Songwoven presents The Black Guards Gallery, a Level Up Advanced with Edition limited run
campaign.
Episode 3, Strange Tides.
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Hello everyone and welcome to Songwoven, the Black Guards Gallery.
I am your humble narrator, Tim Don Tran.
And what is a humble narrator without their motley crew?
Say ahoy, motley crew!
Ahoy, motley crew!
Yeah.
Okay.
We are, sadly we are down a hump free for today.
No snacks!
No snacks for any of us.
That's the special rule.
If Kev is gone, then no one can eat anything.
Everyone has to starve in this game.
Did he put a bunch of post-it notes on like the galley of the ship to like be like, okay,
this is where this is, this is where this is.
Put this in the microwave for 30 seconds.
He has written instructions.
Do not remove the salt from the salmon.
Do not.
Do not throw away the instructions before you cook the food.
The captain is not allowed inside this room.
The captain is not allowed inside the cupboard.
We have a few or a single announcement at the top of the show today.
I'll toss that over to Jenny.
Well, it's not really an announcement.
It's just that we always stream on Sundays also with the Lanaya Expedition.
We're probably pre-recording the next few weeks as well.
Just like this one is pre-recorded, which I know the first episode, maybe we didn't
state that clearly enough and we let down our friend.
He was so disappointed.
Very sad chat.
But yeah, so we pre-record the game.
Podcast always goes up the next day.
YouTube goes up in two days and the VODs are always free to watch.
Absolutely.
With all of that said, are we waiting for some D&D today?
Level up, fans.
Level up, level up, advanced edition.
Love them so much.
Thank you.
Thanks, guys.
They love all our tweets when we tag them.
It's very cute.
Thanks, Ian Publishing.
With that said, let's jump right back in into another very bound to be very fun, very lighthearted
session.
No.
I know it's not.
There's a lot of fear.
So much sus right there.
It's a chill session and it's not.
Like chills down your spine.
Yeah, that's exactly what I meant every time.
Shopping episode, right?
That's shopping.
It's a shopping episode, absolutely.
Oh yeah, totally.
The last episode of the Black Guards Gallery, our motley crew consisting of our seven, and
I'll structure in the meantime, dealt with the aftermath of the wrestling competition
between Captain Mara's are and one eye Jane where it was heavily weighted in one side.
Speaking of heavily weighted, that's Captain Mara's are when he was in the water.
The session started with Humphrey navigating through the captain's quarters where he found
brief bits of information about what's going on in certain places and what exactly Captain
Mara's are as intense were.
It is there he learned that Captain Mara's are is every bit of a pirate that he says
he is, but also that the Lantos Boreas, the Lord of House Boreas in the Inarian Empire
and also Captain Ora's father, has been arrested for treason.
For what specific reason or what's going to happen to him, it's all a mystery.
As a result of the competition, of course, the latter half of the compass was returned
to Zachariah.
The crew began to sail their ship towards the town of Labor of Elor as to restock on
supplies for what's bound to be a tumultuous adventure ahead.
It is during this ride that our motley crew have really discovered what's at stake here,
who's watching them and who exactly their foes are ahead of them.
Daphne scrying on the previous owner of the compass and finding out about a man named
Brando Caligaris, the vice admiral of the Leviathan's Legion.
It is there that Brando spoke to a young half-elven man named Daryl, who doesn't seem to be in
the best condition right now.
After which Captain Ora spoke to many crew members and spoke to Clarence about her concerns
about the ride ahead.
And to finish it all off, a bottle of whiskey has been shared around the crew.
The title of captain was passed on for just a brief smidge of a moment.
With that said, now, a few days have passed.
Zachariah, it has been a very frustrating few nights for you.
You're not entirely sure what to do with the two pieces of the compass in your hand.
You hold it up to moonlight and that's how it activates.
You are the one on the ship that knows everything about this compass.
You have been hunting for this thing for six months and you're still not exactly sure what
to do here.
It's all a mystery to you.
You gave the compass over to the ship's artificer, Armin Haas, who has suggested butt welding
the two pieces together, which doesn't seem like something that...
It's not the genteel sort of touch that you want to give to an item.
I will say though, with the magical ink that was gifted to you by Clarence, do you go ahead
and enchant the compass with that?
All right.
You can now recall the compass to your hand, no matter where in the world it is.
It will always come back to you, appear in your hand.
It's now bonded to you.
On the pan-ultimate night before you all sail towards Elores, before you land there, you
don't sleep much, but sleep has to find you eventually.
It's during one particular night when everyone is at rest, except for Hiljen, who doesn't
need to rest as often as the others.
Sleeping in your quarters, Zachariah.
As you are clutching the compass in hand during a particularly calm night, the dreams have
been vivid.
At times you make sense of them, just barely, much like those few nights ago during that
storm.
Some nights or most nights, they are colorful blurs that fill your eyes and your mind.
You often tend to wake up sometimes feeling a little dizzy.
This is one of those nights.
But during this night in particular, during these days of colors and disparate voices,
you feel something warm in your hand.
And as your eyes shunt open at that moment, you feel something gathering, something pushing
at your fingers, at the palm of your enclosed hand.
And as you open up your hand, you see the two pieces of the compass separated, a light,
thrumming.
I sit up, kind of place them right in front of me, flip them over, and push them together.
You push them together?
Okay.
Give me a wisdom saving throw.
That is a 17.
A 17?
As you push them together, I'm going to say that everyone down in the quarters, you are
awakened by a sudden, a loud sound.
There's no physical quality to it.
It doesn't rock the ship, but you hear the allowed sound.
As for you, Zachariah, as soon as you push the pieces together, it's like magnets.
The two pieces eagerly just go and meet one another.
And as they do, a storm of, just an absolute explosion of speckled lights just fill the
room immediately.
For a brief moment, you are just, you are rattled as your vision is filled with light.
It's a familiar feeling to you, but you can't exactly put your finger on it.
Everyone, I'll say Daphne, definitely Daphne and Captain Aura.
One of the agents in your deck can, you're kind of in the upper parts of the ship sleeping
with a hammock with everyone, but you hear it too, I'll say.
And Hildrean, you just hear the sudden, in the distance.
Hurry.
Yeah.
I'm just like, I'm just gonna get my sword running.
Yeah.
Yeah, we are like jammies kind of thing.
Or are we, or also aren't we hung over as fuck?
Yeah.
Yeah, you guys are hung.
As everyone begins to hurry down, and when I think you particularly have a really good
initiative, you all make your way down to the quarters where the sort of like private
rooms are, and from Zachariah's room, you see a bleeding from below the, bleeding from
around the doorframe, just a massive amount of light.
Zachariah, you see these floating orbs in the room, and they are all stuck to the wall.
They're all pushing against the wall and the door.
Okay.
Get up and, I don't know, can I go touch one?
Just trying to get through the wall?
You touch one, it just goes through.
It's light.
Oh, it's just light.
I'm dumb.
I run back to the compass.
I pick it up.
You pick it up.
It's together.
Okay.
I move it around.
Do the lights move?
The lights do move, yes.
Okay, so it's like creating the light.
That makes sense.
Okay.
Yes.
It is emanating, it's sort of like pale blue light, but the stuff around you is not pale
blue.
It's like yellow, brighter color.
What's everyone else doing, by the way, as Zachariah's bewildered at the moment?
You said that I hear this sound?
Yes.
Is it loud enough for me to be like, what the hell?
If I was manning the helm, probably the first thing that I would do is I would use a nearby
rope to wrap the helm to make sure that the helm stays in the course that I wanted it
to.
It would be like a quick sort of back wrap and then just dash to try to figure out what
the hell that was.
You are definitely down there with the rest of everyone.
You see the same sight everyone else is seeing as well.
I point my sword to the door and look at to our captain and be like, Captain's orders.
The captain?
I'm not the captain anymore.
Crashed.
You see this small, tiny woman trying to put her hat on her head, her hair is all messed
up in her face.
She wears a giant oversized shirt to bed, so it looks like a small child just comes
stumbling down.
But she still pulled on her satchel of pistols and you see her take off one of the pistols
and just waves one eye, Jane.
She's so trashed it can't even focus.
I'm going to take that wave as a do, go ahead and I'm just going to kick down the door and
point my sword at whatever I see.
I am currently trying to put my pants on.
As the door is kicked down, one of the hinges breaks because it's ridiculously strong.
The door smashes open and you see immediately the orbs of light that were pushing against
the door fly out into the stateroom.
So everyone sees all this energy.
I just like that one.
I just lock eyes with Jane and slowly finish pulling up my pants.
I'll give you a wink as you do it.
Just make it really uncomfortable.
What's happening?
What I Jane, you swipe at it and it goes right through.
I would say that it goes out towards the room and it stops.
It seems like the orbs are forming a sort of shape, a circular shape.
I would say that Hylgen probably would have had a moment as soon as this thing started
to come out, raised like a dagger, ready to throw it and then sees the thing stop and
he just looks inside just in time to see the hand pull.
He notices, I'm assuming that you have the compass in your hand.
One hand, like belt of my pants here, no shirt.
I look at the light and I look at the compass and I just look at you and did that, did the
compass did that?
Yeah.
Whatever.
I'm just going to rush out the door.
Outside.
Or it takes a peek at the top with Zachariah and just gives a nod.
A solid nod.
Give you like a little fist bump as he passes us.
Not you Zachariah, the captain as I go.
I mean, it's nice, what can I say?
You see the captain just go, what a fine piece of ass that is.
We know how to pick up.
Despite the huge revelation of going on at the moment, ass is always important.
What's in?
Zachariah, you take your ass to the top of the ship where everything is outside.
I give him the show as I walk away and hurry upstairs to the top deck.
You clap your way to the top and as you do, I assume everyone follows.
Not hard to miss as you follow Zachariah up to the top of the ship.
What am I doing?
Zachariah, wherever you're going.
These orbs of light are following along and they are seemingly pushing at the ends of
wherever they are.
I'll say as you run past the middle area, I don't have the terminology for it, everyone
becomes awake.
You just hear, oh what the fuck is that?
As you're running across this room with a really bright light emanating from your hand,
and as you make your way towards the top and stand outside, you see that these orbs of
light finally spread out and seemingly form the shape of what it was originally intended
for.
It sprawls out, it is a 25 by 25 foot depiction of this sort of map.
You've seen maps before and this is an entire depiction of, you can tell, islands.
Some of the orbs are moving in a sort of serpentine look to give the impression of water.
As you're standing out now in the moonlight, the light actually becomes brighter, brilliant,
more cohesive.
Even from your hand, Zechariah, from the compass itself, you see a bright blue arrow of light
pointing towards a direction.
Someone maps from the map room.
I just need to compare.
I sit it down on the deck of the ship and I just want to try and gauge where it's pointing
in relation to the other islands where we are right now.
If I can get a beat on where it's trying to send us.
Someone really quick fetches a map and gives it to you.
You take the time to look and depict where everything is.
Everyone watches Zechariah at work, sprawling over maps in the midst of this wonderful miracle.
You do see at some point that one of the orbs of light turns blue and just maneuvers itself
onto the map itself.
But Zechariah, when it does that, you already solved what it meant.
It's actually the moment you figure it out that one of the orbs abides and turns blue.
The blue orb is where you're at right now.
You figured out.
This location of something that speaks to you specifically, Zechariah, you know deep
in you, even though you don't have any logistical evidence, you know deep in you that wherever
this map is, it's located.
That is where the Bandy Wallop is.
It's hard to explain it to other people because this is you.
You just feel it in your heart.
But you map the islands, you find out where on the physical map it is, north of the Riverian
Ocean, past everything.
And then you end up circling a place on the map, a place that has no landform.
A place directly in the middle of the ocean, just water.
But the compass, the map it gives you, says otherwise.
A question.
What time of day is it right now?
It is, I'm going to say that exactly, that the little explosion of light occurred at
midnight.
Exactly at midnight.
I am going to have Kenway patrol the area thoroughly and I'm going to actually go ahead
and just start moving around the edges of the ship above, keeping an eye on anything
that might be unseen, especially because of the fact that we now have some lights on the
ship.
So considering that we have that little bird following, I will say that my focus right
now is actually on checking things around besides the shirtless member of the crew.
Throw me a perception check, what is everyone else doing as Zacharias is busting things
wide open?
I want to piggyback off of that and I want to watch the crew's reaction and kind of
discreetly investigate the crew.
Not like us, but like I have a theory of something so I want to just investigate the crew's
reactions and see if anyone looks too interested or maybe one of them is slipping off to do
something.
Oh, one eye Jane is.
Keeping people honest.
Zacharias have a perception check, yeah?
Yes, give me a perception check.
One eye Jane, I'm going to ask you to give me a perception check as well.
People are funneling out.
This has eventually come out, he's wearing like a night cap.
Clarence, not now, not now, this is important.
I hate you guys.
Why, why don't you guys roll?
You guys keep rolling so good at this game.
I can't see.
I think you're all 21.
If you must know, I have the keen sense of visibility, which gives me perfect perception.
For you, Hilgen, breaking off from, you know what to keep focus on.
Everyone's looking at one thing, you have to be looking at everything else.
Looking out towards the sea, everything is calm, but that's when the sea is at its most
scariest.
So far nothing that you can see is coming towards you and Kenway is out doing the patrols
as well.
But all seems to be calm at the moment, but you're remaining vigilant.
We're going to keep that 22 perception in mind if you have any other observations.
For you, One Eye Jane, it just seems people are bewildered.
It's a repeat reaction of somebody comes out, what's going on?
Whoa!
And then that happens like five times.
Also, just letting you know that I have farsighted with my perception.
All right, you see everything.
I got it.
I have farsight as well, but I'm a little...
Jesus Christ!
There is a red carp.
There's a really nice big red carp like 50 feet away in the darkness, Hilgen.
You found Nemo.
In the ocean.
You found Nemo.
I found Nemo.
One Eye Jane, already just searching for any suspicious activity among the crew, it seems
like everyone is acting and they're just waiting to figure out what's going on and they're
fanning out so everyone can get a good look.
But I'm going to keep...
Roland's like, oh, look at that ass.
Oh, also there's a big map.
Fascinating.
Look at the map.
We're going to keep that 21 perception in mind if you have any more specific things
you want to bring up in the future.
But for now, everything seems good.
But it seems like everyone's just watching Zachariah right now for any big revelation
for him to say something.
Is there anything else comparing the maps that's different besides that island that
isn't on the paper map?
Everything else seems to line up.
It's just that one glaring problem.
Does the moving map show anything dangerous, like any storms, sea monsters, other ships,
anything like that?
Or just this one location?
It's just this one location.
You see these sea depictions of moving water and such, but that's a fate of the Psypher.
But other than that, nothing else really stands out to you.
I pick up the compass and I close it.
As you close it, all the orbs sparkle and just slowly begin to dissipate in the air.
And everyone's left seeing Zachariah over some maps.
Oh, when did you all get here?
Hey.
At this point, he'll hear soft padded footsteps and a small hand gently touch his elbow as
the captain peers over to look at him in the compass.
And he hears in his head, neat trick, Zachariah.
You know, I'm good at those.
I got a whole bunch.
Captain, you really shouldn't ask me to crew that.
She raises an eyebrow and signs for everyone to see.
Would you like to step into my quarters, then make it a little more intimate?
Flattered.
But I got some waiting for me.
So you see her smile and go, well, then let's make sure you can get back to them with some
stories to tell.
Now you essentially blew a cannon on my ship at midnight and a lovely, fantastic light
show, which I adore.
I mean, it's nothing Coco hasn't done, right?
Of course not.
Now we saw the map, right?
Yeah, we all saw the fucking map.
I like looked down at the paper map that I sort of bundled up into my hands.
This is the island he told me.
Uh, Lusa, I think was the name.
I don't know.
Who told you?
He told you?
Yeah, they both go, Fanny and Origo.
Darryl told me.
Darryl told you.
Yeah, he's the one who originally figured this all out.
I just I was just there for the ride.
Is that why they have him?
Oh, I don't know.
Honestly, I have no idea what the Orhandor Navy would want with us.
Just a couple of nobodies from the Salarian Empire.
I don't.
Do I notice any insight?
He might be lying.
Oh, goodness.
That was your turn to get looked at again.
Also, real quick, just for player knowledge, was Zachariah with us in the room when Daphne
brought up the name Darryl and describing him.
And we asked each other and we asked each other and said, does anyone know that name?
And Zachariah said nothing, right?
No, I didn't.
He told us.
Oh, he did say yes?
Okay.
He specifically said like you asked for a last name and Zachariah said we don't have
last names.
Oh, we didn't have last names.
Right.
So we know that they knew each other.
Got it.
Continue.
I'm going to come back a little bit.
Hanlusa is the...
Hanlusa.
I'll type it.
Hanlusa.
Yeah.
Do I notice any inclination?
He might be lying.
Yeah, okay.
Start throwing it.
When I came to Daphne, you're like, ah!
Sorry.
Throwing insight checks at me.
I have a specialty in detecting lies.
So...
Y'all are scary.
I know.
Scary crew.
We need the black card for nothing.
Hilden's like, I see all, Daphne's like, I know all.
I go sorrow on everybody.
It's like, oh, I see you.
Oh, good thing I got high charisma and proficiency in things.
I rolled a freaking eight.
Go ahead for you, black red.
I want you to roll to mean secret, persuasion or deception.
Okay.
Secret rolls.
Oh, okay.
I don't see if I have anything.
Did I send it to you in, I'll just send it to you in Discord.
Yeah.
Please, and thank you.
Thanks to level up fifth edition.
Thank you.
We have all the things we can add now to our rolls.
Advanced level up fifth edition.
Fuck your secrets.
How dare you.
Fuck your secrets.
Yeah, doesn't Humphrey have one where he can make it secret?
Honestly, Humphrey, Humphrey, this would be a Humphrey roll, but alas, he's not here today.
So we're Humphrey's napping.
Step out of the kitchen for this.
Oh, Victor, you're muted.
Victor, you're muted.
We can't hear you.
You're muted.
There you go.
Well, I mean, now you'll never know where the treasure was.
It's a one time thing.
No, it's a one time thing.
So, so, okay, real quick.
What's the statement that's been inside of just one more time?
Just talking about Daryl and the treasure.
No one doesn't know why they would want care about them.
Yeah.
It's a couple of nobodies from the Salarian Empire, right?
He is speaking very openly, he's speaking very openly in Frank at the moment.
He's, the two of you can decide, especially you, Daphne, that he's definitely telling the truth.
Definitely.
Okay.
Definitely.
Kenny does not like that answer.
Sorry, absolutely.
Especially Daryl, I mean, he's never done anything.
I don't, Leviathan Legion, we're not even from the country, let alone, I don't know what they'd want with us.
But I mean, unless it's this, but they had half of it, so I don't.
And I'm guessing, yeah, so they got, they got the other half of the compass from Daryl.
Yeah.
Ow is what I want to know.
Why isn't Daryl with you?
That's what I want to know.
Elgin is going to approach the group as he says,
Well, I believe for now, it appears that we may have a destination, yes?
Yeah.
If they just want us to lead them there, then they can follow for all I care.
I'll be honest, as interested as I am what lies at the end of this is a secondary goal for me.
So.
You don't want treasure?
Yeah.
So can I get your half of the treasure?
We will discuss that later.
Elgin is just going to add, looking at Sakurai in that response to one night Jane as he goes,
Sometimes we may need treasure, but desiring it is not necessarily the reason why we go for it.
Kind of belong for the treasure, but okay.
What's your primary goal?
Well, if it was my decision, we'd be sailing straight towards our Hondor to go
swipe Daryl back from this old guy.
Of course, that'd be incredibly reckless and stupid and dangerous.
And that's why I'm not the captain.
Elgin is going to look at Aura very knowledge.
She raises an eyebrow like, yes, no, never do those things ever.
We never do.
No, no, no, no, no, would never know.
I can't remember why we're separated.
I don't I don't know what happened.
Last thing I remember is we found the other half and put it together.
It all goes flaky.
And I remember Daryl looking at me and there was just this look on his face and I.
I don't like it.
I don't know what happened.
So they want to know.
Daryl was the one, one, one who wanted to go to the bandy well up anyway.
I just wanted to get him there.
Did you make it to the bandy?
I don't think so.
What if we get to the bandy wall up and like we all end up like and all kind of point over to Zachari like that.
What?
Okay, Zachariah, look at this.
I'm fine.
Look, I'm just saying that I have both eyes.
All right.
Excuse me?
Looks at her flat ass and just there's a little nod like.
Heal Jen is going to have a moment where he looks at Zachariah and the compass as he hears that story.
So are you trying to say that perhaps this compass has some sort of magic that made you not realize where you were or made you forget something?
Because if so, then I suppose we must be careful not to do this together again.
I don't know.
I wish I had answers for you.
We should be careful regardless.
Yeah.
If they gave this to us, it was for a reason and it probably wasn't out of the kindness of wanting to fulfill a prisoner's wish.
So.
Perhaps the way to use the compass has a very high price to pay.
Well, and you see her sign this so everyone can see.
Let's just hope we can run fast.
On the on the water.
I can't actually.
And you see her tug on one of her earrings.
I can actually walk on it.
It's pretty fucking cool.
So, yeah.
Captain Mars.
All right.
Don't got that shit.
I wish you'd grasp metal to your scales when you're on the water.
You know, he's all about aesthetic, which I respect and appreciate.
And she gestures to her giant oversized shirt with her hats.
You know, I have none.
So I have a lot of respect for that man.
All right, everyone.
Well, that was exciting.
And she pauses to, you know, sign clapping.
Thank you for the light show, Zachariah.
I'm excited to see you.
Anytime.
You know,
We have a destination.
We have certain goals.
She looks to one eye, Jane, whether being wealth and or,
and nods to Zachariah personal connection.
And we certainly know who's interested in on our tail.
She looks to Daphne.
That's a sign.
She's a little more.
A little more like a friend than a relative.
She looks to Hilda.
I say we get in and we get out quite quickly with what we need.
He'll turn gives a nod as he.
Adds.
I'll make sure that our journey there is going to be hard for whoever
decides to follow.
I love it. When you talk that way.
Happy to do so.
Clearance is just like...
...
I guess I will say...
Hilden turns to Zachariah as he goes...
I would like a refresher...
as to where exactly we are supposed to be going...
so that I can chart the course.
Yeah.
Maps.
Let's go...
to the map room.
Do you guys want me to put on a shirt?
Aura shakes her head no.
Let's go.
Hilden is looking at this exchange like completely oblivious...
like he doesn't understand what's happening.
Zachariah, a shirt is thrown at you from one of the crew.
Boo!
It's Brooke.
Hahaha!
Brooke...
Put it on.
Hahaha!
Someone wants to take it off, I guess.
But...
She gives you a deadly glare.
Give her a wink and then just kind of make my way down...
shake my ass...
down to the...
down to the next one.
I'll say...
Go ahead.
I'll say that I look at Aura...
as Zachariah starts heading to the map room...
and he just signs to her just to say...
I'm staying up.
I want to keep an eye on things.
He'll hear in his head, I'll keep an eye out.
And also, as she watches Zachariah retreat down below deck...
be gentle.
Please.
Enough.
Please.
She gives him a look.
Hahaha!
She's like, I know you are quickened to the point...
which is one thing that I adore about you, but...
please, go easy on the kid.
Hilden just has that moment when he starts stunning and he goes...
No promises.
And then he...
Hahaha!
Daphne, I think, is going to slip away.
And you can just speed through it if there's nothing interesting.
But I would like to scry on Daryl...
as I'm curious if there might have been some sort of...
since he was connected to the Compass...
if there was any reaction to what had just occurred.
I might be a little too late if there was.
There might be nothing interesting.
I might just be a guy in his cell, but I would like to do that.
I'll give it to you quick.
You scry.
And you are privy to the inside of a moving wagon.
Daryl is nicely dressed.
Already better.
Probably magically healed from the injuries he had sustained before.
And he has a ring on his finger that he is continuously looking at.
But he just seems to be in a wagon surrounded by, of course, other wagons.
It's a convoy of sorts.
And as far as looking for any visceral reaction...
nothing tells you that anyone here knows about what happened, you feel.
Alright.
Oh, God.
Out of character moments, just players to players...
Do you think that Daryl could have cast something on Zachariah so that he forgot what happened?
Or do we think it's the Compass?
Totally possible.
I wouldn't put it past it, for sure.
If he was trying to protect him or something.
Yeah, that's what...
I don't know though.
Because all the wisdom saving pharaohs with that Compass, I don't know.
So.
With that also, Daphne, you slip away.
Zachariah and Hyljan going off to map the charts.
One-eyed Jane and Captain Aura, what are the two of you doing?
I'm scanning.
Like Hilden asked me to.
She's just got her hat tipped back and her hands are behind her back.
As she's just patting around, you know, looking at the outskirts of the ship.
Really kind of lost in thought.
She's not really looking like she should be.
Like Hyljan asked her to.
That's why I have to rely on Kenway.
This is what I have to deal with.
Kenway's flying, looking at Aura, just kind of going...
You hear an eagle sigh.
You ask the space cadet to...
Kenway's just like...
God damn it!
Go around again.
She's definitely looking at the stars and thinking, though.
But she's pacing the... yeah, looking around.
Kenway is keeping an eye on them.
Kenway is keeping an eye on them!
They've worked it out. It's been ten years. They figured this shit out.
Yeah.
I'll say that all the other members of the crew are out now.
They're awake.
Very few of them go back to sleep, but a lot of them are...
There's excitement in the air.
We actually have a lead. What do you think is there?
People are talking with each other in excitement.
One eye, Jane, you definitely keep note of what is going on with your earlier 22 perception.
But it doesn't seem like...
It doesn't seem like anyone has any...
The only thing you actually see is that Daphne slipped away.
But yeah.
Some of the crew members are also keeping an eye out, but especially the eagle, who is putting in double time at the moment.
Anything you're doing in particular?
I would grab a blanket for the captain because she's just in her night shirt.
There you go.
I'm just gonna...
Don't make eye contact. And then just walk away.
I did the above deck perception, but I want to go through the lower levels of the ship.
Just make a couple laps to make sure there's no one sneaking about.
Sorry, just because you added that you give her a blanket.
You can't run away from that. I'm sorry.
No, damn it!
You see that? Get back here!
Okay, okay.
As soon as you place the blanket, she gives you an on.
As you start to move off, you hear a voice in your head say,
One-eyed Jane, what has words but never speaks?
I have an answer, but I don't want to insult you.
Aura tilts her head and you hear her in your head,
Why would you insult me with an answer that I am asking for?
Okay, because I was gonna say you, because like physically, or mentally, you...
You hear gargled, chuckling laughter.
You're okay.
There's spit coming out of her mouth because she can't swallow it.
She's laughing so hard.
You see her tilt her head as she comes, as she goes, she waves her hand over and goes,
Would you care to walk with me around the deck?
Yeah, I would love that.
And she'll wait to see if she joins her and then she'll just, with her little blankie now.
It's probably actually like a human-sized blanket, so it's like this robe just trailing behind her.
It's a really big cloak.
A really big cloak.
That's the best thing about being like a halfling is that blankets are super big.
You get the extra large blanket for like normal price.
And I can buy clothes.
Clothes are like cheap as fuck, yo, so we're good.
So she'll start walking with one-eyed Jane and in her head she goes, that is a brilliant answer.
So now I have to amend that riddle because originally I had a book, but I love that.
Yeah, a book makes more sense that you would ask me about that.
No, no, no, no, no. I like me. I like me as an answer.
That's a good one, one-eyed Jane. I'm going to use that one again.
She says, I haven't really had a chance to.
And she gives you a wink, speak with you because it's all in your head.
Yeah, yeah, I got you. Okay. Uh-huh.
Nice weather we're having, eh?
So about that map, that was something.
When I was little, my first exposure to the world was through books.
Lands that I would never or think I'd never see, people I'd never meet.
I remember it was so easy to get lost in them.
Do you ever feel that way when you read?
Ah, yay! You know, I just really like words and adventures, I guess, you know, and the best adventures.
And treasure, a true pirate at your heart.
Hey, you know, all my stories, my history, it's kind of in my blood to be a pirate.
It's colorful and brilliant. I enjoy listening to them and I'm happy you're here.
I'm happy, too.
So treasure is all you seek for someone who rides the seas and peruses the pages of stories in our little library.
Yes, something you don't know about me actually is I am a shopping addict and I need to fund that.
I love shiny things. I love stuff.
So I, me, myself, when I Jane loves money.
I can tell. Someone who is so giving, she gestures to the blanket, clearly is just in it for themselves.
You feel a gentle squeeze on your hand and you hear in your head.
You know, the expression, don't judge a book by its cover.
Yeah.
You can be whatever you want to be on this ship.
I don't care where you come from unless you want me to.
When I Jane will kind of get actually like very serious from a moment and just like look at you kind of like tilt her head.
Captain, I'm exactly who and where I want to be right now.
And you see a very big smile on her face as you hear in your head.
Good. Because I've been thinking, you know, I'm getting a little old.
What will I do with this crew if I want to retire?
She'll like perk up a little bit.
I mean, you don't look a day over.
You know, whether a what we just hear about.
And she'll just continue walking and go, what do you think?
You know, and now she's just, you know, rambling and musing with you.
Yeah.
And in the midst of this rambling amusing, there comes a moment where there's quiet and it's a very pleasant conversation and a cold, a particularly cold night.
And in the midst of this, when there's a particular pause, but perhaps after a laugh or the sharing of a smile behind the both of you, a sudden voice comes up as if a person has suddenly appeared.
You hear Captain just very suddenly.
Accidentally, her hand goes to her pistol.
Yeah, mine goes to it.
Probably turns both of you turn to see Brooke with her.
She's happy about this.
She tips her hat and she signs broke.
Giant rope.
She just goes, sorry, it's still a bit shaky, but I've.
I've tried my best.
She's going to sign to you.
And she's right.
It's very shaky.
But you do. But she's been she's been hitting the books. She's been trying to learn, trying to learn this to learn sign language, but you do, but you do pick up what she's what she's saying.
She's saying to you.
I'm going to that harbor town. Can I come with you to port?
I just want to stretch my legs and land a little bit.
Use at this point, or will have the biggest smile on her head face. She'll cheer, clap, you know, she cheer for her and sign, walk up to her and she'll gently take her hand instead and in her voice, he'll hear up, she'll hear.
Sorry, our group chat.
Like the 50s when women wear like.
That's not what looks like at all.
You take her hand. Brooke has always been very tense and that is she's she's very tight in the in the hands right now. She's a very I don't want to say hard individual, but she is.
She'll just wait to see if she if she let her hold her hand and wait for her to relax. She's patient.
There's a moment where like the shoulders come up, typically very guarded individual.
And there's almost the instinct to like jerk her hand away.
But for a moment, and it's a good bit.
Her hand slightly relaxes and you feel it. And at that, she'll hear in her head just between her and Brooke, you know, she'll hear a voice in her head say, I am so proud of you.
You have nothing to prove to me.
And she'll release her hand.
I love my babies.
Thanks, Mom.
Insight check.
Stat is wisdom, right? Ask me input value. Does that something we can argue?
Yeah, sure.
I don't know how to argue charisma for that, though.
I'm just real wisdom. Sorry, guys. Level up for the edition.
It's part of reading people. Go ahead.
Fuck it.
27. I also rolled. I also rolled in that 20, but the modifier is lower than yours.
So that's crazy.
Someone who so guarded with the feeling, but like, you've known like you've known Brooke for a while she listens and she's, she's loyal to a T.
You've basically saved her from dealing with guards after she killed a noble in self defense.
And it's at this moment, this moment of affirmation of acknowledging her place and her efforts that you see her lips kind of like curl in for a moment.
As if holding back, as if holding back something and you catch the you catch the smallest glimpse of a smile.
Oh, which is a body's natural reaction.
Despite Brooks best attempt to hide it, she cannot hide. She cannot deny what her body is feeling right now.
But you he's a good kid.
It very it subsides immediately.
Yeah, that's okay.
She just goes, who's even looking for a reaction.
She just goes, thank you.
And she'll sign, keep up the great work and continue walking with one eye Jane.
If she wants to continue with her, she'll sign to the both of them.
I'm going to continue to look at the stars like Hildren told me to.
Is there anything you guys need from me?
That's it.
I'll keep a watch out as well.
Wonderful.
Carry on ladies and Aura's eyes slide over to both of them.
If you actually yeah I have to actually I have to go.
Oh dear. Look, there's someone calling me in my head.
Oh no. And she's going to just shuffle off.
Leaving those two alone.
Look over at Brooke.
You want to arm wrestle?
I'll go easy on you.
Yes.
Not like you need to.
I can take you down anytime.
Take off my sword, put it to the side. Hey, how do we want to do this?
She looks at you take off the sword.
And she just kind of like, rolls her eyes.
She just goes, I'm going to do my job.
And she just turns and walks.
Just kind of shake my head with a really big smile as I watch her walk away and then she does look back at a moment and catches that smile.
And she sees the smile. You didn't say anything. She just goes, shut up idiot and just walks away.
I'm going to cry and puke at the same time.
That's it.
For now.
All right. Now we're going to go over to Zachariah and Hildesham.
The two of you spend the moment laying out maps, getting ready to chart the course. The place we're going to after Alores.
The talks are very technical. The two of you are getting down to business. And Zachariah, your mind's on this right now.
Hildesham, is there anything you want to say in particular?
Yes.
Hildesham will be keeping an eye and checking with Zachariah, saying whatever the best course is.
But Hildesham will also add, I would like to try to find any particular areas with tall land on our journey.
I do not know whether or not we are going to be followed, but if we are, I want to make sure that we make it difficult for them to do so.
It'd be so bad if they were following us.
I do not know.
What do you think?
Well, in my opinion,
if they're going to have the Treasurer I seek on their ship, then I say we make it as easy as we want.
Hildesham just looks at Zachariah for a long while.
We'll know they'll be following us.
That is presuming that we know who is following.
Let me ask you, the Compass, has it done anything odd since you got it together?
I mean, it, you know, I open the Compass again, does it light show immediately?
Like that?
Hildesham is like, that is not what I mean.
What do you mean then?
I mean, I don't know if you've noticed, I'm not the brightest, so.
I mean to you, while it's been in your possession.
It gets warm sometimes.
It could just be because it's in my pocket.
That I have noticed, yeah.
I mean, once again, this is, you know, pretty cool.
If I like, I like, you know, do it a couple times, I probably like open it and blind myself for a second.
Hilden is looking at the maps for a moment.
So tell me, if you are open to them following us, and the treasure that you desire is potentially on their ship,
why not just suggest that we go after your treasure first?
Well, because that seems incredibly dangerous.
And while I'm not worried about myself, I've already gotten you guys into a lot of danger already.
And yet you are here asking us that perhaps it's not a bad idea for someone who may be our enemy to follow.
Well, you know, if I asked the captain, should we do this stupid plan?
There's...
You know what she'd say, right? She'd obviously say...
Hilden just waits.
Terrifying.
You know, she'd probably leave it up to a coin toss is probably what she would do.
Would you leave the fate of this ship to a coin toss?
I'll tell you this.
I am very happy that Captain Marsaur was as honorable as he was.
Because I was ready.
I was not leaving that ship without the compass.
Hilden looks at the maps once more, uses a finger to sort of trace some of the areas that they've been charting.
And I am sure that you know that we would not have left that ship without you.
Yeah.
Man, I lucked out.
Because of the first ship I asked.
I mean, it's a cool-looking ship, so I was just like, that one, I think. It was just a feeling, you know.
I'm sure that Oda would love to hear that.
Yeah.
Hilden makes his way to the door, pauses, turns back to him.
Find me some land along the way.
I am choosing to be cautious.
If you want to discuss and argue that at any point, you know where to find me.
Hilden just looks at him and the compass one last time, seems to think about saying something, and then he just leaves, going back to the Bovdeck.
I don't know that this ship makes such dramatic exits.
There is a, like, pressure leaves the room alongside him.
Like, oh, it's kind of warmer now that he's gone. It was pretty cold before.
Jesus Christ.
Well, I look down at the compass, just you and me now.
Squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak. You hear his tiny squeaking sound.
The real BBEG of this game.
Everyone's nice.
I kind of peer around.
Do I spot him?
In this map room, you do see, and I'll say yes, you see a rather large rat currently eating a cracker next to a hole that's been dug in the wall.
What if the mouse was the familiar all along?
I grab him.
You grab him?
I try to grab him.
All right.
Rip Zachariah.
Go ahead and give me a stealth check.
The rat's a witch.
Finger of death, baby.
A stealth check, you say, right?
Yeah.
Okay.
Natural 20.
Plus 9.
29.
Jesus Christ.
Yeah, you beat the rat.
As you just kind of like lurch closer, you suddenly leap and your hands wrap around the rat.
You have done something that no one else on this ship has done your entire time here.
Your hands touch the untouched hair, the untouched coat of Little Bastard.
I hold him up and I look at his eyes.
Squeak, squeak.
Looking at you.
You know, I could do this again if I wanted to.
Got anything to tell me?
Mouse stare.
Meet me in a lures.
I fucking knew it.
You dropped the rat in a pan.
I fucking knew it!
God damn it!
I knew it!
And the rat scurries away.
I fucking knew it!
I knew it!
I was going to invite you to my room.
Jesus.
All right.
I knew it.
I knew it!
I turned back to the Louris.
Right.
We're heading there, right?
Yeah.
Oh.
I fucking knew it.
God damn it, Tim.
All right.
I know you're still listening.
I'll meet you there, but wear something cute.
I'm going to grab my stuff and head back to my room.
Okay.
You do head back to...
I'll say this, everyone sort of settles, and we're going to do a little bit of a time
travel.
As you go back to your room and survey what's been going on, you haven't seen Coco or Squeak.
Like, none of you have seen Coco or Squeak.
That mystery solved really quickly because you see them snoring in their hammocks.
Daphne, you might figure out that, oh, the bottle of whiskey that went missing was in
their possession, and it's completely gone.
Do I pass through that area?
Yeah.
Do I see Brooks' hammock?
Yeah.
Is there anything just interesting in her area?
Of her belongings?
There's multiple books.
What do I think she probably is the most attached to?
Oh, boy.
Is it because she made you wear a shirt?
No one puts a shirt on these.
No one puts a shirt on Zechariah.
If this is a harmless prank, then you might not want to take this, but there is a cracked
pendant that she's had with her this whole time that she's left on her footlocker.
Look it over.
Anything interesting about it besides it's just a cracked pendant?
It's basically a cracked pendant.
It's made of a platinum material and some light blue something.
It has a nice intricate design to it.
You know she was from a circus.
Is there anything less personal, I suppose?
Okay.
I would definitely notice when missing.
Good call.
But less lethal.
She word lethal.
She has a lot of knives.
There's a lot of knives here.
She actually doesn't keep too many personal belongings.
Her books are there.
She has a very secret.
Is there a book she's in the...
Oh, can you...
She uses little feathers as bookmarks.
As you open up one of the books.
It's kind of like a children's book feather too.
Okay.
I'm going to take all the feathers out of all of the books.
Evil.
I'm going to take them over to Squee and Coco and just scatter them around them.
And then I'm also going to...
Just real quick.
I want to fray the edges of the hammock so that when she lays in it, it just...
Okay.
This is war.
You all have waged war.
I make sure I leave no notice of myself.
You know what?
I take one feather and I will bring it over to...
Does One-Eyed Jane have a hammock here or does One-Eyed Jane have her own room?
She has a hammock.
I'm going to put a feather over there too.
And then I skip away to my cabin.
Skip away.
Oh, God.
All right.
We were going to time travel, but we got to now do this.
So as everyone's heading down towards the quarter and the crew is beginning to put themselves
back into bed, One-Eyed Jane, you sleep among next to where all the cannons are and where
all the hammocks are tied up.
I locked my door, by the way.
One of the hinges is broken, so you're going to have to fix that real quick.
Not going to do much for you, buddy.
It's fine.
They don't know I did it.
It's fine.
One-Eyed Jane, as you're just kind of slipping back into your hammock, you do see that there's
a feather in your hammock.
I mean, is that abnormal?
I guess we're on a ship, so yeah, there's not a lot of feathers just floating around.
Yeah, it's not like an eagle's feather either.
That's the only bird on this ship.
OK.
Well, I'm tired from being rudely woken up by Zechariah's compass.
I just pocket it and just try to settle in, not thinking about it.
And as you're settling in, just kind of getting ready to nestle yourself within the hammock.
What the hell?
As you hear a thud, as you look to see Brooke folded in half, as she fell to the ground,
you see the one end of her hammock has completely snapped and fallen.
She quickly recovers and then looks down.
And she's immediately bewildered.
What's up?
You don't know how to tie a proper knot on a ship?
glares at you for a moment.
Need some help?
She looks at the rope and she just throws it, looking at you, glaring.
You think this is funny?
A little bit.
It's just sad.
You see, the other people are like, oh, are like watching, like stunned and sadly deafening
and they're all in like their quarters, which is in the lower decks.
She just goes, pick it up.
Pick up your sword.
I want this to be fair.
All right.
I'm being out of my hammock and I'm not even going to touch my sword.
Let's go.
And she runs towards you.
We're gonna roll initiative.
Oh my God, Jack and Ryan, look what you did.
One second.
I'm gonna go to my combat.
I like some music.
I guess.
Thanks, Albert.
Zach is going to stay in his room and just listen.
Sick ass.
You.
I like second.
You're rolling initiative.
Yeah.
15.
23.
She immediately rushes towards you in this very low stance.
She's a blur.
Brooke is unbelievably fast and she's going to go ahead and she just goes ahead and she
reels back a little bit and she comes in with an arm strike towards your rib cage.
There we go.
17.
17 is my AC.
So she plays a higher dex, right?
Yes.
She's strong.
Yeah.
Go ahead.
She's going to spend three exertion points for angry.
Make a con saving throw with disadvantage.
Oh, Jesus.
Oh, God.
You are paralyzed.
As you're as you as you're about to like throw up your blade to like defend yourself against
Brooke, all of a sudden this punch to the rib, you feel the pain and all of a sudden
it sort of like sparks about your body and you feel your muscles begin to tighten and
just seize.
She takes this she takes this moment as everyone watches a take her take when I Jane behind
the legs and just take her to the ground.
Oh, damn.
Oh, my.
Oh, dear.
I think outside my door.
I'm not watching any of this.
I know I'm stunned on the ground, but Jane can't help but smile.
Wow.
This woman is strong.
OK.
She she mounts up.
She mounts on top of you holding a hand down on your neck and she just she's going to punch
you again.
But the she has advantage now and all these are auto crits.
Oh, God.
I think I think I think what I did is intentionally rolling low.
She's doing that.
Yeah.
Oh, totally.
OK.
That's a great.
That's double.
Mm hmm.
I believe I believe the ruling in events division.
I have to look it up again later, but you double everything.
Oh, my God.
So twenty two points of damage.
That's what that's what an added sneak attack on top.
So that is six an additional 16 points of damage.
So sneaky how she got on top of her and punched her.
I didn't see it coming.
Mounting her.
Yeah, you too.
Hold on.
She didn't see her mounting her plumbing.
You see, as she's like as Brick is directly on top of her hand down, like like like below
your neck area, she she's going to use a bonus action.
She could flurry of blows.
She's a monk.
Is it adept too?
Yeah, adept adept rogue.
God damn it.
She you see, she pulls out one of her daggers.
And by this point, I'm going to go ahead and say Daphne, because you're a tune to the hunt
going to the ship.
You hear up you hear in the upper deck.
Yeah.
He was just putting her scrying all the way, getting ready to go back to bed.
And she turns out starts.
Daphne is HR.
You see, instead of like throwing another punch, she pulls out a dagger, a knife and
holds it up to your throat.
She just goes, now, are we just glaring, glaring into glaring into your eyes?
Blushes.
She pushes the dagger in more.
She just goes, admit it.
I beat you.
Admit it.
And by this point, kind of like acting out of initiative, Daphne, you're making your
way up.
And right now you're in the middle of going through a crowd.
She summons her sword, Senna's half.
When she pushes her way through, sees what's going on, she just goes to not to cut her,
but to to hit Brooks arm away with the sword.
Go ahead and make an attack roll.
Good practice for us using our tech.
I have such a long description there.
I should just get rid of it so it doesn't do that every time I rolled a 14.
Well, because you've got a cool weapon.
In this moment, before you, you're approaching, you're ready to break this up.
When I Jane, you have a moment to utter something as Brook is looking at you with like, there's
pure like, there's anger coloring her every movement.
Yeah, I just look at her and I say, you're so beautiful.
Oh my God.
She just she blinks stunned for a moment.
As as you see, as you see a sword, a sword is swung from the side.
Brooke you see her eyes like shift for a moment as she sees this wide, this wide swing start
coming in not to injure her.
Obviously a warning strike.
Brooke rolls off instinctually.
Dodging a strike springs up immediately points the knife towards you Daphne and then realizes
and she just she puts away the knife.
She cut my hammock.
Wait, that's what this was about.
I don't really care why it happened because it shouldn't have happened.
But she's still like just shakes her.
Did you cut her hammock?
When I'm James the laying on the floor just kind of like stunned for different reasons.
You know, I wish I would have cut your hammock now, but no, it wasn't me.
By the gods, you're all children.
She walks up to one eye Jane and just reaches down towards her and she places both hands
on your like on parts of your shoulders and neck and she just like all of a sudden like
pressure puts pressure on different parts of your like on your neck and shoulder and
you just for the paralysis fade away.
Just slowly get up.
Wow.
What do you want me to do looking towards Stephanie?
I want you to organize the room we didn't get to after the storm.
Then you can fix your hammock and go to bed.
I'll get on that.
She walks away.
She this is the people watching.
Are they still like all grouped up for people?
They're grouped up.
They're like they're like they are rubbernecking.
They are watching.
I noticed that group now that I'm not in combat and I looked them all very seriously like
just glancing at the group.
Don't get any ideas.
Kind of hard not to roll it.
Roll it.
Yeah.
I'm gonna wait till Daphne leaves.
Yeah she she does once everything seems calm down.
And then I'm gonna like sneak off into the room that Brooke lives cleaning and just kind
of like knock on the side to get her attention.
What?
I can't sleep anyways.
So you can take my hammock.
I'll clean this.
And besides and I just start like moving into the room and start like moving stuff.
You need your beauty sleep anyways.
And then just start like cleaning the room.
And um.
What do you think you're doing?
You busted me.
I hadn't had such a good fight in a long time so thanks.
Obviously you haven't been fighting good enough people.
You're right.
Did I ever tell you about the time I fought a shark and I just start like for the rest
of the night and she stays in the room.
I'm just gonna like start with like telling random stories while cleaning with her.
She just.
So I just do it in silence.
As you're as you go as you're going she's doing the job with you.
She's just she just goes please.
If you're going to help at least be good company and be quiet.
So it was me and the shark 1v1 and you would think the shark had the upper hand as we were
in their terrain and then I just keep talking the whole night anyways.
She does something strange.
She just endures it.
Usually when Roland keeps talking Roland's punched in the face.
But maybe it could be maybe maybe it's the fact that Daphne scolded her that you know
she's you know this is her punishment.
But she absolutely just takes it.
As you're as you're as you're talking about it and she's just completely like just completely
and utterly trying to ignore you.
But it's impossible.
But it does put a pep in her step to like try and get things organized faster.
You're eventually done.
And she and she just goes.
Just I don't need charity.
I'm not offering you charity.
I'm just owing up to my own mistakes.
Between you and me I probably would have done the same thing if I thought you cut my hammock
so you don't need to explain yourself to me.
You you didn't.
Right.
Like I said I kind of wish I did but no.
Well in that case.
He's trying to say something and it's really hard.
My my bad.
Give her a big slap on the shoulder.
There you go.
Add a girl.
Now you're very strong.
Yeah.
Just one hammock.
She just goes.
Well fuck up.
Shut the fuck up.
Wait.
What do you say?
There's one hammock.
You can have it.
I want to sleep under the stars tonight.
And I'll just walk off and I'll go sleep.
I don't know.
Just find a cozy place on the top of the ship and cuddle up and just.
She just she stops.
She goes if you ever find out who did it you tell me.
I hope they like having a mouth full of teeth.
And I tell.
And I just walk off.
There the hammock you cowards.
You do.
You do catch.
She just tucks a block of hair behind her ear.
And as you walk away she just very quietly go.
Idiot.
OK.
After the crowd kind of clears I want to sneak out and I want to fray when I Jane's Hammock
too.
You make a stealth check.
No it's not free this time.
Can I can I well because people are like Gavin can I just kind of slide a hand just.
We're not making it to our destination are we.
We're just going to end up killing each other.
I was thinking I was going to bed so.
Yeah.
Oh gosh we need to get to the we need to get to the Alorahs today.
Make a slight a hand check as you come out of you fray.
And OK.
That is nine plus five.
This is a plus 14 to the roll.
That is 13 plus 14 so twenty seven or 14.
You know what I'm going to I'm going to add I'm going to use intrepid to add a proficiency
die as well.
So expertise day to to 29.
That's fucking cruel.
As you're getting ready and you make the quick cut you're very sure no one saw you as you
do pass a storming Daphne.
Daphne what happens.
Doesn't matter.
It's done.
Geez.
Never a quiet night on the Injusticar is there.
I'll just head to bed.
Injusticar but yes.
The moment you're done not you hear.
Well well well look who it is.
Good old Zachary oh boy.
I guess you turn around to see you turn around to see Roland and goes says to what is this
the pleasure of us of you be quaffing your chest hair at everyone here.
What do you think you're doing.
I don't know what am I doing.
When I take my shirt off in front of the whole crew I get things like put it back on and
Daphne and and and Daphne always spouting all kinds of things at me.
But you you've had your shirt off for a record amount of time around here.
What have you done.
Nothing really special I mean maybe I guess it's like a diet maybe.
I don't know.
Comes natural.
Kind of like leers at you.
Just goes.
I know who you are.
Because we're exactly alike.
Shut the fuck up.
Roland is too much.
I can realize raw magnetism when I see it.
But I don't understand why people are looking at you and not me.
You know it's probably because I talk slightly less.
Is that the fucking problem.
Actually goes into that.
It might be.
I don't know.
People love it when I talk.
How many times have you been punched in the face because you kept talking.
I haven't gotten punched in the face so that's probably why it still is you know.
I see it as a sign of endearment.
I'm getting to them.
I know Brooke.
Really.
You know what.
Here let me I'll be wingman for you a little bit.
All right.
You know what Brooke likes.
She likes books and she likes.
Do you ever notice that she when she reads her books she puts feathers in between the
pages.
Maybe you should get her some some some feathers for bookmarks or something.
She might really like that.
You know I saw a cult.
I saw a Coco and Squee.
They were playing for some you could probably collect them up.
Looks over.
I don't know where they got that.
They must have like ate a bird or something that landed on deck.
So this is a fortunate opportunity.
What can I say.
You know wingman.
You know what Zachary oh boy.
Remember say less.
Just just kind of give them to her.
Can I wiggle your eyes at her a little bit and you know don't talk though.
You know Zachary you're not so bad sometimes.
You're not so bad.
Occasionally.
Wink.
His mood has turned around completely.
He's what a nerd.
He just goes I give him a pat on the shoulder.
Have a nice night and good luck.
And I skipped to my brokers already smitten with me but this will just seal the deal.
The love triangle he thinks exists but doesn't.
Oh no.
This is a lot we know why the Leviathan Legion wants Zach.
This is a love parallel line.
All right.
So we're going to go ahead and do a little bit of time a little bit of time travel to
get where we want to be.
Quickly before Sakuraiya comes up with something else.
But but we are going to go ahead and call for a break.
Break time.
Go ahead.
Zach.
Tim.
Yes.
Just a little thing since we're time passing I'd like to state that Hilgen would have used
his ability of navigation to basically make it difficult for anyone to track them.
If they were trying to track them they would have disadvantage.
Son of a bitch.
We have one little thing too.
Oh my god you guys.
But it's not something that needs to be played out at least.
Yeah it doesn't need to be played out for me either.
It would be just a matter of the reason why he asked about the mountains or like the
part of land is because Hilgen would have attempted to go for an area where there may
have been an island or something of that sort.
He would have cast fog cloud and then he would have used the fog cloud to basically shroud
the movement of the Injusticar as he then used his maneuvering to make it difficult
to find if not just losing track altogether.
You guys are too cool.
I'm pissed.
But no absolutely.
You're flavoring that.
Fucking go.
Yeah you're pretty hard to follow.
And you put a fog cloud you look like a ghost ship everywhere you go.
But we're going to go and break.
See you in 10 minutes.
Jenny had one thing.
My one thing is just more for Emma's knowledge.
Daphne would have told Ora probably the next day about the fact that she lied to them about
what's his name.
Zacharias boyfriend Darryl being treated well and she just don't want to freak him out.
And she will also say that she scried on him again and last night and that the and tell
her about that he's healed wearing nicer clothes.
Oh no.
Okay we can't play this out but that's really fucking important.
Maybe after the break if we have the break.
All right we'll see you in a bit.
And we're back.
Hello everyone.
I hope you had a great break.
So I'm going to dive right back in.
So Daphne you're prepared to tell someone something.
Yeah I guess we'll play it out instead of just tell.
I'm sorry that's just a lot of information.
It is yeah.
And then it actually is probably a good idea to actually get to talk about the implications
of that.
So you're right.
But I'll just keep trying to slide things by with me.
It's not going to work.
In the morning when she'll she'll find or a first first chance she gets and and ask
Captain can we talk.
She grabs a mug of coffee assumedly from the kitchen because she's hung over a shit
and she'll know she's a little bit more put together but he definitely bags under her
eyes and she'll you know walk with her little tin mug next to you and just nod.
I she's like straight to the point to like as as normal as per usual per usual.
There's no warm up with Daphne.
There's no how's your day has to go and we just go right to.
I hadn't gotten the opportunity to tell you yet.
I wasn't truthful about when I scryed on right on Brando and saw Darryl.
He was not well he was clearly beat up and Brando scolded the men who brought him in
for that but he knew I was watching him that whole time.
So who who knows if he actually cares or not about that.
But I scryed again on him last night not on Brando but on Darryl specifically because
I wanted to see if he had a reaction to the compass if he was somehow magically connected
to it somehow or something.
And I didn't notice anything like that but I did notice he was healed nicely dressed
and in a wagon.
Quite the treatment for someone they just I assume verbally and physically abused.
For perhaps months depending on how long.
And I assume you did not tell Zachariah because.
He was acting strange with that half of the compass that day and wasn't really being forthright
which I know you said you wanted to give him time and everything of course but I didn't
know how he would react.
I think that's a fair assumption.
Better not to worry him.
You did it out of the kindness.
She nods.
And I can't be upset.
Given what we know now that Zachariah would prefer to head right to the.
Sorry this is Emma what I keep on saying or Fandor is that the name?
Or Hondor.
Motherfucker.
Or Hondor.
We can we can just say that's a lapse in aura like being trash as fuck.
We know that his first objective is to get his who I assume this is someone special to
him.
That's what it seems like.
And if we gave him this information well hmm.
My question for you Daphne.
I have my own theories.
But why would you doll up a prisoner and put them in a nice wagon?
One with the connection to a certain navigator.
It's hard to say when we're not even confident why they wanted us to have the compass.
But the timing.
It's just the timing partially that alarms me or.
Because it's not like.
It's not like they would have prepared him as some sort of act knowing I would scry and
watch them.
I don't know.
But nonetheless.
The timing.
I might be able to watch again and see if I can tell where they're going.
I would be careful.
Yes.
Yeah.
I would rather you not.
You do what you see fit but I'm concerned for your safety.
Especially since Brando so clearly was able to see you through your magic which is quite
powerful.
I don't believe he was able to see me.
He's able to see.
He's able to see the magical eye.
And he wouldn't know it was me but I assume he does.
You're one of the few casters on our ship Daphne.
She nods and I.
It would be easier for me to scry on him because I know him.
I don't think there's anyone else here who has directly met him.
Well.
The Sakurai has but.
I hadn't thought to ask him that.
The interesting thing with timing.
Unfortunately Darryl.
Seems to be.
I could be wrong.
He was healed you said as well.
Yes.
No signs of the injuries.
From before.
There are a lot of.
Bargaining trips I feel being laid on the table Daphne.
Darryl most certainly could be used as one of them.
He is Zacharias.
Greatest gift.
It seems and strongest weakness.
It's just why.
Give us his compass.
Unless they.
Always intended to.
Send Zachariah here to use that connection.
Even if he's unwittingly a part of it.
And why our crew.
There's that too.
Most of the grudges on the ship are with an era.
Which funnily enough.
Speaking of timing.
Last week my father was arrested for treason.
Spent 10 years he's been able to avoid such yes he's been cajoled and you know wider circles
and.
His loyalty.
Has been questioned.
But I find the timing of everything fascinating.
Especially given that we are in between those two naval waters.
I think so too.
I don't think I don't think things often.
Even by coincidence.
What do you want Daphne.
What do I want.
What do you want.
On regards to this I want to.
I want to know more than we know I don't want to walk into.
A trap.
Or if we do I want to know what that trap is.
Brando is pulling strings and orchestrating things.
I think it's very dangerous.
He's very smart.
Not as smart as you.
No.
Well there's only so many sources of information we can go to.
In regards to Brando.
I can't watch him.
Not without him knowing so we wouldn't gain anything he didn't want us to.
And I I.
I'm sorry.
I can't watch Darrell without.
Risking him being there.
The only reason I watched him was I assumed he'd be back in the cell.
Now I'm not sure.
No no I have feeling his cell days are over.
Is there anyone else you can think of.
Within the Leviathan Legion where we could potentially gain information.
Hmm.
Question for Timmy.
Have I haven't gotten to meet Bravo have I.
I will say that if you spent time in the Navy the two of you have probably been in the deep
together.
Okay.
She she would go then.
There's the.
Admiral Bravo Alto.
A hot one.
I I don't know.
Sure.
The water Genasi right.
Yes but.
I'm not sure.
She would be the thing about watching people is.
Unless I can glean something about their surroundings or their location it's just a lock of the time.
From when I.
Take a look.
She I.
I believe her to be.
Being manipulated by Brando I've always thought that.
Why else would he.
Build her up to where she is.
And so.
It's possible it's connected it's possible he is there notices my influence.
Less likely I think but I don't know how much I could gain from that.
Given the timing of any everything I believe.
Now probably would be the best time to look.
And other than the admiral.
Can you think of anyone else around Brando.
Or you might be able to glean some information and give us some insight.
Not confident it's connected to Brando but.
Maybe I can scram that Kestrel.
Maybe find out who it belongs to.
I think that's a great idea.
Somehow it's all connected I just can't see the fucking full board yet and she takes a
big big swing of coffee.
How.
With your father.
Do you know.
What happened yet.
No clue if anything it's another bargaining chip on the table.
She nods you can tell she's.
Purposefully not prying further.
Or his very best now not at her just like in general angry at the situation.
My question is.
Do we tell Zachariah.
Do we let him know what he's walking into with his friend.
I don't think so personally.
I.
I want to know more about.
Darryl himself.
To be completely honest.
And their situation and he was a lot more for a threat last night which.
I appreciate.
But.
I feel as though.
I'm not sure how to.
Predict what.
He'll do if his self proclaimed primary goal.
Is in the equation.
Is all.
Inhales deeply exhales.
And you hear in her head.
These are all fair and valid points.
You want to help him.
This is why you're the first mate.
She just says you hear in your head.
I don't like.
When either Navy.
Has me keep secrets from my crew.
I think it'll come out eventually one way or another.
I just want to be careful about the timing.
Shall we come to a compromise.
What do you.
Suggest.
I'll give you time.
To clean as much information as you would like with your scrying.
And when we land.
Not sure if this will get us any foothold but just to hear what the locals are saying
just to get an idea.
Of what the landscape looks like currently politically.
I'll get you as much information as I can.
And then once we haven't.
Standard amount there's only so much we can gain before we get to the band.
I would like to inform Zachariah so he is aware.
Who are his allies.
All right.
I think it would be better for his sake anyways if.
If I have more concrete details to give him anyways.
Rather than leaving things to question.
You're a very sweet girl Daphne.
I mean it's just basic.
Consideration.
Yeah not many people have that.
She opens her mouth and you see a mangled tongue.
Closes her mouth.
I don't refer to the people I think we were dealing with a lot in our upbringings as well.
People personally.
Yes if we should ever encounter the dick on the seven seas I shall hold him down for you
and you can do whatever you want.
You won't even have to.
Oh you see she kind of like you know like she stumbles a bit with her mug and coffee
sloshes out of it as she steps sideways like.
Okay fair fair.
And then you'll hear your head one more time.
Is that what you want Daphne.
When the opportunity presents itself.
I have every intent on.
Killing Deacon and our father.
And would you be happy once that is done.
I haven't thought about that.
It's good to sometimes check in with what you want.
I should.
Start scrying.
Make sure to get some breakfast Humphreys making a lovely scramble that I can smell
but can't fucking eat in the kitchen and she grumble you know heads up above deck with
her little tin cup of coffee.
And yeah I.
With time to go till getting there.
I will scry I will try to attempt to scry on.
The Kestrel.
Since it's a little bastard pointed out to us.
When we were on the ship so I have seen it that one time at least.
You have.
But I'm going to see right away.
Your scrying does not go through.
Okay I thought it might not cause familiar.
It might be a magical familiar is what I was assuming.
And then I'll try to scry on Bravo.
Okay.
You need my DC.
Yes please.
Okay let me read the spell do the little calculations.
I don't have anything of hers.
Oh please.
You wouldn't have anything from your Navy days.
Well I have things from my Navy days but I don't have anything that like hers I think.
A possession or garment of hers.
If I had a likeness or picture but I do not.
So my DC naturally is 16.
I've met the target but I don't know her well I'm guessing.
You've met her but you don't know her well.
Okay so it's just DC 16.
Oh wisdom.
Wisdom save and she can see the sensor if she rolls a nat 20.
19.
Darn.
Doesn't work.
I can attempt again later if I want.
The Kestrel it just didn't go through.
But the next one was resisted.
And you can feel it.
That'll be her project.
Every time she knows she's going to have extended downtime she'll attempt again.
Got it.
But for now that's all she can do.
And that's just from your invocation right.
There's no spell points are being taken away from you.
No this is spell points.
This is spell points.
Got it.
But I get them back on a short rest.
All right.
Yeah so at this by this point I would say that everyone awakes and due to the interest of
time I'm going to have to speed up a little bit here.
No more pranks.
You I will say that everyone sort of wakes up and starts doing the morning routine.
Humphrey states to everyone much to the chagrin of everyone that the coffee is out.
There is no more coffee.
Captain Aura drink the last cup.
Sorry.
So the supply run is desperately needed.
So everyone the sister ship the pardon which sails next to the in use the car.
That's the ship that's boarded and used to go for these sort of supply runs because the
new secure is a famous ship and also it's a very big ship.
So maybe most harbors can't really hold it.
So the I'll say that the entirety of the group anyone who's going on the run gets onto the
ship and including Humphrey Humphrey Clarence and Brooke who wanted to come along really
quick before I get on the ship I have this potion and it lets me it's a vial of beauty
and it can change one small detail of your appearance for the next 24 hours such as color
of your eyes skin length color of your hair etc.
I'm going to use it to grow elf ears.
Random or I think magical magical shimmer.
Um everyone sees as when I Jane comes on she has she's sporting a new set of ears.
Are those props?
Yeah I'm just trying something new today you know I just thought like going into the town
for the first time in a long time on land you know and I just trying something new lovely
weather we're having.
Or a look set hills and go did you recommend this?
I am going to pretend you did not ask me that question.
I mean disguise elements are always useful I suppose.
Wait should we be going in disguise is that?
I'm not disguising myself I'm nothing to hide I'm just today trying a new look.
Did I disguise myself and you see she puts her hair under her ears and goes look I'm
a human boy.
Looks great.
Thanks.
Hilden is looking like Hilden is has a moment where Kenway just lands on his shoulder and
both of them are just kind of like just looking between.
How did we make it this far?
The world may never know.
It's a mystery.
Clarence goes goodness I love all of you.
This is going to be a quick trip all right me and Humphrey are going to go ahead and
gather all the supplies we can and we're going to make our way out.
All right everyone ready?
Off the Injusticar and on to the Pardone correct?
You're doing it on purpose aren't you?
Doing what?
How do you get both of them wrong?
Are those not the names?
Pardon is a normal word you know the Zachariah.
Well I know but it's a name so I thought it was I don't know Orra told me that was the
name.
Said with an elvish accent Pardone.
She's completely fucking lying.
We have so many elves here on this ship like that's why it's called Pardone.
You have a problem with elves Brooke girls just really chill just a chill runs down your
spine.
Yeah Zachariah you got a problem with elves?
Twitch.
Kenway.
You two are matching.
Have Q.
Hylgen turns to the one eyed Jane.
I suppose you do not have a problem with elves since you feel so easily keen to just take
our appearance.
Well I'm sensing some tension so I'm going to go with my trip.
We're happy right?
One eyed Jane you are getting a chill daggers look from both Hylgen and Brooke.
I'll just swim alongside the ship.
Don't worry about me.
Hylgen it's just like well if everybody is ready and then he just moves to get to take
control of the.
Are we all?
Just the part.
No no no.
Enough enough.
Just going to climb over onto the boat.
I'm going to say and leaving leaving behind the in use to car in a in proper condition
thankfully from you Hylgen due to your efforts of concealing on the ship you all go on the
pardon and sail towards the port of Elores.
Humphrey takes time to he has a rather large list and Daphne you you speak over you speak
it over with him as you Clarence and Humphrey are very the clerical kind of people you took
note of the inventory and noted what you needed Clarence is the treasurer of the ship.
So when I Jane to help to since she knows she's interested in upward mobility.
When I Jane you claim do you like words but there are also so many numbers and it's just
a lot of like okay yeah so we need five of these and they're okay we need to get a lot
of whiskey like yeah yeah let's see just maybe more marshmallows for the captain and just
split trips up between these most likely stuff like that.
Yeah we can afford that we can get more of these because it's going to be a long trip
and it's just it's just such clerical talk and when I Jane you're just like yeah.
While they're doing that or it just looks like she's staring off into the distance as
she always says she's going to be telepathically telling Hildren everything Daphne filled her
in on.
Important I would say that Hildren would have a moment also this is something that the entire
crew would know Hildren has an ability called grapevine which allows him to send a message
to a tree that he does know and usually that happens is that every time that they dock
somewhere he goes and finds the nearest tree to the town he makes sure that everybody knows
what that tree is in case that he goes scouting and he goes missing he can send the message
through the grapevine to that tree and they can see it on it.
What else can you do?
I do barbie plus weddings.
We do a little bit of everything.
Hildren does it all baby.
I'm going to get it I'm going to attack with a different ability every episode.
Hildren is fucking awesome.
I am a Swiss army elf.
But yeah Hildren will probably use that particular thing as an excuse to maybe walk with Aura
in the direction of the nearest tree as they're conversing in sign language.
We're going to get to that in a bit when we get on land.
Oh yes.
I'll get to you too.
In this moment, sailing on the Parden which is a schooner which is considerably a much
smaller ship but much more better mobility wise.
Heading towards following the directions of Zachariah, your navigator, you eventually
see it on the horizon, land.
A sort of mountain that meets about a tenth of the way into the sky.
You see sort of like breaking through the clear clouds in the distance.
A large port town.
Getting closer you see that it is a rather modern built town.
The wood in the docks is new.
This is definitely one of the nicest places you've seen.
A town of labor.
You are already greeted by a big sign that says Moonpaw Construction Company that hangs
on one of the buildings next to the dock.
There are people in uniforms and rolled up sleeves, an assortment of different men and
women going about and tending to different buildings and objects because it's not done.
Everything is still in construction.
There is a very large sort of like a statue.
Obviously there's a statue being built here of sort of like golden sandaled feet and it's
not done.
There's still scaffolding and such being built around but you're supposed to sail in between
two different statues it seems that would greet you.
What the statue is supposed to represent you don't know yet.
It is a town that is still heavily under construction but it's clean and it's modern and it's nice.
Immediately upon docking you are greeted by a rather tired looking dwarven man.
Tired looking dwarven man.
Sorry talking is hard.
Who greets you all.
He has a clipboard and you see that there's another human man standing beside him.
He has a rather square chin, scrawny in nature, very slick back brown hair and he's just giving
you all the dirtiest look.
They are sitting next to each other.
The dwarven man with the clipboard just seems to be ready to just like, this is business
as usual.
But you're not sure what this other man, this other young man's about and he's sitting with
his hands behind his back too.
But he's just, he doesn't say anything.
The dwarven man goes, all right, name of the ship please.
Pardone.
Elven people.
And he just.
I know right.
Or a flip him off when she hears that, like what the fuck?
Fuck you.
But she's giving her captain hat to Brooke at this point.
Brooke goes, have a problem with elven people?
No, it's just you all say things differently.
Or it starts to sign in elven.
Elven sign.
And Brooke just goes, get used to it.
I didn't mean to offend.
Well you did.
Asshole.
We're starting off strong guys.
Clarion just puts a hand on her shoulder.
Just goes.
It's fine anyways.
They're just being difficult.
Name of stay.
The day.
Got it.
All right.
Puts the clipboard aside.
It just goes.
So the docking fee is going to be silver piece.
And the money's given over.
This is just clerical stuff.
And I'm going to have to ask for everyone to leave their weapons on the ship if you
have any.
Oh, yeah.
How many guns can I fit in my shirt?
Can I make it look like I got nice boobs if I put them in?
What kind of weapons do you have?
They're not real guns.
They're props because we're actors.
They're actors.
Why don't you have like half coconut punching gloves?
I have eight pistols.
Out of curiosity, that thing that Clarence gave me, can it work on multiple items at
once?
You're only bonded with one item.
But only one at once?
Like I can't?
At once, yeah.
And you're going to have to take it to like an artificer to redo the enchantment.
Oh, you have to fully redo it.
I can't just swap it.
You can't swap it.
Okay, got it.
Hildren is going to take that opportunity to say, is it a problem if I have my bow?
I am a tracker and a hunter and perhaps I would like to go to the outskirts of this
land so I can get some game, which I could also use for trade here.
Make a persuasion check.
Oh, my strong suit, but okay.
Can I try to help?
And the reason I'm going to ask to help is because I specifically have an ability that
I can't use.
Normally, it's called discreetly armed.
Even while armed, you know how to be discreet and non-threatening.
You gain an expertise die on checks made to persuade others to let you remain armed or
to conceal weapons or items about your person.
But my weapon disappears at will.
So I don't even need to use it.
So can I can I instead use it to try to to try to?
Yes.
Absolutely.
So with advantage, please.
That's fucking go.
Well, I guess you didn't need it.
What's going on?
I swear that that's not that doesn't even have modifiers.
That's like, that's just flat out.
That is that is the most natural of a 20 you're going to get.
That is that is like, look at my skin.
I woke up like this kind of 20.
He is a pretty boy.
Feel bad about making fun of elves and their pronunciation.
He just kind of like looks at you just goes.
We're going to have to make a quick trip then.
Yes.
If you're only staying for today.
I also need need this sword to help him hunt because I've heard there's giant boars in
the area and you know, you might need a sword when you're hunting boars.
And I also have discreetly armed.
Son of a bitch.
Wait, OK.
Can you read me the ability real quick?
Like, is there a role you have to make again?
For persuasion, right?
Um, OK, I'll do.
Do you mind if I bring this cannon into town?
Because this is how I like this is how I light my pipe.
So it's not OK.
So discreetly armed, even while armed, you know how to keep the fact discreet and non
threatening.
You gain an expertise die made to persuade others that you remain armed or to conceal
weapons or items about your person.
So I'm going to use my expertise to persuade them to let me keep my sword.
All right.
Please give me persuasion check.
We're not 20s.
That's not a net.
Are you kidding me?
I have an expertise dice, though.
Here you go.
Twenty five.
Jesus Christ.
I'm ruined.
You see the person just goes.
The giant boars in the area.
And then he looks to the to the man on his side and he just kind of like, you know, he
looks at the man on his side and he looks at the man on his side and he looks at the
man on his side and he just kind of like does a double take.
He goes.
I mean, there is, but that's.
Master, can we please speak for a second?
Just all right.
Just keep it.
Just do your business and just don't cause no trouble.
I would never.
You see the other man just goes, obviously, look, says, Habermasher, look.
The dwarf goes, enough out of you.
All right.
And just looks at you.
Just looks at you, Captain.
Captain or I just goes.
The smile on her face.
I suppose you're going hunting, too.
She tries to pull her hair down over her ears like she's a little human boy and, you know,
signs that her actual these are these are toys.
He's playing soldier.
Making a self-check with this.
I'm sorry.
Disadvantage.
Oh, I'll also say that I have rewarding repute or whenever I visit a settlement, the commoners
will tell me very important information.
So once we get there, I promise I'll be do some good guys.
Once we get there, I'll promise.
So deception, you said?
Yes, please.
Yeah, I want to use authority.
No, I'm kidding.
That was a nine.
Nine nine.
It is with disadvantage as well.
I don't think I'm supposed to roll it again.
Oh, gosh.
A ten.
A nine and a ten.
He goes, he just gives you a long look.
He just goes, they're not coming into town.
He's a she's just joking.
Of course, our main purpose here is to hunt.
Her eyes flip over to the harbor master who's been trying or the his assistant, I think,
who's been trying to interrupt him.
And she kind of nods at him to speak up.
The assistant just kind of like just kind of like looks at you.
He's been like very narrow eyed the entire time.
And you see the harbor.
As you about to speak, the harbor master just kind of like puts his key, puts his clipboard
down and he just looks at you.
Daphne just goes, I'd be completely honest.
How long are you going to stay here?
For the day.
Cause no trouble.
That's all.
What you just allowing them to go into town with their weapons?
I've had enough of this morning.
Just let just look at them.
They're not going to do anything.
You cannot be lax with the rules.
We have rules for a reason.
Enough.
Or a science to the group, do they not know who we are?
She's genuinely insulted as fuck.
You guys aren't flying your flag or anything.
Hilton just gives Orra the look of like, we do not want them to know who we are right
now.
She's like, I'm so offended.
And then I start to just, just, just fierce with precise look in the middle.
Obviously.
So we're free to go.
Yes.
Thank you.
Just so tired.
He just lets you in.
Cause I was just going to keep walking, but I'm glad we got through that.
No problem.
I'll stay once we're away.
They're obviously people of low moral fiber.
They, um, as strong, just this guy just keeps going and the harbor masters is rubbing his
temples.
No, no Humphrey.
Make sure we eat plenty of fiber is very strict about our diets.
Don't worry.
Or it takes her captain hat back and slams on her head and she's very grumpy.
And as they, as they're walking past, uh, Brooke taps the shoulder of the, uh, of Kipling,
the, uh, the human as he turned, as he turns, I looked at her.
Um, Brooke, uh, Brooke just goes, you're walking on thin ice.
Yes.
Just if I catch you saying anything else about us.
And then she just kind of like, like, kind of like leaves her head in forward a bit,
like a little lunch and jumps back.
He'll just going to call out Brooke and just silently just kind of look as a way of just
like to let it go.
I give a thumbs up behind Hildrein.
She just gives a nod to the Hildrein, um, and, and, uh, keeps and keeps walking.
So, um, so I'm going to say that, uh, as you guys are walking up the, uh, up the dock,
um, it's been a while since you've been on land itself.
Um, it's been a while since everyone stretched their legs and, and, and have gotten out.
Um, as you're passing like multiple warehouses and, um, you're mostly just seeing like,
um, workers, like there's not too many, like, not that many, like civilians, um, at the
moment people are on their break and, and, uh, and drinking and just doing their own,
um, uh, and doing their own thing.
You do come across, uh, and I would say that one I drink, you notice it specifically as,
as everyone's like, uh, going across the docks.
Um, one of the warehouses doors open with, uh, with, with a, with a worker, a large,
a half-orc man, kind of like, uh, nestled against the door.
Um, you do see, uh, tables and tables of like people playing card games and rolling dice.
Um, um, seemingly a makeshift casino for the, the workers who work here.
Yeah, I could just like lean in, um, close to the group.
Um, hey, just out of curiosity, uh, like we're just running errands and then we're allowed
to all each have our own free time.
Like, yeah.
Okay.
Cool.
Well, the more important thing is it's just, uh, me and Humphrey are going to go to the
store.
So everyone wants to do their own thing.
We could just name, name a meetup time back at the docks.
Even better.
That's fine.
Um, I don't know.
Let's just not forget what we are here for and to make sure that we keep a low profile.
Yeah, of course.
I say this as I'm backing away towards the casino.
Um, the tree, the, the dock meetup later.
I mean about the ship at, uh, this time, but I should say 12 PM.
We're not all, we don't all have to go to the store with you, Clarence, right?
Well, I did say specifically me and Humphrey, unless you want to, to help us.
At this point, Orr is looking at, um, Hildred and he hears in his head, so target practice?
Yes.
He just looks at her with just a question mark of what?
I know I'm a better shot than you.
Hey, uh, Daphne, uh, Daphne, you need to go with them.
Maybe I should see this big smile and she's like, well, I mean, it's okay to be a little
scared sometimes, Hildren.
I know.
I remember hearing you scared when I was tracking you.
She's gonna desperately get up in his face as much as she can as a tiny fucking woman.
You see, he just basically just leaves.
He just leaves.
Just looking at her like 21 finger.
That's the last time you'll hear it.
Fry!
And how could they not know who we fucking are on all these fucking goddamn posters?
Do you want them?
Yes!
You hear and hear out really loud.
Yes, I do.
Hildred just looks at her for a moment and says, say the word and I can just go about
the town crying that who we are.
So that way we do not get our supplies and we do not get to our destination.
We might go down in glory in some strange town that has not even been finished being
built.
Oh, do you think we'd fight on like some ruins of sorts?
I think it would be the saddest fight that we would ever have.
I hope none of this happens if we just get our supplies and go.
Get the supplies.
Brooke, can you go ahead and babysit when I Jane?
I was going to say I would.
For a moment for you, Zacharias, everyone's talking.
You're the only one who sees this.
But down the dock, down towards like specifically in between two warehouses, not through the
main thoroughfare, you see little bastard stood up looking towards you.
And with his little paws, she was saying because like in the background while you're looking,
yeah, maybe Zacharias should go with when I Jane given events.
I have a question.
Could Kenway notice the rat?
I was going to say what can we notice the rat?
The rat does have the benefits of like being in the shade of like between two buildings
at the moment.
Keep an eye on that for now.
But for you Zacharias, what are you doing?
You know, I'll catch up with Jane.
I'll keep an eye on Jane in a little bit.
We've been on board for so long.
I would really like to use like a bathroom that's not swaying back and forth.
So I'm going to go do that.
Have fun guys.
So I'm going to run off.
Hell Jane is going to look at Daphne as he says, and who is going to babysit him?
I'm just going to hope today that people can act more like their age.
That sounds boring.
I lost hope for you a while ago.
She hasn't joked around like this for a bit since she became first mate, so she's relaxing
a bit somehow.
Hell Jane is not as relaxed as he just matter of factly just so we are just going to trust
the person who has a compass that is leading us to some strange place to be on their own
in this town.
But it will.
Well there's something else.
Well, you know, actually, Hell Jane, now that you bring it up, I kind of want to fill you
in on something.
I will follow Zacharias and I'll go take a...
I don't know what was he doing?
I don't know.
I'll go harass him.
He's taking a piss, so I'm not sure if that's the best thing to do.
You want me to babysit him in the bathroom because I can, but I really hear his dice
clinking over there and I really want to go that way.
You do hear, yeah!
And the gathering of gold pieces.
Go, go!
I gotta go.
Get us something nice.
Where's what I Jane heading off to?
Gambling.
Gotcha.
I walk in and I'm like, I'm here!
And I just announce myself into the warehouse and just sit at a table with dice.
People look at you.
Dying on the inside.
You see in particular this one.
This one's sort of like water genasi with a big ponytail all tied back, very long hair
and bright eyes.
Everyone looks at you and regards you, but this one smiles at you and goes, why don't
you go ahead and have a seat?
Alright, ready to lose your money.
Let's go!
And I just sit down.
You're gonna have to take it from me.
So back to you three real quick before we continue with that.
Brooke does go, I'm gonna keep an eye on her.
Yeah, you should.
You really should.
Walks in after her.
Everyone looks at Brooke like she's about to make an announcement too, but she just
glares at them and just walks to the side of the building.
Is it now just Hilgen, Daphne, and Aura outside?
Because I know Victor has to leave at 430, so I just want to make sure I can.
I would probably suggest for them to, if there's something to be filled in, to walk with him
to like the outskirts of the town to find a tree as usual, and that would be the place
where they can be filled in before he probably goes off to hunting.
Got it.
So all of you heading off into town, the three of you?
Alright.
Of course, Clarence and Humphrey go off to do their, do their jig.
And thankfully Humphrey has a bag of holding.
God bless you, Kev.
So we're quickly gonna go over to One Eye Jane for a moment before we go over to Zachariah.
One Eye Jane, you see Brooke comes in, but then she just sits next to, it makes a bar
area.
It's just a bunch of barrels stocked up and shelves with alcohol and stuff on there.
And she just becomes a shadow.
It's obvious she was sent here to babysit you.
And he goes, alright, you familiar with Blackjack?
I know all the Jacks, let's go.
Alright, go ahead and name your wager.
Victor has 15 minutes though, right?
Just pointing it out there.
Yes, yes, I'm aware.
Okay, I just want to make sure.
How many, like how much has he on the table right now?
There seems to be about, it's a good amount of gold.
I'm gonna go ahead and say like 79 gold.
How rich am I?
I'm pulling, ooh, let's start strong.
I'm putting down, how many did you say, Ed?
70?
Yeah, 79.
I'm putting down 100 pieces of gold.
That's how you're playing to win.
Alright.
And he begins to flip the cards.
This is gonna be a very simplified game.
Go ahead and roll me a d20.
You have to roll over a 13 or you can choose to roll twice and you have to roll over an
8 twice.
Do I have to make a decision now or can I roll the first one and then decide?
You have to make the decision before you roll.
Just once.
Alright, I have to roll over a 13, roll a d20.
4.
The 100 gold.
Because as he flips over, you head over a 21, he takes the 100 gold and drags it in.
He goes, I thought you were ready to take money.
It's okay, it's okay.
I'm just a little rusty.
It's okay, I've won another 100 gold.
As you pull out another 100, we're gonna jump over to a gambling pit.
Oh lord.
Okay, Hylsian, Daphne, and Captain Aura.
You guys are walking through this town and it's a very peaceful place.
Away from the harbor where everyone is working, you see that this seems to be a promising
prospect.
But for you, Daphne, this is the architects of our Hondor Tuati.
The way how they lay out their towns and such.
But it's peaceful.
No one seems to stop you in these really wide roads.
So the three of you heading out of the town.
Yeah, I would say that Hylsian, with the guidance of Kenway, would find the easiest way to,
the clearest way to get to the outskirts of town, or just like the edge of it, where there
may be like a nice tree, and he would lead them there.
And once, you know, that's where he would take a pause to speak with them.
Okay.
You are on a sort of like, there is this kind of like a lack of trees here.
It's sort of like a beachy, sandy cliffside.
But you do eventually, like after a while of like, upwards climbing, get to like a singular
tree overlooking like the ocean.
It was a bit of a climb to get here.
Yeah, he says a moment of looking at it and says, this one will do.
Now what is it that you wanted to say?
Or is breathing heavy as fuck.
She has tiny legs and you made her fucking hike.
So she points at Daphne.
Me?
And then you hear in her head, just please inform him of Zachariah.
As soon as you see Or just kind of like sits down and curls into a ball because she can't
fucking breathe.
She does kind of go, she goes, you're out of breath, but you speak to lipid.
It's my thoughts, Daphne.
Zachariah's friend or whoever, Darryl.
I said he was unharmed, but that wasn't true.
He was harmed.
But the more important thing is I scryed on him again last night after the compass and
he was nicely dressed, healed and in a moving wagon.
We don't quite know what to make of that yet, except that it's unusual and probably is something
to be of concern.
I haven't told Zachariah.
Hilden has a moment when he looks between the two of them.
And even with this information, do you thought it to be wise to let him just go on around
the town on his own?
I think he needs us.
That's why he's here.
And it's a fair point, though.
Hilden has a moment where he looks up, where you can see Kenway flying around in a range
around them.
And after a moment where he seems to just be looking at Kenway, you see Kenway slightly
divert its direction and start to fly a little more to hover around the center of town.
Kenway now with the information in its head of trying to keep an eye on Zachariah.
I can catch up with him.
I was hoping to get some time to investigate or find more information.
And I don't know that I can necessarily do that with him around.
But I can keep an eye on him if you both think that's the wisest course of action.
I think that right now, even with whatever great intentions he may have, even if he wishes
us no harm, we need to consider the fact that there is someone that he cares about on the
other side of this story.
And we cannot know what that may bring as repercussions for us and for him.
It is not that I do not want to trust him.
But we yet have to understand the full gravity of that which we are facing, including that
compass.
Philjen takes a moment and looks into the distance into the woods, his face softens,
as he usually does whenever he is near land and whenever he is near a forest.
Orra knows what that look is.
And he looks back at the two of you.
I will go hunting for a while and see what other information I can get.
If anything happens, I will leave a message on the tree, should I not return in the time
for us to depart.
Question for you both.
Is it better to be ruled with fear or love?
And you rule with love?
Philjen has a moment.
If it was a choice, then it would be better to not be ruled at all.
The people who love you don't rule over you.
Sometimes people who love rule out of fear because their love makes itself.
It may not be right and it may be crooked, but sometimes people believe they are doing
the right thing even when they are not and that is what is dangerous.
I feel bad that you two have a fool as a captain.
But I feel bad.
But also I'm glad because that's why I'm still here.
But I will say this.
I think there's more to be gained than sharing with Zechariah.
He is one of our crew.
If you wish to share with him, I will support your choice.
But that does not remove the thought that I want us to be cautious, even of him, because
it may not be his choice or it may not be that he understands what actions may come
next.
But we must all know, and I know that we know, that the choices and decisions we will be
making from now on, on this quest, are going to be heavy for some of us more than others.
The last thing I want is for the navy to come between me and my crew.
That includes you, my friend.
They would need to find me first.
Have fun.
I wish.
And he just looking at the two of them, he just back steps into the woods and turns as
it puts his hood up.
He blends in with the Flora and just he's gone.
You guys are really good at D&D.
And with that, I'll take.
Oh, I wish I could stay for 10 more hours.
It's OK.
We'll see you next time.
Thank you so much for playing.
Yes, I can't wait for the next one.
It's getting heavy.
See you again.
All right.
As he leaves, the two of you.
He does say I think it's a valid point.
I don't.
Regardless of what he knows, what we tell him, when we tell him, it might not be the
safest for him to be alone for his sake to.
I shall go walk with him.
If I can find him.
I also have this thing, Daphne, where I can get really important information out of the
locals.
Yeah, we know where the Bandy Wallop is.
I was going to say that.
The Bandy Wallop.
Oh, of course.
You know, you want information.
I happen to have this trait thanks to my class, my martial class, thanks to advanced with
addition that just gives it to me.
So as a two of you venture into town and also to look after to look for Zachariah, we are
going to wind back time a little bit to follow Zachariah.
Zachariah.
Off to go pee.
You follow the rat as it scurries in a serpentine position, a serpentine maneuvering through
the streets.
It seems to move very, very naturally.
This is a familiar thing to us, how to act very naturally like a rat.
As you're going through the as you're going through the emptier parts of town and I'll
say that there are civilians.
But like I said, this place isn't really finished.
Not too many people living here at the moment.
But you do see the large sort of like observatory with a sizable like a glass dome, which is
something you've seen the Salarian Empire before something used to observe the stars
and a sign.
There's a large plaque on it that says Caligari's Observatory.
But the rat continues to continues to move and weave through the streets.
And you abide.
You can surmise that the observatory is named after the person who donated money for it.
And I glare at it.
You eventually see the rat go towards a sort of like tavern style of building, seemingly
with some like fresh paint, fresh paint on the sign on the outside.
A very beautifully painted picture of a flower, very intricate and detailed.
And the sign on the tavern says the good Dahlia.
It has sort of like those like kind of like push open doors.
So it's not like a complete like, you know, it's not completely concealed on the inside.
You see the rat runs right into that building.
You typically the sights and sounds of a tavern is that you hear people on the inside, maybe
the clinks of drinks, the sound of music and the pungent smell of whatever drink they're
having assaulting your nostrils.
But none of that.
It's quiet and serene in a way.
Bright on the inside.
As you step in, as you take a step towards that place, something grips your heart immediately.
You stop as your body becomes tense for that moment.
Vitriol hatred, negative feelings that you didn't even know you were capable of.
It sprawls through the starts at your chest sprawls through your body shoots into your
fingertips.
You can't discern what it is this object of this object that you feel like it's so close
to you located inside this tavern.
For some reason, your body, your mind is screaming vengeance.
And you don't know why.
This anger, this this anger, this immense, this this immense hatred gives you control
of your body once more.
But memories fly through your head.
But you can't discern what's going on.
Everything is happening too fast.
Nothing is steady.
You were just walking towards this building.
And then all of a sudden, everything was thrown for a loop.
But now all you can do right now is step forward.
Are you going to step forward, Zach?
Yeah, you do.
With every step forward, the feeling intensifies.
You hear you can't you can't discern are they cries for justice, pleads for vengeance, it
is an assortment of voices.
But every step is heavy.
Eventually, you move towards the push open doors.
And as soon as your hand touches the door, you open it.
You see the rat scurrying across the ground towards the bar, where you see an elderly
gentleman sat at the bar.
He seems to be the only one here.
Gray haired, a sculpted face.
His eyes peer over for a moment before he looks down at the rat.
You see that in his fur cloak and exterior that a bit of his neck is exposed and some
of his arms are exposed.
You see tattoos of many depictions of many different animals.
He reaches down towards his pant legs and he just curls one of them up towards the bottom.
And you see Little Bastard, the rat, jump into his jump towards his leg towards an empty
patch of skin on his on his leg.
And as he does, Little Bastard becomes ink splashes against his leg.
And the form resolves with a tattoo of a rat on his leg.
Do I see a Kestrel?
You do.
On his neck.
It's at this point he looks towards you and you feel it.
The source of your hatred.
The old man looks at you and he just goes, never thought I would see you again.
And you've never met this man before.
But wait.
You hear it again.
Please don't.
Please, he's all I have.
That cry from before.
Your eyes open.
You see Darryl Tide.
You have a knife in your chest.
And you see the face of this man pulling away another man who seems to have who seems to
have gripped a knife in your chest.
He pulled this old man pulled the man away.
But nonetheless, your vision reverts.
Brando Caligaris is seated in front of you.
And he just goes, I was wondering if you would like to have a chat about some present circumstances.
Where is he?
He pulls out a stool and gestures.
Not playing your games.
Where is he?
Zachariah, last I saw you, a regretful course of action that I wanted to prevent happened.
But typically when someone is stabbed in the chest and thrown into the sea, they usually
don't come back.
And yet, here you are.
I've kept your boy safe.
He's been helping me with a few of my pursuits.
And he's fine.
Where?
Because I had a.
Yes.
Would you do me a favor and take a seat?
You have so many questions.
So many very important questions.
And we at the end of the day, we want the same thing.
Zachariah, I did not want whatever happened to happen to you.
But I could see it in your eyes.
You have so much vengeance.
The person who died that day is not the person that's in front of me right now.
And I have no idea what's keeping you together.
I pull my rapier out.
You don't want to do that.
Where is he?
Last chance.
He's exactly where he needs to be.
I was thinking a good place for you to meet him.
But we got the, what's it called?
What did he call it?
The bandy wallop.
It's a quaint name if I'm being completely honest.
I'm going to give you some advice right now.
Sincerely.
You don't want to hurt me.
He holds up his hands.
It's like a calm down gesture.
There's multiple rings on his fingers.
We're just here to talk.
No need for violence.
No need for blood.
I never wanted this to get to this way.
If I had my way, you would be with him and we would be sailing towards Honlusa together.
A place of divine importance.
Something that I'm terribly interested in and I'm sure you're interested in for other
reasons.
Bring him here.
Now.
Like I said, he's where he needs to be.
Sakurai, don't you see?
I want to help you and your friends get to where you want to go.
Now, I want to be completely honest, I've been caught up with this whole battle with
the Anarian Empire and such, so I've been a little busy.
But I want to guarantee you get to where you want to go and you need the information I
have.
And I need you.
Look.
I'm at Compass.
Did you get it to work?
You're now the answer.
The boy and I, we've been trying our heads at everything to try and get that at Crystal
Compass to work, but for some reason, it only seemed to work with you.
I figured it had to be tied to you in some way, that Compass broke in half the moment
you were thrown overboard.
It flew towards you.
Something is very, very special about you, Sakurai.
I saw it with my own eyes.
Darryl didn't have to tell me.
But he misses you.
But sadly, we're a little late on a draw, on a reunion here.
Now, would you want to take a seat so you can see the map I'm going to put out?
I don't want to ever tell you, you have a scary set of eyes.
And he reaches down towards a small bag, pulls out a map, rolls it out.
He rolls it out.
He tries to flatten it, but it keeps curling up.
He goes, use both hands.
He flans out the map and he begins to hold it up.
What you don't understand is, you feel all of this vengeance, but he wasn't the one who
killed you.
As he flans it out, he holds it up.
And he goes, now, the Inari Empire, they've got all sorts of new technologies to keep
maintenance on us.
They keep their eyes all over the ocean.
There's a town here.
He points at a town specifically located on the Inari Empire.
It's called Afros Harbor.
I'm going to go ahead and type that out.
There's a lighthouse here.
Keeps watch over a great portion of the revered ocean.
Your crew flies their flag there.
That nice Ineustacar drives past there.
It's going to become rubble.
Hellfire is going to fall from the sky.
You're not going to make it.
None of my ships have.
You destroy that light tower in the next week to come because they have to take it down
for maintenance.
You have the biggest window you need to get where you need to go.
You see?
I'm going to help you.
Why?
I want to see the Bandi Wallop too, or Han Lusa.
You see, Zechariah, you have important questions, and I have important questions too.
And all I want are answers.
That's all I want.
I am a big believer in knowledge as power.
And I can't imagine what kind of knowledge I would find in this lost, divine society.
I have your interests at heart, but I can't say the same for your crew, though.
I fucking knew they would do this.
I fucking knew it.
I'm afraid Daryl's a little far.
Where?
Heading up north, away from all this nasty war and business.
I want you to see him too.
There's nothing I would like more for a reunion.
And I'm an old man, I've seen many in my time.
But I would be careful around the company that you keep, as you figured I have eyes
and ears everywhere.
But a few nights ago, your captain was playing a little game of chess with that old orc.
Did you know what she referred to you as?
A pawn.
She valued your ability that you would never go back.
She valued the fact that you can only move forward and that you can't go back.
One always has to look out for someone, Zack.
He was looking out for you right now.
Don't do anything.
I'm only trying to help.
You hear the sounds of footsteps descending the stairs.
And then you hear, don't.
Deacon stay.
I fucking knew that too.
All you footsteps descend as you see a heavily armored, tanned, sun-bleached man with long
sort of like really frazzled unkempt brown hair with a large red axe on his back descends
the staircase.
And the vision is familiar to you now.
This was the man who had lodged a knife in your chest.
But he's glaring at you as he just takes a step, as he continues to descend in here.
Deacon, behave.
You see this large armored man crosses his arms and just bores a hole through you with
his intense eyes.
Yes, Deacon.
I don't take orders from people I kill.
Well, you did a piss poor job of it, didn't you?
All right.
The banter is nice and fine and all, but we have more important matters to tend to.
Goodness.
Deacon go back upstairs for crying out loud and seemingly Deacon listens.
Your dog is well trained.
He is.
Sometimes he just he acts, but he doesn't he doesn't think, you know.
His sister's much smarter.
Hard to argue with that.
You're right.
Zachariah, you're so tense.
Is there anything I can do to lighten the mood a little?
Where is Daryl heading?
North?
Where?
There's a town called Fuchsia.
And off the top of your head, that is way north.
That's extreme.
That is very, very far north.
How far north in regards to the bandy well?
Beyond the where the bandy well is located.
This would be like a month long trip.
Your heart, I could tell it's fond.
That's the distance created between the two of you.
I see that there's nothing more that you want.
And to see him again.
There is a there is a fire you feel in your fingertips.
It crackles.
It pins and needles.
You do gain an ability.
But if you strike if you strike Brando Caligari specifically, you you deal an extra four D
sex damage per hit.
And he said that he was heading to Fuchsia.
Can I do an insight check?
Yes.
Tell if he's lying.
So I would apply my vendetta to him.
Because I believe this is any thing.
And then I believe I would add or is it?
Watchful I have advantage on insight checks made to determine hostile intent to predict
violence with the supply.
This will not apply.
Okay, so speech one is class 34.
Okay, insight.
10 plus two is 12 plus five.
1717.
So Zachariah, there's a thing that you remember.
It's your childhood.
You've been among the worst.
You've been with cut throats and and people breathe like people lied.
Like they were breathing.
This man has the smile of a devil that you can't trust.
And you know better than to trust these kind of people.
He is really good at this.
He can probably tell you that the sky is blue.
And that he would probably be lying.
He wrote a natural two with a plus 14 modifier.
Fuck you Marlon Brando.
For a total of 16.
I hate this guy.
Fuck you Marlon Brando.
There is deception behind everything.
You don't know how far back it traces.
He is a natural liar.
And so far in this conversation, he's probably one of the best liars you've seen.
A devil in clothes.
Zachariah.
You should, you said right?
He nuts.
Is he still got the seat pulled out?
Yes.
I kind of relax my hand a little bit.
Lower my weapon.
He lets out a sigh of relief.
Let's talk.
I will make my way to the seat.
And sort of place my hand on the bar.
And as I go to sit down, I'm going to spend one exertion point and I'm going to use my
knockdown assault on him.
Roll with advantage.
I have an expertise die on all creatures that I have Vendetta against.
On all elderly?
Yeah.
This is also a mastered maneuver as well.
So that is a 19 on the die plus three on the expertise die.
That's 22 plus 10.
So 32 to hit.
That most certainly hits.
You said it's additional 46.
Additional 46 using your rapier?
I am.
Alright so the rapier is going to be 12 damage plus all 10.
So 22 plus four more, 26.
And it is a mastered maneuver so 30 damage on the first hit.
30 damage.
Got it.
And it is a magical rapier as well.
And he needs to also make a save.
This is going to be DC 19 or be knock prone.
What is the strength?
Dexterity.
Got it.
Five.
Okay he is knocked prone and I get to make my second attack.
Wait before you do that.
Yes.
You immediately lunge towards him, rapier in hand.
And you sink the rapier deep into his chest.
There is some resistance but it pierces right through and you see blood trickle down.
He just goes AHHHHH.
As he's like holding onto you one hand on you.
As you lunged into him with such vengeful hatred that you actually like knock him down.
As you kind of like lean down with the blades still in his chest.
Want to speak the truth?
For once in this conversation?
The hand that he's using to like hold on the blade.
That's weak.
He just goes.
Zack.
And you see one of the platinum rings on his hand light up.
And he just goes, you ever heard of a spell called Warding Bond?
And in the distance you hear.
Daryl.
And that is where we're going to stop this session for now.
No.
Oh my gosh.
You are mean.
Mean man.
Mean.
Hold on.
Wait, so wait real quick, so before Victor left he sent Kenway to go find Zachariah and
Daphne and Aura are already on their way to go find Zachariah.
So I just want to establish that while we wait for the next episode.
I just want to have that established and in place.
I wasn't hiding trying to follow little bastard so you know.
He wasn't hiding it yeah you know.
And like you know.
I feel sick.
I feel literally nauseous.
I was literally like wait wait Daphne and Aura are coming.
It's okay it's okay it's okay.
Because Deacon's there too.
With that said.
Where did he just go?
We'll see you next week.