SE04 EP15 - Home Sweet Home

[00:00:06] Speaker A: Welcome, friends and adventurers, to another episode. [00:00:09] Speaker B: Of Dungeons and Blackguards. [00:00:11] Speaker A: I am your dungeon master, Robulon. Joining me in no particular order are the players. [00:00:19] Speaker B: Brenda. [00:00:21] Speaker C: I am Ekaruk Unshlay, half orc, level six bloodhunter. [00:00:27] Speaker B: Caleb. [00:00:29] Speaker D: I am Kaito Otata. I have. I am a warforged barbarian. [00:00:35] Speaker B: Tobo. [00:00:37] Speaker E: Hey. [00:00:38] Speaker F: I'm Steve Tedman. I am a level five gloom stalker. [00:00:42] Speaker E: Ranger, level one rogue. And I am a match cowboy multiclasser. [00:00:48] Speaker F: Fancy. [00:00:50] Speaker E: I'm Raiden. I am playing Bellic de Garde, level six half elf warlock. [00:01:01] Speaker A: Previously on Dungeons and Blackguards. And then rook and Steve, you are right there in lockstep with Kaitoa, who is just a couple steps ahead of you. And you both are keeping an eye on the fissure that every once in a while releases a tiny puff of blue cold, icy steam. [00:01:33] Speaker D: We gotta get home. I think we need a rest. [00:01:37] Speaker F: Yep. [00:01:38] Speaker D: Yeah, we got two levels, I think, to, like, cash in on. Uh, let's get the fuck back to the white chains. Oh, yeah. [00:01:49] Speaker C: I was gonna say where is home? But white chain is it. [00:01:53] Speaker E: Yeah, we could long rest here. [00:01:57] Speaker D: My tapestry needs to grow. [00:02:02] Speaker C: Rick likes the idea of going back to the white chain and having a nice couple pints. He remembers it fondly. [00:02:11] Speaker D: I do think, like, mem is gonna be rather pissed that our crisply bomb is leaking, and that needs. Honestly, that's a ticking time bomb, guys. Like, we need to get that dealt with ASAP, because that's gonna blow up and kill us all. ASAP. [00:02:35] Speaker C: How far away from pole bar we do? [00:02:38] Speaker D: We know we either go back to pole or we venture north to deal with Chris Black, but I think we actually go back to memory. [00:02:51] Speaker C: How far away are we right now? Do we know how far away? Like, riding horses. [00:02:57] Speaker A: A day. [00:02:59] Speaker D: I think a day and a half, roughly. [00:03:04] Speaker C: You can't just, like, spot weld. [00:03:08] Speaker D: I tried with the knoll tooth. I think I'm gonna need a bit of external help. That was, like, my thing with, like, the knoll of, like, plugging the weld. And Robin, by the way, like, described, it was like, no, that's a temporary fixed. [00:03:35] Speaker A: The party is reunited after a wild and chaotic conclusion to the midnight pursuit, ending with beleg, the half elf, interviewing face to face. Finally, the person inside the blue armor. And just as his final words echo out into the night, his party rejoins him over his shoulder. [00:04:08] Speaker E: Did I boop him too hard? Is he still conscious? [00:04:12] Speaker A: Oh, he's very much conscious. You have just drawn a little bit of blood from his nose. [00:04:19] Speaker E: Okay. [00:04:21] Speaker F: Hey, who's our friend here? [00:04:23] Speaker D: Dean, at Kaitoa bump. [00:04:25] Speaker E: This is. This is old foot. Found him. [00:04:29] Speaker F: Oh, is this is his mask up right now? [00:04:34] Speaker E: Yeah, he's a funny little dwarf. [00:04:38] Speaker F: His. His eyes seem pretty intact. It's a good trick. [00:04:44] Speaker D: Currently, Kaitoa makes funny little faces. This is old foot smiling. This is Oldfoot's frowning. [00:04:59] Speaker C: I need to motion to Kaito to turn around and show him your new friend on your back. [00:05:06] Speaker D: This is. This is. This is Noel's balls deep in Leon. [00:05:15] Speaker C: We brought a friend, too. [00:05:17] Speaker E: What am I missing? This is Braden talking. What am I missing about the eyes? [00:05:22] Speaker F: Oh, I shot. I shot arrows in his eyes. [00:05:25] Speaker E: Oh, right, right, right, right. [00:05:28] Speaker F: This is the same. This is the same guy? [00:05:31] Speaker E: Yeah. Why? Yeah, his eyes seem pretty all right. It also seems like he's wedged into this suit of armor. [00:05:44] Speaker B: Observance to the last, you four. I wasn't in the armor then. Fools. Don't you see the difference between a shield guardian and a man inside one? [00:06:06] Speaker G: You look like a shell of a mandev. You look like a fake construct, old foot. [00:06:16] Speaker E: This is Kaitoa. You guys can be on first name basis. [00:06:22] Speaker D: I am face to face with him being like, who made you? [00:06:30] Speaker G: Who did this to you? You're clearly not what you should be. Who did this to you? [00:06:41] Speaker B: Your name is not Kaitoa, ancient one. You're not of this time. [00:06:51] Speaker D: I shake a man like. [00:06:53] Speaker G: That's not the question I asked. Who did this to you? I know I'm not Kaitoa. I know I'm from a different age. Who did this to you? [00:07:06] Speaker A: Uh, well, two things, Kaitoa. Have you walked up and shook him? [00:07:12] Speaker D: Uh, I give him a little shake, like a gentle shake. [00:07:17] Speaker E: Bell egg gives the whole. What the fuck? I had this. [00:07:26] Speaker A: Bell egg. You are shoved out of the way. [00:07:30] Speaker E: I don't like it, but I abide. [00:07:34] Speaker B: Who made me this way? [00:07:37] Speaker G: Yeah. Who did this to you? [00:07:41] Speaker B: If only you knew the full truth. You who slept through the ages. I wish I was like you. But now I am not a shell of a man, but pieces of a man. The goblin wars did terrible things to the veterans and soldiers that fought. [00:08:08] Speaker G: I knew who I was. But tell us, who. Who is trying to recreate that? Who's doing this to such noble men as you? [00:08:23] Speaker B: Bah. Noble men. I might have the ability to lead men, but I died alongside them along with my people. What can I do now? There's nothing left for me but to fight on forever. I wish I was like you, the forever soldier you see striding from century to century, tireless, without care or fear. [00:08:59] Speaker E: Sounds kind of tedious. [00:09:02] Speaker G: You could turn on a creator. You could join us, and you could fight with us. [00:09:10] Speaker B: It's too late. I've been betrayed. [00:09:16] Speaker G: Who has done this to you? Tell us so we can stop this injustice. [00:09:24] Speaker B: Look now upon me and know the truth. [00:09:30] Speaker A: And, Steve, you have been inspecting as this conversation goes on, have you not? [00:09:39] Speaker F: Yep. [00:09:39] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:09:40] Speaker F: While Kaito has got his attention, I've been looking at his limbs. The armor, um, just. Just breaking down, like, is it. Is it armor? Is it. What is it like, how deep is it? What's it made out of? Uh. Is it familiar to me? That kind of thing. [00:09:59] Speaker A: Okay, and, rook, are you, um. Where would you say you are if Steve is, uh, on this guy's kind of lower half, checking out what is his makeup, and if Kaitoa is right up in his grille, and if Beleg is also similarly beside him and the horse lays prone beside. Where are you? [00:10:22] Speaker C: I'm just sitting up on my horse, just watching it all. [00:10:28] Speaker A: I see. So you have the highest view of the surround. And then Stolas is also swooping, still above, on patrol in the moonlight. Okay, so you have not dismounted. Rook, you are the only one still on your steed. [00:10:42] Speaker C: Yes, sir. [00:10:43] Speaker A: Okay, can everybody roll a perception, please? [00:10:46] Speaker E: Yeah, that's a pretty good one for Bellag. [00:10:54] Speaker F: That's a natural 20 plus eight. [00:10:57] Speaker E: Nice. Well, I got a 14. It's double digits, so I consider it good. [00:11:03] Speaker D: I have a three. [00:11:04] Speaker A: Fantastic. [00:11:04] Speaker D: For Bellagio sees nothing. [00:11:10] Speaker A: Everybody comes keenly. Sorry, you were 15 total, yeah. Hmm. Okay. Everybody becomes keenly aware that there are several separating plates in this figure's armor. And Steve, as you look upon his lower half, and Kaitoan beleg, as you're more above his equator, shall we say, you do see the chest plate that has the unhealed physical scar of the dragon talon through it, begin to lift out. And beneath it is indeed a dwarven man. But his appendages seem to be stuck, you know, inside this. This suit of strangely constructed armor. What do you do? [00:12:19] Speaker E: I say in Dwarven, looks like you've seen better days. I just realized I speak dwarven, so. [00:12:28] Speaker D: Oh, I just realized. Oh, by the way, this speaks for bell egg. [00:12:37] Speaker A: You remember your days in the fey wild fold, and you remember those dwarven language lessons, and all of a sudden, you exclaim to this dwarf, what? You've seen better days? [00:12:55] Speaker B: How callous. [00:12:58] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:13:00] Speaker A: Well, he speaks back to you in Dwarven. Steve, you speak dwarven? [00:13:08] Speaker F: Sure do. [00:13:09] Speaker A: Kaitoa. [00:13:10] Speaker D: No. [00:13:11] Speaker A: Rook. No. [00:13:13] Speaker B: Okay. [00:13:14] Speaker A: Well, he speaks back to you and. [00:13:17] Speaker B: Says, well, the heat seeking troglodytes leave very little of a soldier once they're done. [00:13:31] Speaker A: And you know these dwarven words, they almost sound archaic. But he is naming a creature heat seeking troglodytes. [00:13:46] Speaker B: That which ended the goblin wars. [00:13:51] Speaker G: Fucking frogs. [00:13:54] Speaker A: Kaitoa. As you exclaim fucking trogs in your metallic voice, he looks. [00:14:05] Speaker D: Yeah, I understood the one word. Trogs. [00:14:09] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, maybe across all languages, troglodytes are a fearsome word. [00:14:18] Speaker B: They came like a wave from Kamba. It was the goblins last offense, and it worked. They could not be stopped. They were not reptilian. They were not humanoid. They were something terrible. [00:14:38] Speaker A: And as we charged at them, the. [00:14:41] Speaker B: Dwarven cavalry, we slew them. But as we looked down, our legs were gone and our limbs were rent. As few survived. And then the wizards ended it all. We could have tasted victory, but they blew it up one quarter of the whole continent. And so I survived. And the gnolls took me in, for they saw that I slew many at the end of the final battle. And they saw me as their God figure, Kudur. And so I rescued three pups. And now, come to the present, I am approached by a man, Nafri, an ambassador of the Wizards Guild. He offers to fund me on a campaign to take over a small town called Lotmurro. [00:16:00] Speaker E: And do what with it? This is fun. Story time. [00:16:04] Speaker G: What's the game? Oblivious. You. [00:16:10] Speaker B: The tapestry. The freeze. The ancient ritual to recreate it. The vessel, how to achieve immortality. They say that death is the heritage of life. But I disagree. Why can I not have this power? Why only the elves and the ancients against the dragons? A man could rule the world. [00:16:47] Speaker G: I am the vessel. [00:16:50] Speaker E: No, I am vessel. [00:16:54] Speaker D: No, I am. I am Spassicus. [00:16:57] Speaker E: Okay. Didn't want to miss a Spartacus reference opportunity. [00:17:03] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:04] Speaker E: No, I am the best. [00:17:06] Speaker D: No, I am the best. [00:17:11] Speaker A: A silence, brief but punctuated by the figure's final words, falls in between the party. [00:17:23] Speaker E: Is he dying? [00:17:26] Speaker B: I'm not dying anymore. That gauntlet's not bad. [00:17:30] Speaker E: I thought so. Careful there. [00:17:34] Speaker B: You almost went Dorothyl well, Dorothel's much deeper. Youre a wait. [00:17:42] Speaker D: You know. You know Dorval? [00:17:46] Speaker F: How does he. Did they fight together? [00:17:48] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:17:50] Speaker E: No, probably. [00:17:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:52] Speaker E: Yeah, because he talked about losing their legs. [00:17:55] Speaker D: And he knows. Yeah, he knows. Yeah. [00:18:01] Speaker A: I love you guys. [00:18:03] Speaker E: I love you too, Rob. [00:18:05] Speaker F: I mean, like, did Dorfel have a picture, or was it just a plaque? [00:18:11] Speaker A: Steve, can you roll a history. [00:18:14] Speaker F: Yeah. Come on, Steve, let's do it. [00:18:17] Speaker D: It was a waist up shot. [00:18:22] Speaker F: That is a 13. [00:18:24] Speaker A: Okay, Steve, you remember a cast plaque on Doraphil's wall that had inscribed Doraphil's dragoons, and it had a war pick on it. You did not take it off the wall. You did not turn it around, though. You only looked at it on the wall, and so you certainly remember that. [00:18:48] Speaker F: Yeah, the pops. You mentioned, the pups. I point over to the horse with the bound knoll. So these are yours? [00:18:58] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:19:00] Speaker C: Bound holes on the back of Kaitoa. [00:19:05] Speaker D: Dude, this, like, residence evil. Well. [00:19:11] Speaker E: We'Re talking. Was that. Was that nafri you were speaking to in the. In the stone? You reached for? [00:19:21] Speaker B: Never. [00:19:24] Speaker E: Oh, good. You can help us find him if you hate him as much as we do. [00:19:31] Speaker A: Bella, he looks up at you with a quizzical look. And to deal next with the next question I have written down here, you. [00:19:40] Speaker B: Asked about the nol pups. Uh, Steve. [00:19:43] Speaker F: Yeah. [00:19:44] Speaker B: Okay. [00:19:47] Speaker A: As he looks to Bel egg and then looks to you. Steve. [00:19:53] Speaker B: I don't know who you are exactly. You three protectors of the vessel. And who summoned you? Who do you work for? [00:20:07] Speaker F: You didn't answer my question. [00:20:10] Speaker B: Why should I? [00:20:14] Speaker F: Well, I just need to know if we should put a knife in his throat or nothing. [00:20:21] Speaker B: I was led astray by Nafri, sent to follow the wrong piece of ancient hardware. This is a shield golem to protect spellcasters, not from 10,000 years ago, but from 2000 years ago. And they hollowed it out for me to pile it here. [00:20:51] Speaker F: Huh. [00:20:53] Speaker D: I step forward and I'm like. [00:20:55] Speaker G: I am the vessel these men protect. [00:20:59] Speaker E: We know. [00:21:03] Speaker G: They protect me. [00:21:06] Speaker A: Kaitoa, as you look down, he has extended his arm up to you. And you now see, it is clear he is working this strange suit of armor with a set of sort of waldos and clasps and controls. You can't quite determine what has happened, but he is no longer connected to the appendages and. [00:21:36] Speaker B: Guys. [00:21:37] Speaker E: Yeah, you've. [00:21:38] Speaker F: Of course you've been. [00:21:39] Speaker E: Does the control mechanisms remind us of Mickey's boat? [00:21:48] Speaker A: Yes, there is a similarity between the type of technology you are seeing here, but it is clear now, apart from his wounds that have been mostly healed. Guys, there are wounds that will not heal on this man. He is a quadriplegic. He has no limbs. [00:22:12] Speaker E: Well, it's gonna be a lot easier to carry now. [00:22:15] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:22:16] Speaker G: You've been lied to, my friend. [00:22:19] Speaker B: Tell me about it. [00:22:25] Speaker G: You are no construct. [00:22:28] Speaker D: You will never be anymore. [00:22:30] Speaker B: Those pups with the beautiful Mohawks. [00:22:37] Speaker E: Oh, we did kill them. [00:22:39] Speaker G: They're beasts. [00:22:41] Speaker B: I was still under the control and under the orders of Nafri at the time to assault Paul. I regret it. [00:22:53] Speaker G: Naphre is lied to you. You will never be a construct. [00:22:59] Speaker B: I don't wish to be be a construct. The transfer is what I'm interested in. How it was done. And the tapestry shows it. The frieze in Basel documents everything. But with. [00:23:23] Speaker A: Now that he's been disconnected from whatever apparatus he was in the. Here you see him looking about, furiously. [00:23:35] Speaker E: Reconnect him. [00:23:37] Speaker G: Where is Nafri? Where's Nafri? [00:23:39] Speaker E: Where's Nafri? Who's tell chains? Why are we here? [00:23:44] Speaker B: That I don't know. My Noel family is decimated. Now there is nowhere for me to go. [00:23:58] Speaker E: We can keep. We can take you to your old pal, Dora Phil. [00:24:02] Speaker D: We can command the gnolls. [00:24:04] Speaker G: How can we command the nose? [00:24:07] Speaker B: Dora Phil? What? [00:24:10] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:24:11] Speaker B: You lieutenant Dora Phil? Yeah. [00:24:15] Speaker E: The old. The dragoon himself. [00:24:18] Speaker B: I would not expect that name on the lips of you hired magic users. You. I don't know. I don't know how to answer your questions. I don't know the name. Tell chains. I know what I was promised. A chance at life eternal. And now it is dashed. I see you're not an empty shell. [00:24:47] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:24:48] Speaker B: We did terrible things. [00:24:52] Speaker D: Is there anything you wish to give. [00:24:55] Speaker G: Before I give you a honorable death? [00:24:59] Speaker B: What the fuck I wish for death for? We slew many. The list we were given. The noble, including the mightiest of all, the half bell bloodlines. We took them all and slew them in vain. The ceremony, the ritual, was for nothing. It all was for nothing. You know what they say about history and stories, often repeated, often misinterpreted. [00:25:37] Speaker F: This list. This is the one with the punshleigh on it. [00:25:41] Speaker E: Are you in middle aged Orson Welles? [00:25:45] Speaker B: Rosebud. [00:25:48] Speaker D: Rosebud. [00:25:49] Speaker E: Rosebud. [00:25:50] Speaker F: Oh, Paul Massan. [00:25:53] Speaker B: No, Orson Wells is more hammy. He's more giant ham. More ham in Wells. [00:26:04] Speaker D: I'm about to kill you. [00:26:06] Speaker E: So don't kill him, Kaitoa. I'll fucking. I want to keep him alive. [00:26:14] Speaker A: He exclaims uh, those words, Steve, you have confirmed it is the list the party has been in possession of. Beleg, half elf. You asked about tell changed. You know, you asked, why are we here? You know, as. As this figure flounders now in front of you. What are you doing? [00:26:40] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:26:41] Speaker G: Anyone got any last words? [00:26:44] Speaker E: This guy's a fucking wellspring. I think we should just throw them in a little wheelchair. With thorfil and they can be friends again. We'll have a little veterans home. [00:26:56] Speaker F: I'm for bringing him back alive. [00:26:58] Speaker E: Yeah. Stand down, construct. [00:27:02] Speaker F: All right, sure. Rick wants to know what happened to. [00:27:06] Speaker D: G punchline that we started bang binding and. Yeah, we strap into a fucking chair. [00:27:17] Speaker C: Are we gonna lay down base camp here for tonight and hit pub in the morning, or. [00:27:24] Speaker B: It depends. [00:27:25] Speaker F: I don't know how long this guy has. [00:27:29] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm fine. Blah. [00:27:34] Speaker E: You're fine. [00:27:36] Speaker F: Okay. [00:27:38] Speaker E: So, uh, Ango, you want to help us take down Nafri? [00:27:45] Speaker B: Kill me. [00:27:48] Speaker D: Why are you protecting Nafride if he's afraid of. [00:27:54] Speaker E: Because he's capable of giving him a fate worse than death. [00:27:57] Speaker B: Not afraid. My aspiration is killed. My integrity is gone. You've sold out. [00:28:07] Speaker E: It's all salvageable, buddy. [00:28:09] Speaker B: You sold out Tenafri, the worst among you can't grasp the depths of what the leaders of this world will do. They're killing our sense of. Of people and values. We don't have any great men. We don't have any great weapons left. [00:28:33] Speaker E: But I do know a man with a fair amount of influence, and I snap my fingers and I turn into Nafri. [00:28:45] Speaker A: Would you like to roll a. Yeah. [00:28:47] Speaker D: I was gonna say performance. [00:28:50] Speaker A: Or is it. What's your goal? Is it. Is it to intimidate or to impress. [00:28:55] Speaker E: Or to impress it to. To, like. Yeah, to punctuate, like, performance. Hey, man. [00:29:01] Speaker A: Performance. [00:29:02] Speaker F: Performance. [00:29:03] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:29:04] Speaker E: That's a 19 plus 322. [00:29:08] Speaker B: Yeah, pretty boy. [00:29:11] Speaker E: All I'm saying is we've got many pieces in play. We can win this. Join us, and I snap back to belly. [00:29:28] Speaker B: What did you say? Join us. Join who? I'm revived by your magical skills. I'm. I'm at your mercy. [00:29:43] Speaker E: The answer to your question can be explained by your old pal Doraphil. When we get to. [00:29:50] Speaker B: But you are the slayers of my ambition, and my family is. Remains behind me. Even the remnants of lot morrow still take refuge there. What of them? [00:30:12] Speaker D: What do you need to rethink your goals? [00:30:18] Speaker B: I would rather die here. Now. Kill the man's soul, kill the individual. We're all fools for what's coming. [00:30:29] Speaker E: Nope. [00:30:30] Speaker D: Nope. [00:30:31] Speaker F: Where would naturally go if not pulp? [00:30:33] Speaker E: Yeah, you don't get off that easy and go now. [00:30:38] Speaker B: He would flee. He would flee like a rat to Tonwen. Back to his masters. If they could become the masters of anything. The iron of Tonwin in Kosm, the wizard city on the cliffs. [00:30:59] Speaker E: Good start. [00:31:01] Speaker F: I've seen the city, but I've never been there. I've never been in the city. [00:31:06] Speaker B: Who is this boy? I understand the man on the horseback there is as emissary of the Halfor king. Will he know that the king is dead? Will he take back the message? Who are you? Half elf who does not hide your ears? How have you come about with this? How. How did you end up at the end of this plot in the Black Arrow fortress? [00:31:40] Speaker E: No, man, we're just victims to you. [00:31:44] Speaker D: The end of the sword. [00:31:47] Speaker B: But I don't understand. [00:31:49] Speaker E: What the hell can we throw on a horse and start going to pull? I'm about to get this guy until we get back. [00:31:57] Speaker G: You've talked enough. [00:31:59] Speaker F: Yeah. We have a new home for you. It's called the white chain. [00:32:02] Speaker E: I'm gonna. [00:32:03] Speaker F: Welcome. [00:32:04] Speaker D: Welcome to the hurt locker. Someone else. We have another friend who's known that very well. [00:32:13] Speaker C: You name remnants. [00:32:15] Speaker F: Yeah. [00:32:18] Speaker B: Know that everyone on that list is dead. And on my conscience, we sacrificed them for nothing. Everyone. King Punsley, all of them. Nobles, etcetera. [00:32:37] Speaker G: What do you have left to say? [00:32:41] Speaker A: Should we. [00:32:42] Speaker D: Should we kill him right now? [00:32:43] Speaker F: No, no, we're taking aback. [00:32:46] Speaker E: Take him back. He's got info and knowledge of history. This is a fucking. He's our new library, man. Come on. [00:32:55] Speaker G: I'm. Right. [00:32:57] Speaker F: Now kill that. Go kill the Noel. We got this guy. [00:33:01] Speaker E: Yeah. If you need to kill something, go kill the gnome. Just don't, like, free up. Don't let. Don't let ultimate see. Because. [00:33:11] Speaker F: And he'll be our new porter. [00:33:13] Speaker D: Like, uh, can we squeeze anything out of this guy? Is he of any worth to us? Right? [00:33:20] Speaker E: Yeah, man. Dude's a fucking library. We can keep him. He's useful. [00:33:26] Speaker F: I want to see these. I want to see him and Dorfield talk, so. [00:33:31] Speaker E: Me too. [00:33:34] Speaker F: I want to see what they have to say to each other. [00:33:37] Speaker E: Oh. [00:33:41] Speaker D: I stare oldfoot in the eye just being like, dude, I am looking. [00:33:47] Speaker G: Forward to cutting your head off. [00:33:51] Speaker E: Don't mind him. One final question before we either make you go to sleep or you shut up. Who were you talking to on the stone of far speech? Because you said something to the effect of take him out. And I want to know if there's somebody coming after us right now. [00:34:13] Speaker B: I thought at last Hail Mary Pass might be appropriate. [00:34:21] Speaker E: I hear you're familiar with bloodball hail Jebdah. [00:34:25] Speaker B: I thought the last hail Jebdah pass might be appropriate. And that perhaps my last son. My. My mouth. [00:34:40] Speaker D: I put my foot on his neck. [00:34:44] Speaker F: What the fuck? [00:34:45] Speaker C: What? [00:34:46] Speaker E: The neck? [00:34:48] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:34:49] Speaker F: Bullshit. Brook. [00:34:54] Speaker E: Can you. Can we please move Kaitoa? [00:34:58] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:34:59] Speaker E: How about Eldritch blast him. [00:35:02] Speaker C: Hold Tito back. [00:35:07] Speaker E: Who's your oldest son? Are they coming for us? Do we have anything to worry about right now? Because we will kill anything that you throw at us. [00:35:20] Speaker A: Hey, Rook, have you dismounted? Are you actually intervening here? [00:35:26] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:35:26] Speaker A: Okay. Would you mind rolling a strength against your companion, Kaitoa? [00:35:36] Speaker C: Might not do her well. Twelve. [00:35:40] Speaker A: Okay. Kaitoa, would you mind rolling a strength against your companion? Rook? [00:35:46] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:35:47] Speaker E: That leg goes. Hey, Kaidenhe. So, look. I see Oumuamua. And he rolls strength to disadvantage. [00:35:53] Speaker A: Oh, well, it's either rook rolling with advantage or could do it with disadvantage. [00:36:03] Speaker D: 15. [00:36:04] Speaker C: Oh, jest. [00:36:06] Speaker A: I will take that. So, guys, you are in the moment, kind of wrestling about. [00:36:14] Speaker C: I'm just gonna say. Can't tell it. Loosen your grip on his neck and let him talk. [00:36:21] Speaker D: That's what mighty pissed. [00:36:27] Speaker B: My two dozen riders at the creek. He was the leader of them. I know. Not if you slew him like you slew them all else. I rode with the other two dozen along the road from the gates of Iz, hoping you would appear. And you did. What a ride. [00:36:50] Speaker E: We definitely slew them all. Hey, Steve, did you? [00:36:54] Speaker F: Though I killed many of my bullies. [00:36:58] Speaker B: Assumed that they died. Do you not think that they have death saving throes? Do you think that the universe favors you alone? [00:37:10] Speaker E: Yes. [00:37:11] Speaker B: We'll say it. [00:37:13] Speaker E: Steve can. Stolas. Stolas can't go that far away, can he? Go back and. Go back and get the other stone of far speech because we got upgrades on our hands. [00:37:25] Speaker F: The other stone of far speech? [00:37:27] Speaker E: Yeah. So I. Oh, I guess you wouldn't know. I pulled a stone of far speech out of my pocket. [00:37:34] Speaker A: It's. [00:37:35] Speaker B: It's big brother, bro Hawk, that has the other purple stone of far speech. [00:37:44] Speaker F: Should we. [00:37:46] Speaker G: Should. [00:37:46] Speaker C: We. [00:37:51] Speaker F: Killed most people during the raft building exercise. [00:37:55] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:37:55] Speaker E: Yeah. After the first horses were ditched, before the second horses were acquired, I. [00:38:00] Speaker C: We all had a peeing party. [00:38:04] Speaker E: Bell Egg grabs the stone of far speech and just goes. Marco. And waits for a polo. Yeah, he's dead. Let's go get it. [00:38:19] Speaker G: Wow. [00:38:21] Speaker B: What do you smell. [00:38:27] Speaker E: Marco? I smell. [00:38:30] Speaker B: I smell the stone. [00:38:34] Speaker E: Not dead. [00:38:36] Speaker C: No. I think somebody else is finding it. [00:38:44] Speaker E: Come and get us, motherfucker. [00:38:46] Speaker D: Yeah. Bring it. [00:38:48] Speaker F: We got your old man. He's coming with us. [00:38:52] Speaker E: He's our old man now. [00:38:56] Speaker A: You are interrupted by sort of a static sort of sound, and now all of the communication seems to be cut off. [00:39:09] Speaker F: Is there no other. No other voice is coming from the stone, Steve? [00:39:14] Speaker A: No. It seems like there has been an interruption to the communication and the stone is in your hands, Beleg. And you sort of realize that this stone may function a little differently than the stones that you have in your possession. [00:39:32] Speaker E: Can. Bele. Can I roll history to remember exactly what Oldfoot did when he talked into it? [00:39:40] Speaker A: You don't even need to. It was. You do remember him bringing his clinch gauntlet up? Yes. Near to his visor. [00:39:52] Speaker E: With it? Yeah, yeah, I do that. Let's go. Testing, testing, one, two, three. Is your refrigerator running? [00:40:16] Speaker A: What? [00:40:17] Speaker F: Who's a big boy? Who's a big boy? [00:40:20] Speaker E: Who's sit. [00:40:23] Speaker B: Where is old foot? [00:40:26] Speaker E: He's here. He's safe. We like him. Tell us where his old foot. I'd tell you if we knew where the fuck we were. [00:40:37] Speaker F: Maybe we're in the castle of is. The call is coming from inside the castle. [00:40:51] Speaker E: What is that terrible laughter? Oh, just a few guys having some fun after a very long day. Where are you? Geez, you sound like rook when he sleeps. [00:41:12] Speaker F: We're gonna keep him a while. So say goodbye. [00:41:19] Speaker E: Oldfoot. Say goodbye. [00:41:22] Speaker C: Say goodbye. [00:41:23] Speaker F: Don't let him say anything. Don't send coded messages. [00:41:29] Speaker B: Leap, bloop, blurt, mumbo jumbo. What? [00:41:35] Speaker E: Don't worry about it. [00:41:38] Speaker F: All right, let's get him. Let's get him back to pull. [00:41:41] Speaker E: Yep. Let's get this guy on a horse. How's Lionel looking? Cause this interaction, well, literally gone on about an hour. [00:41:52] Speaker A: Well, you had spoken of a long rest. Are you doing that here? [00:41:59] Speaker E: Do we want Rob? This conversation could be considered a short rest. [00:42:05] Speaker A: Right, well, you've definitely confirmed the voices on the other end of this device are approximately seven to 8 hours away. They're way back where you started your midnight ride. And the interactions you've been having now have not lasted more than about a half an hour. But I wouldn't include them in a. In a short or a long rest. [00:42:35] Speaker E: Oh, yeah. [00:42:37] Speaker F: I like the idea of being able to take that rest once we've gotten back to pull. [00:42:42] Speaker E: Same way. [00:42:43] Speaker A: Oh, uh, freeze pop. [00:42:48] Speaker E: Yeah. What about him? [00:42:49] Speaker A: Okay, good. I'm glad somebody remembered his name. So freeze pop is doing okay? Um, well, actually, hold on. [00:42:58] Speaker E: Hey, Kaitoa, can you name him a leash and a collar? [00:43:01] Speaker B: He's cool. [00:43:03] Speaker D: He's bound. [00:43:06] Speaker A: He's bound and lashed. [00:43:10] Speaker E: I think we should just head to bulb. Yeah. [00:43:13] Speaker C: We load this guy up and going. [00:43:15] Speaker E: Yeah. All right. [00:43:22] Speaker A: You wake up, and the plains of Pulba are behind you. The sun is rising, and the second moon here, because we are in the early spring months, that second moon is still in the sky just about to hit the horizon. So, you know, Engo here is in a little lump and. What are you doing? [00:43:46] Speaker F: How's our good friend the knoll doing? [00:43:49] Speaker A: Can you roll medicine, Steve, as you check on your prisoner? Yep. [00:43:54] Speaker F: Twelve. [00:43:57] Speaker A: Well, Steve, you feel like you have successfully stabilized this prisoner's constitution? He is not in any way bleeding. [00:44:08] Speaker F: Out and minty fresh breath. [00:44:11] Speaker A: Smells great. [00:44:13] Speaker E: That freezing go right up to his prostate. Is he just feeling blissful right now? [00:44:19] Speaker A: You do have Lionel. He's looking good. He's had a long rest. You have rook steed. You have Steve's horse. You have prickly Pete. Prickly Pete is gold, the battle mare. And you have four hour ride until you get to Pole, the fair city of Pole. Is that where you aim frequently. [00:44:46] Speaker E: Pete is gold, right. [00:44:49] Speaker A: Wait, do you mean metaphorically or actually. Actually in color? Prickly Pete is gunmetal gray, but in metaphorically. Metaphorically, she is fucking gold. [00:45:04] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:45:05] Speaker A: Yeah. So, yeah, if you guys want to hit that autopilot button, I will roll one simple d four and tell you what happens on the ride to back to pole. [00:45:16] Speaker B: Pole? [00:45:18] Speaker E: Works for me. [00:45:19] Speaker B: Okay. [00:45:19] Speaker D: I'm good. [00:45:21] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:45:22] Speaker B: Steve. [00:45:24] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:45:25] Speaker F: Gonna use my regular natural explorer kind of shit, though. [00:45:30] Speaker A: Steve, can you roll a d four? [00:45:33] Speaker E: Yes. [00:45:34] Speaker A: Any. Anybody who wants to add anything to their final ride here to pulp. I mean, I want to. I want to refresh your guys memories. What have you done? Right now? You have paper clipped right into the heart of the story and the city of Iz. And you've extracted this fellow, and you are back, and it has only been about 36 hours. [00:45:58] Speaker E: That's pretty impressive, that is. [00:46:01] Speaker C: Damn, we work fast. [00:46:03] Speaker A: Surgical. [00:46:07] Speaker C: Like a SoCom team. [00:46:08] Speaker D: What was. [00:46:10] Speaker F: I rolled a two. [00:46:12] Speaker A: Okay, let's have everybody roll that good old faithful d four. [00:46:19] Speaker B: Rook. [00:46:19] Speaker A: I'll have you roll d four. Kaito, I'll have your d four bell leg roll before. [00:46:24] Speaker C: Already did three, sir. [00:46:26] Speaker E: Bell egg roll. The one. [00:46:28] Speaker A: Okay. [00:46:29] Speaker D: And Kaitoa Bella, except for 594. Oh, a two. [00:46:37] Speaker A: And the ride back seems to be uneventful. [00:46:42] Speaker C: I guess I'm gonna keep on riding the Paul. [00:46:47] Speaker B: Okay. [00:46:48] Speaker A: The walls of pole, the eastern gate, now is appearing in front of you four. The walls are gleaming in the spring sunlight, and there's tons of activity along the road. [00:47:05] Speaker C: Well, are we just going straight through the gates? [00:47:09] Speaker F: We left under cover of night, right? [00:47:13] Speaker C: Yes. [00:47:14] Speaker F: We left without anyone knowing. Do we want to come back without anyone knowing? [00:47:19] Speaker D: I'm wondering, do we want to bring the city guard? [00:47:24] Speaker F: No, I mean, we. We left without letting one know that we were leaving. Do we want to come back without anyone knowing that we were gone at all? [00:47:34] Speaker B: Hmm. [00:47:38] Speaker E: Would be the worst idea. [00:47:40] Speaker D: It wouldn't hurt. Yeah. Bring. Bring someone back for interrogation. Yeah, yeah. [00:47:49] Speaker F: We can always wait till night. We can always, like. Steve is fully loaded now for. For another pass without trace if we want to come in. I think at very least, we come back at night when there's less people around. [00:48:03] Speaker E: Yeah, I like that idea. [00:48:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:48:06] Speaker E: Yeah, we'd like to keep. This isn't a public affair. [00:48:09] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:48:10] Speaker F: Yeah. The less people know that we have this guy with us, the better, I'm sure. [00:48:15] Speaker E: Yes. [00:48:16] Speaker D: So where are we going until nightfall? [00:48:19] Speaker F: We can just hang out in the. Hang out in the orchards and just outside of town. [00:48:25] Speaker D: Casual ride outside of city. [00:48:28] Speaker F: We got plenty of that when we're not hungry or anything. [00:48:31] Speaker E: Hey, do you guys want to watch a replay of the battle of pulled planes? Because I can just cast major image. We can sit back and. Movie time. [00:48:44] Speaker F: You want to see what happened to. [00:48:45] Speaker B: Your pup where you slew 100 of my good men? I remember the battle of Poland is where you drew my attention. Fine generals you would make. You would have made. [00:49:03] Speaker E: Have you ever been to Shanta? Do you mean by what if made? [00:49:10] Speaker B: Well, will you survive until the next war? [00:49:18] Speaker C: Yes. [00:49:21] Speaker D: Sir. I. [00:49:22] Speaker E: Everyone except Steve. [00:49:24] Speaker D: I've survived many great wars. What do you mean? [00:49:30] Speaker B: I don't mean you. The endless soldier, striding from bloodbath to bloodbath. I don't mean you. I mean these other three. Whoever you work for is going to expend you. [00:49:51] Speaker D: We don't work for anybody. And I laugh. [00:49:53] Speaker C: I laugh at him. [00:49:54] Speaker D: I mean, like, no, I fight for myself. [00:49:58] Speaker G: And it's your life that is short. [00:50:06] Speaker B: Tell me about it. And you, half Orc messenger, will you take the message back to your people that their king is dead? [00:50:21] Speaker C: Then I would be king. [00:50:22] Speaker E: Yeah, you're speaking to their king now. [00:50:27] Speaker F: That's more information that we don't need to pass along to him. [00:50:32] Speaker C: He's gonna die anyways. He ain't leaving our site alive. Not making that mistake twice. [00:50:40] Speaker G: Your tongue, like. [00:50:44] Speaker B: I don't comprehend the machinations of this party. Where is the commanding hand? I don't believe this pup is a princess. An heir to the throne of the poon slain. No, I don't believe it. [00:51:03] Speaker C: Okay, you don't need to know the rest. I'm gonna leave him. [00:51:09] Speaker E: You're very impatient, Ingo. [00:51:14] Speaker D: My Kai, Toby gags him. [00:51:19] Speaker A: And my understanding here is that you have left him in his armor, but he is riding alongside punchline yeah, that works. Or have you separated him from his shield guardian armor? [00:51:37] Speaker E: I think it's worth it to keep the armor because it seemed to be a bit of a lifeline for him. [00:51:42] Speaker F: It's kind of got a darth Vader thing going. [00:51:45] Speaker E: Yeah. I almost called him Anakin earlier. [00:51:49] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:51:50] Speaker G: Did we strip piece by piece until we see him falter. [00:51:57] Speaker B: As you talk, it's really hard for me to not interject. [00:52:03] Speaker D: No, you're gay. [00:52:05] Speaker F: I speak. [00:52:07] Speaker B: Do you know what I have? Do you know my stats? I have this thing called monologue. I'm using it now. I'm using my superiority monologue. Dice. I'm gonna roll it. Here we go. It says I can talk for five minutes, so watch out, buddy. But. No, but seriously, though, seriously. It's a scooped out shield guardian from the spell wars 2000 years ago. They scooped it out and told me it was the vessel. Get it? [00:52:46] Speaker F: He's made pajamas out of your buddies, Kaito. [00:52:49] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, I get it. [00:52:54] Speaker C: I've got a question for you. What's this yellow shield? [00:52:59] Speaker B: My shield from the goblin wars. Tis a device of my family's, and I cherish it dearly. If you look up the stats, you'll see it regenerates every turn. [00:53:13] Speaker C: Oh, good thing I like this shield. Thank you. [00:53:18] Speaker B: Okay, well, my monologuing is over. I'll put the gag back in. [00:53:25] Speaker D: I'd love to start stripping them down. [00:53:30] Speaker C: Wait till we get to the white chamber. [00:53:32] Speaker E: Yeah, I kind of want to see Doraphil's, uh, reaction. [00:53:36] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:53:37] Speaker F: Yeah, we're not killing him until dwarf. [00:53:40] Speaker D: Well, I'd love to leave the chest plate on him, but it was like shields boots. [00:53:46] Speaker F: We don't want to accidentally kill him before we get him back. [00:53:52] Speaker B: Just split up the gag here for a second. I don't need the armor, you see? Right. I don't need it. I can stump around. [00:54:03] Speaker E: We know a guy who's got a great wheelchair. [00:54:06] Speaker F: Yeah, we can get you one. [00:54:08] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:54:15] Speaker A: And the gag is back in. He is now alongside punishlay as you guys have now marched in and you've had these final words with Engo and you are at the gates of Polb. Are you entering stealthily or are you broadcasting your return? [00:54:33] Speaker E: What time? [00:54:34] Speaker A: 1230 in the afternoon. [00:54:37] Speaker C: No. [00:54:39] Speaker E: Yeah, we're hanging out until dark. [00:54:41] Speaker A: Okay. You would now spend. I suppose you would need to spend at least 7 hours in these surrounding fields. And now you have seen darkness fall. And most of the carriages and, you know, farm hands that are moving around their activities have subsided. Now. There are very few people on the roads and the lights are coming on. And it is now approximately 07:00 p.m. [00:55:09] Speaker C: Is there any carriages around that we could maybe go put both of these guys in and I could lead the way and just say that we have some goods from. Is that we're bringing back from, you know, back to town. [00:55:28] Speaker A: Movement on the roads is minimal. You've seen most of the traffic now subside. You'd be hard pressed to catch up to it. [00:55:36] Speaker C: I'm just thinking about if we're in these orchards and in the farmlands, if there was anything kicking around the farmlands. [00:55:45] Speaker E: I'd like to take this opportunity to tell you guys that I can't believe took me this long, took me to level fucking seven to realize that I can have a cantrip that's create bonfire, which would have been so fucking useful for so long. [00:56:07] Speaker D: Boo. [00:56:09] Speaker E: So I have it now. It's like, oh, this just has our party written all over it. [00:56:18] Speaker D: I'm sure we'll find a new purpose. [00:56:21] Speaker E: Oh, yeah. [00:56:23] Speaker A: This classic bell egg. [00:56:25] Speaker E: Yeah. My perception that I just passed my. [00:56:28] Speaker A: Look at the things I can do that I never knew look at the. [00:56:35] Speaker D: Things I can do in Chintadoo. [00:56:41] Speaker A: Well, Pardi, as you approach the gates, what was your approach? Unnoticed. [00:56:46] Speaker E: I thought we were waiting until night. [00:56:49] Speaker A: Okay, so now it's night. And what's your course of action? [00:56:52] Speaker C: Stealthily go up, I guess. [00:56:55] Speaker F: Yeah, Steve can, uh. Steve can burn a pass without trace on our group. [00:57:02] Speaker B: Okay. [00:57:03] Speaker F: That much easier. [00:57:04] Speaker A: Okay, now can everybody please roll a stealth check with plus ten with advantage as well, because you have waited until a good time. It is past dusk. It is dark. The odds are in your favor. [00:57:26] Speaker E: 27 24 for Bel egg. [00:57:31] Speaker F: Yeah, that's everyone taking the first roll. 38 for Steve. [00:57:36] Speaker E: Oh, shit, I forgot to roll at advantageous. That's a 33 for Bellic, up from 24. Yeah. [00:57:44] Speaker D: Okay, plus ten or 27. [00:57:52] Speaker A: Okay, so the party is able to re infiltrate the city that they ostensibly call home. And where are you making for once you pass through the eastern gate? [00:58:09] Speaker E: Oh, I said, uh, I think we should go to Mickey and Dorfield's first. [00:58:14] Speaker B: Yep. [00:58:17] Speaker A: I love how you think they're like Ernie and Bert that are. Yeah, they're just always hanging out in the same apartment waiting for you guys to reappear. [00:58:28] Speaker D: Hey, Mickey, that are, I think, like white chain. White chain or wizard and spear? [00:58:38] Speaker E: You think we should go to wizard and spear? [00:58:40] Speaker D: Yeah, I think we do. [00:58:42] Speaker E: For what? [00:58:44] Speaker D: Uh, I think we have a victim. [00:58:49] Speaker E: He's fine now, though. [00:58:51] Speaker D: Yeah, but we also have a leaking cryogenic bomb. [00:58:59] Speaker G: I'm leaking. [00:59:01] Speaker E: That we should take. [00:59:05] Speaker D: Yeah, but still by two things that need a bit of patching. We need to go mend. Mem. [00:59:17] Speaker E: I think we should drop off Engo first and foremost. [00:59:23] Speaker F: Yeah, we should reconnect. [00:59:25] Speaker D: No, I. Yeah, I agree with. Let's bail our interrogation victim. [00:59:34] Speaker E: We don't want to be dragging him around town. [00:59:36] Speaker F: Let's get the. Let's white chain these, uh, our gnoll and our. Our dwarf here draw a white channel. [00:59:44] Speaker D: Yeah, I think you guys. [00:59:46] Speaker G: White chain. [00:59:47] Speaker D: I'm gonna go wizard and spear right away. [00:59:51] Speaker C: Yeah, let's white chain it. [00:59:54] Speaker D: All right. [00:59:57] Speaker A: The white chain. I think that's where we're gonna end tonight, guys. [01:00:04] Speaker E: Oh, that was a good session. [01:00:06] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:00:08] Speaker F: Home sweet home. [01:01:08] Speaker D: Also, back at pulp, I want to talk to Mickey or grim, because I love a crossbow. [01:01:25] Speaker E: The way. The way you said that, like, Mickey or gurm made it sound like Kaitoa still hasn't figured out they're the same person. He still thinks there's two different. [01:01:35] Speaker D: It's more like whoever the fuck you want to be. I just don't know. [01:01:40] Speaker C: Yeah, he's gonna. He's gonna ask germ, and Gurm's gonna. [01:01:44] Speaker D: Not give him the answer, and he's like, okay, yeah, how about Mickey? [01:01:47] Speaker E: Mickey, Mickey. I need you, Mickey. [01:01:55] Speaker A: Can we do our what are we drinking feature? [01:01:58] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:01:59] Speaker E: Yeah. [01:02:00] Speaker A: I am drinking Stanley Parks windstorm West coast pale ale, 5.4. [01:02:08] Speaker D: I think this is appropriate. Kaitoa's drinking pliny the elder. [01:02:15] Speaker E: Oh, you're crushing a pliny. [01:02:16] Speaker F: Holy shit. Yeah, there you go. [01:02:20] Speaker E: Say goodbye to sobriety. [01:02:26] Speaker F: I am just about to start drinking a raised by wolves. [01:02:32] Speaker E: Oh, I see. [01:02:34] Speaker A: Never, ever heard that mentioned before from the can. [01:02:38] Speaker C: Raised by wolves. [01:02:39] Speaker B: What? [01:02:39] Speaker G: Yeah. [01:02:41] Speaker F: Yeah, that's good. [01:02:42] Speaker A: That's good. [01:02:43] Speaker E: If I crush another beer, that's probably what it's gonna be. [01:02:47] Speaker A: Oh, dude. [01:02:48] Speaker D: Next week, Blackstone Porter again. [01:02:51] Speaker F: Oh, I'm so stoked for that. [01:02:54] Speaker B: Sweet. [01:02:55] Speaker E: Oh, also, to round it out, I'm drinking a Miami rice from Russell Bruin. [01:03:02] Speaker D: Nice. [01:03:03] Speaker E: Thank you, Jay, for trading beer for a growler fill. [01:03:07] Speaker F: Didn't he jump on it? Oh, man, I miss J. Fuck, yeah. [01:03:10] Speaker E: He dropped by. He gave us. Gave me and youngblood a four pack of this Miami rice, which is like a young blood, hazy rice ipA. [01:03:18] Speaker F: Young blood. [01:03:19] Speaker E: Yeah. And then a four pack of their oatmeal stout, which has the best fucking label. It's like a nine panel comic about a cat waking up and making an oatmeal stout, and it's pretty fun. [01:03:35] Speaker F: Nice.