On The Horizon

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Let's do that thing where we go on the table and introduce ourselves. I'm Jason. I'm the dungeon master. I am living Frostborn in this house right now. Going around the table. Starting with Jasper. Hey, everybody. I am Jasper. He, him. I play Ruby Petigrew, the Half-Hork Gearslinger, Adept. And Ian. Hey, him, Eni, and it is a balmy 70 degrees here in Los Angeles. And I play chimera the teafling warlock. And Susan. Hey, I'm Susan Spanator. My pronouns are she, her. And I will be playing Nythera, Rihilith, the Elven Rogue Assassin. And it is a humid and muggy 68 here.

And last and certainly not. Jameson. Hi, I'm Jameson. I'm a horse. I'm a druid in horse farm. I'm here on this farm and I know what I have to do. I just don't know that I have the strength to do it. I play logger and cragborn. He's a Dwarfing Marshall. What does that horse have to do? Make some money. That's a money. I can't wait for the spin-off series, Capitalist Horse to hit our Patreon feed. It's an indie game on Steam already. What a blatant fuck you to anybody who doesn't listen behind the scenes. I want a super cut of episode one all the way up to here where it's so impenetrable to listen to even the intro.

Yes. It's like I don't understand that at all. Guys, it's just about time to leave Estherhold. It is time to hit the road and get back out there where things just try to. to kill you. Instead of, you know, affecting morally. Good old fashion adventuring. So, this is trying to kill us plenty in here, too. We've got where wills. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of. I guess. What do we need to put a bow on, guys? What are we looking to accomplish before it's time to walk out those gates? Like, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we set some things up, obviously.

But like, what is on your personal to do list? We need to go square up with the vampires because they asked us to investigate a murder. And oh, boy, did we? Yep. Solved it. Big check mark. Good old check. Check in with the kids. Make your chat alive. Yeah. Yeah. Do some aura healing. See how that goes. See if she wants it. And then Ruby wanted to go to the Gearheart real quick, grab something. Yep. So all of that stuff is in one direction. That's true. Oh, yeah, true. Yeah. So we head towards the gloaming quarter, specifically the temple. As we go, come here. It's just going to, to the group, he's going to be like, oh, right. it feels like this has happened weeks ago, but I did overhear something when we were there that I think might pertain to something that we've already run into that skull.

Yeah, the other vampires, not the ones that we've been dealing with, the choir, the... The Quiet, the Silent Croix, the Angry Choir, the... The people yelling at the temple choir. Yes. Yes. Those. They said that he's going to be. Quotes is going to be here any time. And we have to help him. It literally rained blood. And I don't know if we're going to be talking to them. But it would be cool to find out if the raining of the blood. and the skull in the box are connected. I think they are. Didn't we release shadow phantom things too? No. Stop repeating that. That didn't happen.

No. No. Shouldn't happen. Shouldn't happen. Shouldn't happen. Didn't happen. Don't even say we did that. No. No. I mean, it can't hurt to. I don't know about bringing it up because I don't want them to know we're involved with anything with that thing. but showing them a picture of the skull. Maybe I drew. I don't know. Maybe not the choir, but Mother Duskward. Oh, God. Actually, I'm just realizing. I don't even think Ruby knows who that is. She was not part of that day. Yeah. Oh, that's right. You may not have been there. Mother who? Would you call me? She's not part of the. yelling choir people.

They were all yelling last time I saw them. She's the one who bit chat. Healed? Yeah. I assumed it was by biting. I don't know. I'm not certain myself. Do I have to check my mind? It was the silent choir. That's what it was. The silent choir. Oh, opposite of yelling. Yes. Very ironic. Speaking of Chet, have we figured that out yet? No. But we didn't accelerate it and we had a chance. Oh, well, that's a win. Yes, and hopefully he's still alive. Because ORA and Betty did not come back. Yeah, so maybe we will hurry to get that. to the glowing quarter. Susan, give me a flat T20.

I don't want them to be dead. No, it has nothing to be. No, no, no, sorry. 11. It has nothing to do with that. This is for something in the background. This is just like a fun. Let's kick off the session with this. Very average 11. By the way, we did some shopping behind the scene. like we said we're going to do. We. I'm just going to just make a joke about the economy. So, Ian, you got a cloak of protection. That's right. We discussed the price of smelting and labor. And Jameson, you got some stuff, some potions. Yep, we got a whole bunch of potions. It divvied up between us.

Healing potions. Yeah. Healing potions. Yes. To be clear. Yes. No. No. No. No one of the fun ones. Right. Well, Nyther got one kind of fun one. Ever. What is it called? Ever smoking bottle. And then she got her padded leather armor increased to plus one. Does Nitha are a vape? Is that what this is? Oh, God. Maybe. Is she a vape grandma? She gave up smoking. Gave up smoking, quote unquote. Yeah. So, get into this temple. Everybody give me a perception check, please. 13. 18. 18 as well. Who, 21 for Ruby. All right. Okay. I liked how you guys all. read your numbers out. That's great.

Got Bree's notes. Good. Yes. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So things have calmed down quite a bit since the last time you were there. But there is a very, there was a clear division before. It's like a middle school dance right now. This church is essentially divided in half the silent choir on one side, the pale mercy on the other. And looking all the way to the back of this church. you're going to see Chet with his arm in a sling. And there's a bunch of bandages on his chest. And Vettianor actually helping him out of the room where he was healed. And they're kind of taking him over to one of the chairs in the back to kind of prop him up.

And you're going to see Basque like pretty close behind. I think Ruby would race over. not breakneck speed, but she would double time it over. And we walk through the middle of the middle school dance. Yeah. Yeah. She wouldn't pay any attention to anybody else in there. She would just see chatting and just go, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, you doing okay? Last time we saw you, you're sort of horizontal. Yeah, I think the poison's all out of me. I'm just real sore right now. I heard you killed a guy. Oh, yeah, she'll look back at night there. First thing she's going to do is be like, it worked, we got him, he's okay.

Oh, yeah, killed a guy. Yeah, he was kind of a jerk. He kind of deserved it. It's kind of one, kind of the one who laid you up on the bed there. Thought you might like that. kind of a half smile. I wish I was there to help. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. I'm just glad you're okay. There's a bit of an awkward silence. And Vetty and Orr kind of sit next to him on this little like, like a small bench. And he kind of just looks up to you. All right, what's our next move? What are we doing? Well, first we got to talk to Motherduskward. Let her know that everything's taken care of.

And then I guess we'll see. Or we'll speak up. Down in the basement, I already talked to her. Sarah Fane. She's a bit of a weirdo, the one I told you about. She's ready for you whenever. Out of character. I don't remember what that was. I'm wrecking my brain. I'm telling you, everything's just a little off tonight. So you, God. It's like two days ago, too. Right. Yeah. I don't remember either. Really? She's a healer. I know she was a healer. Yeah, she's a healer, but also she's kind of like a, like a, a, a tarot, tera weedy, like visions type of thing. And you asked Orr to essentially try to get some kind of information on Odysseia.

Like what? You know what I mean? Oh, I thought this was for the, can you help us? Wasn't this for the Brugall too? The Brugall cure? There's a healing option for, yeah. Essentially, it was like, hey, can we get a weird mystic bird's eye view of this shit? Like, yeah, that's how I said. What are we asked for? Okay. I remember that. I don't remember that. That's what I'll listen to the last episode. Hold on to say. Yeah, let's see. Let's see. Just everybody hang tight for a second. Rest this episode will be us listening to the last episode. Yes. Yes. Laughing at all the same jokes.

She's where is, where is that person? You said. She's in the basement. Kind of by yourself alone in a weird little room. All right. Well, that sounds awful. Let's do it. Um, or a. Will you come? come with us. I've worked out with my patron, something that might be able to help you, help heal you. Instantly, like her eyes are going to narrow. Like, what? Like, what? Like, take you back to the way that take you back to the way that you were. And it costs you nothing. What does it cost to you? Nothing I can't afford. I've already worked it out. Don't worry about that.

I get almost insulted. Don't worry about that. So now that she's... She's going to look at Logren. It's in the basement. You come with me. Like now it's like we're walking. We're talking. Let's go. And she's going to pull Kimera aside. Oh. Yeah. Go with her. Yeah. So Lagrin will go to the basement and he'll do the thing where he points his eyes and then points at Nithera and then points at Camera and aura. I think it's like, nobody, especially Camara, should be on their own right now. So last time there's two planned out a day. Oh, job, or that and chimera? Supervision at all times, absolutely.

And then he'll kind of nod for Ruby to come along with him. Yeah, for sure. Nice here will give them distance, aura and chimera, but with her, with her. of 18. Even if she's further away, she probably still hears everything. Or is not being quiet, really. Like, it's, especially the acoustics of the church. Like, she's not yelling. Big church for yelling. Yeah. Well, I don't want to paint a picture. Like, the fucking vampires have divided the, the church with tape and they're just looking at each other. There's individual conversations and things happening.

But you could tell, like, there's a, you know, I think, while were gone. The breakdown was basically like, well, we can't just stand here and scream. We're not getting anywhere. So let's, yeah. Yeah, she would like several steps away. What is it costing you? I'm going to have to go take a walk and talk with him. Probably to whatever that thing is that he wants me to pick up. I've got to find out what it is. Okay, wait, were you going to do that anyway? Yeah, exactly. So why did he just throw in the... And she's going to kind of like gesture to her face. He doesn't exactly give things away for free.

No, but... This is what you deserve. And this is what he owes you. And a walk and talk is something I can give easily. And anything else I'll fight for. Because it matters. And ORA, if you're troubled by this, you don't have to accept this. This is an offer to you. If it's not something you're comfortable with, if it's not something you want, I can take it off the table. We can find another way. We can do nothing about it. This is just what I know. and how I know how to do it. Look, I would love to fix this, but I'm not going to fix this, but I'm not going to put it on your tab.

If I can't fix it on my own, then fuck it. It doesn't get fixed. But. I feel like you're already way out on a limb. Exactly. So what's one more thing? She's going to soften a bit. It's like, how many bar tabs have you run up? Because I've heard talk like that before. Um, plenty. But I've never had to pay them. What if I come with you for the walk-and-talk thing? That I don't know. That I'm not sure about. He's very keen on you. I think you know that. And I don't like that. and he has a way of convincing people. And I don't think you need to be around for whatever it is.

He's got to say to me and whatever it is he wants to show me. But can I ask, why do you want to come? Is it just to... Look out for me? She'll obviously notice like Nytheira. I don't think she's hiding or anything like that. Yeah. Just mom at it up in the corner. Okay. Okay. Just have eyes on the kids. I think he's going to fuck you. Not like in a. I know what you mean. I know what you mean. No, he's going to screw you over. And I think he's going to do it tonight. I think he wants to lock you down. That may be, but that's been the case the whole time I've been with him.

And I want a chance to see if I can bring him around. That's really what I want to do. And I know what everyone thinks about that, believe me. He's a demon and people don't like him. And I get that. He's untrustworthy and evil. But like I said, I've known him for a long time and he knows me. I'd like to try at least once to see if I can just talk to him. And if it makes you feel any better, and he's going to, like, gesture over with his head, I'm going to ask Nythera to come along. Eyebrow raised, but no commentary. Okay. All right. If she's going, then I feel like that. you'll look better about that.

But just be careful, okay? I will. I definitely will. So just out of game, she doesn't want to get healed with cold off. Mostly because it's going to, it's coming out of year tab. Yeah. The more you get from him, the more he takes. Yeah. I just wanted to make sure since it got broken up and we didn't get to. Yeah. And we established you and I fear we're going to go on that walk. Oh, right. I do want to do something about that. Okay. Okay. Okay. Let's catch up with Ruby and Lockhart. And we're heading down into the basement of this church. All indicators point to the fact that you're about to speak with someone. who's eccentric, let's say.

How are you going into it? Imagine it's late night. And like you're almost in a stereotypical horror movie. And you see like, oh, there's a neon sign. Someone reads palms. And you just go, what the hell? Let's go. Let's go in. And then you get kind of caught in a drag me to hell situation or something. But like, how are you walking in? Like, oh, this lady doesn't know anything. Or let's handle this with kid. gloves or let's just try it for the hell of it like what is the mentality for loggerin it is no different than if he was going to talk to the mayor or the innkeeper or anybody else he's just there's a person down here who has stuff I got to talk to them about yeah business as usual I think ruby honestly if she's if she's with loggerin she's not worried in the slightest if logger's just walking in confidently she's just there to make sure everything's cool make sure No problems at all.

But she's not, you know, flipping out about any weirdness. All right. So when you get down to the basement area, there are archways, but no doors. But it's pretty far down. And you're going to, you're going to get to a point where you can't really hear anything up there. It's a little echoey. Like, it's not very furnished. So you're going to hear your footsteps. And you're going to see a candlelight. in the darkness. But it's not, it's not illuminating a ton. You know, it's, it's not like one of Susan's lights that are just leaping out. It's, it is, it's just, you know, like almost a reading light.

And there are dried herbs and things hanging all over the place. Like you could tell that kind of an apothecary setup, but someone who has an organization system that makes sense to them. but to the outside it looks kind of ramshackled and, you know, my desktop. So there is a woman all the way in the back sitting at a round table. And you're going to see her eyes kind of stare out at you, almost like a dog. It's like you can see like kind of dark vision kind of cast out. Like she can see you just fine. she's not going to say anything just yet. She's going to wait for you to kind of approach the table.

Okay. Yeah, so Logrin brushes aside the curtain of beads and enters. I just imagine that there is one. Yeah, there's lots of hanging stuff. There's spiders all over the place. There's, you know, just kind of a live and let live. Yeah. So. And he doesn't, he's not a mood to erase his voice. So we're going to walk a good way. I think closer until he says anything. Yeah. Ruby might say, knock, knock halfway there. That's about it. Yeah. And she'll kind of scoot up. She's dressed in lots of layers. Kind of a big, thick coat over a dress. And, you know, kind of indicating like maybe she's cold down here, or it's just like wearing a hood. hoodie.

It's just comfortable, you know? Is she doing something? Or she just sitting there waiting for some, for like, people to come? There is a book in front of her. So it's not just her being creepy staring at a wall to to do it, you know. She's going to wait to you approach and press A to start the dialogue, right? Yeah. Yeah. It's like, no, I had shit going on. But okay. So, she'll stand up. Mr. Crack. please, please. Come have a seat. It's like, oh, good, they told you we're coming. That's great. Yeah, come on. Let's go. Let's take a seat. He'll do the thing like where he'll offer a hand, but if she doesn't look like she's going to take it, he will.

It's a little awkward. But he'll shake her hand as she takes that. She'll absolutely, she'll kind of grab your fingers at the end and give them a shake. Like, like, like, yeah. Yeah, it's kind of the be well of handshicks. You know? Jesus. You get a deep cuts. Jesus. And then she'll look to Ruby. Yep, Ruby would put her hand out. Ruby pedigree. What's your name again? It's seraphane. And, oh, I'm so happy you came to me today. Please, please have a seat. Ruby's excited. She's just like, this is cool. And so she's going to, she's, She'll have a little seat and look around at everything.

She's probably taking a lot in whatever she can get in her eyeballs. Yeah, Logrin sits and he's got his hands like folded in his lap and he's being very polite. Yeah, she's almost giddy about you guys coming to see her. Like, you know, you're kind of prepped for like someone who would be just staring at a wall kind of. You know, you get down there and it's like, huh? Like, you know, the vacant kind of presentational palm reading thing. she seems alert and with it and maybe even too excited to talk to you. This is, Ruby's picking up on that. And I think she's getting more excited than more.

They're like, I had no idea we were going to have fun doing this. Like, this is exciting because this little dopamine hits constantly on all of it. What is it you'd like to talk to me about today? There's so many things. She's almost out of breath about it. And he's definitely. he's watching her like he's trying to be friendly but his eyes are very much like I'm going to have to catch you um but yeah he so he kind of looks at her and he glances at rub and he glanced back in her and say well we did have a couple of questions um first of all I don't suppose that you're familiar at all with the brugall they're set up quite a ways away from here so it's okay if you don't know them she gives you the faintest like uh-huh like go on you know like like yes Please.

Oh, okay. So in that case, maybe you know that they've also been dealing with, I don't know what it is, a disease, a plague, some kind of sickness. Maybe it's a curse. I don't know. We told them that we would look into some way of helping them with that. So you seemed like the right person to talk to. Let's play a game. All right. Yeah. Logger's in the middle of being like, no, but now we're here. Okay. For every question you ask me, I'm going to ask a question of you. Oh, I'll like that game. Either one of you can answer, but I have. expect you to be 100% honest with me.

And Lagerin looks at Ruby, and the look is very much answer all the questions you want, kid. Ruby's excited. We don't get any orcs down here, as you can imagine, and they're such a proud people. I see this going a number of ways. Most of them lead to the tribe dying out slowly. But if you're willing to take a detour, I think, I think I can help you. What kind of detour? I can mix up something for you that would only need a couple more ingredients. And anyone who's ever blended. potions or basic apothecary knowledge could do this. But you're going to have to go to a slightly remote place just off the beaten path.

You will be going that way. Yeah, he'll turn in. He'll give Ruby a whack, like, write this down. Yeah, she's already got the... No, but that. Yeah, remote. I got it. Yeah, go on ahead. Well, you'll be going through Heroes March at some point. And if I'm not mistaken, Fairbay is on your list of places to go. It is on our list. Is that, was that a question? Am I supposed to answer it truthfully? Okay. Yeah, we're going to. We are going to Fairbary. She's right. Like, she can, she's excited. High mental forest is on your way. And I can give you a short list of things that would work.

And over time, we could eradicate this illness. Are they going to trust you, though? Yes, yes, they are. We gave them a baby. Their baby. It was their baby. We didn't just give them a baby. It was their baby. It was either way she's going to nod along like, of course, yeah. That works every time, yeah, give them a baby. She'll after that. What do you plan on doing with chat? He's coming up on a fairly large decision, but... That's a good question. I know that I asked him if he wanted to go in one direction, and he couldn't answer that question that way. So I feel like I know which way he wants to go.

I don't know which way he's going to go. I'm confused. Why are we doing anything with chat? She's almost... She's kind of kind of like tilt her head and look at you. Like, oh, you. Like, you know what I mean? Like, kind of like, like, not angry or... No. He has quite a big decision coming up. And he looks up to the lot of you. I would imagine. that you'd have some influence over his decision making. Chet tends to make the decisions he wants to make. I don't think I've influenced much of that at all, really. Ruby smacks him, like, on the shoulder. What? He looks up to you, you know that.

It doesn't mean he listens, but yeah, I understand what you're saying. Yeah. She's going to happen. absolutely just drop it. It's like, okay, that's fine. I can see I'm getting under your skin a little bit. So she's just ask a question, please. Well. He looks to Ruby. Well, Ruby's going to ask just for, you know, immediately. Like, well, just give me that list. And she's going to write it all down right then. Whatever would need to be gotten for the Brugall. It's not a long. list. It's two items. So like it is, you know, so we'll get to that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

She's, she's written it on. She's, she's got it all. She's really good with it. What? What other questions do we have? I mean, well, she's got her notebook open. Right? She's taken down the notes. Actually, she's going to look at Loggerid knowing that this is like, don't open this can of worms. But she's going to open up the can. But she's going to open up the stana worms because that's what Ruby does. Something like this look familiar to you at all and she's going to flip her pages back, flip, flip, flip, flip, flip, flip, flip, flip, flip. And then she's going to turn it and just kind of hand it over.

And it's going to be where she had drawn a little illustration of the skull that we had all found in that box. And there's not a whole lot of context. It's not like there's an arrow pointing at it saying, we found this or something like that. It's just an illustration, right? But she said, does this sound? Does this look familiar at all to you? So she's going to look at this and reach out and kind of touch the page, to kind of steady it. And there will be this very odd ripple. And it'll start right at the tip of her nose and kind of like, You've dropped a stone in a pool.

And it's almost as if her skin shimmers away and it is just a fanged skull for just, like, it just like ripples outward for a moment. Like it, the drawing itself is having some effect, you know what I mean? Like there's some. Ah, yes, yes, I've heard them talk about it quite a bit. What do you plan on doing with it? We don't, we've never seen it before. She just doodled that. There's no. It's not a thing. It's just a... We don't have that. No. And we never have is the thing. Exactly. She is, um, she's going to look at you and smile. Give you a couple of beats.

I thought we were going to be honest with each other today. Oh, God. All right, fine. Listen, we found it, and then we got rid of it. Nothing else happened. Well, one other thing happened. And so we opened the box, and then we got rid of it. It's in a Medusa cave. Do you consider yourself's intelligent beings? I'm going to adjust in his chair a little bit. Most of the time, I want to say, yeah. I do, yeah. I would say so too. And some part of you had to know that others have tried dropping such a forbidden item down a big hole, right? Yeah, I mean, that was my thought too.

But to be honest, that's what the note said to do. So, and we didn't just drop it in a hole. we actually buried it under about half of that mountain. It's about half, right? At least, it's like a lot. You're not going to be able to get to it, I can tell you, unless you got some crazy equipment. Or ghosts. Yeah, or ghosts. Well, I'm sure it won't come up again, but in case you're curious about the history of it, I could point you in a direction. Actually, there's a book in Fair Bay you might like. Or Odysseia, if they're willing to cooperate with you. I do not want to go to Odysseia.

I think we'll do fine. We're going to be fine. It'll be right. Yeah, I do want to know about it because as soon as we saw it, I felt like my stomach just dropped out. Like I felt like something was wrong, real wrong. I feel like something bad's going to happen. That's all I... Anyway, thank you. for looking at it. She's going to take the notebook back. She's going to draw this little map. And it's this not a crude drawing, but it's not exactly a map map. But it's a drawing of Odysseia, and she's just going to put a little X there. You'll find a book there that I think will help you out. quite a bit.

You're right to be afraid. There's something horrific coming. You said it's coming. Well, not every vision, but... Not every vision, but... Most likely, yes. Like where, though? Like here? Well, it depends. I've... I've seen this ending a few different ways, but... You definitely have a hand in it. I just can't tell if it's what you've already done or what you're going to do. I guess that depends on your decisions. Well, we're not doing anything with us call anymore. It's gone. We didn't... We're not... would have hell no all right next question Ruby collapses a little bit in her chair she's been super tense Logan perks up he's like okay good on to the next thing your demon friend your demon friend something something bad is going to happen soon normally a vision of something.

And the vaguer it tends to be, the further off, or the more dependent on several things it could be. But I've seen very vivid visions of things happening in this city. And your friend is at the center of it every time. I don't think. I think he has as much time as he feels he does. But I could be wrong. I mean, you could have been yesterday, right? Was your vision involving the basement of a disgusting tavern? No, no, I wish I could have helped you with that, but what we hadn't met? That's fine. Okay. If they're vivid visions, do you have any other information that could help?

Well, I would avoid bridges. Ruby's scribbling this down, by the way. All right. Okay. There's something involving a knife. I don't think he uses it as a weapon, though. It seems to be... It seems to be some... Ritualistic blade. It could be. You trying to exercise the demon? And get it away from your friend? But you know that ends in a fight. But maybe that's what you want. You need a horn. I don't think we're going to do that. Ruby's been making a face the whole time that she didn't realize she was making like, uh, uh, well, I mean, and she's going to look back at her.

I mean, they're not good for each other, are they? I mean, they're not. These things are so fragile. Just us talking about it could change your decisions soon or long term. And maybe we're supposed to have this conversation. I don't know. It's fascinating to watch it play out, though. Well, do you think it's something that could wait like, four months, five maybe. If you avoid bridges, absolutely. I don't know what that means. Could you tell me why? I don't know either. What does that mean? I have seen him die on a bridge. Several bridges, over and over again.

And I don't know what it is. I don't know if it's the suspension over water or the fact that he gets stoned to death. But it's definitely bridge-related. Stoned to death. Okay. Out of character, are there any bridges anywhere around? Asterold? Yeah, I mean, there's always. Cities are kind of built in layers, but not like, not like crossing a trash. There's no massive rivers, right? No, no, no. It's more like, oh, that, like, it's, it's, it's, like, passageways and stuff like that. It's like, oh, this one, you know, it's not. Yeah. Yeah, it's not like. Bridge, you know what I mean?

It's, you know. Is it a big bridge? What does it look like? Ruby Dr. right this time. I'm on it. Most of them are quite large and they're suspended over water. There is one where people throw stones at him over and over again and he just stands there. There's one where the people cut his head off. There's one where he cuts his own head off. It was very interesting. to watch. There's one where you beat him to death with your bare hands. She's stopped writing any of this down, by the way. She's just... This is creeping me out like a lot. But I want to hear more.

Sometimes the water's on fire. And I'm not sure if that's metaphorically speaking or... If he really will set the water on fire. I suppose you'll know it when you see it. It'll make it much more. Well, it might be too late by then. Do you know what this dagger looks like? We recently came into possession of a bunch of new daggers. Night there is coated in him now. We got a silver dagger. We got the dagger from the vampire that was frigging from the vampire The Bertana Moochadow. We got Mind Blade. You need to bring in Nythera and just have one of those trench coat openings.

What do you buy? You know what I mean? You know, you got to be specific. We've got this woman with us who, every dagger she finds, it's like. Such dagger. It's hers. It's hers. She's lousy with them. I'll sketch something out. I'm a terrible artist, but I'll see what I can do. It took me a long time, but I'm actually pretty good now. And she'll hand her notebook to let her draw it in that. Yeah, you just got to practice. She's going to draw something that almost looks like I drew it. So not exceptionally helpful. It is dagger shaped. It is approximate. It is, you know, like if you were playing a mean game of Pictionary, labeled, played.

It looks like a banana wearing a hat. But thank you so much. I appreciate that. Yeah. That's the hat. Yeah. That's the hat. Like a wizard hat. She's going to look so proud, too. I hope that helps. Like, just like she's, it's like I did it. You know? It's very good. It's a wizard head dagger. Okay. We'll look out for it. Okay. Was there any advice associated with that? Or? Besides avoid breaches? Okay. Yeah. That is good advice. Well, you didn't really tell me what your intentions were. If I had a direction to go, I might be able to give you something a little less vague.

I don't know that I have any intentions just yet. I recognize that there's a problem. But our plate is pretty full. Yeah. Fight greater demon is not necessarily top of list, but... I wouldn't say it's not on the list. We do have a source on another horn in Aubrey, but I'd prefer not to take that one either. If you know of any others, though, it would be very helpful. Greater demons aren't hard to find. They're just uncooperative most of the time. Tell me about it. I believe it's your turn. Oh, he looks at Ruby. I think I'm okay. I think I got everything I needed.

I have one more question. Sure, please. Let's just say that there was like a carriage that didn't have horses, but it could ride. It could drive. And it somehow had a soul connected to it in some way, shape, or four. Not at all. Not at all. Okay. I'm just curious if that's a thing. It's just a suspicion. We don't know anything about that. Well, you mean Jesse? Oh, God. God damn. Yes, Jesse. She'll lean forward. Um, is he okay? at all, like at all, okay? Oh, heavens, no. Oh, no. Okay. All right. Imagine having your agency taken away and you're now inside a vehicle you can't feel.

No. I don't do anything. Do you remember the war forged? Fascinating. A fascinating species, but at least they had arms and legs. Eyes to see and mouths to Okay. All right. So if we built a mouth on the car. Well, I would imagine he would start screaming. Oh, God. That's not good. Is there a way to talk to somebody like that? With the mouth that we build. Sorry. Sorry. Well, what's peculiar is the circumstances. I've never heard of anything like this before. Right. I mean, the murdered body was chucked into machinery that was creating. Okay. Yes. Material you used. Mm-hmm.

You could always destroy the vehicle. Oh, God. I don't know. Well, I'm just. just trying to get from point A to point B in the quickest past. That's what the vehicles for. Ruby will smack him. He visibly like tried to stop himself. He didn't say it. I don't know. All right. I think that if he can't feel and he can't speak or see. I think it's probably fine, at least for a little while. Ruby's just shaking your head and then she'll just say, okay. I mean, unless there's a way to get it out of there, right? Right. And she's like, I just said you could destroy the vehicle.

That would be the case. No, no, without doing that. That's not what I know. Like, if you can get the spirit out of a person, I see what you're saying because you'd have to destroy the person. Okay. Actually, I just thought of something. So Ruby's going to think of something. Oh, God. She's going to start rummaging around exactly into all these different pouches. And then she's going to pull out. It's a little scroll. And she's going to open it up. And it's her contract of indentured servitude that she found back at the I guess, long ago. I don't know what's written on that, but it's not going to be like the rules as written in 45 or something.

But whatever it is, it'll have some sort of language in there that basically says what this is. But she's going to, she's going to unscroll it. She's going to, what about something like this? And she's going to turn it around and put it down on the table. And she's going to point at a particular section of it. And the point of that section is basically it says, is you can use this thing to have a little servant that can do something for you. There's a little invisible person. But also here, if you destroy the scroll, it could, it could let them go. And she's going to point out and she could, could I, could I make this?

Could I, like, scratch this name out and put his name on it or something? Like, let him go. And she's going to take it. And to the layman, you're looking at it. It's like, I owe you one soul. You know what I mean? Like, it's just a, it's, oh, this is dark, dark magic. Normally, people enter into contracts like this when they owe someone a debt that they can't possibly pay. And on the other end of that debt is a magic user. So their soul is specifically tied to this parchment. And at some point, I suppose you could call in that debt. But Jesse would have had to have one of these before is tragic accident.

I get you. So I couldn't forge his name or anything. I wouldn't. She says it in such a way that it's like you can. You can certainly try. Yeah. Yeah. Like, mm-hmm. All right, she'll take it and fold it back up and put it back in her pocket. lost in thought. I can keep researching this if you like, and I'll send a raven if I ever get close to something that doesn't involve... I will say this. Humans are... Delicate. And when they can't interact, have no way of communicating. it's only a matter of time before madness creeps in. I'll try to be fast. I did think of another question.

I believe it's my turn. Technically. It's her turn. That is actually the game. Oh, I'm sorry. I lost track. I'm sorry. Please go ahead. She's going to look. at Logren. Do you think it's going to be worth it? I don't think it's worth destroying the car. I don't. I really don't. No, no. All of this. In the end, do you think it's going to be worth it? Yes. Yeah. And he kind of takes a minute before, like, in his eyes widen a little bit, when he realized what she's on. Yes. It will be worth it. Good. Wonderful. Okay. Ask your question, please. Wait a minute. We know why would you ask me that?

I have a new question. Well, you've had to have asked yourself that. I'm trying to I want to put this as I don't want to sound crass Go fuck yourself but if but eat my dick um no no um no I know myself well enough to know that I would not be doing it if I wasn't sure, absolutely sure, that it would be worth it. Well, I'd never want to say anything that would dissuade you, so please ask your question. Now, I've another new question. And do you think it's worth it? Well, it's difficult for me to say, because I'm not really affected one way or the other.

And obviously, your family name is tied up into this. Your friends are putting an awful lot of trust in you. and in the end. I hope that you get exactly what you want. Okay, I just still have one other questions. So if you want, go ahead. So far, we've made a lot of partnerships. Frostborn, the Dorgar, the Minotaur, the drow, eventually, the vampires. Can I trust them all? I think you'll be shocked to find how reliable strangers can be. not just when they have something to gain. But when they find that they can actually affect change in the world, people usually jump at the chance.

That sounds. That sounded like a yes, just to make sure I understand. She's going to give you a nod. Just like, yeah. Okay. Bye. Yeah. That's everything. Do you want to say by the way? The big stretch thing is like, Tending it up the rusty trail. I'm on my head out. Is that the time? Is that the time? Finish is whatever drink was on her table that was not intended to be drunk. That was candle wax. I think this is spoiled. Ruby, if if Long is getting up, Emily, well, thanks. Ruby would get up, I think, slowly, more pensively than maybe maybe ruby usually than maybe Ruby usually goes in and out of a room.

You know, making sure the scrolls put away and putting her notebook away. and she probably has to look like kind of a little bit of distress, not panic, but just furrowed brow. And she'll kind of pause for just a moment and then just reach your hand back out. Thank you. That actually helped. She'll do the thing which you kind of grips your fingertips. And you'll feel there slide something into your hand. And when you pull back, there's a, there's a coin with a pancake on it. It's a solid silver coin, like a, like a silver dollar type of thing. When you get to Fair Bay, take this to Bonzos.

Oh, God. Yes. Fair Bay has a bonzo's? I knew it. I knew they had a... Oh, my God. Thank you. She's going to lean forward like this is the most dire news. Like, they need your help. I'll give them help. I will. Thank you. It was a real pleasure. I hope we. I hope we see you again. You will. And Lagerin's waiting a couple paces away. And when Ruby comes to. Did I hear you say bonzos? Well, she said bonzos. Somebody said bonn. There's one in Fair Bay. We're going. We're going as soon as we go. As long as there's not one of Odysse, I think will be all right. I don't even think I want to go to a bonzo's in Odysseia.

I don't. I don't. I don't even want to go inside. It's like going to a Waffle House in Tallahassee, Florida. I wouldn't. Like, I don't even know if they exist. but like they shouldn't like All right, well, thank you for Thanks for all the help and he'll like do a little wave and we'll try back up the stairs. Yeah, just kind of give you a little like, yeah, Ruby waves a couple extra times kind of like you know like the, I know when I'm walking the dog, the dog will see another dog across the street on the sidewalk. Oh, yeah. And then keep looking back every few steps like, But what if I could?

What if I could hang out with them? That's, she'll just wave a couple extra times. How's about we catch up with chimera and Nithera? That sounds all right. Pay me a picture. What are we doing? Oh, well, speaking of sneaking. I want to try something. So. Oh. I love that. I think everyone's thinking you're going to try and sneak away from night here. And Susan's like, you can try. Yeah. So be like beggars. You're close. You're close. So. So, Camer and Ora have been having this conversation. And they finish. I imagine ORA goes to find Chad or, you know, wherever she's gone away to. the bench.

Yeah. I'm getting back because he's pretty beat up. And I think there has been listening to this conversation that they've been having. So Camero wants to like say some words to hurt in private. But I want to try and do something cool. And like, because there's like people milling about in this church or whatever. So I want to try and like, you know, in movies where like people walk by in front of the camera and then the subject is like suddenly gone, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Sure. I want to do that and try and like sneak over to Nightthera so you can't see me.

Like see if I can sneak up on her. I want to see if I can sneak up on Nythera. My passive perception is 18. Yeah. And I have a minus two to dexterity. So I want to try anyway. I really want to try. I'm going to describe what happens no matter what. So please. Wait, didn't we just establish that if you roll a crit, it just meets? If you have a negative two. I have a negative two, yeah. I think if you crit, I'll let you have it. I'll be first. Okay. Yeah. Okay, come on. Come on, Crette. I want this so bad. Oh, no. That was better than I thought it was going to be. Yeah.

Like you all will pretend. Yeah. I imagine that like you're, you're kind of like eyeballing the room. So you're just kind of like, hmm. And then when a couple of people pass, you start Naruto running over there or something. Like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm like waiting for my moment. I'm like looking for my moment. I'm like looking for my moment trying to be all casual. will know that she's looking at me and then like, yeah, just try and scurrie behind a pillar or something like that as. As I try and get behind her. What's your passive insight? My passive insight.

Hold on one sec. Oh, I don't know. Where do I see my passive insight? I can tell you my in my my insight. I guess it's on 10 plus your insight. It is. Yes. Okay, gotcha. Then it would be 18. Okay. Wow. I'm going to roll deception to see if I could hide. Ninth year is pretty stone-faced most of the time, but she will like smile, like, try to hold back a smile from seeing this obvious attempt at stealth. So now the shoe's on the other foot. Yeah. Okay. Cool. Yeah. Let's see. It was almost an 18. Overwhelming force meets the immovable object. Yeah. So that's a 10 total with an expertise die.

That's of six. Holy shit. Yeah. My dad is actually usually pretty good at lying. But I guess this caught her unawares. Just laughing. Yeah. Yeah. So the. So, wait, this means that I clock it immediately that you're trying to. You're trying to make it. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. I get up behind you and I go and I see, I kind of like see your body language and I'm like, well, I thought I'd give it a try. Maybe I have some work to do. Maybe you should take some lessons with me and Vetti. That sounds like a lot of work. Well, if you want to try doing that again, I would suggest it.

Well, it's never been my forte. Yeah, you should probably leave that one to me. Exactly, and I will. I love to see you work, even though when you do that kind of stuff, I barely catch it at all. Yeah, usually you guys don't see me. Kind of the point of it. To the point of it, I couldn't help but notice that you were listening to our conversation. Yeah. It's okay. You don't have it. It's fine. It wasn't anything that I wanted to keep private. I heard you needed me for a walkabout. Well, about that. And I'm going to pull out some like paper and, and I'm going to start writing something as I'm talking to my era.

And I'm going to say in a whisper. I'm going to say to Nithera in a whisper so that no one else can hear is I told ORA that you would come along because I'm going to be taking a little balk and having a little talk with Colgoth tonight and I was trying to make her feel better about it but I need to be It's got to be solo a mono if you catch my drift. My dear is going to take a quick glance to the paper. Yeah, he hands it to you and on the paper it says, I need you to tell me. I understand completely. You know, it was mostly for her benefit. I don't want her to worry.

I hate having to lie to her, but you know. No. And then Nitha is going to not even lift that into your eye of sight, like the piece of paper, it's going to stay like below the belt. So like if somehow he could see through your eyes, I don't know the logistics of Colgoth. But, um. So that disappears into a pocket and then she'll put a hand on chimier shoulder and say, I, I completely understand that alone time is very necessary, especially after we've gone through something so traumatic. I'll give you space. Thank you. Yes. That's all I need. Just trying to get some answers.

And to figure out what happened. Anyway, shall we find the others? Yeah, sounds good. And she'll give your shoulder squeeze to like, getcha. conveying the hidden message. Finger guns as she walks away. Yeah. And I think let... I think when you squeeze him too, like, it, he feels tense. Like, it's, there's a tension there. It's like... Tensed up muscles. Okay. So then there's like one squeeze to go like, I got you. And then there's like a comforting, like, almost like... like a pat as she lifts her hand. He just gives her a nod. We'll get this all worked out in the end, I promise.

I have no doubt. I would imagine that after the talk, after you guys have had a chance to treat cold golf like a ring doorbell. I would imagine Ruby and Loggerner wrapping up so they'll be coming back up the stairs. And here's, man, I know you guys have unintentional deep roots in Estherhold now. But it does sound like you're about to, you're about to depart after, after tonight. What? Like, what is left on your checklist to get ready for? Like, we're going to Odysia, which is going to be fun. We have to let the kids know. We can't just, hey, we're going for cigarettes.

That was my plan. I'm not going to talk to them for. Actually, well, Logron will try to get an audience with, My notes are a terrific. A big vampire lady. I'm a good d'usquering. Big vampire. Big. Yeah. The Resident Evil one. That's like, oh, yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, the 9 foot, 6-1. Lady Dimm-Met. Mommy. I heard you had one. I don't want to meet her. Dimitrust. Yeah. Demitrust. Yeah. Yeah, someone's going to yell. Yeah. Yeah, so he'll basically, he'll be like whatever. He just walks up to a vampire. I'm looking for Mother Dust Word. Which. Hey. What's this involving? Like, kind of like why.

Like what? Oh, the murder that we investigated for. They're going to perk right up. Like, oh. Oh, come with me. Come with me. And you're going to usher you. And he'll turn around in a way for everybody to come with them. Are the kids with us currently or is it just the four of us? So if you picture the church is this almost like a bus station type of thing. Like it's got a big inside to it. There's a bench all the way at the end of it where Chet is kind of laid up. And they're kind of hanging out with him, making sure he's okay. And then kind of like, what's next?

What are next? So they're probably having a heavy conversation on the, their own. Like, it's like, hey, you almost die. What are you going to do about this? Thrill thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And can we cut to some of that conversation real quick? Just. Yeah. Yeah. I'll just sit here and talk to myself. Like a. Yeah. That'd be great. Yeah. Just like 20. And all of them have opinions. So there's lots of back and forth and cross talk. And they're going to do some impressions too. So. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A wonderful Rodney Dangerfield. Jack gets no respect is the thing.

Yeah, I mean. He's pulling on his collar. Yeah. Eyes hugging out. They're really going to rope the kids in with Rodney Dangerfield. Yeah. We're going to get all those touchstones. Hey, everybody. We're all going to get late. Big Rover. Dangerfield fans out there. Oh, yeah. Thank you. Some Bobcat Gold 3. Oh. Yeah. So like, do they, do they bring us right into the room with, with, with, um, this guy will escort you right to the office and knock. And on the other end the door, it's like, come on in. She's not busy with anything right now. And he knocks kind of urgent.

Like, you can want to hear this. Like that type of thing. Yeah, no, she's in her office that he's going to open the door. It's like, please go right in. He shakes the guy's hand. All right. Thanks, log room, crack porn. Nice to meet you. And we'll file into the room. And he'll be like, sorry to intrude. We just want to do. We're going to be leaving tomorrow on another errand and wanted to talk to you first. I don't know if one of the kids came in and told you all ready. We sent him out ahead of us. But your old murder situation is solved. It's all dealt with. She's going to kind of perk up, but like, hesitantly.

Like, that's an odd way to phrase it. Like, yep, in the bag. We got that. Like, it's like, what does that mean? Like, what is? So. We did it. Yeah. Yeah, we win. We won. We got a high score. We won it. You're right. He's dead. Like just. We looked into it and he's dead all right. We're sure. Yeah. No, they had it right. Dead to rights. I mean, you know. Uh-huh. Like to. Ha-ha. It's actually. Canonically, that's how Lagerin last. Yeah. Nobody's ever heard it. Ha-ha. I think it's out of ghost. I've only read it. I never. So she'll stand and she has her hands kind of worrying like up to her chest.

And this is a bit more emotion than you've seen because she's like, what does that mean exactly he'll actually turn to a theory I'd be like this is kind of you've got more stake in this he's like we were able to locate and get evidence of his killer who turned out to be thin silver fox he was perpetrating the murders and well all those werewolves he was claiming were not truly werewolves. He had a device that he was infecting them with. In his crusade against quote-unquote werewolves, Zira actually found this out and he killed Zira because Zero was going to expose him.

But we were able to kill Bain ourselves and we brought all the information to the mayor. And the mayor is going to make sure that everybody knows who the killer was and why, and what he was doing. And also, and Nythera from her belt is going to take out the dagger that was Zeras. Could you make sure if he has any family or close friends that they get this dagger? I'm sure it meant a lot to Zera. So this is far and away more than she expected in terms of closure, right? Because not only is like, yeah, it was a grand conspiracy. We found the guy. He's dead.

Like it's, and like, it's like, that's, that is not how this usually goes, right? Um, like, she's almost going to well up just, just. And she'll reach out and take the dagger. Like it's like it's going to fall apart if she She grabs it too, too, you know, vigorously. And she's going to step right up to you and kind of kiss you on both cheeks. Thank you for this. I, if you ever need anything from us. And she'll kind of like lock eyes with you, anything. Let us know. I'm glad you said that because I got a request. Oh, dibs. We like hold the finger. I was like, actually, I'm glad you said that.

We need you to give the kids a job. We're going to leave town. And last time we left him to their own devices. And Jet went and got himself almost immediately, killed. And they just, they tend to find trouble. So we're trying to keep them out of trouble. And they seem to really like you guys. And we're hoping that you might be able to keep them busy. Give them a job, something to do. Keep them out of trouble. Keep them safe. All four of them. She's, she's gonna almost light up. I, because like, oh, that's not even, that's not even, that's not, even a face. It's like, yeah, whatever.

Like, this isn't, I need you to kill something for me. It's like, could you just watch these kids for a little bit? It's like free babysitting. Yeah. Yeah, whatever. Also kill chat again. It's fine. Yeah, she'll, she'll be delighted to take care of them. That's great to hear. We notice they're a little rough around the edges. We might. we might work on that a bit. If they get bored, they will start stealing things. So definitely keep them busy. Especially Vetti. She will steal something. She probably has already stolen something from me. Made you drop the dime on her so quick.

Okay. She is currently stealing as we speak. If you have explosives especially. Yeah. Are you missing any explosives? You should double check. We probably know where they are. The other thing is they need some special attention to. Toa. Orra was a part of a really terrible accident. And if there's a way you can help to restore her face, that would be a huge favor. I don't know what connections you have or what healers are here, but we have to move on. And I can't look into that anymore. And also, I think Chet doesn't want to be a vampire. Is there a way? I know you help. helped him by doing that.

Could you help him again by undoing it? I don't think he wants to be a vampire yet. Just not right now. I love the idea that like it's naivete. It's not even like asking for too much. But like that was their first thought. And just like, well, let's bite him. And it's like it would like they did. didn't have healers, like they didn't try other things. It was just like, well, we'll just undo it later. You're not like it's so. I know you guys really love making vampires, but quit for a minute. Yeah, God. Yeah, just kind of a smile on her face. Like, I can't even get into that.

Like, it's, I'm not like that is an ugly stereotype. I just, we'll see what we can do. Because your concern is so touching and heartwarming. But the way we got it is just like, you know, I don't know. It's interesting. There was no judgment. There's no judgment here. It was just in this. It's not about judgment. It's just like it's just like. It's just like you think we do. Like it's just like, oh, you stubbed your tip. Like, just... That's not what I think you do. It's not what I think you do. It's what you did. That's what happened. Those are the facts. He stabbed in it.

Yeah, when that boy almost dies, he almost dies. Like, he really goes for it. Isn't that the second time this month he's been stabbed in the chest? Yes. Yeah. That we know. That boy's got scars. Yeah. Yeah. I would really appreciate that. If you guys are getting ready to leave after this, she'll kind of look to Nythera, still cradling that knife kind of close to her chest and just kind of like look to night there and just with her eyes like anything, like for real. Like, you get a big favor for this. Night Thier will give like a nod in her direction. and then exit the room.

Guys, I think that's a good time for us to stop for the night because I want this next bit. We're going to need time. That, it's, I've been waiting. I've been waiting. We'll get to it, though. We'll get to it. What? Can you pull a map of the area real quick, of Alara? Yeah. I want to see. I want to see. I appreciate you. I can do that any time. Let's go. How about that? Yeah. There's a bridge to Odyssea. That's the name of that episode. A bridge to Odyssea. Bridge to Odyssea.