Last time on Crown of the Kobold King, Scarab revealed the strange vines growing on him
to Monet and Rootmoor.
To everyone's shock, a tiny mushroom appeared from under his cloak.
After that strange encounter, our heroes let themselves into Varenne's house at the cemetery.
They found strange doodles of undead and mysterious figures, and Monet recognized a wizard from
the library in Absalom.
With this new information, our heroes rushed in to inform Sheriff Belson.
Our story continues now!
Alright, so yeah, you run back into town.
It's a 15 minute jaunt, assuming you're going at full speed like you were on the way there.
And you arrive a little bit out of breath in front of the Sheriff's office.
There's a light on inside, you can actually, through the frosted glass, you can make out
the Sheriff.
It's not frosted glass, he needs to be able to see outside.
You can see him.
He's talking to somebody at the desk right now.
Monet busts into the door.
Okay.
You kick open the door and it causes the Sheriff to start for a moment, and the person in the
chair also jumps before whipping around and looking at you, and it is Varenne in the chair.
Monet walks forward and puts her hand in Varenne's face and pushes him away and says, Sheriff,
we have an issue.
Does a 24 hit you?
It does.
He bites your hand.
Oh no, he pulls her hand away.
That'd be four points of piercing damage.
Okay, I'll take it.
Strong teeth!
Yeah, he does not like to be touched, and you are in his personal space, and he just
instinctively when you put your hand there, he bites you.
That's so fair, and I completely understand.
And Monet made the sound that I just made.
Wow.
Yeah, and the Sheriff is just bewildered, first at you slamming into the door, and then also
at you screaming at being bitten in the hand, and then he's just like, looks up, looks down,
looks up again.
What's the meaning of this?
I'm bleeding!
I've been trying to understand Varenne for 45 minutes.
Whatever Varenne told you, it's true.
Undead.
Undoubtedly.
Undead.
A bunch of undead in the graveyard.
As-
Come in, close the door.
As Scarab and Rumer are talking to the Sheriff about the undead, Monet crouches about three
feet away from Varenne with her one hand up and her fist up saying, oh my god, I'm so
sorry I touched your face.
She's just like, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry.
That's okay.
I got you good though.
You did, I'm bleeding.
Root more of the key.
Oh yes, key, here you go Scarab.
The Sheriff's gonna hand Varenne the- Varenne, here's your key, don't go home yet.
How'd you get my key?
Takes your key.
You handed it to us.
You gave it to me, remember?
Oh, sausage man.
Yes sir, yes sir, you like that sausage?
Was it good?
That's good sausage.
Oh good, good.
Anyway.
What they're saying is true Sheriff.
What they said is true.
Yes Sheriff, I told you.
What did I say?
The undead.
What did I say?
The undead.
What did he say Sheriff?
What I'm dead.
Yes Sheriff, it's a lot.
Should we call the guard immediately?
We killed them.
There could be more though.
How many?
What are their numbers?
I feel like- Didn't count, honestly.
Gonna be completely honest with you, did not count how many there were.
More bodies.
You're sure it's handled?
More bodies than graves.
More bodies than graves and it's not fully handled.
This is the same thing we saw in the crypt.
Same thing in the forest.
It could come again.
I think Sheriff, I think you need to send your guard to break down the door to that
tower.
This is all very overwhelming.
You need a bottle?
You need a drink?
I'm not wearing one.
Alright, alright, alright.
One at a time.
The guard does need to go to the cemetery.
One hundred percent.
That I can do.
You're sure there are no more walking around?
They need to really ruffle Baron's house just in case.
Make it look like they were the ones that did it.
Yes.
Under what cause?
Look, we found this.
And Scarev will pull out the drawings.
Um, okay.
He looks over them for a moment.
He wants to skip past you asking.
Where did you get these?
We found them in Varen's.
He gave us his key.
We just gave it back to him.
He takes them and he holds them in front of Varen and says, explain yourself.
Varen, have you been seeing these things in your mind?
Monet would like to write an action.
What's the action?
To grapple Varen if he goes to...
Okay.
And Scarev wants to use all the diplomacy he can on Varen.
Looks even more lost than the sheriff.
And he's actually, he's like smiling.
Like he has no idea what's going on right now.
And then you show him the pictures.
The sheriff shows him the pictures and his eyes widened for a moment and he like takes
them in his hands and he kind of looks at all of you for a moment and just says, how
did you get my drawings?
Oh, the key.
You gave us the key so we could look into your treasures and see if any of them were
causing this.
Roll deception.
32?
Wow.
Damn.
And he like hits his head a couple of times and he's just like, I forget.
I'm sorry.
Well, we did find, chef.
It's not these pictures.
I don't think it's Varen causing this, but he's seeing some of the same things we've
faced.
I have dreams.
We do too.
I see things and then I can't sleep and then I see more things and then, then I draw the
things and then the things they happen.
The undead, you saw the undead.
And he holds up the picture with the shambling bodies.
We did.
Yes.
You did good.
We believe you.
Could you draw a merchant's cart?
Fully furnished with baubles and rings?
We just, it's a test sheriff.
My art supplies are at home.
Ah, foiled.
What does this mean?
It means there's a lot more happening than face value.
We need to go back to draw scars crucible.
We need to go into the tower.
First things first.
Are there any more undead around the cemetery?
Not that Tricky was able to surmise.
We can't answer that.
I can't send my men into an ambush, but I can send guard to watch.
And he opens his door and he leans out and the two guards that were there when Payday
was here are still there, but they're not as on guard as before.
They're kind of, there's a couple chairs on the porch.
They're kind of just chilling.
Oh, they'll perk up when they see it.
He like leans his head out the door for a moment and he says, you too, on guard to the
cemetery, take two more, make sure you're armed.
Keep watch.
Beware of undead if you see anything, sound the alarm and come back to town.
Don't be a hero.
Oh yeah, sure.
No problem.
I was going to be a hero anyway.
And then they, you know, they run off and he comes back in and shuts the door.
Hell yeah.
Godspeed.
God's a speed.
Now what's all this about a tower?
The tower on the edge of town.
If you could take us to the map.
You mean Charvarros Vades tower where we were just today?
Yes.
All of us.
There is a child in there and she is terrified of her father.
And I have reason to believe that her father may be a necromancer.
On what grounds?
Undead.
Look at this picture.
Look closer.
He points at the one with the man.
Back in Absalom, I worked at a library and there was a man.
His name was something morgue.
I wrote it down.
Give me a second.
Draz morgue.
Now I know that's not the same name as, as Charvarros, but he was a wizard and he was
a pretty poor wizard at that.
But his research led me to Falcon's Hollow and I, he was interested in necromancy and
I don't understand why he would want to come to, why he would have information of, of the
Crucible outside of Falcon's Hollow if there was no necromancy being done here.
You have a wizard that lives in your town.
What makes you believe that he is not a necromancer with all of the theories going around of him,
his daughter being undead?
I understand your concern.
First questions.
How long ago were you in Absalom with this Draz morgue fellow?
Less than a month ago.
Well, Charvarros Veed has been in town for years, decades even.
How many times a month do you see him?
He comes out at least twice a month for provisions.
Okay, so during those two weeks spans, he is a wizard.
He has the means to go other places should he need to.
Correct.
But what is your accusation?
That he's a necromancer.
And what does this have to do with the fellow that you saw?
Are you insinuating that this man is the same fellow?
I'm not necessarily insinuating that he's the same fellow though.
He could be.
Well, don't take that tone with me.
I'm just trying to understand.
What tone would you prefer?
A little calmer maybe.
Would you like a drink?
Sure.
Oh, thank you.
Here you are.
No, no, no.
There's only so much to go around and he's chugging his drink.
Monet will take a sip of her drink.
There, you're done.
He drinks the rest.
I don't want to be the only one drinking.
Let me try this again if you will, Sheriff.
Please, I just need to wrap my head around this.
I'm not necessarily.
That's much better.
Thank you.
Saying that he is the same fellow, I am suggesting that should Drasbor have information about
him that would lead to Falcon's Hollow, that that could suggest that there may be a necromancer
here and seeing as though he is an elusive wizard in a tower with rumors of him being
in cahoots with the undead sword.
I think that it would be a logical choice to check in on him.
Also his daughter is not okay and I need.
As far as I know, she's not even documented, is she?
I'm going to steal her.
All right, let's table that for a moment.
What about the first part of the conversation first?
First things first.
I have to say, I understand your concern and I could maybe see where the lines you're drawing
are coming from.
However, it is not illegal to stay in one's home.
It is not illegal to make one's child afraid of them as long as they are kept safe.
That's the secondary quest of it.
Then let me finish the primary of my statement, please.
I cannot take good conscience legal action based on rumors alone.
You have to understand.
Sure, there have been rumors for years that Sharvaros might be in some kind of dark arts,
but there were also rumors that Scarab kidnapped the butcher and we know all of us here that
that was false.
I would never do something like that.
It had to be proven still before the court.
Well, if you could call it a court.
It had to be proven still.
Runemore, you might want to lay low for a while.
If he ever should go missing and it wasn't you, either way.
Well, if the way things work around town, why don't we just send a mob to go pull him
out of his tower and have him prove his innocence?
Because as of yet, he hasn't affected the town.
If.
But if we can tie these things together, it's a pretty bad thing to happen to town.
Absolutely.
As of yet, he hasn't affected the town.
Okay, so everyone believed that Scarab took one man and they pulled him from his bed.
This man could be the reason that there was an undead army raised from the ground.
And if we had not been here, me, who is from Absalom and Runemore, I don't know where the
fuck he's from.
He slams his hand on the table to interrupt you.
So you would have me do what they did to Scarab?
Form a mob and drag a man?
What if you're wrong?
What if he's innocent?
And then we've done the cycle all over again.
Now trust me, I understand your concerns.
I'm more worried about this town than anyone.
But we cannot do what the people did.
What they did was wrong.
I know.
We all know.
And that's why I put my life on the line, because I believed in what was right.
But that does not mean that we get to do the same when we are scared, when we're unsure,
and when we act on rumors.
Listen, Monet.
He takes a gentler tone.
All I'm saying is that I cannot make a legal action without evidence.
Now if some people of their own accord were to go and say, gather information unbeknownst
to me, in whatever means they may will, then we find ourselves in a very different place.
Scarab nudges Monet's thigh and he puts his hands up close to his head in paw formation
and like makes a meow meow.
A meow meow.
And you know, like nudge nudge, wink wink.
Right.
I'm on your side.
I want the truth.
Just understand that while one hand wants to do right, the other is bound by law.
Not the Creed's law like it was before, but the real law, the way it should be.
And we have to act on the way it should be.
I'll have extra guards out on watch.
We'll enact a curfew.
We'll make sure no one's out after dark.
That should help mitigate any disaster should anything strike closer to town.
In the meantime, I suggest you find out the truth.
And when you can bring me the truth, we can do something about it.
Sheriff, is the cemetery the only place they buried bodies here?
As far as I know.
Now that's not to say that there aren't one or two who go missing in the woods here and
again.
Some that never make it back.
Those that drown in the river.
But the ones that we know of that we were able to put to rest were put to rest in the
cemetery.
A curfew means nothing.
The undead doesn't wait till night to rise.
Monet crosses her arm.
Guards can see better during the day, Monet.
I understand your frustration, but stop trying to poke holes in what is a sound argument.
We can only do what we can within the bounds of the law.
You have to understand.
Yeah, for the law to exist, it must…
They must stick to their ways, but that's where we come in.
The sheriff, he's not going to listen to this part, but that's where we come in.
We're outlaws, baby.
You too, Rootmoore, you godly man.
Oh, thank you.
But I want to go to the crucible.
And I want to go to the tower.
I don't see how it's relevant, Monet.
What do you mean you don't see how it's resol-
I understand, Monet.
There's a girl that needs help.
No, no, no, that's not it, Rootmoore.
Am I the only one here that sees that there is a man who lives in a tower, who is a wizard
at least, he knows magic?
And am I the only one who suspects that he may perhaps have something to do with the
necromancy that's going on around Falcon's Hollow?
Am I the only one that sees that?
You're the only one who sees it with conviction.
No, I didn't get to speak.
I don't like that man either.
You don't even know him.
I don't have to know him.
Have you said a word to the man?
No.
Either of you, any of you.
But something is wrong.
Should I jail the boy?
Yes.
No, don't jail me, sheriff, please.
It could be a good choice.
He sees the future.
He's predicted this.
How do we know that he wasn't the one who did it?
By which he should be in jail.
I agree.
Let's burn him now.
But you see my point.
Yes, there is something going on here, a greater picture, and there are pieces connecting it.
Absolutely.
Could it be Sharvros has involvement?
Absolutely.
I don't contest that.
What I do contest is acting only on suspicion.
And that point, we are no better than a mob.
No, agreed.
We are, because we are three people that are more than capable of finding the truth in
the matter.
And we're not going to go in there and take the man and tie him up to a pike and set him
on fire.
We're going to go there and we're going to question him.
La la la la la la.
Don't tell me what you're doing if it's illegal.
La la la la la.
No.
Look, I'm here to help.
Bring me something I can work with.
And I will absolutely work with you.
Monet, I agree.
But that's for us time.
We don't need to bother the sheriff with how we find the answers.
Unless we're out here killing everybody to get them.
I'm not trying to do that.
I want to sell to people and you can't sell to the dead.
Amen, brother.
Takes another drink.
I'm with you because I think there's more to it.
But I would also like to be an audience to the creeds.
Rob's his stubble for a moment.
That could maybe be arranged.
That is a good point because they will see the dead.
They will see the dead.
They need to know this is their town.
It would be far easier to get payday involved than it would Tholdrin.
Would that suffice or do you need access to Tholdrin?
I want to see them.
And do these have to happen at the same time or could these be two separate things?
Is it payday for the dead in Tholdrin for later or do you want Tholdrin to see?
Does the man care about his town?
Debatable.
Look, he needs people to do the work.
I don't mean to feather about this.
Getting an audience with Tholdrin is difficult.
That's why he has payday, to be his eyes and ears.
He's a paranoid man who would no sooner put his neck on the line for anything.
Well if payday is as dismissive as you are, sheriff, then I think it would be better if
we talked to the proprietor of the town.
You wound me.
I don't understand how you could call a man who would put his life on the line for one
of your comrades dismissive.
That's just not fair and you know it.
I'm angry.
And that's fair.
I'm angry too and you're not helping.
Monet's going through a level five.
Level fives are kind of tough.
You really start to find out who you are as a character.
Part of my backstory has been brought up recently.
I can respect that growth.
That was very kind of your DM.
But understand, I'm not dismissing you.
I'm on your side.
I just don't have the power to do anything unless you can give me something.
I need to have the wood to start this fire.
Without it there's nothing.
Sheriff, have you ever thought that sometimes people tell you things for you to agree with
them instead of giving them solutions?
Absolutely.
I thought the same thing when Payday told me I had to pay an axe tax and I smashed my
axe in his face.
Consider us friends and not dismissive of me to not do the same to you.
Not that I would.
You're normally very pleasant if not a bit annoying.
It's a really cool axe.
You get the point.
Monet, I'm your friend.
You saved my life.
My life that I put on the line, I don't want you guys to forget that.
It's not that I'm wholly in your debt, it's kind of been paid, but you get the idea.
Listen, to cut it down to be very simple, send a few people to the creeds, let them
know the undead are rising.
The proof is literally laying all over the graveyard.
I could have Payday here in a moment.
Getting access to Tholderan you'll probably have to wait for an audience, but I can arrange
for both.
That's what I would like, because at the end of the day if I'm just going to put my cards
on the table, I know it's not right, and it's also part of my anger.
The reason they need to be dethroned is because they are not here in the town.
Will he even give audience to the people keeping these-
One moment, I'm scared of one moment, sorry.
Sorry.
Boy, cover your ears.
La la la la la la.
Alright, go on, go on.
Sorry there.
Need to see him.
I need to find out if my feelings are just, because I know the turmoil that would come
about if they were just deruded from this self-made throne.
But I've seen a lot more.
In the past two hours, the dead are rising from the earth, and if they're going to stay
in their towers, I'm going to pull them out.
It would be nice to have an audience, to know if my actions are just.
I'll arrange it immediately.
Hell yeah, brother.
Alright, we just have to be in motion.
No waiting around.
Maybe a little sleep for eight hours, but no waiting around.
We need a full rest.
Town Crier will make an announcement tomorrow morning in the square.
By tomorrow night, everyone will know that there is a looming threat.
People will be in their homes, locked at night.
At the very least, if any more undead come about town, people will have time to react,
and I'll have the guard armed and ready at a moment's notice to defend.
And if Farron's going to be working the graveyard alone, we need at least one point, one person
appointed that's going to listen to him and actually hear his words.
I think for the time being, Farron, uncover your ears.
La la la.
What?
For the time being, Farron, you will stay here with me.
It's not safe at your home, but I will make sure that you have all of the comforts of
home.
He pulls out another bottle and he opens one of the cell doors and you'll be.
Hardly said he didn't have enough.
Right at home.
There's hardly enough for two.
Hardly.
This is going to last three years.
I don't want to stay.
I want to go home.
Farron, what if I were to tell you that I need your help?
Maybe you could be a deputy.
I like the sound of that.
Why can't I be a deputy?
More day.
In fact, I think I have a shiny gold star right here for you.
He opens a drawer and you hear like a bunch of clinking of glass as he pulls out a deputy
badge.
Monet crosses her arms.
And he gives one to Farron and Farron is just excited.
He's like kind of tracing his finger along it and he looks to be amazed and he needs
some help getting it pinned on, but as it's on his chest, he looks up and he gives an
awkward salute.
I want to lay you down, Sheriff.
I know you won't, boy.
Now stay close to me, okay?
And we'll make sure everything's okay.
And that reminds me, Monet, stop pouting.
It's unbecoming.
I have any reaches down and you hear more clinking of glass and he produces three more
deputy badges and he splays them out on the desk in front of him.
Now understand, if you do take these, you'll have to watch what you do.
I can't have deputies acting outside the law while representing, but as far as I'm concerned,
you can move through Falcon's Hollow with the full authority of me behind your back.
If you have questions that need answered, everyone should answer and they'll trust you
as long as you have that badge.
This is what Colonel wanted.
This reminds me.
Rest in peace.
God, man.
That episode where he stormed into the Sheriff's office and he said, deputize me so I can fix
this shit.
Yeah, bro.
Here's your chance.
Oh, I got emotions right now, man.
Fuck.
Oh, man.
I trust you'll do what's right.
Bring me proof or figure it out on your own.
In either case, we'll be here and we'll be ready.
Monet picks up her badge and puts it on her shirt.
I know you can't believe Farron got one before we did.
We're going to do everything we can to make this right.
But if we come back here and if by the power of this badge, we tell everyone to run, run.
I am unfortunately still skeptical.
I understand in the most dire of circumstances, we likely will have to run, but then becomes
the other beast itself of where to.
But anywhere is better than dead, I suppose, as long as we're still alive.
Deputies, off you go.
Won't let you down, Truff.
He grabs his big meaty hand, grabs the badge, has nowhere to pin it because he's wearing
metal armor.
It breaks immediately.
He just lifts one of his pauldrons and slips it in.
He's going to get a little twine.
You probably got a leather strap or something holding the plate together, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, you could probably pin it on.
Yeah, he's going to get a little twine.
Oh, you know what you could do?
You could tie it into your beard.
Oh.
Yeah, just having the star hanging down in the middle of your beard.
That's pretty cool.
So dumb.
It's not dumb.
It's culture.
Heathen.
Yeah, it's...
If you're not a dwarf, it's probably dumb, but he's a goddamn proud dwarf, man.
Yeah, you tie that in.
That's a good idea.
You tie that in and it's going to stay, it's going to be like the rings of a tree.
The beard's going to keep growing.
That star is going to stay right where it is.
It's a time teller right there.
Good idea, Sheriff.
And he does that.
Raps.
What are you doing?
That's a terrible idea.
That's stupid.
I didn't say to do that.
I agree.
I didn't say to do that.
That was your inner thoughts.
No.
Okay, maybe it was.
But I'm going to do it anyway.
Bring shame to the badge.
I like it.
I'm sorry he doesn't say that.
Stop drinking.
Never.
Get out.
Scarab puts his on his left chest under the ruffles of his half cape as to not call attention.
Yeah, so you can do one of those pull back and reveal.
Yeah, classic.
And Monet puts it on her shirt under her scarf.
Beautiful.
With Mars in full display.
Oh yeah, hell yeah.
He just always is.
I just imagine him just a shining light in the town.
He's wearing gold armor.
I changed my mind.
Monet puts it in the middle of her hat.
Yeah.
Like a party cop.
The party police.
That's what they call them in Europe.
The Bobby's.
Party cops.
Party police, yes sir.
Cheesy.
It's the party cops.
Also what they say in Europe.
Famously.
Alright, so we've got conflicting ideas.
Yeah we do.
And I'll fight you for it.
Now I see the three of you make your way outside of the sheriff's office and standing in front
of it.
You're gonna have to take a second to decide what you want to do next.
Monet, please convince me that this man in the tower is running all of this.
I don't know how much more convincing you need, Rootmore.
We just fought an army of undead.
But what does it have to do with him though?
What do you mean?
He is an elusive wizard in a tower that nobody sees and there are rumors surrounding his
entire tower and there have been for years about him having, having dealings with the
undead.
Because he's a preclude.
So that's it.
We have proof that he deals with undead.
And why do you want to go back to the cruise pool?
What could you have, like possibly, what reason do you have to go back to the cruise pool?
We literally saw undead.
That dwarf.
Remember, I know you didn't forget.
So you think the undead dwarf is the reason that the entire cemetery raised instead of
this tower rising up above the entire town?
Maybe not the reason, but we didn't finish there.
So you want to take a whole day's walk out to the crucible instead of dealing with what
we have in the town currently?
Yes.
They have guards.
That sounds foolish to me.
They've been alarmed.
We can't be in two places at once.
In fact, even now you can see that there are like the beginnings of patrols.
You'll see like a group of three armed guards, full armor Halberds going by and walking the
streets and it seems like they're patrolling at this point.
Some of them are even stopping and like ushering people, telling them to hurry up and get home
that there will be an announcement the following morning.
Monet, I'm not going to stop you.
I'm not telling you not to check him, but I am going back to the crucible.
And you're not going without me, Rudy.
But I am also with you.
Maybe early morning, a quick check because something is wrong.
There is something in this town between that tower and the creeds and everything in between.
Something is wrong.
Same magics here as in the crucible and there.
I don't know if it's all one in the same, but these dreams, these dreams agreed.
Cobalt's.
We know the crucible is crawling with cobalt's.
I just didn't think it would be here so fast.
There's just more to it.
Just a quick check in the morning.
The idea of going and leaving that child alone in that tower, afraid of her father, who may
in fact be the reason that the dead are rising in this area to go to a dead ruin.
Because the cobalt's that were doing the magic.
I wish I could remember.
It sounds like it feels like a disservice to just leave her alone for another day, just
to go dig around in the dead.
I agree.
I don't like her situation.
What did he do to the cobalt?
Did he spread this to them?
I think we need to go to the tower.
Just for a check.
You gotta check real good.
We can check, we can check quick, but I feel like these are paranoid rumors.
Could be.
Because, because we don't know anything.
We're just creating things in our head.
Then it will be a quick trip.
A quick trip.
Quick trip.
Definitely nothing is gonna go wrong.
Nothing ever does.
If we're convinced that there's nothing going on, then it'll be a quick trip for us to go
to the tower, talk to the man, and say, oh, it's been a misunderstanding.
Instead of just leaving it and he is a necromancer and his daughter is still in danger.
Okay, as long as it's quick, we must leave.
And if it's not quick, Rootmore, then it's a problem.
Then it's an issue that needs to be taken care of.
Right.
I'm not afraid of saying I'm wrong.
I'm just looking at the evidence.
We can check it.
As am I.
We can, but what evidence?
I don't know, but I feel it too.
I already told you and I don't need to continue telling you.
There was a cemetery full of undead.
That is the evidence.
What evidence do you have that our answer is in the crucible?
The exact same evidence that I have.
A cemetery full of undead.
Right, but you're assuming he's a necromancer.
And you're assuming that our answer is in the crucible.
It's a closer assumption.
I don't understand how you think that's a closer assumption than mine.
They're both assumptions.
You can't say that yours is right and mine is wrong.
Rootmore nods, realizes he's not going to get anywhere with this.
And uh...
Look, it's going to be quick.
As long as it's quick.
Nothing ever goes wrong.
Nothing in our lives has ever gone wrong.
Nothing ever goes wrong.
It'd be like less.
I mean we could get it done in like 15 minutes.
Episode time.
Okay.
Easy.
I slip in.
I find Savram and I take her out.
I slip in as a cat.
I find Savram.
I bring her to the front door.
I turn back into myself.
I open the door and we take her out.
Okay.
We can keep her at the Temple of Iomide until we know that it's safe for her to be there.
Okay.
Well, being a cat is not illegal.
So I'm...
How tall is the tower?
Can we uh...
Can you bring up the map really quick?
I sure can buddy.
Thanks buddy.
We can save the tower from here.
Yeah, you can.
If you were to look just east you can see it still looming in the night sky.
The moon setting just behind it.
See any lights in the windows?
Um, you know what?
From here there is like a dim glow on the lowest floor and on the top, the top most
floor of the tower seems to be well lit letting out a warm glow.
Monet, I know how you...
I understand how you feel about the girl because that's what set things off for me.
That's why I want to go back in that tower.
Not that I ever win but you know what I mean.
Not that.
And scarab points all the way up to the top of the tower.
That's where our answers are.
Monet nods.
Determined.
How long...
With all of her resolve.
How long can she cat?
Four points.
Ten minutes.
How, how tall, like how many... does it look like a windy type tower or is it like floor,
floor, floor, floor?
Yeah, hard to say from the outside.
At the part that Monet entered it was in the midst of a spiral staircase so it could just
be...
Could be like a spot where there's stuff going on and then...
Yeah, it's hard to tell.
But it is a very tall tower.
It is easily six times as tall as any of the houses in town.
Probably about three times as tall as the Temple to Iomidae.
It doesn't say ten minutes.
It's my fey influence.
Looking at pest form.
I'm going off of memory from editing.
Okay, with pest form.
Okay, it does say with pest form.
Yeah, pest form is I think a ten minute duration.
Okay.
At least enough to get in.
So have you guys decided what it is you're going to do?
Yeah, we're gonna rest and then go to the tower.
Okay.
First thing in the morning.
You make your way back to the sitting duck.
Anybody doing anything before you go to bed?
Scarab's going to trick.
He's going to stay outside.
See where he's going to go.
Scarab's going to go upstairs.
He's going to sit on his cot.
He's going to take off his pauldron and his cape.
He's going to look down at his hands and a little mushroom man is going to walk down
his arm and look up at him.
And then it's just going to fade to white.
Monet's going to go to her room.
She's going to take off her leather armor.
She's going to take off her hat, place it on the bed next to her as she lays down and
she's going to look at the deputy badge and be like, you don't mean shit.
She's going to go to sleep.
She slowly points it to be directly like in a good sight for her to look at.
Yeah, as she's laying down, she's like.
A little twist and turn.
Licks her finger, gives it a little polish.
She's like fucking stupid.
Yeah.
Stupid, beautiful badge.
Yeah, Rootmark is in his room and he snaps his fingers and his armor just vanishes.
He's in his jockstrap.
Gets into his bed.
It's really prickly and stuff.
It's probably hay or something.
It's mostly, but they are fitted with sheets.
So a little prickly.
Kind of like a goose pillow.
Oh, like a down pillow.
The feathers sometimes poke you every once in a while.
Yeah, but those are so nice.
It's just a shame how they have to get them.
Yeah.
But then, you know, that aside, soft ass pillows, man.
Yeah, he adjusts his beard, getting used to the sheriff's badge that's in the hairs and
goes to bed.
Okay.
Is this his first beard adornment?
Yeah.
He doesn't have anything in his beard.
That's awesome.
That's a significant fur dwarf.
A little cultural significance there at choosing to keep something there.
I think it speaks to how much this means to Rootmore.
No, he's down to clown.
I got to make sure.
I got to check his little, his figure that I built in heroforge.com.
Let's see if you can add that in.
Heroforge minis.
Hero for Geminis.
I can't remember if I put a couple beads in his hair or not.
Not a sponsor, but you guys like our posts on Instagram sometimes and it's real nice.
Maybe.
I was going to say, I don't think in the token there is, but I haven't looked at it closely
in a minute.
Oh yeah, he does have a couple rings in his beard.
Oh right, because the sides are braided.
Yeah.
You can give those significance.
They're just simple rings.
The sheriff star is right in the middle.
All right, I'm going to need a will save from each of you.
I decide not to.
All right, you forgo it and you automatically fail.
I would like to turn in my episode PP.
Nice.
That is a good idea.
How do you say?
Too late for me.
You could turn in the PP and roll the second one.
I'd like to turn in my episode PP.
Okay.
All right, let's go around the table here.
What'd you get money?
14.
I rolled a two and a three.
Okay.
Oh, that's awful.
Ouch.
What about for you?
Scatter.
I've got a 27.
Okay.
And root more.
30.
Ooh.
Okay.
Can't touch this mind, you weird tall cobalt.
Once again, as each of you begins to drift into sleep, you start with your normal dreams,
things of either mundane or fantastic nature.
Pancakes.
But they steadily become more and more vexing.
So rumor in your case, the pancakes begin to stick and you can't quite flip them correctly
and they start to break apart.
It's a goddamn nightmare.
It's just frustrating.
And before long, we'll focus on you since you were kind enough to give the example,
but before long, as you continue to scrape and scrape and try to get this thing to flip,
it just starts breaking apart and burning and the pan begins smoking.
And then you start to cough as you like catch that smoke in your lungs.
And before long, the smoke just billows and billows and billows and everything around
you becomes enveloped in this intoxicating black smoke that is suffocating.
And from the smoke, this great yellow eye appears before the rest, a red scaled face
adorned with a skull cap and horns.
And it just laughs as you struggle and you feel so very small and incapable and all the
while choking and struggling to do this as it laughs at you over and over again.
The other two, you have similar nightmares of feeling incompetent and struggling.
And for the most part, you're able to brush it off.
Monet, unfortunately, you wake up after your nightmare with a deeply unsettling feeling.
For some reason you wake up and you can't quite remember what it is you dreamed, but
you have that overwhelming sense of dread, almost as if like, how could anything ever
be OK again?
And you are doomed one.
No.
Have we ever come across a doom?
We have a wounded condition.
Yes.
The way that doomed works is it includes a value.
Your when it comes to death saves or standing up, your doomed is always added on top.
So if you were to become dying one, then as you're doomed on top and you are dying two
right off the bat and you die at dying three.
How does that work for stamina?
It has nothing to do with stamina.
Yeah.
So in order to adjust this to stamina, I think that it would translate to a minus one on
your resolve.
Now when you're when you're dying, it has nothing to do with resolve or stamina.
They do the same rules as dying one through four.
So normally when you use the stamina to stand back up, you go to dying one.
When you use when you use your stamina to stand back up, you are wounded one.
OK.
So that's why that's why I ask how how it works with stamina.
So I would just if I use a stamina stand up, then I'd just be wounded too.
Yes.
Yeah, because I don't think doom goes away until so doomed does go away after a full
night's rest.
I feel extra tired today.
Oh, yeah.
And if you reach dying, sorry, dying for is when you die because like and that's why I
ask because dying for is how it is with the saves.
But when we're working with stamina, it's stamina once you run out of stamina.
If you don't have enough stamina to bring yourself back, then you die.
No, it still goes through the four stages of dying because those stages can hit while
you're still in a dying phase.
Yeah, it doesn't matter how many resolve you have.
You still go through four stages of dying.
Are you sure?
100 percent.
I looked it up.
So it's like a good thing.
Because that's why I always was like, we need to go rest because I don't have any resolve.
That's different because that's that's a star finder with stamina and stuff.
That's completely different.
Like with this, it's still as if we weren't playing with stamina.
It still goes by the four.
Then what is the stamina like?
What is the resolve do?
It's just the bonus stabilizes.
So like you wouldn't.
So no, hold on.
Hold on.
So if you have a resolve to get up, you are unconscious at that point, which means you
are dying.
So you are dying one when you go unconscious.
So if you are doomed, what happens is if you get knocked down to zero and have to use the
stamina to get up before you use that stamina, you are dying two, which means you can only
get knocked down three times.
Right.
So that's what I thought.
And that's why I'm like, well, it doesn't have anything to do with your dying or your
wounded.
So one of the reasons that wounded matters and why doomed matters for dying is that if
you lose all your stamina and then lose all your HP and you go unconscious, you go to
dying one.
If you're doomed, then that's dying two.
And then if you spend your stamina to get back up, right, then now you are wounded one.
And so then what happens is when you get knocked down again, so you get knocked down in the
same combat, then that wounded one automatically gets added to the dying value.
So ordinarily that would mean getting knocked down again means you started dying two, but
with doomed you started dying three.
So then if you spend a second resolve to get up again and you get knocked down a third
time, then that's it.
But isn't with resolve, don't you have to use half of your, don't you have to have half
of your resolve to actually even use it?
No, that's Starfinder.
It used to be a quarter and that was in Starfinder.
Okay.
But no, it's not a quarter.
It's just spending one.
Purely this, that's why this resolve is so much better.
It's the word.
You got to think of the fact that it's like, this is me, even though I'm getting my ass
kicked, this is me getting back in the fight.
And then at a certain point you can't get back in the fight anymore, but you're not
necessarily dead.
And also the reason that there was a quarter in Starfinder is because Starfinder implemented
specific moves that one could spend the resolve to use.
And they don't have that in Pathfinder.
In 2E it's focused.
That's why, that's what was so confusing in starting with stamina.
It's so much simpler than I thought.
So essentially all this means is that you can only get knocked down three times in one
day.
If you get knocked down a third time, you die.
Resolve is like a good thing for us to be able to get right back in it without someone
having to help us.
Yeah.
Well, you still have, even if you get knocked down a third time, like it depends on your
wounded value.
It doesn't matter how many resolve points you have.
Right.
That's what I'm saying.
That third time you get knocked down though, that's first time is dying one, dying two
because of doomed.
You get back up, you're now wounded one, go down a second time.
That's one plus one plus one from doomed.
That's dying three.
Yeah.
And then if you get up again, that's two resolve spent.
If you go down a third time, you're just dead.
But if you do get healed by a medicine check or whatever, you can remove the wounded condition.
If yeah, but you can't remove the dying condition.
If you're dying, it's dying four, you're dead.
Yeah.
No question.
So like that's what I was saying.
If you go down three times and you don't have the wounded removed, you're fucked.
But like if you're out of resolved, but you're not wounded and you go down, it's still the
four minus one.
Cause you're cursed because of the doomed.
You know what I mean?
You worded that so weirdly.
What do you mean?
Well, like let's say you're completely out of resolved, but you're also not wounded because
you got healed by the medicine.
Right?
If you go down, it's, you know, you go down, you have four points until you die.
Right?
Three with doomed.
Yeah.
Okay.
Three was doomed.
So you're at three.
So it doesn't matter how many resolve points you have while.
No, in that case, the only thing that matters about resolve is if you're out of resolve,
you can't stabilize.
Right.
Which means if nobody else can heal you, you're dead.
Yeah.
That's why I swear to God, I just had the wrong idea about resolve for so long.
Yeah.
Cause in Starfinder, it's super complicated.
I'm so glad they're making a second edition of Starfinder.
I'm excited.
So this, this condition, this having the doom thing is not, it's not horrible.
It's not great, but it's not horrible.
Cause what it basically means is that you just have to be a little extra careful with how
many times you go down.
You don't want to be Gareon punched.
Doesn't make it easier for you to go down.
It doesn't affect your ability to fight or anything like that.
Just means that your character will essentially give up sooner than they should.
As long as Rootmore is standing, you will not die.
That's pretty much it.
Oh, I'm falling down.
Not even God himself.
Smite, smite thee.
Okay.
I saw what you did.
I saw you watch those people steal.
Yeah.
Do me a favor and give yourself a, just a custom buff on there that doesn't change anything.
That's just called doomed one so that you remember you have.
I already did it.
Nice.
Okay.
It's, it's, it doesn't need to be a custom buff.
There is one for it.
Beautiful.
Okay.
Well, customize it and call it the sheriff's badge.
You're doomed.
Man, every time I put this on, I just hate it.
I feel doomed.
I just feel like nothing's going to be okay ever again.
That's I, I've used that description for doomed.
I think every time I love that description, just the idea of like, you just, you don't
know what's wrong.
You just feel like nothing will ever be okay.
Maybe not, not to that degree always, but yesterday I had one of those days where I
woke up and I was like, man, I just, this is one of those days.
I'm doomed one.
I'm just going to sit down and wait for the boys to want to play a video game.
What's everybody's morning routine looking like as you wake up all completely fresh and
happy to be here?
All of you, every single one.
Root more starts practicing the pancake recipe, the cinnamon pancake recipe.
I like that.
Okay.
Go ahead and give me a, I'll even spend whatever I have to spend to buy ingredients for it.
Okay.
I think you would probably have most of it, maybe not cinnamon.
So you could just take away like a couple of copper.
You're probably fine to procure those.
Oh, it has zero money.
Money's got to go.
I think you could say that you have it.
Yeah.
She's just keeping track of it.
Yeah.
We at least have 12 gold.
Yeah.
There you go.
Okay.
Just take one of those fancy rings and trade it for cinnamon.
Yeah.
He's and maybe a nice bottle of syrup.
He's down by the hearth just playing around with his grill and a skittle.
Skillet.
Thank you.
A skittle is a...
Is it just got a large piece of hard candy that's soft in the middle that he's cooking
a pancake on?
What is the thing called?
The griddle.
The big rectangle.
A griddle.
Thank you.
God damn it.
This isn't the first time.
Also I think you would want to do a pancake in a skillet because otherwise your pancake
would be like a wavy fry.
Yeah.
That would be pretty cool.
It would be pretty cool.
Make them waffles.
I technically don't have a skillet.
What's your shield?
The shield is a grill.
Just the red grill.
The black grill with the red top.
That's his shield.
Yeah.
Well I mean you could turn that thing upside down and cook on the butt of it.
You could borrow a pot or a pan.
You could probably get some for a couple copper to be honest.
That's true too.
Yeah.
He'll do that.
Yeah.
If you want to drop a silver I'd say you can get a whole cook set.
You can get a spatula, spoon, pan, pot, and your cinnamon and syrup.
Yep.
Home and pantry.
We'll do that.
Clang, clang, clang, clang.
In either case, we'll worry about the money later.
Go ahead and give me a skill check on that.
Let's see crafting and see how you're coming along.
Okay.
Come on.
First try at it.
Come on cinnamon pancake.
No.
10.
Okay.
There's a moment while you're cooking it where it starts to stick and you immediately begin
to panic because you're like my worst nightmare come true.
The dream.
It foretold the future.
But it's not as bad as it seems.
You manage to scrape the bit of it before it burns.
It's just a little roughed up.
You flip it and you're like, you know, not my best, but it's not the worst either.
So he doesn't take any responsibility.
He just blames the apothecary.
She gave me the wrong recipe.
Blame the pan, man.
It's a brand new pan.
They didn't season this correctly.
Why didn't they oil the pan?
I love that the root more is just a petty bit.
No responsibility.
The other two of you, you wake up to the faint sound of root more going no from downstairs.
What's your morning routine looking like?
He hears the no and you see him.
He kind of breaks out of a trance.
He's sitting there making bullets.
He's doing cartridges.
I feel doomed.
Doomed three.
You go down once.
Once he's done making his 10 cartridges, he suits back up.
Starts going downstairs.
And how about for you, Monet?
Monet wakes up, her eyes open onto the hat and the deputy badge right in front of her
face on the other side of her pillow.
She immediately stretches and pushes the hat onto the ground and says, I don't wanna.
And then she turns over and tries to go back to sleep.
But you do smell some mediocre pancakes downstairs.
She doesn't care.
There's a nice smell of cinnamon walking in the room.
Monet woke up.
Faint smell of something burning, but just a tiny amount.
Monet woke up in a depressive state because she's doomed.
And I know exactly how that feels.
She wakes up and she's like, I don't want to do today.
I'm not going to do today.
You were doomed yesterday.
Yeah, I was doomed yesterday when I was leaving for work.
I was walking out and I'm like, my feet hurt, my back hurts.
I'm achy, I'm tired.
I don't wanna work today.
I'm thirsty and I have to pee.
And Cody's like, okay, have a good day.
And I'm like, I don't care.
And did you?
It was fine.
There you go.
And Monet is just doing everything she can to get out of the wrong side of the bed, but
that part of the bed's against the wall, so it's gonna be a while.
Well, Routemore, you see Scarab come downstairs.
Well, Scarab, it's not my best one, but I tried.
Slaps a mediocre cinnamon pancake down with a-
I hate that it's always slapped.
With a mediocre fucking sausage, too.
Eleven.
It's just not a good day.
Not my day.
Sure thing, man.
Hey, uh.
I'm trying, okay?
Stop yelling at me.
Scarab eats the pancake and you see that he puts the sausage in his pocket.
Sorry, I didn't mean to get onto you about that.
That's fine.
It's a weird day.
This.
I had a dream where the apothecary didn't want me to make pancakes.
Or maybe it was a kobold.
I can't remember.
Dreams are weird.
I feel like it was the apothecary.
He didn't want me to succeed.
Scarab turns his head and he just shoots a burnt blueberry out of his mouth.
I couldn't imagine why.
Weird dream, man.
Yeah.
There's a bunch of smoke everywhere.
I know, you should really open a window.
Who's the tender at this place?
I can't remember.
A big strong lady, right?
Oh, names, why do you make me scroll back?
Cody, why didn't you make a list earlier?
You have to look over here.
No, I do.
I just imagine she has an irritated look on her face, cracking open whatever window she
has.
I tried to tell him to leave.
Ergen.
Ergen talk.
You ever think that maybe it's because you did it on the wrong day of the week?
Look, don't look too deep into that.
I don't want to say that there's magic behind your pancakes.
Sorry I was thinking that was very deep.
I just know this town is very anal retentive about their...
Well, I mean, it's not my fault I got the wrong recipe.
Do we need to go back?
Where's Monet?
Monet!
Where's Monet?
Oh look, a broom.
Rhett and Mark picks up a broom and just starts hitting the ceiling.
Hey, knock that off.
Oh sorry.
It says Ergen.
I apologize.
The broom thing, you got to stop that.
Hey, you fucking cut that out, huh?
Rhett and Mark flashes his beard.
The Sheriff's Authority.
Abuse of power, help of being oppressed.
No.
Anathema, anathema, anathema.
He doesn't do that, it's okay.
Who do you see who I am?
I am the law.
Whipping his beard back and forth.
Probable cause, or whatever the fuck.
Legal words.
Legal words, legal words.
She was coming for me.
She's got a weapon.
I guess we're going to have to break into the tower ourselves.
Come on.
I think Monet wants to go to the tower.
Come on, Ergen.
Let's go to the Crucible.
Right behind you, buddy.
Let me grab my shield.
Where's that little hobbit?
Halfling, sorry.
Is he still playing?
Didn't he say he was heading out of town or did you ask him to stay?
He stayed.
He stayed, okay.
Yeah, I don't remember.
Actually, you know what?
He's right behind you.
He's been watching the whole time.
Ah, Edgerton.
Monet, Mr. Rootmore.
You want a pancake?
No, no, I could smell them.
Thank you.
Smell them?
I don't understand.
You could smell them, but you don't want them?
Correct.
Very kind of you, though, Mr. Rootmore.
Scarab, if you'd like.
I have some fresh meat rations.
Oh, very good.
Rootmore turns around and just starts crying.
You'll see Scarab lights up for a bit and then he kind of cringes.
Honestly, I have this sausage.
Would you like this?
Oh, no, thank you.
I could smell that too right after.
Sausage and cinnamon.
I never would have thought.
Look, I just...
He's kind of off today and I don't want to break it to him.
I don't want this.
Oh, I think I understand, Mr. Scarab.
Here, follow my lead.
Hold on, hold on, doing a performance check.
Where's my detour?
I rolled deception to aid.
He's doing a performance check, but go ahead.
I rolled a crack natural one and then another crack die and I'm like, what?
Does a 26 beat your Will DC?
Get out of my head.
It does.
Okay.
You can get in my head.
Why hand that over, Mr. Scarab.
I would like that delicious smelling sausage.
Yeah, man, here you go.
Oh, yes, it's very good.
He turns his head to the side so you can't see and he's sliding the sausage behind his
head, but it looks like he's eating it.
He's like, oh, wow, wow.
Mr. Rootmore throws it behind him, but you don't see.
That was the best sausage I've had in quite a while.
I should throw away my meat rations.
Honestly.
Really?
In fact, I'll do it right now.
He's going to try to slide a hand.
Natural 20.
Oh my God.
He makes a grand gesture of pulling his meat rations out and he throws his arm behind him
like he's going to toss them away, but he in the last second flicks his wrist down and
throws the meat back into his sleeve and he rubs his hands together and he's like, absolutely
no more need.
Wow, I feel invigorated.
Thank you.
Oh, you're a good boy.
Mr. Rootmore slaps his hand on Edgren's shoulder, brings him in for a big hug.
He lets it go over that he's looking over your shoulder at Scarab and he gives him a
sly smile and a wink.
I miss you.
I miss you so much.
Please, run away.
Where Mr. Rootmore?
I miss you too.
We have a town to save.
Please, come with us.
I can't.
I'm so scared.
Stay with Mr. Rootmore.
But by our side, you will be fine.
That's what you said last time when I almost died.
Look, a really important question.
But you didn't.
Edgren, how old are you?
That's personal, Mr. Scarab.
You have to tell me if...
I'm a cop.
You have to tell me how old you are.
Am I being detained?
Officer?
No, no, no, no, no, no.
No abuse of power.
I was just more worried about Rootmore's safety.
Look, I don't want to be this way, but you look young.
Am I free to go?
Yes.
Alright, thank you.
Thank you for your service.
Are you a cop?
Rootmore.
No, I don't have to tell you.
That's a fake law.
He shuffles on back to his stool, starts playing his now-repared lute.
You know what?
I have a hard time telling...
I don't know if he's telling the truth or not.
Let's be honest.
I get a feeling.
You know what?
Go ahead and roll a perception against his deception DC.
Natural one.
Oh, he's totally a cop.
That dude's a cop.
Son of a bitch.
It all makes sense now.
It's good to know.
Sheriff.
Scarab covers this even more.
Rootmore's not going to roll.
He's too happy, but Ed Grinning enjoyed the sausage.
I bet this time you're wondering where the fuck is your third party member?
Monet!
Monet, Monet, Monet.
Going to the crucible.
She doesn't hear you.
She doesn't hear you saying that.
She's grumpily asleep, her face squished into the tiller.
It's 2 p.m. What is happening?
She's laying against the wall going, mmm.
Why do my characters always end up being the babysitters?
I'm coming upstairs!
Monet, you'll wake up this instant.
Maybe if you weren't friends with babies.
You set the building on fire.
I don't wanna.
I hired babies!
Babies!
They're babies!
Nom nom!
That is a bit of cultural zeitgeist for you listeners.
Ah, yes.
Behind the door you hear a bunch of clatter, and Monet going, go away.
No!
Please!
Open the door!
I'm in deep shit!
Rootmore's here and he's got beds, I mean he's got sausage!
I don't care, I fucking hate Rootmore's sausage, it sucks!
It's much better today!
She really is at a bad food.
It's much better today for a 30?
Fine!
Look Rootmore, you're really gonna have to make this stuff look good.
Okay, Monet opens the door and this is...
I changed her on Hero Forge.
This is Monet.
Sausage lady!
Right, there she is, it's just Monet.
And then this is Monet today, she mad, she big angry.
Her hair looks a little greasy.
You gotta post both of those on Instagram.
She's pissed off, she got her fist, that's just a fist.
She pissed off, fist off.
She's just like...
You can post my shitty impromptu charcoal drawings too.
She be grumpy today.
We gotta see Monet on Instagram.
Okay, I'm putting earring on her.
Cliff anger on her having a frowny face today.
The two of you sent banging on the side of the door and finally you hear a swift click as the door begins to open.
And it very slowly creaks open and groans and shudders as it opens just a sliver.
And on the other side you see what can only be the looming shadow of a horrendous creature.
Evil Eye!
And that's all the time we have for this week.
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Obviously we're not monetized or anything like that.
It's not us just trying to be like, more money please!
It's more of just a, you know, hey let's all have fun together type of deal.
We also have not done anything with it yet, but we do have our own Reddit that is r slash the cursed caravan podcast.
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I personally would love to see any theories or any comments on just like what's going on.
Obviously, you know, don't be a jerk about it. Don't post any spoilers.
If you're familiar with the campaign we're running, but aside from that, have at it.
If I'm not, you know, being a lazy degenerate, then I'm sure I'll probably be on there happy to answer anything you guys throw forward.
So that's my spiel.
We might actually talk to people on there. That'd be fun.
Yeah, until we figure out how other things work like Discord and all that.
Yeah, someday down the line.
Cody, maybe even Matt will talk to you.
Sometimes all at the same time with different answers.
Now we got a comment on YouTube from Ivan.
Ivan says, Hey guys, smiley face.
I looked for some CKK vids or podcasts as I was going to start this module myself.
That's Crown of the Cobalt King.
I had lots of fun listening to a few episodes on YouTube, then switched to tune in.
Thanks for your effort. Just out of curiosity, is there a way to see character builds somewhere?
I've heard you talking about Path Builder once or twice.
Yes, I'm totally willing to post our character builds.
I would have to. I do have some little secret things that I'd want to black out. But yeah, definitely.
I think that's something that I'll probably try to work on too. Maybe I'll set up a little FAQ thread on there that'll show what we use.
As far as we use World 20, we use Path Builder with links and stuff like that.
Pathfinder Path Builder is so good. For anyone that is afraid of the pen and paper, golly, not a sponsor. But it changed our... it made us black.
It's fantastic. I have to look him up again to make sure. But it's actually a fellow Redditor who made Path Builder.
I believe it's a one man team. Red Racer, you said?
Red Racer, I think.
I said his name before. I wish I remembered. I'm a little ashamed.
It's fantastic. It's free to use. I have paid for it before. And I don't know if that's still going on. If it is, then I'm still paying you somewhere.
But it's great.
It's not a subscription. It's a one time charge. I mean, most of the app is free.
And I don't think you have to pay at all to use it.
No, mostly for the animal companion.
Yes, for some features, they're locked behind a paywall. It's only a $5 one time pay to unlock it. And it is like an account bound thing.
So you can have it on multiple devices if you need to. Huge shout out to this guy.
This is just somebody that also loves the game like we do and wanted to make things easier and has been on top of it and is on top of it.
As far as like any time there are new releases, when there was secrets of magic was released immediately added in the new classes like within a week, started updating the stuff.
He's updating the revisions that Paiso is making to Pathfinder as it goes along.
So it's a very current and up to date application to use. And you can do it either browser form or on your phone.
I think it's only on the Android store, not on iOS yet, but that might have changed. I'm not positive.
I don't know if it's on iOS, but yeah, when we got it, it was exclusively on Android.
But they do have a browser version right now and that one is also incredibly comprehensive and easy to use.
Browser is amazing and has its own dice roller and everything. Like literally, I think it was $5 paid that like four years ago.
Yeah, exactly. Been using it ever since. So I will absolutely when I get around to making that epic you folks, I will have a link to that for anybody who wants to check it out.
But if you just want to look on your phone and you happen to have an Android on the Google Play Store, just look at Path Builder 2E.
It'll be the first one there. Thank you, Ivan. Really appreciate it. Thank you for having an interest in our characters.
That's exactly what I was just talking about. Like I love that the question, the engagement is awesome.
Also, if you have any personal questions as far as the campaign itself, I will say go ahead and reach out to us on our Chris Caravan email.
And then I will email you through a different email so that the others can't see spoilers when they log into the account.
But if you have any questions for the campaign or if you want any advice or whatever, feel free to reach out to me.
I'm happy to help where I can if I can. That's the cursed caravan at Gmail.com.com.
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Monkey Time!
Did you poo poo in your pants? That's a good cut for a natural one. Did you poo poo in your pants?
That's not what I sound like. Sometimes a little bit.