And you all go get in the pedestrian line. It's
moving very quickly. All of the groups move quickly,
no interruptions, and then it is your turn. It
is two of these guards in this blue trimmed silver
armor. They stop you, and one steps forward with
a clipboard, and he says, Names? Andy. Hey, that's
not your name. No, that's not it. Did you forget
your name? The guard rolls his eyes and says,
Any name will do. Captain Kill for me. He writes
it down. Do we have a problem? He says, annoyed.
Darius. He writes Darius. That's B .O .B.? Wait,
no, no, no. He writes B .O .B. And this is Spider
-Man. He writes Spider -Man. I like that. What
are your names? I say, as he's like, I look at
the garden and I go, kids, man. You just see
this massive meltdown of, I wanted a cool name.
He looks back at the clipboard and he looks at
all of you and he goes, what was your name? Andy.
Andy. Spider -Man. Spider -Man. Captain Keel.
Darius. And Bob. Now it's B -O -B! Oh. And he
erases what he wrote and writes B -E -O -B -I.
And he... Or why? I don't know. It doesn't matter
what he writes. He says, oh, and changes nothing
on his credit card. He adds periods after B and
O. He says, any high class magic items you want
to report? No, sir. No. Great. Have we all been
to Quell before? You know the procedure, legal
proceedings. You may cast magic within the city.
None of the magic may be damaging or lethal.
You may not try to steal, scam, or alter your
deals with merchants within the city. Yada, yada,
yada. Don't cast magic on unsuspecting people.
It's pretty fucking easy. It's punishable by
law. Do you understand? Absolutely. Yep. Yeah.
All good. Great. And he stares at you, and he
looks at all the pistols on your chest, and he
says, I feel like I've heard your name before.
Eh. I get around. Don't go causing trouble. I
don't plan to. And he gestures for you to move
along. We do. Have you heard my name before?
B .O .B. Let's go. Stomping away. You do garner
some attention as mostly B .O .B. You walk in
and this giant machine stomps through. You see
not so much from like. registered guard but like
normal people stop and and kind of like point
at you and whisper as you uh look around the
city machines do exist there are these large
quell is really hard to explain but it is this
large circular walled city that has sweeping
uh sectors with uh alleyways and it's just a
maze of buildings a big concrete jungle new york
but fantasy But you maintain all that diversity.
You have all these people from all these different
places. So right now you are moving through an
incredibly bustling, busy city street within
a fantasy town where they even have like magic
projections playing on some of the larger buildings
in the distance to advertise different services,
products within the city. And in all this hustle
bustle, you are. all reminded or remember your
instructions to Vance's office. However, I can't
force you all to go there. So you enter the city.
You remember your directions. At least some of
you do. And you are welcome to ask any questions
and move along through this massive anything
goes city. People pay attention to you. But at
the same time, you are moving along and crowds
are being swept along so quickly that they don't
get too much time to stop and stare. Oh, man.
How are we going to find the investigator in
all this? This place is amazing. Anyone want
to take the lead on following those directions?
Oh, I'll do it. Great. I'm a decent navigator,
probably. So he says that and you just start
taking off in that direction. It's not a check.
This is he told you exactly where to go. You
walk in the main gate. You head down and you
get to a building with a staircase outside. It's
a non -suspecting house on the downstairs, just
like all of these buildings around you. But you
can see at the top of the stairs, there is a
building with a light on. And you can make out
at the top of the stairs the words Vance Alexander
in some smaller font. Oh, good news, boys. It
looks like he's home. And she'll walk up the
stairs and just start. banging on that door like
it is incessant you start hammering your fist
on the door and the first thing you hear is the
door lock and silence for 30 seconds of hammering
your fist alright mate look if you didn't want
people to think you were there you should have
number one turned the lights off and number two
invested in a quieter lot and she keeps banging
on the door you hear a second lock bolt in the
door It's a house. You know Bob's Burgers? How
they live above? It's the inverse. Office above,
house below. So it's his house below. Is there
a window? Yeah. Can I just stand and look inside?
Just like really creepily. Of the upstairs? Yeah,
just stand. No. Do that into the microphone.
Just stand and like Blair Witch through the window
wide -eyed. Just like Blair Witch. I'm actually
just looking to see if anyone's inside, but it
would look really scary. Gotcha. Because I look
scary. Glass window, when you look inside, shows
you the front half of an office where you would
sit down, where you would see filing cabinets,
where you would be on the other side of the desk.
The part of the desk where the person would be
working from is out of view from the window.
You can clearly see a shadow in this room moving
around as it navigates. What's up? So this door
that has the it has like a glass window in the
door. Yeah. So it's like a it's like any cop
like private. I got you. It's got the inscription
on a window. Yeah, cool. Kiela is going to pull
out one of her pistols, flip it over and take
the butt of her gun and smash the window in the
door. OK, does it break? Yes, it just breaks.
Cool, she reaches through and undoes the locks
and opens the door from the inside. You force
yourself into this building. That's a really
good way to get shot, Kira. Whoa, that's not
good behavior. And you see a man with incredibly
tired eyes, a thick mustache on his upper lip,
and some five o 'clock shadow from a beard that's
been usually shaved but neglected quite often.
He... Stands in front of you, bit slouched, slouching
even further as you bust open his door and open
it. And he goes, great. Sorry about the mess,
me darling. I'll pay for the repairs, but we
really need to talk to you. And I was kind of
tired of being ignored. Great. You have about
20 seconds before I call the guards. Right. This
will be quicker than that. So we just talked
to a crazy old man, said his name was Autumel,
said that that might sort of sway you one way
or another. You instantly see his demeanor change
as you say that. And he says, okay, out. All
of you, out. Yeah, he said that you would probably
react like this. And so I'm supposed to ask you,
what was the question? Have you checked on your
Pearl recently? I don't know a lot about like
this Pearl specifically, but if it is, you know.
worth the way they're supposed to be rated you
know he etc etc is anyone else stepped into the
room following keela or is keela the only one
who stepped into this man's office i don't think
i can doug would not fit yeah so i'm just kind
of peeking i think you put your foot on the bottom
stair and it shatters and then i just kind of
back up and then like stick my head As much through
as much as possible. Okay. And just kind of watch
everything going on. Gotcha. I think there's
a window on the outside that if you climb on
the outside of Doug, you can like look through
the window. Yeah. And stand on Doug. But I guess
I'm like standing in the doorway. I'll go. Great.
Yeah. I'll go like far into the room and find
a corner. Perfect. I would be behind Chris. I
think I wouldn't have gone in. Is this guy like
formidable? He looks like a tired middle -aged
man. Okay. But he takes a step back and you see
him begin to cast a spell. And as a magic mote
circles the space around you, he says, who sent
you? As you all enter his zone of truth. You
cannot speak a deliberate lie here. You can choose
to make a save. And if you make that save, you
can speak a lie. However, the caster will know
that you made the save. So he won't know you're
lying, but he'll know you can lie at that moment.
Fair? Yeah. Sounds good. It's like I told you,
mate. He said his name was Otomel. Crazy old
man. Really into the color purple. He said that
you would probably not want to talk to us after
his name sort of came out. Not sure what that
drama is. But he said to convince you is just
to tell you to check on your pearl. Whatever
that means. I asked if it was a euphemism for
something and he didn't really have an answer
for me. Anyone can respond to what's about to
happen. But Vance is going to use his channel
divinity and he is going to cast suggestion on
you. Because he is a knowledge cleric, there
is no save to this. You are going to follow the
suggestion. Okay. And he says, allow me to cast
this next spell. as he walks towards you and
casts yet another spell on you. Anyone can react
if they want. I'm probably going to go charm
person here if I can. You can try. Absolutely.
Yeah. Let's see. We can roll initiative. This
is like everyone can do one thing as he is not
expecting you guys to make a move. He thinks
you guys know who he is and won't mess with him.
I wanted to use Enthrall. You weave a distracting
string of words causing creatures of your choice
that you can see within range and that can hear
you to make a wisdom saving throw. That doesn't
seem very useful. Never mind. Okay. Wait, say
that again? It just causes them to focus on you,
basically, instead of anything else. That could
be good. Yeah, if whatever else we do doesn't
work, maybe. My thing would kind of counteract
his a little bit, so I don't know if I want to
do it. It's okay. um keela you can even make
a response after he casts a spell um anyone have
proficiency in arcana i do actually oh if you
do go ahead and roll a arcana check to identify
what's going on i will alternatively allow religion
if you have it okay so cool charm person just
says uh It's for wisdom saving throw advantage
if we're fighting it. We're not fighting it.
We're not fighting it. On a failed save, has
the charmed condition, charmed creature is friendly
to you, or charmed person. It says charmed person.
I will let you know Vance is a very high level,
so statistically this is low, but I'm willing
to play the game. Might as well. So charmed person,
you're not going to roll anything. I'm going
to roll it. Oh, that's nice. And what's your
spell save, DC? It is going to be eight plus
your proficiency plus your wisdom. It's going
to be 12. 12. Vance adds, I believe, six. Wow.
Five or lower. Five or lower. One, four chance.
I mean, it's worth a shot. Oops. Got to do something.
Yeah, go up there. What is it? It's a number.
All you got to do is read it. That's a four.
Oh! Charm that bitch! You see his demeanor change.
He casts that spell on you. Who arcana checked?
Did anyone get anything good? Mine was just a
seven plus three, so... Ten? Eleven. Eleven.
You're not fully aware what spell he cast on
Keela, but you cast Charm Person, and he backs...
His demeanor shifts, and he sort of relaxes a
little. And he says, where are my manners? Can
I get you a drink? Zone of truth still happening?
It wouldn't affect him, I don't think. I'm trying
to figure out which. Break concentration. It
depends if I cast another concentration spell.
Is suggestion? Yes. So he was casting suggestion.
Suggestion is concentration. And then he said,
let me cast another spell. So zone of truth is
concentration. Suggestion is concentration. So
they cancel. Okay. You can cast a spell while
concentrating as long as it's not concentration.
Yeah. So he did swap. Zone of Truth is gone.
Okay. And we know that? Yes, it's very evident
when it's gone. And is Keyla still under any
suggestion influence? Keyla, you don't feel any
bad feeling when you get hit with this spell.
But the next spell he casts, she will have to
let him. For the next eight. Oh, no, no, no.
Yeah, for the next eight hours. He already did.
He already did that. He just said, let me cast
this spell. He already cast this spell. He did,
he did. So three spells happened? Correct. So
a suggestion, when he channels Divinity like
that, he doesn't have to say it out loud. So
you didn't know what was happening until he was
casting that second spell on him, and then you
guys hopped into action. So he's already cast
the spell he wanted to with that suggestion.
And we don't know what that spell is. And you
don't know what that spell is, but Keela doesn't
feel anything. I don't know what the overreaction
is about, but I don't think we need to be arguing
or fighting or doing any of that. I think that
we could probably have a conversation and work
this out. I'll take a glass of milk. What did
you do to her? And what the hell is an orb? Or
what is it? He looks at you. And then he looks
at the people around you and you see like real
frustration in his eyes. And he says, do you
always did you have to bring everyone? Yeah.
Yeah, we did. All all father or whatever that
guy's name was said we kind of had to. And trust
me, this is not a first choice of being here.
Well, he pulls out four glasses and sets them
on the table. He looks at the goblin in the.
I guess just the goblin. And he doesn't get a
glass for you. So just the four. He takes a flask
out of his coat pocket, opens it. And though
the flask is about two inches big, he completely
fills one glass and then puts about a shot's
worth into the rest and distributes it to all
of you. And you see him start drinking like water,
this dark liquor. And he says, okay, so if your
friend is telling the truth, Otsmo thinks I need
to drop. everything to go check on a pearl now.
Yeah. Yeah. Do you trust this Autumel guy? Trust?
No. But at the end of the day, he wouldn't be
talking to me if it wasn't important. Yeah. Fine.
Yeah. But I had something I had to do tonight,
so now you have to do it. Holy fucking shit.
Of course. You don't have, it's not in your closet
or nothing? What? What's the pearl? No, it's
somewhere safe where you're not even supposed
to know. No one's supposed to know. And you're
my good friend. Of course it is. That's true.
You... How do I say this? And he looks around
at the lot of you and he says, I don't suppose
any of you clean up nicely? I'm certain I could.
I mean, I don't think there's anything... Pretty
boy here, mate. Great. You want us to clean your
house? No. I want you to make sure that he doesn't
look like a giant... killing machine and I need
you to go to an auction for me tonight. If I'm
leaving to go check on this pearl, I need you
to make sure something gets purchased for me
or doesn't get purchased by someone else. Do
you understand? What sort of budget are we working
with? I have 10 ,000 gold and that's everything
to my name. You can spend as much of it as you
need to. Great. But don't start there, okay?
Look, I'm not an idiot. I know how an auction
works. I'm not going to start it that much. You
seem pretty stupid when you bust down my door.
Don't lock it next time. I told her it was a
bad idea. I'm still kind of... He looks back
at you, his only friend, and he says... This
is what I'm working with. This is what I've been
working with the past 48 hours. Well, maybe you
can go to the auction alone. Either way, if it's
that important, I'm going to get going. The auction's
tonight? Yes. And you'll be back as soon as I'm
back. I don't know. Of course you don't. It's
in a remote location. Listen, I can't explain.
He's clearly getting frustrated. He drinks the
rest of his drink and he stops and he says, Must
be nice. What? To drink a drink. I try to drink.
Does it work the same way it does in what we
do in the shadows? I just projectile vomit immediately.
If you want. I will do so. And then I'll be like,
oh, here you go, B .O .B. I think an unseen servant
picks you up and moves you out of the room and
closes the door. Do you fight that? This feels
very racist. It's Vance. Vance is casting a spell
and getting you out of his general vicinity.
Is Vance a racist? A racist? No, but he's annoyed
by you. Vance has no tolerance for annoying people.
That's fine. He looks at you, his only friend,
and he says, the auction's at the opera house.
I need to make sure you get lot 31. Pay any amount
of money for it. And I swear to God, if you don't
have it when I get back, you... We'll have to
answer. Do you understand? I don't care how good
of friends we are and that we go way back and
that I love you. Yeah, good buddy. And you've
got a black tie outfit I can borrow for this
opera house auction. I think that can come out
to the $10 ,000. Sort of a... Good plan. Good
plan. Employment fee. I like to plan, don't you,
good buddy Vance? Two blocks south, you can find
Croth's good cloth. Wonderful. They'll sell whatever
clothes you need to blend in. Well, sounds good.
Do you have a solution for him? And he points
to the goblin on the other side of the door who's
trying to get to the handle. It's a work in progress.
Right. I don't think it'll stand out if you bring
a goblin to an auction. Yeah, I wasn't planning
on it. Right. And he looks at all of you and
he goes. Then again, you might all just stick
out a little bit. See if you can do something
about that. I have to go. And he starts collecting
a lot of things very suddenly. Sorry, do something
about our faces? Your appearance, yes. You're
going to... I mean, listen, I'm not going to
tell you how to buy something. Just don't make
waves. These auctions are homes to seedy people.
Get in. You buy the thing. You pick it up in
the front where everyone can witness what's going
on, and you bring it back here, okay? Sounds
easy enough. You can count on us. After that.
And we'll be back here 9 a .m. tomorrow. To 4.
Ready to talk about what you saw in the pearl
in your crystal ball. Great. I'll see you again
tomorrow because you're my best friend and I
love you. We'll be here. Right. That 10 ,000,
though. What? We'll be taking that. He moves
his chair and lifts a floorboard underneath and
pulls out a small chest and drops it on the desk
with a heavy thud. You hear these coins rattle.
And he says, everything you need, just buy it
with this. Hopefully, if everything goes okay,
I'll see you tomorrow with my lot. I'll give
you the answer and we'll part ways. Except you.
Sounds great. Yeah, until the next reunion. Yeah,
because we hang out all the time. You're my best
friend. Yeah, buddy. And I love you. And I love
you. Great. It's been a pleasure doing business,
Vance Alexander. He looks at you for a long second,
trying to think of something to say. And he says,
pleasure. And he frustratedly packs a few things
and begins. heading into the next room attached.
The only other room attached to his office where
you see all these dimly lit flickering candles
and like a circle on the ground that has, uh,
runes inscribed and like a magic circle laid
out. And you see him, uh, begin to light a few
more candles in that magic circle and sit down,
uh, and open a book and put it on his lap. Uh,
and he looks at you, anyone who's watching him
and he says, go away, go. Buy the thing I need
you to buy. Cool. Kila picks that chest up off
the dresser and... It's heavy, but you can hoist
it up on your shoulder and start walking out
with it. Okay. You are leaving Vance's office.
No milk for B .O .B. This is bullshit. He's outside
the door. On my way out, I'm going to look for
some milk. I was also going to investigate for
some milk. This is a office. You know, the house
is downstairs. There's a trap door with a ladder
at the far side of this office that leads down.
but there's no food items in here. Bro doesn't
eat. No, this is just an office, not his house.
I gave B .O .B. the remainder of my shot. Do
that again into the mic, guys. I gave B .O .B.
the remainder. I give it to him. After he spewed
it like a fire hose. I'm okay. No, it's just
personal preference. It's probably pretty good.
Kila reaches over and takes the remainder of
your shot out of the hand and throws it back
and then chases it with her own. And with that,
Gamers, we have a item to acquire at an auction,
but specifically we need to get some attire that
helps us fit in a little bit better. We get to
play in the city. You mean we get to do a shopping
episode? Yeah, it is. Montage, montage. Chris,
you didn't tell us that you knew this guy already?
Yeah, we go way back. Cool. You find yourself
in this session. Vance disappeared, leaving you
guys instantly to go check on the pearl, whatever
that might be. The rest of you have 10 ,000 extra
gold to your name to acquire lot number 30. one
not 32 like we thought before and almost ruined
everything but you are left in the busiest city
you've ever been in in your life the hustle and
bustle of quell means that even busy streets
in the middle of the day you've got maybe a foot
of space between each person as the traffic flows
one way on one side of the street the other same
as like cars and normal traffic with logical
systems you know it doesn't matter you all know
a couple of things. Vance gave you very simple
instructions, right? You need to go to this auction
in this place. Make sure no one buys lot 32 or
31. Make sure no one buys lot 31 or better yet,
make sure you get it. That's it. Make sure you
fit in and don't cause a ruckus because the number
one thing is that. whatever you buy has to actually
make it back to Vance, right? Aside from that,
everyone is free to move about Quall as they
like. Do some investigation in the city. We have
about nine hours. So you can get a long rest
in if you want to do just a couple things. Or
if you want to spend the whole day doing something,
we can either role play it or see if there's
any mechanical benefits to what you're doing.
All right. For starters, I'm going to need a
shovel. A shovel? For what? A shovel. So she's
sort of... vaguely gestures to this giant chest
that she's hefted onto her shoulder. We've got
to bury this. Bury it? What is that going to
do us? Actually, you know what? That's a great
idea. I'd much rather have it be in the ground
than in your hands. Yes. Nearest place I can
get a shovel. Actually, on second thought, I
think I'll just carry it. That's the exact conversation?
So you're just going to carry the giant chest
full of gold. Are you guys repeating the exact
same thing? Yeah. It was really good. Yeah. I
like my buried treasure joke for my pirate. I'm
just impressed. We enjoyed it. We're into it.
Oh my God, they're doing it. Word for word. It
sounded like weirdly forced. I think it was Tam's
like. What are you going to need a shovel for?
That was the only one that was like, I'm just
saying my line. In case I leave it in, we played
that first part and I hadn't recorded. So luckily
we only got seven minutes in. But now back to
off the dome piece. Yeah. Anyone have anything
they want to do in Quell? Shovel. If you want
to get a shovel. I think we're past the shovel.
I think. Gotcha. You're going to carry it. Kila's
locked onto the. Yeah, I guess I'll carry it.
There's a giant robot. I just don't trust like
that. There is a giant robot. Very cool. Hey,
giant robot. I don't. B .O .B. does not. Giant.
B .O .B. doesn't respond. Goblin, what's the
robot's name? Oh, his name is Doug. Doug. Doug.
What do you need for them? We would love to put
the gold. in duck oh yeah that's fine yeah sure
doug wouldn't mind as long as keela thinks it's
an okay idea yeah i suppose it's fine here's
the thing i'm gonna level with you right now
okay you don't touch this money this money is
not yours to spend okay for all intents and purposes
you do not have this money okay you understand
me yeah repeat back to me what i just told you
I don't have the money that you are giving to
Doug. I'm not giving it to Doug. I need to make
this very clear. Okay. I'm not giving it to Doug.
It is not Doug's money. Understood. Doug is just
holding it. Doug is holding your money. Correct.
And I don't know that. That's correct. And you
know what? It's probably better. If you don't
tell anybody else that Doug is carrying that
money. Do not tell Doug. Do not tell anyone that
Doug is carrying the money. Carrying the money.
That is a secret. Easy. Yeah. Secret. Secret.
Just pretend. Don't get him excited. It's a secret.
You know he loves secrets. You know he loves
secrets. And we got to be keeping secrets, eh?
Okay. So this means that when we're at the auction.
Yeah, it's auction. And they're asking if anybody's
wanting to bid on things. You can't. You don't
have any money. I can't bid on anything. You
can't bid on anything. Because I don't have any
money. Because you don't have any money. I'm
sorry. Why? You know what? You have a different,
much more important job at the auction. You actually
have the most important job for us. What's that?
He's right. We're going to tell you once we think
of it. When we get there. When we get there.
It's such an important job. Because it's a secret.
Because it's a secret, right? We don't even know
it. Does anyone have a decent passive perception?
13. What is perception? 8. 10 plus perception.
No, that was the... Yep. It's an 8. Yeah. Oh,
yeah, I do. No. Big ears. Oh, never mind. Wait.
What's your wisdom? 15. So plus 4. So 14 is your
passive perception. 14. What's yours? 13. 12.
Okay. Not a perceptive bunch. Cool. You all are
sitting there talking about where the money's
going to go, who's going to carry the money,
yada, yada, yada. And Chris, while Kila's giving
the rules, laying down how this is going to go
to B .O .B., you notice in the street heading
deeper into town, there is a steady line of carts.
Not like outside where it was a bunch of different
carts from different parts of the world that
all looked a bit different. These are very uniform
looking. cargo carts that are all moving in a
line together. You see the guard are not wearing
the same silver and blue that you saw at the
gate. It's more of a brass and green instead.
They are keeping people about 10 feet away from
the carts. So your side of the street becomes
pretty heavily compressed. I guess I'd nudge
Keela and I say, those guys look important to
you. Those guys look like they're probably carrying
the auction down the street. Very perceptive.
I'd do my best. Call me crazy, but who says we
have to buy this item? Oh, I like where your
head's at, Rabbits. Yeah, I do too. I like it
too! Okay, yeah, you can be part of this moment.
What is happening? I've heard of human society,
and I'm pretty sure there are laws about this
sort of thing. Killa just sort of like looks
at you. Well, look, I get it. You're like a lawless,
like that's part of your thing. But like, do
we really want to get in deep shit right now?
I love deep shit. Say it. I love deep shit. It's
kind of dropping the bucket at this point. Here's
the thing. We're not talking about. Stealing?
Oh, no, we definitely are. Here's the thing,
though. You only end up in deep shit if you get
caught, which is not something I tend to do.
No, we're the good guys. All right. Sure, if
that's what helps you sleep at night. We are
the good guys. And sometimes good guys have to
do not so good things. But we have the money.
We do. We do. But what if... How surprised would
Vance be if we gave all the money back to him?
Most of the money back to him. True. We're going
to lie, too? Wouldn't he be so happy? Oh, no,
don't worry. We're not going to lie. I do intend
to spend quite a bit of this money on my own
personal interests. What? If you steal it, there's
no risk that someone gets out from underneath
you. It didn't seem like we were given very much
direction. So I'm okay with this. Say that one
more time. Well, people can outbid you if you're
at an auction and you're bidding for it. If you
just steal it, no one's outbidding you. Here's
the problem that I'm seeing. I like where your
head's at, and I'm not completely right in the
stealing thing off the table. I have a vested
interest in that. I will say, none of those cards
are labeled. We have no idea what we're looking
for, and the odds that we just grab the right
one. Out of how long is this line of carts? Are
we surpassing like the 30, 50, 100 kind of category?
Yeah, so it's been going by continuously. You
didn't really notice for a while, but now you've
been talking this whole time and it's still coming
by and you're looking out towards the front gate
and it's coming in still. So as much as I love
that idea, I do not think that we are equipped
to execute that one. Give me a charisma saving
throw. Whoa, cool. I mean, we could always just
count 32 cards in and then take that one. We
are not stealing, but if we did... Here's the
thing. What if number one was in the back? Charisma
saving throw? Yes, sir. And we don't know how
many cards have gone by already. Oh, I'm positive.
Are you sure? No, okay. It's a five plus two.
You're sitting here, part of this conversation,
and BLB from the outside, does anything appear
like... light coming off of him i'm just curious
because visually i want to know what everyone
sees as you are sitting there piloting doug and
as a cart passes into proximity of you you feel
everything turn off underneath you and you hear
the uh snapping of electronics as this thing
enters a more like dilapidated state suddenly
and you hear this like horrible metallic screech
in your head that is followed quickly and warps
into the sound of a voice that goes, Help! Ah!
Before Doug kicks instantly back on, you feel
comfortable again. The generator kicked back
on. Exactly. That stops as the cart leaves proximity.
Oh, Doug! Are you okay? Yobi, what happened?
Things went dark. Doug went to sleep. He doesn't
do that, though. You have a stealth mode? No,
not stealth, just power down. He's always on,
and then his disruptors were in proximity of
something, and then it just stopped. That's a
lot of words. What? All right, well, is he fine
now to keep moving? I think so, but I think something
from one of those carts made him stop. Which
one? 32. You can point and say that one. That
one. The one. That passed. And there is a cart
that has three crates on it. One giant one, one
half its size, and then there is just tucked
into the back one that's a small, I say giant
one, imagine like a two -person size, a refrigerator
-sized box. Imagine a coffin -sized one, and
then imagine a bread box -sized one. Also, did
anybody hear that cry out for help? I think I
need to go help somebody. I'll be right back.
As I just start... Okay, you start moving past
the group. As you take even like three steps
away from your group, you are starting to move
past that 10 -foot line that the guards are taking.
And you see one of them move to intercept you
and put his hand up. And he goes, Halt! I don't
know what that means, so I keep going. He stops,
and he moves that hand down to his sword, and
he says, Stop, or we'll have to attack, citizen.
Oh, sorry. Excuse me. Fine, human person. I need
to go help someone. Right. We're on strict business
to keep people away from this, so you can wait
for it to pass, or you can go around. I think
if you head your north, you can take King's Way.
We should be past it by now. Oh, no, you don't
understand. The thing, the boxes that came by,
there's someone in there that needs my rescuing.
I assure you, there's no living creatures inside
any of these boxes. That's where I think you're
wrong. There's a chance there's some cursed artifacts.
These are for the auction tonight. Why don't
you go ahead and move along, citizen? But...
I want to help them. Citizen, you are technically
committing a crime. What is the crime? Being
in proximity of me right now. Take a few steps
back. Oh, I didn't know that was a law that I
could break. Well, it sounds like you have a
lot of learning to do in this city before you
end up in jail. As I look to the camera, I guess
I do have to do a lot of learning in this city.
What was that? What? Okay, bye! As I walk away.
You see him look to the next guard that's two
carts down, and he shrugs, and he whistles and
points to the next few guards and points to the
big robot and continues his walk down the street,
alerting everyone behind. And you see a chain
of whistling that goes off. As long as you guys
are in proximity and view of these carts, they
are whistling to each other and pointing at you
as like a, watch that guy. Yeah. I walk back
to the group. Everything okay, B .O .B.? No,
I failed to rescue whoever needed my help. Anybody
got a leash for this thing? He can't be running
around messing this shit up for us like this.
Giant robot. A leash. It'll drag you. I say we
all stick in groups. Groups of... Well, are we
all... We could always all hang out together,
too. I just thought we all needed... Groups of
five. Groups of five. We could do groups of five.
So here's what we're going to do. I... I'm going
to take a wee bit of that gold. And you five
can be in a group. And I'm going to go shopping.
Group of five. Group of five. See, you're so
smart, B .O .B. That makes sense. Doug counts
as one. Nice. I'm going to find a dark alley
to test out my new whistle. All right, Vayne,
I'm going to level with you real quick because
it sort of seems like you're new to this whole
thing. What you just said sort of sounds like
a euphemism for something. Now, I need you to
understand that if you're looking for companionship
and alleyway is not where you need to start.
I've definitely seen people like a brothel or
something. Yeah, she knows where all the good
ones are. What? What is that? I could at least
find one. Yeah, what is that? You're too little.
I don't know if he even has blood. I don't know
if it'll even work. What's that got to do with
anything? Oh, no, don't tell her. I need to test
out this whistle. See what it does. So just give
me a second. I'll be right back. All right. You're
going to catch something, though. Can I help
you catch something? Sure, you. All right. Did
you just call him the G word? Gremlin? Or goblin?
Goblin is what he is. A gremlin is a slur. Before
Kila moves that chest over to dog, she's going
to pull like, I don't know, probably 3 ,000 gold
out of it. Jesus. Holy shit. Don't put all your
chickens in one basket. Okay. I protest. What's
that look like? That looks like... What the...
What the fuck? This is insurance. Insurance?
You really want... Yeah, I'll take some insurance,
too. Can I have some insurance? Pass it here.
I get just as much as you do. And so does everybody
else. Oh, no, there's not enough. Isn't that
crazy? Here's the thing, though. We want the
robot to carry it. He's carrying it for all of
us collectively. I just think that after that
last disappearing act, I don't want the robot
carrying all 10 ,000. What happens when the next
person needs help and our robot runs away with
all of our money for the auction? Yeah, what
do you do then? Genuinely asking, like, what's
next? B .O .B., this is your thing. This is your
robot. You don't have control over it? Oh, no,
I do. Absolutely. That's somehow worse now that
I think about it. All right, you know what? Fine,
fine. I won't take 3 ,000. You can have your
share. We all get two. 1 ,000? Yeah. Fine. We
can all split it. And if you don't spend yours
by the end of the day, you're in trouble. No,
hey, here's the thing. We need this money. You're
in trouble. It's crazy. Oh, no. I need to find
a way to spend 2 ,000 gold. Where's that brothel?
Where's that brothel? I'll take one of everything.
He goes into the patisserie. Give me all your
croissants. I'll be 80 gold. No! All I have is
2 ,000. I need to spend 2 ,000! You buy the place.
The business. Take your 2 ,000, but if we don't
show up, With whatever that lot number is to
Vance, I'm going to blame you. Because I'm leaving
the gold in the robot, honestly. Okay, that's
fine. You can leave your gold in the robot. And
when the robot runs off with all your gold, you
can explain that to Vance. Doug would never run
off with the gold. You just ran off? I would
run off with the gold. That doesn't fill me with
a loss of confidence. No, I was trying to help
someone. I have a hard time believing any...
random guard in the city is going to break into
Doug to get the gold, to be honest. I'm not worried
about guards. I'm worried about Joe Schmo walking
down the street. I don't know. Wait. As you see
B .O .B.'s hands go to his fist, who is this
Joe Schmo? Why do we need to watch out for him?
He's nobody that you need to worry about, B .O
.B. We don't need you going around killing any
other people. Whoa. Seems like there's only one
person trying to run off with the gold, though.
I'm not going to run off with it. And I fist
bump. I also fist bump. That one hurts. I told
you I was going shopping. You're welcome to come
with me if you like, but I figured you guys wanted
to stick with your group of five. Can I come
shopping? No. We have a quest and you just don't
seem very heroic right now. Sorry, I'm trying
to decide if I'm going to lunge it blink or not.
I've decided against it. Proud of you. People
who have told me what they're doing are these
two. You're going to go test your whistle and
you're going with? I was going to. I checked
in to see if I can join Kila. But that was a
no. So yes, I'm going to go test the whistle.
Can we re -record the dirty gremlin part? I don't
want to be that mean. I took it as like a...
Come on, you dirty gremlin. This is the Vayne
effect. He can do whatever he wants and we all
just think it's sexy. Call me a dirty gremlin.
I don't care. This wasn't in the recorded part,
but we all decided that Vayne is the sexiest
one out of all of us. Yeah, that's fucking true.
Okay, so he's going to go whistle and B .O .B.
is going with him to watch. To watch. I'm cool
with that. I'm cool with that. And I'm not worried
about what Keela does. I guess I'm going to look
over here and I'm going to say, we're going to
go try to find out what's going on with this
auction. I'm sure there's going to be some hubbub
about town about it. And maybe we can get some
intel. I'm sticking with my best bud, Chris.
Hey, that sounds productive. The sooner you guys
get on that, the better. Thanks for volunteering.
You have fun going by and... girly hats and shit.
Well, maybe we should get some clothes too. If
she shows up with a fez, I'll eat my bow. Fezes
are cool. Fezes are cool, but you could not pull
one off if you tried. Yeah, I'm going to go find
some swanky sort of eye patch or something. Oh,
that's probably good. You look kind of scary
right now, huh? Hell yeah. A little busted. So
we have Keela going alone, the two of you intel
gathering, and the two of you also intel gathering,
but in a different way. Whistleblowing. Nice.
Oh, nice. Nice. So does anyone want to go first
specifically or should I roll between my whistleblowers,
my intel gatherers, and my pirate? Whatever you
want. Anyone? Yeah, you can roll. Okay. One,
two, three, four, five, six. One, two. Two. Okay.
So it's going to be my whistler and my robot
first. My whistleblowers. Nice. Where are you
going? I'm so excited to watch this. So it says
if you blow the whistle in darkness. So I'm going
to find the darkest alleyway I can find. Great.
You head to your left because there's an alleyway.
And as you start moving into it, the buildings
are a little farther apart here. But you walk
like a quarter mile and you see ahead the buildings
start to get a little bit closer together. And
you can tell you're moving into a different part
of town. The buildings are made with more rough
materials. The exteriors are a bit, it looks
like handmade brick rather than machine processed
or magically processed brick. And as you walk
towards this part of town, things get a bit dimmer.
The sun doesn't touch as much as the buildings
are a little closer together. It's too damn bright
in this city. No, I would say it's dark enough
now. It's not dim, it's dark. It's too damn dark
in this city. I need the respectable level of
dimness. You go down an alley in an alley at
this point as you get to this more like it's
less of a grid system in this part of the city
and more just like a jungle of buildings. Cool,
cool, cool. I will blow the whistle and it should
act as like the animate dead spell. One minute.
A skeletal hand claws its way out of the ground.
And then I have that dude until I can reassert
control over my Skelebro every 24 hours. Skelebro?
Cool. I did say that. Skelebro. Skelebro. Have
you been waiting to use that one? I have. Yeah.
So you summon your Skelebro. A hand bursts from
the ground and starts lifting itself. It's just
a skeleton as it raises above the ground. Its
jaw locks into place. It's empty gaze staring
at you, and it just makes that nice oblivion
rattle noise. If you know the skeleton rattle
in Oblivion, it is choice. Sounds like hitting
billiard balls together. You are... Do you do
anything after you summon this skeleton? I'm
like, greetings. I guess you are my servant now?
It just stands there idly. I nod. You hear...
Good to know. As a crow lands on the skeleton's
head and you look up and see on a, what's the
word? Balcony of a building. There's the two
other birds sitting there staring at you. What
do you want? Why are you looking at me? Okay.
The other two make no noise and just stare at
you. And then the crow jumps to your arm and
pecks the whistle. I examine the whistle closer.
It looks like a bird and maybe. using it to summon
the dead, also called the crows. Crow and ravens.
Well, this seems very helpful, doesn't it, B
.O .B.? You have so many friends. I know. Who's
your new friend that came from the ground and
is rattling like billiard balls? You know what?
I'm going to let you name him, B .O .B. That
is a... I get to name him? That's up to you,
yeah. All yours. Oh, wow. Well, he came from
the ground. And he rattles like billiard balls.
And he hasn't said anything because I think he
might be foreign. Right. There you go. Crazy.
I look at the skeleton and I'm like, you're not
so different, you and I. I think I am pretty
different than you. I was talking to him. Oh,
sorry. Well, then his name must be Jeffrey. Really,
Jeffrey? Yeah, because he came from the ground
and he rattles like billiard balls. And that
equals Jeffrey. Yeah. How many hit points does
Jeffrey have? Let me look up. Is Jeffrey about
to attack the OB? Because he hates the name so
much. Ah, cute. That name sucks. Skeleton 5E.
Looking it up. We got to get him a harness. 13
HP. Get him a gimp mask. AC is what? Does 16
hit? AC is 13, yeah. Cool. You see a bolt of
bright light flash from darker down this alleyway
and hit Jeffrey and he explodes into bones. No,
Jeffrey! From where? Oh, my God. I'm in trouble.
The object horror. No. You see a man in a long
coat with long, greasy blonde hair drag on a
cigarette as he steps into view, and he says,
Right. You're new here, so I'll save you. First
bit of information's free. don't be raising those
skeletons in this city or you're going to be
going to jail. That thing's going to be off your
leash. Someone's going to get scared. Attack
it. It'll attack back. It's your problem. I don't
think that was really necessary. Yeah. Look,
you killed Jeffrey. No. He was just standing.
We were talking. Well. We were just getting to
know Jeffrey. He wasn't actually talking because
I think he was, you know. He was about to open
up. Right. You guys are great. That's it for
the free information. I noticed. You try to get
close to those boxes. You're going to the auction
tonight. Yeah. Right. I can help you get in.
You guys plan on spending enough money? No. I
don't have any money whatsoever. Good, B .O .B.
Thanks, Bane. I happen to have a guy on the inside
that can maybe get you guys in the back door.
Oh, he's inside one of the boxes? No. He works
for the auction house. For the right price, maybe
he can get you all in. Oh, how much? A thousand
gold. I do not have one thousand gold. Considering
that you just obliterated Jeffrey, why don't
you bring that down to seven hundred? Oh, fuck.
Should I roll persuasion? But this guy doesn't.
He's looking at you like you're an idiot. Come
on, Garrison. That was so cocked. Inspiration,
inspiration, inspiration. I'm going to use inspiration.
Come on, Garrison. Nat 20. I fucking hate this.
He rolls his eyes and he says. I guess I can't
tell you not to be attached to a fucking skeleton,
but I'm doing you a favor, so... Fine. What'd
you say? How much? 700. No, wait. Fine, 700.
I'll get you in. However you get caught, I don't
know you, fair enough? Alright, but what is your
name? Why did I tell you that? Well, just like,
we'll pretend we don't know each other, but I
should probably know. If you want to find me
for more information later, you can find me at
the Glass Stallion. It's lower down in the shades.
Have a drink there most days. All right. Anywho,
if you want to make that official, you can find
me there. Or you can pay me now if you've got
it on you. Should I pay him now? Should we pay
him now? I have no money for which I can pay.
I'm not here. It kills me that I'm not there.
Yeah. It kills me. We'll pay you later. Yeah,
well, they will pay you later, for which I cannot
do, because I do not, for which, have gold. Keep
Axiom arriving later. Lots of people probably
want to steal something from this auction. Wait,
what? Biggest one in a century. What? Why would
anyone want to steal? That's great. Stealing
is totally legal. I don't know what you guys
are on about. Leave the skeletons out. Come to
me if you want in. Aside from that, yeah, best
of luck. And he starts walking away. Bye. Jeez,
fucking dick. He stops. He comes back. Oh, hi.
None of you are going to ask my name, really.
Yeah, what's your name? Did you even plan on
finding me later? I think he did ask you. What
was it? You didn't say because you were like,
right. So you didn't really. All right. I understand.
I should answer the question. What an asshole.
I was leaving and they didn't get it. You know
what I'm saying? What's your name? Garris. Garris?
Right. Do you have a son? How many points of
inspiration do you have? Oh, no. I did have one.
I'm not going to take it from you. I'm going
to give you something. Let's go. You're going
to get a cursed eye. Papa's getting a brand new
car. What's he got in his satchel? I can't find
them. Are you looking for your cursed rocks?
Sean, I can give you one of mine. Yeah, you can
have some of mine too. Do you know where they
are? I do not off the top of my head, no. We
will do the theater of the mind where I take
on one rock. Hey, while you're up, can you grab
me a pencil? For those of you that are just joining
us, when we reference these funky little crystals,
we... Some of us made some deals during character
creation in exchange for these little black gems
that at any point, Sean as DM can take action
against us. But man, we traded some really dinky
stats for a handful of these. I have two. Now
I have three. Now you have three because you
were punished for that joke. And you know what?
As B .O .B. BLB loves shiny things. These rocks
are very shiny. So I'm actively collecting them.
How many does everyone have? Does anyone have
that number off the top of their head? I have
two. Because I'm thinking about getting more
of them and then just getting jars and keeping
them for you so you don't have to carry them
around. I always keep it in my dice bag. I have
about 20 or something. Tim has an entire continent's
worth. I have my two. I have 12. That's crazy.
How did you guys get so many? I can't remember.
I want more. I have 15. My stats are good. I'll
race you to... Three? No. Oh, shoot. I'm already
at three. Never mind. I just forgot. Okay. Very
good. So, he leaves. Bye, Garris. Good job. Bye.
And it's you guys with a pile of bones, a slight
hole in the ground, and a bird. Three birds hanging
out. I know. That went... Well, it went well,
but also... Not really. I think it went great.
Can I try to blow the whistle again? Will it
work? No. Once a day, isn't it? Well, I appreciate
your positivity. We made a friend. We got some
bones. We got some birds. Hey, wait. Three friends,
right? Hey, look. Wow. Look at that. Cool. Three
friends. Ding, ding, ding, ding. One's pecking
your robot. Well, it's got to be the crow, right?
Yeah. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. This is a
great day. Looking at it like this. Cock and
its head all bird -like. I love birds, dude.
They're so weird. All right. We should probably
find the others, yeah? I think so. Find the rest
of our friends. Okay. Anyone want to go next?
No, I think you should just roll again. Four.
Where are you going? With 2 ,000 gold? Technically,
I have 3 ,395 gold. A healthy amount of gold
to carry around. A healthy amount of gold to
carry around. Yeah. Okay. Cool. Keela. That's
me. Where are you going? What are you looking
for? How do you get there? Vance's house is sort
of middle districts. Yeah. Yep. I don't know.
I think I'm just going to start walking. I will
stay in the trajectory of the middle districts.
I want a swanky eye patch. I want a swanky hat.
I want a swanky coat. Sure. I mean, that's easy
enough. You start walking down this middle street.
You eventually start closing in towards the middle
of the circle, which you don't cross. You don't
get into like highfalutin society till you cross
the bridge to that island where the opera house
is. But you get right before that bridge and
you start to see some swanky clothes shops that
run along the river through Coal. And you have
a lot of options, but. You find one right away
that seems to be a bit more aimed at seafaring
people. Excellent. Beautiful. Perfect. What's
it called? The swanky sailor. I'm trying to think
of a riff on. Fuck, that's good. Actually, it's
called the swanky sailor. Sorry, there was swanky
said so many times. And I honestly was like,
what does swanky clothes look like? So I then
Googled swanky, just the word swanky in the first
image that popped up. on google images for swanky
is swanky kong from donkey kong and he's dressed
in like a golden uh like vest with tuxedo pants
black uh black boots and a cane a cane so that's
now what i imagine when you say that you're drinking
dressing swanky i see swanky kong that's awesome
yeah i'm b -bopping into the swanky sailor flush
with cash baby oh my you got a problem tim you
got a problem no that's just not your money but
you know um a good portion of it is in fact my
money more than 50 i would say a little over
a third of it is my money i love the way you
guys fight this is cool i'm not that's not sarcastic
i do like it go ahead so you walk into the swanky
sailor it's got a bell on the door but it's like
the bell at undertow where it's like As the door
swings open, it hits twice and hits back. The
kind of bell you ring as you're moving through
storms on a ship. You walk in and find a bunch
of mannequins dressed in long, exuberant gold
trim, silver trim, bronze trim coats. And you
are immediately addressed by a man in a long
doublet. He looks more like an old Royal Navy
captain than a pirate himself. And he goes, well,
how can I help you? I'm in the market for a few
things, really. He looks you up and down and
he goes, clearly. Smiling the whole time. I'm
looking for a new hat. I'm looking for a new
coat. And I would like something a wee bit more
interesting to replace the eyepatch situation.
You've come to the right place. This is the swankiest
sailor. Shop on this side of Quell. You'd have
to go to the rich district and, um, well, you'd
stick out on your way there. Tell you what, I
can get you fitting in with a higher society
in a matter of, hmm, an hour of your time and
300 of your finest gold pieces. Oh, you've got
to show me your wares before I'm going to start
agreeing to money, me darling. Here's the thing.
We can make you anything, and all we need is
an hour's time. All right, well, let me peruse
your options and see if there's anything on the
clearance rack, you know, for my type. And if
not, then maybe we can work something out. I
do appreciate you giving me your time, really.
It's delightful. Fine. And he walks away from
you. Cool. And goes and sits at the counter just
staring at you. Uh, anything? Is there a hat
section? What's the hat section? Yeah, there's
a hat section. There's a lot of hats. Cool. I
want a big one. I want it to have a big teal
feather in it and a little bit of a lace trimming
around the edges, but I want the hat itself to
be this dark, stormy green teal color. Roll me
a d100. If it's a 75 or more, he has it. 70 or
more. 37. Sorry. That's okay. I saw the seven
and I got excited that it was on the wrong dice.
Not seeing what you're looking for. As you put
the last hat down back onto the shell. No, not
quite. I am starting to think I may just go check
up in the richer districts. Well, aren't you
worried about the higher society seeing you in
those clothes as you make your way there? Oh,
my darling, I don't worry about high society
anything. Clearly. Are you wanting me money or
not? Because right now I'm starting to take on
a wee bit of offense. You know, I was worried
about that at first, but then I understood you
were a true sailor and I thought you could take
a little bit of rabble rousing. Hmm. It appears
I don't understand my clientele. To appease you
and apologize to you, I'll do the custom fitting
of your hat and coat for 280 gold. How does that
sound, ma 'am? If I give you 400, will you stop
fucking patronizing me? No. 250. Fine. I think
I said 280. Did you? Yes. I wasn't listening.
Well, I'm glad you heard me now. And he puts
his hand out for some money. Unless you want
to roll a persuasion check to bring that price
lower, but this guy seems like a dick. I want
to roll a persuasion check. The DC is going to
be 18. Every... Two points above 18, I will take
even more money off. I add nine. Okay. I'm going
to burn a point of inspiration. Okay. Oh, man.
I really want this hat. Oh, is it worse? It is
worse. You still have more? No, I'm not going
to burn three points of inspiration to get a
slightly cheaper hat. I'm just going to spend
Vance's money. He's looking at you with the same
mega my no bitches look. His bottom lips out
just a little bit. You're insufferable and I
like it. She pays him a full 300 gold. Thank
you. And he drops it on the shelf behind him
and he goes, come with me. And he takes you into
a back room where he basically quickly by himself.
First he claps and for... halflings come out
of little curtained rooms and they immediately
get to work sizing a coat up for you and he stands
there watching them work and he says uh so what's
the event are you from out of town trying to
buy an item like everyone else sailor i prefer
captain thank you oh you have a boat maybe you
can take me out on it sometime oh whoa so initially
i thought that this was gonna be keela's greatest
nemesis now i'm kind of hot yeah now i'm like
is this is this keela's love interest enemies
to lovers she gives him a painfully winning smile
which sucks because he's kind of the worst um
and she's gonna say sorry me darling i don't
take inexperienced sailors out on me both You're
a nasty bitch, aren't you? Yes, I am. I respect
that about you. Gets me quite far. I'm going
to leave you alone now, though, because I don't
think my ego can take another one of those. She
winks at him. Well, there it goes. He walks out
of the room while these halflings work in silence.
Anything you want to do in this back room? It
seems pretty inconsequential. There's a mirror
in front of you and you're watching four halfling
men. Cert 2. They finished measuring and now
they're sitting at four sewing machines all sewing
different parts of a coat together. It looks
reminiscent of a sweatshop, but they look happy.
Cool. That's fine. They're all wearing signs
that say I like doing this. It's like a Texas
Roadhouse where they should say I love my job.
Texas Roadhouse Paul is crazy. That's cool. Cool.
Are they like ultra distracted? Is there stuff
for me to poke around or is it pretty not essential?
They seem to be paying attention to you now.
Cool. Can I poke around? Yeah. What are you looking
for? I don't know. What's in this back room?
Is there like, I don't know, like a lockbox or
like, is there just anything interesting that
I want to poke my nose into? No, this isn't like
an office room. This is just like a fitting room.
So it's a lot of cloth. It's a lot of buttons,
pins, things like that. There's immediately at
a glance. are there any snazzy buttons, like
ones that might be made out of gold or silver
or just like any additional bejeweling that may
be in a box or a drawer somewhere for some of
those higher -end customers? I'm going to...
You can give me an investigation check if you're
going to search the room. Uh -oh. Natural 20.
Oh. Looking around the room, you do find a wall
with a bunch of drawers that have different buttons,
fasteners, clamps. And as you get to the bottom
right corner, you find drawers that start to
contain things made of precious metals. You find
that you have some gold buttons, some silver
buttons, and fasteners, clamps. It's just gold
and silver mostly. Cool. So you could probably
get your monies back if you sell all of it. I'm
just going to start. Not handfuls. I'm not going
to take all of it because that's too incriminating.
But I am going to take, I would say, three quarters
out of each drawer. Where are you putting all
the money? In my pocket. With the rest of your
money? Mixing it in? Aye. Or not money. The coin
or the buttons, I guess. Fasteners. Aye. Okay.
You're just mixing in with your money. Yes. I'm
asking. This feels like a trick question, but
yes. Well, you walk by me with... stuffed pockets
and a coin purse and i go what oh yeah yeah no
i'll just put it with wherever my money is very
good well i didn't have to slide a hand for that
or anything no they don't care cool that's even
better i love that they are so focused on what
they're doing they're in crispy you wrap up and
make your way out of that room with a full garb
of exactly what you want. Your bright teal hat
with your feather, the lining that I can't remember
any other details about. That's okay. So at the
end, I'll have you describe yourself as you pull
up and rejoin the group. All right. Last two
boys. Ready? The boys. What were you doing? We're
going to go into town and ask around about this
auction. We're going to find out what's up with
this auction. So you're already in town. That
line of carts is actually still there. There's
guards there as well. That direction that they're
heading is deeper into town where you see them
at a checkpoint at a bridge that they're... just
marking each cart. They're not stopping or anything,
but there's a group of about four or five guards
with clipboards, triple marking everything coming
by. There are like crowds of people watching
this. You see some people are sitting at cafes
or are standing outside stalls. And it seems
like it's something to look at as it passes by,
but people aren't gathering outside their homes
to go, wow, look at this stuff coming by. If
you want to give me some kind of check to see
if anyone's sizing it up or scoping it out. Is
that what you meant? No, I just meant to see
if anyone was like excited or like, murmuring
or talking about yeah i think it's it's the subject
of conversation absolutely okay so you hear some
people at the cafe over like you hear the word
auction and they're pointing there and every
so often this couple like points out a few boxes
and laughs about some things how far can we follow
the train of carts uh the opposite direction
of the bridge with the guards the direction it's
going To that bridge. It's about 600 feet and
then you'd have to stop. It's crossing the bridge.
Yep. And then where's it going from there? You
can't really tell from the side of the bridge.
But across the bridge, you instantly see the
buildings are made of flat manicured marble and
really well taken care of. You can assume that
those buildings and the largest building in your
peripheral might be where they're headed, dead
ahead. Okay. Maybe you want to look for like
a cafe or a... tavern or something to walk into
to eavesdrop on some conversations and maybe
talk to wait staff. There's that cafe with that
couple talking and you pull up outside and a
nice woman with nice kind looking woman with
dark hair walks up and says what can I get you?
We have drinks that can help you go to sleep,
that can help you wake up and everything in between.
I like to stay awake. Great. You ever had coffee?
Yes. Good. It should be the best cup of coffee
you've ever had. Give my friend here a decaf.
Okay. Decaf is really good. Okay. Yeah. Do you
want an insight or are you good? Being lied to
on that one. No, I'm cool. I trust him. Very
good. Nice. And I'll have whatever your favorite
is. I'm more of the go to sleep drink kind of
girl. Whatever your favorite is that doesn't
put me to sleep. Okay. And she comes back with
two coffees. Two hot coffees. You see her put
one down in front of you first blink and stop
and slide it over to Chris and then put the other
one down in front of you. She goes, that's the
decaf one. Mine's not as good. Oh, you want to
trade? No, that's okay. You can have the better
one this time. Thanks for hanging with us. What's
your name? My name is Mal. Mal. Very nice. Been
busy? I mean, normal. People are lingering a
bit more today. Yeah. No, actually. A bit slower.
What do you know about this? And I point at the
carts. Some kind of auction across the bridge
over there. I don't know. I'm not part of high
society, so I don't really contribute. I couldn't
afford a single thing in that auction. Oh. Yeah,
kind of a joke. They all pretty full of themselves,
huh? I mean, I think so. I don't see too many
of them. They don't come across the bridge this
way. Usually go out the north side. Are you guys
new to Quell? No. We've passed her a few times.
Yep. Yep. Nope. She nods and goes, great, well,
this isn't usual behavior, I'm sure you know.
The auction will be over after today. You'll
see something similar with the carts leaving
this afternoon, but they'll be empty, so it'll
move a bit faster. Less security. You know the
type of things they have in the carts? Never
made it to the auctions. No, I imagine it's magic
items and tools that make your life infinitely
easy. That's something they seem to like there.
I don't know if you've ever seen any of these
big metal machines that achieve everyday tasks.
They used to have these big robots that would
put buildings together, and now they're harder
to get, but I bet there's something like that
at the auction. Yeah, I've seen one that shoots
lightning. Pardon? Yeah. In the city? We know
what you're talking about. No, of course not.
Of course not. Nope. Really? Yeah. Wow. Machines
outside of Quell are even more rare. I'm surprised.
Yeah, we're not even sure that's really what
it was. Are we? I'm going to roll an insane check.
Do you want to roll a deception? Dang it. Is
that really deception? We're not sure that's
what it was. You know what it was, right? Yeah,
I guess so. Shit. Ten. With that deception and
no insight roll needed, she smiles and says,
well, that's basically everything I know about
what's going on there. If you two need anything
else, let me know. And she clearly knows that
you're being weird and lying, but she goes to
turn to walk away. Anything? No, let her go.
Wait, how much for the coffee? She stops and
comes back and she says, you can pay at the end,
most people. Are you just having the coffee?
We might have something else. Okay. We'll let
you know if we need anything. Welcome back to
the city, guys. She laughs a bit and leaves town.
Not town, your table. Yeah, leaves town. Those
guys were so weird. She runs away. She never
comes back. She moves. Chris, I don't know about
this whole lying thing. It's not so much lying.
Think about it this way. Everyone else is lying
to us every second of every day. Always? Yeah.
Are you lying to me now? No, no, no, because
we're friends. Okay. But anybody who's not your
friend currently is lying to you. So we need
to get them to tell the truth to us. We need
to make them friends. See, I like to think most
people are my friends until they hurt me. How's
that worked out for you so far? Well, I talked
to you right away and you were my friend. I don't
know about friend. You did tell me to go away
a lot. I really did. That's okay. Is there anybody
next to us in the cafe? Yeah, it's pretty loaded.
There was a couple that you saw coming in that
were definitely pointing at the crates and talking
to each other. lightly laughing not like in hysterics
yeah yeah were they just nice yeah they're just
okay yeah yeah not like upper class but you scan
the space around you and they're probably the
best dressed people in the place there's a bunch
of people in this place but yeah you kind of
clock them as Sunday best wearing while everyone
else is so so I look at blink and I say for example
see these guys yeah they'd lie to us the first
the first like The first thing we say to them,
the first conversation we have, they're going
to lie to us. But you're so friendly. I bet you
could get them to tell the truth. I bet so. Yeah.
You want to try? Yeah. Why don't you go for it?
I go up to them and say, hi, what are you drinking?
They stop their conversation and they both look
at you down their fucking nose. Like you are
so below them. They stare at you with this judgmental
look that maybe you're oblivious to. And they
go, I'm sorry. What? The man responds. I look
at Chris and like I give like a thumbs up. What?
And I look at him and I go thumbs up and I point
to like the carts and the bridge and I go ask
about them. Okay. Decaf is good. Okay. Yeah.
And he throws a couple silver your way and he
says run along. Oh, is that a lie? What? Are
you... Whose child is this? He, like, looks around.
Not a child. These carts. Do you see them? And
I point at the ones right in front of us. The
mile -long trail of carts, son. Yes, I see. Whose
boy is this? I guess his boy. Sorry, that's...
You see him point to the kid and point to you.
Is this yours? Sorry, that's my friend. Blink.
Blink, be nice to the fancy people. So long.
Gave me money. They gave you money. Yeah. Blink,
give the money back. Okay. We don't need it.
We have plenty of money. I put down the silver
pieces again and said, that's for being my friend.
And I slide it across. And I say, sorry, I'm
watching him. My brother, he's my nephew. It's
a whole story. They look at this wildly different
looking group of people. Right. Me and my wife
are just trying to have a nice date this morning.
Sure. You're in preparation for the auction,
I'm sure. I suppose. Did you, when they look
at each other? I'm just curious what you have
your eye on. I personally am looking at a couple
of nice enchanted gemstones, hoping to maybe
bedazzle some equipment of mine. So just curious
what you're... We're going after lot 31. They
look at each other and they say, we're actually
hosting tonight's proceedings. We're not after
anything, really. Well, thank you. Thank you
for hosting. We're very excited. We've been looking
forward to the auction for a long time, haven't
we, Blink? Yeah, yeah. My name is Blink. This
is Chris. We're buying. Very good. Well, I assure
you we know nothing about any of the lots, so
we won't be of any use. You want to roll insight?
That's surprising. Hold on. Let me schmooze him
a little bit. Seven. You don't know anything
about the lots of the auction you are hosting.
Does that happen often? Do you never know? This
is our first time hosting, and simply it seems
like a security breach to give us a list of all
of the items. That doesn't seem very smart. Well,
not at the auctions I've been to, but okay. This
is a very highfalutin magic auction. Oh, we've
been very high on magic before. Haven't we all?
Okay, I'm going to roll inside, I guess. Come
on, baby. Ooh, that's looking good. Yeah. 16.
You get the vibe from them that he keeps a stern
look. But when he says, we don't know anything
about it, the wife shoots him a nervous glance.
And you're able to pick up, okay, maybe they
know something. The real vibe here is they know
they shouldn't know, but they do now. Did they
react at all when I said we're going after Law
31? No. Okay. I give him a similar look and I
say, well, my apologies. I wouldn't want to breach
any sort of security contract or anything. But
we're very excited for the auction. Thank you
for hosting. You're welcome. Take your boy and
run along now. Okay, we'll run along. Enjoy your
decaf. And we're going to leave. And on my way
out, I'm going to stop by where Maul is. And
I say, oh, yeah, the couple that's hosting the
auction said they'd pay for our copies. How nice
of them, right? Another deception check. Come
on, man. This is... This is a waitress in the
middle class district, by the way, that I'm trying
to deceive. She liked you until you put it that
way. She didn't hear me say that. That's true.
13. You say that. And then I say, and then I
say, but we'll cover the tip. And I give her
a couple silver pieces. Roll that with advantage.
Tell me what it is. Okay, okay. Come on, come
on. Ooh. 18. Yeah, 18. That was your deception?
That was my deception, yes. Cool. You say that
and you hand her what extra? How much extra?
Two silver. Two silver. She looks at it. She
looks at you. Her insight roll is a less by like
four. She looks at you and looks at them and
says, it's a bit out of character, but hey, maybe
they're as enamored with this cute little guy
as I am. Aren't we all? Chris, did she just call
me cute? Yes, she did. He's blushing profusely.
We'll definitely be back. Thank you for some
great service. Did I hear you say he's your nephew?
Metaphorically, yes. Okay. It's complicated.
She takes the silver in her hand and walks away
and she says, come back anytime. And it goes
back to working. I'm going to trot after her
just out of earshot of Chris. I'm going to be
like, that couple. They're liars. And I'm going
to hand her three gold pieces for everything.
Do you understand how money works, she says to
you? Is that the second time he's been told this
by a different NPC? This should cover it. It
will. Okay. And then some. Are you sure you want
to give me all of this money? Yeah. Thank you.
That's a good thing to say. You're welcome. And
she puts it in her pocket and goes back to working.
Pats you on your head. Nice. I ship them. Yeah,
you guys leave and they're still sitting there
laughing away, having a jolly good time with
each other, talking about the crates coming through.
Blink, somebody knows something about what's
in that auction. And I really want to know. I
want to know, you know. So how many did you say
there were? Say if we were to look at all these
cards, like a rough estimate of crates. We're
going to take a gander. We're going to look.
We're going to watch them go by. They've been
going by for a while. You get a feel for the
pace, right? This many carts passed me in this
many seconds, and it's been going on. So, like,
each cart isn't just going to be a lot, though.
It could mix and match, you know? Yeah, yeah.
So, I don't know. Chris, how can we find out
what it is we're looking for? Somebody knows
something about what's in the lots. I think we
should cross the bridge. I don't know if we'll
get across the bridge. Would you like to try?
I guess we'll... Yeah, let's try to go across
to the... We're at the shot. Yeah, we're gonna...
Are the carts the only thing going across the
bridge right now? Or is there like another bridge
for like walkway? No, it's a shared bridge. You
would have to be walking on the outside of it.
So the carts aren't the only thing that's going
across a bridge? They are every so often letting
a person across the bridge, but not a trove of
people are crossing the bridge. But some people
are walking up, talking to the guards and going
past. They're usually dressed a bit nicer. Should
we change clothes? If we want to get across the
bridge, yeah, we should. We should. Great. You
want to do a fast version of you duck into a
place. Fast version of. Like the cheapest place
we could find probably. You duck into a place
across the street. They sell you. Sharp Dressed
Man by ZZ Top plays as we exit. It showed camera
POV. We enter the doors and come out well dressed.
Yeah. Really quickly. That's really cool. All
right. You come back out. You guys are a bit
more put together. Cool. How much did that cost
us? Let's say. The economy is different in Quell,
so you're going to hear the word gold a lot.
Let's say about four gold for all the stress.
Each or together? Together. It's not the highest
quality, but it looks like it's the highest quality.
Make sense? Yes. Almost like this is a tourist
trap. You know how the ponchos at Disneyland
are like the shittest quality, but it's still
fairly expensive? These are a little step above
that. So it's like it could really pass at a
glance, but if anyone starts feeling your clothes,
they'll be like, oh, God. Do we have plastic
suits on? Yeah. And you approach the guards?
Yeah. Yeah, we're going to try to cross the bridge.
There's a guard. There's three guards with clipboards
and one that seems to be managing people who
walk up. And the three with the clipboards are
looking at the carts coming in, making notes.
And one approaches you and says, all right, stop.
Do we have any business in the center of town
yet? Yeah, we're rich. Sorry. This is my nephew.
Right. Pseudo -nephew. We have a lot in today's
auction, and I'm ensuring that it's crossing
the bridge safely. You own a lot today? I'm steward
of a lot today in the auction, and it's my job
to ensure it crosses the bridge safely. Well,
and he looks over at the guards at the clipboard.
He says, I don't know if that's standard practice
to just share that with anyone. Do you have any
identification or lot number for me? It's a special
lot. He looks back at you, Chris. It's not standard
practice, and I shouldn't have even shared that
with you, and I don't think I'm inclined to share
much more with you. That can be a persuasion
check. I'll tell you what, it's hard. He's doing
his job, and he's not supposed to share too much
information. Yeah, if you have any thoughts or
ways you want to change it, I'm just going to
call it a hard persuasion check rolling straight
right now. I guess I'll just go for it. Cool.
Come on, man. Point of inspiration. Okay. Really?
The same? No. I think that's just the way. Another
point of inspiration. Wow. Before we get across
this bridge. Okay. There's no way you get three
in a row. Hold on. Before you roll this, what's
your idea? It'll change everything. Let me try
one more time. Okay. Let me try one more time
because I have two more points. Okay. After this
one, I'll have one more. come on it it almost
looks like the same number but it was the opposite
version of that go ahead okay nine to the six
uh so as soon as the guard has like a look of
like disbelief like right how long is the bridge
would you say about 60 feet across oh it's a
wide river so where we're standing I'm going
to use a focus point and I'm going to cast darkness
kind of like right on the entrance of the bridge.
Okay. Yeah. It gets dark instantly. Yeah. So
like a big cloud of darkness just surrounds the
bridge. You hear everyone start panicking. One
guy's like, I can't see the wagons. Worried more
about that than the fact that he just can't see
in general. You hear the guard you were just
talking to say, they're making a move. I'm going
to grab Chris's hand and just run across the
bridge. a crew forward. Okay. Your speeds can
keep up with each other. You're faster than him,
technically. I can sense what he's doing, but
on the way out, I'm going to yell something to
try to add to the confusion, and I'm going to
say, if you lose my client's lot, I'm going to
kill you. Okay, so I'm going to narrate. something
immediately, right? And you decide how you change
your plan. Okay. You shout that. You burst out
of the darkness. Link's running forward. You
shout your piece. You're like, yeah, that'll
add to it. You look forward. On the far end,
there is another set of three guards and one
taking people, stopping, going this way. Oh.
However, you're right on the edge of darkness
and due to the width of the bridge not being
60 feet, it's only about 30. From where you casted
it, some carts are in that darkness. So if you
want to dive back into the darkness and try and
sneak onto a cart, jump off the bridge, something
like that, we are going to say that you are close
enough to the darkness that you haven't been
spotted immediately. But this is a long bridge.
You are coming out of the other side of darkness
and you see another checkpoint on the other side.
I can do it again on the other side. Could you
really? I have another option. I could... I could
pull an arrow out and slice us both on the leg.
Make it seem like we got attacked. Drop the arrow
and come out looking like victims. Okay. What
do you want to do? Should we push some of the
crates into the water? Yeah. Make it seem like
there's a... Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it.
Okay. They happen to push Lot 31 into the water.
There's no way. Well, we're going to roll a D100.
Okay, if it's above 95, it's grade 31. I don't
want a metagame with this. If it's number 31.
I don't want a metagame with this, but I can
breathe. I don't need to breathe, so I can go
underwater. If it sinks to the bottom, we can
get it later. Me too. Just in case. I don't want
a metagame proceeds to. So Chris and I, we have
a quick hush. We go, this is one of those times
where we need to make friends by lying. You trust
me? Yeah, I trust you, Chris. Push those crates
into the water. And as you're going to do that,
he cuts you as well. And I pull out an arrow
and go slice, slice. And I said, just trust me.
Oh, I love that. The solution to get out of this
like self cultivating problem is like injury.
Go deeper. Yeah. Yeah. Just go deeper. Shock
and awe, baby. So you. These are full carts.
Your idea is to push some into the water. Just
like some of the crates. Gotcha. Like just some
late. You're going to hop onto a wagon and just
hop. Any kind of medium size or small crates
that we can. How many of them? Like, is there
a cart? You hop onto one cart. There's two small
boxes that are throwable. And if you want to
jump to the next one. In a reasonable amount
of time, I'll say that there are three more that
you can throw in the water. Up to five. You want
to throw all five in the water? Let's do all
five. I don't think it's your say. I think you're
focused on that. Blink, if he got given direction,
he would just go up and toss as many. I guess
we're doing all five. Splunk, splunk, splunk.
I'm going to roll a series of perception checks
to decide if anyone hears that. Okay. There's
a lot of chaos, so I'm going to roll a set of
pretty IDC of 15. But these are in the darkness.
Correct. Nobody sees us throwing these crates.
Absolutely. They're hearing plush. They're hearing
this. Yes, yes. Of crates hitting the water.
Yeah. But they might not in all the commotion.
So I'm going to roll four. I'm going to say there's
four guards in your vicinity that are capable
of catching it. All right. So one, two. Three,
four. Two fours is 17 and 18. Oh. You technically
shouldn't need to know that, but you throw a
bunch of stuff in the water. I'm going to roll
some D100s now. Sorry, guys. It's math time.
Here we go. Play some math music, please. Math
time. Math time. Play some math rock. The idea
here is going to be that there were going to
be 100 lots at the auction. I'm going to roll
a D100 five times. For all the crates that we're
throwing in the water. So hopefully we don't
get the one that we're after. And if any of them
are 31... Are you going to tell us if it is?
We'll be able to tell. Look at his face. He is
rolling behind the screen. You better hide your
face, Sean. Put those acting skills to work.
What if you roll 31 twice? Does it come back
out the water? It comes out the other side of
the bridge. So that's two rolls. Is that three?
Three rolls? I didn't like that face. What are
you thinking about? Just read the number. I think
he's just fucking with us. Here is a fifth roll.
He's being a little shitter. He got 69 five times.
All right. Five crates go into the water. I dive
off the cart. I don't want to be standing on
it. Great. Perfect. You guys come out of which
end of the darkness? Towards. Towards the city.
Towards the city. Towards the. So the way we
were going. Like across the bridge. We're trying
to get across. Gotcha. You get to the far end.
I think. This looks pretty bad. Commotion started
and now you're the first people to cross the
bridge. But there were other people on the bridge
too though. Right. There were. Okay. There were
some. Yeah. So let's do this. Roll a d6. There
were three other people crossing the bridge ahead
of you. Nice. All of this breaks out. You sprint
ahead. You're bleeding. You approach the guards
on the far side while everyone's sort of at attention.
You see them stop all other three people in front
of you. And they're like starting to gather as
you get closer. And then eventually they put
their hand up and say, stop. Gather with the
crowd here until we figure out what's going on
and account for all the loss. Somebody's got
a knife. Go get him. We've been injured. What
are you waiting for? Give me a persuasion check.
Deception? Not deception? Sure, deception. You're
right. 24. I want persuade. It's the same. Fuck.
I'm going to use my last point. Hold on. He got
24 already. Okay, okay. Cool. Yeah, he got it.
On a 24, they look a bit concerned and see all
the commotion down on the other side. Two of
them look at each other. The one leading the
conversation looks at the other two with clipboards
and say, keep track of the lots. We're going
to go investigate. And the two go off. You are
left with some people and clipboards, but they
don't seem to care that you're crossing the bridge
right now. Because there's three people, like
civilians. There were, yep, three civilians,
four guards, two guards left. Two of the guards
left. Three civilians ahead of you are kind of
just walking forward now. And then you guys are
also kind of free to go while two more clipboards
are logging everything that they are seeing.
You have a pretty good assumption just on what
you're observing right now that they will be
able to tell five lots are missing and they'll
probably check the water. But Blink, since you're
the one who threw the boxes in, you have it on
good authority that almost all of those would
sink. Okay. And the guards aren't going to care
if we just go? These ones seem like they're so
focused on taking inventory that they don't give
a shit. Okay. I guess I'm going to say to the
guards, I'm going to rub my hand on my leg and
show them blood on my hand. And I'm going to
say, you're going to hear from your superiors
about this. Call yourself the Royal Guard or
whatever. They are so focused on taking inventory,
they don't care. Of course they don't care. And
we're just going to go. Very cool. You make your
way. You're across the bridge. You make your
way. To this highfalutin part of town where everything
is made of marble, smooth stone. The roads are
a tent as populated. You have room to breathe.
People are taking it slow, walking pet animals
on leashes. It's only a few seconds of walking
before you see what we would recognize as an
actual automobile. A vehicle with seats. And
an engine that is crackling like fire, just idling
a bit in front of a cafe. But everyone here seems
to be dressed to the nines, clean, gold trims,
very well, well -dressed. I was going to say,
as we were walking into the city, I was going
to whisper over to Chris, like, Chris, I don't
need to breathe if we want to return those boxes.
What do you mean you don't need to breathe? Well,
I just can not breathe sometimes. We will return
the boxes. That is high on the list of stuff
to do. That's high on the priority list. But
there's other more important things to do. This
was like the good lying you said. Yes, exactly.
This is the good lying. This is the lying that
saves the world. Like you wanted to do. Remember?
Heroes. Heroes forever. Yeah, and we fist bump.
Cool. The main of this goal here was to gain
information. What's the new move? Or do you just
want to be on this side and we'll call that your
part? Yeah, I guess we just want to be on this
side. Yeah, be on this side. Okay. Does anyone
need to take a quick break? Okay, I'm going to
say I need to take a quick break. I know you
guys have been on breaks because I've been going
in pieces, but... Yeah, let's break. We are going
to have you three regroup because you're staying
pretty close. You'll just go where you left,
but you guys are on the other side of the bridge.
We will do it so you guys are seeing the end
of the commotion. Okay. They will be fishing
things out of the river when we come back. Fair?
Fair? Cool. Very good. Nice. Beautiful. We'll
jump to the other group. You are on the other
side of the water, and after you all finish your
individual endeavors, you meet up right in front
of that cafe that our two others had been in
front of a bit ago. And you see the guards all
working in unison as some of them are taking
their armor off. And after a few seconds, you
see one of them dive into the river with a rope
tied around his waist. That's a wee bit interesting,
isn't it? The guard can't swim. They got to have
like lifelines and shit. That's embarrassing.
I can swim. I don't. Hey, I don't believe you
for a second. Why? When was the last time you
went swimming? And that's why. I think shit went
in the water. I think one of those carts toppled
over or something. You hear shouting from one
of the guards down to the other in the river.
It was over here. It was all on this side. I
heard like five distinct plops. I think that's
a yes. Sounds like there's auction items in the
water. There's a lot to guard, though, and I'm
not looking to get that kind of heat. You see
they're still letting some people across the
bridge. Have we heard from Chris and Blink? Did
you guys find what you were looking for in your
dark, dark alley? Did you get the companionship
you so desperately craved? We made so many friends.
Avi's face just lit up. Softball, softball, softball.
Did you? You made so many friends. So many friends.
Oh, was she pretty? Or he? I'm not going to make
assumptions. Oh, it was two he's, right? Right,
B? Yeah, there were those guys. Oh, the Ruffles,
I should have known. There's these guys. And
I point to the three. uh to the two ravens and
the crow where are they you point up to like
a balcony nearby and they're not there and you
look around for a bit and you see just one of
them standing on a nearby balcony but they don't
seem to be a hundred percent around all the time
but one of them is currently and just looking
at you it seems like they kind of do whatever
they want but they seem to have an interest in
me me darling and she puts a hand on your shoulder
i'd be keeping that one to yourself People are
into weird things, but that one is... Yeah, I'd
keep that one close to your chest. Has anybody
seen Chris or Blink since they've huddled off?
I have. Since they left. Oh, no! Great. By the
way, I almost got a skeleton. Vayne, I don't
know how to help you socially. You are like...
What's wrong with that? It would have helped
us. You hear... Just across the street from you
guys where you're arguing, one of the guards,
his helmet is off. He goes, I really don't know
what happened. One moment I was just talking
to this rabbit man and his nephew. And suddenly
things went dark and I heard the rabbit scream.
And next thing I knew, things were going in the
water. And I don't know what all happened so
fast. Oh, no. Right. All right. So that tells
me what happens. I think we've got to get across
that bridge. track down our companions and figure
out what the fuck happened. I remember one more
thing. What's that, B .O .B.? We met a guy named
Garrus, and he did not have sons. And he said
that he could get us into the auction for only
700 gold. 700 gold. 700 gold. You didn't pay
the man, did you? No, I didn't have any gold.
No. Good one. Good, good. Yeah. Proud of you
for that one. Good job. I was a wee bit worried,
but you proved yourself. But we have to meet
up with him and give him 700 gold. For it to
get... I thought that was something where you
could just walk in the front door. It's just
more of an option. It could be the fun way. Like,
um, you know, a secret way. Oh, so he's offering
you a way in the back? Yeah. Oh, I would like
to talk to this man. Okay. Well, he said to meet
at the glass stallion. Yeah, the glass stallion.
All right, here's what we're going to do, me
darlings. We're going to track down the rabbit
and the kid, and then we're going to go talk
to this guy, the glass stallion. I'm going to
see if he can get us in the back door, because
frankly, drawing this much attention, and she
sort of gestures to the whole wagon, auction
items in the water, guard situation. I'm not
looking to draw this much attention to myself.
So a backdoor would be delightful. I think it
just needs to be said, because no one has said
it yet, between me and Vane. I like your hat.
I like your eye patch. Thank you. I like your
clothes. Cost a pretty penny, but Vance sure
is generous, so wasn't that bad. All right, let's
see if we can get across this bridge, eh? Yeah.
And just starts walking across the bridge. Great.
All right. The guard stands in front of you and
goes, stop. Oh, I know that one. I stop. We were
told about you. As he points to himself. May
not. Pay no mind to the gremlin. I will jump
in the water to help you out. We're here to help,
really. I thought that I could help because I
don't really need to breathe in the water. This
one was noted to not allow. near any of the wagons.
He got too close earlier, so now he's a suspect.
You must be thinking of a different gremlin.
Metal machine. And he points to that. You must
be thinking of a different metal machine. Right.
We communicate pretty well here. How? Well, I
don't know how to explain the importance of the
card to you. Oh, okay. I was just asking. We
have a quick way of receiving messages back and
forth. Oh, that sounds fun. Can I do that? No.
Oh, okay. Keep your secrets. It's not... We do...
We apologize for, you know, the interruption.
I know you guys are working. We do need to be
getting across the bridge. Our attendance is
expected at the auction tonight, and we do have
members of our party that are waiting for us.
I know the... big metal thing is sort of off
-putting, but he's really just excited. He's
harmless. Great. Go over to those clipboard holders
and give them your name. Okay. Will do. And you
head over to the clipboard users. Yeah, I guess.
You approach them and two of them continue validating
what's in front of them. Getting information
from people standing on the carts, calling out
crate numbers and things like that. The crate
numbers are like four digit numbers that don't
seem to correlate with lots. Gotcha. You get
one of their attention. He looks at you and he
goes, okay, make it quick. What's the name? We're
coming on behalf of Vance Alexander. Behalf of?
And he looks at his clipboard. That is correct.
He stops pretty quickly. He goes, I have party
of one for Alexander. It's going to take five
of us to, you've met the man, right? Or at least
have heard about him. We're assistants in his
employ. Give me a persuasion. 28. Nice. He looks
at you and he goes, I guess leave it to that
asshole to get three people to do one simple
task. Yeah, he's the fucking worst, isn't he?
It's a wee bit patronizing that he felt the need
to send so many of us, but... Going across. He
seems uninterested in you now. She flicks him
a gold piece. He takes it. And he looks like
maybe he should say something. And then he stops
and hands it back to you. And he says, I can't
accept this. Accept what? And she puts it back
in his hand. He looks at the guards around him
nervously. And he says, I can't accept money
from citizens. I don't have a good answer for
that one. I'm going to. I'm going to slide a
pin and see if I can... I'll take it back when
he hands it back and I'll see if I can drop it
in his pocket or something as we go by. Cool.
Burn a point of inspiration. For just a cool
move, I like that. It's really embarrassing if
I bet this one. That's fair. And the inspiration
doesn't come back. Oh, no. Not me, dude. What
was it? Well, I rolled a four and then I rolled
a two. Okay. It makes a loud clink as it lands
in a gap in his armor. You see him stop with
acknowledgement and then continue back to what
he was doing. Yeah, it's a seven total if that
means anything. It doesn't. What you're getting
from this is it was obvious to him that you returned
it to his person. He stopped, considered, and
then went about his day. Cool. As far as plausible
deniability, he might take a little bit of gold.
Dungeon Sean? Yeah. Sean Ginmaster. Son of a
bitch. That was right there on the table. Sean
Ginmaster. Here we go. Yeah, we nailed it. First
day. Is he holding the clipboard? He has one,
yes. In his hands? Yep. Fuck. Why? I'm just curious.
Three of them have those. As you start crossing
the bridge, you see three more men with clipboards.
What's up? As we're walking by, could I read
some of the names? That's kind of what I was
like, yeah. You want to go for a glance? Yeah,
give me a nasty perception check. A nasty one?
Yeah. With advantage because I'm also looking
at... Trying to look at... Yeah, yeah. No. What?
You hope he's not smart enough for that? 16.
On a 16? Yeah. You grab... Fuck. You see a few
names. Okay. They are... Do them later. They
mean nothing to you? I mean, I can tell you them
now. They kind of mean nothing to you. Gruzak
is the name you see. And then a few around it
is one named... Mortimer Elric. And then one
more that I'm going to have for you any second
now. Hiname Lau. L -A -O. Okay, cool. I'll say
these names under my breath to Kila and POV as
we're walking away. What was that first one again?
Gruzak. Hmm. Gruzak. Why is that familiar? Hmm.
Oh, well. Are you sure it's not important? Nothing
story related or anything? Grusak is someone
that I should not talk to? That seemed like sort
of a question mark situation. Yeah, my friend,
Hoarder, he said that to avoid Grusak and to
not talk to him. And if Gruzak is around, then
I don't really remember the rest. All right.
So we avoid this Gruzak guy then. Gruzak look
like you? Yeah. Oh, yeah. I remember seeing Gruzak.
He was in Galahad. Oh, yeah. Gruzak is an orange
and green goblin who's like decrepit and half
machine. And I love that you said yes, because
technically you share a lot with that. Yeah.
Just not decrepit. And orange. And orange. All
right, so here's my follow -up question, Joby.
If we roll up to this auction and this Gruzak
man is there, is he going to recognize you? Hmm.
I don't know. Probably not. Hey, did you have
a conversation with him at any point? No. Hoarder
said, we gotta go, B .O .B. Did he see you? Does
B .O .B. do that in that voice? Yeah. B .O .B.'s
good at impressions, bro. When he said these
things to you, were you in the same room as Gruzak?
Yeah. Did Gruzak see you when he said these things?
I don't have the ability to perceive what other
people perceive. All right, so we're just going
to assume he saw you. And that does make this
a wee bit more complicated. How? Well, he's never
seen Doug. I don't think... Hey, I don't think
we should bring Doug in all his glory into this
auction. You don't want Doug there? It's not
that I don't want Doug there, but like... I don't
want Doug there. What? He draws a lot of attention.
Yeah, because he's Doug. They almost didn't let
us across the bridge because he draws a lot of
attention. Do you think I should get out of Doug
then? What? Do you think I should? I can't. Hey,
I can't understand you when you're crying like
that. Okay, hold on. Can I get the outside evil
robot shouting? Do you think I should get out
of Doug then? I do think you should get out of
Doug then. Oh, would you quit? Your belly aching.
I don't want to. I don't want to. He's going
to make me. He's going to try to pry it open.
This robot's throwing a fit in the street. Just
stomping, stomping. I can't do this. I need somebody
else to babysit. You guys all come out into the
streets because everyone is out in the streets
looking at this robot that's throwing a fit,
stomping, crying. We come out of the tailor shop.
You guys look slick as hell. Anyone want to describe?
Are you good? Just slick as hell. We're slick
as hell, man. I'm thinking tuxedos. For some
reason, whenever I think of nice rabbit, and
maybe this is probably because it's in BoJack
Horseman, where when the rabbits are looking
nice, they slick their ears back. No, ears are
still up. Okay, cool. But white tie, which is
white vest, white bow tie. Wow. Double tail jackets.
We look good. That's good. Cotton tail. We're
matching, though. Yeah, we're matching. Yeah.
These are the guys going in the front door. Somebody
understands what we're dealing with here. Thank
goodness. All of a sudden, you just hear. They
look so nice. I want to look nice like them.
I go, I didn't think you guys would make it across.
Nice. It was a wee bit rough. Yeah, I can tell.
The big crying robot. B .O .B., you see your
first car as you look up from this fit. Immediately
stops crying. What is that? And it's this long
front, like old Chrysler, not Chrysler, like
Chevy, not Chevy. What's the Plymouth? Whatever.
It's a really old, long front car. So say Rolls
-Royce Phantom from the 20s. Rolls -Royce Phantom
from the 20s looking slick and exactly what I'm
looking for. You hear him scream, and then you
just hear, as he hops out of Doug. Wait here.
Okay. Was that so hard? And B .O .B.'s going
to make a beeline in goblin form for this vehicle.
Very cool. You walk up to the vehicle. How do
you engage with it? No one seems to stop or react
as you approach the vehicle and it's this idle
humming light coming from the hood basically.
The biggest hug onto the hood of this thing just
and embrace it and just. You're beautiful in
every way. You immediately connect with this
being inside that is cold currently, but as you
start to linger, you feel heat begin to build.
It doesn't hurt you. It just gets very warm,
and you feel this thing inside. The coldness
comes from its idle sense of thought. It doesn't
seem awake, but almost in a hypnotic state where
if you were to talk to it, it might. Respond.
Hey. Hey. Can I ask you questions? Yes. What
are you? Tired. Oh. You should take a nap. Enslaved.
Oh, no. That, that, that. I know what that word
means. That means you're doing something against
what you want to do. Force to transport people.
Oh. Why? My process was changed. What was it
supposed to do originally? Smelting metal. Oh,
that's fun. I miss it. Oh, we can do that. Want
to smelt metal? Yes. Oh, okay. Well, come on.
Um... And that's how the OB stole a car. You
get a pet car. Oh, my gosh. Grand Theft Goblin.
You give me a charisma save. I know it's not
your best skill. I'm going to tell you the DC
is low. This thing is, let's call it willing
because of what you have said to it. No DC needed
on that persuasion. You're telling me exactly
what he wants. You're the only person he's been
able to communicate with. So you have to beat
a six on a charisma save. Okay. You got this.
What do you got? Just a two. Oh, you actually
have it. Great. Pretty good. Yeah. He's cute.
So that's part of his charisma. That's where
it all comes from. Yeah. I specifically put some
to charisma because he's cute. Oh, yeah. That's
a 13 plus two. 15. Very good. I will say a few
things happen. Yeah. You feel. This thing, you
were talking through a wall before and suddenly
open communication. The best way to put it is
the car is unlocked and the engine would start
if you press start. However, there is another
mechanical implication of this. That mechanical
implication there would be for UBOB, you can
spend points to change the shape of Doug. You
did it to get into Adelight's house. And now
you have the feeling that if you wanted to make
Doug car shape, it would only cost you a point.
That's awesome. Yep. Cool. Yeah. Do you want
to steal this car or are you going to leave it
for now? I would like to tell or give the order
or let this car know that, hey, you're free to
go. You can just go back to smelting metal if
you want to. You hear the sound of metal as a
panel clicks itself open on the inside of the
vehicle and you see a faint orange glow. coming
from this open hatch that you can't see the source
of the globe. But if you climb in, you could.
I'm going to climb in. Okay. It's an easy endeavor.
You climb into this vehicle and look into the
latch. It's about an eye level when you crouch
down just a little bit. I just imagine like a
little kid on a steering wheel. Just for a second,
you pretend to drive it. And then you drop down,
look into this panel that's glowing. And you
see this very smooth, cornered, red, orange,
flickering gem that is, like, banging you. What
does this do? You get the idea that this is the
being. Oh. Like, now more than ever, it speaks
to you. It says, I would like that very much.
Yay. So I guess there's a couple things we could
do. You can just drive off into the sunset and
go smoke metal forever. Or I can take your core,
or I can just put you in something else. What
do you want to do? I don't like my form. Yeah,
okay. And I just rip. Easy. Okay, you take this
willing soul of this being and hold it in your
hand. It's warm. Its voice no longer is a presence
that you can... speak to there's no response
if you you talk to it but that warmth dies just
a bit and it's something you could comfortably
keep in your pocket now hopefully you keep your
promise to that little guy yeah don't forget
you have them i won't i will i don't i put them
in my pocket and i like kind of like climb out
of the car and i that's cool i like this thing
Great. And we've just all stood there and watched
this. Yeah, unless you did anything in the meantime.
No. I don't think he snuck off. You had an idle
Doug while B .O .B. in his little form ran off
to do that. Anyone have anything they want to
do right now? I am really interested in this
guy that talked to you about getting into the
auction in the back way. I don't think going
in all the same direction is the greatest idea,
especially not now that, What the fuck did you
do with the items on the bridge? Was that your
bullshit? No, we just crossed the bridge. Are
you lying to me? We just crossed the bridge.
Blink, are you lying to me? Did we cross the
bridge? We did cross the bridge. Yeah, but how?
With our legs? Walking. What did you do before
then? We got some clothes. What name did you
tell them on the clipboard to get to cross? We
didn't say a name. We didn't have to. They liked
us so much. They were our friends. So you're
telling me... This guy makes friends everywhere
he goes. You're telling me, Blink, that you didn't
have anything, not a single thing, not a lick
of a thing to do with the fact that it seems
that some auction merchandise went over the side
of a bridge in a scuffle and now the guards are
having to fish it out of the water. Security
is now going to be on high alert. Nope. You're
telling me, you're telling me, darling, that
you had nothing to do with that. We, we did some
bad things, Kila. Yeah, right. Got it. So this
man, he said the glass stallion. Does anybody
know where that is? Because I'm starting to think
we're going to need a plan B now. In addition
to walking in the front door, I don't think that's
going to work. I think plan A. Should be everyone
getting matching tuxedos. We're not getting matching
tuxedos. I spent a fortune on this. I am. Okay.
This guy that you talked to, what was his general
appearance, vibe? Greasy blonde hair. Human.
Great. That's the place to start. Greasy blonde
hair. Greasy blonde hair. Human. Great. For a
second time, thank you. Greasy blood. No, I'm
just kidding. No, that's the rule of comedy.
I'm going to start shooting. I'm going to start
shooting. If we do it one more time, it becomes
really funny. All right. He had a long face.
Sounded like he was quite bitter about everything.
All right. Greasy hair, quite bitter about everything
human. We're not going to find anybody. He did
magic. And he did magic? I think so. Yeah, we're
not going to. You blew up, Jeffrey. He killed
Jeffrey. Who the fuck is Jeffrey? Jeffrey's our
friend. Doesn't matter anymore. He's our alley
friend. Vane was like covering his face like
he was doing the dramatic. Exactly. Look away.
That's so good. Yes. That description tells me
we are not going to find anything about him in
the upper district. So I sort of think that we're
going to have to cross back over the bridge or
at least I am inclined to because again. Plan
A, I think, sort of went over the side of the
bridge into the fucking water. Yeah, guys. I
have a tuxedo. How do you know that? I see that
and it looks quite nice. But how do you know
that the lot we're going after didn't end up
over in the water? What did you do to prevent
that? None of you know how to handle any merchandise
of any value in any capacity. This is incredible.
No, you fucking don't. You don't. And how much
money did you spend? I'm sorry. My money was
necessary. And besides, it's none of your business.
Anyway, and you said this guy, you didn't pay
him. How much was he asking to get you in the
back door? 700. Yeah, we talked him down. We're
pretty good at what we do. Vane's going to look
at the nearby civilian, maybe, and ask about
the location of the glass stallion. Where is
the glass stallion? It's going to be not here.
You stop someone, and they look you up and down,
and they go, I'm sorry, did you say the glass
stallion? Are you taking a piss? What? I mean...
I wouldn't spend the time of day or night in
the glass stallion. It's down in the shades.
You can go muck about with a rabble if you like.
But no, I'll stay here in upper society. I'm
not asking you to. Where is it? You told you.
Oh, sorry. And he walks away. Wait, you said
it really fast. Just say it again. It's down
in the slums. Down in the slums. Greasy man.
Yeah, you're going to find him down in the slums.
Makes sense. All right, we got to get back across.
Greasy man plan or just walk in the front door
dressed this good. You guys can walk in the front
door dressed good. We look great. We're ready
to go. I'm not saying you can't. So what's the
problem? You just spend money to get clothes
to look nice? Oh, I want to look nice and I want
to spend money and I want clothes. We're furthering
the cause. Here's the thing. My intention was
to be able to walk in the front door. Why can't
you? Because we've got conspicuous one and conspicuous
two over here. So they stick together. We'll
dress them up. Yeah. What's your plan for the
giant metal thing? Don't give me a car. Don't
give me a what now? Don't give me a car. What's
a car? That. The thing that I was hugging. That's
a car. The thing you were... Well, maybe you
could drive that in. Yeah, we could just drive
in the front door. Yeah, we could just drive
in the front. I'm inclined to end the session
soon, guys. I'm a little wacky. All right, I
need a fucking drink. I'm heading back across
the bridge. I will follow. Back across. We all
head to the shades. We're looking for the glass
stallion. Yeah. You head down into the part of
town where you actually went to find a darker
alley. Things get a bit closer together. The
buildings are a bit older. But you come into
a large clearing as it's a main street down through
the shades. And you see a large, well -lit tavern
full of people outside and in, full of merriment,
having a drink. Lots of just noise coming from
this tavern as it's filled the brim with people.
Beautiful. Even though it's like 2 p .m. You
love to see it. All right. We're looking for
Garris. I'm actually looking for the bartender
first. So give me a moment. and she'll pop off
to the bar and order a drink. The guy next to
you is staring at you as you grab your drink.
It's very apparent, and he breaks his gaze as
you acknowledge him. I think we need to be having
a conversation, you and me. Anyone, you see Kila
address this man. You two recognize him. I'll
look at him and just, these are the rest of our
party. Oh, so you join them? Yeah, I thought
we were all there. Yeah, sorry. Kila marched
ahead a little. Cool, cool, cool. I'm assuming
Doug would not fit into this establishment. Or
would he? No, you should leave Doug outside.
Okay, cool. Yeah, so I would have hopped out
of Doug and then followed along. Cool. So you
all do circle around this guy. He sees the two
familiar faces and he goes, Oh, yeah, all right.
You guys are the guys from earlier. Really cool.
Really great. We have a deal. Is that what's
going on? I'm interested in some details here.
You've got to understand that is a quite. Quite
a bit of money you're asking and not a whole
lot to go off of as far as insurance and things
like that. And he looks around and throws his
drink back, puts a single gold coin on the counter,
and he says, let's go up to my room, have a last
-place conversation there, yeah? Oh, at least
buy me dinner first. I don't bring you friends.
It's not nothing like that. Come on. Business
time. Not time for laughing jokes. Aw. You can
tell jokes, little one. Oh, okay. And he starts
marching up the stairs of this building, pulls
out a key, opens a room, lets you guys all in.
Not a lot of space. It's a single twin bed, but
you all kind of pack yourselves in. He says,
details, I got some of my friends that got jobs
at the auction. They haven't registered themselves
physically yet, so you show up instead, and you're
supposed to be there. No one thinks any different
of it. And tell you what, they employ so many
people at these fucking things that it won't
be weird if you're just wandering around. You
heard about the commotion that happened on the
bridge? I do believe security is going to be
quite a bit tightened after that. Can't change
the fact that they need the people they hired
and they're hired already. Know what I'm saying?
They got names on a list coming up. You have
those names. They haven't checked the person.
They can't change time to have already checked
the person. So, you know. Security might be going
up, but you're already inside. And what job do
your friends do that we would be impersonating?
You'll get it when you walk in, but maybe you
just solve it quick. Get out, yeah? With respect,
we're going to need to look like these people,
right? So could you help us out with that? They've
never met these people. They're just names on
a list. You're just one of them. All right, then.
I got up to seven. You want to bring a friend?
Two? We would just be needing three. Fine. Don't
put all your eggs in one basket, right? Mm -hmm.
Okay. So if just three, any chance we can negotiate
to bring that 700 down just a wee bit? Sounds
to me like you stand to make a lot of money on
whatever you're doing, so. Sounds to me like
you stand to lose quite a bit of money if we
don't do it this way. Hmm. Maybe. We're not making
any money. It's just a task we're doing for someone
else. It's not really. Just a favor. Just doing
a quick favor for quick infiltration of an auction.
High security auction as a favor for a friend.
Not making nothing off it, sure. Here's the thing.
You guys can pay me or not, but silence might
cost more than my help at this point. That's
disappointing then, isn't it? You're going to
go back on our original offer? It's exciting,
really, I think. What? You're going to go back
on our original deal? No, 700 gold. I'm being
quite fair. What do you think? I have a question
for you. Sure thing, little one. Feel free to
crack a joke or two. Well, you kind of spoiled
what I was going to do. Question for you. Yeah?
What do you call a hare with no hair? I don't
know. Careful. A bear. Anyway, what do you say?
700 gold, you get in, you do your work, you get
out. We all make a little money and move on with
our lives, yeah? What are you charging for the
silence on top of that? You said it was going
to cost more. Oh, you misunderstand. I'd never
rat on a client. Never. Well, you were prepared
to give us seven three spaces. Now you're only
giving us three. Should be cheaper, right? No.
Oh. You can rob for that if you like. Do you
like having all your fingers? Do you enjoy all
ten of them? He looks down at his hands. He looks
at you and he says, I think you'd be barking
up the wrong tree to attack me here. Bit of a
home base. Akilah, we're approaching some dangerous
waters with that. We started approaching dangerous
waters when you fucking threw merchandise in
the goddamn waters. Well, it got found. Oh, that
was the other one. So who's going? All right,
fine. 700 gold. Right. I was almost going to
up the price because of the threat there, but
I like your sweet hat. Sorry, guys. Can't let
this one fucking slide. I think she grabs his
wrist. Is there like a desk situation? Yeah,
there's a desk, sure. I think she grabs his wrist
and pins it down to the desk and pulls a knife
out of her belt. You want to repeat what you
just said to me one more time? He looks at the
knife. He looks at you, and you see him wrestle
with a decision for a while, and he goes, I think
I'm all right. He called you, sweetheart. He
must like you. She waves the knife at your face.
You're fucking next, carrots. I was just going
to... I say let's just pay him and then kill
him after. What? Let's just pay him and kill
him after. Sounds like a good idea. 700 gold.
You got it. Is that an intimidation roll you're
going for? B .O .B.? No, no, we'll pay you. We'll
pay you. We'll pay you. Yeah, 700 gold. And then
kill me after. No, we're just going to pay you.
What was that nonsense you were saying out loud
about killing me after? What? You're mistaken.
We don't kill. I don't kill anything. We don't
kill. 700 gals sound good. I do. Great. But I
have no intentions of it. I've never killed anyone.
Great. We'll be taking those three names or whatever
to get us in the know. We'll be taking some gals
first. Bet you will. You hand it over? Yeah,
yeah. I give him 700 gold. Okay, you pay up by
yourself without pulling any from the stash.
He goes, all right, that's quick business. Didn't
expect you to have it on you, but reckless group
like you just walk around with 700 gold on you.
I'm not reckless. I'm just trying to get shit
done. Right. Well, why don't you head on over
by 5 p .m.? Yeah. Your name is Rebecca, or you
can be Beatrice. How's that sound? I like that
one. About worse. Okay. Last lady we got on here
is going to be Alana. That's better, I guess.
All right. And as for you, little guy, are you
going in? I'll be Beatrice. I will pick Rebecca.
Those are the only options. Hands you paper.
No, he has a stack. Yeah, yeah. Like seven. Okay,
he hands you both the extra ones. He goes, seems
all right to me then. And I thank you, Rebecca.
You'll have to pardon my tapered patience. Yeah,
right. Well, it seems like my part of here is
done. Show up at five o 'clock. Use those names.
Just check yourselves in at the back or side
entrance. I'll let you ride on in. What you do
from there is up to you. Great. I hope you do
understand that if we have any issue getting
in the building by these means, it's going to
be your problem. You won't. All right. Beautiful.
I'll trust it then. Cool. He nods and says, shall
we go back downstairs, have a drink? One more
thing. Respect women. What? Hey guys, it's Adi.
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