--- > [!Danger] Disclaimer > *This transcript was auto-generated by a model and may not be perfectly accurate. In particular, the speaker labels may sometimes overlap with other speakers and cause the model to label one speaker as someone else.* --- 02:19.874 --> 02:21.578 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:21.778 --> 02:22.239 [Riv (DM)]: Don't worry. 02:24.164 --> 02:26.108 [Riv (DM)]: Well, chat to JC. 02:26.128 --> 02:28.574 [Riv (DM)]: It's about how worried you should be. 02:29.195 --> 02:30.237 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 02:30.257 --> 02:39.418 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, it's been like six weeks or something, I don't know, been ages, but we're back and there's a quick recap of what we did last time. 02:39.398 --> 02:42.123 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, you're basically trying to get out of the city. 02:42.303 --> 02:53.662 [Riv (DM)]: The city had been locked down, someone had caused a bit of a kerfuffle with the guards and everyone was searching for a certain dwarf who has a liking for blowing people up with fire. 02:54.543 --> 02:58.470 [Riv (DM)]: So trying to look at ways to get out of the city. 02:58.450 --> 02:59.431 [Riv (DM)]: There are a few options. 03:01.154 --> 03:02.376 [Riv (DM)]: Bless me, yeah. 03:02.436 --> 03:04.118 [Riv (DM)]: There are a few ways. 03:04.318 --> 03:15.835 [Riv (DM)]: You ended up going with the Ravens who were able to take you to a tunnel that leads out of the Underrun which is this massive water network that goes underneath the city of Val Miriel. 03:16.075 --> 03:18.699 [Riv (DM)]: Very clever system of essentially flushing waste out. 03:20.722 --> 03:22.744 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you went down through one of those little narrow tunnels. 03:23.706 --> 03:27.411 [Riv (DM)]: It was horrid but 03:27.391 --> 03:40.403 [Riv (DM)]: You encountered a few, you know, dark, horrible things like moss that was attracted to heat and, yeah, melted a bunch of you, like with ice. 03:42.084 --> 03:47.009 [Riv (DM)]: You were walking down through the tunnels and a bunch of black oozes dropped on top of you, had a bit of a fight. 03:48.310 --> 03:51.232 [Riv (DM)]: Some of your armor got destroyed as well by the acid that the black oozes created. 03:53.394 --> 03:57.398 [Riv (DM)]: But eventually you were able to get out nice and easily, easily enough anyway. 03:57.445 --> 04:01.552 [Riv (DM)]: And we're back out on the road once again after being in the city for some time. 04:01.572 --> 04:06.601 [Riv (DM)]: Along the city there weren't too many crazy encounters. 04:07.423 --> 04:14.155 [Riv (DM)]: There was a caravan that you encountered though, a couple that were quite distraught. 04:14.135 --> 04:24.853 [Riv (DM)]: After questioning them it turns out that they had been kind of assaulted by a group of Imperial soldiers who had taken a bunch of their produce. 04:25.054 --> 04:27.839 [Riv (DM)]: They were farmers who were trying to sell some of their goods. 04:28.820 --> 04:31.765 [Riv (DM)]: You helped them out a little bit and they went on their way. 04:31.805 --> 04:37.375 [Riv (DM)]: They were rushing to get back to their home in Hillcrest and yeah, and you carried on. 04:37.355 --> 04:50.748 [Riv (DM)]: And it was not much longer on, a day or two later, where you came across some noise on the road ahead and it was in fact some soldiers fighting with a band of hobgoblins. 04:51.671 --> 04:52.613 [Riv (DM)]: You tried to sneak up. 04:52.593 --> 05:01.523 [Riv (DM)]: And just as the hobgoblins were about to kill the last soldier on the ground, you open fire essentially and you chase them down. 05:01.683 --> 05:07.249 [Riv (DM)]: Two of them were immediately killed and you chased down the last one, the leader who you kept alive. 05:08.030 --> 05:15.158 [Riv (DM)]: After a bit of intimidation and a bit of questioning, possibly a touch of torture again, 05:15.138 --> 05:19.022 [Riv (DM)]: You're able to kind of get an understanding of what they're up to. 05:19.082 --> 05:40.605 [Riv (DM)]: They've been raiding the, you know, the highways and interestingly Vael Aran was very persuasive or shall we say intimidating and was able to convince the Hobgoblin to change their tactics a little bit and potentially only actually assault the Imperials on the highway and he seemed like he agreed to that. 05:40.585 --> 05:46.535 [Riv (DM)]: Rio then very promptly murdered the final soldier on the road and you were off on your way. 05:46.575 --> 05:54.368 [Riv (DM)]: After picking up a few weapons, he scavenged a few of the weapons and armor from the soldiers. 05:55.009 --> 05:56.712 [Riv (DM)]: And that was basically where we finished. 05:56.772 --> 06:06.188 [Riv (DM)]: We carried on for another day or so and later in the afternoon was when we crested over the last hill. 06:06.168 --> 06:12.836 [Riv (DM)]: And looked down into the mist-choked city or town of Lighthaven. 06:14.738 --> 06:30.336 [Riv (DM)]: The sun is kind of at this point starting to set over to the west down behind the hills far across the plains and the cold is starting to come in and you can see the mist that's been settling around the town just kind of providing this big blanket 06:30.316 --> 06:52.876 [Riv (DM)]: Almost obscuring many of the buildings themselves, but you can still see little pricks of light just poking through as people are kind of going about their business and This is where we left off and this is where you guys are standing now looking out into the city You're probably about a 15 minute walk or so down the hill away from from the town and I'll pass it over to you guys. 06:52.916 --> 06:54.298 [Riv (DM)]: What did you want to do from here? 07:07.087 --> 07:08.088 [Unmatched Speaker]: It's down there, I guess. 07:10.631 --> 07:13.655 [JC (Ryo)]: Before we go down, we should have a bit of a chat. 07:17.760 --> 07:24.288 [JC (Ryo)]: This is where I was when I got captured before we all ended up on that goddamn fucking boat. 07:27.773 --> 07:28.774 [JC (Ryo)]: What did you do? 07:31.657 --> 07:33.981 [JC (Ryo)]: I don't know, man, I did what I normally do. 07:34.082 --> 07:44.301 [JC (Ryo)]: I just came to town to sell some shit and hid my, hid my, you know, dress like I am, hid my normal stuff and fucking guards arrested me. 07:44.361 --> 07:46.245 [JC (Ryo)]: Someone delved me into the freaking guards. 07:49.411 --> 07:50.593 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Did you steal something? 07:58.336 --> 08:07.091 [JC (Ryo)]: No, I actually only started stealing after all of this because I got a feeling it was one of the bloody merchants that screwed me over. 08:07.111 --> 08:09.956 [JC (Ryo)]: I need to figure out which one of the bastards it was. 08:14.864 --> 08:23.719 [JC (Ryo)]: So last time I came here, you know, I went to the market, traded for some food, went to the blacksmith guy to freaking fix some stuff. 08:24.391 --> 08:27.956 [JC (Ryo)]: Tried to sell some other stuff at the Verdant Rose. 08:28.116 --> 08:32.683 [JC (Ryo)]: I went to the inn not to drink, just to hear any news. 08:33.824 --> 08:40.313 [JC (Ryo)]: Always trying to find out, you know, you guys have noticed I've been asking around every time we find someone that's half Elven. 08:41.255 --> 08:46.261 [JC (Ryo)]: Well, we've only found half Elven, but, you know, trying to find out more about my background. 08:48.044 --> 08:52.390 [JC (Ryo)]: And then as I left, the bloody Imperial captain freaking caught me with a bunch of soldiers. 08:56.572 --> 08:57.694 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Anyone know who you were? 08:59.756 --> 09:00.317 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: What you were? 09:00.477 --> 09:01.559 [JC (Ryo)]: No one. 09:01.579 --> 09:02.240 [JC (Ryo)]: No one. 09:02.320 --> 09:04.323 [JC (Ryo)]: No one in this town knows who I truly am. 09:06.025 --> 09:13.416 [JC (Ryo)]: With that said, if I walk in with the same set of clothes I normally walk in with, I'm probably screwed because they're all going to recognize me. 09:13.436 --> 09:15.919 [Lacer (Kai)]: Guess it's a good time to switch it up a bit. 09:18.743 --> 09:19.144 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. 09:22.468 --> 09:25.853 [JC (Ryo)]: Now, Val, Val Aran, I need to have a chat with you. 09:27.149 --> 09:34.961 [JC (Ryo)]: Every time we end up near Imperials, you seem to be really chummy-chummy with them. 09:34.981 --> 09:40.329 [JC (Ryo)]: How close are you with them? 09:40.349 --> 09:41.311 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I honestly don't know. 09:41.331 --> 09:49.684 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I know I obviously know how to work with them, so assuming I obviously did a bit of soldiering. 09:49.724 --> 09:54.591 [JC (Ryo)]: All of us. 09:56.073 --> 09:57.756 [JC (Ryo)]: I guess my main question... 09:57.776 --> 10:01.322 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean, you've been able to talk us out of situations, but my main question is... 10:02.465 --> 10:07.534 [JC (Ryo)]: I want to find this Imperial captain, and I want to beat the living hell out of him and find out who dogged me in. 10:08.515 --> 10:10.259 [JC (Ryo)]: You got a problem with that, or are you good? 10:12.543 --> 10:13.384 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Doesn't worry me. 10:13.404 --> 10:15.448 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: As long as it doesn't interfere with our mission getting north. 10:21.773 --> 10:26.117 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, well, I've got two things I want to do in this town. 10:27.298 --> 10:36.726 [JC (Ryo)]: Like I just said, bait the living hell out of this captain and find out who the hell dogged me in and put them in an appropriate hole, because screw that person. 10:40.469 --> 10:43.471 [Lacer (Kai)]: Sounds like a plan, but you've been here before. 10:43.972 --> 10:51.578 [Lacer (Kai)]: Care to tell us anything that you noticed last time you came that we might be coming against, potentially? 10:53.279 --> 10:56.163 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, yeah, I could talk a bit about this town. 10:57.866 --> 11:02.032 [JC (Ryo)]: Riv, is the dirt near us, you know, is the ground nice and soft? 11:02.052 --> 11:04.035 [JC (Ryo)]: Am I able to like draw into the dirt? 11:05.377 --> 11:06.880 [Lacer (Kai)]: Make a mud map? 11:06.920 --> 11:08.121 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, it's cold up here. 11:08.141 --> 11:11.987 [Riv (DM)]: There's definitely a dusting of snow and so it's frosty, especially this time in the afternoon. 11:12.368 --> 11:15.232 [Riv (DM)]: But you can easily grab a dagger or something and carve away at it. 11:15.272 --> 11:16.134 [Riv (DM)]: It's not like rock hard. 11:16.674 --> 11:19.759 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, just grab a stick and start drawing. 11:22.540 --> 11:24.442 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, so this place is built... 11:24.462 --> 11:29.407 [JC (Ryo)]: I don't know, it's... You've got the Darkhorde on one side, then you've got all the farmland on the other. 11:29.447 --> 11:39.498 [JC (Ryo)]: And then the town's all set up around the Ember Spire. 11:40.639 --> 11:45.765 [JC (Ryo)]: This giant beacon-like thing that's been here God knows... No one knows how this place works. 11:46.265 --> 11:48.868 [JC (Ryo)]: Well, they know how it works, but they don't know how long it's been there. 11:49.135 --> 12:10.455 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah and as he says this you can kind of look up to the town and just clearly poking up above the the fog cloud a huge tower that's just kind of poking up above um visible from all parts of the town um ancient stone structure it's kind of blackened in parts and yeah looks like it's built out of entirely different materials than the rest of the town. 12:13.218 --> 12:17.742 [JC (Ryo)]: I just keep drawing and drawing and I'm like okay there's blacksmiths over this way 12:19.561 --> 12:20.362 [JC (Ryo)]: There's a couple of inns over here. 12:21.303 --> 12:26.407 [JC (Ryo)]: There's a couple of inns over here and workshops and marketplace and barracks. 12:28.569 --> 12:30.010 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: A couple of inns. 12:31.131 --> 12:33.473 [JC (Ryo)]: It's not a village. 12:33.493 --> 12:34.394 [JC (Ryo)]: It's a town. 12:34.414 --> 12:35.856 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh no, it's a decent sized town. 12:35.876 --> 12:37.657 [JC (Ryo)]: There's like a thousand people that are here. 12:38.718 --> 12:40.660 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is there a big wall that goes around it? 12:43.162 --> 12:47.526 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, when I start drawing a massive arc to the end. 12:49.312 --> 12:53.697 [Riv (DM)]: So there isn't like a big fortified wall. 12:53.977 --> 12:58.762 [Riv (DM)]: It's more like just the town itself kind of forms a barrier of buildings. 13:01.005 --> 13:03.928 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ah, so not as crazy as Val Miriel then. 13:04.829 --> 13:05.029 Nah. 13:06.571 --> 13:14.019 [JC (Ryo)]: No, no, it's not Val Miriel but they definitely guard from the east from the Darkwood because crazy monsters are in there and they do wander out. 13:15.360 --> 13:17.142 [JC (Ryo)]: That's why they keep the 13:18.370 --> 13:22.836 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, Mispire lit so they can see stuff. 13:26.302 --> 13:28.905 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Talking to some monsters out there? 13:32.711 --> 13:35.335 [JC (Ryo)]: There's everything out there, man. 13:35.375 --> 13:37.958 [JC (Ryo)]: Monsters are the main thing that wouldn't... 13:38.119 --> 13:39.160 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean, I live out there. 13:39.180 --> 13:42.505 [JC (Ryo)]: It wouldn't surprise me if other people live out there. 13:46.822 --> 13:48.524 [JC (Ryo)]: There's literally everything. 13:48.584 --> 13:56.172 [JC (Ryo)]: That dark wood goes on for forever, and those massive ass trees, and there's this lake in the middle, and it's actually a really crazy lake. 13:56.773 --> 13:58.154 [JC (Ryo)]: I've never gotten close enough to it. 14:03.821 --> 14:13.932 [JC (Ryo)]: And just one other thing, that even though there are a lot of people here and the imperial presence isn't that high, these townspeople stick to themselves. 14:13.992 --> 14:15.934 [JC (Ryo)]: They do not trust anybody. 14:17.230 --> 14:19.776 [JC (Ryo)]: Which is why I've got no idea who screwed me over. 14:21.240 --> 14:24.949 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ah, so don't trust the townsfolk even, because no one trusts anybody. 14:24.989 --> 14:28.858 [JC (Ryo)]: They trust themselves. 14:29.279 --> 14:30.823 [JC (Ryo)]: If you're a local, you're good. 14:30.863 --> 14:33.349 [JC (Ryo)]: Anyone that doesn't live here is 14:42.458 --> 14:43.399 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 14:43.419 --> 14:44.701 [Lacer (Kai)]: How do we blend in with the locals? 14:45.202 --> 14:47.345 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do you remember what they kinda sorta wore? 14:47.966 --> 14:49.969 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or... 14:49.989 --> 14:52.332 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: If they're that insular, I don't think there's any blending in. 14:54.816 --> 14:56.098 [JC (Ryo)]: Nah, there's no blending in. 14:56.138 --> 14:57.179 [JC (Ryo)]: They all know each other. 14:57.199 --> 14:59.683 [JC (Ryo)]: There's not enough people here for them to not know each other. 15:01.926 --> 15:06.132 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Nah, I think... Are the guards that arrested you, are they part of the town? 15:06.212 --> 15:08.396 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Or... How do they feel about Imperials? 15:09.277 --> 15:11.520 [JC (Ryo)]: No, Imperials got me. 15:12.631 --> 15:16.515 [JC (Ryo)]: So there is an... Let me just read... 15:16.535 --> 15:20.198 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: If there are collaborators, the rest of the town probably knows who they are. 15:23.861 --> 15:26.744 [JC (Ryo)]: So there is an Imperial garrison here. 15:26.784 --> 15:33.510 [JC (Ryo)]: It's not that large, but there is. 15:33.530 --> 15:36.653 [JC (Ryo)]: And yeah, there's two sets of guards in this town. 15:36.673 --> 15:40.056 [JC (Ryo)]: There's the Imperials and then there's the local 15:40.289 --> 15:46.175 [JC (Ryo)]: The local guards, the Dusk Wardens, the town folk actually respect those guys. 15:46.696 --> 15:48.357 [JC (Ryo)]: They are good. 15:49.799 --> 16:00.470 [JC (Ryo)]: They should be nice to us as long as we don't do anything silly to them, but we don't want to pick a fight with them if we can help them. 16:00.730 --> 16:05.194 [JC (Ryo)]: They fight the Darkwood monsters, so they know what they're doing. 16:05.214 --> 16:06.776 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Well, that might be our end. 16:07.597 --> 16:09.739 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We are, after all, 16:10.090 --> 16:13.215 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Acknowledged and registered members of the Green Griffin Mercenary Company. 16:15.719 --> 16:20.967 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It just turns out that there's a town down there that likes fighting monsters, and guess what we do? 16:20.987 --> 16:22.188 [Lacer (Kai)]: We fight monsters. 16:23.290 --> 16:24.131 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: We bring the monster. 16:24.472 --> 16:25.594 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I mean fight the monster. 16:27.657 --> 16:31.262 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I don't remember if these guys go on the offensive. 16:31.362 --> 16:33.786 [JC (Ryo)]: They definitely do the defensive work. 16:35.082 --> 16:37.786 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, the Dusk Wardens are the local guard. 16:38.367 --> 16:41.391 [Riv (DM)]: They are sort of the ones of the town for the town. 16:42.032 --> 16:45.857 [Riv (DM)]: The Imperials are there because the Empire just feels like it needs a presence everywhere. 16:46.558 --> 16:52.807 [Riv (DM)]: But most of the people kind of look down on the Imperials and try to, you know, keep out of their way and, you know. 16:53.228 --> 17:01.900 [Riv (DM)]: But there are a separate group actually called the Darkwood Vanguard that Ryo you would know about as well. 17:04.917 --> 17:07.796 [JC (Ryo)]: Uh... Oh, yes, there. 17:07.856 --> 17:09.890 [JC (Ryo)]: Yes, yeah, there's a guild building here as well. 17:09.910 --> 17:11.198 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, the Darkwood Vanguard. 17:13.591 --> 17:23.363 [Riv (DM)]: They're essentially adventurers that like to make little forays into the forest to try and kill the monsters, bring back trophies, exotic materials, and stuff like that. 17:23.784 --> 17:32.575 [Riv (DM)]: And the nice thing about this is that it's caused the city to become a bit of, well, the town I should say, it's caused it to become a bit of a trading hub for exotic materials. 17:32.695 --> 17:39.144 [Riv (DM)]: It's kind of known for claws of griffins and stuff like that because of these guys. 17:39.604 --> 17:40.645 [Riv (DM)]: Sounds exciting. 17:40.766 --> 17:40.966 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 17:41.727 --> 17:43.429 [Riv (DM)]: It's one of the main features of the market. 17:45.265 --> 17:48.488 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, and there's a lot of exotic herbs and stuff. 17:48.528 --> 17:51.571 [JC (Ryo)]: The Bird of Rose, the Apothecary here. 17:51.831 --> 17:53.252 [JC (Ryo)]: Car, you'll probably like it there. 17:54.874 --> 17:57.396 [JC (Ryo)]: They've got all sorts of crazy bits and pieces. 17:57.836 --> 18:01.380 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, we'll check it out once we sort your things out. 18:01.420 --> 18:03.161 [Lacer (Kai)]: Your mission seems pretty important. 18:03.181 --> 18:04.382 [Lacer (Kai)]: You seem very fired up. 18:06.504 --> 18:12.690 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, the annoying thing is the Imperials share the same barracks as the Dusk Wardens. 18:13.970 --> 18:17.317 [JC (Ryo)]: So I can't just go... Ahh, we can't light it on fire? 18:18.941 --> 18:24.613 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I wanted to go and just burn their entire barracks down, but... 18:24.633 --> 18:29.584 [JC (Ryo)]: I don't think the Dusk Warden stuffed me over. 18:29.604 --> 18:31.749 [JC (Ryo)]: I did catch the name of the captain though. 18:33.232 --> 18:33.733 [JC (Ryo)]: Did I? 18:41.864 --> 18:43.746 [Riv (DM)]: You would have Lucius... 18:44.506 --> 18:44.967 [Riv (DM)]: Sorry. 18:45.187 --> 18:46.068 [Riv (DM)]: Lucius Draegor. 18:47.129 --> 18:53.154 [Riv (DM)]: He's a human dude. 18:53.174 --> 18:54.215 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, Lucius, yeah. 19:00.120 --> 19:04.764 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm roughly the same size as like Kai or Erendor, aren't I? 19:08.648 --> 19:10.629 [Riv (DM)]: Probably similar, yeah. 19:10.650 --> 19:11.230 [Riv (DM)]: Unless you... 19:11.311 --> 19:15.377 [Unmatched Speaker]: Yeah. 19:15.397 --> 19:15.497 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. 19:15.517 --> 19:18.721 [JC (Ryo)]: I haven't picked up a spare set of clothes along the travels, I don't think. 19:20.324 --> 19:26.652 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You wouldn't have your initial clothes because the whole prison, many days losing everything. 19:26.672 --> 19:29.516 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. 19:29.536 --> 19:35.204 [JC (Ryo)]: We regained everything that we had, so I had my old bandana and cloak and stuff before. 19:35.244 --> 19:40.812 [JC (Ryo)]: That's what we found when we found the ship and beat the goblins up at the start. 19:41.450 --> 19:42.812 [JC (Ryo)]: Not true. 19:42.832 --> 19:43.954 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: You could wear my stool. 19:45.317 --> 19:49.864 [Lacer (Kai)]: I've got this, um, old grey robe that the, um, the High Sept lent me. 19:50.145 --> 19:50.986 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do you want to borrow that? 19:55.354 --> 19:56.876 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I cannot borrow that. 19:56.896 --> 20:00.382 [JC (Ryo)]: Just something not my normal cloak. 20:02.406 --> 20:06.833 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, just, um, yeah, I pull it out of my pack, you know, pass it to Rio. 20:09.901 --> 20:19.817 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I know at one point in town I bought a quality cloak and scarf at some point during the travels. 20:21.280 --> 20:22.642 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, that was all the way back in Darmouth. 20:23.403 --> 20:25.807 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, because I knew we were going into cold, cold areas. 20:27.370 --> 20:30.475 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm wearing hide armour so I'm good. 20:32.058 --> 20:35.162 [JC (Ryo)]: Just whatever I can borrow, just for this town. 20:36.764 --> 20:38.527 [Lacer (Kai)]: Strap a skull to your head. 20:38.747 --> 20:43.093 [JC (Ryo)]: Well, you've got Disguised Stealth as well. 20:43.113 --> 20:44.334 [JC (Ryo)]: I passed the skull. 20:47.098 --> 20:50.582 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, but Disguised Stealth is only for an hour, so it's not gonna last forever. 20:51.584 --> 20:52.946 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm pretty sure it's an hour. 20:56.110 --> 20:56.811 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, it's only an hour. 20:57.191 --> 21:00.175 [JC (Ryo)]: So yeah, now I need something a bit more long-term, so... 21:00.914 --> 21:08.626 [JC (Ryo)]: I take the robe, I take the scarf off Valoran and I pack my cloak away. 21:08.686 --> 21:13.153 [JC (Ryo)]: Nice. 21:13.173 --> 21:13.774 [JC (Ryo)]: Thanks guys. 21:13.934 --> 21:17.319 [JC (Ryo)]: I will give this back to you once we are done with this town. 21:18.902 --> 21:19.823 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, no worries. 21:20.304 --> 21:27.495 [Lacer (Kai)]: After you said all the creepy stuff in the Darkwood, do you mind checking around us for tracks and stuff? 21:29.821 --> 21:38.152 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't want stuff stalking us and whatnot. 21:38.172 --> 21:42.718 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, yeah, I can have a look around, see if anything's trying to track us. 21:46.403 --> 21:47.745 [Riv (DM)]: Do you want to roll, Riv? 21:47.845 --> 21:51.150 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you can either do a perception check or a survival check, whatever you feel like. 21:53.653 --> 21:57.398 [Riv (DM)]: Make it good, it's the first roll that we've done in, like, forever. 22:00.922 --> 22:02.104 [Riv (DM)]: Not too bad, not too bad. 22:02.945 --> 22:11.018 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah so unfortunately there's been a bit of a scattering of snow the last couple of days it appears so the ground is just blanketed with white. 22:12.179 --> 22:21.073 [Riv (DM)]: Looking at the snow you don't see any fresh tracks through it mainly it looks like just muddy footprints on the main road that kind of winds down the hill towards the main entrance into the town. 22:26.403 --> 22:32.630 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, in all the times I've actually visited this town, it's never actually been under attack from monsters of the Darkwood. 22:32.790 --> 22:35.393 [JC (Ryo)]: It's when you go inside that you have to pay attention. 22:36.094 --> 22:38.036 [JC (Ryo)]: Like, they do come out, but it is rare. 22:40.278 --> 22:47.586 [Lacer (Kai)]: As soon as you say that, try and touch some wood and don't jinx it, because knowing when someone says stuff, things happen. 22:49.328 --> 22:55.515 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We've already encountered one thing that came out, and it was the Wyvern of the Southwood of Ankh-Hotton, from here I would guess. 22:58.533 --> 23:02.098 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Well, um, good question. 23:02.118 --> 23:10.790 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We probably can't use the name Bloody Nails because of the whole... and I just point back to Val Miriel. 23:12.392 --> 23:17.059 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Loosemurks under the Gryffins. 23:18.581 --> 23:21.665 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We want to put together another company name. 23:22.887 --> 23:26.432 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: A shell company, as it were. 23:26.452 --> 23:26.532 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hmm. 23:28.283 --> 23:29.925 [Lacer (Kai)]: I've got an idea. 23:30.586 --> 23:32.348 [Lacer (Kai)]: I've got two names, potentially. 23:33.750 --> 23:38.917 [Lacer (Kai)]: One, maybe Iron Coffin, so we can put the last nail in the coffin. 23:40.479 --> 23:44.965 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or we can go with Mourning Star, but mourning as in, like, weeping. 23:52.695 --> 23:53.616 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm fine with whatever. 23:59.587 --> 24:02.971 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Morningstar sounds good. 24:03.031 --> 24:04.913 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, I'm cool with whatever. 24:07.576 --> 24:08.477 [Lacer (Kai)]: Are you the star? 24:10.039 --> 24:11.340 [Lacer (Kai)]: Not quite, not quite. 24:11.861 --> 24:16.226 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm the weeping one. 24:16.246 --> 24:19.069 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: You do have the starry form, so... 24:20.331 --> 24:21.192 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I scroll down the list. 24:21.332 --> 24:23.434 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I vote for the bottom option, none of the above. 24:24.535 --> 24:26.758 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We are a guild, none of the above. 24:27.312 --> 24:28.964 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: No, I don't really care. 24:28.984 --> 24:29.306 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Either or. 24:29.789 --> 24:30.998 [JC (Ryo)]: What time of the day is it, Riv? 24:32.166 --> 24:33.576 [JC (Ryo)]: Number three, my lord. 24:34.028 --> 24:34.989 [Riv (DM)]: Look in the sky. 24:35.390 --> 24:36.772 [Riv (DM)]: How high is the sun? 24:36.792 --> 24:38.014 [Riv (DM)]: It's sort of late afternoon now. 24:39.316 --> 24:40.497 [Riv (DM)]: You can look out across the plains. 24:42.040 --> 24:52.535 [Riv (DM)]: And yeah, kind of seeing a bit more of the surrounding area, you can see, as Rio kind of mentioned, you've got the deep, dark wood that just stretches on forever to your east, over on the right. 24:53.196 --> 24:58.884 [Riv (DM)]: And to the west is what would be very fertile plains farmland, usually. 24:59.485 --> 25:02.449 [Riv (DM)]: Another thing that the town is quite known for is very fertile land out here. 25:02.429 --> 25:13.064 [Riv (DM)]: Um and you can just see farms just kind of stretching, stretching for miles out to the west and far over to the west you can see the sun is just getting ready to go and sit down behind the hills as we're starting to approach the late afternoon. 25:14.806 --> 25:16.889 [Lacer (Kai)]: I guess we better hurry before the sun sets. 25:20.414 --> 25:29.567 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah the foggy tankards the main uh the main place to stay in this town. 25:29.587 --> 25:31.710 [JC (Ryo)]: It's literally just as we come in 25:32.062 --> 25:37.430 [JC (Ryo)]: As we come in from the west, it's just there. 25:37.450 --> 25:40.754 [JC (Ryo)]: It's got the odds in its shop right across from it. 25:44.760 --> 25:45.461 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Alright, we'll get down there. 25:45.541 --> 25:46.583 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: No point sitting up here on the hill. 25:47.324 --> 25:47.965 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's true. 25:47.985 --> 25:52.952 [Lacer (Kai)]: Let's make haste before the beasts come out tonight. 25:52.972 --> 25:55.716 [Riv (DM)]: Hey, it'll never happen, eh? 25:55.736 --> 26:00.162 [Riv (DM)]: It's not like we're in the middle of a campaign or anything and just everything just seems to always happen. 26:02.268 --> 26:08.499 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, this is not a particularly great representation of it, but just for setting a little bit of ambience. 26:08.639 --> 26:10.022 [Riv (DM)]: There are no big walls like this. 26:10.142 --> 26:13.568 [Lacer (Kai)]: I was going to say the wall's a bit bigger than I expected. 26:13.588 --> 26:16.714 [Riv (DM)]: No, there are no big walls like that, but other than that, just to set the vibe. 26:17.676 --> 26:21.863 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so the main road here, the main northern highway, 26:21.843 --> 26:33.551 [Riv (DM)]: It kind of passes straight on through the very western side of the town, and you'll see it as you come down, it carries on back up the kind of gently sloping hills up into the distance and beyond. 26:33.851 --> 26:37.540 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, but as you get kind of down into the bottom of the basin here, 26:37.520 --> 26:56.237 [Riv (DM)]: The road turns off into the town itself and just as you're coming in you can see the buildings starting to crop up and as Rio mentioned the foggy tankard you can see is the first one of the main first big buildings that you see as you're coming in they've got it built nice and conveniently out near the main highway so the travelers can stop in here 26:56.217 --> 26:59.742 [Riv (DM)]: And yeah you can see it's just a standard looking tavern. 27:00.263 --> 27:14.403 [Riv (DM)]: The icon on the hanging display sign out is a tankard with like ale that's quite filled high to the top and the foam's pouring out the sides and creating like this sort of foggy, this foggy sort of visage around the mug itself. 27:15.505 --> 27:21.473 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah and other than that you can see there is some light from inside as there's a fire that's already going. 27:22.214 --> 27:26.140 [Riv (DM)]: And you can see a few people wandering around the streets ahead of you as well. 27:26.120 --> 27:30.951 [Riv (DM)]: Did we want to pop into the tank itself or are we going elsewhere? 27:30.991 --> 27:38.207 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Probably the first place to stop in where we crash in here tonight, so at the very least. 27:40.372 --> 27:44.702 [JC (Ryo)]: All the markets are basically shut by now so we might as well save it till tomorrow. 27:46.437 --> 27:47.139 [Riv (DM)]: Door creaks open. 27:47.820 --> 27:53.595 [Riv (DM)]: Well, actually, it's quite a nice 7 here as it gets quite a lot of business from the highway. 27:53.655 --> 27:56.582 [Riv (DM)]: So, opens up and as you get inside, 27:57.187 --> 28:00.812 [Riv (DM)]: It's quite a... almost, I want to say, energetic atmosphere inside. 28:01.213 --> 28:09.384 [Riv (DM)]: There's a warring fire going over to the side, quite a few large oak tables, and maybe a dozen or two people inside sort of sitting around chatting. 28:10.926 --> 28:16.333 [Riv (DM)]: Rio, for you, you find it a bit interesting that normally the people here are... 28:16.353 --> 28:19.718 [Riv (DM)]: I don't want to say somber, but... 28:20.356 --> 28:23.582 [Riv (DM)]: You know, they're often a lot more reserved than what you see at the moment. 28:23.602 --> 28:26.407 [Riv (DM)]: There's kind of, there's energy in the air, you know? 28:26.527 --> 28:27.589 [Riv (DM)]: People are kind of excited. 28:27.609 --> 28:37.347 [Riv (DM)]: And looking around you can see, you know, there's a group of people over there that are all, you can see them like carving wax sticks, like they're trying to create candles or something like that. 28:38.028 --> 28:40.913 [Riv (DM)]: And there's a few different separate groups all doing the same thing. 28:40.893 --> 28:48.183 [Riv (DM)]: As you come into the main entranceway you can see the big main counter with all the kegs up behind it and rows and rows of shelves of wine. 28:48.844 --> 29:00.480 [Riv (DM)]: There's a big man, big huge belly behind the counter and he's at the moment just kind of like leaning forward with his arm and he's got quite a kind of cheerful expression and he's just chatting with a couple there who are sitting at the bench. 29:00.921 --> 29:04.926 [Riv (DM)]: And as you're walking in you can just hear him, he's telling stories, he's saying 29:04.906 --> 29:11.517 [Riv (DM)]: Just as the Ember Warden was about to light the spire, a big pack of these nasty beasts came running in through the streets. 29:11.777 --> 29:13.800 [Riv (DM)]: And the other's like, whoa, no way. 29:14.702 --> 29:16.385 [Riv (DM)]: And he's just all like, you know, giving some bants. 29:23.296 --> 29:26.301 [Riv (DM)]: And so, as you enter in, a few people stare in your direction. 29:26.762 --> 29:28.905 [Riv (DM)]: But other than that, most people kind of keep to themselves. 29:33.290 --> 29:38.460 [Lacer (Kai)]: Are they like weird stares or are they just like normal, just look over and then don't worry? 29:39.863 --> 29:41.026 [Riv (DM)]: Nah, not really weird stares. 29:41.086 --> 29:44.493 [Riv (DM)]: Do you wanna just chuck maybe a perception check to see what you gather? 29:45.996 --> 29:46.236 [Riv (DM)]: Sure. 29:54.434 --> 29:56.139 [Riv (DM)]: Oh wow, that was an adventure for me on my screen. 29:56.159 --> 29:58.406 [Riv (DM)]: I saw it go to a 1 and then just flipped over to a 19. 30:01.274 --> 30:03.801 [Riv (DM)]: Like, a decent number of people do look up your way. 30:04.102 --> 30:08.916 [Riv (DM)]: A group of five people walking in at sort of this time in the afternoon. 30:09.183 --> 30:37.755 [Riv (DM)]: You know it'll catch a few stares but it's not particularly unexpected because it is the main tavern that the main highway you know it services the main highway so they see lots of visitors coming through um and i think what you kind of pick up with with such high perception check is people are just quite cheerful tonight for some reason quite excited um and so it must be a celebration something must be getting ready to celebrate something because everyone's cheering 30:42.528 --> 30:42.948 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 30:44.030 --> 30:47.674 [Lacer (Kai)]: Shall we get a room for the night, and then figure out what to do from there? 30:48.635 --> 30:51.198 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, sounds good. 30:51.258 --> 30:51.679 [Lacer (Kai)]: How many? 30:56.144 --> 30:57.145 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Two rooms? 30:57.165 --> 30:58.987 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: That's as much as we normally do, isn't it? 31:00.489 --> 31:01.190 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, alright. 31:02.331 --> 31:06.116 [Lacer (Kai)]: Let's head up to the, um... How weary are we? 31:06.456 --> 31:07.718 [Lacer (Kai)]: The Innskeeper. 31:07.738 --> 31:08.599 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is it the Innskeeper? 31:09.280 --> 31:09.700 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 31:10.540 --> 31:19.973 [Riv (DM)]: Yep, you want to run up and he sees you coming up now and he just, excuse me, he says to the couple that he's chatting with, he says, ah, welcome, welcome, welcome to the Foggy Tankard. 31:20.154 --> 31:20.594 [Riv (DM)]: How can I help you? 31:20.614 --> 31:22.898 [Riv (DM)]: Your travel is heading northern, are you? 31:23.258 --> 31:24.480 [Riv (DM)]: Or are you staying in the town for a while? 31:26.723 --> 31:27.865 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm just travelling through. 31:28.185 --> 31:31.029 [Lacer (Kai)]: Just need a room for the night for now, I suppose. 31:32.091 --> 31:35.215 [Lacer (Kai)]: Two rooms, three beds and two. 31:37.287 --> 31:38.649 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, no worries. 31:39.631 --> 31:43.717 [Riv (DM)]: Two rooms just cost you about eight silver each for each room. 31:49.225 --> 31:50.727 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, how much is that? 31:50.747 --> 31:52.009 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is that five times eight? 31:52.029 --> 31:52.590 [Lacer (Kai)]: Forty silver? 31:54.694 --> 31:56.016 [Riv (DM)]: Eight silver for each room. 31:56.056 --> 31:58.359 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, okay, right. 31:59.040 --> 32:00.663 [Riv (DM)]: But you mean like each person? 32:01.604 --> 32:02.265 [Riv (DM)]: That's quite a lot. 32:02.532 --> 32:04.515 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, that's how I heard it. 32:04.535 --> 32:06.098 [JC (Ryo)]: I was like, oh shit. 32:06.118 --> 32:09.403 [Riv (DM)]: It's a nice inn, but it's not like, yeah, it's not super aristocratic. 32:13.709 --> 32:15.071 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I'll hand over eight silver. 32:15.091 --> 32:16.674 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hold on, I'm just gonna fix my money. 32:17.796 --> 32:21.802 [Riv (DM)]: Cool, and there was gonna be two rooms there, so does someone else wanna check another eight? 32:21.822 --> 32:23.304 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, I'll toss another eight. 32:23.324 --> 32:23.625 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 32:23.645 --> 32:25.668 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'll do the numbers on stuff. 32:26.369 --> 32:27.170 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Cool. 32:27.190 --> 32:29.033 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's ten silver to a gold, isn't it? 32:30.035 --> 32:30.295 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 32:34.021 --> 32:41.214 [Riv (DM)]: He, um, as he's sort of counting out the coins and stuff, he's saying, ah, so, um, what's bringing you to the, what's bringing you to our little town then, eh? 32:42.877 --> 32:43.778 [Riv (DM)]: You here to check out the sights? 32:43.818 --> 32:46.162 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe gonna go and look down at the market tonight or something? 32:46.263 --> 32:47.024 [Riv (DM)]: It's quite nice out there. 32:48.467 --> 32:48.527 [Lacer (Kai)]: DM. 32:48.547 --> 32:49.969 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, the market's open tonight, aren't they? 32:49.989 --> 32:50.650 [Riv (DM)]: DM. 32:50.670 --> 32:51.071 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, yeah. 32:51.412 --> 32:53.716 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, yeah, it'll be, it'll be absolutely thronging, I'm sure. 32:54.657 --> 32:55.198 [Riv (DM)]: Night like tonight. 32:55.238 --> 32:55.319 [Lacer (Kai)]: DM. 32:55.339 --> 32:56.421 [Lacer (Kai)]: What's, what's, what's happening? 32:56.701 --> 32:58.965 [Lacer (Kai)]: Everyone seems really, really excited. 32:59.300 --> 33:07.950 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, gearing up for the Emberlight Vigil tomorrow night with the old solstice coming by. 33:07.971 --> 33:15.860 [Riv (DM)]: Don't know if you guys particularly observe anything but this town, oh yeah, we take it quite seriously. 33:17.903 --> 33:25.712 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ah, we might stay for another few nights maybe to see how this celebration looks exciting. 33:26.755 --> 33:27.616 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, should be a good one. 33:28.377 --> 33:31.760 [Riv (DM)]: It's been quite a quiet year this year, so, um, yeah. 33:31.780 --> 33:32.761 [Riv (DM)]: Fingers crossed it stays that way. 33:34.403 --> 33:35.084 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ah, quiet. 33:35.544 --> 33:37.426 [Lacer (Kai)]: No monsters attacking much. 33:37.646 --> 33:40.109 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're looking to do a bit of hunting. 33:41.150 --> 33:42.831 [Lacer (Kai)]: Looking for some monster work. 33:43.452 --> 33:44.093 [Riv (DM)]: Hunting, are you? 33:44.393 --> 33:45.134 [Riv (DM)]: Ah. 33:45.154 --> 33:45.594 [Riv (DM)]: Mercenaries. 33:46.315 --> 33:47.316 [Riv (DM)]: Able to explain your game. 33:47.336 --> 33:47.436 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 33:50.760 --> 33:51.160 [Riv (DM)]: Um... 33:52.540 --> 34:01.851 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, he is just sort of having this little conversation, his eyes wander over and Vael, you do see him look at you and he almost does a little double take. 34:03.353 --> 34:10.041 [Riv (DM)]: And you like kind of, you know, throughout the conversation you can see him kind of just looking up like he's trying to remember something. 34:11.023 --> 34:14.667 [Riv (DM)]: And at one point he says, ah, I remember you. 34:16.250 --> 34:18.073 [Riv (DM)]: Gosh, I never thought I'd see you around here again. 34:18.835 --> 34:19.777 [Riv (DM)]: Well, you took off last time. 34:19.797 --> 34:21.139 [Riv (DM)]: Looked like you never wanted to come back, eh? 34:22.842 --> 34:23.784 [Riv (DM)]: What happened? 34:27.831 --> 34:28.773 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: That's a good question. 34:29.334 --> 34:33.923 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'll be honest, I know I was up here at one stage, but I ain't got a whole lot of memories of it. 34:35.806 --> 34:38.511 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Whatever happened must have been really good or really bad. 34:39.149 --> 34:40.070 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, interesting. 34:41.071 --> 34:42.833 [Riv (DM)]: You did have a bit of a wild look around your eyes. 34:43.934 --> 34:45.075 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You didn't say much, honestly. 34:45.095 --> 34:49.979 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm gonna have to chat to you at some stage and wouldn't mind tracking down a bit of information on what I was doing around here. 34:50.920 --> 34:53.443 [Riv (DM)]: Wow, guys, you didn't say much. 34:54.504 --> 34:55.425 [Riv (DM)]: I'll be honest with you, friend. 34:56.766 --> 34:58.988 [Riv (DM)]: Looks like you're traveling with a bit of a different crew this time. 35:02.171 --> 35:06.355 [Riv (DM)]: None of those red cloaks? 35:06.672 --> 35:10.738 [Riv (DM)]: I didn't realize it was a, you know, job that you just step away from. 35:10.778 --> 35:13.662 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, sorry, I'm asking too many questions. 35:13.842 --> 35:14.483 [Riv (DM)]: I don't mean to pry. 35:14.803 --> 35:20.972 [Riv (DM)]: As for what you were doing, you kept to yourselves and you just, you left. 35:22.694 --> 35:24.356 [Riv (DM)]: When you came back out, you were alone? 35:25.137 --> 35:30.324 [Riv (DM)]: Just rambling, rambling about a lake or something in the woods and just needing to get home and that was it, you were gone. 35:34.090 --> 35:34.350 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Well, 35:34.921 --> 35:41.068 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Whatever incontachment I had with those red cloaks before, let's just say our paths have verged recently. 35:42.449 --> 35:43.250 [Riv (DM)]: That's good to hear, friend. 35:44.532 --> 35:45.393 [Riv (DM)]: That's good to hear. 35:48.216 --> 35:51.559 [Riv (DM)]: Bad fortune to the Empire, is my motto. 35:53.802 --> 36:00.049 [Riv (DM)]: And as he says this, you see actually a few people around the tavern just raise a mug. 36:00.069 --> 36:04.033 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, yeah. 36:04.992 --> 36:07.065 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 36:07.628 --> 36:11.391 [Riv (DM)]: At this point, you hear and the door bursts open. 36:13.177 --> 36:28.597 [Riv (DM)]: And heading in behind you, walking straight up with purpose to the counter, is a short little woman with bright pastel blue hair that's quite long, goes down past her shoulders, and matching bright blue robes. 36:28.977 --> 36:30.019 [Riv (DM)]: A dwarven girl. 36:30.459 --> 36:38.870 [Riv (DM)]: And she just walks straight up to the counter in a bit of a puff, and hears say, Tobias, just wanted to check whether you've got the delivery ready for tomorrow. 36:40.172 --> 36:41.293 [Riv (DM)]: And he's just like, what? 36:41.560 --> 36:43.063 [Riv (DM)]: Calm down, calm down, Miss Bubblegum. 36:43.103 --> 36:45.808 [Riv (DM)]: Of course, you don't need to be wearing that little nose off your face. 36:46.049 --> 36:47.251 [Riv (DM)]: We'll get it to you first thing in the morning. 36:47.852 --> 36:50.096 [Riv (DM)]: She's like, it's very important. 36:50.517 --> 36:51.920 [Riv (DM)]: You know, I can't be missing out on that. 36:52.160 --> 36:53.903 [Riv (DM)]: He's like, of course, it's all right. 36:53.984 --> 36:54.565 [Riv (DM)]: It's all right, dear. 36:54.905 --> 36:55.567 [Riv (DM)]: We'll get it to you. 36:57.029 --> 36:58.973 [Riv (DM)]: She's like, all right. 36:59.795 --> 37:00.215 [Riv (DM)]: You sure? 37:00.255 --> 37:02.059 [Riv (DM)]: He's like, positive. 37:02.440 --> 37:03.341 [Riv (DM)]: Positive, Miss Bubblegum. 37:03.381 --> 37:04.243 [Riv (DM)]: No worries. 37:05.557 --> 37:07.063 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 37:07.866 --> 37:08.910 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I'll see you tomorrow morning then. 37:09.211 --> 37:11.420 [Riv (DM)]: And she turns and whizzes on straight back out. 37:12.383 --> 37:12.484 [Riv (DM)]: Pfft. 37:12.504 --> 37:13.367 [Riv (DM)]: Kicks the door open again. 37:13.427 --> 37:14.672 [Riv (DM)]: And she's gone. 37:16.357 --> 37:19.021 [Lacer (Kai)]: I nudge Dondar. 37:20.983 --> 37:34.241 [Riv (DM)]: Well it's interesting, I won't even ask for a perception check because as very clearly obvious, when she turned to head back out, she kind of faced you and just nodded a little bit politely as she went back out. 37:34.722 --> 37:39.148 [Riv (DM)]: And emblazoned in the middle of her forehead is a symbol very similar to Dondar's. 37:40.269 --> 37:43.714 [Riv (DM)]: A silver one. 37:43.812 --> 37:44.854 [Riv (DM)]: Why? 37:44.954 --> 37:46.418 [Riv (DM)]: Different design. 37:46.999 --> 37:54.235 [Riv (DM)]: And she just sort of races on out behind you, back out through the door. 37:55.638 --> 37:57.341 [Riv (DM)]: The barkeeper just sort of chuckles. 37:59.807 --> 38:00.789 [Riv (DM)]: That's a wily one, that one. 38:02.432 --> 38:04.116 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Dondar raises eyebrows. 38:04.838 --> 38:06.922 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: And it says Bubblegum, questioning it. 38:07.623 --> 38:08.865 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, Belinda Bubblegum. 38:09.787 --> 38:13.733 [Riv (DM)]: She turned up in our town about a month or so back, actually. 38:15.356 --> 38:20.265 [Riv (DM)]: She's a delightful little thing, but, I don't know, a bit energetic, potentially, for my taste. 38:20.305 --> 38:24.231 [Riv (DM)]: But she's been quite wonderful, actually, helping the townsfolk with all sorts of things. 38:24.592 --> 38:29.260 [Riv (DM)]: I think she was attracted by all the... 38:29.240 --> 38:31.543 [Riv (DM)]: Exotic materials that we gather from the woods. 38:31.624 --> 38:34.328 [Riv (DM)]: She's somewhat of a craftsman. 38:35.049 --> 38:36.972 [Riv (DM)]: She makes little magical trinkets and stuff like that. 38:37.573 --> 38:40.797 [Riv (DM)]: Actually, look, she gave me this a couple of weeks ago on my birthday. 38:41.338 --> 38:47.147 [Riv (DM)]: And he gestures over to a mug that, you know, is just sitting beside a sink and it's sort of dripping with water. 38:47.568 --> 38:51.754 [Riv (DM)]: He grabs a tea towel and just like drops the tea towel on top of the mug. 38:51.734 --> 39:02.048 [Riv (DM)]: And the tea towel immediately like on its own just wraps up the mug, starts drying it, like turning it over and then neatly folds itself back into a cute little pile and the mug is just sitting there perfectly dry. 39:02.548 --> 39:04.371 [Riv (DM)]: He's like, look, look at that. 39:05.112 --> 39:06.193 [Riv (DM)]: Can't complain about that, can you? 39:07.415 --> 39:08.156 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, you can't. 39:08.316 --> 39:09.237 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's pretty handy. 39:09.578 --> 39:12.181 [Lacer (Kai)]: Imagine you had like a hundred of those. 39:13.483 --> 39:14.464 [Riv (DM)]: Could make a whole operation. 39:16.908 --> 39:18.149 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe I have to ask about that actually. 39:18.590 --> 39:18.670 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 39:22.733 --> 39:29.722 [Riv (DM)]: She's renting a building, I think, just down on Eleanor's Lane, just opposite the old workshop. 39:30.823 --> 39:31.624 [Riv (DM)]: Can't miss it, to be honest. 39:32.265 --> 39:33.807 [Riv (DM)]: You'll see if you head that way. 39:36.390 --> 39:37.311 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Alright. 39:37.531 --> 39:40.455 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: She's dropping something off for her, I guess. 39:41.336 --> 39:42.958 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, she's a bit of an odd request. 39:43.759 --> 39:46.642 [Riv (DM)]: She wanted a couple of crates of hop seeds. 39:47.884 --> 39:50.547 [Riv (DM)]: Honestly, didn't even ask, but... 39:51.269 --> 39:52.230 [Riv (DM)]: I can arrange it. 39:52.250 --> 39:54.893 [Riv (DM)]: I've got a few farmer friends that have got some stores. 39:55.173 --> 39:57.295 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, we're arranging it to get to her tomorrow. 39:58.977 --> 40:06.064 [Riv (DM)]: I think just based on what she's been saying, she's got something brewing tomorrow night. 40:09.847 --> 40:16.774 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Well, if she's a craftsman of the magical kind, we might want to have a chat tomorrow. 40:17.655 --> 40:19.757 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We could always drop it off for you while we're heading that way. 40:21.374 --> 40:23.920 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, it's not coming from here. 40:23.940 --> 40:25.002 [Riv (DM)]: It'll be quite heavy. 40:25.022 --> 40:26.145 [Riv (DM)]: I've got a cart coming. 40:26.525 --> 40:27.407 [Riv (DM)]: Don't you worry about that. 40:28.570 --> 40:29.211 [Riv (DM)]: Fair enough, fair enough. 40:31.958 --> 40:32.980 [Lacer (Kai)]: So, about work. 40:33.260 --> 40:41.138 [Lacer (Kai)]: If we were to leave tomorrow, where might we go to get some work for beast hunting? 40:41.860 --> 40:44.423 [Riv (DM)]: You know, I don't know about work. 40:44.483 --> 40:48.789 [Riv (DM)]: You could potentially go and chat to the Vanguard. 40:49.290 --> 40:56.459 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know if they would necessarily just give you work as they tend to want to, you know, do it themselves. 40:56.599 --> 40:59.883 [Riv (DM)]: But it's a, you know, the woods, they're there. 40:59.963 --> 41:03.408 [Riv (DM)]: You can go and take whatever you want if you can make it back alive. 41:03.708 --> 41:08.374 [Riv (DM)]: And the market will certainly be a good place for you to sell any wares that you do manage to bring back. 41:09.434 --> 41:11.356 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ah, so it's like a free-for-all. 41:11.396 --> 41:14.219 [Lacer (Kai)]: You just walk out, kill something, and bring it back. 41:15.241 --> 41:18.704 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, a lot of people try and a lot of them don't come back. 41:19.345 --> 41:20.346 [Riv (DM)]: So you're welcome to. 41:20.366 --> 41:21.147 [Riv (DM)]: We won't be stopping you. 41:22.809 --> 41:23.790 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, good to know. 41:24.110 --> 41:32.660 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Is there anything we shouldn't be killing? 41:32.680 --> 41:33.581 [Riv (DM)]: Leave that to you to figure out. 41:34.662 --> 41:37.045 [Riv (DM)]: Personally, I haven't ventured a foot out in that woods. 41:41.260 --> 41:48.713 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I imagine with this much material flying around, there's probably a few crafters in town that specialize in more exotic equipment. 41:50.315 --> 41:51.898 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, there's a good apothecary here. 41:52.359 --> 41:56.486 [Riv (DM)]: And you'll be able to get all sorts from them. 41:56.546 --> 41:59.691 [Riv (DM)]: So that's also down on Elinor's lane. 42:01.139 --> 42:02.841 [Riv (DM)]: We've got a blacksmith. 42:03.302 --> 42:04.604 [Riv (DM)]: He's pretty good. 42:04.624 --> 42:07.528 [Riv (DM)]: He's been with us for a couple of decades, I think. 42:08.690 --> 42:09.030 [Riv (DM)]: Solid. 42:09.431 --> 42:13.056 [Riv (DM)]: Absolutely solid materials from there. 42:16.060 --> 42:24.092 [Riv (DM)]: Other than that, I guess Belinda's probably the main actual craftsman that we have. 42:24.848 --> 42:28.172 [Riv (DM)]: We don't tend to get people coming here to do the crafting. 42:28.192 --> 42:32.057 [Riv (DM)]: More often we have people just coming to buy and then move onwards. 42:35.040 --> 42:36.682 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: That's it. 42:36.702 --> 42:41.888 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'll have to mention this to our friends down at Fur and Fang in Miriel, though they probably know all about it. 42:44.411 --> 42:44.932 [Riv (DM)]: Fur and Fang. 42:45.052 --> 42:48.756 [Riv (DM)]: I can't say I've heard of them, but it's possible they do. 42:48.937 --> 42:49.898 [Riv (DM)]: We are renowned. 42:53.222 --> 42:54.383 [Riv (DM)]: JC. 42:54.852 --> 42:56.274 [Riv (DM)]: You're looking around. 42:56.314 --> 43:00.558 [Riv (DM)]: There is a waitress working tonight. 43:02.000 --> 43:04.002 [Riv (DM)]: Little halfling, I believe. 43:07.806 --> 43:12.711 [Riv (DM)]: She's currently just over serving one of the drinks at one of the back tables. 43:12.731 --> 43:15.895 [Riv (DM)]: There's a couple of people there who've got just like a stack of candles now. 43:16.555 --> 43:19.138 [Riv (DM)]: And she's dropping off a couple of mugs and she's heading back in this direction. 43:25.413 --> 43:33.041 [JC (Ryo)]: All good, I was just looking around. 43:33.061 --> 43:33.141 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 43:33.161 --> 43:52.500 [Riv (DM)]: Well, um, the guy, uh, says, um, my name's Tobias, by the way, um, and, yeah, I guess, if you do plan on staying for the vigil tomorrow night, you're most welcome to keep the room till then, and, um, if you do end up going out into the woods, well, best of luck to you, but, yeah. 43:55.163 --> 43:56.786 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We'll play up front before we do. 43:59.190 --> 43:59.750 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Like what you think. 44:03.717 --> 44:03.897 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 44:03.997 --> 44:04.899 [Riv (DM)]: Anyway, don't let me keep you. 44:04.959 --> 44:07.643 [Riv (DM)]: Please, head out into the town, explore. 44:08.845 --> 44:12.291 [Riv (DM)]: Or yeah, go and chat with the local guys down in the market. 44:12.491 --> 44:13.513 [Riv (DM)]: Go and see the sights. 44:14.054 --> 44:17.099 [Riv (DM)]: It's good to go and wander around the spire itself. 44:17.119 --> 44:19.703 [Riv (DM)]: It's absolutely beautiful, especially this time of year. 44:24.188 --> 44:27.032 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is the Ember Spire off limits? 44:27.112 --> 44:27.954 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can we walk up it? 44:28.174 --> 44:30.598 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or is it out of bounds? 44:31.559 --> 44:40.432 [Riv (DM)]: Well, you'll see when you go down, it's being smacked in the middle of the market, so you can walk all the way around it, but yeah, they probably won't let you get inside. 44:41.934 --> 44:42.495 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ah, okay. 44:42.956 --> 44:46.060 [Lacer (Kai)]: Cool. 44:46.080 --> 44:53.892 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, I'll take the keys off the bench for one room, and shall we go explore? 44:56.791 --> 45:02.720 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I've got to lean over to him and say, you weren't a real big fan of the Imperials, I gathered. 45:03.120 --> 45:05.924 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I hear about a bit of a stir going on up north. 45:07.386 --> 45:10.250 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You had many passing through in that sort of general area recently? 45:11.452 --> 45:18.723 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, they don't stop here very much, but often we see just supply trains, just regiments of soldiers. 45:19.324 --> 45:21.607 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, doesn't look like good business. 45:21.727 --> 45:25.853 [Riv (DM)]: We keep to ourselves down here in Lighthaven, but yeah. 45:27.200 --> 45:31.324 [Riv (DM)]: Certainly sounds like it's a bit of a melting pot, especially this time of year. 45:32.205 --> 45:37.170 [Riv (DM)]: With the ice bridge and all, I imagine that they're able to just get straight across over into the island. 45:39.272 --> 45:41.774 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I wonder what the locals are doing up there. 45:41.794 --> 45:47.880 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You would think they'd have a lot of trappers out there that know the ice and be able to interfere, but what do I know? 45:49.482 --> 45:50.463 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, it's very possible. 45:50.743 --> 45:54.827 [Riv (DM)]: Are you very familiar with the northern area? 45:56.461 --> 46:03.976 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Vaguely, it doesn't take a rocket scientist, it doesn't take a, what would be the equivalent of a rocket scientist? 46:04.717 --> 46:06.160 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: A wizard, a wizard. 46:06.521 --> 46:11.731 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It doesn't take a wizard to have a look at the map and wonder what's going on out there. 46:12.012 --> 46:12.192 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 46:12.863 --> 46:26.903 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, well, if you know of Point Blackrock, it's the old staging area where the merchants and so on would stack up all their supplies ready for winter so they could cross it over and sell it in Val Noren. 46:27.384 --> 46:39.040 [Riv (DM)]: It ended up more or less becoming a permanent town because there were so many people who were just waiting there during the summers, waiting for the ice to cover over. 46:39.020 --> 46:51.232 [Riv (DM)]: Potentially, yeah, you might want to chat there if there's anyone looking to harass the Empire, but I can't imagine that, you know, the Empire hasn't clamped down on that area. 46:51.252 --> 46:52.893 [Riv (DM)]: It's kind of the ideal staging area. 46:54.515 --> 46:54.675 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: DM. 46:54.695 --> 47:00.181 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Alright, well, I don't know if you heard the news from Val Miriel, but it turns out sometimes clamping down just makes things flare up bigger. 47:01.502 --> 47:01.562 [Riv (DM)]: DM. 47:01.582 --> 47:02.343 [Riv (DM)]: I'm not surprised. 47:03.123 --> 47:05.606 [Riv (DM)]: It's about time someone kicked off a fuss, if you ask me. 47:06.687 --> 47:07.828 [Riv (DM)]: Just needs someone strong enough. 47:09.783 --> 47:11.266 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Who knows, who knows. 47:12.788 --> 47:18.519 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Speaking of, what's the opinion of the Empire around here? 47:18.599 --> 47:23.708 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I notice they've got a base in town, but I imagine it must get a little bit grating with the dusties. 47:24.700 --> 47:26.182 [Riv (DM)]: Oh yeah, got no time for them. 47:26.903 --> 47:29.806 [Riv (DM)]: I'm surprised that they haven't even been kicked out already, to be honest. 47:31.068 --> 47:33.811 [Riv (DM)]: God, that captain, he's a bright arsehole, if you ask me. 47:34.352 --> 47:41.341 [Riv (DM)]: His arm is always far too clean, and doesn't look like he's done a day of honest work in his life, but... Ah, we stick to ourselves. 47:42.322 --> 47:45.906 [Riv (DM)]: As far as I'm concerned, the Wardens, they are our true guards. 47:48.089 --> 47:48.750 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Fair enough, fair enough. 47:51.683 --> 47:58.045 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'll just tip me up to him and say, well, we should go check out this market. 47:58.065 --> 47:58.928 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, all the best. 47:59.450 --> 47:59.550 Yeah. 48:01.640 --> 48:02.901 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, you can head out. 48:05.124 --> 48:09.649 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so at this point it's kind of getting dusky, dusky light out there. 48:10.831 --> 48:17.018 [Riv (DM)]: See a few more lights starting to crop up around the city as some hanging lanterns and whatnot are lit. 48:17.979 --> 48:18.720 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you can head down. 48:18.820 --> 48:20.662 [Riv (DM)]: Where would you like to head to first? 48:21.323 --> 48:26.128 [Riv (DM)]: You kind of, well Rio will know where to go, but you kind of got the idea that 48:26.108 --> 48:36.137 [Riv (DM)]: You can just bank straight through the town to get to the Spire, you can see it, you can get straight there, or if you want to go and stop in along some of the shops you can head off down to some of the other southern streets. 48:38.840 --> 48:48.529 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, as we get outside I go, sorry guys, I'm not gonna, I know it's been, it's been like what, three, two, three months since I've been captured? 48:49.830 --> 48:50.931 [JC (Ryo)]: Yep. 48:50.951 --> 48:54.394 [JC (Ryo)]: Looks like about, it got on off the calendar, it looks like it's been about two months since, um, 48:54.914 --> 48:59.240 [JC (Ryo)]: Someone just light a lightsaber? 48:59.440 --> 49:01.202 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, that's my phone. 49:01.443 --> 49:02.884 [Unmatched Speaker]: That's my phone. 49:03.165 --> 49:05.147 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah, that's my phone, sorry. 49:05.167 --> 49:07.090 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Holy shit, Seth going down. 49:07.290 --> 49:08.051 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Arcane magic. 49:10.715 --> 49:18.184 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yes, and as we're leaving the inn, do I notice anyone trailing us or looking at us as we leave? 49:19.586 --> 49:20.247 [Lacer (Kai)]: Perception check. 49:27.803 --> 49:28.204 [Unmatched Speaker]: You do not. 49:30.127 --> 49:32.510 [Lacer (Kai)]: No. 49:32.530 --> 49:34.614 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: He does not notice them, or they're not there? 49:34.634 --> 49:36.496 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't notice. 49:36.537 --> 49:37.438 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't notice anyone. 49:38.139 --> 49:46.051 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Head on out and we'll... Once we get outside, make sure no one... 49:48.856 --> 49:52.341 [JC (Ryo)]: I just go, sorry guys, I don't know if they're going to recognize my voice. 49:52.401 --> 49:56.207 [JC (Ryo)]: It's been a couple of months, but still, I don't really want to do much talking if I can help it. 49:58.330 --> 49:59.892 [JC (Ryo)]: Especially around that waitress. 49:59.912 --> 50:01.534 [JC (Ryo)]: She hears fucking everything. 50:04.237 --> 50:05.859 [Lacer (Kai)]: She reminds me of Prax Shea. 50:09.424 --> 50:12.588 [JC (Ryo)]: Seriously, it's like she's got ears under each table. 50:15.291 --> 50:15.992 [Lacer (Kai)]: You know Prax? 50:16.232 --> 50:19.296 [Lacer (Kai)]: She was the nice girl with the Mawbreakers. 50:20.237 --> 50:21.459 [Lacer (Kai)]: But she's not with us anymore. 50:24.883 --> 50:25.063 [Lacer (Kai)]: Vaguely. 50:28.199 --> 50:34.850 [Lacer (Kai)]: She was the um the what's it called halfling girl that was lookout on the boat. 50:35.571 --> 50:35.811 Yeah. 50:39.958 --> 50:42.202 [Riv (DM)]: Spent all the time up in the crow's nest keeping a lookout. 50:43.984 --> 50:48.251 [Lacer (Kai)]: Anyway let's let's check out this um this night market. 50:49.634 --> 50:52.999 [JC (Ryo)]: I also didn't know this market was open. 50:53.019 --> 50:54.281 [JC (Ryo)]: I never was here at night. 50:54.381 --> 50:55.523 [JC (Ryo)]: I always left in the afternoon. 50:57.410 --> 50:58.293 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: That's not good. 50:58.815 --> 51:00.863 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Might just be a special thing for the holiday. 51:02.449 --> 51:02.590 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 51:03.032 --> 51:06.525 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I knew of the holiday, I just didn't know that the market was open at night. 51:08.243 --> 51:12.787 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah so you guys would know this as you have lived in this world for some time. 51:14.049 --> 51:20.495 [Riv (DM)]: Today is the 14th of the month of the second month of winter and tomorrow is the 15th and it will be the winter solstice. 51:22.236 --> 51:32.566 [Riv (DM)]: The start of the new year so tomorrow will literally be the first day of the next year and both moons will be bright full in the sky tonight and yeah. 51:33.727 --> 51:34.268 [Riv (DM)]: Dangerous. 51:36.205 --> 51:40.610 [Riv (DM)]: It's always a kind of a special time on this continent. 51:42.272 --> 51:42.893 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, cool. 51:43.013 --> 51:51.784 [Riv (DM)]: As we're going to go start exploring through the town, do you want to make a beeline straight for the market or do you want to do sort of a loop and check out some of the shops on the way or do them on the way back? 51:54.928 --> 51:56.129 [Lacer (Kai)]: I mean, we've got time to burn. 51:56.149 --> 52:00.855 [Lacer (Kai)]: We can go low and slow and explore a big loop and take our time. 52:01.916 --> 52:02.577 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's only what? 52:02.777 --> 52:04.119 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is it late afternoon, right? 52:04.419 --> 52:04.980 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or is it like? 52:05.348 --> 52:06.509 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hmm, probably early evening. 52:06.529 --> 52:07.550 [Lacer (Kai)]: Early, early, early evening. 52:14.117 --> 52:14.237 [Unmatched Speaker]: Yep. 52:14.257 --> 52:35.119 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: As we're wandering, leaning towards the group so people can't overhear us as we're going, the general feeling I got there up here is, um, I'm not a big fan of the Imperials up here, so, whoever sold, um, our friend here out probably doesn't really follow the, uh, the local trends. 52:36.719 --> 52:38.541 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, they just really hate tall people. 52:40.743 --> 52:42.025 [Lacer (Kai)]: They might have a rat. 52:42.045 --> 52:43.887 [Lacer (Kai)]: There's a rat living amongst them. 52:44.908 --> 52:46.430 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's possible. 52:46.450 --> 52:51.115 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Just to rule out the obvious, there was no one in particular that you had a beef with. 52:51.635 --> 53:01.326 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Someone jealous of, you know, hunting capabilities, or springings, or someone you looked at funny, jilted lover. 53:02.723 --> 53:09.089 [JC (Ryo)]: No, no, I literally would just come in just to get some tools repaired and to sell the bits and pieces I found. 53:10.110 --> 53:12.633 [JC (Ryo)]: I would not talk to any- I didn't talk to anybody. 53:13.594 --> 53:20.841 [JC (Ryo)]: As we're walking, can I do a full, like, hair on a swivel just making sure no one's following us or nothing? 53:20.861 --> 53:23.123 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, absolutely, yep. 53:23.143 --> 53:25.846 [Riv (DM)]: Your passive perception I'm keeping an eye on and you're good for now. 53:27.648 --> 53:28.749 [Riv (DM)]: Did you want to roll a perception check? 53:29.470 --> 53:29.670 [Riv (DM)]: Yes. 53:30.130 --> 53:30.891 [Riv (DM)]: Alright man, go for it. 53:36.237 --> 53:36.718 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 53:36.738 --> 53:38.179 [Riv (DM)]: You don't see anyone actively following you. 53:38.380 --> 53:47.150 [Riv (DM)]: A few glances as a strange new group of people are wandering through the streets, but nothing that looks, you know, like someone is too interested in you. 53:50.033 --> 53:55.360 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, again, these guys hate the Imperials. 53:55.480 --> 53:55.980 [JC (Ryo)]: I don't. 53:57.182 --> 54:02.648 [JC (Ryo)]: I think I got turned in for the other thing, not because of the Imperial thing. 54:02.668 --> 54:05.772 [JC (Ryo)]: I don't think I upset anyone. 54:07.237 --> 54:18.674 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Maybe I don't know enough about the world, but I can't imagine that hatred of elves is like a racial built-in thing. 54:18.694 --> 54:23.962 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I thought it would just be cute to empire edicts more than anything, wouldn't it? 54:25.684 --> 54:30.932 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Do people hate elves as a matter of course, or is it just because the Empire says bad things about elves? 54:33.190 --> 54:41.906 [Riv (DM)]: Your character probably wouldn't have a clue, to be honest, but I would say there isn't necessarily just a racial hatred towards elves in general, no. 54:42.407 --> 54:48.137 [Riv (DM)]: There are plenty of half-elves around as well that seem to get by just fine. 54:48.818 --> 54:53.747 [Riv (DM)]: You've kind of gathered, I think, that the main reason why 54:54.082 --> 55:03.355 [Riv (DM)]: There is this weird thing going on with Full-Blooded Elves is that they're sort of one of the last parts of the continent that weren't conquered, right, by the Empire because they just vanished. 55:03.495 --> 55:04.577 [Riv (DM)]: They up and vanished. 55:04.597 --> 55:10.044 [Riv (DM)]: And so the Empire has probably been keeping an eye out to try and find any Elves to get as much information as they can, essentially. 55:13.309 --> 55:13.710 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yep, you're correct. 55:13.990 --> 55:14.951 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, that's interesting. 55:16.113 --> 55:20.018 [Lacer (Kai)]: So that Halfling girl, why were you so interested in her, Rio? 55:20.459 --> 55:24.004 [Lacer (Kai)]: She seemed to be, like, piquing your suspicion a fair bit. 55:25.216 --> 55:36.974 [JC (Ryo)]: No, it's more that we just don't say anything near her, because even if she's just in the general vicinity, she just seems to have, like, she hears everything. 55:36.994 --> 55:37.414 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, okay. 55:37.515 --> 55:45.246 [JC (Ryo)]: I was in there once, and I just mumbled something under my breath, and she was at the other side of the room, and she came over and talked to me about what I said. 55:46.448 --> 55:51.435 [JC (Ryo)]: Like, there's no way anyone could have heard that, but she, like, hears everything. 55:51.856 --> 55:52.177 [Lacer (Kai)]: Right. 55:52.197 --> 55:52.297 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 55:52.677 --> 55:54.480 [Lacer (Kai)]: So she got really good ears. 55:56.317 --> 55:56.778 [Lacer (Kai)]: Mm-hmm. 55:57.319 --> 55:58.341 [JC (Ryo)]: That's what it feels like. 55:58.361 --> 55:59.163 [JC (Ryo)]: She just heard it. 56:00.105 --> 56:00.345 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. 56:00.666 --> 56:05.095 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, just try not to say too much if you see her nearby. 56:05.115 --> 56:07.480 [JC (Ryo)]: I don't know why she's hearing. 56:07.641 --> 56:07.861 [Lacer (Kai)]: No. 56:08.903 --> 56:09.445 [Lacer (Kai)]: No. 56:09.465 --> 56:10.647 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll keep that noted. 56:12.635 --> 56:20.004 [Riv (DM)]: You're kind of walking and talking at this point, and you turn down the street that... Eleanor's Way, I think it was, or Eleanor's Lane. 56:20.304 --> 56:20.485 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 56:21.326 --> 56:23.128 [Riv (DM)]: And there are a few houses down here. 56:23.468 --> 56:26.232 [Riv (DM)]: You can see a couple of people going, you know, walking down. 56:26.692 --> 56:32.540 [Riv (DM)]: You know, got their cloaks up, their hoods up, just to kind of get a bit of warmth from the cold. 56:33.921 --> 56:37.005 [Riv (DM)]: So, there are a number of shops along the street. 56:36.985 --> 56:41.237 [Riv (DM)]: More permanent ones, unlike the pop-up ones over in the market. 56:43.242 --> 56:44.847 [Riv (DM)]: Which one would you like to stop at first? 56:45.268 --> 56:52.648 [Riv (DM)]: I guess as you're starting down the street, I will point out that the very, very obvious sort of first thing that you'll see is a 56:52.628 --> 56:58.962 [Riv (DM)]: Kind of normal looking home, like just the sort of place that someone would live in, except it looks like it's been modified somewhat. 56:59.503 --> 57:09.726 [Riv (DM)]: Just along above the main door, you can see in bright pink letters, just sprawling across in like a curve, it says Belinda's Chest. 57:09.706 --> 57:31.900 [Riv (DM)]: Um just like it's a bit of a contrast to the kind of more somber buildings around um and there are these um painted circles again in like different pastel colors like there's a blues and greens and pinks and yellows and stuff like that kind of these big circles of like a hole in the middle of them and as you get a bit closer and you kind of see there are these little balls 57:32.352 --> 57:58.495 [Riv (DM)]: Metal balls that are just rolling up and down the the wall itself just going up and around just tracing like little patterns like almost like uh little race cars trying to drive around um and every time it intersects with one of these circles there's like a puff of sparks that just or like a um you know confetti or something just just like pops out of the wall and just kind of sprinkles down to the ground and then fades away to nothing um yeah 57:59.133 --> 58:05.560 [Riv (DM)]: And then, you know, further ahead you can see there's what looks like a more kind of sturdy woodworking shop. 58:06.081 --> 58:09.705 [Riv (DM)]: You can see a classic telltale sign of the blacksmith further on down the lane. 58:12.828 --> 58:14.831 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can I touch one of those balls on the wall? 58:15.852 --> 58:17.374 [Riv (DM)]: Yep, yeah, you touch it and nothing happens. 58:18.375 --> 58:18.575 [Lacer (Kai)]: Aww. 58:18.595 --> 58:21.679 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know this shop. 58:23.541 --> 58:25.663 [Lacer (Kai)]: I just nudge Dondar again. 58:28.327 --> 58:35.996 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, Belinda is new to town, so... You probably shouldn't know this one. 58:39.380 --> 58:49.031 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean, if this is the road that Ryu would know it is, I know that there's the carpenters on this road, the blacksmiths a bit further down. 58:49.091 --> 58:54.317 [JC (Ryo)]: There's that shop I told you about, Kai's, down this road as well. 58:55.597 --> 58:56.239 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh yeah. 58:56.259 --> 58:58.987 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, this shop, this shop, this must be new. 59:00.070 --> 59:01.675 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is Belinda's chest open? 59:02.216 --> 59:04.001 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is there a sign up? 59:04.222 --> 59:05.205 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or is it closed? 59:07.271 --> 59:10.500 [Riv (DM)]: The door is closed, but as you get a bit closer, roll a possession check. 59:20.082 --> 59:23.486 [Riv (DM)]: Wow, yeah, you've got a good perception. 59:23.767 --> 59:29.934 [Riv (DM)]: You can hear commotions going on inside, like, you know, bits of steel clanging, book dropping on the ground. 59:29.954 --> 59:32.077 [Riv (DM)]: You hear the odd, like, curse from a woman. 59:36.643 --> 59:39.727 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is there a close sign on the door? 59:40.447 --> 59:45.394 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, there's not. 59:45.434 --> 59:45.954 [Lacer (Kai)]: I look back. 59:46.395 --> 59:48.958 [Lacer (Kai)]: You guys want to go in, or leave it for tomorrow? 59:51.082 --> 59:54.065 [Riv (DM)]: Might as well do it. 59:54.085 --> 59:54.686 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 59:54.706 --> 59:55.767 [Lacer (Kai)]: After you, Dondar. 59:55.787 --> 59:56.368 [Lacer (Kai)]: After you. 59:59.251 --> 01:00:01.614 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Dondar pushes in the shot. 01:00:02.034 --> 01:00:02.395 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 01:00:02.415 --> 01:00:16.190 [Riv (DM)]: And inside, um, is, you, I mean, it's like, it's like a living area where, you know, you would expect, um, there to be like a dining table and couches or whatever. 01:00:16.530 --> 01:00:18.793 [Riv (DM)]: Um, there's like a simple, uh, 01:00:18.773 --> 01:00:26.389 [Riv (DM)]: Kitchen, it's all like a sink and whatnot, but it's all been sort of modified to look like a temporary place where you might be able to buy stuff. 01:00:26.409 --> 01:00:30.938 [Riv (DM)]: There are all sorts of just like random items sort of sprawling, stacked up across some of the shelves. 01:00:32.000 --> 01:00:34.505 [Riv (DM)]: There's like a nice sort of rug that's been just sort of thrown on the ground. 01:00:35.207 --> 01:00:40.377 [Riv (DM)]: And yeah, there's paintings hanging from the wall, some of them a bit crooked. 01:00:40.357 --> 01:00:44.343 [Riv (DM)]: There are pots and jars, there are vials of liquids along some of the shelves. 01:00:44.784 --> 01:00:51.414 [Riv (DM)]: And you don't see the dwarf, but you do hear in the back room just heaps of commotion. 01:00:51.795 --> 01:00:57.083 [Riv (DM)]: Again, just more banging and cursing. 01:01:02.412 --> 01:01:08.181 [Riv (DM)]: And sorry, I should say, yeah, sorry, sorry, one more thing. 01:01:08.242 --> 01:01:15.594 [Riv (DM)]: Just as you walk in, you hear a really, really sharp voice directly above you that just says, VISITOR! 01:01:16.295 --> 01:01:19.901 [Riv (DM)]: And you look up and there's like a little stone bird that's sitting on the door. 01:01:20.461 --> 01:01:23.927 [Riv (DM)]: It's just all like perched there and it just like squawks as soon as you walked in. 01:01:25.850 --> 01:01:26.952 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: What did it squawk? 01:01:27.640 --> 01:01:28.542 [Riv (DM)]: I'm not going to do that again. 01:01:28.582 --> 01:01:30.967 [Riv (DM)]: You can watch the VOD. 01:01:31.427 --> 01:01:34.373 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: It peaked your mic, I think, so we couldn't really hear it. 01:01:34.393 --> 01:01:37.720 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, it was so high that I was like, it sounded like . 01:01:37.800 --> 01:01:40.124 [Riv (DM)]: I think you should just call it Visitor. 01:01:40.505 --> 01:01:40.946 [Riv (DM)]: Visitor. 01:01:42.088 --> 01:01:43.451 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, okay. 01:01:44.473 --> 01:01:48.962 [Riv (DM)]: And you hear the banging and pots clanging and stuff like that. 01:01:48.982 --> 01:01:50.104 [Riv (DM)]: Just pause for a second. 01:01:51.468 --> 01:01:57.055 [Riv (DM)]: And then you hear footsie and the door opens and out walks the same dwarven woman again. 01:01:57.495 --> 01:02:01.600 [Riv (DM)]: This time, who here in her robes are pink. 01:02:01.620 --> 01:02:02.521 [Riv (DM)]: Bright pastel pink. 01:02:04.283 --> 01:02:06.486 [Riv (DM)]: But still same, other than that, looks exactly the same. 01:02:06.546 --> 01:02:11.933 [Riv (DM)]: Long wavy hair just down past her shoulders and she walks out and says, You guys again. 01:02:12.453 --> 01:02:13.675 [Riv (DM)]: What can I do to help you? 01:02:13.775 --> 01:02:14.896 [Riv (DM)]: I'm a bit busy at the moment. 01:02:18.681 --> 01:02:20.563 [Lacer (Kai)]: I would like to decant 01:02:21.067 --> 01:02:29.516 [Lacer (Kai)]: Like a cup's worth of water out of my endless water decanter and float it above Dondar's head and make it pink. 01:02:29.536 --> 01:02:32.840 [Lacer (Kai)]: Like a pink orb of water floating around Dondar's head above him. 01:02:33.480 --> 01:02:33.540 [Riv (DM)]: DM. 01:02:33.560 --> 01:02:35.242 [Riv (DM)]: With your shape water cantrip? 01:02:35.302 --> 01:02:35.422 [Lacer (Kai)]: DM. 01:02:35.522 --> 01:02:37.605 [Unmatched Speaker]: With my shape water. 01:02:37.785 --> 01:02:37.905 [Riv (DM)]: DM. 01:02:37.925 --> 01:02:39.487 [Riv (DM)]: She looks at you and she just like claps. 01:02:39.587 --> 01:02:41.108 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, that's very beautiful. 01:02:41.329 --> 01:02:42.129 [Riv (DM)]: Let me have a look at that. 01:02:42.149 --> 01:02:44.392 [Riv (DM)]: And she comes over and grabs the water. 01:02:44.412 --> 01:02:45.733 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, it's an endless water. 01:02:45.833 --> 01:02:46.414 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, very clever. 01:02:46.454 --> 01:02:47.475 [Riv (DM)]: Where'd you pick up that guy then? 01:02:48.176 --> 01:02:49.217 [Riv (DM)]: I think I've got one of those. 01:02:50.412 --> 01:02:54.344 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm back down in a city, a city named Camaar. 01:02:55.528 --> 01:02:56.731 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, Camaar, very nice, very nice. 01:02:56.892 --> 01:02:57.614 [Riv (DM)]: I haven't been there myself. 01:02:58.356 --> 01:02:58.858 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, excellent. 01:02:59.479 --> 01:03:02.970 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, well, if you've got any other magical trinkets, love to see them. 01:03:06.241 --> 01:03:12.530 [Lacer (Kai)]: Not on me but I think other people might have some stuff and I just keep floating in the water around Dondar's head. 01:03:14.293 --> 01:03:25.129 [Riv (DM)]: Up close now Dondar you can see, she's beautiful by the way, and now you can see like she's got sort of nice dark eyeshadow and eyeliner on, a little bit of pink blush on her cheeks. 01:03:26.370 --> 01:03:31.658 [Riv (DM)]: The symbol on her forehead is the symbol of the school of artifice. 01:03:31.638 --> 01:03:36.083 [Riv (DM)]: Um, from the, yeah, from the Academy back at Glimmerforge. 01:03:40.389 --> 01:03:48.839 [Riv (DM)]: Known for the, um, you know, the artificers there are the ones that create their magical items as opposed to channel arcane energy. 01:03:56.188 --> 01:04:00.413 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Uh, Dondar says I, um, think we have a, um, 01:04:01.473 --> 01:04:02.094 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Amulet. 01:04:04.497 --> 01:04:05.559 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I can talk to spiders. 01:04:07.862 --> 01:04:08.703 [Riv (DM)]: Well, that's new. 01:04:10.645 --> 01:04:11.587 [Riv (DM)]: Have you tried it out yet? 01:04:12.288 --> 01:04:13.029 [Riv (DM)]: Does it work very well? 01:04:14.971 --> 01:04:15.332 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Not yet. 01:04:16.133 --> 01:04:16.553 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Not yet. 01:04:18.356 --> 01:04:20.178 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: These things would be much coarser to use it. 01:04:20.739 --> 01:04:22.261 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Your accent is catching. 01:04:27.488 --> 01:04:29.691 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I guess I could have a look at it for you. 01:04:31.713 --> 01:04:33.416 [Riv (DM)]: Erindor doesn't say anything. 01:04:33.796 --> 01:04:34.497 [Riv (DM)]: He's just sitting there. 01:04:37.282 --> 01:04:43.932 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: We should get... Well, it's in a special bag. 01:04:46.596 --> 01:04:47.417 [Riv (DM)]: Fair enough, fair enough. 01:04:47.818 --> 01:04:49.040 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Maybe later then. 01:04:49.320 --> 01:04:50.061 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah, maybe later. 01:04:50.081 --> 01:04:50.542 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Maybe later. 01:04:51.103 --> 01:04:53.206 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Maybe later we'll open the special bag. 01:04:54.087 --> 01:04:56.351 [Riv (DM)]: Like I said, I'm a bit busy at the moment. 01:04:57.072 --> 01:04:57.993 [Riv (DM)]: I need to... 01:04:58.013 --> 01:04:59.155 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Anything we can help with. 01:05:01.379 --> 01:05:03.624 [Riv (DM)]: Is there anything you can help with? 01:05:04.065 --> 01:05:09.096 [Riv (DM)]: Well... Well, actually, um... You're new to town, right? 01:05:10.700 --> 01:05:11.662 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah, we just came in. 01:05:14.108 --> 01:05:14.849 [Riv (DM)]: Planning on staying long? 01:05:16.814 --> 01:05:17.295 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: We'll see. 01:05:18.177 --> 01:05:19.540 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: We're looking for monsters to kill. 01:05:21.933 --> 01:05:25.058 [Riv (DM)]: Interesting. 01:05:25.939 --> 01:05:27.822 [Riv (DM)]: That's an interesting thought actually. 01:05:28.162 --> 01:05:31.167 [Riv (DM)]: Having considered talking to outsiders might be a good way to do it. 01:05:31.507 --> 01:05:32.749 [Riv (DM)]: Look, alright. 01:05:33.190 --> 01:05:34.832 [Riv (DM)]: Follow me for a second, follow me, come on. 01:05:34.852 --> 01:05:38.017 [Riv (DM)]: And she starts sort of ushering you over into the back room. 01:05:39.920 --> 01:05:42.844 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do I notice that she's interested in Dondarr? 01:05:47.150 --> 01:05:48.312 [Riv (DM)]: Roll an insight check. 01:05:50.266 --> 01:05:52.890 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Is that an insight into Lacer's own mind? 01:05:55.374 --> 01:05:56.576 [Riv (DM)]: I guess it's an insight into her. 01:06:01.324 --> 01:06:02.085 [Riv (DM)]: Oh wow, that's not too bad. 01:06:02.566 --> 01:06:09.237 [Riv (DM)]: I'll just shoot you a quick message on Discord. 01:06:28.673 --> 01:06:30.356 [Riv (DM)]: There we go. 01:06:30.376 --> 01:06:30.717 [Riv (DM)]: Alrighty. 01:06:31.157 --> 01:06:46.464 [Riv (DM)]: So if you wanted to follow her into the back room, or some of you can stay and sort of browse a little bit, you can see like all sorts of like just random trinkets and items, just a hoard of little things all spread all over the room. 01:06:47.525 --> 01:06:49.329 [Riv (DM)]: But out the back is just chaos. 01:06:49.389 --> 01:06:51.913 [Riv (DM)]: It looks like she's really prepping for something. 01:06:51.893 --> 01:06:59.644 [Riv (DM)]: You can see there's one device in particular on a bench that she's kind of like plonked in the middle of this back room, probably like an old bedroom or something like that. 01:07:00.185 --> 01:07:02.568 [Riv (DM)]: It's like, it's steel. 01:07:02.669 --> 01:07:05.853 [Riv (DM)]: There are like all sorts of these magical runes carved into it. 01:07:05.893 --> 01:07:10.440 [Riv (DM)]: Some of them have got like bits of similar sort of pastel-y colour. 01:07:10.460 --> 01:07:11.361 [Riv (DM)]: She clearly has a theme. 01:07:11.902 --> 01:07:17.049 [Riv (DM)]: And a few like little steel rods that just poke out at random angles from the top of it. 01:07:17.530 --> 01:07:19.673 [Riv (DM)]: And other than that there's just like 01:07:19.653 --> 01:07:33.595 [Riv (DM)]: You know, all sorts of ingredients, there are, you know, organic materials, there are gems and stones, all sorts of stuff just sort of scattered around and she's clearly just like trying to smash some stuff together. 01:07:33.710 --> 01:07:44.088 [Riv (DM)]: And in front of the device is a rod, just a plain steel rod by the looks of things, maybe about not quite a foot long. 01:07:44.949 --> 01:07:51.340 [Riv (DM)]: And yeah, so she says to you, look, I'm in a bit of a hurry at the moment. 01:07:51.661 --> 01:07:55.147 [Riv (DM)]: I've got a theory. 01:07:56.449 --> 01:07:57.271 [Riv (DM)]: What did you say your name was? 01:07:57.471 --> 01:07:59.194 [Riv (DM)]: And she points to you, Dondar. 01:08:00.676 --> 01:08:01.577 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: It's Dondar. 01:08:01.977 --> 01:08:02.998 [Riv (DM)]: Ah, Dondar, nice to meet you, yeah. 01:08:03.439 --> 01:08:06.522 [Riv (DM)]: Like, so... Alright, where do I start? 01:08:07.543 --> 01:08:18.855 [Riv (DM)]: I've got a theory that the Ember Spire on the Solstice, they light it up and the story goes that incredible bursts of energy come from it. 01:08:19.276 --> 01:08:28.185 [Riv (DM)]: I'm wondering if I might be able to harness it and create a magical item that I've been trying desperately to make for the last couple of years. 01:08:28.807 --> 01:08:44.089 [Riv (DM)]: I've had my mindset on this for a long... actually, it's possible that you might be interested in it yourself, depending on where you got to in your studies, but there's one tricky part that I'm a bit stuck on, assuming that old bloody Tobias does show up with his seeds tomorrow. 01:08:45.291 --> 01:08:53.042 [Riv (DM)]: She goes to the side and grabs what looks like an ordinary steel piton that you'd hammer into rock. 01:08:53.022 --> 01:08:55.705 [Riv (DM)]: I need to stick this into the side of the spire. 01:08:57.266 --> 01:09:02.752 [Riv (DM)]: And I have to say that they might be a bit taken aback by me rocking on up there and just banging it in. 01:09:03.472 --> 01:09:05.695 [Riv (DM)]: But you folk look like you know how to handle yourself. 01:09:05.775 --> 01:09:07.076 [Riv (DM)]: Do you reckon you could do it for me? 01:09:07.617 --> 01:09:09.378 [Riv (DM)]: And she looks at you and just sort of smiles. 01:09:10.499 --> 01:09:11.460 [Riv (DM)]: I start laughing. 01:09:12.942 --> 01:09:14.604 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Oh, I was going to take care of that for you. 01:09:15.605 --> 01:09:17.266 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: No, no, no, no thank you. 01:09:18.608 --> 01:09:19.729 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm getting mixed messages here. 01:09:20.650 --> 01:09:23.012 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: She's not asking you, you great big lump. 01:09:25.642 --> 01:09:28.610 [JC (Ryo)]: I picked Darmouth up from his stool and be like, no. 01:09:31.638 --> 01:09:36.090 [Riv (DM)]: Look, all right, let me try and sweeten the deal. 01:09:37.285 --> 01:09:41.671 [Riv (DM)]: I think I can create an item of great magical power. 01:09:41.852 --> 01:09:45.497 [Riv (DM)]: I already know what I want to make and she gestures to the rod on the table. 01:09:46.098 --> 01:09:48.822 [Riv (DM)]: I might be able to, I might be able to make something for you as well. 01:09:49.923 --> 01:09:56.453 [Riv (DM)]: I probably need Dondar here to help me with it, but I reckon there's probably going to be enough energy if my calculations were correct. 01:09:56.773 --> 01:09:58.095 [Riv (DM)]: I might be able to make you something as well. 01:10:00.758 --> 01:10:02.841 [Lacer (Kai)]: So it doesn't have to be tomorrow. 01:10:02.881 --> 01:10:04.223 [Lacer (Kai)]: We can just do it tonight, right? 01:10:04.264 --> 01:10:10.934 [Lacer (Kai)]: We can just, like, if we're able to, just sneak up, hammer this piton into the wall. 01:10:11.074 --> 01:10:13.698 [Lacer (Kai)]: Does it have to be very high or just the side of the wall? 01:10:14.900 --> 01:10:16.503 [Lacer (Kai)]: Where exactly do you need us to put it? 01:10:16.663 --> 01:10:18.786 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I think it just needs to be in the wall. 01:10:18.867 --> 01:10:24.876 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I think she wants it into the giant fucking crystal-y gemmy thing as well. 01:10:25.413 --> 01:10:27.677 [Riv (DM)]: Crystal, oh, okay. 01:10:27.697 --> 01:10:30.523 [Riv (DM)]: Just somewhere into the side of the spire itself should be okay, I think. 01:10:30.843 --> 01:10:33.108 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, you probably don't want to just stick it down a ground level. 01:10:33.168 --> 01:10:37.877 [Riv (DM)]: Someone walking around might see it, but I think it should be alright just in the side of it. 01:10:40.963 --> 01:10:43.267 [Lacer (Kai)]: So, how many feet are we looking at? 01:10:43.288 --> 01:10:45.632 [Lacer (Kai)]: Like, five feet in the side of it, or like... 01:10:46.608 --> 01:10:47.329 [Lacer (Kai)]: 10 feet? 01:10:47.349 --> 01:10:49.951 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is there a proximity in the feet? 01:10:49.971 --> 01:10:52.293 [Riv (DM)]: No, I don't think there's a very specific place it needs to be. 01:10:52.473 --> 01:10:57.438 [Riv (DM)]: Just as long as it's in there, I think it should be able to catch the energy based on the enchantment I put on this. 01:10:57.958 --> 01:11:03.723 [Riv (DM)]: And she tilts in the light a little bit and you can see all sorts of carved runes up along the side of the steel. 01:11:04.204 --> 01:11:07.587 [Riv (DM)]: And she says, well, I'm only going to have one opportunity for this. 01:11:07.967 --> 01:11:14.353 [Riv (DM)]: As long as it's in place before tomorrow night when the solstice starts, then it should work, I think. 01:11:18.535 --> 01:11:19.756 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, I'm down to do it. 01:11:21.357 --> 01:11:21.698 [Riv (DM)]: Excellent. 01:11:21.718 --> 01:11:23.459 [Riv (DM)]: I'm glad to hear we're all in agreement then. 01:11:24.580 --> 01:11:28.023 [Riv (DM)]: Look, I will keep to my promise here. 01:11:28.043 --> 01:11:28.684 [Riv (DM)]: Give me a second. 01:11:28.704 --> 01:11:29.244 [Riv (DM)]: Let me find it. 01:11:29.264 --> 01:11:32.967 [Riv (DM)]: I've got a whole list of stuff that I've been meaning to make but just haven't had time to. 01:11:33.388 --> 01:11:33.988 [Riv (DM)]: I'll give it to you. 01:11:34.008 --> 01:11:36.510 [Riv (DM)]: See if there's anything that piques your fancy. 01:11:37.271 --> 01:11:47.800 [Riv (DM)]: And she goes and digs up some notes, tossing papers around trying to find some until eventually she does find this. 01:11:49.433 --> 01:11:53.638 [JC (Ryo)]: While she's digging into her notes, can I lean over to Dondar and whisper in his ear? 01:11:54.479 --> 01:11:54.939 [Riv (DM)]: Absolutely. 01:11:54.979 --> 01:11:55.760 [Riv (DM)]: Roll a stealth check. 01:11:59.665 --> 01:12:00.946 [Lacer (Kai)]: This can't be. 01:12:01.607 --> 01:12:11.177 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm just reading this list and out of game me is saying the ramifications of this must be extreme because these items are not little items. 01:12:11.878 --> 01:12:12.639 [JC (Ryo)]: I was alt-tabbed. 01:12:12.719 --> 01:12:15.222 [JC (Ryo)]: I didn't even see the list until I clicked back for the stealth check. 01:12:15.691 --> 01:12:17.534 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Oh, I thought you posted it in the Discord. 01:12:17.554 --> 01:12:22.762 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: These are not little magical items, these are extremely powerful magical items. 01:12:23.663 --> 01:12:27.088 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And therefore, the blowback on this must be extreme. 01:12:29.773 --> 01:12:29.853 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Mhm. 01:12:29.873 --> 01:12:33.078 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, that ore was coming up in the campaign. 01:12:33.098 --> 01:12:34.900 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I got three down and went, oh no. 01:12:37.544 --> 01:12:40.589 [Lacer (Kai)]: I was looking at the materials, holy shit, beaks, ashes. 01:12:40.609 --> 01:12:42.492 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: What's coming up in the campaign that needs these? 01:12:43.045 --> 01:12:45.848 [Riv (DM)]: What do you say to Dondar, Rio? 01:12:49.873 --> 01:12:51.294 [JC (Ryo)]: Think with your brain and not your little head. 01:12:56.620 --> 01:12:59.864 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Does Dondar need to throw a perception check to hear that? 01:13:00.444 --> 01:13:01.606 [Riv (DM)]: Nah, nah, you're fine, you hit it. 01:13:03.327 --> 01:13:05.610 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I'm not too enamoured. 01:13:07.565 --> 01:13:21.763 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so she hands over the list and Val and I guess you grab it and you start reading through it and she says... As I'm reading it my eyes are just getting bigger and bigger which is something most of the party would never have seen surprise on my face before. 01:13:23.465 --> 01:13:27.491 [Riv (DM)]: And she does notice this and she says, looks like I've piqued your interest. 01:13:27.511 --> 01:13:30.855 [Riv (DM)]: As you can probably tell there's quite a lot of powerful stuff on here. 01:13:30.835 --> 01:13:42.287 [Riv (DM)]: Look, these are the sorts of items that could take months if not years to craft from someone like myself, but I'm fairly certain, I think my calculations are correct, I reckon I can make one in a single go. 01:13:44.449 --> 01:13:55.341 [Riv (DM)]: That said though, I don't have some of these items, so if there's anything on there that you like the look of, that sort of tickles your fancy, you'll probably have to pop down to the market and buy the ingredients yourself. 01:13:56.333 --> 01:14:04.741 [Riv (DM)]: But I can tell you this, it'll be a far sight cheaper than going and buying it from any of these scam artists around the cities. 01:14:09.746 --> 01:14:12.669 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I just need your anger and the blowback. 01:14:14.631 --> 01:14:15.072 [Riv (DM)]: What do you mean? 01:14:16.433 --> 01:14:21.598 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: There's a hell of a lot of power going on in here, which means there's a hell of a lot of power going out somewhere else. 01:14:25.240 --> 01:14:27.540 [Riv (DM)]: Do you mean, are you wondering what I'm crafting? 01:14:29.276 --> 01:14:30.103 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm wondering 01:14:30.455 --> 01:14:34.601 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: If you're pulling this much power out, what's it gonna do to where the power's coming from? 01:14:36.764 --> 01:14:38.065 [Riv (DM)]: That's a good question, actually. 01:14:38.586 --> 01:14:47.378 [Riv (DM)]: It would be a bit awkward, wouldn't it, if the whole town gathers to watch their little festival and then nothing happens because of this, wouldn't that be funny? 01:14:49.220 --> 01:14:50.963 [Riv (DM)]: No, I don't think that'll happen. 01:14:52.284 --> 01:14:58.673 [Riv (DM)]: From what I've heard, this will be a drop in the bucket compared to what that tower generates. 01:15:01.910 --> 01:15:04.242 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Can you tell us anything about the tower? 01:15:07.310 --> 01:15:07.791 [Riv (DM)]: The tower? 01:15:08.071 --> 01:15:12.335 [Riv (DM)]: Well... You'll probably notice when you'll go and look at it. 01:15:12.616 --> 01:15:14.478 [Riv (DM)]: It's clearly been here for centuries. 01:15:15.779 --> 01:15:21.345 [Riv (DM)]: And from what I gathered, most people actually don't have a clue... like, how it got here. 01:15:22.066 --> 01:15:26.670 [Riv (DM)]: The assumption, of course, is that it was from one of the older civilizations on the continent. 01:15:27.511 --> 01:15:28.292 [Riv (DM)]: Just some remnant. 01:15:28.753 --> 01:15:30.575 [Riv (DM)]: There are actually a few other little buildings you'll probably see. 01:15:30.775 --> 01:15:33.998 [Riv (DM)]: Just the ruins scattered around the town that... sort of crumbling away. 01:15:34.038 --> 01:15:35.680 [Riv (DM)]: People don't go near them too much, but... 01:15:36.622 --> 01:15:40.386 [Riv (DM)]: Clearly this has got, it was put here for a purpose and the townsfolk have been using it. 01:15:40.987 --> 01:15:49.336 [Riv (DM)]: Whether or not they're using it to the full potential, who knows, but... What are the townsfolk using it for? 01:15:49.356 --> 01:15:56.004 [Riv (DM)]: Well, they seem to light it up whenever there's a, you know, monsters come out from the Darkwood. 01:15:56.524 --> 01:16:02.691 [Riv (DM)]: Seems to scare off a lot of the dark and nasty ones and provide enough light for the soldiers to come out and fight them. 01:16:04.273 --> 01:16:04.333 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Oh. 01:16:04.938 --> 01:16:07.241 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: So the Imperials haven't taken up residence in it? 01:16:08.082 --> 01:16:08.903 [Riv (DM)]: No gods, no. 01:16:09.243 --> 01:16:10.344 [Riv (DM)]: No. 01:16:10.364 --> 01:16:12.347 [Riv (DM)]: The Ember Wardens keep them out for sure. 01:16:19.435 --> 01:16:19.875 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Good to know. 01:16:22.358 --> 01:16:24.841 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: So you can only create two items on the list? 01:16:25.201 --> 01:16:27.804 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Or one item and your other item? 01:16:27.824 --> 01:16:29.586 [Riv (DM)]: I'm making my item. 01:16:29.606 --> 01:16:30.447 [Riv (DM)]: I'll tell you that for sure. 01:16:30.467 --> 01:16:30.928 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: What's your item? 01:16:32.326 --> 01:16:35.670 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, well, you might be kind of interested yourself, Dondar. 01:16:36.051 --> 01:16:40.957 [Riv (DM)]: I'm trying to make myself a rod that will teleport me to Archangel. 01:16:44.041 --> 01:16:44.421 [Riv (DM)]: What? 01:16:45.142 --> 01:16:47.966 [Riv (DM)]: Dondar, roll a history check. 01:16:47.986 --> 01:16:49.448 [Riv (DM)]: Let's see how much you listened in school. 01:16:55.976 --> 01:16:58.519 [JC (Ryo)]: Would anyone else have any idea what Archangel is? 01:16:59.191 --> 01:17:00.512 [Riv (DM)]: Probably not. 01:17:00.813 --> 01:17:01.694 [Riv (DM)]: I have no idea. 01:17:01.794 --> 01:17:05.397 [Riv (DM)]: Unless any of you rolled a natural 20, I don't think any of the rest of you did. 01:17:05.417 --> 01:17:06.098 [Lacer (Kai)]: Everyone roll. 01:17:06.218 --> 01:17:06.919 [Lacer (Kai)]: Everyone roll. 01:17:07.660 --> 01:17:08.561 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, you can all roll. 01:17:10.663 --> 01:17:11.344 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is this history? 01:17:11.704 --> 01:17:12.265 [Unmatched Speaker]: Yeah. 01:17:13.125 --> 01:17:17.710 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm not going to roll because my guy's backstory would make sense. 01:17:17.730 --> 01:17:21.194 [Unmatched Speaker]: Yeah. 01:17:21.214 --> 01:17:22.375 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: This sounds familiar. 01:17:23.256 --> 01:17:24.237 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:17:24.385 --> 01:17:25.547 [Riv (DM)]: It does sound familiar to Dondar. 01:17:26.588 --> 01:17:30.394 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, you would know and you would have heard in the school while you're studying. 01:17:32.156 --> 01:17:37.885 [Riv (DM)]: Archangel is a bit of an enigma in the world of magic here in Elandis. 01:17:40.348 --> 01:17:41.550 [Riv (DM)]: It's like a... 01:17:43.100 --> 01:17:59.229 [Riv (DM)]: It's like, it's something that pretty much every wizard aspires to reach because it is a flying city essentially, a flying ship that is just constantly travelling around the world and it's a beacon of knowledge essentially. 01:17:59.389 --> 01:18:07.403 [Riv (DM)]: It's just centuries and centuries and centuries of wizards who travel there to study and collaborate on magical spells and take their notes 01:18:07.383 --> 01:18:11.631 [Riv (DM)]: They'll store knowledge there, they'll craft items there, but they don't live there. 01:18:12.273 --> 01:18:17.984 [Riv (DM)]: It is entirely guarded by arcane constructs that prevent any sort of conflict from happening. 01:18:18.044 --> 01:18:29.627 [Riv (DM)]: So you might have two different factions on different sides of the world that are at war with each other and an archmage from each of them could go to Archangel to study and they would cross each other in the street. 01:18:29.607 --> 01:18:32.252 [Riv (DM)]: And they wouldn't even blink at each other, essentially. 01:18:32.713 --> 01:18:41.991 [Riv (DM)]: It's like this strange sort of neutral ground where all the wizards just kind of have this acknowledgement of kind of respect for it itself. 01:18:42.472 --> 01:18:45.017 [Riv (DM)]: And it just sort of flies itself around. 01:18:44.997 --> 01:18:56.276 [Riv (DM)]: There have been, I guess, stories of people that have got into scuffles or fights or conflicts and the arcane constructs immediately clamp it down and people are forcefully removed from the city if anything goes wrong. 01:18:56.997 --> 01:18:57.598 [Riv (DM)]: And no one lives here. 01:18:57.879 --> 01:18:59.041 [Riv (DM)]: People only pop in to visit. 01:18:59.241 --> 01:19:05.892 [Riv (DM)]: You know, there are living quarters where you might stay for a couple of nights, but in general people just come and go. 01:19:05.872 --> 01:19:12.348 [Riv (DM)]: And so you can imagine it would be an absolute dream for someone like Belinda to go to get knowledge. 01:19:13.050 --> 01:19:17.340 [Riv (DM)]: And it's usually something that, yeah, wizards aspire to get to. 01:19:17.380 --> 01:19:19.425 [Riv (DM)]: And the rule is, 01:19:19.979 --> 01:19:23.406 [Riv (DM)]: You can only go there if you can get there yourself. 01:19:24.228 --> 01:19:26.091 [Riv (DM)]: You can't have someone take you there. 01:19:26.111 --> 01:19:27.815 [Riv (DM)]: You have to find a way to get there yourself. 01:19:28.536 --> 01:19:36.773 [Riv (DM)]: Whether it's through learning a teleportation circle symbol, or learning the teleport spell itself, or visually seeing it and then teleporting to it, all sorts of things like that. 01:19:42.710 --> 01:19:54.624 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, you're essentially talking to a scholar who is trying to get to the heights of her order, essentially, based on what she's saying. 01:19:56.587 --> 01:20:01.292 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Fascinating. 01:20:01.312 --> 01:20:01.973 [Riv (DM)]: She looks around at you. 01:20:02.854 --> 01:20:08.421 [Riv (DM)]: Well, it's a lot of silence as you're reading through those notes. 01:20:08.701 --> 01:20:10.423 [Riv (DM)]: I take it I've got some of your interests, eh? 01:20:11.264 --> 01:20:12.025 [Riv (DM)]: We've got a deal. 01:20:15.076 --> 01:20:16.278 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: But like I say, I'm keen. 01:20:18.381 --> 01:20:19.463 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, can't hurt. 01:20:20.064 --> 01:20:25.752 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can you draw up a rough diagram of the tower where you'd want us to put this piton? 01:20:25.772 --> 01:20:29.097 [Riv (DM)]: Honestly, love, I really don't mind. 01:20:29.458 --> 01:20:30.199 [Riv (DM)]: I really don't mind. 01:20:30.760 --> 01:20:31.721 [Riv (DM)]: Just as long as it's something. 01:20:32.823 --> 01:20:34.926 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Just has to be touching the stone of the tower. 01:20:35.627 --> 01:20:36.449 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Aye. 01:20:36.609 --> 01:20:37.330 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Drive it in. 01:20:37.410 --> 01:20:38.532 [Riv (DM)]: Drive it in. 01:20:38.792 --> 01:20:39.834 [Riv (DM)]: Make sure it's not too visible. 01:20:40.094 --> 01:20:40.695 [Riv (DM)]: Should be good. 01:20:42.025 --> 01:20:47.354 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: How large is this rod or pen and she's showing us? 01:20:47.374 --> 01:20:50.259 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, it's just it looks like a standard sort of steel rod. 01:20:50.279 --> 01:20:58.973 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe it's about half an inch in diameter, inch in diameter maybe, and it's like just under a foot long. 01:20:59.494 --> 01:21:05.684 [Riv (DM)]: You can see they're already like arcane ruins that have been carved into it. 01:21:05.704 --> 01:21:06.345 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 01:21:06.612 --> 01:21:14.185 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And how certain are you that this will not go horribly and explode in everyone's faces and cause an entire town to come and burn you alive? 01:21:17.551 --> 01:21:18.593 [Riv (DM)]: I'd say about 87%. 01:21:21.918 --> 01:21:29.091 [Riv (DM)]: As for the success of the crafting, well, can't guarantee that. 01:21:29.111 --> 01:21:30.493 [Riv (DM)]: These things are always a little bit... 01:21:31.030 --> 01:21:38.061 [Riv (DM)]: A little bit of a rolling at chance, but we'll do what we can to try and make it as successful as possible. 01:21:38.621 --> 01:21:42.507 [Riv (DM)]: And if Dondar, if you help out, I think we should have a decent enough chance. 01:21:44.630 --> 01:21:46.053 [Riv (DM)]: But you'll need to provide the ingredients. 01:21:47.154 --> 01:21:50.219 [Riv (DM)]: So once you pick something from the list, just come back and we'll chat about how we'll get it set up, eh? 01:21:54.445 --> 01:21:58.371 [JC (Ryo)]: Where in the world do you expect us to find some of these ingredients? 01:21:59.161 --> 01:22:03.608 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We're in a market that specialises in rare items. 01:22:03.628 --> 01:22:08.695 [Riv (DM)]: I've got a couple of them, so if you don't find what you're looking for, I'll probably have a couple of things. 01:22:08.715 --> 01:22:10.759 [Riv (DM)]: I've got gems and arcane dust and stuff like that. 01:22:11.960 --> 01:22:13.543 [Riv (DM)]: Mmm, Phoenix Ashes, hey? 01:22:14.664 --> 01:22:21.955 [Riv (DM)]: And I won't be offering them for free, I'll tell you that, they're really expensive. 01:22:22.737 --> 01:22:25.000 [JC (Ryo)]: Giant's Bone, you're crazy, right? 01:22:26.262 --> 01:22:29.986 [JC (Ryo)]: I know that Darkwood has some crazy stuff, but not all of this stuff's in the Darkwood. 01:22:30.907 --> 01:22:30.987 [Riv (DM)]: Aye. 01:22:31.668 --> 01:22:34.050 [Riv (DM)]: Not everything in the market, I think, even comes from the Darkwood. 01:22:34.070 --> 01:22:35.291 [Riv (DM)]: People trade, people travel. 01:22:41.538 --> 01:22:42.819 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 01:22:42.839 --> 01:22:45.702 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can we have a copy of this list to take with us? 01:22:46.303 --> 01:22:47.224 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, take it, take it. 01:22:48.846 --> 01:22:50.147 [Riv (DM)]: It's just, they're just musings from me. 01:22:51.268 --> 01:22:52.029 [Riv (DM)]: Just random thoughts. 01:22:53.490 --> 01:22:56.033 [Riv (DM)]: I don't even know if it's possible, but it's worth a try, right? 01:22:57.278 --> 01:22:59.320 [Riv (DM)]: I guess. 01:22:59.340 --> 01:23:04.345 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: What do you want to do in Angel Forge? 01:23:05.786 --> 01:23:06.787 [Riv (DM)]: You mean an Archangel? 01:23:07.568 --> 01:23:08.428 [Riv (DM)]: Archangel. 01:23:08.589 --> 01:23:09.990 [Riv (DM)]: Archangel, roll those Rs. 01:23:10.150 --> 01:23:13.593 [Riv (DM)]: Archangel. 01:23:13.713 --> 01:23:15.395 [Riv (DM)]: Can you imagine the knowledge, Dondar? 01:23:15.915 --> 01:23:16.496 [Riv (DM)]: The knowledge. 01:23:17.097 --> 01:23:18.037 [Riv (DM)]: Centuries of knowledge. 01:23:23.483 --> 01:23:25.024 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: All the knowledge in the world. 01:23:28.008 --> 01:23:28.789 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Last question. 01:23:29.811 --> 01:23:31.173 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: How do you feel about the Empire? 01:23:31.834 --> 01:23:33.316 [Riv (DM)]: I didn't know this was an interrogation. 01:23:34.157 --> 01:23:35.279 [Riv (DM)]: Look, I got no time for the Empire. 01:23:35.519 --> 01:23:36.160 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I keep to myself. 01:23:36.560 --> 01:23:38.243 [Riv (DM)]: I let them stick to themselves. 01:23:38.263 --> 01:23:39.905 [Riv (DM)]: If they get my business, then I'll make a fuss. 01:23:39.965 --> 01:23:42.309 [Riv (DM)]: If they don't get my business, then I'm just on my way. 01:23:48.538 --> 01:23:49.459 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, why not? 01:24:00.728 --> 01:24:07.622 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 01:24:07.642 --> 01:24:08.964 [Riv (DM)]: Alright then, are we good? 01:24:09.064 --> 01:24:10.487 [Riv (DM)]: What are we thinking? 01:24:10.648 --> 01:24:12.772 [Riv (DM)]: Have you guys had a bit of a look? 01:24:14.635 --> 01:24:20.407 [Riv (DM)]: I'm happy to like metagame a little bit and tell you what the items actually are if you want specific names. 01:24:21.269 --> 01:24:22.551 [Riv (DM)]: Or you can kind of just like 01:24:23.662 --> 01:24:25.845 [Riv (DM)]: Pick something that you like the look of and take your chance. 01:24:26.666 --> 01:24:28.149 [Riv (DM)]: You can probably figure out the most of them. 01:24:28.329 --> 01:24:31.113 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Some of them are reasonably obvious if you've got any idea of items. 01:24:32.275 --> 01:24:35.940 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Some are eh, some are Jesus Christ. 01:24:35.960 --> 01:24:37.682 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, it's a big list of rare magical items. 01:24:37.702 --> 01:24:38.824 [Riv (DM)]: Some of those rings look good. 01:24:38.944 --> 01:24:40.887 [Riv (DM)]: Which you guys don't have any rare items yet. 01:24:45.213 --> 01:24:49.720 [JC (Ryo)]: And the Necro Sword at the bottom there, that would be very good in Valorant hands. 01:24:50.493 --> 01:24:54.418 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I've played with that before, it's not as amazing as it looks. 01:24:56.421 --> 01:24:56.701 [JC (Ryo)]: Really? 01:24:57.402 --> 01:24:58.784 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. 01:24:58.804 --> 01:25:02.869 [JC (Ryo)]: I guess, yeah, normally the enemies don't heal too much in fights, do they? 01:25:04.131 --> 01:25:09.097 [Lacer (Kai)]: I reckon the flying, the bat cloak, whatever, the flying cloak is pretty dang good. 01:25:09.899 --> 01:25:12.562 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Cool for thematics, not so crazy. 01:25:12.602 --> 01:25:15.606 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: The really good ones in there are the belts. 01:25:16.683 --> 01:25:23.231 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: So, that'd be belt of giant strength of some degree, but at the very minimum it sets your strength to 21. 01:25:24.853 --> 01:25:26.075 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Just flat, regardless. 01:25:27.436 --> 01:25:31.662 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Imagine the belt of resilience is a similar thing, but for con. 01:25:31.682 --> 01:25:32.262 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Dwarvenkind. 01:25:33.123 --> 01:25:43.416 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, which are, stupidly, they're like, they're an item that allows you to supersede the max level of stats for anyone. 01:25:43.902 --> 01:25:49.170 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You could literally be a wizard with 21 strength, which is beyond the strength of anyone else. 01:25:49.591 --> 01:25:52.395 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's Dondar. 01:25:53.036 --> 01:25:54.758 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: That first cloak looks good. 01:25:55.079 --> 01:25:58.284 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Dagger would... 01:25:58.304 --> 01:26:01.048 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Magical Venom, I've played with the Aspen and it's not great. 01:26:01.348 --> 01:26:02.690 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: They're metagaming here very heavily. 01:26:03.772 --> 01:26:07.137 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Displacer Cloak, stupid good. 01:26:07.157 --> 01:26:11.884 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: But Displacer Cloak is basically anything that tries to hit you has disadvantage, full stop. 01:26:14.243 --> 01:26:15.845 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Unless I have a legendary. 01:26:16.385 --> 01:26:17.646 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Darnly good. 01:26:19.208 --> 01:26:20.009 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Flametongue weapon? 01:26:20.429 --> 01:26:21.070 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Eh, it's alright. 01:26:22.291 --> 01:26:25.574 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I don't know about the orb, but I think it's amazing. 01:26:25.594 --> 01:26:29.097 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I imagine the cloak and the ring that protect are just like a plus one or a plus two cloak. 01:26:30.298 --> 01:26:32.761 [Riv (DM)]: The cloak is specifically spell resistance. 01:26:33.321 --> 01:26:36.124 [Riv (DM)]: Advantage on saving throws against magic. 01:26:38.266 --> 01:26:41.449 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Ring of Freedom. 01:26:41.469 --> 01:26:42.310 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Ring of Spell Storing. 01:26:42.850 --> 01:26:43.491 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Pretty good. 01:26:43.775 --> 01:26:45.977 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Because anyone can store a spell in it, I think. 01:26:47.218 --> 01:26:48.439 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And then anyone can activate it. 01:26:49.600 --> 01:26:50.581 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:26:50.601 --> 01:26:52.502 [Riv (DM)]: I think you might need to be a wizard to use it. 01:26:52.522 --> 01:26:55.024 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, I actually, yeah, you might need to be. 01:26:55.044 --> 01:26:55.145 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 01:26:55.165 --> 01:26:57.847 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Um... 01:26:57.867 --> 01:27:00.189 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Magically enhanced weapon deal extremely deadly blows. 01:27:00.209 --> 01:27:02.571 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's probably like the crit sword. 01:27:02.591 --> 01:27:03.171 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Wearing sword. 01:27:04.032 --> 01:27:06.514 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Great ideas in theory, but I don't know how well they actually work. 01:27:06.834 --> 01:27:10.137 [Riv (DM)]: The, um, the magically enhanced weapon and shield are just plus twos. 01:27:11.038 --> 01:27:11.498 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, okay. 01:27:11.838 --> 01:27:13.680 [Riv (DM)]: Which is still really strong. 01:27:14.133 --> 01:27:19.840 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, plus twos are great, and the shield that doesn't break as well, so that's really good. 01:27:23.284 --> 01:27:24.926 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: There's some really strong items in there. 01:27:28.430 --> 01:27:32.155 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, has Belinda provided us this piton? 01:27:32.916 --> 01:27:33.957 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you can grab it. 01:27:35.579 --> 01:27:40.044 [JC (Ryo)]: So how high up this spire do we have to commit suicide to get this for you? 01:27:40.805 --> 01:27:42.267 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: It doesn't have to be up high. 01:27:42.753 --> 01:27:44.054 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Just has to be in the tower. 01:27:44.635 --> 01:27:44.975 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Anywhere. 01:27:45.215 --> 01:27:45.916 [Riv (DM)]: Anywhere in the tower. 01:27:47.277 --> 01:27:47.798 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 01:27:48.398 --> 01:27:54.904 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I should point out that he's in the middle of an extremely busy market that he's running day and night. 01:27:57.106 --> 01:27:59.248 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And probably guarded by everyone. 01:27:59.288 --> 01:27:59.748 [Unmatched Speaker]: Yeah. 01:28:02.351 --> 01:28:06.374 [JC (Ryo)]: We know it's going to be guarded by the Endless Fire Guards. 01:28:08.036 --> 01:28:10.418 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: We know it's guarded by the City Guards, not the Imperials. 01:28:10.959 --> 01:28:12.540 [Lacer (Kai)]: We don't all have to go, you know. 01:28:16.081 --> 01:28:18.084 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Hey, we're not blowing up the tower this time. 01:28:18.464 --> 01:28:19.927 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 01:28:20.507 --> 01:28:21.849 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: As far as we know. 01:28:22.691 --> 01:28:29.520 [Lacer (Kai)]: I think someone has the ability to just fly up onto the wall and just whack it in and then fly away. 01:28:30.382 --> 01:28:34.107 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: While we are blowing it up, all we need to do is make it look like Imperials did it. 01:28:36.618 --> 01:28:38.040 [Riv (DM)]: Do you guys want to take a break? 01:28:38.060 --> 01:28:39.182 [Riv (DM)]: We're going to get a drink. 01:28:39.363 --> 01:28:40.004 [Riv (DM)]: Have some bites to eat. 01:28:40.024 --> 01:28:43.049 [Riv (DM)]: You guys can think about what we're doing. 01:28:43.069 --> 01:28:43.169 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:28:43.189 --> 01:28:43.750 [Riv (DM)]: Holy shit. 01:28:43.770 --> 01:28:49.900 [Riv (DM)]: I feel like I just dropped you guys in like a Christmas shopping store or something and you guys are like... 01:28:49.920 --> 01:28:50.641 [Unmatched Speaker]: Fantastic. 01:28:51.102 --> 01:28:53.927 [Unmatched Speaker]: Yeah, you sort of do. 01:28:53.947 --> 01:28:56.010 [JC (Ryo)]: Now I want the sports car! 01:28:58.302 --> 01:28:59.925 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, let's take 15, eh? 01:28:59.945 --> 01:29:00.146 [Lacer (Kai)]: Cool. 01:29:00.326 --> 01:29:00.887 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, let's take 15. 01:29:00.928 --> 01:29:02.331 [Riv (DM)]: 15, 20 or something like that. 01:29:02.611 --> 01:29:03.653 [Riv (DM)]: Then we'll finish off. 01:29:04.074 --> 01:29:04.575 [Riv (DM)]: We'll see how we go. 01:29:04.615 --> 01:29:08.864 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe potentially we go a bit longer tonight just to finish off a couple of things since we had a bit of a late start. 01:29:08.884 --> 01:29:09.907 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, we'll see how I feel. 01:29:11.390 --> 01:29:11.670 [Riv (DM)]: Sweet. 01:29:11.851 --> 01:29:12.953 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 01:30:41.932 --> 01:30:55.333 [Unmatched Speaker]: Subtitles by the Amara.org community 01:31:56.772 --> 01:31:58.800 Subtitles by SteamTeam. 01:32:26.590 --> 01:32:34.620 [Unmatched Speaker]: We're all an idol. 01:32:34.640 --> 01:32:40.547 [Unmatched Speaker]: With the keeping of the bear. 01:32:43.110 --> 01:32:49.358 [Unmatched Speaker]: The lad will lay work on the lost moon. 01:32:58.383 --> 01:56:47.012 ================ Session Break ================ 01:56:47.533 --> 01:56:49.758 [Riv (DM)]: Cool, cool, cool. 01:56:49.778 --> 01:57:00.941 [Riv (DM)]: So, Bullender will offer to walk you to the front door to see you guys out as you make your way back out into the street to pursue whatever next task you've got to do. 01:57:01.241 --> 01:57:05.991 [Riv (DM)]: As you kind of go in and she walks out into the main room again, you see a 01:57:05.971 --> 01:57:12.339 [Riv (DM)]: So, we're going to go ahead and get started. 01:57:12.639 --> 01:57:18.787 [Riv (DM)]: We're going to go ahead and get started. 01:57:18.847 --> 01:57:27.979 [Riv (DM)]: We're going to go ahead and get started. 01:57:27.959 --> 01:57:54.473 [Riv (DM)]: Like um those sort of magic tricks you see that the stage shows where there are the fast changing dresses and stuff like that that the girls do where it sort of like drops from the top and just like completely changes their clothes that's essentially what happens her hair just sort of unravels in a whole new set of hair that looks exactly the same but a different color and same with the clothes they just kind of like unfurl and um form into the same set of clothes but now that same blue color again as before um she does this actually sort of walking out into the main room um 01:57:54.453 --> 01:57:55.515 [Riv (DM)]: It opens the door. 01:57:55.555 --> 01:58:01.125 [Riv (DM)]: As she gets over there, the little stone bird perched above says, Goodbye! 01:58:01.146 --> 01:58:03.209 [Riv (DM)]: And she's like, oh, shut up. 01:58:03.871 --> 01:58:07.317 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, well friends, it's good to meet you all. 01:58:08.539 --> 01:58:11.525 [Riv (DM)]: And yeah, I wish you all the best of luck out there. 01:58:11.906 --> 01:58:15.853 [Riv (DM)]: Let me know if there's anything else you need and I'll hopefully be seeing you around. 01:58:17.318 --> 01:58:20.522 [Riv (DM)]: And you can pass on through unless there's anything else you wanted to ask her about? 01:58:21.724 --> 01:58:23.246 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, thank you, yes. 01:58:24.287 --> 01:58:26.330 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Just quickly, that ring you have there. 01:58:26.710 --> 01:58:27.551 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Eh? 01:58:28.292 --> 01:58:31.016 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: That ring you used to change your appearance. 01:58:32.298 --> 01:58:36.583 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Is that a simple trinket to make? 01:58:37.244 --> 01:58:39.827 [Riv (DM)]: I wouldn't call it simple, but it's one of my inventions. 01:58:40.108 --> 01:58:40.889 [Riv (DM)]: Something I'm quite proud of. 01:58:40.909 --> 01:58:42.271 [Riv (DM)]: One of the first items I made, actually. 01:58:43.652 --> 01:58:44.153 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Really? 01:58:44.437 --> 01:58:45.318 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah, cute little thing. 01:58:45.338 --> 01:58:48.602 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Being able to change your disguise or your appearance at will. 01:58:49.964 --> 01:58:50.524 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Aye. 01:58:50.905 --> 01:58:52.487 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Without a spell, that's pretty good. 01:58:53.468 --> 01:58:53.588 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 01:58:54.529 --> 01:58:55.470 [Riv (DM)]: It's just a simple little thing. 01:58:55.791 --> 01:58:58.133 [Riv (DM)]: Bit of a party trick more than anything, but I like it. 01:58:58.774 --> 01:59:01.237 [Riv (DM)]: Gives me a different flavor to put on for different people, you know? 01:59:02.579 --> 01:59:03.720 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Would you sell such an item? 01:59:03.740 --> 01:59:06.343 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I wouldn't sell you this one, I'll tell you that. 01:59:08.105 --> 01:59:10.468 [Riv (DM)]: But I've got some other things, potentially, that you might want to look at. 01:59:12.791 --> 01:59:12.891 Okay. 01:59:13.327 --> 01:59:15.850 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: We'll, uh, keep that in mind for next time. 01:59:16.732 --> 01:59:17.893 [Riv (DM)]: Excellent. 01:59:17.913 --> 01:59:18.794 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I'll be seeing you then. 01:59:21.758 --> 01:59:22.159 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Toodle-oo. 01:59:22.660 --> 01:59:24.142 [Riv (DM)]: Cool, and you can head out into the night. 01:59:24.382 --> 01:59:25.063 [Riv (DM)]: Sweet as, alright. 01:59:25.584 --> 01:59:26.184 [Riv (DM)]: Where to next? 01:59:27.486 --> 01:59:31.592 [Lacer (Kai)]: As we head out, I'll dispel the water, but I don't make it splash on Dondar's head. 01:59:36.218 --> 01:59:40.884 [Riv (DM)]: Um, I'm just, uh, closing curtain, but you guys check to decide what you're doing. 01:59:40.904 --> 01:59:41.325 [Riv (DM)]: I'm still here. 01:59:44.174 --> 01:59:44.895 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alrighty. 01:59:45.877 --> 01:59:51.004 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I was very tempted to use my cantrip to make you emit an odor. 01:59:53.128 --> 01:59:56.553 [Unmatched Speaker]: You could've. 01:59:56.573 --> 01:59:58.035 [Unmatched Speaker]: I did. 01:59:58.055 --> 02:00:03.564 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm not gonna even ask why you didn't, but you know, I think she likes you. 02:00:04.625 --> 02:00:07.089 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah, because you don't want to smell bad in front of a beautiful girl. 02:00:07.790 --> 02:00:09.793 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: You don't want to be next to someone who smells bad. 02:00:10.448 --> 02:00:14.774 [Lacer (Kai)]: Especially when Erendor here always says that you smell bad. 02:00:16.776 --> 02:00:18.899 [Riv (DM)]: I only speak the truth, Erendor says. 02:00:21.382 --> 02:00:22.363 [Riv (DM)]: With a completely straight face. 02:00:23.565 --> 02:00:25.387 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I think she said it well at the end there. 02:00:25.527 --> 02:00:29.873 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: She puts on whatever she needs to deal with whoever she's talking to. 02:00:29.913 --> 02:00:37.182 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Something a tall person would enjoy. 02:00:39.642 --> 02:00:41.204 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or a little bit of pink for a little man. 02:00:41.224 --> 02:00:43.327 [Lacer (Kai)]: I know, right? 02:00:43.808 --> 02:00:45.770 [Lacer (Kai)]: She might wear a heart on her sleeve, you know? 02:00:50.917 --> 02:00:51.538 [Riv (DM)]: Cool, alrighty. 02:00:51.618 --> 02:00:52.740 [Riv (DM)]: Where are we going now then? 02:00:54.081 --> 02:01:06.358 [Riv (DM)]: So we're back out onto the street, and yeah, there are other shops along here that we would have seen before, so there's the workshop just across the way, the blacksmith's just a little bit further along, and the apothecary's down here as well. 02:01:09.224 --> 02:01:13.594 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm interested in the blacksmith, but that's just me. 02:01:13.614 --> 02:01:13.714 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:01:13.734 --> 02:01:14.817 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I do too. 02:01:15.238 --> 02:01:16.040 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 02:01:17.142 --> 02:01:19.027 [Riv (DM)]: Ri, are you asking about the one you just left? 02:01:20.570 --> 02:01:21.372 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, the one we just left. 02:01:21.392 --> 02:01:22.254 [JC (Ryo)]: What was that one called again? 02:01:22.775 --> 02:01:26.644 [Riv (DM)]: You can look back at the big pink letters on the outside. 02:01:26.805 --> 02:01:28.228 [Riv (DM)]: It's called Belinda's Chest. 02:01:31.229 --> 02:01:33.851 [Riv (DM)]: What's Dondar looking at Belinda's chest? 02:01:35.953 --> 02:01:39.676 [Riv (DM)]: It's a bit of an unfortunate name, but she's got her eyes on the prize, that girl. 02:01:40.877 --> 02:01:41.778 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I nod to myself, yep. 02:01:42.018 --> 02:01:45.881 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: She's definitely an expert in putting on whatever she needs to to get what she wants. 02:01:50.345 --> 02:01:53.648 [JC (Ryo)]: Sorry, just for my notes, that's all. 02:01:53.668 --> 02:01:53.948 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright. 02:01:57.051 --> 02:01:58.312 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, we can go to the forge. 02:02:00.634 --> 02:02:00.814 [Lacer (Kai)]: Cool. 02:02:01.688 --> 02:02:03.130 [Lacer (Kai)]: You've been here before, right? 02:02:03.550 --> 02:02:04.471 [Lacer (Kai)]: Rio? 02:02:04.792 --> 02:02:05.372 [Lacer (Kai)]: La Forge? 02:02:06.013 --> 02:02:07.675 [Lacer (Kai)]: More repairs and stuff? 02:02:08.136 --> 02:02:09.197 [JC (Ryo)]: Please don't use my name. 02:02:11.860 --> 02:02:12.281 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 02:02:12.401 --> 02:02:14.163 [Lacer (Kai)]: What do you want me to call you while we're here? 02:02:18.488 --> 02:02:19.149 [JC (Ryo)]: I don't know. 02:02:20.290 --> 02:02:21.532 [Lacer (Kai)]: We'll call you Riri. 02:02:21.652 --> 02:02:22.092 [Lacer (Kai)]: How about that? 02:02:22.152 --> 02:02:24.515 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Gentle eyes. 02:02:30.462 --> 02:02:31.003 [JC (Ryo)]: Anyways. 02:02:35.270 --> 02:02:36.497 [JC (Ryo)]: He's fairly skilled. 02:02:38.608 --> 02:02:38.769 [Unmatched Speaker]: Alright. 02:02:38.970 --> 02:02:41.162 [JC (Ryo)]: He's always able to fix up the tools I need. 02:02:43.268 --> 02:02:45.550 [Riv (DM)]: Down the way to the Ironclad Forge. 02:02:46.071 --> 02:02:48.753 [Riv (DM)]: It's a nice solid structure this one, built of stone. 02:02:48.773 --> 02:02:51.115 [Riv (DM)]: Nice warm glow. 02:02:52.396 --> 02:02:56.260 [Riv (DM)]: Kind of like emanating out through the windows and the door that's currently open. 02:02:56.740 --> 02:02:57.201 [Riv (DM)]: Double doors. 02:02:58.222 --> 02:03:01.085 [Riv (DM)]: You'll notice these are kind of hidden down, all the houses and stores. 02:03:01.325 --> 02:03:12.415 [Riv (DM)]: A lot of them have got like hanging candles from, you know, like the awning over the front of the balcony or something like that, or just hanging off a fence there. 02:03:12.395 --> 02:03:35.972 [Riv (DM)]: A couple of little candles just lit just kind of hanging around um definitely there's a bit of a thing going on um and and yeah the blacksmith has a couple hanging as well um as you're starting to head up you can hear the telltale signs of banging steel on steel um and you can head inside and it looks like just any other forge you've seen nice big stone floors that kind of opens up into a um 02:03:35.952 --> 02:03:40.697 [Riv (DM)]: Large forge with glowing heat pouring out towards the back of the room. 02:03:40.717 --> 02:03:45.822 [Riv (DM)]: A few workbenches along the side and up towards the front where you walk in. 02:03:46.583 --> 02:03:54.992 [Riv (DM)]: You can just see a few display cabinets that have got a few already pre-made weapons and along the sides you can see all sorts of hanging tools and things like that as well. 02:03:55.873 --> 02:04:03.681 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, you can see currently towards the back of the room banging away on the steel is a dwarf. 02:04:03.779 --> 02:04:08.705 [Riv (DM)]: Sturdy looking guy, big grey beard, um, intently focused on what he's doing. 02:04:14.893 --> 02:04:18.017 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'll just wrap on the counter with my knuckles. 02:04:18.377 --> 02:04:19.779 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 02:04:19.799 --> 02:04:20.119 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Looks up. 02:04:20.740 --> 02:04:23.063 [Riv (DM)]: Not gonna interrupt him, but they know there's people here. 02:04:23.804 --> 02:04:26.227 [Riv (DM)]: He, um, he's got a bit of a gruff expression on his face. 02:04:26.507 --> 02:04:30.011 [Riv (DM)]: He just kind of nods at you and carries on working for a little bit. 02:04:30.872 --> 02:04:31.373 [Riv (DM)]: Um. 02:04:32.281 --> 02:04:40.251 [Riv (DM)]: Puts one particularly strong bang into the steel and then kind of tosses them down, chucks the steel into some water to quench it. 02:04:41.292 --> 02:04:42.614 [Riv (DM)]: Wipes off a bit of sweat and wanders over. 02:04:42.654 --> 02:04:44.817 [Riv (DM)]: All right then. 02:04:47.360 --> 02:04:48.221 [Riv (DM)]: Strangers in town, eh? 02:04:48.441 --> 02:04:49.182 [Riv (DM)]: What can I do for you? 02:04:52.727 --> 02:04:54.168 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Might be doing a bit of work in the area. 02:04:54.288 --> 02:04:55.490 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Worst case, we're moving north. 02:04:55.650 --> 02:04:56.331 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I figure 02:04:57.323 --> 02:05:02.315 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: A town like this that deals with a few Nazis out in the woods probably has some quality armor. 02:05:03.458 --> 02:05:04.500 [Riv (DM)]: Yep, we got bits and pieces. 02:05:04.861 --> 02:05:06.024 [Riv (DM)]: Anything you're looking for in particular? 02:05:06.866 --> 02:05:08.009 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you see his eyes. 02:05:09.152 --> 02:05:13.442 [Riv (DM)]: He looks around at all of you and like really kind of checks you all out. 02:05:13.523 --> 02:05:28.747 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, to you, Dondai, you see him nod, and he does that same gesture that Gromdahl way, way back on the Mawbreakers did to you, the sign of strength between the Dwarves, strength against the Rebellion, or for the Rebellion, I should say. 02:05:31.070 --> 02:05:31.872 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Dondai nods back. 02:05:32.953 --> 02:05:35.337 [Riv (DM)]: Do you return the motion, or do you just nod? 02:05:37.801 --> 02:05:40.425 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Uh, Kiwi has forgotten the motion, but if I 02:05:41.789 --> 02:05:43.612 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: If Dondar remembers it, he will return it. 02:05:44.133 --> 02:05:45.175 [Riv (DM)]: Dondar definitely remembers it, yeah. 02:05:45.195 --> 02:05:46.837 [Riv (DM)]: Is it like fist to the forehead or fist to the heart? 02:05:47.939 --> 02:05:48.320 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:05:48.340 --> 02:05:49.341 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, I'll do that back. 02:05:50.443 --> 02:05:53.047 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, he nods and he's like, ah, good to see you dwarf. 02:05:53.789 --> 02:05:54.329 [Riv (DM)]: What's your name? 02:05:57.034 --> 02:05:57.715 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Uh, Dondar. 02:06:00.259 --> 02:06:01.000 [Riv (DM)]: I see a friendly face. 02:06:01.681 --> 02:06:02.803 [Riv (DM)]: I'm sorry lad, what were you saying? 02:06:03.524 --> 02:06:04.286 [Riv (DM)]: You looking for some armor? 02:06:05.548 --> 02:06:06.970 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Eh, what have you got on the heavier side? 02:06:07.962 --> 02:06:09.264 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, you know, all sorts. 02:06:10.366 --> 02:06:12.610 [Riv (DM)]: Got chainmail, got breastplates. 02:06:13.191 --> 02:06:16.337 [Riv (DM)]: Is there anything specific you need? 02:06:16.357 --> 02:06:18.080 [Riv (DM)]: You want me to try and measure you out, get you something? 02:06:19.823 --> 02:06:25.473 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm seeing if you had anything on hand of a size a bit heavier than this, and I just slap on my splint. 02:06:26.374 --> 02:06:27.616 [Riv (DM)]: He leans forward and kind of taps on it. 02:06:28.358 --> 02:06:28.618 [Riv (DM)]: Ah, yeah. 02:06:29.520 --> 02:06:30.882 [Riv (DM)]: It's a bit crude if you don't mind me saying. 02:06:32.802 --> 02:06:35.006 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It was a bit reworked from a rework. 02:06:35.888 --> 02:06:41.158 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Ripped off a hobgoblin lord that was obviously ripped off someone else and a fella tidied it up a bit. 02:06:41.959 --> 02:06:43.542 [Riv (DM)]: Oh yeah, certainly looks like it's been through the wringer. 02:06:45.145 --> 02:06:49.814 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, so I take it you're looking for a full-on plate then? 02:06:51.457 --> 02:06:53.882 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: That'd be the ideal but I do know it is hard to come by. 02:06:54.942 --> 02:06:56.625 [Riv (DM)]: I do actually happen to have a set. 02:06:56.665 --> 02:06:58.888 [Riv (DM)]: Let me give you a quick measurement see if we can fit you in it. 02:06:59.629 --> 02:07:07.883 [Riv (DM)]: I mean he goes and grabs a piece of string with some notches that have been sort of dyed into it and starts taking your measurements. 02:07:09.746 --> 02:07:10.026 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 02:07:11.148 --> 02:07:12.510 [Riv (DM)]: D20 roll again. 02:07:12.530 --> 02:07:14.453 [Riv (DM)]: You can do it this time bro. 02:07:19.478 --> 02:07:23.545 [Unmatched Speaker]: I'm so sorry. 02:07:25.328 --> 02:07:27.973 [Riv (DM)]: It's just a bit too big. 02:07:29.495 --> 02:07:34.364 [Riv (DM)]: I'm afraid this one's a bit more of a frail size. 02:07:34.905 --> 02:07:37.449 [Riv (DM)]: I can probably try and make some modifications to it. 02:07:37.770 --> 02:07:38.972 [Riv (DM)]: Might take a bit of time though. 02:07:40.420 --> 02:07:41.381 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Mmm, meh. 02:07:41.401 --> 02:07:46.166 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: If it's gonna require that much modification, might be better off to look at commissioning something a bit more complete. 02:07:46.966 --> 02:07:48.047 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 02:07:48.067 --> 02:07:48.568 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Sorry, friend. 02:07:50.129 --> 02:07:50.810 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: That's the way it works. 02:07:52.632 --> 02:07:57.377 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: While I'm talking to you, I've recovered this down south and I've been slowly working my way north. 02:07:57.617 --> 02:08:06.986 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I've got a little bit of info, but always like to check in with skilled, experienced artisans who might have run into something similar, and I crack out the greatsword. 02:08:07.887 --> 02:08:09.128 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, yeah. 02:08:09.344 --> 02:08:19.603 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Someone's, uh, well, I've been told by, can't remember the names, a few fellas down south that, uh, it's gonna be Northern Make, potentially even Royal Lion or something similar. 02:08:20.845 --> 02:08:26.175 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Point out the, um, the V inscription on the crosscard. 02:08:26.195 --> 02:08:27.457 [Riv (DM)]: That's beautiful work, honestly. 02:08:28.459 --> 02:08:31.425 [Riv (DM)]: Um, a bit, a bit sort of gaudy for my taste, to be honest. 02:08:31.886 --> 02:08:33.208 [Riv (DM)]: I prefer more of the 02:08:33.830 --> 02:08:38.559 [Riv (DM)]: Good old solid Dwarven steel, but I have to acknowledge some craftsmanship when I see it. 02:08:40.142 --> 02:08:40.803 [Riv (DM)]: Let's see what he knows. 02:08:43.408 --> 02:08:46.474 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, it's definitely from the northern cities. 02:08:47.296 --> 02:08:49.961 [Riv (DM)]: Definitely from somewhere around Val Aran. 02:08:51.584 --> 02:08:54.690 [Riv (DM)]: Other than that though, I can't tell you much more than you already know. 02:08:55.750 --> 02:08:57.793 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Fair enough, I always like the chicken. 02:08:58.134 --> 02:09:14.138 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, just judging by the way it's got these embellishments on it, and the etching here on the bottom of the pommel, definitely touches that would go for someone who's more interested in, you know, showing it off more than necessarily using it in wars. 02:09:17.944 --> 02:09:18.885 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Never hurts a chicken. 02:09:21.930 --> 02:09:23.192 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, well. 02:09:23.510 --> 02:09:24.091 [Riv (DM)]: It's a fine piece. 02:09:24.111 --> 02:09:26.173 [Riv (DM)]: I might even offer to take it off your hands. 02:09:26.894 --> 02:09:28.095 [Riv (DM)]: Though you seem a bit attached to it. 02:09:29.417 --> 02:09:38.067 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, at this stage I'm sure someone wants it back, and, uh, no disrespect, but I'm sure whatever you would offer me would probably be less than whatever the owners would. 02:09:38.087 --> 02:09:40.229 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Ah, that's fair enough. 02:09:41.010 --> 02:09:41.671 [Riv (DM)]: That's fair enough. 02:09:43.553 --> 02:09:45.115 [Riv (DM)]: Well, is there anything else I can help you with? 02:09:45.275 --> 02:09:47.057 [Riv (DM)]: I'm afraid I've been a bit unhelpful so far. 02:09:50.661 --> 02:09:50.782 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Uh-oh. 02:09:50.802 --> 02:09:51.222 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Question again. 02:09:53.935 --> 02:09:55.903 [Lacer (Kai)]: Um, I'm looking at an armor. 02:09:56.204 --> 02:10:01.788 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do you have anything non-metallic in the, either the scale, breastplate, or splint? 02:10:02.129 --> 02:10:02.832 [Lacer (Kai)]: I need to, it's 02:10:04.313 --> 02:10:07.097 [Riv (DM)]: I've got a bit of scale mail that might fit your order. 02:10:07.117 --> 02:10:08.319 [Riv (DM)]: Let me go and grab it. 02:10:09.461 --> 02:10:11.324 [Riv (DM)]: And he does. 02:10:11.644 --> 02:10:16.031 [Riv (DM)]: He goes and fishes up from some chest towards the back of the room. 02:10:16.071 --> 02:10:16.953 [Riv (DM)]: Just pulls it out. 02:10:17.734 --> 02:10:18.796 [Riv (DM)]: Sort of bunched up in there. 02:10:19.717 --> 02:10:20.659 [Riv (DM)]: Seem like brushed off a bit. 02:10:22.822 --> 02:10:23.203 [Riv (DM)]: Brings over. 02:10:23.263 --> 02:10:24.665 [Riv (DM)]: But it's very, very nice. 02:10:25.486 --> 02:10:25.907 [Riv (DM)]: Well made. 02:10:26.227 --> 02:10:26.588 [Riv (DM)]: Sturdy. 02:10:27.109 --> 02:10:29.292 [Riv (DM)]: Nothing fancy, but... 02:10:29.272 --> 02:10:31.674 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, very, very nicely kind of put together Scale Mail. 02:10:32.836 --> 02:10:33.176 [Riv (DM)]: Holds it up. 02:10:33.957 --> 02:10:38.622 [Riv (DM)]: Scalemail will, like, fit over pretty much anything, so. 02:10:39.342 --> 02:10:45.489 [Riv (DM)]: Although, Scalemail is technically metal, isn't it? 02:10:46.310 --> 02:10:49.973 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I was looking for non-metallic, like, non-metallic. 02:10:49.994 --> 02:10:52.536 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so I don't think this will do. 02:10:52.816 --> 02:10:54.098 [Riv (DM)]: I don't think this is what you're looking for then. 02:10:54.678 --> 02:10:58.182 [Riv (DM)]: Other than that, I can only really offer you hide and leathers and stuff like that. 02:10:58.938 --> 02:11:00.180 [Lacer (Kai)]: I've already got that. 02:11:00.521 --> 02:11:10.980 [Lacer (Kai)]: Anywhere in the place, this place seems to go through a lot of different exotic materials that I could find something that's the non-metallic type or for armor. 02:11:11.120 --> 02:11:22.380 [Riv (DM)]: If you're looking for armor that's made directly from the scales of some beast, I'm not sure if there's anyone around here other than myself that would be crafting such a thing, but even that, very much a custom order, you know. 02:11:24.571 --> 02:11:30.179 [Riv (DM)]: Tell you though, if you're able to skin some giant beast out there in the woods and bring it back, I might be able to do something for you. 02:11:32.382 --> 02:11:33.584 [Lacer (Kai)]: If we're here long enough. 02:11:33.604 --> 02:11:39.452 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, how much do you reckon a quote or something like that and how long would it roughly take? 02:11:39.472 --> 02:11:42.316 [Riv (DM)]: Well, it would take quite a while to make something. 02:11:42.377 --> 02:11:45.902 [Riv (DM)]: Probably a few weeks at least to put together, judging on your size. 02:11:48.485 --> 02:11:49.427 [Riv (DM)]: I'll consider it. 02:11:49.767 --> 02:11:51.810 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, scales are a pain in the ass to work with. 02:11:53.309 --> 02:11:53.610 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 02:11:54.691 --> 02:11:55.292 [Lacer (Kai)]: I can imagine. 02:11:55.593 --> 02:11:56.655 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:11:56.675 --> 02:11:58.317 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 02:11:58.337 --> 02:11:59.600 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, yeah. 02:11:59.620 --> 02:12:01.523 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll see if I can hunt something along the way. 02:12:01.543 --> 02:12:10.197 [JC (Ryo)]: At the mention of leather, once Kai finishes talking, I ask what he's got in the leather variety. 02:12:11.339 --> 02:12:13.022 [JC (Ryo)]: If he has anything studded by chance. 02:12:13.373 --> 02:12:14.375 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 02:12:15.277 --> 02:12:21.350 [Riv (DM)]: Let's all agree to just kind of move past the whole shopping part of this roleplay. 02:12:22.613 --> 02:12:26.381 [Riv (DM)]: All the basic sort of armours and weapons and stuff you can get if you like. 02:12:27.783 --> 02:12:30.449 [Riv (DM)]: The plate mail is just the tricky one, unfortunately. 02:12:30.569 --> 02:12:33.255 [Riv (DM)]: Val, I'm so sorry. 02:12:34.096 --> 02:12:34.697 [Riv (DM)]: One of those things. 02:12:35.878 --> 02:12:40.483 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, so yeah, if you want to get your studded leather, 45 gold just crossed off, you can add a new one. 02:12:41.143 --> 02:12:44.727 [Riv (DM)]: Same with any like weapons, any of the simple weapons and stuff like that, you can grab as well. 02:12:46.129 --> 02:12:52.715 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I don't think I actually deleted the stats of my last one, so I could just re-equip my last one and take the gold off if that works for you. 02:12:52.736 --> 02:12:53.216 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, easy peasy. 02:12:55.118 --> 02:12:57.420 [JC (Ryo)]: Because what's it, it's 12, 12 plus dex, right? 02:12:59.483 --> 02:13:01.825 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, studded leather is 12 plus dex, yeah. 02:13:03.205 --> 02:13:03.646 [JC (Ryo)]: Sweet. 02:13:04.286 --> 02:13:06.249 [JC (Ryo)]: I've got this leather armour. 02:13:06.269 --> 02:13:07.471 [JC (Ryo)]: Any interest in buying it off me? 02:13:08.852 --> 02:13:09.674 [Riv (DM)]: He looks at it and just laughs. 02:13:10.395 --> 02:13:11.135 [Riv (DM)]: Good one, friend. 02:13:13.358 --> 02:13:15.521 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe I'll use it to mop the floor later or something. 02:13:17.063 --> 02:13:18.465 [Riv (DM)]: You hold forward, it's just like blackened. 02:13:18.505 --> 02:13:19.967 [Riv (DM)]: There are like holes straight through it. 02:13:20.448 --> 02:13:21.389 [Riv (DM)]: What's the straps? 02:13:21.409 --> 02:13:22.350 [Riv (DM)]: They just like fall into pieces. 02:13:23.592 --> 02:13:23.952 [JC (Ryo)]: That's alright. 02:13:24.033 --> 02:13:26.656 [JC (Ryo)]: I'll keep and scratch the basic leather armour. 02:13:26.756 --> 02:13:28.058 [JC (Ryo)]: I'll cut it up later. 02:13:29.400 --> 02:13:31.963 [Riv (DM)]: Let me just check... 02:13:33.732 --> 02:13:38.299 [Riv (DM)]: Earendor, I think he might have got some stuff burned as well, right? 02:13:38.319 --> 02:13:38.679 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, he did. 02:13:38.699 --> 02:13:40.903 [Riv (DM)]: He got his, his Wraith here and his armor got smashed. 02:13:41.964 --> 02:13:44.949 [Riv (DM)]: Um, I'll just obviously gem separately, I guess. 02:13:47.132 --> 02:13:48.694 [Riv (DM)]: I want to go and spend all his gold for him. 02:13:50.217 --> 02:13:52.520 [Lacer (Kai)]: Place my hand on Valoran's shoulder. 02:13:52.540 --> 02:13:58.068 [Lacer (Kai)]: You got five sets of chainmail from the, the boat trip we had down south. 02:13:58.088 --> 02:13:59.250 [Lacer (Kai)]: You want to offload it here? 02:14:03.230 --> 02:14:07.879 [Riv (DM)]: I feel like... Yeah, I'm not sure if we did keep like... 02:14:07.959 --> 02:14:09.722 [Lacer (Kai)]: I remember keeping it. 02:14:09.762 --> 02:14:25.892 [Lacer (Kai)]: So I know you grabbed them at the time on the boat, but that's a lot of chainmail to be lugging around for like... Yeah, but we're gonna keep it for, yeah, in the bag holding for, what's it called, as a disguise if we're gonna go as sailors. 02:14:26.273 --> 02:14:26.453 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 02:14:27.614 --> 02:14:27.894 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 02:14:28.856 --> 02:14:29.357 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, all good. 02:14:29.377 --> 02:14:31.740 [Riv (DM)]: If you think you would have had it, then all good. 02:14:31.820 --> 02:14:35.626 [Riv (DM)]: I think you might not have had the Bag of Holding at that point, but that's all good. 02:14:35.686 --> 02:14:39.292 [Riv (DM)]: You bought it when you got back to Camaar. 02:14:39.312 --> 02:14:43.919 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or we could have just kept it on the boat and sailed back all the way to Camaar with it. 02:14:44.419 --> 02:14:44.620 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 02:14:45.281 --> 02:14:46.022 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, cool. 02:14:46.102 --> 02:14:51.089 [Riv (DM)]: So if you want to offload them here, I'll give them a quarter price. 02:14:51.530 --> 02:14:54.294 [Riv (DM)]: So if they were chainmail, then what's that like? 02:14:55.216 --> 02:14:56.878 [Riv (DM)]: Oh jeez, what's 75 divided by 4? 02:14:59.356 --> 02:15:00.858 [Lacer (Kai)]: That'll be the 1.25. 02:15:05.343 --> 02:15:05.823 [JC (Ryo)]: Quick Googles. 02:15:05.883 --> 02:15:07.245 [JC (Ryo)]: 18 and three quarter. 02:15:08.166 --> 02:15:08.306 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:15:08.346 --> 02:15:09.067 [Riv (DM)]: You can do it for 20. 02:15:09.468 --> 02:15:10.188 [Riv (DM)]: I'll be generous. 02:15:11.009 --> 02:15:12.471 [Riv (DM)]: Because you've... 02:15:12.491 --> 02:15:13.572 [Riv (DM)]: He's feeling better. 02:15:13.712 --> 02:15:14.533 [JC (Ryo)]: 100 gold. 02:15:15.034 --> 02:15:23.824 [JC (Ryo)]: Yep. 02:15:23.844 --> 02:15:27.388 [Lacer (Kai)]: That frees up some space in our bag. 02:15:31.992 --> 02:15:33.734 [Lacer (Kai)]: Anything else you want here? 02:15:34.215 --> 02:15:34.916 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or to chat up? 02:15:35.497 --> 02:15:36.358 [Unmatched Speaker]: What's your name, by the way? 02:15:38.501 --> 02:15:39.763 [Unmatched Speaker]: You're saying this to the dude? 02:15:40.664 --> 02:15:43.909 [Unmatched Speaker]: Yeah, yeah, to the dwarven blacksmith. 02:15:43.929 --> 02:15:44.249 [Unmatched Speaker]: Yeah. 02:15:45.311 --> 02:15:46.132 [Unmatched Speaker]: His name is Doric. 02:15:51.299 --> 02:15:52.801 [Lacer (Kai)]: Pleasure to meet you, Doric. 02:15:53.162 --> 02:15:54.364 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm Kai. 02:15:54.584 --> 02:15:58.149 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're just a bunch of hunters looking for a job. 02:15:59.531 --> 02:16:00.953 [Riv (DM)]: I find lots of work around here. 02:16:04.291 --> 02:16:06.518 [Lacer (Kai)]: What do you see most that comes in? 02:16:07.120 --> 02:16:10.732 [Lacer (Kai)]: This bar seems very, very dangerous. 02:16:12.739 --> 02:16:13.963 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:16:15.310 --> 02:16:18.394 [Riv (DM)]: Honestly, it's quite a big variety. 02:16:19.115 --> 02:16:19.716 [Riv (DM)]: You see all sorts. 02:16:20.677 --> 02:16:23.681 [Riv (DM)]: You see shapeshifters out there, so plenty of claws come through. 02:16:23.721 --> 02:16:27.586 [Riv (DM)]: Don't have a lot of use for them myself, but giant spiders. 02:16:27.986 --> 02:16:35.896 [Riv (DM)]: Often, we've actually, earlier this year, a bunch of the trees themselves seemed to pull themselves out of the ground and came walking through the streets. 02:16:35.916 --> 02:16:39.040 [Riv (DM)]: That gave a few people a bit of a scare. 02:16:39.020 --> 02:16:46.151 [Riv (DM)]: Bugbears, shadowy creatures of death, beasts, all sorts honestly. 02:16:46.671 --> 02:16:49.556 [Riv (DM)]: I'm sure there's probably more things that aren't out there. 02:16:50.998 --> 02:16:52.660 [Riv (DM)]: Wait, you know what I mean. 02:16:53.882 --> 02:16:55.264 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:16:55.284 --> 02:16:57.868 [Riv (DM)]: There are less things you could count that are not out there. 02:16:58.529 --> 02:16:59.050 [Riv (DM)]: Something like that. 02:16:59.230 --> 02:16:59.510 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know. 02:17:00.912 --> 02:17:02.595 [Lacer (Kai)]: I think I get your picture. 02:17:02.615 --> 02:17:06.200 [Lacer (Kai)]: So if you can imagine it, there'll be something out there like it very much. 02:17:06.581 --> 02:17:06.681 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 02:17:07.943 --> 02:17:08.804 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, good to know. 02:17:08.824 --> 02:17:12.308 [Lacer (Kai)]: I guess we better be prepared if we have a venture out there. 02:17:14.811 --> 02:17:16.513 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: We're lucky we don't have a bard with us. 02:17:21.959 --> 02:17:22.880 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, anyone else? 02:17:23.701 --> 02:17:26.123 [Lacer (Kai)]: Anyone else wants to get something from him? 02:17:29.507 --> 02:17:32.610 [JC (Ryo)]: Starik, I've heard crazy- I've heard some rumours about this town. 02:17:32.831 --> 02:17:33.812 [JC (Ryo)]: Maybe you can help me out? 02:17:34.893 --> 02:17:35.233 [Riv (DM)]: Indeed. 02:17:35.934 --> 02:17:37.596 [Riv (DM)]: What did you hear there, lad? 02:17:38.150 --> 02:17:40.895 [Riv (DM)]: I can't see your face, you've got your hood all up. 02:17:40.915 --> 02:17:42.257 [Riv (DM)]: Do you mind stepping closer into the light? 02:17:43.299 --> 02:17:45.282 [JC (Ryo)]: No, I'm pretty scratched up. 02:17:45.603 --> 02:17:48.568 [JC (Ryo)]: I've got too many scars, I'm ashamed of it, I don't want to show them. 02:17:49.329 --> 02:17:50.491 [Riv (DM)]: Roll a deception check. 02:17:52.936 --> 02:17:55.059 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Dondar says it's true, he's fucking hideous. 02:17:58.085 --> 02:17:58.365 [Riv (DM)]: Advantage? 02:17:59.507 --> 02:18:00.549 [Riv (DM)]: Fine, take advantage. 02:18:01.130 --> 02:18:02.993 [Riv (DM)]: It was a quick shout, good thinking. 02:18:09.436 --> 02:18:12.541 [Riv (DM)]: He, um, his eyes narrow a little bit. 02:18:12.561 --> 02:18:13.883 [Riv (DM)]: He nods and doesn't press the issue further. 02:18:14.744 --> 02:18:15.145 [Riv (DM)]: Ah, fair enough. 02:18:16.166 --> 02:18:17.448 [Riv (DM)]: Go on, what were you asking? 02:18:18.750 --> 02:18:26.662 [JC (Ryo)]: I just heard that, uh, this town has no real love for anyone other than human. 02:18:26.682 --> 02:18:29.066 [JC (Ryo)]: It's just a surprise to see dwarves here. 02:18:31.910 --> 02:18:33.473 [JC (Ryo)]: Where'd you hear that from? 02:18:33.493 --> 02:18:35.055 [JC (Ryo)]: Just wanted to know how they treat you here. 02:18:36.048 --> 02:18:38.814 [Riv (DM)]: I've built up a good workshop here in town. 02:18:39.496 --> 02:18:42.242 [Riv (DM)]: The citizens respect my work. 02:18:42.262 --> 02:18:45.208 [Riv (DM)]: As far as I'm concerned, as far as they're concerned, that's it. 02:18:45.409 --> 02:18:45.910 [Riv (DM)]: That's the end of it. 02:18:49.157 --> 02:18:51.522 [JC (Ryo)]: The Empire buy a lot of you as well? 02:18:51.542 --> 02:18:53.567 [JC (Ryo)]: Sorry, the Imperials buy a lot of you as well? 02:18:53.587 --> 02:18:54.529 [JC (Ryo)]: Or do they leave you alone? 02:18:55.285 --> 02:19:08.423 [Riv (DM)]: I work with them occasionally if they need their swords sharpened and their armours undented and stuff like that, but for the most part they don't actually do that much, so I don't see them that often. 02:19:10.766 --> 02:19:14.611 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Not like any of those bastards would be getting their swords blunted or armour worked on anyway, would they? 02:19:14.631 --> 02:19:15.032 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Exactly. 02:19:15.292 --> 02:19:17.055 [Riv (DM)]: They stay out of the honest work. 02:19:18.116 --> 02:19:19.878 [Riv (DM)]: A few interesting questions you got there, friend. 02:19:20.980 --> 02:19:24.685 [Riv (DM)]: Curious as to why you're so interested in them. 02:19:26.251 --> 02:19:28.414 [JC (Ryo)]: They seem to have their teeth in everything. 02:19:29.496 --> 02:19:31.399 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, that's true. 02:19:31.419 --> 02:19:33.943 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I can't speak too much for the cities outside this town. 02:19:33.963 --> 02:19:43.317 [Riv (DM)]: I've been here most of my life, but, you know. 02:19:43.337 --> 02:19:44.299 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, all good. 02:19:44.339 --> 02:19:45.000 [JC (Ryo)]: Sorry to bother you. 02:19:45.100 --> 02:19:46.101 [JC (Ryo)]: Thanks again for the armor. 02:19:47.824 --> 02:19:49.887 [JC (Ryo)]: I'll throw an extra ten gold on the counter. 02:19:50.789 --> 02:19:52.491 [Riv (DM)]: Have a great day. 02:19:52.511 --> 02:19:54.975 [Riv (DM)]: He very, very gratefully takes it off. 02:19:55.597 --> 02:19:57.199 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, well, hopefully I'll be seeing you around. 02:19:57.239 --> 02:20:00.483 [Riv (DM)]: Thanks for your, thanks for your business, folks. 02:20:01.324 --> 02:20:04.487 [Riv (DM)]: And he, um, turns back around and goes and grabs a steel that was clenched. 02:20:05.448 --> 02:20:05.729 [Lacer (Kai)]: Clenched? 02:20:05.949 --> 02:20:10.454 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do I, do I notice, Doric, recognize, um, rare? 02:20:11.715 --> 02:20:13.017 [Riv (DM)]: Uh, roll a insight check. 02:20:20.886 --> 02:20:24.490 [Riv (DM)]: Um, I will send you another Discord message. 02:20:41.210 --> 02:20:41.671 [JC (Ryo)]: Alrighty. 02:20:48.118 --> 02:20:51.382 [Riv (DM)]: So, um, are we, what are we doing now? 02:20:51.503 --> 02:20:52.984 [Riv (DM)]: Are we off to one of the other shops? 02:20:53.926 --> 02:20:54.927 [Riv (DM)]: Where do you want to go next, Rio? 02:20:58.671 --> 02:21:02.216 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I wanna... Nah, go ahead. 02:21:03.417 --> 02:21:05.159 [JC (Ryo)]: Uh, as we get outside, I'll go to the guys. 02:21:05.280 --> 02:21:07.402 [JC (Ryo)]: Call me, call me Leo while we're in this town. 02:21:08.343 --> 02:21:09.765 [JC (Ryo)]: I guess I better have a name. 02:21:10.522 --> 02:21:12.064 [Lacer (Kai)]: Leo the Lion. 02:21:12.124 --> 02:21:15.907 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alrighty, Leo. 02:21:16.688 --> 02:21:18.650 [Lacer (Kai)]: You wanna do some recon around this town? 02:21:19.271 --> 02:21:20.252 [Lacer (Kai)]: See what's up? 02:21:20.272 --> 02:21:21.153 [Lacer (Kai)]: How you wanna do this? 02:21:23.795 --> 02:21:26.798 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, the um... 02:21:27.339 --> 02:21:27.919 [JC (Ryo)]: I... 02:21:27.939 --> 02:21:28.019 [JC (Ryo)]: I... 02:21:28.039 --> 02:21:28.240 [JC (Ryo)]: I... 02:21:28.360 --> 02:21:31.042 [JC (Ryo)]: I... Is anyone, like, hovering around us at the moment? 02:21:31.062 --> 02:21:34.106 [JC (Ryo)]: Riv, can I have a look around, make sure no one's hanging us too much mind? 02:21:34.606 --> 02:21:37.609 [Riv (DM)]: There are a few people further up the street, just sort of wandering away, but nah, you're all good at the moment. 02:21:39.040 --> 02:21:45.130 [JC (Ryo)]: This was one of the places I went to on that day, so I had to pick his brain. 02:21:46.973 --> 02:21:51.580 [JC (Ryo)]: I didn't think this was the guy, but he seems to want to stick to himself. 02:21:53.884 --> 02:22:02.398 [Lacer (Kai)]: He was suspicious about you when you asked those kind of very obscure questions, but yeah. 02:22:06.631 --> 02:22:12.758 [JC (Ryo)]: I'll beat it out of the captain if I have to, but I think I can cross the blacksmith off the list. 02:22:15.642 --> 02:22:20.248 [Unmatched Speaker]: Alright, so we've got the... Oops, sorry, go on. 02:22:20.268 --> 02:22:24.052 [Unmatched Speaker]: I was just going to ask Leo where he wanted to check out next. 02:22:27.517 --> 02:22:30.360 [JC (Ryo)]: The Verdant Roses across the road, if it's open. 02:22:31.066 --> 02:22:33.169 [Lacer (Kai)]: Did you visit there on the same day? 02:22:33.189 --> 02:22:34.992 [Lacer (Kai)]: I did. 02:22:36.654 --> 02:22:38.817 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, let's pick off the list. 02:22:38.837 --> 02:22:46.368 [JC (Ryo)]: I did, and it's got lots of stuff that you might be interested in, so I'll let you do the talking while I look around. 02:22:46.889 --> 02:22:49.432 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll have a look, but I don't really want to buy anything at the moment. 02:22:49.452 --> 02:22:53.778 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm just trying to find some better armor that's not metallic type. 02:22:55.421 --> 02:22:57.664 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Makes me kind of... We could make you some stone armor. 02:22:59.247 --> 02:23:02.691 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, do you have the tools and stuff to do that? 02:23:04.253 --> 02:23:04.814 [JC (Ryo)]: I don't know. 02:23:04.834 --> 02:23:07.817 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean, if you want medicine or stuff, this has got heaps of that type of stuff. 02:23:08.478 --> 02:23:10.421 [JC (Ryo)]: I used to sell heaps of that type of stuff here as well. 02:23:11.882 --> 02:23:21.895 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, let's quickly suss it out and see if we get any hints for your quest or answers. 02:23:22.916 --> 02:23:24.518 [Lacer (Kai)]: See if any people know anything. 02:23:25.359 --> 02:23:28.022 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I have a spell that can form the armor. 02:23:29.825 --> 02:23:32.588 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ah, so it's not it's not permanent is it Dondar? 02:23:32.608 --> 02:23:33.629 [Lacer (Kai)]: I can't like wear it. 02:23:33.649 --> 02:23:36.372 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: It's permanent. 02:23:36.392 --> 02:23:40.297 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I'm creating an item from materials. 02:23:41.999 --> 02:23:44.942 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alrighty, I might hit you up on that at some stage. 02:23:52.450 --> 02:23:54.753 [Riv (DM)]: All right, we can hop on over to the Verdant Roads. 02:23:54.773 --> 02:23:56.895 [Riv (DM)]: It's not too far down the road. 02:23:59.322 --> 02:24:00.547 [Riv (DM)]: What is the Verdant Rose like? 02:24:00.929 --> 02:24:08.961 [Riv (DM)]: It's kind of dimly lit this one, a bit more natural looking than some of the others you can see just behind it. 02:24:09.380 --> 02:24:20.014 [Riv (DM)]: Behind the main structure of the building itself you can see there's a fence with what looks like a garden or some, you know, some herb set up out behind. 02:24:20.054 --> 02:24:24.260 [Riv (DM)]: There's a bit of a tree growing as well you can see just poking over the back of the building. 02:24:25.021 --> 02:24:34.273 [Riv (DM)]: And as you enter in you can see that there's this like strong scent of earthen flowers, kind of that 02:24:34.574 --> 02:24:37.797 [Riv (DM)]: Medicinal sort of tang on the ear as well that you can kind of pick up. 02:24:38.418 --> 02:24:41.701 [Riv (DM)]: And yeah, just kind of cluttered around. 02:24:41.721 --> 02:24:48.007 [Riv (DM)]: There's jars filled with herbs and like weird little creature parts. 02:24:48.047 --> 02:24:51.691 [Riv (DM)]: There's like a jar of eyeballs, a jar of like claws and stuff like that. 02:24:53.212 --> 02:24:56.856 [Riv (DM)]: Like bundles of herbs that are just hanging from the ceiling, probably helping with the smell. 02:24:57.477 --> 02:25:01.020 [Riv (DM)]: And yeah, just like out the back you can see there is a door. 02:25:01.388 --> 02:25:06.254 [Riv (DM)]: The very back part of the room with a small window that you can kind of see into the garden behind. 02:25:07.295 --> 02:25:18.668 [Riv (DM)]: But yeah, inside here, just beyond the main counter, there is a woman who's kind of like middle-aged, who's sort of just leaning over a plant. 02:25:18.688 --> 02:25:24.375 [Riv (DM)]: She's got some secateurs and you can see she's sort of trimming away at this flower, just trying to 02:25:24.355 --> 02:25:25.597 [Riv (DM)]: Maintaining it or something. 02:25:25.957 --> 02:25:44.202 [Riv (DM)]: And she's looking a little bit uncomfortable at the moment because over on the other side of the room there is a younger man, a halfling dude by the looks of things, who is just sitting up on the counter, arms crossed, just looking quite casual, chatting with a group of four soldiers with red cloaks. 02:25:44.723 --> 02:25:52.894 [Riv (DM)]: At the moment just talking about whatever casual things are going on, just excitement for the next evening. 02:25:52.874 --> 02:25:55.877 [Riv (DM)]: What the soldiers have been up to and stuff like that. 02:25:55.957 --> 02:25:56.718 [Riv (DM)]: What they're looking for. 02:25:57.139 --> 02:26:02.845 [Riv (DM)]: And as you enter, all of the soldiers immediately look at you as the door swings open. 02:26:03.766 --> 02:26:05.487 [Riv (DM)]: And the conversation kind of cuts off. 02:26:06.328 --> 02:26:16.159 [Riv (DM)]: And the main soldier, who Rio, you immediately recognise as the captain of the guards here, just kind of nods to the man. 02:26:17.440 --> 02:26:19.202 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, Hugo. 02:26:19.182 --> 02:26:19.943 [Riv (DM)]: Always a pleasure. 02:26:21.767 --> 02:26:22.488 [Riv (DM)]: Catch you next time, maybe. 02:26:23.750 --> 02:26:25.053 [Riv (DM)]: Some more business to attend to tonight? 02:26:25.473 --> 02:26:26.415 [Riv (DM)]: Well, leave you to it. 02:26:27.377 --> 02:26:32.326 [Riv (DM)]: And he turns and starts to wander towards you with the other three soldiers following behind. 02:26:33.248 --> 02:26:37.716 [Riv (DM)]: As he walks past you, he just nods and carries on out the door. 02:26:37.896 --> 02:26:40.060 [JC (Ryo)]: You can see he's wearing... Get the fuck out of his way. 02:26:40.968 --> 02:26:42.590 [Riv (DM)]: Did you say you do get out of his way? 02:26:42.610 --> 02:26:44.173 [JC (Ryo)]: I get the fuck out of his way. 02:26:44.193 --> 02:26:47.939 [JC (Ryo)]: I do not let him get close enough to me to spot me nothing. 02:26:48.319 --> 02:26:53.347 [Riv (DM)]: Do you want to just roll a quick stealth or deception check or something like that? 02:26:53.607 --> 02:26:55.871 [Riv (DM)]: Just so we can see how obvious that looks. 02:26:56.371 --> 02:26:58.254 [Riv (DM)]: Make it a deception probably. 02:26:59.115 --> 02:27:00.738 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, just back up against the wall. 02:27:00.758 --> 02:27:02.841 [JC (Ryo)]: Just get as far away from him as I can. 02:27:06.719 --> 02:27:07.059 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 02:27:07.900 --> 02:27:20.114 [Riv (DM)]: He definitely looks at you as he sees a tall figure with a big robe up just kind of like back out of the way and back up against the wall but he doesn't seem to stop and as he's like wandering on past you can see his armour is just gleaming. 02:27:20.194 --> 02:27:22.958 [Riv (DM)]: Doesn't look like it's seen a day of scratches or anything. 02:27:23.138 --> 02:27:30.106 [Riv (DM)]: It's highly polished and his cloak is like pristine and he's got that sort of look about his face where he just looks like an asshole. 02:27:30.286 --> 02:27:35.612 [Riv (DM)]: He's like it's too cleanly shaved and like trimmed and stuff like that and yeah. 02:27:35.592 --> 02:27:45.304 [Riv (DM)]: His eyes are just a little bit too mighty for their station, but he carries on past you after nodding gently to you, and the three follow. 02:27:46.866 --> 02:27:48.388 [Riv (DM)]: And the door closes behind them as they're out. 02:27:49.109 --> 02:27:52.153 [JC (Ryo)]: At this point... Has they all got their back to me, Hunter's Mark? 02:27:54.175 --> 02:27:55.597 [Riv (DM)]: On the captain? 02:27:56.999 --> 02:27:57.559 [Riv (DM)]: On the captain. 02:27:58.420 --> 02:28:00.423 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, I think he can make a check. 02:28:00.543 --> 02:28:02.245 [JC (Ryo)]: No verbal, no somatic, no nothing. 02:28:03.427 --> 02:28:04.468 [Riv (DM)]: He does have verbal. 02:28:05.815 --> 02:28:08.479 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, it's verbal shit. 02:28:10.723 --> 02:28:11.644 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hunter's Mark! 02:28:12.225 --> 02:28:15.610 [JC (Ryo)]: I thought it had nothing on it. 02:28:15.630 --> 02:28:17.093 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean, your character would know. 02:28:17.714 --> 02:28:20.798 [JC (Ryo)]: I whisper it as quiet as I possibly fucking can. 02:28:21.099 --> 02:28:22.401 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 02:28:22.461 --> 02:28:25.385 [Riv (DM)]: And I'll also just remind you that this doesn't let you know where he is. 02:28:28.751 --> 02:28:30.253 [JC (Ryo)]: No, Vantage on... 02:28:31.533 --> 02:28:34.397 [JC (Ryo)]: On tracking checks and stuff. 02:28:34.437 --> 02:28:35.719 [Riv (DM)]: To search them down, yeah. 02:28:35.739 --> 02:28:38.003 [Riv (DM)]: But it's not like a GPS pinpoint on where he is. 02:28:39.946 --> 02:28:41.248 [JC (Ryo)]: No, no. 02:28:41.348 --> 02:28:44.332 [JC (Ryo)]: I know it's not GPS, but it helps me tracking. 02:28:44.352 --> 02:28:45.474 [Riv (DM)]: Absolutely, yeah. 02:28:45.494 --> 02:28:47.177 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 02:28:47.197 --> 02:28:54.047 [Riv (DM)]: I'm just checking, for some reason I have it in my mind that the character gets to roll a save to feel it affect them or something. 02:28:54.107 --> 02:29:00.156 [Riv (DM)]: I can't read it anyway, so let's say that it applies and you feel it mark your quarry. 02:29:00.727 --> 02:29:08.317 [JC (Ryo)]: It'll be the first time this campaign... Can I actually... No, I need a 3rd level spell. 02:29:08.357 --> 02:29:11.902 [JC (Ryo)]: I don't have a 3rd level slot yet. 02:29:11.922 --> 02:29:14.165 [Unmatched Speaker]: Wait, you should have... You should have... 02:29:14.345 --> 02:29:16.048 [Unmatched Speaker]: I thought... Yeah. 02:29:19.332 --> 02:29:21.035 [Riv (DM)]: Anyway, Hunter's Might goes out. 02:29:21.055 --> 02:29:23.478 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, if I 3rd level upcast it, it's 8 hours. 02:29:23.558 --> 02:29:25.921 [JC (Ryo)]: If it's 5 levels... Level 5, it's 24 hours. 02:29:25.941 --> 02:29:27.403 [JC (Ryo)]: But yeah, I don't have level 3 spells. 02:29:28.825 --> 02:29:28.945 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 02:29:28.965 --> 02:29:30.227 [Lacer (Kai)]: You should have level 4, shouldn't you? 02:29:31.675 --> 02:29:33.277 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: No, Half-Castles are a bit behind. 02:29:34.219 --> 02:29:35.060 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, I didn't know. 02:29:35.080 --> 02:29:36.462 [Riv (DM)]: I didn't know. 02:29:36.482 --> 02:29:38.445 [Riv (DM)]: No. 02:29:38.465 --> 02:29:48.380 [Riv (DM)]: Anyway, at this point, after they've gone out, the woman just looks over disapprovingly at the halfling and just kind of says, Get back to work, Hugo. 02:29:48.420 --> 02:29:49.041 [Riv (DM)]: Go on, out back. 02:29:49.642 --> 02:29:54.248 [Riv (DM)]: And you see him hop off the bench and scuttle out to the door and heads out the back. 02:29:55.410 --> 02:29:58.695 [Riv (DM)]: And she looks up at you just after snipping another leaf and says, 02:30:00.042 --> 02:30:00.803 [Riv (DM)]: Alright then. 02:30:02.226 --> 02:30:03.588 [Riv (DM)]: Welcome to my store. 02:30:04.069 --> 02:30:05.832 [Riv (DM)]: What can I help you with? 02:30:05.852 --> 02:30:07.114 [Riv (DM)]: Is there anything specific you're looking for? 02:30:07.134 --> 02:30:09.298 [Riv (DM)]: Or are you just kind of having a little nosy? 02:30:13.265 --> 02:30:15.229 [Lacer (Kai)]: Nice store you've got here. 02:30:15.549 --> 02:30:17.973 [Lacer (Kai)]: Kind of a tense atmosphere. 02:30:18.394 --> 02:30:20.658 [Lacer (Kai)]: Those guys come in here. 02:30:20.858 --> 02:30:21.780 [Lacer (Kai)]: What were they looking for? 02:30:23.060 --> 02:30:24.622 [Riv (DM)]: I don't think they're looking for anything. 02:30:24.642 --> 02:30:25.984 [Riv (DM)]: They're just chatting to Hugo. 02:30:26.805 --> 02:30:29.710 [Riv (DM)]: I think he's kind of become friendly with them or something. 02:30:29.770 --> 02:30:30.411 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know. 02:30:32.574 --> 02:30:40.205 [Riv (DM)]: I'll leave him to his own business when he's not helping out around the store. 02:30:40.225 --> 02:30:40.625 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright. 02:30:40.886 --> 02:30:42.248 [JC (Ryo)]: Is he up the front? 02:30:42.308 --> 02:30:44.311 [JC (Ryo)]: Or is he completely up the back that guy? 02:30:44.331 --> 02:30:45.152 [Riv (DM)]: He's gone out the back. 02:30:48.794 --> 02:30:53.263 [Lacer (Kai)]: I pull out my, what's it called, alchemy book. 02:30:54.065 --> 02:31:01.741 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do you have anything here that would be ingredients to make a greater healing potion, by any chance? 02:31:03.004 --> 02:31:05.048 [Lacer (Kai)]: Or do you have any greater healing potions? 02:31:05.872 --> 02:31:07.715 [Riv (DM)]: She can sell you a Greater Healing Potion. 02:31:08.516 --> 02:31:09.918 [Riv (DM)]: She definitely has one of those on hand. 02:31:10.359 --> 02:31:13.643 [Riv (DM)]: As for the ingredients for one, that's an interesting question. 02:31:13.804 --> 02:31:15.186 [Riv (DM)]: I haven't looked at that alchemy book in a while. 02:31:16.628 --> 02:31:17.269 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can I just roll? 02:31:17.549 --> 02:31:18.911 [Lacer (Kai)]: Roll and see if she's got ingredients. 02:31:19.071 --> 02:31:20.413 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I'm just... 02:31:21.875 --> 02:31:25.821 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I should point out you're probably going to be a little surprised at the cost of a Greater Healing Potion. 02:31:26.729 --> 02:31:39.363 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I just want one as like a reference, you know, that I could like, taste, like, and then kind of make it with my, what's it called, herbalism pouch, if I can get the materials. 02:31:40.964 --> 02:31:48.472 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, um... 02:31:48.492 --> 02:31:52.036 [Riv (DM)]: Roll, um, yeah, roll your d20 to see if you've got... Just roll a d20. 02:31:52.397 --> 02:31:52.737 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:31:57.172 --> 02:31:57.957 [Unmatched Speaker]: Yeah. 02:31:58.057 --> 02:32:02.866 [Unmatched Speaker]: You've been, um... 02:32:02.886 --> 02:32:03.047 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Finally. 02:32:06.166 --> 02:32:07.688 [Riv (DM)]: You've been doing well tonight with your rolls. 02:32:09.330 --> 02:32:10.271 [Riv (DM)]: She does have a few things. 02:32:10.932 --> 02:32:18.581 [Riv (DM)]: You can see that there's like a little heart with like a few strings sort of floating off it in a little jar. 02:32:19.161 --> 02:32:22.705 [Riv (DM)]: One of those, I think it's like the heart of a salamander. 02:32:22.726 --> 02:32:24.428 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know. 02:32:24.668 --> 02:32:26.470 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, we'll just say it's material. 02:32:26.530 --> 02:32:33.338 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you can definitely buy it for 100 gold and it'll be sort of the main thing other than the materials you've already got in your alchemy pouch. 02:32:34.668 --> 02:32:35.629 [Lacer (Kai)]: Cool. 02:32:35.950 --> 02:32:36.530 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'll buy that. 02:32:36.670 --> 02:32:37.792 [Lacer (Kai)]: She's just got the one, right? 02:32:38.473 --> 02:32:39.574 [Riv (DM)]: Just the one hard on her, yeah. 02:32:40.195 --> 02:32:43.178 [Riv (DM)]: But she does also have another potion there that she could sell you if you wanted. 02:32:43.378 --> 02:32:45.461 [Lacer (Kai)]: How much for the greater healing potion? 02:32:46.002 --> 02:32:48.104 [Riv (DM)]: She's got 300 gold. 02:32:49.726 --> 02:32:50.167 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, I'm done. 02:32:50.347 --> 02:32:51.368 [Lacer (Kai)]: I give her 400 gold. 02:32:54.131 --> 02:32:54.852 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 02:32:54.872 --> 02:32:58.116 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, she's... Are you sure? 02:32:58.136 --> 02:32:59.578 [Riv (DM)]: That's a lot of gold. 02:33:00.959 --> 02:33:02.040 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I work. 02:33:03.261 --> 02:33:06.385 [Lacer (Kai)]: I work, so it shouldn't be a problem. 02:33:07.205 --> 02:33:08.086 [Riv (DM)]: Thank you, sir. 02:33:08.206 --> 02:33:09.188 [Riv (DM)]: That's very generous. 02:33:09.368 --> 02:33:12.931 [Riv (DM)]: Please, if there's anything else you want, please have a look around. 02:33:12.951 --> 02:33:14.093 [Riv (DM)]: There's all sorts of other things. 02:33:15.474 --> 02:33:17.516 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, she takes a gold and is very, very happy. 02:33:20.599 --> 02:33:29.008 [Riv (DM)]: So you can add one jar with a heart and a salamander heartstring and a greater healing potion. 02:33:30.423 --> 02:33:30.884 [JC (Ryo)]: Awesome. 02:33:31.906 --> 02:33:34.211 [Riv (DM)]: I'll just note down that you have the supplies there. 02:33:36.355 --> 02:33:41.365 [Riv (DM)]: And you know how to craft and stuff, it'll take like, I think, the greatest week of downtime. 02:33:46.756 --> 02:33:47.658 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yup. 02:33:47.678 --> 02:33:51.165 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's gonna be all my downtime trying to make these things. 02:33:56.663 --> 02:33:57.043 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright. 02:33:58.385 --> 02:34:03.370 [Lacer (Kai)]: Anything funny happen lately around here? 02:34:03.390 --> 02:34:04.191 [Riv (DM)]: Nothing too funny is it? 02:34:04.211 --> 02:34:06.113 [Riv (DM)]: Mainly people just gearing up for the vigil tomorrow night. 02:34:08.676 --> 02:34:09.357 [Riv (DM)]: Oh yeah? 02:34:09.377 --> 02:34:10.558 [Riv (DM)]: Do you know what time that happens? 02:34:12.160 --> 02:34:19.448 [Riv (DM)]: Well the solstice itself will hit at midnight but most people sort of start together in the evening anyway. 02:34:21.807 --> 02:34:22.548 [Lacer (Kai)]: Hmm. 02:34:22.568 --> 02:34:22.688 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 02:34:22.768 --> 02:34:23.529 [Lacer (Kai)]: Midnight tomorrow. 02:34:23.970 --> 02:34:25.231 [Lacer (Kai)]: So stay out late. 02:34:25.612 --> 02:34:26.633 [Lacer (Kai)]: See you soon. 02:34:27.534 --> 02:34:31.419 [Lacer (Kai)]: Watch the beacon, whatever the beacon does. 02:34:33.602 --> 02:34:34.163 [Riv (DM)]: You haven't seen it? 02:34:34.964 --> 02:34:37.046 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, you're in for a treat, friend. 02:34:38.869 --> 02:34:38.949 [Riv (DM)]: Oh. 02:34:39.650 --> 02:34:40.531 [Lacer (Kai)]: It'll be a good surprise. 02:34:44.856 --> 02:34:46.518 [Lacer (Kai)]: Um, I'll look to Rio. 02:34:46.859 --> 02:34:48.020 [Lacer (Kai)]: I mean, Leo. 02:34:48.220 --> 02:34:49.502 [Lacer (Kai)]: Leo, what are you doing, Leo? 02:34:51.423 --> 02:34:52.427 [Lacer (Kai)]: Anything you like, yeah? 02:34:52.969 --> 02:35:00.377 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm just... Yeah, I come up to the counter and go, oh, what were they chasing? 02:35:00.798 --> 02:35:02.023 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, those other guys. 02:35:03.320 --> 02:35:04.702 [Riv (DM)]: I don't really know, to be honest. 02:35:05.122 --> 02:35:07.144 [Riv (DM)]: I mostly just leave them be. 02:35:07.925 --> 02:35:11.329 [Riv (DM)]: I don't like to talk to the soldiers and stuff like that. 02:35:11.349 --> 02:35:12.170 [Riv (DM)]: They make me uncomfortable. 02:35:12.651 --> 02:35:13.832 [Riv (DM)]: They're just after Hugo. 02:35:14.413 --> 02:35:18.818 [Riv (DM)]: I think, you know, like I said before, he's gotten friendly with them or something. 02:35:18.838 --> 02:35:20.460 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know if he's looking for a job or something. 02:35:20.500 --> 02:35:21.000 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know. 02:35:21.381 --> 02:35:23.503 [Riv (DM)]: I mean, he's an alright assistant. 02:35:24.104 --> 02:35:26.046 [Riv (DM)]: He's not fantastic, but I take the help that I can. 02:35:28.069 --> 02:35:30.611 [Riv (DM)]: But if he were to leave and join up with them... Yeah, I understand. 02:35:31.072 --> 02:35:32.714 [JC (Ryo)]: Who really are they? 02:35:32.754 --> 02:35:32.854 Yeah. 02:35:35.703 --> 02:35:36.624 [JC (Ryo)]: I understand. 02:35:36.664 --> 02:35:37.385 [JC (Ryo)]: You really are. 02:35:37.425 --> 02:35:39.807 [JC (Ryo)]: Who's really a fan of the Imperials these days? 02:35:40.928 --> 02:35:41.369 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 02:35:41.389 --> 02:35:43.211 [Riv (DM)]: Well, certainly not this girl. 02:35:46.574 --> 02:35:46.975 [Riv (DM)]: Hmm. 02:35:46.995 --> 02:35:52.681 [Lacer (Kai)]: Seems to be the... Do you believe her? 02:35:56.805 --> 02:35:58.787 [JC (Ryo)]: Can I roll an insight check to see if she's lying? 02:35:59.808 --> 02:35:59.948 [Riv (DM)]: Mm-hmm. 02:35:59.968 --> 02:36:00.529 [Riv (DM)]: Absolutely. 02:36:08.407 --> 02:36:09.609 [Riv (DM)]: Ah, unlucky thing. 02:36:09.629 --> 02:36:10.070 [Riv (DM)]: For fuck's sake. 02:36:12.173 --> 02:36:15.418 [Riv (DM)]: She's got a very kind, gentle face and yeah, it's tough to really tell. 02:36:21.788 --> 02:36:25.053 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, have you got more potions for sale? 02:36:25.093 --> 02:36:26.054 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, we've got a few things. 02:36:26.114 --> 02:36:27.176 [Riv (DM)]: Is there anything you're after? 02:36:27.236 --> 02:36:30.842 [Riv (DM)]: We've got tonics to help you get to sleep. 02:36:31.823 --> 02:36:35.028 [Riv (DM)]: We've got stuff to, you know, clean out your ears after you've had a shower. 02:36:35.068 --> 02:36:36.270 [Riv (DM)]: What are you after? 02:36:38.596 --> 02:36:56.306 [JC (Ryo)]: I know my friend just bought a really nice potion of healing from you. 02:36:56.466 --> 02:36:58.269 [JC (Ryo)]: Do you have any basic ones by chance? 02:36:59.671 --> 02:37:03.017 [Riv (DM)]: You're just looking for just kind of standard potions of healing? 02:37:04.870 --> 02:37:06.232 [Riv (DM)]: We've got a few of those. 02:37:07.333 --> 02:37:07.834 [Riv (DM)]: Let me go and check. 02:37:08.875 --> 02:37:10.497 [Riv (DM)]: She wanders over, opens up a cupboard. 02:37:11.999 --> 02:37:12.861 [Riv (DM)]: Pulls out four. 02:37:18.228 --> 02:37:19.409 [Riv (DM)]: She just brings them over to the counter. 02:37:19.590 --> 02:37:21.192 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I think these will probably do the trick. 02:37:22.133 --> 02:37:22.814 [Riv (DM)]: Would you like all of them? 02:37:25.618 --> 02:37:26.238 [JC (Ryo)]: How much? 02:37:27.220 --> 02:37:28.161 [Riv (DM)]: About 50 gold each. 02:37:34.503 --> 02:37:36.165 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I'll take them all. 02:37:37.827 --> 02:37:42.073 [Riv (DM)]: She puts them in like one of those little milk carton things. 02:37:43.094 --> 02:37:45.297 [Riv (DM)]: Slots them in and hands them over to you all in one big thing. 02:37:45.698 --> 02:37:46.338 [Riv (DM)]: One big package. 02:37:51.485 --> 02:37:55.110 [JC (Ryo)]: So it's 10 to 1 the exchange rate, right? 02:37:55.150 --> 02:37:55.851 [JC (Ryo)]: So, plight to gold? 02:37:56.231 --> 02:37:56.652 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:37:59.495 --> 02:38:01.478 [JC (Ryo)]: So 200 gold is 20 plight, yeah? 02:38:01.979 --> 02:38:02.299 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:38:06.599 --> 02:38:14.794 [JC (Ryo)]: Pull that 40 plat and put it on the table and go, your friend, how long has he been friendly with the Imperials? 02:38:14.814 --> 02:38:18.842 [JC (Ryo)]: And I sit there like, you know, counting out the 40 plat. 02:38:19.543 --> 02:38:24.152 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, she sees this and she backs away a little bit from the counter and she's like, 02:38:25.482 --> 02:38:28.506 [Riv (DM)]: Look, have I done something wrong? 02:38:28.526 --> 02:38:31.590 [Riv (DM)]: You guys are throwing around a lot of money. 02:38:32.070 --> 02:38:34.153 [Riv (DM)]: I don't want to get in trouble. 02:38:34.213 --> 02:38:35.815 [Riv (DM)]: I try to keep my own business. 02:38:35.915 --> 02:38:40.161 [Riv (DM)]: Look, if you've got a problem with someone, please, I don't have anything to do with it. 02:38:42.644 --> 02:38:43.825 [Lacer (Kai)]: Relax. 02:38:44.646 --> 02:38:45.467 [Lacer (Kai)]: I say relax. 02:38:45.808 --> 02:38:46.629 [Lacer (Kai)]: We're hunters. 02:38:47.009 --> 02:38:49.172 [Lacer (Kai)]: We hunt big game. 02:38:49.192 --> 02:38:51.315 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, hunters with a lot of money, apparently. 02:38:51.515 --> 02:38:52.857 [JC (Ryo)]: I've just got gold. 02:38:53.638 --> 02:38:54.679 [JC (Ryo)]: I've just got money to burn. 02:38:56.060 --> 02:39:01.635 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, if you don't want the business, we can go elsewhere, you know? 02:39:02.578 --> 02:39:03.841 [JC (Ryo)]: I think you're being truthful. 02:39:04.583 --> 02:39:07.772 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I haven't taken the potions yet, they're still on the table. 02:39:07.952 --> 02:39:10.018 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, can you just roll a persuasion check for me? 02:39:11.990 --> 02:39:14.875 [Lacer (Kai)]: Disadvantage if I'm helping or no? 02:39:15.436 --> 02:39:18.802 [Riv (DM)]: Honestly, if you're helping, I think it would hurt more than help at this point. 02:39:18.822 --> 02:39:20.665 [Riv (DM)]: She's feeling very overwhelmed. 02:39:20.966 --> 02:39:26.295 [Riv (DM)]: A group of mercenaries rocked on up and chucked thousands of dollars at her, essentially. 02:39:26.376 --> 02:39:35.652 [Riv (DM)]: She takes your words and you can see she calms down a little bit. 02:39:37.370 --> 02:39:39.073 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 02:39:39.093 --> 02:39:39.774 [Riv (DM)]: Fair enough. 02:39:41.277 --> 02:39:45.223 [Riv (DM)]: Anyway, like I was saying, I try to keep to myself. 02:39:45.284 --> 02:39:46.766 [Riv (DM)]: I just run the little store here. 02:39:47.527 --> 02:39:49.190 [Riv (DM)]: I don't want to get involved in anything. 02:39:49.511 --> 02:39:52.696 [Riv (DM)]: You seem like you folks are after something. 02:39:52.716 --> 02:39:54.039 [Riv (DM)]: I don't want to know. 02:39:54.379 --> 02:39:59.007 [Riv (DM)]: If there's anything I can do to help, please just let me know and you can go on your business. 02:40:05.298 --> 02:40:12.709 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, just curious about the friend there, that's all. 02:40:12.829 --> 02:40:15.112 [JC (Ryo)]: How long has he been buddy-buddy with the Imperials? 02:40:16.915 --> 02:40:19.879 [Riv (DM)]: Well, he started working here half a year ago probably. 02:40:20.760 --> 02:40:30.394 [Riv (DM)]: He grew up in the town and probably has been Chamberlain the last few months maybe, three or four months. 02:40:31.673 --> 02:40:32.114 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know. 02:40:32.995 --> 02:40:36.459 [Riv (DM)]: He's not my kid, so I haven't told him no, yes or no. 02:40:36.779 --> 02:40:41.385 [Riv (DM)]: I have mentioned to him to just suggest that they don't come around here all the time. 02:40:41.405 --> 02:40:42.547 [Riv (DM)]: It's bad for business, you know? 02:40:42.667 --> 02:40:45.550 [Riv (DM)]: But, you know, other than that, he's gonna do what he's gonna do. 02:40:45.570 --> 02:40:51.818 [JC (Ryo)]: I push the 40 flat across the counter again. 02:40:51.959 --> 02:40:54.281 [JC (Ryo)]: Hopefully this makes up for some of your business. 02:40:56.684 --> 02:40:57.045 [Riv (DM)]: Thank you. 02:40:57.205 --> 02:40:58.246 [Riv (DM)]: It is very generous. 02:40:59.388 --> 02:41:01.090 [Riv (DM)]: I'm a bit overwhelmed, I have to say, but... 02:41:02.487 --> 02:41:03.388 [Riv (DM)]: I appreciate it nonetheless. 02:41:03.828 --> 02:41:04.349 [Riv (DM)]: She grabs it. 02:41:09.093 --> 02:41:16.360 [JC (Ryo)]: I pick up the potions and put them in my pack and go... Obviously, I know this town doesn't like the Imperials. 02:41:16.500 --> 02:41:17.982 [JC (Ryo)]: This stays between us, yeah? 02:41:19.303 --> 02:41:20.945 [Riv (DM)]: Of course, I don't want any trouble. 02:41:22.526 --> 02:41:23.467 [Riv (DM)]: I can assure you of that. 02:41:23.547 --> 02:41:25.769 [JC (Ryo)]: No, we don't have trouble with you either. 02:41:25.909 --> 02:41:27.231 [JC (Ryo)]: We like buying supplies. 02:41:27.351 --> 02:41:30.874 [JC (Ryo)]: We would be back to buy more supplies, if you'll have us. 02:41:31.748 --> 02:41:33.029 [Riv (DM)]: Of course, it sounds wonderful. 02:41:33.450 --> 02:41:35.572 [Riv (DM)]: If I can help, then that's perfect by me. 02:41:41.199 --> 02:41:54.955 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I mean, we always need healing stuff, so we'll definitely, if you can make healing potions and stuff like that, we'll happily buy them. 02:41:55.981 --> 02:41:56.481 [Riv (DM)]: Very good. 02:41:56.562 --> 02:42:00.726 [Riv (DM)]: I'll work on a new batch now that you've picked up the rest of my supplies. 02:42:00.966 --> 02:42:04.309 [Riv (DM)]: Might have some ready in the next couple of days if you want to come back for more. 02:42:04.329 --> 02:42:05.531 [Riv (DM)]: Although hopefully you won't need them, of course. 02:42:07.252 --> 02:42:13.478 [JC (Ryo)]: Of course. 02:42:13.498 --> 02:42:16.922 [JC (Ryo)]: Hopefully that was... You took the words out of my mouth. 02:42:17.502 --> 02:42:21.927 [JC (Ryo)]: Can you guys still hear me? 02:42:21.947 --> 02:42:23.068 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you're good, man. 02:42:28.364 --> 02:42:29.466 [Riv (DM)]: Oh no, can you hear us? 02:42:31.769 --> 02:42:31.969 [JC (Ryo)]: Uh-oh. 02:42:32.009 --> 02:42:39.220 [JC (Ryo)]: Okay, yeah, the expoundry's completely freaked out on me as I went to add the potions. 02:42:39.240 --> 02:42:39.881 [Riv (DM)]: Are you sorted now? 02:42:40.121 --> 02:42:43.046 [JC (Ryo)]: I can hear you guys, but apparently I'm 5,000 ping. 02:42:44.208 --> 02:42:44.828 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, shit. 02:42:45.449 --> 02:42:47.753 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe hit a good old Ctrl-Shift-R on that bad boy. 02:42:50.577 --> 02:42:52.600 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, you could be one of them early peasants. 02:42:53.272 --> 02:42:54.253 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Hit the F5. 02:42:55.274 --> 02:42:58.058 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah, sounds like he's lagging out in Discord. 02:42:58.078 --> 02:43:02.483 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, like slowly dies. 02:43:02.503 --> 02:43:06.748 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: How do you even check your ping in Discord? 02:43:06.968 --> 02:43:10.372 [JC (Ryo)]: Click where it says voice connected, voice details. 02:43:10.392 --> 02:43:19.523 [JC (Ryo)]: For some reason one of my router bands, I was pinging like 5,000, I've swapped to the other band and now I'm like 10. 02:43:20.104 --> 02:43:21.926 [JC (Ryo)]: Sorry about that. 02:43:21.946 --> 02:43:22.587 [JC (Ryo)]: You're all good. 02:43:23.225 --> 02:43:24.066 [JC (Ryo)]: Am I back? 02:43:24.086 --> 02:43:24.767 [JC (Ryo)]: Can you hear me again? 02:43:24.967 --> 02:43:25.788 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, man, you're perfect. 02:43:25.808 --> 02:43:29.213 [JC (Ryo)]: Yes, we can hear you. 02:43:29.233 --> 02:43:34.700 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, um... Yeah, so I was gonna say to her, yes, can you use that batch to make some more? 02:43:34.720 --> 02:43:36.342 [JC (Ryo)]: We'll probably be back to buy some more later. 02:43:37.283 --> 02:43:39.106 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, yeah, I'll start working on it tomorrow, of course. 02:43:39.186 --> 02:43:46.615 [JC (Ryo)]: No worries, have a great, um... What's this damn thing called again? 02:43:47.957 --> 02:43:48.758 [Riv (DM)]: Emberlight Vigil. 02:43:49.719 --> 02:43:51.021 [JC (Ryo)]: Have a great Emberlight Vigil. 02:43:52.688 --> 02:43:56.652 [Riv (DM)]: Winter Solstice would work as well. 02:43:57.013 --> 02:43:59.015 [Riv (DM)]: All these made-up words, eh? 02:44:00.676 --> 02:44:02.699 [Riv (DM)]: They'll lock on your head at some point. 02:44:03.239 --> 02:44:05.782 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, she smiles and just bows her head slightly. 02:44:06.342 --> 02:44:06.763 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, thank you. 02:44:07.143 --> 02:44:07.984 [Riv (DM)]: Hopefully see you again. 02:44:10.467 --> 02:44:12.008 [Riv (DM)]: And she turns back to her client. 02:44:12.028 --> 02:44:15.852 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Dondar, do an insight check and see if they like each other. 02:44:18.295 --> 02:44:19.236 [Riv (DM)]: Sure, go for it. 02:44:24.329 --> 02:44:25.593 [Riv (DM)]: Please, please don't roll a 20. 02:44:28.502 --> 02:44:29.264 [Riv (DM)]: Let's go! 02:44:32.373 --> 02:44:33.276 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I'll never know. 02:44:33.745 --> 02:44:57.998 [Riv (DM)]: So at the moment Leo is like fully wrapped up in a robe like barely any of his like body is visible and she is like a woman in her late 40s maybe early 50s slightly hunched over looks like she spent all of her time tending plants her hands are all sort of gnarled and scratched and stuff like that um and she's very finely spoken you know faintly spoken i guess i should say um 02:44:57.978 --> 02:44:58.438 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:44:59.039 --> 02:45:00.420 [Riv (DM)]: Any sort of spark of romance? 02:45:01.161 --> 02:45:02.142 [Riv (DM)]: Hard to tell, to be honest. 02:45:02.222 --> 02:45:03.203 [Riv (DM)]: Two difficult people. 02:45:03.543 --> 02:45:08.587 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Hey, love is love. 02:45:08.607 --> 02:45:08.948 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Indeed. 02:45:09.889 --> 02:45:11.570 [Riv (DM)]: Something's clearly on Dondar's mind. 02:45:17.115 --> 02:45:17.535 [Riv (DM)]: Alrighty then. 02:45:18.436 --> 02:45:19.417 [Riv (DM)]: Rio, you good here? 02:45:19.437 --> 02:45:22.980 [Riv (DM)]: Have you got anything else you wanted to do? 02:45:23.040 --> 02:45:23.501 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, no. 02:45:24.001 --> 02:45:26.263 [JC (Ryo)]: Rio thinks he's narrowed it down and 02:45:26.480 --> 02:45:30.124 [JC (Ryo)]: He's got a captain to go follow down if the party's up for it. 02:45:32.246 --> 02:45:32.787 [JC (Ryo)]: Can we kill him? 02:45:35.210 --> 02:45:35.310 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 02:45:35.330 --> 02:45:43.459 [Lacer (Kai)]: We can, yeah, we can follow him if you lead the way and along the way if we're close enough to the emberlight maybe we can try and get a thing stuck in the wall? 02:45:46.502 --> 02:45:47.143 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah, let's do it. 02:45:48.585 --> 02:45:54.411 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Riv, just outside, are they actually called Imperials or...? 02:45:55.606 --> 02:45:57.508 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, Imperials would be fine. 02:45:58.370 --> 02:46:01.874 [Riv (DM)]: The Empire is called the Valtoran Empire, sometimes called the Red Empire. 02:46:02.475 --> 02:46:04.618 [Riv (DM)]: Imperials is fine, Soldiers, Red Cloaks. 02:46:05.319 --> 02:46:15.712 [Riv (DM)]: Normally when you would call someone a Red Cloak you would be specifically talking about a Hand of the Empire and not all the Soldiers are, but colloquially you could say, you know, a bunch of the Red Cloak Soldiers, blah blah blah. 02:46:15.732 --> 02:46:21.580 [Lacer (Kai)]: So when we entered here there was three Hands and a Captain, or was there four Hands and a Captain? 02:46:22.268 --> 02:46:27.714 [Riv (DM)]: No, they weren't, they mostly appeared to be normal soldiers, no hands. 02:46:27.734 --> 02:46:34.162 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, right, I had the impression that people, there was like, captains surrounded with hands and I was like, holy shit, I was gonna shoot myself. 02:46:35.283 --> 02:46:37.146 [Riv (DM)]: I said red cloaks, but like, not, you know. 02:46:37.166 --> 02:46:39.348 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, you said four red cloaks and I shat meself. 02:46:39.769 --> 02:46:48.319 [Unmatched Speaker]: Oh, so soldiers, so it was three soldiers or four soldiers? 02:46:48.459 --> 02:46:50.301 [Unmatched Speaker]: Three soldiers plus the captain. 02:46:50.281 --> 02:46:51.142 [Unmatched Speaker]: Where's the captain? 02:46:51.302 --> 02:46:52.343 [Unmatched Speaker]: Okay, good, gotcha, gotcha. 02:46:59.791 --> 02:47:00.051 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Alright. 02:47:00.752 --> 02:47:01.313 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Sorry. 02:47:01.333 --> 02:47:15.968 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: As we're stepping out, Riv, I just, I didn't want to butt in way earlier, but I'd just like to roll it back a little bit for me personally, and just as those soldiers are leaving, I want to run an eye over them, just to get a judge like the captain, I don't think much of. 02:47:17.467 --> 02:47:24.380 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: But the three guys with him, I just want to have a look at the way they move and how maintained and stuffed their armor is. 02:47:25.362 --> 02:47:27.887 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Are they fellow fops or are they actual combatants? 02:47:29.110 --> 02:47:30.953 [Lacer (Kai)]: Are they combat ready? 02:47:31.554 --> 02:47:36.083 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, this can be a perception or an insight check if you like. 02:47:39.472 --> 02:47:47.507 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Imagine that for his armor to glow and gleam that much, theirs must be quite dull in comparison. 02:47:48.189 --> 02:47:51.575 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, he definitely stood out as like a bit of a fancy pants. 02:47:52.777 --> 02:47:57.226 [Riv (DM)]: Like an ember light. 02:47:57.306 --> 02:48:01.935 [Riv (DM)]: The three with him, you got the vibe that 02:48:02.472 --> 02:48:07.184 [Riv (DM)]: While they aren't quite as like... You know, he clearly stands out above them. 02:48:07.285 --> 02:48:10.052 [Riv (DM)]: He doesn't let them get above their station or whatever. 02:48:10.934 --> 02:48:13.140 [Riv (DM)]: But they had an air of... 02:48:13.390 --> 02:48:14.712 [Riv (DM)]: Kind of bullies, I guess. 02:48:14.972 --> 02:48:22.943 [Riv (DM)]: People that probably don't see a lot of actual fighting, but like to sort of, you know, act tough around common folk and stuff like that. 02:48:23.043 --> 02:48:23.284 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:48:25.887 --> 02:48:27.549 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Just checking if you had competent capables. 02:48:28.771 --> 02:48:31.735 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And I don't know if I can do a second on it. 02:48:31.875 --> 02:48:35.701 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: As we stepped in and saw them chatting to the apprentice. 02:48:36.442 --> 02:48:36.762 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: His name? 02:48:36.902 --> 02:48:37.723 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: How are you? 02:48:37.823 --> 02:48:37.984 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: How's? 02:48:38.004 --> 02:48:38.805 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Hugo. 02:48:39.125 --> 02:48:39.406 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Hugo. 02:48:40.807 --> 02:48:41.929 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: What sort of, um, 02:48:42.652 --> 02:48:44.535 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: What's the vibe we're getting there? 02:48:44.555 --> 02:48:46.818 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Is it like a fan? 02:48:48.060 --> 02:48:48.340 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Or... 02:48:49.081 --> 02:48:49.782 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's like a fan. 02:48:51.345 --> 02:48:55.511 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so he's a young-looking halfling, maybe very, very early 20s. 02:48:55.971 --> 02:49:08.349 [Riv (DM)]: If not a fan, he's at the very least very comfortable with them and appears to be trying to get into their good graces by chatting openly with them and whatever. 02:49:10.152 --> 02:49:10.853 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Fair enough, yeah. 02:49:11.356 --> 02:49:12.778 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I think we've got a target there. 02:49:17.364 --> 02:49:21.849 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Out of character, target is an understatement. 02:49:21.869 --> 02:49:24.353 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Well, some say target, some say bait. 02:49:25.074 --> 02:49:25.574 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It all works. 02:49:28.157 --> 02:49:29.559 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I'm even masked in the bait. 02:49:29.579 --> 02:49:31.322 [JC (Ryo)]: I think I found who I'm filling my hole with. 02:49:33.004 --> 02:49:33.124 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh. 02:49:33.624 --> 02:49:33.965 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Phrasing. 02:49:35.867 --> 02:49:40.333 [Unmatched Speaker]: Yeah, that didn't come out right. 02:49:41.174 --> 02:49:52.251 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: We're not in a world where that sort of behaviour wouldn't be considered an effective strategy of war. 02:49:54.034 --> 02:49:55.196 [Riv (DM)]: Whatever you like, man. 02:49:55.216 --> 02:49:56.538 [Riv (DM)]: There's no judgement in this world. 02:49:58.321 --> 02:50:01.786 [Lacer (Kai)]: You do you, Leo. 02:50:01.826 --> 02:50:04.010 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Better sodomy to demoralise the enemy. 02:50:04.030 --> 02:50:04.971 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Nothing wrong with that. 02:50:07.162 --> 02:50:09.105 [Riv (DM)]: On that note, you step out into the night. 02:50:10.207 --> 02:50:11.569 [JC (Ryo)]: On that note, I'm gonna pick up a shovel. 02:50:13.211 --> 02:50:19.180 [JC (Ryo)]: I have a crowbar, that's gonna take a long time to dig a hole in the crowbar. 02:50:20.081 --> 02:50:20.382 [Riv (DM)]: Sweet. 02:50:20.402 --> 02:50:20.923 [Riv (DM)]: So what are we doing? 02:50:20.963 --> 02:50:21.263 [Riv (DM)]: Where to? 02:50:23.867 --> 02:50:30.978 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: As we step out, we're gonna make sure we're away from people and just look at Ryo and go... Huber. 02:50:31.779 --> 02:50:35.785 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: He seems to be someone we probably need to have a quiet word with. 02:50:37.874 --> 02:50:49.578 [Lacer (Kai)]: We should have asked her what time the... what's it called? 02:50:51.983 --> 02:50:52.885 [Lacer (Kai)]: The shop closes. 02:50:52.925 --> 02:50:54.127 [Lacer (Kai)]: What time a shop closes? 02:50:54.188 --> 02:50:55.410 [Lacer (Kai)]: The Verdant Rose. 02:51:00.082 --> 02:51:01.503 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'll poke my head back in. 02:51:02.685 --> 02:51:08.050 [Riv (DM)]: What time do you want to get back tonight? 02:51:08.070 --> 02:51:08.651 [Riv (DM)]: She looks out the window. 02:51:08.671 --> 02:51:11.534 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, the sun is like truly well set by now. 02:51:11.574 --> 02:51:15.518 [Riv (DM)]: The faintest glow of orange over the hills in the far to the west. 02:51:16.038 --> 02:51:16.979 [Riv (DM)]: She's like, you know what? 02:51:19.242 --> 02:51:20.543 [Riv (DM)]: I think I might be packing up pretty soon. 02:51:20.563 --> 02:51:23.646 [Riv (DM)]: I need to get ready for tomorrow night. 02:51:24.147 --> 02:51:25.448 [Riv (DM)]: I've got a few more candles to carve. 02:51:28.668 --> 02:51:29.108 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Fair enough. 02:51:29.929 --> 02:51:31.110 [Riv (DM)]: Might see you tomorrow then. 02:51:31.591 --> 02:51:32.191 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, sounds good. 02:51:33.913 --> 02:51:36.135 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, probably closing very imminently. 02:51:39.858 --> 02:51:40.899 [Lacer (Kai)]: Leo, what's the plan? 02:51:41.240 --> 02:51:41.960 [Lacer (Kai)]: What's the plan, Leo? 02:51:44.403 --> 02:51:46.745 [JC (Ryo)]: I don't remember if this place has a backdoor or not. 02:51:47.105 --> 02:51:55.333 [JC (Ryo)]: I want to follow this guy home and either interrogate him or try and get the captain on his own, which will probably be a bit harder. 02:51:56.410 --> 02:51:58.693 [JC (Ryo)]: The shell-off's got three buddy guys following him around. 02:52:01.758 --> 02:52:05.804 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Surely they wouldn't follow him home. 02:52:07.626 --> 02:52:09.389 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: You don't know what they'd do. 02:52:10.370 --> 02:52:15.017 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm sure the captain stays in the barracks. 02:52:15.037 --> 02:52:20.104 [JC (Ryo)]: I doubt he's got his own separate place he'll keep his minions around him to protect him. 02:52:23.249 --> 02:52:24.831 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Seems an arrogant little cunt. 02:52:25.537 --> 02:52:30.083 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: He might have his own special lodgings away from the plebs. 02:52:34.289 --> 02:52:49.248 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do you know how far away he's ventured since we've been shopping in the Verdant Rose as of now? 02:52:49.268 --> 02:52:51.311 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Who are you asking? 02:52:51.552 --> 02:52:51.932 [Lacer (Kai)]: Leo. 02:52:55.034 --> 02:53:01.865 [JC (Ryo)]: I tap into my sensors and see if I feel if I can track him, I guess. 02:53:03.889 --> 02:53:16.008 [Riv (DM)]: You can kind of look down and see the slightly fresher and more indented footprints of steel boots walking down the road, but other than that you can't see anyone anywhere. 02:53:16.169 --> 02:53:19.995 [Riv (DM)]: It's been probably a good 5-10 minutes or so and they've crossed our sight. 02:53:23.063 --> 02:53:24.906 [JC (Ryo)]: Well, that was probably my first guess. 02:53:28.353 --> 02:53:30.918 [JC (Ryo)]: Hunter's Mark doesn't let me track him completely. 02:53:30.938 --> 02:53:34.625 [JC (Ryo)]: It does help me track him, but it doesn't tell me where he is exactly. 02:53:36.128 --> 02:53:39.033 [JC (Ryo)]: If anything, he's gone back to his barracks to go live. 02:53:42.840 --> 02:53:43.662 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, English. 02:53:44.664 --> 02:53:45.966 [JC (Ryo)]: Why am I speaking common? 02:53:48.427 --> 02:53:53.833 [JC (Ryo)]: This is actually me struggling to talk, not a bloody character. 02:53:53.853 --> 02:54:13.253 [Riv (DM)]: At this point, the door to the Verdant Rose just pops open, and a little halfling kid comes hopping out, whistling away, hopping down the stairs, does a little hop at the end and jumps and lands, and then sees you after nearly walking straight into him, like, oh, oh god, sorry, didn't see you there. 02:54:13.503 --> 02:54:15.046 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, have a good evening. 02:54:15.767 --> 02:54:17.169 [Riv (DM)]: Happy Vigil tomorrow. 02:54:17.190 --> 02:54:21.036 [Riv (DM)]: And he heads on off up the other way, away from the spire. 02:54:21.738 --> 02:54:23.040 [Riv (DM)]: Just hands in pockets whistling. 02:54:24.282 --> 02:54:26.085 [Riv (DM)]: How old is this kid? 02:54:26.105 --> 02:54:27.628 [Riv (DM)]: Early 20s probably would be the guess. 02:54:28.169 --> 02:54:28.710 [Riv (DM)]: So is it you? 02:54:28.790 --> 02:54:31.114 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, okay. 02:54:31.815 --> 02:54:32.677 [Riv (DM)]: Definitely killable. 02:54:33.899 --> 02:54:36.203 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is there heaps of people around here at the moment? 02:54:36.807 --> 02:54:45.144 [Riv (DM)]: There's a few people that have started to kid home, there's a few people closing up stores and stuff like that, but there's not a massive number of people around. 02:54:49.212 --> 02:54:51.717 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is there an alley nearby? 02:54:52.519 --> 02:54:54.242 [Lacer (Kai)]: Between these houses and stuff? 02:54:54.340 --> 02:54:57.625 [Riv (DM)]: So there are plenty of houses sort of clustered. 02:54:58.225 --> 02:55:13.647 [Riv (DM)]: The town doesn't so much have alleys because it's not like massive big stone buildings that have formed natural alleys, but if you were to say grab a small boy and tug him behind a house, there's plenty of space in between the houses. 02:55:13.667 --> 02:55:15.449 [Lacer (Kai)]: That's exactly what I'm thinking. 02:55:15.469 --> 02:55:21.578 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Or we can buy a room where it's quieter and more secure. 02:55:22.800 --> 02:55:23.841 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Depending if he lives alone. 02:55:29.086 --> 02:55:31.990 [JC (Ryo)]: I want to start with him. 02:55:32.051 --> 02:55:32.631 [JC (Ryo)]: He's right there. 02:55:32.912 --> 02:55:33.713 [JC (Ryo)]: Can we start following him? 02:55:34.955 --> 02:55:36.477 [Riv (DM)]: You may, yeah. 02:55:36.778 --> 02:55:37.258 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 02:55:37.278 --> 02:55:38.080 [Riv (DM)]: You can start following him along. 02:55:38.821 --> 02:55:40.684 [Riv (DM)]: And you won't need to track him because you can just see him. 02:55:41.204 --> 02:55:44.550 [Riv (DM)]: But roll a self check if you try to do it stealthily. 02:55:45.631 --> 02:55:47.674 [Lacer (Kai)]: Leo, I can literally make him come to us. 02:55:48.295 --> 02:55:48.996 [Lacer (Kai)]: You want me to do that? 02:55:49.096 --> 02:55:50.358 [Lacer (Kai)]: We just grab and bag him? 02:55:52.281 --> 02:55:54.064 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Just gonna put him in the bag of holding. 02:55:54.635 --> 02:55:59.764 [JC (Ryo)]: Isn't there only like six seconds worth of air in the bag of holding or is it ten minutes? 02:56:00.084 --> 02:56:00.645 [Riv (DM)]: Ten minutes. 02:56:04.552 --> 02:56:06.956 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, it sounds like an idea. 02:56:09.280 --> 02:56:09.581 [JC (Ryo)]: I think. 02:56:10.463 --> 02:56:14.069 [JC (Ryo)]: As we're about to grab, can we try and catch up to him to grab him? 02:56:15.311 --> 02:56:17.655 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, how many feet is he away from us at the moment? 02:56:18.665 --> 02:56:21.188 [Riv (DM)]: This could have happened as soon as you liked. 02:56:21.449 --> 02:56:25.874 [Riv (DM)]: He's just walking, so however far he's walked away, it could be 60 feet away, 100 feet away. 02:56:27.637 --> 02:56:27.837 [Lacer (Kai)]: Right. 02:56:27.857 --> 02:56:34.486 [Lacer (Kai)]: When he's 60 feet away from me, I just yell out, Hugo, Hugo, come, and I cast Command. 02:56:36.689 --> 02:56:36.889 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 02:56:37.009 --> 02:56:39.833 [Riv (DM)]: What is your saving, what is your DC on that? 02:56:43.818 --> 02:56:44.940 [Unmatched Speaker]: DC 15. 02:56:45.821 --> 02:56:46.782 [Unmatched Speaker]: Yeah, cool. 02:56:51.689 --> 02:56:57.957 [JC (Ryo)]: As Kai does this, can I throw something out at him as well? 02:56:58.638 --> 02:56:58.838 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:57:00.360 --> 02:57:03.544 [JC (Ryo)]: I throw this aimed right on him. 02:57:03.564 --> 02:57:06.248 [JC (Ryo)]: And obviously this will drop my concentration on Hunter's Mark. 02:57:06.268 --> 02:57:06.408 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:57:06.608 --> 02:57:07.008 [Riv (DM)]: Silence? 02:57:07.029 --> 02:57:09.291 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I thought that was coming. 02:57:09.311 --> 02:57:10.833 [Riv (DM)]: So, yeah. 02:57:12.676 --> 02:57:13.657 [Lacer (Kai)]: Where are you dropping this? 02:57:14.097 --> 02:57:14.698 [Lacer (Kai)]: This silence? 02:57:15.139 --> 02:57:16.000 [Lacer (Kai)]: Are you dropping it on us? 02:57:16.140 --> 02:57:17.822 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, it's... No, on him. 02:57:18.743 --> 02:57:20.025 [JC (Ryo)]: But he's coming towards us. 02:57:21.153 --> 02:57:23.982 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, but if it fails, he can't yell out. 02:57:24.002 --> 02:57:26.189 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, yeah, I guess so. 02:57:27.934 --> 02:57:29.078 [Riv (DM)]: A 14 fails. 02:57:30.161 --> 02:57:34.234 [Riv (DM)]: And so he stops all of a sudden just hearing Kai's voice ring out. 02:57:35.412 --> 02:57:51.801 [Riv (DM)]: And like you know stands upright and then just slowly turns around and starts walking back in your direction um just as like you see his mouth start to open up as if he were to say something but as soon as it does just you don't hear anything at all it's like he's just miming to you um and he's slowly walking your direction. 02:57:53.300 --> 02:58:01.792 [Lacer (Kai)]: I start running and we're going to tackle him and grab him and throw him into the, what's it called, between the houses. 02:58:01.952 --> 02:58:02.493 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 02:58:02.513 --> 02:58:07.540 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, so roll a contested athletics check to see if you can grapple him successfully. 02:58:07.580 --> 02:58:11.104 [Riv (DM)]: I'll give him disadvantage because he is commanded at the moment. 02:58:12.006 --> 02:58:16.111 [Riv (DM)]: Wait, do I get advantage? 02:58:16.592 --> 02:58:17.874 [Riv (DM)]: No, I'm giving him disadvantage. 02:58:18.555 --> 02:58:18.835 [Lacer (Kai)]: Okay. 02:58:24.080 --> 02:58:25.565 [Riv (DM)]: You absolutely floor him. 02:58:26.227 --> 02:58:28.955 [Riv (DM)]: You kind of knock your elbow a little bit on the ground. 02:58:29.216 --> 02:58:32.065 [Riv (DM)]: It's not the most graceful tackle, but he's a 20-year-old kid. 02:58:32.727 --> 02:58:35.435 [Riv (DM)]: You flatten him to the ground and you have him grappled. 02:58:35.455 --> 02:58:38.224 [Unmatched Speaker]: I like to 02:58:38.879 --> 02:58:41.864 [Unmatched Speaker]: Pick him up, grapple, then move him into between the houses. 02:58:42.525 --> 02:58:42.885 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, cool. 02:58:43.146 --> 02:58:43.987 [Riv (DM)]: He's a halfling. 02:58:44.087 --> 02:58:44.848 [Riv (DM)]: He's a small little dude. 02:58:45.149 --> 02:58:50.618 [Riv (DM)]: So easy enough, you can just grab him, fireman's throw over your shoulder, and start walking towards the houses. 02:58:51.058 --> 02:58:58.410 [Riv (DM)]: At this point, you would have walked out of the Zone of Silence, and the command has worn off, and he starts immediately kicking his legs like, What are you doing? 02:58:58.750 --> 02:58:59.211 [Riv (DM)]: Put me down! 02:58:59.652 --> 02:59:00.413 [Riv (DM)]: I didn't do anything wrong! 02:59:00.433 --> 02:59:00.994 [Riv (DM)]: I didn't do anything! 02:59:01.014 --> 02:59:01.695 [Riv (DM)]: What are you doing? 02:59:03.097 --> 02:59:03.838 [Riv (DM)]: Making a bit of a commotion. 02:59:05.301 --> 02:59:06.102 [JC (Ryo)]: Wanna gag him. 02:59:07.145 --> 02:59:08.527 [JC (Ryo)]: I run up with Kai. 02:59:08.547 --> 02:59:14.657 [JC (Ryo)]: I want to gag him with a rope. 02:59:18.062 --> 02:59:19.685 [Riv (DM)]: You keep carrying him away. 02:59:19.725 --> 02:59:20.826 [Riv (DM)]: What are the rest of you guys up to? 02:59:20.866 --> 02:59:22.669 [JC (Ryo)]: Where's that bag, Kai? 02:59:24.031 --> 02:59:24.692 [Riv (DM)]: I don't have the bag. 02:59:24.732 --> 02:59:29.800 [Unmatched Speaker]: You said we were going to put him in a bag. 02:59:29.820 --> 02:59:31.082 [Unmatched Speaker]: I thought you had the bag. 02:59:31.102 --> 02:59:32.605 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, this is just a figure of speech. 02:59:32.665 --> 02:59:33.426 [Lacer (Kai)]: Bag and tag. 02:59:34.007 --> 02:59:34.688 [Lacer (Kai)]: Tag and bag. 02:59:36.237 --> 02:59:37.459 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, you guys are the best. 02:59:37.519 --> 02:59:40.123 [Riv (DM)]: I think Valoran has the Bag of Holding, if that's what you're meaning. 02:59:40.924 --> 02:59:42.567 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I thought we were throwing him in the Bag of Holding. 02:59:43.568 --> 02:59:45.511 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, and take him back to the... what's it called? 02:59:45.531 --> 02:59:47.073 [Lacer (Kai)]: To the tavern, is that what you want? 02:59:47.975 --> 02:59:50.058 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I thought we were just going to do it... 02:59:52.702 --> 02:59:53.203 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ten minutes. 02:59:53.243 --> 02:59:57.950 [Lacer (Kai)]: Ten minutes to run back, I think that... We're not taking him to the tavern. 02:59:59.252 --> 03:00:00.434 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Taking him somewhere quiet. 03:00:02.277 --> 03:00:03.198 [Lacer (Kai)]: Alright, can you hold him? 03:00:03.418 --> 03:00:04.540 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can you tie him up? 03:00:05.026 --> 03:00:05.487 [JC (Ryo)]: Or something. 03:00:06.067 --> 03:00:06.148 [JC (Ryo)]: Riv. 03:00:06.909 --> 03:00:11.134 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I've gagged him with a normal rope and I've pulled out the rope of climbing and I'm tying him up with that. 03:00:12.016 --> 03:00:16.582 [Riv (DM)]: He enemies you in the chest, Kai, but it just sort of bounces off your chest. 03:00:16.602 --> 03:00:18.484 [Riv (DM)]: Have they got him in the alley yet? 03:00:18.504 --> 03:00:21.368 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, they've sort of carried him off in between two houses into the shadow. 03:00:21.489 --> 03:00:22.149 [Riv (DM)]: It's quite dark now. 03:00:23.271 --> 03:00:29.139 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I walk up, look at this mess going on and can I make a blunt attack to knock him out? 03:00:29.640 --> 03:00:30.100 [Riv (DM)]: You may. 03:00:30.220 --> 03:00:33.565 [Riv (DM)]: Roll attack with advantage because he is restrained. 03:00:38.489 --> 03:00:46.977 [Riv (DM)]: It would just be a D20 plus strength, wouldn't it, because I... You can make an attack with your weapon and make it non-lethal. 03:00:48.241 --> 03:00:51.773 [JC (Ryo)]: The Roper climbing has 20 charges now. 03:00:52.816 --> 03:00:59.768 [Riv (DM)]: It's 20 health so it can take damage and each time it takes damage it loses health. 03:01:00.089 --> 03:01:02.793 [Riv (DM)]: It was always like that. 03:01:02.834 --> 03:01:08.283 [JC (Ryo)]: When I go to put it in the task it says consume item use, spend 1 of the use of this item, 20 uses available. 03:01:08.864 --> 03:01:11.949 [Riv (DM)]: It's probably just Foundry thinking that the health is usages or something. 03:01:12.711 --> 03:01:14.754 [Riv (DM)]: Nah, it's just health. 03:01:14.875 --> 03:01:17.980 [JC (Ryo)]: I use the rope of climbing to tie him up as well. 03:01:17.960 --> 03:01:19.485 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, 19 you knock him. 03:01:19.666 --> 03:01:21.813 [Riv (DM)]: He has... You wanna roll again? 03:01:21.833 --> 03:01:24.121 [Riv (DM)]: If he wants a nat 20. 03:01:24.422 --> 03:01:25.164 [Riv (DM)]: He's got mixed health. 03:01:25.265 --> 03:01:26.007 [Riv (DM)]: He's got 4 health. 03:01:26.389 --> 03:01:29.218 [Riv (DM)]: I'm not seeing any of these dice rolls by the way. 03:01:30.211 --> 03:01:32.153 [Riv (DM)]: Can you guys see mine? 03:01:32.273 --> 03:01:34.035 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I saw you roll a 4. 03:01:34.055 --> 03:01:35.097 [Riv (DM)]: You might need to do a reload of the thing. 03:01:36.278 --> 03:01:38.260 [Riv (DM)]: I'll reload it again, yeah. 03:01:38.300 --> 03:01:42.385 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you just knock him in the head with the thing as Kai's sort of carrying him. 03:01:42.405 --> 03:01:46.530 [Riv (DM)]: It's like at this point Kai's sort of holding him up while Ryo's coming up with the rope to tie him up. 03:01:46.550 --> 03:01:48.132 [Riv (DM)]: Almost holding him like a baby, he's like kicking. 03:01:48.733 --> 03:01:53.118 [Riv (DM)]: And then Val you just like knock him with the pommel and it just immediately slumps. 03:01:55.721 --> 03:01:59.425 [Riv (DM)]: Sometimes simple solutions are better. 03:01:59.624 --> 03:02:01.766 [Riv (DM)]: Big red welt forming on the side of his forehead. 03:02:06.291 --> 03:02:08.294 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, you have a small halfling in your possession. 03:02:09.915 --> 03:02:12.378 [Riv (DM)]: Rio, you gonna tie him up? 03:02:13.419 --> 03:02:13.639 [JC (Ryo)]: Yep. 03:02:13.960 --> 03:02:14.841 [Riv (DM)]: Easy enough. 03:02:14.861 --> 03:02:19.646 [Riv (DM)]: His legs and arms get tied all in one big loop of rope. 03:02:19.666 --> 03:02:20.587 [Riv (DM)]: And where to? 03:02:24.271 --> 03:02:25.432 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Rio, do you know this town? 03:02:25.833 --> 03:02:29.597 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Any warehouse areas nearby that'd be probably empty this time of night? 03:02:29.712 --> 03:02:31.694 [JC (Ryo)]: I was just about to ask Ryo the same question. 03:02:33.635 --> 03:02:35.637 [JC (Ryo)]: Does Ryo know somewhere nice and quiet? 03:02:36.598 --> 03:02:37.318 [Riv (DM)]: He does, yeah. 03:02:37.779 --> 03:02:40.981 [Riv (DM)]: No warehouses or anything like that, it's not really a big enough town. 03:02:41.282 --> 03:02:43.964 [Riv (DM)]: The best and most quiet place would probably be to go to the Darkwood. 03:02:46.406 --> 03:02:50.329 [Unmatched Speaker]: Is this Ryo we speak of? 03:02:50.449 --> 03:02:52.551 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Leo tells us to go to the Darkwood. 03:02:52.571 --> 03:02:53.512 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Goddamn. 03:02:54.092 --> 03:02:57.135 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: There's no wall like outside town that all gates we have to go through? 03:02:57.195 --> 03:02:59.517 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Nah nah, you can just walk straight out. 03:03:00.762 --> 03:03:02.665 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Let's go for a little wander in the forest, shall we? 03:03:04.809 --> 03:03:11.239 [Lacer (Kai)]: I have a bad feeling about this. 03:03:11.299 --> 03:03:12.721 [Riv (DM)]: Cool, yeah, you can wander through. 03:03:12.782 --> 03:03:18.972 [Riv (DM)]: I imagine you probably want to scoot around the outside of the town where it's dark, away from the lights. 03:03:18.992 --> 03:03:24.400 [JC (Ryo)]: And to make it easier, since I don't need silence anymore, pass without a trace to our party. 03:03:24.641 --> 03:03:27.225 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so let's get a group stealth check as we're going. 03:03:27.762 --> 03:03:31.427 [Lacer (Kai)]: I put this roped-up halfling over my shoulder. 03:03:31.707 --> 03:03:32.328 [Lacer (Kai)]: It's knocked out. 03:03:33.269 --> 03:03:34.231 [Riv (DM)]: Oh yeah, he's arc-old. 03:03:42.001 --> 03:03:43.182 [JC (Ryo)]: So yeah, we all get a plus 10. 03:03:44.063 --> 03:03:45.525 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh yeah, that's 28 for me. 03:03:45.545 --> 03:03:55.879 [Lacer (Kai)]: Holy shit, they're 132. 03:03:56.821 --> 03:03:58.864 [Riv (DM)]: He rolled a 4 as well, I want to point out. 03:03:59.966 --> 03:04:00.727 [Riv (DM)]: And he's still got 33. 03:04:00.847 --> 03:04:06.336 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, you added the plus 10 to that already. 03:04:07.698 --> 03:04:08.920 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, yeah, I added the plus 10. 03:04:08.940 --> 03:04:11.464 [JC (Ryo)]: Or is that my plus 10 or is that his plus 10? 03:04:11.484 --> 03:04:11.924 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, no. 03:04:11.944 --> 03:04:14.248 [Lacer (Kai)]: Why doesn't Erendor have plus 10 and plus another 10? 03:04:14.909 --> 03:04:21.319 [Riv (DM)]: Well, so I manually added a plus 10 to it for the Pass Without a Trace, but... And he gets a passive plus 10. 03:04:21.539 --> 03:04:22.120 [JC (Ryo)]: I rolled a 10. 03:04:23.939 --> 03:04:27.741 [Riv (DM)]: He's got, oh, he's got expertise in it, right? 03:04:28.284 --> 03:04:28.586 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 03:04:28.727 --> 03:04:29.028 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:04:29.592 --> 03:04:30.396 [Riv (DM)]: That is about right. 03:04:31.040 --> 03:04:31.603 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:04:32.697 --> 03:04:34.499 [Riv (DM)]: I'll give this one a 9. 03:04:34.519 --> 03:04:35.901 [Riv (DM)]: Double proficiency on top of Dex. 03:04:36.302 --> 03:04:42.971 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, he's got a plus 9, he doubles proficiency and he's got... Never gonna find this guy. 03:04:43.191 --> 03:04:45.574 [Riv (DM)]: Anyway, these are all some fantastic rolls for the most part. 03:04:45.634 --> 03:04:58.772 [Riv (DM)]: So yeah, you can scooch around the side, duck in between a few houses, go below a few windows just as you see some people moving around inside, and easy enough you're able to get straight through out to the woods without anyone seemingly noticing you. 03:04:58.752 --> 03:05:00.394 [Riv (DM)]: So you start kind of crawling through. 03:05:01.015 --> 03:05:02.517 [Riv (DM)]: How deep do we want to go into the woods? 03:05:02.958 --> 03:05:07.745 [Riv (DM)]: You can kind of see immediately as you go in, 20, 30 feet, it gets dark fast here. 03:05:09.427 --> 03:05:10.549 [Riv (DM)]: This time in the evening. 03:05:10.769 --> 03:05:11.831 [Riv (DM)]: And it gets cold as well. 03:05:13.373 --> 03:05:16.618 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Far enough that we're away from the lights of the town, I guess. 03:05:16.958 --> 03:05:17.699 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 03:05:17.719 --> 03:05:17.920 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Cool. 03:05:17.940 --> 03:05:18.901 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I don't know how deep that is. 03:05:18.921 --> 03:05:21.084 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you probably only need to go a couple hundred feet, to be honest. 03:05:22.246 --> 03:05:28.455 [Riv (DM)]: It is pitch black now, so Valoran will be having a bit of a difficult time seeing, unless anyone provides light. 03:05:29.380 --> 03:05:31.183 [Lacer (Kai)]: I will give him a sight. 03:05:31.765 --> 03:05:32.767 [Lacer (Kai)]: I give everybody a sight. 03:05:32.827 --> 03:05:33.949 [Lacer (Kai)]: Huddle around everybody. 03:05:33.989 --> 03:05:38.778 [Lacer (Kai)]: There's time for night vision goggles. 03:05:38.878 --> 03:05:39.760 [Lacer (Kai)]: Don't give it to the kid. 03:05:40.882 --> 03:05:43.828 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, I only just give it to all of us. 03:05:48.230 --> 03:05:49.171 [Riv (DM)]: Cool, Eyes of Night. 03:05:50.172 --> 03:06:04.729 [Riv (DM)]: Just as it's starting to get dark, Vale, as you're getting deeper in, immediately you feel that familiar magic kind of wash over you, kind of a cool feeling, kind of tingling on the arms and the world before you just opens up into a grey scale, as you can see all the trees around. 03:06:05.490 --> 03:06:14.120 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, and you can find a nice little spot, nice little clearing, there are a few rocks around, a few like evergreen sort of pinecones like scattering around the ground, stuff like that. 03:06:14.740 --> 03:06:17.123 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, here you go, you've got a halfling. 03:06:18.757 --> 03:06:28.873 [Lacer (Kai)]: I put him down on the ground and I pull out my climber's kit and get my pitons and my hammer that I got from Ruby Falls and I nail him to the ground. 03:06:29.715 --> 03:06:31.358 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh my god. 03:06:31.458 --> 03:06:34.683 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't damage him, I don't hurt him, but I pin him to the ground. 03:06:35.424 --> 03:06:39.651 [Lacer (Kai)]: And then I uncork my bottle, the Cantor of Endless Water. 03:06:41.251 --> 03:06:43.375 [Lacer (Kai)]: And I wake them up. 03:06:43.395 --> 03:06:45.358 [Riv (DM)]: So I was just, I was just reading something. 03:06:46.640 --> 03:06:51.268 [Riv (DM)]: Just clarify for me, you're not doing like the whole Jesus Christ, like, pitons through the wrists and ankles? 03:06:51.569 --> 03:06:54.674 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, no, no, just, just between the ropes. 03:06:54.694 --> 03:06:55.456 [Lacer (Kai)]: Just to pin his legs. 03:06:56.057 --> 03:06:58.501 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, the ropes? 03:06:58.541 --> 03:06:59.142 [Lacer (Kai)]: Not the ribs? 03:06:59.375 --> 03:07:03.580 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, just the ropes to pin him down into the ground so he can't escape. 03:07:03.640 --> 03:07:07.844 [Riv (DM)]: So you kind of like make loops or something and then like bang them in like a tent peg or something like that? 03:07:08.305 --> 03:07:09.346 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, exactly. 03:07:09.406 --> 03:07:11.088 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so he's like just splayed at this point. 03:07:11.728 --> 03:07:11.909 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 03:07:13.110 --> 03:07:15.813 [Riv (DM)]: He's out cold and splayed, tied down to the ground. 03:07:15.893 --> 03:07:18.355 [Riv (DM)]: Are you just going to wait for a little bit for him to wake up? 03:07:18.375 --> 03:07:19.617 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, I've got to use the decanter. 03:07:20.658 --> 03:07:21.399 [JC (Ryo)]: Who's got a shovel? 03:07:22.120 --> 03:07:22.940 [Riv (DM)]: Has anyone got a shovel? 03:07:23.421 --> 03:07:24.262 [Unmatched Speaker]: I have a hammer. 03:07:25.683 --> 03:07:27.205 [Unmatched Speaker]: I think one of you do have a shovel. 03:07:28.113 --> 03:07:29.694 [Unmatched Speaker]: Wait, did I pick up a shovel? 03:07:29.714 --> 03:07:33.858 [Unmatched Speaker]: I think I picked up a shovel, but maybe I didn't add it to my thing. 03:07:33.878 --> 03:07:35.019 [Unmatched Speaker]: I'm sure one of you have a shovel. 03:07:35.439 --> 03:07:37.061 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, I think Erendor has a shovel. 03:07:37.281 --> 03:07:38.061 [Lacer (Kai)]: I've got a hammer. 03:07:38.081 --> 03:07:38.822 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, he doesn't. 03:07:40.624 --> 03:07:43.566 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We took a bit of stuff from the mining outpost, but I don't know what. 03:07:43.786 --> 03:07:49.051 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I picked up a hammer and that's all I did, but yeah. 03:07:49.111 --> 03:07:49.771 [JC (Ryo)]: Kiwi, you got a shovel? 03:07:51.473 --> 03:07:54.375 [Lacer (Kai)]: No, I remember what we did. 03:07:54.435 --> 03:07:56.077 [Lacer (Kai)]: I spiritual weaponed a shovel. 03:07:56.637 --> 03:07:57.698 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, maybe that's it. 03:07:58.201 --> 03:07:59.422 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Just a small stool. 03:08:01.685 --> 03:08:09.434 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Oh, and just while we've got him tied down before we wake him up, I'm gonna pull out my immovable rod and sit on his chest and then lock it. 03:08:10.515 --> 03:08:13.138 [Riv (DM)]: Like, on his chest? 03:08:13.158 --> 03:08:14.339 [Riv (DM)]: Yep, on his chest so he can't eat. 03:08:14.359 --> 03:08:15.560 [JC (Ryo)]: This prick is not getting away. 03:08:15.580 --> 03:08:21.407 [JC (Ryo)]: He's tied down with a rope that has 20 AC, nailed to the ground, immovable rod. 03:08:22.315 --> 03:08:22.896 [JC (Ryo)]: Gagged. 03:08:23.538 --> 03:08:29.170 [Riv (DM)]: So you splash some water on him and... Yeah, I can choose the water side. 03:08:29.190 --> 03:08:32.798 [Riv (DM)]: This is the saltiest water I can think of. 03:08:32.978 --> 03:08:37.708 [Riv (DM)]: You kind of just see his head shaking a bit as he's starting to come to. 03:08:37.688 --> 03:09:01.950 [Riv (DM)]: Splash about in the water and he's like and you see him come come awake you see his eyes open and they just like dart around wildly as his vision is completely black and he's just screaming howling into the into the gag and you see him trying to like pull on the ropes and like he tries to get up and hop but just like immediately push back down he's like he he thinks he's dead he's convinced that he's dead his vision is black and he's just screaming and howling into his gag. 03:09:03.691 --> 03:09:05.873 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Do we have the clicking candle? 03:09:06.815 --> 03:09:09.258 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yes, I think I gave it to you. 03:09:11.021 --> 03:09:13.484 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can I pass the Clicking Candle? 03:09:14.165 --> 03:09:16.949 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't need it in my inventory. 03:09:16.969 --> 03:09:22.977 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I'll give it to Val Aran, the Clicking Candle. 03:09:25.040 --> 03:09:26.783 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can you rip that out of my inventory? 03:09:26.883 --> 03:09:31.489 [Riv (DM)]: You can take it back, just grab it for now. 03:09:40.683 --> 03:09:41.684 [Riv (DM)]: So with the candle in hand. 03:09:46.671 --> 03:09:47.232 [Riv (DM)]: Hello, lad. 03:09:48.133 --> 03:09:49.375 [Riv (DM)]: We need to have a little talk. 03:09:50.717 --> 03:09:53.020 [Lacer (Kai)]: Is his eye skiing because of the salt water? 03:09:53.721 --> 03:09:54.162 [Riv (DM)]: Oh yeah. 03:09:54.182 --> 03:09:57.186 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, you can see there's something like a weep of it. 03:09:58.728 --> 03:10:06.919 [Riv (DM)]: He does stop thrashing for a second, hearing sound, like some other sense that has apparently not been taken from him. 03:10:06.939 --> 03:10:09.643 [Unmatched Speaker]: And you just hear him go... 03:10:12.323 --> 03:10:13.525 [JC (Ryo)]: We're in the Darkwood. 03:10:13.545 --> 03:10:19.434 [JC (Ryo)]: I'd stop screaming if I were you, because if something comes along, guess who's being left behind to be eaten? 03:10:19.454 --> 03:10:20.956 [Riv (DM)]: He immediately goes still and silent. 03:10:23.620 --> 03:10:33.175 [JC (Ryo)]: That's more like it. 03:10:33.195 --> 03:10:39.124 [JC (Ryo)]: Do I get to do the honours, or does someone else want to screw with this guy? 03:10:41.230 --> 03:10:42.071 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, do your thing. 03:10:42.692 --> 03:10:48.098 [Lacer (Kai)]: I will give you Leo. 03:10:49.900 --> 03:10:51.903 [Lacer (Kai)]: I will cast Enhance Ability on Leo. 03:10:59.993 --> 03:11:00.834 [Lacer (Kai)]: What do you want? 03:11:01.014 --> 03:11:02.916 [Lacer (Kai)]: Do you want Charisma? 03:11:03.817 --> 03:11:06.641 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, let's give Leo Eagle Splendor. 03:11:08.183 --> 03:11:08.503 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright. 03:11:11.538 --> 03:11:13.101 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Let's not go too overboard. 03:11:13.121 --> 03:11:14.843 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: This guy is not the captain. 03:11:17.007 --> 03:11:20.713 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, we already won this one. 03:11:20.733 --> 03:11:23.838 [JC (Ryo)]: So Hugo, you buddy-buddy with the Imperials now, are you? 03:11:24.980 --> 03:11:29.547 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm gonna take this robe off and you better stay nice and quiet with your responses. 03:11:29.567 --> 03:11:32.071 [JC (Ryo)]: You yell... You mean the gag? 03:11:33.614 --> 03:11:33.794 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. 03:11:35.577 --> 03:11:37.360 [JC (Ryo)]: I take the gag out of his mouth. 03:11:39.787 --> 03:11:41.549 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, what are you doing? 03:11:42.030 --> 03:11:42.511 [Riv (DM)]: Who are you? 03:11:45.094 --> 03:11:46.416 [Riv (DM)]: Look, I didn't do anything. 03:11:46.596 --> 03:11:47.177 [Riv (DM)]: I didn't do anything. 03:11:47.237 --> 03:11:48.018 [Riv (DM)]: What do you want? 03:11:48.058 --> 03:11:48.759 [Riv (DM)]: I'll tell you anything. 03:11:51.583 --> 03:11:55.148 [JC (Ryo)]: So you're buddy-buddy with the Imperials now, are you? 03:11:55.168 --> 03:11:56.871 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I don't know. 03:11:57.011 --> 03:11:57.752 [Riv (DM)]: Kind of, I guess. 03:11:58.012 --> 03:11:58.653 [Riv (DM)]: They're fine. 03:11:58.793 --> 03:12:01.217 [Riv (DM)]: I don't think they're as bad as everyone makes them out to be. 03:12:01.577 --> 03:12:01.838 [Riv (DM)]: For what? 03:12:01.858 --> 03:12:05.983 [Riv (DM)]: There's nothing wrong with just talking to them, is there? 03:12:06.003 --> 03:12:06.644 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. 03:12:06.905 --> 03:12:08.046 [JC (Ryo)]: Why do they want to talk to you? 03:12:08.106 --> 03:12:09.388 [JC (Ryo)]: What have you done for them? 03:12:10.465 --> 03:12:15.472 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know, they just, they ask me questions and sometimes they just, they want to know what's been going on around the town, things like that. 03:12:15.653 --> 03:12:16.914 [Riv (DM)]: It's harmless. 03:12:16.934 --> 03:12:18.477 [Riv (DM)]: They're just, they're kind of nice, I think. 03:12:20.760 --> 03:12:22.042 [JC (Ryo)]: You don't give them information. 03:12:24.325 --> 03:12:24.706 [Riv (DM)]: What do you mean? 03:12:24.746 --> 03:12:25.707 [Riv (DM)]: What sort of information? 03:12:28.371 --> 03:12:29.132 [Riv (DM)]: What have you told them? 03:12:30.462 --> 03:12:59.929 [Riv (DM)]: I mean like just tonight they they came they stopped by to just ask what sort of herbs I got you know from from the Darkwood it's just things like that this guy's lying to me insight check mm-hmm the thing you gave me what what does that give me which one did you give me charisma charisma 03:13:04.685 --> 03:13:07.848 [Riv (DM)]: He believes that he's telling the truth. 03:13:10.610 --> 03:13:11.591 [Lacer (Kai)]: Can I cast a spell? 03:13:11.931 --> 03:13:12.952 [Lacer (Kai)]: Non-concentration? 03:13:14.574 --> 03:13:15.194 [Riv (DM)]: Of course, yeah. 03:13:15.214 --> 03:13:15.975 [Riv (DM)]: What are you casting? 03:13:16.756 --> 03:13:17.957 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm casting Command again. 03:13:17.977 --> 03:13:19.678 [Lacer (Kai)]: I say Confess. 03:13:21.620 --> 03:13:22.541 [Lacer (Kai)]: Confess. 03:13:23.782 --> 03:13:31.248 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 03:13:31.269 --> 03:13:32.790 [Riv (DM)]: Cut. 03:13:32.810 --> 03:13:32.970 [Riv (DM)]: Wow. 03:13:34.267 --> 03:13:35.331 [Riv (DM)]: It doesn't seem to work on them. 03:13:39.567 --> 03:13:41.695 [JC (Ryo)]: So you've been buddy-buddy with them for what? 03:13:41.856 --> 03:13:43.361 [JC (Ryo)]: Three months now? 03:13:43.381 --> 03:13:44.084 [JC (Ryo)]: Four months now? 03:13:44.305 --> 03:13:44.867 [JC (Ryo)]: How long? 03:13:45.877 --> 03:13:51.730 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, well, I mean, I bumped into one of them in the market, like, gosh, I don't know, halfway through last year or something. 03:13:53.614 --> 03:13:55.158 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, we chat, we hang out. 03:13:55.759 --> 03:14:05.421 [Riv (DM)]: They like to know what's going on around the town, like if there are any people passing through, like what do the townsfolk think of the Empire, you know, things like that. 03:14:07.747 --> 03:14:09.429 [Riv (DM)]: That's a bit of harmless gossip, right? 03:14:10.151 --> 03:14:11.172 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, I think so. 03:14:11.232 --> 03:14:13.375 [Riv (DM)]: It's just, they seem nice. 03:14:14.196 --> 03:14:15.999 [Riv (DM)]: I think they're giving a bad rep, honestly. 03:14:19.184 --> 03:14:22.168 [JC (Ryo)]: So, what do you tell them about people passing through? 03:14:22.188 --> 03:14:25.373 [JC (Ryo)]: As I've got both my hands on both my swords. 03:14:26.715 --> 03:14:27.696 [Riv (DM)]: Which you can't see, by the way. 03:14:29.559 --> 03:14:30.781 [Riv (DM)]: Or have we lit the candle? 03:14:31.241 --> 03:14:32.303 [JC (Ryo)]: I thought we lit the candle. 03:14:35.995 --> 03:14:36.315 [Riv (DM)]: Don't know. 03:14:36.536 --> 03:14:38.579 [Riv (DM)]: I believe Val Aran is holding the candle at this point. 03:14:38.599 --> 03:14:39.760 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, yeah, yeah. 03:14:39.780 --> 03:14:40.281 [Riv (DM)]: Oh, we've lit it? 03:14:41.062 --> 03:14:42.184 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 03:14:43.986 --> 03:14:53.440 [Riv (DM)]: Well, you know, like, the soldiers aren't really all that welcome around most parts and particularly like the tavern, so I sometimes go and hang out at the tavern. 03:14:53.460 --> 03:14:55.042 [Riv (DM)]: There's a few nice people there. 03:14:55.783 --> 03:14:59.769 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, just if there are strangers coming through or anything like that, I just, you know, I'll let them know. 03:15:02.072 --> 03:15:05.718 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, yeah. 03:15:05.738 --> 03:15:05.918 [JC (Ryo)]: Okay. 03:15:07.872 --> 03:15:16.261 [Lacer (Kai)]: While this is happening, can I just do a pyramidos circle around the interrogation, about 30 feet? 03:15:16.582 --> 03:15:18.303 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm just walking a circle, controlling. 03:15:19.405 --> 03:15:19.905 [Riv (DM)]: Yep, absolutely. 03:15:22.208 --> 03:15:24.931 [Riv (DM)]: As the swords pull out, he's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, what are you doing? 03:15:25.131 --> 03:15:29.976 [Riv (DM)]: Look, I haven't, like, I don't, it's nothing, it's harmless. 03:15:30.277 --> 03:15:33.680 [Riv (DM)]: You know, there hasn't been anything interesting that's happened that I've even really told them about. 03:15:33.720 --> 03:15:37.845 [Riv (DM)]: It's just things like when merchants come by and stuff like that, you know? 03:15:40.694 --> 03:15:41.715 [JC (Ryo)]: Out of character. 03:15:41.755 --> 03:15:47.221 [JC (Ryo)]: I've already gone too far with this, haven't I, guys? 03:15:47.281 --> 03:15:48.362 [Lacer (Kai)]: You do you. 03:15:48.462 --> 03:15:49.603 [Lacer (Kai)]: What information do you want? 03:15:49.884 --> 03:15:53.808 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I think you need to stop dancing around and actually ask the damn questions you want to ask. 03:15:53.828 --> 03:15:54.128 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, ask them. 03:15:55.289 --> 03:15:57.491 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, no, I'm going to right now. 03:15:57.511 --> 03:16:01.916 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm like, oh, so you tell the Imperials about people that are coming to town? 03:16:01.956 --> 03:16:03.978 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm like, take off the hood, take off the bandana. 03:16:03.998 --> 03:16:05.239 [JC (Ryo)]: I stare dead in the eyes. 03:16:05.920 --> 03:16:07.782 [JC (Ryo)]: Get right in his face. 03:16:10.411 --> 03:16:11.152 [Riv (DM)]: He kinda looks at you. 03:16:12.854 --> 03:16:15.037 [Riv (DM)]: Mate, what the fuck are you talking about? 03:16:15.818 --> 03:16:16.819 [Riv (DM)]: I've never seen you in my life! 03:16:30.336 --> 03:16:30.677 [JC (Ryo)]: Really? 03:16:30.857 --> 03:16:33.921 [JC (Ryo)]: You didn't go and tell a certain captain a couple of months ago? 03:16:35.903 --> 03:16:38.106 [Riv (DM)]: What, that I saw some... 03:16:38.710 --> 03:16:40.573 [Riv (DM)]: Douchebag of an elf just wandering through a town? 03:16:40.613 --> 03:16:41.254 [Riv (DM)]: No, of course not. 03:16:41.274 --> 03:16:42.296 [Riv (DM)]: I haven't seen any elves. 03:16:43.558 --> 03:16:45.221 [Riv (DM)]: I didn't even know there were any still in the land. 03:16:46.123 --> 03:16:46.383 [Riv (DM)]: God. 03:16:50.550 --> 03:16:51.351 [Riv (DM)]: Insight check? 03:16:51.372 --> 03:16:51.932 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, go for it. 03:16:52.714 --> 03:16:55.759 [Riv (DM)]: I will actually let you use your earlier one where you got a 22. 03:16:56.420 --> 03:16:57.863 [Riv (DM)]: He's absolutely telling the truth. 03:16:58.283 --> 03:16:59.004 [Riv (DM)]: He's terrified. 03:16:59.105 --> 03:17:00.928 [Riv (DM)]: He's saving his skin. 03:17:01.008 --> 03:17:03.452 [Riv (DM)]: He would tell you his deepest, darkest secret right now. 03:17:17.641 --> 03:17:19.043 [JC (Ryo)]: Gag him. 03:17:19.383 --> 03:17:20.845 [JC (Ryo)]: Walk away from him. 03:17:20.925 --> 03:17:24.931 [Riv (DM)]: As you go forward to put the gag on, he's like, well, wait, wait, wait, look, look, I'll tell you anything. 03:17:24.971 --> 03:17:26.693 [Riv (DM)]: Look, I'm not the only one they talk to. 03:17:29.496 --> 03:17:29.897 [Riv (DM)]: Go on. 03:17:31.439 --> 03:17:37.607 [Riv (DM)]: Look, I try to generally just, you know, 03:17:38.920 --> 03:17:40.622 [Riv (DM)]: Tell them harmless things and stuff like that. 03:17:40.683 --> 03:17:42.085 [Riv (DM)]: I just want to get into the good graces, you know? 03:17:42.125 --> 03:17:46.491 [Riv (DM)]: Like, I don't want to be a bloody herbalist for the rest of my life. 03:17:46.571 --> 03:17:51.198 [Riv (DM)]: And, you know, the Vanguard, they don't want someone who looks like me. 03:17:51.699 --> 03:17:52.660 [Riv (DM)]: I'm too small, they say. 03:17:52.720 --> 03:17:53.682 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know. 03:17:53.842 --> 03:17:55.785 [Riv (DM)]: But, you know, the soldiers, they've always been nice. 03:17:55.845 --> 03:17:57.287 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe they take me on. 03:17:57.848 --> 03:17:59.450 [Riv (DM)]: But, you know, I'm not the only one. 03:17:59.570 --> 03:18:00.291 [Riv (DM)]: Like, there are others. 03:18:00.351 --> 03:18:02.194 [Riv (DM)]: Like the, um... 03:18:02.174 --> 03:18:04.678 [Riv (DM)]: I always see them heading over to the blacksmith across the street. 03:18:04.758 --> 03:18:08.965 [Riv (DM)]: I always check into that guy as well with getting their, you know, swords sharpened and stuff like that. 03:18:09.766 --> 03:18:10.547 [Riv (DM)]: Wait, go and talk to him. 03:18:10.728 --> 03:18:12.571 [Riv (DM)]: He probably, he probably dogged you in. 03:18:19.742 --> 03:18:20.203 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Who else? 03:18:22.787 --> 03:18:26.633 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know, just like, I often see them talking to people in the market. 03:18:27.355 --> 03:18:27.675 [Riv (DM)]: Um... 03:18:29.967 --> 03:18:31.569 [Riv (DM)]: You know, there's a bunch of people. 03:18:32.290 --> 03:18:33.352 [Riv (DM)]: Most of them I don't even really know. 03:18:36.376 --> 03:18:41.042 [Riv (DM)]: But I'll tell you what, that dwarf across the road, eh, they spend a lot of time in his shop. 03:18:45.328 --> 03:18:45.488 [JC (Ryo)]: Mario? 03:18:46.710 --> 03:18:49.975 [JC (Ryo)]: Right, they buy weapons and get weapons fixed. 03:18:49.995 --> 03:18:51.617 [JC (Ryo)]: Of course they spend time in a blacksmith. 03:18:52.258 --> 03:18:53.519 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, yeah, exactly. 03:18:55.943 --> 03:18:59.788 [JC (Ryo)]: They've got no reason to spend time in an apoc- uh, apothecary. 03:19:01.743 --> 03:19:05.447 [Riv (DM)]: Well, they don't seem to do any work in town, so they've got no reason to spend time in the blacksmith. 03:19:10.912 --> 03:19:12.034 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: What do they do in town? 03:19:14.236 --> 03:19:16.418 [Riv (DM)]: Well, to be honest, I don't really know. 03:19:16.919 --> 03:19:23.125 [Riv (DM)]: They just kind of stand around and pretending like they're keeping things in order, but most of the town knows that it's the wardens who usually do that. 03:19:23.225 --> 03:19:27.970 [Riv (DM)]: But, you know, they provide a sense of stability, I guess. 03:19:33.485 --> 03:19:34.366 [Unmatched Speaker]: How do they do that? 03:19:36.469 --> 03:19:40.393 [Riv (DM)]: Well, a bunch of people brainishing steel usually keeps people in line, doesn't it? 03:19:44.578 --> 03:19:44.658 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Hmm. 03:19:44.678 --> 03:19:46.220 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Well, they do disappear, the odd person. 03:19:48.002 --> 03:19:49.003 [Riv (DM)]: What, like you disappeared me? 03:19:50.325 --> 03:19:50.565 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 03:19:51.887 --> 03:19:52.407 [JC (Ryo)]: Just like that. 03:19:53.569 --> 03:19:55.231 [JC (Ryo)]: Like they disappeared me three months ago. 03:19:56.933 --> 03:19:57.453 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It'll be worse. 03:19:57.513 --> 03:20:03.340 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You could be waking up on a slave ship, bound a worky way to your death, carving stone and building bridges. 03:20:05.176 --> 03:20:07.882 [Riv (DM)]: I don't know anything about that, but look. 03:20:07.902 --> 03:20:08.383 [Riv (DM)]: We do. 03:20:11.369 --> 03:20:17.241 [Riv (DM)]: He starts to take in the gravity of the situation and I think he's putting a few pieces together. 03:20:17.261 --> 03:20:19.746 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, look. 03:20:19.766 --> 03:20:20.868 [Riv (DM)]: Let's level with each other, yeah? 03:20:22.151 --> 03:20:23.874 [Riv (DM)]: You clearly don't have any love for the Empire. 03:20:24.877 --> 03:20:25.598 [Riv (DM)]: Just look. 03:20:26.270 --> 03:20:26.771 [Riv (DM)]: Let me go. 03:20:26.791 --> 03:20:31.998 [Riv (DM)]: I will promise I will never tell anyone about this and I'll steer clear of those soldiers for the rest of my life. 03:20:32.599 --> 03:20:34.322 [Riv (DM)]: I just, I just don't want to die. 03:20:34.402 --> 03:20:35.223 [Riv (DM)]: Please let me go. 03:20:35.263 --> 03:20:41.192 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: What if we want you to tell people about this? 03:20:43.115 --> 03:20:44.997 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: This is what happens to collaborators. 03:20:46.480 --> 03:20:47.781 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Okay, I guess? 03:20:49.384 --> 03:20:50.085 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Who would you tell? 03:20:52.088 --> 03:20:53.610 [Riv (DM)]: Uh, my parents? 03:20:54.670 --> 03:20:56.091 [Riv (DM)]: What do you mean? 03:20:56.111 --> 03:20:58.314 [Riv (DM)]: You're kind of scaring me a little bit there. 03:20:59.915 --> 03:21:08.024 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Who would you tell that someone's trying to fuck over the Empire and is willing to go to these lengths to do it? 03:21:08.684 --> 03:21:12.388 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I'm obviously not going to go and tell the soldiers, am I, after what you've done to me? 03:21:12.408 --> 03:21:15.972 [Riv (DM)]: It sounds like I'm just sentencing myself to death all over again. 03:21:23.219 --> 03:21:23.800 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Who else? 03:21:28.572 --> 03:21:30.835 [Riv (DM)]: He doesn't respond. 03:21:31.135 --> 03:21:32.196 [Riv (DM)]: He just shakes his head. 03:21:37.483 --> 03:21:39.425 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, there's no rebellion in that town then. 03:21:39.765 --> 03:21:40.867 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: They must love the Empire. 03:21:42.829 --> 03:21:47.495 [JC (Ryo)]: They generally hate the Empire. 03:21:50.739 --> 03:21:51.079 [JC (Ryo)]: Doubt it. 03:21:53.983 --> 03:21:56.065 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, there's no reason to leave him alive then. 03:21:56.585 --> 03:21:58.507 [Riv (DM)]: No, no, no, no, no, no. 03:21:58.627 --> 03:21:58.948 [Riv (DM)]: Anything. 03:21:59.008 --> 03:21:59.749 [Riv (DM)]: Literally anything. 03:21:59.969 --> 03:22:00.530 [Riv (DM)]: Look, I'll leave. 03:22:00.930 --> 03:22:01.231 [Riv (DM)]: I'll leave. 03:22:01.411 --> 03:22:02.192 [Riv (DM)]: You'll never see me again. 03:22:04.495 --> 03:22:06.477 [Riv (DM)]: Well, we do want one thing. 03:22:08.559 --> 03:22:09.581 [Riv (DM)]: Okay, okay. 03:22:09.621 --> 03:22:09.901 [Riv (DM)]: Thank you. 03:22:09.921 --> 03:22:10.782 [Riv (DM)]: Just name it, please. 03:22:13.285 --> 03:22:13.706 [Riv (DM)]: We want... 03:22:13.726 --> 03:22:14.266 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Hang on. 03:22:14.306 --> 03:22:17.510 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Don't give stuff away that we don't need to give away. 03:22:17.730 --> 03:22:21.495 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I think we need to have a group chat where the person can't hear us. 03:22:22.184 --> 03:22:25.329 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I gag him and lead the party away. 03:22:26.892 --> 03:22:26.952 [JC (Ryo)]: No. 03:22:26.972 --> 03:22:27.994 [JC (Ryo)]: You wander off a little bit. 03:22:28.835 --> 03:22:32.481 [JC (Ryo)]: As this is happening... Obviously keep my eyes on him the entire time. 03:22:32.501 --> 03:22:32.641 [Riv (DM)]: Mm-hmm. 03:22:32.661 --> 03:22:33.543 [Riv (DM)]: Oh yeah, it's pitch black again. 03:22:33.723 --> 03:22:35.787 [Riv (DM)]: You can turn off the candle because you can all see just fine. 03:22:37.329 --> 03:22:44.361 [Lacer (Kai)]: As this is happening, do I notice anything around our party since we're in the Darkwood within 300 feet? 03:22:51.968 --> 03:22:53.230 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Haha, just waiting for that. 03:22:54.030 --> 03:22:54.491 [Riv (DM)]: Nice. 03:22:54.511 --> 03:22:56.293 [Riv (DM)]: Just waiting when you went Hyrule. 03:22:57.595 --> 03:23:09.769 [Riv (DM)]: There's a bit of like wind starting to pick up and over there to the side you hear this like kind of groaning sound like... You turn quickly to look and it's just two branches rubbing against each other. 03:23:10.771 --> 03:23:11.852 [Riv (DM)]: Other than that you seem to be fine. 03:23:12.393 --> 03:23:14.435 [Riv (DM)]: No creatures crawling up on you. 03:23:18.039 --> 03:23:20.322 [JC (Ryo)]: The tree. 03:23:23.305 --> 03:23:25.408 [JC (Ryo)]: I think I may have jumped the gun on this. 03:23:28.051 --> 03:23:29.073 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It was an obvious choice. 03:23:29.373 --> 03:23:30.114 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Maybe too obvious. 03:23:34.279 --> 03:23:35.621 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean, we can't let him go. 03:23:35.661 --> 03:23:37.644 [JC (Ryo)]: He's going to report this. 03:23:39.446 --> 03:23:40.067 [JC (Ryo)]: But what if he does? 03:23:42.490 --> 03:23:45.074 [JC (Ryo)]: Well, you want to impress your girlfriend, don't you? 03:23:45.394 --> 03:23:47.096 [JC (Ryo)]: You can't leave this town already. 03:23:48.738 --> 03:23:49.920 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Who said anything about leaving? 03:23:53.039 --> 03:23:53.800 [JC (Ryo)]: We let him go. 03:23:53.820 --> 03:23:59.809 [JC (Ryo)]: First thing he's going to do is run to the captain and go and dob us in. 03:23:59.829 --> 03:24:01.491 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We might be able to turn that to our advantage. 03:24:03.213 --> 03:24:05.356 [Lacer (Kai)]: We know where he works, you know. 03:24:05.376 --> 03:24:06.358 [Lacer (Kai)]: There's no way to find him. 03:24:10.344 --> 03:24:11.545 [Lacer (Kai)]: It is a small town. 03:24:13.228 --> 03:24:14.049 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. 03:24:15.150 --> 03:24:19.857 [JC (Ryo)]: There is still a decent, I believe there's a decent garrison here of Imperials. 03:24:21.946 --> 03:24:29.055 [Riv (DM)]: I think we should use him to get the captain. 03:24:30.056 --> 03:24:31.398 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, let's use him as bait. 03:24:32.098 --> 03:24:34.782 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: We can threaten to kill his parents if he does anything sus. 03:24:37.605 --> 03:24:38.686 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Jesus Christ. 03:24:39.527 --> 03:24:42.811 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Don't need to go to stupid extremes. 03:24:42.831 --> 03:24:45.675 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: We killed a fucking boatload of people already. 03:24:45.715 --> 03:24:48.318 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: We're not neutral. 03:24:49.339 --> 03:24:50.721 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, I'm ready to set this guy's throat. 03:24:52.760 --> 03:24:56.724 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Mm, I mean, that'd be a good way to get a captain out of the city. 03:24:58.406 --> 03:25:03.511 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You might have a bit of a garrison with him, but... 03:25:03.631 --> 03:25:07.855 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I'm just... A garrison out of the city would probably make it a little bit easier to do anything we want within the city. 03:25:08.796 --> 03:25:13.821 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, I just really don't want to piss off the Dusk Wardens, because that would piss off the entire town. 03:25:16.204 --> 03:25:17.945 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Why would we piss off the Dusk Wardens? 03:25:19.727 --> 03:25:20.868 [Unmatched Speaker]: They are gals. 03:25:20.888 --> 03:25:22.530 [Unmatched Speaker]: They're murdering people with their fucking town. 03:25:23.877 --> 03:25:25.123 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Has it said anything about Mordor? 03:25:26.690 --> 03:25:27.132 [Unmatched Speaker]: Reclux. 03:25:28.116 --> 03:25:29.543 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I think it got fucked onto. 03:25:32.135 --> 03:25:32.858 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Details. 03:25:35.943 --> 03:25:40.470 [Riv (DM)]: So, I guess we got a bit of a decision, right? 03:25:40.490 --> 03:25:41.892 [Riv (DM)]: This is a kid. 03:25:42.453 --> 03:25:55.993 [Riv (DM)]: He's a stupid kid who probably blabbers to the Empire and he probably has, you know, given away a bunch of information, based on what he said, to the soldiers which has probably caused a lot of hassle for some people. 03:25:56.530 --> 03:26:01.736 [Riv (DM)]: Merchants might have been accosted because of the information he's given, so he's probably not that great of a person. 03:26:02.576 --> 03:26:09.724 [Riv (DM)]: But on the other hand, he's a kid, lives with his parents, and he... What else? 03:26:09.864 --> 03:26:16.331 [Riv (DM)]: He's given you some other information, like you should probably go and check out that dwarf that the soldiers are always going to, and you've got him tied out in the woods. 03:26:18.513 --> 03:26:25.761 [Riv (DM)]: You're not really sure the best way to move forward, so I guess there's... What sort of garrison size are we looking at in this town? 03:26:26.467 --> 03:26:35.039 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, so the soldiers and the Dusk Wardens all kind of are in the same building that the soldiers sort of just invited themselves in. 03:26:35.800 --> 03:26:43.831 [Riv (DM)]: From what Ryo has seen over the times he's visited, there's probably a dozen or two soldiers and potentially just a bit more than that in Wardens. 03:26:45.413 --> 03:26:48.517 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Okay, so a dozen or two? 03:26:50.460 --> 03:26:51.962 [Riv (DM)]: So 12 to 24? 03:26:52.082 --> 03:26:53.844 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, probably something like that. 03:26:54.305 --> 03:26:55.967 [Riv (DM)]: Definitely not 50, definitely not 10. 03:26:56.943 --> 03:26:57.864 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Knock around at the party. 03:26:58.545 --> 03:26:59.407 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: What do you reckon of those odds? 03:27:01.249 --> 03:27:05.395 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I think we can handle it in the right place, in the right time. 03:27:05.436 --> 03:27:08.240 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And some of those would be the captain's guards. 03:27:08.280 --> 03:27:10.303 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: They're not the fanciest. 03:27:16.632 --> 03:27:18.134 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You could very well use him to... 03:27:18.154 --> 03:27:26.106 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I mean, if you went to the captain and said there's an elf and a bunch of people in the woods stirring shit up, I'm sure he'd muster the company up and come looking for us. 03:27:30.136 --> 03:27:35.481 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright, I fucked this up. 03:27:35.501 --> 03:27:36.762 [JC (Ryo)]: I gotta fix this. 03:27:37.283 --> 03:27:40.246 [JC (Ryo)]: I mean, it's your plan, but... 03:27:40.266 --> 03:27:41.547 [JC (Ryo)]: It's your thought. 03:27:41.567 --> 03:27:43.549 [JC (Ryo)]: It's your thought. 03:27:43.569 --> 03:27:44.810 [JC (Ryo)]: It's better than what I've got. 03:27:44.830 --> 03:27:52.597 [JC (Ryo)]: All I've got is killing with a claw or something and leave him out here to be ravaged by the animals. 03:27:53.538 --> 03:27:55.240 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, I mean, there's no harm done. 03:27:55.280 --> 03:27:56.901 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah, we could just leave him here. 03:27:57.722 --> 03:27:58.843 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Go and get the dwarf. 03:27:59.600 --> 03:28:00.521 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: And put him next to him. 03:28:01.022 --> 03:28:05.026 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: And do the same thing. 03:28:06.788 --> 03:28:10.572 [JC (Ryo)]: Something tells me we're not going to get the dwarf out as easily as this kid. 03:28:10.592 --> 03:28:12.854 [Lacer (Kai)]: I don't know, there's five of us in one event, you know? 03:28:15.417 --> 03:28:16.598 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: What's your own objective here? 03:28:16.698 --> 03:28:17.439 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: You want the captain. 03:28:18.881 --> 03:28:22.264 [JC (Ryo)]: Captain for one, and ideally the one that turned me into the captain. 03:28:23.666 --> 03:28:25.568 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We get one, we can probably talk one out of the other. 03:28:27.350 --> 03:28:29.472 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Let's use this kid as bait to get the captain out here then. 03:28:30.700 --> 03:28:31.301 [Lacer (Kai)]: No. 03:28:32.723 --> 03:28:36.629 [Lacer (Kai)]: You make the call. 03:28:36.649 --> 03:28:37.791 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Is this the battleground we want? 03:28:39.854 --> 03:28:42.898 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Sure, we can find somewhere out here in the woods that'll work to our favour. 03:28:43.920 --> 03:28:45.042 [JC (Ryo)]: We don't need a battleground anywhere. 03:28:49.629 --> 03:28:51.451 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Well, alright then. 03:28:51.471 --> 03:28:55.898 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And of course, removing the Emberlight influence from one more town wouldn't be a bad thing. 03:28:58.274 --> 03:29:01.399 [JC (Ryo)]: Riv, do I know this section of the Darkwood at all, or not really? 03:29:06.426 --> 03:29:10.312 [Riv (DM)]: Why don't we just roll a survival check? 03:29:10.452 --> 03:29:11.153 [Riv (DM)]: Let's see. 03:29:11.173 --> 03:29:13.496 [Riv (DM)]: Because there's only so many ways that you can come into the town, I guess. 03:29:17.522 --> 03:29:18.804 [JC (Ryo)]: I'm going good tonight. 03:29:18.824 --> 03:29:20.567 [Riv (DM)]: Oh bro, I'm so sorry. 03:29:21.148 --> 03:29:24.893 [JC (Ryo)]: Well yeah, I normally come into town from like an hour's travel north. 03:29:24.913 --> 03:29:25.274 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, true. 03:29:25.294 --> 03:29:27.437 [JC (Ryo)]: This is where I normally come out of the Darkwood, so. 03:29:27.586 --> 03:29:29.428 [Lacer (Kai)]: Wait, is this, um, favorite terrain? 03:29:32.492 --> 03:29:35.115 [Riv (DM)]: Uh, yes, that lets you add proficiency bonus again or something. 03:29:36.377 --> 03:29:38.920 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, double proficiency, I think. 03:29:38.940 --> 03:29:42.043 [JC (Ryo)]: Uh, Natural Explorer, Venus Forest. 03:29:47.470 --> 03:29:52.656 [JC (Ryo)]: You just didn't check, related to your favorite terrain, your proficiency bonus is doubled if you're using a skill you're proficient in. 03:29:55.419 --> 03:29:57.542 [JC (Ryo)]: And, survival I'm not proficient in, sir. 03:29:57.927 --> 03:30:00.509 [JC (Ryo)]: That does nothing. 03:30:00.770 --> 03:30:01.250 [JC (Ryo)]: Unfortunate. 03:30:01.951 --> 03:30:02.411 [Riv (DM)]: Unlucky. 03:30:05.134 --> 03:30:07.476 [Lacer (Kai)]: Where are those nat 20s at, Rio? 03:30:07.496 --> 03:30:07.877 [Lacer (Kai)]: Leo? 03:30:09.018 --> 03:30:12.000 [Riv (DM)]: I burnt them all last- I burnt them all at the other town. 03:30:12.020 --> 03:30:13.662 [Riv (DM)]: He burns them in every combat encounter. 03:30:16.425 --> 03:30:20.489 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Would Rio know somewhere within the woods that's like a natural choke point? 03:30:20.509 --> 03:30:21.169 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: A little canyon? 03:30:21.209 --> 03:30:23.271 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Something like that? 03:30:23.291 --> 03:30:25.133 [Riv (DM)]: A little lake? 03:30:25.332 --> 03:30:30.999 [Riv (DM)]: He's very familiar with parts of the woods further in if you wanted to travel in a few hours. 03:30:33.683 --> 03:30:42.414 [Unmatched Speaker]: They're not going to come out here in a couple of hours. 03:30:42.434 --> 03:30:47.661 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright, I think what we should do is let this kid go on the 03:30:50.442 --> 03:31:19.858 [JC (Ryo)]: Uh he has to go basically straight to the captain and tell him tell him that uh well basically to come out and try and get us unless you guys think of i think of something better works for me yeah we we play it smart and he's not to tell the uh uh where is it not to tell the dust wardens we only want imperials coming out i don't think they'd care anyway they're 03:31:20.041 --> 03:31:24.329 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: They're more about protecting the town, not hunting elves in the forest? 03:31:26.172 --> 03:31:26.392 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah. 03:31:26.713 --> 03:31:29.077 [Lacer (Kai)]: Well, maybe say, found an elf in the forest. 03:31:29.698 --> 03:31:30.860 [Lacer (Kai)]: Camping out in the forest. 03:31:31.221 --> 03:31:32.243 [Lacer (Kai)]: Easy pickings. 03:31:33.305 --> 03:31:35.749 [Lacer (Kai)]: But just say the one elf, not all five of us. 03:31:39.736 --> 03:31:41.700 [Lacer (Kai)]: I'm sure that would bring people. 03:31:42.441 --> 03:31:43.483 [Lacer (Kai)]: It'd be easy capture. 03:31:48.543 --> 03:31:49.084 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright. 03:31:50.025 --> 03:31:50.306 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright. 03:31:50.446 --> 03:31:54.012 [JC (Ryo)]: Let's head back to the kid. 03:31:54.032 --> 03:32:00.182 [Riv (DM)]: You see him, he's sort of like, trying to struggle on the ropes a little bit, but as he hears footsteps he stops and goes quiet. 03:32:00.202 --> 03:32:05.671 [Riv (DM)]: I'll reach over and pick up the immovable rod and clip it off him. 03:32:05.691 --> 03:32:05.831 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yep. 03:32:05.851 --> 03:32:07.273 [JC (Ryo)]: I've got both my swords drawn. 03:32:08.655 --> 03:32:12.762 [JC (Ryo)]: Pull the gag out of his mouth holding both the swords and go, alright, we have a job for you. 03:32:15.340 --> 03:32:17.943 [Riv (DM)]: Let's be careful where you put those, alright? 03:32:18.043 --> 03:32:22.128 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, job, great. 03:32:22.348 --> 03:32:23.710 [Riv (DM)]: What can I do for you? 03:32:25.132 --> 03:32:29.477 [JC (Ryo)]: Right, so you are a herbalist working for the herbal shop. 03:32:29.977 --> 03:32:30.798 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah, absolutely. 03:32:32.240 --> 03:32:35.724 [JC (Ryo)]: You came out here to find herbs. 03:32:35.744 --> 03:32:39.188 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, makes sense to me. 03:32:43.657 --> 03:32:52.067 [JC (Ryo)]: You saw an elf. 03:32:53.088 --> 03:32:53.930 [JC (Ryo)]: He didn't see you. 03:32:54.710 --> 03:32:55.952 [JC (Ryo)]: He has no idea you're there. 03:32:56.593 --> 03:32:57.854 [JC (Ryo)]: But you saw a full elf. 03:32:59.997 --> 03:33:00.638 [JC (Ryo)]: Are you with me? 03:33:01.278 --> 03:33:05.684 [JC (Ryo)]: You saw me. 03:33:06.124 --> 03:33:07.886 [JC (Ryo)]: You ran back to town. 03:33:08.267 --> 03:33:10.530 [JC (Ryo)]: You only speak to the Imperials. 03:33:10.550 --> 03:33:12.432 [JC (Ryo)]: You do not talk to the Duskwardens. 03:33:13.458 --> 03:33:17.242 [JC (Ryo)]: Can you tell them there's an elf out in the forest? 03:33:17.262 --> 03:33:17.763 [Riv (DM)]: Just like that? 03:33:18.924 --> 03:33:19.665 [JC (Ryo)]: Just like that. 03:33:22.228 --> 03:33:24.891 [Riv (DM)]: What are you playing? 03:33:24.911 --> 03:33:26.673 [Riv (DM)]: You think they'll just come chasing out after you? 03:33:28.054 --> 03:33:29.135 [Unmatched Speaker]: Of course they will. 03:33:29.155 --> 03:33:31.398 [Unmatched Speaker]: I'm an elf. 03:33:31.418 --> 03:33:34.621 [Riv (DM)]: What makes you so confident they wouldn't just tell them there's a trap? 03:33:36.924 --> 03:33:38.586 [JC (Ryo)]: You saw one lone elf. 03:33:39.026 --> 03:33:39.887 [JC (Ryo)]: No one else. 03:33:41.572 --> 03:33:45.057 [Riv (DM)]: I see five people trying to kill me. 03:33:45.597 --> 03:33:48.020 [JC (Ryo)]: You see one elf who did not see you. 03:33:49.282 --> 03:33:54.629 [JC (Ryo)]: If you do this, we will never, ever, ever come looking for you again. 03:33:58.594 --> 03:34:02.519 [Riv (DM)]: Roll an intimidation check with advantage, since you still have charisma. 03:34:04.462 --> 03:34:09.368 [JC (Ryo)]: And I've got both swords drawn, dancing around his throat. 03:34:11.170 --> 03:34:12.271 [JC (Ryo)]: Intimidation, you said? 03:34:12.772 --> 03:34:12.932 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 03:34:16.557 --> 03:34:21.443 [JC (Ryo)]: And what do I get to add because of the, because of his thing? 03:34:21.683 --> 03:34:22.584 [Riv (DM)]: You just get advantage. 03:34:22.904 --> 03:34:23.906 [Riv (DM)]: You just get advantage. 03:34:23.926 --> 03:34:24.727 [JC (Ryo)]: Oh, just advantage, okay. 03:34:27.009 --> 03:34:27.210 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 03:34:27.750 --> 03:34:29.993 [Riv (DM)]: Um, yeah. 03:34:30.394 --> 03:34:31.815 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright, alright, alright. 03:34:32.456 --> 03:34:32.877 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 03:34:32.897 --> 03:34:35.840 [Riv (DM)]: Let's keep the swords, keep the swords sheathed. 03:34:36.121 --> 03:34:37.923 [Riv (DM)]: Um, sounds like a good plan to me. 03:34:38.223 --> 03:34:39.625 [Riv (DM)]: Um, although, 03:34:40.887 --> 03:34:43.550 [Riv (DM)]: Are you sure you want to tell them that I just spotted you out here? 03:34:45.913 --> 03:34:50.259 [Riv (DM)]: You know, for all they would know, you might have already ran off or something. 03:34:51.300 --> 03:35:04.817 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe we say that, like, you attacked me or something like that and I struggled and I managed to, like, I don't know, kick or damage your leg and so you're stranded out here but I just managed to get away and so, you know, you're more likely to be able to be found or something like that. 03:35:05.798 --> 03:35:06.319 [JC (Ryo)]: No, no. 03:35:06.559 --> 03:35:08.041 [JC (Ryo)]: You saw a campfire. 03:35:08.321 --> 03:35:09.763 [JC (Ryo)]: You saw me sitting by a campfire. 03:35:11.279 --> 03:35:12.941 [JC (Ryo)]: So it looks like I'm staying here for the night. 03:35:13.982 --> 03:35:15.023 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 03:35:15.043 --> 03:35:15.343 [Riv (DM)]: Okay. 03:35:15.363 --> 03:35:15.604 [Riv (DM)]: All right. 03:35:16.064 --> 03:35:16.244 [Riv (DM)]: Elf. 03:35:17.065 --> 03:35:17.786 [Riv (DM)]: Out in the campfire. 03:35:18.567 --> 03:35:18.927 [Riv (DM)]: In the woods. 03:35:19.328 --> 03:35:19.568 [Riv (DM)]: Got it. 03:35:20.589 --> 03:35:23.933 [JC (Ryo)]: And the bump on your head is because you fell while running back to town. 03:35:23.953 --> 03:35:24.233 [Riv (DM)]: Oh yeah. 03:35:24.273 --> 03:35:25.154 [Riv (DM)]: I was tripping. 03:35:25.174 --> 03:35:28.478 [Riv (DM)]: I was going so quickly to try and get away from the monster. 03:35:29.659 --> 03:35:30.480 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, absolutely. 03:35:30.500 --> 03:35:33.463 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 03:35:33.483 --> 03:35:35.705 [Riv (DM)]: So you're going to untie me? 03:35:35.725 --> 03:35:36.386 [Riv (DM)]: Untie me then, yeah? 03:35:37.447 --> 03:35:39.970 [JC (Ryo)]: Just want to make sure you understand how 03:35:42.447 --> 03:35:43.648 [JC (Ryo)]: Deviate from this plan. 03:35:43.888 --> 03:35:44.849 [JC (Ryo)]: Tell the Dusk Wardens. 03:35:45.590 --> 03:35:47.352 [JC (Ryo)]: Tell literally anyone else. 03:35:48.933 --> 03:35:52.637 [JC (Ryo)]: So dance the swords next to his neck. 03:35:52.657 --> 03:35:52.957 [JC (Ryo)]: Yep. 03:35:52.977 --> 03:35:53.558 [JC (Ryo)]: Those are sharp. 03:35:53.838 --> 03:35:54.359 [JC (Ryo)]: Those are sharp. 03:35:54.439 --> 03:35:55.560 [Riv (DM)]: Yep. 03:35:55.900 --> 03:35:56.641 [Riv (DM)]: Right there with you, friend. 03:35:56.681 --> 03:35:58.583 [Riv (DM)]: No Dusk Wardens. 03:35:58.863 --> 03:35:59.384 [Riv (DM)]: Soldiers only. 03:35:59.704 --> 03:36:00.224 [Riv (DM)]: Out from the woods. 03:36:00.565 --> 03:36:00.965 [Riv (DM)]: Campfire. 03:36:01.586 --> 03:36:01.926 [Riv (DM)]: We got it. 03:36:02.927 --> 03:36:04.669 [Riv (DM)]: Then you must tell the captain directly. 03:36:07.151 --> 03:36:07.552 [JC (Ryo)]: Okay. 03:36:07.732 --> 03:36:07.932 [JC (Ryo)]: Yep. 03:36:13.008 --> 03:36:19.294 [Riv (DM)]: He looks thoroughly shaken and just he's doing basically what he can to get out of this. 03:36:19.414 --> 03:36:20.255 [Riv (DM)]: He's compliant. 03:36:21.696 --> 03:36:23.038 [Riv (DM)]: You don't even need to roll an insight for that. 03:36:24.659 --> 03:36:27.382 [JC (Ryo)]: I look at the party just to get approval from everyone else. 03:36:29.404 --> 03:36:34.969 [Lacer (Kai)]: I nod and then when you give the word I'll pull out the pittance. 03:36:37.972 --> 03:36:39.013 [JC (Ryo)]: Alright, don't move. 03:36:40.174 --> 03:36:41.516 [JC (Ryo)]: Take the Ripper climbing and untie it. 03:36:42.757 --> 03:36:42.897 [Riv (DM)]: Cool. 03:36:44.328 --> 03:36:48.735 [Riv (DM)]: He, um, rubs his wrists and ankles a little bit, and then, um, gets up, stretches. 03:36:49.376 --> 03:36:51.579 [Riv (DM)]: Alright, um, right now, you mean? 03:36:53.402 --> 03:36:53.802 [Riv (DM)]: Right now. 03:36:54.463 --> 03:36:54.784 [Riv (DM)]: Alright. 03:36:55.625 --> 03:36:59.150 [Riv (DM)]: Well, I don't know what you're up to, but I guess good luck. 03:37:00.452 --> 03:37:02.054 [Riv (DM)]: Um, and he starts scampering away. 03:37:02.816 --> 03:37:10.487 [Riv (DM)]: You see him, he's walking at first, and he looks over his shoulder, and he starts jogging, and eventually running, and disappears off in between the trees, leaving you guys alone out in the darkwood. 03:37:11.885 --> 03:37:14.449 [Lacer (Kai)]: I think he gets eaten along the way. 03:37:15.691 --> 03:37:25.105 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I wonder what the chances are there's more than one Redcloak captain in the city for the Solstice. 03:37:25.125 --> 03:37:26.147 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Nah, there's only a guard. 03:37:26.207 --> 03:37:27.830 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: If it doesn't, he'd be the captain of the guard. 03:37:28.350 --> 03:37:29.152 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Normally, yeah. 03:37:29.733 --> 03:37:32.577 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: But for the Solstice, special occasion. 03:37:33.198 --> 03:37:34.680 [Lacer (Kai)]: Oh, I don't give a shit about that. 03:37:35.001 --> 03:37:39.428 [Lacer (Kai)]: This is just a small town outside of a forest. 03:37:39.468 --> 03:37:41.952 [Lacer (Kai)]: I pull out my pigeons and put them back in my pack. 03:37:44.116 --> 03:37:45.718 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: So, campfire? 03:37:45.939 --> 03:37:47.040 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yep. 03:37:47.060 --> 03:37:50.346 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I was going to say, I'll make a campfire if you want to start rigging up traps in the trees. 03:37:55.534 --> 03:37:55.875 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:37:58.178 --> 03:38:00.522 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Let's stage a few booby traps if we can. 03:38:03.438 --> 03:38:03.759 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Cool. 03:38:03.779 --> 03:38:07.525 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Because even if it's only a bit over a dozen, we still need to see the numbers. 03:38:09.027 --> 03:38:11.852 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: We want to get them gripped up so we can drop fireballs on them. 03:38:13.755 --> 03:38:21.728 [Lacer (Kai)]: Yeah, I start making tactical areas, soggy ground, like marsh ground with the decanter. 03:38:22.149 --> 03:38:23.431 [Lacer (Kai)]: Start unloading a ton of water. 03:38:23.832 --> 03:38:25.154 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Yeah. 03:38:25.174 --> 03:38:26.816 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: I can cast an illusion on the ground. 03:38:28.679 --> 03:38:30.222 [JC (Ryo)]: Thondar, save your spells. 03:38:31.822 --> 03:38:33.524 [JC (Ryo)]: I've got a plan. 03:38:34.765 --> 03:38:36.566 [JC (Ryo)]: How big are the trees in this area, Riv? 03:38:38.128 --> 03:38:41.111 [Riv (DM)]: So you know the trees get massive deeper into the forest. 03:38:41.131 --> 03:38:42.292 [Riv (DM)]: These ones more on the edge. 03:38:42.352 --> 03:38:45.275 [Riv (DM)]: Like, they're not gigantic, but they're still decent, you know? 03:38:46.316 --> 03:38:50.560 [Riv (DM)]: Like, each one is probably a good half a dozen feet wide maybe? 03:38:50.620 --> 03:38:52.221 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe like three or four feet wide? 03:38:55.684 --> 03:38:58.007 [Riv (DM)]: How high up are we talking here? 03:38:58.027 --> 03:39:00.529 [Riv (DM)]: You know, some of them go up like... 03:39:00.847 --> 03:39:10.341 [JC (Ryo)]: Dundar, how do you feel about raining fireballs down from those higher tree branches? 03:39:13.266 --> 03:39:15.649 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Dundar says nothing but his eyes turn to fire. 03:39:18.914 --> 03:39:27.647 [JC (Ryo)]: Get the rope of climbing, do the command word for the knots and tell it to go up so he can climb up the rope without wasting the fly spell or anything like that. 03:39:28.454 --> 03:39:30.178 [Riv (DM)]: Any opportunity to rain fireballs. 03:39:33.306 --> 03:39:33.586 [JC (Ryo)]: Sweet. 03:39:34.729 --> 03:39:40.643 [JC (Ryo)]: Then I take my normal rope and make a snare trap with it. 03:39:41.485 --> 03:39:44.372 [JC (Ryo)]: Or a tripwire snare trap over a branch. 03:39:44.813 --> 03:39:44.893 Yep. 03:39:46.139 --> 03:40:09.649 [Riv (DM)]: You know um how about we do this why don't you guys take some notes around what sort of traps you want to set up and how you want to prepare for this and whatnot and we can um stop here for tonight and come back first thing in the next session and spring the trap then yeah now i'm wishing i took that other spell you were talking to me about maybe 03:40:10.220 --> 03:40:14.465 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: In the meantime you can do like a rough battle map of the area so we know what we're working with. 03:40:15.105 --> 03:40:22.193 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And maybe like allocate a certain amount of points that we could do to a person or something, I don't know. 03:40:23.034 --> 03:40:25.737 [Riv (DM)]: Like how much effort you can go through in the time or something like that? 03:40:26.117 --> 03:40:28.840 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, if we want to watch something else like that, it might be a bit of work. 03:40:28.860 --> 03:40:30.081 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, that sounds fun. 03:40:33.185 --> 03:40:34.146 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, perfect, I will do that. 03:40:34.827 --> 03:40:39.872 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It gives you a chance to work out how imbalanced or imbalanced you want to make the fight. 03:40:40.088 --> 03:40:40.348 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah. 03:40:42.272 --> 03:40:51.868 [Riv (DM)]: Um, yeah, I mean, there was always, to be honest, going into the session, I, um, fully was expecting a lot of chaos knowing you guys. 03:40:53.190 --> 03:41:00.041 [Riv (DM)]: And potentially Rio just making a beeline directly for the garrison and being like, yo, captain, come out, I'm gonna fucking kill you. 03:41:00.061 --> 03:41:01.624 [Riv (DM)]: But, so, lots of ways we could've gone. 03:41:01.644 --> 03:41:02.465 [Riv (DM)]: You should've done that. 03:41:02.485 --> 03:41:03.367 [JC (Ryo)]: Yeah. 03:41:03.387 --> 03:41:04.729 [JC (Ryo)]: That was a thought. 03:41:05.418 --> 03:41:14.600 [JC (Ryo)]: The other thought was to literally get you to light a whole bunch of my arrows up and launch them into the roof of the barracks to smoke them all out. 03:41:14.620 --> 03:41:18.649 [JC (Ryo)]: But then I reread the notes that Riv gave me and it's like, oh, the dust wardens are in there too. 03:41:18.709 --> 03:41:20.233 [JC (Ryo)]: I don't want to fuck them up. 03:41:20.694 --> 03:41:21.897 [JC (Ryo)]: They have done nothing to me. 03:41:21.937 --> 03:41:23.781 [JC (Ryo)]: Just the Imperial ones need to get fucked up. 03:41:25.162 --> 03:41:36.716 [Riv (DM)]: I also gave you guys a bit of a curveball of the whole festival and the magical item creation because you probably don't want to, you know, make too many enemies in the town for at least right now. 03:41:38.518 --> 03:41:41.021 [Kiwi (Dondar)]: Enemies are fine as long as we can blame it on the red cloaks. 03:41:43.524 --> 03:41:51.473 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I mean, if the red cloak garrison goes out into the forest at night and disappears, well, shit happens. 03:41:51.706 --> 03:41:54.832 [JC (Ryo)]: And in general the town won't care because they don't care for Imperials. 03:41:55.152 --> 03:41:55.833 [Riv (DM)]: Maybe they just left. 03:41:56.274 --> 03:41:58.979 [Riv (DM)]: It's a pretty tidy, pretty tidy plan to be honest. 03:41:59.760 --> 03:42:10.660 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Admittedly when we first were going in I thought if we're going to get them out it would be a case of we've got a forest right there and if we can find them all well, it's a good way to set bait. 03:42:11.770 --> 03:42:12.531 [Riv (DM)]: Yeah, no, it's good. 03:42:12.551 --> 03:42:14.234 [Riv (DM)]: It actually ended up working quite well, I think. 03:42:15.516 --> 03:42:15.976 [Riv (DM)]: Fantastic. 03:42:15.996 --> 03:42:26.712 [Riv (DM)]: So, and also remember for next time, the magical items list, you guys are going to have to agree on what to make because come the vigil, if you haven't decided, then you're not going to be able to make one. 03:42:26.732 --> 03:42:29.016 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's such an extensive list of such powerful items. 03:42:29.537 --> 03:42:32.922 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I feel like we haven't even decided who to give the amulet to yet. 03:42:34.504 --> 03:42:38.470 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Part of me is like, we knock out the things that we don't want and then 03:42:39.023 --> 03:42:39.724 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: RNG it. 03:42:41.006 --> 03:42:41.107 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 03:42:41.127 --> 03:42:57.876 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: That's part of what I'm thinking because there are some items in there which me as a metagamer know aren't amazing and some things that are really fucking good but it's like I'd feel like I'd be like um Flametongue Sword is amazing but it's no good to a caster. 03:42:57.896 --> 03:42:58.998 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Same as like to bring it to Valtorra. 03:42:59.018 --> 03:42:59.759 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: It's useless to me. 03:43:01.101 --> 03:43:04.407 [JC (Ryo)]: So looking at that list I see about five things that would be good for the party. 03:43:04.758 --> 03:43:05.819 [JC (Ryo)]: Hmm. 03:43:05.839 --> 03:43:09.003 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, there is... Vael Design Strength, the Cloak of Displacement. 03:43:09.023 --> 03:43:12.226 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, there is some stuff which is, like, good for everyone. 03:43:12.246 --> 03:43:15.089 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Like, the Cloak of Displacement's a fucking amazing item. 03:43:15.950 --> 03:43:16.050 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah. 03:43:16.070 --> 03:43:17.612 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I think it's so incredibly strong. 03:43:18.072 --> 03:43:22.717 [JC (Ryo)]: Something tells me that Poison Dagger would be absolutely amazing in Deathmouse's hands. 03:43:23.478 --> 03:43:29.585 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: I've played with it before, if it is what I think it is, and it's... Dagger of Venom, yeah. 03:43:29.605 --> 03:43:33.769 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, it's... yeah, it can do damage, but... eh. 03:43:34.458 --> 03:43:36.020 [Unmatched Speaker]: Poison is not great. 03:43:37.842 --> 03:43:38.823 [JC (Ryo)]: I thought poison was better. 03:43:39.383 --> 03:43:43.488 [JC (Ryo)]: Otherwise, ring that magically wards you from damage, depending on what that is, could be amazing. 03:43:43.588 --> 03:43:44.789 [JC (Ryo)]: That'd be like a plus two, I think. 03:43:46.491 --> 03:43:47.172 [JC (Ryo)]: Sorry, which one was that? 03:43:47.252 --> 03:43:47.813 [JC (Ryo)]: Or absorb. 03:43:49.154 --> 03:43:51.076 [JC (Ryo)]: A ring that magically wards you from damage. 03:43:51.116 --> 03:43:56.802 [JC (Ryo)]: That could be like an elemental ward that you can choose, or a plus two, or whatever. 03:43:57.223 --> 03:43:57.843 [Riv (DM)]: Ring of protection. 03:43:59.946 --> 03:44:02.068 [JC (Ryo)]: And ring that allows spell to be saved. 03:44:02.842 --> 03:44:08.199 [JC (Ryo)]: Two or three free fireballs that you can store in there the night before. 03:44:10.567 --> 03:44:11.991 [JC (Ryo)]: Two extra spell slots. 03:44:12.308 --> 03:44:33.945 [Riv (DM)]: Magic items are weird because um there are some that are just like classically really really good like most of the time but there are some that are so good in certain situations that they're like broken like don't um don't overlook the gem of seeing being able to just have true sight is actually like crazy good in the right situation um but you know depending on the situation might not be useful all the time so 03:44:33.925 --> 03:44:42.137 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: My general think on that is have something that's mildly useful all the time versus something that's really useful once because half the time you don't even remember you've got the thing. 03:44:42.157 --> 03:44:42.918 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, that's fair. 03:44:43.199 --> 03:44:45.302 [JC (Ryo)]: Horn that blows shit up when you use it. 03:44:45.322 --> 03:44:48.186 [JC (Ryo)]: That sounds so interesting the way you've written it. 03:44:48.206 --> 03:44:50.089 [JC (Ryo)]: I think it's probably like Stored Fireball, I guess. 03:44:50.109 --> 03:44:51.771 [Riv (DM)]: That's, um, that's Belinda. 03:44:51.791 --> 03:44:55.757 [JC (Ryo)]: Seeing as how it says Thunderhorn Fragment, I've got a feeling it's Lightning Damage. 03:44:57.119 --> 03:44:59.362 [Riv (DM)]: That's just, um, Belinda being an absolute cutie. 03:44:59.563 --> 03:45:00.724 [Riv (DM)]: It's a Horn of Blasting. 03:45:01.165 --> 03:45:03.308 [Riv (DM)]: It lets you do, like, crushing damage telekinetically. 03:45:04.553 --> 03:45:06.375 [Lacer (Kai)]: Aww, that sounds pretty dang cool. 03:45:06.455 --> 03:45:07.377 [Lacer (Kai)]: It is pretty cool actually. 03:45:08.979 --> 03:45:13.705 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Yeah, that's why I was thinking like, knock out the stuff that we look at and go, eh. 03:45:13.725 --> 03:45:18.050 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: And then just RNG it because otherwise, you know, someone's gonna feel like they get shouted. 03:45:18.591 --> 03:45:25.099 [Riv (DM)]: So you get to choose a 30-foot cone that is 600 feet away. 03:45:25.119 --> 03:45:28.424 [Riv (DM)]: Everyone in the area makes a DC 15 constitution. 03:45:28.644 --> 03:45:31.928 [Riv (DM)]: On a save they take 5d6 thunder and are deafened for one minute. 03:45:33.106 --> 03:45:36.130 [Riv (DM)]: Creatures and objects made of glass and crystal. 03:45:36.150 --> 03:45:39.995 [Lacer (Kai)]: 600 feet though, that's huge fire. 03:45:40.115 --> 03:45:44.500 [Riv (DM)]: They have disadvantage and objects take 10d6 thunder damage instead. 03:45:45.422 --> 03:45:50.168 [Riv (DM)]: And every time you use it there's a 20% chance it explodes and deals fire damage to you. 03:45:52.811 --> 03:45:54.753 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: The wild magic fireball. 03:45:55.594 --> 03:45:57.557 [Riv (DM)]: It's pretty good, I like it a lot. 03:45:57.617 --> 03:46:00.801 [Vael (Vaeleran)]: Rare items are weird, some rare items are good and some are just like... yeah. 03:46:05.033 --> 03:46:06.519 [Riv (DM)]: Cool, anyway, lots to think about. 03:46:06.559 --> 03:46:08.125 [Riv (DM)]: So, yeah. 03:46:08.145 --> 03:46:11.639 [Riv (DM)]: Now, let me switch off this. 03:46:12.582 --> 03:46:14.048 [Riv (DM)]: For next session...