Welcome, my little critters, to Tales from the Crit Season 2, The Level Up.
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My name is Riley Groves, and I am the Crit Keeper on this episode of Tales from the Crit.
Welcome back to Tales from the Crit.
Today we will be playing the Season of Autumn from A Quiet Year, and the critters I have
at the table today are Rebecca.
Hello.
Derek.
Hello.
And Connor.
Hey.
Before we jump back into this game and helping the community, or hindering the community
that we are benevolently in charge of, our question from our third edition pod deck interview
deck is, if you had to lose one of your five senses, which one would you give up?
I'm going to expand on that.
Why would you give it up?
I'll go first.
I'd say smell, because it's super unnecessary sometimes, most of the time.
When things are gross, that's something I don't need in my life.
I'd miss good smelling things too, but I don't know, now I'm thinking about food and baked
goods and flowers, and I'm like, wow, that's actually really sad.
Yeah.
I would have to agree, sense of smell, because I think it would be the least detrimental to
your quality of life, but at the same time, it would dullen your sense of taste.
That's true too.
Which would be my number two.
So I went to smell as my first, I'm like, smell, get rid of that, I don't need to smell
things, like that's close enough.
But then I'm like, actually, I would probably get rid of taste.
Food is delicious, and I like to taste all the taste, but sometimes eating can be a chore
and I just want to just-
Guzzle it down.
Just guzzle it down.
I'm like, okay, I guess, you know, you can still kind of get a little bit, like you're
just saying with smell, you know, has a little, so you might be able to like, enjoy smells
and have a memory of what tasted good, and there's still texture and stuff like that.
That's a controversial answer, man.
I know, but you're more likely to survive something that's dangerous if you smell that
it smells, you know, like something you shouldn't eat, as opposed to you've already tasted it.
And you're like, oh, this tastes like something I shouldn't have put in my mouth.
It's probably already too late at that point.
Good point.
You know, I was thinking taste too.
I greatly miss the taste of food, but I can't smell very well anyways, like just as a normal
human.
My sense of smell is trash.
And when I do get something that like I recognize the smell or smells really good, man, I'm
very excited about it.
Where taste, you know, if I had to do away with one, obviously I'd like to be able to
see and hear and feel things, because those are all very important in a pure survival
aspect.
Yeah, I think taste would be the one you'd cut out because then you could just eat anything.
And there's plenty of things that I don't like to eat that like if they didn't taste
like anything, I could just mouth them down and be fine.
So I would go with taste too, although like it would hurt me as a person.
It's also weird though, too, because have you ever not had taste?
When I got my wisdom teeth out, they hit one of my nerves and I lost my taste for a little
bit.
It's weird.
Like sauces are just slimy.
There's nothing to them.
They're just weird.
I don't know.
But I do think it's an interesting concept to lose your sense of touch.
It's all right as a person that has some neuropathy.
It's weird to not feel things.
And you can get into quite a bit of trouble if you can't feel your feet and like a nail
goes through.
Oh, well, I didn't mean like a medical condition of I can't feel.
Just like if it just disappeared.
Yeah.
There are people born without the sense of touch anywhere on their skin and their life
expectancy is like 35 because they don't know when they've hurt themselves.
Weird.
Yeah.
Probably the worst one.
Arguably.
I mean, I don't think there's a great one.
There's not a good one.
I would not lose any of them, but very fortunate to have them all.
I would rather have more senses.
That's wild.
A sense of self.
A sense of well-being.
A sense of financial freedom.
And like being able to feel magnetic waves and things like that.
Oh, other senses like other animals have.
See any infrared light from...
See dead people.
All right.
Awesome.
Let's get into autumn.
I believe Connor, you drew the first card of autumn.
Yes, I have drawn the the sixth of autumn and that is to introduce a dark mystery among
the members of the community or conflict flares up among community members and result in a
project fail.
Oh shit.
Projects we have right now are the command center, the poison for the weapons, and the
doom dwellers are moving into their cave.
So there is a conflict flaring up between members of the community.
The one group that is into trying to harness the poison power of these plants and larger
other members of the community, a larger group of them, they're all not like large people.
Some of them are.
They feel that it's a waste of resources and time to be making this poison when we should
be preparing ourselves for the coming winter by fortifying supplies that will help us instead
of concentrating on something that will be used against someone, possibly members of
the community.
And so they sabotage the poison mission by non-violently destroying the poisons that
have been brought back and not harming anyone who is involved in the project.
All right.
So the poison project fails.
And on your turn, what would you like to do?
I'm going to start a project of using the nearby cave system, exploring it and trying
to use it as a storage for our goods over the winter.
It seems to be a nice climate controlled place.
So building a outpost in the cave.
Oh shit.
Okay.
And the one, and the one that's close to us.
Okay.
Yes.
It's a sinkhole where the duck feet have been coming out of.
I'm thinking it's going to take at least five weeks.
It's a pretty long project.
I would think build a secondary outpost.
Yeah, I'd go with five.
If that's Connor's turn, the command center is done.
The radios are done.
Awesome.
Even better.
That's going to give us a good way to communicate underground.
All right.
And it's my turn.
I got the ace.
The community becomes obsessed with a single project.
Which one?
Why?
Choose one.
They decide to take more time to ensure that it's perfect.
Add three weeks to the project's die.
They drop everything else to work on it.
All of the projects fail.
Right now the doom dwellers are moving in for two more weeks and the outpost is being
built for five.
I'm going to go with the, we're going to put all of our efforts into the outpost there
and the doom dwellers project is going to fail.
What are we going to finish the project that we took their resources while they were moving
in so they didn't have enough to finish moving in?
Okay.
That's not going to work narratively.
And that puts this die up three.
I think the other one just fails.
I don't think you add to that one.
I think the other one was add time and continue your other projects.
Yeah.
Drop everything else to work on it.
All other projects fail.
So I don't think that dice changes.
Okay.
Did the doom dwellers move back in with us or no?
We're going to hold a discussion on whether we should invite the doom dwellers back into
our community.
That's going to be my action for this turn.
Okay.
I'll take the role of Sally.
I'll take the role of the captain again.
I'm just going to be just a random townspeople who are...
We deserve to come back to the community.
You guys stole our stuff, which prevented us from being able to live peacefully on our
own.
So it's only right that we've contributed to this society that we be allowed to come
in.
Plus we have the most expansive knowledge of underground because we've been exploring
the tunnels the most.
So we should definitely be allowed to come back in and to help with this outpost because
we want to live underground anyways.
I agree.
We should let them back in.
We did take some of their supplies and we are building up an outpost right now in our
own set of tunnels.
If they want to be in the tunnels, they can go help out the folks at the outpost there.
They haven't done much ill to the community at large other than trying to bring people
to their questionable cause.
But outside of that, I say they're fine and they might even help us in our outpost endeavor.
When they left, they abandoned the community at large and stole resources when they left
and put the entire community in danger.
And we only took back what was rightfully ours in the first place and they shouldn't
be allowed back because they've turned their backs on us once before.
I'm taking a contempt token.
Where do you expect us to go?
You've already taken our stuff.
We have nowhere else.
Part of what's on here is rightfully ours.
Anyways, we traveled with you guys.
We are due our own peaceful existence, whatever that looks like.
I'm going to say we should let them in because more people to help with things is always
better.
Although I am concerned about more mouths to feed in the winter.
I am going to take a contempt and due to the vote of three against one, not argue or hinder
the reacquisition of the doom dwellers into the community.
All right.
The doom dwellers are back and I'm going to symbolize their return just with the same
tent that they use outside of the cave.
Okay.
Yep.
Cool.
I got the two of clubs.
Someone returns to the community.
Who and where were they?
Or you find a body.
Do people recognize who it is?
What happened?
Hmm.
Well, I'm not going to do someone returns to the community because we kind of just did
that.
I think someone finds a body of someone that was clearly trying to get to the medicinal
flowers but from the other side from opposite camp.
Is it a body that is recognized?
It is not.
It is in fact an alien.
From the crash ship possibly.
From the crash ship?
Crashed ship?
Yeah.
I thought the crash.
Oh, there's two crashes.
Yeah.
There's one on the alien ship and then there's the one from where our guy came from.
Yes.
Where was that other crash site?
Far away.
Not on our map.
Not from the guy we know.
Oh.
From the alien guys?
Right on the north side of the woods.
Okay.
That would make sense.
We can kind of maybe guess that it might be from that.
I guess we wouldn't know.
So do you mind if we symbolize your alien body as a lizard folk person?
No, that's fine.
They could be a lizard folk type alien person.
And start a line through him.
He's dead.
Poison flowers?
No, the medicinal ones.
It looks like he may be new and was trying to get to them, but didn't make it in time.
Well, that guy with the red line through him, that's going to be our dead alien.
Perfect.
I think I'm going to start a project.
All right.
I'm not sure of our materials, but I would like to start crafting things in the smelter
in the forge.
Okay.
But I don't know what kind of things.
Something to keep us safe in the winter?
Warm in the winter?
Long and pokey.
Maybe my project would be the pelts to make warm clothing for the winter.
Okay.
That seems like a good one.
How many weeks do you think that would take?
Probably like three.
Four?
I'd be comfortable with three.
What do you think, Connor?
I think three.
Three?
Yeah.
Three?
I think three.
Three.
All right.
Let's see what I got.
I got the Seven of Clubs.
A project just isn't working out as expected.
Radically change the nature of this project.
Don't modify the project die.
When it resolves, you'll be responsible for telling the community how it went, or something
goes afoul and supplies are ruined.
Add a new scarcity.
We only have the outpost project and the winter clothes project.
You could have it when Sally came back that she wants to make it much more than an outpost.
You'd have to narrate it.
That's a good one, modifying that.
Yeah.
I think that's probably the most contentious project anyways.
With the addition of the Doomslover...
Doom dwellers.
With the return of the Doom dwellers and them working on the project too, they have a drastically
different idea of what it should end up ultimately be like.
They begin trying to get people to think their way instead of the ship commander.
She's trying to sow some seeds of rebellion in there once again.
Going more from food storage to an actual living outpost.
Yeah.
Trying to move the people down there.
Then you still get an action.
I'm going to send an expedition out after they found the alien guy dead by the medicinal
flowers.
I'm going to send an expedition to visit that other ship to see if there's resources or
anybody alive.
Convinced that not all aliens are bad because of the duck people.
We're going to inspect that.
I don't know how many weeks.
It's four to the forest with logging or hunting.
I would say maybe three.
We've made that track several times now while dragging wagons or sleds full of wood.
There's probably a decent road at this point.
I would take a week off for that.
I'd say three.
Three.
Just to go explore and come back.
I can agree to three.
So everything's at three now or did we get rid of the winter clothing altogether?
No, winter clothing is still going.
Okay.
So I've got the nine and that is the community works constantly and as a result a project
finishes early or a group goes out to explore the map more thoroughly and find something
that had been previously overlooked.
I'm going to go with the community works constantly and as a result a project finishes early and
with the addition of the doom dwellers, they went down and they completely changed what
they were.
They were able to while they were in the tunnels and in the underground work with the people,
they were more able to in a coherent way explain their thoughts about how being underground
makes the most sense for protection for the winter to come.
Even if there isn't a cataclysmic volcanic event, which they still believe is going to
happen.
They're making a lot of sense about how getting underground it's a little bit warmer in some
spots and not as far underground, it's a little cooler.
So you have different spots for storing of different kinds of goods.
And so she convinces a lot of people and her other doom dweller friends provide a lot of
extra support in that project.
So they've created an outpost at the top part of the tunnel as well as a storeroom and a
small encampment further down into the warmer lower layers of the tunnel that do seem to
be getting closer to the volcano portion.
Okay.
So do you want to put this camp in kind of where that room was?
Do you want it further down?
What do you think?
Yeah.
I think it's probably further down like right there for that's where like the camp is.
And then maybe right at the top they have just, you know, a post there and they were
able to find out that the duck people are in fact friendly and they have enlisted their
help, which is also why it was so quick and they were able to further their knowledge
into this cave with their previously existing help.
Although they weren't the best at keeping their community together.
And so they had a very scarce amount of them and we've failed to benefit together by bringing
our community building skills to them and really expanded on their camp they had made
down there.
Cool.
Alright.
So we got a red camp up by the hole in the ground and then we have a blue camp down underground.
So surround that by the underground passage.
And then how many projects do we just have?
One going down.
Two.
We have the winter close and investigating the alien ship.
Investigating the alien ship.
But do a project if you want to do a project.
Winter is coming.
In their investigations they have found deep past the camp in the underground tunnels a
very very large cavernous room that seems to have an altar in the far end of it.
It looks like there might have been sacrifice at some point.
Or something.
You can't quite tell.
It's been a long time.
There's some sticky stuff on there.
You don't know if it's blood or if it's just residue from candles and burned up stuff.
But the room has been carved out in such a way that there's a few spots where if you
put a few lamps it just illuminates the entire cavernous room in a very warm glow.
Cool.
Okay.
Creepy.
I have drawn the four of clubs.
The strongest among you dies.
No!
Oh shit.
What caused the death?
The weakest among you dies.
Who is to blame for their death?
I am going to go with the strongest among us dies.
Who was the strongest among us?
I would say the captain certainly fancies himself as strongest among us.
Yeah but he definitely isn't.
I mean I was thinking somebody on the crew at least.
I would.
Yeah.
Blacksmith is probably pretty big.
How is the ship powered?
The guy who does all the shoveling.
Poor Darryl's dead.
He was built like a bull.
And what killed him is fumes coming up through the cave tunnel from the volcano.
Which cave tunnel?
Oh shit.
They kind of merged down so they're just venting up through.
And for that I am going to for my actions start a project to take parts of the ship
and create a gate or a airtight wall or a bulkhead in the tunnel right past the encampment
that will stop anything from fumes to critters from getting into the camp.
But that we can still open and pass through.
And I think that should take six weeks.
That seems like it's going to take a long time.
Making an airtight wall.
Putting a sphincter in the cave there.
Gross.
Where the...
Basically an airlock right?
Yeah basically an airlock but I want it on the where the outpost is so it also blocks
off the altar.
Okay so that's where we'll put it if and when it gets completed.
I'm going to add some fumes.
Call that the cave gate.
If that's your turn our winter clothing is ready.
Awesome.
And the alien invasion ship people are almost back.
I don't know if I mentioned it but if it comes up and one of the duck people has to speak
his name is Howard.
Yeah.
Of course.
I got the eight of clubs.
Someone sabotages a project and the project fails as a result.
Who did this and why?
Someone is caught trying to sabotage the efforts of the community.
How does the community respond?
I think someone gets caught trying to mess with the airtight wall and I think the community
builds a little jail.
Oh shit.
A dungeon?
Yeah.
Not a dungeon, a prison?
Yeah I think we'll flip it though and since we're gonna live underground we'll put the
prison above ground where it'll be cold in the winter.
Okay so a very like evilly intentioned...
Maybe cage?
I think it's Lisa.
I think Sally was a little crazy and Lisa like really took it to another level.
Where would you like this jail thing to be put?
Outside the walls and in a little building.
Alright so we got a little cage to symbolize the prison.
Poor Lisa's incarcerated?
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Lisa was incarcerated.
Yes.
Okay.
Yep.
Not Sally.
No Sally's like normal doomsday crazy.
Lisa's like violent person crazy.
I think we should have a discussion about what to do with the prisoner.
Do you think she's gonna keep trying to sabotage us?
I think the prison was the right thing.
If we didn't do that then I think we should bring her to the forest and let her fend for
herself.
I think imprisonment with minimum rations is acceptable.
I think we've been tolerable of all of the different issues that have arisen in our community
this far but this is the first time someone has taken an act of sabotage and I agree we
cannot tolerate this.
I think that you know a little stay in the cage, a little jail time is adequate and if
they don't learn you know you don't get two chances after that once the cave seal is built
we just put on the other side of that or banish them from the community.
I guess we don't have to put them on the other side but I say banishment for a second offense.
Two strike policy?
What if this is her second strike?
Somebody killed Slater.
But we don't know who did that.
Maybe we should find out.
As Slater's wife I would like to know who killed Slater and I think it was one of the
crazy people like Lisa.
Okay I think um.
We can certainly investigate that but right now they should be treated as two separate.
I guess we're going to table that discussion for next time and move on.
And the alien ships are back.
Lisa does or the wife does?
No sorry yeah the Slater's wife.
Cheryl.
Okay um the alien invasion people are back.
They come back.
They have like a bunch of handheld items things that could be easily transported back and
forth and would like to go back with more resources except for they all seem really
really exhausted more so than than other people that have traveled just as far and came back.
Is it my turn?
Yes.
Oh all right I have drawn the queen of clubs.
Disease spreads through the community.
Choose one.
You spend the week quarantining and treating the disease.
Project dice are not reduced this week.
Nobody knows what to do about it.
Add health and fertility as a scarcity.
What projects do we have going still?
Just the airtight wall.
We do have medicine as an abundance.
Yes so disease spreads through the community.
Choose one and I'm going to choose.
Nobody knows what to do about it and I would like to add or move health and fertility to
the scarcity list.
And being the medicinal flowers that we've been getting are not seeming to help and perhaps
that's why the lizard guy died before he returned to his ship with some or there but they are
not effective against the disease that that the people that just visited the alien ship
have.
Oh they brought it back.
And for my turn they're going to discover something new between where the medicinal
plants and the town was.
The community started to hear a hum that has increased over a bunch of days and after several
days they go and look and there's just a large black orb sitting on the ground emitting
a hum and it seems to vibrate on the ground.
And that's the end of that week.
Alright so I'll pull the jack.
A project finishes early.
Which one?
Why?
Because there are no projects underway, restlessness creates animosity and animosity leads to violence.
Who gets hurt?
What are our projects?
Just the wall.
Okay.
So with a large portion of the community being sick from a disease that our current medicines
hadn't been working, everybody who was not sick wanted to be away from the sick people
so they all ran down the tunnels and helped complete the wall that will hopefully keep
what we think are noxious fumes that have been making some other people sick from a
different direction.
And they were able to complete that wall in the cave.
Alright we have an airlock on the map.
And then I am going to start a project where in the caves, in the little camp in the cave,
they're trying to figure out how to handle their food storage issues.
The growing seasons are ending and there's not enough food to make it until they can
grow more food on the surface again.
So some people have found some mushrooms growing in the cave that they have found a few and
some of them have been found to be able to be eaten and not cause sickness.
So they're trying to find a way to cultivate those and create a little mushroom farm in
the cave.
I also found some that are very good for tea.
I think this will take three or four weeks.
What would you like those mushrooms to look like?
The one right above where your mouse is right now actually yeah.
That works.
That's the mushroom farm right there.
Three weeks you said?
Three weeks.
Sounds good to me.
Starting a mushroom farm.
Alright.
Can I draw now?
Yes.
Alright I drew the three of clubs.
Someone leaves the community after issuing a dire warning.
Who?
What is the warning?
Or somebody issues a dire warning and the community leaps into action to avoid disaster.
What is the warning?
Start a contentious project that relates to it.
I'm gonna go with the first one.
Somebody leaves the community after issuing a dire warning.
Who and what is the warning?
It is going to be the captain.
He is going to issue a warning that living underground is not safe and that there is a
dire cataclysm that is going to happen shortly and he decides to leave the community altogether.
Oh fuck.
Okay.
The captain left.
Whoever I represent in the community that is feeling contemptuous, they are no longer
feeling contempt.
Okay.
It was for one of the captain's previous positions and with him leaving they're like okay that's
fine.
But mine is actually from the captain's perspective so him leaving would end his contempt for
the dwellers that have come back at least in terms of the community.
I don't remember what mine is for.
Something Derek did.
It's against me.
I think it's the same as his.
I think it was fighting with the cave dwellers.
Slater's wife is still in contempt and a very contemptuous person because no one has cared
about her husband's passing since he died so no one's given her any help.
For my action on my turn I am going to start an investigation into Slater's death.
I think it should take two weeks.
Okay.
That is the end of my turn.
I got the ten of clubs.
Harvest is here and plentiful.
Add an abundance.
Or cold autumn winds drive out your enemies.
Remove a threatening force from the map and the area.
I'm gonna go with the first one.
Harvest is here and plentiful.
Add an abundance.
Man, what do we want an abundance of?
I assume we already have fish on the abundance level?
We do already have fish.
I guess it would be vegetables.
We would have harvested some things that we planted in the springtime and have come up.
We got some corns and some gourds.
So root vegetables?
I was writing mixed veg.
Root vegetables?
Winter vegetables?
Maybe not all of them I guess.
Gourds are root vegetables.
Gourds grow above ground.
They are potatoes and carrots.
Sweet potato.
Turnips.
Rude bay.
Radish.
I planted a bunch of radishes.
Beets.
Nice.
That's something I'm trying to grow this year actually.
Yeah.
All right.
Dwight.
And for my action, man I'm not ever sure.
I think we discovered something new.
Okay.
And we discovered that plants that are grown in the soil on this planet grow to be thrice
as big as normal.
All right.
Just put a carrot or something.
A really large carrot.
Yeah.
Like the kind they grow for canned soup.
There's a carrot.
I can't have a carrot.
Get out.
I told you that if I...
Oh, there's a carrot.
Lots of stuff.
Perfect.
Select all.
All of them.
Oh, the brown carrot.
Where is our farm?
In the walls.
Inside the walls?
Yeah.
Okay.
Just the bottom right corner.
Picture it like within the wall.
In between the walls.
There's a pile of veggies inside the walls to indicate our growing abundance of crops.
And that's your turn.
Oh, goodness.
Okay.
Let's see.
I have drawn the king of crops.
A natural disaster strikes the area.
What is it?
Choose one.
You focus on getting everyone to safety.
Remove an abundance and the project fails.
Or you focus on protecting your supplies and hard work at any cost.
Several people die as a result.
What projects do we have going?
The mushroom farm and Slater's death.
Okay.
So we are going to focus on protecting our supplies and hard work at any cost.
So people begin to move a lot more stuff down into the tunnels.
And I think a large part of the community begins to abandon the regular encampment to
try to get into safety.
And what happens is the volcano begins to become active and people can visually see
smoke and fumes and lava begin to spurt out of it.
And several fireballs have been spotted firing out of the top of the volcano.
So they're working really pretty hard to get everything down into the underground shelter.
As a result, several people die when a fireball hits nearby the community and wipes out a
bunch of people.
So about 10 people are killed in that they're removing some of our resources down into the
tunnel.
Stan, Danny, Sally, Georgette, Roy.
No, it's not any of the main characters.
Gotta just take some of the ensemble out.
All of their significant others.
Or brother or sister.
It's a single club now.
Everybody takes contention.
Everybody grab a fistful.
Yeah.
Oh, it's still one of the main characters.
Yeah, oh, it's still my turn, right?
Do you have an action?
Yes, you have an action.
I do have an action.
And so I'm going to start a discussion.
That discussion is going to be led by Sally.
And Sally believes that we have to respect the volcano and we did find an altar, which
means somebody around here must have been making sacrifices to keep the peace.
And ever since we put up that airlock, we have sealed ourselves off from it.
And I just think that we've cursed ourselves by not following the laws of this land and
we may have to take some drastic measures to do something to ensure that we don't get
eradicated by the volcano.
No one wants to oppose?
All right.
I propose sacrificing Sally.
Sally is going to very much take a contemplate immediately from now.
After having a discussion about sacrifice.
What Sally is proposing is to sacrifice someone to appease the volcano.
Well, I don't think we should sacrifice a person, but we do have an abundance of vegetables
and our mushroom farm is going well so far.
We could certainly try.
And if you want to hang out there, Sally, and watch and see what happens, you can, you
know, you if you're volunteering to hang out at the sacrificial altar for a while, I'm
not going to oppose you there.
I think it'll take more than vegetables.
And I think we should all be there.
I don't think anyone should be there.
I think that your nonsense has been too much and you need to stop scaring everybody.
I'm only being realistic.
This isn't the planet that we're used to.
And I don't think we should, you know, necessarily follow the same laws as the last one we were
on because it didn't go super well.
So maybe you should get more in tune with how the things work, how nature works.
Sally, who do you propose we sacrifice?
I agree with that other person that maybe it should be you.
Either someone that's in the prison or one of the crew members.
You're the only one that's been in the prison.
Oh, Lisa's in the prison.
No, Lisa's the only one in the prison.
She might even be thrilled.
Someone's gonna grab some contention against Sally.
She's very quick to talk about sacrifice, but doesn't want to volunteer.
Yeah, that was my, my pitch.
If we're voicing sacrifices, Sally should be willing to do that.
Yep.
Connor's turn and the mushroom farm and the Slater's death thing is done.
Well, the mushroom farm has been going great.
We're having so much success down here.
We've got an entire room full of several different species of mushrooms.
These ones, you can chop them up and cook them over a fire.
They're great.
You know, you can put one slice of mushroom between two other slices of mushroom and eat
like a little mushroom sandwich.
These other smaller ones over here are good for tea.
And there's just three different kinds of mushrooms, maybe more.
Don't need the spotted ones though, unless you've got like six hours to kill because
they make your stomach hurt a lot.
Shrooms times three.
How did your investigation go?
Slater's investigation turns out that he fell into the fishery and got caught up in the
net while fleeing some of those reptilian aliens.
Oh shit.
Okay.
Slater's wife removes her contempt point.
I've got the five.
The parish arrives.
Who are they?
Why have they chosen your community and for what?
Before a small gang of marauders is making its way through local terrain.
How many are there?
What weapons do they carry?
So the parish arrives.
Oh shit.
And it is a small party of these, they seem almost reptilian creatures, but they're very
shiny and then they have come and they say, we see you've already started the work.
The end times are coming.
We must complete the passageway to the volcano underground.
And they're here with a story that is vaguely similar to what Sally had been expressing,
but with enough differences that it's, you know, not the same, but Sally overlooks these.
And so they're trying to convince everyone to move deeper into the tunnels because that's
where they need to be when the volcano reaches its full eruption.
And okay.
So I added some lizard folk to the map outside of the encampment.
Does that track with where you want them?
That sounds good.
And then for my action, I'm going to hold a discussion on how the town feels about these
new arrivals and represent some of the more culty members who were the doomed dwellers
who said, I told you, this is exactly what I foretold.
And lizard people have come to tell us we need to go further underground.
This is the sign the volcano is going off.
We need to make a sacrifice.
I think that the cult people want us to sacrifice all of us and we should go underground, but
not move too close to the erupting volcano.
I am going to represent the less superstitious group and say that the reasonable, the reasonable
as we need to stop with the superstition and conspiracies and focus on our survival and
building up our infrastructure and our community and not pander to superstitions and cults.
Yeah, I'm not going to support sacrifice human or otherwise.
I'm not going to serve deity or entity that would demand that of somebody.
And if we continue down this path, then I think myself and a lot of the others are going
to leave to go find a new home again.
And that's the end of my week.
Do we have any projects going?
Nope.
I think that the autumn is coming to a close.
I think so too.
Did autumn just end?
Uh oh.
Oh man.
I'm always the one that draws it.
Well, all right.
That's the end of autumn.
Next up is winter and we find out how this whole saga concludes.
Very excited for that.
I feel like autumn has really progressed things in a very...
Not good way.
Yeah, no, we're not in a great situation right now.
This is a good cliffhanger for going into the hardest season.
Fuck yeah.
So on that note then, we will...
See you next next Tuesday.
Bye.
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