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Dungeons and Dragons. My name is Will. I voice the character La Zogna Mousekind
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Alright, what's the recap? Well technically Will did an attack. Oh you're right, you're right. Well I was gonna say, I mean, Jalen and I did it last time so I think we both still got our inspiration.
Hey Bronson, you wanna do it? Great job Bronson. Great job Bronson. That was inspiration. I would like to apologize. Fuck Bronson.
I can't do that, I'll get him pregnant. He's a potent man. Both your potent little Irish boys. We can call him Little.
I don't know Mark, do you want to do the recap? I can try. I believe we, it's hard to remember where we started last session. I think we were still doing little shopping in town.
And then we eventually were thinking of how to get to the railways and we had to roll for that and go through a map, figure it out, talk to the guys at the gate, show them the paperwork and he said that we would basically be mercenaries.
To be hired as help if need be. Got on the train, saw our digs, they asked us if one of us, or two of us wanted to do night duty. That was me, Harun and Bronson Siafra.
And some gnolls attacked and they attacked from the back and from the roof. They got zapped by the trap that was set. Yeah, took it from the back. And attacked me and Siafra and the guards alerted our friends who were able to help rejoin us in battle part way through and help us recover.
Because we did take some damage. Siafra took a decent amount of damage. But also Lil Zagna was able to heal Siafra a little bit to make her feel better. And I believe that's about where we left off.
And one of them did get away. That is true. On the disc. On the flying disc. You said none of the other ones, did we get to check them? You guys checked them but didn't have any discs.
Worth its spell. I don't know. Although I do like the idea of flying gnolls. I should have brought one of my gnoll minis. They're just so cool. Seven foot tall hyena men. So DM where are we now at this point?
You guys are just waking up. They're at hard fart battle. Siafra's kind of passed out still. Probably took a lot of damage. She's sleeping. You guys try to wake her up. She's just dead asleep.
She's taking a hard nap. You can tell she doesn't get hit a lot. So. Ha ha ha. Heyo. It looks like she really can't take a pound thing. So. True.
What I mean is the rug's squishy for a reason. That is very true.
The problem is I don't know if he can take a pound. What time of day is this? Morning. You guys are just waking up after the shift.
I guess I'm curious. At what time did that happen? Did any of us get a rest in or was that not? You guys ended up getting a rest after. Okay. Because other guards took over.
Okay. You just want to make sure that for continuity reasons. You took a rest because they relieved you guys after you took damage. Short or long? Long. Just how you like it.
Heck yeah. Long rest boys. Long rest. That's what I like to hear. You got to be somewhere to be at sunrise for breakfast. I do. Haroon's just been staring out the window. Everyone's resting. Which window? The hallway window or? In the room.
No, no. Outside. Outside. Because I think at the beginning of the night he was going to be just staring out the window. But I think this time because of the NOLS he was looking outside the train to see if there was any sign of anyone coming back in the meantime.
Alright. I got to hit the little button here to say long rest real quick. So campfire. I found it. So. Alright so you guys are. So you have somewhere to be in the morning. I do. Do I see this?
So are you waking up? Are you in a. So you're. How long does it take for you to rest? Four hours. How long does it take for you to rest? Eight. But it's breakfast at the same time. One's breakfast. He said meet him at breakfast. Yeah so he's preparing breakfast. Oh okay.
You'd have to be there a little earlier than breakfast then. Yeah. So why is he being summoned early? If you want to show up and help cook. No I wasn't. I'm just helping cook. So I wake up first? Oh okay. Great. How do I get summoned?
Is there anyone else? Haroon's just turning around to him waking up. Oh yeah I only need four as well. Yeah so you two would be awake since then. Yeah four. You only need four right? I guess all of you would be. It's everyone but me. Yep. Yep.
Wait actually maybe mine was six. Or eight hours sleeper. The tiniest I need the most sleep you know is how I get these muscles. That's why you're so angry. Yeah. I need my nap. Guys we've been up a long time. I need a piece.
I'm only asking if it's a little cranky. I'm just gonna ask the guard were there any more attacks that night? Just the ones that you guys fended off. Good. That's how we do it. Now go for a high five to Haroon. Yeah.
Good job out there boys. Thank you. Y'all horrors you want to come to the kitchen? In character I weasel out. And what makes you think that I would have any business in a place like that?
I was just you know just saying if you wanted to come that's all. Well something tells me that what these people like to eat and what I like to eat are two very different things. What do you like to eat? Well anything that's put in front of me for the most part.
But everyone else on this train aside from us they have these high expectations. They want their poached eggs. They want their seasoned meat. I'm used to MREs. MREs.
MREs. My sweet summer child. Can I pat you on the shoulder? The guard's like we have better food than that swill. Trust me during the war I ate plenty of those as well.
Where were you deployed? Oh he said he didn't say war. Oh sorry. He said during the war. I was just laying on the bunk and covering his face with a pillow. Were you outside? I was outside the bunk room.
Okay yeah sorry. So I'm just going to go. He's kind of like what? Is your robot okay? He doesn't like it when you say the war. And I like whisper very low like war. I don't think I would hear it especially over myself talking.
He's kind of like are you scared of the war? He was in the war. He does not fuck with the war. Most of us were in the war. We were all there. Yes so was I. Yes and I agree but we just don't like to talk about it. I'm sorry.
I understood it was a rough time for all of us. It was a very rough time. We lost a lot of friends. We don't even know what happened to him. We were trying to figure it out. I think those things could have feelings. He has very deep feelings I'll tell you. I thought they were those machines.
Just modem noises. Let's go to the kitchen. I have to stand by my post. Okay I'll go to the kitchen. Yep. Have a good day. I'm going to follow Lasagna. I suppose that I can be a taste tester for you at the very least.
Hey that will be great. Allow another taste bud on the voting table. The chef is already in the kitchen. He just looks at you and says you're late. Blame the guard. He took forever.
Excuses. Let's see what he can do. Does he even know about the attack? I'm going to ask does he have any plants or anything like seasoning at all? Can I do a perception check of what he has?
I'm going to call me an investigator. Investigation? It's pretty decently well organized in Stocked Kitchen. 14? 14. You find the basics like oregano and parsley. Not too crazy.
So I tell him the first thing we have to do is go ahead and chop up all the seasonings. After we do that we're going to chop up everything and put it in a big pot with some boiling water, a lot of seasoning and then we're going to put some shrimp, crab.
You know how many things you can do with shrimp? That disgusting bug water? Let me tell you bud, if you think it's a delicacy, you don't know what you're missing out on. Do you have some shrimp in here?
I could check. Usually we reserve that for the animals in pond scum. Okay, what about crab? You got crab at least? I can see what I can muster up. Alright. Let's get some crab over here with some potatoes. I know you got some rice. We're going to do a side of rice on this as well.
This is a primitive approach to taking here. Yes, so first thing we're going to do, because I looked this up. We should make gumbo sometimes. Without shrimp. Oh yeah, that's right. I'm sorry. I'll die. But it's like gumbo.
You guys have to make grilled cheeses without cheese. You can do a sausage gumbo. I know. Some brats. I would be down for a bratwurst gumbo. Throw some meatballs in there too.
Scallions and this is these fucking white people. Some pigs feet. Now it's Asian. So if you don't like shrimp, what if we throw some bacon in there? We're going to chop up some celery, onion, a bell pepper, a green bell pepper. You can do whatever you want. This dish is entirely too busy.
See, this is the thing where I think one of my family secrets to the recipe and I'm going to tell you one of them because there's many. And I'm going to whisper in his ear. It's love.
It takes time to make this. How long? It could take. Two to three to four hours. Probably five.
Well that could be lunch then. But we had the separate dish for breakfast. Oh, breakfast. Oh yeah, that's great. You know, Horace, I'm sure we can mister up a great breakfast for you. I'm not in the room with you. I'm just in the dining hall.
Oh, okay. He's just waiting in the kitchen. No lights on. Just sitting there.
In the dining hall though, I am like if anybody else is around, you see me reading a note that I have and there's nothing more than that. Just minding my business and a table by myself.
Is anybody else awake at this time? Dining last while we're there?
Probably by the time the gumbo is going to be done or close to gumbo being done is when your friend will be awake. So you're going to sleep through breakfast. But you'll probably be awake in time for gumbo.
So yeah, so breakfast is usually served around seven in the morning. You guys are up fighting so you'll be up next few hours.
So while your friends are cooking, you're going to have to roll a persuasion check because he's still kind of iffy about allowing you to do this. He's kind of appalled by your tactics because he's a higher chef.
Okay, I'm going to give myself guidance. Persuasion is not my thing.
He's kind of... This D4.
Hello Dad.
Oh then um...
We said your character took a heavy beating and just kind of stayed resting because...
Well that's actually true.
Because I had... Oh persuasion?
Yeah.
To be honest, I'm actually proficient. 12 plus 3, that's 15, plus 5. Non natural 20.
He's like, you know what? I don't know if it's because you gave me the dog last night, but I'm willing to let you do this.
I got more garlic. Yeah, we need to chop up some of this garlic too.
He's kind of just looking at me, he's like... I'm going to save some for a dish I have in mind.
Thanks.
Alright.
I'll be helping out with breakfast as well while I'm in the middle of chopping everything.
They're making the typical breakfast. They want to feel rustic today. They're going to eat bacon, sausage, or eggs.
That sounds like a good breakfast.
This is like a panketeen.
You guys stick out like sore fucking sons here. But everyone kind of just assumes you're the help.
And we did help.
Sometimes thinking that you're the help comes to your advantage.
Where do you see yourself?
When I see the breakfast food start to be put out in the dining hall, you can hear me in the kitchen yell this, and I go,
HELL YEAH!
Some of the people sitting up are like, oh, we didn't know anyone was already here!
I just sit in the corner.
They don't see a lot of liners.
So they're all just kind of giving me some stares at first, and then they're just kind of going about,
send me everything you know.
See you after.
Haroon is having his pillow in the face, and he is currently muffling.
HURRR! HURRR! HURRR!
In the bunk.
You wake up today, you're like, what the fuck?
Your eyes coming up, it's going to look like a hairball of a mess.
The hair is just outwards and all directions.
Just very two words, like, what the?
How are you doing?
I'm actually going to take the pillow down and be like, oh, hello.
Am I awake at this point?
Yeah, I'll come over, she's going to wake you up.
So then I immediately see that, see how Fur is awake, and I start doing pushups on the floor, I'm like, oh, are you guys awake now?
I was just doing my morning workout.
Literally doing this since I've been awake.
I have been awake.
My eyes never close.
Roll me a strength check real quick, you just woke up, let's see how well you show off.
Snap back into things.
Non-natural 20.
It looks like he's falling and just like, oh my God.
I'm just going to give that half awake stare that people do when they're half awake, one eye is closed, one eye is open, just watching for an awkward amount of time, I'm just gone.
Face value.
If you're staring at me, I'm not stopping, I'm going as much as I can.
No emotion, no expression, just don't care.
We're just watching this the whole time, you're just seeing this go down.
It actually goes a little harder.
Liz, wait to the kitchen.
I'm sorry, where is everybody?
They went to the kitchen.
Maybe you want food?
Great, thank you so much.
I'm just going to sit up in the bed, cross my feet, open this pack, and just start applying makeup, I'm just taking way too long.
Harun's going to like sit next to you and kind of like watch, he does not know what this is.
Everything I do, I'm just going to add like part on the metal.
Today Harun gets pretty.
Makeover time.
I'm going to roll a performance check to see how good this thing is.
Let's see how sexy Harun is.
That's not great, that's a three.
Is that yours or mine?
Yes.
Let's see how half a week, you're just like.
I don't think my performance has made you a princess, but I'll come back to it.
What set is your own performance?
My performance is just not good.
Mine's not good.
So I'm still putting on all this shit.
How dare you just get here and then load all your stuff up.
Not fast enough.
I heard about breakfast and then I'm going to stop my push ups and go get food.
Yeah you get there and breakfast is getting packed up and you get there and they're like towards the tail end of like, they're almost out of food.
You see like there's a big plate of food in front of your harvest and he's still just kind of just.
I get closer and I'm like, what's up, Len?
I point to one side of the plate, that's for you.
Great one.
And I start going.
He's got a little bit of everything that they had on offer.
Seven, yeah so seven.
You don't look the best. It looks like a two year old trying to do your makeup.
My makeup?
Yeah.
There's a wig that I was trying to adhere to the top but there was nothing to adhere to because it's metal.
It's like halfway cocked on.
Am I just ready?
Always.
Yay.
I'm the best.
So you get to the dining hall and breakfast is wrapping up but you see your harvest is eaten.
Now you see your little rock troll.
He's munching in who doesn't know Elvish. So most of what's being said.
And most of the people here are Elvish.
So most of what's being said is in Elvish as well.
Unfortunately.
So yeah, so Nick you're munching down but you two are just, you see everyone kind of cleaning up.
And you see your friend over here, Lazon, to come out with a stained apron.
He's been shuffling it up in the kitchen.
Damn, why do you look like that?
I'm cooking.
You made this?
I mean I helped him make breakfast. I'm cooking lunch.
Man, if this is what you made for, if you helped on this I can't wait for you lunch. This is amazing.
You did an excellent job my friend.
It's amazing.
Can you eat?
No.
I take one look away from my food at two hours.
God's above, what happened?
What?
You look like a woman I would pay five gold to in the alley.
That could get you a lot of arrows.
You're at least worth six.
What Pat, you want to give me money?
Not you.
But I'll work for you.
I think you look great. Thank you.
Borek.
The chef comes out and he's like, why does it smell spicy in my kitchen?
That's the seasoning. I've been telling you this.
And then I walked back in a little aggressively as if I explained it a thousand times and you still don't understand.
You don't believe me.
This is a high-o.
They don't cook your bayou bullshit.
They use salt and pepper.
Our ingredients are so good you don't need to season them.
Exactly.
I know things are wrapping up. Can I attempt to help by quickly cleaning up some of the dishes?
I'm hoping to roll acrobatics for it to be fancy with it.
You see them kind of just busing up and picking up.
The right people just left all their playstations. People were just cleaning up the plates.
So scrap what you want to do.
I want to see if there's maybe another bin or something and then try to do what they're doing.
But I kind of want to do it kind of fast and spin around to the different tables when I do it.
Hopefully it will look cool.
And get some cold from it? That's what I heard.
No, I just wanted to help.
Go ahead and give me a slide of hand and see how quick your hands are with this.
A slide of hand, okay.
Can it be acrobatics?
Where's a slide of hand to get the tray?
You're trying to do it with your hands real quick.
Unless you want to throw back clips into it, that doesn't look good.
Well, I said I was spinning around and doing crazy moves.
Let's do a slide of hand first and see if you drop anything while you're doing the acrobatics.
A slide of hand definitely was not great.
That slide of hand is an 8.
Go ahead and do the acrobatics.
Okay, let's see.
Let's see how it looks.
Um, that's 22.
So you're like, watch this, you do a back flip and you throw the plate into the ceiling.
They're just like, what is happening?
Does it shatter or do I at least catch it?
You break it because you're like, watch this.
You didn't, I couldn't pay how fast you were going to flip.
Oh, I didn't.
Damn.
They're like, uh, we haven't covered.
He tried to handle it.
Can you turn this thing off?
I wish I knew how.
Just kidding, he's perfect.
We could turn them up.
Please don't.
I'm sorry.
You know what's a really fun party trick?
You heard like the songs and stuff.
Whoa.
Boom.
You should try it sometime.
I'm going to like walk out into the other corner of the room waiting for it to go off.
What song is it about?
Did you see the war?
What?
I grab him and I immediately lift him up and start walking out the room.
I'm going to miss tragic.
He's a big boy.
He's significantly bigger than you.
Yeah, but he's a big boy.
Yeah.
As I'm finishing my last portion of my breakfast, I look over to CEO for.
CEO for you bitch.
I'm just going to calmly eat my breakfast now.
Is it straight strength or is it acrobatics?
Strength.
You're just trying to pick someone up and just hoist them.
Oh, okay.
Uh, yeah, 12.
Are you resisting at all?
I'm just like kind of shaking in place.
I don't know if I'd be resisting to stay in one spot.
Yeah.
So you're trying to pick you up.
Are you going to resist at all to that?
I don't think so.
Yeah.
So you're kind of like, oh, no, no, no.
He's kind of tonic.
So you're kind of just picking him up.
You're like, oh, fuck, oh, fuck.
He's really long.
You kind of just pull him up.
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
Shut up.
I'm like shaking him like a baby.
Shut up.
I take my weight and shut him up.
CEO for you.
Are you impressed by the strength of feet?
No.
I mean, they probably shouldn't have done so many pushups earlier.
Fuck.
So in this room, where is my favorite brother of the whole day?
Oh, you missed breakfast because you were sleeping.
OK.
Yeah.
So there's nobody else?
No, yeah.
You guys are at the tail end.
So you guys were kind of, there was, there's still food left.
So, you know, Horace was working on putting that away, but did share with your friends
and you said he just kind of piled up with what was left of everything and started going
down.
He's just been eating this whole time.
Two hours.
The first thing I took him to was a fire and plate.
Yeah.
I was walking home all the way back until you stopped yelling.
He's like, you're coming through this one plate.
If I go back, it's still a plate.
Shut up.
Oh, fuck.
All right.
Yeah.
So you guys are finishing up.
Go ahead and Audrey evens will.
For what?
Audrey evens.
You mean life?
All right.
Life doesn't like that.
Life will remember that.
The chef is kind of like looking at it and still is like, I don't know if I trust this.
It smells unrefined.
And then I'll kind of use a little bit of Druidcraft to just sprinkle some nice little
oregano on it.
It's one of my favorite.
Nice little oregano smell.
He just hopped on it.
And then I say, try it.
He tasted it and he's just like, oh my God, this is delicious.
I told you.
Now where's the bread at?
Because I got some more of this garlic here.
We're going to make some garlic bread to go on the side.
Why would you put garlic on bread?
You didn't take my advice.
I assume.
No, I was busy cleaning.
So then I'll like, I mean, is there bread nearby?
Yeah.
He just has like, there's a fresh load of.
So then I'll just like, just take a piece of the bread off, like just the very corner
piece of it.
And then I'll like, you know, cut up a little bit of the garlic and then some butter and
then sprinkle the butter.
Obviously you put some garlic on it and then just, you know, uh, actually fuck.
I'll put it over the flame just for a little bit.
You guys are in the kitchen.
Yeah.
We're in the kitchen.
Shut up.
I start baking it with my brain.
How am I going to bake this fucking bread?
I don't care how big the kitchen is.
I'm casting fireball.
I just, you know, I toasted it just a little bit and I gave it right to him.
I was like, take them out of this.
Oh, and then a little bit of oregano right on top.
He's like, Oh, I wonder if the crowd will like it.
I think this is excellent, but I don't know if they'll like it.
They've never only this type of audience has ever had something like this before.
Do they like bread?
Yes.
They're going to love this.
And that's all I said.
They don't like change.
And then I'll just, I'll like start cutting loaves of bread in half.
Yeah.
So he's like, okay, well, we're serving lunch in about, uh, how long is that going to take
to get done?
I don't know.
How long is that going to take?
We're about two, three hours.
Oh, that's going to just take me.
It's going to take me a few, few minutes to do this.
Okay.
Perfect.
Uh, they're going to start coming in around two or three hours depending on when they're
done with their social.
Oh, okay.
So I'll cook that later when it gets closer.
Perfect.
Fresh bread.
And he just kind of enjoying it.
This is delicious.
I saved, save some, get the rice going.
Okay.
Yeah.
Get the, get the rice going.
That's going to be on the side.
And then we put the gumbo on top of it.
Oh, that's going to take a while.
That's going to be amazing.
Why would you do it?
Make sure we serve it in bowls.
World number one about gumbo.
Don't ever serve it on a plate.
Hmm.
I'll see if I have bowls.
World number one.
I should have bowls.
Roll for bowls.
All right.
So you guys have a few extra hours to wait until lunch.
Still hard to go on this way here.
I'm going to be like looking around the room just like out of nowhere, just kind of leaning
like, Hey, does anyone have a forgery kit?
You did.
He did just tell you something.
Don't know if you heard or not.
What did he say?
He, during conversation, he mentioned something.
I skipped right past it.
Okay.
We'll move past it.
I guess I'll, I'll just be chopping it up with some of the guards and just picking their
brains because one of them said that he was in the war.
So I want to go back to him and just like pick his brain where he was deployed and all
that.
Yeah.
He says, I was near the side of the morning.
So you were in there.
Yeah.
I saw, I saw some of my friends turn into creatures that I've never seen before.
We had to put them down.
Well better that they're not with us anymore to then to continue living like that.
My unit and I were deployed to the south, south west of the continent.
Did you deal with all the necromancers?
We had to deal with quite a lot of the goblins here and there that were employed by, and
how I can't stand them personally.
Goblins, trolls, all the orcs, they're all the same.
They're all scum.
Well, some of them are smaller.
Yeah, right.
Some of them are beneath that.
Predominantly the necromancers though.
My unit and I, we conducted several search and rescue operations to get high value targets
and individuals back.
My friend Nix, you've probably seen him around the shorter one.
Oh, is he also part of the help?
Yes, yes he is.
We were all in the same unit.
He and I did some very good work down in one of their caves.
We rescued about 19 of our own men from said cave.
That's impressive.
Well thank you.
We get the job done.
How many did you kill?
I usually don't keep track.
We used to.
We used to keep track and place bets.
I'm not much of a betting man either.
I'll leave that to everyone else.
You know, in the past of time we were doing something there no more.
I usually just keep up on calisthenics, make sure that my blades are sharp, my string and
my bow is taught as far as the frivolities of money gambling, things like that.
I have no use for it.
I think you're kind of ventured much outside of your realms.
I thought you were all heart-pleasing.
We do.
It's not often that we go outside of the Feywild.
I had very many of my family, close friends, tell me not to go.
But I saw what was going on and the world would have been a much worse place if I had
not partaken in the conflict.
We would have been living under someone's boot and that's not something that I can live
with.
Hell yeah, that's all we can stand for.
Hell yeah.
Hell yeah, brother.
He kind of looks around and he pulls out from his pocket a silver instrument, it looks like
a flask.
He kind of hands it to you and says, do you want a swig?
Everyone say no!
Oh yeah.
Alright, I take a swig.
What am I tasting?
It is some brandy.
Go ahead and write my constitutions because you're just like, oh this is some strong,
oh my god.
I can do like brandy.
These are all high-end.
13.
Yeah, you're just kind of like, oh!
You haven't had some of this strong in a very long time.
You just get warm all over and you're like, oh they get a hold together, I can't look
good bitch.
You're like.
That really twists my sprout if you catch my meaning.
Yeah, these are a little hard to get these but some of the passengers sometimes, those
rich fucks.
I suppose there might be something to all of the currency after all if I can get more
of this.
Yeah, you should see what kind of booze they have in the first class car.
Far too rich for my blood I think but I suppose if my man and I do a good enough job we might
be able to work our way up.
Yeah, you have to be a certain guard to be there.
Hopefully I'll get there one day.
What's everybody else doing?
Harun being dragged back to the room eventually starts to calm down and is kind of facing
the wall and saying, it's not that bad, it's not that bad, it's gone, it's no more, it's
fine, it's, it's, it's, it's fine.
I'm just sitting there staring like, the fuck?
If you're fine, it's fine.
I'm like this, position where like your coworkers are going to break down but you don't really
necessarily want to open that can of worms.
You're just like sitting there like, yeah.
You're like, do I put my hand on the shoulder, do I not?
Like how do I engage this?
He's actively trying to desensitize himself to the word because he's realizing that this
is a problem but he also realizes he has a very visceral reaction to it.
Yeah.
So with the large distraction and what not, we know, well I would know roughly there's
an hour and a half to two hours of a window at it before the next thing.
Yeah.
Yeah, they're going to have lunch because there's a very special item.
First question, do I know kind of what all the first class people shenanigans kind of
wear in general?
Like there is do wear and things like that?
You saw, I mean, you can do a history here, I can see what you remember, what you saw
and what they were wearing when you first saw them during dinner.
That is 12.
Do you just remember that one of them was wearing white?
A lot of white.
So I'm going to use my disguise kit, take about 10 minutes to match that with what I
have with high carried eyes and stuff and just try to not look like me but just like
average person but would be able to fit in that.
Most of the high was blonde hair or something.
So I matched that and all that.
So with that, when they were going to first class were they presenting their passes and
what not?
No, some of them were just like, most of these people are like first class passengers so
the guards would know them.
And you see like certain maids and other help going in and throughout as well.
Where is the nearest roof access to the train and can I see if it's booby trapped?
You remember that there is one in the cargo bay and then you can go ahead and do an investigation.
Actually go ahead and do a perception check so you can go ahead and check with anybody
else.
Perception 17.
Yeah so most of the passenger cars don't have one but when you get further back the
kitchen area has one and you remember that the cargo bay has one.
I would like to stealth back that way with the cloak active and try to, I'm obviously
not just going to open it and see if it's booby trapped or anything like that and then
if not get on board for the train.
So go ahead and stealth first.
Save a sec off your advantage.
Oh fuck me.
It's better than the one.
It's not going great but that's a plus 11 so that's a 14.
Alright yeah you go unnoticed.
Okay.
They rolled real bad for the perception check.
Yeah it's a disadvantage too.
Yeah oh fuck.
Either way he rolled.
Okay.
What are you writing?
Yeah good for you because they wouldn't have seen you.
Yeah so they're kind of preoccupied with, you kind of do this as they're watching Harun
get dragged back just going whoa.
They're kind of distracted by like what the fuck's happening.
So I want to try to like as stealth as possible go across the roof of the train.
Well you can't, you got to pass the guards but if you're going to look at the hatch
go ahead and roll investigation because.
Please stop rolling better Jesus I'm going to change the eyes.
Investigation 12.
There are what looks like rooms around it.
You don't really know what kind of rooms they are.
Oh son of a bitch.
If I used my thieves tool to disarm there's magic so I wouldn't know how to disarm this
son of a bitch.
You also, I mean do you remember having.
Yeah tase that guy.
So I know I'm not going to just open it.
I'm going to, since I didn't, I'm not coughing opening this.
I'm going to creep back down and then.
There is a back door to the cargo area.
I'll be going that way then.
I'm trying to just get to the roof in any way shape or form.
So I'll go that way.
Okay I mean you do pass, there are the guards you know just on both sides of the cargo area.
And then they kind of look at you like are you doing a day watch as well?
Yeah just making sure we're clear.
I was a little spicy last night.
Okay.
I'm just like no I'm just trying to like as like try to look like I know like I'm supposed
to be here.
One of the guards grabs your shoulder and stops you and says are you okay?
Yeah I was just told to check this out.
No I saw you get almost eaten yesterday.
Yeah that's why you have good friends and good healers.
Okay.
And then kind of just look to you like well if you ever need anything, guard squatters
you can always stop by there.
I don't need that type of healing and I wink and I keep walking through.
Just like try to like bust into you because I know what's going to happen.
Try my best to get to the top of the train.
Alright there's a guard standing outside kind of just look to you.
Are you here to relieve me?
Yes.
Alright I'll be back in 20.
20 got it.
I'm going to like make a note of that so I can kind of gauge time.
And once he leaves wait two minutes I'll get to the top of the train.
Alright go ahead and roll um let's see acrobatics because you're going to.
It's moving Trent.
Yeah it's moving.
I totally understand that.
Okay that's fine.
That's a 13.
Alright you managed to kind of.
I'm sure she's going to go.
You're kind of just on top of it.
You're trying to just climb five or six faster.
I'm like oh got it.
Pay up.
Better.
Be.
Good.
It's like just like I want to try to get to first class and I want to get eyes on everything
that's happening and see if there's like what guy I'm looking for.
I know I'm probably not going to be able to hear anything.
Just want to know what's going on in that first class.
So first class so this is an eight car train.
Yeah I know I'm taking my sweet ass.
You're going to send it.
Alright go ahead and uh are you going to try to like crawl.
Are you going to try to run across.
Crawl I'm taking it.
I'll take my time.
Alright yeah it's going to take you more than 20 minutes to do it.
Yeah well I'm doing that.
Alright yeah so it takes you about like 30 minutes of crawling.
You're like fuck to get there.
You're like oh fuck oh fuck.
You're like this guy's definitely back.
It's fine.
You're going to take that risk crawling doing little jumps till I get across the little
gaps.
Go in on the other archivag.
Let's see if you can sort of go a little better.
There we go.
So that is 21.
Yeah you're just like fuck.
You go to clear the gap and you're like oh.
Alright I did it.
Because you have to get to the first class so you uh do land on top of it.
So what are you doing?
I'm trying to just see anything that's going on.
It's like what people are doing.
The kind of the layout of the first car and everything.
So you're on top.
Go in on the perception check.
First to see if you can.
God damn it.
That one's going to be low.
Perception that's going to be nine.
Yeah you're trying to kind of like listen in but you're like it's going so fast you
just hear a lot of wind like fuck.
I can't hear anything.
I'm trying my best to get any type of like visual so like once I'm in there I'm not going
to be like.
You got to try to drop.
So you're on top.
You got to try to like drop down into it.
Oh.
If it's an even I'll drop it if it's a lot I'm going to back.
It's a natural 20 so I'm going.
So uh what you can notice as you're looking over there is like in the little like pathways
you drop down into that severance car there are guards there as well.
I'm not going to.
Oh man.
No I want to drop down right on guards.
If there's an active guard right there I'm going to start to look and shit and start
to head my way back since I'm not getting cleaned easy way in.
There's a first class car there's going to be guards.
I know I'm back out shit rolls so I know when to pull out.
I mean that is there you got twins on the way.
You are a potent man.
Trying to find an easy way in trying to blow the crowd.
Nothing's working.
I'm getting frustrated.
I'm going to crawl my way back and like as I'm like take that time back.
I'm like I know that guy's back.
I'm just going to drop right next to him.
Holy shit did you see that.
Me neither.
Oh god it's crazy out there.
Don't go up there.
Where are you going?
I'm going to walk back in.
No explanation.
Now I'll walk back in my hair is all frazzled and whatever and I'm just going to look at
the two guys like you guys should put some type of sentries on the top.
It's way too easy to move around and people popping in the charts.
Were you just up there?
Yeah.
Was that what that noise was?
Yeah.
I'm very diligent with my guard duties.
I'm going to try to find the rest of these guys.
I'm kind of just like what the fuck.
They just like can't hear me.
As I'm like going I'm like brushing my hair all back down and whatever just like cursing
under my breath.
I'm going to try to find the part.
As Lee one of them says just remember we're at the guard quarters.
Okay.
Fuck.
I was wondering if I could roll wisdom saving throw of your choice for difficulty to see
if I can convince myself that it's not as big of a deal.
So I won't trip out.
Maybe next time.
Roll the war?
Yes.
Oh I can roll like a high.
I know it might be high.
I don't have like I mean I have a right but.
See if you freak out.
See if you start getting better for your PTSD.
I want to see if I can like yeah I want to see if I can like convince myself because
I am a monk so like I want to try to see if I can convince myself to like take the time
and to like deescalate it.
Let's do it.
Yeah.
We'll see.
We'll roll for PTSD episode.
Okay.
Alright.
Let's see.
Uh.
That one's a 12 plus if it's a saving it's 3 so 15.
Yeah.
You're just like.
I can't freak out.
I've been too much of a.
Too much of a target.
Every single time somebody says war she has to roll a saving throw.
I'll still be drinking with the guards.
Yeah as you uh you're kind of just chilling with them.
Shelfer walks by just fixing her hair and just looks disheveled.
As uh she's walking by trying to fix her hair I just point and go.
I'm just trying to work because I'm like pissed off like I ain't got hair at all.
The guards are like he is working he's standing over this.
He's like.
Yeah.
See we belong in the front line and they belong in the kitchen.
Well now hold on a damn minute.
She might be a bit of a piece of work but she can hold her own.
Also I don't think that her cooking would be any good.
It's probably shit.
It's more than likely poison just always remember that.
If I'm cooking there's a reason.
To you it's just a spice now.
I've been microdosing myself all this time.
I've been building up my anthrax immunity.
Who's the princess bride?
I love that movie.
I don't know if that was enough.
And half way.
Milk.
No the princess bride.
I know what I said.
The one with Andrei the giant.
Yeah that's the one.
Never tried the foolishest.
Perfect yeah beautiful movie.
One of my favorites.
Anyways yeah you just attract a lot of attention actually because.
Yeah.
I am different because I do have a disguise cable so I might look a little bit different.
Because I do have a disguise cable so I might look like someone else I get.
You're a woman in a very male dominated area.
Fair enough.
I'm going to take the time to like I don't know it's kind of like flavor text but like
reloading my dagger.
You guys see me putting like this file back into this very steam pump looking dagger.
Just like reloading my dagger venom.
I think eventually Harun will just come back and just be like looking around in the kitchen
area.
Yeah so your friends you're all kind of gathering congregating your horrors.
This is alert to the guard.
The guard says which one of you is going to stay here.
I'll get lunch first and then we'll switch.
I suppose I can stand guard.
I don't need lunch.
Well then you're staying with me buddy.
Hey.
Alright you guys are staying guard and we'll be gone about 30 minutes about an hour or
so.
Depends on if you have a few drinks or not.
I understand.
I'll see about holding myself back while you're gone.
And then he kind of like he hands you the rest of the flask.
Like this will tide you over.
Ah my good man.
He's like you can save him for now or save him for later maybe have it now.
I'm going the other way.
The day is long and it's time to save her.
Alright so you have a little bit of brandy.
There's probably about a quarter left in this thing.
I'm just going to go ahead and do a very small sip of it now and then put the cat back on
and stow it on my person.
As we're excuse me sorry.
As we're kind of like.
You guys are plating.
You guys are getting.
I'm going to I'm going to like very sneakily try to get.
God damn it I'm blanking on.
Siofra.
You get Siofra's attention like I got a plan.
Yeah you see Siofra sitting down with Harun and Nix.
I got a plan.
All ears.
Where to line?
Where the hell?
Yes.
I was trying to scope out the first class train.
It is a bitch to get there.
Is he here?
The the the elder men.
Oh the chef?
No no no the the the the Alder Alderman.
Yeah yeah so you see as everyone's kind of loading up everyone's everyone's kind of gathering
for lunch and you see there's one table that kind of has like a little reserved area and
you see him walk in.
It's hard not to see him.
He's got his own rings and jewelry on.
When he's about ready since they think we're the hell.
When he's about to be going lunch slap on an apron.
Go act like you're the hell.
And if quietly.
If you allow me I can help you.
See what you got grass man.
How long he says like lunch is like 30 45 minutes.
It depends on how long they want to stay.
They want to stay.
Yeah okay.
The guards are just gonna switch back.
Whenever whenever you're ready just give me a little nod and pass by me and I will actually
yeah just pass by me and I'll give you a little touch.
So I'd like to then change my disguise to be very not like over the top like I'm trying
too hard but kind of the soul tree waitress of like you know love shirt.
Yeah stuff in that shit I'm getting all buttoned up and like I snag whatever clothes and use
the disguise kit to kind of look like that.
And you see me come back like just like not over the top but you're like shit.
I just huff at you.
Which by the can I roll a perception check to see how good it is.
Yeah go ahead.
Like you like how I like it everybody likes it I should say.
Yeah I already rolled for it.
Okay.
Oh 19 plus 8 I believe so 27.
The legend 27.
You see everyone at first is kind of just looking at it and smelling it because they
have never really seen or smelled something like this before but then the chef comes in
like dig in everyone it's a delicacy from the more rustic part of the area.
It's from the south.
You know how simple those creatures are but this is delicious.
And you see some of them start digging in and a few of them like whoa you see the olerbees
like oh it's delicious.
Yeah I want to try to be the person that actually delivers the plate to the olerbees.
Yeah okay perfect.
Harun's also walking back and forth.
I'm trying to give him that like I'm ready.
If he does it then I'm going to cast enhance ability which I believe in that one is the
cat's grease right which gives you dexterity.
Yeah gives you advantage on every dexterity check.
He yes you see everyone you see some of the as you're kind of just you're in the kitchen
like kind of just loading bowls and everything and you're coming back and then you kind of
just you see some of the other helpers start grabbing and they have aprons on they're grabbing
there's spare aprons in the kitchen.
You want to grab one?
Yeah I'm trying to blend.
Oh yeah.
He grabs one of the spare aprons.
You start grabbing the tray and you start walking over to him.
Oh he's taking a big breath.
He's kind of walking over there and he's like cussing at myself in my hands every fucking
time I got through the same goddamn charade.
Hi honey.
He's like better now that you're in the food are you?
Oh thank god you know good taste.
And here I got something special just for you.
And then as you're sitting there and I lean in real heavy as I slide in front of him.
He grabs your hand and you're sitting there and I was like oh I know about good taste.
First reaction is like the pull away when I saw myself and I was like oh really and I
give him a little wink and I kind of pull away.
As he grabs your hand you just feel like there's just like rings and this man is like two rings
on each finger.
I'm going to like turn my hand up and like look at the rings and I'm like oh my god where
did you get these?
He's like oh some of these are the family and some of these are when I was feeling like
a little bit of a splurge.
See I've always had the biggest heart for anything that's like enchanted.
You ever heard of that enchanted thing?
Where they can make you walk on water or glide the clouds.
I think your eyes are enchanted.
Oh you're so nice.
He's like uh.
You ever heard of that enchanted?
Not that I can remember.
And then I'm like trying to like look through the rings and like any of them that have like
narcosin.
He's like this is my house ring.
This is me or Ryan.
I'm going to like look trying to do like like really look into that and investigate it.
While she she she's investigating I'm going to come up with a garlic bread and be like
don't forget your bread.
So she can kind of thoroughly investigate it while I'm coming over and trying to put the
bread in front of them.
He's looking at it.
Not looking at her eyes but looking.
Dang.
I'm trying to distract her a little bit.
He's already distracted.
I know.
I'm trying to get a longer look at it.
Oh he's getting longer.
Dirty 20.
Yeah.
Yeah you see um some of them are like house rings.
Some of them are just like they have just golden rubies or emeralds or other random
things.
One of them is an emerald ring.
And then the other ones are um because you you can see like there's a lot of other ones
but you haven't really seen one with an emerald ring on it.
He has one emerald ring on it.
I'm going to play it out.
Oh my god is that a oh I always mess up this word.
Emerald?
Emeralds.
Oh yeah I know they're they're especially around these parts.
Where'd you get it from?
It was a gift from a friend.
Oh mysterious.
You know it pays to be a high ranking individual.
And he kind of just tries he kind of pulls your hand a little closer.
Yeah I'm just going to let it happen.
Oh he's like I'd love to hear more.
But I am working but I got time later.
He's like come find me in the first class car.
Okay how do I how do I get in there they're so stiff at the door I can't I can't even
talk to them.
Uh just tell them that Baldwin's in you.
Okay.
So I pull away, walk to the next group and smack them shake it off and is that the press?
And he kind of as you turn around he just smacks you on the ass.
I'm gonna like stop like stand like straight up.
The first reaction is a stab.
And then just keep walking forward.
And I'm gonna walk it.
I'm gonna walk my Mr. Ulazonga over here and be like did you fucking kill me?
Just keep walking by.
I'm sure it was Martha.
Did you get it?
I got a private meeting with him later so I gotta wait in first class.
I'm sort of like.
Her cringe just a bit from hearing that statement.
I'm also visibly cringey at that one.
Well it's in the kitchen you're in the dining room.
You so you're watching this go down.
You're watching this as you're like.
Because this is just kind of not happening.
He's someone of like high status so no one's really saying anything because they're like
damn this guy this is just strange.
Ulazonga's face is most likely like one of those faces where kind of like strain back
your teeth like a eeehhh.
It was made into anyone.
At some point Harun is at while walking back and forth is going to and just walk towards
the kitchen and just kind of like lean in and see if he can see Siafra and then just
be like I found him he's right there.
I'm just gonna squint my eyes at you.
Thank you.
You've had to let me know.
Let you know.
You did such a job.
Thank you.
And I go back to walking the whole back and forth just doing our duty.
It's been after about like you guys were eating for like 30-40 minutes and then you see two
of the guards get up and just leave.
And then they come fetch you and then they just see Harun walking back and forth.
If you're hungry we can take our post back.
Ah starving.
Thank you.
I'm gonna go ahead and make my way over to the dining hall.
As I'm in the hallway I pass by Harun.
If you wanted to join me I'll be going to the dining hall.
I know that you don't have much of an appetite.
Work is over?
For now.
Got it.
And I'm gonna keep marching to following you.
As you were Nick you were kind of just eating and lasagna and Siafra was still in the kitchen.
I was trying to food up meat with you guys so we can like chat about the plan.
You see as you're coming in the oldest brother and some of the table there are kind of finishing
up and leaving as you see some of them going up and getting out.
But as he's walking away he kind of just walks by your table and then just says just make
sure to see me later and kind of just grab your shoulder and just walks by.
I'm just gonna like freeze because it's so hard for me.
Just like let that go.
Like okay bye.
Like in like the most like voice craft.
Doesn't happen in front of me?
Yeah.
Okay.
As I'm approaching the table with my gumbo.
You're teary?
I'm teary.
That's it.
As I'm approaching the table with her.
Keep in mind this is the old Ryan.
This is his train car.
I know.
And his family's train car.
I'm not yeah I know.
I have a whole insight to see if he's tripping out.
And then he's just like.
I'm standing there gumbo in hand.
Mouthing what the fuck.
You just see Nick just like.
I'm just gonna clarify.
I'm like please don't ruin this.
I'm like talking to my teammates.
I'm like shut the fuck up.
I'm good.
I don't even care.
I don't even care bro.
Do you?
I like when you talk to me like that.
I mean.
You see the one the guard's talking to.
The bulb one.
And then he kind of like as he's leaving kind of winks at you.
I'm like what?
I'm like I'm not going to do this.
I'm just going to do this.
I'm just going to do the bulb one and then he kind of like as he's leaving kind of winks
at you.
I'm going to do a really shy thing and go back.
I'm just absolutely perplexed seeing this.
But then I go and start digging in.
Like as he's eating most of us on the group I'm like okay so I can have.
And you were just eating something to leave.
You were just like oh my god this is just rich and delicious.
You've never had something like this in your life.
You're seeing this happen and then as soon as you start eating you're like fuck whatever's
happening there.
I'm just.
Real.
So one of you guys said the ring was magic.
I have a way in the first class.
Do you remember which ring was magic?
Do you need me to find out?
Is this guy still in the room?
No he left.
Ah shit.
That's why he's fast in my.
I'm asking you guys like which one was it that motherfuckers.
So I.
No one on the chat.
I'm just trying to figure out if I remember.
Thank you for bringing.
Cause I didn't do detect magic last time to see which one it was exactly.
I just need to see if I remember.
I also did it.
I think you didn't know which one directly.
Yeah that was a problem.
Yeah you didn't know.
He had a bunch of rings on him so you couldn't pinpoint directly which one was.
Because he.
His whole hand was yellowing.
He's someone who's like he's very much flaunting his wealth.
He has a bunch of rings on.
Twenty.
Twenty two.
So you're just like.
You're just like we were told that emerald a precious thing so it could be that one.
Okay.
Why do we need a ring?
We're here for guard duty don't ever wait.
Yeah I don't trust people like him.
He.
How do I say this.
Attracts a certain type of attention.
And I feel like if we have our eyes on him as the most sort of person on this train we'll
be ahead of the game.
It's not my first rodeo in espionage.
He attracted your attention.
Yes.
With that twenty two.
I use detect magic.
Do I know the school of magic?
That is because detect magic does allow me to know.
It's a.
An incantation.
Well I know that this isn't your first foray into this sort of thing but I'll say it plainly
I didn't like them back in the city either but for the moment we're kind of stuck with
them up until we reach our destination.
I don't think that we should be making any enemies.
I'm not kicking a hornet's nest.
I'm just getting all the cards in my hand before I play poker.
Am I weak?
Well as long as you're just gathering information keep me in the loop.
I think one thing we should definitely be concerned about is the fucking attack that
just happened to us last night.
Well gnolls they raid anything.
Have you ever seen them fly?
They were flying?
On these disks?
There was a disk?
One got away.
I thought she told us about that.
I told the staff and the group about the whole thing and the one that got away.
You guys have been going back and working your food and you're just like oh fuck I need
to pay attention.
Sorry you did an incredible job on this.
I'm pissed but I'm eating toils.
You're like oh fucking god you're so good.
Well it is strange when I was checking the bodies there wasn't any note, there wasn't
any order that was given.
I mean you can hire out gnolls to do your dirty work but most of the time they just
eat you.
I don't expect this being anything larger than what it is which is just them seeing
an attack of opportunity.
Oh I miss being naive.
Oh I'm sorry let's hear that out loud.
You bitch.
Can't hear you were defending me.
You said they were flying on a disk?
Yes.
Like what do you mean?
Like and I pick up a plate and I'm like like this?
Harun's going to lean over and then take his fingers and be like yes.
Interesting.
I'll say that it's strange enough to where I understand the concern.
I feel like we just don't know enough.
We need to get more.
Can gnolls use magic?
Most of the time no.
I'll go to the street check to see if there's any text or readings in my past of gnolls
not being other than barbaric.
Well just from the war and everything else you know they're barbaric.
So is it strange?
Is it?
Yeah.
This is odd.
Okay.
Just want to make sure it's not like a certain stance.
Can I go to a guard and uh.
But you also do not mean after the war everything was shaken up that night.
Things are.
Yeah.
They do.
We are just normal.
I was just going to say can I go to a guard and ask him about the attacks?
Yeah.
There are several guards.
Some of them were eating.
Some of them from the night before were eating gathered around.
One of the guards who.
Who walked up with garlic bread.
Yeah.
All of them walked up and they were just like oh there's more.
And they started grabbing in.
And one of them sees.
So if it says there's a seat over here if you want to sit down.
Well my time is already uh accounted for.
All day.
Oh.
Oh okay.
Never mind your manners.
I'm just saying a prop up.
You're one of those kind of serving girls.
Like biting my tongue.
Like I'm going to say it really quietly.
Some of the other guys are like he's the worst guy.
And then you see like some of the other guys are kind of struggling.
And one of them is like.
I'm going to like glare at those on the family.
We're just like stepping between them two.
So I was like here's the bread.
And they're like oh this is delicious.
Now give me the scoop.
We were.
Hold on.
We got a tag.
He's just trying to reach for more bread.
He's just.
I'll give him one.
He's like yeah.
I was like we were attacked yesterday.
Yeah it was there.
You were there.
Awesome.
You guys were there.
Has.
You saw the noels then right.
Yeah.
Has the other attacks that have been on this ship ever been magical noels.
A few times actually.
Yeah they've been.
Crazy.
More.
And I would give me a piece of bread.
Every seven times he answers a question.
He's like oh yeah he's starting to eat.
Training him.
All right so I'm just curious to know why would they want to target us.
We have a cart full of rich people.
What do you think they're probably trying to rob them.
Yeah but noels don't fly.
I mean true but do you never know they could have raided someone they could have made deals.
Good choice.
And then I put it all.
I put it all.
All right.
I was just curious to know about that.
That's that's all.
Yeah I mean unless they got.
I don't know.
They could have gone for a bought something black market's huge still.
All right.
Let's just go back to them.
I was just curious to know if they were attacked by others.
Or if this was a rare instance.
Yep it's happened a few times though.
Can I like since he's in between them to kind of like snag seafras attention and said you
said he had an emerald.
Yes.
Lording over the damn thing.
Emeralds are not common.
Didn't we hear about emerald claw.
Oh related.
That's something to do with that.
I don't fully understand but I'm not in a long act on like they do.
It's the same emerald necklace that we got from that.
As a vampire.
We did find that Orion the Dora and a amulet next to that vampire too.
I do have a sneaking suspicion that all of this is connected.
So it can't hurt to get that room.
I'm still like he's like never trust the book by its cover.
Was that I wasn't reading the book.
That's a shame.
The necklace was the necklace.
Emerald.
I have the necklace on me.
No you guys.
Emerald necklace of control.
Never ever.
Yeah we gave them.
You have a pocket watch.
I traded it.
Pocket watch.
Yeah you have the pocket watch.
Yeah.
I got a pair of glasses.
Wasn't it the shadow broker.
The information broker.
Yeah you guys traded.
We got a decent amount of shit though.
Oh yeah.
Nice genarians.
Who's got the bag of holding.
I do.
Okay.
I have a theory that I would like to run past all of you.
Bala Malyr?
Those vampires got into the city through the sewers.
We're seeing a lot of emerald iconography with these nobles.
I'm thinking that has to be connected.
Probably they're already sucking us dry.
Can I get a high five?
Woo!
That was good.
Oh that's five second damage.
So I'm thinking that the Diorian family, they're the ones that are importing all of these undead.
We keep seeing emeralds, emerald claw, emerald ring, emerald amulet.
And whenever we find that we find vampires not too far away.
Vampires are pretty good at intermingling with this society.
I think he could be a vampire.
I would agree with you.
I could check.
Next time you see Olden, Olden's brother.
I would agree with you but we found the Orion watch on a vampire spawn.
It wasn't the direct vampire.
That's where we found the emerald necklace was on the vampire.
So I'm not disagreeing with you.
I still think it might be an inside job but I don't think it's the Olden.
The magic actually wasn't an inside job.
It was a curse.
It was a curse?
Well that changes things.
Hold on.
I misread something.
It was a curse.
So like it's bad.
It's a bad thing if you wear it.
Lasagna would know if you put that ring on it's bad.
You wouldn't know.
So you know it's a curse.
You don't know the effects.
But it's something bad.
From what you know about curse magic.
Okay.
So the ring that that fancy guy has is cursed.
Possibly.
I'm definitely going to inform them about that.
Because we know that the other item was cursed as well.
It was the necklace of control that we traded.
So there was two cursed items that we know of now.
Yes?
That definitely changes things.
I think we need to get that ring and figure it all out.
I'm not disagreeing with you that I think the Orion people are involved but I don't think it's the Olden.
I think it might be him.
The guy that we're on the train with.
He might be involved.
That's what I'm thinking.
Okay.
I think we're on the same track.
Sorry.
It might be a murder.
Not on my watch.
I'm just laying back and going.
Fuck.
You just scream my name and I'll be there in a hurry.
It's a lie.
I would rather die.
Like a human.
I walk away and you're like, fuck a biker.
Yeah, whatever.
You want to die a horrible death?
Fuck you.
Sorry, I thought you were saying the Olden was the one.
Well, I don't think that it's their entire clan although it might be.
Any one of them that has any emerald on them though.
I am now of the inclination to think that they're involved.
They are what we call sus.
I suppose that also comes from the south, doesn't it?
It's a south thing.
Suspect.
Are we traveling to the Mournlands?
No, we're not.
We're going to get up to the exit.
Yeah, we're kind of going northeast around it to a farm?
Yeah, I think it's the Mournlands.
Just curious because I know that that's where the emerald claw is.
The emerald claw is supposed to be is in the Mournlands.
Yeah, the Mournland is where the war happened.
So the only problem I have is he's obviously really attached to his appearance.
If this special ring goes missing, I'm going to be the first problem he deals with.
He either got to switch it, which would be pretty difficult to replace emerald,
or does someone else have a different plan?
Well, you like to consider yourself very charming.
I can give my hand on it, no worries.
I'm worried about the repercussions.
I don't want to get into a metaphorical bee's nest.
One moment.
I'm not saying that we kick any bee's nest.
I'm saying that you charm the man, and then he's so entranced by whatever you have going on
that he forgets about the ring entirely.
He has other much more valuable items.
I don't think he's going to forget about this ring.
It's the only goddamn thing he was talking about.
I see.
Can you look like a gnoll?
I look like a gnoll?
Can you look like a gnoll?
Why would a gnoll look like a gnoll?
Can you get the ring to me, and I can help identify it, and then you get it back to him?
That's not a bad way of meeting a gnoll.
What if he drinks too much?
I can hold my liquor, honey.
No, him.
Oh, I know he won't.
Maybe he'll hold it.
I'll hold up a little vial.
Sleep or forever sleep?
Which one do you want?
Sleep.
Okay.
Forever sleep?
Can we hold a vote?
Everyone holds up two hands for forever sleep.
Let's calm down.
We don't need to be rash.
We just need to figure out what it is.
The only thing I can think of doing is like, I'm going to shudder.
I can get the ring off of him, pass it off, but it's going to, we have to get it returned before the morning.
Exactly.
I hate to say it.
He makes it just like a whine up on the table.
Yeah, I was like, why can't it be me?
It should have been me.
I hate to say it, but the guards trust you.
I could hide it in your clothes with my tiny body and try to sneak in.
I am only three feet tall and 45 pounds.
Lasagna can turn into animals.
Well, I don't really wear clothes.
I mean, I'm wearing clothes.
Yeah.
Okay.
That's it.
Nice.
I'm wearing like common clothes without my armor.
I could try to hide.
You wear a cloak or something or yeah, lasagna turns into animals.
Maybe they can sneak in and drop it off later.
Lasagna can do that.
I think if you can get the ring, maybe pass it off to lasagna.
Let me identify it.
Lasagna gets the ring again, passes it back off to you.
Well, we're good.
How small of an animal can you turn into?
It can't be something high profile.
I mean, how small do you need me to be?
That's entirely dependent on the space in which Siofra is operating.
I turn into a rat.
Oh, please don't turn into a rat.
I'm not carrying a goddamn rat.
There is something that vexes you.
Yeah.
That's right.
Mouses are inside.
Rats are outside.
Is there a difference?
Yes.
Mice are smaller and they're friends.
Mice aren't friends, but...
Fuck you.
The larger a rat is, the bigger an issue.
It becomes good killin'.
Good killin' though.
Oh yeah, see, a little mice, they're like smaller and they're more cuddly, so they look cuter.
I had some mice friends in the mouse.
Don't you kinda like the little shirt pocket on the inside that I could just sit in?
Everybody was in my goddamn clothes.
Oh, I'm gonna get in that.
Please, everyone fucking leave.
I had her clothes on.
This is bullshit.
I don't think too highly of herself.
So, get in, get the ring.
I can get the Zogman.
What are we gonna get out of stealing this ring, other than knowing what it is?
It gives us great information on what's going on with him.
Okay.
I would agree with that.
If it holds the same curse as the amulet, we have more information to deal with.
I don't think any of us puts this on.
I'm pretty resistant to charms.
None of us are wearing this, we just need to identify it and then put it back on.
I volunteer next to Tribune.
Is there a dark duty towards the front?
The only two things I can think of is either you come with me as my assistant, as everyone's gotten used to that, honey,
or we go with the mouse idea.
I'm here for...
Why not all three?
I think...
If you can go in your pocket, he goes, as your assistant.
You can go in here.
We got a backup plan for a backup plan.
I think that it'll be a bit of a hard time persuading you to go with her.
I was talking to some of the guards earlier and they say that even the guards that are in first class have to be vetted pretty extremely poorly.
Are you hollow inside?
No.
Oh, I'm not?
No.
They're kind of like this.
They're kind of like robotic humanoids.
There's a humanoid structure underneath.
Right.
I mean, there's pockets in there.
And I am wearing clothes.
Would a three-foot tall man possibly fit somewhere in there?
Under my robes?
Between his legs maybe.
I don't know.
I think we're making this a little too convoluted.
Yeah, I think this is...
Let me...
You two go.
Quick question for the DM.
Yes.
If I'm concentrating on a spell and I transform into a wild shape...
You lose concentration.
I lose concentration.
You don't have that...
I get to be level 50 or higher, I think, to do that.
Okay.
Yeah, it's a higher level thing.
Okay.
Yeah.
Just curious.
Not yet.
At some point, once you get really high level, then you can...
Yeah.
You guys just go, give me the ring, I'll identify it, and then give it back to him.
If you can slip it, hide it in your pocket, if you can slip it into your pocket, I will
take it and I will get out.
Just leave the door just a little crack and I'll get out with it.
Why not put him in the bag of folding?
Because you will die, honey.
Why?
There's no air.
Air?
Oh yeah.
It's not good for the flesh, the meaty bits in that tap of the shoulder.
See?
Solid in that tap of the shoulder.
Soft.
Bad for soft.
Oh.
Should I go in the pack?
I don't know if you'll fit.
Disassemble.
I think that at the very least you'll be able to get in because he owns the damn train.
But that might be it.
Yeah, I think you two got it.
I tried.
So you guys wait around until dinner.
You guys are going to be meandering about.
Luzardo is helping in the kitchen very much as our key player.
Oh.
Now that you've earned your key, do you have access to the kitchen whenever?
Fuck yeah.
I'm going to say a DCR for real quick.
If you need a pass off the ring, I could go up top.
You could pass it in between the cards.
I thought they were passing it to Zogna.
How sneaky are you, honey?
It's very hard for me.
Harry.
Hmm.
I'm going to describe the layout of when I was on top of the train to him so he has
the same information.
Not a bad backup to the backup plan.
I think we have too many plans, but I like where your brain is going, honey.
If you need help, ring my name.
Please lead that.
You have the clean field?
Zogna, you're preparing a roast for dinner.
It's going to be a late dinner since they had a pretty hearty lunch.
I'm going to take naps.
Yeah.
You see some of the first class folks getting in and eating dinner.
You don't see Bob in there though.
You only see some of the first class passengers eating and you see some of the people taking
the first class food to the first class.
Do I notice that he's not in there?
Yeah.
He's a very noticeable person.
Okay.
The fact that I see other people eating and I don't notice him, I'm going to look at him
like, hey, this is the best time.
What's your passive?
Passive perception?
16.
Yeah.
You see people going opposite as well as some people taking food to the first class area.
I notice that my passive is 14.
In the kitchen?
You're kind of munching.
In the kitchen, I'm just going to... because my passive perception is 18, so I probably
see this.
Yeah.
The chef's telling you, he's like, yeah, make sure... he's like, these are going to the
first class car.
Some of them didn't want to leave because they're a little too in the sauce, as you
may say.
I get it.
The gumbo does that.
And the drinks are flowing in the first class car.
I'm going to take my 15, okay?
My government regulated 15 and a bite.
Go ahead.
I think I can handle the rest of it.
You've heard me.
I'll have some of the other help finish up.
I'm going to come in as that happens.
I'm here for all of this.
The brother of all this.
Oh, yes.
He seems to have taken a liking to you.
Yeah.
Wasn't I so blessed?
He's a very crude man.
I... while they're talking, I'm going to turn into one of us.
Just trying to be a woman around him.
Oh, shit.
Yeah.
The chef is a... he's a very eccentric man.
He's like a whimper.
Then I'm going to use sleight of hand to pick up the...
He has a lot of money.
I'm going to think there's some good coming out of this.
I'm going to use my sleight of hand to pick up the mouse and try to tuck him into my aprons and stuff.
You're going to turn into a mouse?
I'm going to turn into a mouse, but I'm going to try to do it a little bit stealthily.
While they're having this conversation, so it's a little...
Behind your back.
Yeah.
I'm just going to try...
10.
Yeah.
He... yeah.
What is going on?
Behind the counter.
I'm going to crouch down and then just turn into a mouse.
Unfortunately, he does see that.
He's like, what?
He's like, why is there a mouse in my kitchen?
He's like, I'm going to screech.
That kid's a guard.
He goes to stomp on it and just goes...
I'm going to be moving.
I'm dodging, dipping and diving.
What's going on?
What's your AC for?
Fuck.
I don't think that's a thing.
Oh, fuck.
Either way, you know.
I'm going to try to armor class.
I want to see if he'd step on you, and he rolled pretty goddamn high.
What'd he roll?
He rolled a 19.
Oh my God.
Without any...
Hey, man, you never know.
Maybe their shit is... because their dexterity is super high.
No, I'm going to put it here.
It's 10.
How many hit points do you have?
One.
Bitch.
Fuck you, God-Tay.
You get a hit for three hit points.
Okay.
I'm going to try to get him to step on you.
Awesome.
Well, was that three points total?
Yes.
Okay.
Two.
How many hit points does he have?
He has one.
Yeah, you revert back as he steps on you, and you revert back as he steps.
He's like, oh, oh, what the hell was that?
I was just trying to be a mouse.
Why did you do that?
I like to transform into things.
That's my thing.
Can you not tell?
The God-Tay of Garth put you up to this.
It was a prank.
That's what it was, God-Damn it.
God-Damn it, I'm going to get them.
Go get them.
I'm going to turn right back into a mouse.
He's like, God-Damn it.
I'm going to pick him up now?
He's just like, hold him up.
I'm like, you dumb fuck.
He's getting furious and just chomping me.
I was really hoping to have our stuff checked.
You just hear commotion because you hear screaming, and you're just like.
Her runes already run into the kitchen.
Do I hear this as well?
In this distraction, I'm going to try to stealth out with lasagna in my pocket.
It was lasagna.
It's spelled lasagna.
Stealth out, so I wouldn't see you?
You'd probably see me go past.
I'm just trying to get that.
Oh, I get you.
You see the chef's like, your friend turned into a mouse to scare me.
Well, scare your little damsel there, and then your scream scared me.
What did you do?
I stepped on him.
He's trying to offer a high five.
High five.
What is that?
In excitement, you go.
And then I come up, I'm like, yeah.
A very primitive.
I'm going to be eating.
How is the roast?
Describe the roast.
It's a giant pork roast.
Is it seasoned?
Oh, yeah.
There's like herbs on top underneath, like potatoes and carrots.
He's like, wait a second.
And of course, garlic bread.
Always.
All right, he's going to head back out.
Noticing that all of my friends are rushing into the kitchen, I kind of sigh.
And then I continue to eat.
Here we go.
Can I just enjoy this?
Kind of see right here.
I'm going to head to first class with the food in hand and mouse in pocket.
All right.
Are we going?
Are you following?
Well, I would be going a different way.
That's just me.
Yeah, okay, perfect.
Yeah.
So I think the two guards in like full plate are there, and they just kind of stop you.
He's like, who's?
And they kind of like.
Alden's brother.
Are you his latest toy?
I will find out if I'm worthy.
I'm like acting like I'm super nervous.
And it's like, I tell them to be gentle, and they just kind of chuckle at you as you pass by.
You see kind of, they're just kind of making crude comments as you pass by.
I'm going in.
Is he in mice cringe?
He cringed.
Harun is trying to stealth like Siafra was doing, like this kind of the same.
So go ahead and open your acrobatics if you try to get in top of the train.
Okay.
Especially, first you're going to have to pass through the guards, because the guards do see you, and they.
So someone's in the guards from outside, and he kind of sees you, like, are you here to guard again with us?
Yes, I'm here to expect.
What do you?
Look around, make sure everything is okay.
All right.
What are you checking?
For no.
Well, we haven't seen any.
Yes, but I have robot eyes.
Do you want to stand guard outside then?
Yes, go to the back.
I'm going to start walking.
You see the guard in the back, and he kind of looks at you and is like, are you here to guard?
Yes, I have robot eyes.
All right, okay.
This is how I look, and I'm going to be aggressively going like this to almost take up the room.
So maybe it feels a little uncomfortable being there also.
Are you here to relieve me?
Yes.
If I come back, you'll still be here?
When will you come back?
The last person who told me I didn't come back and I got in trouble.
How did you get in trouble?
Because no one was at my post.
How did they know?
Because they checked.
Or then they were not at their post.
So why did they not get in trouble?
They just checked our post, dummy.
Are you new to this?
Yes, but I already thought no.
You're a very strange machine.
Go take a nap.
I will be back in one hour because I'm going to go eat dinner.
You better be here.
You got it.
He's going to go and just go looking at you as he's walking away.
I'm just doing the thing again.
It's very uncomfortable.
You kind of see him pass through and start walking past.
He leaves the car in the air as you see him enter the doors.
I'm going to try to climb up top.
Go ahead and let me see how well you manage to scale up there.
Okay, I'm going to use that inspiration.
I thought that was a wood.
I'm not falling off.
The balloon's dead.
That's much better.
Is it acrobatics?
Yes.
Okay, that's 21.
You're like, it's moving, but you're like, I can move with you.
I'm going to just get over and go off of the offer's instructions.
Are you running across?
I'm moving, but I'm also keeping an eye for the train cars in between.
I'm going to slow down and then see if there's anybody looking and try to hop in between when there's a chance.
As you get to about five cars in and you hear someone yell, what are you doing up there?
I'm checking for null.
Why are you on the roof car?
Because I don't need to breathe.
One of the guards is looking at you from one of the hatches.
We just hear lots of loud running and thuds on all the train cars.
I will be quiet.
I apologize.
Keep on down here.
I live to serve.
But how will I see the nulls?
You come up here.
Where's your odor?
What do you mean? We are mercenaries hired.
Do you not want me to do the job I already got paid?
Where's your odor?
I live to serve.
He's like, get down here.
Can I go down the way I came?
He's like, come through this hatch.
Wait, hatch?
He's hopping through the hatch?
Did he not get zapped?
No, he opened it.
Oh, okay.
Well, if he opened the hatch, is there any notable thing to open it?
This is like on the sixth cart.
The sixth cart?
Yeah.
There were hatches on the first two.
I mean, the last two, the cargo and the other dining cart.
Okay.
Yeah, I'm going to go back to my post.
I'm not going through that hatch.
You're going to just run back across?
Yeah, I'm just going to be like, sorry, I must return to my post.
I have orders.
And I'm just going to go back.
He's so confused.
He's like, what the fuck?
I'm going to drop down to where I was and look around and see what he's becoming.
And I'm going to try it again.
You were a robot man running across the roof cars.
There was a...
Da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
Nobody heard that.
Metal man on a metal train.
Nobody.
Yeah.
I don't know if somebody else needs to do something right now, but he would be trying
to stealth this time from the past.
As you're getting there, you see there are like couches and other being assorted where
people are kind of sitting around.
There's maid going around serving some of the guests.
You do see Baldwin kind of sitting around just lounging and there are people coming up
and serving him alcohol and like trays of fruit.
Someone will walk up like, hi, I have dinner.
There's like another woman sitting next to him.
He just kind of shoves her off and says, there's an open seat for you.
I'm like shaking when he sits down with a plate still in hand.
He's like, he kind of just starts grabbing with his hands and starts, he's like, would
you like some sweetheart?
Sure.
Does he feed me?
Yeah, he's going to try to feed you.
I'm going to persist throwing up.
Don't just throw up.
Yeah, you're just like, he kind of like grabs you.
He's saving.
He's got to grab your chin and starts feeding you some vegetables and just starts, he's
like.
He's just like, oh, I knew you were going to be back for me.
Plus.
So this is so nice out here.
So fancy.
Oh yeah.
Only the best for the first class.
Then you see him start snapping his fingers at one of the other elves and you see them
just kind of run over with like a bottle and just serve this little, I haven't catched
your name quite yet.
What was it?
Sydney.
All right.
Get her a glass and make sure it's something strong.
I don't drink too, oh, okay.
And then you see them, it's like right away and they start pouring.
He's like only the finest champagne.
And he kind of goes to grab your hand.
Oh, I'm going to pull away my glasses.
Is there not anywhere anymore private?
Oh, I have a room, but I have to eat first and you have to, well, you look like you had
a long day.
You have a drink.
Okay.
I'm going to hold the glass up and just like babysit it.
It's some sparkling champagne.
You're like, oh, this is.
That's good.
You're like, oh God, you like it.
I can't afford this.
I'm just going to sit there like nervous, just looking like him.
He kind of just, he's kind of just picking it out to eat.
And you see like as he's kind of finishing up, more of the other elves comes up and just
starts wiping his hand.
I'm just going to like nicely act like the glass that I'm doing like handed away.
Oh, that was so good.
I'm handing it to the elf.
It's like cleaning up.
Yeah, he kind of just takes it and just kind of gives you, he gives you a look of like,
of understanding of like.
So what do you guys do here?
You see he put, he wrapped his arm around you and just kind of like.
Lean in.
He's like, another drink?
And he, he looks a little sloshed over and he's got a few.
I'm just like, well, my head's already spinning a little bit.
I don't really have that glass.
It was really big.
Oh, I have a little bit of a
really big,
I'm just trying not to fucking bomb.
The sentence I have an effect on women makes me want to shit myself.
I'm not going to say no thank you.
No thank you.
She just, she kind of starts pouring.
It's like a quarter full and then she kind of just pretends to pour and he's kind of
just drinking it out with paying attention.
Yeah, I'm gonna say thank you.
I'm like, I'm loud.
What I don't mean.
But you, um...
As you're kind of waiting, the other guy comes back, he's like,
Oh! He's like, you're actually here! He's like, oh!
He's like, am I getting in trouble?
He's like, some idiot was just running through there, I can't do math.
Some idiot was on the roof.
What, the null?
I better go check!
Go do that, go do that!
I better go check!
The smartest one.
Now he's gonna try to stealth across.
First roll like a vaccine, you can get back up here.
All right, all right, all right.
Oh, shit.
You got it. Hot dice, hot dice.
Oh, shit, not bad.
Okay, uh, that'd be 24.
Yeah, so you're just like, I'm doing this in your cat like,
now go ahead and let me stealth check.
Okay, stealth check, come on.
Oh, yes.
Um, let me see my stealth, uh, dirty 20.
All right, so this time you're just like.
Maybe I like take my old rows and like wrap them around my feet or something
to make it less clunky.
And so you're kind of just more stealthily like crawling across.
Back to the, um, the uncomfortable corner.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah. As you see, um, he's already having a few glass balls and he says, um,
I have my own private cabin if you would like to go in for a little nightcap.
Sounds wonderful.
And as they're doing that, I'm going to just like try to mime with my little mouse hands.
Crack the door.
Like, you're in his pocket, you have to get out of his pocket.
Well, like I'm going to on her breast, on her breast, just like, just sort of just like,
you know, have the door be closed, like, you know, both hands together and then slowly just
like crack it and kind of keep it there.
Go ahead.
Let's see what you have to roll for that.
Roll for performance.
See how well you can get this.
I'm just going to roll a d20 and see what the fuck happens because I don't know what stance.
17.
Yeah.
You feel this little, and you just crawl up there.
I'm going to immediately try not to jump.
And you see if you're like fucking, you see him kind of just like.
Yeah.
What the fuck is this?
Rat stats are like not a thing.
Yeah.
Rat stats.
This guy doing this one.
So I see him doing that.
I'm going to cast my psychic whispers and I need to roll a d6 so we can speak together
through the brain without eye contact for six hours.
Oh, wow.
And now you hear me.
But what's the intelligence of a mouse?
You're like, I hold my own intelligence.
So you don't think your wisdom.
Yeah, the only stats that don't roll over is strength, dex, and con.
Okay.
Everything else stays.
I just kind of say, I just need the door to be just cracked open just a little bit to get out.
Okay.
Got it.
Did you see, um, my boss is like, what are you first?
He's like, I insist.
I'm going to like step in and step to the side and then try to slide of hand, keep my foot
just barely at the edge of the door.
So when he tries to close.
So you guys are just getting up out of like the cabin.
Yeah.
Once we get into the private room, that's what I'm trying to do.
So you see this private room, the room is probably about twice the size of the room
that you guys are in.
As you see, like, um, a servant comes in with you when you see him kind of just type the beds,
the beds, like immaculately made.
And then you see one of the servants kind of like, do you need anything else, sir?
And he's like, God, just bring it on the bottle and a few, and two glasses.
And then he's like, anything else you want, sweetie?
Any other fruits or desserts?
Oh, I would love some desserts.
He's like, anything he just looks at it.
Boy, what do we got for dessert?
He's like, we have some, some fruits, some cake.
Cake would be great.
Right away.
And then he kind of just tries not to make eye contact with him.
And it says, and he kind of just like snaps it and like chop chop.
And he's like, all these this help.
He's like, I'll make sure you're nice and sweet.
You hear a dry heave in your mind.
Okay.
A few minutes goes by, uncomfortable.
Like, he kind of just like asking you a little small talk.
You hear, you hear a knock and then you see, um, I'm going to go stand up and answer the door.
Yeah.
Reflex you see one of them holding a tray, there's cake and then a big bottle of champagne.
And I think he thinking I'm going to take it with my two hands and then as he leaves, I'm going to
pinch the door.
Perfect.
Yeah.
You get the bottle of champagne, you get the cake.
And then you see, uh, all these kind of taking off his big coat.
He's like, I want to get a little more comfortable.
You get comfortable, honey.
He's like, you can get a little more comfortable too, if you'd like.
I'm just like, oh, there's plants.
I'm just like, plant, plant.
And I get, I get more comfortable.
I get in the, the short clothes.
Oh yeah.
He's, he's loving it.
Next is somehow it just, I'm going to take my clothes out and then pilot near the door.
So he's now not on me.
He's in the pilot's place.
Um, as you see him, he's still drinking and then he kind of just like,
patches bed, he's like, hop on the bed.
And can we skip the details?
Oh yeah.
And he is trashed.
Yeah.
You see, he's passed out.
Just trashed.
He's just passed out.
Yeah.
He was drunk.
I'm gonna like lean on him and like shake him.
Like see if he's like doing anything.
If he responds to like me moving him.
He's, he's just, uh, let's see.
I'm conscious.
Okay.
You can tell like he, he drank most of that bottle.
It's not all the bottle himself.
He cries.
Someone like prayed to the gods.
He was pouring for you.
And then you kind of just refill his glass with the orange.
You're like, oh, here you go.
He was too drunk to notice.
He was just kind of like, here you go.
Thank God.
And I'm going to tell pathically, say to him like, you're fucking lucky rat.
I was worried that something was about to happen that I didn't.
I know what I'm doing.
I am going to definitely in very slyly.
We got to see offers.
Can you do that?
And pull.
I do know from the conversations that was cursed.
So I'm going to make sure there's a cloth on the hands.
I'm not directly touching the ring.
You pull and it is not coming off.
Oh, fuck.
You were fucking just get back to normal.
Whatever.
Just trust me.
Get back to normal.
Get over here.
I'll deal with this.
Okay.
I'm going to get out of the jacket before I turn back to normal.
You're kind of pulling these acoustics.
It's fucking hard to get off of the jacket.
Can't get it.
But yeah, I'm going to D.
God, that's okay.
I'm going to D rat and I'm assuming she told me that.
And then I'm going to try to inspect it closer to see if I see anything written on it.
I speak Elvish, Draconic, and that's it.
And comment, obviously.
Go ahead and roll an Archona check.
Got it.
Can I roll an Archona check?
Yeah, if you're checking out as well.
Turns into a 19.
Nice.
Yeah, 19.
I think it's going to be better in line.
Mine's only 12.
Yeah, as you're kind of just looking at it, you see there's a magical inscription in the
name, but it's a language you don't speak.
Shit.
This is basically the same thing as before, where the necklace, as what I would say, like
the necklace, we couldn't read that.
We had to have...
It was almost like it was an incantation, right?
Yeah, it was like a...
It's language you don't understand.
But yeah, the same thing as you're trying to pull it, it just doesn't keep the pride
from his finger.
Awesome.
While he's dealing with that, I'm going to scour the room for anything.
Checking drawers, papers, anything of information.
Yeah, so go ahead and roll an investigation.
Yeah, so you just see there's this manifest of cargo, who's on the ship, other random
house stuff of deals going on within the house and contracts.
I have an idea.
Oh, go ahead.
You first.
I have an idea.
I want to cast a spell magic.
Go ahead and cast it.
Well, I'm going to cast a spell magic.
Go ahead and cast it.
Well, it's any spell, third level or lower, dispelled.
Anything past it, it's a 10 plus the spell level, and it's against my spell casting ability.
It has no effect.
It has no effect?
Nope.
Well, shit.
On this manifest, do I know...
Does it give any description of what the precious cargo is or anything that's out of the norm?
Or actually what the items are?
Manifest.
So it just says who has the cargo, but you figure that some of these people, especially
knowing that these, with this kind of money, they probably wouldn't always put exactly
what's there.
So some stuff you see, generic stuff, like you just see souvenirs, random words, or some
of them just say goods.
Okay.
I'm going to make a note very quickly of the items that were suspiciously logged that are
not.
Like, hey, it's super heavy, but it's souvenirs.
Yeah, just like antiques, heirlooms.
Can I look around to see if I see anything that could be hidden away, a secret latch?
He was kind of checking...
Oh, he was checking that?
Well, you were checking more so the documents and stuff.
I was checking everything in the room.
And she just kind of did that.
Okay.
Yeah, the spell magnet didn't work and you're just like, okay, that didn't work.
You're like, you remember it was a curse.
But you don't know what the object is or how magic is powering it.
I'm drawing blinks, honey.
I don't know what we're going to do here.
I don't.
Every fucking plan goes to shit.
Unless you know how to identify it somehow.
No, I don't.
Can I just go ahead and just try to jot down the inscriptions that's on the ring itself?
Yeah, you kind of just try to write it down or like, I don't know what this language is.
I'm going to just try to copy it down.
I just want to try to copy it down as best as I can to try to see if one of our other
companions might speak a language.
I'm going to search this person.
Does he have any gold on him?
Oh, he is loaded.
So how much gold does he have on him?
Not like physical gold, like gold coins and stuff.
Oh, like, so there's like, well, you know, he has rings and chains and he does have like,
there's just everything here is just what you expect.
It's somewhat of a lot of money I have.
There is a lot of steel, but you also have to keep in mind that this is the person who...
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm just trying to see what would not be noticed if it was gone, even if it's small amounts.
He does have a lot of, well, there's like, there is a safe.
Oh, yeah.
If I see the safe, you can see my ears perk up.
Yeah, so as you're looking around, there's like a painting and then you kind of like...
It's a painting of himself, of course.
I'm just going to like lift it and gently put it down, like trying to resist the painting.
And I'm going to inspect for traps on the safe.
Got it.
Go ahead and roll an arcana check.
Oh, an arcana check?
Mm-hmm.
Now for one...
You're just like...
Oh, wait, that's a seven, sorry.
Ten is better than one.
Arcana...
That's ten.
It's all a ten.
Yeah, you kind of start looking at it, like it's encrypted with something.
It's writing on it, like I just don't know what this is.
With the writings, would I know if these tools would be able to disarm it?
Most likely not.
Can you...
I'm going to leave it there because I saw that still happen.
Really, can you like do your...
What the fuck you just did to the safe?
Guidance.
Oh, inspiration.
It's a natural one-on-one.
Do I keep the D4?
No.
Okay.
Well, the two.
A fucking one.
Plus another one.
Plus five, so that is eight.
Well, if you're like, I don't know what the fuck this is, you're kind of panicking.
It's a little...
Can you dispel it?
Ah, that's literally my second guess right there, so dispel magic right on it.
Perfect, yeah, as you kind of like...
See, like the...
And you think it took effect, but hopefully that worked?
Well, if it's higher than third level, do you no roll for it?
No, it's not higher than third.
Okay, so I'm going to obviously see if it's locked, and if it's locked, I'm going to take it.
Go ahead and roll.
So it's like, it's a combination actually.
So you're going to try to like...
All right, go ahead and roll me...
I do have like these tools.
Yeah, go ahead and roll.
We'll do a slight hand for it.
Guidance.
Oh, that's me.
Fuck me, brah.
Not today.
15.
Yeah, you're kind of...
Close to D4, close to D4.
Oh.
D4.
As you feel your adult touch...
Fuck! 16.
Yeah, you're kind of just getting...
You're just like...
You're kind of nervous like...
Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.
You're really struggling, and you're like, fuck, I can't get it.
You're like, I can't get it.
I'm going to immediately, if I can't get that, go to his persons and see if he has anything on him.
He's the type of guy, I'm getting the hint of that,
he's going to keep passwords in his fucking pocket.
You don't find passwords, but he does have a sack of gold on him.
How much is in the sack of gold?
No, there's 500 gold in there.
I'm going to take 50 of it.
Perfect, yeah.
500 exactly?
Yeah, he has like 500 gold in there, yeah.
I'm going to take 50 of it.
Not take it all the way.
I'm getting something out of this.
Yes, so it has been about...
You guys have been there for about, maybe a good like 30, 40 minutes now at this point.
He's still snoring, passed out.
I'm going to just give one more try at the safe before I leave.
Can I still talk to you in your head or is that not...
No, it's disconnected.
I'm bonded to him now.
Um, same as she was having trouble, I'm just going to go at the safe one time
because it's a combination so I could kind of put my ear to it.
Yeah, so you're kind of...
So, and then get back to you.
So as you kind of get to the train, you see that there's two big guards
standing in front of the first class car.
Uh, like, but on the ground level?
Yeah, they're like in front of the doors to get in.
To, is this the first class?
Yeah, so there's two guards there.
I want to be there too.
You and your horrors are kind of just patrolling and...
I want to be in the hallway first class,
so I was trying to be somewhere nearby for it to get the rings up.
I see them up, I would go up too.
Yeah, one of the guards says...
Oh, shit!
Go up?
I'm sorry.
I just saw that you can't...
I'm just looking through my own character notes because it's been a little bit.
You couldn't read the inscriptions, right?
So I'm like, I hate doing this.
I'm going to pull up the...
Well, I'm in my short clothes, I don't have to.
So I'm going to like take this knife and like cut on my tattoo.
You're going to see the tattoos that are usually kind of still start to move and glow.
And I'm going to cast Comprehending Languages with my Dragon Marker.
What the fuck?
On the ring?
The ring, yeah.
So this is in, uh, what is it?
Abyssal.
Oh, okay, so can I read it?
Of course.
Yeah, um, this is a...
A Karun's Creek slip-flip.
Fucking god.
I was trying to write it down.
It's a, uh, it's a control curse.
Like the other one.
Yep.
Great.
What's Aldo's brother's name?
Baldwin.
Who, uh, who is very taking a liking to you.
Yeah, I bet he did.
Remember, gang, he got molested for you.
Does it specify if the person is wearing it they can control?
You don't know, so you don't actually, so you have to know where the eye is.
Yeah, I do remember, and I'm going to say this like in character, when we put the necklace
on, we're trying that out, they controlled them.
So this boy aimed at doing this on his own volition.
Someone's telling him what to do.
Okay, so you think the ring is what, the ring is what?
The ring is controlling him.
Yeah, we don't want this ring, but we know that he's not pulling the strings.
Got it, alright.
I think that's what we're gonna need to get the fuck out of here.
I'm gonna try to save one time before we just dip out.
Alright, go ahead and roll slow, Ian.
Got it!
12 plus 2 plus...
1.
15.
Damn it!
Okay, it's fine.
Yeah, I've done it.
You're like, let me get a crack at it, and you're like, oh, crack at it.
A little more sophisticated than we were expecting.
Can you change again?
Do you have another change?
I don't.
I got a better one, and I'm gonna cast invisibility on him.
I still have my apron.
But you're in the first class, honey.
They're not gonna like you even when I cast invisibility on you.
Alright, perfect, you're invisible now.
Get the fuck out of here.
Oh, shit.
So you're opening the door for him?
How about I say open the door for him?
As you open the door, are you peeking out at all?
Yeah.
You see one of the guards kind of looks over at you, and kind of looks at you with a quick glance, and kind of just looks at you, and he's just like, I'm just gonna wave my fingers.
He's like, oh, I see you're having fun in there.
Oh, bunches and bunches, can I have a fucking towel?
How many?
Oh, a towel would be great.
Okay, do you need any spare clothes?
No, no, no.
Okay, I'm gonna lean in towards the guard.
Does he usually like the girls to stay in here?
Or does he like them just not be here?
It depends on his mood. He's a very finicky man.
Just tell me how.
Just to hate you, should I go home?
It depends if he may hate you.
No.
Oh.
Then why do you stay?
Because I want to get paid.
I think he might...
Okay, okay, okay.
And then, psychically, as he's saying this, I'm like, get the fuck out, get the fuck out.
As the door is open and they're having this conversation, I kind of imagine I'm sliding into the door.
Is there two sets of doors?
Oh yeah, the cars connect, so like to either side.
So there's like...
Like he exited one set, and there's a little walkway in another set, or there's one door?
I open the door, I'm like, open, and I'm leaning out the side, and he's trying to sneak out the same door.
But it's just one door.
Yeah, he starts to sneak out of that door, then sneak out of the cabin.
I wasn't sure if it was like...
I know some train cars have the connected cars where you go out the door, but then you're on the walkway, and there's another door.
Yeah, there's a little walkway. That's where you saw the two guys posted.
Oh.
So you see the guy exiting the walkway, you do see Cielfer kind of walking back very shakily, a bit shameful.
Back in.
Yeah, back into the other area. Some of the other guards, you see kind of just whistling at you.
I definitely redressed myself. I'm not just walking.
Oh, they're still just whistling at you.
Yeah, just going...
I'm like, Alden, you're always welcome back here with us. Keep us company.
You can't afford me, honey. I keep walking.
Uh, but he has a way to get into the second door, though, right?
Yeah, it's just like a...
Before I leave... God, I'm using everything.
I'm gonna go back to the safe. I'm gonna try to do this side bolstered knack.
Are you gonna go back after leaving?
Before I leave, I'm gonna try that safe. I'm gonna use... I need a D8.
Let's be reattached.
Thank you.
I ran immediately, grabbing a D8.
I was like, I'm like the furthest, I'm not gonna do this.
Oh, that's so much better.
Slide, slide, slide, slide, slide, man. That is 26.
Oh yeah, you would have gone for the safe.
I'm gonna dump that.
Okay, I am worthless in a fight just like you.
Yeah, there's about 10,000 gold in there.
You're just like, oh, you've never seen that much gold in your life.
Why is it just... someone's gonna sell it at bars, you're just like, what the fuck?
Fuck, who the fuck is this?
This is gonna be so hard not to steal.
You're just like, oh.
Okay, someone pick evens or odds.
Odds.
I'm gonna resist errors, because I rolled an even.
This is safe, I know exactly what the combination...
Is that the only thing in there?
Yeah, there's a bunch of gold in there.
And there was like all the jewelry in there, but just a tiny gold jewelry.
I'm not gonna swipe anything, but I'm making a note of what the combination was, so I'm gonna lock it.
Now I'm heading back.
But I'm not gonna take anything.
I'm not gonna fucking take anything.
You're heading back out, like back to us.
Back to you guys.
I mean, I think they gold at least.
If I see them walking through, then I'm gonna try to sneak my way back to the end car.
Go ahead and roll another stealth check as you're running back across.
I'm not running.
So yeah, so you see Nyx is... you walk in the room, Yohara and Nyx are in there.
Nyx is just doing pushups.
Pissed.
Dirty 20.
Yeah, you make it back across.
And you see the other guy pop up like, he looks like, did you see anything up there?
I'm gonna say, no, I didn't see anything, but there seem to be scratch marks on the roof.
Probably from when they were trying to get in yesterday.
Probably.
You're doing a great job.
Thank you.
How was that food earlier?
It was delicious.
I don't know who's got it in the kitchen, but it tastes a lot better.
That would be my boy.
Well, this is just him outside.
You're inside with Nyx as Joffer came out.
So you haven't quite joined him yet, but Joffer just walked in, looks rattled, looks a little disheveled, a little shameful.
She's just like, how disheveled and shameful are we looking here?
My hair is not messed up or anything.
I'm just not in a very good day.
Just looks like, oh, she needs to rest.
Yeah, I need a fucking shower.
Do you just, do you tell us that?
No, I'm going to walk in and just like sit down.
But that was awful.
How awful? What happened in there?
Well, I didn't have to do the D because he's a fucking drunkard.
Oh, okay. Never mind.
He was like, I'm going to kill him. I'm going to fight him.
I was about to pop a ray.
I was going to say to you guys, if you guys remember that emerald necklace, same damn thing on him.
Someone's puppeteering our good friend up there in first class.
I had a feeling.
So the Ryan family is really in control of themselves right now?
Doesn't sound like it.
Very possible.
Haroon shows up just now. What happened?
I'm still invisible just chilling in there.
Yeah, you guys are one of our misogynists.
Where is our dear old cook?
I've been here the whole time.
God damn it, Sweet.
Go ahead and roll a d20.
Disadvantage.
He kills him.
He's fucking dead.
That's a 16 hit.
He goes like, ahhh!
You almost hit me.
I'm like, calm down, calm down, calm down.
The spell is invisible.
Oh wait, I answered that right.
Nah, that was a thought that I had with the good Adrian.
I'm just like, so do I just lose my clothes that I was wearing?
And he's like, we could do that.
It would be funny as shit.
I almost got caught.
Everything changes about your clothes. So you're like, fuck!
Was that you on the roof?
Yeah.
Dude, you were stomping up there.
Yes, yes, yes.
They caught me and told me to go back.
But then they said that they heard someone running.
And I told them that I thought it was a gnoll.
So I went back.
And I actually made it to the car.
But then I was given nothing.
Well, you did great, Haveron.
Thank you.
So what we found out is that this train is fucked.
That's what we found out.
It's fucked?
It's got some shit going down.
How much longer do we have on this train ride?
It's a day two.
About five more days.
Mm-hmm.
Give or take.
I'm going to tell you right now.
If that guy ever pisses me off, I'm about to make 50,000 gold.
My ears perk up.
Why don't we just kill this guy and become rich?
Wait, what?
The fact that we get murdered afterwards.
So day five, kill this fucker.
Okay, let's think about this.
Think about the amount of guards you see on this train.
Yeah, I was just going to say, so let's say we kill him.
What happens right after that?
She runs and she gets out because she's the best spy in the world.
Oh, and the rest of us die then.
They don't know.
She'd be good.
She's a spy.
They don't even know what she's doing.
We kill the guards to the butt of the train, and then we disconnect the rest.
How about maybe we don't kill our employer?
Did you read about this in the story?
I think he reads too many.
Sorry?
I think this plan works.
What?
I'll tell you what's going to happen.
We're going to get to our location, get the job done, and then when we go back,
report our findings to whoever it is in charge.
Question, does this job pay $50,000?
Did we discuss money?
Not exactly.
It should be at least $50,000 or I'm on her team.
What the fuck is a dollar?
Or $50,000 gold or I'm on her team.
Actually, I think it was a special item that they had for us waiting over there.
Regardless, once we get back to the port city, we report our findings to our friend in the
guard, Miss Captain, whoever the fuck.
That's the one.
I'm sure that she'll be so excited to see us, but even more excited with the information.
I'm looking at you, Xena, for how long I promised.
He's giving you another look.
You just see me zoning out.
Okay.
Trying to think about what's happening.
The next time that he's in the room with us, though.
Go inside on Tio, she looks spacey.
She looks like she...
Go ahead.
That is natural one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're kind of just staring at other parts of her.
You're just like, I wish you'd just do this more often.
Yeah, I'll cover it up right now.
I throw a pillow at him.
You notice him just like gawking at you and not making eye contact.
The next time that he's in the room, though, I'm going to identify him.
I have a sort of primeval awareness.
It's an abyssal.
Abyssal?
He's got to be him himself.
Him himself.
I speak abyssal?
Do you?
You were being useful five minutes ago, let me tell you.
I was there.
Can you remember the way that it was written?
I wrote it down.
Give it to him.
And I passed him the note.
No, no, no, as you pass the note, I'm going to say exactly what I wrote.
I already had all the knowledge of what I said.
I'm about to excitedly say it and then...
Yeah, just say it out.
He's like, oh.
You're okay, buddy.
I give you a little...
Well, then bring us all up to speed, then.
Like I said, try to remove the ring.
Well, is it budging?
Cursed to his body that he's not able to remove this ring.
Has the same innate properties of the necklace we found in the sewers.
For that, they're susceptible to commands when they have that ring on.
Ties the one that puts it on.
Who puts the ring on?
That's a great question.
It doesn't seem like a typical necromancer that we would have fought during the war.
Did he say where it got it from?
How did we get off the necklace?
The necklace?
We traded it.
But how did we get it off, exactly?
He was dead.
Oh.
We killed the man.
Yeah, you guys are looting.
Looting bodies.
So the manpower was for him to die, to be alive.
Was the vampire being controlled, then?
Most likely.
Do you know where he got it from?
That necklace allowed him to control others.
Have we seen this Doraemon man in the sunlight at all?
No, you were controlled if you spoke the words.
Yeah, you heard someone say the words.
Yeah, he put on the command word.
This is similar, but not the same.
Yeah.
Because I don't believe I've seen this one go out into the sunlight.
Yeah, he was at lunch or dinner the first day.
So the dining cards have windows, and he was having breakfast with you guys at lunch.
I guess I was a little focused on the food.
Such good food.
It really was.
Thank you, thank you.
I thought you said that they didn't like garlic.
Everyone ate garlic.
Well, that rules out the possibility of him being a vampire.
Is anyone sick on the brain?
That was my thousand IQ play right there, baby.
It doesn't rule out him being anything else, though.
No, no, absolutely not.
It seems like just a very touchy subject.
I don't know, I don't think we should kill him, but I don't think we let him go.
I think we, somehow we could keep a loose trail on him wherever he goes.
Oh, he can keep more than a loose trail on him.
I swear to God.
What if we figure out where he's going?
If you guys are going to make me go to that room for the next five days, then we'll be held back.
I'm not exactly planning on making you go anywhere.
I'm not a fan of you getting in bed with any man outside of the man.
I'm sure she'll find him someday.
It goes over my head.
He's kind of just flexing like, yeah.
You see him flexing in front of you, you see him like, one day, yeah, one day.
I start showing my V cut.
I'll always have a deep view with you.
I'll go look and be like, you should do less push-ups and more sit-ups.
I'm going to lay down in the bed.
She lays down, I'm like, whatever, I don't fucking care, I'm laying down in my bed.
I start doing leg lifts.
I'm going to go check.
I thought I'd sit down.
Well, I think I'll be turning in for the night as well.
Just don't make too much of a ruckus, my friend, and go ahead and lay down.
Tell us about that, dude, so we don't got to do it.
On that note, we'll exit the room.
I'm going to go to the very back of the car and take a shift on the back of the train.
Perf, you see one of the guards back there.
I'll go with CEO for everything.
I have this plan.
It's like night now, the guards are getting ready for post and they say,
where are you taking your watch?
I'd prefer the same as last time.
It seemed pretty advantageous to me.
All right, would you like extra care to go out there, or is he going with you?
I'm going to point to her room.
He's all I need.
I thought it was odd to him.
Oh, okay, I didn't know if you went too.
If I was asked, I would go, but he's kind of just like...
I would think of my character as asking for you to go.
He likes you more than everybody trying to eye-fuck me all the time.
Well, fine.
I can't stand you, all right?
That's not coming from me.
As my character, I probably have specific where I'm going.
I'll take my glasses off if she's going out there, and I'll hand her my glasses and be like,
this will help you see at night.
Can I see if there's anything special about him?
You kind of look out the window to the darkest area, but it's a lot clearer.
Do I have dark vision?
Well, if you don't, you have it for 120 feet.
Oh, shit, all right.
He's like, why is he talking?
I don't think I have dark vision.
Harun will follow.
I had shades of gray up to 60 feet, so now I can see even farther.
Harun will follow, and is there any of the same guards that were there the first night?
Yeah, there's about two of them that are still there.
Because you see them kind of moving around, and you two, S-A-E-C-O, I'm talking to them,
they assign you two to the back, so both of you guys are outside in the back.
Okay, well, the guard is walking us.
So hear me out.
Stay intact and try to get in through the roof.
Why don't I stay up there?
I can tell you if they show up.
I thought you were going to suggest putting oil on the handle anyway.
He wanted to do it anyway.
Go ahead and roll persuasion.
He kind of just looks at you and just kind of like...
I wanted, yeah, I left because when they, I see them left, I left too.
So if I see this happen, I'm like, listen to the little man.
He's a genius.
I was going to stay behind with Yoharis, but I handed my glasses to him.
I heard you, so Yoharis, you and L'Zhagn are resting as you see the rest of your crew going for night duty.
But Nix, you're just like, are you going to stay in the guard with them?
Yeah, I'm going to just go with them.
As you see, Nix also comes outside with you guys.
Harun...
Do I have to roll?
Yeah, go ahead and roll persuasion.
Persuasion?
Oh, so I said learn from that.
See if he goes with your idea.
He's very kind of like reflexive, I would say.
19.
Yeah, he's like, you know what?
Does he, do you need to breathe it?
No.
Doesn't all the air going to, oh, what?
And I don't need to sleep either.
I don't see why not.
Okay, I'm going to go up there.
Trap, trap!
I'm going up the back door.
Oh, okay.
I'm going to the hatch.
Leave.
Are you far old?
That's what I was just about to ask.
You're just susceptible to it?
I'm susceptible to everything.
Hello, I am Harun.
I live too, sir.
I feel like my voice is back.
I'm so ready.
I can see, I can fight.
I can fuck.
Oh.
I can fuck.
During my watch, most dealt.
That's really good, 19 plus things.
I think that's 30.
I'll try to sell two.
Just a dirty 30, no problem.
You're kind of just looking over there.
You're like, where the fuck did, you're like,
where's the over go?
You're kind of looking around.
You're kind of stepping behind the wall.
You kind of look over there, what the fuck?
My highest is 18.
I got 18.
You're just up there, you're just like,
kind of like laying flat.
They won't see me.
Can I pretend to be, I mean, there's like spouts
from the train every now and then.
Can I just pretend to be like a spout,
like a part of the machinery?
Just humping off steam every so often.
I just go like this.
So how's the first watch go?
First watch out of that pool so far.
You kind of see Nick's looking around
trying to find you.
You gotta look for...
There's no way.
Mathematically impossible.
I wasn't trying to find them anyway.
I was either going to try to hide by myself
or just chill off on my spot and pose
and just shoot the shit, talk to the guys.
You see, they're guards inside.
They're guards inside too, guarding.
Alright, I walk up to the guard,
I'm like, what's up man?
He's like, hello,
how you haven't even got your name yet?
He has Nick's.
And then I just walk away.
You gotta just look over there.
If I don't go too far away,
I go like 20 feet away where he can still see me
and I just sit down and rest with my sword.
Just chilling by myself.
He comes up to your guard and he's like,
what the fuck?
And you kind of hear them whisper about you.
And then I look over and I'm like, huh?
Yeah.
Did you get lost?
Are you old enough to be on this train?
I lean deeper into my sword and I'm like...
It's not out aggressively, just more into it.
And I just kind of rest.
You kind of hear them whisper, kind of chuckle.
Just give them a middle finger as they go away.
Alright, yeah.
First watch was under vent full.
Are you switching off?
I'm gonna try.
Ilhar is still in his bars, right?
Yeah.
Are you taking a shift at all?
Yeah, as soon as I'm rested from my 4-0,
I'll probably switch out.
You see, he's like, oh, I'm tired.
I'm gonna get a long rest.
How long was his watch?
First watch was like four hours.
Oh, so I'm rested.
I'm rested as well.
Yeah, so whoever was taking watch next,
so then you guys switch out, you just yell for like,
I'm just gonna need my beauty sleep.
Can I stay up there?
Yeah, you can stay up there.
I'm gonna get my glasses.
He's gonna go send remote and stay up there
until you guys go back.
He's fine.
Harun is fine.
And then same thing second night,
second night kind of goes on a ventral,
so you're like, wow, it's a peaceful night.
It's gone well.
No, no, no.
And you guys wake up in the morning after resting
and doing all your shifts.
And we can end it there,
and then we'll go about finding your next shenanigans after that.
Hey, I think she's probably just trying to readjust on her thing.
Yeah, so that is you guys made through a night
without any sort of commotion.
No shenanigans.
And a long rest.
Yeah, we got you a long rest.
I mean, we've shenanigans before, and we will shenanigan.
And then same thing.
Do we level up?
I almost did the dirty.
All the combat that we did in that episode.
You got 50 gold out of it,
which no one knows about, because I don't think...
I would not.
You were in the hobby.
You didn't see any of this going on.
I heard it, and I...
You heard rummaging and ruffling, would you assume?
How about this?
I'll roll sleight of hand versus your perception.
Yeah, go ahead and do that.
Was I a riot at the time?
Yes.
Okay, no guidance.
Yeah, you can't do that with the rat.
Natural play.
Oh my god.
Yeah, you just were rummaging him,
like if you fell, you don't really know what was happening.
You just assumed, just going through shit, so...
So no one knows you got that 50 gold, so...
There we go.
Good job.
Thearoo