 Today, the Pilgrims of Satya arrive in Tigermura. It's about late afternoon to mid-evening, and a populous Tigermura is a populous and hardy town born from the kingdom's most prominent adventurers guild. One that has provided not only protection and service to Tigermura and its people, but also to any of those traveling nearby. For even the outer edges of the Sarcophorus are home to a myriad of wild beasts and monsters in peak power thanks to the enhanced resources courtesy of Quarencia, the Life Tree. Just as it provides sustenance to civilization, it provides sustenance to the wild, untamed nature that surrounds it. Grander plants, a wider variety of foods, stronger animals, and thus powerful, dangerous creatures become a natural part of the ecosystem the closer one gets to the tree. It makes one wonder, who besides those seeking true danger would want to live in a place flanked on one side by the creatures of the Sarcophorus, and on the other the blot-ridden wastelands of Odiocia? Perhaps we'll find out. But yes, you arrive at the train station, and you get off the station along with the rest of your companions, the two horses, butterscotch and efficiency, as well as the engineer Byron, Judea, and El Coco. The two other engineers assisting Byron choose to stay inside the engine room to assess the damages. All the while, a bit of a crowd has surrounded the station, since this is the only time the train has ever been used since it was built. Move you over. You will find yourselves at the bottom right. Welcome to Tigamura. Oh, it's so cozy. It's like a cul-de-sac and a half. You know what it reminds me of? And this is really fucking vague. Terraria, is it Terraria where you find the little like, is it Terraria or is it Starbound, where you find the little like mini gnome villages? Oh, I don't know. Probably Starbound. It reminds me of that panel again, whatever. It's beautiful. It's adorable. I love it. A week well spent. Quick question, is it the next day's worth of Butterscotch's Lake Lacan? I would say one more kind of application of it, and Butterscotch should be back to full performance. We're on the same page then. And as mentioned last session, she has taken quite a liking to you, thanks to your administrations. Yes. Oh, that's right. Yes. So you may notice I'll point this out for your benefit as well. You don't need to ask around where things are. The big building right here, right in front of the train, that the train is in threat of running over, is the official building. You can see that the Alinti Sigil is kind of on a flag out front on it. There is an alchemist's workshop here, a blacksmith here, an enchanter here. The adventurer's guild is this big building with the kind of bulletin board here. There is a stable in which to leave your horses and have someone take care of them. The yellow roofed building is the healer's hut. There's a market district over here where people are selling just various general goods. The largest building with the sort of neutral brown toned roof is the inn and tavern. Over here to the left with the kind of shield and sword plaque is the Alinti official guard. This little building with the bell tower is their temple for general gods worship, for no particular god specifically. Over here, these various colorful buildings is the residential district where the civilians of Tigermura reside. This is so adorable. Didn't mention the graveyard that I see here. It is a graveyard, you know, they got to bury their dead somewhere. Uh-huh. But yes, you get off the train and Byron actually walks up to you guys. Let me find his portrait in this. There he is. Byron walks up to you and he looks a little beat up but he kind of walks up to you and extends a hand to whoever will take it. Probably Pritz. He's going to take the hand. Me? Okay, I guess I'll take the hand. He actually saved his life so like. You took his hand. I took his hand. Off. Clean off. So he shakes a firm shake. Well, it's going to be a bit before we can get this thing back to Pelitrios and we'll have to send out a recovery team to make sure that there's nothing left on the tracks for us to ram into. So it looks like we got our work cut out for us but either way, I can't express my thanks enough for saving my hide and my helpers. Yes, if you happen to find a cart in the, you know what, it's all right. Well, we'll make sure to salvage what we can't. I mean, it's got to be on the rail somewhere. Hopefully. Yeah, I'm sure it's fine. I don't know about you guys but I think I'm going to try to make this whole cart situation right. I mean, obviously we're not going to find the exact thing that we need. It's not going to be the same but hopefully somewhat comparable. So is there someone we're going to be checking in with or? Jaday walks up and as Byron bids you, he goes back into the engine room and I will say that he will be in town for the next couple of days as well since, you know, like he said, he needs to recover the train. So if you need anything from him, he will still be here and Jaday walks up to you guys and she kind of looks around and just like, yeah. Yeah. There should be last, elven last with a blue hair to meet you in a little bit. This town isn't exactly under a lot of Elinthean jurisdiction. It's fairly independent and runs by itself. In fact, they don't even take a lot of coin here. Just a lot of barter and train. Oh, that's a bummer. That's not to say coin can't be made. It's just maybe not as much as you might be used to. But it's a nice town even besides that and usually my favorite stop on my pilgrimages. In fact, I think I might go to the inn and get a drink. It's quite charming already. Yes. A drink? You're free to join me later if you'd like. And I also wanted to bring up one last thing before we depart for a little bit. Knowing what you know now, you know, the whole La Districtora thing, I personally was having a lot of fun, but understandable if you don't want to keep the act up. I just thought with all the seriousness going on with your pilgrimage, it might be good to keep up the lighter mood and take your mind off things. But if you're not interested, that's totally understandable. I know not everyone's in the mood for, you know, Saturday morning hijinks and children's stories, but the offer still stands. If you're saying that you want to take El Coco away from us, it won't let you. El Coco is like staring at you, just like panting, just breathing in and out, tongue out, and wagging his tail profusely. I give him a small ration for my expensive horse treats. Before it's like even halfway to his face, he just home his entire mouth over your hand. Truly formidable. I try to keep a straight face as I slowly rip it out of his drooling arm. Yeah, there's drool all over your hand. And he gives you a little lick on the cheek. He's perfect. The other side, so you're symmetrical. No. Pull out like a handkerchief, wipe it down. Jaday kind of looks to you, take him away from you now. Oh, well, I'll have you know that El Coco and I have been through more than I can even count. And if you want him to take him away from me, well, you're going to have to face a spear mightier than even La Distractora could wield. I support this. She leans in. Yes, then. It's a yes for me. Very well. I simply think it would be funny. She puts her helmet back on, weighs an incantation. Then I will see you at our next encounter pilgrims. Come, El Coco. We leave these fools to their demise. Fritz, where did La Distractora come from? I don't know. She's kidnapped. She's kidnapped. It appeared. It's near to magic. I hope Jaday is still interested in getting drinks this evening either way. Yeah. Oh, that would be such a bummer if she left all of her drinks to me. Oh, no. Hopefully she survives to see that long. El Coco, with me. And she just hops down from the like two foot tall platform that you guys are on and does a superhero landing. Great. And then runs off towards the tavern. Incredible. That was terrifying. How long have you ever survived this overwhelming threat? My feathers are on the ends. So how long are we thinking we're going to stay here? You hear a soft voice speak out. Not too long, I hope. And you are approached by an elven woman. Don't tell me, with blue hair? With blue hair, yes. No way. And she seems to be in some alinty kind of official uniform, as you've seen in the kind of Lord's offices. And she gives a cordial bow as the crowd starts to dissipate a little bit and go back to their duties after admiring the train. She gives a cordial bow. And... Alejandra. Oh, she's pretty. She's got big fire emblem energy. Yeah. Good afternoon, pilgrims. Let me welcome you to Tigamura. Good afternoon. I will admit, we were not exactly expecting you to make it here by train, considering it hasn't really been sanctioned by the Lords yet. But it's nothing you need to worry about. You won't be fined for, or imprisoned for, daring to deliver the dragon hearts at a faster pace. This is something squarely to be handled between Lord Euphrasia and the others, as well as potentially Dragon Sergei, seeing as he's responsible for the railroad. Oh, it would be just awful if Lord Euphrasia got in trouble on hard count. That would be... considering she was so helpful in getting this train arranged for us, it would just be heartbreaking if she suffered some form of legal consequence for her actions. Yeah, she even spent finances from the city to get us over here. Yeah. We didn't really even want to take the train. That's payers money. We were going to go, and she was like, you guys got to get on this train now. I hope she's not taking advantage of that kind dragon. Look, I'm not putting words or actions in her mouth, but there was definitely a lot of gold we had to lose on the way here in that backcourt. We brought that up to her, and she said, it's nothing that the taxpayers can't handle is what she said. So I don't know. Are you guys being sincere when you're saying this, or...? I was! I'm trying to. Yeah, yeah, yeah. With a Leira. Give me a Charisma check. Just straight Charisma. Oh God, why? Come on, Leira. Go, Leira, go! A Charisma champion. First rule of the night. Yeah! Well, okay. Hey. I keep forgetting I have a plus too. She just like, you see that she has some discomfort at just the aggression that you've had in saying all that about Lord Euphrasia. Oh, perhaps there is some strife that I was not aware of. I will not cry, but I have something worth looking into then. Um, do you believe that it is a certain concern that I should take up with the other Lords? Hmm, well, I certainly wouldn't want to discomfort anyone. We got here, and that's really what matters, but, you know, the businesses of Lords is a little bit above our pay grade as it were. Yes, but the Lords do take their work very seriously. If there are concerns or complaints about how they go about their work, I think it's within everybody's interest that the people of Elinti are happiest and that their wishes are her. I mean, as a pilgrim of Satya who is technically above the Lords, I really think that she has not been doing a good job. Well, I could write you a list, but I can't. We were there for a limited time. They saw a small amount of her operation, although much of it did seem to be going on beyond closed doors that we had very little access to. Who's to say what's going on in the Lords' heads after all? Probably human trafficking. That's some accusations! I'm not going to keep that on record, as I assume that is a jest, but... Yes, word, very much a jest, I assume. If I would hope too. If more transparency is what is requested, then I perhaps can feed it up the vine and see how the Lords handle that feedback. It would be great kindness. I don't mean to, I guess, pry, but do they listen? I don't know if we've been properly introduced. Are you someone that the Lords would listen to, if you had asked them for more transparency? Well, I would hope so. I've been appointed by Lord Nicholas Tehero himself, and I quite believe in his work. I understand he's not got the best reputation, especially for those from Satya's. You have a different way of running things, but I promise he's only got the best of the kingdom at heart, the best of interests. Oh yes, he was quite helpful, giving us a card to aid our journey and everything. I noticed that you did not travel here with it. Well, yeah, I think there's an issue. We ran into some trouble along the way. It's a dangerous job being a pilgrim, and somehow we've misplaced the car. I think that's probably the most afterward to use is misplaced. I'm reasonably sure we know where it is. We know where, okay, we know where it is. Technically. We don't have it. We don't have it. We don't have the car. We don't have the car. I lost the car. And that is unfortunate, but accidents happen. There have been more reports of more blood attacks recently, so it is understandable that you, having the hearts of Olympi, would possibly attract unduly characters. I turn around to Fritz Lahren and word, yes, I see it is completely understandable that the cart could be lost in the performance of our duties. I would agree with that. Of course. 100%. I mean, it happened. It would be strange if it weren't an understandable thing. Seeing as it was Lord Taharo's property, I can put in a request for him to possibly produce another one for you once you make it to Trevissetta. No, we'll just grab a different one. Are you sure? The traversal of these carts makes, you know, Olympi's environments pretty much a breeze. Well, we wouldn't want to put them out. And no, I mean, you could bill them later. We just don't want to put it on the tab. Yeah, very well done. Like an invoice. Perhaps by the time we reach Trevissetta, we'll have changed our minds, but there's no need to put yourself out on our account. Is there a place where we can, if we needed to procure some type of traveling equipment, just for the purposes of making it to Trevissetta? Well, this is the town of adventurers, and you can certainly stock up on supplies that will allow you to travel, as they do a lot of that here. But I will say that much as I would like to help and assist as Olympi officers can provide, Tigermura is fairly independent and Trevissetta's jurisdiction, so I can only pull so many strings. I'm not even the one in charge of this town, really, but the Lord still wants to have some presence and observation in the various peoples of Olympi. So closest thing to any sort of governor seems to be the leader of the adventurers guild as the majority of the town sprung up around it. So if you need anything to help you with your traveling supplies, other than a simple message, that is, you best head there. Well, thank you. You're going to be, so then you, are you just here to see us into the town, or do you live here? More or less, I do live here, yes, and just here to keep track of your progress as well. I also received a missive that you will have visitors tomorrow by way of our officers' teleportation circles from Sacia, yes? Yes, yes, a few of our friends will be visiting. Indeed, well, tomorrow morning you may see some very familiar faces. Are there any further questions you may have for me? Yeah, what is there to do around here? This is the town of adventurers, my friend. There's plenty to do. Always work, always crafters, always people looking to assist and be assisted. If you simply turn the corner, there's probably someone around there that is willing to give you a job or give you a gift. But otherwise, if you do need me, I will be in that building over there positioned right in front of the massive train that is only held back by a wall of crystals channeling gravity magics, of which I am still on edge about the reliability. The architects of this town have an interesting sense of humor. Which came first, the building or the railroad? About at the same time, seeing as the railroad was to be constructed and give travel to the different provinces, the Lords demanded that we have some sort of oversight on the places that it would be stopping. The town responded in kind in the position they've decided to build it. I see. I love this place. Well, we'll definitely make sure we stop in with you before we decide to head out to Treveseta. Yes. Very good. And I do hope you'll stay here as well, Kokens. Apologies again for the trouble. All right. Welcome to Tigimira, and she gives another bow and walks off towards the official building. All right. She said to go in that direction for something to do. Let's drop off the horses first, maybe, and then we can check out the adventure skill. Yes. All right. All right. All right. You guys are going to head to the stables then. Yeah, let's do it. Yeah, help on Butterscotch. All right. Yep, Butterscotch and Efficiency. Walk along with you guys to the stables where you can see that there is a warforge tending to various creatures, mounts like a couple of axe beaks, a full-grown cow, a mastiff, and some smaller ones like hunting dogs, particularly bouncy ooze. Looks like a slime and a jackalope. Huh. Just kind of in a small pen, kind of just hanging out. The warforge tending to the animals is dressed in what looks to be kind of typical farmer's wear and a small straw hat decorated with a flower commonly found around Tigimira that you can find just in the grass around. And the warforge greets you in a voice akin to an elderly woman. Huh. Oh, good afternoon, dearies. Do you require a home for your precious horses? They look awfully spooked. My name is Prickly Pear. I run stables. Like, yes, we were hoping to house our horses here for the duration. Oh, of course, dearies. Oh, goodness. Oh, they look incredibly tired and scared. What happened? A lot. And I like lean down and give Butterscotch a kiss. Our train was accosted on the way here and the horses had a rather narrow escape. Oh. Thankfully. Bless the gods. No harm came of you all. And look at the precious things. They don't have a scratch on them. Oh, you take good care. These beautiful things I can tell. Oh, she looks over at Butterscotch. This one looks like it's got a bad leg. Oh, but you've been tending to it. Oh, that's so sweet, deary. She grabs you by the cheek word and just kind of squeezes it and pulls it. You've been a good horse wrangler, haven't you? Are you the one that has a gift for me? For taking good care of these horses, the best gift that I can do is take them off your hands and make sure that they are well rested. Yes, word. I believe she was speaking rather metaphorically. I don't think we're likely to encounter random people handing us gifts. That was such a literal statement, though. That's fair. I think I maybe trust this lady. I hand her like one of the reins. Oh, well, thank you. Not to worry. I will take care of the babies. I love her. This is so precious. This is how I talk about my dog. All right. What sort of stabling fate are we dealing with here? You can see there's plenty of space. There's a few open spots that... Oh, fee, you said. Yeah, how much money are we paying? So when you do offer her, she just holds her hand up. Oh, no, dearie. Like I said, for taking care of these ones, that's all the payment I could ask for. All I ask is that you take care of our town, just like we will take care of you. Certainly. Fair enough. That's kind of our end goal. They will be in better shape than when you see them today. Good, what is that icon on you? Oh, I feel terrible. Oh, oh, yes. Oh, yeah, we're still poisoned, aren't we? Are we poisoned? Oh, yeah, you guys are poisoned. Yeah. Yeah, we haven't had a long rest since last combat. Oh, boy, do you get... Should we stop by the healers first? I'll be fine after a good night's sleep. As long as they have a rest. Yes, I will take care of you if you require any administrations. He's an elven lad, very sweet. Maybe it would be worth a little visit. Yeah, what was that lady's name? Prickly Pear. Prickly Pear. Prickly Pear. And then I, I-COR was the... I-K-R, I-K-E-R. I-K-E-R, I-K-R. I-K-R. Is that a healing guy? Can we go to the enchantment area? The enchantment area. Maybe, I mean, we can split up if you want, but I think maybe we should all introduce ourselves to the Adventures Guild people first. Oh, yeah, that's a good idea. Seeing as they're kind of the people who run this town, I guess. Let's take the most difficult thing they have on the menu. Right, I don't- Let's knock down the killer's hut. We are already doing- Yeah, yeah. I can't imagine there's much on that board that's more difficult than the job we are currently doing, but sure, let's, let's just go there. How about that? We're wide-stepping and holding his liver confidently. I'm very nervous the word's gonna throw up. I'm walking behind him. Did you eat another egg? All right. No, they fed one to me. So you head to the healer's hut, yeah? Oh, I think we're gonna head to Guild first. Oh, Guild first. Yeah, Guild first. Okay, so you head to the Guild, and you can see that there is a human man outside. Actually, when you do head to the Guild, you not only see human men, you see a human woman looking at the board, kind of looking up and down, kind of among a few other- to be adventurers, but buck, you actually recognize this woman. It is a humanoid woman of some kind. She seems to be dressed in some kind of combat gear with a long bow resting across her chest, and when she kind of takes a quest from the board, turns around, locks eyes with you, she perks up, and suddenly starts to power walk your direction. Oh, no. Excuse me, guys. I think I left something back on the train, and I'm gonna- Can I walk the other way? Stop crying there! I stopped my drink. She walks past the rest of you without even taking a glance, goes up to you, buck, grabs you on the shoulder, and turns you around, and the bright glare of her golden eyes shine on you as if it were a blessing, or in this case, the curse of Lady Luck herself. Oh, God. Huh? It's Pamiel Masante. And she just goes, you! Oh, Pam! It's great to see you. I'm gonna lay over to friends and be like, okay, another ex-wife, perhaps, or- Nah, buck doesn't get around. She turns around to hear you say, another? No, I'm being quiet! Actually, her hearing is really good. No! She turns back to buck, another! How many are there? So was I right? Look, this- Wait, another! Look, it's not important. I think we got off on the wrong foot here. I don't know if you heard me say, Pam, it's good to see you again. That was me trying to kind of, you know, get back another good- Got off on the wrong foot. If you are lucky, you will have feet left over when you leave this town. What? I told you to never come to Trevisetta again after what you did, and you have the nerve to start waltzing that way, like you got a vacation home waiting for you there. It's- I'm doing- Pam, I'm doing something important. I've turned around. I've found- I'm a pilgrim. I'm a pilgrim. She now has her eyes and squints, looks to the rest of the other three. You're this decade's pilgrim? The best ones out of all the decades. One of, yeah. She scrunches her face, she looks like she's gonna throw up. I'm surprised you could see so far past your nose enough to not fall off the boat over here. Look, it was difficult. I get it. I completely understand that you're upset, and I get it. And I'm like looking for it to like word in Fritz and Leira. What is going on? What do you want me to say? Are you a ladies' man? This is word in Fritz and Leira. Give me pleasure. Give me a persuasion check to try and change the subject. Yeah. Persuasion. I can't believe Buck is this bad with me. She just turns back as you are introducing them. You three, you are with this man? Yes. Well, let me warn you, he may seem like he's got your best interests at heart, but you make one wrong move and you'll be lucky if a dog pisses on you. It'll still be more respectful than whatever this idiotic ulterior motive's bastard this brickhead has got in his empty jar head of his. Hey, look, now that's a little brutal. She turns around. There's several loops. She turns around, just puts a finger up to your chin, Buck, almost touching it. You may be able to wear that soft gentle mask for these fools for now, but I know the real Buck back on it. I'm trying to think of what I want to do. I'm going to step forward a little bit. Is this the next one? Lady, I don't think you get to talk to my friend like that. Oh, can I step in between? I can I step in between? I'm going to step in between Pam Yellen and word. Since you do, Buck make a dexterity saving throw. Oh, my God. Since you are stepping between word. Okay. She throws a right hook that you eat, Buck, in place of word. Oh, Jesus. You take six bludgeoning damage. Wait, hold on. I have I have advantage on Dexie. I forgot I had the barbarian. All right, show me. Can I roll it? Can I roll again? You may roll again. Okay. Never mind. No, you don't have anything. How much damage do I take? Sorry, if Lady Luck really wants to get decked by your XY. Six damage. Okay. I get up. Whoa. Maybe we can talk about this later. Not here in public in front of everybody. Would that be amenable to you, Pam Yell? She just gets uncomfortably close, face to face to you, nose to nose. Fine. You are lucky. Today was a good day for me. I was in a good mood. So I'm going to be nice and let you be. But you hurt anyone in this town and you will wish the blood will be there to save you. I'll get I'll I want to get like also kind of close to her like because now I'm getting frustrated. So I'll get like close to I'm trying to match her energy to the best that I can. Look, things are different than how they were before. And I'm trying to be kind in this situation. So let's just drop it and talk about this later. She leans back. Maybe you have changed. But I don't want to talk to you. Enjoy Tigermura Pilgrims. She walks off. What a character. I like like brush brushing off the the cloak that I have. Because I remember not liking you and I never got to the point that she's at. Did she try to punch word at absolute minimal provocation or did I imagine? But yeah, was that trying to punch? Were they trying to punch word or what was going on? I think that was I think you guys wouldn't buy that. That was just a drunk woman who that mistook me for a different bugbear. I'd buy that if you hadn't called her Pam. Oh, yes. What do we explain? Wex Wife number two. Like what? What? Or possibly number one. Should I be collecting cards? Is she number one or is she number two? She's number two. That was my that is my ex-wife Pam or Pam Yell. And we didn't exactly we weren't exactly married for a very long time and we didn't exactly leave one another on the best terms. Neither of your divorces have been left on very good terms to say the least. I like the other one better. Yeah, the other one at least didn't. What did you do first? Yeah, what did you do? She was pretty pissed. I really don't know that I want to get into it again. You don't have to tell us if you don't want to, but is she going to be a problem while we're here? I mean, for you guys, she's probably not going to be a problem. For me, she's a problem. You say that. Didn't she just try to punch word? Look at what that was. She's... To be fair, word has that effect on people. I do. Yeah. Pam is a very competent warrior in her own right. And one of the things that attracted me to her in the first place, she's very strong and, you know, she's a good fighter. And she doesn't exactly... She sticks up for herself, I would say. And so I can understand that she's upset and she's frustrated. Didn't think she was going to take a swing at word, but I'm glad I stepped in before anything, before anyone's feelings were hurt. But I mean, she's all... She's all bark. You'd believe that, right? That she's all bark? And nobody... I think she was just jealous of my confidence. Right, but let's... How fresh is this particular wound? Yeah. I will. I was really hoping... She'll get around. I was hoping we wouldn't... When I left her, we were in Treveseta. That's when I was there last. And I kind of hope that, one, we didn't see her. And two, that if we did see her, that it had been long enough to where she wouldn't be frustrated or upset. And that must be somewhat the case, because she didn't immediately try to kill me. So she must be in a really good mood today. Because I only took six points of damage and I didn't take any more. This is on the eve of years ago, I would assume. It was a while... Yeah, correct. It was a long time ago that this happened. But I guess Fritz is right in saying that I haven't exactly been... I'm not the best at maintaining these types of relationships. And so it just... I really don't think I want to talk about this right now. Besides, we got to get into the... We got to get into the Adventures Guild, right? I don't think we're probably ever going to see her again. She's probably going to go her own way and we don't have to worry about it. And then I can go to not worry about it. And then we can all not worry about it. And it should be fine. And then no one has to worry about Pam ever again. It sounds like you're worrying about it. No, it may sound like that, but I promise that I'm not. I think we just get our minds off of it by going into the Adventures Guild. And then we don't... And then that's it. And then... What if there's like a gaming table around here? I agree with fuck. We will pester him later. Well, I don't know about that. We don't necessarily need to pester him at all. This town isn't... But we can. Look, look, look, I owe you guys this. That I don't think it's going to be an issue. I'm sorry that you had to be a part of that. I'm sorry word that she attacked you. This is my old stuff coming back up. I don't want it to hamper what it is that we're doing. Because we've been going along great. So I don't want to... I don't want to dwell too long on it, I guess. Very well. Well, that's not troubling at all. But we have stuff to do today other than be dramatic. We can be theatric. Let's look at these. That's okay. All right. You're looking at the quest board and there's a lot of various quests that unfortunately require you to be registered with the guild. However, as you're looking them over and noticing this, it's like they've all got like a sigil stamp of like required guild approval and all this kind of like information. And they've all got the same like fine print to let you know that legally in order to get rewarded for this, you need to be approved and registered with the guild. And you see that a human kind of comes up next to you. A kind of large kind of burly guy. He's got very scraggly hair and scars all across his face. And he's got a big great sword on his back and a very bushy beard. And he just leans over to you. Hey, you newcomers. Hey, finally someone who can help me with this. Oh, what's this? And you can see that there's a the human. He holds up a quest next to you. It's what's going to get me into the guild. But first, my name is Eduardo. It's nice to meet you. Eduardo Barobia. And he extends a hand down. You can see. Yeah. There he is. He's just rules. The human man is very big and loud and he's shouting loud enough that probably the entire town can hear. All right. Immediate five step foot back. I can feel word salivating in terms of guys to bring into his group. I thought that you couldn't get into the guild or that you couldn't do these things until you were in the guild. Yeah, but I got approval by the guild leader. He was here just a moment ago. He's off on his lunch break or something. But I don't want to bother him. But you guys, you all knew too. Hmm. Can I do an insight check to see if this guy is like not on the level? Because that that feels like, oh, you don't need to get official approval to help me on this thing. Oh, yeah. Give me an insight. Thank you. It sounds almost like he got roped in by another guy to do that. Okay. Yes. So looking at him, he it does seem like he is being truthful about having this paper and it being his job. But he's certainly hiding something, perhaps his true motives. Hmm. Why do you need someone new? Well, because more new people means more people in the guild. Have you helped me out with this? Maybe the guild master will let you in. Maybe we should talk to the guild master about that first. I am. What makes you think the guild master is just going to let us in? We're pretty formidable. I know the guy's a good friend of mine. I don't let you in. Oh man. Yeah. And I know the manager of every restaurant I go to. It's just trust me. Hey, hey, how about this, huh? You help me with this quest from the quest board and I'll give you all the gold rewards, huh? All of it. I keep none of it. And when you look, he shows it to you. You can see the quest reward itself has a gold reward of 500. What is it? Yeah, what is the actual question? It doesn't say it on there. So, yes, you look over the quest and it seems to be collecting a specific flower called a ringing lily that is very rare around this region for the local healer Eiker. He's asking for the flower in order to be used as a medicine to cure a kind of newly forming disease that seems to be coming from the north. The details of which are not really all that written in the paper. There's a note, a quest giver's note that it's, he's not giving the details of the disease yet, so as to not raise panic. Everything should be fine. Everyone in Tigamura should be fine and are not susceptible to it right now. But this is a precaution that he would like to take in case it does migrate down south. We're going north next. Just, yeah. I think we're going west next, aren't we? Isn't that where we're going? We're going north in the long run. Oh yeah, we're going north eventually. Because we want to talk to Eiker anyway, if we're going to be doing an adventure word and I should probably get unpoisoned. Do we have any idea how long this quest might take? Oh no, not long at all, not long at all. Only like an hour or two. We'll be back before dinner time. Very generous of you to extend such an offer to complete newcomers. Of course, of course. We need more helpers in this town. Adventures as a lifeblood at Tigamura. That's why I love this town. That's why I came here to be an adventurer. Help out with no reward. It's for that help sake. You get the reward. I get to help out my favorite town, Tigamura. How long have you been here? Why do you want to help so bad? Because helping is good, no? Well, he's not wrong. How long have you been in Tigamura trying to join the adventurer's guild? I came in yesterday, got some rest, feel my belly. That place has got good food. That cook is very good. He's a cockroach. Looks like a peacock. He's a good man. Tell them I say hi. But this place, I like this place and I want to see it strive. You know, I want to see it survive. So I want to help. I want to help these people like they help me. Well, I'm not averse to helping you help these people, but we do need to visit the healing hut first. Okay, okay. You go to the healing hut. Say hi to Aiko. But hey, do something for me. Just a little favor. I keep this a secret. I want to surprise him. I really like that guy. He's a cool guy. All right. What? And if we help you help us, then down the line you'll be able to help us because we help you. That's the currency at Tigamura, baby. And we help you and you help us and we help you back. We'll be in touch, Eduardo. Yeah. You see me outside, right outside the town's borders. Door a little bit south to the left. I shout out to your names. What do your names? What do you name me? I am God King Word, but you can call me Boss. Oh, you already got the title. Oh, you're a cool adventurer. You already got the title. I don't even have a title yet. I'll call you Eduardo for now. A name is a good enough title. Thank you, God King Word. I look forward to working with you. Call me Boss. It's your thing, Boss. I like a guy who already knows what he likes. All right. Word, we should really get going. Yeah, I still feel terrible. That guy was walking the way to the restroom. Oh, yeah. As we walk in, I'm like, Fritz, do you think that that guy reminded me a lot of Leira? Don't you think? I'm joking, Fritz. Oh, my gosh. That person couldn't have been further apart from our friend, Leira. I fully believed you for a second. I thought you were insane. Well, not far from it. Let's go with that. You do share a passion for truth and justice. That's exactly what I was thinking. Okay, so you head towards the healer hut. You see that there's no customers inside, and you can see that inside, what looks to be a fairly pale, tall and lanky elven man who's got real bad posture. He's leaning over the counter, hunched over some tomes, and not really making a single sound, even with his page turns. And he barely looks up when you enter the store to see you all. And it gives you a slight wave. I just... Good afternoon. And you can see, there he is. Oh, my God. You must be Ike. That's not what I imagined when you said slender elf, man. He's so scrungly. I love him. He looks up from his tomb. Yes, hello. New comers, yes. He could be anywhere between elf 20 and elf 50, and there's no way of knowing. Like if he slept and shaved. Yeah, is this man 50 or 5,000? Not sure. You've created a Tumblr man. Oh, no, no. Oh, yeah, they'll be sandblasting those creases off in any minute now. No, yes, you require some sort of healing or medicine. We're here for two reasons. Our guts are full of toxins, and we gotta talk to you about a guy. Oh? A guy. Well... Are you familiar with Eduardo? Now, word, I will remind you that Eduardo asked us not to tell this man the thing he did. I just called the man. Okay. And you just said his name right in front of this man. He squints his eyes, takes his hand, pintas his nose. God, what is he up to? Trying to help you, allegedly. Help? Oh, no, he didn't. Perhaps he did. You might need to be more specific. Not to be the death of me. Listen, I told him that that quest is to be taken up by a few people that I've specifically hired for this job. It is too dangerous and would fur that no one unqualified. Go and take it. And yet he goes and does it anyway? Well, he actually got in contact with the right people. You got in contact, yeah, with some pretty qualified people. Like... Well, we don't have the actual qualifications because I don't know how to sign their papers. Well, of course she's got contact with the qualified people. He's the bloody leader of the adventurers, Gil. Oh, no. I was afraid of something like that. I thought I was gonna bluff. I was gonna tell him I was the leader. Well, Arrow dodged, I suppose. Yes. Please tell me he didn't pull the hole. I'm a new adventurer trying to make my way into the guild. Trick on you. Oh, yeah. He's a sociopath. Well, he certainly pulled that stunt, but... Probably had some sort of reason behind this. Listen, we don't get a lot of newcomers and it's his way of screening you all. Now, no disrespect, but we can't know your true intentions, pilgrims, or no. So, Eduardo, he likes to do a little bit of checking people out, seeing what their intentions are, what kind of people they are, take some on these goose chases, or in this case, something extremely dangerous that I made sure that he didn't take on to make sure that the people coming to this town are good. So he's not trying to, like, kill us intentionally. No, he'd rather kill himself first if you put a sign on a door on two doors, one leading to riches and one leading to certain death. He'll have trouble deciding which one to go into. I like those odds. I suppose it's a credit to him that he survived this long. I know Eduardo and he's not going to let this go lightly and he'll be extremely disappointed if you turn him down. Best just make sure that he's safe, yeah? Don't let the bellies full of toxins fool you. I mean, we're fairly experienced adventurers ourselves. Yes, I heard about your exploits at the other provinces. You are indeed impressive, your skill set handling multiple dragons, especially the Bull of Noob of Sky. I've got to say. She was really nice. Can I rest control of your honey pot there? What? Huh? That's an old, tiny toilet. Oh. Oh. I don't think that's right. He has to make a pukey. Very well. The washroom is to the right. He points over. I head to the washroom. What are you doing in the washroom? Attempting to flush out my toxins. Seeing that you're in there for a bit, he says, so was there a reason that you came here, yes? To get healed? Yes, yes, word and I ran afoul of the blot. Oh, you can come out of the washroom. I've got something for that. Okay. And it was a honey bucket. I don't know why I said pot. Word, I didn't hear you wash your hands, word. I think you got to go back and... And he... I just stand there. He reaches into what looks to be a pouch and grabs a few little, what looked to be rocks, like very smoothed over, maybe river rocks. And he does a little hand gesture over it, cast a little bit of incantation. And the lesser restoration onto both of you, your poison is gone. And you also get the benefits of a short rest if you need it. And you may roll one pit die if you so wish. All right. That should do it. Nasty little thing, but you can track that. On the train. I'm much appreciated. We got slapped by some blot. The blot can cause diseases now. He kind of strokes his chin at that. That's concerning. The blot are usually not able to give any contractions to the living. Do you think it has any relation to that illness you're trying to preempt? Possibly. The blot has not evolved in nigh on a few centuries. And what we know about it has been consistent over the centuries. So this is... Oh boy, do we know some things. That's definitely the only thing it can do. And it's usually it takes control of what we do know is it takes control of whatever body husks constructs and just does harm through traditional means. Cutting, bruising, but disease. That's a new one. Oh, it's not uncommon in nature. That's just the thing though. The blot's not natural. Well, at least not in nature as you and I understand it. They're natural as they are part of the ecosystem now. And we just have to deal with them. But their origins are still very unknown. Yes, Eduardo said that you were attempting to preempt some sort of illness from the north. Yes. Is there anything we should be worried about? And it's nothing you need to concern yourselves right now. I think it's spread is somewhere around a few months out, especially with taking precautions to quarantine anyone they may suspect might be contracting the disease. Would this be happening in the vicinity of Treveseta? Because we do need to go there next. There would be. But if I know Lord Tahiro, I'm sure that he is right on it. He does take sickness very, very seriously, especially those of his workers, for better or for worse. Well, that's simultaneously encouraging and not very encouraging at all. Rest assured, you as pilgrims will probably get the utmost care in his. But what about other people? Well, yeah, what are they like symptoms? Unfortunately, other people are not Lord Tahiro's concern, apparently. Is that why you put your quest out? Well, yes. Tigermura, we don't like to put a lot of dependence on the Lord's as much as helpful as they are, especially you folk over in Satya. Your Lord has been very helpful in letting us do as we wish and keeping out of our business. Sometimes we may find their help to be unreliable. We've had a history of strife amongst our people and Trevasseta. We'd preferably like to keep out of their jurisdiction as best we can, but sometimes it's not possible when you live in the entire kingdom that's owned by the Lordship. And mostly by Trevasseta. Is that a consensus that's shared amongst many of the people who live here? Usually they don't hold any strife against the people who live there, granted, but they just prefer to live a different way as it is. Live and let live, you know. Well, proposition. You need that flower for some research. You need some competent people. You have quite some pretty, I mean, look at our resume, competent, and the good master wants to have some fun and we've got to look after them. How about we do this and this whole restoration is free in the spirit of, I forget the name. The restoration was free anyway. I wasn't going to talk. I like this town. Maybe we also get extra supplies. We don't need to negotiate that until we've actually done the task. No, we're doing negotiations before. See, yeah. The 500 gold would be good. I mean, I just think that would be fine with me if we could get paid what you are going to pay the people who are going to do this. And a potion of healing. Myra, I'm trying to do something good. Oh, I'm so sorry. I'll just be quiet. I'm trying to do something good. It's very good. You go, Fritz. You go, you go. Wow, you said it would have been exactly 500 gold. Crazy. That's exactly what you would have paid us. So, like, this would work out well. Like, I'm ignoring the fact he said free. He just takes his hand and just kind of rubs it down his face. You're going to get along with Eduardo swimmingly. I'll be by to take that. Yes, I'd be happy to pay you for that flower. I just. Is there a reason that you said it's dangerous to get the flower? I mean, flowers are. Oh, I completely forgot about that. Yes. Well, this particular, this particular breed likes to grow in damp environments and caves. And there is a particularly large cave that has the best situation for it to grow in. But it's a cave that is home to a couple of bullets. You do know what those are. Yes, large monstrous creatures look like land sharks. They like to dig under the ground. My mom saw one once. This is home to a family of them in there. But I don't know. Perhaps you could procure the flower without disturbing them. I would request that you not harm them as they are an important part of the ecosystem. And although sometimes they do need culling and not of now as this season, they are on the low of their population. So in order to keep things steady, let's leave them be. Yes, as best you can. That's very responsible. Hey, far be it from me to ever plan for the worst and God's forbid. But if the life tree were to ever go out, well, we've only got ourselves, you know. We've got ourselves and the animals around us. Can't rely on the tree all too often. Just like the Lordship. Perhaps so. Well, thank you for the healing and the advice. Well, see what we can do. Very well. So don't kill land sharks, get flower, win. Yeah. Yes, how many flowers do you need? Is one sufficient or would be more better? If you could pluck three for me, the petals are not exactly the most potent. So yes, three should be good. Right. Hopefully we can do that. Very well. Is it just as an amazing story to rest flowers from sleeping bullets that it is to just take them out? We should. We just shouldn't kill them. That's okay. Yeah. Well, I can't stop you if you would. I would just it would just be bad for us all really. It's balance of nature. I do understand that sometimes drastic measures need to be taken to preserve your own life. Best try for the best case scenario, yes? Yes. I suppose that's fair. I do like the prospect of not dying too. Very well. Well, best of luck to you pilgrims and well, I'm not so much concerned for you as I am for him. So watch that water for me, please. We'll do our best. Aye aye. All right. All right. You've been healed and you have a quest. All right. So we get there. We knock the guy out. We get them secretly and then we come back and wake him up and tell him that he did it. Uh, I don't think we should do that. I mean, how fragile do you think the guy is? I do think that knocking him out would be difficult. But I also suspect this is some form of secret audition to allow us to be part of the guild. Should we pretend we don't know? Yes, absolutely. We should pretend we don't know. Okay. Then let's just perform. So we're lying. Yes. Yes. So I'm on board. Yeah, I'm on board. Yeah. Let's go lie. Well, let's, I mean, are we gonna do, are we? Wait, I want to see if, I want to do something. Are we all good to go if we, before we go on a dangerous adventure? I'm good. I'm good as well. But if we, but I think Fritz wanted to visit the Enchanter, please. I want to see if I have enough food for him. If there's anywhere we want to, if there's anywhere we want to visit, that's also fine with me. That's fair. Yeah, I do that first. Yeah, you can, you can visit all the places that you want. So the Enchanter, just give me one second. You visit the Enchanter and I'm going to be honest, I'm sorry, I'm going to break immersion here, but I do not have all the things ready for the Enchanter, but you can still speak. No, sorry. It's okay. It's okay. You, you can't just letting you know that next session, there will be stuff the Enchanter will be able to do, but you can still get that. Wow, I could go crazy. I could just go next session. If you still want to visit them now, you can. We can put it off till you're ready. I will leave the choice up to you. I'm going to make these, oh no, the place is closed. What if I went to the back sniff instead? All right, you can go on Sundays, of course they are. You guys are also trying to get in the back. Your, your tokens are trying to get in the back of the door of the Enchanter's place. I am not, not the front, which I imagine is over here. This is not the front? This side is right here. No, no, on the Enchanter place. The Enchanter's over here. You guys were over on the back. Yeah, I was looking through the window. Oh yeah, through the window. Yeah, noticing that they're blackout. I was just, yeah, I just wasn't looking through the window and I just stood blackout. All right, I'll go, I'll go, we'll go to the blacksmith. Okay, you go to the blacksmith. You step inside and you can see that there is a very feisty goblin hammering away. It looks like she's like working on five different projects at once. She's like, like pushing kind of the, the breather, whatever you call it, the fan. Bellows. The bellows, that's it, to heat up the oven while simultaneously hammering away at a sword and using her foot to like maneuver some, an oil bucket to kind of temper something in. And she calls out, just one moment. And she kind of like, eh, your type. Flips a few things into the, the oil bucket and it's just on fire and she just walks up to the counter, put brushes off a little bit of dirt on her apron, completely ignoring the fact that there's dirt all over her face. Her hair is tied up in a little knot and she greets you. Hello and welcome to AKs. Oh, I love her. Oh, I love her. You buck third ex-wife? I'm not married to everybody. And you can see that she's got various different things. I also added the weapons skill things that you get. Courtesy, inspiration, courtesy of Baldur's Gate 3. So this is all, I hope that these are all only weapons that you own. Okay, cool. Oh, that's so good. I only have 80 gold pieces. We're going to get more money. Yeah, we might need to come back when we're loaded. Yeah, maybe I'll, maybe I won't use it right now, but maybe come back. Right now. It would be all my money. So maybe I will come back. Yeah, you guys get all this money for it. If I use the gaping wounds ability, does that work like maxing out crits with my sneak attack damage too? It most certainly does. Oh my god. I'm going to enchant negotiation to do that. All right. So you can add gaping wounds. It's just like a thing that you can, like a feet. Okay, I'm fine with just 80 gold. And I know she does. I use a light crossbow, don't I? You do. Yes. I would also like to get gaping wounds. That sounds disgustingly good. Wonderful. It's either a light crossbow or a hand crossbow. Either way, you would have have gaping wounds. Yeah, I'm going to do gaping wounds then for 80. All right. All right. Well, I do not have enough gold to get any of these until we do the thingy. So I'll just chill. I also love for design. I love her. Oh my god. So you are saying third ex-wife. Let's not make assumptions on the number of current ex-wives. Oh yeah. I'm always, I'm always good to add one to the rosters. How do you feel about being another one of my ex-wives? No, I do not know. Fucking hell. Hello. I don't know this. You're a divorcee. Pick up the line. Would I have your life ruined by me? The divorce count in a lengthy is officially at three. Oh boy. All right. Is that everything we wanted to do? Yeah. Anybody buying anything else from the blacksmith? I'm not thinking you're ready. No. Okay. All right. Sweet. Where to next? Find Eduardo? Yeah. Yeah, that's fine. Find Eduardo. All right. So you had kind of to the outskirts of town following his directions to the southwest-ish and he is just kind of like right outside the last few buildings of the town and he's waving. Hey, my new adventure friends. Eh, you're going to help me with that quest now, huh? Yes, of course. We'll get that flower for you. Ah, well then follow me. The cave is this way. Watch your step. Don't want to fall into any other smaller caves. It's a bad joke. Sorry. So you guys are now following Eduardo as he gives directions and gives like small talk and like a bunch of different stories of questionable validity as now that you know that he has duped you from when he told you he was a new adventure it's hard to tell what is true. Can I ask him a question while we're walking? Yeah, you can. Um, oh no, that would reveal that he's never mind. I don't I don't have a question because if I asked him the question would reveal that we know okay never mind forget I said that. So you only came into town like a few days ago? Oh yeah just a few days ago I came in and they welcomed me with open arms just like they did with you but you're more open arms too because I guess you're a big deal or something I don't know. Ah the biggest. Yeah. They may not have heard of us before but by the time we finish our round everyone will. Oh I so hope so this is the place to make a reputation. You're going to be a good boss, yeah? The best. He like clutches his heart. And when you when you say like make a reputation you hear the voice of uh non-stop Lagonia's word. Ah yes a good reputation indeed. Yes thank you voice in my head. You say that out loud? Yeah. Oh yeah that's the voice of encouragement yeah I got one of those too. Yeah yeah. And anybody else have anything to say while you're on your path to the caves? I think I'm just taking in the scenery you said this place is very like empowered by the life tree and it's got a lot more like wildlife and. Yes larger animals that are kind of in like peak form thanks to just having a very nice environment thanks to the life tree if you want you can give me either a perception or nature check if you want to learn a little bit more. Yeah let's do it. Okay 16 what specifically are you what field are you trying to learn about? Um I think I'm kind of interested in the like monster ecosystem it's not really something that gets brought up a lot in the concept of like nature and stuff but it's like is see you do world monsters are a part of nature too you know they're not all abominations and stuff. And yeah they're like typical predators that um eat meat around here but do not need to eat nearly that much as again thanks to the life tree uh they make plants that are very nutritious and as a result of the herbivores that eat them are also in peak physical form and as a result they are very nutritious and the meat eaters that eat them have a very very lenient metabolism that allowed them to store that fat and keep it for a very very long time um and uh it does unfortunately result in the herbivore population you notice that there's a lot of herbivores and you can see kind of off to the side that there are a few like hunters kind of stalking them around easy for a humanoid like you to spot but perhaps for like the odd deer or something else it's not so easy that they're just kind of standing there like they've learned that predators are not the biggest deal they'll see it every now and then but so they're not so threatened and thus makes their calling a little bit easier that makes sense and it does seem to result in as you can uh surmise from having their being a lot of not so cautious herbivores that food is in plentiful supply in in tigamura nice place uh while we're walking can i ask so um what are your thoughts on the the lord of uh trevisseta uh the lords the uh the governor people yeah right correct i don't know i don't know much about them i don't keep up with the politics all that much i just uh i just wanted a place to be my own man yeah just survive off of the land and then here i finally find a place that i might be able to call home make me free this place is free for me i don't need to sign too many papers it sounds pretty good i imagine that you must have come from somewhere did not a lot of freedom wherever you came from i don't know it's just you know places the winds calling me calling my name i did used to come from a place up north and more to the west beyond that that spooky place that the osia whatever they call yeah i've been over there and uh they they let me in thankfully i fought off the monsters i fought the blight that's how i got in here and uh yeah just uh you know they thought i could uh they could use some extra hand strong arms like me you know and uh can fight the blight wait what's it like in the osia i'm sorry you you came from beyond the range of old osia yeah even further west uh big snowy place yeah other kingdoms that's fascinating yeah it wasn't easy though i kind of lost my eye you can see the those uh those plot they're nasty they leave mox that aren't so easily healed that uh that uh cute healer guy i got here he he uh helped out a little bit a couple of days ago when i came here but uh this thing he said that it's probably not recoverable we just said but that's okay i hear the guy the fellas they like a bit of scars on a guy yeah you said you said a couple of days ago you met the cute healer guy because i thought you said that it was just yesterday that you you got here yeah you know yesterday a couple of days ago our common is uh it's hard i usually speak uh doorvish i'm more more of a door i got a little bit of doorvish blood in me huh right i don't know that sure i mean i don't work for it do you know doorvish i think i don't i was hoping dozen would have taught me no oh yeah you know doorvish curse words like we'd say is dozen single though like do you want to do you want to see if these guys are well he's got his eyes like oh he's got a little doorvish in him does he want a little more i'm sorry layra oh my good you are just like this guy so would i be able to try to very butchered uh doorvish like a greeting from what i've heard don't say give me a just a straight intelligence check see just try and recall what you remember you say the australian friend word but with an american inflection we weren't saving throw all right so uh what are you trying to to recall information on i'm gonna very try to let he says like oh i know a bit of doorvish i'm gonna try to very try to recall saying like oh hello how are you in doorvish okay oh yeah you are you learn from the kinsman eh oh he speaks back in doorvish like fluently to you and you pick up on a few words and he says something along the lines of hey let's go off the highest cliff and jump off and see if we could tackle a yeti and uh something along those lines but he says it real fast that it takes you like a moment to translate it and he gives you like a high up like he gives you a high like it is i'm like trying to think is this like a saying that the doorvish people say or is he just fucking with me oh what you understand it's not a doorvish saying per se he's just uh being friendly and it's like the equivalent of inviting you out to drinks i'll like i'll like i'm gonna is he offering to high five is this way to handle my okay yeah i like high five and yeah i'm a dad's doorvish oh yeah hey kinsman in the mainland i want to i want to have a drink with him eh he'll be here tomorrow if you want to drink trust me you'll drink him under the table whoa i look forward to a challenge huh yeah i can see why iker is so tired all the time yeah he's getting pestered by this guy i'm excited i got my dad a drinking buddy eh all right and as you travel a little bit and uh in fact fritz uh i don't know if you already have one but for trying to draw upon your doorvish knowledge and trying to connect with this guy the similar way that you do with your dad get an inspiration for that yeah i have an inspiration because i don't know where i mock them down i don't know either uh there should be oh i see it yes i don't have one aha then you get one inspiration so you seem to approach kind of a craggly rocky area um that seems to have a very fairly well hidden entrance that if you had just glanced over you would miss but thanks to edwardo pointing it out there does seem to be some obscuring obscured by large boulders in entrance all right this is the place and the bullets are in there you follow my lead and we can try and find the flowers but let's not disturb the sleeping dudes yeah that sounds like a good idea are you sure that you want to take the lead i'm the newbie here you're the experienced one with all the reputation how about you tell me let's see how you do things yeah let let us what i'm saying yeah all right all right fine dude ventures and let's move forward all right this first is going to be a skill challenge can uh i was i was gonna say before the skill challenge can i use my bolstering magic uh effect you may yes i will say any preparations you need to make uh outside can be freely made so you've got you've still got there's not a time limit on uh i will use it on fritz i'll say fritz i've got this in the bag it's like a bird you get to add yeah it's like it's baby bard it comes inspiration yeah he is barbarian yeah hey he is a barbarian look at that he is a barbarian or whatever the word but yes uh in this skill challenge you will have to beat a dc of at least 13 three times in order to pluck three flowers however with three failures i.e 12 or less the bullets will wake up and the dc to pluck the flowers will be higher you will not have failed but the bullets will have woken up and you would be at risk of their aggression and the dc will be higher okay so first up fritz um so we're in a cave right do we we see the sleeping things yes you can see that there's about six or so sleeping bullets three fully grown and three cups just kind of like they're on the ground cool they are on just like building an image of the ground you see like little mounds of flesh sticking out as if they were pebbles but you can see them just slowly rising and falling they look like large rocks in the ground we don't see the flower yet right not quite no okay i'm going to take flight and i'm going to try to be as high up to the cave as i can and can i use my acrobats to basically like try to weave through the stag slag the sickle stag lights yeah you can still act like tight trying to like be as far away from them as i can as an higher up and start going in a bit more to look for the flower yeah okay i assume that would be acrobatics right okay that would be yeah i think you made a good argument for it okay you hover around and you do see that there is one kind of just growing out of the cracks kind of on the side of the cave and you pluck it you have one flower hold on yep these are called what are they called they're called um should i have the note here somewhere ringing lilies they they kind of when you put them up to your ear the wind kind of passing through the petals gives a low kind of jingling sound hey i'm gonna very quickly put that in my pocket yeah you may add ringing lily to your inventory also uh i think i put bullets in the handout i want to show you guys for anyone who has not seen a bullet before here we go there's a bullet for those of you don't know they're a big lion shark they've got hind legs but this one is half in the ground oh that's so cool i want to pet it don't don't come on man they are huge they are massive yeah they're like yeah from from tip of the nose so you're saying big boy doesn't deserve a pet no i'm not saying that they're not when they're hibernating just letting you know how big they are that uh from tip of nose to toe they're about like 10 to 12 feet long something it shouldn't be it shouldn't be shaped like a friend it's so cute if not friend why friend shape yeah it is cute and who knows maybe you will get a chance to pet it if you wait it looks like a pink lizard let's befriend them and add them to our roster and make sure they don't eat our horses they look like um they look like a skink oh what oh yeah a little bit oh one of those like little triangular lizard guys yeah well it's like a fat lizard with legs a snake sorry trying to prevent ourselves from petting the good boy uh next word okay yes word word i will use my boss powers um and perform stealth to sneak around them and pluck a flower okay find it when you do do a stealth you actually hear the voice of non-stop begonias whispering in your ear hey boss i know that they said not to disturb these guys but i think it might be a good idea maybe kill a few bring back their heads please seem like a strong monster hot term no i think this fits my reputation here pretty well that actually sounds like you're trying to get me killed no because you are a strong warrior yes i i know my strengths are you looking at the same things i'm looking at i am and i see a good mount on your wall i cannot wait for this non-stop begonias thing to bite us in the ass so word since you're doing a stealth do it at disadvantage now as non-stop begonias is distracting you and trying to get you to go another reputation route that perhaps okay you are not looking for okay luckily it didn't even matter with an 18 you are able to tune out his voice and follow your path anyway and go and pluck a flower that is right next to one of the bullets sleeping oh i thought you'd be more fun after you pulled that shit at the well oh look i i do whatever i want sometimes you know doesn't fall in line with you and sometimes it does i don't know why you're having a problem with that now we shall see the results of your methods okay that would be ideal who are you talking to why quiet is it wow okay sorry next fuck your turn can i also try to stealth uh i will also try to stealth to okay yeah you can try to stealth stealth over but you like kick over a few rocks and and i pause you pause and as the rock kind of echoes throughout the cave all right the bullets are still asleep okay i'm not taking notice of you you see one shuffling around and it just kind of like turns in the ground that it's dug in kind of on its side you think it's gonna get up but it just plops back down it's now on its side with two of its side legs just kind of hanging out no oh god i would like to use the balder's gate three method of safe scumming to freeze right tonight okay thank you um yeah so i have two things i can do but i think i'll do the one that costs me less first uh i would like to wild shape into a cat which has plus four stealth in contrast to my plus zero stealth and then i would like to uh try and stealth in and just like bite one of the flowers off at the stem a lot of stealth happening here all right cool yeah let's do i have an option that that we can do if that one doesn't work but uh so i'll i guess i'll roll my stealth and we'll just add plus four in theater of the mind because i can't roll with that all right come on buddy oh okay never mind hey you pluck one and not only do you see it with that crit you notice that one of the little bullet cubs is actually holding one of the flowers like right next to it you have the option to take it if you so wish that's like the equivalent of literally taking candy you take him flower that feels morally dubious i think i'll just take the one that's closest all right well done yep you have the three flowers and buck has yet another skill challenge where he fails and now i'm not good at there is actually one more skill check that you need to do and that is to make sure everyone escapes the cave without disturbing the bullets you have successfully plucked all the flowers and completed the skill challenge to get the flowers but if you wish to leave the cave without disturbing the bullets there's one more check you got to do okay um what to do okay uh i want to do something yeah so i'm up in like crevices uh there's probably not going to be more in the wall um can i just do a straight insight to see if i can see any more uh i would say you know that there's one more oh actually see any more besides that yeah you can give me an insight yeah and i will say that this will also insight a path for you all to escape without disturbing as well all right yeah uh you look around and there is another one kind of in another kind of rocky crevice similar to the one that word pick that's next to the largest bullet just sleeping you can hear it snoring just a little bit and you do have the option to go pick it but it's going to require another check from one of your companions to get it okay cool i i guess that would be my turn then because that was my role okay and i will leave the choice up to word since you're next in the initiative fritz has routed out a path to escape without disturbing the bullets but they have also spotted another flower if you wish to get it oh yeah flower comes first okay now this one i will say is going to require a sleight of hand rather than a step okay yes you go you pluck it and you see the large bullet next to you open its mouth wide right in front of you and it sneezes and your as it does that okay what's up a small part of me wants to launch a tummy bomb into its open mouth whoa no because that would just pop one of them the ecosystem there's like six here you know what do you want to work because when i had mine and it burst in my stomach it wasn't loud was it i just almost died yeah it's very muffled yes and there's also some metagame odds that this could just not do any damage and instead increase its constitution what does it need to roll again it has to roll a 20 a 20 on a con save we're being so stealthful why would we do this we found out it's in character i've got a begonia on my back uh do you toss an egg let me pluck one in there and just see if this thing goes limp okay and how much damage does it do if it fails uh that much uh 10d6 okay yeah two of them i don't know maybe some of them were crits one of them is alone that's probably why the first one like that was a crit was a crit okay you throw the egg into its mouth as its sniffing like opening to sneeze and it closes it and the egg goes inside you see some smoke escape its nostrils and it screams out an agony and it has awoken itself as well as all the other bullets around it and now the skill challenge has changed to escaping and or fighting the bullets word i thought it was gonna eat me oh what do you do that for you see it it was screaming at me and now the bullets are awake and now the skill challenge is to escape without getting hurt or killing the bullets um can i use athletics to pick up my god king word and run and run yeah i mean we i don't want to i mean they're they're all awake now right they are pretty much all awake or waking up this uh yeah i will say it's a surprise round so their first round will be skipped okay yeah i'd like to run okay you pick up word and let's see that athletics see if you're able to make it out oh you pick a roll bad and you just like bash into one and you you think you can just like walk over one but your step is not quite tall enough you trip over it's you're not strong enough to push it out of the way even though this one is a pup oh boy i will say with two more failures i'll say with two more failures regardless if it's the bullets turn or not combat will begin okay the bullets turn it's a surprise round so they don't do anything lay around okay this is my stuff but like how far are we from the like the entrance to the cave to get back out the way we came i would say about 30 feet like okay um oh it's so easy to just straight up run which i should probably do to be completely honest and then i could do whatever we need to after that um yeah cat has a base move in c beat of 40 and climb 30 uh can i just book it yeah you can like up the wall and out i would say if you just take a disengage action um yeah to like leave just by yourself that is an not an and not a success but it means that you are not going to be a part of this okay well i do still have spells i can cast into the cave if need be that is true so i would say i perfectly find a disengage from the giant clusterfuck land sharks it will mean that you are not in danger of whatever may potentially happen in there great then let's book it all right you book it out i am currently tiny all right this cat what am i supposed to do with a flower in its mouth just bouncing and bounding away from the bullets as they are all waking up and yawning fritz your turn uh just to double check we have the three um three adults three pups well we have the three oh you do have the three flowers yes sick um word do you have any do you actually want do you actually want to fight this word no i made a mistake i thought it was okay um can i grab word and fly all right yeah i would say an athletics from you as well uh this is like a trade-off too oh my god you're so heavy soon drop me he's a slippery boy grab him up for the rocks not realizing that he was still grabbed by buck who like tripped over a bullet and still thought that he was carrying word so now you're just a conga line of grabbing and pulling word in two different directions that is another let go buck i'm sorry i'm one more failure and the bullets will attack guys guys guys it's not guys that did this all right i think there's one there's one guy who did i don't know what you're talking about i think you everything all of a sudden the the losing of the cart doesn't feel so bad i think i think buck is out of apology i try and just do another stealth check to like pop myself out of their grips and just scurry away from the one that's angry at me you may yep that's going to be a success well done word you are outside of the cave i'll keep you in the initiative just in case if there's still things inside of the cave that you want to do or help out your companions there's one more success there's only two targets or intruders in the cave now for the bullets one more job you guys i'll leave it to you one more success and they potentially may see you as no longer a threat and leave you be to leave their territory buck it all comes out i i that stinks i have in my inventory a potion of spider claw can i drink that to more easily escape from the situation because now i i can't i'm the only one who can't fly in the in this area with all these horrifying ground monsters i would say yes and if you do drink it it will be an auto success it will give you enough maneuverability to climb where the bullets cannot reach i would like to do that all right you chug down your potion you walk up on the walls to escape the bullets that are yelling and yawing and you escape the cave the only one left is fritz as they are just kind of holding their territory and giving intimidating cries as i assume you also leave the cave as well they're just trying to scare you off crying because i didn't get to pet one and that will be the skill challenge over you escape the cave and have four uh ringing lilies well done yay and uh you valley and lisa you can see that uh edwardo just goes and pats you way too hard on the back word that it almost throws you off he slaps you on the back that was incredibly reckless oh i'm going to like you thank you i like you too spits out another tummy bomb somehow oh good job and we got some extra yeah i don't know what to do with it maybe we get paid more ah you can keep that one for yourself it's a very valuable plant it's very valuable i should know all right but uh yeah let's go back to town give that to go to wiker right sounds good let's do it what's the name of the uh ringing lily ringing lily yes so on the way back you can see edwardo just like laughing and and just recalling everything that happened and then you went you went to go fly you tried to grab the little guy and then he was like oh no i'm stuck on the bugbear yeah that's what i said oh you are just you are going to fit into this town very very nicely thank you i'm excited to get paid so you get you come all this way you come you you agree to some money huh you need money what do you need money for uh money buys lots of things and usually when you get money you get reputation along with it oh that is true that's true but what you buy it tells a bigger story than you could uh what do you plan on spending that's a really good question usually when i spend money these things just kind of come to me and i realized that's a thing i have to have oh you want the world to come easy to you uh what it's in the palm of your hand uh big dream of this one big dreams like word kind of gets put in his head by this guy he's like overthinking i'll tell you what little guy i can tell you a very reckless and you want to get those dreams i tell you get those dreams uh you run to them you see them at the end of the cave you run after them don't let anything stop you don't let anything put you in your place because your place is at the top i know word ain't no quitter you're not a quitter god king word is no quitter and subordinate oh shoot what's his name oh come on come on edward oh nothing stops him neither oh yeah nothing to stop me we're we good pals yeah we good i do like a tiny little cobalt flecks yeah look at that that's what my boss is it even that's my Eduardo but i just do like the hold up the hand like pat the muscle oh also word i i don't know if i said um did i say already when you throw the egg into the bullet you do feel a little bit of joyous fizziness in your brain and a little bit of whispering yes and you gave an inspiration for that oh no i already have one oh you already have one uh we're gonna go the balder skate route and you're gonna we're gonna stack inspirations okay i'm gonna get another one you're gonna have two i don't know where you can mark that because it's not on the character sheet but i'm we're gonna try that rule out see how it works out um cool okay yeah i'm gonna just put it on my inventory potion of inspiration yeah for following through with your little companions uh wishes or at least attempting you're inspired evil little evil little creature that dark urge of mine the dark urge um oh never mind i thought i had something but i don't okay we don't know we we're still pretending like we don't know who this guy is okay yes of course so yes it leads you back to the town back to tigamura and you go into the healer's hut and he busts open the door and yells oh we did it and icer just like just that's his face yes i'm sure you did yeah look look at my new companions the newbies into the town they got you your flower and he just icer just size and i told you how dangerous that cave was and you still went in once yet you fooled these poor travelers into we weren't fooled we were heroic we almost uh we got your flower well thank you and thank you for keeping an eye on edwardo for me and edwardo just looks back what what oh you spawned a surprise yeah but buck what's he talking about um i don't know should we have known you edwardo or ah it's okay it's sorry i just i don't mean that sorry about that i'll explain later but hey hey icer come on i thought that this would be good for me to do this for you you know and uh icer just like uh really it's just i told you how dangerous the cave was you still went in and you did the same bits that you always do don't you ever get new material and it seems like you value his safety a lot yes of course i would like my spouse to come home alive thank you very much ah yeah she needed me again i didn't know any edwardo's like oh why do you think i'm i'm an original a completely barren of ideas yes hey but they're at the very least a happy anniversary and he goes up to him and gives just even magical grabs his like cheek and just and like icer just like pushes him off do not talk to me right now i'm very busy oh this is incredible i love this dynamic any he's hired nerdy boyfriend over exaggerated buff boyfriend still in cat mode but just just mesmerized by what the hell is happening in this house and edwardo just kind of backs out of the door okay i'll meet you outside the new adventures i give you a little bit of an explanation but i give him the flowers he's good man this one good man yes courtesy of word and to a much lesser degree non-stop begonia and i give him the one flower okay icer just takes the flower and buries his face into the other his other hand oh why couldn't he just wait well thank you travelers for humoring my husband in his unorthodox methods this flower is indeed going to be very helpful i've put the flower down on the desk and then i push it off of the desk chat it is actually a matchmake for dozen it is magical right yes indeed it is okay that's okay and i walk away with my other one in my pocket um the there's a matter of the um payment that we were i turn right back around oh yes i've got it and he whisks his hand around and conjures out a pouch that falls into his hand hands it over all it accounts at full i'll split 100 i'll give 125 gold out to all of us we all have 100 because it's 500 right it is indeed yeah 125 richer each delicious well um it was nice meeting you and your husband we'll be in town for just a uh for maybe a little bit longer so yes see you around thank you and sorry it was fun all is forgiven in the name of love and we're like backs out of the door like doing a little bow he just just like takes a hand he nods and like kind of massages his forehead oh i didn't have to be him this is like leg less and ghibli post 40 years of marriage well um don't bother you anymore here here laira pretend not to look i have like a piece of string i'll try and like get laira to go outside like jumps off the table and then walks towards you and then sort of like just makes a wide curve around and goes to a different corner instead no come here we're leaving so yes you exit out of the healers hut and you can see that uh edwardo is just kind of dancing in place just kind of twirling around he's like hey thank you for helping me with the my boy yeah sorry about the deception that this was a test this town is a my baby you know and i like to know what kind of folk come to stay here best way to know it's a seed they are go how they go about to solving the problems uh honestly you have a pretty good baby i'm jealous of your child did we pass the test i mean test for what just to see what you are like you know even if those bullets uh they're not all the bullets in in the place they're still fairly important but mostly i wanted to see what you do thinking that they're super important you know a loss of life is a loss of life and it showed me it showed me how big or little of a deal that is for you you know if the circumstances of their importance matters to you i like this guy well and hey you know i am impressed even with that little that little shit you pull you know sometimes mistakes happen and i like to think that satians are good people with good reason behind their choices and besides you have plenty of chances to prove yourself yeah at least for me i think you're all right well it was a good work team right it's it's nice to meet you i mean obviously you understand we're the pilgrims now so it's it's nice to meet the i guess the unofficial leader or the official leader maybe of this town yeah something like that i just a run of the adventurers guild but i do feel like i got a little bit of hand in the in the fondness place but yeah yeah sorry i gotta take too much of your time you can you can go to the rest stop i have a drink and enjoy and welcome to take a mirror all right good work team maybe maybe we go to the uh the tavern then i mean we got it is there anything else you guys want to look at look at while we're here actually uh now that i have money i might pick up that scimitar yeah i also had at the weapon shop yeah i would like to get the mate the mall you may purchase what you so wish at the blacksmith or the alchemist here i can show you the alchemist shop because that one is open oh did i not oh yes here we go the alch the alchemist shop is actually run by a very well-groomed dwarvish woman who is wearing very heavy makeup but she seems as though she's trying to present make herself presentable as a shop keep um and has some nice braids in her beard and uh she talks very flirtally we'll say and whoever enters in me first and whoever comes up she kind of like bats eyes and hello what can i do for you you depends on what you're offering oh well i depends on what you're bringing in resources outside the town are always welcome inside if you're talking bad items let me show you this and i put the construct's heart on the table oh what's this then this can be used to power any sort of a tamatania need is that a soul mind if i take a move in a great beast yeah go ahead she is like crossing his fingers she doesn't like pull out one of those magnifying glass things unfortunately she does in fact she pulls out a wand and kind of waves it all over around oh darlin i'm disappointed oh this is just a typical construct heart are you trying to swindle me no i actually didn't fully know that i didn't know how weak it was give me a what's that wand do give me a deception check okay oh it's a common mistake no worries this one helps me identify artifacts and it helps me make sure that they are in good condition or they're exactly what person says they are at least in quality all right can you tell me what this does and i put a tummy bomb up oh she waves the wand around oh this is a mighty fine egg where'd you find this i grew it myself and then he like blushes for a moment after she her eyes go wide kind of looks you up and down she strokes her beard a little bit well that's not where my body's at now but for you it could be what well i'm always looking for more reason to travel but anyway back to this yeah then tell me what this does please she explains exactly what it does in terms of the ruleset so that word knows what it does now word just turns around with like a soy face like this can make me stronger oh no no no i will say i'm i'm not exactly it's skilled enough in alchemical brewing i get most of mine as imports from trevisseta but if you find a particularly skilled brew master they could properly extract whatever is in those eggs to make a more potent tonic so you don't have to worry about the whole exploding bit i would love that i do know a few folks over in trevisseta if you go to the teyero alchemy uh company they've got a factory you could probably find someone for i i'll admit a pretty large fee for that but you could do it and if you patent it you could make a pretty penny off of it i appreciate the input that actually means a lot and that is on my docket in the hellscape that is trevisseta oh it's not so bad i learned a thing or two oh that man mr teyero who put him in charge that's a damn good question word like after having thought about nothing for a moment turns around oh did you guys want to buy like potions or something um wait so she can identify stuff or we could maybe sell stuff to uh maybe i'd say you can barter with her uh most of these stores don't buy generic stuff but uh unless it's like things around their like field so like you know uh the ingredients that were presented are could be used in alchemical mixtures um i want to see what she thinks of the flawless magic crystal we got oh she mentions that it's not within her field as these sort of crystals are not really ones that can be mixed into potions but a good blacksmith could turn it possibly into something no one here though because no one here is familiar with the politrios ways of like forging i'm really curious what she thinks of the decrepit root the decrepit root oh she waves the wand around and she's like oh that's odd if i didn't know any better the one was trying to tell me that this is a root from the live tree you wouldn't have taken this from coerencia did you me no i'm just gonna hastily like it's just the dead plant i found she just kind of like raises both eyebrows real high might keep that to myself lassie i'm no snitch but i can understand that some ingredients are hard to come by just keep yourself out of trouble why now i know what that is can i change that because we didn't know what a decrepit root was before and now can i change the title of it you may edit it good to know because i i had a suspicion that i like that it's been confirmed thank you i'm gonna give for five coin for that as a thanks just you know she she takes it discretion and just puts it in like in between her breasts and she just puts them a finger up to her lips in a shushing motion yeah the silence is not kept it is bought thank you haven't i stayed back away it's good at all i'm running to lyra lyra where are you half inside half outside pretending not to know which direction i want to go in i'm gonna like grab you by the shoulders like spin you away from like the shop direction and be like you know the root right oh you're a cat um i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm holding this cat it lasts for two hours and it's so comfortable listen she's like shaking this on that you can you can still understand me if i remember correctly i think okay that sounded like an inquisitive meow um just nods uh you know the decrepit root we i can't remember if you took some but i took some yeah that's a life tree that was a life tree i'm like shaking wrapping like that was a life tree well that does confirm some of my suspicions as well round a dead life tree i don't think you understand this seems very weird as a words we're supposed to save the life tree and i'm carrying around a dead one i i don't know what to do just one paw on the forearm just like a very steady stare sorry and i'm gonna put you down because i've been shaking you shake it out a little bit i'm i'm gonna give this to you because i feel like you're more responsible than i am i just accidentally showed a dead life tree to someone i think i'm gonna give it to you i great awesome i'll slap that sucker in my inventory there you go dead root of life tree well is it dead i don't i mean it's decrepit so well i would assume it's dead now at least yeah yeah dead decrepit i i use the terms and arms decrepit as in it's been dead for a long time yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna let the responsible one hold that just in my mouth oh wait yeah you don't have it i can change back and keep it it's fine i'm gonna assume that you would do so at some point but if you want to still stay a cat we're just gonna no i mean it'll wear off after two hours anyway it's just it's very convenient if you want i'll like tuck it between you're not wearing a collar are you no okay i'm gonna take my hair bow thing i wrap it around you like it's a collar and tuck the leaf in so it's hidden well that is adorable there you go now my hair's all in my face but it's fine you can give that back give that back to me when you uh change back i you know how much i hate hair in my face solemn nod right good work team i say hair feathers that being our cock was confusing hair feathers well that answered some questions and brought up several more can i talk to edwardo um there i had a question that i wanted to ask yeah you can talk to edwardo because he's just kind of hanging around him just talking with fellow adventurers at the guild now yeah while you guys are doing that at the maybe while you guys are doing the potion at the potion shop i can go talk to him real quick yes hey it's on my favorite bug bell that i've met in the past a few days hey what's up right it's it's buck um the i just wanted to check because there was a woman who i saw admiring your board out front and i don't know if she is part of the adventurers guild i just i her name is the one that was yelling at you yeah she told us about you who us she told us about you who's who is us that she told about a few friends she's made at the adventurers guild you know she's got her own the party now and you know she's uh listen i don't know i don't know your story but uh she's had a lot of healing she's needed to do and i only met you today and you seem like a good guy but uh she seems to know you in ways that i don't right that would be the case um is her adventuring party are they in town right now or she this is like not her chapter of the adventurers guild she's based somewhere else oh yeah she moved in she used to be a uh uh worker for a trevus at the guard she quit she joined the adventurers guild and her her adventuring party are they here in town or is it just a few here and there they're just a rest in upper some of them are locals they are living the residential district up north or west uh real real close you can see it it's uh right beyond the fountain does she live there as well in the residential district she just kind of uh stays at the tavern you know just around don't exactly know when she sleeps her yeah right right right in she's doing well i assume for herself i mean she's seen in good health yeah she's doing all right she works a lot though battery runs forever that one this is a harder worker harder than any one of us really right right right um well that's all the information that i really needed right now so i i hope you have a good um rest of your day and your you said it's your anniversary with your husband is that oh yeah we're gonna have a fun night tonight uh i got a special date to plan we're gonna go watch the stars he loves the stars oh and he well that's very nice i'm very happy for you um kid how long have you been uh married let's see now uh oh since we are founded this a place uh i wanted to move out uh and make a place of my own about uh 40 years ago this place and then i founded this a town and then he thought i was going to kill myself so he put the healers hut and then we established a town where people came saw business and then here we are boom man well it's um that's it's great it's you clearly have done well for not just your relationship with the whole town i mean it seems good that you've done that yeah he's trying he's he's size and a shrug but he can't help but care about me yeah well we gotta keep keep those close to us not take advantage of them yeah oh yeah i was just thinking that that is good to yeah hey he goes and puts an arm around your shoulder hey let me let me tell you something uh my dating life used to be hard like you you remind me of me but let me tell you something it comes from deep within in right here he smashed he smacks his chest with his fist a little bit sometimes it's really hard but sometimes people are better off without you right that i get that i get yeah i think i mean yeah i get it i think people are better off without me too sometimes i think um no no no no oh man ah common is so hard no i mean you general you general like me i've been there i had someone i cared about i hurt them a lot and i want to fix it but sometimes the way we fix it is to not be there because they don't want us okay that that's a little bit more encouraging than what i thought you were trying to say and common can be hard so i appreciate the advice um i hope i don't want to keep you too long i imagine you're gonna change before this this anniversary date or this is what you're gonna wear to it i don't know do you think uh the messy thing uh the messy fit is a good you might uh give the right idea look at me i'm a sexy adventurer huh i'm up sweaty and scarred up i some guys like that you know they like they like the guy who mucks around in the dirt and is all grungy i i can't speak with too much certainty but i imagine that just having known you for a very short amount of time that i could probably lacks you exactly the way that you are now so just forget i said anything i wouldn't take my advice you know what you're doing i'm the divorced one in the room so i'll i'll stand back no no no no no hey you're my you're my buddy now okay buck you're my buddy yeah and you know what i know about failure is a failure is a good teacher what do you think i should do i i i really think you're probably just good and what you're wearing but maybe maybe just wash your the outfit's probably fine but maybe just wash up just a little he snaps his fingers there we go that's a feedback i was looking for thank you buck you are good the teacher i uh you're welcome i'm gonna i'll maybe i'll see you later uh to this week or uh before we leave before we leave i'll see you see you then because that means the pam pam you'll not not kill you uh right right right right um i'm gonna i'm gonna go now i'll see you later buck all right i love you i but goodbye all right all right and yeah you've got the rest of the night to yourself i presume that you're going to be heading to the inn to call it a day yep yeah all right so you head into the tavern and inside you can see that there's a few people just um having a drink having a nice time uh buck do you go into the tavern as well yeah i'll go in the tavern as well joe you can see the pam yel is sitting at one tail just communing with a few of the locals when she notices you she actually doesn't look at you like when you walk in the door and you notice her she doesn't look your way uh i just i'll ignore yep you ignore you go and you can see at the counter there is a very familiar silhouette sitting at the table and uh another familiar silhouette or rather at the counter uh and another familiar silhouette sitting and licking kind of the floor right beside them yep it is jade and uh she turns around uh helmetless as she is drinking something and she just kind of like oh shit you want to do do this now is this no no no no no i want drink alcohol all right hurry let's have some drinks first my tab or your tab i'm in good standings with these folk you can you can have it on me yes i'm gonna regret that so i saw that you went out on a little quest how was it largely smooth unusual and Eduardo say the least he's fun as any yes he gives you a lot to think about he's a good man that one you know he was a pilgrim as well oh you know what that doesn't surprise me i you know he spends so much time working on this place he decided to see the rest of the kingdom see how they're doing and give his own take on things he's a very active man when he gets to it i can't imagine is he actually when he mentioned that he was from uh past the old country down down south what's it called uh old diocese beyond old diocese yeah he speaks truth that man is ragged he can take on monsters while i've even not even decided to take a second glance at i don't know how he made it over the border but i can't imagine travis that is quite fun he never lets it on but he lost a lot of good folk making it here i'll leave it word goes up to the the bar and gets two of whatever fritz got uh what did fritz get i got two shots of whiskey nice so you have four whiskey is fritz's favorite yeah you just drink these three yeah down the hatch i do you need a mix i can get you something no i got a train but that makes what and he he starts you know throwing him back at his own pace all right uh word and fritz make a constitution saving throw okay all right okay hey it is some strong stuff whatever they make here it is potent and uh words of adventure you are dizzyed and a little bit off your rocker you're gonna whatever checks you make for the next hour are physical checks whether it be strength dexterity or constitution are going to be at disadvantage okay isn't that similar to how poisoned works similar poison is all ability checks i'm pretty sure okay it's the chrysalis yeah so this is just all the physical ones your mental ones are still fine for now cool and fritz you're okay of course fritz is fritz is a sailor in fact today takes note of you being able to swig back such a strong drink you know i never noticed an our cocker to hold her liquor so well i mean no offense it's just they're literally lightweight yeah but when you've grown up at the docks with dwarves and all sorts you kind of you have to that's right you were raised by dozen i remember wow i can't wait to drink with him it's been so long it's gonna be exciting to see some friendly faces again and it might be a chance to use that teleportation circle to go back home i'm sure uncle is a little worried for me much as i'd like to see the rest of elinthe he has been looking for some sort of successor to his being a dragon and all and i just don't know if i can do it well physically i assume that's a rather binary question can you turn into a dragon oh probably i've cultivated the skill and i've learned the ritual what undergoes gaining the power from uncle and i've seen him do it many many times and he's explained it to me many times but i just don't know if it's in the cards for me mentally i don't know if i can stay in one place i've just been traveling the adventuring life is for me it always has been how do i stop has a dragon ever traveled well rarely do they ever they're they've got a responsibility they've got to protect their province from any potential threats i don't i just don't know if i could do that stay in one place for so long then you don't have to i want to see if word is like quietly vibrating at the whole oh the dragon wants a successor to become the next dragon i'm sorry i was gone for one minute i used the restroom oh no that whole thing so today talking about how um Elias is looking for a successor and when you hear this word actually non-stop begonias speaks in your ear oh that's an opportunity they're looking for a successor perhaps we should apply if we desire it and word will throw back another one of his whiskies oh you say this on your face you say this and non-stop begonias like shouts in your ear if what do you mean if i don't know there's just some stuff i gotta think about and you are definitely not helping perhaps you're not as ambitious as i initially presumed i'll leave you to her thoughts boss his voice fades today continues i don't know would you would you all be able to shackle yourselves down to one spot knowing that you can never have true freedom you've got responsibilities i mean responsibilities aren't exactly something that vanished depending on where you are no it's quite a change it could be difficult but just because you don't have responsibilities doesn't mean that you're free i guess that's true i'm going on it square going i guess if my uncle were in trouble i would absolutely have to go back i wouldn't be able to stop myself from not going to help well i'm not entirely sure that there's a dichotomy between freedom and having people you care about i'll say this i mean we just met um and i'm surely did she know did she know um uh edwardo did she did yeah she went away she mentioned that she went like yeah oh yeah he was a relative measure yeah okay with yeah he was with him with that's that's what i was gonna be i mean we met edwardo um he seems to have a fair amount of responsibility to this place specifically and that might be there might not be a person i've met in my lifetime that more exemplifies the values of freedom that i've seen he seemed pretty free to me uh she just kind of looks down into her mug i guess that's true isn't it she slowly her mouth turns to a smile but your freedoms will end here pilgrims she tosses over her cup uh and el coco just leaps up and like instinctively grabs it so it doesn't break anything what a good boy for you have come to your end and she dons the mask as la destructora rises again and her helhound el coco all right take a one rest that's okay i don't need to hit her with lightning again that was a one-time thing for now you are in my territory my town and i will not be holding back although please do hold back at that that this time it is just just uh you know dramatic talk very well how about you yeah all right i'm gonna need you to roll initiative pull out her spear yeah boy she pulls out another shitty spear made of cardboard it's amazing that we didn't notice she had that oh yeah you can have your your time thank you all right so buck you're up first and you can see that there's a commotion going on in the tavern people are like cheering and wow la destructora wow and everyone is kind of taking it in and you can see just out of the corner of your eye the table where pam is has not changed she's still just talking not even paying attention uh all right i gotta get her attention let's rage do you need to get her attention no i don't need to do that but but what i need and what i want to do are not the same things sometimes let me let me do my rage um i'll say i'll do my best to say this ends now and then uh hold on i'm trying to find my wild magic table i think this is how i roll it ooh all right ooh shiny nice yeah that'll get her attention hold to the protective lights okay and my allies get a bonus to ac lady luck has just decided to cover you with disco balls disco balls hell yeah and uh as you shine brightly uh please surpass a perception for this yep you notice that uh your ex-wife like she's side eyes to see what's going on because it's near unignorable now and she just rolls her eyes shakes her head and just buries herself in her drink whereas her companions are actually kind of enjoying themselves watching you now can i try to throw la destructora onto her table oh yes with an athletics chair uh i do do i get advantage on when i'm raging i think you do right advantage on strength yeah i do that'll be nice you can do a strength check oh okay sorry i mean i think it's i think it's uh technically athletics counts is that so i think it would also but let me just do that yeah i'm not quite certain because like i'll have to look at the rules what like strength check does yeah skills as well some people say yes but i don't know but i'm not so sure okay but yes well let's see she's going to do a an imposing one oh my gosh you grab her and lift her up and toss her over to the table whoo bush and the the entire tab and cheers way and la destructora quickly like gets back onto her feet onto the table that maneuver will do a little to stir me pilgrims and then she looks over to the the patrons by her i'm sorry about your drinks and they're all cheering except for pam who is just like cringing you can see her cringing physically oh come on i'm being cool here i don't mind i'll i'll end my turn fritz your turn you can see actually fritz bayou el coco is in a wide stance you can see his paws are wide and he is like eyeing you and just pet i don't i'm gonna get enchanted again oh no i am going to lay on the floor and petting this dog oh no i have been enchanted whatever shall i do and everyone in the tavern's like wow y'all el coco get her and el coco just goes over and starts licking your face as you're on the floor oh wait no oh god right no wait no i'm gonna end my turn and everyone's like kill them kill them kill them what oh god word your turn just kind of off-handed word steps down from the table and pulls out his dagger kind of limp wristedly and is like i'll save you fritz and he's gonna cast a sleep on el coco okay oh uh let's so he pulls out like a little pinch of sand sprinkles it on him yeah what is that a wisdom save uh if he has less than 22 hit oh i see yeah it's not a safe yeah he just he just starts licking and licking and licking and then he just and then falls and just his face is on top of your face fritz words are gonna like crouch down and just scratch his neck his leg just kind of like starts to stop like doing the the length thing that dogs do oh next wonder what he's dreaming about la destructora you may have taken care of my hill companion but i am still formidable in my own right and she throws a mug uh back at you buck and it just like dings off your head it doesn't even hurt this thing is like real light but it does ding off of you i'll pretend like it doesn't hurt and she just cast impossible no one has been able to withstand the mug of might before that's me i'm good at withstanding uh and then all yeah that's it pam i'm trying to sink into her chair oh no laira yes i would like to dramatically flourish and cast frostbite on la destructora and also the drinks at the table she's at so they all get like iced oh i simply think it would be funny okay all right yep all right yeah you blast her with a little beam of ice and just like it frosts a little bit on her cardboard and she grasps at her chest oh no that you could have grown so strong i'm full of surprises the uh you can see the table kind of uh gets a little bit frosty and you can see yeah their drinks get a little bit frozen over just the the top like layer and people kind of take like their straws and poke them to make little ice cubes and they're like hey perfect ah i will retreat for now but this will not be the last you see of me pilgrims and she goes over and picks up el coco kind of petting him on the head as he's still asleep take you hello i will cast you pilgrims she's whispering as el coco is within her arms and everyone else just kind of like gentle claps and is a little bit quiet but as she slinks out of the tavern you have defeated el coco and la destructora yet again yes and we're gonna call the session there okay yeeha can word go around really quick with this fancy hat and collect uh payment oh yeah okay let's actually yeah let's see hold on let's see how much people are tipping the performance all right you gay you get about five gold pieces not a lot gay you hear the voice of non-stop begonias i guess this is fine he's gonna fight us in the ass so hard i can't wait for final boss fight big bad evil guy non-stop begonias the non-stop begonias all right and yeah that's gonna be session uh big bad evil begonias evil the guys