Sea Breeze

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I'm Jason. I'm the Dungeon Master going around the table starting with Jasper. Hello, I'm Jasper. I play Merrick, Elf of Red, Human Cleric. And Lisa. Hey, I'm Lisa and I play Elrath Beestinger, the Halfling Barbarian. And Ryan. Hey, I'm Ryan. I play Varys Alder, the Half-Elf Monk. And Rhi. Hello, I'm Brianna Marie and I play Clara Urothdale, the Half-Drow Fighter. And Zach. What's up, my name is Zach and I play Avilene Bates, the Human Fighter. And Mandy. Hi guys, it's Mandy and I play Iris Hawker, the Human Cleric. And we're keeping things smooth today. I'm just gonna talk like this the entire time.

Smooth jazz. This is D&D and PR. D&R. The last time we sat down to play was months ago. And you are getting ready to start a brand new adventure here. And I'm gonna be asking you a series of questions and there's all kinds of stuff that you probably haven't thought of until now. But, well, you gotta set up your ship. You have a crew. You have people working under you. And their life is in your hands and vice versa. Because they're gonna look to you to lead them. And you have an able-bodied crew here, make no mistake. If you remember, you guys rolled some dice to see about the integrity of your ship and its construction and the crew itself.

And how able-bodied and ready they are to deal with problems. But at the end of the day, it's all up to you guys. Now, before we set foot on the ship here really quickly. How is everyone feeling? Kicking off. You started sailing away from Umeniro. You got the wide open ocean in front of you. How is everyone feeling? How is everyone... Are we excited to get away? Are we... I guess my question would be, I know that there were some, let's call them conflicts in Umeniro. Some challenges. Some murders. But this is a chance for a fresh start. What's everyone looking forward to most with this new opportunity?

You mean character-wise, right? Yeah. Aveline's just eager to get away, you know? Just set off. It's like, you know, it's a bad... Umeniro is a bad memory he wants to get away from. Do you think that... Is this something Aveline looks at as a fresh start? Or is it just, "I need to get as far away from Umeniro as possible"? I need to get as far away from this place as possible. Gotcha. What about Alarath? She's probably feeling like a combination of things because she grew up by the sea. So on one hand she's very excited, like, "Yes, the ocean is my thing." But then on the other hand she's like, "I am going to punch or hit so many people in the face of my flail.

It'll be great." Not on the ship, right? No promises. If they start it, she will finish it. They get mouthy? Yeah. Yeah. If they get some wild idea to tie her to the front of the ship and act as like a masthead, she will hit them. Oh my God. That's a terrible crew. Like, that would be... I feel like that would be a much lower roll. But yeah, she's just excited because this is a new quest and she wants to have a story to take back with her and also punch you in the face. Well, I'm sure that... I'm sure you'll get plenty of opportunity to do both. Yes. What about Varys?

Oh, this... Varys is super excited to go out on this. This is probably the first time that he's felt comfortable outside of the city because of living on the docks of Brightport. Being around boats is something that he's done his entire life. So this is probably the first kind of hybrid of leaving the city but yet still knowing and being comfortable. So I would say this is a completely different mindset. Gotcha. What about Iris? Iris is... She didn't really expect for us to just, you know, when she joined the group to be going, "Oh, we're going to be sailing away." But she's excited for it.

She feels like it's, you know, an adventure. She's going to experience new things and that excites her. And also it'll give her more opportunities to spread the word of her God. So she's pretty all for this. And she also has, you know, they're going to be on the open sea for who knows how long. So she has a whole bunch of people to talk to and that's pretty awesome. Oh, yeah. That's amazing. You're all trapped with me. So accept my Lord. Exactly. Oh, man, you're just like one of those MLM people that hits up their high school friends on Facebook. Eat whatever works, man.

Maric. Maric is conflicted. I think he's got a bunch of different emotions inside. So I don't know. I'm excited because there's like a new potential of everything. Like this is like a focal point and everything is new from this point forward. But also, I think, anxious about making sure that this kind of goes to plan, you know, it actually works so that it's not a complete disaster. But honestly, I think he feels bad about a lot of things right now. And I don't I don't know. I think he's going to have to take a little bit of time to figure out how to sort of settle all this out.

Like he wasn't really being very truthful with various and he feels really bad about that. He didn't mean to hurt, but he did. And then everything with Avalon as well. Like there's just way too many things happening for him, but he's sorting it out. And finally, Clara. I feel like Clara, after everything that happened with Avalon and the the teeny bit of murder that he was doing, is very into the idea of compartmentalizing right now, where it's like, OK, that happened, but that happened there. Now we're going to go do this new thing and I'm going to do it the best I can.

And she has a very strong drive to succeed, slash win and beat the royals right now. So she's going to try to do her best just to focus on the mission. Well, we all know what the end goal is, the destination. You guys are going to Kodai. Getting there is going to be a trick. We'll talk about the actual route really soon, but first. Well, you have 15 crew members working underneath the view. Now, a lot of these people are specialists. They have they have a specific set of expertise that they're bringing. And you're going to notice that all of these people are bustling around, like rushing around there.

They're they're busy either below deck strapping things down or they're loading. They were loading things to the ship when you guys got on. There's a lot of activity. It was probably a tiny bit overwhelming to be on this side of it for someone. Let's say someone like Eloraf or Varus, who have probably watched a thousand ships prepare for a voyage to be on this side of it, where you are not only the one preparing, but you're hiring these people. You're in charge of them. That's that's got to be kind of crazy. Like that's that's got to be me. It's weird. I feel like I don't know.

I think if Eloraf kind of sees like a similar expression on Varus's face, I feel like she'll probably try to talk to him about it. Just be like, oh, God, I got to get her. Oh, it's been so long since I've had to do her voice. Sorry. I'm so used to doing Martha, but I'm like, hang on. So, yeah, she'd probably just like go up to him and she'd be like, do you grow up around this too? Isn't it neat? Oh, yes. I mean, so I've never been on this side, though. I've been I've been one of them. Oh, you. Oh, so how many of these did you load? No, no, I just like watched them.

So like I've never done any of this. I'm just saying like I've I've never like gotten to be a part of this and I'm excited. OK. Yeah. I was doing the work that they're doing. Oh, I'm sorry. It's not fun. I like this better. I mean, you're just moving boxes, though. It's like fun. I mean, here we say no, don't put that there. Put that over there. That's boring. You try climbing on top of it while they're trying to load it, because that's kind of fun. But they get real mad. Oh, I. Yeah, that's that's not something that you you should do. Oh, I know. I just did it one time.

I couldn't help it. I was like, look, OK, little. No. Why don't we go over here then and just like move you to the other side of the boat where they're not really doing anything. Oh, but what if they need help? I can help them. Oh, they they got this. We paid them to do it, right? That's weird. Yeah, I guess. Just grumble a little at you like you should never said anything. Took away my fun. So during the course of the day here into the night, I would say this is a bit of a weird situation for this crew, because they're very much used to either working with traders or fishermen or whatever.

And they're hired hands. Someone walks on, starts barking orders, all that stuff. This crew has ended up keeping an eye on the party all day long. So it's the 11th of all to Orin. It is in the evening now. And the moon is out. It's beautiful. Kind of reflecting off the water. The crew is going to start calling you. Not by name, but by the position they think you have. They're they're judging off of a few things. One, how comfortable you seem to be, what role you're naturally gravitating to. You know, they're just they're just going to prejudge you, I guess.

And I would advise that you just kind of roll with it. So going down the list, there are six positions we need to fill and there are six of you. So this works out great. They're going to identify Elorath as the captain. Yup. True. And the captain is in charge of issuing orders, just facilitating, making sure that everyone's doing their job. The buck stops with the captain. So if an order needs to be issued or if something needs to be overseen, that is the captain. Like, you got it. Like that is on you. They're going to recognize Avalon as the first mate. The first mate is in charge of crew morale.

The first mate is a people person. Just a real just a man of the people like that. So they're going to identify Avalon as just that. Oh, the bosom. This position is all about taking care of the ship. Basically, you're Kaylee from Firefly. And they're going to identify Klara as that. So Klara is going to be in charge of ship repair and maintenance. And basically, if something needs to be taken care of, it's all on Klara in terms of making sure this vessel stays afloat. She's the only one here who's never even seen a boat until now. She lived underground. Well, OK, look.

Wait, what's sorry. You cut out at exactly the wrong time. What's the official title? Bosom. Bosom. OK. Yes. The Quartermaster. So it's important to have the ship in the water. It's important to make sure it stays afloat. It's important to keep an eye on the crew. But you need to have someone in charge of where the hell you're going and how to get there. The Quartermaster is the ship's navigator, and they're going to identify Varus as that person. Like that, you know, you're just you're in charge of maps, you're in charge of navigation, how to get from point A to point B, the most efficient way.

If things change on the fly, they're, you know, they're going to look to the captain and the captain's going to look to the Quartermaster. Perfect. The ship's surgeon or doctor. They're looking at Iris for the position. Iris. Iris looks to be a woman of a cloth. A healer. A little creepy, but still, it's it's it's that you're the one signing checks. So there. Look, OK, look. Despite the... How dare you, sir. Well, it's a balance. You get OK, you get the boob window, which is great, but you also you also look like a vampire queen. I'm just saying. I mean, I kind of love that.

I mean, I know. And finally. You all knew it was coming. The ship's cook. Yes. This responsibility falls to Merrick. Now. Everyone's got to eat. And a lot of times the only downtime everyone gets is is meals that, you know, the quality of your life is judged on two things. Basically, are you still alive? And two, have you had a nice home cooked, warm meal? Those three squares a day are what keep these people from revolting, basically. So the journey ahead of you guys could be terrible, terrible weather, terrible. I mean, you could get rats or bugs. You could get the wind might not cooperate with you.

You might run into pirates or sea creatures. You don't know. But that home cooked meal is the closest thing they have to creature comfort. So that's a big that's a big thing in terms of morale and keeping people from turning against you. And I've said that twice now because that's something you guys are going to have to keep an eye on is the crew's morale. Everyone starts off this this journey like they're they're fresh, they're wide eyed, they're ready to go. But, you know, 10, 11, 12 days in, it might not be looking so pretty. And you might have to, you know, promise the crew some things or charm them or entertain them or maybe even lie to them.

Who knows? But we'll see. Sorry, I don't remember. Do we know how long it roughly it takes to get to Kodai? Well, I think we should speak to the to the ship's quartermaster here. We should speak to Paris. So I would not fight her title. Bt dubs. She's like, you know, what would be everyone's reactions to the crew just walking up to them and starting to. Because you could tell if they had a pow wow behind the scenes. It's like, I don't know. No one's no one's told us anything. You know what? That one. That one looks like a captain. This one looks like a cook. I've seen that guy in the kitchen twice.

It's it's only been six hours. Like, I believe we have confusion because he's not a boat person. He was mainly in the woods or forest type area. So boats aren't really his thing. So he doesn't know what a first mate does. So he's going to learn as we go. That's fair. I think various being given a role, he would it's like an extra level of excitement. And he would just immediately run over to the room that he's supposed to be in. Start pulling out maps, laying them on the table. And I know I know nothing about sea charts and maps, but I imagine you got one of those floaty compasses going on or something akin to that.

Or you got what do you got? What do you got? One of those sextons. You got some of that. You got some sexton. I will clarify right now. Ryan knows nothing about boats. Absolutely nothing. So if you want boat speech that you're not going to get it. I think, yeah, I think everyone, everyone right off the bat, you called it a boat. I know someone's going to email like, it's a ship. It's like, OK, look, I we're trying. I've never set foot on a ship. Translation boat speech. Yep. That's it. Boat speech. Yeah. What about Clara? I feel like Clara, like when they first took off was, she's one of those people that was probably standing at the very top of the boat just staring up at the sky like, holy shit.

And like I said, she she's actually never even seen a boat before or the ocean until now. So when they start referring to her as a boat boater. But a boat just wait one second. I got to say, female boat. Yes. And sorry, I got it. It's like a bison, but like for boats boats. I had it written down. I was just tabbed away. She is legitimately not going to know what that is. And she might seek out like probably various like she knows that various grew up in Brightport and she knows that support city. So she would probably approach him and be like, hey, let's let's let's both said they all think I'm a bosom.

You're going to you're going to fix the stuff. What you see? Just just if the boat falls apart, it's on you. Oh, no pressure. And I think with that, she's going to like put up her hand, be like, OK, take a deep breath. I'm going to go look for a book about boats. And she's like, legit, she's just going to go around and look for a book that may or may not have information about boats in it. As you start to walk away, as you start to walk away, he would just like kind of like reach up his hand. You might want to carry a hammer on you at all times. Just just saying, I do know hammers.

I look for those two. OK. Jason, can I find a book about boats so that maybe I can get some knowledge about boats? I mean, I'm going to be honest, the book selection here is bad. But like if you were to find a book on a boat, it would probably be about boats. I don't think so. Do you think you're going to find a book on car repair in your car unless you put it there? I mean, most cars cover the book about car repair for that car. They come with a manual. Well, where's the manual? Can I roll for it? You know what? You know what? OK, let's see if the glittering prize came with a user's manual.

Give me a flat D20 on a 17 or higher. There is a high. I mean, can I get advantage if I look really hard? No, I'm joking. I'm joking. Let's go. Don't forget to look for the blinker fluid. The blinker fluid. You need a left handed smoke shifter. Fucking 18 motherfuckers. That's delicious. Oh man. So I found the boat book. You're going to find a boat book. You're going to find a book about this ship's construction. Like how it was like the previous owner might have had to sell this because of some bad times or something like this or just maybe never did it again.

This boat ship. Sorry, ship is about 45 years old. So it's a slightly older ship, but man, it is built to last in some some capacity because I'll be honest. While reading this, you get the feeling that the person who who who wrote this book, the same person who probably worked on a lot of this ship and they had a lot of confidence in their ability. But if you look at your ship's integrity, which is a three that essentially breaks down to the ship's hit points, its construction, its don't get hit is what I would say. So it does have a no, no, no, not three hit points.

I need to clarify. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. OK, you know, no, no, no, no. Not three hit points. OK, these are stats when we your ship has stats and I'll get to that in just a little bit. Don't worry. He's writing out a lot of stuff. He does not like what Wizards did. No, I don't. Not all of it. It's fine. It's a fine start. Look, the point being your ship has decent speed. It has decent handling. It can get you where you want to go. It's not going to take a ton of damage before you're in some real trouble. So avoid that if you can. Basically, Clara might have her work cut out for her.

There might be some really harrowing. There might be some you might be hammering in mid, you know, like mid combat or something like that. Who knows? So anyway, Clara is going to get to know this, this the ship and everything about it if she reads this book cover to cover. And I think she would. OK. She would probably try to start reading it below deck because she doesn't like the sun and then get sick and switch to above. Does Clara have motion sickness too? Oh, probably. Well, that's something I want to check. That's something I want to check with everybody.

She's lived 40 to 60 percent of her life underground. That's fair. Here's what I want to do. And I was saving this, but I want to kind of see how people deal with day to day life on the ocean. And I think by the time you get to your first the end of your first day, you'd probably know how your stomach reacts to this. So if everyone could give me a constitution saving throw and I would like Elorath and Varus to roll with advantage, please. Yay. Good. I was hoping. All right. So the vintage constitution. Oh, my lord. Nice. 20 bitches. I was sorry. I got very excited of that of that.

So I'm almost everyone is gonna. Almost everyone's going to deal with this this pretty well. Clara is going to have some troubles, the kind of troubles that probably see her heaving over the side of the ship from time to time, probably have a hard time keeping some food down. Probably just it's a little rough. She's just like me. I'm glad I called it. I'm glad I knew going in. Based on the conversation that Clara and various had before, could various spend his extra time like when he's not doing his quartermastering and navigation, everything could he spend his extra time assisting Clara?

Well, let's get your duties out of the way real quick. Can I get a survival check from you? Yes. Let's get to navigate. All righty. So. There is is going to break up the sexton and I guess that's what you'd use. I don't know. You're gonna you're gonna look at your maps and you probably got like you probably got pencils and paper and stuff like that. You're you're chatting some math down and you have worked out that if you were to continue at this pace about three miles an hour for most of each day. It would take you eleven and a half days just to get to the closest dock to you, which is Westport in Talor.

And from there, you could resupply and you could try for Kodai. There are other options, though, if you'd like me to break them down for you. Yes, please. OK, so with that here, you know what? Let's open a map. Let's let's just open a map. Oh, yes. Map. Map time. So we have. We have a world map, kind of. We do, but it's just not totally filled in yet. So let me see if I could share my screen with everybody. Somehow. There we go. Share screen boom. So everyone should be able to see. Oh, wow. Look at that happy eel. What? Oh, you have been ruined forever. It's fine. It's just my life's work.

It's a boot. It's yeah, but that's no way constructed Italy like that was like that. I'm a finish to Italy. And then like someone fucking pointed it out and hurt their feelings like it wasn't that. I'm saying it's more realistic because it's shaped like a thing. Anywho, let's zoom in. Oh, OK. OK. So you guys took off in this region here and you were obviously. The easiest way to get to Kodak. Oh, wow. Yeah. You guys got a hike now. You have a couple of options in that. So for everyone who can't see this at home, they are sailing east. The next closest continent to them is to lower and Westport is in this general region here.

It is a demilitarized zone into lower, which means it does not belong to the gifts or it does not belong to the lion folk. It is considered neutral territory. It is the only town in the entirety of the continent that is considered neutral territory. No one is allowed to attack each other there. So that's a safe place, quote unquote, to dock. And you could resupply there. And that's eleven and a half days. From there, you guys have a choice to make. In the south, there's a hell of a lot of pirate activity. But it's a shorter run. So from Westport to Kodak, you're talking another 13, 14 days, something like that.

But there's a higher likelihood that you will be pursued or might have to outrun somebody or something like that. If you look like a viable target, you could also head north and go around the Happy Eels face, which would take longer. But there are less there are less reported pirate activity there. Icebergs. That's another thing. You have to deal with colder weather. You have to deal with potential like icebergs. You'd have to zigzag in between these islands here, which means you'd have to go slower and then you could pick up speed heading back down south.

But all said and done, you're looking at about 20 days or more of travel that way. So what was the first one again? Heading from Westport and then going south and heading around the continent of Talor to Kodai. So you're looking at like 14, 15 days somewhere in there, depending on weather. Question. Yes. This grouping of islands here up to the north. Yes. Since we're kind of heading laterally from Uminero, there's no port or anything over in that area? There's no place to resupply. OK. There's no proper towns there. It's pretty rough terrain. There are places to dock, but that's more for like that would be strictly like a shore leave thing.

Like everybody get out, stretch their legs, maybe go fishing, that type of thing. But it's not it's not going to be like Westport where there's like an actual place to like pick up fruits and veggies and meat and all the stuff you need. And we're wanting to sail directly to Kodai, correct? Yep. And then you got to figure out where in Kodai you want to land. Right. Yeah. Because otherwise I was like, well, we could just dock there in Westport, travel across the continent, pick up a different ship. Wow. I thought you meant bring the ship with us. Like, oh, pick it up, guys.

Pick it up. I mean, have you seen how jacked Elorath is? She can do this. OK. Sorry, I'm just curious. I was like, all right, what are the alternatives here? Not that she might be able to piece that together, but so if you get off your quartermaster, if this goes into a discussion, Varys would propose that we go north. But when we restock, because we saved extra money with the initial buying the boat and buying the ship and everything, we were able to use that money to get all the equipment that we need, make sure everything's good and go from there. I feel like if it were a discussion, Clara would honestly probably argue for south because pirates, though dangerous, would probably want to keep the ship intact, which means they wouldn't attack our flimsy ship, whereas icebergs definitely would hit the flimsy ship.

So, like, it might be better to fight pirates than icebergs and also save five days. Super good point. OK. And she would say that while, like, pointing to the book and be like, yeah, this ship is, uh, it's not great. I did a great job. You did. It's lovely. It goes real fast and, you know, but if we sneeze on it, it's going to break. I think by now everyone would notice some eccentricities with it, where, like, Merrick will be in the kitchen and all the cabinet doors, depending on which way the ship's turning or banking, are just going to open and close.

So while he's in there mixing something, he's like, where just cabinet doors are opening and closing everywhere. And like, fastest Wolfdog ever. Laura's going to install some watches for you later. She's going to get some rope and make little buttons. The captain's quarters? So, LRF has a quarters, guys. Yeah, I know. I was just thinking, I was like, you guys gave the smallest person the biggest room. It might just be as well, because one, the doorway is super short. About four and a half feet tall. Oh, so she can just barely get her flail through then. Yes.

Also, everything in the room, everything. You're getting the sense that maybe the person who built this had some equilibrium issues, because while LRF is sitting in a chair and tries to put something down, it'll start rolling to the left. And then she'll notice that everything in the room, the tables, the chairs, her bed, everything is askew by about 18 degrees. Just enough. It's not even a little. No, it's not a little. It's just enough that at first you probably figured it's like, oh, I'm just getting my sea legs. And then you're like, no way. Like, you kind of feel like you're going to fall out of bed a little bit.

You kind of feel like you're getting, like, it's just a little off. That bothers me. A lot of the floorboards creak, a lot of that. So it's got character. Hmm. Um. You know what? She'd probably just say, fuck it. She probably just assumes this is what all boats look like on the inside. Because, like, she's been around them, but she's probably like, yep, this is mine. Uh huh. Yeah, there's a there's a there's a reason they're built this way. Yeah, like she just assumed. She's like, I mean, I'm not having a problem on this ship, so must because my bed goes slanty ways.

So there's also an officer's quarters for the rest of you guys. So like, Elorath would have her own quarters and then the officers would have their quarters and then the crew would sleep below deck. So why is below deck sound so like ominous? Like, are there vampires down there or something? Because like you said it like, below deck. Well, it's important to keep the crew separate from the officers. Oh, I'm uncomfortable. Would, uh, would the cook? I feel like the cook may be, though, like below deck. Like it's with the crew. Well, I mean, while cooking, absolutely.

No, I just know. I think they would be like, you're one of us. I mean, yeah, maybe. I mean, that depends on if you want to feel like you're an officer. Like, I'm just I'm just thinking, I'm just thinking. I think Merrick gets to choose where he hangs out. He's his own person. That's true. We'll see how that plays out. Him being a person? Yeah. If there's like room, Elorath would probably offer if people want to sleep in there with her. They can. But if they don't want to, that's fine, too. But we're all taller than the door. So it's kind of like an empty offer.

Like it is. She's like, I'm I'm trying to be nice, but like, good luck. It's like when I offer Jason some of my pineapple pizza. Ah, there you go. There's what jump at the chance to sleep in the captain's quarters. Yes. Like it probably like halfway through the question, like, hey, if you want, you could come over. Yes. Yes. Yes. And just start going. OK. I figured that's probably where we're having this discussion about roots anyway. Was on the slanty desk. Well, if it's going to take us 11 and a half days to get to Westport, maybe we can see what it's like when we get to Westport before we make any decisions between north and south.

I mean, there could be all kind of things happening at Westport we don't know about. It could make things easier or harder or I don't know, for that matter. Maybe we could bolster the ship while we're there. If we had time. I'm really, really concerned about time. I really want to make sure that we stay ahead of the Royals. OK. But like, I also think when we get there, we might want to like take a day there, like a whole day. And she'll kind of like Pat Clara on the back if she can reach it. Oh, she looks like seven times grayer than normal. Like, yeah, she'll be like, you know, to get her land legs back.

She'll like kind of do a little like muffled belch as you are patting her on the back. Oh, that's right. Just let it out. You should have heard me last night. Yeah, I'm sorry. No, no. You have lens like shuffling around this captain's quarters. He's touching everything and he has his look on his face and he says, everything feels off like it's slanty ways. Yes. Everything I touch feels off. No, it's that's why it is because it's what a captain's room is. I was just going to like raise an eyebrow. And then I imagine, OK, I actually picture that Clara has like a little notebook and she's writing things down like fix the kitchen cabinet doors and research the gates.

And then the next time Clara moves to a new section of the ship, it's like there's a brand new list started. It's like, oh, boy. Like it's, you know. Yeah. Like she's keeping tabs. She wants to make this as nice as possible. They're going to be spending like probably like a month and maybe a month and a half in here. Like it all depends on it. It depends. Exactly. So she wants to try to fix it as much as possible whenever she can. Yeah. Well, starting with this table and then she's going to take out a little song. Just wait, don't don't touch my table. I got it just the way I want it.

I just figured out how to put like my rolly bits in places where they don't roll. What are your rolly? Oh, God. I just think that she takes out of her backpack that role. I don't know. I thought she had balls for a second. I was like, oh, I love new things. OK. Oh, right. Well, that's got spikies. I'll hold it down. Yeah. I actually I have a question about the captain's quarters. You describe the doors being like four and a half feet tall. How tall is like the table? Like, are we all towering over it except for Elorath or is it? It's normal sized. It's just weird.

Like, it's just everything's kind of like. Do you ever watch a child? Draw a picture of a house in crayon. I'm glad you finished that sentence, because otherwise we're just creepy. You just watch a child. No. Do you ever just watch a child draw like a like it's like, this is my house. It's like your proportions are all off. Now imagine that was a blueprint for somebody. That's that's what happened, basically. Gotcha. So, Clara, she does. She has her little saw out because I do have carpenter's tools. So and she's going to be like, do you want me to make it your height?

Well, it is my height. I'm assuming she she thinks you're talking about the door. No, she means and then she's going to like gesture to the table. I fix. I fix. It's my job. I am the boateress. Sure. All right. She's going to she's going to fix the table by cutting all the thingies to be the same length. All the legs. Can I can I just say someone out there might be in the Navy. They might be crab fishermen. I'm calling myself the boateress. I apologize thoroughly for what we're about to do to your profession for the next who knows how many episodes. It's not intentional.

We're just idiots like that. Yeah, I know. Very much so. I do know. I just I want to keep calling her a boateress. That's fine. Who said poop deck? We've all avoided it. It's such a good job. Mostly because I don't know what to actually apply it to. I just know the word. Is that just the top? I think it's like the top and the back, like the back of the top. There's a back. Actually, I got a map for you guys. Do you want a map? Would that help? Oh, yeah. OK. OK. OK. OK. OK. But very important. Did I fix the table? Do me a favor on your skills. Roll your carpenters tools. Oh, oh, there they are.

I got a plus three. 17. 17. Yep. You're good. Sweet. I fixed your table. Elorath, you're welcome. Thanks. Now it's your height. It'll be great. Cool. She's still going to sit in her slanty chair. She's not going to let you know that it's slanty as well. Kacerosura, I fixed the table. Mary's going to mention to Elorath that it seems as though after your quarters were built, someone built the boat around it at a slightly odd angle. Well, honest reaction. Just and just wink. Oh, OK. That joke was a bit high concept for Elorath. It went a little over her head. Like most doors, except for this one.

Yes. There it is. Because you're short. Hey, there we go. I'm not sure. This is essentially what you guys are working with. Wait, where's the poop deck? This doesn't help me at all. I think they call that the main deck. I think. Forecastle. Which one do we swab? Well, you don't swab shit. Your crew does. I don't swab poop deck. Forecastle is a really cool word. I like it. Yeah. So if you guys really wanted to get into this, you could memorize all this and then during combat or something, you could tell people to get to where they need to be. There's a ballista. Do we actually have one?

Yes, you do. Yes. At a certain point, while you guys are talking in the captain's quarters, you're going to hear a heavy pounding, like a big knock outside of the door. Come in. Sorry. I was going to say, like Clara looks over to the captain. Yeah. Yeah. We all look to the captain. On tray. Oh, it's not her trying to be fancy. Yes, it is. Oh, do you lean back in your slanted chair? I apologize for everybody who actually. This is amazing. By the way, when Clara's finished fixing the table leg, she's not going to stand back up. She's just going to sit on the floor, kind of like miserable because she feels sick, but at least she accomplished something.

Okay. Is that a real question, Mandy? Yes. Ask it out loud. Where are the bathrooms? Because I don't want to poop on the actual poop deck. Oh, man. There's a place called the privy, which is a number of holes lined up on a bench next to each other in the lower deck. And you sit next to your friends and poop. Number nine. That's urinal rules where it's like, okay, you leave every other poop hole. I would never be able to poop. I just clench up. I go in there when there's no one in there and then block the door. But there's no door. Oh, there's no door. What? No, no, no.

There's just holes. Okay. I'm going to put a door. Well, okay. Add it to the list. Does he go down to 13? Is that why that's nothing in there? Is this full poop? I'm going to say, let's say it empties out into the sea. Okay. Okay. The armory. Wow. That's when you pick up your poop balls. You need a discharge permit for that, sir. Okay, let's do this. Let's see how, I'm not going to say that we're talking full stalls, but let's see how much privacy you got. Let's see. Adelyn, do me a favor. Give me a flag to get one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A seven. So the way this is lined up, you'll have a bench on the back side of the ship here in the front, and then you'll have a bench on the other side so you could stare into someone's eyes while you're doing it.

And you'll have like six inches of wood next to each hole. So like there's the tiniest bit of privacy, but not really. Wait, so like armrests? Almost, yes. For your booty? Almost. To fight your booty? Clara is going to install doors. That's on the list. I have a list going. Add doors to Privy is one of them. We will do that. So you guys are going to hear a knock at the captain's quarters and the LRF gave the old entree. I'm going to roll a D. Okay, so this door is going to open and one of the hinges is going to go. But not both. One of the what? Hinges. Sorry, I heard handges.

It took me a second. Got it. Hinges. Sorry. Clara's going to write that down. So this large female lion folk is going to duck down. She's like six and a half feet tall or so. So she is going to duck down and and scoot into this room and following her is going to be this elderly human man. And the elderly human is going to speak up. I'm so sorry, captain, but we have a couple of requests from the crew. Okay. Well, we haven't been told exactly where we're sailing yet in terms of our next port of call. LRF will kind of like look down at the map and point at Westport and with like as much authority as she thinks she has.

She's like, we are going here to Westport and there will only be the briefest of side glances to Varys to make sure that she said that right. Varys will, he will nod his head like very abruptly. Yep. You're going to hear this female lion folk grunt. And and so, OK, this elderly man is going to speak up again. I apologize, captain. My name's Yali. This here's Zalu. Hello. I'm Hilarath. And he's going to hold his hand out to shake. Oh, she'll definitely shake it. Zalu is not. She's going to have her arms crossed the entire time. Oh, well, I get it. We'll be fine.

Yali is going to place a hand because he's he's like five, three, somewhere in there, kind of older, hunched over a little bit. My compatriot here is concerned about stopping in Westport. Maybe you could talk it over and ease her concerns. She'll probably like kind of glance around and she'll just be like, OK, um, why are what concerns? And she'll try and be like straight, just like, mm hmm. Like sit up with authority. Sorry, I was answering questions. No, I know. I saw them. I was like, sorry. That's the thing. I'm just wondering. No, no. While you're talking this over, perhaps I could speak to the ship's balsam.

She's going to grab the edge of the table and like pull herself up. And I see that you're separating me from my furry love and we're going to persevere. We're like Romeo and Juliet and I'm coming back. You're stuck on a ship. Don't worry about it. You're going to you'll have plenty of opportunity. I'm like 30 percent joking anyway. And she'll she'll nod and take out her fucking little notepad and follow him. Yeah. So he's going to lead you below deck to look at the armory, because there's a problem with old Blasty, which is the name of the cannon that you guys have, the one lone cannon.

And yeah, he'll he'll take. So anyway, Zalu is concerned and she's going to she's going to wait till Yarlie's gone. Are you aware of how dangerous stopping in Westport is? We thought that it was neutral territory, like people weren't allowed to fight or whatever. They are in the most technical terms. Yes. If we're just stopping and resupplying, it should be fine. But I would not explore. Oh, yeah. No, we were just thinking of resupplying and getting back on the the our way, because like we want to get to Kodak, as I'm sure you are aware. And so we figured we could get there and and she'll kind of like unless somebody stops her, like tell the plan, which for right now is to kind of get the feel of either north or south and then determine their route from there.

So she explains that to Zalu. Sorry, I almost said Yalu and I was like, nope, I'm just combining the two. That's their ship name because you're on the ship. Uh. Zalu's going to pause for just a moment. Jesus. Sorry. There is one more thing. There is a woman on the ship who is quite fond of monsters, hunting them specifically. She's and she's going to lean in. I am not one to rat out a fellow crew member. But she's new and she's looking for something exceptionally large. She wants to bring it to the ship to study it. How large? Very large. OK. Who is she? She says, OK, she's looking at the rest of the crew here because she doesn't want to get a rep.

As someone who's who's a rat, basically, he doesn't want like the first day on the ship, she doesn't want to go captain on telling, like she doesn't want that at the same time. You can tell that she's very deeply concerned. And OK, I don't want to be racist. Lion folk have a tendency to be leaning slightly more superstitious than other races and can exaggerate things in their head. Sorry. Excuse me. Sorry, that's a door. Let's jump down deck for just just a moment. And Yarlie is going to give you a tour of the armory and you're going to see you're going to see some ammunition here for the ballista.

And you're going to and the ballista seems to be in decent working order. You guys have a cannon and it seems to be out of commission, along with two other cannons that are just scrapped. And Yarlie is going to tap on this cannon. This here is all blasted. You notice anything? Do I notice anything? Give me give me. I must say insight. Really read the emotions. Give me a feeling. Is it sad? Is it sad? Give me a perception. Can I have advantage because I read my book? You know what? Yes. Good, because I'm a negative one to perception. Hey, those are actually both good rolls, but yeah, you dropped an 18 to take a 19.

So you're going to notice that this this cannon has seen better days. It's kind of beat to hell. It's going to need some restoration in order to be used. Actually, if you were to judge it now, it could cause a misfire and explode. Oh, yeah. So that's no good. This this is going to take some some some doing some restoration. OK. Clara is going to nod. Oh, great. That looks dangerous. And then she'll move over and start like really inspecting it to see what exactly about it needs fixing, like not just a general like, OK, this is definitely going to cause a misfire or something like that.

But like what needs to be fixed on old blast to make it blast over there instead of over here instead of just just. So, OK. Clearly, Clara has her work cut out for her on the ship. Let's let's cut back to things. So let's say that's. Let's say that's all who gave you a description of the woman you're looking for and then like maybe gave you it's like, hey, wait, give me like 10 minutes. To get away from here before it just looks like she's getting called to the principal's office because of me. I mean, like just kind of a it would be a nice request, like not her telling you because you're the captain.

No one tells you anything. Oh, oh, we get this. That's right. She's so authoritative. Now, you asked the captain have a couple of different options here. You could hand this off to your first mate to deal with. You could I mean, like me, that's true. Yeah, you could. There's a bunch of other things you could do. Michael, great. I actually think it would go well. I feel like she would trust you to be like subtle. But what are the other options? Well, the other option is you talk to this person or or not talk to them at all and just kind of keep an eye on the situation.

Once Zalu leaves, Elrath will probably like drop whatever, you know, sure. She'll stop puffing at her chest a little bit because she knows you guys know her and she's like, OK. So if I'm thinking right and we all have to be here, we might not want to go right at this lady. And she's going to probably be looking at like Merrick and Varus like, yeah. Not go at this lady? You know, like, like, like, wait a minute. Right. Well, like, yes, thank you. Like, we don't want to go like at her and be like, why are you hunting monsters on my ship? Here's what I think.

I think until there's a monster to deal with, there's no big problem. And until that, in the meantime, you can just sort of suss it out. There's no there's nothing happening at the moment. It doesn't mean it's not important. It just means let's take it as it comes. OK. Thank you. That's what I was trying to say. We're just getting going. Yeah. We're just we've just started our trip. You know, hopefully there's no large monster underneath the ship that would cause any problems of any sort anyway. Let's just see what happens. And if we play our cards right, we could always say that Kodai probably has some pretty ancient old monsters.

We could maybe bring her along and instead of setting her loose on T'Lor when we have to get going. Honestly, it sounds like a great idea for the way back. OK. Do is there a way we can try and figure out what kind of monster she might be looking for? Just based on like inference from the conversation with Zali. OK. So, you know, you're looking for something big. Yeah. And you know that it's probably something of note, like something. So do me a favor. OK. Let me see. Allerat, like, OK, if you're all talking about this, everyone but Clara, give me give me a wisdom check.

Solid. Oh, my goodness. I am the captain of the ship! Geez. Wow. OK. Everyone's doing so well today. Shut up, Jason. I'm saying wow. I love you. I love you too. I was trying to be nice. I think after Zalu leaves, I think everyone would kind of look at each other and realize what this woman might be trying to bring to the ship. There's a creature and it's been known to frequent the waters between Allara and T'Lor called the Romejo. Now, the Romejo is a mass of tentacles. Hundreds of feet long. And what it does is it has these huge mandibles that capture ships. And then it has these giant spider like teeth that rip portions of it apart until it can devour it whole.

There are very few crews that claim to have seen it and lived. Oh, cool. It's like a Loch Ness monster sighting. It is. It's the boogeyman of the sea, basically. OK, so Merrick's just going to point that all all that out, right? Like, OK, so this is what we're thinking about and looking at. I mean, number one, it might not even exist. Number two, if this person's actually kind of after it to try to find out and do some research on it. They might actually know something about it and about how maybe to defeat it or at least circumvent it. So I don't know that we've got a problem here.

I think we may have probably the one person who, if we did get into trouble, might know something about this. I can kind of snoop around and see if I can dig out anything. Meaning I can just kind of like poke around and talk to the monster lover. Did we get a name? It didn't seem as though. We just got a description of the woman. Yeah, it didn't seem like she really knew her. Like, she said, like, oh, she's new. I mean, it wasn't like, you know, a really nice lady with an eyepatch that. No. OK. Damn it. Nothing like that. That would have been too great. OK. But yes, if Merrick kind of proposes that, I think Elorath would probably nod because I don't know if she really trusts herself to move forward with that.

So she was hoping that one of you guys would. That's her approach, as I'm sure you are aware, is very much punch it in the face until it does what I want. I think that's right. And I think Merrick is trying is offering. It's like, you know what? It's it's not as though there's a monster outside. It's just that there's somebody here who's interested in monsters. Let me do some poking around. Let me see what I can find. I mean, if he's going to be cooking and sort of serving people and he'll probably end up getting to know people a little bit and just be able to ask around over the next day or two and, you know, snuff out some info.

That's what me, Lisa was thinking, so I was like, oh, man, he could be kind of like the bartender in this situation where it's like he just overhears a lot of stuff. But Elorath would not know that or how to put that into words. So does that sound good with you guys? And she's going to point out like Iris and Avalenn and Varus just like. Yeah, sounds fine, mom. I'll see what I can dig up to. People like to talk to their doctor, right? Oh, good point. See, you're so smart. Also, can you make like a tea or something to help Clara's tummy? Already on it. OK, thank you, guys.

She doesn't seem to be doing so good. Merrick's going to he's going to like awkwardly at first, but then kind of compose himself and he's going to salute. And then and then he's going to. Kind of kind of smile, but he's going to mean it is going to be genuine. And then he's going to point to the door with his thumb like, can I go like she will like she'll scowl at you and just like get it. He'll salute again and again and then sort of. That was in character. Leaves. I will say. I'm not sure of what my duty as first mate is, but I will serve you wholeheartedly.

He kind of blinks at you. And he does a salute to. Is this like a thing now? And she'll like do it. I guess she's like, fine. I think that you and I apparently. So I think like you're supposed to be like helping me and helping the crew and whatnot, like if they can't talk to me and she'll kind of like look at various like this is what I'm remembering from watching the ships. Oh, various zone down. He's went back to the maps. OK, cool. Thanks, bro. So she was she'll probably just be like, could maybe like. I guess just go like, see if the crew needs any help.

I will do that. OK. Because like, I don't want to I don't want them to think we're like just sitting here. Twilling like our our thumbs are just like, you know, doing nothing because like, I don't like that and they probably wouldn't like that. And I don't know if if you want to. I want to do anything you tell me to do. OK, eyes wide, staring at you. OK, um, yeah. After you say yeah, he just leaves instantly. OK, ready to do your bidding. Oh, my goodness. So let's have a series of checks. Let's see how your first full day at sea is going to be. Uh, Clara, what's the first thing?

I mean, beyond that table in Elorath's captain's quarters, what's the first thing that you think Clara would want to tend to? You got a big old list. OK, I feel like the first thing would probably be old Blasty just because one of the crew asked her to fix it. OK. And she wants everyone to know that she's doing her best to listen to everybody. But then right after that would be the kitchen cabinet doors for Merrick because she doesn't want him to turn into a werewolf and kill everybody. One thing at a time. Yeah. Yeah. One thing at a time. Can I get you to roll with your your your tools, please?

OK. Advantage? No. Oh. Nine. I think it's just one of those things where you're going to work on it for a few hours and you're going to look up and realize, oh, man, it's like the dead of night and I got a ways to go here. This is going to be a time consuming thing. But it does. I think you've gotten to the point now where it's probably not going to explode if someone uses it. So that's cool. Let's let's jump back to Merrick here. Merrick is going to cook a meal. Let's say Merrick's going to cook dinner for everybody. Yes. Could I get you to use your cook's utensils, please?

Cook's utensils. They're in your skills. They are in my skills. May I? OK, fine. I'm not going to keep asking for advantage or for proficiency, et cetera, et cetera. Well, here's what I did. I did own a restaurant. You did. I'm going to give you a choice. OK, so you're at sea, which is a different experience. It's a cramped space and you've got these cabinets just banging and slamming. Now, you can either take disadvantage on this role and potentially start to upset the crew a little bit, or you could just eat all that and stress. OK, lay this out for me again.

So essentially you're prepping a meal for everybody, right? Yeah. And it's basically a banquet because you're feeding 21 people. Yeah. I already know what I'm making, too, by the way. Oh, great. I want to see you make it well. Now, you can either roll with a disadvantage because you're at sea and you're bobbing around and it's a tight space and all these cabinets are slamming. Or you can treat it as if Merrick, it's like, OK, I've been in high pressure situations before in the restaurant industry. I can deal with this. And you're just going to eat a whole bunch of stress points instead.

Got it. I'm going to eat stress points because this is going to be the big first impression and Merrick is going to absolutely know. Definitely having owned a restaurant. There's there's there's this is make or break. Right. Especially at the very beginning. Once they've come in and they've enjoyed it one time, they'll come in a few more times. Right. All right. Here we go. That's a 19. I saw a three, but OK. What? I saw a three too. Yeah. OK. But we'll take the 19. Yeah, fine. So I can't get it. No, no, no, it's fine. I think that's just the animation. And then this is like the actual number generation.

So you have a kitchen's assistant if it makes you feel any better. It does. I get somebody to boss around. That can take some stress away. Well, yes and no. You have a try. I try. Here's the thing. You have a male Aladrin named Reed Willingsley. Very stuck up, very up his own ass, very kind of snide. So well on the people we're working with. Here's the thing. He's an excellent chef or sous chef in this case. Knows a shit. Just, you know. Bit of a dick. No one's going to play against type in the Aladrin, are they? There was that cleric lady. She was cool. Yeah, faces was cool.

Faces was nice. The end of the list. Well, Reed is a person who you get the strong impression that it's like, look, I've worked to become this good. Don't question me. Like that type of thing. This cabinet shit is going to get on Reed's nerves, by the way. It's going to like he's going to pull Merrick aside. Probably. It's like, I'm not used to working at these conditions. Right. Well, these are your conditions and I need you to get that. I need you to get me that. And I need you to get that for me now. He's just going to go straight back into the theater, chef.

Damn, Merrick. Here's what I here's I feel a lot less bad about the cabinet. Now I'm kind of glad they were still like that. Well, hold on to that thought. So 19 is fantastic. You're going to whip up a great meal. But obviously this comes at a cost. I need you to do me a favor and roll a d4. Now, this is not for your stress. So just let's let's get ready. Just a d4 for me. One. One. Damn. OK, well, roll one d4 and we'll. Wow. Wow. Two. Two points of stress damage to Merrick. Did Dink vote against us? And your friend Jasper? I love Jasper. I just want to make things interesting for him.

I like interesting. Trying, but he's fighting me. So you're going to whip up this this beautiful meal and everyone's going to be really happy with it. So I would say it's probably probably a thing where it's nighttime. Things have calmed down a bit. You have people on lookout and stuff like that, but it's not as hustly and bustly as it usually is. And you probably have a chance to eat with everybody. And I'd like to establish some sort of routine. This is up to Elorath. Is Elorath the type of captain who wants everyone to eat together and or at the very least for the first night, just kind of get to know everyone or.

Unless somebody tells her different, she's just going to assume that everybody's going to eat together. So, yeah. OK. She doesn't see why people wouldn't because like. Why not? So dinner bell's going to ring and people are going to finish up what they're doing and or most people are going to finish up what they're doing. There's a couple of people who are kind of hanging out. There's a lookout named Auggie. Now, Auggie is a is a is a is a on the shorter side of halfling. But Auggie's in the crow's nest and he's got these real thick Coke bottle glasses. And every once in a while, he'll kind of like peer out with his looking glass and kind of check around.

And Auggie is real big on due diligence. So every five minutes, Auggie will just shout down to everybody. I don't see anything. I don't see anything. Like every five minutes. And the crew, for the most part, seems to have gotten used to it. So it's, you know, they're just like this guy. He's a good man doing his job. Yeah, he's just very. And you're going to notice this woman in in purple garb, big billowy like robes and stuff like that hanging out in the front of the ship. And it looks like she's tossing something into the water. Oh, no, she's not chumming the water.

But. Sorry, bumbumbum. So let me make sure I get the scene straight. So basically the dinner bell's rung. Everybody's getting food except for these couple of other people who are kind of hanging out. Correct. Yes. Is it is at this point is Clara. This is a question for Clara. Is it are you doing dinner or are you still working on the cannon? Knowing that dinner was probably not a great thing for your tummy is my question. My understanding is I worked through the night, so I'm I'm busy. Well, I mean, you could eat dinner. Well, I picture I picture you coming out from like the armory and like you're coated in grease and stuff like that.

You're just like just filthy. And it's that it's like I'm working hard. Look. Ah, yep. And sick. So like looks terrible. Miserable. Yeah. So, Clara, your choice. But what I was what I would like to be able to do is bring Clara something other than the dinner that was made that's a little bit easier to deal with, like just some plain bread and like half a banana. Easy stuff that's on your on precisic stuff. Merrick would try to go find Clara, at least. And if Clara's on her on her way out, then that's great. Yeah, she'd probably like comfort dinner then. Also, you can totally tell you have children.

Dad stuff. Yeah, it's like, yeah, this is this is probably going to come back up. Just trying to make that easy on you, you know. But then but two other things. Merrick is going to make sure that he prepares in whatever way he can do it that doesn't feel like it's slop. Oh, I didn't tell you what he's making. He's making a slop. So there's a big trough that everyone sidles up. Right. Everybody's just on your knees. Just no hands. Just go. This is going to be very simple and very easy to make for a large group of people, but also a delight. This is going to be a parsley and shrimp and garlic risotto.

It's it's simple. It's super, super simple. Very easy to do. White wine. It's only going to take like maybe 20, 25 minutes for the whole thing to come together and everybody is going to absolutely want more. That's all there. And just some bread on the side. The other thing about this is that it is really good, especially since not everybody's been sailing for days. This is like the first go around for some big meal. It is going to be pretty good on your stomach. Like it's not gonna be too bad. What Merrick wants to be able to do, though, is make sure that Augie, he finds there's a rope or if there's like a little pulley or something like that to be there probably is something to be able to get tools.

There's almost like a dumb waiter type of thing. Yeah. Yeah. He's just going to make sure he's he's not even going to say anything like, hey, look at me. He's just going to like make it happen so that food kind of appears for Augie. Like, what's this? And it's going to be like a steaming bowl of delicious risotto and like a little flask of something. So like very muffled in the distance above you, you're going to hear like a. Oh. Thank you. Merrick's going to just give him a big thumbs up and I'm assuming that Merrick noticed where I'd like for Merrick to have noticed the the purple robes person up at the front.

I would say, yeah, like kind of billowy in the wind and stuff like that, kind of in that I'm king of the world spot. Yes. So he's going to on his way past where the crow's nest would be, he's just going to sort of make his way up while everybody's eating. He's going to he's going to say he's not even going to say anything. He's going to get maybe six, seven feet behind it and just cough. She is going to drop something. And you're going to. So, OK, I would say right now things are very calm. You're probably you're probably not like full sail or anything like that.

So it's very you're you're almost dead calm in the water. You're you're you're moving, but it's slow and you're going to hear a kplunk like far below. And she's going to pant like just like jump. And and turn around and look at Merrick like. She's trying to regain composure very quickly, like, oh, hello, like that, like, oh, you know, you remember the Fresh Prince of Bel Air when the cop catches and tag in something and he's like, oh, it's deodorant, like it's that nothing, nothing. Merrick's just going to say, I really hope that wasn't the risotto. No, I'm.

Hi, she's going to hold her hand out to Merrick. Merrick will reach out and he'll just say, I'm Merrick. I'm Thorin Opal Dawnstar. Oh, my God. I knew it. Yes. Oh, my God. Sorry, that whole clan. A pox on their house. But it's beautiful. Oh, we're going to have to be on a boat with that voice. Yeah. I'm not OK with that. It's where we're over the board. OK, then I love it. No, we're done. Merrick's left eye is going to wince, just like if a horn blares near you. You know what I mean? Like, hi, ow. And he's going to say, it is a pleasure to meet you. Listen, dinner is served.

I'm just wondering what you're up to up here at the bow. Oh, well, the conditions are just right. It's so still and calm out. God, she's almost like Gilbert Godfrey. Yes. So she's... Have her say Aflac. No, don't do it. Don't do it. I was... Well, can you keep a secret? She's screaming in any way. I picture you like in the night. Like, OK, this beautiful night, like anybody even below deck, you could probably hear like you could probably hear a faint like it's like screaming like, yeah, it's a it's a voice that carries. It cuts through like it's just cuts through the air.

It's like that bomb character from from Big Bang Theory. She's always in the other room. You never actually see her. Oh, yeah. Merrick's going to he's going to say very earnestly, I will do my very best. I'm on the hunt for a legendary creature. If I could find it and study it, I could really make a name for the Dawnstar clan. Wow, that's that's amazing. How did you how did you find out about this creature? And how do you know it's the right time and conditions? I mean, you still like an expert. Oh, I wish I'd just done a lot of reading on the subject. I won't lie to you.

The Dawnstar clans hit a little bit of a rough patch recently. I lost my brother somewhere and hopefully I'll run into him again someday. But I thought I could maybe bring some honor to the family name again. And, you know, I have to say that hasn't gone over so well with the crew yet. There's a very large lion folk lady who keeps side eyeing me. But I swear this it is a very misunderstood creature. I'm sure it wouldn't do us any harm. I'm sure you're right. It sounds like an amazing way to be able to bring honor to your family and to really just make something of yourself.

And it's amazing. Is there anything I can do to help? Tell you what, why don't you come have some dinner with everybody first and then we can chat about it again later. He's trying to get her away from the bell. Right. If you're worried about me neglecting my duties, I of course am just going to do this in my off time. What are your duties as part of the crew? There's going to be the blankest stare in this woman's eyes. I'm not entirely sure. I heard that you were looking for people. Mostly I've been lifting things. I mean, lifting is incredibly important on boats, ships, whatever you call these things.

So, well, good. You know, I'm one of the people who have made this whole endeavor happen. And so we're grateful for you to be on board. Let's get you some dinner. And he's going to do his arm out. Like, take my arm, you know, like the little hook. Yeah. So, yeah, she'll take it and let you escort her to dinner. I really appreciate that if you could, you know, keep this under your hat for now, I'm sure. It's one of those things that when I can show this off, everyone's going to, I'm going to show it. Everyone's going to see. It's just a big cuddly fish at the end of the day.

I'm excited to find out more. He's being very earnest. He's being genuine, honestly. But he's also got another agenda of getting her away and also just biding time so he can figure out how the hell to manage this. This isn't as easy as throwing somebody overboard. And it's not as easy as starting to fight. Well, clearly you aren't reading the chat because that's what they're suggesting. I'm not reading it at all. The I. Yeah. Right now, this is reconnaissance and removal of danger. Before you guys get to the table, she's going to ask, do you have anything pungent, really smelly?

I think it's attracted to something smelly. Ooh, Merrick's going to say, you know, I've just gotten used to the galley. I kind of feel like there might be some things in here. Why don't we talk tomorrow? Oh, that would be very helpful. Thank you so much, Mary. Right, Mary. Yeah, that's it. That's a pleasure. And your name again? It's the rain. The rain opal Dawnstar of the Dawnstar clan. Of course three. It is a pleasure. And Merrick is going to find an empty seat between a couple of other people. And he's going to and he's going to make it be like, oh, this this one's for you.

And she'll... Yeah, she's going to take a seat and kind of, you know, scooch in. And you're going to notice the two members of the crew that she sits next to are instantly going to like scooch away from her. Just a tiny bit. Just almost imperceptible. But it's like, oh. Merrick's going to go about his business and keep serving people and making sure everybody's taken care of. There will be very, very, very light tea served as after the risotto has begun. Oh boy. Okay. How's about this? Couple more things and we're going to wrap things up. You guys have had a lovely meal.

You have mostly had a pretty good first day. You're getting to know everybody. I need I need our navigator. I need our navigator to give me a survival check. On it, boss. Got this. Beautiful. 15. Beautiful. Beautiful. So you guys you guys are on your way to Westport. You are you're getting to know the crew. Everything seems to be pretty calm and peaceful. Now, I need one of you to give me a flat D20 to see how the C's are going to treat you. Now, who hasn't rolled here today? I feel like Mandy hasn't rolled anything today. I rolled a Mr. Roll and stuff. Mandy, I feel like it's Mandy.

Just remember, almost everyone in this call will see you in a couple of days. Great. Very true. D20, huh? Just a flat D20. Boom. A 12. Not bad. Not bad. I'll take that. OK. Do me a favor. Give me another D20. Me again? Yeah. OK. Not as good. 7. OK. Give me one more D20. Jason, you suck. No, I don't. One more D20. Oh, mother, it's going down. It's a 3, guys. No, no, no. That last one, you wanted a low roll. You're good. Oh, OK. While you guys are eating... [Sniff] Oh, boy. While you guys are eating, you're going to... You're going to smell something. You're going to smell smoke.

And it's coming from the kitchen area. And I would say it's one of those things where you're... Everyone's eating and having a good time and it's like... [Sniff] Oh, no. Like, it just instantly runs to the kitchen. And the good news is that this is a very small fire. We're talking like a grease fire situation. Um... [Laughing] Now, I'm guessing... I'm guessing this is under Merrick's jurisdiction. Yeah. I mean, he would be... This has probably happened daily at his restaurant, right? In some way, shape, or form. Yeah, right. He's used to being like "Baaahh!" and then just running to take care of it.

That doesn't mean he's got advantage. I'm not trying to argue for that. Simply that it would be almost like muscle memory of trying to know what to do here. Right. So, OK. Here's what we're going to do. I'm going to have you roll to put this out. The higher your roll, the more quickly and efficiently you're going to put this fire out. And the more quickly and efficiently you put this fire out, the less damage is done to the ship. Obviously. Does that sound fair? That sounds fair. What would I be rolling? Would it be... acrobatics? Athletics? Acrobatics? You are going to dance and jump around this fire.

I think this is athletics. I think he's going to be running from one side of the room to another... to try to make sure that this is taken care of. I would say... there's a cat screaming outside of my door. That's what I would say right now. You know what I'm going to say? I'm going to say give me a con. Just a flat con. Because this is like you running in and just like "Oh shit!" Like you trying to put this fire out but not burn yourself and like... you know, this is you quickly diving into the situation and maybe it you know you burn your fingertips a little bit but nothing too bad.

But let's do it. So straight up. Just a straight up con. That's it. Alright. You got it. 18. 18! Beautiful! Nice. You're going to get to this fire so quickly that it's almost completely contained. You did a great job. Nothing is going to be really damaged. This is just scrubbing things away and cleaning it. Like you're going to notice that there might be a little smoke damage here and there. But nothing bad. You're fine. You did a great job. That could have been very bad. This could have been the end of arc three. If it got crazy out of control, yeah. We're floating on water.

How bad could it get? Oh right. That's a good point. Shifts don't burn. There's an ocean! We learned back in arc two that we could just boil salt water and drink it. Yeah, exactly. Lisa said it was fine. That sigh. Now Lisa's going to hit me. Lisa, that's how everyone who knows about boats has felt this entire episode. There's a small sermon of that for you from your boat rest. There's like one woman out there listening to this that keeps saying "boats!" And it's killing her inside. Boats, boats, boats. Boats, boats, boats! I got that reference. What's the reference?

It's How I Met Your Mother. Oh, I never watched that show. Oh, you should. It's pretty good until the end. That's a really bad pitch. It's like, "Yeah, it's really unsatisfying." "Well, I think I'm good." It's fine. I'm not going to watch that or Lost. Oh no, I wouldn't compare it to Lost. Ted isn't the good guy by the end of it. He's just not. And it's tough to defend him. Actually comes off kind of rapey in some situations. Anywho. Augie. Augie! I love him. Augie's going to shout down, "We got a ship coming up on us!" And in the far distance, you're going to see a very large sailing ship.

And we're talking, this thing's miles behind you. Could I get a perception check from you guys? And I'm imagining you're using spy glasses. Oof. Nope. Oof. I need Augie's glasses. 22. Clara's trying to look, but while vomiting. Aw. Dead center 10. Aw. I think there's good reasons for yours. Iris and Merrick are going to recognize the ship far behind you as the splendid superior. Uh-uh. This is... Oh, no. The ship belonging to the royals. Damn it. And it would appear as though they have the same idea as you. And I think that's a good time for us to stop for the future.

Ugh! I don't even know what we're going to do about that. Let's end it. Let's end it. I got ol' Blastie working. Just turn it around. Turn our boat around. Look, we're already murderers. Come on. Not all of you! Hey! How about we hold the labels... Nothing brings French together like a secret. Come on. ...or we hold the labels until court of law. You have to be convicted first. Wait, wait. Let's shoot that non-star bitch at them. [laughter] Two birds, one stone. Let's go. Watch her be super useful. You don't even know. [laughter] Let's call up her pet, um, "Romeo" and have it, like, stick it on that ship.

Do you guys want to see a sketch? Yes. Jasper and I have seen this thing. This is not fun. [laughter] (laughs)