Leave it all Behind

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And Susan. Hey, it's Susan. I play Erlov Grimnus, the tiefling invoker. And Xavier. Hey, this is Xavier, and I play Actarona as the revenant cleric. And Alex. Hey, I'm Alex. I play Brelin, the halfling bard. Guys, last time on the show, you were given a bit of an ultimatum by the Black Hand. You sat down and you talked with her. And she essentially put it to you that you would be taking on some passengers on your ship on your ride to Talor. They will be waiting on the docks for you. And all you have to do is just let them onto the ship. They are going to accompany you.

And when you do reach your destination, they're just going to get out of the boat. And that's it. That is it. That's all you're going to do. If you didn't do that, she said she would murder Tessia, which you guys sounded like you took some offense at. God, other than that, House Dragonkeep is helping you by giving you some maps and charts and just giving you all the resources that they can give you in terms of rations and supplies and such. Let's pick up after the meeting, because I believe we closed on that the last time. What would everybody be thinking as you're exiting the building here?

What would be the first thoughts that come to mind? I wouldn't be saying anything until we're clear of the building and just a good ways away. Yeah. We're still in fucking Jeddo, too. So I would wait till we're out of this run-down part of town before I talk and smack. I was going to say, she probably has ears everywhere. Yeah. But I'd definitely be thinking we need to let Tessia know that she's got a rat in her house. Yeah, we got to go talk to David real quick. Yeah, if we talk about that on the way there, like let's say we're far enough away and we start talking about it, would we do it on the way there just to have this discussion?

Or do you want to wait to be somewhere to talk about it? We should probably wait till we're inside the house, actually. Yeah, we might want to wait till we're going there. Well, I don't think it's any safer in the house either. Well, if it's like in a room and we block David up in a closet somewhere. [LAUGHTER] If it's him. We are making assumptions here. I'm 90% sure it's David. All right. I'm there with you. This new group, too, of shoot first, ask questions later, just-- Just when it involves David. And vampires. I worked really hard on this mustache, and-- [LAUGHTER] Yeah, and it got clocked immediately.

Yeah. I was just going to say, we could run interference on David. Maybe we could go back and we could-- one of us could run a distraction while the rest talk to Tessia, sort of figure out what's going on. Here's the thing, though. In that case, let me be the devil's advocate. On the way there, before we get to House Dragonkeep, Dr. Onis would probably say, not under his breath, but as low as he can in his helmet, we are going to do what the Black Hand tells us to do. And we are not going to tell Tessia about this. If she has ears everywhere, we can't reveal our cards right now, we can't tell Tessia.

Otherwise, the Black Hand might strike. We can't speak about backstabbing the Black Hand. We can't speak about backstabbing the people on that ship. And we certainly can't let Tessia know that the Black Hand has something on her and plans on killing her. But we certainly should let her know that her life's in danger, right? We should let David know that. Erla would look kind of aghast and be like, all of my skills, all of my brother's skills, I'm sure you've heard of either one of them, have come from our mother. I'm pretty sure she could handle herself, and I will not leave her in the dark.

I still think this is the safest thing to do. If she doesn't know about it, then nothing's going to happen because we're going to go through with the deal. I'd much rather my mother be prepared than be caught unaware. Yeah, Brelyne's going to agree with Erla. This could open a box of Pandoraan proportions. I don't know if we're ready to bring any more of this before we leave. Actaronis, if on our trip, at least once, you've thought that I've made intelligence decisions or a wise decision or I think things through, I've learned all of that from my mother.

She has that and more. She is smart. She's insightful. She will know that she shouldn't go looking for trouble. She won't try to encourage the Black Hand. She needs to know. Yeah, he's going to nod. If you believe that's the right thing to do, then I won't stand in your way. Hold on. Erelib, we all know your mother is quite capable, but maybe Actaronis is right. I mean, if we just follow the Black Hand's orders and take her group over to Talor, it should mean no trouble for Tessia. But even if we do everything the Black Hand asks of us, there are still eyes inside my mother's house.

She is still being watched by the Black Hand regardless of if we follow out this task. And she deserves to know. Then find the most discreet way possible to give her that information that even invisible eyes can't see. Or ears. I agree. Then if we enter the house, I guess I'm going to write a note. That's Susan, not Erelib. Where's Gratic right now? Well, do me a favor, roll a streetwise check. Oh, my. I don't know. Someone hasn't listened to the DRP sneak peek. That's metagame, sir. That's cross promotional content. He's probably avoiding me anyway. He owes me some information that may or may not exist.

Gratic spends a lot of his day avoiding people. He owes a lot of people a lot of time. Seriously, in his head, there is a big, angry, minotaur after him. You would be after him. The drow would want him dead in the city of Brightport. There's a lot of people who are none too happy with Gratic. I wonder why that is. Just living life, dude. People just need to stay away from him. Get off him. He's just trying to scrape out a living, man. Yeah, yeah. He's a hardworking guy. So you guys are heading back to the house, right? Yep. OK. I would say you're back. It's not too big of a journey.

It's a little ways away from-- the Black Hands place is a little ways away from there. But you'd get back within 15, 20 minutes if you're walking leisurely somewhere in there. Getting back to the house. It is now-- well, it's still the 18th of Thorim for you guys. How much time does that give us, though? Well, you've still got a full month and a little over a week. So you're still in the 40-ish day range. Wow, this is kind of real close. So let me ask you guys a question. How early are you looking to set sail? Is this a thing like the next day? Because basically all you need to do is resupply, rest up until you feel ready, and then go.

I think Brelin would tell anyone he's got to fix up his mustache and act like he's really sad. That didn't work. So he's going to go to the bathroom. Is David anywhere in the house? Oh, yes, absolutely. Clearly, yeah. He would be the first person to open the door, to greet you. Yeah, he would-- yeah. OK, do I know where David's bedroom is? Let's see. Roll a perception check to see if you would have noticed him retiring to his quarters at any point. You would. You would, right? You would do this to me. Perception? Perception, yeah. Ah, damn it. Wow, another two. You want someone else?

We're off to a great start here. These are all the bad rules. These are just-- yeah. They sure are. Yeah. So-- So now I don't know where it is. No, you would not know where it is. It's one of the rooms in this big-ass house. I'm going to pretend to go to the bathroom, and then I'm going to try and fumble my way upstairs to find his bedroom. OK. That is perfectly, perfectly reasonable. You go right ahead. As stealthfully as possible. OK. Are you trying to do a little sneaky sneaks? Sneaky sneaks. It worked last time. Come on. Because we could-- You're pretty good at it.

Yeah, again. Again, we could run some-- just distraction or something on here. It's too late. I've already left. I probably should have said that earlier. Fair enough. Fair enough. We're going to get the tellur in no time. I was just like, what is it when people enter this house that there's always some person who breaks off and goes sneaking and shit? Like, what is it about dragon king? I didn't want to do it the first time because I thought we were all friends here. But then clearly, there's no friends. There's a no friend zone. There's one person in this house who is part of the no friend club.

OK. Wasn't it Dagon last time too who like rolled Dungeoneering to find all this secret shit last time Gertu was in the house? Yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. It's like the Clue house. It just begs to be explored in life. Oh, there's so many nooks and crannies and things. So well, OK. Well, OK. I'm going to ask you for a role in just a few minutes at Braille. What would everyone else be doing? Because David, upon your return, would firstly be happy to see you and just kind of greet you at the door. I hope your meeting went well. Wait. OK, guys. Is everyone standing around real awkward, like shifty eyes to everybody now?

Like-- Yeah, real well, David. Great, thanks. Yeah. It went great. I think, yeah. It went real good. It went nice to you. OK. Well, everybody would know that we're going to have passengers on our ship like because they're going to see them get on at the docks. It's not like it's going to be a stealth thing. So I think we could say, oh, we agreed to take some passengers. I think we could tell them that without like giving anything away. Yeah, well, Arcturus would probably just say like a genuine just like-- yes, of course, the meeting went well. Maybe that's a bluff.

I don't know. Well-- It's not really a lie. OK, here's the thing. I guess that would depend on your definition of well. No one died. Relatively speaking, yeah, I would let that slide without a bluff. I guess it depends on your tone. Yeah, well, it's more like-- Sounds like a bluff to me. It's more like everything went well, like nothing to it. Of course it went well. Yeah, I guess maybe. Yeah, that one's a bluff. OK, it's like peachy. Like that one's-- yeah. All right, woo. Ooh, that's pretty good. Thank you. Yeah, that's pretty good. Well, I hope that you got everything that you were looking for.

And if there's anything else that I can do, please let me know. We are in the process of getting together some charts and maps for your seafaring voyage. And he's just kind of staring at all of you. Thank you, David. We have much to prepare for. Have you found anyone who can help us navigate through trade routes or anything? Anyone with experience? We did know of a person, but they're a little indisposed at the moment. They're actually helping another group. I wish there was someone equally as reputable, but I'm afraid my connections in that realm are a little limited.

I want to know who it is. Can Erileb just walk out of the hall like after she says, we have much to plan for? Sure, yeah, no, absolutely. She's not trying to sneak off. It's just like, thanks, David. We have much to plan for. And then she walked out. Right, yeah. And he's not the type to like-- he's never really hovering over people's shoulder or anything. He's just kind of-- he's usually waiting in the wings somewhere. OK, then Erileb's going to go and write something, hopefully, stealthfully. David, would you mind showing me to Amara's chamber? This house is so big, and I'm not sure I remember the way.

Of course. I would appreciate that any time you go downstairs, you have an escort. We've had problems with guests breaking off and exploring. We wouldn't want you to get hurt, of course. Absolutely. I would be delighted to have you accompany me. And he would take you down to where Amara lives. So that's where Cauldron's going to go. He's going to go-- David, before you go. Yes, Dagon. And you can tell he's stiffening up just a little bit. Is Grattic in the city? He's going to look around. The last I heard, yes. I don't think he leaves Brightport very often. Is there a particular reason?

He owes me some information. Grattic owes a lot of people a lot of things, Mr. Dagon. I'm sure he does. Would you like me to see if I can find him for you? Please, if it's no trouble. Of course. I'll get right on that. Thank you. And he'll just be giving you this kind of light smile the entire time. Dagon will give him like a fake smile, but the best he can do to make it seem sincere. Right. So let's see here. Cauldron is down with Amara. Braelyn is walking through the house exploring. Erolove is writing a note. What would actor Ronas be doing? I'd probably just be pacing around like the main hall or living room or just this whole thing's bothering him a lot.

And he actually doesn't know what to do. There's nothing for it like to do. So he would probably just pace around, look at the paintings, pull a little bit on one of like the wall chandeliers, see if it opens a secret passage, just like keep pacing around, sit down, send back up. Just generally fidgety. Kind of, yeah. OK. There's like nothing to do. All right. Braelyn. Yeah. Do me a favor. Roll a stealth check. Oh. Oh. Oh, I was going to be 18. I saw it. So Braelyn is going to be sneaking through the house. And essentially, you are looking for David's bedroom, right?

Yeah. OK. So skulking about, you can tell where there are guest rooms. And you can definitely tell where there are-- like you could tell the general area where probably Tessia sleeps and maybe David, maybe like a really ritzy kind of guest quarters type thing. And that is on the opposite end of the house. Picture it like almost like a hotel, like this big square, like a block. OK. And on the one side, you're going to notice, obviously, there is some. These are the rooms. Like these are the rooms you're looking for. And there are guards in the house. There are people whose job it is to keep an eye on stuff if things get bad.

And these are-- a lot of them are kind of hired thugs from around town. You remember Tessia kind of like almost like a work release program type of thing where it's like, no, no, no, we're offering people a chance to get straight, like an actual paying job and stuff like that. So you're going to notice a couple of these people in the hallway at the end of the hall. And as you kind of wander into view, like at the opposite end of the hall, they're going to notice you and just sort of like kind of like cocked your head to the side like, what's he doing down there?

OK, so first, as they see me, I'm going to close my eyes and use glimpse the future real quick. OK. Let's do that. So I have to roll three d20s. Yep. First one. Oh, nice. 11. Oh, that's-- A 9 going the opposite way. And 19. Keep being the 19 for show. Put that one in the pocket. OK. Brelan sees alternate futures and one of them, he befriends them, and then they let him pass. OK. OK, so he's going to open his eyes, kind of take a deep breath in and begin whistling and walking past them and use also word of friendship. OK. Gain a plus 5 power bonus to the next diplomacy check I make before the end of my next turn.

So I'm whistling a tune, and whatever my word of friendship song is, it's going to be-- it would be a good song for him to sing. How many of us have damn friends? [WHISTLING] We just walk up to them. Say, hey, guys. How's it going? Hey. Can we help you? Yeah, yeah. Actually, David told me to get something from his room, and I don't know where that is. Would you be able to help me out? OK, this would be the part where I would have you roll a bluff check. Yes. OK. No problem. [LAUGHTER] 28. Yeah, it's right over there. And he's going to point to one of the doors actually right next to you.

OK. Well, thank you very much. And I'll be waiting for a name. I'll be waiting to thank him. It's Timothy. You sure he sent you to his room? Yeah, he's actually showing-- I don't know, he's doing something. But he needed help grabbing something. And I drew the short end of the straw on this mission, so it's my job for now. But thanks, Timothy. And then I'll give him like 10 gold. I mean, I know you probably make more than this, but I mean, every little bit helps, right? And give him a little wink. There's going to be a little bit of a smile on his face. Yeah, OK.

All right, thanks. Really appreciate that. He's not used to being treated like, ooh, sir, that kind of thing. Cool. And he's going to go ahead and step back and sort of do that thing like bodyguards do, where they just sort of cross their hands over each other and then just stand back against the wall and then go back to not looking at you. Dope. All right, I'll walk past them. And I'll look at the other guard and give him a wink also and just keep walking. He'll give you like the bro-ish head nod like. Yeah, dope. I got friends. OK. I will go up to David's door and pray to God under my breath that it's not locked.

So Braylon's going to get ready and jiggle the handle here. And it is very clearly locked. Fuck. OK, I'll put my head down. Oh, I'm going to act it out, like over exaggerate emotions so that the guards see me. I can't even do one thing right, can I? I'll look at Timothy. He didn't tell me it was locked, man. He's going to he's going to be furious if I go back there and don't give him what he needed. You guys don't have like a spare key or something, man. Ah, this is the part where I'd have you roll a bluff check. Hey, oh, that's pretty good. It's a pretty good.

Are you going to ride with that one? Or are you going to take the 19? I will keep my 19, sir. I'm playing against the fates right now. Let's do it. OK. He. And he's going to look at the other guy. He can give you a key to his room. It's always locked. I mean, he doesn't usually forget things like that. He seemed pretty flustered when he asked me to get this thing. I probably forgot. Oh, well, I could go back. Just, I don't know, makes me look like an idiot. Now, just to heal, Brandon was just kind of like, shrug like, OK, and slowly begin walking away, expecting something.

Hold on, hold on. Look, I got it, it's fine, and he's going to he's going to produce a skeleton key. Oh, thanks. Thanks so much, Timothy. Man, you're a saint. You know that? God damn saint. No, no, no, it's fine. It's fine. Just just don't don't tell anyone I did that for you. OK, well, this is between me, you and the big guy over here. He didn't talk much. That's OK. Strong silent type. We all need one, right? He's going to unlock the door for you and let you in. I'm going to nod and I'm looking like a half about like, oh, thank you so much, Timothy. Thank you so much.

And then I will go into the room. Let's catch up with let's let's let's catch up with the with air love. OK, so you're writing you're writing a note, presumably to Tessia. Yes. OK, what's the plan after you write the note? I actually have something planned out. OK, so I write something down, kind of fold it up, kind of make it look like. I've had it for a while, I guess. And then I will go seek out Tessia. Do I find her? Oh, well, it's her house. Yeah. Oh, yeah. She's OK. She'd be in her office. OK. Is anybody else in the office with her? No, just her. OK, she'll be like, Mother, I received a letter from my brother.

I wanted you to look at it. Look at it with me. That would be OK. Yeah, she she would. Of course, she'd light up when you when you walked in the room. Even if I have to roll a bluff, I don't care if she could she could see through. Right. Exactly. Her first question, which one? Malchus. Can you please take a look with me? I think she'd say pretty much whatever. Yeah, she'd say she'd pretty much take whatever you're saying right there at face value. Like that's not like, yeah, you wouldn't even have to bluff. OK, she trusts you that implicitly. Well, I'm not trying to betray her trust.

OK, so she'll walk over and I guess she'll stand next to her, look at the letter or would Air Love have to walk up to her? No, she would get up and walk. I want them next to each other. Yes. She would get up and walk to you. She holds out the letter in front of her and like holds it in front of both of them. And on it, it says, Mother, they're at the meeting at the Black Hand. We found out that there's a mole in the house who has access to information that they could get at a great speed. Please be aware. I'm sorry that I had to deceive you to get you to read this.

And they asked us to take passengers on our ship to Telor. They threaten your life. And then as soon as she's pretty sure she's done reading it, she's actually going to use one of her flame powers to light it on fire. Wow. Tessie's going to stiffen. And then get a look, not of anger, but of disappointment. And then she's going to get ready and open her mouth to speak, but realize, like, there's a reason you wrote that down. And then lit it on fire. Right. Like, yeah. I don't know what to do with this. But she'll look up to her and say that to her. I'll take care of everything.

You just worry about having a safe trip and I'll do some digging here. And there's a look in her eyes that's very much like, no, I'm done fucking around. Erylve will nod and be like, just keep an eye out for him and kind of give a look like, you know what I'm talking about. Of course. And she's going to reach over and hug Erylve. Erylve will hug her back. Like, squeeze like you could die and I love you. Kaladin. Yes. How long would you be doing the stuff for the Mara? Like, he would be down there with you the entire time. Yeah, I'd probably sleep next to her.

Because eventually he was like, OK, probably want to wrap this up. Got things to do. Like, is this something you're really trying to pad out? Oh, keeping David distracted? Yeah. Um, no, I think it's inconsequential once he gets to Amara, how long David is there with him or not. OK, so let's say like 10 minutes goes by, maybe 15, something like that. And after a bit, he'd be like, we should really rejoin the rest of the group. And yeah, he has things to attend to. So, yeah. Wait, is Amara here? I'm sorry, I'm confused. Oh, yeah. Oh, OK, then, then Kaladin is going to, as soon as they get there, Kaladin is going to step up into the room towards Amara and just sort of like bow to her.

And then remember that she told them not to be so formal. So it's sort of like do an awkward, like half bow and then sort of like straighten up. Yeah, curtsy pull his robes back. And in Draconic, he's going to say, great one, thank you for speaking with me earlier. We are going to set sail tomorrow morning and there is still much that I would like to ask you. May I speak with you one more time before we go? And he's going to hold out his hand in her direction. And she would she would lean down like like her head and just sort of like nuzzle at Kaladin.

And he would like stroke her snoot, the dragon snoot. And then in Draconic, again, he'll say, last time I tried this, it took a heavy toll. So forgive me for my briefness and my bluntness, but I will try to stay connected to you as long as I can. And with that, he's going to like put his hand like very firmly on her and try to establish like a connection. All right, let's see here. Give me an Arcana check. OK. Oh, boy, what is with these low rolls tonight? Yeah, someone cursed the table. What happened? Yeah, come on, guys, wake up. Get your head in the gink.

I mean, I'm awake. You see this bluff rolls up here? I'm sorry. I trained all year for this. You're sucking up a good roll. And he has more in reserve just in case. So again, Kaladin's going to get that the instant this link is established, it's a lot of that interference going on. But you can tell that there is this mental link established with Amara. OK. Do you know of the dragon clan elves? There's going to be a slight pause and she's going to reply. And again, that booming voice in your head. I knew of one. I knew her for a brief period of time, but supposedly she belonged to that same clan.

The one who passed away, the one we spoke of earlier, yes? Yes. And Kaladin's going to wince a little, but he's going to press on. Do you know at all what happened to that bloodline? Do me a favor, give me an endurance roll. Medi-o-ka! Medi-o-ka! Again, this is it's going to cause Kaladin a little bit of pain, but it's more like you can feel a headache, like right in your forehead, right behind that. Just like, "Mm hmm. Like, I can feel this coming on." Yeah. And I imagine it's like having the volume up way too loud. Just like way too loud. Like you ever, yeah, you're ever in a conversation with someone and it's like, "Can you just stop screaming at me for two seconds?" Like that type of thing.

But it's in your head. And again, there's going to be a pause. I know very little about that sect. Supposedly they lived in the Silver Glade, though. I would imagine that if any still exist, you would find your answers there. I have always felt a pull to that place. But do you know why? What is it about the Silver Glade that calls to that blood? Do me a favor, give me another endurance check. Diminishing returns. Oh! This time, that pain is going to intensify a lot. OK. And then interference is going to get like thicker. It's like the last time I described it, it's like if you ever had bunny ears on a television set a long time ago and you're just barely getting a station in?

Not quite. You're trying to watch some Cinemax scrambled boobies and it's just not cooperating. It's not happening. Damn it. Bragons have boobies there. OK, could you give me the answer then in like maybe an abstract way, a way that I can't know the whole thing? It would be more like picking up every third or fourth word, like in the old days when a call would start to break up or something like that. And it's like, it breaks up. So it's like you're picking up every fourth word. So you're you're hearing words like bond, mystical energy, bloodlines. And then like like twice in that you're hearing something about the Silver Glade being a focal point like twice.

But that's that's kind of all you're picking up here. And then the pain is just going to be too intense. OK. Cauldron is going to squeeze his eyes and grip tightly to Amara. And he's going to try one more question. He's going to try and think just one one thing at her. Or one thought or like one last string of thoughts. A dragon, a black dragon we saw in Aubrey. Do you know who that is? She's going to tell that you are in quite a bit of pain here. Like, oh, yeah, there's probably blood coming out of his nose. Yeah. So she would actually pull back just a little bit and then sort of like rear down toward Kaladin and then just shake her head back and forth.

No. Kaladin falls down to his knee and he is going to like wipe the sweat off his brow and look up to Amara and say, thank you. Thank you. And again, she'll give you this kind of loving nuzzle like, oh, poor guy, you're so you're tuckered out like you should like it's very like concerned. And he'll he'll like take he'll like put his hand back on her snoot and then like. Like reach around her neck, sort of like awkwardly like, is this OK? And then just like give her a big embrace. Oh, yeah, that's that's really sweet. And again, that'd be about the time where David's like, yeah, we should get back to everybody else.

Let me know what would Dagon be doing during this? See, what I should have said is just to have David tell him where Grattic is and then he'd go look for him. Mm hmm. He's probably just waiting for David, to be honest. So let's do a thing where we catch up with let's catch up with Brailin. Brailin, what specifically are you looking for in David's room? See, that's the thing. I was thinking about that. I don't think Brailin would know what to look for, honestly. He like he didn't expect to get this far. He's probably like, oh, my God, holy shit, I made it into the room.

Yeah. Well, at first just cursory glance, looking for some papers scattered about maybe something on the desk or like a journal of some kind. Do me a favor. Give me a perception check. Yeah, the best. Great right here. Oh, so close. Wow. Yeah. I don't know what Pact with a Demon was made, but Brailin's getting all the good rolls. Sorry, guys, you earned him. Yeah, so looking around this room, first of all, it's very, very well taken care of. It looks like David's room. Like if you if you didn't know, if you walked in, it's like, oh, yeah, no, everything. There's a place for everything and everything in this place.

The bed is like not only made, but made in that like like severely tucked in style that that. Like all of the sheets and everything, like rigorously tucked in. And there's there's a little writing desk across the room. There's a little fireplace. There's it is a modest quarters, but very well taken care of. And there's some yeah, there's some books and things like that on a shelf. And yeah, like a like a like a small bookshelf, too. There's like there's like a little bookshelf anchored to the wall. And then there's an actual full fledged bookshelf opposite from that.

OK, is there like a journal anywhere from the perception check? I can see like just not that you can see from where you are. No, I is the floor. I assume is hardwood and he probably has like a rug or something in there. The floor is lava, actually. Oh, shit. Oh, wait, what? Yeah. They call me off guard. Touch the black tile. Jehovah starts with an eye. Oh, my God, that's the line of the night so far. That's the one to beat. That is such a deep cut. I love it. OK, sorry. So that like, yeah, it would be like a carpeted floor in the middle, like a kind of a throw rug type of thing.

But everywhere else is hardwood. This is yeah, like toward the center of the floor. There's a nice little carpeted area. I would avoid touching stepping on the carpet. OK, I'll try to like my best to walk around it because I don't want to leave any footprints. Right. That encompasses more the bed and like the surrounding area. There's like a little nightstand next to the bed and stuff that encompasses that. But like you can walk around that and get to the writing desk and the books and stuff. OK, writing desk first. OK, so what we're doing here is three things.

We're looking for one thoroughness. How thorough is Braylon being? Two, stealthiness. How much of a trail? Like how how much would Braylon interrupt the things that are in this room? And three, time. Because what you told everybody outside was, oh, I just need to pop in and get this thing for David. That does not buy you a lot of time. No, it does not. I can only bribe him so many times. Yep. So what we're going to be doing is a little skill check challenge. How in God's name do I always get these? I always ask for them. I don't think it's going to be that hard to get something, but I mean, yeah, you're right.

You're right. OK, I'll shut up. OK, there's OK. Basically, we're going to keep plowing through. Until you get three failures. Infinite success. Now, the interesting thing about this is the failure won't be it's not like knocking something over and waking something up. It won't be right away necessarily, depending on how you fail. So this will be a little bit different than something we've done before. So going to the desk. First of all, I want you I want you to roll a stealth check. Oh, no. To avoid to avoid this carpeted area, because the way it's set up is you kind of have to jump over the corner and then walk all the way around and then jump back in.

Oh, no. There you go. Oh, yes. Oh, that's fine. You're doing good. You're doing good. So you're going to get to this desk and I'm imagining you're going to start looking through drawers and stuff because there are drawers and then there's like there's like a little writing area up top. There's some papers filed away and stuff. Yeah, carefully open the drawers. Okay, good. So in the drawers, there's going to be these these little hand journals, like these little like like little notebooks you keep in your pocket, that type of thing. And they're they're meticulously stacked.

There's three piles of them. There looks to be like three or four in each pile. And then in in another drawer, there's just lots of like parchment paper type of things. These are all staying the way. And then in another drawer, there's letters. Okay, I'm going to the first drawer. I'm going to stick my hand in the drawer and like feel on top the upper part of the drawer. Okay. Where you can't see it. See if there's anything in there. Okay. Do me a favor. Give me a perception roll like to. Yeah. Wow. There you go. Familiar roll six. You always have that 19. I'm just letting you at any point.

Nope, that's the emergency jettison button. That's not for now. Because I'm counting this as one encounter. It's fine. Okay. And then it'll be gone. But I'm not I'm gonna save it. I'm gonna save it. Okay. So feeling around that you're not you're not feeling any you're not feeling any keys in that first drawer or like a booby trap or anything like that. It's nothing. Nothing sinister. Nothing being hidden. No, no letter taped to the top. Nothing like that. Okay, I'll go to the one with the letters and I'll take one from the middle of the stack. Okay. Hmm. And they are open or are they closed?

These are here's the interesting thing. There are two real formal stacks of letters. Now one of them one set is like unsealed and then the other is is completely sealed up. Everything but addresses. Okay. Okay. Can I look at the ones that are closed and like read the addresses? Well, that's something the ones that are closed they have no addresses on them. Oh secret letters. Well, not secret letters. They're just like oh my god secrets. It's blank. I just haven't filled it out yet, man. So the open ones and let's let's take one from the stack and carefully read it by like unfolding it I guess or whatever in whatever way it's folded not to like unfold it too much.

Okay. So do me a favor roll a flat d20. Yeah. Oh no. Okay. That's just for my that's just for me. Yeah, it's just for the death clock. Now I'm thinking metalocalypse. Yeah. This this appears to be at first glance it looks like a pen pal type of thing to a lady named Guinevere and Esterholt. And then you go on to read and there's there's some there's some romantic connotations to this there's they they may have a little thing going on like they may like. I quickly put it back. Okay. Okay. Let's brain shake my head and whisper. That's not what I'm here for. Okay.

I'm sorry. Go ahead roll a stealth check. Oh no, it's gonna be all crumpled. Oh, okay. Okay, so you're gonna you're gonna kind of slip this back into the pile and it looks it looks pretty much like you're eyeballing you're like, yeah, that's how it was. That's that's fine. Do my hands smell like perfume now? Nothing, nothing quite like that. But like you could tell like as you're reading it's like, oh, I should not. Oh, this is not for me. This is what are you moving on to next, sir? Uh, okay. So there was the first drawer had the three stack of journals and then there was the letters and was there another drawer with something else in it?

I can't. Um, there's there's one with parchment paper one with journals and then one with letters that are okay. Let's go. Let's go for a journal. Let's go look at the draw from the journals. Okay, give me a flat C 20, please. Don't come yet. Stay away. Yeah. Whoa. Nice. So Braylin's gonna pull one of these out and what this appears to be. Is is a ledger from the old house darksbane. This was this was part of his run in that and this is what this is is essentially any time anyone asks him to do something, he writes it down in this little this this little ledger.

And you're not exactly sure if it's a if it's a reminder for himself or if it's like a like a like a receipt type of thing just like actually there are dates and times and this there's all kinds of stuff here. Okay, I keep this one. I pocket this for sure. Okay. And I will continue going through these journals. Let's go to the next one. I'm assuming it's so meticulous that he's stacking them chronologically or by organization he's worked for so I want to peek at the next one. Okay, so you're looking for newer or old. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Do me a favor and roll a stealth check for me.

Mm-hmm. Oh, I forgot to tell you guys I'm gonna deal with the devil. That's why I get all these. So Braylon's got real light fingers like he is in the zone. He is like he is just in there like okay. Like some real Indiana Jones shit just like yeah okay cool. This one actually appears to be a bit newer and while flipping through it the the record seems to stop around two weeks ago or so. So this is definitely during during Tessia's run here. This is insanely meticulous. Like woke up, made breakfast, this happened. This happened like this is a almost like a stenographer's note-taking like that.

These are the things that say everything like every conversation he has with someone everything and these that like it is it is charted out not word for word but like had a conversation about this there are a couple little shorthand things that that Bray won't be like I don't know what that means I don't know what that means I don't know what that means or what that's in reference to but these seem to be reminders for him. Okay, I pocket this one too. I take it. About this time you're gonna hear a knock on the door. I will close the door carefully and say back the door.

Found it. Okay, do me a favor roll one more stealth check. Escape. Oh 19 please. Okay, so you are going to deftly close this drawer and you are going to well you got to get back around this carpet. Yep, I just remembered that as you said it right now. Yep, give me one more honest and for true last stealth roll. This one working without a net now. Oh, that's pretty good. All right, whatever. It's this. What one fiber is out of place. Bray is going to make his way to the other side of the room and they're going to open the door like okay come on man. Like let's let's not let's not dilly dally in here and then if Braylin leaves like off his own accord then he's going to shut the door and then lock it again and then go back to where he was standing in the hallway.

I will say to both Timothy and his buddy thanks guys really appreciate it. Pull out 20 gold and give them each 10 this time. Wow. And then I'm gonna go to the quiet guy and say I would have given you more but you didn't make me laugh so. He's just gonna sort of squint down at you like. And I look at Timothy like trying to get reassurance that that was a funny joke. Um he'll he'll kind of like smile and nod. So I want it. I give them both finger guns and leave. All right. So let's let's let's do this. Guys, um is there anything else you would like to do before you would retire for the evening?

I'd like a little something. A little quickie. What you want to do sir? What you want to do? Uh at some point after all the pacing and the nothing to do. Uh probably head over to where uh Tessia's office is. And I don't know if I can legally do this but I uh I imagine it's right about the time Arelove's in there. Oh that's up to you to decide that. Well she never said that she she flat out left so I would imagine maybe they're having like uh they're having a moment. We've been bouncing around the house so go ahead. And so what I probably do well basically is just like wait outside the door until Arelove leaves.

If she ever does on her own. She never does. She stays there forever. Never. Yeah I'm sleeping in there. No but I'd say after a few minutes because technically only only about 10-15 minutes have passed in the time that you guys have gone in and split up so like after a while yeah I would imagine she wraps up and leaves the office. Yes. Yeah well probably not to Arelove and just tell her like I just need a few words with your mother but don't worry it has nothing to do with whatever this is. I'm not sure Actuarun is gonna get this but Arelove will get do like a nod and be like "I told her about my brother." Well this is exactly what I was going to talk about with her.

So he goes in. Yeah okay. Okay so you got it? Okay I don't know if you got it. I don't know. He did not. He did. I was gonna have him roll an intelligence check. Like just to read between them. Okay sure. Go. Roll some dice. Yeah. Int. Nope that's my score. Yeah. Oh I don't think you're gonna do it. Oh. I mean 17. I think with that that would be a thing where you're kind of like I think it would be things like "brother that had nothing to do with what I was..." What? And then like just like maybe start to piece together a little bit but like maybe not all the way. All right.

Not all the way. Right. That's how I do things. Yes I would probably like knock on the open door as I just enter. Get her attention. And she would look up and... Cool. Lady Grimnast if I may have a few words with you. Of course have a seat. I would close the door behind him and go take a seat. I spoke of my respect and admiration for our love and yourself as the one who raised her but I'm afraid I've not spoken my mind entirely and since this might be my last chance to do so allow me to be so bold. I've also met with your one of your sons the butch uh the the Valis I'm sorry.

Is that okay wait is that how you started off like the like like you say the butcher and then correct yourself? Yeah. Oh yeah okay just for clarification okay she's gonna stiffen just a bit like uh here we go. And he really immediately corrects himself like I'm sorry Valis. I've I've seen him triumph over challenges that can change a person's heart and for a long time I've admired him for his fighting prowess alone but I've I've seen him recently I've met with him and I've seen how uh how strong and noble and capable of love he's become and I really mean to tell you that you can be equally proud of him as you are of our love because he's come such a long way and as a father I really had to tell you this uh and he's like gonna kind of lean towards the the desk I don't know if she her hands are on the desk or not.

I would imagine so I would imagine after you. But he would like gently reach for her hand her hand it's like her his right hand and like put his left hand on hers if she doesn't like recoil in terror. No. And he's gonna say uh and I have yet to meet Malkus but I I know one thing for sure no matter no matter how bad of an apple he is as long as you are there to show him the right path I'm sure he can someday proudly wear the grimness name that I know and not the one he's made for himself um it's been it's truly been an honor meeting you and I truly hope that we can meet once more someday hopefully and he's gonna kind of stand up with her hand in his hand and just kind of lean his helmet forward and bring her hand to where his mouth would be and kind of do like the hand kiss thing but without like the sound because that would be dumb.

There's like a clink yeah just like a gentle nudge of like the knuckles right on his helmet and then like release the hand and bow again and say we have a long trip ahead of us excuse me. Of course and thank you for your kind words. He's gonna nod again. You can tell there's probably more she wanted to say but she's just like I'm gonna let you go just yeah well I don't know if she had something to say he'd probably like wait for more like but she's kind of yeah it wasn't anything crazy pressing it was more just like well you you that that that felt more like something you wanted to get off your chest not yeah yeah 100 yeah okay I'd like to read the books before I go to sleep the one that I didn't understand okay I was just gonna ask did you show anyone no not yet I was gonna read them and then go to bother somebody in the middle of the night I was gonna try to figure out myself first okay so let me get an intelligence check from Braylon oh no I'm the same oh god he's stupid shit that's not the worst so there's a lot of um there's a lot of uh like oh had meeting with x blah blah blah blah and a lot of these you're gonna you're gonna be able to figure out um like you know tgs testy grimness and on and on and on uh and there's gonna be a bunch braylin just does not understand there's gonna be meetings with people and there's gonna be references to groups and things that it's just like i don't i don't i don't get this i don't i don't know about this don't know and i imagine it's like as pages like don't know don't know okay that's breakfast that's the shop i know that don't know don't know and it's i i'd say um braylon understands about um about a third of this damn it uh and and a lot of it's just it's just very very meticulous note-taking is what it looks like there's nothing really nefarious on the face of it and there's nothing um not even useful really just so much it's like well if we want to know what he was doing on the 15th boy do we like it's it's that if there's nothing stabbed homeless child today there's nothing like that it's just okay it's yeah just his daily goings on i will gather the books put them in a little bag and go to damn who would know this okay maybe calvin i'll go bother calvin his intelligence would be well arelos too right you guys are both pretty smart i think day god's the smartest oh shit i'm not gonna borrow the boss in the middle of the night he doesn't sleep all right i'm gonna go to the boss i'll go to the boss's room and knock on the boss's door real quick okay so day god does meditate but only for a few hours at a clip what would they gonna be doing otherwise um probably be going through his bag and sorting things out and actually taking a good chunk of his gold and putting it in a separate package about three grand oh okay would this be a thing like kind of like nervous the night before like oh my god okay we're finally doing this we're finally doing it uh beep yeah definitely get ready for a long flight type of thing like kind of like uh you know not sure if he'll be coming back kind of thing oh okay got you so but he'll definitely get up and answer the door okay brayden will have his finger over his mouth his own mouth like not mimicking the emotion okay and then um walk in very quietly yeah uh day gone we'll like sort of stick his head out the door and look down each uh end of the hallway and then shut the door behind him cool all right brown's gonna like jump on the bed and then unload his like because i have to stand on the bed obviously the big bed probably and then unload his pack with the books just like like a backpack upside down on the bed and then show him the books and then whisper very quietly these are david's did you go in his room i'm just gonna shake my head up like yes nice very nice what did you find i'm gonna shrug i don't know i'll bring him the book i'll bring him the one i was reading earlier i can't really read some of this stuff is just over my head i thought maybe you might know a little bit more about this oh god dark yeah yeah sure let me uh i'd love to read this actually and i'll mention oh yeah he's got a girlfriend in aubrey pretty hot stuff esther hole esther hole sorry damn i don't know i thought i'll um okay i don't know how that helps us but uh sure yeah it doesn't it's just i thought it was interesting well well yeah um here let me have a look i give him the book day gone do me a favor intelligence check all right boom that's the captain right there that's a nice 30. um again a lot of this okay so a lot of this is uh very on the face of it like it's it's obvious like i had a meeting with this one grad x mentioned several times and it looks like um through the shorthand uh eventually diggin's gonna start to kind of piece this this this this this together and just like oh okay this means this that okay then then he flips back it's like okay that makes more sense now that type of thing so it takes him a little bit but he's flipping back and forth um and what it looks like is um portion of this is um earmarked uh tessia has had to get okay one tessia has had to get gratic out of trouble quite a bit probably more than a few times in the last month some some things have been really bad uh that that one uh it looks as though gratic won some uh some dive bar on the edge of town at some point in the last couple of weeks because it starts popping up in this journal but he can't like he has been floating in between that the filigreed faun and the house and a bunch of different places to keep mobile because apparently house silverclaw wants him dead and he has been sort of laying low in the city and tessie has been doing everything in her power to make sure that nothing happens to him and through this book and this is one of the most interesting things it looks like the way david talks about it it looks like there may be some sort of romantic entanglement between gratic and tessia what whoops um that's just that's just the way he's talking about it that's i mean like it depends on how you there's a couple of different ways you could maybe like infer but it's like huh like the way he's talking like large amounts of money have been have been paid to clear to clear gratic's debts um she has negotiated with the house silverclaw in person to uh to stop any harm there have been people uh on the streets of brightport who have been looking for him like beyond like there there's been a small bounty put out by house silverclaw so would be thugs and cutthroats have been have been looking for him there's there's there's been some stuff going on in brightport there was another group that was through that was supposed to have taken care of that but apparently that didn't happen essentially it was a it was a situation where either either this person in estherhold dies a drow or gratic does and since they never received word about this drow they have actively been trying to chase down gratic um that's that's pretty much where this this little book ends did i forget to introduce my father here's gratic yeah they're gonna be holding the book and sort of like just flipping through this one page back and forth kind of like it's just no no there's really you know kind of look up at braille and be like um well what what did you find well uh gratic's definitely been in trouble recently um and tessia has been bailing him out um there may be some sort of romantic relationship there braylen's gonna look at daygon and go ew and sit down on the bed yeah daygon will look at braille and with that ew expression just be like okay um and then uh i guess i'll start thumbing through for something more interesting to him right uh perhaps proof of his suspicions um uh see if uh david is up to no good uh thumbing through this some more again it does appear to be more personal in in nature it's not um there's nothing there's nothing that leaps out at daygon that's incriminating or it's like aha there's none of that it's more it just more looks like a personal leisure of of of like accounts not just um money coming in and out and things like that but it's more a personal log of money coming in and out um and there doesn't appear to be anything that that that's that would tie uh david to the black hand or even any real criminal element beyond um uh beyond some some guards and stuff that work in the house like that would be like payroll and stuff like that okay nothing okay um so he'll look at braille and sort of thumbing through and i guess sort of giving a look that he's not really finding anything useful to him anyway um he'll say uh you know i don't uh don't really trust that man but i haven't found anything in here to confirm my suspicions do you uh do you want this uh i mean i borrowed it and air quotes so i don't know i mean maybe you could return it or i mean i could just leave it in front of his door um braille and i like you but i'm not gonna do that but he's more afraid of you than me right but it looks like i stole it then and and what then you get to punch somebody it sounds like your mo boss i have thought about it i won't lie but um no maybe uh you know we we gotta leave soon so maybe just maybe just keep it i you know i don't want to start something before we leave yeah that's a good point all right i'll i'll find a way to give it i'll find a way to give it back to him and then brayden's gonna reach up for the book and take it unless you're gonna hold it no he'll give it to him all right take the book put in my pack then i'll give a little bow and go to my room so let me ask a question here are we are we getting sleep are we getting sleep before the big journey are we are we are we turning in for the night yeah i say we just skip yeah right to the morning the next morning go to sleep when i have an opportunity to flip the book under david's door without him noticing i would say uh if you're waiting till if you're waiting in the middle of the night there'd be there'd be less guards but still guards so i'm still gonna get you to roll i want to make a big deal out of it but yeah i gotta give i can't hold on to this thing i gotta give it back all right so i wish there's more dirt in there yeah me too this is very lackluster i wonder i i if i could i would hit him in the face of this book telling me he's useless wow i can't don't you well um it's probably meta gaming though but table talk um don't you just want to give it back to him like in his hands as we leave the house so there's nothing you can do yeah oh yeah it would be a cool move uh but brayden's not that smart so do you want to try and sneak it in there yeah i'm not even gonna go i'm just gonna try and sneak into the like the hallway in his room and then slip it in and then run sneak away just run okay here's what here's what i want you to do first of all i'm guessing you're waiting till like not middle of the night but like probably till lights start going out and stuff like that right yeah i set an alarm on my iphone right so peeking out into the hallway here again lights are lights are out for the most part there's a there's a little candle lit at the end of each each end of the hallway here and you're not seeing where there are guards like no one's standing guard outside of david's door what i would like you to do is roll a stealth check to see how quietly you creep down the hallway toward his door okay let's do it wow oh my god that's gorgeous almost quit that sir is a 29 you are going to ninja down this hallway and you won't even make a peep so you're going to be right outside his door and you're just kind of like you just want to tuck it in there just like slipping under the door yeah very gently slipping under the door all right so that's that's done and i'm imagining you're returning to your room yep tiptoeing away yeah i would imagine a little little hurried just in case like he noticed or something like that but like yeah yeah the chance of him slamming open the door right like you at the like crouching at the foot of the door you're fine um you're gonna do that and get back so getting some rest it is now the 19th of thorim so guys i think it's just about time that we aboard the ship i gotta do one thing maybe one thing okay no that's it you guys that i was just about to ask is there anything else any any any loose ends you want to tie up any any business i gotta do one thing okay i'm good to go man what would dagon like to do here okay before um we leave house dragon keep uh he needs to pay a visit to tessia okay where would you find her so yeah she'd be in her office if if uh dagon would or about her okay yeah he'll knock on her door and is it open yeah totally okay so do that knock and look in at the same time um may i uh i speak to you for a moment dagon yeah please have a seat okay he'll kind of look behind him before he goes in and he's going to shut the door behind him um first off thank you for the hospitality um and he's going to be very kind of awkward have an awkwardness about him he'll sit down and uh he'll say uh i wonder uh hmm i wonder if you would do me a favor of course what's on your mind um we have this trip ahead of us of course and uh i'd just like to tie up some i don't know when i'll be back and i could you give this to someone for me and he's going to pull out the uh whatever was the the package with the the money in it there's a um there's a man uh his name is esno he's a local i'm sure you've probably even seen him before he's he frequents the the rusty neville um he's uh he's someone i've just been watching over if you could please get this to him i i'd be very grateful and um she'll reach out and take the package i'll see that it gets to him oh and don't uh he doesn't know me so my name would not mean anything to him is there a message you'd like him to get or just the package um yeah no just just just the package is fine thank you again i'll i'll say that he gets it is your group getting ready to take off yeah he'll uh sort of look at that as an opportunity not to be so awkward anymore and he'll say uh yes yes i i believe we're ready and i believe we're about to head down to the docks again thank you for everything and um he's gonna look at her kind of not shifty eyes but like um sort of uh a concern just be like uh just yeah just watch watch yourself i'll admit you gave me some troubling news but i think everything is going to be fine if you wouldn't mind i'd like to see you off yes of course please and um she's gonna stand up and motion to the door with you um where would everyone else be right now probably in the living room for the foyer right yeah just finishing up packing for the trip or do me a favor roll a perception check um should i touch the table this is the best one try it first oh god why do i even do it why oh my god oh i had to balance it out welcome down to the sucky perception club crit for aro love crit miss for me so there's gonna be a knock at the door and david is going to do his usual thing and and walk toward it and answer it and let's see here caldin air love and day gone uh i i would imagine at this point day gone and dig in and tessia would make it to the living room area so david's gonna answer the door and there's going to be a a large figure on the other on the other side of it and air love and day gun are going to recognize that it's cori and david's gonna do his usual thing of like oh you know come on in especially if he already recognizes you and stuff so david david's gonna welcome her in um what would be the party's reaction jaw drop on the floor yeah still packing doesn't even notice i would i would imagine after after the after she crosses the threshold and stuff i'd imagine they'd notice then but like probably just absentmindedly not paying attention it's like yeah yeah someone's at the door whatever it probably happens a dozen times i think uh i think day gone would walk right up to her um cori what what are you doing here uh i think when uh she's first asked to come inside she probably uh is has her attention to david but when digin day gone comes up to her her eyes are gonna go wide and she's just gonna say what are you doing here i asked you first no um well we're um we're headed to to laura right away um to well to define the eladrin i think what happened with you uh she's gonna look sort of exacerbated and just with a deep breath i've been i've been traveling for the longest time i can't seem to find the group that i was with you what do you mean you can't find them i i had to separate them for a while i was i was worried that something had happened to brie but i i talked to po and she seems okay so i was just gonna join them up again but they weren't where i anticipated they were supposed to be so i thought they might be here tessie would speak up actually the last i heard they were traveling to banyero facepalm that was that was many days ago though so i have yet to hear word i i'm not sure if they arrived there yet or if they got sidetracked she she's literally going to just like put her hand up to her face like she's so exhausted because she's been traveling alone uh and she's gonna look back to day gone and with a smile and she's just gonna say how how how have you been and she's just gonna give him the biggest bear hug almost lifting him off the ground so dig up just lost in breasts just yeah ah yeah just suffocating oh no i mean if you gotta go such a bad way to go i was about to say just big permanent smile on his face uh after all that kind of like bit of conversation actor onus would probably realize that cori's there like pretty much so uh yeah he would turn around and like you can hear from the back of the room just like cori cori cori and then he just kind of like jogs to you and like joins in the the embrace to do like a like a three ways hug and just like i didn't know you you were coming here i uh jason did i do i feel anything like about the uh the connection i have to take on and cori or did i not notice it it's honestly it's it's so subtle you really didn't notice it until she's in the room it's a lot it's a it's a heck of a lot fainter than it was before all right so yeah i would say like i didn't feel you coming i didn't know you you should have let me know uh she'll take one arm and and grab actor onus into the hug too it's good to see you i've missed you both where's air love braylen are they here yes they're all here yeah yeah i guess slow turn modeling forward as fast as i can i can't believe it this is real is this real an error level like hesitantly like oh should i uh i don't know walk up it's so good to see you cori you too i i'm surprised to see you here though i would have thought i mean brightport of all places isn't exactly where i thought your journey was gonna take you hmm braylen will chime in well you know when the journey involves icebergs you can pretty much go anywhere or you'll pretty much end up anywhere or you'll be stuck somewhere it is very fortunate that you met us here if we hadn't had troubles along the way we would have probably been in telore by now this is this is almost i i set up by the gods but we know that didn't happen but i'm tish um tessie would sort of clear throat uh not to interrupt you said you were looking for brianna yes um i i got some grave news while i was with the group before and i went to go check on her to make sure she was all right based on a promise and i i was unable to find her i went to the town and i met poe there and he seemed to be okay and he said that she was all right so i was just gonna continue on my journey well um she made her way here about a week ago what if she's gonna look just slightly alarmed like like oh um like seriously she was a little worse for the wear but we patched up the best we could and um she ended up meeting up with her previous group and they took off days ago they were looking for more information about and then she's going to step a little closer to the group and lower boys they were looking for information on the upcoming event with the moon and sort of give you like sort of give you guys a glance like you know what i'm talking about at this point uh kori is going to sort of loosen her grip on everybody and have like a grim look on her face and just nod while you're all here i i just wanted to wish you all the best of luck i can't imagine the journey that you still have ahead of you and what you've all been through up until now but i have some business to attend to in estherhold and i i might not be here when you get back i don't know how long it's going to take but when i do see you again i hope to find you all well and so do we uh lady grimness be safe and i'll make sure to bring you back something nice air love do you have a second uh of course and she's just gonna pull you over to the side a little bit not leave the room or anything i don't want you to worry but your brother's in a spot of trouble and it would appear as though i might be able to help with that so is it melgus she's gonna nod her head just yeah yeah it's um that actually works out i have these letters and i was hoping them you could get them to my brothers and then she's gonna hand her something from her pack or letters from her pack of course i'm honestly a little bit worried about what's going to happen with the two of them getting over room together but i'm glad you will be there when that happens honestly it's why i'm going mother i i don't know where this trip will lead me i don't know how it will end but you've always been my hero and i love you and i want you to know that i will miss you and think of you every day of this trip and i will try my hardest to get back she's gonna do that momly thing where she starts to tear up a little bit and then just kind of reaches for you and like just kind of hugs you really tightly air love was totally starting to hear up while she's saying it but she's trying to be strong and then she'll just as tightly grab her back i love you very much i want you to keep yourself safe and watch out for your group all right and you make sure that neither of my brothers kill each other kill each other i'll do my best i'll miss you i'll miss you too it was really good seeing you again i'm sorry i kept out of touch don't give it a second thought and then she'll give her like one more like tighter squeeze and then like let go uh well while this conversation is happening calden is like looking up at cory and up and up and he's like leans over to act aronas a little bit and just out of the side of the mouth out of his mouth he's like is is she the god i just like you without a sound you see like his helmet not yes she's very tall well i mean she is a god that's very true i uh i haven't met a god before can cory hear anything i don't know roll a perception check let's see i'm interested oh laggy oh please don't crash please don't crash please don't crash let's see here 26 i i would say that you hear whispering um i don't know you'd make it all out i i think you'd pick up words like god or something like that and um more than that i think it would be like oh hi new friend like i think it would be that type of thing like you like you definitely notice calden okay he's also like definitely just staring at you okay uh noticing that he is staring at her uh while whispering she's going to um let go of everybody and just sort of look down on him and say and you might be uh calden haylack of the mountain and you must be cory i've heard a lot about you from your friends she'll put her hand out to shake only good things i hope he'll look at her hand uh sort of surprised and then he will bring his hand up and and take hers it'll be very cold and he says yes only good things yes it's good to meet you calden likewise uh companion of of this crew is it is an honor to meet and will i need to roll a constitution check to make sure my hand doesn't get crushed i don't think she's squeezing too hard i no okay she only does that when like she's trying to like super impress somebody and right now she's just trying to be warm and friendly she can tell that you're awkward like you feel awkward she's so big it's like a Klingon handshake yeah when you when you take his hand it's like you can feel like the bones in it like it's almost like taking a like a dry leaf or something oh gosh a cold dry leaf kind of like a parakeet of a man that's uh i'll chime in real quick and um you know cory we still share a common goal even though you've separated with your other group uh we're still very much trying to get the same information you're you are more than welcome to join us on this ship you know she said you know she's a god right even more we need her more man you haven't seen her in action and then everyone's gonna pretend to do like bow and arrow shot they doesn't really have a bow and arrow and after actor is done with his sentence he's kind of like reels back a little bit and then looks down at himself then looks down at braelyn and at cauldron and he looks back at cory and goes oh no cory i'm so so sorry we didn't get an armor fashion for you oh oh oh no and then brian's gonna show off his armor yeah mine's pretty badass if anyone tried to do a car wheel but he's not going to be able to do it so no oh no crashes into an umbrella stand i'll make it up to you somehow cory i promise if anything you you more than deserved one from the scales of uh from straw scales but this is embarrassing um she'll sort of be in thought at the prospect of traveling with her group again and then when he starts mentioning the armor she'll just almost like she's made a decision in her head she'll say well i guess once we're done with this quest we're just gonna have to go kill another dragon funny story no hey jason um how far is tolor from kihan out of curiosity well okay um i can't wait till the new map is done uh so tolor is to the far east off off the mainland right so you're going to be going past drake island past all that uh kihan is actually to the north of the mainland so you could you could sail like if you were coming back uh from telore you could sail just straight to kihan after after the mainland it's um it's a trek though it's gonna be a trend no matter what you're gonna pay for gas i'll pitch him for gas that's fine it's good six ways now yeah that's good well we should charge those well i don't know i always say three but there's probably less than maybe more who knows but those new assholes who are coming with us too there's like you might wanna you might want to fill corian on that oh yeah so brandon will step forward oh man it's gonna be so awesome having more muscle when we gotta deal with these new jerks and then i get he'll remember oh yeah uh we're gonna kind of play chauffeur for some of these uh what are they called he's gonna look around make sure no one's listening besides our group and then whisper yeah some black hand guys they uh we made a deal to take them with us um do i know what the black hand are uh we're in our streetwise check for me there you've been to brightport a few times yeah that's what i i don't think i've ever dealt you know i have no clue like quizzically it's just sort of like who has black hands what do you mean braylin's gonna try and explain ah it's like uh it's like a game but worse because they have like magic armor guys as bodyguards it was bad we went to their house it was nasty there's holes in the wall it was a maze and we got suckered into a deal and i throw those kinds of steps a little bit like between brelyn he's like yes we'll let you know the details later her eyes are just filled with worry yeah okay like you see his shoulders slumping a bit like yeah we'll fill you on the details later speaking of our uninvited guests perhaps it's time to go meet them cory you will be joining us uh she's gonna look around at the group and all of the all of the faces that she's missed for as long as she's been away and just nod really excitedly of course i will yes excellent tessie would speak up i'll let the other group know exactly where you are just in case they make it back within the next few days braylin's gonna chime in yeah and let them know that if they don't handle business we'll take care of it because we're that much better he's gonna kind of flex a little bit lady lady tessie thank you so much for your hospitality here and caldin's gonna like reach up and grab her like grasp her hand and please tell amara thank you as well or if you prefer and he says thank you in draconic um she's gonna smile i'll leave word here with david and everything will be fine don't worry about a thing i will be taking amara to to esther holt with me as i feel like time may be a factor may the two of you be safe um she's gonna kind of bow her head just just ever so slightly oh he's just he would just bow his head back and enjoy and join the group she would address the group one final time just as you're you're setting off i wish you all all of the luck in the world and she's gonna kind of give a smile that's there's a there's a touch of worry in it that's unsettling yeah i feel well as we're leaving the house brayden's gonna is david watching us leave too no oh um as we're leaving brayden will be the last one out of the door and he'll shout back really quickly sorry david i went to your books but i love you all right well just before that happens actually this would say like a farewell to tessia just a classic uh okay well you would say uh oh when i call this in your hands um may the may the black wind watch over you which is unrelated to the black hand it's just cultural um and again like slight bow just very respectful guys shall we go to the docks let's do it let's meet these bastards so making your way to the harbor uh it is it is a gorgeous day in the city of brightport by the way the sun's sun's rising uh birds are chirping and the the sparse amount of trees that there are in the city it's it's mostly urban sprawl but there are a couple of trees here and there and little little like the delicate tweet tweet tweet of of birds are kind of greet you as you walk through the city this is probably the best time of day to walk through brightport by the way because most of the shiftless layabouts are sleeping in and the the streets aren't too packed it's it's it's really nice actually so when the alleanda comes into view at the port you're gonna see a group standing near uh standing near the ship uh they haven't boarded it yet but they are clearly waiting for you may i ask how many there are you may how about the group roll a perception check let's do a case well i'm not touching the table i know how many fillings they have in their teeth no i do you both do both of you beat me the both of us you know what the fillings are made of we get it you guys don't want to know geez uh let's see two almost a crit wow 37 and 34 so i would say the entire group kind of takes them in and there are there are seven individuals fuck not 20 not three guys six of us Dagon and airlove are going to notice that four of them appear to be those uh those bulky looking figures with the weird purplish aura oh boy where that we're that we're hanging out uh around around the black hand the last time you were there the good news is that uh two of them appear to be they're like slightly smaller um like almost average height maybe a little below average um one of them uh one of the two has kind of a slender shapes maybe maybe female or just a very slender male and then there's an individual all of those all of those guys are kind of wearing the the the cloaks right kind of dark cloaks pulled up over their over their face very very much standing there and they're all standing next to a large crate almost the size of a coffin and in front of them all is one individual who is not wearing not wearing the hood up nothing like that kind of a long-haired scraggly bearded gentleman who appears to be human with a very large scar going from forehead down to neck in between his eyes so right over the bridge of his nose like down down homely looking gentleman and he's going to be standing arms folded at the front of the pack just waiting for you to arrive what would the party like to do no sir i don't like it i'll try to lead the the party a bit and try to be like the first one to get like get there get there of the group and extend a hand as i get closer i would just say greetings we are the aluyanda crew i am the first mate first mate actor on acid well athenacius i'm hoping we will have a pleasant trip to telore may i inquire what your names are gentlemen instantly this this this gentleman is going to look fed up with you just just kind of almost a sigh but he will reach at his hand and shake actor onus's the name's colas you don't need to know who these are and he's gonna kind of like motion his head back toward back back towards his party here's how this is gonna go we're gonna board your ship we're gonna stay out of your way you're gonna sail us to telore and then we're gonna leave your ship that is the end i'm going to bring my head and helmet closer to his face and say in about the same tone i wouldn't have it any other way i'm glad we understand each other and he's gonna motion for his crew to pick up the large wooden crate and this thing uh this thing is oblong and kind of awkward looking honestly and it is nailed shot like this is whatever they're whatever they're taking is precious at least to them it would appear the four larger gentlemen are going to pick this up and they're going to start to walk up into the ship and board followed closely by the other three um i'm just wondering if i want to start anything right now no you don't let's put it on the water then we can push him off okay well dig on we'll have an air about him that he doesn't like what's going on so if actor ronas wants to stop him before he says something now oh yeah he will there's a reason he stepped in front of everybody he'll turn to you and say captain i will be dealing with the rest of the crew as your first mate so that you don't have to deal with their type brayden's gonna interrupt well did we take a vote how did you get that job oh oh well then we can't think about it he raises his hand well i mean what does it come with do you get like a do you have to sleep in the same room as them like you gotta like get your own space for what i don't think so i'll just i'll just be dealing with the um black hand uh alienda crew relations okay well captain if you need me to you know find some more journals you let me know i'll give him a nod um he's gonna lean into actor onus uh to sort of whisper in his ear um i want an eye kept on them and i want to know what's inside that box uh he's gonna lean in closer to you and say let's not do anything that endangers lady grimness any furthers when did she say she was leaving for astral she didn't say exactly but um she implied that it would be very soon if not today do we see a white dragon overhead nope not yet um okay he'll just say uh we'll leave it for now um captain dagon allow me to try something if i may so that we can discern what the contents of that cargo is what do you have in mind just simply talking um be my guest and calden's gonna take a step up to uh callous and look at the box and just um look him in the face and say what's what cargo do you bring aboard the aluyanda so colas is looking at his crew and then you you approach him almost he's going to give calvin a look like i i'm sorry i thought we were clear um and then he's going to speak up my understanding was that you didn't need to know anything about us or what we were bringing to tellor was i mistaken uh from the back ektorina says you were very clear sir yes very clear uh that you weren't to be disturbed but we do need to know the inventory of all the thing as in as the uh clerk in charge of inventory on the aluyanda i must know everything that's in here we are taking the trade routes to tellur and should we be boarded by any inspectors or anything like that we must account for everything on this ship braylon's gonna throw his hands up everyone has a job that's okay raylan you and i can skip rocks on the ocean colas is going to step up to calvin you don't need to know what we're bringing and no one's going to board this ship after we take off our job is to make sure that you don't get assaulted and trust me you won't be just get us to tellor um and colin is gonna do like one of those like um but he's gonna look look at him and go yes you will keep us from being assaulted that is the agreement however if we are not assaulted and just merely assessed we will need to have an account for everything so that our journey and by proxy your journey interrupted do me a favor roll a diplomacy check i should have played a song for you sorry ian oh no d wow beautiful should have saved it for the sailing i'm not rolling that check oh boy so okay let me ask a question while keldon's doing this is the crew just sort of keeping like is the group sort of keeping an eye on him and getting stuff ready like oh i'm getting stuff on board like our supplies are everything like i'm i'm ready to go just like i just want to make sure there's no like i just want to make sure if there's tension i'll just like step my helmet in try to break it and then go back to packing the ship i think braylon would take the role of uh chief of security aka uh mac from it's always sunny in philadelphia i've given some ocular pat-downs and by that i mean just kind of scoping out the the rest of the enemy crew and like maybe doing a perception check to see if i notice anything unique about them let me ask you a question what do you think is in the box i have no idea that's why i asked we have to have an accounting of everything we have our provisions and our cargo and we know how many people are aboard the ship we just need to know what else you bring aboard and it doesn't go any further than that you know i have killed men for much less than what you're doing right now in fact i haven't had to explain myself this thoroughly in quite a long time i'll tell you this much we're supposed to bring a package to someone on telore that's it now we have been asked not to get in your way in fact if you need help let's say we run into rough storm we get attacked we'll chip in we'll do our fair share and we'll make sure that we get to the island beyond that you don't need to speak to us you don't need to know us and you don't need to know anything about what we're carrying is that understood understood however if we are boarded for inspection you are doing all the paperwork nice sorry i pictured a scene from lord of war i don't know why i imagine this guy callous being like a really evil uh bruce willis i think it's the voice it just reminds me of bruce willis and you're like the just go to the roof have a couple smokes so that's what i got for my 20 is i that's what you're okay okay what you're getting what you're getting a package to someone saying he didn't kill you he's saying you know what i'm what i'm going to tell you is you're getting the vibe that this is these are these people are probably used to being extremely violent and it's unless they here's the thing if they didn't need you to get to to lore this might go differently i'll tell you that much there's a definite vibe coming off like the entire time this the this group of people they they they they boarded they kind of tucked themselves away on the on the side of the ship here they they they put their crate down and they're just standing next to it the entire time like they're not they're not moving they're not going anywhere they're you can tell that they're trying to take up as little space as possible like they're they're very much clustered together heaven forbid that box should fall off the side of the boat at some point um okay can you can i get this can you tell me this like is there is there any way that i can see like the weight of it yes actually okay it did okay it did look like there was a little bit of heft to it but it didn't uh it didn't look like those four people were struggling with it at all and when they sat it down it made a sound that if you were to put a weight on it in total um probably right around the 80 to 100 pound mark okay like that that's a pretty sturdy that's a pretty sturdy crate where did they set it down where did they set it down uh they set it down on the deck they're they're currently just sort of standing on the deck okay so air love oh oh no sorry go ahead i was just gonna have air love show them where to put it and maybe scope out the box see if there's like anything on there but if you had something you wanted to do no i was just gonna clarify that that it it's it it's like coffin sized right so it's a it's roughly the size of like a like a human like it's um maybe a short human a very smart like picture picture what maybe a maybe a halfling would be buried in okay what did you say or a human i can picture that i can picture that okay so air love i imagine this whole time she hasn't really been paid to just a conversation but she's been seeing everybody's interest and she's been putting things on the boat and then when she sees them set it down on the deck she'll be like i'll i'll show you to the cargo area where you could keep that safe unless you added another plan for that and she points to the box or does a nod towards the box colas is going to look over toward air love and then after a couple of seconds look over to the four largest in their party and just sort of like kind of do that bro nod toward them and they're going to pick up the box and follow air love okay i want to scope it out so perception yep because i'm going to be like right in front of them look like here i'll show you and like look over our shoulder but be right there okay so it's the arc of the covenant oh god damn it i've been pulling so good oh that's not bad though that's good that's not bad i'm just gonna open it later guys don't worry um so again the the the four of these guys are gonna pick it up and again there's some heft to it but it's not it's it's not anything they can't handle obviously um there's gonna be rope um that that uh like sort of makeshift handles uh on each side and they're they're they're gonna grab for it and lift it up um it's sort of swinging uh it's sort of swinging around a bunch like um like like almost like maybe something inside is jostling something like that do i hear like anything bumping the sides no you don't you don't hear anything like that it's nothing um so maybe whatever's in wouldn't wouldn't make wouldn't make a noise like it's packed tight something like that but uh yeah that is looking at this looking at this crate it is nailed shot like much like a coffin would be like in the old days like nailed all the way around uh and this is meant to take some sort of impact it looks like this is definitely meant to keep whatever is inside from getting harmed i can't tell you that i've gotta say the use of the word coffin is making us very suspicious i'm just trying to conjure a shape we got plenty we got we got time to find out what's in this box i think it's a fireplace that could fit a body i have one question are there any marks on it like runes or anything this is one of the most nondescript containers you have ever seen it is a it is um made of wood uh sort of it's not finished or anything like that this is like a like a shipping crate type of thing like this is it is definitely meant for function not form shipping great okay sorry we're gonna ship check check check okay i'm done that's all i want to do that's it okay i'd like to do an arcana check yes so dagon's gonna kind of scope this uh scope this crate out as it's uh as it's shuffling by here there's gonna be some heavy mojo coming off this box like nasty intense power do i recognize it not um it's not incredibly familiar but it's it's definitely i'll put it this way it is it is on a level that uh very few things uh very few things would be able to touch this this is um maybe godly that level of intensity okay he'll uh whoever's near him anyway i guess ara loves over by the crate um sort of out of uh uh ears reach from the uh the guests and he'll tell his his guys um i i don't i don't like this i don't like this at all there's something there's something powerful in that box i can feel it and it is not good i think there'll be plenty of time for us to figure out what's inside that crate before we get it to toluor it doesn't look like this party is big enough to be some kind of army maybe it's some kind of diplomatic missionary or maybe they're just here to guard this box either way we have a journey we can we have a journey ahead of us and we can create an opportunity to find out what it is they're transporting bran's gonna nod in agreement very well i suppose it's time to uh weigh anchor and set sail oh my god are we doing this let's do it it all works it's all yeah it's all again guys who would like to do me a favor yeah yeah i'm afraid it was the other guys not yet who would like to do me a favor and roll a flat d 20. corey i think that's jamie i'll do it oh shit jamie here's how this is gonna go guys bam i mean you didn't think that taking the god of death back onto your ship was gonna be all hunky dory now have you been crashing the table this whole time is that what's going on guilty yeah yeah i'm not gonna lie though i'm kind of excited by that number because i hope all of these people die not us but the other people lucky i hope we get in a fight let's take that seven and let's tuck that let's tuck it away okay we'll dust that off in just a minute now what we're gonna do lucky seven lucky lucky number seven i don't know why i did this but i took the bruce willis reference from earlier and i i remember the movie lucky number seven oh me too anyone remember that movie in like 10 years you guys are going to raise the anchor and you are going to gently leave brightport cast off and you are going to hit the open waters and for the very first time you are going to make positive progress toward telore i thought you were gonna say that you gotta hit a reef you are stranded 115 yards away from the mainland should we leave the way we came in and just like make a bunch of ice just shooting out of the water just just fireworks just for fun and i can shoot fire into the air oh yes oh i love it has that melted rainbow just wondering that's one of the ads dissipated by now for the most part yeah it's been days it's been well it's been well not days but it's been it's been a while it's been two days right yeah it's sort of fallen away a bit you know good lord i'm i'm so floored that we're actually getting to do this okay so the main here's the thing the four gentlemen who are who have been completely silent the entire time they appear to be just muscle or whatever are hanging out with that crate the entire time like they they they set in the cargo area and they have remained in that area now the other three are are up on the deck they're they're they're just sort of hanging out near the front of the ship just sort of looking out over the water and you guys are you're gonna raise the sails and it's you are going to the the now the great news is there is a strong breeze with you and you are going to be just just propelled gorgeously ahead you are you're going to be making some pretty good time again it is the 19th of t'lor it is early in the morning you could not ask for a better way to start this journey is there anything that the party would like to do i think if possible um for the four gentlemen that are watching the box kori is just going to be leaning up against the side of the ship just staring at them like almost like she's babysitting them and if can i roll an intimidate check with that sure whoo scary rar i'm so scary um here's the thing these four these four these four dudes they're sort of seated around like they're sort of um kind of taking a knee actually around it but kind of two on each side staring at each other almost not paying much mind to what's going on around them and they're just they're they barely look like they're breathing uh just stock still almost like statues those are the the weird moto guys from uh black hand headquarters right yep yeah and then i think the only other thing if possible is can i roll a nature check to see what might be in store for us you absolutely can yay um and i had noticed uh but my numbers for my skills are off uh based on the pdf that i have some of them are even higher than they're supposed to be that's really strange yeah so i i adjusted the ones that i could but maybe when we get us sometime later we can fix it but yeah nature that's my that's my dealio it is your dealio guess what wait us jason horrors come on you remember how i said you guys are you got a really strong breeze and you're you're you're off on the right foot and that you couldn't ask for a better way to start this this this whole adventure that's because cory's gonna cory's gonna sort to just on the deck just kind of like feel things out and just kind of take notice of like you know barometric pressure all that stuff and realize that the reason there is such a strong gust behind you is because there is quite a nasty storm brewing like there the the conditions are right that this could be very bad like if if if everything kind of falls a certain way you guys might be venturing into a hurricane oh yep wonderful all right let's cut through the north and here's what i'm gonna ask i'm gonna ask cory to do could you do me a favor and roll a flat d10 for me now the lower this roll the weaker the storm the higher the roll the stronger the storm okay so i want low numbers you want you want a low holy shit would not be group two without this that's the that's an f10 hurricane 10 out of 10 wood storm oh man wind up in ozz guys that's fine it's better than anywhere with these guys right these fucking shadow army wow there's one or two that you'll let you know i've always wanted to see what the elemental plane of water looks like i think we're gonna find out so it's gonna dawn on cory like it's it's one of those things you ever see a movie where okay even something as simple as like jurassic park you see the water like the water shake the ripples it's like oh my god like that that type of core is gonna have the take the glasses off at the control but it's like good god like that type of just that moment and yeah she's gonna she's gonna realize there is some bad shit coming okay um knowing this she's gonna try to look look cool and calm in front of these four dudes even though they're not really paying attention to her and um who's the nearest to her i guess i don't know if anybody else was doing something below deck or whatever um i'd probably be at the wheel not that i need to use it but i'd be hanging out on the deck keeping an eye on the the three on the deck i think realistically she'd probably go to day gone if he's the one steering the ship um so to speak yeah kinda yeah and she'll just go up to him and sort of look around to see if there are any of those other dudes nearby um maybe more towards the front okay and she's going to whisper to him we are sailing into a huge storm probably none like you've ever seen i bet you're wishing you had gone to yumineero now smirk um so this thing's coming for us or behind us um you'd be sailing into it if if yeah corey if corey's correct like this would be this would be pretty much the entire swath of ocean in front of you like this this would be massive do you sense um any way around this i don't know do i sense any around with that check um essentially your two options would be to one go back the way you came which is just you know to sail a very exaggerated path north or south which would add a lot of travel time or do your best to sail through it and just prepare okay so she'll still whispering because she doesn't want crew to know what's going on um we can try to avoid the storm by going around it but it's going to add a lot of time on our travel or we could try to go through it and make sure we look out for our people well this could be an opportunity to lose some extra baggage we don't have time to go around i think the only choice here is to to take this thing head on she'll not i will go and make the rounds and let everyone know now when you say everyone not really everyone okay just just making sure just checking we're gonna act surprised when the storm happens but kori will tell the rest of the group yeah and i think she would handle it in the same way the i don't know if anyone is near the other crew if i would need to do anything like maybe pull them aside i am standing on top of the box in between the four people so all right so okay so let's start there i guess um she'll go over to the box and air love and sort of like look i'm not there oh my god just on the deck i knew you were looking for runes so i was like is she really like on top of this thing like yeah i think they might notice yeah they might i don't think they let me stand on top of it so yeah she'll go through and and make the rounds to let everybody know and try to stay as uh nonchalant and and secretive as she can gotcha uh what would the party's reaction be um i think calden is probably like hanging over the side and trying not to vomit and like trying to look really far out into the distance to get like a focal point you know so that you don't get sick um and when kori finds him and tells him this he's gonna look at her um and just sort of like look around say what should we do we just need to prepare and i hate to say it but it's gonna get a lot bumpier should we tie ourselves down or i don't think we should do anything suspicious as to arise any sort of reaction from the black hand crew um i don't i don't even know if i really know how to prepare for a storm like this besides to sort of batten down the hatches and maybe go under the deck i'm we've been through a storm before but it was nothing like what this is going to be not that oh sorry go ahead no go ahead not that i wouldn't like to wash ourselves of the black hand so to speak but maybe they could be of some help to get us through this talk to daegon see what he says and we'll do this together cauldron will not will nod and like uh will not at kori and uh go find daegon she'll grab his shoulder before he goes over and just we'll say make sure you're discreet of course um so yeah he'll he'll go find daegon uh who i assume is is steering the ship uh captain captain daegon you'll notice he has a pretty big grin on his face despite what he already knows i assume you've heard kori's news did i have and i assume you know we're riding right into it uh yes i wanted to find out from you what we can do to prepare ourselves um that's a good question um how do you prepare for a storm does anybody know i've never sailed before in my life i'm pretty sure you have to roll up the sails and attach anything that can move and uh that's the extent of right all that yeah put all the important cargo on the deck you know just just to be safe that's you know like a crate just on top of it but uh does you guys want to get rid of the people and then see what's in the crate no both both are fine what uh what would the what would the all you want to do in this situation jason like if it's you say it always takes the safest route well here's the thing um do you ever have like like if you're if you're operating with a gps or something like that it knows the roots but um unless you're using like a okay it's not like a traffic app like a like a newfangle traffic app it's more like a old fangled gps where it knows the the routes and it's it's it knows the quickest way to get there but it doesn't account for things like wreckage and um and and storms and things like that that happen on the fly so it'll just keep sailing oh my upgrade to ios 10 come on it does right look it's not like the eladrin have had time to work on it recently do you think the yalanda can transform into a submarine imagination yes the big thing is obviously you don't want to capsize that's going to be your chief concern um and there are there are two major concerns is one um rough seas uh things like tidal waves you know the kind of thing that if it were to hit the broad side of the ship you all could go over or worst case scenario the entire ship capsizes and you just everything is dumped and then your best case scenario after that you survive that initial fall into the water and then you're just in the middle of the ocean the other the other thing that can happen is much like when you were riding in uh when you're riding into the bay um remember you got struck by lightning and you you lost your your main sail and all that stuff so a lot of things could happen bad bad things how long do we have until the storm hits where we are or till we reach the storm so i imagine this is a thing where where koi's just kind of like like just can can sort of like pick up the you know the motion of the air and like just like that that feeling the humidity all that stuff and um sort of act like like weather equipment uh in in this in this particular um it it's it's a couple of hours away you'll you like within the next hour you'll see the the storm clouds like on the horizon like you'll you'll know it okay so um so so maybe calding will just continue and say um well we'll we should prepare ourselves but perhaps there's a way that we can utilize the other crew here put them on the front line so to speak instead of keeping them in the dark caldin we were threatened by these men by their leader and we were forced to bring them aboard our ship i have no intentions of warning or anything anything like that i expect these men to sink i have no love lost for them if they fall into the ocean but they might be able to help all of us stay alive so you want to warn them i want to have them be up here manning the sails making sure that their precious cargo isn't lost in the storm and if one or two of them is taken by the sea or even their precious box so be it as long as all of us stay safe i i suppose you're right all right do it do what you need to do i'll speak with kalis i'll let him know that a storm is on the horizon and that if his journey is to not be interrupted him and his men will assist us in any way they can to keep this boat afloat and if dagon has nothing else to say caldin will give a little nod and then uh try and find kalis oh he wouldn't be hard to find uh he'd be he'd be standing still at the front of the ship just sort of looking out looking out into the water um so caldin will sort of like limp up to him and like sort of um not tumble but or maybe so maybe maybe the boat rocks a little bit and he just like boom like falls onto the the side of the boat next to him and uh and he looks out um with and doesn't even look at kalis but he looks out to the horizon and he goes can you see what's coming he's gonna he's gonna look over to caldin what are you talking about you don't feel that you can you can feel it in the air and see it in the sea and he's going to he's gonna pause he's gonna pause and just sort of try to pick up on try to pick up on what caldin's saying i don't feel anything i thought as much and caldin's going to point out towards the horizons and say out there a storm a storm is a brewing bigger than anything i think your crew has ever seen bigger than anything our crew has ever seen and if you are to keep to your word that we are not to be interfered with then we will need your men to keep this ship calm through the storm we cannot take any chances going around it that will take too long agreed i'll let my men know we will need all of you up here we will need you helping to man the sails we will need you possibly helping to bail out water and when i say all your men i mean all of your men and he's gonna look over to the like four that are just been like sitting by the box he's gonna narrow his eyes at keldon if we sail into a storm they'll assist us not before and he's gonna step forward just a bit and if this is some sort of trick well let's just hope this isn't some sort of trick it's no trick i assure you i mean how could we control the laws of nature this is the sea it is unpredictable and it is dangerous and it is why you are with us because we can get through it and we will get all of you through it provided that you just keep your word and then he's gonna like just a little bit we can't do what we gotta do if we're all dead right so like i said we'll help out but let's not play innocent there's a lot of my men who saw what you did when you arrived in brightport that was you right big glaciers coming around your boat as you pulled into port still name me some bullshit about not being able to control nature okay and calden will just give him a nod and say be ready when captain dagon calls out the orders we'll be ready about an hour is gonna go by everyone roll perception for me yes finally wow yeah all right this is more like it guys too busy vomiting yeah yeah that's exactly what's happened so up ahead the most massive set of black roiling storm clouds this crew this group has ever seen we're talking far as the eye can see gray choppy seas and you're gonna start to feel it as as you ride in where it was where it was very calm and and you guys are just jetting along right you can you can kind of feel where the water's getting a little choppier and the boats kind of bouncing up and down just a little bit just jostling nothing too bad yet but you can just feel the difference it's like okay and up ahead you're gonna see lightning striking and uh you're you're gonna be able to hear it it's it's it's it takes a while but you're gonna hear that thunder this this is poop your pants scary this is this is bad and you are sailing directly toward it so much so that if if you were to change direction now you probably would not be able to avoid at least the the outer edge of this i think okay no i was just gonna say i think maybe now is a good time to uh let the lu on to know that the sails should go up does it do that automatically that's that's more you that's that's more yeah um okay maybe it's time to start barking orders then okay um well sails up for one thing um and when you say that actor on this will like repeat your words louder sails up for certain down the hatches railings will be visibly a set every time actor onus gets to repeat the orders really you are my master thief braylon you are my master team i think uh since this is technically a non-combat encounter i'm going to huddle up around us i guess as a group right and use inspire competence on all of us you and ally in the burst choose a skill technically right now the black hand crew are allies ah bastard we've been there before yeah we did that once hey oh no it doesn't matter whatever fucking who cares we they need to get us they need to get us out of here alive technically right you're all gonna work together to not die okay well i'm not giving them health i'm gonna athletics we always need that yeah you know what yeah well we have cori now no we're gonna need it all right everybody i'm gonna uh gather or gotta gather all of us and sing eye of the tiger oh nice and everyone's gonna get plus two power bonus to their next encounter or the next uh athletics check i'm gonna park it right here thanks thank you okay um and if we're giving this to all the black hit and if we're giving this all to the black hand we have to remember that we considered them allies for this encounter not like last time when we're like halfway through can we take away the buffs we can i learned from experience i know how to remove the buff now yes murder them yeah we killed them just toss them over um when people start like uh activating starting to prepare and everything uh karonis will retreat to the i guess downstairs whatever that's called below deck the below deck uh there's no rooms or anything right it's just open um it's it's not quite it's not completely open it's sort of quartered off and stuff no doors really or anything okay except for the the captain's quarters type thing cool it all got refurbished so yeah it's true oh yeah we have oh yes yeah we have real world we do yeah yeah it's like a farm there's probably like a room with like bunks or something yeah like placed in okay i'll go in the in the first mate's quarters uh basically he's gonna remove his uh his armor completely uh and take like the most ample clothes well not maybe the most ample but like ample clothes and something like a cloak something that can cover his head to both like protect from the the rain and cover his face as best as he can but at this point it's like hey they got secret we got ours so uh right and the armor is way too inconvenient so um right yeah he's gonna he's gonna go uh armorless for this all right anyone else want to do anything before the storm well i was kind of joking about tying tying down but is that i think that like i should like i can't think of anything other than just like i guess i guess calden would like to go to like maybe the safest place that he could be i suppose that is an option by the way like that is something sailors used to do like back in the day like if you're holding on to you would tie yourself to like you tie yourself to the wheel to make sure that you you be able to to steer the ship like i mean like you can mother say yeah yeah mother and that you have railings that you can like attach yourself yeah yeah railings kind of almost got me killed last time well okay here's the thing it it yeah like they will help in in in trying to not have you fall off the side of the ship but if a bad enough wave comes along you know i mean if that's yourself to the railings like to anything yeah okay but i want to the thing is i want to be sure that especially for myself because i think i'm not the fastest i don't think speed wise on the group but i know that i can get into places sometimes that others would not be able to i guess i'm trying to say it might mix the starrities okay right yeah so let's say you have like 50 feet of rope you tie yourself like in the middle of the ship yeah that's what i guess 100 100 foot like a diameter okay i think i was yeah i probably the wheel so they could help out wherever needed because i think i'm next actor onus with the armor on i'm the second most liable to fly off this fucking boat oh calden could freeze everybody's feet on the boat like up to the we're gonna get sick we're gonna get colds wow diseases well it might come to that it might come to that um but yeah i think colin would tie some tie down somewhere too just like i i don't know the mast something somewhere one of the last that's a good bet yeah yeah same here yeah the picture a lot of rigging a lot of like there's lots of lots of rope lots of like that like there's places to tie yourself off all the time and the only the only the only detriment to that is that if something happens and you need to cross the ship like get get somewhere in a hurry that could really slow that's a good point okay so uh so so instead of tying he's gonna like loop an arm like through some rope or something like that that's what it'll be that's what it'll be he'll uh he'll he'll like loop his arm around some rope to like okay i'll fight around my waist because i mean my waist is the size of a regular person's arm so yeah i'll do the waist too because it's probably the most solid part less less chance to take the land away yeah less less less crumbly cookie more solid yeah yeah got it you guys feel like you're prepped now you ready um yeah i don't know what else we can do i pray a little bit more spells uh a glimpse of future oh shit you're right sorry that's probably a good idea yeah would you like to do glimpse the future i definitely would love to glimpse the future real quick right close my eyes imagine every possible alcove here we go that's good that's a 15 what oh that's a three if we die in that feature okay we die in two 15 yeah raylan closes eyes and sees one feature where the boat comes out all heroically through the storm and he's at the front of the boat like one leg up captain morgan style the sun behind him and he's pointing forward and after all this he's behind him like crying because he's not the first mate anymore i was just gonna say that and dana's like you're my first mate now that's a pretty good 15 and the three the boat immediately just flips over and we all die and then the nine brayden gets struck by lightning spins off the top of the boat and a shark just jumps up eats him and takes him into a whirlpool geez that's worse than the three it's a much more creative death though time is going to pass and this water is going to get choppier and choppier and the ship is going to bounce up and down and every once in a while it's going to come down and sort of hit awkwardly as water splashes and mists the crew this wind is going to get more and more severe you're gonna you're gonna feel it just it's gonna be the it's gonna be the the kind of wind where it hits you and you're like oh shit like you have to you don't normally have to steady yourself or or sort of push against the wind and you're gonna you're gonna feel that there is an unbridled power about this and you forget you forget how intense nature can be until you you kind of are at its mercy and you're going to see some pretty huge waves coming up like sort of just sort of come up crash down and they're they're they're in the distance a bit and you're going to feel the rain start and at first it's it's just sort of just for the first few seconds it's just sort of pop pop pop pop pop and it's just it's going to start to hit you almost horizontally and it is going to sting your face that is how that is how hard this is coming down just it is it is just almost as if nature's just sort of aggressively punching you with water over and over again just stinging raindrops and the wind is going to kick up every once in a while and just sort of hit you in the face causing you to squint or close your eyes completely it's just that intense and i think it's a good time for us to stop for the night now the next time we sit down i i'm gonna warn you all right now this is gonna be the most aggressive skill check challenge i think i've ever thrown at this group i already did like three of these i know this is this is probably going to be the most aggressive this is a lot of things are going to have to go right for you guys to come out the other end and nothing bad happened just remember guys all that plus two to athletics i'm just putting that in my notes and you got a 15 glimpse of you team where i'm in the front how you guys how you guys feeling about your odds it's gonna be bad it's gonna be bad i felt more guilty in my life welcome back to the group chaley we had a good run yeah it's okay ivy brand new team it's gonna be great yeah yeah honestly i think i'm i have a less good feeling than before fighting the vampire boss oh i'm i'm more afraid the last time we went in with a nuke though what's the difference yes that's why nature is the ultimate villain yeah well the main she's a bitch the last time we had to do a skill check challenge on the boat it was all athletics and we all sucked so oh this would be a wide array of things i do remember trying to tie something and failing because my my little thumbs remember that i remember you almost flipping over the railing yeah don't don't want to remember that yeah falling is a really big worry of mine i've noticed it's it's dude it's something that's almost happened to you several times like my third or second episode on the show let me just go rescue craig real quick for being drug away that's another thing that almost happens to oh shit that's right the plant thing yeah fucking lord of the rings i should never have come here yeah so um gonna be fun though yeah what do you guys think is in the box i think it's a person oh my god i think it's a person too yeah you think it's a person yeah i think it's a person it's a little and jason said it was a godly magic i think it's another trap could also be like a powerful like artifact or something that's what i'm thinking yeah i was shaped like a coffin but yeah maybe like that's just coffin size yeah exactly maybe we stuck a little bit too much on the coffin image but yeah and see there yeah see their body or that's like i think it's like a demon body or something oh that'd be cool element if the demon is in spot of the key evil ones it's granny and the other yeah yeah yeah they're like they we're not taking them to a specific place either we're just going to tellur and they're like they haven't asked us to go anywhere specific um somebody else is waiting for that thing they said they're delivering somebody yeah we can just wash our hands off of this thing after like yeah sure for real like well we're not here for that like we've got bigger fish to fry and we're making sure that they don't get to uh tessia by doing the whole thing i mean i think it's the arc of the covenant that's what i think don't look directly at it marion it's the arc of the covenant we're taking care of it who top men yeah well guys thank you so much i'm so glad we got to finish this the session i'm thank you thank you so much no i dude do you realize the next time we sit down we might be able to get the entire boat stuff out of the way where you die i don't know but we may be able to get it all out of the way one way the other and we might get the t'lor yeah that could be sweet you still have to edit all of this though it might be another two months uh dude i breathe so like we're sitting there we're we're always deciding okay what episode we taking you know because we're trying to divide the workload up and it's like oh we got that group two in the can i'm like no no no i can't let you do that i don't hate you so no i i'm so sorry no it happened dude the text stuff happens now see stay the whole time no internet problems no but it was it's good because we got jamie so yeah welcome back right that was so great but also so bad it was a good bad though yeah yeah if we if we if we didn't get to t'lor without any conflict what kind of what kind of game would that be yeah it's not a group two game there's not a storm or natural disaster or bad guys with us or somalia you know can i tell you like a slightly lower role would have gotten something worse whoa really where's the storm is it like a random thing was it like it's not completely random it's just based on where you are in the water and what you did like that like a lower role would have been um shark shark nato yeah i was gonna say what could be worse besides like yeah monsters in the sea but we've dealt with that well i guess there's still time to find out you might find out one day those pirates but yes guys thank you thank you so much and and uh welcome back jamie hey yeah yeah all right really happy you're back yeah i can't play with you guys again because god i want to see how this i want to see how this turns out and we're so close to t'lor we're getting there a whole new world inch by every slow inch all right guys i will talk to you later cool have a good night see you bye hey thereians this is exavier if you like the show and if you like what we're doing please head out to patreon at patreon.com slash day d-a-n-d-r and you can donate as little as one dollar and with that you can get things like the bi-weekly newsletter character journals the nerdy thing podcast bloopers and much more and you can also head out to uh d-a-n-d-r podcast.com to see everything we have for you we have uh access to the 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