 Okay, so wow, you guys arrive in the arid Barbell and Savannah The pilgrims make their way to Peletrios province of innovations where technology and magic meet and Wondrous creations are made the massive research and creation center that cranks and whistles at the core of the town Not only houses one of greatest minds of a lengthy, but also the means of Peletrios's hydraulic power supply as well as its Impressive irrigation courtesy of the far-reaching roots of Corencia the life tree which provides the water throughout its far-reaching deep roots Though its various advancement give for good exports along with its own supply of regrowing minerals and precious gems similar to viscerally It is rare that the people of the desert find themselves conferring with their sister provinces a surprise considering Peletrios's famous railroad system Perhaps a mystery to be solved Oh So yes, you guys make it in town. You can see that there's a few people just kind of hanging out around the dirt road And you can see that there's your regular facilities just right out front So there is a general goods kind of marketing area over here. There is a smithy as indicated by the sign There is a church of Kotha song over here the the great inventor the god of progress and civilization and There is also an in or a saloon as it it's called here Did we Were we were we given I thought we had talked to your dad Astrophia and I thought he And I thought he told us didn't he tell us like a person to speak to or like a place to go He did give you a card a business card with his name on it that you can't bring to The like the town. Yeah research and creation center to let yeah people know that you are on official business on in his you know account I Didn't write down the names of the dragon or the That's okay. The dragon's name is Sergei S. E. R. G. I and the Lord's name her name is Lord Eufrasia. Oh You know that she's Air Genasi Hmm, and we know the dragon is a warforged. Yep. I believe okay Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, I just got mentioned a couple sessions. Yeah, they're right Cuz you're smart you guys are smart Spell it right Well, I think maybe um, I take a break from I take a break from arm wrestling word. I think I just like stretch my shoulder like ten wins in a row. I think that's enough. We should you just stop after six I Know but I feel like ten sort of like a lucky number So we just got to go get a full ten of them I think now that that's done We should try and find a place that we're gonna be able to rest in case we're here for a little bit I mean certainly if we're gonna go across the desert to the next place, we're gonna have to get some supplies So I don't know if I'm looking around do I see like is the saloon also like an in like is that a place? We could stay. Yeah, it is. It's a multi-purpose. Most of them are standardized in a lengthy to have both a Sleeping facility as well as a place, you know to eat at a nightcap building And what time of day is it? It's about like evening. The sun is about setting also because it is covered by the Wonderful doodles you can see off in the distance because of the lack of Flora and kind of hills covering it you can see off in the distance covered by the atmosphere Quarencia the life tree. Oh Yeah, I love that so it's not a mushroom cloud These warforged are really taking their tech advancements to a new level Yeah, I really like this town It's a little dry Yeah, there's water here. Yeah, it's fine too much. I Mean, it's not as green as where we came from, but there's water here Let's check out the end. Yeah, let's go to the saloon. Okay as you ride forward in your kind of beat-up carriage cart You do see someone standing in the middle of the road. Oh Tell me tell me who it is Who is this and you hear a familiar voice? Coming through a muffled helmet Play their theme at last. Oh my god It is she la destructora the destroyer She calls out to you and as well as her hellhound El Coco There he is Standing there beside her In the middle of the dirt road as a tumbleweed rolls past being pushed aside by a little child There's a lonesome hawks cry and a slide guitar You hear her voice echo throughout the stony buildings whether it be in the bays of the sky or the desert Barbella my hunt is ceaseless and my hunger unquenching your doom is at hand pilgrims And I and then she stops and notices your cart and your horses. Oh good currancia. You look awful. Are you okay? Were you attacked on the way here? No little bit I Could have swung the watchtower said you would look fine, but my goodness your carriage your horses Enough about our horses. We've got plenty of fight left for a long time Are you sure this is not a bad time? I just I don't want to get in the way if you need a day off or something I can come back. No, you if I just don't touch the horses. We'll be all right Can I pet your dog? I need emotional support After the battle she's had a very rough day I would advise Actually She looks at El Coco and El Coco looks up to her boof. She Goes into a defensive stance You may pet him if you dare pilgrims, but what for his fangs are relentless Around that beast fritz. I'll carefully pet him. I'm just like I've crouched as far away as I can and I'm like petting And he is like licking your your wing arm just like and giving you little nibbles not bites Just like play nibbles just What a vicious creature Beware the poison of his fangs Immediately I'm gonna need Yeah Put us on the map, baby. Oh, you put yourself on the map Wow Like how Lera doesn't Larry you don't win it on the little cuddle puddle that we're doing every year. No Little scrounged together. It's already too hot Okay, we all have so much I have to wait for I guess I have too much for yeah, this is perfect for me Okay Just setting on a rock Ah What do I feel like doing I'm gonna I'm you know what? I'm gonna use a dagger attack. I haven't done one once this entire time. I'm gonna I'm gonna. I'm gonna go off to one of the horns Okay, yeah on a lot destructora. I don't think we're trying to stab the dog Yeah, no, I'm not touching the dog. I'm going specifically for the horns the horns You go and she ducks out of the way swift as a bat Or some other small fast creatures and she just kind of kneels down and puts like one hand to her chin impressive pilgrim But are you faster than this? And she does various poses you do have a second attack since you are level five ranger Oh, can I oh, I'm going to imitate her pose is trying to be even better I guess I would a roll for that Another attack the Jojo pose. If you want you can give me a performance as well Oh, you Fane her you just kind of look like you're kicking and flopping around in the sand And a little bit of dust in your eyes a little bit birds do those best. This is a fine thing. It's healthy Dust back. Yeah, that's me done then. No, you're not going to spend your second attack. That was my second attack I was trying to hit the morals All right, wonderful Okay, next is la destructora Who now brandishes a new spear and you can see that on it are like a bunch of drawings and you can see like next to On the sidelines, you can see that there's a bunch of kids cheering for her as well. Oh, no Oh, what they're like, she's increasing into herself to the populace There's there's they're chanting kill them. Yes Oh I knew I didn't like this town for a reason And la destructora brandishes her newly signed spear and with a bunch of crayon drawings on it gladly She is going to stab at you fritz as you are flailing around on the ground How dare I'm just trying to dance and you feel The harsh cardboard spear pierced through your armor and you take one piercing damage Is that an accurate description though? A codboard cut those are the worst That's pretty devastating. Yeah Does she like aim for a nick but like in the armor or does it actually manage to no doesn't actually pierce I'm just flavoring it out. Okay. Yeah I'm wondering how scared we need to be It doesn't actually pierce. She just stabs straight into your chest But you can see the like cardboard tip just crumples up Although the force that she put she maybe doesn't know her own strength It does feel a little bit of like a punch in the gut Oh That really hurt. You can tell that she was definitely pulling it And she commands el coco el coco quick while she is down attack And el coco just like trots up to you and starts licking the place where la destructora stabbed It is only a matter of time before you succumb to your wounds Lay her on your turn Oh Once again, I find myself torn No, I'm not I'm going to summon beast I feel less bad about making this a pokemon battle. Uh, let's make it an exact copy of el coco again Another el coco And what do you command it to do? I have no idea. I'm so tired. This has been a really long day This is my last like second level spell Uh, take her down before she hurts anyone else And that is code for attack attack And how does el coco 2.0 attack? Uh, I think just like Like runs full tilt and kind of like head butts a little bit. Okay. Give me an attack tool. I think that's all right. Uh Yes, let's see. Hold on. Um Oh multi attack Oh Uh, it's just one attack. Never mind. Okay. It's a mall. So, uh Your spell attack modifier to hit. All right Does a 13 hit uh 13 does not hit she uh, uh, you are attacking The other el coco. Yes. No, I'm attacking logistic logist rutora. She just kind of sidesteps Ever imitated but never Imitated What your mind games won't work on me this time. All right, that's my turn and my beast's turn word All right, I am going to um pull out a little clay flask of oil And as I toss it at her I'm just gonna be like you weren't prepared for my special move The dragon's bargain and I tossed the uh oil at her Oh, I tried to do Yeah, there we go. Yeah The the flask breaks and Splashes her all over And she just winces a bit. God. What is this substance? And then I pull out negotiation which is capable of dealing fire damage. Children are watching. Oh my god Now we bargain is the fight over and not Give me an intimidation Like I try to throw it up and I almost cut my hands Not until my dying breath pilgrims Geez oh, it's getting away from me the wind's blowing That's my turn. All right. Wonderful. Next is buck I will uh put big blind on my shoulder and then walk up. How much taller am I then? Look, I don't know if you just know it said how tall la destructora is Uh, she is of average humanoid height. I would say maybe like five Nine five ten. Okay, so I'm taller. Um, that is taller than average humanoid for women just for the record Oh, yeah, listen where there's a word it's where human there are humanoids that are like orcs and elves and stuff Oh, yeah average human only average human women are just taller and stronger and extra attractive in this world. Let's just Want it on record that that is the case. I walk up. Uh, I walk up and I say look, um We're gonna have to You're gonna have to let us know how it is that you keep finding us Give me a Either persuasion or intimidation Uh, I'm better at intimidation, so we'll roll that one Ugh, jeez. She simply puts both hands on her hips Foolish pilgrims. I am an enigma a quandary A riddle in a book written in a language beyond even the polyglots of aguna I hit her with the hammer Were you to truly defeat me you may learn if only you will live to see it Ah Yeah, I'm gonna hit her with the hammer and I'm gonna attack recklessly. Okay. Oh my god Okay, you just pull the hammer down and Like it looks like it's going to hit with a bunch of force, but Just immediately stops and makes a ding sound as you see her armor flash once again with the golden light that you once saw before And she drops to the floor No for you again Mark my words pilgrims for this is not the last you've seen of me What's your backs and What is it? Do we really need to go to this place do we really need to go is there I hate Travis Can I hit her again? I have another attack I want to knock her out. I we just got attacked because we because we have been like someone's been Learning our location. I think it's her Oh Oh my god. Okay. This one Knocks her you don't see the golden glissom from this time What? And you smack her and and all the children are like. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah And she just like immediately stops Uh And just stands up Oh Why'd you do that? What'd you do? What? I was You said if we defeated you you knocked the monologue out of her. I I didn't I'm sorry. You attacked us. I mean I didn't do anything you attacked us Oh, it's this over here. You know what that's Uh Yeah, you're you're right. Um I mean I I was trying to make this uh This interesting, but if you really want to know if it matters that much I don't know what you've been through. It seems like you went through some trouble. So sorry. I shouldn't have assumed You really want to know it's probably going to destroy the the the magic of this Oh god, look, I'm I didn't this seems like it's more than I thought it was um I'm not trying to Hurt your feelings or anything, but we just to be clear And I don't know why I'm sharing this with you, but we we have been attacked by Living goo Ooze you might call it and it's the blot. Just call it the blot the blots with the blot. It's I know I'm trying to sell it up a little bit I don't know how it is that they've been tracking us and you clearly have been tracking us and I As much as it's fun to play this game with you I need to know how it is you're tracking us. And so I'm sorry I hit you with my hammer If if you're not no, no, I I understand Oh, I'm sorry. I should have anticipated that you would have gone through a lot of trouble Do you really want to know though? I'll look back at Fritz and word in lair. Like are we like what I'm walking in the opposite direction? I don't actually even if this happens. I'm gonna take off my headphones where it doesn't want to know Um You can just I mean I like the bit. I don't hold on one second. I gotta talk to Look, I enjoy the bit. I think the bit's fun. I just this it concerns me. I don't know what this person is doing Maybe Don't be suspicious of everything It's not fun. Maybe we could ask this journey is hard enough We could just ask maybe instead if they're like In Cohesion with that like if if only they can do it, you know, I like can only they do it or can others do it, you know I find it very unlikely that this person is collaborating with the blood in any way Yeah, I would be so disappointed. I don't want to live in a world where that's the truth I just I feel like the questions that fritz has are exactly the questions. I want to ask this person And if I I don't know How do I put this? I don't know why we're falling along with the bit if this person is even ostensibly Seeking to stop us on our journey. Clearly said she spoke to the watch tower Perhaps she's an official of some sort Yeah, you're already taking away the phone. I'm out of here. I'm sorry. I'm sorry You're giving me too much to go off of We we could just ask if others would be able to do what they're doing And I would like to point out that we are currently probably Targets of quite a lot of attention given that our quest is of significance to the entire kingdom I strongly doubt that la destrutora is the only person capable of tracking us down right now Buck if you want to know you can go ask and fritz covers their ears and walks off the road Oh, she shouts out from the other side of the road. If you want I can be vague about it They wrote We can I assume there's a way we can play along to keep the I can't believe I'm going to say this The magic going but I just need to make sure this person Is not going to be a threat To us or if they have any information You'll you understand where I'm coming from right like this. I understand you this entire time have stressed How serious of a job this has been the other two I guess I'm not surprised about Yes, I I understand I had a different plan for acquiring the information but Uh, I recommend you talk to la destrutora and I'm going to cast speak with animals and talk to el coco El coco is looking back and forth and just uh kind of be like You hit duke stupura. Oh why are you hit her? Hello little guy He's not very happy with you I'm not happy with him. He hit he hit destrutora. Why? He was he's saying Uh, don't worry about it. Oh, he was worried. That's all He's protective just like you I go protect la destrutora and she he just kind of like goes over and just uh Stands next to her just kind of like pawing at her and she just gives him a little scruff while looking at you guys Well, there goes my plan for extracting information from the dog. All right. Let me try something They're not like far away. You can like bark at him. I guess You're just like bark bark Let me I'll I will uh, I'll is I'll walk up to uh la destrutora and I will sort of faux menacingly point Uh big blind with one Holding it up with like one hand towards her and I'll say in a in like a mock sort of villain boys I will let you live la destrutora and I look over at the kids who are watching Uh, oh god the music started making I will let you live la destrutora but You must reveal to The two of us your secrets of perception Uh Is that good? While this is going on uh laira because this is gonna give a response that's basically gonna end this going on laira What did you want to speak with el coco about? Um I wanted to know what they do when they're not attacking us Uh el coco just kind of talks about how they hang out in town. Uh, she buys him treats Let's him run around and get a lay of the land Uh meet up with the dragon and lord and chat. They seem to chat a lot. It seems gotcha Okay. Yeah, I think I'm good Okay, can I druid craft a little like I don't know like tasty berry for him or something? Yes, you can thank you Give it to him and uh, he's just like like it kind of almost Devours your hand in the process But like he clearly is going for the berry like he doesn't like it for a noble knight Oh, I'm noble knight Yes And uh, so at the the Declare that she let you know who she is give me an intimidation Sure I think at this point we're selling it for the kids watching And she looks down Oh I'm surprised you still haven't figured it out Let's say i'm a friend From satcha El coco with me and she points and like el coco just Spins in place to create a dust cloud with the sand that barely covers them and they run off into the alleyway A friend from satcha And you have defeated la distrutura yet again, I'm gonna have to go back to the vods and watch Look for any suspicious NPCs about 510 Um All right, I'll I'll walk back to laira I just don't get How that helps us, but I guess if I I think we can confirm that they're not a threat To i'm so tired and we and still hurt from fighting Let's let's go again. Yeah Yeah Let's go get fritz and word we'll we'll get them and take our Night trail off and then Yeah, we'll go to the end. All right, so you go to the end and uh inside you see That uh, I'm here. Yeah All right, so you guys head to what sign is put out called the bronze saloon tavern and in Inside you can see that there is a fire genasi Who is wearing some very well kind of suited vest And she seems to have a scar across one of her eyes and she waves you in and just Whistles over to a few of her hands to come help you to whatever it is that you need Here she is. She points to a sign on her vest a little tag that says norium Oh She's cool Stop making them haunt Literally they have to be Can she Hear or speak pointing to the name tag Makes me think She has a name tag that says norium Yes, is that we say so like Calling to her and greeting her it seems it seems as though she does not speak but she's able to Understand and hear you audibly. Okay. Awesome Um, yeah, I I assume we just want some food and a place to sleep, right? I think so. All right, uh, I will at least until we get a non-descript object and then leave We we can't suddenly decide we're going to be subtle Let's get it. Let's get some dinner. Let's sit down for I mean we gosh we we we got the heart We feel like we haven't really taken a break Yeah, she's able to give you guys a Seat, uh, just at a table all on your own and uh, yeah, uh You guys I would say just a regular nice meal. There's a lot of like Citrus based drinks some cactus juice some lime some orange some Uh, you know all that sour goodness Though that's the special here as it is a savannah and very arid a lot of citrus tends to grow And uh for the meal and the room it is merely going to cost two gold pieces for the whole thing It's a package deal cool beans for everybody for everybody For a shared room anyway, if you want individuals, it's going to be one additional gold piece per room Yeah That will fit all of you is the one extra Of course All right, let's drop that two gold. Oh, let me check Where is my gold? I did it. I just took it's fine. It's too cold. Yeah Oh, you paid Yeah, it's too cool. It doesn't break easy. Okay. Let's have some food and then like sleep or something More foods they got uh, I miss cannon bug Yeah They surprisingly have a decent amount of seafood for a place out in the desert, but it's mostly kind of saltwater fish or no not saltwater fresh water fish as the river. Sorry not salt water not out here. No Fresh water fish that apparently And a lot of what they call underground fish that live in the the waters that are kind of underneath the ground that swim around the roots of the life tree that run throughout beneath Uh, the ecosystem of this place is fascinating Okay I'll take the big pale one She nods and kind of whistles over kind of a What seems to be some kind of coded melody for the helpers who understand and go bring you your meal So she can hum She cannot hum. She can whistle Oh, so then she would have a tongue Yes I'm sorry. The the character is like missing an eye learning their visual backs and and they're not speaking. We don't see them speak. No Ripped up vocal chords. Yeah, there she is A lot of things could have happened. Um, that's true. I take I take a bite of my fish sandwich. Um, so what What is the plan for tomorrow? Do you guys want to just go and try and find the dragon or I mean, we do have a relative in Uh That guy that none of us have ever met before who doesn't matter that much. What's his name? Yeah, what was his name? Astrapio as a strappo We go find him and apparently he knows who the the dragon is Okay Is that maybe the wisest course of action I would like to go shopping. I ran out of one of my pots of oil and I realized with a new named move You know, I got to have like at least 10 of them Can I go shopping with you? Yes, that would be fun. Yeah, I could pick you out a really nice fuzzy coat I don't know if I need one. I don't know if they sell those in the desert. I just realized we are in the desert We'll buy you some uh a circlet maybe That sounds like a good idea. Buck and I can go and rondevue with the Whatever he is and um He's a bird. Yes. No. Yeah, but did we learn his did we learn his title? I think he's I mean, he's some kind of official We know that Yes, I'm not entirely sure the details, but He is an officiate and underling of the mayor. That's all I know. He said he wasn't officiate. I don't know if that's the official Thing my goodness word your handwriting is impeccable No, I don't actually write any of this down. I just remember I you know how people build like mental palaces Where it's like, you know, there's the big entry and then there's the rooms that have stuff in them That's what I do. What what do you do? Wow, there's like a mental palace with a bunch of really like Interesting statues and waterfalls and stuff and I just mentally explore that and that's how I remember stuff Genius, right. I don't know how to write. Yeah, um I'm going to I am going to Later, I'm fine with doing that. I wanted to stop by the church here So I could at least get some worship done Before I mean, it's not gonna take me very long, but no while we're here. I figured I I can also go and talk to astropio alone. I don't think that would be too much of an issue That's fine with me. Um, I'm gonna it's not gonna take me long and I get up pretty early So I can maybe do that Before hand, it's however you want to do it. I'm not gonna take offense if you wait I just think that maybe All right, you're going to astropio. I'm wait. I'm confused. What are we doing as a group? It sounds like they're doing our own splitting up. I think yeah, we're splitting the party We're going to rest but we need to at some point liaison with the dragon and astropio is some form of official in this city Who gave us his card so presumably we are expected to go through him I think if we're gonna meet with either the lord or the dragon, we should probably all be together for politics sake But Maybe we can get a lead on On that through astropio Unlike or set that up somehow Perhaps Do you want to do that first and then split up Do you want to do that? It's just business Do you want to see astrum Let's find some time where we can meet with astropio together. We I'll do my we we can all go together. That's fine All right very invested in my fish sandwich So just are you you guys are gonna go see astropio first I think the plan is to because it's like evening, right? It's about the plan is to like six seven It sounds like maybe do some morning stuff like do some morning shopping and praying and then Maybe go right after that we can like meet up since we're all sign of like in a town square Like any like we're kind of close to all that stuff anyway And then yeah after that we'll go to see if we can find astropio And I think the idea is we'd be doing all that tomorrow. Yes. Yeah, I don't think we're gonna do any of it Because it's like towards the net like yeah All right, okay, so I guess you guys just want to spend the rest of the night just kind of hanging out and Letting the the day go by then Makes sense. Yeah, can I can I ask noriam a question? Yes I just because I don't know Just had a question before you head off to serve someone else. How'd you get that uh, how'd you get that scar on your eye? Oh my god, it's not too first if it's not too first staring deep into the fish set She actually looks a little elated at this and she comes by the table And kind of does a bunch of kind of hand signs play setting up the scene using a bunch of props around the uh The table and like restaurant as well Like she pulls up a little napkin and like floofs it up to make it look a little bit fiery And then she points to it and points it to herself. That's her and She shows She kind of takes some of the salt sprinkles it down and then points to it and does a little like Makes herself small like a little ball and like wibbly indicating that it's the blot And uh that she uh points at One of the warforge patrons in her Uh in her in and then she points and then Does like a gesture of like they're small and then big Flowing arms like wings the dragon. She's referring to sergi Wait, is sergi even right now? No, he's not it's a serge. Serge saved maybe saved her from the blot and that blot In a manner of signing and gesture shows that she met sergi Through an attack from a blot. He saved her and she was able She was kind of going through a very difficult time as the blot was overtaking her body as she nearly died But sergi saved her and was able to recover What he could with both her eye and kind of her the rest of her body. Unfortunately, she lost her voice and one of her eyes Oh What a harrowing escape Well, um is uh As beautiful as your uh your left eye is you know, it's a shame that the other one is uh In the state that it is in um She she waves her hand and like uh shakes her head and almost like Breathing out like a laugh uh and uh she gestures over to a few of the um Uh female patrons that are in the inn and you can see that they're eyeing her up And then she just kind of wiggles her eyebrows and then points to the scar Right, you gotta let people be proud of the battles. Right. Right. Sorry. I didn't mean No, no, no, I didn't mean it. I just you know, just I didn't yeah, she seems to imply that uh girls like it. No. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I understand Give me four months, and I'll be back here I Great fish in the in the fish sandwich also equally beautiful, uh great sandwich Look, how did you ever get a wife? We've hit ground water. Please stop digging. She seemed very patient It was nice to meet you She gives a little bow and reaches into the pouch in her vest to hand you the keys to your room Thank thank you. Thank you. Is it noria or noria noria Oh, okay. Yeah, if you can't see the full name you can increase the size of the window a little bit. Oh, yeah, my bad. All good Yeah All right, let's turn in probably I frizz labor. Why are you blushing? I don't understand. It's fun. It's hot. Everything is hot here. I don't understand it You got the spicy chicken sandwich. Oh, that would be contributing certainly. Let's go Are we all in the same room? Yeah Yeah, I'm gonna go to bed sleeping in the same cot. It's fine. No, I know I know that I just I just In in the middle of that Hey fritz What I just can't sleep I'm under the bed, by the way Under the bed, okay. Yeah Wait, do I bump into anybody? Wait, when you say under the bed, we're not whole share it. We're not like We're like, oh, we have little nip cats and pajamas. We're all in one big bed All right, we're like the old lady who lived in a shoe style bed with all of us All right marching order. Where's everyone napping you in however way your character is most comfortable sleeping in the same room together Without making it three three beds Yeah, three beds And you are under one of them. I am for sure a pile of blankets and pillows in the corner How are you not boiling up? I'll sit in a chair I just like to sleep, you know what? Yeah, I'll I'm going to have a word here I'll let the word sleep under the bed and I'll sleep on top. It'll be great It's like bunk beds There's there's so there's three beds two of you are in bed word is under the bed and buck is in the chair And layra is took all the blankets from me to it. Oh, you're not you're not even on the bed. So there's three beds One person is using a bed and the rest of us are not using a bed. The mattress is too soft Perfect. I'm gonna take this opportunity to have a bed fritz doesn't usually sleep in a bed. They sleep in a boat I love this party so much push the beds together. Let's I love lucy it Fritz has formed it's yeah, we'll push some point Can we can we push the three beds together so that it's gonna have a mega bed? Oh, fuck. Yeah, they've got like a like a california king Exactly. We'll push I'll push the beds together so fritz can have like a huge bed to sleep in You wake up in the middle of the night and you can't find the edge of the mattress I am full-stuff fishing then I'm gonna sleep at the foot of your bed like in the middle of the night. I'm gonna like a cat Don't judge me. You can't see me I'll pull my I'll pull my hat down over my eyes and just sleep in like an arm chair Good work team Wonderful. The important part is out of the way. Good We got that figured out. I was I was very concerned. Yeah, it's deeply important very important I love this kind of stuff. It's great Throughout the night you all sleep fairly soundly there's the odd sound of rushing water and the distant clanging of invention going on It's actually kind of rhythmic and All of you are able to fall into a deep slumber But word Word as you're trying to sleep you seem like you're not able to get drowsy at all until you hear a subtle voice You You're the one from the well You don't deny it Depending on the well the one you stole money from the one in that little town Rackety crystals Oh, yeah Yeah, I might have done that. Yes. Oh my god. He's hearted. I own up to my thievery I see Very interesting Your breath makes me uncomfortable I apologize perhaps my appearance might make that a little bit nicer and you can see out of the darkness There's just someone staring in the window coming up from the floor is a monstrous fiendish looking creature That oh my god phases through the floor face to face with you hard word Oh Dammit Joe you gotta stop making these guys so fuckable I was gonna say like while I was drawing this I'm like god the monster fuckers in the chat are gonna eat this up Aren't they goddamn if we can't have anything horrifying? And um you can have it you can have it back if we spoon I don't want it back. Oh, no. No. No. No. I like your ambition I've been watching you and you are extremely ambitious. I like that Good, I think Why are you here haunting my dreams? Oh, no, no not haunting. No. No following you a fan of your work. I am I want to help you I smell your ambition. It's like a stench Just like your breath More thank you Yeah, um You've made yourself a parent, which means either you want something and It's my life or an action from me. I assume you're here to bargain to something. Yes I want to help you. I can pull strings effect outcomes make things go your way Are you gonna give me like a little book and I can write people's names in it? That's very silly. Why would I do that? Yeah, I don't know No, I've got a pretty little rock I like rocks especially the pretty kind What you did in the well, you take what you want you took from that lizard folk woman. You take what you want Oh, yeah, I had a pillow once Oh, those things I still have these slipped I pulled out this a pair of slippers and a brass candle holder I've had these for a really long time and I don't even know what to do with his hands face through the floor and clap Oh, very good. Very good. That's exactly what you're looking for Really good venture time shit. Just don't this feels very much fun. What's going on? I don't know So I helped you. Yes, you agree to that and I get something in return What do you want a small price something you'll receive but won't expect I I feel like that's most of life. Can you be more specific? Give me a persuasion check Is that yes behind? Yes, finally I have no reason not to trust you right now. Who are you gonna tell a demonologist? Oh god, I want so there's demons you are notoriety. I want to share Are you thinking like 50 50 because that's kind of a lot. I don't know what you're offering me All you need to do is speak a name And and and what you'll help me Absolutely All right, do I have to say it like three times like No, how does this work it simply when you accomplish a feat Something that will gain your reputation Say my name My name no, no, no My name Okay, can you say it Where I come from we have no use for names. So you have to give me one. That's stupid Oh, okay. No something pretty. Uh, what else do you call it up here flowers? I like those Name me after a flower I know what to name you do I say it now is like like am I gonna be screwed over if I say it now and I didn't do anything yet No Anything you're comfortable with begonia Specific there's a breed I saw in a shop called non-stop begonias and I thought that was really cool I like non-stop begonia So will it be a deal god king word and his hand phases through the floor to come and shake yours I see nothing wrong with this Can we spoon after or are you likely Sorry, I have a very big personal bubble. I'm not one for physical affection I can respect that then do you want to nod instead? You know what I shake his hand You shake his hand and you're going to gain an inspiration At a whole level exploits god king word I look forward to some of yours potentially non-stop begonia I have a stand now Let me just make that cannon burgers really quick And his his image fades into the night sweet dreams Yeah, you do A handshake with a demon resulting in a soul binding It just reminds me of the Ever happens to war That once he was like would you shake a pool sinner's hand? Oh, yeah. Yeah, dr. Facilier Voice by keith david who should be allowed to sing more often. Yeah And I did a karaoke cover of that song. Oh, yeah, and uh, dr. Facilier. There's a funko pop of all right The morning comes and uh Breakfast is not served unfortunately, uh with the package deal as the business is booming right now There's a lot of people coming in for their morning routine before they head off to a busy day of work So they can't really Afford to give you any special treatment in the morning If you so wish it is going to be another two gold pieces for a morning breakfast that is going to Uh kind of make your day a lot nicer, but you can forego it and maybe eat rations instead I can I'll pay I'll pay for it. Is it's too good for all of us. I get to shuffle my spell list. Hold on Let me let me say let me say that again. Is it for all of us or from all of us Yeah, it's for all of you. Okay, so I'll pay I'll pay it. I'll pay it. Yeah, it's kind of like a party meal or whatever Uh, yeah, you uh, you finish your long rest all your hp comes back to full or your spell slots reset And all your class features reset as well all that's good stuff I love yippies so much serotonin from such a small sound When noriam comes to serve you food as well she um looks at you and just kind of uh Signs and hand figures a bunch of stuff about figures walking in implying that uh, she's asking if you're new in town Ah Well, yes I am god king wood And we are the was it the saviors of samji? And uh, she looks a little bit excited at that and she uh, kind of Makes a few gestures recommending you to go visit the fishing fishing place If you ever have any downtime as uh, it has a grand reopening and it is a big Probably polytriosis very few tourist attractions that they have as fishing in the desert is a is a novelty certainly um If you have the spare time And that uh, she has a good friend there that can perhaps give you a discount Fritza you like actually good at fishing. Can you use your forms? I I've done it a couple of times and we're on the boat But that was well like flying and then grabbing them with my back claws. I don't know about my front ones Yeah, that's what I was thinking because if you can carry me then you can carry like a me sized fish You want me to that's a big cooling. Do you know how strong those fish are? Don't underestimate your fish What I hate to break it to you Please don't please don't Oh, I rub butterscotts scotches leg with ointment Yes, and uh, yeah, just like you do every morning and the cart is still wrecked Although you could probably find somebody to repair it here. This is the the land of inventors after all Well, hey, what's that over there is a little ready. I have prepared the mending cantrip I would like to cast it as many times as we need Mending So you are able to fix the kind of loose boards and broken pieces of wood However, you can't really fix the seat and it has been completely totaled and any amount of mending is mostly just gonna meld the like like molten metals not molten but Acid eaten away metal pieces that are already there, but it's not going to bring the cushion back Yeah, the limit to mending is if the damage is no larger than one foot in any dimension. I can mend it Yeah, and sadly the seat is like completely like the individual That's cool But uh, yes the wrench is actually the alchemy lab Oh, there's a shipyard over there. Uh, that is the fishing uh the fishing docks I'm curious where like where they do this fishing exactly In the river and the where's the river the river is strewn all around you can see on the map The the blue is the irrigation system that is uh pumped through the hydraulic tower at the center of the town the Uh creations and research facility. It's like an aqueduct. Yeah, okay. Yeah, exactly. I'm not sure how fish are getting in there Uh, it could be introduced. There's also magic that goes on. They could cultivate them. Yeah magic. They could have hatcheries So it's implied that there is underground fish that are drawn by the life tree As the roots do bore massive tunnels and caverns underneath the ground that uh, the roots at least here Fill the land with water and making sure that the desert isn't completely dry Hence why civilization is able to flourish here You don't know how fish got here. Lera you can turn into like a like a like an animal They figured it out. That is Not a possibility. I would like to consider for very long. Thank you All right, um, I will go as I said that I wanted to do and um Go to the temple. I don't know what you got. I'm gonna go to the temple. Um No, I don't know exactly church one Yeah, that'd be the one. Um, the church of kotha's on I'm sure that can just sort of find a place to worship even if it's not A temple to lady luck or anything like that. Um Dude, we want to meet up You guys are gonna go shopping and then we wanted to meet I can meet you over by the shops after I'm done Yeah, there's like a blacksmith right in the middle. We can just meet up in front of that place It's a fair point. Maybe if there's like another same good shop Did we want to check out the alchemy thing where the Where the so much that bad boy is yeah, I think Yeah, what's our actual day plan? So we're doing the worship and shopping first and then obviously we have to meet the dragon and probably some weird bird guy And we obviously we definitely want to go to alchemy. So What do we do first? Do we do alchemy first? Yeah Okay We can come back to the shopping and then meet up with uh buck because we'll be back where Nearby technically it is shopping It's true Buck did you want to go there? Um, really far away. How long are you gonna be praying for? I mean, I I'll go by myself and I'll come find you guys then or something. I'm sure Although, I mean Let's just be clear. Are we fine with me being I'm okay to be by myself. Do I'm not holding on to a heart or anything. I just want to make sure that you guys Are I know I know where you guys are We'll either be on this side of the town or the other side. Yes. Take your time at the latest. We'll meet you back at the end Right. Okay. All right. I'll come find you Great. No, you're right. Yeah. All right. We split the party with no rendezvous point. Let's go Oh I have a play. Oh no Okay To the alchemy lab then All right, uh, do we want to do alchemy lab first before bucks religion? That's fine with me Or do we want to do bucks religion stuff first and then I'll keep it up But let's do our thing first and then we can maybe meet up and shop after that Okay So you go to alchemy lab as given directions through the locals and you can see That unfortunately the alchemy lab There is a sign outside that says out of stock and you can see that there is a war fort who is putting it up and she's just You can see there's a few customers outside and she's just caulking with a few of them And she noticed that you come by and you can see her You can see it is The war forts there she is. Oh, she looks so cool Whoa And she speaks up. Sorry everybody places closed. We got a restock for the day It seems like somebody came in in the middle of the night and stole some stuff But it should be restocked by tomorrow. We've sent out a bunch of people I'm sorry. So y'all new folk here, huh? Was everything stolen? No, not everything but we have to go in and take inventory of what hasn't been And we don't really feel comfortable selling right now. I hope that's understandable. I'm sorry for the inconvenience But I can maybe keep you know some I can take some orders perhaps and reservations if you like Has this happened before you don't seem Utterly shocked by the turn of events a few times Sadly, but they seem to happen in random intervals. We don't really know who the culprit is or who suspects Everyone seems to trust everyone who comes by and there's no new faces around besides Yourselves, but you're not a suspect since it's been happening a little bit before y'all much longer before y'all came here What's uh, what goes missing? Uh, usually just some unrefined ingredients. Nothing's been crushed or squeezed yet They could easily pick it themselves. I wonder why they want to take it from us Does this sound familiar to me? Hmm you've had So what what of your background give me a refresher what of your background? Um That like your criminal background And you make your crimes boys You would prefer to keep it private I know a lot of experience with petty thievery like this, especially when it comes to You know unrefined or refined resources usually the unrefined or easier to pick off because people miss them less Hmm That is true. That is true I don't think i've been here before though. No, you haven't been here before. No, perhaps you can give me What would be a good check for this? Uh wisdom or intelligence. Yeah, you can give me a straight intelligence History if you prefer They're both nothing. All right. Okay. Yeah, I got nothing Uh and your score is plus zero. So whoever this is. Yeah, they Typical thieving rules of like they suspect they'll not miss it that much and it seems as though they're right as um You know, it they're able to get away with it over and over again. You know, it's a very amateurish tactic But you do know from gleaning this whatever it is That uh, whatever petty thieves the security on this place is extremely low that they're able to get away with this again and again Huh Well, if we stay in for how often does this happen? No, random intervals, but usually once a month Yeah, well What time of the month? We're not sure every time we think we're due and then they hit us right immediately after the other one Every time we think they're gonna come right next they wait maybe even longer It's very disconcerting But that's not y'all's concern. Uh, I'm sorry if you want here, uh She hands you a sheet of kind of various generic potions You can reserve these I'll give you half off for them. Uh, any of the more special stuff that we'll have to make I'm sorry the we're gonna have to charge the regular price But you know typical health potions mana potions all that stuff Half off sorry for the inconvenience Of course Okay, well So now you know that there is some kind of petty thief throughout Thieving stealing ingredients in uh, poly trails Yes consistently planetly random All right, well, I think I'm pretty good on the potions front, uh, but if you guys want to police in order I am not good with remembering when to come back to places That's a fair point But I'll take you up on that that 50% off if we do come back when you do have stock Otherwise, uh, I gotta buy other things Very well, we hope to see you tomorrow. Sorry again Oh, that's only tomorrow. All right Does every town have a thief? Usually yeah typically more than one All right. Well, if we see anything moving forward, I guess we can make a note of it But uh, yes, we'll keep an eye out. I kind of don't I did want to buy something in particular actually I want to see if I can get like a gold anklet or something That'll be at the main shop. Yes, that probably won't be here. All right. Shall we head back to the general store? You may and uh, we can hop over to buck Yeah Before we do that and buck you head inside the church of kothizong the builder you can see it's fairly barren this is not a uh The time of day where people seem to practice or pray But inside you do see a warforge another warforge this place is very highly populated in them and um, He kind of gives you a little bow May the builder Lead you to prosperity. Welcome to the church of kothizong My name is spade. Is there anything I can help you with you can see that he is wearing kind of a large poncho and a fancy brimmed hat And you can see that he's wearing what seemed to be ceremonial robes of and poncho of some kind He looks so cool He looks so cool. We have kim. We have similar hats. Stop putting stink lines around my board You've got similar hats and ponchos. It's destiny Um, yeah, these this is what uh priests look like in this universe. They have a cool hat and a poncho All the religious guys we've met so far have worn this All the novel style ones. Yeah Um, not the turtle pope though. My name is um, my name is buck and I guess I'm not as familiar with the builder Um as I should be I was wondering if this would be an appropriate place for me to do some worship of a god That isn't the builder. I don't know if that would be appropriate. Oh By all means go head friend We don't discriminate here even some who pray to a gleethan the destroyer Sometimes you just kind of let things be, you know Do you get a lot of that type who pray to have had one or two? Oftentimes, uh, the teachers of kothizong teach us about progress and open-mindedness I'd like to think that there is some place they're coming from that they would worship such a destructive god Well, I I appreciate it. Um I'll uh, if you don't mind me asking, um, how did you come to how did you come to work here? Well, I was a worker unit First thing I saw was a spade hence the name And so in order to seek my place in this new realm and existence I learned about religion and prosperity and self Realization and the builder seemed the one that spoke to me the most progress Learning your place civilization all that good stuff sounded good to me exactly what I was looking for And I'm happy I found it Well, uh, I I appreciate it. I won't take up any more of your time um And then I'll I'll walk over to like I don't know if there's like pews I don't know if you said that if yeah, is there like a lot of people or like No, not a lot of people this seems to be like everyone's done with their worship If you were had a good eye, you would have caught them just leaving they they seem to kind of come get it done and over with Um, in fact, what's your religion score? My religion score is minus one minus one Never mind, then you wouldn't have further insight about Only the intervention of lady luck can save you now. Look, it's an intelligence skill Uh, it doesn't have to do with how faithful I am. Okay. Well, that is what you did notice Is that everyone seemed to be quick in and quick out of the church of kota's own? Whatever that may mean you may come to your end conclusions on that. We're sure sure Um, I guess I'll just if I don't know if there's like a a designated place where I yeah There's like you can think of it as like your more traditional christian like church with the the usual Uh placements of stuff You can tell I'm very religion Fair enough I will assume there is a pew that I can sit in and that kneel down and I will just um like take out Um, not the all or nothing coin, but just like a regular gold piece that I have and um, I will just like flip it a couple of times Um And as I'm flipping it, uh like uh just kind of looking at like where like where it's landing like heads or tails I'm not really necessarily looking for any sort of pattern Um, it just helps me relax um dearest lady I am making a plea once again to Watch over us on our journey. We have been beset by apparently some fairly nefarious forces And I want to ensure that myself and my compatriots are looked after on this on this journey I don't know to what extent You are watching over us, but I feel as though we've been pretty lucky so far to get out of everything we've encountered mostly unscathed and so To the extent that you can continue to watch over us as I had promised in the past. This is all I ask of you is that you get us through this journey as relatively unharmed as you see fit to do um And I will ensure that Whatever it is that I walk away from this from will be paid back to you in full um And then I will I guess that will be the end of sort of my my prayer my worship and I'll get up um, and I'll stop in Builder if builder if you're there as well So, what was the name of the builder got again? Does he have an oath is on? Let me write it. Oh, yeah I had too many tabs open And if anyone has watched, um necro hunt, this is the renamed version of uh, say What what's the dnd god name that's basically the builder and innovator or whatever? the theory I don't remember the one that enoch prayed to this is that no, it's been renamed Arithas, that's the one. Yeah, this is the arithas and necro hunt is coat the song in a lengthy Gotcha, um and coat the song if you're listening Thanks for letting us thanks for allowing me to pray here. Um, I'll take out like Uh five gold pieces, I guess and then I'll walk up the spade. I'll be like here just a A donation from me to you. I appreciate the time He bows and takes it and Is about to put it uh in kind of his pocket before he stops uh and just looks up at you Uh, it's not my place to ask and by all means, uh, feel free to decline answering but um I apologize. I couldn't help it over here. I didn't mean to eavesdrop you happen to Pray to lady look Yeah, that's that's correct I mean no judgment by this, but um Could you tell me why? He's not exactly part of the traditional pantheon. Uh, not that I'm judging or nothing We accept all forms of uh practice here. It's just merely curious I think you're the first one who's ever prayed to her um well Let's just say it's it's I've had a long and uh Let's use a word that the that kota's on might use industrious career and I have I found through most of it that uh luck um Was Something that I was always lacking and when the time came and I finally found I guess What I was looking for in lady luck. I think things just kind of felt right and um After that moment, I guess you could say I was imbued with a certain sort of a Ability from what I took to be her favor um And I guess ever since then That feeling that I've felt I've just kind of been chasing that and uh One place to another one person to another trying to I guess that's the best way I could put it is Testing my luck out wherever I could She was good to me once and I I guess I was kind of always hoping that throughout my life. She'd be good to me again Well far be it from me to judge As a man of the cloth, I always understand that Sometimes you need something to believe in even if it's not a part of the traditional pantheon Whatever gets you through the day. I think that's something worth believing in And I think you found it. I think that's respectable And I appreciate that I guess while we're on the subject. Can I ask you you're You know, I can't imagine what it must have been like to awake from Being awake into being With the personality you have now. I mean certainly that must have been I would assume the formative moment Of your life. Not exactly. Uh, what is it the organics? Uh, do you remember being born? Uh, let me think um No, I don't remember being born from what I understand the phenomenon is similar It's vague and strange and you don't quite remember all of it. You get flashes of memories It's kind of like that except I guess fully grown Well, I mean certainly there had to come a time where you Made a choice and decided that this was your calling. I mean, did you have a moment like that? No, absolutely. I think it was Maybe 12 years after my awakening and I started my journey of self-discovery I started walking all around the linty Didn't quite know until I met an older man Seemed humanoid of some kind and he taught me kind of this path taught me about kothizong and Taught me how to be a good shot as well I don't know if that's a reference to that makes. Okay. Um did uh And let me ask since we're I mean Did you was there any ever a point where you felt as though Kothizong had kind of reached out and And and touched you specifically That there was some sort of divine influence that was released into This material world to where you could say to yourself this this is something Special that I need to be Involved with was there ever a moment like that for you? Oh Well, if it ever was could we really call it faith? I mean, I'd like to think that you still could I mean I'm sure even if something like that were to happen. There'd still be things you couldn't explain Perhaps I'd like to think that it was but the man who taught me how to shoot he also taught me to Healthy amount of skepticism can be good. You never know when Things might just be playing tricks on you Well, um, I guess the more that I think about it It is A test of faith to keep on going the way that we've been guys like you and me people like you and me are aren't going but It's nice to hold on to that faith. I guess in certain respects I'd like to ask you a question Yeah, that's all you're doing on this faith. It's for some kind of payoff Do you really think you're doing it for the right reason? Uh Well, that's something for you to answer you don't got to answer right now Well, I'll answer it for you so I can be a little bit clear because I know that you see the I know you can look at the four leaf clover and you see the deck of cards and the flipping of the coin But I'd not been worshiping lady luck just because I'm hoping to strike it rich in a some sort of Card game or something like that. I'm not trying to just hit it hit it big and and and Go home Or anything like that. It's that's not why it is that And is that your end goal son? Say you do say you meet this lady luck and all you've done all your prayers have paid off Then what is there left? That's not something you have to answer right now. It took me many summers before I found mine See our faith sometimes don't always pay off But it's not supposed to be a reward that you work for it's supposed to be an ideal that you strive with Something you stand by something that guides you Sometimes it doesn't always equal To some kind of reward But ways I see it Long as it is following your faith and Making your conscience clean and doing what you think is right. That's all the payoff. That's needed You have a a good day, mr. Spade. It was nice to meet you. It was well, son And I'm I'm gonna leave Well, I'm gonna give you an inspiration for that Yeah Some deep thought and uh consideration about your faith and what it means to follow lady luck and where you are now I walk out and I close the door and I slide down the door slowly breathing extremely No, just getting uh I also really appreciate whichever one of you was who removed the flies and some of the stink lines When the conversation got more intense. Oh, that was me Felt appropriate Yeah, we can go back to stinky. Uh, I will I guess I will oh man Buck will sort of collect himself and walk out I kind of like take the hat off and kind of look over it. Do I see do I see word or layra and fritz? Yeah, they're pretty easy to spot It's a fairly flat land with not a lot of like fawn art buildings in the way, especially where you are And yeah, you can spot them and even if you couldn't you can guide your way over to the markets If you so let you know where they are I guess it's because of cinematic and some of the things that spade said what I'd like to do is just kind of like I'd walk out Can I take my hat off? And like look kind of like roll the brim of it and my hands a little bit Um, and then I will look over and I will see word in layra and fritz I imagine just involved in their general tomfoolery And then I'll smile a little bit And I'll read kind of adjust the four leaf clover and put the hat back on my head and I'll make my way towards them Yeah, okay. All right So no two buckets one gold is too expensive Yeah, you're haggling over somebody and While you're haggling and fighting and talking and browsing you hear a familiar loud obnoxious voice Satya You see a very disheveled Tobaxi man with a massive backpack behind him laying on kind of a laid-out carpet with a bunch of goods around him It's no tail No tail Our best friend You got more money now that you did some stuff. Yeah Perhaps well, I got you stuck if you want to see And he does uh enchanted tomatoes um Shackle shot crossbow bolts Uh cloak. No, uh Bag of beans. I think that's a new one Heart of the sleeveless sole ring and hasty sugar bonds Oh, I'm eyeing those hasty sugar bombs bag of beans Bag of beans So you're gonna buy the hasty sugar bombs. How many are you buying? Uh, oh, there's their 15 gold piece each. How many are there? Uh, there's five total So that is 60 if you want to buy all of them I will buy Three of them three. All right, that's gonna be 45 And you get the hasty sugar bomb and this is the actual description Oh And this is a an item from the griffin saddle bag. Thank you for griffin saddle bag for the uh I've been going through the the magic item cards. That's also where smashed potatoes comes from nice So yes, uh, there are also general goods like anything you could possibly like want to find That it's not wondrous or or magical Aside from no tail stock you could probably find so if you're like Looking for uh fritz you were looking for something specific Yeah, I wanted like a Like a gold like bracelet aqua thing. Hmm. Okay. Just some some typical jewelry here Just some fancy jewelry that that'll be like just like a simple like bad. Yeah. Yeah, just a simple ban. Yeah I'll grab that three gold pieces And if anyone remembers the stick of stickiness was five gold before it has discounted in price Oh, it makes me more nervous. I was gonna grab that. I was gonna. I was also considering grabbing it Do you want me to grab it? Do you want to grab it? You can grab it? I won't stop you Can I get the stick of stickiness which is too gold, right? Yep, two gold pieces and as you buy it you hand the gold to him And no tail just like carefully Carefully picks it up with two little fingers just by his little like, uh Very unkempt claws Be careful. This is a mighty powerful relic Uh It looks like a nice stick Oh, it might look that way, but I hear rumors Whispers of this thing coming from another world that its powers are unknown Its potency even more so Have fun Okay, uh, and can I also buy three of the Shackleshot crossbow bolts? So I think 35 gold in total, right? 32 I think oh wait the band. Yes 35. Yes for everything that you have bought. Yes Shackle Shackle shop crossbow. I think you might like these Um, let me just find the description for them Here I will put the description Right there. There we go. Shackle shop crossbow bolts Uh, basically if you fire something and there's someone directly in the same like line Of firing that behind them in like within 15 feet They are both, uh grapple Oh, cool. Oh, they make a strength saving throw and or and are both grappled if they fail So it's like a double grapple within 15 feet Double grapple double grapple Okay, I'm just adding that in Uh, and then the stick of stickiness, right? The stick of stickiness for all intents and purposes you're looking at it. You're checking it out It just looks like a normal stick Cool, and then I'm I'm gonna get the like Anklet and I like put it on and I'm like oh I'm like move my foot like it look pretty Ooh that looks snazzy Oh, you're some jewelry. I don't have any. Yeah, that's me done All right labor word anything you guys want to buy word you were looking for some more oil bomb flasks Yeah, I was looking for a couple things, but I'm interested in this bag of beans Bag of beans what I was also worried about the bag of beans. Yeah What can you tell me about these bad boys? Hmm Well, they're bang and they're full of beans You can give me a persuasion check to see if you can get more out of them Yeah, let's do that. I was right. I can't roll constant force And here's a secret It's full of multiple beans. Oh my goodness Can I perhaps count the beans within the bag? Oh, I would not take the beans out of the bag I'm gonna say you can roll one more persuasion. Okay For this haggle this is somewhat haggling How about you take just take my word for it? There are like eight beans in the bag That is a lot of beans Joe. Is there any chance that I have heard of the bag of beans item before You can give me a an arcana check to see if you can recall any memory of some kind of magical item You've read about it's a raw inch check for me 15 You know that the bag of beans is a magical item of which case the beans will do random things From perhaps summoning a creature to summoning something useful or dangerous or food Or just a regular bean All right Do any a number of things Pairative that word not know this I will buy this bag of roughly eight beans for 50 gold and this pair of slippers Oh, what are the slippers? They're just slippers. I stole from way back in um Satya improvise adapt 60 Hmm 55 No 60 is the lowest I'm going 59 and one silver Hmm He looks you over 59 And a few strands of that little tuft on your jacket. You're not gonna curse me. Are you? Curse you? No, I'm worried that you might curse me. I'm worried that jacket might be cursed and that's good merchandise That's fair take them All right He plucks just a few strands off of your your little floof on the top of your jacket No one's even gonna notice and he gives you the bag of beans For 59 gold pieces and here is the link to the actual bag of beans and dnd beyond. It's an actual official dnd item And I it has eight of them eight. Yes, okay cool Then yeah, just some basic items Should I run through those real quick too? Uh, yeah, yeah Okay, uh, I would like more ball bearings more oil and a container for Putting on the cart when it's fixed See just like a chest or something god I don't know what the prices of all these are. Um, would you be able to like calculate find like what the prices for those are They're probably pretty. Yeah, I've got it roughly open here. It's like one silver per thing of oil Uh Yeah, I trust you to to subtract the proper. Yeah, I know you're not gonna like, uh monopoly bank this like A chest like a storage chest probably expensive. Yeah, how much what do we have on the cart right now? Oh, you've got plenty of storage on on the cart like it's enough to hold. I think 400 pounds of items Yeah, or something like that. I don't remember what I actually wrote Drop five gold and get some like at least five of each of the other items and that's if I didn't write down I'll I'll I'll put the information. Um, yeah See the cart god this description Yeah, all right, such a bad idea. I didn't I didn't put in what's in the uh, what the cart can hold but I'll I'll write that I'll write it down cool and Layra Layra buck anything you guys are buying I'll just get the candies. I don't think I need anything. Okay. Oh, yeah Yeah, you you bought the candies. Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, I can't really use any of these things except for the things that require three times as much money as I have Uh, so I think I'm good for now. Okay And I will say in in case there's anything here that you Uh, do Still want to maybe save up money for the next time you revisit no tail He will still have the same stock and anything that you have bought from him will be Renewed with something else. So if there's anything you have your eye on don't worry. It's not going to go away All right No tail gives you a little very Unkempt bow like he has not practiced it at all Thank you for your patronage Anytime Yeah So how goes the travels? Yeah, actually good. We uh, you know, we're getting everything done everywhere we want to be uh I think are we making a difference? Well, I haven't visited old places you've been yet, but I'd like to think so Your adventure types always fascinate me We are doing very well We'll get out of here you're taking up lines for my customers I've got other things to buy. I like shake my fist at him You can see that there's absolutely nobody behind you waiting for no tail stock We get out of their way. Yeah, let's scooch It's cute Um, I will say anything else aside from no tail is just general goods that you can find in that is not wondrous or Uncommon that you can just generally so you buy. I just don't want to put the entire dnd You know compendium in here. Um, you guys wanted to visit the smith. Yeah Yeah, yeah, we can do that. Okay. The smith is run by a pretty hefty human man with a kind of Red hair and uh, it's just your typical black smith apron. His name is marcus And he has your typical, uh services to upgrade weapons and stuff And oh it's not showing. Hold on. It's available only to the dm He's got very similar services provided, uh from the others smith in, uh nuba sky Upgrade weapon add weapon skill at armor skill, etc He looks very friendly. He does is I do not have anything that I want Uh, yeah, I don't have enough money to upgrade a weapon even if I do be too. I am broke I just bought a big old bag of beans. Well, that's a good thing I spent all my money on beans I spent all my money on beans I spent my money on beans Well, uh, we don't want anything you have Oh, no, well, that's a shame But If you ever do any more jobs and uh, you forget more money and you want to spend it here I'd be happy to fix up your weapons Oh, I love him. Thank you Yeah, sure thing. You're among the best of us. Oh, no, I'm just helping out where their service is needed So he is a smithy does he have like any small objects like belt buckles or small pieces of jewelry? Yes, he does he you can see that he's got some real he's got some ruined bands like he's been trying his Hand at some uh gold smithing to make jewelry. He is wearing them on his fingers, but they're like bad Uh, okay, you know, just like how a tattoo artist would practice tattoos on themselves and sometimes they're bad Uh Yeah, I'll point it like the most scrungly ring that he has the most scrungly one. Are you trying to steal it? No, no, I'm gonna just buy it off of him. Oh buy it off of him. Oh, no, this one you can have this one. This one's practice Boy, go ahead. I make tons of these I make about a dozen a day trying to get them right It what's it made of just brass. Uh, it's actually just made of iron Okay You can add ruined iron ring to your inventory Scrungly iron ring to scrungly iron ring. Oh, no my slippers. Wait, I still have those Um, yeah, I've been trying to make something special for the old dragon up there You know, he did me a good one back in the day and uh trying to repay him back Yeah, how is the dragon by the way? Oh, he's real friendly, you know Really hard to get on his bad side In life fighting wise, I mean, I mean Oh, I don't know real stronger. He not much likes to show his dragon form It tries to keep it close to the chest, you know Something about uh protection through information something like that We just trust him. We don't try to pry too much You know, he's been doing pretty good so far. He practically built this place not all by himself, but he kind of Led the charge, you know Is he one of the oldest dragons? Oh, he's pretty old something near a hundred That's is that is that old? Yes. Well human human years. Yeah, I don't know how much how much long cobalt's live for Oh enough Well, let's say if he was human, he'd be approaching the grave But as warfords, we don't really know how long they last for Most of them lock up and uh kind of find some Form of mortality, but we ain't so sure yet He's still going strong though And good thing too. He keeps his place running Yeah, right sounds like a good old boy. Are we on a way to him? Yes, I believe so You're going to see the dragon himself. Well good. Get luck getting through the door Thank you. What is it difficult? Well, you know The uh creation and uh research place. Yeah, that thing is high security That's a problem Well, we got a card to get I mean we got we know people on the inside, don't we? No, no What no, no, sorry. I was It was like the amount that I'm trying to figure out No, you don't have to uh roll for that. Uh, I I rolled it already when um, I got you. I'm just trying to put it Oh, I see you're trying to put it in your inventory. I see it sees I'm just changing the name. We're good. Gotcha Well, it was nice meeting you marcus. We'll see you later. Truly a pleasure Yes He waves you goodbye and you may head into the The research and creation center it's called shortened to the RNC Or you could go to the official building Uh, this this is the RNC. This is the lord's offices And that's also where astropio is. Yep. Astropio is um Actually astropio said uh that he was in the lord's offices Uh, which I mean you were going for before which yeah, yeah So we are going to the lord's office. Yes, if you so Probably yes. Yeah Okay, okay. Thank you. Okay. We're good. You're going on the wrong way It looked very inviting Um while we're walking I want to Uh, I'm gonna give I'm gonna say fridge. I hear I thought you might like this and I give her one of the um hasty sugar bombs Oh boy, what is it? What do you mean? It's candy I guess after all the time that you've brought me, you know Sweets and whatnot back in sacha. I guess now, you know, my X wife was working for the store. I was ordering from so Figured I'd repay the favor a little bit But I wouldn't eat it right now because I think it might have magical properties I might help us later. So I I wouldn't oh, I thought it was just general candy. Okay. They like yeah, that's yeah, they're sorry Yeah, they're like lollipops movement They're they're lollipops that in their uh, joe put them in a thing. They're uh, they give you extra movement speed for an hour Oh, okay. Yeah, I like take it out and I'm like, oops that I put it back in the wrapper Well, thank you Maybe it tastes sweeter because you gave it to me. I very much appreciate that Oh, it's no problem. I just figured it you might like it I do. Thank you Now, let's get this out of the way. So yeah, that was also kind of where I was going with this Um, are you sure you're gonna be good to see your dad? I mean It's not your dad. It's not your dad. Sorry. You're biological For all in terms of your purposes, um He's just another person we met on this adventure Who happens to be a mint flavored bud? Right, I know that's kind of where we're going with this and I know I've said this before but like we we can address You can address the fact that he's your biological Father with him, right? Like you don't have to treat him. Just you do whatever you want I just want to make sure that you understand that Do you want me to treat him like a dad buck? No, that's I'm not saying you treat him like a dad. I'm just saying You can if you wanted to I just think it might be helpful for you to maybe have a conversation with him because it seems like That might be something that might be helpful to like clear some things up if you were wondering I'll talk to him but You don't have to talk to me. I'm not interested in him. I'm more I guess I want to know how it came to be but Buck if I'm going to say this bluntly and don't tell anyone else. I said this I don't give a fuck about him And I do not blame you one bit for not having any strong feelings for a man who I mean, I don't even know if he abandoned you. I really don't understand what the situation was. It seems like he knew All I know is I was left on a dock alone as a kid And dozen and all the kind sailors took me in And gave me work and food And there you're yeah, right, right? I'm curious about my mom. That's someone who was never known mentioned But I I feel uncomfortable having not having this Well, I guess I'm uncomfortable having this conversation without dozen here because Apparently he has a bigger part that I thought he did Well, we'll we'll go back to dozen when this is all over and you can clear some things up, but I just don't I know That we may not get this opportunity Again for you to have this conversation and I'm just worried that I don't want to leave from here if you with you regretting Something that you might have wanted to say That's all Would it upset dozen if I was curious? I don't think it would I don't think it would upset dozen if you were to know I can't I literally can't cannot imagine that that would be the case Just think just think about it. I mean just and enjoy the candy and just think about it And if you don't want to then you don't have to and to be frank if if you ask word to To kill him. I think word might do it if it comes Sort of a loose cannon You seem to have more evil intentions than I do No, that's not that's not my intention across my mind Sometimes I just get worried about what word might do. So I just want that to speak that I don't know what he's capable of trying to be a dad. It's like you seem uncomfortable around him. Should we kill him? Your uncle knows how to use a knife Kill for you But uh, it's not me that wants to hurt him. I think you should worry more about Lyra. I don't know how she's gonna react to this To to what? Me and Lyra or it's the orphans. It's why we've stuck together and now Suddenly my dad appears she's I don't know how she'd feel about it, you know Have you talked to her about how she might feel about it? I'm kind of scared. What if We're not as good friends anymore. We'd like to shed trauma and now This seems like additional trauma that you might be able to share given the way things have been going but to be frank I think I get the sense that Lyra sees you as a friend and I think maybe she would But I I see her like a sister like she's family Dozen's family and then someone who's apparently my biological family shows up. I'm I'm worried how this person will affect the people I consider family I think And I'm maybe I'm speaking at a turn here But maybe that's all the more reason that You should talk to her about how you feel about this because I get the I get the sense that you two care about each other a great deal and I'm like almost And you know me to be a betting man. I would bet almost anything She would more appreciate you talking her about this first rather than talking to me about it I'll see how the conversation goes with him That's right. That's right. If she tries to scratch his eyes out stop just Stop her Right. I will be on don't let our party members kill your dad. We need him for this journey This journey means more to me than a subdead beat What's this about killing someone's dad? Nothing word nothing happened You misheard something I think yeah, I thought I saw like a really tall duck over there And I asked someone what it was and they said eager it and I think that means idiot So no, no, no what you heard was what you heard was kill the bad. We were talking about the blood Yeah, kill the bad There might be a bad so we got to keep our eyes out So why don't you look forward and kind of keep your attention focused forward because you're sort of our most perceptive member Absolutely, right. I saw that duck right you did you Just walking like a full 10 feet ahead of everyone else Like how do I convince word to never ever open that bag of beans? How do I convince him to maybe give me the bag of beans for safety? The word beans is like rattling around your head Yeah, for some reason I slept weird last night. So my brain's just like rolling the word beans around in its head Nothing else is going on in there right now. I think it's fine Word had a conversation with like a literal demon in labor is like the beans are gonna be the end I Have a whole bag of trouble more than be I'll give fritz like a little pat on the head and then uh, we'll walk forward Okay, you walk into the lord's office. Uh, you show Your card to whatever guards are nearby and they lead you to astropio's facility and um You can see uh kind of past he's got like a uh Uh, what's it called a the foggy like window the What's it called crystal window or whatever Frosted glass crystal glass. That's it. You can see that. Uh, the silhouette of him kind of pacing back and forth It seems as though there's nobody else in the room Astropio is astropio. Yeah, okay astropio You can clearly see that it's his silhouette. He's wearing the same jacket and his kind of aracacra feathers Are frilled in the same kind of spiky way We can wait and listen if he speaks out loud to himself If you would like anyone want to eavesdrop Yeah, you know eavesdrop. I'm curious Is there a place where you guys could eavesdrop while one of us actually goes in and talks to him or What was it? I want to see if he's talking before we go in Yeah, try the strategy on the on the witch. Oh, yeah Yeah Okay, uh, you can whoever wishes to give me a perception with advantage What were you trying to eavesdrop? Are we both eavesdropping? I'm definitely eavesdropping. Oh come on. I was right I did say I wouldn't roll well this game. Was it perception you said? Yes with advantage All right, you can roll another one to see if you crit succeed Damn five percent. Okay, 19 is still pretty good. All right So you lean in now. Are you guys trying to do this stealthfully now? Is the office doorway is in the middle of a hallway Um that people will walk through sometimes Yeah, I think in the vein of like socially stealthy where we're just kind of like leaning up against the wall Okay, you can give me I'm like pretending. I've got a headache Whoever wishes can can can roll for the entire party a performance with advantage Oh boy. Mine's two Uh mine's plus one mine's also plus two actually You guys won't care as much as me. You're all acting together one person will get to roll at advantage because you're all helping each other I'll do it. That's like a casual start of conversation with someone which might interrupt my listening All right, you're able to act it out reasonably well just kind of fading whispers with each other while uh fritz listening listens in on her dad and you can hear that he it sounds as though he's rehearsing Hello If you go by fritz now, that's that's nice. Uh, you found your own name. That's good No, that's stupid. Hmm. Uh You are all grown up Uh, well done. Uh, good good job. No Uh I didn't want to tell you this and not because I didn't think you were ready, but because I wasn't ready and I wasn't Oh, and then he you see his silhouette just like sit in his chair How do you tell someone you couldn't take care of him? Oh Oh Kotha's on I'm gonna indicate. Yeah Like I want to knock on the door and if nobody objects, I'm gonna knock on the door I'll not listen. Do you see the silhouette just dart up and uh sit back in the chair and you can see that he's kind of like Adjusting some things you can't quite tell But he uh, you hear his muffled voice come in Let's go in And you walk on in you can see that he's sitting in a big leather chair You can see that there's papers everywhere. It seems as though he's been putting off a bit of work. There's some kind of Books on the floor and as he walks in he finally does notice. Oh, I'm so terribly sorry by My office is not usually this messy. I just I I booked the entire day just in case you needed my attention and made sure to clear my schedule You need access into the Research and creation center. Yes Yes Someone said there was like a big door that we had to get past Not quite the door the guards will stop you before then If you could stand still for me, uh Oh jeez He takes his hand and he kind of writes some arcane sigils in the air in front of him One for each of you and then he just kind of gestures over to them If you could take these sigils to mark your approval to wander the rnc As well as agree to paying a portion of any potential damages That the inventions of yours that you may create in there may cause to the building Apologies, it's just a procedure. We can't let anyone in there or else We might get another Situation on our hands Just between you and me. Are there any like loopholes to this contract? He squints his eyes. I don't know if I want to answer that question So there is I'll take the layer if there is any Mia's a lawyer He does that lawyer thing where like at the end of every exchange is like this is not official legal advice I'm not liable for anything bad that happens to you That is not my place of expertise Well, shoot I guess I won't invent anything too explosive a crease He he just squints his eyes. He puts one Kind of uh, two fingers up to his ear. You can tell he's casting Sending and he just whispers something under his breath Hmm While he's looking at you were ascending I cast I cast message on him I am extremely trustworthy It's the most untrustworthy I've ever had Oh boy You're definitely an interesting suction As are all incredible inventors. Yes. Um, well, well very good. Those sigils should allow you in. Um Welcome to the research and creations facility and I presume that will be all Unless there's anything else we need to know about the dragon before we enter Yes, sir. He is very very friendly. Uh, he you'll get used to him in no time at all. Uh, he has that way with people um Perhaps you can just go meet him instead of talking to me That's family that seems like a wise decision. Yes. My job here is done after all and uh, you have no need of me anymore I looked down at fritz And you can see that this whole time he has been avoiding eye contact with fritz Maybe Okay, okay Stopio Yes, he's still not looking at you Do you want to talk to me? I want you To do whatever it is That will make you happiest Uh, that is my job here to make sure that uh, it is convenient for all the pilgrims, uh in order to Bring the hearts of a lengthy to the the life tree and Make things as stopio I'm asking as your daughter not as a pilgrim He just kind of leans down and puts one hand to his forehead Um, are your friends, uh comfortable with having this conversation with us? Yeah, I have no problem with it Do you want them here? Actually, I think I left my hammer outside of the room I think laira you do you know where I left it word Well, no, I have no idea Perhaps we should introduce ourselves to the dragon while you catch up. Yeah, maybe you can help me find it word In a minute, no It's really important that you come with me now to help me find it. I'm already out the door But there better be something cool about where it is. I think there is something cool about it. Let's just leave And I will laira might have already found it. So let's hurry up before she throws it Tell me what happens I'm lucky. I'm like dry. He's like clawing under the ground Just gouging claw for it into the door frame like ways As we get outside you can hear like muffled like us fighting like outside Oh First is just laughing at their friends as they leave. Oh, buddy And uh, so the door closes and he is just fiddling with his thumbs sitting in his seat Uh Hello, I don't really know how to approach this conversation. Uh Is there anything you want to know about me or I start asking I don't know if I'm owed that story I've spent Over two decades now away from you. I think you are the one who deserves answer. It's not me I guess, yeah, uh I guess straight into it, uh Do I have a Other parent? You do. Yes, a beautiful Harpy breed aracocca like myself like yourself. Her name is guldia I don't know what her uh, what her surname is now must have changed it after the divorce, but Yes, um When I said I wasn't ready to tell you it's Because it's not easy to explain When you're not fit to be a parent. Well, this is a time as any Uh appear so, uh, we your mother and I when we had you we were Incredibly grateful. It's just We couldn't take care of you Well, we fell out of love for each other and Figured that we're not cut out to be parents and That's no place for a child Well, we didn't want to raise you with what little experience and ability that we had and funds and Honestly, it would have been miserable for you and so Dozen I had done him a favor Back a long while ago and so I asked him one in return to raise you I don't know what he's told you about Whatever your past is, but whatever it was. I'm sure he had the best of your interest in mind And I know that I'm not a ode a place in your life, but I just I've been busy with other things to Make the world I guess better for you even if it meant I wasn't in it And I would happily Willingly be a part of it now, but that is your choice Just as I when I gave you up it was For you Whatever it is you request of me I would be willing to do it for you Even if it meant Staying out of it For it's gonna look over the shoulder and check if the friends are still around and look back. Are they eavesdropping? I don't think so. No, look possibly I would It depends on if buck and words a little like tangle of cartoon limbs has the distracted enough that they want I would think buck and word are like outs like I'm outside. I thought you would have like I should be out of the full building Yeah, I would I'm not concerned with I trust to Lyra to be her like full-grown adult self I don't trust words. So I'm grabbing word like you're like fighting with him outside Fritz kind of just like pushes their feathers out of their face and those guys and like shimmies their shoulders like All right, then whoo years And years of undoing what you have done And I come to your doorstep and you say you did this for me I appreciate your courage to face me finally but You're a fucking coward He just kind of looks down and says nothing Even in this moment you have given the opportunity to take accountability And all you've handed me is excuses of it. It was for me The only person who ever did anything for me with me in mind was dozen dozen Did this for me dozen took me in for me So if you want to be a part of my life start by at least owning your fuck ups I was raised by someone who was very courageous by someone who's taught me To be courageous for someone who taught me to hold my morals and not let this world corrupt me My friends out there do everything they can to keep me the happy fritz that they know You haven't done anything for me He I'm willing to hear you out. I'm willing to give you a shot because the kindness those people have taught me is still there He nods Then giving you to dozen was the right choice Because you would have not gotten that with me I was not in a good place And you would have been miserable You haven't Even said sorry He looks down and he takes a deep breath Your life with dozen was good I'm not sorry Your life with me would have not been so much I'm not asking you to apologize for that I'm asking you to apologize For the child I'm not that person anymore I'm grown up. I understand what you did. I understand it completely A child doesn't He just kind of looks up And he looks a little bit frustrated Oh, what am I supposed to tell a child? I'm sorry. I can't take care of you Yes, it's simple Some sincerity Very well I am sorry. I couldn't take care of you That's all I guess feylin wanted They wanted a reason Me as fritz now. I understand. I agree with you. I wouldn't have been happy with someone like this But me as a child I couldn't understand that I just Want you to acknowledge What you had done To a child He has the very slightest of nods Barely even noticeable And it looks down at his papers They like shake it off and they're like All right, then the score's settled He Raises one eyebrow A little bit confused I don't hold grudges Shopeo I've had my whole life without you I appreciate you answering my questions. That was no beloved. Yeah But I'm not gonna sit here and hold your choices against you. Like I said, I understand it. I get it. I'm an adult. I understand I just wanted you to apologize to me as a kid. That was it Me now I could have lived on fine, but it was nice to get that Well, he kind of fixes his ascot a little bit Uh This is not the response I was expecting Back then Well the angle for the most part but um Understanding forgiveness not so much You probably have things to do I Think now I have to process some things Um I do have to get back to work, but Perhaps if you do want to visit again By all means my office is open to you and and your friends as well And if you ever do see Dozen again Tell him I said thank you on one time Yes You're gonna come to me this time There's a tavern down there. I'll buy you a drink. Give me a persuasion All right He's looking at all his papers Lord Efrasia and and and the And then he just kind of like thinks thanks for a second. He's stumbling over his work. They the work I Yes, I would I would like to have a drink Well, I gotta go Save the world. I guess They like laugh their ass off like I know you will You are dozen's daughter No, am I am sorry. Am I anything like my mother? I'm curious Oh That's hard to explain You certainly took after her and as far as looks go Tell me what what are your skills in the arcane re? I can't uh, um barely any I've been Sure Then I think you're going to like her a lot like What what do you what do you mean? Well, you are pilgrims of satia aguna is one of your places and that has the Most advanced teachings of mages that I have ever seen she works there Like I said, we separated after we found out we were not a great match for each other But we do keep in touch every now and then She she know about everything Yes, she and I made the decision together Is it was joint effort as we both realized it was probably best for you I gotta go do dragon business and collect another sorry from a sorry parent She like Playfully pats like bushes. I'm on the shoulder He just sighs and just like Tilting his head raising in his eyebrows and a sort of yeah, I deserve that kind of like motion You're going to do great out there fritz Oh, I know Just you watch me All right, and then they leave Fritz you gain an inspiration for that Everybody get in an inspiration today So is layra outside when fritz leaves layra is fully outside Like I think she like sidled about 10 feet down to have like the barest like oh, maybe I was looking for a water fountain or something I don't know So you guys have the sigils that will allow you into the research and creation center the r and c for short Wait, I wanted to see what happened with fritz and layra. Oh, yeah, is there anything you guys want to do? I'm watching my stories. I want to run up to layra. I'm like layra. Hi Like really happy to see them. I'm just like it's so nice to have some no malice around here Yes Are you all right? Fritz just smiled and is like Yeah, I'm okay That bad, huh Because you still see me as a friend we are good This was never going to change how I saw you I was um, oh, it's horrible I'm almost glad that he's so awful Devil Zadfica, I get why you did it So glad I'm not a coward like him though excited to see how much I play I am like my mother though. That'll be fun Yes, maybe Fritz is gonna notice that like I was feeling down just like hooks that armor in the neck and like let's go Yes, oh boy All right, we are gonna wrap very soon, but uh, I think we can wrap on a on a higher note If you guys would like to head to the research and creation center. Let's do it. You guys come out and uh Buck buck is trying to chase word who has big blind like in his hand And I'm like come here. Give it back You can't have it back until you let me feed one of these beans to that duck No, you're not you're not allowed to feed the wildlife. Give it. Come here. How are you playing roulette on this? I start like spinning with it. Stop spinning. Give it back. You're gonna hurt somebody Don't end up my kill zone I get into his kill zone and he hits me in the shin with the hammer And I grab the I want you give it back and I take it back pick it up and I'm like hanging by it No, I should get to try and like get him off. I relent Oh, hey, look they're back you look uh Chippa. Yeah, did it uh, did it everything go okay? Do we do we need any help and I'll like kind of hold one hand up to use it as a partition and kind of like point to word I'm known as an agent of help I guess I look at where I didn't go He won't be causing us any problems largely because he seems uninterested in participating Yeah, I I got the gist that he was just like a baby man right out the gate Drink with us Babies don't drink He's must have gone must have gone pretty good then right um as good as It could I guess I have my family here. I'm not that bothered Oh Oh, you mean us. I see. I thought you meant locally. Um, do we maybe want to get him like really drunk and laughing But bullying is never okay. My character's shaking her head. Yes Unless you bully people who aren't okay. I'm like shaking my head too I think we should well with that out of the way we've been We have these sigils now. We might as well go see if we can meet this ser sergi Yes Is it sergi or serge? You know, it's probably pronounced serge Okay, you know, I assist that a name that I found and I was like sergi, but probably yeah, it's probably if it's s e r g e i It's probably serge. I I saw just gi or sorry. Yeah, I thought it was sergi Let's go with serge. Let's go with serge. That sounds more european Serg serg serg serg All right, so you go up into the research and creation center the tall brass tower at the base of The entire province They're clankings and crankings and crackles and whistles of the inner workings and workers of the building Presumably hammering away at its maintenance or hammering away at some new invention or other and You make it to the main lift and as you approach it your sigils kind of appear Almost projected off of your chests As you get closer and closer and the guards see it and let you through Into the main gates and the large massive kind of base floor has a bunch of different lifts lining the outside of the walls And the guards lead you there They recognize that you are the pilgrims of sachia and let you know that the dragon is on the 40th floor the very very top Oh boy So 44 dungeon next session. Oh, I hope so That's a lot of stuff. So when you step into the lifts Oh, there's lips. Yes, let's do that So the lifts kind of um Gates open up you step in it closes And then you see that there is some kind of arcane energy that Covers the whole thing before you shoot up at excruciating speeds, but you don't feel it As you get higher and higher you can see pretty much the entirety of paletrios until you've reached the very tippy top where there is a what seems to be a see-through ceiling And when the gate opens For you to exit the lift you head out And you see a big old door just between you and what you hear just knockings and crashings and Blitzing and zapping All from behind a large massive door Oh You can see kind of at the foot of the door you can see flickering lights just peeking through as well I'll go to open the door. I think that's our guy. Yes You just go and open it up I hope he's big. Yeah. I mean we're yeah, I think so before your hand even reaches the handle The door automatically opens for you And you hear a voice coming from a fairly short warforged about 10 yards ahead Tinkering away at some strange device. He seems to be of like dwarven stature And he's standing on a stepping stool working at a workbench. Yeah, I heard you step in as soon as you walked in the building from the ground floor Your hearing is really good without looking away from his table Which is an absolute mess of scrap metal sawdust shattered crystals and stacks of takeout food boxes Do you think he's got like eyes on the back of his head and ears on the bottom of his feet? I mean i'm mad. It's just magic It is an honor to be in your presence. Uh, yeah Ah, no need to kiss my ass or anything. I know i'm pretty good. I wasn't planning on it And he seems to finish up whatever he was tinkering with which seems to be a hammer made from the familiar looking crystal material that you Saw in viscerally And he turns around dragon bone stuff. No, it's made of crystals Oh, that's right. And he turns around hops off from his stepping stool And he just gives a little salute. Good morning. You all buck lay refritz and word pilgrims of elinthi. Am I right? That's correct. Yeah Mostly. Yep, and you can see the little warforged Sergei It's nice to meet you all the name Sergei and let me just say welcome to the land of inventions I love he's got such atomic robot energy and that is going to be I think where we call today's session But we see what it is Sergei wants you to do in order to get the heart Veg question he really just reminds me of robot fish like fishing competition. Yeah. No, I was thinking like big weld from robots Yeah He's tiny