby,
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or-
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Ominous dark music begins to fade in.
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Basagar (John): Yes, in the-
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Severian (Kai): In the womb.
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Basagar (John): Yes.
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We saw a memory.
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A memory of yours, or a memory of your parents… or at least the mother who bore you.
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Linessa I believe is her name.
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Severian (Kai): Mmhmm.
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Zeph (Kevin): Bullshit.
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Basagar (John): No, and she was with Alric.
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Zeph (Kevin): Woah woah woah. Wh-?
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Ciaran (Luke): Repeat that please.
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Basagar (John): I-
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Severian (Kai): They said they couldn't be together.
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It's very sad.
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Basagar (John): Yes they were… it was a solemn moment.
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They were both off in a field somewhere.
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And you were in the womb.
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We would have no… I've never… this has never happened in my experience
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Pi N'kuwa (Geoff): You said you saw this person?
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Basagar (John): Yes.
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Pi N'kuwa (Geoff): I need you to describe what this Alric looked like, please.
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Basagar (John): Brown haired, just normal, common clothes, trying not to look out of place, I think, in this moment.
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Probably wearied?
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I don't know, Severian, what do you think?
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Severian (Kai): He didn't look very tasty,
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moderately.
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She looked lot tastier.
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Basagar (John): No-
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Severian (Kai): Especially with the two for one deal.
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Basagar (John): Um….okay.
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Laughter from players.
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Basagar (John): That's not… brown haired and...
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Zeph (Kevin): Well, obviously, I mean, obviously this wouldn't be the king.
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The king wouldn't be dressed as just a commoner, right?
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Right?
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Pi N'kuwa (Geoff): No, he absolutely would have.
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Zeph (Kevin): You're not helping.
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Pi N'kuwa (Geoff): He's describing the king, Alric the Wise, who was well known for going into town in common clothing to speak with the people.
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Ciaran (Luke): That is common practice for royalty to do so.
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Zeph (Kevin): Well. But-
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Seraphina (Jenn): Sounds like he was going more than talking.
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Zeph (Kevin): This is… you don’t base an entire system of government on random visions that you get out no where, right?
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That seems extreme.
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Basagar (John): This is the first that I've come across something like this before.
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Zeph (Kevin): There, see?
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See, there you go.
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Severian (Kai): But this isn't the first time I've tasted this.
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Zeph (Kevin): I beg to diff-
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oh,
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oh, oh.
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Basagar (John): He's talking about the blood of The First in you.
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Zeph (Kevin): That's just great.
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Pi N'kuwa (Geoff): So no relation?
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Zeph (Kevin): Maybe some relation.
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Jenn: Could Seraphina, because she's sitting on a crate next to Prince Wilhelm, could she look between he and Zeph a few times and see if she sees a family resemblance?
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Kurt: Yeah, they might have the same body build, maybe the eyes and the nose? But-
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Jenn: Okay.
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Kurt: -it's not alarming.
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You know, like you wouldn't look at both of them.
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Jenn: Yeah, they don't look exactly like each other.
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But like, you know how cousins oftentimes-
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Kurt: Yeah.
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Jenn: - you can tell.
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Kurt: Right.
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Jenn: There’s gotta be a family resemblence.
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Kurt: Mmhmm.
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Jenn: Okay.
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Kevin: Zeph just slumps against one of the walls and slowly slides down. And sits on the ground.
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Zeph (Kevin): So,
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that’s something new.
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Look, regardless of whether this is actually true or just some random fever dream or something else,
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we have got a load of shit outside this place right now.
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This entire area is going to be on a razor's edge.
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And then on top of it, we have an entire fucking city that apparently wants, well;
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Kevin: And he looks at Beta Prince Wilhelm.
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Zeph (Kevin): -the two of us dead,
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your father dead,
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and most likely everyone else in this room, including these two;
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Kevin: And he gestures toward Manny and the half -orc.
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Zeph (Kevin): -dead for what we know.
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So…
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Kurt: As you are saying this, you look over and you can see Beta Prince Wilhelm sitting, staring at you, wide eyed, absorbing everything you guys are saying
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after coming out of whatever unconsciousness that he was in, he goes,
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Prince Wilhelm (Kurt, softer voice): Are we sure that what we heard can be trusted?
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They're just guards, right?
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Zeph (Kevin): Can we afford to ignore it?
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Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): So what do we do?
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Zeph (Kevin): Chuckles. That’s the question.
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Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): I’ve never been down here.
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Is it possible to get back up?
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I can get us back up.
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Seraphina (Jenn): Sweetheart, they wanna kill you.
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I don’t think that that's safe.
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Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): I don't think it's safe staying down here.
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Like, if Zeph is right, if there's going to be a rebellion against the crown because of what happened with Father Ulrich, then I don't want to be down here.
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I don't think any of us do.
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Seraphina (Jenn): No.
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Pi N'kuwa (Geoff): Well, you may also not want to be up there.
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Seraphina (Jenn): Yeah.
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Pi N'kuwa (Geoff): If they're going to kill the crown, they're not going to be looking for you here.
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Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): I can't believe it was Elowen Daris.
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I can't….
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like… she was a friend.
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Ciaran (Luke): Was she?
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Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): She was close.
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She was… I would say that she befriended my father and mother. Unless that was all-
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Seraphina (Jenn): Unfortunately, Prince, you keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
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That’s how these people work.
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And, when people want more power, the easiest way to do that is to take somebody else's.
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Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): Sometimes I wish I could just throw my title away and come down here.
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Zeph (Kevin): You don't want that kid.
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But I understand what you're saying.
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Look, we need to try at least. Find your father.
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And then we need to get the fuck out of this town.
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This entire city is after us at this point.
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That's basically how we gotta look at this.
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Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): Does anybody know anyone named Angelica?
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It’s who I came down here for.
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I was gonna buy her something from the market.
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And if we can get to her, maybe we would bring her down here
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or she has connections,
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she can get us out of the city.
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Pi N'kuwa (Geoff): Where would we find her?
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We should explore all of our options as dangerous as they are.
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Sitting still is just as dangerous as going forward.
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Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): She bartends, or
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she's a maiden at the Brine and Barrel.
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It's an ale house over right off the Veill Water
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River.
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It's a dockside ale house and a sea shanty kind of place.
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Jenn: Okay.
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Like dive bar kind of sailor situation?
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Kurt: Yeah.
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Jenn: Alright.
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Kurt: You especially would know it.
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You probably played there several times.
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Jenn: Okay.
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Seraphina (Jenn): I do love a nice sea shanty.
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Hey, cousin Bas?
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Basagar (John): Yeah.
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Seraphina (Jenn): So you came here to find out about what's going on at
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home.
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You needed to find out of this corruption that's happening that seems,
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well, it seems like it's spreading here somehow. (Light and high tone pings)
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What was your plan?
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Were you just coming for information?
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Or did you want to bring a member of the blood back with you?
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Basagar (John): I honestly, I thought the answers would be at the castle.
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I thought, knowing that this king is sick and that he had some power or some relevancy, I guess, in this city, it
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led me to believe that maybe he has the answers.
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I never thought of bringing someone else with the First Blood back,
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but it's an option.
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Seraphina (Jenn): I mean, you got two right here.
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Zeph (Kevin): One.
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Ciaran (Luke): I believe it is two,
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Lord Zeph.
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Zeph (Kevin): Damn it.
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Pi N'kuwa (Geoff): Don't sold Manny like that.
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Laughter
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Kurt: You hear the sound of footsteps in what sounds like (synchronous group of foot steps) a marching order.
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Almost like a squad of heavy footsteps being just a reminder of that there's still a lot going on up there,
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even though it may be quiet down here for the time being with the rats and the insects,
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the vermin of the Gutterrun.
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It is a completely different scene up top.
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Zeph (Kevin): Is there a way to get from where we are over to this bar through the sewers?
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Kurt: The Brine and Barrel is on the other side of the river from where you are.
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So you'd have to go to where the sewer empties out into the river and then either ford the river,
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swim across, or try to find a way over.
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Zeph (Kevin): Prince, there are not a lot of very good options for trying to get to your friend.
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Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): Okay.
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Zeph (Kevin): What is she to you?
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Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): Everything.
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Zeph (Kevin): Oh,
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shit. Yeah, I had a feeling you were.
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Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): I'm sorry,
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I'm a hopeless romantic.
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I can't help it.
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Ser: Well, it seems like it runs in your family.
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John laughs.
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Zeph groans.
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Zeph (Kevin): Okay.
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John: John is laughing.
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Basagar has no clue.
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Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): I will have to say this,
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I guess this means we are family.
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Zeph (Kevin): Oh, don't start that.
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Pi N'kuwa (Geoff): It's so interesting how human relationships work.
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I mean, cousin and cousin, and then cousin and then cousin and cousin,
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there's so many cousins.
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Basagar (John): I agree.
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Keph (Kevin): Zeph pulls his flask out of his jacket pocket.
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But his hands are shaking to a point he can’t get it open.
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And finally he just gives up-
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John: Basagar helps you open it.
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He’s seen you a couple times drinking it, so.
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Zeph (Kevin): Thank you.
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Kevin: And
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he takes a big long swig
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and manages to
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put it away.
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Issava Khelt (Kurt, gruff): What’s wrong Zeph? Got your nerves shaking ay?
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Zeph (Kevin): Oh, I wouldn't be too chipper if I were you, buddy.
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You've got a death warrant on your head, too.
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Issava Khelt (Kurt): Look, look.
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I know you guys want my head.
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I can't blame you.
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Zeph (Kevin): Oh, not us.
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You don't have us to worry about.
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But you know too much
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for whoever it is that put a price on my head and is looking for his head.
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Kevin: And he points to Beta Prince.
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Zeph (Kevin): You got powerful folks up there who aren't going to be very happy with loose end, you realize.
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You’re a liability brother.
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Issava Khelt (Kurt): I get it. Ay,
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ay.
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Zeph (Kevin): Alright, just so you’re aware.
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Issava Khelt (Kurt): If you need protection I can get you out of here.
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I know the way,
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I know who to talk to,
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I know the avenues.
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You know that.
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Zeph (Kevin): Uh huh.
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Basagar (John): So you intent to leave the city?
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John: Just looks at the rest of the group.
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Issava Khelt (Kurt): Sounds like that's the only move you got.
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Unless you want to brave the echelon and brave the Rings.
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Sounds like you don't have too many more friends.
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Ciaran (Luke): Well, I respect the desire to get out of the city. We are witnessing an upheaval of society in this kingdom.
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And clearly this, the ring Lady Elowen Daris, is trying to seize greater power
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and has already infiltrated or corrupted much of the guard.
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Can we truly afford to leave the kingdom in its current state
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and simply flee like cowards?
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Seraphina (Jenn): Yeah, that's assuming that she's working on her own.
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There could be multiple people.
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Usually a power grab like this takes some serious orchestration.
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Ciaran (Luke): Even further reason to stay.
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Seraphina (Jenn): Who do the guard listen to?
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Ciaran (Luke): The guard is segmented
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based on the level of the city and who's in charge of each respective Guard.
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Many of the ring lords and ladies have their own.
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Basagar (John): Well, you also have the Fun Aunts to consider.
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Pi N'kuwa (Geoff): I
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think we may well have as many friends as allies, but we don't know until they're attempting to stab us in the back.
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Zeph (Kevin): Look, I’m not thrilled about leaving Virelia.
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This is the only home I’ve ever known.
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But, what I’m saying is things are about to get very heated.
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And it might be a good idea to let things calm down a little before we go poking our noses into a hornet's nest.
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Ciaran (Luke): You think they will calm?
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You think this rot will simply cease to exist if we leave long enough?
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You think the flames will die down and leave us with much to come back to?
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Issava Khelt (Kurt): You talk funny.
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Where are you from?
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Ciaran (Luke): A little higher in the city. (Light and high tone pings)
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Issava Khelt (Kurt): I don't think I caught your name.
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Ciaran (Luke): I didn't give it.
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Regardless.
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John: I think Basagar is about to like say something and he looks direct- Ciaran looks directly at him
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and then I think he just puts his hand down.
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Laughter
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Pi N'kuwa (Geoff): Ciaran, I'm not as well versed in the politics of this city
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but
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it seems like you may be the only one that knows where we might watch this unfold
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versus being caught up in it.
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Geoff: And yeah, absolute no clue that he just fucked us.
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Laughter
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Ciaran (Luke): Anyways…
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Zeph (Kevin): Look I’m just saying, if we stay maybe we can help the city but maybe we end up dead.
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And if we’re dead then we’re not going to be able to help the city at all.
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Ciaran (Luke): That may be true.
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Zeph (Kevin): No that's definitely true,
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if we're dead we are not going to be able to help the city.
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Ciaran (Luke): That fact yes
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that is very true.
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Zeph (Kevin): Okay, cool.
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Ciaran (Luke): However if we're not here we cannot help the city either.
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Repetitive 4 note music begins again
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Ciaran (Luke): Do you propose we would flee with our friend Wilhelm here?
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Zeph (Kevin): Yes.
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And Manny-
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Basagar (John): They already tried to kill him once
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Zeph (Kevin): -and his father if we can find him
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before the guards get to him.
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Look we've got an entire city pointed at us with bull's eyes on our backs right now.
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Ciaran (Luke): Then let's take it one step at a time.
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Zeph (Kevin): Alright.
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Ciaran (Luke): Let's meet with Prince Rhydian and go from there.
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Zeph (Kevin): All right fine.
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I agree
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that's the first thing we need to do regardless.
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Ciaran (Luke): Is that amenable,
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Wilhelm?
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Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): Yeah,
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if we can go talk to Papa and he can at least let us know what to do next.
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Ciaran (Luke): Yes.
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Zeph (Kevin, said with mocking tone): Alright,
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where's Papa?
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Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): Why do you say it like that?
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Giggles
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Zeph (Kevin): Oh, fuck's sake.
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Where's your dad?
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Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): He's probably in his house right now,
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probably… when there's a lockdown,
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most of the Ashen Rings are, either go to the castle and be there and be ready to give the royal presentation to the King or consort with him.
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But, if he’s not in the castle he’d be at home.
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Probably heavily guarded.
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Zeph (Kevin): Oh I’m sure.
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Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): If we can get up there.
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Zeph (Kevin): I think I can get us up at least into the district, but then I'm useless.
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I think that's when you take over.
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Ciaran (Luke): I can guide us through the upper districts.
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Basagar (John): Do you think it's safer for all of us to travel?
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It was quite
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difficult getting here.
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Zeph (Kevin): We won't be on the streets.
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Ciaran (Luke): It being safe would be a stretch of the imagination.
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Zeph (Kevin): Also true.
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Ciaran (Luke): It is entirely possible for us to get there without having undo confrontations.
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Seraphina (Jenn): I have a question, Prince Wilhelm.
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When was the last time you saw your uncle, the king?
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Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): Oh,
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um,
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well… I’m
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not really allowed in his chambers.
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Seraphina (Jenn): Hmmm.
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Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): It’s usually for direct family, or those close to him or his advisors.
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Music shifts to higher octave.
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Seraphina (Jenn): And you're not direct family?
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He's your uncle, right?
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Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): I see no reason to be in there with his sickness.
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I don't really want to be.
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Seraphina (Jenn): When was the last time your father saw him?
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Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): I think he talks with him pretty regularly.
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Seraphina (Jenn): So as far as you know, the king is ill but still alive.
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Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): Oh, yes, (light and high tone pings)
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yes. **
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We would know if he was gone.
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Ciaran (Luke): Fortunately we do have one of his children with us right here,
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so….
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Basagar (John): Yes, that is true.
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Kevin: Zeph just bangs his head against the wall a couple of time.
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Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): I don’t know if bringing that to light would be the best case scenario right now.
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Zeph (Kevin): Please, no.
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Ciaran (Luke): Not to the public, certainly.
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Zeph (Kevin): Sighs. So much for this all blowing over in a couple days.
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Fuck me.
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Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): Well, so how do we get up to Ashrelm?
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Ciaran (Luke): Follow me.
00:27:03.440 --> 00:27:05.628
Seraphina (Jenn): And what do we do with uh..?
00:27:05.628 --> 00:27:07.640
Jenn: And she gestures at the half orc.
00:27:08.180 --> 00:27:08.620
Issava Khelt (Kurt): Listen,
00:27:09.240 --> 00:27:10.640
your secret's safe with me.
00:27:11.280 --> 00:27:12.500
All of your secrets.
00:27:12.609 --> 00:27:15.120
It sounds like you got a handful of them.
00:27:15.620 --> 00:27:16.700
Pi N'kuwa (Geoff): I have much doubt.
00:27:16.900 --> 00:27:17.820
Ser: Can you be trusted?
00:27:18.540 --> 00:27:19.780
Zeph (Kevin): Oh, he can't be trusted.
00:27:20.860 --> 00:27:21.220
Seraphina (Jenn): But
00:27:21.820 --> 00:27:22.940
can you be paid?
00:27:23.200 --> 00:27:24.120
Issava Khelt (Kurt): I can be paid.
00:27:24.480 --> 00:27:25.620
Zeph (Kevin): Oh, he could definitely be paid.
00:27:26.020 --> 00:27:27.680
But think about it this way.
00:27:28.220 --> 00:27:30.560
These secrets really aren't secrets.
00:27:31.180 --> 00:27:35.560
Like the ones who know already have fucking targets on my back.
00:27:35.680 --> 00:27:37.100
So who's he going to tell?
00:27:37.780 --> 00:27:41.240
Somebody who's going to look at him as a loose end and run a shiv through his back.
00:27:41.620 --> 00:27:42.740
Seraphina (Jenn): No, I get that.
00:27:42.860 --> 00:27:59.000
I was just thinking if he knows back ways to get places, maybe he could make his way over to a certain bar that's right near the river and talk to a waitress and just double check and make sure she's okay.
00:27:59.102 --> 00:27:59.691
Zeph (Kevin): Now,
00:27:59.780 --> 00:28:00.600
that's clever.
00:28:01.120 --> 00:28:02.143
Issava Khelt (Kurt): I know the bar will.
00:28:02.100 --> 00:28:03.960
I can't say I know this…
00:28:03.999 --> 00:28:05.900
what did you say her name was?
00:28:06.940 --> 00:28:07.420
Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): Angelica.
00:28:08.020 --> 00:28:11.560
Seraphina (Jenn): Willie, can you describe her so he can figure out who she is?
00:28:12.560 --> 00:28:13.280
Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): Yeah.
00:28:13.720 --> 00:28:15.080
Man, where do I start?
00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:16.540
Zeph (Kevin): Oh, god.
00:28:16.540 --> 00:28:18.300
Laughter
00:28:18.300 --> 00:28:19.640
Pi N'kuwa (Geoff): With her appearance.
00:28:20.171 --> 00:28:21.680
John (sings): Angelica!
00:28:21.680 --> 00:28:21.910
Laughter
00:28:21.910 --> 00:28:22.140
Music shifts to light and soft
00:28:22.140 --> 00:28:26.260
Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): Well, she is tall for a waitress,
00:28:26.620 --> 00:28:27.420
taller than me.
00:28:27.620 --> 00:28:29.620
Long, curly, brunette hair,
00:28:30.160 --> 00:28:31.260
beautiful brown eyes.
00:28:31.980 --> 00:28:35.294
Very kind of pale, alabaster skin, but
00:28:35.380 --> 00:28:36.580
she shows off really well.
00:28:36.580 --> 00:28:41.600
She usually wears some type of barmaids, you know, dress.
00:28:42.340 --> 00:28:42.920
She sings,
00:28:43.160 --> 00:28:43.900
man, she can sing.
00:28:44.660 --> 00:28:47.280
She has this really good song that we wrote together.
00:28:48.200 --> 00:28:48.660
I'm sorry,
00:28:49.000 --> 00:28:50.240
that's probably not important.
00:28:51.180 --> 00:28:52.420
Pi N'kuwa (Geoff): Another time, perhaps.
00:28:53.960 --> 00:28:54.600
Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): Maybe.
00:28:55.520 --> 00:28:56.860
You'll know her when you see her.
00:28:57.200 --> 00:29:01.540
She's the brightest star in the sky whenever you look.
00:29:01.540 --> 00:29:03.740
Record scratches, cuts off music.
00:29:03.740 --> 00:29:05.240
Pi N'kuwa (Geoff): So, Issava,
00:29:05.400 --> 00:29:07.120
tall, brunette, brown eyes.
00:29:07.120 --> 00:29:07.308
Chuckles
00:29:07.308 --> 00:29:08.112
Seraphina (Jenn): So
00:29:08.200 --> 00:29:09.460
is she...
00:29:09.460 --> 00:29:11.660
Issava Khelt (Kurt): You're describing every dame down here.
00:29:12.700 --> 00:29:14.960
Seraphina (Jenn): Willie, is she human?
00:29:15.660 --> 00:29:18.692
Or is she more like Basagar?
00:29:18.692 --> 00:29:18.900
Record scratches again, light soft music picks back up
00:29:18.900 --> 00:29:20.420
Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): Oh, I guess
00:29:20.580 --> 00:29:20.940
sorry,
00:29:21.140 --> 00:29:23.240
I didn't think about ancestry.
00:29:23.880 --> 00:29:24.560
No, she is,
00:29:24.720 --> 00:29:25.520
she's an elf.
00:29:26.320 --> 00:29:26.680
Seraphina (Jenn): Okay.
00:29:27.480 --> 00:29:28.020
All right.
00:29:29.020 --> 00:29:37.680
Jenn: So she looks to the half orc as she kind of roots down into a pouch at her side and pulls out two handfuls of gold.
00:29:39.100 --> 00:29:41.480
Luke: Now, is that Seraphina handfuls or like?
00:29:41.480 --> 00:29:42.480
Laughter
00:29:42.480 --> 00:29:43.260
Kevin: Fair question.
00:29:43.260 --> 00:29:43.440
Jenn: Yeah.
00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:46.400
Yeah,
00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:48.072
so there's like three coins in each.
00:29:50.100 --> 00:29:54.219
And looks at the orc, drops them in his palm and goes;
00:29:54.219 --> 00:30:04.860
Seraphina (Jenn): If you could be a dear and go make sure she's safe, have a couple beers on us and just hang out there and keep an eye on it for us.
00:30:04.958 --> 00:30:06.680
Issava Khelt (Kurt): You bought my time for now.
00:30:08.640 --> 00:30:12.198
Zeph (Kevin): That's two you owe me Issava.
00:30:12.380 --> 00:30:13.840
One for saving the Hasp,
00:30:14.820 --> 00:30:15.480
don't forget.
00:30:16.700 --> 00:30:18.900
And two for not slitting your throat and letting you go.
00:30:19.860 --> 00:30:20.531
Issava Khelt (Kurt): I got yous,
00:30:20.580 --> 00:30:21.528
I got yous.
00:30:21.528 --> 00:30:21.990
Zeph (Kevin): Alright.
00:30:21.990 --> 00:30:25.800
Issava Khelt (Kurt): I’ll keep that in mind the next time I see yous names come across my table.
00:30:26.120 --> 00:30:26.880
Zeph (Kevin): I'd appreciate it.
00:30:27.820 --> 00:30:30.320
Don't say there's no honor among thieves again,
00:30:30.940 --> 00:30:31.640
that hurt.
00:30:32.200 --> 00:30:38.760
Geoff: As they wrap up, conclude, I want to cut his rope off
00:30:39.360 --> 00:30:44.689
but I want to try and target just a little bit of like finger tip or something.
00:30:44.601 --> 00:30:45.400
Music becomes tense.
00:30:44.601 --> 00:30:45.400
Geoff: Just a scratch,
00:30:45.980 --> 00:30:51.060
just enough to deal some damage to him while actively cutting his ropes.
00:30:51.580 --> 00:30:53.780
Kurt: I feel like yeah, that should be easy enough to do.
00:30:54.640 --> 00:30:56.292
He see’s you come over with the blade, and
00:30:56.260 --> 00:30:56.666
he’s like;
00:30:56.682 --> 00:30:58.789
Issava Khelt (Kurt): Woah woah woah, woah, woah. Hey. I thought we were cool?
00:30:58.789 --> 00:30:59.980
Pi N'kuwa (Geoff): I’m trying to get the ropes off.
00:31:00.380 --> 00:31:00.780
Just hold still
00:31:00.860 --> 00:31:01.280
don’t move.
00:31:01.322 --> 00:31:01.616
Issava Khelt (Kurt): Alright.
00:31:01.322 --> 00:31:04.238
Geoff: Slice directly at him
00:31:04.238 --> 00:31:04.960
Sound of rope splitting.
00:31:04.238 --> 00:31:04.960
Issava Khelt (Kurt): Ah! Motherfucker.
00:31:06.489 --> 00:31:08.160
Geoff: Would you like me to roll an attack
00:31:08.220 --> 00:31:09.645
because I want to use an ability is
00:31:09.645 --> 00:31:09.815
why.
00:31:09.780 --> 00:31:10.020
Kurt: Okay
00:31:10.260 --> 00:31:10.480
yeah
00:31:10.500 --> 00:31:11.420
if it's tied to an ability
00:31:11.860 --> 00:31:12.400
go ahead
00:31:12.580 --> 00:31:12.860
yeah
00:31:12.940 --> 00:31:14.960
let's do it proper.
00:31:17.060 --> 00:31:17.960
Geoff: 15 with fear.
00:31:18.008 --> 00:31:19.080
Kurt: Yeah that'll hit. (Kurt repeats the noise of cutting rope and Issava’s reaction)
00:31:19.900 --> 00:31:20.740
Issava Khelt (Kurt): Ow, motherfucker!
00:31:21.500 --> 00:31:22.540
Pi N'kuwa (Geoff): I told you don't move!
00:31:22.540 --> 00:31:23.172
Laughter
00:31:23.172 --> 00:31:24.644
Kurt: Alright
00:31:25.240 --> 00:31:26.080
what's the ability?
00:31:26.340 --> 00:31:29.640
Geoff: So I'm going to use my Ranger’s Focus.
00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:31.400
So I'm going to spend a hope
00:31:32.880 --> 00:31:43.380
and upon making an attack on a target, on a success I deal normal damage and temporarily make the target my focus.
00:31:43.760 --> 00:31:48.880
Until the feature ends or I make a different creature my focus I gain the following benefits against them:
00:31:49.140 --> 00:31:51.016
I know precisely which direction their in.
00:31:50.949 --> 00:31:51.083
Kurt: Nice.
00:31:51.016 --> 00:31:53.160
Geoff: Which is why I wanted to do this.
00:31:53.160 --> 00:31:53.460
Kurt: Beautiful.
00:31:53.594 --> 00:31:54.164
Kevin: Dope.
00:31:54.320 --> 00:31:56.880
Geoff: And then if I deal damage they mark a stress,
00:31:57.180 --> 00:32:00.820
and if I fail an attack against them I can end the focus and attack again.
00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:01.120
Kevin: Right.
00:32:01.360 --> 00:32:04.300
Geoff: But primarily I now know where he is.
00:32:04.780 --> 00:32:05.140
Jenn: Nice.
00:32:05.230 --> 00:32:07.300
Geoff: Now I’ll roll my damage.
00:32:07.960 --> 00:32:08.876
It is a full 8,
00:32:08.900 --> 00:32:09.800
so he moved a lot.
00:32:09.800 --> 00:32:09.880
Others laugh or make sympathy sounds
00:32:09.880 --> 00:32:10.640
Geoff: That’s on him.
00:32:10.640 --> 00:32:11.173
Laughter.
00:32:11.173 --> 00:32:14.873
Luke: Hit an artery.
00:32:15.380 --> 00:32:15.600
Kurt: Yeah,
00:32:15.660 --> 00:32:22.420
that wasn’t his major threshold, but he definitely lost a hit point for sure.
00:32:23.060 --> 00:32:24.220
Geoff: He should have held still.
00:32:24.440 --> 00:32:26.580
Jenn: You nicked one of the arties in his wrist.
00:32:26.580 --> 00:32:27.860
Oofs and Ouches
00:32:27.860 --> 00:32:28.720
Pi N'kuwa (Geoff): He flinched,
00:32:28.840 --> 00:32:29.280
he flinched!
00:32:29.280 --> 00:32:29.820
You all saw it.
00:32:29.820 --> 00:32:36.991
Kurt: Just out of instinct, because you rolled with fear (thunder claps) he;
00:32:37.180 --> 00:32:38.380
Issava Khelt (Kurt, muttering): God-Motherfucking-
00:32:38.380 --> 00:32:40.060
Kurt: He kicks you right in the chest. (ch-oomph)
00:32:40.268 --> 00:32:40.923
Geoff: Ok.
00:32:41.060 --> 00:32:42.580
Kurt: You go flying flying back (Sounds of things scraping, creaking, and breaking)
00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:45.640
hit up against boxes,
00:32:46.827 --> 00:32:48.160
you make a racket.
00:32:48.320 --> 00:32:48.640
He goes;
00:32:48.640 --> 00:32:48.800
Issava Khelt (Kurt): God!
00:32:48.982 --> 00:32:49.505
P (Whispering) : Shhh,
00:32:49.505 --> 00:32:50.028
shhh,
00:32:50.180 --> 00:32:50.400
quiet!
00:32:51.500 --> 00:32:52.240
You shouldn’t have moved.
00:32:53.720 --> 00:32:57.300
Kurt: And he's like actively dripping blood at this moment,
00:32:57.468 --> 00:32:58.700
he's like;
00:32:58.700 --> 00:33:00.509
Issava Khelt (Kurt, muttering and hissing): God, motherf-ergh.
00:33:00.610 --> 00:33:02.020
Kurt: You hear muffled;
00:33:02.081 --> 00:33:03.280
Verlian Guard #1 (Kurt, muffled): Do you hear something?
00:33:03.649 --> 00:33:04.511
Verlian Guard #2 (Kurt, muffled): Oh
00:33:04.511 --> 00:33:05.374
maybe,
00:33:05.640 --> 00:33:06.300
over here!
00:33:06.920 --> 00:33:08.560
Geoff: Just holding finger to lips.
00:33:08.909 --> 00:33:09.881
Issava Khelt (Kurt): Agh.
00:33:10.120 --> 00:33:15.560
Kurt: And you hear the sound of footsteps, heavy footsteps, armored footsteps.
00:33:15.563 --> 00:33:18.063
Ch ch ch ch ch. (muffled footsteps above).
00:33:18.063 --> 00:33:21.060
Virelian Guard #1 (Kurt): Oh yeah I heard something. Sounds like it came from over here.
00:33:21.178 --> 00:33:22.460
Virelian Guard #2 (Kurt): Okay go check it out.
00:33:22.573 --> 00:33:24.220
I’ll walk the streets.
00:33:24.600 --> 00:33:26.460
Geoff: Are we still close to the tunnel entrance?
00:33:26.980 --> 00:33:27.240
Kurt: Yeah.
00:33:27.264 --> 00:33:29.640
Geoff: I’m gonna start ushering and walking everybody
00:33:29.860 --> 00:33:30.080
back.
00:33:31.440 --> 00:33:33.760
Kurt: You hear the door erwher like, open (sqeaking, then knocking)
00:33:35.320 --> 00:33:37.300
You hear light footsteps
00:33:37.434 --> 00:33:38.196
guhdun
00:33:38.196 --> 00:33:38.959
guhdun
00:33:39.120 --> 00:33:39.560
above (footsteps continue).
00:33:43.560 --> 00:33:45.020
Virelian Guard #1 (Kurt, muffled): I know you're in here.
00:33:45.720 --> 00:33:47.992
I can smell ya’s.
00:33:48.320 --> 00:33:51.060
Kevin: As Zeph was about to head out,
00:33:51.533 --> 00:33:54.340
is the last one,
00:33:54.620 --> 00:33:55.920
he catches himself.
00:33:58.560 --> 00:34:02.280
Just curses under his breath and goes over
00:34:02.498 --> 00:34:04.127
and goes;
00:34:04.127 --> 00:34:04.680
Zeph (Kevin): (Whispering): Manny…
00:34:05.720 --> 00:34:06.040
Manny!
00:34:08.580 --> 00:34:10.460
Virelian Guard #1 (Kurt, muffled): Hey I think I got something over here guys!
00:34:10.460 --> 00:34:10.940
Virelian Guard #2 (Kurt, muffled): Yeah?
00:34:10.940 --> 00:34:11.000
Virelian Guard #1 (Kurt, muffled): Yeah.
00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:14.560
Kevin: Zeph grabs Manny-
00:34:14.276 --> 00:34:14.844
Kurt: You hear;
00:34:14.560 --> 00:34:16.060
Manny (Kurt): Smothered sounds of Manny surprised by Zeph.
00:34:14.560 --> 00:34:17.120
Kevin: -and heads out.
00:34:18.360 --> 00:34:18.560
Virelian Guard #1 (Kurt, muffled but louder): I heard that.
00:34:18.840 --> 00:34:19.640
They're down below.
00:34:19.780 --> 00:34:20.600
Find stairs,
00:34:22.440 --> 00:34:23.480
there’s something here.
00:34:24.280 --> 00:34:24.520
Virelian Guard #2 (Kurt, muffled): Yeah,
00:34:24.636 --> 00:34:26.049
yeah, alright ahahaha,
00:34:26.100 --> 00:34:29.800
I think we might actually find them.
00:34:29.980 --> 00:34:31.057
Think we’ll get them first?
00:34:31.060 --> 00:34:31.320
Virelian Guard #1 (Kurt, muffled): Yeah,
00:34:31.320 --> 00:34:32.140
we’ll get the reward. (Shouts)
00:34:32.540 --> 00:34:33.480
I know you’re here!
00:34:33.640 --> 00:34:34.420
Where you at?
00:34:35.720 --> 00:34:39.020
Kurt: As they start woomph woomph woomph they start stomping around. (Scraping)
00:34:39.280 --> 00:34:43.440
You hear furniture getting thrashed around,
00:34:43.660 --> 00:34:45.160
they’re ransacking the place.
00:34:47.080 --> 00:34:49.620
And then you start to see their movement.
00:34:49.880 --> 00:34:53.680
As you guys are leaving, they go over to where the trap door is,
00:34:53.740 --> 00:34:55.514
or the hatch it.
00:34:55.680 --> 00:34:56.013
You hear;
00:34:56.400 --> 00:34:57.140
Virelian Guard #1 (Kurt, muffled): Well, holy shit.
00:34:57.460 --> 00:34:58.040
Hey, hey, hey,
00:34:58.122 --> 00:34:59.909
hey, sh, sh, sh, sh.
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:00.917
I think they're down here. All
00:35:00.917 --> 00:35:01.715
right, come on, come on, come on.
00:35:01.941 --> 00:35:03.090
Kurt: He goes;
00:35:03.320 --> 00:35:04.360
Virelian Guard #2 (Kurt, muffled): Hey man, why are you telling me to be quiet?
00:35:04.360 --> 00:35:05.700
You've been yelling the whole fucking time.
00:35:05.700 --> 00:35:05.770
Laughter
00:35:05.770 --> 00:35:06.433
Kurt: He goes;
00:35:06.433 --> 00:35:08.160
Virelian Guard #2 (Kurt, muffled): Eh, true.
00:35:07.370 --> 00:35:09.130
Alright, uh,
00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:10.138
are you- Ay
00:35:10.138 --> 00:35:11.640
I need, I need two more guys!
00:35:11.820 --> 00:35:14.090
I think we're on to something. Jenn:
00:35:14.140 --> 00:35:16.260
And we're just booking it.
00:35:16.480 --> 00:35:16.560
Kurt: Okay.
00:35:16.735 --> 00:35:20.040
Kevin: Zeph pushes his way to the front to lead the way.
00:35:22.020 --> 00:35:24.040
Jenn: As you pass, I'll grab Manny from you.
00:35:24.093 --> 00:35:24.810
Kurt: Yep, yep.
00:35:24.810 --> 00:35:25.526
Manny (Kurt): Ah-woah!
00:35:25.520 --> 00:35:31.460
Luke: Is there any sort of like handle or anything on the bottom of the trap door?
00:35:32.040 --> 00:35:32.280
Kurt: Yeah.
00:35:32.280 --> 00:35:33.220
There would be two,
00:35:33.340 --> 00:35:34.720
one to like kind of pull it closed.
00:35:34.812 --> 00:35:35.167
Jenn: Mmhmm
00:35:35.220 --> 00:35:39.980
Luke: I'm going to jam just whatever I can find into that to try to keep it like wedged shut.
00:35:40.140 --> 00:35:40.498
Kurt: Yeah, okay.
00:35:40.420 --> 00:35:41.420
There's broom handles,
00:35:41.660 --> 00:35:44.400
there's, you know, there's all kinds of staff, sticks, whatever.
00:35:45.180 --> 00:35:47.202
As you go you're like;
00:35:47.268 --> 00:35:47.687
Virelian Guard #1 (Kurt, muffled): Alright.
00:35:47.780 --> 00:35:52.240
Kurt: You hear as you climb the steps and go to pull it in. You go Virelian Guard #1 (Kurt, muffled): One, two-
00:35:52.740 --> 00:35:54.500
Kurt: S**hunk, you put the, the bar in.
00:35:54.560 --> 00:35:54.700
Virelian Guard #1 (Kurt, muffled): -three! Chacunk W
00:35:54.913 --> 00:35:55.980
hat the fuck?
00:35:55.980 --> 00:35:56.688
Chuckles
00:35:56.688 --> 00:35:58.249
Kurt: Chacunk,Chacunk (jingles and thumping of stuck trap door) As
00:35:58.767 --> 00:36:01.400
they start pulling on it.
00:36:01.400 --> 00:36:04.640
Ciaran (Luke): And by that point, I'm already following everyone else out the door.
00:36:05.300 --> 00:36:05.700
Kurt: Yeah
00:36:07.260 --> 00:36:13.180
as you guys go into the sewers, it’s not long until you hear what sounds like a breaking of
00:36:13.180 --> 00:36:16.440
wood (kaboom of trap door getting forces open), scattering of things.
00:36:16.700 --> 00:36:21.120
Jenn: Was there something from the tunnel that went into that room,
00:36:21.097 --> 00:36:25.200
what there some kind of door or stuff that went in front of that?
00:36:25.200 --> 00:36:31.160
Kurt: Yeah, the entrance going from the sewer to the safe house was hidden by boxes and crates
00:36:31.160 --> 00:36:32.660
and barrels and things.
00:36:32.820 --> 00:36:34.160
Those are all still there.
00:36:34.740 --> 00:36:40.540
There's not necessarily like a door that you'd have to put stuff in front of the hole.
00:36:40.920 --> 00:36:42.860
Geoff: We'll have a little time, but they'll find it eventually.
00:36:43.140 --> 00:36:43.560
Jenn: Oh, yeah.
00:36:44.000 --> 00:36:45.620
Kurt: It is a maze down here.
00:36:46.140 --> 00:36:51.060
You've traveled the sewer several times, Zeph, so you're very familiar with this.
00:36:51.460 --> 00:36:52.700
What is your destination?
00:36:52.700 --> 00:36:53.540
Deep humming and sounds of liquids dripping begin.
00:36:53.540 --> 00:37:06.720
Kevin: I would like to follow some of the old paths that I used to use in order to get up into the
00:37:06.720 --> 00:37:08.500
Ashward part of town.
00:37:08.900 --> 00:37:09.200
Kurt: Okay,
00:37:09.880 --> 00:37:15.680
sewers down here that’s going towards the Ashward is going to be labyrinth of tunnels.
00:37:16.040 --> 00:37:16.260
Kevin: Oh yeah.
00:37:16.280 --> 00:37:22.374
Kurt: A lot of climbing as the Ashward is way higher than where the Gutterrun is, so-
00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:25.840
Kevin: All the better to lose some asshole guards that are on our tail.
00:37:25.940 --> 00:37:26.140
Kurt: Yeah,
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I'm going to start a countdown.
00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:31.360
Kevin: I had a feeling.
00:37:33.040 --> 00:37:37.640
Kurt: I just put a countdown of d4 on my tracker.
00:37:38.600 --> 00:37:41.180
We're going to make some rolls here.
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Geoff: What are the odds that you, either one of you, Zeph or Ciaran, have something of some significance, you know not a tissue, but something from Ashward. Something that has been in or near the location where we’re going?
00:37:58.920 --> 00:38:01.478
Kevin: Zeph, none. But Ciaran?
00:38:01.820 --> 00:38:09.140
Luke: Probably not the exact location that Zeph is taking us but certainly places like places throughout Ashrelm and Ashward.
00:38:09.560 --> 00:38:09.820
Geoff: Okay,
00:38:09.960 --> 00:38:17.680
because if you have any, I'm kind of ruling this on myself so that it's not so cheap, but something significant like belongs somewhere specifically
00:38:18.240 --> 00:38:23.856
I could use my Path Forward, which if I’m carrying an object that has been at the location
00:38:23.856 --> 00:38:26.040
before I can find the shortest path.
00:38:26.840 --> 00:38:27.100
Kurt: Okay
00:38:27.500 --> 00:38:27.780
John: Nice
00:38:27.920 --> 00:38:28.043
Kurt: So
00:38:30.860 --> 00:38:32.840
what is this item that you?
00:38:32.840 --> 00:38:34.160
Geoff: Whatever Ciaran gives me.
00:38:34.160 --> 00:38:36.460
Laughter
00:38:36.460 --> 00:38:41.720
Luke: I think actually specifically my cloak and my garments.
00:38:42.200 --> 00:38:48.500
I mean, we're heading towards kind of the mercantile and the artisan district.
00:38:49.300 --> 00:39:02.840
So it's not exactly finery, but my fairly well-made cloak and jacket would absolutely be from up there.
00:39:03.020 --> 00:39:12.240
Jenn: Actually, Seraphina, when she got into town, traded stuff and bought, like, her gear is from the nicer part of town.
00:39:12.240 --> 00:39:20.060
She also has a pendant necklace that she's wearing that she traded really gaudy jewels for
00:39:20.780 --> 00:39:24.840
so Seraphina could actually take her necklace off and let you hold that.
00:39:25.040 --> 00:39:26.760
Geoff: I'm holding Ciaran's cloak and your necklace.
00:39:26.860 --> 00:39:27.180
Pi N'kuwa (Geoff, whispering): Let's go!
00:39:27.180 --> 00:39:27.520
Laughter
00:39:27.520 --> 00:39:27.780
Kurt: Yeah
00:39:29.540 --> 00:39:30.100
okay,
00:39:30.277 --> 00:39:31.192
alright
00:39:31.460 --> 00:39:33.360
who is leading the charge?
00:39:34.060 --> 00:39:36.700
Is that going to be our boy Zeph over there?
00:39:36.638 --> 00:39:38.020
Geoff: Yeah I think Zeph lead the charge
00:39:38.020 --> 00:39:38.200
all
00:39:39.000 --> 00:39:40.304
try and assist Prince
00:39:40.304 --> 00:39:40.681
Zeph.
00:39:40.680 --> 00:39:41.180
Jenn chuckles
00:39:40.680 --> 00:39:41.060
Kurt: Yep,
00:39:41.200 --> 00:39:54.620
so go ahead and roll an instinct and I will let N'kuwa, if you want to roll your advantage die and give him a help.
00:39:54.620 --> 00:40:00.020
Kevin: And I'm also going to spend a hope to use my Smuggler experience.
00:40:00.380 --> 00:40:00.480
Kurt: Okay.
00:40:00.580 --> 00:40:05.500
Kevin: Because that's where Zeph used these tunnels and why he knows them at all.
00:40:05.600 --> 00:40:05.900
Kurt: Right.
00:40:06.320 --> 00:40:06.580
Yep.
00:40:07.500 --> 00:40:07.880
Kevin: Gross.
00:40:08.540 --> 00:40:08.900
Geoff: Yeah.
00:40:09.580 --> 00:40:11.340
Jenn: I have I have luck bender.
00:40:12.200 --> 00:40:12.540
Kevin: Okay
00:40:12.740 --> 00:40:13.760
so hold on.
00:40:14.280 --> 00:40:16.480
That would be a 12 with fear.
00:40:17.740 --> 00:40:18.598
If that's a-
00:40:18.491 --> 00:40:18.705
Geoff: So a thirteen.
00:40:18.598 --> 00:40:20.600
Kevin: Well I mean I'm counting your one.
00:40:21.020 --> 00:40:25.580
If that's a failure as a human I can spend a stress to reroll because I use an experience.
00:40:25.740 --> 00:40:26.040
Kurt: Okay
00:40:26.527 --> 00:40:27.460
that would be a failure.
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Kevin: Then I'm going to spend a stress.
00:40:29.360 --> 00:40:36.080
Jenn: And if that doesn't work, once per session I can spend three hope to let you reroll,
00:40:36.580 --> 00:40:37.100
Luck Bender.
00:40:38.380 --> 00:40:40.300
Kevin: Does he re roll as well
00:40:41.000 --> 00:40:42.180
or does his role stand?
00:40:42.340 --> 00:40:42.560
Kurt: Sure
00:40:42.720 --> 00:40:43.500
I'll let you reroll,
00:40:43.780 --> 00:40:44.835
It's a new roll
00:40:44.920 --> 00:40:45.420
so go ahead.
00:40:45.458 --> 00:40:45.699
Kevin: Nice!
00:40:45.560 --> 00:40:47.640
A little bit better.
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Geoff: Also a little bit better,
00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:49.840
got a three.
00:40:49.855 --> 00:40:50.005
Kevin: So
00:40:50.005 --> 00:40:50.880
a 16 with hope.
00:40:51.200 --> 00:40:52.020
Kurt: That'll pass!
00:40:52.180 --> 00:40:52.759
Kevin: That's much better. And
00:40:52.760 --> 00:40:53.400
I need to get a hope.
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Kurt: So the first scent of the of the journey, it's It's like an old hat, it's, you know the sewers in and out around here.
00:41:04.900 --> 00:41:05.700
This is your home.
00:41:05.800 --> 00:41:07.240
You know exactly where to go.
00:41:07.205 --> 00:41:07.820
Zeph (Kevin): No, this way!
00:41:07.820 --> 00:41:10.250
Chuckles
00:41:10.250 --> 00:41:18.380
Kurt: But what you do see with that, especially with that role, you notice that you are not alone down here.
00:41:18.440 --> 00:41:22.080
You know that. People use the sewers, the smugglers, everybody.
00:41:22.660 --> 00:41:25.220
But it's not the smugglers that you see.
00:41:25.787 --> 00:41:30.860
You come across footprints that looks like garrison style footwear.
00:41:31.609 --> 00:41:35.700
You hear what sounds like voices off in the distance.
00:41:36.380 --> 00:41:43.500
Kevin: I take a moment and gesture everyone to to come in close,
00:41:44.760 --> 00:41:48.600
and I'm not going to whisper so that everyone can actually hear me, but whispers.
00:41:50.360 --> 00:41:53.140
Zeph (Kevin, whispering): Look, it looks like the guards are down here too.
00:41:53.520 --> 00:41:55.540
So, be quiet,
00:41:56.020 --> 00:41:57.528
be on the look out.
00:41:57.540 --> 00:42:02.220
Seraphina (Jenn): Hey Ciaran, can you um, pfft up there and see how many there are
00:42:02.860 --> 00:42:04.260
and how much further up they are?
00:42:04.508 --> 00:42:06.020
You’ve very sneaky.
00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:07.540
Ciaran (Luke): I can.
00:42:08.160 --> 00:42:09.620
Seraphina (Jenn): I mean not to put you out.
00:42:09.780 --> 00:42:11.448
Pi N'kuwa (Geoff): They should be easy to hear, should they? I
00:42:11.448 --> 00:42:13.020
mean they rattle everywhere they go.
00:42:13.400 --> 00:42:14.220
Seraphina (Jenn): Oh for sure.
00:42:15.460 --> 00:42:17.800
Zeph (Kevin): I mean, we'll hear them if we're being quiet.
00:42:18.340 --> 00:42:23.260
Seraphina (Jenn): Well, I just didn't want to walk around the corner, and there was like 12 of them standing right there.
00:42:23.860 --> 00:42:24.220
Zeph (Kevin): Got it.
00:42:24.220 --> 00:42:25.500
Don't go around corners blind.
00:42:26.640 --> 00:42:27.040
Seraphina (Jenn): Yeah.
00:42:27.220 --> 00:42:28.000
Kurt: You walk forward,
00:42:28.753 --> 00:42:42.340
you go for quite a ways, taking lefts, taking rights, all following the uphill turn of the sewers to make sure you're always going the right direction.
00:42:42.340 --> 00:42:43.796
There's an odd sound,
00:42:44.300 --> 00:42:50.640
you hear the sound of squeaking, rolling, like carts being ridden.
00:42:50.640 --> 00:42:56.500
Like it's, you notice that you're not very deep under the cities.
00:42:56.500 --> 00:42:59.700
You can you can hear the guards walking above you.
00:42:59.740 --> 00:43:03.220
It’s not like your thirty feet below the surface.
00:43:03.239 --> 00:43:03.595
Jenn: Mmhmm.
00:43:03.640 --> 00:43:04.700
I have a question.
00:43:04.700 --> 00:43:07.700
I meant to ask this earlier but I forgot.
00:43:08.143 --> 00:43:22.320
So the sewers. Are they like what everyone pictures as those standard medieval sewers where there’s a gully in the middle and two higher levels on both sides
00:43:23.181 --> 00:43:28.518
and it merges different? And it’s half arcing?
00:43:28.518 --> 00:43:28.775
Kurt: Well
00:43:28.780 --> 00:43:30.500
what do y’all think it would look like?
00:43:32.164 --> 00:43:33.896
Jenn: We’re not trudging through the liquid?
00:43:33.920 --> 00:43:37.120
Kurt: I think there are definitely parts where you have to trudge through the sludge.
00:43:37.956 --> 00:43:39.220
Jenn: I mean, not me
00:43:39.360 --> 00:43:39.720
I fly.
00:43:39.720 --> 00:43:41.000
Laughter
00:43:41.000 --> 00:43:43.920
Kurt: You’re just looking out for your fellow party members.
00:43:44.832 --> 00:43:53.955
There are, especially down here, there are makeshift planks going across different platforms that you
00:43:53.955 --> 00:43:54.160
can walk across.
00:43:54.040 --> 00:43:58.960
Jenn: And there’s smaller ones that branch off that are too small to fit through?
00:43:58.905 --> 00:43:59.320
Kurt: Right, yeah.
00:44:01.870 --> 00:44:03.620
The main sewer line,
00:44:04.173 --> 00:44:18.180
it’s not like Ninja Turtle style where you can skateboard down. But it’s a, especially for your size, but the biggest one among you, Basagar, might would be ducking down-
00:44:18.079 --> 00:44:18.560
John: Oh for sure.
00:44:18.760 --> 00:44:19.960
Kurt: - walking around.
00:44:20.247 --> 00:44:28.851
But there is one path that goes around and sometimes it’s broken down and you’ll have to walk through some stuff.
00:44:28.923 --> 00:44:29.353
Jenn: Okay.
00:44:29.425 --> 00:44:32.580
Kurt: But big enough to walk through, at least single file.
00:44:32.687 --> 00:44:36.143
Kurt: Zeph will turn around and look at everyone and say;
00:44:36.143 --> 00:44:40.600
Zeph (Kevin): Well, unless some of you are able to breathe underwater, I'd suggest we hurry.
00:44:41.700 --> 00:44:42.940
Basagar (John): Do we need to do that?
00:44:44.080 --> 00:44:45.880
Zeph (Kevin): Hurry? Or breathe underwater?
00:44:45.793 --> 00:44:46.343
Basagar (John): Breath underwater.
00:44:46.360 --> 00:44:46.840
Zeph (Kevin): We might.
00:44:47.200 --> 00:44:48.080
Can you handle that?
00:44:48.940 --> 00:44:49.500
Basagar (John): Oh, yes,
00:44:49.620 --> 00:44:50.260
yes, I can.
00:44:51.180 --> 00:44:52.180
Zeph (Kevin): For everybody?
00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:53.400
Basagar (John): Oh, no, just myself.
00:44:53.740 --> 00:44:54.380
Zeph (Kevin): Then let's hurry.
00:44:54.380 --> 00:44:56.720
Laughter
00:44:56.720 --> 00:44:59.560
Kurt: The farther you go, the less familiar you are.
00:44:59.760 --> 00:45:02.560
Geoff: I'll continue to kind of try and chime in and share.
00:45:03.100 --> 00:45:03.540
Pi N'kuwa (Geoff): No, no, no, no,
00:45:03.540 --> 00:45:04.380
this way, this way, this way.
00:45:04.420 --> 00:45:11.600
Kevin: I think Zeph would probably have known a few ways to get Ashward.
00:45:11.880 --> 00:45:14.960
I think Lowthorn would have been a whole lot more difficult.
00:45:15.340 --> 00:45:18.820
And so it's not someplace he typically would, he would not blend in.
00:45:19.140 --> 00:45:19.240
Kurt: Right.
00:45:19.420 --> 00:45:20.540
Kevin: Like, even less successful.
00:45:20.760 --> 00:45:30.320
So I think for him, his natural inclination is, if we're getting out, I got to run. Let's head to the Ashward because we might stand a chance of being able to hide out or blend in there.
00:45:30.483 --> 00:45:31.061
Kurt: Okay,
00:45:31.320 --> 00:45:31.380
yeah.
00:45:31.555 --> 00:45:38.000
Kai: Severian is very quiet coming for an underborn society, and he’s also very used to moving stealthily with a pack.
00:45:37.994 --> 00:45:38.296
Kurt: Mmhmm.
00:45:38.260 --> 00:45:41.260
Kai: So he tries to guide you stealthily.
00:45:41.360 --> 00:45:41.940
Is anybody helping?
00:45:42.320 --> 00:45:43.480
Kurt: So we’ll do a group roll,
00:45:44.454 --> 00:45:45.620
your reaction roll.
00:45:45.675 --> 00:45:49.646
So before you roll Kai we'll start over here with Ciaran.
00:45:49.740 --> 00:45:53.229
Luke: That will be a 15 on the dot.
00:45:53.229 --> 00:45:54.280
Kurt: It's a success.
00:45:55.100 --> 00:45:55.500
Geoff: 18.
00:45:55.920 --> 00:45:56.280
Kurt: All right.
00:45:56.369 --> 00:45:57.140
Yeah, plus two.
00:45:57.400 --> 00:45:59.000
Kevin: That is the dirtiest of dirty 20s.
00:45:59.032 --> 00:45:59.940
Kurt: Oh, plus three.
00:46:00.300 --> 00:46:02.800
Jenn: I got the hiccups, so that's a six.
00:46:03.060 --> 00:46:03.480
Kurt: All right,
00:46:03.540 --> 00:46:04.420
down to plus two.
00:46:05.080 --> 00:46:07.300
John: Do we add any of our abilities to this?
00:46:07.305 --> 00:46:07.820
Kurt: You're finesse.
00:46:07.940 --> 00:46:08.600
John: Oh, finesse again.
00:46:08.700 --> 00:46:10.200
So, yeah, that's a whopping eight.
00:46:10.480 --> 00:46:10.760
Kurt: Eight,
00:46:10.860 --> 00:46:11.180
all right.
00:46:11.180 --> 00:46:12.800
You get a plus one from the group.
00:46:13.100 --> 00:46:13.840
Kai: Good thing I have advantage.
00:46:13.960 --> 00:46:14.140
Kurt: Yeah.
00:46:16.940 --> 00:46:17.290
Kai: Oh wow.
00:46:17.290 --> 00:46:17.780
John: Oh we’re cooked.
00:46:17.965 --> 00:46:18.615
Kai: Twelve
00:46:18.780 --> 00:46:19.420
with fear.
00:46:19.470 --> 00:46:20.600
Kai: Twelve with fear.
00:46:20.880 --> 00:46:28.660
As your moving along, you get to a point where you do have to try to maneuver past certain
00:46:28.660 --> 00:46:33.500
things and trudge in the filth a little bit.
00:46:33.500 --> 00:46:40.220
And you can see where the main line that goes out to the river is.
00:46:40.880 --> 00:46:43.720
So if you could just get through this spot, you can get through it.
00:46:43.940 --> 00:46:47.140
You do hear what sounds like some voices behind you.
00:46:47.155 --> 00:46:49.611
Virelian Guard #1 (Kurt, muffled): Alright. We haven't checked this part yet.
00:46:49.460 --> 00:46:51.420
Virelian Guard #2 (Kurt, muffled): Oh, all right.
00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:53.020
When are we going to get out of here?
00:46:53.221 --> 00:46:54.807
This place stinks.
00:46:54.820 --> 00:46:59.840
Kurt: So there are guards coming up quickly from behind you.
00:47:00.020 --> 00:47:04.000
You guys want to move forward or do take on the guards?
00:47:04.320 --> 00:47:08.400
Geoff: I say we try and hurry ahead, keep pushing forward as quick as we can.
00:47:08.780 --> 00:47:13.840
Still try to stay a little bit quiet, but seeing as they’re coming this direction already,
00:47:14.020 --> 00:47:15.460
speed would be a little bit more important.
00:47:16.120 --> 00:47:21.120
Kevin: Yeah, I’m afraid if a fight breaks out that could make a lot of noise, and that could bring the guards.
00:47:22.020 --> 00:47:23.840
Geoff: I don’t want to be surrounded down here.
00:47:24.120 --> 00:47:26.820
Luke: Especially with the rain potentially flooding the sewer lines.
00:47:27.140 --> 00:47:27.420
Kevin: Yeah.
00:47:27.420 --> 00:47:31.020
Geoff: So I think with that kind of switching towards we want to aim for speed,
00:47:31.160 --> 00:47:38.380
I think Kua would step forward and start pointing towards the fastest, most direct path.
00:47:39.260 --> 00:47:46.460
Luke: Feeling like kind of through the shadows, can I sense an open space up forward, along this line?
00:47:46.720 --> 00:47:48.540
Does it widen out further up?
00:47:48.880 --> 00:47:49.700
Kurt: It does. Yeah.
00:47:49.700 --> 00:47:54.140
Luke: Okay. Then what I can do is I can shadow step and then use my grappling hook
00:47:54.140 --> 00:48:00.960
and kind of throw it down and start helping everyone like pull them up and through this spot
00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:02.300
so it's faster and easier
00:48:02.940 --> 00:48:05.080
so you don't have- like you're not trying to slip and move forward.
00:48:05.700 --> 00:48:08.680
Kevin: And Zeph will help by boosting people.
00:48:09.060 --> 00:48:10.760
If it's up he'll boost them up
00:48:10.880 --> 00:48:16.780
if, it's along then he'll he'll kind of help grab and move them along.
00:48:17.440 --> 00:48:22.020
Kurt: Just for the sake of brevity, well, everybody kind of gets through this tight little spot here.
00:48:22.140 --> 00:48:25.600
You are not clean by any means at the end of this.
00:48:25.600 --> 00:48:32.620
But once you get down to the end of this line as you're using Ciaran's grappler to help pull you along,
00:48:33.060 --> 00:48:36.480
you hear what sounds like yelling above (crowd noises begin).
00:48:37.360 --> 00:48:44.860
You can hear it from the line that connects out to the river as you're hearing the sounds of the city in turmoil.
00:48:44.860 --> 00:48:54.460
You hear sounds of, it's hard to make out what is being said, but you hear this loud chant, not even a chant,
00:48:54.560 --> 00:48:59.220
but this roar of people. Almost like a battle cry.
00:48:59.720 --> 00:49:04.300
You hear the like a loud, a yell of multiple, multiple people.
00:49:04.900 --> 00:49:06.920
And you hear what sounds louder;
00:49:07.480 --> 00:49:09.020
Virelian Commander (Kurt, muffled): Hold men, hold.
00:49:09.620 --> 00:49:14.220
Kurt: As a, what sounds like a commander of a guard is yelling towards a squadron.
00:49:14.980 --> 00:49:16.083
You see, you hear him say;
00:49:16.083 --> 00:49:18.840
Virelian Commander (Kurt, muffled): Just wait till they get closer and lay them down.
00:49:19.600 --> 00:49:21.740
Kurt: You hear do dosh do dosh dosh, the sound of running, running, running.
00:49:21.925 --> 00:49:26.680
Sound just people rushing what sounds like a flank of guards.
00:49:26.680 --> 00:49:29.800
Then you hear the loosing of arrows. Do do do do duh duh do do do do.
00:49:31.860 --> 00:49:37.420
Of strings being released followed by the impact of some of these arrows. (Backgroud pfft of arrows being shot).
00:49:38.300 --> 00:49:41.720
You hear though the yelling gets a little less but you still hear it
00:49:42.260 --> 00:49:46.660
all of a sudden you start to hear swords clanking of metal on metal.
00:49:47.260 --> 00:49:54.238
This is a an all-out attack on the main thoroughfare of the Gutterrun. This is going to-
00:49:54.020 --> 00:49:58.460
this is absolute chaos above you.
00:49:58.880 --> 00:50:00.200
But it is loud.
00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:02.780
The rain is picking up a crack of thunder ka-chow.
00:50:03.620 --> 00:50:05.820
It kind of breaks the silence a little bit.
00:50:05.820 --> 00:50:13.720
You start to see the rain, the water that is now draining into the sewers from the start of the rainfall is kind of pooling up.
00:50:14.260 --> 00:50:16.120
You know you have to cross the river.
00:50:16.500 --> 00:50:21.220
You have to go out in the open to get into the next sewer line that goes up to Ashward.
00:50:21.700 --> 00:50:25.420
If that direction you're still wanting to go, we can, we can tackle that,
00:50:25.500 --> 00:50:28.716
or you can go to the direction that leads to Lowthorn.
00:50:28.660 --> 00:50:32.844
Kevin: I glance at Ciaran with all the cacophony and
00:50:32.844 --> 00:50:33.446
go;
00:50:33.580 --> 00:50:34.920
Zeph (Kevin): Powder keg got lit.
00:50:36.780 --> 00:50:38.220
Luke: Important clarification question,
00:50:39.600 --> 00:50:47.460
listening to these sounds like the din of battle, did it sound like the arrows were puncturing metal, like armor?
00:50:48.140 --> 00:50:48.700
Kurt: No.
00:50:49.000 --> 00:50:49.220
Luke: Okay
00:50:52.480 --> 00:50:52.880
Kurt: Yeah.
00:50:54.280 --> 00:50:58.146
Jenn: So, yeah, Seraphina is going to glance at you guys and be like;
00:50:58.146 --> 00:51:01.120
Seraphina (Jenn): I mean, the guards are a little distracted right now.
00:51:01.560 --> 00:51:08.340
I hate to think of what they're distracted by, but maybe that gives us a chance to cross the river.
00:51:09.480 --> 00:51:11.250
Ciaran (Luke): Or we just go through Lowthorn.
00:51:11.360 --> 00:51:11.880
Seraphina (Jenn): Or that.
00:51:12.340 --> 00:51:15.381
Zeph (Kevin): You know the upper area is better than I do, Ciaran.
00:51:15.440 --> 00:51:16.400
Seraphina (Jenn): We're a little dirty.
00:51:16.500 --> 00:51:17.460
We might stick out.
00:51:17.780 --> 00:51:19.740
Ciaran (Luke): There are a few places we can get cleaned up.
00:51:20.260 --> 00:51:20.540
Seraphina (Jenn): Okay.
00:51:20.495 --> 00:51:23.120
Ciaran (Luke): They may or may not be open at this time, but I can get in regardless.
00:51:23.269 --> 00:51:24.190
Seraphina (Jenn): All right.
00:51:24.160 --> 00:51:31.570
Kurt: You hear what sounds like a dog barking. Aroooo arf arf (dog barking echoing down tunnel)
00:51:32.820 --> 00:51:34.320
Zeph (Kevin): The stairs are going to be locked down.
00:51:34.437 --> 00:51:35.278
Kurt: Aroooo arf
00:51:35.278 --> 00:51:38.440
arf. It sounds like it's coming from behind you.
00:51:39.600 --> 00:51:40.940
Seraphina (Jenn): Yeah we gotta go guys.
00:51:41.640 --> 00:51:42.120
Kurt: You hear;
00:51:42.960 --> 00:51:43.780
Virelian Guard #1 (Kurt, muffled): I think he's on to something!
00:51:43.980 --> 00:51:44.640
He's got a scent.
00:51:44.683 --> 00:51:44.934
Zeph (Kevin): Shit,
00:51:44.940 --> 00:51:45.660
into the water,
00:51:46.560 --> 00:51:47.060
break the scent.
00:51:47.261 --> 00:51:47.830
Seraphina (Jenn): Ewww
00:51:47.900 --> 00:51:52.180
John: I've been helping prince along with us this whole time.
00:51:52.460 --> 00:51:52.680
Kurt: Yeah
00:51:52.849 --> 00:51:54.190
and he's like;
00:51:54.190 --> 00:51:54.860
Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): Oh god,
00:51:54.970 --> 00:51:55.526
oh-
00:51:55.660 --> 00:51:57.393
Kurt: The whole time is just like;
00:51:57.393 --> 00:51:58.260
Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): Ew ew ew.
00:51:58.363 --> 00:51:59.849
Jenn: Ew ew ew
00:51:59.940 --> 00:52:01.820
Zeph (Kevin): Time for time for bath your highness.
00:52:02.220 --> 00:52:05.820
Kevin: And Zeph gets down into the water.
00:52:06.340 --> 00:52:06.600
Kurt: Okay.
00:52:08.195 --> 00:52:09.020
Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): No, no, no.
00:52:09.440 --> 00:52:10.940
I'm not going in there.
00:52:11.560 --> 00:52:12.120
Zeph (Kevin): Your funeral.
00:52:12.140 --> 00:52:13.436
John: I lift him up and I just bring him
00:52:13.828 --> 00:52:14.756
out.
00:52:14.920 --> 00:52:16.120
Geoff: Bath time!
00:52:16.120 --> 00:52:16.788
Chuckles
00:52:16.788 --> 00:52:18.725
Ciaran (Luke): Just
00:52:19.580 --> 00:52:20.260
hold your breath.
00:52:20.940 --> 00:52:21.680
Keep your mouth closed.
00:52:24.460 --> 00:52:25.060
Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): Dry Heaves Too late.
00:52:25.505 --> 00:52:26.694
Zeph (Kevin): Shush.
00:52:26.694 --> 00:52:32.900
Geoff: Kua will kind of jump in and try and clear a little bit of the nasty.
00:52:33.024 --> 00:52:36.380
Kurt: Create a wake by wading through.
00:52:36.560 --> 00:52:37.920
Geoff: Kind of just dive a little bit up river.
00:52:38.180 --> 00:52:38.520
Kurt: All right
00:52:38.880 --> 00:52:40.560
So you're going towards where?
00:52:40.807 --> 00:52:41.638
Jenn: Lowthorn
00:52:41.960 --> 00:52:43.460
Geoff: Can we get to Lowthorn from the river?
00:52:45.680 --> 00:52:48.144
Luke: Well we're already on the proper side
00:52:49.200 --> 00:52:50.782
Geoff: So we just don't cross over, and
00:52:50.782 --> 00:52:51.188
then we can get
00:52:51.188 --> 00:52:51.289
in.
00:52:51.188 --> 00:52:51.540
Jenn: Yeah
00:52:51.540 --> 00:52:54.440
we just kind of go up a little bit and then cut back in.
00:52:54.999 --> 00:52:56.323
Kurt: Mmhmm.
00:52:56.323 --> 00:52:56.820
Dogs barking echos
00:52:56.820 --> 00:52:59.140
Kurt: You hear the dogs are getting closer.
00:52:59.520 --> 00:53:01.220
You are being tailed.
00:53:01.460 --> 00:53:03.140
They have caught a scent of something.
00:53:04.020 --> 00:53:05.140
Not sure what it could be,
00:53:05.305 --> 00:53:05.680
could be anything,
00:53:05.840 --> 00:53:07.020
but they are getting closer.
00:53:07.160 --> 00:53:09.500
You hear the sounds of battle even more.
00:53:09.620 --> 00:53:15.940
But you turn left, the direction towards Lowthorn and start heading that way.
00:53:15.940 --> 00:53:17.440
Barking fades, dripping and battle sounds picks back up
00:53:15.940 --> 00:53:22.400
Kurt: It's this wider tunnel or sewer is a little more walkable
00:53:22.400 --> 00:53:29.480
but you guys are choosing to stay in the the water so to speak along with other things.
00:53:29.760 --> 00:53:32.160
Kevin: To try and lose the scent trail.
00:53:32.130 --> 00:53:32.414
Kurt: Ok
00:53:32.460 --> 00:53:34.000
Geoff: Mask our scent as much as we can.
00:53:34.068 --> 00:53:34.720
Kurt: Nice, yeah
00:53:34.720 --> 00:53:41.360
so you make your way there pretty quick. Avoiding a lot of dead end turns
00:53:41.740 --> 00:53:43.100
saved you guys some time.
00:53:43.240 --> 00:53:45.420
All the while you're looking back, listening
00:53:46.020 --> 00:53:48.560
you hear you heard the dog for a while,
00:53:49.000 --> 00:53:50.140
all the sudden it stopped.
00:53:50.780 --> 00:53:54.680
You don’t hear the hound anymore chasing you guys.
00:53:55.200 --> 00:54:05.420
But, you come down to what looks like a large tunnel that goes into what would be a dead end,
00:54:05.420 --> 00:54:09.060
but there is a makeshift ladder that goes up.
00:54:09.420 --> 00:54:13.240
And you look up and it goes up for a long time,
00:54:14.540 --> 00:54:20.060
maybe one hundred, maybe one hundred fifty feet that your climbing straight up.
00:54:20.340 --> 00:54:25.304
But as soon as you climb to the top of this ladder, you will be in Lowthorn.
00:54:25.240 --> 00:54:28.940
You have crossed into another district.
00:54:29.540 --> 00:54:31.360
John: How sturdy does the ladder look?
00:54:31.620 --> 00:54:34.140
Kurt: It’s been in the sewer for a long time.
00:54:34.140 --> 00:54:38.180
It looks like there are parts of it that might be a little weak,
00:54:39.060 --> 00:54:40.440
you’re not quite sure.
00:54:41.020 --> 00:54:43.677
Basagar (John): I may have something to help with this if-
00:54:43.660 --> 00:54:44.980
Severian (Kai): I can definitely help.
00:54:44.944 --> 00:54:45.203
Seraphina (Jenn): So,
00:54:45.140 --> 00:54:46.680
I can fly up
00:54:46.920 --> 00:54:52.420
if you use the grapple and the rope, I can hook it up on top and hang it down for you guys.
00:54:53.540 --> 00:54:54.490
So that way-
00:54:54.534 --> 00:54:55.342
Basagar (John): That works
00:54:55.440 --> 00:55:00.168
Ciaran (Luke): I feel like that’s cheating with the grappling hook, but if that’s-
00:55:00.168 --> 00:55:00.740
Laughter
00:55:00.740 --> 00:55:12.700
Kurt: Severian you see that there are vines that are growing on the side of the tunnel coming down.
00:55:13.900 --> 00:55:19.460
A lot of them look like bramble, thorny,
00:55:20.100 --> 00:55:21.420
looks very…
00:55:21.420 --> 00:55:23.820
maybe it reminds of home a little bit.
00:55:24.420 --> 00:55:28.880
It just may get a dark feeling by looking at these vines.
00:55:29.260 --> 00:55:31.200
Kai: Nothing that reminds me of the Fun Aunts, right?
00:55:31.700 --> 00:55:33.329
Kurt: Nothing that reminds you of the Fun Aunts,
00:55:33.340 --> 00:55:33.560
no.
00:55:34.100 --> 00:55:41.113
Zeph (Kevin): So, Ciaran, I would say probably you know this area best, so
00:55:41.120 --> 00:55:41.660
you first?
00:55:42.280 --> 00:55:44.620
Geoff: Is it a pretty wide hole?
00:55:44.820 --> 00:55:46.980
Like, would rain be able to make its way down?
00:55:48.140 --> 00:55:48.500
Kurt: Rain?
00:55:48.700 --> 00:55:49.260
Geoff: Rain yeah,
00:55:49.420 --> 00:55:51.720
is it wide enough hole that rain would be making it in?
00:55:52.340 --> 00:55:56.380
Kurt: No, so, it's not a wide open. It's not open to the air.
00:55:56.640 --> 00:55:56.880
Geoff: Okay.
00:55:58.144 --> 00:55:59.440
Kurt: You are still in
00:56:00.180 --> 00:56:01.200
still inside of the sewer,
00:56:01.300 --> 00:56:01.500
yeah.
00:56:01.640 --> 00:56:02.696
So it looks like
00:56:03.264 --> 00:56:04.480
this would be a
00:56:04.480 --> 00:56:05.260
like a gutter.
00:56:05.480 --> 00:56:12.688
Like literally the gutter of a sewer to drop down whatever was going down in from Lowthorn into the Gutterrun.
00:56:12.795 --> 00:56:14.940
Jenn: You said it was roughly like a hundred feet the ladder?
00:56:15.160 --> 00:56:15.440
Kurt: Yeah.
00:56:15.587 --> 00:56:17.607
Jenn: Alright, so if you have a grapple
00:56:18.240 --> 00:56:19.340
it has a rope on it, right?
00:56:19.840 --> 00:56:20.140
Luke: Yeah.
00:56:20.370 --> 00:56:25.880
Jenn: So I have another fifty feet of rope so I’ll tie that on and I’ll take Manny and we’ll fly up to the top.
00:56:26.640 --> 00:56:32.038
And hook it preferably not into the top of the ladder, but like-
00:56:31.934 --> 00:56:32.142
Kurt: Mmhmm
00:56:32.038 --> 00:56:35.360
Jenn: -rock crevice or something up at the top.
00:56:35.440 --> 00:56:39.320
Like, when she flies up and peaks over the lip what does she see?
00:56:39.720 --> 00:56:45.960
Kurt: You see the bramble, like the vines get thicker and thicker as it goes up.
00:56:46.240 --> 00:56:54.800
They’re kind of crawling, almost like growing around the walls, piecing through the walls of the sewer itself.
00:56:56.215 --> 00:56:59.200
You peek up, it’s a sewer.
00:56:59.200 --> 00:57:07.580
You see this weird greenish substance that is just like clinging to the bramble a little bit.
00:57:07.684 --> 00:57:10.600
If could just be algae,
00:57:10.960 --> 00:57:13.360
it looks kind of odd.
00:57:14.080 --> 00:57:23.080
Jenn: Can I do a roll to see if I can figure out that the green stuff is or see what the deal is with the vines.
00:57:23.503 --> 00:57:32.300
Do they look like they’re, you know, like, you know we the Fun Aunts and stuff, like, where they just kind of broke out of the ground and started moving.
00:57:32.440 --> 00:57:35.120
Like, did they just look like they're sitting there motionless?
00:57:35.280 --> 00:57:39.540
Or could she get, like, a little bit closer to one just to kind of check it out?
00:57:39.720 --> 00:57:41.760
Kurt: You know, you can go over and touch it if I want to.
00:57:42.040 --> 00:57:43.380
Jenn: I don't know if I want to touch it.
00:57:43.380 --> 00:57:44.160
Kai: I want to climb it.
00:57:44.440 --> 00:57:45.260
Kurt: You want to climb the ladder?
00:57:45.320 --> 00:57:46.040
Kai: It goes all the way up, right?
00:57:46.060 --> 00:57:46.680
Kurt: Yeah, it goes all the way up.
00:57:46.680 --> 00:57:47.340
Kai: Or the brambles.
00:57:47.680 --> 00:57:49.260
Kurt: Oh, the brambles go all the way up.
00:57:49.320 --> 00:57:50.360
Kai: Yeah, I want to climb the brambles.
00:57:50.500 --> 00:57:50.660
Kurt: Yeah,
00:57:51.280 --> 00:57:52.180
not hard to do.
00:57:52.360 --> 00:57:53.780
You're going through.
00:57:53.777 --> 00:57:55.180
Kai: Just like home
00:57:55.220 --> 00:58:00.762
Kurt: I'll say you mark a hit point just from climbing the brambles themselves.
00:58:00.762 --> 00:58:01.369
Kai: Fairly normal experiences
00:58:01.340 --> 00:58:02.640
Jenn: But yeah I’ll wedge the-
00:58:05.820 --> 00:58:06.140
Kurt: Yeah Chuckles
00:58:06.140 --> 00:58:09.340
Jenn: I’ll wedge the grapple and them chuck the rope down
00:58:09.806 --> 00:58:15.620
that way, just in case if the ladder’s rickety they at least have an extra bit of something.
00:58:15.760 --> 00:58:15.920
Kai: Sure
00:58:16.720 --> 00:58:28.300
Kurt: You get closer to this green sludge. The closer you get to it, you notice like it's undulating and kind of waving in the water.
00:58:28.660 --> 00:58:33.740
Whenever you get too close, you lean in to look at it,
00:58:34.100 --> 00:58:38.900
it's like- you see like a little bloop, like something pops up out of it.
00:58:39.060 --> 00:58:47.640
And then it like pfft kind of releases itself from the brambles and starts floating down the water and is now like trying,
00:58:47.640 --> 00:58:59.560
like you see it's reaching out for you almost like a little pseudopod kind of comes out like out of this little ball of green ooze
00:58:59.720 --> 00:59:02.680
Jenn: Is this tunnel up here, is it one of the bigger ones?
00:59:02.920 --> 00:59:03.320
Kurt: It is,
00:59:03.360 --> 00:59:03.600
yeah.
00:59:03.600 --> 00:59:05.220
Jenn: Okay so she's going to like fly up higher.
00:59:05.480 --> 00:59:06.840
I still have Manny with me,
00:59:06.840 --> 00:59:09.964
so Seraphina is going to turn to Manny and be like;
00:59:09.964 --> 00:59:12.520
Seraphina (Jenn): Manny, have you ever seen anything like that before?
00:59:13.060 --> 00:59:18.963
Manny (Kurt): Oh, we see this all the time, but now in the Fay. You don't want to get too close
00:59:18.963 --> 00:59:19.500
to it.
00:59:19.520 --> 00:59:20.260
Don't let it touch you.
00:59:20.848 --> 00:59:22.720
It kind of burns a little bit.
00:59:23.520 --> 00:59:24.520
Seraphina (Jenn): Oh, that sounds terrible.
00:59:24.860 --> 00:59:28.060
Jenn: So, Seraphina is just going to call quietly down the ladder.
00:59:28.060 --> 00:59:29.660
Seraphina (Jenn, whisper yelling): Don't touch the green stuff!
00:59:30.200 --> 00:59:39.220
Kurt: Severian, as you are climbing up the brambles you hear Seraphina whisper that down to you.
00:59:39.573 --> 00:59:49.820
You look up to see what she's talking about and you see this almost like green slime go over the side and now it's falling straight down.
00:59:49.853 --> 00:59:54.040
It's kind of flails out and it reaches you.
00:59:54.717 --> 00:59:58.420
I'm going to spend a fear to make an attack roll.
00:59:59.600 --> 01:00:02.620
Does …what is its plus?
01:00:03.553 --> 01:00:04.020
Not much,
01:00:04.080 --> 01:00:06.380
does a 15 hit your evasion?
01:00:06.466 --> 01:00:07.400
Kai: Yep.
01:00:07.740 --> 01:00:16.960
Kurt: So it's going to make a standard attack against you as it kind of falls down grabs onto you and envelops you.
01:00:19.869 --> 01:00:28.700
You need to mark two stress, and then you take an additional stress every time you make an action roll.
01:00:29.120 --> 01:00:31.000
Kevin: Turn off the power to the trash compactor.
01:00:31.080 --> 01:00:32.600
Turn off the power to the trash compactor!
01:00:32.600 --> 01:00:46.220
Kurt: Laughs. Yeah. As you see, Seraphina, as you watch this first one let loose, you look down the tunnel and you see about, maybe 10 more of these blobs that are floating down the river.
01:00:46.834 --> 01:00:53.189
Jenn: Okay. So when she sees that, she'll kind of fly back down toward them and be like,
01:00:53.189 --> 01:00:55.806
Seraphina (Jenn): You guys, there's green, oh, it got
01:00:55.934 --> 01:00:59.280
Severian. There's green goopy stuff that's kind of grabby.
01:00:59.380 --> 01:01:02.280
It's heading this way. So just letting you know.
01:01:03.540 --> 01:01:05.648
Manny said he's seen it in the Fey Wild.
01:01:05.640 --> 01:01:06.680
He said, don't touch it.
01:01:06.680 --> 01:01:15.300
Kurt: You see a blob, you know, splash down. And it picks itself up and starts, like moving towards you guys
01:01:16.072 --> 01:01:23.419
as you hear another shooop pshop, shoooop pshup. These blobs are landing.
01:01:23.419 --> 01:01:28.406
Zeph (Kevin): Climb or fight. Climb or fight? Climb or fight!
01:01:28.310 --> 01:01:29.140
Seraphina (Jenn): Both?
01:01:29.280 --> 01:01:33.089
John: I kind of… so you're kind of hovering.
01:01:32.973 --> 01:01:33.204
Jenn: Flying, yeah.
01:01:33.089 --> 01:01:34.820
John: You're trapped up above right?
01:01:34.880 --> 01:01:36.780
Kai: Am I actually grappled or am I just-?
01:01:37.820 --> 01:01:38.540
Kurt: You're not grappled.
01:01:38.486 --> 01:01:39.120
Kai: Is it on me?
01:01:39.300 --> 01:01:40.000
Kurt: It is on you.
01:01:39.979 --> 01:01:40.620
Kai: It is like on me.
01:01:40.640 --> 01:01:42.940
Kurt: So it is, yeah. So it doesn't grapple you.
01:01:43.295 --> 01:01:43.880
Kai: I'm not trapped.
01:01:44.600 --> 01:01:45.240
John: But you're further up.
01:01:45.240 --> 01:01:51.845
Kurt: You are- it is just like covered on you and it is like it is burning and tingling a little
01:01:51.845 --> 01:01:52.160
bit.
01:01:52.071 --> 01:01:53.320
Seraphina (Jenn): You got the goo on you?
01:01:53.286 --> 01:01:53.451
Geoff: Does
01:01:53.400 --> 01:01:55.540
it seem like they're just keep coming.
01:01:55.487 --> 01:01:55.810
Kai: The goo
01:01:55.760 --> 01:01:57.860
Kurt: Oh, and you need to, passive.
01:01:58.080 --> 01:01:58.980
I forgot it's passive.
01:01:59.597 --> 01:02:01.260
When a ooze makes a successful
01:02:01.260 --> 01:02:05.140
attack, you must mark an armor slot without receiving its benefits.
01:02:05.391 --> 01:02:06.170
Jenn: Ugh!
01:02:06.320 --> 01:02:06.800
Kevin: Yuck!
01:02:07.640 --> 01:02:08.760
Jenn: Oh, gross.
01:02:08.760 --> 01:02:17.800
John: I see all of this kind of come around and I just kind of gently push the prince to the side,
01:02:18.175 --> 01:02:19.431
Prince Wilhelm.
01:02:19.700 --> 01:02:20.800
Basagar: Give me just a moment.
01:02:21.675 --> 01:02:30.560
John: And you just see Basagar just start sprouting, like legs out of his sides
01:02:31.408 --> 01:02:40.760
and as he just drops to the ground he starts (sounds of legs shooting out) shifting and transforming into a very big spider.
01:02:41.690 --> 01:02:47.500
Still the same kind of body type, he looks the same as he normally does
01:02:47.849 --> 01:02:54.140
and his abdomen is where looks like the same color scheme of his mushroom cap.
01:02:55.056 --> 01:02:59.328
And he kind of peers back and motions for Wilhelm.
01:02:59.328 --> 01:03:03.600
Basagar (John): Come sit. Get on top of me and I'll help you.
01:03:05.260 --> 01:03:09.660
John: And I just start climbing up the wall.
01:03:09.820 --> 01:03:09.920
Kurt: Okay
01:03:10.240 --> 01:03:19.800
as you as you start climbing up the wall, more of these blobs, because you have to walk past these blobs to get to the ladder.
01:03:20.953 --> 01:03:24.160
These oozes, let's call it what it is.
01:03:24.884 --> 01:03:35.080
These oozes go to make attack against you, as you go to to climb out. As one kind of like lands by you.
01:03:35.260 --> 01:03:35.280
John: Cool.
01:03:36.270 --> 01:03:41.790
Kurt: Oh, that is a natural 20, which-
01:03:42.480 --> 01:03:43.460
Jenn: Doesn't hit, right?
01:03:43.460 --> 01:03:44.134
Laughter
01:03:44.134 --> 01:03:50.200
Kurt: Nat 20. Woohoo. Yay! Go GM.
01:03:50.200 --> 01:03:53.740
Others boo and blow raspberries
01:03:53.740 --> 01:03:55.800
Kurt: Everybody's all excited when you guys do it.
01:03:55.800 --> 01:03:56.128
Laughter
01:03:56.128 --> 01:03:57.043
Kevin: Well,
01:03:57.320 --> 01:03:58.760
yeah! We're the heroes.
01:04:00.000 --> 01:04:00.580
Kurt: All right.
01:04:00.660 --> 01:04:07.340
So it attacks you for six plus three.
01:04:07.600 --> 01:04:11.200
So nine points of acid, magic damage.
01:04:11.520 --> 01:04:13.880
Kevin: Is he close enough for me to I Am Your Shield?
01:04:14.360 --> 01:04:15.060
Kurt: I'd say so,
01:04:15.160 --> 01:04:15.360
yeah.
01:04:15.580 --> 01:04:15.860
Kevin: All right,
01:04:15.880 --> 01:04:16.440
I Am Your Shield.
01:04:17.380 --> 01:04:17.820
Kurt: Okay,
01:04:18.120 --> 01:04:21.600
so that, you don't mark that six.
01:04:21.737 --> 01:04:24.680
Zeph, you mark that six.
01:04:25.360 --> 01:04:25.580
Kevin: Yep,
01:04:25.840 --> 01:04:27.520
that is a minor wound.
01:04:27.800 --> 01:04:28.857
So I'll mark an armor.
01:04:28.857 --> 01:04:29.219
Kurt: Okay,
01:04:29.200 --> 01:04:29.600
sweet.
01:04:30.080 --> 01:04:31.860
You guys start climbing the ladders.
01:04:32.120 --> 01:04:32.380
Jenn: Yeah.
01:04:32.920 --> 01:04:35.520
Kurt: With Wilhelm kind of on your side.
01:04:35.813 --> 01:04:36.724
Jenn: Piggyback.
01:04:37.029 --> 01:04:38.540
Kurt: You have Manny with you.
01:04:38.860 --> 01:04:39.120
Jenn: Yeah,
01:04:39.500 --> 01:04:42.880
Manny's, I figure he's probably small enough to sit on my shoulder.
01:04:43.020 --> 01:04:43.140
Kurt: Yeah.
01:04:43.915 --> 01:04:51.800
Jenn: But as these blobs are kind of going for my boys, she's going to pull her whip that
01:04:51.800 --> 01:04:54.620
she has kind of coiled up and hooked on her side.
01:04:55.300 --> 01:05:05.060
She's going to fly closer to the blobs that are rushing toward the guys, and do a whip
01:05:05.060 --> 01:05:07.420
attack, marking a stress,
01:05:07.420 --> 01:05:14.920
and basically I can crack the whip and it forces anything that’s within melee back to
01:05:14.920 --> 01:05:15.380
close.
01:05:15.316 --> 01:05:15.649
Kurt: Okay.
01:05:15.640 --> 01:05:18.100
Jenn: So I can push the blobs back.
01:05:18.400 --> 01:05:18.960
Kurt: Nice.
01:05:19.300 --> 01:05:19.600
Jenn: Okay,
01:05:20.120 --> 01:05:21.220
so I'm going to try.
01:05:24.200 --> 01:05:27.300
So to hit that's 19.
01:05:27.940 --> 01:05:28.300
Kurt: 19?
01:05:28.420 --> 01:05:28.700
Oh yeah. Whip cracks.
01:05:28.748 --> 01:05:29.180
Oh yeah
01:05:29.960 --> 01:05:30.220
Kevin: With?
01:05:30.581 --> 01:05:32.305
Kurt: Yeah with..?
01:05:32.138 --> 01:05:32.473
Jenn: With hope.
01:05:32.305 --> 01:05:32.933
Kurt: Oh yeah.
01:05:32.808 --> 01:05:34.818
Jenn: And I actually like
01:05:35.290 --> 01:05:36.737
twelved
01:05:37.320 --> 01:05:37.912
on it, so.
01:05:37.912 --> 01:05:38.028
Kurt: Nice
01:05:38.028 --> 01:05:38.500
Jenn: Twelved on it?
01:05:38.505 --> 01:05:39.140
John: Twelved on it
01:05:39.352 --> 01:05:39.991
Kurt: Twelved
01:05:40.173 --> 01:05:40.720
on it!
01:05:40.940 --> 01:05:41.375
Geoff: You twelved on a hoe.
01:05:41.375 --> 01:05:42.680
Kevin (singing): You got twelve on it.
01:05:42.840 --> 01:05:43.120
Kurt: Yeah.
01:05:43.120 --> 01:05:43.960
Laughter
01:05:43.960 --> 01:05:45.260
Jenn: That's totally a thing, right?
01:05:45.340 --> 01:05:45.500
Kurt: Yeah.
01:05:47.320 --> 01:05:53.979
Jenn: It actually did six points of damage to any of the ones that were like rushing towards
01:05:53.960 --> 01:05:54.400
them.
01:05:54.880 --> 01:05:56.980
And then it would have shoved them all back.
01:05:57.080 --> 01:05:57.260
Kurt: Yeah,
01:05:57.320 --> 01:05:58.580
that is major damage.
01:05:58.729 --> 01:05:59.341
Kevin: Woo!
01:05:59.500 --> 01:06:00.380
Kurt: Not very strong.
01:06:00.500 --> 01:06:05.580
I’ll say that there’s four around them, and it does major damage to all four
01:06:05.580 --> 01:06:05.860
of them.
01:06:06.160 --> 01:06:09.740
Kevin: Seeing an opening, Zeph’s going to head to the ladder and start making his way up.
01:06:09.740 --> 01:06:09.940
Kurt: Okay,
01:06:10.240 --> 01:06:10.500
yeah.
01:06:11.960 --> 01:06:16.720
As you start climbing the later, you look up. You see Basagar is
01:06:16.720 --> 01:06:17.080
climbing.
01:06:17.340 --> 01:06:21.930
You see Severian that looks like he is climbing up
01:06:22.200 --> 01:06:24.020
the brambles of the vines.
01:06:24.732 --> 01:06:32.760
And there’s shoomp schuff these falling oozes as you climb up. Let’s
01:06:32.760 --> 01:06:33.980
see if one attacks you…
01:06:35.720 --> 01:06:38.580
I don’t think it’s going to hit. Eleven against your evasion?
01:06:39.480 --> 01:06:39.780
Kevin: Me?
01:06:40.120 --> 01:06:40.380
Kurt: Yep.
01:06:40.480 --> 01:06:40.720
Kevin: Yeah
01:06:40.698 --> 01:06:41.260
it’s a hit.
01:06:41.380 --> 01:06:42.340
Kurt: Oh, that’s a hit!
01:06:44.280 --> 01:06:47.965
So instead of making it’s attack, it will use it’s
01:06:47.965 --> 01:06:55.400
envelop. It’ll mark two stress, and you mark additional stress as well.
01:06:56.620 --> 01:07:00.320
And you need to mark an armor slot.
01:07:00.560 --> 01:07:04.780
And whenever you make an action roll, you mark an additional stress.
01:07:05.220 --> 01:07:05.460
Kevin: Okay.
01:07:06.660 --> 01:07:07.780
Zeph (Kevin): It slimed me!
01:07:08.100 --> 01:07:13.360
Kurt: But you are able to- you are not grappled or restrained by any means to any movement.
01:07:13.480 --> 01:07:15.540
It is just slimed on you,
01:07:15.640 --> 01:07:15.780
yeah.
01:07:15.776 --> 01:07:15.908
Zeph: Ewyeahhh.
01:07:15.880 --> 01:07:17.580
Kai: Can I try to get this thing off of me?
01:07:17.800 --> 01:07:18.160
Kurt: You can,
01:07:18.420 --> 01:07:18.660
yeah.
01:07:19.080 --> 01:07:20.220
Kai: I want to try to kill it.
01:07:20.520 --> 01:07:20.980
Kurt: Do it.
01:07:20.980 --> 01:07:22.200
Laughter
01:07:22.200 --> 01:07:23.780
Kai: I would like to murder.
01:07:23.900 --> 01:07:25.400
Luke: How edible does this look, though?
01:07:25.540 --> 01:07:25.700
Kai: Huh?
01:07:25.840 --> 01:07:27.000
Luke: How edible does this look?
01:07:27.730 --> 01:07:28.000
Kai: No.
01:07:28.000 --> 01:07:29.000
Laughter
01:07:29.000 --> 01:07:31.160
Geoff: It's not meat, so not appealing.
01:07:31.340 --> 01:07:32.320
Kai: It hurts my outsides.
01:07:32.380 --> 01:07:33.200
It’ll hurt my insides.
01:07:33.140 --> 01:07:33.308
Geoff: Yeah, really.
01:07:33.220 --> 01:07:34.260
Luke: It’s synthetic meat.
01:07:34.900 --> 01:07:36.200
Jenn: It’s like the worst smoothie.
01:07:36.200 --> 01:07:36.700
Laughter
01:07:36.200 --> 01:07:36.380
Kai: Yeah
01:07:36.380 --> 01:07:40.480
so I just pull my sword and try to slash it apart as much as possible.
01:07:40.825 --> 01:07:41.772
Twelve
01:07:42.044 --> 01:07:43.660
to hit? With fear?
01:07:43.853 --> 01:07:45.220
Kurt: Twelve hits!
01:07:45.520 --> 01:07:46.000
Kai: Oh okay.
01:07:46.400 --> 01:07:47.480
Kurt: So go ahead and and mark that,
01:07:48.285 --> 01:07:49.020
roll your damage.
01:07:49.800 --> 01:07:55.180
See if you can get above to do severe damage here and you’ll free yourself.
01:07:55.440 --> 01:07:58.020
Kai: I’m going to use my bardic thingy-
01:07:58.620 --> 01:07:58.960
Kurt: Nice,
01:07:58.918 --> 01:07:59.560
your rally die?
01:07:59.536 --> 01:08:02.420
Kai: -as well, yeah. Fourteen damage.
01:08:02.620 --> 01:08:03.220
Kurt: That'll do it.
01:08:03.681 --> 01:08:10.160
As you take your sword, slash it. It just peels off
01:08:10.240 --> 01:08:17.420
and what you notice is it doesn't necessarily die, but it slices. You slice it off of it
01:08:17.420 --> 01:08:24.440
and it as you as it marks it’s severe hit points, it splits into two.
01:08:25.692 --> 01:08:34.340
So you see two smaller little oozes fall down capsh capsh at the bottom. Whoever’s still at the bottom,
01:08:34.420 --> 01:08:40.660
you see two small oozes that look like they are a perfect replica of the bigger ones, just half the size.
01:08:40.660 --> 01:08:45.242
Kai: Can I then try to make an agility check to get up there as quickly as possible?
01:08:45.175 --> 01:08:45.309
Kurt: Yeah.
01:08:45.242 --> 01:08:46.320
Kai: While avoiding these things?
01:08:46.440 --> 01:08:46.580
Kurt: Yep.
01:08:51.220 --> 01:08:52.240
Kai: 16 with hope.
01:08:52.600 --> 01:08:54.600
Kurt: 16 with hope. You gain that hope back.
01:08:55.000 --> 01:09:01.140
And you do climb the rest of the way with the bramble
01:09:02.591 --> 01:09:12.900
and avoid the falling green oozes as you're moving around, pushing yourself into the bramble as one tries to reach out and grab you.
01:09:13.923 --> 01:09:26.540
As it reaches out it kind of parachutes itself, starts slowing down a little bit, but then balls itself back up as it misses kppft (water splashing) in the water below.
01:09:27.540 --> 01:09:32.140
Geoff: Seeing no end to these falling, I think I’m going to start following everybody.
01:09:32.320 --> 01:09:40.926
So I'm going to try using my Caprine Leap, try, just jump ledge to ledge to the railing and just kind of watching for them to fall.
01:09:40.849 --> 01:09:41.003
Kurt: Mmhmm.
01:09:40.926 --> 01:09:49.840
Geoff: And try to jump to the opposite side of where they're falling to at least make it more difficult for them to reach me for an attack if possible.
01:09:50.160 --> 01:09:50.260
Kurt: Yeah.
01:09:51.080 --> 01:09:51.340
Yeah,
01:09:51.360 --> 01:09:51.680
let's see.
01:09:51.978 --> 01:09:53.360
Go ahead and make an agility check
01:09:54.452 --> 01:09:57.280
as you do that. I think you have advantage with your
01:09:57.363 --> 01:09:58.128
stuff, right?
01:09:58.111 --> 01:10:01.020
Geoff: I do have advantage with my Ridgeborn.
01:10:03.520 --> 01:10:05.020
23 with fear.
01:10:05.360 --> 01:10:07.140
Kurt: Ooh, 23 with fear.
01:10:07.572 --> 01:10:12.740
With the fear, they are going to still try to attack you, but it's going to be a disadvantage.
01:10:12.975 --> 01:10:16.240
That is a eight against your evasion.
01:10:16.977 --> 01:10:19.480
Geoff: I dodge out of the way
01:10:19.426 --> 01:10:19.735
as
01:10:19.800 --> 01:10:22.120
it reaches at me. Just kind of press myself up against the wall.
01:10:22.120 --> 01:10:24.520
Like I'm hiding, but it works better this time.
01:10:24.520 --> 01:10:24.709
Laughter
01:10:24.709 --> 01:10:29.140
Kurt: Yep. You make your way all the way up to the top without getting hit.
01:10:30.080 --> 01:10:30.480
Beautiful.
01:10:31.166 --> 01:10:39.400
You see more as you, as all of you are at the top, you do see that there is, it does seem like an endless supply of these green oozes.
01:10:39.640 --> 01:10:44.680
I think, Ciaran, you are the last one down.
01:10:44.680 --> 01:10:48.300
Luke: About how high did you say this ladder was?
01:10:48.520 --> 01:10:49.360
Kurt: About 150 feet.
01:10:49.960 --> 01:10:50.220
Luke: Okay.
01:10:51.220 --> 01:10:54.820
I'm just going to step back into the shadow of the tunnel.
01:10:55.230 --> 01:11:04.660
Ponder to myself how weird these last 24 hours have been, having just seen Basagar turn into like this half fungral drider thing.
01:11:05.640 --> 01:11:06.240
Very concerning.
01:11:06.240 --> 01:11:07.280
John: No, fully spider, no drider.
01:11:08.045 --> 01:11:10.880
Luke: You said waist down was your abdomen.
01:11:10.766 --> 01:11:17.480
John His abdomen does look like his mushroom cap in the same color but it's not it's not a mushroom cap.
01:11:18.480 --> 01:11:19.920
Luke: Regardless it's still pretty fucking weird
01:11:19.920 --> 01:11:20.660
John: Oh it's horrific.
01:11:21.253 --> 01:11:25.080
Luke: I'm just going to spend two stress to shadow step all the way up.
01:11:25.300 --> 01:11:25.460
Kurt: Yeah.
01:11:25.460 --> 01:11:25.520
(Bamfing noises of Shadowstepping)
01:11:25.520 --> 01:11:25.860
Geoff: Nice
01:11:26.132 --> 01:11:27.015
Kurt: Yes,
01:11:27.015 --> 01:11:34.700
yep. You shadow step all the way up the top and you guys can easily see that there is brambles that are that kind of cover this.
01:11:34.800 --> 01:11:39.135
But you do see that there is what looks like a makeshift
01:11:39.135 --> 01:11:40.580
ladder that does go up,
01:11:41.496 --> 01:11:43.320
that stops that
01:11:44.142 --> 01:11:48.840
you can see some daylight coming out of the top of this little offshoot.
01:11:49.304 --> 01:11:50.598
But there is a-
01:11:50.517 --> 01:11:52.540
Kevin: Zeph still has an ooze on him.
01:11:52.880 --> 01:11:53.605
And he's like;
01:11:53.605 --> 01:11:55.780
Zeph (Kevin): Get it off, get it off, get it off!
01:11:56.060 --> 01:12:00.100
I got some in my mouth.
01:12:00.260 --> 01:12:01.560
It's horrible.
01:12:02.580 --> 01:12:03.800
John: I'll try to attack it.
01:12:04.140 --> 01:12:04.360
Kurt: Yeah,
01:12:05.385 --> 01:12:06.060
go for it.
01:12:06.007 --> 01:12:06.601
John: I have advantage on attacks.
01:12:06.460 --> 01:12:11.260
The rest of you guys see a looking down at the tunnel.
01:12:11.420 --> 01:12:13.266
You see the source of
01:12:13.266 --> 01:12:15.420
where these green oozes are coming from.
01:12:15.991 --> 01:12:19.866
It is what looks like a massive blob that
01:12:19.866 --> 01:12:22.880
covers the entirety of the tunnel itself
01:12:23.508 --> 01:12:26.087
is slowly just undulating and moving
01:12:26.087 --> 01:12:27.560
its way to you.
01:12:27.640 --> 01:12:31.815
Little blobs of itself is like coming off of it and like getting
01:12:31.815 --> 01:12:33.100
sent down the river.
01:12:33.540 --> 01:12:34.520
Kevin: Must go faster .
01:12:34.520 --> 01:12:36.680
Geoff: And you said there was a ladder out of here?
01:12:36.700 --> 01:12:37.900
Kurt: There is a ladder out of there,
01:12:38.020 --> 01:12:38.220
yes.
01:12:39.456 --> 01:12:40.560
John: 16 with hope.
01:12:41.000 --> 01:12:42.000
Kurt: 16 with hope hits.
01:12:42.180 --> 01:12:42.520
Nice.
01:12:42.780 --> 01:12:42.980
John: Cool
01:12:43.853 --> 01:12:45.320
that's going to be six
01:12:45.900 --> 01:12:47.060
physical damage
01:12:47.260 --> 01:12:54.420
as I bite this slime thing as I'm a still a spider. This target becomes temporarily
01:12:54.420 --> 01:12:54.920
poisoned
01:12:55.240 --> 01:12:58.520
it takes a d10 damage each time they act.
01:12:59.420 --> 01:12:59.900
Kurt: Okay.
01:13:00.616 --> 01:13:03.780
It was not enough to to get rid of him,
01:13:04.433 --> 01:13:07.880
did not take severe damage. But it will act now
01:13:07.844 --> 01:13:08.086
John: Cool.
01:13:08.086 --> 01:13:12.800
Kurt: Well so as it acts go ahead and roll that d10 for me,
01:13:12.860 --> 01:13:20.440
but it does start to corrode as Zeph, you take one d6 plus one.
01:13:20.560 --> 01:13:22.880
So that is four points of magic damage.
01:13:23.640 --> 01:13:25.500
John: And you only take one poison damage,
01:13:25.500 --> 01:13:25.773
one
01:13:26.632 --> 01:13:27.880
magic, or physical damage
01:13:27.940 --> 01:13:28.060
sorry.
01:13:28.220 --> 01:13:31.880
Kurt: As it does its action to corrode,
01:13:33.335 --> 01:13:38.260
you see it almost shiver and lock up,
01:13:38.626 --> 01:13:44.480
then it falls down onto the ground chrshh and then splits into two and starts like wep wep wep wep wep wep
01:13:45.440 --> 01:13:47.200
trying to come.
01:13:48.019 --> 01:13:50.098
Kevin: Zeph’ll
01:13:50.905 --> 01:13:57.492
mark an armor to soak that hit and look down at the two and
01:13:57.660 --> 01:13:58.260
I would be;
01:13:58.260 --> 01:13:58.860
Zeph (Kevin): Fuck that shit.
01:13:58.900 --> 01:14:00.440
Kevin: And he's going to head for that ladder to go up.
01:14:01.269 --> 01:14:04.380
John: I think I will wait for everyone.
01:14:05.244 --> 01:14:08.140
Basagar (John): I have a potential plan to at least slow these things down.
01:14:09.074 --> 01:14:10.460
I'll follow you all up.
01:14:10.804 --> 01:14:13.520
Geoff: Kua is going to jump up the ladder.
01:14:14.200 --> 01:14:17.280
Luke: And I will just wait for them from the shadow of the closest building.
01:14:17.545 --> 01:14:18.295
Kurt: Mmhmm.
01:14:18.580 --> 01:14:18.760
Yeah
01:14:18.760 --> 01:14:22.019
Laughter
01:14:22.019 --> 01:14:26.420
John: As I… I guess everyone kind of funnels up forward.
01:14:27.142 --> 01:14:29.395
I look down with the prince
01:14:29.395 --> 01:14:30.360
still on me.
01:14:30.902 --> 01:14:35.560
And I'm still holding him with one or two of my arm legs.
01:14:37.540 --> 01:14:38.260
Jenn: Arm legs.
01:14:38.560 --> 01:14:39.420
Prince Wilhelm (Kurt): This is weird.
01:14:39.493 --> 01:14:41.000
They'll never believe me.
01:14:41.399 --> 01:14:48.180
John: As I web, I'll just basically block off the path by webbing it all up.
01:14:49.080 --> 01:14:49.560
Kurt: Okay.
01:14:49.401 --> 01:14:49.562
John: And
01:14:49.562 --> 01:14:50.240
then go up.
01:14:50.320 --> 01:14:50.560
Kurt: Yeah.
01:14:50.952 --> 01:14:52.040
John: Climb back up the ladder.
01:14:52.160 --> 01:14:54.280
Kurt: So you create a web down there,
01:14:54.460 --> 01:14:54.720
great!
01:14:56.360 --> 01:14:58.140
John: And I come out of the sewers.
01:14:58.460 --> 01:14:58.760
Kurt: Nice.
01:14:59.140 --> 01:15:01.880
Who's going to be the first one to poke their head up?
01:15:02.400 --> 01:15:03.440
Luke: I mean, I'm already-
01:15:03.440 --> 01:15:04.480
Kurt: You're already up there.
01:15:04.660 --> 01:15:04.820
Jenn: Yeah.
01:15:04.909 --> 01:15:06.598
Kai: I was right behind him.
01:15:06.560 --> 01:15:11.120
Kevin: I think Zeph would be the first one to get up after.
01:15:11.880 --> 01:15:12.240
Jenn: Yeah,
01:15:12.240 --> 01:15:13.460
I would have been right behind him.
01:15:13.560 --> 01:15:15.320
I would have been very eager to get out of the sewer.
01:15:16.180 --> 01:15:16.600
Kurt: Okay.
01:15:16.740 --> 01:15:18.660
Geoff: I think we all follow in pretty short order.
01:15:18.952 --> 01:15:27.720
Kurt: Ciaran, as you see, there are battalions of guards duhduhduhduhduh kind of moving around (armor clunking together).
01:15:27.541 --> 01:15:33.680
It looks like they are running to the gates of, or the stairs
01:15:33.680 --> 01:15:36.887
that are descending down into the Gutterrun.
01:15:37.138 --> 01:15:44.900
It is…they are focused and they don't seem to notice you at all.
01:15:45.111 --> 01:15:48.077
Luke: I'm also hidden purposes of anything
01:15:48.009 --> 01:15:48.509
Crowd and fighting noises
01:15:48.009 --> 01:15:48.280
Kurt: Right,
01:15:48.420 --> 01:15:48.680
yeah,
01:15:48.680 --> 01:15:55.520
so the the sewer entrance itself you can see is on the side of one of the
01:15:55.900 --> 01:15:56.700
main thoroughfares.
01:15:56.860 --> 01:16:02.860
You see hand that come up. You see Severian, you can see his face
01:16:03.433 --> 01:16:04.007
poking through.
01:16:09.053 --> 01:16:14.520
Give me a perceive, let’s see if you can time this
01:16:14.520 --> 01:16:16.560
right as guards are running by.
01:16:19.060 --> 01:16:21.400
Luke: That will be a 19 with hope.
01:16:21.620 --> 01:16:22.240
Kurt: 19 with hope.
01:16:22.698 --> 01:16:25.380
You can see that the guards are heavily distracted.
01:16:26.910 --> 01:16:32.520
Most of the guards are carrying extra arrows, extra ammunition, swords.
01:16:33.197 --> 01:16:35.380
There’s reinforcements coming through.
01:16:35.742 --> 01:16:42.260
You can see on the battlements that guard the walls of
01:16:42.261 --> 01:16:43.699
Lowthorn from Gutterrun
01:16:43.720 --> 01:16:53.100
there are guards and Virelia crown guard here are loosing arrows shhdnk shhdnk shhsnk
01:16:53.100 --> 01:16:56.560
from the top.
01:16:58.645 --> 01:17:02.020
They are indeed preoccupied.
01:17:02.020 --> 01:17:04.400
(Sounds of battle, swords clashing, people running, etc)
01:17:04.400 --> 01:17:04.560
Luke: Yeah
01:17:04.632 --> 01:17:10.540
I’ll wave Severian over and just one by one get everyone into the shadow behind
01:17:10.540 --> 01:17:12.160
the buildings as best as we can.
01:17:12.900 --> 01:17:18.720
And as soon as everyone in comfortably past, I will finally move and follow after them, trying
01:17:18.720 --> 01:17:21.640
to guide them to, well, somewhere else.
01:17:22.480 --> 01:17:22.920
Kurt: Okay.
01:17:23.320 --> 01:17:25.980
John: I don’t think I drop out of spider form unless someone says anything.
01:17:26.225 --> 01:17:33.100
Kurt (Laughing): You’re just a giant spider that is crawling out of this sewer.
01:17:34.520 --> 01:17:36.903
Geoff: I’ll kind of catch up to Ciaran;
01:17:37.100 --> 01:17:37.700
Pi N'kuwa (Geoff): Well now what?
01:17:37.960 --> 01:17:43.460
Luke: He’ll take a glimpse and wave you further behind the buildings.
01:17:45.560 --> 01:17:46.640
Wait until everyone's up.
01:17:47.080 --> 01:17:49.640
Kurt: For those of you that haven't been in Lowthorn yet,
01:17:49.905 --> 01:17:53.960
Lowthorn lies in the shadow of Virelia's spire.
01:17:54.820 --> 01:18:03.280
The district is cramped, full of alleys, leaning tenements and what looks like stalls
01:18:04.492 --> 01:18:09.340
that are housed by artisans and guild members. (Fighting fades, rain, thunder, and pensive music picks up)
01:18:09.340 --> 01:18:16.960
There's artwork and architecture in here that looks very… completely
01:18:16.960 --> 01:18:20.790
different from what you saw down in the Gutterrun.
01:18:21.051 --> 01:18:25.100
Smoke and damp air- smoke and the damp cling in the air,
01:18:25.220 --> 01:18:33.900
the streets hum with tension as the guards are preoccupied with the civil unrest down
01:18:33.900 --> 01:18:35.536
in the Gutterrun.
01:18:35.706 --> 01:18:43.320
You see the laborers and guildsmen are leaving.
01:18:43.460 --> 01:18:45.520
They left their stalls aside.
01:18:46.456 --> 01:18:51.824
You see that the council guard rarely takes notice of you as you
01:18:52.067 --> 01:18:52.889
as
01:18:53.040 --> 01:18:56.160
they are running beside alleyways.
01:18:57.082 --> 01:19:00.560
They have a mission, and the mission is not you at the moment.
01:19:00.560 --> 01:19:02.960
You are hiding in plain sight.
01:19:04.180 --> 01:19:08.660
There are some familiar buildings here.
01:19:08.760 --> 01:19:13.615
There's familiar places that you've seen before, especially
01:19:13.883 --> 01:19:18.300
Seraphina. You notice that…. well let me find it….
01:19:18.340 --> 01:19:20.020
you see The Rusted Piper.
01:19:20.400 --> 01:19:27.640
The Rusted Piper is a, looks like it is a tavern that you’ve played in before,
01:19:27.890 --> 01:19:28.640
a music hall.
01:19:28.800 --> 01:19:34.420
It’s got an auditorium that you’ve been on stage with before.
01:19:34.324 --> 01:19:35.296
Jenn: What is the name of it again?
01:19:35.137 --> 01:19:37.420
Kurt: It is The Rusted Piper.
01:19:38.380 --> 01:19:38.860
Yep.
01:19:40.268 --> 01:19:44.660
But, Zeph, you've heard of this place.
01:19:45.965 --> 01:19:52.000
Some of your friends might have always wanted to come to this place.
01:19:52.039 --> 01:19:54.740
Ciaran, you might know of it as well.
01:19:55.438 --> 01:19:57.380
It is known for its fight pit.
01:19:58.290 --> 01:20:07.540
It is known to have a local gambling ring that you bet and trade on the fights that go in.
01:20:08.127 --> 01:20:11.720
But this is the domicile that you are currently next to.
01:20:12.220 --> 01:20:13.820
Zeph (Kevin): I’ll be damned. Chuckles.
01:20:17.173 --> 01:20:21.486
I didn’t think it would be under these circumstances, but I
01:20:21.800 --> 01:20:23.140
always wanted to go here.
01:20:24.160 --> 01:20:24.880
Seraphina (Jenn): Oh yeah,
01:20:24.940 --> 01:20:26.400
it’s actually not to bad.
01:20:27.166 --> 01:20:29.920
Jenn: Do I remember the name of the owner?
01:20:30.420 --> 01:20:30.720
Kurt: Yeah,
01:20:31.206 --> 01:20:33.400
the owner is Korga the Horn (light and high tone pings).
01:20:34.700 --> 01:20:35.300
Jenn: Corga
01:20:35.520 --> 01:20:36.460
like corgi?
01:20:37.170 --> 01:20:38.720
Kurt: K -o -r -g -a.
01:20:38.801 --> 01:20:39.274
Korga
01:20:39.373 --> 01:20:39.920
the Horn,
01:20:41.193 --> 01:20:41.900
half orc.
01:20:42.260 --> 01:20:42.500
Jenn: Okay.
01:20:42.820 --> 01:20:46.960
Seraphina (Jenn): I mean, do you guys want to duck in here real quick? At least clean ourselves up?
01:20:47.884 --> 01:20:51.180
I avoided the majority of it, but you guys look really dirty.
01:20:51.560 --> 01:20:55.840
Luke: Why don't you go in the back and see if they can get us at least a wash basin or something.
01:20:56.180 --> 01:20:56.460
Seraphina (Jenn): Okay.
01:20:57.120 --> 01:20:59.920
Jenn: And yeah, she'll flit around the back.
01:20:59.920 --> 01:21:04.280
I'm sure there's probably a staff or performers door or whatever.
01:21:04.940 --> 01:21:05.020
Kurt: Yeah.
01:21:05.120 --> 01:21:07.998
Jenn: And she'll just tap and be like;
01:21:07.998 --> 01:21:08.820
Seraphina (Jenn): Korga, hello!
01:21:10.251 --> 01:21:13.380
Kurt: A slide opens up shnnk in the door.
01:21:13.780 --> 01:21:16.940
They kind of look around and then kind of like peer down a little bit.
01:21:16.960 --> 01:21:17.860
Jenn: Well, she would be flying
01:21:17.840 --> 01:21:17.980
up.
01:21:17.920 --> 01:21:18.440
Kurt: You're flying.
01:21:18.560 --> 01:21:18.760
Okay.
01:21:19.223 --> 01:21:22.533
So, you see, this isn't the eyes of Korga.
01:21:22.520 --> 01:21:28.760
You see what looks like human eyes that staring back at you.
01:21:29.140 --> 01:21:29.940
Seraphina (Jenn): Oh, hi.
01:21:30.115 --> 01:21:30.865
Sill (Kurt): Seraphina.
01:21:31.080 --> 01:21:31.400
Seraphina (Jenn): Yeah,
01:21:31.480 --> 01:21:31.640
hi!
01:21:31.660 --> 01:21:32.280
Sill (Kurt): Is that you?
01:21:32.700 --> 01:21:33.100
Seraphina (Jenn): Yeah.
01:21:33.650 --> 01:21:35.400
Things are kind of crazy.
01:21:36.380 --> 01:21:38.940
I was just wondering, is Korga up?
01:21:39.980 --> 01:21:41.360
Sill (Kurt): Yeah, he's up.
01:21:42.036 --> 01:21:44.420
He's… he's getting ready for the next show.
01:21:45.544 --> 01:21:52.460
Seraphina (Jenn): I just have, like, a few friends, and we kind of were, like, you know, you know the
01:21:52.460 --> 01:21:54.340
guards are getting all kinds of crazy.
01:21:54.340 --> 01:21:58.460
So we would just wonder and, like, is it cool if we just come and sit for a sec?
01:21:58.793 --> 01:22:03.120
Kurt: He glances around to your companions and your group.
01:22:04.243 --> 01:22:06.100
Sill (Kurt): What the fuck is that?
01:22:06.620 --> 01:22:09.500
Kurt: Looking at the big ass spider behind you.
01:22:10.680 --> 01:22:11.200
John: Okay
01:22:11.380 --> 01:22:14.700
to clarify, has Wilhelm even like asked to get off yet?
01:22:15.547 --> 01:22:16.080
Kurt: Oh yeah.
01:22:16.140 --> 01:22:16.380
Yeah
01:22:16.460 --> 01:22:20.900
as soon as, like the first time just riding a spider down the street.
01:22:21.496 --> 01:22:25.844
Yeah no the first as soon as he got out of the gutter he was probably like
01:22:26.100 --> 01:22:27.520
shaking himself off.
01:22:27.755 --> 01:22:28.699
Geoff: Kua’s
01:22:28.699 --> 01:22:31.422
is like shaking like a dog next
01:22:31.700 --> 01:22:32.492
to
01:22:32.492 --> 01:22:33.285
him.
01:22:33.285 --> 01:22:39.120
Kevin: Zeph nudges one of Bas's, like, claw with a foot.
01:22:40.355 --> 01:22:46.276
Jenn: I'd like to spend a hope to use my ability Deft Deceiver and be like;
01:22:46.276 --> 01:22:47.460
Seraphina (Jenn): Oh, these guys!
01:22:47.600 --> 01:22:47.940
Yeah,
01:22:47.940 --> 01:22:49.360
I'm working with the new band.
01:22:49.460 --> 01:22:50.400
It's kind of a look.
01:22:50.460 --> 01:22:52.280
We're trying some different stuff out.
01:22:52.440 --> 01:22:53.873
John: And I drop to Basagar.
01:22:53.880 --> 01:22:54.100
Seraphina (Jenn): Yeah.
01:22:54.420 --> 01:22:58.357
It's just, it's performance! Performance art,
01:22:58.520 --> 01:23:00.500
it's getting real big up higher,
01:23:00.580 --> 01:23:02.520
so we thought we would try it out.
01:23:02.680 --> 01:23:03.660
It's no big deal.
01:23:03.800 --> 01:23:04.380
John: I'm her cousin.
01:23:04.860 --> 01:23:05.240
Seraphina (Jenn): Yeah,
01:23:05.280 --> 01:23:07.061
this is my cousin Bas!
01:23:07.200 --> 01:23:09.620
Sill (Kurt): I'm not even going to ask any questions.
01:23:10.127 --> 01:23:12.100
Are you here for the battle ballad?
01:23:12.480 --> 01:23:15.400
Seraphina (Jenn): I mean, we'd love to do a little gambling.
01:23:16.720 --> 01:23:18.400
Sill (Kurt): Oh, I thought you were going to perform.
01:23:18.820 --> 01:23:20.140
Seraphina (Jenn): Oh, I mean.
01:23:21.740 --> 01:23:22.820
Sill (Kurt): You said you were a band.
01:23:23.540 --> 01:23:23.940
Seraphina (Jenn): Absolutely.
01:23:24.220 --> 01:23:26.720
If you guys need entertainment sweetheart, you know, I got you.
01:23:26.880 --> 01:23:27.340
Sill (Kurt): Well, yes,
01:23:27.400 --> 01:23:32.540
just so happens to be that the current band that was scheduled didn't show.
01:23:33.662 --> 01:23:38.580
They were doing something down in Gutterrun today and they haven't been back.
01:23:38.800 --> 01:23:42.280
Geoff: As Kua catches this, his ears just kind of flip backwards.
01:23:43.540 --> 01:23:43.900
Seraphina (Jenn): Yeah,
01:23:44.835 --> 01:23:49.580
literally, there is shit hitting the fan in Gutterrun right now.
01:23:49.720 --> 01:23:50.440
Sill (Kurt): That's what I've heard.
01:23:51.320 --> 01:23:51.640
Seraphina (Jenn): Yeah.
01:23:51.780 --> 01:23:53.760
Sill (Kurt): I wouldn't want to be those morsels down there.
01:23:54.420 --> 01:23:54.720
Seraphina (Jenn): Yeah.
01:23:54.920 --> 01:23:55.760
You and me both.
01:23:56.060 --> 01:23:56.400
Sill (Kurt): All right.
01:23:56.440 --> 01:23:56.820
Well, yeah.
01:23:56.900 --> 01:23:58.580
Kurt: He shuts the slide door.
01:23:58.920 --> 01:24:00.802
He opens the door in. He goes;
01:24:00.802 --> 01:24:01.340
Sill (Kurt): I'm glad.
01:24:01.407 --> 01:24:02.560
Korga's going to be happy.
01:24:02.916 --> 01:24:04.680
We were going to have to make some shit up.
01:24:04.740 --> 01:24:09.240
I think he was going to get on stage to perform. But I'm sure he's going to be glad
01:24:09.240 --> 01:24:09.700
you're here.
01:24:09.800 --> 01:24:14.140
A good old face to bring back some some good, some good times.
01:24:14.260 --> 01:24:15.720
Seraphina (Jenn): You mean a young face!
01:24:16.260 --> 01:24:17.240
Stop it you.
01:24:17.464 --> 01:24:19.015
Sill (Kurt): Uh, yes. Chuckles.
01:24:19.280 --> 01:24:20.260
Seraphina (Jenn): These are my boys.
01:24:20.360 --> 01:24:21.380
This is my band.
01:24:21.580 --> 01:24:21.980
Sill (Kurt): Hey guys,
01:24:22.080 --> 01:24:22.300
welcome.
01:24:22.520 --> 01:24:23.860
Welcome to the Rusted Piper.
01:24:23.860 --> 01:24:25.566
I'm, uh, I'm Sill.
01:24:25.620 --> 01:24:28.280
I used to be one of the fighters here (light and high tone pings).
01:24:28.420 --> 01:24:30.749
I'm long retired, but I'm in training now.
01:24:31.520 --> 01:24:31.690
Zeph (Kevin): Pleasure,
01:24:31.947 --> 01:24:32.630
Sill.
01:24:32.805 --> 01:24:35.800
Sill (Kurt): I don't see… I don't see any instruments.
01:24:35.920 --> 01:24:37.750
What, uh, a cappella?
01:24:37.880 --> 01:24:38.160
Seraphina (Jenn): Yeah,
01:24:38.200 --> 01:24:39.992
they're kind of more backup dances.
01:24:39.940 --> 01:24:42.520
Like I said, like interpretive art.
01:24:42.980 --> 01:24:43.900
It'll be fun.
01:24:43.960 --> 01:24:45.100
You guys will enjoy it.
01:24:45.100 --> 01:24:45.280
Thunder booms.
01:24:45.280 --> 01:24:45.980
Sill (Kurt): Oh, good,
01:24:46.340 --> 01:24:46.520
good.
01:24:46.580 --> 01:24:47.920
Well, come on in.
01:24:48.220 --> 01:24:49.560
Get yourselves cleaned up.
01:24:49.620 --> 01:24:50.800
You all smell like shit.
01:24:51.800 --> 01:24:52.200
Seraphina (Jenn): Yeah.
01:24:52.200 --> 01:24:53.594
Zeph: Much appreciate it.
01:24:53.700 --> 01:24:55.040
Kurt: And you guys walk in.
01:24:55.566 --> 01:25:01.880
You hear the cacophony of what sounds like drinks being slung.
01:25:02.305 --> 01:25:05.280
You hear people chittering and chattering.
01:25:05.280 --> 01:25:06.121
(People cheering, talking, and drinking)
01:25:06.121 --> 01:25:13.380
It looks like that this is a room, or building at The Rusted Piper.
01:25:13.540 --> 01:25:17.780
These folks may be none the wiser on the chaos that's going outside.
01:25:18.389 --> 01:25:25.580
But, the crown jewel in The Rusted Piper is the gladiator pit itself.
01:25:25.780 --> 01:25:34.620
A sunken fighting pit about 50 feet wide by, you know, about 60 feet long, a rectangle.
01:25:35.035 --> 01:25:48.740
But on the very end is going to be your stage. A stage that overlooks the pit. It's acoustically sound for everything to just baffle over the pit
01:25:48.740 --> 01:25:54.600
and everybody is gearing up for what looks like is some type of an event.
01:25:54.928 --> 01:25:56.556
Kurt: Sill goes;
01:25:56.556 --> 01:25:59.320
Sill (Kurt): Yeah, I'll go get Korga for you.
01:25:59.378 --> 01:25:59.801
Seraphina (Jenn): Thanks.
01:25:59.842 --> 01:26:01.208
Sill (Kurt): You know the drill.
01:26:01.086 --> 01:26:01.671
Seraphina (Jenn): Absolutely. We’re professionals, we’ll make sure.
01:26:01.549 --> 01:26:03.940
Sill (Kurt): Yeah, just go to the green room.
01:26:05.300 --> 01:26:11.240
Please clean yourselves up first. But, welcome to The Rusted Piper.
01:26:11.580 --> 01:26:13.580
What's your name?
01:26:14.640 --> 01:26:18.320
Seraphina (Jenn): Oh, it's Seraphina and the Warriors. (Light and high tone pings)
01:26:19.200 --> 01:26:20.276
Sill (Kurt): The Roiders?
01:26:20.380 --> 01:26:21.120
Seraphina (Jenn): The Warriors.
01:26:21.560 --> 01:26:22.760
Sill (Kurt): Ah, the Warriors,
01:26:22.790 --> 01:26:23.249
got
01:26:23.249 --> 01:26:23.708
ya.
01:26:23.800 --> 01:26:26.000
Seraphina (Jenn): You know, because it fits the theme, right,
01:26:26.020 --> 01:26:26.640
with the fighting.
01:26:26.980 --> 01:26:27.120
Yeah.
01:26:27.140 --> 01:26:28.040
It's good, isn't it?
01:26:28.300 --> 01:26:28.680
Sill (Kurt): Yeah.
01:26:28.680 --> 01:26:29.060
All right.
01:26:29.120 --> 01:26:31.480
Well, we'll announce you whenever you're ready.
01:26:32.180 --> 01:26:32.540
Seraphina (Jenn): Okay.
01:26:32.640 --> 01:26:33.300
Thanks, sweetheart.
01:26:33.300 --> 01:26:35.480
Jenn: And we'll go clean ourselves up.
01:26:35.820 --> 01:26:40.240
Kurt: As dread falls over everybody in the party-
01:26:40.380 --> 01:26:40.860
Kevin: Oh, wait.
01:26:40.978 --> 01:26:41.452
Kurt: Ope.
01:26:41.580 --> 01:26:42.020
Kevin: Real quick.
01:26:42.111 --> 01:26:42.512
Kurt: Yep.
01:26:42.620 --> 01:26:43.360
Kevin: Who's low on hope?
01:26:44.800 --> 01:26:45.480
John: No, we're good.
01:26:45.855 --> 01:26:46.620
Jenn: I’m pretty good,
01:26:46.700 --> 01:26:48.180
I’m only down one.
01:26:49.440 --> 01:26:49.880
Kurt: That was a-
01:26:49.843 --> 01:26:50.210
Luke: I need to spend some. Laughs.
01:26:50.000 --> 01:26:53.460
Geoff: I mean, I can use some… three
01:26:54.060 --> 01:26:54.340
hope.
01:26:54.600 --> 01:26:54.760
Kurt: Yeah,
01:26:55.052 --> 01:26:55.795
prayer
01:26:55.795 --> 01:26:56.538
dice.
01:26:56.800 --> 01:26:58.780
Yeah, that was a low rolling episode there, y’all.
01:26:58.840 --> 01:27:01.940
Kevin: And I'm going to use my rally die to clear stress.
01:27:02.100 --> 01:27:02.480
Kurt: Nice.
01:27:02.480 --> 01:27:02.900
Yeah.
01:27:02.725 --> 01:27:03.080
Kevin: I’m gonna fricken use this.
01:27:02.980 --> 01:27:03.520
Jenn: Don't forget.
01:27:03.640 --> 01:27:04.820
Luke: I will do the same thing.
01:27:05.560 --> 01:27:05.920
John: Okay,
01:27:06.080 --> 01:27:06.280
yeah,
01:27:06.280 --> 01:27:06.940
I guess I will.
01:27:06.925 --> 01:27:07.061
Kevin: And
01:27:07.061 --> 01:27:08.420
I'm at least cleared of all stress.
01:27:08.760 --> 01:27:08.960
Geoff: Sweet.
01:27:09.460 --> 01:27:09.980
Let's go.
01:27:10.600 --> 01:27:10.840
Kurt: Okay.
01:27:10.840 --> 01:27:15.245
Geoff: Are we in a position with cleaning up, getting prepped and ready,
01:27:17.024 --> 01:27:19.147
to get a short rest?
01:27:21.940 --> 01:27:22.340
Kurt: Yeah,
01:27:22.340 --> 01:27:22.550
I
01:27:22.739 --> 01:27:23.328
could
01:27:23.554 --> 01:27:24.240
see how that would work.
01:27:24.480 --> 01:27:26.739
Geoff: After we take a minute to just, I look as Seraphina and go;
01:27:26.700 --> 01:27:27.380
Pi N'kuwa (Geoff): What the fuck!?
01:27:27.380 --> 01:27:28.960
Laughter
01:27:28.960 --> 01:27:30.060
Zeph (Kevin): What are we going to do?!
01:27:30.180 --> 01:27:31.940
Ciaran (Luke): I’m never letting a thespian talk
01:27:31.961 --> 01:27:32.632
ever again.
01:27:32.632 --> 01:27:33.132
Laughter
01:27:32.632 --> 01:27:32.967
Seraphina (Jenn): Look-
01:27:32.700 --> 01:27:34.440
Basagar (John): I’m confused
01:27:34.680 --> 01:27:35.260
are we fighting?
01:27:35.840 --> 01:27:36.520
Seraphina (Jenn): No we’re not
01:27:36.680 --> 01:27:37.280
we’re performing.
01:27:37.940 --> 01:27:40.360
But, this is better than on the street.
01:27:40.780 --> 01:27:44.440
The guards aren’t going to come in here and fuck with us because Korga runs a tight ship.
01:27:44.502 --> 01:27:46.674
Zeph (Kevin): Until they throw us on our
01:27:46.871 --> 01:27:47.571
ear!
01:27:47.571 --> 01:27:48.271
Seraphina (Jenn): Sweetheart,
01:27:48.494 --> 01:27:50.780
I’m gonna sing, there not throwing us out.
01:27:50.940 --> 01:27:54.280
Ciaran (Luke): When we look them all of their business they’re not going to be so appreciative of us.
01:27:55.400 --> 01:27:57.360
Seraphina (Jenn): You guys haven’t heard me sing yet.
01:27:58.140 --> 01:27:58.740
Don’t worry,
01:27:58.920 --> 01:27:59.700
we got this.
01:28:00.063 --> 01:28:00.954
Zeph: Better be really good.
01:28:00.981 --> 01:28:01.256
Ciaran (Luke): There
01:28:01.256 --> 01:28:01.940
is no ‘we’.
01:28:03.360 --> 01:28:04.240
Seraphina (Jenn): Oh yeah,
01:28:04.440 --> 01:28:05.620
there’s gonna be a we.
01:28:05.620 --> 01:28:06.800
Ciaran (Luke): Because you made it a we!
01:28:07.520 --> 01:28:11.000
Seraphina (Jenn): Well I had to come up with a reason for you guys to be here.
01:28:11.840 --> 01:28:12.300
Look, I-
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Ciaran (Luke): You could have said literally anything else.
01:28:15.180 --> 01:28:15.500
Zeph: Literally!
01:28:16.040 --> 01:28:17.680
Seraphina (Jenn): What would you have suggested?
01:28:17.840 --> 01:28:19.440
What would you have done in my place?
01:28:19.880 --> 01:28:24.893
Ciaran (Luke): You could have said, even just guards! Escorting you from the Gutterrun.
01:28:25.100 --> 01:28:25.700
Zeph (Kevin): That’s good.
01:28:26.300 --> 01:28:28.680
Ciaran (Luke): We literally just crawled through shit to get you here.
01:28:30.860 --> 01:28:32.580
Seraphina (Jenn): I mean you have a point.
01:28:32.641 --> 01:28:36.600
Alright Ciaran, I see that that would probably have been an option.
01:28:36.980 --> 01:28:39.100
But I just wasn’t thinking about that.
01:28:39.880 --> 01:28:40.540
Don’t worry!
01:28:40.540 --> 01:28:41.880
Ciaran (Luke): I hope they can provide instruments at least.
01:28:42.420 --> 01:28:44.980
Seraphina (Jenn): Oh you guys don’t need to play instruments.
01:28:45.380 --> 01:28:52.940
You’ll just kind of be behind me and just sort of, I don't know, follow my lead.
01:28:53.020 --> 01:28:53.700
It'll be fine.
01:28:53.697 --> 01:28:55.060
Ciaran (Luke): So we're a band without instruments?
01:28:55.540 --> 01:28:58.635
Seraphina (Jenn): No, you're my backup dancers.
01:28:58.900 --> 01:29:00.260
Ciaran (Luke): That were described as a band.
01:29:01.400 --> 01:29:04.840
Seraphina (Jenn): Well, I mean, you could clap?
01:29:04.840 --> 01:29:07.360
Basagar claps three times.
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Seraphina (Jenn): See, there you go.
01:29:08.780 --> 01:29:10.360
See, Bas has got it!
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Kurt: Okay.
01:29:13.720 --> 01:29:14.340
All right.
01:29:14.440 --> 01:29:22.320
As we take a short rest, getting ready for your performance.
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We'll end it there.
01:29:25.760 --> 01:29:28.720
Find out what happens next episode.
01:29:28.960 --> 01:29:32.800
See if this performance is going to be a smash or trash.
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Laugher and groans
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Kevin: Oh boy
01:29:35.200 --> 01:29:36.800
Geoff: You already know the answer.
01:29:37.040 --> 01:29:37.880
You already know.
01:29:37.775 --> 01:29:38.195
Luke: Throwing us right into the fire
01:29:38.080 --> 01:29:38.380
Kurt: Yeah.
01:29:38.560 --> 01:29:42.600
So that one could have went several different ways, different directions.
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Somehow I am thoroughly happy you guys ended up here.
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Outro music of rock begins
01:29:50.520 --> 01:29:51.900
Kurt: Absolutely amazing.
01:29:54.800 --> 01:29:55.040
Jenn: Oh my god
01:29:55.040 --> 01:29:57.120
we still have the fucking prince with us!
01:29:57.061 --> 01:29:58.060
Kurt: Yep. You got the prince,
01:29:58.300 --> 01:29:59.120
you got two princes…
01:29:59.540 --> 01:30:01.140
you got three princes! Chuckles.
01:30:01.140 --> 01:30:04.420
Sighs from party members
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Kurt: Yeah.
01:30:04.824 --> 01:30:06.580
Geoff: Issava didn't come with us, right?
01:30:06.700 --> 01:30:07.310
He split off to
01:30:07.310 --> 01:30:07.411
go find…?
01:30:07.411 --> 01:30:07.615
Jenn: We sent him off.
01:30:07.580 --> 01:30:07.700
Kurt: No
01:30:07.700 --> 01:30:08.120
no no,
01:30:08.260 --> 01:30:10.140
he was looking for Angelica.
01:30:10.380 --> 01:30:10.600
Jenn: Yeah.
01:30:12.620 --> 01:30:14.360
Kurt: But we will end it there
01:30:14.420 --> 01:30:17.040
like we said. Make sure you tune in next time.
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Find out how well this band does.
01:30:20.096 --> 01:30:21.260
Seraphina and the Warriors,
01:30:21.460 --> 01:30:22.000
let's go!
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Thanks for listening to Tales by Daggerlight.
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Again I'm your GM, Kurt Wild.
01:30:29.360 --> 01:30:32.540
This has been… an interesting episode.
01:30:33.720 --> 01:30:34.340
Thanks y’all!
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Byes from party members
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Luke: The fucking Cunderthats!
01:30:39.560 --> 01:30:40.280
Kurt: I know!
01:30:42.180 --> 01:30:44.340
As soon as you said that I was like ‘No way!
01:30:45.340 --> 01:30:46.260
No way.’
01:30:46.253 --> 01:30:47.887
John: I’m never letting the bard.
01:30:47.860 --> 01:30:49.748
Jenn: That’s crazy, we weren’t even there.
01:30:49.780 --> 01:30:50.520
Kai: No, I know!
01:30:53.520 --> 01:30:55.460
Kevin (sing): I got twelve on it!
Music / SFX Licensing
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Track/playlist details
- Welcome Music - LNDÖ / Billionaires (Instrumental)
- Heroic Sponsor Music - Reveille / Street Cred (Background Vocals)
- Intro Music - Kai Bittner, Tales by Daggerlight Theme Music
- Outro Music - LNDÖ / Octane (Instrumental)
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Daggerheart Notice
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