then I suppose we'll rest while we wait for the
scythe of the night. You think he's going to
come around nighttime because, you know, his
name's Scythe of the Night, so he's just going
to come around at night? Yeah, I assume so. That's
pretty cool. That's pretty cool. You know? Yeah.
I'm also actually errand boy of the dawn, so...
Two jobs, bad economy. You think he gave himself
his own nickname? Yeah, so I assume you're able
to short rest. Well, probably long rest because
we did that in the morning, didn't we? Yeah.
Killed a bunch of people by midday. Once every
24 hours. Oh, yeah, I guess. Does drain get removed
on a short rest? That is a good question that
I definitely know the answer to but I want to
be short rests are actually like a thing For
some of the rest and strained all this includes
a value you take a status penalty you're drained
by a constitution and Central's party to number
of hit points I'm so drained by the air in your
neck. That's right. You don't short rest anymore.
You do, what is it, treat wounds? Yeah, yeah,
yeah. But only if people need healing. I could
use some healing. I could use it. I guess I don't
necessarily need it since I don't assume that
we're going to get into some shit tonight. Okay,
well, we've got so much time that everybody's
just healed up. So much time. I'll just take
as long as it takes to heal everyone. Yeah, I
definitely, I think there's enough time if you're
not trying to fit anything else in during the
day. You take some time to rest. But it doesn't
do anything for the drain condition. In order
to lose the drain condition, you need a full
night's rest. Oh, you know what? I had the stupefied
one. You said that was only like a round or two,
right? Yeah, stupefied should be removed. Cool.
I need to get my hands on some of that gunpowder,
you know? Well, I mean, you used it pretty well.
I think I just spiked up the economy for gunpowder,
you know? There's, like, none left here. So if
we can find some, we can sell it to them for,
like, triple the price, you know? That's a really
good investment. You are an alchemist. Get your
gunpowder here. Alchemist. What did I say? Alchemist.
Alchemist. Okay. Alchemist. Yeah, so as the day
kind of like fades into evening, it becomes sort
of dinner time and eventually I assume you guys
make your way downstairs. I'm hungry again, you
know? Yeah. You find the sort of dining area
to be There is an individual kind of playing
some music on a raised platform that forms a
kind of stage. And at one of the tables, seated
with like a dinner, another sort of bowl of soup,
some bread and ale, is the now familiar form
of the Master of Spies, Chaucer. And he kind
of waves you over. We approach and sit down.
Well, a little, frankly, surprised at the noise
of the whole thing, but if you got results, you
got results. How did it go? Oh, we got results.
And then, yeah, basically, I'll relay. Like,
all the information that we got. Not show him
the map about Dungazir, but mention that, like,
that name came up in the documents and ask if
he has any information about it. Roll a deception
check. Can I aid? How are you gonna aid? What
is this? Nodding the whole time like mm -hmm
Yeah, oh I do see it yeah I'm not gonna help
him I'm just trying to think, like, is it really
deception, you know? Yeah, because if you're
not telling him about the map, you're not technically
lying about it because you're not bringing it
up. You're not saying anything. Exactly. I'm
not lying about it. He hasn't asked me or whatever.
I'm just saying this. You didn't go like, oh,
did you find a map? And you're like, no, I didn't
find a map. Yeah, we saw mentions of Dunqazir.
more curious what that is also here's the rest
of the information i don't i think i'm very intentionally
not lying or misleading him in any way i'm just
not sharing the map specifically that's it if
i've learned anything from my wife lies are just
as much about the things you don't say as the
things you do yeah omission that i'm very intentionally
not lying or deceiving even really yeah just
like oh yeah we just happened to hear about this
thing it came up in the building that was abandoned
i'm saying i'm not i'm not gonna pull out all
the documents and give him all the documents
I haven't rolled yet. I'm still making my case.
I'm saying that we're in the end, so I'm not
going to be, like, handing him all the documents.
I'm just giving him notes, basically, on, like,
what we found in the documents that we were able
to bill for. And one of those things that we
found in one of the documents is Duncazier. I
feel like you rolled, decided, maybe I need to
make my case before I roll. No, I really, I promise
I haven't rolled yet. Okay, well, let's roll
it and see how it comes out. All right. I think
there's a level of deception involved here. Outside
of the game we're in. Is it? Did you roll for
misleading? That seems, you know. Natty 19, though,
baby. Charles that's a nice. That's a nice box.
It's a nice box you got Keep your weed in there,
man. A lot of people don't know this, but you
can keep your weed in there. My family listens
to the show, so yes, that's where I keep my weed.
Don't touch it. Stay out of the box. They don't
listen to the show. I mean, technically, at the
time of recording. Nobody's listened to this
show. I let my wife listen to the ones that have
been finished, and she was like, oh, yeah, it's
great. And that's how I know she didn't listen
to it. Now, yeah, so you bring it up. He kind
of, like, eyes you across the table. And it's
just like a... Interesting. Dunkezier was a dwarven
city from before the blighting took place. I
could see why they might be interested in it.
Why would they be interested in it? Just because
it used to be a dwarven... Yeah, what is the
blighting? Yeah. So... We kind of covered it
a little bit in the first, but just to remind
everybody, I guess there was a event that occurred
in sort of the prehistory called the Blighting,
where without a known reason, basically life
in this desert became corrupted and was... Functionally
destroyed. Nobody's really sure why or how it
happened, except that it was finally ended when
the living god basically descended into the Almiran
Desert and wiped out all life, including the
creatures that had been corrupted by the Blighting.
For centuries, the desert... sat basically lifeless.
Finally, as time moved on, life had been returning,
and now Hopes Embraced represents the first attempt
of, you know, the peoples of I'm to kind of reclaim
this area for occupation and settlement. I remember
that. I remember all that, yeah. I remembered
none of that. Okay. You didn't even remember
there was combat last time. But I wrote it down.
I wrote it down now. Okay. Wait, so if Taz is
asking him about why they would be interested,
You kind of, Taz asks him about Dun -Kazir and
he like turns to you and he just says, well,
it was the seed of the Sunstone family, a powerful
dwarven clan from before the Blighting. They
were kind of known for being holy warriors and
crafters of kind of powerful magics. Losing them
was a real blow to dwarven power across the continent.
I think if anyone were to locate the ruins, they're
probably interesting things that could be recovered.
Did you find any information about it? Or how
did you come across the name? Oh, he was reading
stuff. I wasn't. Right. That doesn't surprise
me. Taldeer, how did you come across it? You
were reading? What were you reading? The documents,
obviously. Fucking guy. Yeah, we were reading
the documents. Oh, I think I was reading something
and then I didn't think it was important and
then, like, I threw it into, like, a fireplace
and then I was like, oh, it said something. Yeah.
There were some maps. There were some documents.
We've parsed through a lot of information. I
just remember seeing mention of it. I was like,
that's a funny kind of like a funny name or like
a unique name And I think that's why it kind
of like stuck stuck in my head. It has stopped
talking amherst is just like fucking Like this
mind is wandering just looking at anything that'll
fucking move in the room Like server stands up
fucking somebody move their arm because they're
talking telling a story you just fucking Nobody
else in the room directly in front of them basically
just anything shiny. I like that Amherst also
has ADHD Do you tell me to stop talking out loud
or you like knows me no, yeah, probably not actually
do anything just like Try to you know cover for
you and reinforce what you're saying okay yeah
he's uh well once i started realizing i'm talking
too much i'll just start eating and like just
like stuff my mouth with food with a cup of water
yeah he just he just looks a little disgusted
and like you see he's about to begin questioning
you again uh Taldir when he you see the doors
like fly open and standing in the doorway against
the backdrop of night is the figure of Jerry
Barnborn and he just like shouts into the room
I need Lord Stronghammer Stronghammer I get up
and I'm like what did I say earlier I'm sorry
Shiny eyes. I'm going to run right up to him
and smack him. Just jump and smack right across
the face. How tall are you again, Taz? Something
finally captured my attention. I'm like almost
four feet, probably. Almost four feet. Okay,
so yeah, you kind of like jump up and you smack
him and he's just like, oh, right. Thank you.
Needed to come to my senses. It's good to have
friends like you. Taz, take me to your leader.
And I'll smack him again. God! Go! Take me to
your leader, please? Yeah, come on. Okay, thank
you. I'm gonna walk past the table, like, in
a hurry, and then I'm just gonna go straight
upstairs. As you walk past the table, he's just
like... Making sure he's following me, like,
come on, man. Come on, man. We're just gonna
go upstairs. He follows behind you as you go
towards the stairs. He's like, this is... Alright.
Taz and Jerry disappear up the stairs. Once you're
up the stairs, what are you going to do? I'm
going to take him to the room. Okay, you open
the door to the room. He goes in there. He walks
in. And I'm going to close the door and try to
lock him in the room. He's just going to be like...
This is so strange. He just starts unbuttoning
his shirt. No, no, no. I'm on the other side
of the door. He's in the room. I close it. He's
just unbuttoning his shirt alone. I'm going to
try to... I'm going to make myself comfortable.
I'm going to tie a rope to the door. And then
I'm going to tie a rope to the other door knob
on the other side of the room across. Very important
question, Charles. Which way do these doors open?
It actually doesn't matter because if he tries
to open it. Oh, wait, it does matter. Jesus.
Oh, no. I also like that they apparently lock
from the outside. This is a real fucked up in.
That's why I'm tying it, because I realize that
it seems weird that it would open inwards, right?
Yeah, we'll say for the sake of it that it works.
If they all open into the hallway, that'd be
so inconvenient. That's fair enough, yeah. Probably
open inward just as a function of convenience.
Yeah, and then after I tie the rope, I'm just
going to whisper, like, against the door, like,
I have no leader. And then I'm going to run downstairs.
Just standing there, unbuttoning his shirt still.
I think I may have offended the small one. And
then he's going to try to open the door, and
as he, like, jangles the handle, he's just like,
right, okay. Oh, maybe, bro, he wants to surprise
me, I get it. And he starts shimmying off his
pants, and we cut back to the group sitting at
the table. When I make my way downstairs, I'm
going to look at Taldir and give him a thumbs
up. Taldir will give you a nod, not knowing what
you did, but knowing that you got him out of
the public eye. And that's the correct thing,
I think. so Chaucer kind of like you see him
looking around a little bit as Taz returns to
the table silence in the interim he's like the
last few minutes have been very weird yeah I
don't know who I'm just gonna say thank you that
guy might you might have to deal with him Chaucer
he has weirdly injected himself into our lives.
Almost as if God himself wants him there for
some reason. I think he can't die, honestly.
I feel like. Yeah. Not like we've tried, but
I just feel like if you pushed him off a cliff.
He would be at the inn before we were. You know
what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Found a shortcut.
Yeah. So... I'm real good at falling. So maybe
you can do something about that trosser, but...
Yeah, what else? The extra skin I lost. From
the weight I lost. What? Pops out bat wings.
What other information do you have for us? Well,
I was hoping to get information from you. Were
you able to find the site? We were hoping to
find the location of site 616 so that we could
investigate the occurrences there. I don't think
we saw anything for 616. I remember a bunch of
numbers, but I don't remember anything specific.
I don't remember reading anything about 616.
And there was eight when eight there was nine
one nine, yeah one two three six, yeah I'm gonna
say that while everything's going yeah, okay.
Yeah, so first of all Chaucer promised us money
if we Bring back info. I'm trying to remember
what the governor actually asked us to do. My
notes have... She wanted us to not scream her
name while we did things. Yeah, just keep her
out of it. Yeah, and we successfully did that.
This is for the mayor! Yeah. Infiltrate companies
and see what we can find out about Site 616.
Mine was shut down. Company tight -lipped. Insist
it's not civilian business. That means it is.
Yeah. That's all I got. So she wanted some information
on Site 616. So, I mean, like, yeah, we can share.
I don't see a problem sharing that information
with them. I do. why I just don't trust anyone
is also like was also recommended to us by the
governor and like he's close with Amaris and
Taz so like they all seem connected it seems
like we can trust the governor like oh she's
a governor yeah yeah I thought she was a mayor
um functionally the same difference she's kind
of like the governor of the area when it comes
to civilian matters but The area is more or less
just the town. Yeah. I mean, like, ultimately,
what we're really interested in, or what she's
really interested in, is the shit in the tavern.
So, like, maybe Duncazier is related, maybe it's
not. We don't have to tell him about the map,
but I don't see any reason not to be like, here's
what we found. We did find the location of Site
616. It was in the process of being removed from
the maps, but we still have a few where it exists.
We also found this... note about um hilda well
that seems to indicate that that seems like it's
probably related to site 616 although it doesn't
say it directly but it talks about hilda onyx
fix onyx fist and uh the airborne toxin and that
it was intentional sabotage uh these are the
three unaccounted dwarves um and It seems like
they were in the process of requesting backup
to find her and Threlessi and Basir Blackrock.
I don't see any problem mentioning those things.
Unless anybody is strictly against it, that's
what I would tell them. Yeah. We're still saying
numbers as Taldeer is explaining this. There
was, you know, nine, five, one. EVO AMA I think
I saw a TNT. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm very confused.
No, no, no, that was the other one. There are
a lot of numbers. Let's focus on the important
one. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Which one's important?
We can say them all again. Oh, six one six. Yeah.
Six. Six. Six. No. No, you're just watching this.
Speechless. Six, six one. Are you talking about
the stuff from today? Or are you talking about...
Oh, today. Oh. Today, yes. The mission that we
had today. Like, remember, I had a book at school
that had these numbers. Chaucer is very confused.
He's like, am I in some kind of imagination game?
And have people forgotten what I'm doing? No,
this is reality. This is real life right now,
dude. No escapism here. I don't care about your
school -age book. Also, numbers, not letters.
I don't need anything on EVO or AMA or... TNT?
What are those? You're not interested? I think
I actually am interested in what happened with
the... Functionally TNT, but we can cover that
another time. I mean, honestly, it was just irresponsible
on their part. There was a fire and they had
a bunch of gunpowder outside in wood boxes. That's
just asking for what happened, honestly. It's
a good thing we cleared the area because somebody
could have gotten hurt. Yeah, now the city is
safe. Somebody could have gotten hurt. Somebody.
Yeah, but you know, more won't get hurt. I can
taste burnt hair from here. You'll get used to
that. You shouldn't eat that. That's pretty gross,
actually. We can order you food, actual food
if you're eating burnt hair. Are you poor? Are
you poor? Actually, speaking of that, you were
supposed to pay us. Oh, yeah. Speaking of money.
I'll put my hand out as soon as Amber says it.
Well, so far I haven't really gotten anything
useful. Okay. You said... What? Here's the information
we got on 616. Right. Okay, so after some confusion,
Taldeer does hand over the information. Hand
over or speak it? So I guess speak it. Sometimes
you just gotta let him talk it out a little bit.
You'll learn, Trouser. You'll learn. I appreciate
the... Novelty of it all. Interesting. Well,
I do think you should take it to the governor
when you have a chance, but looks like we know
what our next step is. Isn't that your job? If
I also have to tell this to the governor, I thought
you were her master of spies. Are we doing your
job? Come on, do something. I'm more of the grease
on the axle. What does that mean? Then why are
we meeting? Well, because I need to know what's
going on as well. Jesus Christ, do you guys talk?
Are they fighting? Are you guys fighting? Are
you and the governor in a weird point right now?
Did something happen? I think she could take
him. That's why he doesn't want to see her. She
is an intimidating woman. No, I just thought
you would want the, you know, accolades and attention
yourself. Not something I need, but if you'd
like me to pass the message along, I certainly
can. We just want to get paid. Yeah, trying to
get you paid, trying to get you laid. Yeah, yeah,
yeah. All right. Go ahead and do your job, dude.
I'm tired. Yeah. Well, in that case, let's discuss
compensation. And the doors fly open again. And
in walk two familiar faces that you recognize
as two of the three. Kenwick Brothers. Kenwick
Brothers. And behind them, you see a tall, older
man, probably in his mid -60s, large, handlebar
mustache. What is happening? What is that? It's
a paintbrush. There was just something on my
lens. Oh. A tall, older man, probably in his
mid -60s, a large handlebar mustache. He's wearing,
like, a kind of gambeson that's colored, like,
green and black. He's got a kind of large jacket
on, even though it is ridiculously hot outside
still. Because everything's still burning? And...
He, uh... Kind of takes one step into the room.
The other two kind of like linger in his shadow.
And he just calls out. Now I heard a couple of
my boys had trouble in here the other night.
Any volunteers want to make it clear to me who
done it? I was drinking with him. I push out
my seat and I stand up. And then before she could
say anything, I'd be like, yep, it was those
two guys. Over there. Over there. And then I'm
going to turn back to the table and be like,
they could have told him that. That's his fucking
face in his hands. Those are our friends. We
made friends. Remember? There's the Kenwood guys.
They're the ones who challenged us to drinking
and then they couldn't make it. I just get bread
and shove it in his mouth. Taz's mouth. As this
is happening, he begins to, like, kind of walk
forward with just kind of an even gait to stay
behind him, and they're just like, Roy, it was
them, yeah. They broke his brain. It's a whole
thing. I don't even know what was happening.
Tattletail. He stops kind of just a few paces
in front of you, and he's like, I'm going to
take care of my boys for, well, Embarrassing
me the way that they have, but... You know. Shame
has to be answered. Oh. And you see him kind
of take the jacket off and set it on, like, an
empty chair kind of across from you. And he's
gonna, like, crack his knuckles. And you see
it's just old, like... liver spots along his
hands. He's got those, like, huge knuckles that
dudes get later in life. Arthritis? Yeah, just
arthritis knuckles. And he's gonna just say,
now, which one of you feels like answering for
it? I'll just step away. I wanna fight. I'm like,
oh yeah, I was drinking with him. I was going
to say that. I already answered your question.
He's going to kneel down to Taz, and he's going
to look you right in the eye and just say, During
the War of Reclamation, about 40 of you ambushed
my unit, killed six of my best friends. I snuck
into your camp that night, and I cut every one
of their throats. I don't fight with goblin kind.
Tyler's going to stand up, not say anything.
Just look at him and use intimidating glare.
All right. You guys see Taz reaching back for
like a dagger too. Like I said, he's like talking
to me. Like I'm like reaching back for the dagger
that's like hoisted behind me. And the whole
time that guy's talking, I'm just like mocking
him. I was like. and that would be against his
uh will dc probably will dc and this one if we
roll high enough we can go before them right
like a surprise kind of thing surprise surprise
as he kind of like he feels taldir's presence
and he stands up and he returns the look. And
you don't sense that he's shaking it all by it,
but when he looks at you, his face kind of softens
a bit, and he's just like, well, between us men,
we can keep things friendly if you'd like. I'm
not a man! And I just stand up from the side.
It fails against his will, DC. It fails against
his will, DC. Yeah, I still stand up mad. My
eyes go all black and my fangs come out. You
know, it's 10 plus his will save, right? And
I'm 15. Yeah, 10 plus his will save. I'm looking
at it. You stand up, your fangs come out. You
see he kind of smiles and he's like, well, at
least this one's got some fight in her. And he
kind of motions his head in like kind of a nod
and says, Should we take this out back? We ain't
going nowhere. Let's fight right here. We ain't
going nowhere. I got you for three minutes. Spider
-Man? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bonesaw! Anyways. Does
Wesley say that? Yeah. Okay, go ahead. Devise
a stratagem. I can roll that one first, right?
I do devise a stratagem and then strategic strike?
Yeah, so you roll devise a stratagem, and if
it would result in a hit, when you choose to
make that hit, you can use strategic strike to
add the precision damage. Can I say that I got
a 21 initiative roll? I was gonna say, let's
go ahead and roll a little initiative. Just to
be clear, this guy's mad because his kid lost
at a drinking game. That they challenged us to.
Sounds like bitch runs in the family. Yeah. 21
as well. 21 as well. Oh, hell yeah. We're going
to have a massive fucking turn together. 16 plus
7. Is? 22. 23. 23, yep. I legitimately just also
needed help with that one. I wasn't going to
say it first. Michelle, was that your hit or
your initiative? I'm going to use my initiative
because I didn't roll initiative. And then Amorous,
was he 21 also? Yeah. Thought so. All right,
let me roll. As initiative, that is... Okay.
What are you guys using? You're using your perception
as initiative? I think that's fine. Yeah. Okay.
So that's going to be... All right, so as...
wesley kind of says that like let's let's do
it right here you see he just like tears open
the gambeson that he's wearing and you see that
he's kind of lean but muscled covered in scars
and definitely showing signs of his age uh and
that's where we will pick up next time when we
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