The Vote

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And Jake. Yes, I am Jake, aka Draconis. And oh, what's... Yes. If you want, you can give me a follow @DraconisDR on Twitter. That would be cool. And also, you can still vote for me right now. Boom. Get out of here. That's too lucky. I'm the first in a minute. Boom. Really? Tomatoes. He's doing that just in case a listener skipped the opening that all listeners skip. Just in case. Yeah. Jerkonis. Guys, last time on the show, things got dark. But... You found out who the Red was. A Tiefling by the name of Artis, who lost his daughter, sadly. You found out that the Overwatch was doing a lot...

Well, the tip of the iceberg so far is that you found out they were doing experiments on children into teens and adults. Maybe they ran out of adults. It depends. You also came to terms with what Ironhide did, and as a result, Yennward gored him and threw him out a window. Yeah. I think came to terms exactly. I'm trying to find a pleasant way of saying murder. I like it. And then you came to terms with what Duncan and Rodswell talked about. And Duncan murdered Rodswell. Murder. Justifiable homicide, man. Okay. I'm not saying it wasn't a good reason. Totally. No, the war was...

I mean, like, okay. That excuse is officially over. The war is over. So the whole "it's not murder if it's war" thing, let's just put... It's like, well, it's really close to the war. No, let's... Well, you're talking to the Japanese guys who are still in bunkers thinking that World War II is still happening. Yeah, I thought the war didn't end until Diana made her speech. I'm saying as of now. They were still fighting. Yes. I'm gonna have to wait a minute. I gotta wrap some... As of now, this transition is happening as peacefully as it could possibly be going.

Now, again, it's still... Whoever is gonna end up running the city, it's gonna be an upward battle. A real upward battle. So that's what we're gonna be finding out today, guys. What? Who's gonna be running the city? Who's gonna be running the Overwatch? Will it even be called the Overwatch? Will it... Who the fuck knows? But that's what we're gonna do today. So how about we pick up with the party the next morning? You guys have got some rest. As a matter of fact, maybe give all your characters a nice rest on that. Oh, yay, we can do that. Diana, I re-uploaded your character.

You don't need to. I re-uploaded your character and gave you your new staff. Got some dailies back. I like it. All right, here we go. Waking up the next day, I... Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and guess that you slept in the castle. Kind of the spoils of war type of thing. That's the safest spot in the city to sleep as of now. I would imagine that's where most of the leaders have slept. Here's the situation. The Dragonborn currently have no leader. No official leader. There are several individuals stepping up to try and take that place, but no one can officially speak for the Dragonborn right now.

That's also gonna be a problem because they don't even possess the horn that's a symbolic gesture of the next person in line. I know a guy. His name's Yandmer. The people of Donhurst are officially pulling out. They are leaving it in your capable hands. They were there to help. They did so. It's done. They have to get back to their city. Nathaniel can't speak for the people of Winterhaven because he is incapacitated right now and he's being rushed back to Winterhaven to be taken care of. That leaves Brittana who was going to speak for the elves. Larys Darkhoof who was going to speak for the minotaur.

Orichlad who was going to speak for the drow. Liara and Poe who are going to speak for the ravens because Brianna's not here. You guys who have to come to some agreement. You get one vote as a collective. A group. Are we representing Winterhaven since we're the knights of Winterhaven or are we just... You're just speaking for you. You're speaking as an independent party. Because there is an actual leader of Winterhaven and he's still alive but he just doesn't get a vote because he's not present. How many people in our party are actual knights of Winterhaven anymore?

Yeah that's the thing. Only half of your party are even knights of Winterhaven anyway. That was two leaders ago. Well no because they updated it. Later Draconis became one. That wasn't the last. Talia made up one. Yeah. So yeah. So that's the current situation. Stonesunder obviously is going to be speaking for the dwarves. So that's the situation. That is the coalition that's getting together to decide who the fuck is going to run this city. So my question, since there's no clear dragonborn, who's going to show up? Anybody at all or what? No one can speak for the dragonborn because there's no official leader for the dragonborn.

You have to have someone who can speak for that nation of people. Now again there's lots of people gunning for the spot. They would. And for the first time in a very long time there's actually a female dragonborn who is gunning for that spot. But that is the story for another time. They're a pretty male dominated society but you never know. So waking up the next day, what would you guys like to do before we get into the nitty gritty? Is there anything you guys want to talk about? Anything you want to do? Anything you'd like to attempt? Well I guess first thing just check on the kids.

Make sure they're still okay. Well not dead I guess. We're starting it off with the kids. Very much not dead. They're actually doing quite well. They seem to be pretty rested. They're much more relaxed than the previous night. It seems like this place is much more secure. The fighting has died down in the city. Actually do me a favor. As a party roll a perception check. 16 or 22. Not horrible guys. 14. Awesome. 27. Almost a crit. Yep. Yenward. Oh Yenward. What's going on? So waking up stretching looking out your window you're uh well okay Diana, Hondo, and Duncan are going to notice that the city appears to be much much calmer than it was the night previous.

In the light of day people are that there's still a few buildings that are smoldering. There's still the smell that burnt wood smell that I mean it very much this city is still in a fair bit of chaos but it's not rioty crazy violent chaos it's more where do we go from here type of chaos. There's no leadership there's no direction there are there are a picture picture from these people's standpoint. It is an all human city. They have been taught some of them since birth that you anyone who isn't human is evil and they're out to you know rape and pillage and kill and take and then you guys come and rape and pillage and kill and take maybe not rape but take and pillage and destroy.

Now you're just in the city walking around and you don't appear to want to kill anybody anymore but there I mean it's still to them it's their worst nightmare realized a lot of these people who didn't there are people who were born and they're they're teenagers now but they've never they've maybe never even seen a minotaur never seen a tiefling never seen to them it's it's like holy shit they're just walking around in the city these people are the devil and they're here. That's a hard pill for a lot of these people to swallow. Good thing I created all that speech guys.

That's what I'm saying this is going as peacefully as this could be going a lot a lot worse. Oh yeah absolutely. They're they're they're mingling in the streets but this is very much like black guy in Alabama in the 60s mingling in the streets like you exist but yeah it's it's it's it's really crappy so what would be your first what would be your first action as as are you getting together to meet up and talk about this? Well can I can I I'm actually going to specifically address Hondo but I'm not going to like pull him aside or anything it's just going to be in front of the group.

OK sure. OK so Duncan after looking outside and kind of gathering his stuff looks over at Hondo and goes hey Hondo I kind of just want to apologize for last night things got pretty heated about the kids and I was just worried about their safety but if you think you can control it and you think that will be OK then I'll trust your judgment on that. Is this in like the whole group? This is in plain view I'm in front of it. I didn't argue with you directly that's why I'm not you know I was just checking. Yeah. Hey Dan. Yeah. You might want to back up from your mic just a tiny bit.

OK. You're coming just a tiny bit loud. You're good. Yeah. OK. There you go. Totally good. Hondo is going to smile at Duncan and just like put out of his hand to give him a fist bump. OK. I'll reach up. Seeing the fist pump Draconis is going to let out a little one of those. I don't know if there's a name for it but it's basically a sigh. That was more of a that was more of a you mean like the yeah like kind of sigh but like yeah like yeah. It's going to let out a little puff. This is why I come up with the castles on fire. Can I run a perception check to make sure the castle's not on fire.

I've learned that we need to do this every time. No it's only when he intentionally lights a fire and you guys just. I kind of look over and I see it but I don't I don't really comment towards it and I'm just kind of glad that we got things settled there. Anybody else wants to comment about it though. They're more than welcome. By the way it wasn't like super loud it was just a little under the breath kind of like a. Were you trying to hide it or was it. No. OK OK. It wasn't like you won't say anything. OK. That is going to kind of non just it might be for the best to rethink and figure out exactly what our plan is regarding them but that should probably take place after the voting.

Yeah we have more important things to we have we have time to deal with to decide what we do with the kids but voting is something that we have to get to. Yeah yeah. To that I hide. I stare at you inward and I kind of snicker a little bit. OK I threw him out a window. I was just going to look at that and go OK. We're good. All right. I love how we all just understand each other. Cerkonos is going to let out another one. Another one. I want to match his with a more exasperated one. Just devolving into horses. Liar and Po are going to approach you guys sort of looking over the party just just taking I mean it's been the last 24 hours has been fucking crazy.

So after after a couple seconds Liar is going to. Did anyone get any sleep last night. Duncan raise his hand. No. I slept like a baby. So we're missing some people but we're still going to hold this vote. They're trying to get together a list of candidates to run the city. There's a few problems. The Minotaur. Larys is under the impression that they were going to occupy the city after after we took it which honestly I don't have a problem with myself and Brittana have been talking and we don't think the people are going to follow a Minotaur king that may be a bridge too far but we're having trouble finding someone that.

Does the n word say that what do you say what's wrong with me. Liar is going to Liar is going to glance over the n word and very apologetically that this is no offense. It's and she's going to kind of Pat Pat Yanward on the arm just kind of reassuring is like I don't have a problem with you at all. I like you but you got to remember these people and she she she's trying to find the words to say it and post going to speak up. Yeah they hate you. I always put a tiefling in charge. I'm sure that would make everyone happy. Duncan Duncan steps forward and looks at Liara and goes what about you Brittana suggested the same thing.

I don't want the job. That's the problem. You'd be really good at it. Pose going to pose going to look at her kind of he's smiling in a way that's like I told you like it's that's that's that's kind of what he's saying. Diane is watching her very carefully like it's pretty clear that she's just like yeah. You know don't you think don't you think Liara would be good at it. I think I'd be good at it but she'd be okay I guess. I think you would be good at it too. But she said that it's not a good idea to have one of you in charge because they don't like you.

So but they like her she's pretty and she's really smart and she takes control of things and I think that it would be a good idea. He's smart. But you are smart. But you're not pretty. He's very pretty. Kill you. I pet you. How far can he reach like his thigh? Exactly I'm just like petting his arm. Petting his inner thigh just. Liara is gonna speak up. The elves want someone in place that they have a good relationship with. They think it's best if it's a human. And after that we can we can fully integrate every other race into the city we can make that work but we have to start small.

If there was to be a human in charge someone who actively fought against the Overwatch for several years would seem to be the best way to do that. Roll a diplomacy check for me. Okay. Because she's she's actively fighting it at this point she doesn't want the job. 34. Well you see. Now you have a plus four to diplomacy I just noticed that. I nailed that fucking roll. Rolled a 19 and got a 23. So Ynward is diplomatic he's on a 10. Liara's gonna let loose a sigh and I think I may be all we have in terms of a human who could run the city. But is it what you want to do?

No. I'm not I don't feel confident voting in somebody that doesn't want the job. Putting someone who does want the job may not be the best course of action. You've had relationships with the other species for long for several years I presume and you've had an experience leading. If we're putting a human in charge you do seem to be our best option. Don't get me wrong if if I did it I do the best I could but just because I don't want the job doesn't mean I can't do it. It's not a competence issue. It's I'm not a fan of being up front. Oh by the sound of it looks like we don't really have a choice.

So I guess I'm not speaking for everybody here but you got our vote. You have my vote. Agreed. It doesn't have to be forever this is just for the intermediate period and it's not like you'll be working alone. So yeah you got people like Po. And he's gonna shoot Po a smile. Right Po? Okay Po is enjoying the situation immensely. Until you mention his name he's like wait what like he's not... Every good leader leads an advisor Po. Leora is gonna shoot Po back a smile. Yeah assholes yeah you're right here with me. And perhaps that should be made public after the transition might be made easier if we don't just put one person in charge that could set up for a return to the old ways.

I have an idea you two could get married and then you could be king and then you could be king. Po and Leora are just gonna glare at Duncan like no that's not a thing that's not happening no. Let's marry them against the will. What is the age difference between Leora and Po? Leora's in her 40s. Po is in his like let me see he'd be 27 I believe. That's fine that's fine. That's not the reason it's not a thing. Draconis is gonna walk up to her and get real close. Can you do this for real? Yeah yeah I can do it. Then you got my vote too. All right now we just need to convince the Minotaur.

She's gonna look over to Yenward. How hard do you think that's gonna be? You know Laris? Well from a delimited time I've spent with him he's a pretty reasonable guy. All right. He's a real bull man of the people. Before before I think before everybody leaves I want to just quit. If I would ever have to roll a stealth check to slip a note into Leora's pocket. Yeah well there'd be a thievery check. Okay I'll wait until like we're going to go do the thing. Okay I'll send you the message. Okay all right cool. You said that we were missing people. Well we all know what happened to Nathaniel.

I don't think he's in any shape to make any kind of decision. No bounce back. I want to check on the kid and everything but that's gonna have to wait. And it's just a little boo boo he'll be fine. She's she's gonna look at Yenward and just like there's a look at her it's like I don't think you realize the full extent of what happened to him. But yeah yeah she's she there's like an innocence to Yenward. It's like yeah no yeah totally yeah she's trying to. Do you do you want Yenward to talk to the minotaurs is that what you were saying? If the minotaurs are the only group that disagrees with the decision would they have enough power to completely overturn it?

This is a vote don't get me wrong. They can be outvoted. I'm more worried about getting all these people in the same room with no common enemy to fight anymore. Between the drow, the minotaur, and the dwarves this could get ugly in a real hurry. Now how many parties are there going to be there? This is majority vote correct? Yeah. Do you know how many there's going to be? How many votes there's going to be total? I believe right now it's six. Six well that's not good at all that's that could be even tied. Well I don't have much say over the dwarves they don't really like me.

And I look at Hondo. How are you with the drow? Well let's put it this way I'm not one of them but I don't think she hates me that much. Okay and I know the minotaurs really like me in Yenward. I was I kind of deal with the drow before the war happened. Yes we're good there. But the war is over. Based on a bloody coup. Right no that's I'm saying that this was something that was supposed to happen after the war. A new war is supposed to. We're in good standings. I'll be honest and say that I don't really give a damn about what happens here but you did fight with us and she's gonna look over the Hondo and then before looking back I will speak on your behalf if you wish it didn't seem too poorly before yesterday.

He smiles at Diana and nods his head. I do want to ask who's speaking for the Dragonborn. Liyar is going to give it a second. They don't have a leader right now and I don't think anybody's speaking for the Dragonborn. Oh sheep if Liyar eats my hand. Put your damn hand down there so you're telling me no one at all they don't have there's no other. Well I mean you know more about Dragonborn culture than me but to my understanding they have to select a new leader and they have to do that through combat. Don't exactly have time for that to happen. It's true.

How about you guys run a history check. Okay. All right. Fill you in on what a Dragonborn election is like. Oh I'm going to kill you. I'm going to kill you. Oh wow I got a 2. I have a plus 17 and I got 19. Oh my gosh. Wow. The highest roll is a 9. I got a 19. Yeah yeah. I crit this and I got a 17 but it's still just. Nobody knows anything about Dragonborn. Even the Dragonborn. Shouldn't Draconis just know this? I probably should know by default right? You should yeah Draconis would actually. I didn't mean for the entire party to roll Draconis. Well Draconis would know that a Dragonborn election goes like this.

Normally there is a second in command. That second in command is the next person in line for leadership. The problem is they didn't have time to actively elect a second in command. So when you were gathering the army and you slaughtered their old leader their secondary took the spot. Then he died thanks to the elves. There's no one left in charge so the way this works is whoever feels like they should have claim step forward. These being the Dragonborn many of them step forward and then they essentially have a battle royale to decide the last person standing gets the job.

Then there's a week long transition period where you have to constantly defend yourself. If no one kills you in that week you are the actual leader of the Dragonborn and no one usually fucks with that. The problem is if someone kills you within that week they become the new interim leader and then the week starts over. In Dragonborn culture there is a famous six month long period in history where there was no official leader of the Dragonborn because the week long transition period just kept going and going and going. There was murder every week. That sounds terrible to be honest with you.

So that's kind of what's going on. Even if there was a new leader chosen they aren't officially the leader for a week. Even if that happened today which it didn't. So they're not going to have a say in this. There's no one person who can speak for that entire race. We'll see about that. Are you... I mean you can throw... you can totally throw yourself into the running. How big of a battle royale are we talking about? Are we talking about a thirty man over the top? What are we talking about? No. This would be a seven person free for all. Wait wait. There's three people in the room together?

Remember the last time you got into... Yeah. Let's adventure. I was just against one other Dragonborn. Well I mean this isn't six versus Draconis. This is just crazy Mad Max style everyone against everyone. I don't know how that plays. This is perfect for him. He has all AoE spells. Just fuck 'em up. Yes. Jake do it. Do it Jake. It gets people that are pretty much immune to fire. Oh yeah. Yeah. Logic. I have an ice spell. What are you talking about? I am totally free. And you have the horn. Even though it doesn't do anything. But still it's shiny. And you know. When is this stuff supposed to be taking place?

It'll most likely take place in Orash within the next week or so. Well I mean I obviously don't have to decide anything at the moment. If you decide you want to take place in that. Yeah it's an official. This isn't something that happens in secret. This is people are stepping forward and it's like I should be in the next line. Usually people have some sort of beep. It's like I followed either Carrick or Hescan. I followed them blah blah blah. I was obviously the best fighter. I did this this and this. A lot of people are going to be pointing to moments in this battle.

I helped charge the gates. I was one of the people who protected the tiny runty dwarves. That's what they're going to be doing. And then being Dragonborn none of them are going to back down until someone's dead. So someone will be leading the Dragonborn. It could be it could be Draconis at the end of the day. It could be. Well that sounds like a lot of work. Oh it's a oh god yes. And the options are you win or you die. You don't get to get injured and then yeah. You can't forfeit a fight. You they yeah you have to die. I can't have Yennor throw fucking his axe at him and.

That would not go well a second time. Let me fucking tell you like that that you barely got out of that situation alive the first time. You do it a second time that would not go well. Gotcha. OK. It's good to know. Liora is going to speak up. Well they're they're getting ready to meet now if you if you're ready we can do this. OK rather than because I just looked at my theory and I said plus five fuck that. I'm just going to give her the note. I'm just like when everyone's getting ready to go outside I'll just tap her on the shoulder and just pass her the note.

Liora is going to take this note and so this isn't in front of the group. Not necessarily. Roll a stealth check just to just to see who might see it. All right. Just just. That's great. Wow that's a motherfucking crit bitches. You don't have to call me any more. I think that's twenty seven beats everyone's passive perception. It's a great. I don't know. I think so. It's so stealthy. She doesn't even notice. No I'm kidding. This is kind of neat. If you right click on the bar you can send him a private message and then it's like he really did send a note. So yeah totally.

Yeah he sent me. Yeah so Liora is going to take this and look at it and then she's going to look she's going to look over to Hondo and just sort of nod her head. Is this going to go like that? Can I do it should we do a perception check or oh wait. Yeah yeah it was. Yeah you wouldn't. It was a crit. Well because of the nod though. Yeah this is almost imperceptible. Like this is pretty that would be a pretty high check. He got a seventeen. That's not going to do it. How about a twelve? Gonna say no. Are we doing this? Are we all really in perception? No you don't have to.

You can if you want. You can yeah. Yeah so you guys are ready. Yep yep. Let's do it. Walking. So there's there's a bit of a war room situation. Real quick I'm sorry on the way there is there anybody in the streets or anything? Just running around? Well you're in the castle. Oh I was going to say we're actually going from the war room is in the castle. Oh yeah Carter didn't leave the castle absolutely yeah everything that guy needed. So I guess there'd be because I was going to like kind of run a streetwise check to see what the feeling of the town is on the whole thing but.

Oh I think you know what the feeling of the town is. Well I you know wanted to get more of a. Fucked up. More of a. But if there's nobody to ask then I can't really do that. There's still okay so here's the situation and I imagine like this is a good question asked. There are still people who worked in the castle that are still around. They're just intermingling like there are the people who were somewhat agreeable who maybe didn't agree with some of the stuff the Overwatch are doing or seemingly didn't and there there there are there are sergeants in the army who outright surrendered.

Okay so I could theoretically go up to like a sergeant or something and talk to him a little bit. Yeah. Okay. Yeah I mean like you'd have to you'd have to go out of the castle to find one I mean they're not in the castle. Oh that's why I meant there's no I mean specifically in the castle there's nobody there's no like. Not really I mean you can you can roll a streetwise check just on the there there are a few guards there are a few but I mean everyone's pretty much in a holding pattern they're still trying to figure out like who would be loyal to the old ways of doing things who would be who would be willing to change and accept it.

It's very much a state of flux but it's it's once you get out of the street I'll have you roll a street rise check and you can really get a lay of the land. Okay cool. So going okay let's let's let's have you get to the war room here. Getting to the war room you're going to see Brittana you're going to see Larys you're going to see Ora. Leor and Poe are obviously there and Kingstone's under. You guys are making up the sixth governing party here that gets a vote. Normally this would be an odd number of people in this particular situation because of but because you're missing three that's not going to happen.

So are you guys going to start this off or are you waiting for someone else to kick this off? Everyone pretty much has the same level of power in the room everyone's trying to be everyone's trying to be very diplomatic about this they're all they all feel like they what's the best way of saying this? They all claim to the stake. Yes yes. I'll start it off. Is that okay? Yeah go right ahead. All right everybody let's cut the dilly dallying we all know what we're here for. Who's the new leader? For yours. Duncan stands up on the table. And he yells I nominate Liara very proudly.

Larys is going to speak up. Is it really wise to have another human run this city? That's what I'm saying. Larys is going to look over to Yennward. So he wants Yennward to answer? Well he's looking over to Yennward because Duncan nominated Liara and Larys is going to look over to Yennward. What do you think of all this? Well naturally because I'm a born leader and everything I'd want to do it but Liara is my good friend and I think it would be better for the people here to kind of ease them into it with a human until they get used to it and then I take over.

You say that? That's the deal we had in the other room. Stone Sunder is going to speak up. Bah! This guy is the worst. Should Yennward have rolled a diplomacy check? Well you can roll a diplomacy check actually on that. Go ahead. Roll a diplomacy check. It doesn't matter for Stone Sunder he's still going to object to the fact unless you are silver tongued. Like if you get a crit that's... Everybody stand back. I don't want you to get hurt with all this diplomacy. That's double so he goes twice again. Right? That's the way it's going to work. We're playing Monopoly.

Let's try that again. All right Tom you probably want to shut up now. You're about to get stoned. Is it pretty clear that this is not going over well? There's going to be a little murmuring in the room except for Stone Sunder who will speak up. Okay so Diana is going to step forward. Believe me putting another human in charge is something that really doesn't seem like the best thing to do after what the Overwatch has done. It's aching. We've all seen what they have the power to do to us but unfortunately for now it is the best option. It will definitely not be permanent and certainly there will be later discussions further on but until the people of the Overwatch can actually acclimate to their new lives we need someone in charge that they can view as a friendly face.

It's clear that she wasn't happy about that as she was saying it. Liara is our best option as far as all of that goes. She's been fighting against the Overwatch for several years so as far as insurance policies go we have that to account that she won't lead them back to the old ways and she's also had good relations with the rest of us as far as I'm aware. As far as squishy pink devils go she's a pretty nice one. She's our friend and you shouldn't talk bad about our friend and she could do a really good job. Liara was with us during the battle against Carter and without her we may not have won that fight and she will also not be liened alone.

We can't return this city to a dictatorship or at least not now. Give me diplomacy check. That's a crit. 36, 38, I don't know. No fair, why can't I do that? Stone Sunder's gonna fold his arms and visibly pout. Visibly just... Can I address them? Sure. Oh poo you're too little to lead anyway. I swear to god if you just kill my crit I'm gonna be so lucky. Stone Sunder is going to walk up to Yenward. Again Yenward towers over this dwarf. Listen here. I don't have a problem with one eye over there. It's you. If you think you're gonna run this city you're out of your carpeted mind.

Okay Duncan Duncan wants to speak up. Duncan comes up and stands in front of Stone Sunder. Do you remember me? Eh Stone Sunder. I was gonna give you a shot to speak before he just dressed you down in front. Stone Sunder, Stone Sunder's gonna look over Duncan. Oh the fake dwarf! He's real he's just not a good one. Oh that's hilarious. I'm sorry it's funny. Okay Duncan composes himself a little bit and I say you're talking about my friend and I can be friends with him and you should be friends with him too and I don't understand why the dwarves and the minotaurs can't get along because all the stuff that happened happened a long time ago and there's no reason that we have to do this anymore.

Diplomacy. 22. Nice. If I say yeah can I roll diplomacy too? That's gonna help things. Would you like to roll a diplomacy check? Well okay let's let's see what the result here is. Okay so 22 that's because the fleabags here are sore losers. They've been crying for decades. Oh our mountain we lost our mountain. You guys play dirty pool let's be honest. Stone Sunder's gonna give a glance over to Laris who is visibly upset. You can you can you can tell that Laris is about to step in and do something here. Roll a perception check. Okay everyone roll a perception check.

Ooh what? Ken! 12. I got a crit guys I got a 26. I'm gonna roll. Yennward and Diana are going to notice that Ora Cladd who has been quiet this entire time is slowly gripping her dagger. And she is of of of the grouping of you she would be the next closest to Stone Sunder. And she is she is gonna give a glance over to Yennward. And the the glance is it's it's it's almost asking is like do we want to do this now? Do we want to just do this now? Out of game what do you guys think? No can we no. Okay Diana's gonna look to Honda and see like should I intervene like she's about to just once.

But Honda doesn't see it. I'm asking you guys out of game should I do this? Don't don't please don't. Not now. Okay not now. Okay let's not. Okay hold on. Okay so. Alright I'll I'll look at her and just kind of give her a like a no no like a head shake. Diana's gonna kind of yeah like just like she's already did like she's already kind of in the middle just kind of like the personal arguments can be settled after this this right now we are deciding who should be ruling the city. Afterwards you are welcome to fight amongst yourselves but for just one more minute we should perhaps keep calm sitting in the room.

The diplomacy. Yeah give me diplomacy. So what 21. Oh okay. She's mine didn't work then. Yeah no. She's kind of fed up with this. Brittana's gonna speak up. Listen I've known this woman for years I have fought alongside of her. She isn't Carter. Of the people in this room she would have the best chance of actually leading these people and them listening to her and she's going to she's going to cast a glance over to the group and sort of a sweeping motion. I hope none of you take offense to this but they wouldn't follow any of us. She's gonna roll a diplomacy check.

Oh yeah right. If I like if I say something like what Lady Mayshadow said was correct like could I add a diplomacy roll on top of that. Well I mean that's that's still a 14 that was a bad roll that was a five. She rolled a five. Her diplomacy is pretty decent but that's not yeah. Doesn't Duncan have like a high intimidate? I do yes I do. Intimidate the room into order man. Duncan what's your intimidate? My intimidate's 15. Okay yeah that's fine. Okay so we're gonna go a different route. No no no we're not trying to start drama I'm just saying just for everybody to just.

I'm resetting. Would that work if I yell at everybody? I mean we just have to yell shut up and sit down. Shut the fuck up sit down let's vote. Okay I'm gonna roll the intimidate check before I do what I do because it's gonna determine how I. 27. Okay okay so okay so uh after she says that and I see the room's reaction which is not great more murmuring yeah Duncan jumps up on the table as always when he intimidates. Did he ever get down? Does he keep getting down off the table after he speaks? He got down off the table to talk to stone sunder. Okay so now he has to jump back up on the table.

Roll an athletics check for me. Oh come on okay fine I don't jump on the table. Because it's gonna wear you out eventually I just want to see how awkward like how you know. Okay but this my athletics check won't outdo my intimidate check right? Well I mean if you flat out. Don't roll an athletics check just don't get up on the table. Okay I'm not on the table I'm fine I'm not on the table then I'm jumping in the middle of the room. And uh he stands in the middle he goes hey everyone quiet down we need to take this vote and we all know that the only person that even makes sense to be in charge is that woman.

Because none of these people in this town are gonna listen to one of us they're only gonna listen to a human and I don't know I don't think that's right and I don't think anyone here thinks that's right but that's just the way things are. Everyone everyone sort of clams up and it's a lot of side eyeing everyone's kind of side eyeing each other um and stone sunder's gonna be the first to speak up. I vote for eyepatch. I vote for eyepatch. Um Leera's just gonna like hey what the fuck like just kind of like. Was Edward voting for the meditors or for us?

He was voting for us. Um after stone sunder says that can I just not even look at him just quietly put my fist towards him like ask him to fist up. He's gonna punch you in the jaw. Do me a favor roll a diplomacy check. You'd have to bleep what he wants to. 20. It's not a bad roll 20 is okay. You're gonna you're gonna you're gonna hold out your fist and stone sunder is going to take it as as a threat. He's gonna take it he's he's more like I'm gonna punch you in the face if you call her a name one more time because you've already you've already described Leera as your friend you you like he doesn't know anything about bards he doesn't he doesn't give a shit about boards and he doesn't respect your line of work or your lifestyle and he's gonna lean over to dunk and not yell you raise your fist to me one more time and we're gonna go outside and settle this.

Um can I can I try to explain myself. Oh please go ahead. Yes please do. Okay okay um I lean I lean back over not even look at I'm just leaning over and I go no you hit my fist because we're cool now diplomacy 23. We are not cool. All right and then I lean back. I just slowly take my fist away. Yes okay and just like retract your face I'm glad I didn't get hit okay. That's the best that could have happened probably. He's gonna mutter something under his breath as you're if you'd like you can roll a perception check to see if you hear. I sure would like. Eleven.

You did not hear what he you did not hear what he said. I think he said I'm really cool. I think he's warmed up to me guys. Okay um Hondo's gonna hear it. Are we all rolling? Okay. You didn't hear it come on. Hondo's gonna hear it yeah. What Hondo hears is him mutter under his breath lousy fake dwarf stupid guitar just like he's just like he's just muttering a stream and then it's kind of intermingled with obscenities like he doesn't respect you at all. Hondo will just cut his eyes at that. I see Hondo's face and I just give him a nod like. I showed this guy right.

Okay. I'm going around the table or is gonna or is gonna speak up. The human woman will be fine for now. Laris Asim. Laris is the the only one who would be the the big holdout in this situation and that he's he's already been outvoted. And he's gonna glance over to Yanward. Fine. That's my guy. Brittan is just gonna nod her head and Liara Brios is the new leader of the Overwatch. All hail the new king queen. Queen yeah. Wait wait actually as as a standing government what is this? Right now she'd be queen because they haven't done anything to change the infrastructure yet and that might not be such a bad thing right now that might be like to wander in and just say okay not only are we retroactively clearing the slate there are now there are now you know you know all races are welcome oh by the way there's no there's no kingship or queenship none of that where it's a standing government and blah blah that I mean it may may be good for there just to be a queen for now so what's a good uh what's a good praising the queen song I can play I don't know Delmar you guys got a queen what do you it's not like there's a band called queer right but you know um Liara god Liara didn't want this but it's not it's not like she has much of a choice um she's gonna step forward and address everyone before that sorry quick question do we have cards crown well yeah yeah how good of a shame is it all right well it fell off of him it didn't it didn't make it out the window that wasn't he wasn't wearing it during combat this wasn't a thing that like probably send the wrong message yeah the symbolism that out there she wouldn't want it she definitely wouldn't want that that would be the line it's like I'm not well I'll take it damn it Tom fight me for it bring it this was last session guys too late now so be careful that's how we settle problems on group one windows window fights let's go to be fair yenward's been tossed out a window too yes he has I'm the og window top well he picked up some ideas well it was huge after he got through nevermind Liara speaking to us yeah Liara's gonna address this this room it's probably not a secret to any of you that I didn't want this but I promise that I'm gonna do the very best I can every single one of you are welcome in this city and having lived here before I can tell you that there was a time where everyone of every race lived here peacefully and I think we can get back to that it may take some time it may may not always be the most peaceful tranquil place but I appreciate you all having at least the faith in me to vote and I'm not gonna let any of you down yeah Duncan runs up and gives her a big hug Liara is gonna be taken aback at that a little bit just like okay we're hugging now that's the thing we're doing and then after a second she's gonna kind of like tussle Duncan's hair a little bit just kind of like okay that's that's great kind of like pat him on the head and he holds his hands up in victory and he grabs her hand hold it up in victory sorry I don't know if this was already established but are the drow here oh yeah okay okay sorry yeah okay okay oh yeah yeah they they were awarded an assassination yeah fucking or was gonna stab or was definitely gonna stab stones under the neck like that was definitely it's like okay sorry I just I ran into the bathroom I didn't know okay oh yeah no problem well guys what would you like to do well I believe the drow I have that something to discuss about a certain someone oh that that's you know that's not over yeah this this is gonna this meeting is pretty much adjourned beyond this that that Leora and Poe have a fuckload of work to do is there is there a cornet is it like a coronation ceremony or I don't think that's what they're like there will be an announcement but it's not there it's not a celebratory thing this is more like look we got work to do at no somewhere down the line if you if there there's a celebration yeah let's celebrate the fact that no one's no one's died today that's let's let's just move yeah but I guess what I'm saying is do we have to inform the people is that our whose duty is that that'll be them they don't yeah that they're figuring you're gonna want to get back on the road pretty soon they're not under any delusion that you're gonna want to stay here necessarily Diana's fully said is like I don't care much they so everyone else is going engineering and then Diane is gonna read through the the journal she got from the live and see if she can just pick anything up from that that might be useful okay well that would be put it do me a favor and roll okay so you're you're just sitting and studying this book uh-huh okay do me a favor roll roll in our coniches 27 27 okay there was some really sick shit going on in the city towards the end so as a backup lore Weaver was working on let's let's let's let's it's a weapon in much the same way that the warforged were wiped out with a magic weapon that was essentially a plague for their people the overwatch well not not the city as a whole because I think a lot of people would find that reprehensible but lore Weaver and Carter were working on a plague that would wipe out anybody who wasn't human yeah that that was that was the endgame and it they were they were quite a ways from finishing it but they definitely had the foundation for it started and that is what the bodies were in the basement they were experimenting on children because that is what that is what the majority of the people they had left that weren't human that a lot of them were just kids they were experimenting on children to find out how each races immune systems functioned and for instance dwarves were much harder to infect than say elves and tieflings had a completely different immune system then you know then drow and so on and so forth so they were just taking a swath a sample group of every race and infecting them one by one and they used they used the the body of that razor-coil shifter as patient zero they were using that as the source of infection and Diana would find out through through through these books and through research that they still have they still have vials of the stuff in from the lab they still have I mean there are still those files would be something that someone could take with them when they mysteriously disappear from the city right because we don't know where where we were one like he just is gone he was not in the castle when you got there now that's great that doesn't mean he's not in the city it just means he's not yeah so the rest of the group is is spelunking kind of exploring right yeah um specifically I'm looking for hidden tunnels trap doors that kind of thing secret areas I would imagine I shook out a pillowcase and I'm just looking for shiny stuff oh there's plenty of shiny stuff there is so Liara would let you take your fill of shit as a consolation prize is like look we know look I know you wanted to run the city I know I'm sorry take some shiny stuff as as a thank you for helping thank you this we couldn't have done this without you you were you were on this from the jump you guys came back you helped us build an army take all the stuff you can carry you're a vigorous nod and like a half hug and then I scamper off to my treasures like treasure hunting and you're in you're in castle overwatch there's a lot of there's a lot of stuff to be had there's there's yeah there's a lot of decorative heavy pieces of gold and silver and treasure there's card is type of dude who was not above having busts of himself in the place and he was very proud of himself for what he's accomplished because I can foresee this already but is I know we just did a wall but is there like a horse guy that I can go to about a cop maybe within the city oh yeah you can get okay cool but it wouldn't be too hard yeah treasure hunting for that all that yeah didn't Carter have a really nice carriage that's in town somewhere yeah he did maybe he oh my god he's so rich he has like super horses super okay well can we get a super horse I want a super horse Comet the super horse oh my god no this is my horse Ferrari okay I'm getting ahead of myself but yes let's let's go spunking do me a favor Delmar first of all I'm gonna ask you I'm gonna ask you a series of questions here yeah I just tell me this is gonna this is gonna change what you do depending are you starting in like the basement area with the lab or are you starting in the the main quarters or are you starting at the top where we got the throne room and that kind of stuff is the is a wall room in a like on the top floor with the throne throne we're talking like middle middle area right I'm in the middle I want to go top to bottom okay but also specifically there was a room when in the last fight where with it where all the reinforcements came from I want to check that yes okay so here's what we're gonna do we're gonna go top to bottom and you're gonna roll a dungeoneering check for each one of them cool okay so at the top give me a dungeoneering check can I just say my dungeoneering is at plus 16 okay please do first room 10 26 26 in this room there is there's a sort of a panic room and that is the room where the you know fake owner Jadsey and fee Gavin all them came pouring out of it's sort of a panic room that Carter could seal himself in should the shit really hit the fan let's say there was a full-blown riot and not only with the castle was overwhelmed that he could have hid in this room and perhaps been completely safe from the group there is a set of stairs leaning down once you once you get into the panic room it slides away there there's a portion of the floor that slides away and there is a set of stairs leading down there does not appear to be any any treasure necessarily this is more that things have gotten so bad I have to get out of here in a hurry and who's gonna lead the people without me I need to be safe and get out of here that's okay so then I can only assume by that that this tunnel is an escape tunnel so I worry about that too much let's go to the next floor all right middle section roll of the dungeoneering 30 is that a career oh no no it's not a career not quite this this is interesting a lot of these a lot of these rooms and there are there are hundreds of rooms in the in this castle this place was meant to house you know many many many individuals a lot of these rooms some of them have adjoining passageways that lead between between each other back and forth some of them have areas that have hollowed out floorboards where you'll you'll be walking and again it's it's the slightest it's the slightest shift in pitch when you step on that portion of the if you weren't if you weren't an experienced either thief or someone who hunts treasure specifically that they look for things like this they wouldn't hear it but hondo's gonna pick up is like oh wait a second just walking across some of these some of the floorboards in these rooms he's like okay and prying up prying up some of these areas here he's going to find he's gonna find large amounts of gold how large are you talking about all said and done this happens three times all said and done hondo's gonna walk away with ten thousand gold jesus oh yes yes and i'm right there beside them right okay that's ten thousand all right i'm gonna cast a fireball um for now i'll poke it eight of that and two eventually when i meet me up with the rest of the party i'll i'll split that it's like hey look what i found two thousand gold guys not bad wow you're doing that to us holy shit listen it's not it's not for selfish reasons trust me this is a this is a punch fund that's going towards wow this is going to have a great i'm glad we're on the same team honda this is working out that's it are you sure i'm not there you didn't say you were there what is draconis doing i mean i thought we i thought me yenward and um duncan were going with yenward yenward ran off to do well duncan's doing his thing in the in the temple uh yenward ran off to just like grab shit off the walls and carry whatever you can carry and you never said what you were doing so oh i thought well we were talking while you're gone said that we were all gonna go i guess we're going separate okay i didn't know that well scampered all to go together to find shiny stuff you kind of like yeah you can go with yanward and just yeah i would love to go loot shit yep okay cool yep so that means that the amount that that the amount that uh yenward can carry is doubled well not quite doubled because draconis isn't as strong as yanward but more stuff right it's like supermarket sweep i do have a hoverboard that i can conjure and put stuff on oh god we have a wheelbarrow another thing that another thing that honda's gonna find some of the largest quarters are dedicated to some of the most important people in the overwatch and there is a commander's chambers now the former commander of the overwatch commander tenbolt oh yeah a lot of his a lot of his personal effects are still in the room still uh still decorating but hondo is going to find a a portion of the closet that slides away and is hollowed out you're gonna find a large trunk oh let me write a perception on that please do 23 23 in the trunk you're gonna find the personal effects of a man named patrick grace well luckily there's not that he has any like family relations that would want that or anything so it's um totally up to you what you'd like to do with it there there are multiple letters and journals on sent letters and and there there there are journals and it would appear as though that this wasn't something that tenbolt hid this looks more like something these were patrick's effects that he hid within this room okay uh shifting sifting through it i'm gonna separate like personal effects like letters and so on i'll i'll keep those i won't read them yet uh if there's any kind of tactics or maps or stuff like that i'll hold on to those separately to give it to leora all right okay um there are some personal valuables in there uh that you know there's uh some jewelry some some things like that not not worth a ton are made of gold um so they they are worth i mean they are worth some things of course i'm gonna poke at those okay um there is also there is also a locket um that is up to you whether you want to you know taking it through taking it brie is gonna kill you oh my god listen listen this is a valley guy he doesn't know this guy i'm taking it okay um and what are you doing with the letters you're just keeping them yeah the separate like the personal ones i won't like read through it now but i'll just have those separately i'll keep i'll hold on to those i'll read them in my downtime all right uh okay um you going down to the last level last level all right do me a favor rolled engineering okay binding of isaac who 34 oh man get ready this level oh man so let me tell you the extent of how fucked up the people who ran this portion of the castle are this portion of the castle is pretty much cut off from the rest of it there this there are no living quarters here there are no this is these are locked doors very secure uh stuff you guys smashed your way in um in the dungeon itself we're talking uh well the area is sort of burnt uh the the the the portion of this this area is burnt there are a lot of corpses of of young people uh all shapes and sizes ranging from you know dwarf drow tiefling elves all the the gamut everyone but human no one's around but hondo's physically visibly gonna look upset um now that does not mean that they did not experiment on humans um because how else would you know if humans are immune to this without testing it on humans so they were not they were not above testing on their own kind for the greater good let's say in the lab hondo is going to find a portion of a portion of the floor that slides away and this is another this is another uh staircase type of situation now this leads to a series of tunnels whether you want to follow these is up to you other than that there is one there is one bit of of secrecy that that hondo would would have found don't tease me jason oh um in the wall uh behind a picture there is going to be what amounts to a safe um this is locked but hondo i don't know what your thiebri skill is um it's very shit um i think it's like a plus five yeah it's a plus you want to give it a do you want to give a stab at it okay if this is a safe and i do fuck up i don't want it to be locked forever i'll open it could i'll hold a dungeon erean check on the safe first to make sure there's no traps or anything about yeah do that do that yeah yeah that's smart that's not that's not yeah i'll do that um and then we'll see what we go from there okay 32 32 this safe is most definitely trapped uh but not in a not in a not in a violent physical way uh if you fuck up it's not as if the the room seals off and fills with poison gas or something um but it is uh the way to set up is that if you were to fail to open it and this would be a skill check challenge by the way this isn't just a one-off role if you were to fail to open it the contents of uh the safe would be destroyed oh fuck oh yeah knowing that i'm definitely not i'm i'm wait who of us has the highest okay fuck it i won't play a game but for now i won't because fine finding that out i won't i'll hold on to that information i guess for the record i have the highest yeah duncan has a plus eight leara might wait a plus eight yeah it's that sucks yeah i got a plus seven can we just blow it out the wall can i melt it melt the front of it that would all that would that would all trigger okay so this okay so it okay so it's down in the basement it's behind a picture uh it's it's it's it's trapped so i either need to find the key or somebody who has really good thievery yes the white favorites are kind of like a sneaky around group right i mean they might have someone that could pick locks just for now for now i'll hold on to that information um i don't think i will find a key down here so i guess i'll go into the tunnels all right uh do me a favor roll a perception check can i run a dungeoneering check and perception check you you know what you absolutely can i assume you're checking for traps yes go ahead cool uh i'll run dungeoneering first um if i can find it oh god 18 for the dungeoneering check and okay 28 for the possession check all right um scouting ahead scouting ahead uh hondo is physically looking for traps obviously just keeping his head on a swivel making sure that nothing's gonna get the jump at him it's dark but luckily hondo's a drow and he can he can see pretty well in the dark unfortunately uh he did miss a trap in this corridor now let's see if this triggers oh my god a razor just cuts his head off um this is gonna be against your fortitude dude yes that's gonna hit my 42 is a 20 i'm sorry it's possible they weren't able to forward it hit like oh damn um so hondo is trekking down this dark corridor um and with a perception check he can see that someone has been through here recently hmm someone has definitely been through here recently um so hondo is gonna sort of increase it's like oh i'm hot on someone's trail i'm good so he's gonna continue down this corridor and he's going to cross a tripwire and from the wall uh an arm is going to swing out towards hondo with a spike at the end of it oh my god and it is going to strike him in the stomach oh that sounds devastating thank god i'm a healer i can help your wolverine if i can just heal that shit 25 damage to him okay that's gonna be worse okay um yeah that's like over a third of his health i'll continue going because i don't want to lose this trail but i'll i'll heal no i'll heal myself i'll keep going fuck it um take the damage okay should i should i keep going or should i come back i would come back yeah because even if if you're if you're on the trail of lore reader he's the highest possibility i mean he's like an archmage like you don't want to be coming up against him alone sort of thing that's yeah think about that best case scenario you catch him yeah all right gotcha like that's a party we could probably take him but only i wouldn't come get me again i'll take the party's advice um i'll grab me fuck that turn around take the damage on the table oh yeah minus how much 20 25 all right cool um yeah i think i've explored enough i know there's a i know that i know there's a safe there so i'll just go reconvene with everybody once everybody's you know together yeah this is yeah the spike in the stomach is like i think i've had enough let's let's call it a day okay um if i can can duncan do something really quick it won't take long okay um so duncan goes and he goes and sees rodswell and kind of collects his get his belongings and whatever's there with him um pays his final respects leaves him there uh how hard would it be to find stone sonder it's not that long afterwards right do me a favor firstly and roll a perception check okay i'm getting himself killed 21 a short distance away from rodswell's body you're going to see a small pearlescent orb oh shit this again grab that god don't leave any loot behind he wouldn't know grab it with both hands can i run some kind of check on the orb um yeah sure can uh you can roll a history check an arcana check well my arcana is i'll run an arcana check 33 crit i know everything about that orb i don't want it clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap duncan knows exactly what this orb is uh it is commonly referred to as the orb of light um it is one of the few sentient uh artifacts in theria meaning that it definitely has a will of its own um and unless you have a remarkable you know sense of willpower and self the thing can dominate you and take you over yeah duncan gives a little uh knowing salute to the orb and turns around and walks yeah fuck no no smash it dude smash it break that shit kill it don't just leave it somebody else is gonna pick it up someone else can pick it up i don't care let's go let's get it worth nothing let's go that is group one's motto it's like someone else can i don't care someone else's problem now i ain't dealing with that again um okay so i i avoided that situation um is is there like i said how hard would it be to find stone sauna right now uh these uh they're they're they're getting ready to leave the city these these these delegates for the races they're the stone sunders pulling out with his man so i could catch him on the way out like oh yeah yeah yeah okay totally yeah so i'm walking out the church yeah and i see i see him and i want to i want to approach him alone by myself okay okay and uh uh and i'm a little bit more reserved without my party there like i'm not as ballsy you know and i kind of go to him i go um mr uh stone saunter can can i talk to you for a second what um i know uh i know that we we don't see eye to eye all the time um and we're not best friends or anything but um i just i just have a question okay is that question i just want to ask a question um he's gonna do the frat boy tilt your head up just like what just go have you ever heard of the stirray um and he's gonna he's gonna he's gonna kind of narrow his eyes what about them um specifically a dwarf or two dwarfs one of them named uh rufus and one of them named a deacon uh stone sunder is so stone sunder was he was getting his horse prepared and he's they're they're they're getting ready to leave like they're getting ready to to march out of here and he's gonna he's gonna step away from the horse and get real close to duncan what do you want with them are they alive last i heard do you know where they are you ever hear the new vol yeah if you're looking for those two then you're looking to go to bandits rest wait duncan hasn't heard of the ball has he um you can roll uh streetwise or history check they're they're a pretty big slave trade ring it's just to make sure i'll run the street okay 33 so yeah 33 yeah bandits what i'm sorry bandits and like duncan's like looking like he's taking note of it like find a bandit's rest it's a forest outside of brightport and they're there again this is last i heard okay do you plan on killing them can i do a some kind of check to make just see if i should say yes like i don't do do a perception check that's what yeah that's what i was thinking yeah or or insight oh i got 25 on perception so well rolling insight okay i'll run insight that's not good enough that's more an insight thing no i got 11 on my inside uh you're not uh that is much more an insight so you're not you're not picking up one way or the other this is more he's asking you flatly do you plan on killing you you're not picking up one way or the other if he's leaning like should you or shouldn't you if it comes to that good then i'd recommend you take your party with you i doubt those two will be traveling alone but i'm gonna warn you son this ain't no child's birthday party that you normally play these two are ruthless cutthroats they've actually killed some pretty good men of mine then i'll make sure i get them once for you um stone's owner is going to kind of put his hand on duncan's shoulder and he's being a little more aggressive than he needs to be uh just kind of like just like like kind of shake duncan a little bit good good well don't die and he's gonna he's gonna get ready and turn and go back to what he was doing unless duncan has anything left to say no duncan he just kind of thank you sir and he kind of you know very respectful he's being respectful and he puts his head down and kind of just walks back in to meet up with the party so all right bandit's rest is totally on the map the arrow from it goes right through it it's just pointing that out that's everything is kelsey moore the map is full it's good okay so now we meet up and decide what to do now what's it mean you're fine well yeah yenwood and draconis yeah oh get ready okay what do me a favor both of you guys um i want you to roll two checks for me yes uh one roll an athletics check oh that's not a street check athletics it's really good oh that was good 21 i like it it's pretty high uh let's see 17 and a 21 okay yeah where did the worst i should go yeah didn't give me time to stretch i gotta bomb me uh the other thing i want you to do is roll a dungeoneering check for me okay that's right i'm gonna do good in this one okay not great at finding hidden stuff but um draconis and yenward are going to loot and pillage so walking past people who are walking past people who obviously work there who they're gonna start prying things off the walls taking things off of pedestals grabbing shit off of mantles just sliding their hand across mantles like just dumping things into into sacks um and these people are just looking like okay you have permission to do this but the looks that these people are giving you are pretty much like i want to see them try to stop us they're not going to try and stop you but it's like i knew they stole like that kind of like look like that you know like like you're very much rubbing salt in the wound not only have you take but you're just stealing all their valuable do we see these people like fucking look at us oh yeah they're not hiding it okay good i i want to ask one of them just one of the shadiest looking guys but you got a problem with this are you got a problem is it more intimidating like what like are you uh yes it absolutely is yeah roll an intimidate check for me please all righty that's gonna be fun because i don't think i'm very intimidating 19 not bad it's not bad at all um 19 that is going to uh you kind of flex at one of these guys this is like uh this is like a servant something something like that they're not really a warrior so they're just gonna like back up against the wall uh in a please don't hurt me fashion good i imagine dracota's just gonna go back to what he was doing yeah i'm just gonna look back i'm just gonna let him go that's right i'm all the way past i want to put my head down not look at the guy and reach into my bag and give him like one thing back but then continues stealing hi and i want to walk up and take it from him oh my god and i don't want to just take i want to like snatch it from him i want to snatch uh i like how last episode jakotas was criticizing the rest of the group for being like heartless and horrible i'm just pointing this is this is looting this is completely different i'm not throwing people out windows do me a favor roll an athletics check there six that's a crit um this person is going to clutch the thing that that let's say it's a let's say it's a very decorative clock so he's he is going to clutch this clock for dear life and draconis is going to struggle it's like two kids fighting over a basketball and this guy is not going to let it go so the two of them are just struggling back and forth i'm gonna get right in his face give me the fucking clock and we're gonna notice okay i'll roll a perception check okay i would say yes he's noticing this exchange take place i like to saunter and smack his hands roll an athletics check for me 18 um you are going to wrap draconis on the hands but that is not going to be enough for him to stop what he's doing it's gonna it's gonna let him know that you're there it's gonna let but he is draconis is pretty single-minded about this do me a favor draconis roll an intimidate check right do that 25 25 this person is going to let go of the clock figures like fine fine and just let go i'm gonna give him like a shrug like i'm gonna take it and the sack i have i'm gonna take it and drop it in okay the two of you have walked away with quite a few valuables i would imagine that you can pawn them off yeah there's that i want a crown that's upstairs so i've heard um that that's gonna be a little bit more of a that's kind of a symbolism thing that's that's not that's more of a piece of history to take that away from this place that could be a symbol of like okay we don't want to forget what a fucking asshole this guy was or you know um you know yeah history jack inward would not know that uh would you like to try and go steal the crown absolutely okay firstly do me a favor roll a stealth check sure okay i'm moving my voice you guys yeah i hear that whoa god i didn't work wow wow wow oh my god yeah we're just gonna tip up the stairs do i need to roll anything i'm going with him oh if you're going with him roll a stealth check oh shit i might blow your cover man oh 25. like there's this huge two biggest two biggest part of everything like armfuls of like shiny metal objects but i picture is we're shoulder to shoulder and we're just like mad dashing in between shadows when people yeah crinkle crinkle crinkle like like holding all kinds of metallic objects um you guys are gonna must have been in the house so like uh you guys are gonna make it up to the uh you guys are gonna make it up to the throne room completely unnoticed um the only two individuals in the room are gonna be po and liara and this is what they're staring out the window looking just kind of looking at this at the city um you could tell that they're they're they're talking about what what should be the first item on the agenda what should they do the crown would be sitting right next to the throne which is set a little it's inset away from them so you guys could potentially roll up on a stealth check and just take the shit you want to do that you just want to walk up and do it anyway without i feel i feel like we don't have to sneak around poem we are i feel that too but i also don't think that they're gonna want us to take that you guys don't know that i say just go for it yeah i don't think we need to stealth even though we're like very good at being sneaky apparently you guys are the sneakiest um so the the two of them are going to notice you enter the room uh leonora's gonna speak up hey what's going on i forgot something and i'm just gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna just kind of scamper up to the crown and kind of give it like a deadpan with my lips purses kind of perch on the top of my head and kind of like wait like i'm gonna get reprimanded poe's gonna give you look like really like really like he's disappointed himself yes it's like i can't i'm sorry i i need um leora's just leora's gonna look to poe just just let him have it it's not like i'm gonna wear the thing yes um and poe's just gonna give it up it's like fine i fine uh so you have king carter's old crown throw my arms up in victory and run downstairs you guys have made off with many thousands of dollars worth of valuables here uh depending on where you get rid of the very dollars there um there he bucks uh in in context uh you would have about 15 000 gold in valuables and yeah that's the the crown the crown is almost like nazi gold though that's much more symbolism thing there are very few people who are going to want that uh there are collectors definitely uh once word gets out that the carter's dead that that could be that's a huge memorabilia item that there are people who would pay top dollar to get that make gratic tickets or or yanward could just keep it because he's a king so that's what i was ground it could be his new crown it's not necessarily crowd it'd be like a trophy because he killed carter like that or it's his crown because he's the king of uh minotaurs he's not yet we're gonna get to that in just a second i say you put a chain around that put that on the chain and go blink the way yanward feels is he likes the hat he has but this is a much nicer hat so he wants to wear that one it's much more simplistic it's not about symbolism it's not about like oh this means it's like no that's a nicer hat i want it yeah shiny okay shiny draconis uh yes we gotta get a crown too wait wait wait we have a problem something else you open me over we have a problem okay that call it's been a few days since your last bump oh you dropped that treasure it's mine i'm still up in the room with uh we are in so i would say you walked out with oh did i okay i would say like you two are a tag team you're wandering around the castle but let's say the party is getting back together okay draconis as we discussed last time you have one dose of blood remaining yes your time is officially up now you can continue you can continue to suffer with this for a few more days before things get really bad but you will take a negative in combat you uh they're they're i mean you you're gonna be in more and more discomfort as time goes on but uh the the second you the second you take this last dose you are out of blood root officially but you'll be good for another few days question with my knowledge of both drugs and healing could i help him out um the only thing that's gonna help him out is blood root okay i don't have any blood root i got some purple what about the yeah what about purple i was gonna actually ask hondo about the purple my god just because hondo says that's going to work does not mean that's going to work hondo can i have some purple get everybody hooked on purple okay everybody i thought i had another option oh shit okay that's not good all right well i guess i'm gonna have to take it for now i have to take it now i'm gonna take it right now all right yes do me a favor okay so the party's met back up and draconis is going to take a celebratory bump i guess so that are you taking it in front of the party or is it more like you're ducking down a hallway uh doing your thing i can i'll i'll take it in front of the party i mean what are we doing we're just kind of gathering together now right yeah you're comfortable yeah it's not like you guys don't know obviously it's like he hit it so okay if he's gonna take it in front of the party i'm just gonna take a step the fuck back yeah okay yeah i'm hot duncan hides behind yanward you guys were all present the last time he did this correct yeah and he fucked up he did it off my weapon yeah i beat the shit out of yeah i did it off yeah i did storm runner the second time he got a lot of fire stuff which is the second time a weapon of court has been defiled on this show are you talking about the first time was when diana got one oh that wasn't a weapon of course i um this time i'm joking i'm gonna reach into the bag of uh goodies that we just got i'm gonna pull out that clock and i'm gonna smash it with my hand and yeah i'm gonna smash it and pull out a shard of the glass and put my blood root down on the wow like the back side of the clock and i'm gonna start chopping it up with the uh with a shard of glass i just like to give an exasperated gasher towards a table full of plates make that 14 000 gold that you guys are gonna get from this this hall um clock was valuable uh okay do me a favor roll a clock do me a favor roll a flat d20 d20 okay yep uh 11 favorite oh yeah 11 hold on oh i hear the paper i hope to god it's a good one i don't remember the other numbers i'd like when i rolled the horse yeah there's no horses around so it better not be that draconis is going to start to uncontrollably spit fire oh my god sake god damn it jake when you say uncontrollably what i'm talking flamethrower just like you so draconis is going to draconis is going to snort this blood root um stand up and just sort of like flex and it's like he just like oh and he just he has no idea like there's this crazy rush of energy he has no idea what to do with it and he's just going to open his maw and start to breathe fire all about the room just breathe just uncontrollably and it's quite the little jet stream going on it's it's you got about a 10-foot range with this this is a pretty good oh you do this in combat so am i like am i what's everybody else doing am i hitting anybody else with this what is okay let's i restated i'm back to fuck yes i was behind yenward yeah yeah also have immunity if something do me a favor um roll an attack roll against uh yenward please oh shit which one uh do me a favor i have dragon breath um yeah okay roll dragon breath against all right yenward where is where's this character should i just roll it oh you could just roll on the table and we'll do it of course that's a d20 plus nine this is reflex so i'm pretty sure that's fine 12 yes 12 versus yeah yes okay there we go um start so he's just going to uncontrollably like whoosh whoosh just all over the room he's going to catch this table on fire he's going to the carpet is on fire that and uh yenward is going to see this and manage to jump out of the way just in time oh wait a second um he makes i'm just gonna put it out asap okay good so do i hit duncan then duncan was hiding behind yenward um do me a favor roll an attack roll against duncan oh all right this is for reflex obviously and 27 uh yep he hits me okay roll damage against duncan please oh uh but augment it with a plus 20 a plus 20 yes all right luckily this isn't too much damage so plus so 41 oh wait hold on no sorry that was wrong one one second and there we go i had a plus 12 an accident okay so it's a plus two plus two yeah okay so that is okay so 29 days so 29 yeah 29 damage to duncan fine uh so i just he just catches on fire um you are going to temporarily just just for a moment engulf duncan in flames so his clothes are going to go up it's just i would imagine he's just like jesus christ like um i'm just patting myself duncan's just like jumping around it's like it's one of those cartoons where the body goes completely black but just two white eyes blink and it goes blink blink yeah uh for the next several seconds draconis unless stopped is going to continue to just spit fire like a like an out of control fire hose but the opposite of that uh and hose this entire room down is there a window sorry go ahead is there a window um there's a window in the room yeah dude stick your head out the window man what are we i don't want to get i don't get pushed out of the window now maybe yeah that um so is yenward going to try and you said he's going to try to stop hold his mouth shut yeah do me a favor roll and i feel like straight hands sure oh crit crit that was a crit uh after yenward dodges out of the way he's going to leap forward and wrap his forearms around kind of put draconis in a headlock but around his snout this is for your own good and i'm going to start kicking and jerking and pulling uh do me a favor rolling athletics check 22 does that beat your fortitude yanward no it does not okay well then yanward's gonna hold he's gonna hold strong and uh for a few seconds uh draconis is going to buck and try and get am i in pain is this pain like is the no no no it's not original no this was more this was release for you it's just like i gotta fucking do something and yeah okay so that is going to go on for a couple of seconds and then you're gonna you're gonna calm down and stop and get a hold of yourself maintain guys is anybody putting out the fire tondo said he was he was gonna straight away i'm on fire so like i'm not really yeah i would have yeah this do you do this sorry duncan do you want to be healed or you good uh we can heal before we leave all right all right no rush all right um after after some time the fires are put out draconis seems to have calmed down he's uh he's even right now he's okay he's not he's not in pain he's from blood blood blood root withdrawal he's this room is ruined but at the very least it's not the shitty room anyway it's not the castle let's say the building doesn't break down yeah definitely might want to crack a window let some of the smoke out but yeah um what would you guys as a party like to do now um we need to sit down and discuss what we do next yeah we got like eight minutes so yeah yeah diana's gonna look around the dress group just while the rest of you were exploring did you find anything perhaps around the laboratory area that might lead us to lore weaver's whereabouts i was reading his journals and we might want to track him down okay for time's sake i'll do an explicit exposition jump okay jump dump about everything including the safe and letting them know we either need to find a key or break into it but letting them know that there's a trap and also that about the tunnels and stuff and i'll put the 2000 golden table good that's good of you to share did you let us know about that you've everything everything including uh excluding let's say the personal letters i found but you guys know everything else and except the 8000 i'm keeping for myself okay and um diana's gonna also expedition up just to quickly explain about the like biological weapon yeah and the fact that we're probably has stuff on it and if he escapes he's going to continue working on it and so he is an archmage but i believe as a party we could probably take him down well we would want to do that as soon as possible so i guess we're going to the tunnels well i guess that's a good time for us to stop for the night guys that ended up being a really good session i think that was really good setup i think next time should be interesting if we can hopefully find the dude and kill him we should also probably stay like i don't know like range just because i'm like i'm afraid he's gonna like like have like the vials on him and like throw them at us and like infect us with like the zombie stuff because we're none of us are human like so i don't know oh yeah you have there's not a human in your party i'm kind of worried about that but vials sounds like it's liquid i don't know like this is then saying that should we really be the people hunting him down knowing that he has his vials we're also he's an archmage like he's he's powerful besides that and like we need or maybe we should grab liara i mean so what you're saying is someone else's problem this sounds like a group three job let's get out of here guys not pawn it off they just say one step behind you like every time they walk through it's like jesus christ yeah thanks for doing that strawd thing there's something downstairs you need to look at we're gonna go to winter anything fuck something up over there take care of that guy that got burnt because of us so you know it's almost like this needs to be immediate we need to stop looking as soon as possible because he gets away he sets this up we're dead no matter where we are like this is we're all dead i do love the idea of us just like but we burnt down that guy's shop like that guy that one dude i feel bad about that thing so all right well guys thank you for sitting down and playing i'm so glad we actually got a session in today it was like i said it was a good session too yeah yeah really fun i think it was a little bit more light-hearted which yeah just a little bit just a little bit okay well i'll see you on the group one page and i'll see you thursday jason yes that'll be fun oh that's gonna be so fun yes so okay talk to you later bye so cool you