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Episode 12.
Black Pepper Plot.
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Hello everyone!
Welcome to Songwoven!
I am Tim Don Tran and I am your narrator.
Maybe please go ahead and introduce ourselves from head to toe.
Hi, I'm Jenny's head talking right now.
I guess usually the talking does come from the head, you know, logically I guess.
I'm always confused.
If you listen to these, I always sound confused at the start of these, because I'm processing
whatever you just said.
And every time I open the podcast to edit it, I just listen and I'm like, wow, I sound
so stilted and so confused.
And that's exactly what's happening.
It takes like five run throughs for you to understand.
Head to toe?
And I play Cecilia Idlewind today, at least.
I'm Emma Romosco.
I play the toe here.
I'm the enforcer.
That was for free, by the way.
Not a bootlicker.
No, not that.
No, I'm the boot taker.
And I play for now Jean-Claude Boucheron.
You guys got plans?
You want to tell me about?
I'm left in the dark here.
Next game, we're swapping, but we're not, no, not next game.
We're swapping characters and we're not telling you when.
I'm ready.
Honestly, I've been dying to play Twilight Clerk, so I'm ready and prepared.
I can't do the accent.
Body swap episode.
It would be so funny.
Yeah, like a body swap episode.
Yeah, I'd be crazy.
I'd love to do that.
So, oh yeah, by the way, I am Tim Don Tran and I am the other pair.
I am the other set of very, very suckable toes.
What the fuck up?
No, no, no.
I am really struggling.
Oh gosh.
No, why did I commit to that?
That was bad.
Oh gosh, I'm sorry.
This is my former resignation as the DM of Songwulff.
Narrator of Songwulff.
And he says, wait, what stream am I here for?
Check out our Twitter, Winkwing.
I got timed out.
What the hell?
So yeah, so at the very top of the stream, we got some very nifty announcements for you
today.
It says, I think this announcement is going to go ahead and take place.
Sorry podcast viewers.
It's going to take place as a little video.
So why don't I send you away for a bit to see what this announcement's all about.
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After all, those who seek treasure are sure to have one similar goal.
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Oh, wow!
Yes.
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Yep.
We did it.
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Yarrrr!
Gosh, this is not good!
Arrrrr!
Oh no, no, no!
No!
Oh no, no, this is not good at all!
Oh gosh!
Oh gosh, what's up here?
He drank an energy drink.
I drank an energy drink today.
That's why this is happening.
This is why we're here.
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We are hot on the trail of what could potentially be their greatest treasure yet.
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I think I'm of the belief that they're a very wonderful group of wonderful people, I said
the word wonderful a lot, I have energy drinks, who are passion driven and have worked really
hard in giving to the community.
Goodness, I'm not sure if I'm going to make it through today.
You can do it, you can do it, I believe in you.
Goodness gracious.
I guess that means we can go into the next announcement, which requires a bit more agentile
and candor.
So just letting everyone know that during the next few weeks we here at Songwulven are
going to be exploring new alternatives to find a system that better suits our play style.
Changing systems, I know it seems like a very scary and daunting task, maybe as a listener
and maybe as someone who knows 5th edition very well.
But if you've listened to us, then what makes a game special?
It's not the rules, it's not the words and numbers that dictate what we do to resolve
current situations, it's not all of that.
What makes any game special, mine, ours, or yours, are the things that you do with it
and the things that you bring with it.
Cecilia, Jean-Claude, the world that we play in and the stories we tell, those are ours.
And the stories we tell, the messages we write, and the things we want to represent, that
is all universal.
So please stick with us for the next few weeks as me, Jenny, and Emma explore alternatives,
find vehicles for our dear song-woven as we maneuver ourselves through some of the strife
going on in the community.
Goodness, what did I say?
Very well, you did very good.
Also for those in our Discord, I think if people have any recommendations, I think we'd
love to hear them too for other systems as well.
We're not necessarily looking for the game that's the closest match to D&D, because I
don't feel like we really play D&D like D&D that much.
We play D&D in the very story roleplay, which I know a lot of people are doing nowadays too,
which is, but we are open to looking for systems that aren't necessarily the closest similarities
to D&D, but rather focusing on the things that we tend to focus on in our games.
And so we're going to take time deciding what, since we are very, we play D&D because we
know it very well, so it's easy for us to just ignore it and do the story basically.
So learning a new system will be hard, but if we can find a system that helps support
the story better, then it'll be a lot better.
Literally the only reason why we're playing for the Discord is because we know it.
A lot of people know it.
It's streamlined, but it's about time.
And no matter what system we go to, like Tim reiterated earlier, these characters are the
same.
This world is the same.
We're not going to have some weird character personality.
They're going to be the same goofs that they are.
We as the players are just going to find a different way that maybe you can learn along
with us to a different way we can tell a story through RPG, which we all love here.
All right.
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There you go.
There's your statement.
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Okay.
There you go.
We said it.
And rip out the guts.
I don't want D&D itself to die.
I'm not interested in playing D&D.
No, it's foreseeable future.
But tonight.
That's exactly why I absolutely love that we're being sponsored by Level Up Advanced.
They're amazing.
They're their own thing.
Yeah.
It's very cool.
They have a lot of really cool changes and a lot of cool supplemental material and stuff.
It's really, really good.
But yeah.
Okay.
We've been 13 minute intro.
Do you want me to recap?
Oh, Jesus.
Before we do, I am ultimately requested to reveal if I do pass out in the middle of this
game from crashing from this energy drink I've been having, can one of you tag in as
a DM for me?
I will be the narrator.
I will be the captain.
Collaborate.
Like, okay, here's all the money we find.
Oh, look, we made it to the other end of the continent.
Yay.
All right.
With that said, recap.
Yeah, so the last session started with Claude asleep and he having a vision of his niece
Sylvie before she got kidnapped.
And it sucked.
And also there was lots of fire in the vision.
And then this hag Eri is like, hey, I can help you.
I just want a day of your life.
And Claude's like, I don't trust you.
I don't even know you.
Claude's like, I read one storybook that said you can't trust me.
The end.
And so Eri's like, well, you know, you can like hit me up when you get back to your own,
your hometown, which is coming up.
Like just just come say hi, you know.
And I'll convince you by then, basically.
And then Claude woke up very disturbed from that, understandably.
And we said goodbye to Diem and went about our way towards Kirkchester, which is the
capital of this region, and about a third of the way to Cadvarum.
That's what my notes say.
And there's a house.
There's a house.
Harvel.
That must be I think I was on my notes from the week before, which is why I didn't write
it down.
House Harvel is the Lord here.
And we find this lady tied to a tree, super drunk, like so out of it.
We found out she was robbed and tied up to the tree and we take her back into town.
Her name is Rohace.
And Rohace is like talking about how much she hates her husband, how busy he is, and all
this crazy stuff flirting with Claude.
JT says we should have left her there.
We go to town and the guards are like, oh, it's it's our lady, you know, the wife of
the Lord of the whole freaking region, basically.
And so and she's like, I don't want to go home.
And we're like, we don't know if we should send her home.
That seems irresponsible.
So she's not wanting to go home.
But we don't really have much of a choice.
So we go home.
We bring her home and talk to her brother, who also seems to be like kind of crazy, like
like they talking like they are having like hallucinations, we thought of like animals
and things and just all this crazy stuff, it seems like.
And we talked to the husband and he's like, oh, yeah, they're sick.
Thanks for bringing them home safely.
I'll give you a reward.
But we were traveling through a swamp and we were ambushed by Bullywugs and we have
Wug fever, which is known to give hallucinations and things.
So we're like, oh, well, I can help heal.
He's like, no, we have good healers.
And he's also clearly sick, like coughing and things.
And so Claude, as he goes to leave, casts detect poison and disease and senses that
he has a disease called Titans fever, not swamp fever.
We don't know what that is, because I'm a dumbass.
As I said 30 times last game, I'm exhausted and have disadvantage in all my ability checks.
And I am the person who would know what that is if someone knew probably as, you know,
the med student, basically.
And so we're like, he also said that we could go because we really wanted to help and we're
worried about his wife being safe here, since she seems very unhappy and he seems unhappy
by the statements that she's unhappy.
But oh, and Jean Claude also got signed up to be her marriage counselor.
But I'm not sure if that's happening anymore.
Also she calls him gravy or something.
There's a lot going on with her.
I wrote it.
So we go talk to the servant Lindor.
No, no, that's the brother.
Landau.
The Lord, isn't he like a lord, another land out the head servant.
OK, we went to go talk to the head servant because they said we could help him with some
things and he'd also give us our reward.
And he's like, oh, are you from the adventuring guild?
And we're like, no, we're we're here to just help with whatever you need.
And he's like, oh, wow, they're getting real desperate if you're independent contractors.
And so we he says, I need help clearing out these rats from the basement.
And I also need help catching this goose, but you can't hurt it off of orders of the
lady.
So we go looking for the goose and I go looking through books to learn about Titan's fever
because I have a bunch of medical books.
Don't find anything.
But Claude faces down with the goose, cast speak with animals and they like kind of go
at it.
And then he's talking, Claude's talking about like, oh, are you like a person?
So Cecilia thinks I'm going to cast Moonbeam, which reveals shape changers.
And he turns into a very big Goliath, right?
And then a cat we were with robs me, stands on the tides legs and robs me.
And then a bunch of rats come up and start attacking us.
And there's a rat with an eye patch and a gun who shoots the guard nearest to us with
a tiny mouse sized gun.
And then they all ran away after like, you know, getting their friends free from the
chaos.
And nobody believes us.
They all think we're hallucinating from diseases until we start pointing out more and more
proof.
And then they're like, okay, believe us.
I think we might believe you.
I think we're winning them over and it's time for us to go talk to the Lord.
That's what happened.
It was a fever dream indeed.
Chat says they after the after they formed the Lord of the crazy stuff that was going
on, people in their house in the manor, possibly stealing from them.
And the Lord had the Lord had a row Hayes and Linderick evacuated from the house.
And that is where we last left.
Oh, and they're called the maple fritters.
They said the druids.
First bards, now druids.
John Claude has a lot of judgments on different classes.
Okay, with that said, Emma, have fun.
I'm okay.
I got this.
Let's do this.
I was like, hey, have fun DMing.
This is yours now.
Are you not okay?
I'm good.
Let's do this.
DM.
Let's do this.
JT says to drink water because we don't have a hydrate command yet.
Yes, drinks of water.
Here we prioritize health.
So if we need to, if you need me to, I will.
I will DM this game.
First we open currently in the throes of chaos.
Tiny rats that were once scared.
I don't want to do it anymore.
What the fuck did you lie to me?
Who the fuck?
You got to be John Claude?
John Claude, we shouldn't.
Who am I now?
You're going to sit right there and you're going to like it anyways.
And now I crush it.
Lord, how did that, why the fuck did you do that?
You were beat on my G. Oh goodness, I'm not doing it.
I'll give my John Claude.
Continue.
Anyways, where we last left off.
After Lord Harville bore witness to the aftermath of an event caused by strange druids transmogrified
and shapeshifted into different animals.
A goose, a cat, and a band of rats.
You see that there, he gathers his guards to, who carry Roe Hayes and Lenderick outside
of the manor as they...
Sorry.
We're laughing and I don't understand why.
Because I posted a picture of Cecilia in sunglasses.
It's a modified emote channel points thing.
I did that a bunch last game, but with John Claude.
We didn't notice.
And when during the fire, I put fire around the John Claude.
Burned by emote?
We can do that?
Oh gosh.
Just watch.
End of the session, someone's going to be dead.
I'm calling it.
This has been a great episode so far.
You're very on task today.
It has been 24 minutes.
Okay.
Let me show you this one.
Sorry, podcast viewers, we were just a little distracted.
Hey!
Okay.
Back on track.
Future Timmy and Jenny, we need to cut this out.
What's that thing called?
I don't know.
I have the giggles.
This is bad.
Okay.
What is it called, those little umbrella houses that you find in a rich state back then?
It's like a wooden platform.
A hut?
No, not a hut.
A gazebo?
A gazebo, yes.
Everyone, let's calm down.
We are a zen and we are going to play Songwulvin, a fantasy adventure.
As Lord Harville has his guards and house servants, Ferry, I will, Lindorik and Rohes
out towards the gazebos in the yard.
There is currently a fire in the distance caused by, from what a guard seems to have
heard, a goose wielding a Molotov cocktail.
I sound insane.
I forgot about that.
You see a smoke rising into the air and multiple guards rushing their way over there.
You just see a Landau with his hands reaching his head.
Lord Harville making his way over on his cane, coughing a bit.
He goes, looking at you two, he just goes, can the two of you tell me truly what's going
on here?
Can you tell me truly what is going on with you?
He looks towards Cecilia.
Can you tell me?
There's some sort of shape changer force known as the Make-Bow Fritters, as they self-call
themselves here.
And I guess us catching them might have led them to set something on fire, maybe.
I don't know.
Okay, the size defeated.
So there's a group of animals who call themselves the Maple Fritters, one of them being a goose
who-
There's a group of people who can turn into animals.
Okay.
Who call themselves the Maple Fritters.
And one of them is a goose who had set my house on fire.
And one of them is a mouse with an eye patch and a gun, who shot one of your guards with
the tiny gun.
He's fine, because it was really tiny.
You do see that the- as soon as you see that the guard who got shot has like a hand, like
the back of his hand on his forehead, as he's being carried out by two other guards, carried
through the gate.
Lord Harvel just kind of like looks as he's carried past, seeing the tiny little bullet
wound on his posterior.
Am I having a- is this a part of the fever?
You mean your titan fever?
Yes, the titan- the wug- he- you see as he says that, his eyes widen, like he was going
to correct you, but then he realizes what correcting you even means.
Dead stare.
His stare towards you as his hand leaves his eyes towards his mouth, looking towards you,
is that of- there is a clash between the both of your eyes.
His sickly eyes still come through with a sort of like an almost deadly and sharp feel
to it as he looks at you.
There we go.
Yes, you know, I kind of need to have transparency with my clients.
Want to diagnose when I am given a misdiagnosis.
You give a diagnosis as a marriage counselor?
Yes I do.
Because I am the captain.
And some people say love is the most deadly disease of all, so-
My confusion continues to absolutely mount.
But I am going- I'm going to chalk it up to my fever.
Landell, please hold down- please hold down the fort.
Get Captain Danekis to secure perimeter around.
Just around the estate.
And what exactly are you going to do with these two?
Talk with them.
Right.
Do be careful, my lord.
And he begins- the place that everyone is evacuating from, you see he looks into the
manor and he just walks towards there, even though everyone else evacuated away from it.
Okay, let's go.
You see already, like hearing- the lord had given the order earlier that there were people
inside.
You see guards already stepping and stomping their boots about.
He- real quick, I am getting an echo of myself from, I believe you Emma.
It's me, it's me, it's always me.
If I go ahead and talk now, am I going to continue echoing?
No I'm not.
Okay, absolutely perfect, just making sure.
Despite the chaos inside the manor, Lord Harville starts making his way up the stairs and he
does so slowly, having to use the cane to support him.
Before he makes it to the second floor, you see every room is being searched, cabinets
and bookshelves are being lifted.
This is a rather huge- it is a rather huge manor.
Until eventually he brings you to a room on sort of the far end of a corridor, opening
the door.
It seems to be a study area with a very nice wooden desk and two bookshelves sit at an
angle in each corner.
He just moves in and holds the door open for you two and closes the door as you walk in.
He leans against the wall, looking at you specifically Jean-Claude and just goes, I
assume you found out because of your- you are of a divination persuasion, correct?
Yes it is correct.
I see.
I did wonder why a member of the Groven Guard was so far away from home, still gallivanting
about in your uniform and everything.
Just because you took charge of this one, correct?
Looking at Cecilia.
And I did not take- I'm not like ordering her, I'm more like escorting her.
Right, well.
That is scarcely my business.
Joss, what do you know about Titan's Fever?
Nothing.
We just want to help and it is very difficult to assist you when there is a lot of satirfuge,
as we saw earlier with the animals that are druids.
I was trying to figure out but Jean-Claude got attacked by the goose when I was looking
through my books.
The geese are awfully aggressive around- oh, that's one of the Maple Fritters.
It's a person, yes.
I punched him in the beak.
I see.
Personally wouldn't want the opposition to be a group called the Maple Fritters and yet
here I am.
I will pay you 500 gold pieces for your silence on this matter, to not speak about this to
any other soul out there.
Why?
I understand that you are very curious on this matter and that you believe that there
is a truth to be found.
However, I am hoping that I can put a price on your curiosity, to satiate it.
Note that this matter is of a personal matter and there are some factors of this situation
that seem to be best left untouched by unfamiliar hands.
My wife, Rohe's, and her brother are safe.
They have all willfully contracted this fever with me in pursuit of something.
And perhaps there is another organization who has heard of our actions and suffered
to look into the matter themselves.
The last thing I would want right now is for anyone else to get involved in this.
Please understand that this is a... that the matter is clandestine.
The fact that I have Titan's fever in the first place... the fact that I have it in
the first place would... could... that information would get out there.
I could be placed on trial.
I am immune to diseases, so I cannot contract this.
You will not get it.
I see.
It has been around for weeks.
The servants have been around us for a while and Rohe's typically indulges herself more
often on the outside of the matter walls.
But no one else seems to have contracted the fever.
Why would you willingly get it?
It doesn't seem like she's safe.
I mean, she's going out wandering and drinking and getting robbed and tied to trees.
She's not safe.
Despite our best efforts, we've increased our security to help keep her in place, but
she was once a ranger.
In the wild groves in the north.
I'm not certain how she can even be able to use her abilities and skills to get past our
guards, but there she is.
We are trying everything to keep everyone safe and locked up here.
I myself have been affected.
But seemingly those two have acted more severely.
Why would you willingly catch it though?
That I cannot tell you.
Because there is something to gain.
What, visions of sorts?
As you kind of prod, giving a persuasion check.
He is not going to punch the big furball right now.
That's the last thing he needs to anger the furball.
Punch my lights out.
Okay.
Persuasion?
Yes, please.
Okay.
Hold on, please.
Persuasion is going to be 21.
DC was 20.
Let's fucking go.
Marriage counselor is in the house.
As you kind of gently prod with that leading statement, he rubs his face for a bit, pondering
and thought.
And he just goes, a commitment.
Let it be known that it will pass.
The issue is that your wife is quite miserable.
And the reason we are here in the first place was because she did not want to return here.
And as a groving guard, yes, I am outside of my jurisdiction, but it is part of my duty
to protect those both domestic and foreign, especially when it comes to materials, any
gestures of marriage.
I'm not so sure we can, we will keep it quiet, but we cannot just leave her.
I understand your concern.
It's a very humane concern, and that is from the goodness of your heart.
So I cannot deny or fault you for that.
I suppose the fever has expedited some of my wife's impatience with our current ongoing
life.
And perhaps intensified some aspects of it as well.
Why would you get sick as part of a commitment though?
What kind of a commitment is that?
Like I said, I understand your curiosity, but I can't indulge it any further.
It's for your safety and also mine.
Then how are the Maple Footails?
Who are they?
Are they a thieves guild?
Do you know them?
That's not part of my fever, okay.
I'm not sure.
Hearing about the Maple Footails is a first time for me actually.
But I suppose that with certain actions that we're doing that we would draw opposition.
But looking at you Jean-Claude, seeing that you're a groven guard with a commitment to
community duty and doing the right thing.
Like bitch.
It's like no shit, it's connected.
All handles.
All matters will be handled.
Abelia kinda looks at Claude for a second.
She's never done anything like this before and she's really scared that it's gonna be
stupid but she can't ask him about it beforehand before she does it.
And she just says...
Can I ask one more time?
A commitment to who?
Answer.
And that answer is the spell command.
Oh shit.
That's...
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
That's so...
She goes, I'm an adventurer now motherfucker.
He has to make a wisdom save with disadvantage.
Cause he's sick.
Can I put him in a headlock?
Will that help?
Put the sick old man in a headlock.
Oh he has a good mod.
DC14.
At least maybe he'll think the spell effect maybe was a part of his fever or something.
Exactly.
I'm going to have him roll.
I'm going to have him roll an insight check with disadvantage.
Let's see.
Face the back view.
Oh Jesus that's a nat 20.
Can you give me either a performance or a deception check?
It doesn't matter they're both the same.
Two things Cecilia excels at.
And I have disadvantage.
Oh cause you're fucking tired god damn it.
Just a bunch of really tired people in Jean Claude.
And then it's Jean Claude.
Eight.
I believe you have stayed your welcome enough.
Why will you not accept our help?
We are clearly here to assist, help you.
What do we need to do to prove it to you?
No help is needed.
That's very toxic of you.
He moves to open the door.
Where's your marriage counselor?
It is incredibly important to ask for help.
It is actually brave to ask for help.
Just the bravest thing you can do as you are hacking up a fucking lung and might kill over
dead.
Yeah call for the guards.
Can they hear you?
No cause you're coughing up a lung.
And also because they evacuated the house.
He walks towards the window in the room.
For god's sake come on.
He just goes.
I don't know who you think you are trying to coerce information out of me using magic.
She's young.
But that's no proper way to ask a question to anyone.
Well I already asked the proper way and I... she's very defensive all of a sudden.
And I'm just really worried about...
And the answer does not want to be... is not ready to be readily shared with you.
I think there clearly is a reason to worry though.
John Claude has an idea and he goes Cecilia we have done enough here.
Come we shall continue on our way.
He's gonna roll an insight check.
Should I roll an insight check?
Can I roll deception?
Yes please.
The 15 is the number to beat.
Oh no!
The 13 motherfucker!
I actually rolled a 15 insight check.
Yeah you both know he's fucking lying.
Why?
Oh because the whores that are missing it.
His vision drops for a second as his eyes kind of like narrow at you John Claude.
For the first time you see where his hand was used to like shield his coughs into a
bucket.
His hand, his left hand actually like you know white gloves on his hand lowers down
to his side and the cane in his hand you see he adjusts it.
He throws it up and grabs it in the middle as he now kind of stands firmly.
I am telling you to leave one last time.
My offer still stands.
Despite despite the scannery that you've endowed upon me.
In this short time that we've known each other I am still allowing you.
I am excusing you.
Then we shall be escorting your wife as well to safety.
Considering I consider this to be a hostile environment in which she is trapped by her
husband and with he will not really.
You are not touching my wife.
She will come if she wants.
I will not touch her.
If she would like to come she can come but she will know that she can leave freely since
she's so fucking miserable here with you and I can understand why someone who doesn't
ever fucking help.
Cecilia let's go.
Come on I'm done with him.
I tried.
We tried.
You open the door.
As you open the door and hop and you get ready to walk out there is already like a servant
who is standing in the middle of the hallway who seemed to be like she was leaning in on
the door.
And as you just open the door she just goes and she stands up straight and you see the
you see Lord Harval just goes.
Lucia please fetch the guards escort these two out of here.
You're leaving.
Yes my lord.
And she turns and walks in a hurry.
Fact that we escort ourselves.
Come on Cecilia.
Start walking.
As you start walking out the fire has been put out already.
It's been put out.
It's been put out a bit ago.
And you hear a bit of shouting at distance just goes can someone please fetch my explosive
tipped crossbow.
I want to go duck hunting.
Yes please can someone fetch my dear brother's explosive tipped crossbow.
She looks at Claude like are we getting them?
She's surrounded by guards tending to her like servants and stuff like checking up on
her and she's surrounded by guards.
Yeah she's being tended to in the gazebo.
Oh oh my lady we have issues from the lord we have come to collect you come come come
excuse me and he's moving to the moving with the guards.
I catch calm emotions also so that they won't attack us hopefully.
We're going fucking guns blazing.
Also Cecilia is slinging spells today.
I'm tired.
Alright I'm going to roll a few I'm going to roll one saving throw for all of them.
Charisma saving throw.
Five.
That fails.
Fuck yeah.
14.
Yay Jenny.
This doesn't mean like they're stupid or anything it just means that like they won't become
hostile towards us.
Right they're not going to fight us.
So Jean-Claude do you give a never mind you're just going to go towards Reyes.
Yeah and we have been instructed to escort you madam if you would be so kind.
You can escort me yes absolutely.
We've been instructed to keep the lady safe.
Where do the guards go?
And she's talking to him so.
She's more safe with us those who discover the perpetrators and the disguises of the
druids that have infiltrated your house.
We are taking her.
And you're the marriage counselor so.
I am also a marriage counselor.
I could keep her safe let though please fetch my bomb throwing stars.
And brother you come too come come come come come and he's going to escort them on both
arms and you know lead them away from the gazebo.
And as he as he as he holds on to he looks he just goes oh I all of a sudden got really
hungry.
Well we shall find you some food and when are they out are they out of like the he wants
to walk a little bit to get out of the.
You're walking out of there that calm emotions is within a 20 foot radius.
There are other guards who seem to be because the lady and lord are very important people
they they stop to watch.
And as you're like getting out of the gate with both of them at your arm and you're and
you're by the gate you see you see you see land no turner corner seemingly coming back
from the fire looking at you and at the same time you see Lord Harville walking out of
the front door.
And then see the two of you.
What are you doing.
It's her.
I turn to both the siblings I go if you want to be free come with us now if you want to
stay here we will leave you but now we go.
That was a lot worth we're just following you know exciting thing that's ever happened
to us.
Oh no.
Do we make a wrong choice.
Probably.
Let's just keep going.
Is that a crossbow.
Is that OK.
I will I will put I will put one on each arm and just fucking bucket.
Do you have a crossbow like on your hip.
By the way.
No you don't keep it.
I was asking you.
You put them both on your shoulders and you just began to book it.
I was kidnapping them.
They're coming willingly.
So I'm just I'm just putting that out there for future reference.
I didn't say that.
It's just.
Jenny said that.
So yeah you see the you begin to run with two novels on your shoulders.
I could do one more common common motions if you really need to but I could see where
they might see this as a friend being harmed.
They didn't they were not moving with haste until you hear the Lord go.
As you hear the sounds of guards beginning to run.
The crazy thing is your wagons parked outside.
Yeah.
This is the definition of chaotic good everyone.
So they yeah he sprints actually have a crossbow in the wagon which is where he leaves his
crossbow.
So he goes you want to crossbow pick up the crossbow as he throws them into the wagon.
Oh don't mind if I do.
He's a lady.
He's trying to grab any arrows any bolts.
She just tries to grab them.
You see you see where his neck.
No no no.
My brother's brother procured a shot to kill with a crossbow and they start.
She starts.
She does.
Make us make a sleight of hand.
Really.
Well they're doing that.
I'm getting the horses going.
OK.
Six.
She grabs like a handful of bolts as you're just in the back.
The wagon starts moving through the town and moving fast as you're as Cecily you're grappling
with who is over some crossbow bolts.
I have cooler things in my bag.
Do you want to see.
By the way is he still out.
Not away by the time the conversation happened.
He was out before I forgot about that though.
He was but he keep him safe.
As you begin to as you begin to do the dirty and you say that make persuasion checks.
See Leah.
I shouldn't bother with any checks.
Six.
Ouch.
He just goes.
She goes.
Yes yes you might but my brother wants to cross but unless you want to hand over the
skull.
Oh we can deal with the skull.
And then from your from your saddlebag lifting out you see a black black cat that goes.
Is now a better time than before.
I think.
Yeah.
That's when you see that's when you see guards on horses rushing out of the front of the
gate rushing and following you following the wagon.
She goes all right perfect tight need to stretch my legs a bit I can tell you about my I can
tell you a bit about our good friend Thaddeus.
Says.
Is that.
That's a talking cat.
I don't want to.
Not like the other talking cat.
The horses running up.
I don't remember how many hit points a horse has but.
Not a mole attack a horse.
How far away are they.
They are.
They're currently.
I mean they're keeping they're keeping pace with the wagon trying to catch up but but
for you I was on cloud two turns are going to be a bit hard as people moving out of your
way and you're going to have to turn eventually.
It's a little hard it's a little harder with the wagon.
So you know those corners are where they're going to get movement up on you.
Can I if they're close to us then can I test sleep on their horses.
Yeah.
I don't know if it'll be enough hit points I think they have decent hit points.
I think that they are bundled together at the moment I'm going to look up riding horse
hit points.
Pony hit points.
Their hit points is eight each one.
OK.
Let's fucking go.
13 13 13.
Oh still.
Pretty good.
Not enough for both of them.
22.
So you see one of the you see one of the horses go and falls asleep and the rider tumbles
onto the ground onto the front and you see one of the other cards go.
No Thomas please be all right.
Yeah of course I'm all right.
My horse is falling asleep.
He's not all right.
Go check on him.
He's not all right.
Go check on him.
No get them.
They're kidnapping the lady.
Wait wait what's the name of our cat again.
What's his name.
Augustus.
Jungle looks.
Augustus quick tell us Titans girls.
Fever we need to know all this shit.
He looks at the two the two other like elves on the on the wagon.
He rolls his head towards the chasing guards and then he looks towards you Jean Claude.
My goodness man.
I left for two days.
Titans fever is.
And then you use you see the one of the Lindoray goes.
How about you feed.
I knew it.
Let them do it.
I assume you're trying to get it.
This is a crime.
Yes.
Because it is the loaded lady.
So the rich people take the fall.
You grabbed the crossbow and you and you push it away just in time for the for the boat
to go.
The boat to just go all the way wide and arc behind the monastery.
Those curses.
There's a wind.
That's conditions for crossbow so you can put it in my bag.
That's not the wind.
That's a tiny.
Very normal height.
I very normal height.
I simply can't it's too exciting right now.
I'm being carried away.
And Augustus goes.
All right.
Titans fever is a.
God.
Thank you fucking God.
Titans fever is a disease that can only says it's a rare one.
Yes.
It can only be it can only be it can only be taken or be inherited when one drinks Titans
blood.
You're like oh.
By the way if I'm not intruding on anything here what is.
Happening.
Well we are potentially dealing with an issue of domestic abuse not really sure.
But we.
That's really.
We're not sure that we look at here.
Do you know why someone would make a deal where they'd have to get Titans fever and
get their family sick with Titans fever.
Do you too know she says.
Oh goodness.
Oh we.
Oh we've partaken in that because when there it goes because he stands up the revolution
everyone the revolution is is upon us.
We're the wrong side of history.
Oh no.
Is this some weird bourgeoisie thing.
I will throw them off the fucking couch.
He did say they would go to court if they found out.
Says says good the good people of good people of what's this place's name again.
Oh goodness.
Carondale.
That's right.
Yes.
The good people of Carondale you are going to be free one day.
What's the last play.
We are free from who.
From the tyranny of the king.
Wait wait the king of all of the that runs all of the.
Probably Cadraam yeah.
You need to.
What the fuck is wrong with you people.
By this point Jean Claude make a perception check.
Oh fuck.
Our ass.
Why this bastard.
I blame this on the Lord.
He could have fucking told us.
The Lord did not want to tell you this for this reason exactly.
18.
And you and you.
Uh.
Lynyrd goes fuck you King Castamont.
Shut the fuck up.
As he says that you look forward Jean Claude you see Tom Cruise running by your side about
to flank you.
You see Scott the boy the guard boy from earlier.
No.
He's about to jump onto the putpies he is running adjacent to you he is going he is
getting the speed he is Tom Cruise running.
Running he's a monk.
No he's just running running is a thing.
He just he doesn't.
He doesn't have horses.
No he just has a really good angle he's coming at you from like the side.
So with my 18.
How did he get there.
With my 18 can I turn the corner the sharp corner.
With your 18 the 18 wants to notice Scott barreling towards you.
With the angle you could probably like do an Akira drift.
I like Tokyo drift.
This is a racing game now.
We didn't kidnap them they came willingly.
They did.
Claude how are you dealing with the approaching boy who just wants to do good in his whole
life.
I go.
We may have misinterpreted the situation Scott.
What does Titan's Fever have to do with the king though.
What revolution are you trying to plan.
What are you guys saying.
If you hop on the wagon we can talk about this.
He's going to dive onto the wagon.
Are you going to let him.
Yeah because he wants to talk to Scott.
As he goes onto the pilot seat he reaches for the reins.
And then I'll cast hold person.
I will say just so you know your options in front of you.
You see Scott in the front holding trying to grab the reins.
You see the two guards in the back catching up.
There's two of them now.
Thomas was left behind.
He always is.
I cast hold person.
OK Scott we're trying to help.
God damn it you stupid people.
It looks like they're kidnapping the Lord.
That succeeds.
Nineteen.
No we thought it was a system of domestic abuse but now we realize it's actually a coup.
What the fuck is going on guys.
A coup?
Is that what you're doing?
No not to me then.
Yeah I'm going to them in the back.
Scott my dear boy.
They have lung fever.
Your Lord tried.
No they don't.
They don't.
They sensed it.
Your Lord has tried to pay us 500 gold pieces to keep quiet about it.
Scott my dear boy.
You see Lindarik reach into his like the side of his pants and he pulls out this.
He pulls out a crossbow bolt that has a bag of black powder at the end of it and he just
puts it into the crossbow.
Scott my dear boy.
Die.
No you put that fucking down.
Can I grab the bolts now that he's done that?
This was seemingly a crossbow bolt he had in his pocket.
You can try to grab it as he's loading it because he's loading it slowly.
I meant the other bolts I thought he was just doing something silly and just putting like
gunpowder in it.
No he's going to shoot.
He has a crossbow bolt with black.
I go cut the fucking shit and I will cast.
You roll.
Okay go ahead.
I think I hold on I want to make sure I can I think it's only a reaction.
One second one second one second.
Actually no I'm going to cast shield of faith around Scott.
I want to grapple while he's while that's happening to I want to grapple what's his
face the knight.
You know the brother.
Because he's a knight right?
Not not not him specifically but you can grapple him.
Yeah I had in my notes that he was Ignatius Harvell is the is a knight.
That's oh because they said brother that's why the other brother.
Lendrik Dilgadi and Ruhes Dilgadi.
I remember looking at this guy and being like this is your knight.
I was so confused.
He's not the knight.
Last session.
Okay yeah I want to grapple him.
Both of you make athletic we're going to make contending athletic checks.
Me too?
Yes you as well because as you did cast shield of faith but Scott is trying to still take
the reins from your hands.
Oh come on Scott.
God damn it.
I rolled a nine rather than my nat 20 because I have disadvantage.
Oh I rolled a seven.
I'm so sorry.
That's not going to end well.
Here is Scott contending with Jean Claude.
Yeah he fucking beat that at 19.
And here is Lendrik contending with Cecilia's nine.
At a disadvantage.
Okay he rolled a 30 20.
18.
And an 18.
Fuckers.
Why?
What is wrong with them?
This is what happens when we help rich people.
We're not doing it again.
Scott pulls the reins from your hand and you see he begins to tug trying to get the horses
to stop.
As that happens you see Lendrik pull jerks away the crossbow and it just goes I've always
wanted to hunt you Scott.
He goes yes brother throughly slay him.
I love that boy but he must die.
And he's going to make an attack roll at disadvantage.
Yeah Scott also gets a plus two.
He's AC with the shield of faith.
Scott will be fine I'm pretty sure.
Oh yeah.
22 both times.
As he aims the explosive to crossbow point blank at Scott he fires.
You see Scott just kind of looks and goes my lord please I just I'm just doing the best
I can.
I'm really glad that you and your sister took me in after my whole family got expunged from
our vacation house in Rorsch.
But please you gave me this life.
You gave me everything.
Ow!
I'm going to blast into the crossbow bolt.
So the thing is about the thing about crossbow bolts with the black powder bags at the end
is that they only explode when they're lit.
So he just kind of has a very soft bag smack against his face.
I'm bastard.
As that happens the wagon comes to a halt as he's just Scott's pulling on it.
You want to know something?
This is fact.
After a pause Scott pulls his sword and points it towards you Jean-Claude.
Right there.
I'm not moving.
Lady Rhohase.
They came willingly.
We told them they didn't have to.
He looks towards them and he goes in that state they'll agree to anything.
Well if we were given more information then I wouldn't have interpreted it as a domestic
abuse case but rather a coup.
Yeah fuck you Scott.
The oolindricos.
Shut up.
You're not helping.
I think Scott seems really nice to be fair and I wouldn't have shot him.
It's okay I forgive you already.
I forgive you already lindric.
I didn't.
Did you hear what he was saying?
I know you're excusing it because he's crazy right now but do you know what titan's fever
is?
Stay right there.
Agustis.
Yes.
And the two guards finally catch up.
Swords pulled out.
You know that there's something?
This is the last time we hear about rich people.
No more.
They can have their revolutions or whatever but no more.
I was always a big fan of revolutions throughout history.
They always seem to be the high point of the spirit of rebellion and the guards point their
swords at you.
He says get off the wagon now.
Let's all calm the fuck down okay.
They came willingly.
We thought it was a domestic abuse case.
It is clearly not.
Off.
I'm moving slowly.
Please let's keep our pants on.
As you get off slowly.
Yeah.
You get off slowly.
Cecilia do you get off?
Doesn't want to.
Lindaric moves.
You see just goes.
All right everyone.
Let's not.
Let's not pass the death of our little this little this little teet-a-tat.
This little cool daddy.
This craziness.
Your cool daddy.
Yes.
I'm now going to take the girl hostage.
I should have just done that.
I'm sorry.
What?
I'm going to.
No.
Can you please move in front of me.
No absolutely fucking not.
The moment he says take the girl hostage.
Jean-Claude you see that he's really bad at it.
But like you're also really cautious about Cecilia.
She's not worried about it.
You noticed too but she's not doing what you.
She's just like no.
You're being you're being extremely difficult.
Just move in front of me so I can use you as a humanic shield.
You fucking sack.
Will if you tell me why you willingly infected yourself with Titans fever.
And as he as he said as he says that you see what are the guards goes in a Jean-Claude
and attempts to grapple him even though he's really huge and big.
I am going to just stare at him as this guard fumbles with grappling me and I'm like you
you can.
I'm willing.
Yeah.
Hands behind you.
Just come on.
Please.
You know you could at least buy me a drink before feeding me up but sure.
Just put just put your hands behind your back.
Fine.
I'll do it.
As you put your hands behind your back the other guard rose in front of you goes that
goes for Thomas and then goes towards Cecilia goes for goes towards Cecilia.
Right.
Hmm.
Thomas is fine.
Is he not.
How dare you.
I'll deal with you later.
I just don't want them to take our possessions because I don't trust these.
I feel like they're doing some shady demon stuff and I don't want them to get the moon
shards.
It's my concern.
Well.
Oh well.
They can't keep our.
Well.
They won't take our bag though right.
They might if we go to jail again.
You are.
You off.
Get away from the lady and lord.
But he wants to keep me hostage and that's the Lord's orders.
Yeah.
It's my orders.
So perhaps.
Fiffle faffle off or as we say it as adults fiffle fuckle get off of me.
Aren't aren't they your boss.
That's the Lord saying it.
Yeah.
No I'm saying it to the guards.
OK.
The guy goes.
Yeah.
He's been straight straight up.
He goes.
But they're in the state of this.
Follow my orders now.
You're infected with the same thing you're taking orders the person you're taking orders
from so it's.
I'm not going to order you again.
And I'm not going to order you again.
My sister has been sleeping soundly for the next for the last two minutes.
The real hate has been sleeping.
She passed out some point.
And this is a talking cat and that is not a result of my fever.
That's a real.
Meow.
No you know you've you know you've that time has passed.
You cannot disguise yourself anymore.
Little cat.
Meow.
You've got to meow.
He goes.
He says.
Looking at the guard.
The guard looks towards you.
He goes.
And you just goes.
I'm not going to order you again.
And he goes.
This is my long lost daughter.
How dare you speak to her that way.
Oh my god.
What the fuck.
I've never known my father so.
No.
She's trying to go with it.
Even though she knows it's stupid.
I have lived.
I have lived a life devoid of.
The void of headpats.
The ruffling of hairs.
No.
Pulling on the ears.
Ow.
Poking of the ears and.
Wet willies.
What the fuck.
No.
Stop.
Alright.
Stop.
But the deception is working.
No one knows that we've found the soothmasons.
Whoa.
So, okay, wait.
So that we like you, right?
Wasn't that what Stellar was?
A soothmason, Cecilia?
Yeah, that's what I thought.
I'm looking at my notes.
Stellar is a soothmason.
You go, okay, well done.
Then we might be back together.
After all, this revolution might be something that we have to state it in.
Can we not talk about the Republic?
We need to bring them back to the estate.
And you want more guards are coming.
You want to know something, Scott?
I'm tired of the lies.
I'm tired of all of the lies.
All of you could have been handled so much better if your lord didn't try to pay us off.
Now he's going to be really mad, but that's really on him.
I blame him.
If he just told us, then we wouldn't have had to do this, but we thought they were in
danger.
Yeah, we thought they were being harmed by him.
So if they're not in danger, I mean, you can take them and we'll just leave.
Pardon my language, but stop.
What?
Just leave.
I don't want to use forceful language.
I'm sorry, but stop, please.
We can just leave and you can just take them home.
Yeah, we got away.
We escaped and we don't have to deal with this.
And we won't tell anyone.
Yeah, we won't tell anyone that you're planning a revolution.
They fund the soothmasons.
As well and drawing titans blood to do something in regards to the revolution.
That's not my call.
But if you try to take us back, then maybe she has never made a threat before.
Maybe we will just start screaming that and tell everyone everything your lord tried to
pay us not to say.
So everyone would know.
Maybe it would be in your lord's best interest if you just let us go.
Cecilia can also cast spells, which you can send a message far, far, far away and she
will alert everyone.
I actually can cast a spell that makes my voice incredibly loud.
Yep.
So, right now Scott, let's go now.
We will let that have to do.
Linda goes, why would you loudly exclaim our clandestine plans to overthrow the government
in this corrupted kingdom?
Who does that?
Why'd you do that?
Why would you do that?
Because we are poor people who cannot negotiate our way out of jail.
So you either let us go now or never.
Come on.
I can do this.
No one send them to jail.
They're not going to work.
The time has passed.
Go ahead and make an intimidation check with advantage despite your fatigue.
Do it, Cecilia.
Normal or just say advantage?
No, advantage.
Actual advantage.
Okay.
Let's go, Cecilia.
Get it.
I have plus zero to this.
Oh no, I have plus seven.
19.
Fuck yeah.
Get the lady in, Lord.
Why are we taking commands from you?
Do the two other guard gods before they start lifting the lady and Lindaric.
You see Lindaric goes, don't make me activate my fighting back phase.
And as he's carried, he's carried.
He just goes, oh, I'm disarmed.
He doesn't do anything to fight back.
Rohes is carried out of the back of your wagon.
And then she just wakes up and she just goes, where's that girl from before?
Cecilia?
Is that what her name?
Please cop your hands.
No, I feel like this is a bad idea.
Yep.
She backs it.
My fucking god, get them off our wagon.
Let's get the fuck out of here.
They're off your wagon.
Gone.
You go?
We go.
We're done.
Done.
You go ha, you get the wagon out.
I guess we're not staying the night here anymore.
Let's just go to the next town.
Second, second, we have a house.
It was just a second lord of a house we pissed off.
Well, this is a much bigger lord.
Oh, yeah.
Well, we got something on him now.
This is as their...
I mean, I know I threatened to blackmail him, but we have blackmail on a lord?
You did very well Cecilia, that was a very smart idea.
I hope we can get out of here actually.
Thanks, I've been trying to be more brave with everything, so yeah.
Yeah, you're really badass today, I'm proud of you.
That's a groven girl attitude you've got now.
Thank you.
Black cat sits next to you the two of you.
Augustus, what potentially could they have bargained for?
Obviously power with these titan's curls.
What is to gain from something like this?
Meow.
Augustus, it's just us.
That's when you see Augustus' head pops out of the saddlebag.
He goes, is everything finally over?
The other black cat looks between the both of you and then stands up on its hind legs.
You mother, I grabbed that fucking cat.
I'm going to say it's out of your reach because you're in the front of the wagon.
You're trying to reach towards the vanishes.
Oh shit, now the waffle people know too.
The fritters.
Can I, am I able to grab?
Yeah, you can try.
Get that cat.
Okay.
What do you want me to roll?
Please make me an athletics check.
Could this be animal handling?
You are handling that animal.
I have proficiency in that one.
Eight.
One second.
Gosh, this has been a crazy session.
Did you plan for it to go this way?
No.
Of course not.
He didn't plan that we would kidnap them, but we didn't kidnap them.
I do have it in the very smallest margin of my notes.
I'm kidding.
I do.
At the very bottom of my notes, I wrote, just in case.
In case of kidnapping.
Here's what happens.
Click link in case of kidnapping.
Click link.
All right, here it comes.
The big roll.
14.
Damn it.
Goes, and the cat like dog, like jumps, as you do like a sweeping motion, it jumps on
top of your, jumps on top of your arms as you come in.
And he goes, too slow, and then jumps off of your arms.
Am I able to cast sleep?
Cats don't have a lot of hit points.
Good point.
You can cast sleep.
Even if they're a good cat.
Okay.
Here is my sleep.
I've used so many spells.
I have men left.
Out of your 5d8, you have to, okay.
You have to roll over two hit points.
Whoa.
I rolled two, two.
Eleven cats.
All nine lives are accounted for.
Eleven cats drop.
And he goes, and he just goes, now that I know, you, he just curls up in a ball.
Tie him up.
Okay.
I don't know how to tie up a cat.
He just feels so fragile.
He's not fragile.
He is, he is.
Agustus goes, I can carry him by the neck.
I can carry him by the neck.
That's what other cats do.
They're smaller, weaker cats.
I guess this cat is smaller and weaker than you.
We appreciate it, Augustus, but back to the Titans.
We got, we got shit to figure out.
We have to piece together this fucking puzzle with these cat waffle people.
I tied the cat up.
Describe how you tied the cat up.
You tied the cat up.
You got little handcuffs, little kitty cuffs.
The paws.
It's so cute.
Except it's a cat tied up.
I want to hold it like a baby.
Yeah, actually, you know what they do at the vet's office when they're giving like cat
shots and stuff, they wrap them in the blanket so that they can't, like you roll them like
a burrito.
I do that.
Like a kitty burrito.
So you've rolled them up like a kitty burrito so he can't get out, but he's not hurting.
And then I'll tie.
And then you'll tie it.
So he's safe.
He's not getting hurt, but he's a kitty burrito right now.
Augustus, Augustus goes, it's a bit of a strange transition becoming a great sphinx
to experiencing all these very mortal events.
As you hold the cat burrito in your hand.
The cat burrito.
I'm just kidding.
Right.
Well, I suppose now is my turn.
I'm always in the familiar position to ask questions.
What happened?
You're still going through the streets of Kirkchester.
People are like viewing from afar.
All of the guards who are chasing you, they stopped.
All of them tended to the Lord and Lady immediately once you let them go.
So you turn a few corners and I would say that you definitely got away, but probably
the town's on alert right now.
We're still going to get out of town.
Yeah, we're on that way.
Just like.
Well, it only last a minute, by the way.
As you all make your way out of town, you're going to say something.
I've since Philip got this in on what happened.
OK, with that, we're going to go on break.
Break time.
Join us again for.
Oh, goodness.
This is not the session to be playing for me right now.
I am super hyped.
I'm super energized.
My mind's a frisk.
Whatever that means.
My mind's a blitz.
So, yeah, where's my OBS?
How do I go to break again?
There it is.
We're going to go on 15 minute break.
Do you have titan fever?
I'm no, I can't make up a cool line.
Oh, goodness.
OK, we'll be back soon.
I'm hot for titans.
Don't listen to that.
We'll be right back.
You're back.
Hello, everyone.
I hope you've had a good break.
Snack time.
Hey, everyone.
Energy drinks are not good.
The vibe is so different.
Yes.
The beginning after the break.
The crash.
Now, everyone, how about we introduce ourselves back into the fold?
That is the Lanaya Expedition.
When we last left off, our heroes were leaving the confines of the town with a newly catnapped
cat wrapped up in California burrito style ferried off in the back of their wagon.
They didn't manage to kidnap the two nobles, but they did manage to kidnap a cat that had
invited themselves onto their wagon in an attempt to look exactly like Augustus.
Yeah, that cat made its choice.
Yes.
That's how we all make our choices.
We are the ultimate deciders of everything that we do.
Anyways, hello, Dragmire Draws.
I'm scared.
Where are the sessions going?
Hello, Dragmire Draws.
You're absolutely wonderful, and I'm glad that you're here for what I'm going to do
next to these two.
We're talking.
We're just cooling down.
We're talking to Augustus.
And this cat's going to wake up.
He only sleeps for a minute.
I'm holding him like a baby.
I'm tearing the fuck out of him.
Now everyone, let's hold hands as we dive forth into the abyss that is a role playing
game.
Timmy needs to go to bed.
No.
Yep.
We're going to wrap this up soon, folks.
We're going to have a little bit of a shorter session.
Jean-Claude.
Yes?
Jean-Claude, you maneuver the wagon outside of the confines of the town.
And when you begin to reach the hills outside and leaving the wide boulevards and the more
modern build of a Kirkchester behind, you look over your back and...
Yeah, good.
You should be scared.
You look over your back and see that the town shrinks in the distance.
At this point, Cecilia, you hear a voice beneath you.
Hey.
You're awake, Tom?
Wrong one.
I know you're not the wrong one.
Is...
You sure about that?
It's the gaslighting cat.
Gaslight.
Catlight.
If you're Augustus...
No, I know you're not Augustus.
Are you sure about that?
Okay, then...
Cecilia, I need your help.
What kind of creature are you, truly?
I'm not sure.
What's your question?
I'm not a creature.
I'm a concept, if you really think about it.
No.
Okay, you need your philosophy, geek.
What the fuck are you?
Oh, you're nothing like Augustus.
Like, Augustus is right there.
Also, Augustus always know...
Wait, I shouldn't tell you that.
I don't know who you are.
No, go ahead. I'm not listening.
I'm kidding.
You should really let me go.
So you're a part of the Make Bull Fritters?
Oh, now you're not going to fucking talk?
No, you little shit.
You see that he looks around a bit clueless now?
His eyes wander.
Is this cat like possessed? Or is it playing dumb?
Go ahead and make an insight check.
Yeah, he literally thinks it's playing dumb.
I'm tired with this shit. Eleven.
Fucker.
You're not sure.
Fucker.
It looks like a cat looking around.
I mean, cats eyes wander around.
I'm a great DM.
Looks at you Cecilia.
Pets on the head.
Purs.
Okay, I know you're not actually a cat, but when you start acting like that, it makes me want to pet you.
If you are like an old mandroid, I'm going to beat the shit out of you because that's fucking creepy.
To slattle up to a young woman, I will beat the fuck out of you, weirdo.
God damn.
This is the most threatening thing I've seen him say to an animal, and I've seen him threaten like four animals already.
One of the horses in agreement.
Alright, alright, they got me. I'm one of the maple fritters.
No shit.
What are the maple fritters?
What else does Kael Session come to?
Who are the maple fritters? Tell me.
What's a capparito? Tell me now.
She's just holding like a baby in her arms.
Where's Harvin?
This is the weirdest interrogation I've ever had on a character before.
It's got to happen. We need the answers. I'm tired of the games.
The maple fritters is a collective of pickers and bards.
You're fucking bards.
No.
Oh. Yes.
Wait.
What?
No.
I'm just kidding. I'm just trying to be confusing. Yes.
Are you- do you want to revolution or not? Let's start there.
Yeah, I was really curious about that.
I'm very curious about that too, and I'm not sure completely what he said, what's true and what's not. So, um.
So why don't you let me go while I go find out.
I don't know who to trust, though.
Nah, you're not going anywhere. You bug me.
And you haven't made me trust you.
Listen, I know I've lied to you. Like literally. The same thing I use to breathe when I sleep.
And you stole from me.
Yes, I did.
And you gaslit her earlier too, so you're kind of on our shit list.
Yes. I'm on a roll.
And he hates bards.
I have a bad head.
I like bards.
Very few have have chalmed me. You are not one of them.
Only few of us are bards.
Tacobus is a bard. Not really much anymore.
Are you a bard?
Ah. I wish.
Are you a druid?
Oh gods.
Nah, I'm just kidding. No.
What the fuck are you then?
I'm a cat.
No, you're not.
Do you want a revolution or not?
Well, that's what I was trying to figure out.
We were just trying to ra-
In case you weren't trying to figure out- In case you didn't figure out we were just trying to rob the place.
Revolution isn't so bad.
Yes.
So that's all you want. So you guys really do- That's it. You just want to go out.
There's no ulterior motive. Like for the- like, uh, steal from the rich to give to the poor.
I'm not gonna just greet you little bastards. Is that de-
It's because you're being interrogated by a groven guard right now.
In a completely other place.
This happened before.
There's a-
Why does it matter?
There's a Bicolaioth woman.
You probably don't know her.
Captain Volothani.
What? You know Captain Volothani?
Oh, you know Captain Volothani.
Yes, she's my captain. How do you know her?
She beat the shit out of my friends.
Good.
Not really.
Why?
She beat the shit out of my friends. I like my friends.
Yes, but why?
Oh, I'm just saying it really beat the shit out of your friends.
When you- cause you keep saying things and then saying no and taking them back and I just get really confused.
Sorry, I'm so gaslighting you.
Now I will stop gas- Now I will stop gaslighting.
Unless you are lying about that.
I was a little bit. It was a half truth.
You know, but- so you know, groven guard, you know what our stuff is.
So, what I'm asking you is, are you for, you know, are you for helping other people or are you more for personal gain?
What is your group motto?
Everyone else is a really big fan of personal- not the personal gain, of helping other people.
I just really like it when I stand on my hind legs and people get really scared and I steal something out of their pockets.
Yeah, that was actually kind of scary.
That was really good, right?
Honestly, I've never been more unsettled by that.
My ghost just did it once too.
I thought you were like such a sweet cat and then- and then we found out about the goose and then you just stood up and it was just kind of-
You're a really good actor. Yeah, see?
That little cat does not know how to meow.
Yeah, he's- he's really smart though.
And, well, I guess I can tell you he- he was going- I was going to say he can tell when people are lying, so.
Augustus, please help.
Augustus- Augustus head out of the bag.
Yes, I was requested.
We have so many questions, but can you just be a lie detector for this fellow right here?
Right.
I think he specifically said he wouldn't do that though, didn't he?
I'm sorry.
I live by a code, an ancient one, but I just went to myself, and that is why it's imported.
You need to learn how to meow better.
You just- you see, Augustus just does a double take.
He doesn't seem offended.
I mean, I guess if you're just robbing the place, it's safe to let you go, so.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Just a...
Oh.
We're just a roving group of people trying to help people along the way.
No, you're- I don't trust you.
There's- why would you post up as enemies and steal from the Lord's house just for fanzies?
That's a very covert application for you all to be enemies.
We received a strange tip from one of our friends.
Uh, saying what?
The Lord was storing, the Lord was storing strange,
was storing his valuables in strange places
beneath his house.
Booly arms, things that he does not want
other people to know about.
So you went to go dig it up?
Yes, but now I know it's for a revolution.
Yeah.
I'm going for a revolution.
Okay, but- You're just going to let them keep it?
And keep it secret?
Well, I'll bring it up with my friends,
but we might not want to involve ourselves.
I don't even know if a revolution's a good or a bad thing.
To be honest, I haven't really thought that deep politically,
it's just there's the King and the King never,
I never, I don't know any much about the King.
Oh goodness.
Oh, little girl.
She's a young woman, please, please, please, please, please.
Yes, there we go.
Thank you.
I just look at your glasses and it reminds me.
I don't care.
Apparently my name means blind, so.
What?
That's what Stella told me.
Oh my God.
Oh, Stella.
Stella?
Stella, continue.
No, I'm just kidding, I don't know who that is.
Yeah, you don't fucking know them, I know you don't.
But you know Captain Balathani,
so you guys have got it in trouble before.
Oh, I got my ass kicked really bad.
But speaking of asses getting kicked really bad,
let's see if you should let me go.
My friends are gonna come over
and you're not gonna like the real forms.
Or we could finally get to the bottom of what they want
so that maybe you two in the, you know,
you guys can figure out the audio of your shit, I don't know.
Maybe they won't come for you.
Are you really letting them out into them?
Do you wanna find out?
Actually.
I think his personality's really nice.
Seems like he'd be really good friends with them, you know?
I think it's quite grating actually, so.
I think you're great.
But you thought that about Stella too.
You grew on me, this one went that.
I think you're great.
I think you'll come back.
And you stand up for what's right.
And you are a little shit
and you're trying to play to my assets.
And you're my best friend.
And you're a fucker.
And you're my best friend.
Looks to you as a friend.
What's your name, by the way?
He goes, my name is Yerthys.
Yerthys.
And I guess it goes, Yerthys.
So Yerthys.
Yerthys.
More wrong somehow, yes.
I guess this Yerthys is it is normal for cats to end in this.
Is it?
Why are cats named orange?
It's...
It's to me.
You killed our narrator.
Are you okay?
Oh no.
Oh me.
That was really good.
I did that the other night too.
That was really good.
The end.
KT says water, Tim,
but I feel like that's the problem.
You know, the...
Choking.
It's the choking.
Slowly.
Sorry.
Because he normally just takes bottles and chugs them.
And he will...
He's...
That cat's named orange.
It was...
That's a great name.
Well, it would have been if he was actually orange.
I was too young when I named him...
Abstract.
You were a really smart kid.
Why?
Everyone else thinks it's stupid.
Well, those people are dumb.
Don't listen to the detractors.
You think it's dumb too, probably.
No, of course not.
And they just try to suck up to me.
I don't want to kidnap you.
I'm going to let you go.
You don't have to do that.
Actually, you know what's sad thing?
Yeah, you know what?
Let's let him go.
He can go tell his friends about the revolution
and that can blow up because we're leaving this place anyway.
So whatever, I'm done.
I don't care anymore.
Then go.
Bye.
I feel like we should care somewhat,
but I just don't know what part to care about.
I'm going to be completely honest with you.
My phone's going to last for two more minutes.
Your phone?
My form.
Oh, form.
Keep him from two minutes.
No, I don't want him to explode.
Keep it for two minutes, just two.
I want to look into your eyes, Dolid.
Are you sure about that?
Yes, I do.
It's just, you know, most people are a lot bigger than cats.
And, you know, I just think physically it might.
Yeah, you know what?
I don't care.
I want to see.
I'm tired of the lies and the deception.
I want the truth for once today.
I'm not going to let that happen.
Show us your form.
Looks like the two of you are at odds here.
The ties very slowly.
Cecilia.
You and Ty?
I don't want him to explode, but if he explodes.
He's not going to actually explode.
He's a fucking liar.
Well, how long do the forms last?
Most spells don't last that long.
You're my friend.
If it is a druid, if it is a polymorph, they don't explode.
They just turn.
My little paws hurt.
But the ropes.
Then take the ropes off him, but then hold him by the.
Inscr-scrub.
Hold him by kitty's scrubs.
This hasn't gone well today.
My scrubs are sore.
Give me the scrubs.
Don't touch my scrubs.
Fine, I'll hold him by this.
You can hold him by the scruff.
Oh, my scruff.
To compromise.
See, we work as a team here.
Not really.
I give your team work a six out of 20.
Better than your fucking team who left you behind, Clare.
Oh, I'm a maverick.
I think it's a pretty good grade since we've only been working together for like a week.
So yeah, that's why I said, yeah.
No, shut the fuck up.
I shake the.
You're not a real cat.
OK, yeah.
I don't feel bad about punching the goose or shaking his cat,
because I know that real animals, I would never do that to a real animal.
I know you.
What was it? A gentle giant.
He was he.
He looked really threatening when I saw.
Oh, he's a really nice guy.
Does he doesn't act like one.
He's a dick.
He was very aggressive when I asked him to politely step out of the garden
that he was in, but he was like, you want to go?
Like one of those guys at the bow that has something to prove,
but that's the motive that the.
His form in your script.
I think Jean Claude, you definitely like get blown back
as his form expands.
And it comes to put it like, fine, I can see his form.
And then you see like his expanding form get bigger and bigger and
oh, bigger until it eclipses your size, Jean Claude.
You another fucking Goliath.
As you see a large eight foot tall man
with lion like features of like a big mane or like fiery
orange hair, like a lion from the Pharaoh's fucking attention.
Son of a bitch.
He's pretending to be a cat.
You see, he just kind of like he he he has really he has like
a really fabulous mane and like a really daring smirk on his face.
And he's wearing like really fine clothes.
You see, just kind of like where goes his hair part as you're just kind of like,
oh, you're backed up, Jean Claude.
And you also do notice that he has a very, very large great sword on his back.
Hey, you're packing heat, my man.
Looks towards you.
Is everything you ever wanted?
I mean, you are sexy, I'll give you that, but you can go now.
My curiosity is stated as they say curiosity killed the cat.
Ha ha.
Didn't know.
And you see as that happens, a goose
really slowly walks out towards the front blocking the road.
OK, get off.
You can join your buddy now.
I don't like this one.
We got a couple of I think we got a couple of questions for you now.
No, fuck you. Get off.
And you see a rat.
Not that one with the gun.
I didn't let you explode.
I would have just broken.
This is going to happen anyway.
They were going to do this anyway.
Come on, they're the people.
Do you guys actually bake, by the way?
Oh, yeah.
And you see the goose go, uh huh.
And you see eventually the goose,
the shifts, the form shifts, the resolves.
The goose turns into a into a Goliath who now has glasses on,
like a little like round lenses on.
You see the woman from you see the woman from the woman
from before with the eye patch and the bandaged up body appear.
And you see the woman from the woman from before with the eye patch
appear, the halfling with the sort of like the young looking halfling with blue hair.
But one of them, the white rat remains as a rat.
And just you see that the halfling picks him up,
the halfling picks him up
and just holds him there.
And you see your this just go.
Do you want to tell my friends?
Exactly what you told me.
Just talk freely.
Which part?
Yeah, you can just tell them you can just tell them
you had the same thing that we held.
I don't know what did they hear from you.
You know, he's the right you're this.
You could just tell us why are we trapping them here?
Power move.
They had they had me tied up.
Now we have them.
Yes. Yes.
Yes, but why am I standing in the middle of the
why am I standing here?
I like the way you think.
Hemsworth Hemsworth is Hemsworth goings.
You two look very nice.
And I want to state that the two of you are doing the right thing.
So you should not feel bad about I mean, you don't.
And that's a good thing.
You were helping those people.
Yes. Why are you placing us for harm that you inflicted?
Oh, I'm really sorry about that.
I just did not want to get captured.
OK. Also, we have a natural dislike for lords.
Then you guys will be big fans of the revolution.
Oh, yeah, that's what you tell them about.
And the woman goes, Revolution.
You do you, Lion Man Kitty?
I'm not like, yeah, OK, I'll take that.
Um. You could explain to the assert this, just let these two go.
Now, there's just people that need help.
He looks to the air, he looks as though he goes,
do you think they might tell people, do you think they fuck around with people
and hear them?
Oh, you you it sounds like you're talking.
It sounds like you're talking in secret about us, but we're right here.
Yeah, well, you know what?
I'm I'm having a bit of a moral compass issue today.
Me too, because I don't know what anyone's doing or who's going on.
Because, you know, drinking Titan's blood just sounds like something
that would be super evil.
Really like nefarious. Yeah.
Sounds even. But then a revolution
the organization that sellers from and I like stellar and sellers, a good person.
So like real quick, though,
a revolution is a positive thing normally, because that shows that there needs
to be change in a system that needs to be broken and rearranged.
But yet again, there's a lot of moving pieces here.
This is the system is kind of broken.
You know, this can you please explain this to us better?
Because they're just talking to each other.
And I'm not I can't I do not have the context clues.
The load that we were robbing that we that we got the intel from.
He's funding a revolution.
OK, more information, please.
What that guy said was true,
because he definitely could have just been sick and saying crazy things. But.
And it sounds possible.
Right.
Why did you guys get in trouble with Captain Bell?
Funny, quick.
Oh, because we were.
It goes.
Well, we were performing well, we were performing a routine.
And then you see a Hemsworth goes, oh, because we were
because because we were accosting and stealing from Lord Parvin's wagon.
Are you guys like?
OK, never mind.
And goes Hemsworth, hey, that's not.
Talk so openly about that kind of stuff.
No, no, it's OK. It's just wandering.
You know, I just noticed.
She's she's a cleric.
She's a cleric of a loon. Right.
Oh, looks like saloon. My bad.
Because yeah, but that's not the that's not the reason why I don't want you to say it.
Look at the look, look at the fur bulk.
Look at him, look at his armor.
Oh, your card.
But like, not really, I'm more like a park ranger.
I like to say and this is his jurisdiction over here.
No, I'm kind of going to be so.
But that was different.
OK, the larger you see, you see the woman
wrapped up with the eye patch goes.
We're going to let you go.
Are you sure? I'm very interested in you people now.
But you want us to stay.
And then reverse psychology, you see the
make the fish.
Eight.
You should really go.
OK, Waffle House, you seem interesting.
I hope to hear more of your exploits in the future.
Is that your car in the background?
That's our that's our.
Horsepower.
You see, you see, you see, you see, you see, you're this just go.
You don't see anything.
No, I mean, even even if you tell people, I think this whole thing is going to be.
We're going to be gone like a cat.
I mean, who's done something wrong?
They all thought that everyone in the house was hallucinating you.
They thought we were hallucinating for a second, too.
So, um.
You guys are in super weirded out that you just saw a bunch of
rats and animals try to rob a place and burn it down.
And now that you're talking to them and learn that they're
and learn that they're a roving gram of the roving group of well to do bandits.
You guys are OK?
Now, you should you should see the last territory we came from.
There was like a halfling cult people that was that was traumatic.
Oh, that is horrible.
They're bad.
Oh, my goodness. We wanted to rob them.
We did not want to get close to any of that.
No, no.
Did you look at the name?
Did you look at the name of that place?
We did.
And we went anyway.
We weren't going to stop there, but it was pouring rain so we couldn't get to where we
were going.
And then they had to stay in the creepy house.
Yeah, the white house.
We should really let them go and get them.
Are you sure?
It's nice to catch up with some people who have also been through some weird stuff on
the road.
Let me tell you, we're tired.
We are very new to adventuring and there's like a lot going on.
How do you tell when to help people and when to let them go?
That's my question, because Cecilia, we cannot stop every second to help everyone.
Like we have to I think we have to be more selective.
How do you know who to help and who not to help?
Let me tell you how you let me tell you how we do it.
We see somebody needs helping and we give our all to help them.
Even if it's not even if it doesn't work out and even if there are people that don't
need helping or they're or they've used us or whatnot, at least I've stopped and I've
tried because I never want to doubt someone who needs help.
That's really nice, actually.
Yeah, I just take everyone's money.
It's really great.
You're a pure asshole.
That's why.
He nods.
I have my money back, by the way.
She's been playing the long game.
Yeah.
Why did you steal her money?
I could.
Because I could.
Here, gives you a gold.
I'm pretty sure it was a platinum.
Oh, my God, you're right.
Are you sure?
Hey, you got to stop gaslighting people.
It's really not cool.
People are going to lose trust in you.
I took a gold.
Do you believe that?
Kitty man, please.
Why did you ask if you believe that?
Just give it.
Here, I'll do it.
It gives you a platinum.
You look really nice here.
I'll give you another one.
No, it's OK.
Really?
No, really.
It's for all the trouble we gave you.
Also, we shot that guy in front of you.
And Hemsworth threw a Molotov cocktail at the building.
That probably caused you a lot of stress.
It's OK.
It's not our building.
We literally were just passing through, thinking to help.
But clearly, we learned our lesson.
It's OK.
This is the calmest day we've had all week.
Yeah, this is actually really nice.
He yikes.
Yeah.
I'd say talking animals is less weird than moving scarecrow trying to drown you.
So that sounds terrible.
Oh, also, if there's a skeleton man named Mero that follows us,
try not to get involved.
Try to run.
We have a couple of people coming after us, actually.
Do you need help?
Do we need help?
Hmm, look at Cecilia.
Hmm, no.
I think if this skeleton type follows you and you need a little bit of help,
I think we're going to get a little involved.
No, we, no, actually, we just had some wonderful allies.
You see the white rat holding on the halfling's palm,
rises and looks at Cecilia.
Shut the fuck up.
I can see the goodness in your soul.
What?
Um, the actual fuck.
The white rat has not said anything so far, but now he's saying something.
You guys like to explain?
You don't want to see him.
He's creeping us out.
I can sense the goodness in you, Cecilia Hyderlund.
Um, thank you.
Do not broach your path, unless you want to face judgment.
What does that mean?
Are you a madam with else?
I hate fortune tellers.
You're kind of doing that right now.
I don't mean to upset you or anything, but.
He looks at you.
I hate fortune telling, she asks Claude.
Yeah, this is Jacobus.
You should go.
Thank you, everyone.
Have a good day at Waffle House.
Cecilia, here we go.
Um, nice meeting you all, I guess.
They didn't even ask why we were called the Maple Fetters.
Now, just let them go.
I did, actually, but he wouldn't tell me.
He just started to gaslight here, so we're tired, we're done, we tried.
You need to stop doing that, man.
I'm dead serious.
He also said there were bards, but then he also said there's only like two bards.
You need to stop doing that.
You see all, you see, you see all of their eyes looks to his ear this,
and you have to just kind of smile as he goes, I'm a fucking rascal.
We're called the Maple Fetters because you should leave.
You should go.
Good luck, everyone, you know, with your revolution and whatnot.
Why are they called the Maple Fetters?
No, Cecilia, no, Cecilia, no, no, no, we're done.
Oh, never mind.
Okay.
Nope, good night.
No, I want to know.
No.
Ah, do you really want to know?
I'm looking at the mouse.
You see the mouse looking at you, staring right at you, and those eyes are kind of intense.
You don't know, you can't tell, but they're really intense.
Can you, what?
What, Tobias?
Matthias.
Make a wisdom save.
I'm fucking new.
I made sure to get the J actually.
I didn't read it down though.
11.
You have the fear status effect.
You want to get away from this mouse as soon as possible.
I go, Cecilia, is there something wrong with the light?
We have to go.
Cecilia!
Okay.
No!
Bye.
There is a song, the sinner of the world, John Claude, as you leave.
I don't want to sing it!
As you leave, you get away from this very peculiar, very peculiar group, maybe the most
the weirdest group of people you've ever met, seemingly future revolutionaries.
They're bandits?
What are they?
Why are they called Maplefitters?
Does that make sense?
Are they involved in like, what's the revolution?
What are the politics?
What is this bigger connection?
Soothe masons?
The connection to Stellar?
Changing the kingdom?
How are they?
You leave.
That's our problem today.
You leave continuing on to the Lanaya Road, keeping this, whatever this encounter was,
whatever your attempt at kidnapping and then your successful catnapping,
you're speaking with these lords and these very weird people and just a very weird,
just a very weird head of the house, but you thought he had a fever,
but no, that's just him acting really weird.
And Scott.
Does have a fever.
Does not have a fever.
Oh no!
The head of the head of the house does not have a fever.
Talking line, get us away from these people.
We're done.
You continue on to the Lanaya Road, hopefully towards more
normal, better times.
How long till we get out of this territory?
We're a third of the way through this kingdom.
Fuck!
I mean, you're going to get out of this territory soon enough.
Good!
It's the middle territories of this kingdom that are lord over by noble houses,
but then the rest is the one you're going to.
The one you're going to, it should be more open fields and more like,
looked over by the crowd instead of noble houses.
So you're gonna be better.
Get us away from the fucking lords!
As you get away from what could potentially have great political consequences,
what the hell?
That's where we're gonna end the session.
We're not high enough level to deal with this shit yet.
We're not there yet.
That's really weird.
Oh my God.
This was the weirdest way anyone has ever discovered.
This was the weirdest way to discover a revolution happening, a gunpowder plot.
I mean, it's fascinating and I can see it.
It's interesting.
I never thought about the kingdom itself.
So, I'm a little loopy from the energy drink, so we are gonna have to end.
We have someone in chat going, give me the answers!
So in the history of this kingdom, in the very beginning I talked about that we were
just coming off a tumultuous multi-year war.
And it was the king versus a bunch of disgruntled nobles who had assembled their forces to rally
against the king.
The war reached a boiling point when the previous king was killed and the son, the prince took
the throne.
The king, Leonardo Castamont, took over and he assembled, he battled the rest of the noble
houses, assembled them all together and defeated them and bested them, executed them all.
Holy shit!
And now has a much harder hold on the king.
And the king is the king of the nobles.
And now has a much harder hold on, because of the previous uprising of the noble houses,
now he is very wary, only giving the nobility status to the current houses that you have
now who have shown their loyalty throughout the war.
But it seems like Lord Harville has different plans.
Because he didn't start yelling about the titan's fever because it sounded really evil.
Yeah, they could still.
I mean, yeah, how are the common folk affected?
Do we know like how, I mean, are they greatly affected by the war?
As of currently, the regime, like, right now the common folk, they just want to get away.
They're just coming off of it.
They want things to calm down.
They want to introduce themselves into the new spring.
This is our first spring where we're not going to have troubles, that we're not going to
hear news about people fighting each other and worry about our livelihoods.
We're not going to have any problems.
We're not going to hear news about people fighting each other and worry about our livelihoods.
Like, we just want to get away for now and live our lives and be good.
Right.
But the king has been kind of enacting unfair practices.
It's like further sort of like embroidering his power, strengthening it by introducing
members of his own house onto the council.
So like he has, like he's bringing himself like ultimate power in all in all regards.
So people could just vote for anything he says and it works out.
There was a power of checks and balances before, but now that's changed.
This king is exercising the full use of his power.
Beat up the king.
Yeah, this is easy.
Leonardo Castamont, the king of Katavarum.
My word is absolute.
Yeah, let's wait till we get to level what?
Twelve?
Yeah, okay.
Yeah, that's a good starting point.
Give us a sec.
This stellar told you both that the soothmasons was a clandestine sort of like it's not a
clandestine.
It's an organization that outwardly speaks against and protests against corruptions in
government.
They're found everywhere underneath.
So I told you they do more things.
I thought she was more with the Empire though against the Empire where she's from.
Yeah, but she says she's acting at the branch here in Katavarum because Katavarum.
Oh got it got it, got it, got it, got it got it.
I can't wait to tell stellar about this.
She might already know if they've made a deal with the soothmasons.
She might already know, but she's not with them right now.
That's why I wonder.
But if they have in the past who knows how long their relationship has been.
Well, there's my little lore dumb.
No, these are things that the characters would know.
Um, or it um, you could let them you could let them know but like your head has to be like into politics
this isn't um, like this is like
Probably things you have to assume when you're reading the newspaper
Yeah, I don't think I don't think my character would know he he's very isolated, you know, he wouldn't know that much
I just me emma was like what the what?
I would know some stuff. It's just not a big priority for her where she lives. I think you know
Not only of talking moon shards in our pocket
But rebellions can start in very strange places
um
And not with us and not all rebellions spawned from a place of hope
No, well, that's why I was like this. I was like, is this like the bourgeoisie? Like this is
With that said
uh, just a little uh
Little announcement for everyone
so
We are uh, so the black cards gallery
uh
we we uh
so
Oh goodness
blah blah blah
energy drink
So for the for the for the next few weeks
What'd you say?
Sorry, I didn't mean to distract you for the next few weeks
We are going to be recording the black cards gallery the new mini series that's going to debut on our channel
um on the 29th
Let me check again. Nope. Nope. I lied the
27th yes
um, we are going to be recording that uh, we're going to be we're going to be recording that on sundays and
Those streams are going to go up as pre-recorded. Um as pre-recorded streams where us the cast
Uh, the three of us and four others
Uh, we can chat with you
Um, because uh song woven is a sent is a stream is a stream that we do on sundays
uh
Doing dming back to back
uh
Dnd games is quite the um
You know, i'm a lot older now and you know, my back's been given out on me and my knees don't have car
Yeah, exactly. Um
So it's a little tiring
um, which is why for the next uh, for the next few weeks we're going to endeavor to sort of change around our
Schedule a little bit. So the next few sessions will be uh,
might be pre-recorded we might do some other special things to
um
To kind of like talk about the game and accept questions
Accept questions and such uh for next sunday. We are uh, next sunday. We're going to be recording the first episode
of the black cards
and
We're going to be live streaming a talk session between
uh between uh all three of us
uh song notes woven notes something
Of the lanai expedition, yep, we're just taking a quick break
It'll be a break because he's kind of cramming busy trying to prep for the pirate game
so
It'll be next week off from lanai expedition, but we will still stream at our normal time just
Talking about dnd probably
And then we will come back the week after maybe pre-recorded. We'll see how we're feeling
And but also the 27th is the first episode of the black arts gallery
So it'll be exciting and fun and all will still be youtube
And still will be on um
Um, we'll still have everything on youtube and have um podcasts and everything like that for both shows
So i'm really we're really excited for you guys to to see who's joining us. We've got a really we've got a really stellar
Crew pirate crew, and I think it's gonna be a lot of fun
I think there's some very very special things ahead when it comes to the black guards
um
Uh with that said, uh, hello again to you jack mar. It's so great to have so great to have you here
um
We were talking about this earlier, but when we saw your fed out yesterday me and jenny
We were talking to each other. We stopped everything. We just talked about so beautifully done. You're such a beautiful artist
Thank you so much. It was such a gift
Praise um
It's really good. Um
Yeah
so
Uh, I love dm'ing but I just cannot do it when there's an energy drink coursing through my veins. It's crazy
I'm not drinking energy drinks anymore. You shouldn't be here
You're gonna make me cry you already did make me cry mr. Mr. Draws if that's your real name it's not
All right, well, uh with that said thank you so much, uh for watching
I guess i'll see you the next time around see you guys next sunday for a chat
Bye