Ep. 17: Repercussions (The Neverthere: Forest of Liars)

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Will (00:00):
Nother Realm is a narrative driven tabletop role

(00:02):
playing game podcast. For thisseason, we're using the Dungeons
and Dragons five e rules. Kinda.
Sometimes the language on thispodcast can get a little spicy.
But if that doesn't bother you,my name is Will. And I play six.

Bruce (00:20):
I'm Bruce and I'm the voice of Archie.

Fraser (00:22):
I'm Fraser and I play Margbark Smothe.

Tanner (00:25):
And I'm your game master Tanner. And this is what
happened on the last episode ofNother realm. The Neverthere
there. You finish the job inArcus? Yes,

Bruce (00:37):
no, no.

Tanner (00:39):
This is one of those gray spaces, right?

Bruce (00:41):
Technically, the job was still completed. I see what you
say. Yes.

Tanner (00:45):
Is this a technicality we can lean on? Hey,

Bruce (00:47):
Aaron. Young got pissed off. Chaudry

Tanner (00:49):
Oh, yeah, they're doing good. How are you? And first of
all,

Will (00:52):
Chaudry great news.

Tanner (00:55):
Oh, good. Good. You've finished the the job that I've
paid you for

Will (01:00):
everyone's dead.

Tanner (01:02):
I will go home. Assess the situation. If I have any
issues, I will get in contactwith you. He pulls out his purse
and begins counting out a fewcoin counts out 75 fighter and
hands it over to

Bruce (01:16):
I divvied in the three and hand it to six and Morbark

Fraser (01:21):
don't you gentlemen think it's time to celebrate and
reaches down into the bag ofholding and pulls out a very
fancy bottle of Chablis.

Tanner (01:28):
Except when you reach down into the bag, something
grabs ahold of your wrist andpulls you down in.

(02:21):
The year is 1191 AR and it isthe end of the age of resonance.
Mark bark. You look upon adesolate land. The earth is
scorched and devoid of life allaround you ash rains down from
dark clouds that swirl throughthe sky. You can feel the hot

(02:46):
dry wind on your face. But itmakes no noise. The one thing
that you hear that doesn't seemto exist coming from any
external source of voice frominside which you are very
familiar with voices coming frominside. But this is not the one
that always reaches out to you.
This one is different. This onesays I am dorm loud The Revenant

(03:09):
Herald of the oncoming silence.
What prison do you hold me in?

Fraser (03:23):
I think we're in a bag I'm not sure how we

Tanner (03:32):
and with and with that you feel sump and
the vision of this desolateplane of existence immediately
disperses. And what you do seearound you is this sort of this
dark plane this pocketdimension. As you look up you
can see a small circle above thehole which you fell into you

(03:57):
know this is the bag of holdingbecause on the ground nearby is
the very expensive box and theninside that bottle of Shibley.
But ahead of you. The thing thatwas talking to you is this
behemoth of a humanoid standingnearly 12 feet tall, decked in
this heavy black plate armor.

(04:21):
They walked towards you theirsteps resonating in this pocket
dimensionyou have trapped me in a bag.

Fraser (04:37):
I wouldn't say I've trapped you I was pulled in you.
I'm trapped with you.

Tanner (04:42):
When you say I'm trapped with you. He starts to laugh and
his laugh echoes in this spacehe pulls a massive great sword
from his back. I need you toRolling

Fraser (05:03):
for oh wait hold on I rolled the wrong I rolled the
wrong the wrong dice. Oh the twookay well I should have just
stopped the person I

Tanner (05:12):
Dormloud the Revenant rolled higher than a two

Will (05:15):
question Tanner before we get started yep just so Frasier
you might not know about thismechanic but there's a certain
there's a limited amount of airin a in a bag of holding.

Tanner (05:26):
There is limited amount of air in a bag of holding there
is 10 minutes worth of air in abag of holding

Will (05:32):
humanoids. I don't know if dorm loud needs to breathe air.
It's a good question. But ifthere's two humanoids, wouldn't
that be cut to five?

Tanner (05:42):
Maybe? I mean, yeah.

Bruce (05:44):
You know, that's still like 90 fucking turn. Yeah.

Will (05:47):
Yeah, it is. So there's just combat and yeah, sure.
Yeah.

Tanner (05:51):
Okay. All right. Just

Bruce (05:52):
want to point that out.
Because you made that sound waymore of a problem than it
probably was.

Will (05:57):
You're right. You're right. But it was just a
thought.

Tanner (06:00):
Yeah. And you know what, that's the least of your worries
right now as you're breathingfreely, but maybe not for long
as clang clang clang clang clangthis this massive this massive
black armored being entity manso many entities in this swings
swings that great sword right atyou oh I make I want you guys I

(06:29):
make really cool bosses withreally good motivations and
backgrounds. And they have

Bruce (06:36):
really mattifying

Tanner (06:39):
he misses and as a matter of fact as he's running
towards you He takes us downonly should HOLY SHIT Hang on.

Fraser (06:56):
And he cuts through

Will (06:57):
the bag. That's not good.
If he does. I don't think youcan damage the bag from the
inside.

Tanner (07:01):
I think you can. I'm looking it up right now. Oh, no.

Fraser (07:06):
Oh, not my bag of hold aid.

Tanner (07:10):
Okay, no, here's i Yeah, okay. No, we're fine. We're
fine. We're fine. We're fine.
We're

Bruce (07:14):
fine. Okay, cool.

Tanner (07:16):
He he brushes you and swings his sword. You can hear
it as it cleaves through the airnext to your head. It just
cutting through the space inhere you're able to definitely
dodge and duck underneath it.
And he misses is all a fancy wayof saying he misses so it's your

(07:36):
turn. Or else it would be if youdidn't have multi hit now he
rolled a one I'm not gonna givehim his multi attack rolled up
fucking one.

Bruce (07:49):
Multi attacked all right.
He's just walking the ground.
That's his marketer who'skicking the ground.

Tanner (07:55):
Yeah, seriously.

Fraser (07:57):
I'm gonna kind of jump out of the way it was very easy
to miss swing and be like, Whoa,why are we fighting? You heard
me? I'm a fellow prisoner. Wecan help each other escape.

Tanner (08:07):
Oh, okay. Roll persuasion. I mean, that was
quick enough to do but like it'sgonna be a little tough.

Bruce (08:15):
Oh, okay.

Fraser (08:16):
That is a seven plus four is 11

Tanner (08:22):
It seems his resolve is not shaken.

Bruce (08:25):
You don't want to escape?
He wants to fucking kill youbro.

Tanner (08:27):
Yeah, He figures he could. He says back. You can be
dead and I can still escape.

Fraser (08:35):
We'll see about that.
And I eldritch blast.

Tanner (08:38):
Okay, go ahead and roll that to

Fraser (08:41):
forever. Oh, let's say six plus 713

Tanner (08:49):
Okay. As you send this eldritch blast forward, he is
able to deflect it almost withhis sword and slide through it
without being scathed it doesnot connect

Fraser (09:07):
SON OF A BITCH Yep. As a bonus action I cast killed I
guess killed Norma I gotta bearwith me.

Tanner (09:22):
No, you're fine.

Bruce (09:23):
Tex has actually done

Fraser (09:25):
a hex please curse section I can curse a creature
within add my proficiency bonusto damage rolls against the
curse target blast for a minutenice. And if he dies I gain my
Warlock level plus charismamodifier

Tanner (09:40):
Okay. And just as a note your Warlock level is level five
you guys have not healed yetfrom from your adventure and
Arcus so this is bad.

Fraser (09:50):
Oh, I'm not doing well then. Oh shit.

Tanner (09:54):
Alright. Dorm loud will then turn on his heel. Come back
and make a another wild swing atyou that one will connect as he
swings down from a higher reachabove his 12 foot tall dome

(10:14):
comes down and slices you forseven damage ouch okay, how you
doing? You still standing?

Fraser (10:27):
Yeah, I'm still standing by by one. Okay.

Tanner (10:31):
Oof second attack comes down as he does one fell swoop
of follow through that one willalso connect. So I don't I'm not
going to roll damage for thatthat's going to be at least one
damage plus whatever he does. Sowhat we did so what happens is

(10:54):
you feel the full brunt of thissecond swing. It slices through
you and you hear the bloodsplatter on the floor behind
you. It stretches so far fromthe swing off of his blade that
it connects with the whitejagged stone. And as it does,

(11:17):
you can feel your consciousnesssort of tearing from yourself
this twisting and these feelingsof it's not quite death you
don't think that you're beingpulled to another plane? What
you feel is yourself beingpulled away from something

(11:42):
that's trying to pull you backyour entity the sword that you
carry is trying to keep you hereit says we had a deal we're not

(12:04):
done yet. And with those words,I need you to give me a
constitution saving throw

Fraser (12:15):
it's 18 on dice,

Tanner (12:17):
very nice. Two things you can feel pulling him you can
feel the sword trying to pullyou towards it. You know that
giving everything completely tothe entity is not going to end
well for you. You've known thisfor a long time. The other force

(12:37):
pulling you is the force of thewhite stone with that role you
have a choice which you're goingto let yourself be pulled
towards

Will (12:48):
what the fuck is habit? I

Fraser (12:50):
all right all right. So Shit shit All right, so Mark's
gonna say I feel torn in twodirections but you haven't let
me down yet old friend and hemakes the choice to go with the

(13:13):
pact. Okay, but entity

Tanner (13:17):
Yep. So so your the sword that you have carried with
you since the party makes youthe sword that somehow helped
you get out of all yourpredicament so far the sword
that kept you from dying whenyou were on your last your last
HP we're just gonna be metalwith it. You you call out

(13:40):
towards it. You You give it someform of trust and you can feel a
sort of warmth from thatdecision from the entity. And as
you're pulled back into yourbody you feel something in your
mind split like a cracking of amirror and you can feel the

(14:06):
entity encroaching on your mindjust a little bit more. Hey, how
you doing? I live here nowentity. And and with that you
take in this massive gulp of airand immediately rise from the

(14:30):
ground.

Bruce (14:31):
For Health.

Will (14:34):
For serious, oh, I was fucking with you.

Bruce (14:38):
Oh, yeah. Nice.

Fraser (14:41):
And what is that again?
Oh, it's gone up.

Bruce (14:43):
It's a challenge as my full health again. I've never
seen it before.

Will (14:48):
It's it's been at least five episodes

Tanner (14:51):
at this. So I'll let you if you'd like to give a quip to
dorm loud at this moment. I'lllet you do that and then we'll
let the others have have a move.

Fraser (14:59):
Wait Where am I in relation to doorman at his feet

Tanner (15:03):
but you've stood up I mean you like this this health
return to you immediately

Bruce (15:10):
on your feet like the undertaker except you went all
the way to your all the way toyour feet yep

Tanner (15:14):
yeah that's perfect yeah Undertaker but from heals up

Fraser (15:17):
all right he says fuck you nerd

Tanner (15:24):
okay Archie and six.
Yeah you did see a little spurtof blood come out of the bag and
Mark Burke just got pulled inthere what do you guys do? What
do you do?

Will (15:36):
Archie? I can't go in that bag. I I am sure it will not end
well.

Bruce (15:43):
I grabbed the bag. Okay, hi Haley things work.

Will (15:48):
I mean, you could jump in and I'll I'll go find a shovel
and maybe pull you out by theshovel.

Bruce (15:55):
You're fucking bonkers.
If you think I'm jumping inthere. I open it and I just
think of Marburg and I reach andgrab the first thing and pull as
hard as I can.

Tanner (16:03):
Mark bark you feel this hand grab the back of your
clothing and pull you out fromthis pocket dimension. Dorm loud
tries to reach out for you andpull you back but you are flung
from the bag too quickly andpulled out back into outward
enterprises as if who

Bruce (16:24):
tie that bitch up. She's me because whatever it

Will (16:26):
is, it's got a zipper tender just made the zip noises.
Zipper

Bruce (16:31):
zippers aren't you know, they're not like, you know, I
was

Tanner (16:34):
I was thinking like, you know, it had the ties that you
pull and it cinches

Bruce (16:38):
Yeah, let's do that. I think it's it's more

Will (16:41):
like really funny to think of this as like a Coach purse
that.

Tanner (16:46):
Oh, yeah, it's just it's very Yeah, I mean, it's very
nice, you know?

Bruce (16:50):
Yeah, I just don't, I just tie it shut, and I tuck it
in my backpack. And I just kindof look at Mark park and I go,
let's, let's get behind the doorfor we talk about this. I

Fraser (17:01):
you know, don't go in there. 10 out of 10 would not
recommend

Will (17:07):
it. Mark I will Okay, so I guess yeah, we'll go back into
one of the rooms. One of ourrooms and then talk about it.
Yep. Is that the plan? Yes.

Tanner (17:19):
Yeah, there's some there's some patrons in here
that look around and they'rejust looking at their

Bruce (17:24):
beard just a magic trick Bashar has been practicing is
he's practicing his act Yeah.

Tanner (17:32):
He walks away.

Bruce (17:37):
Wise choice

Tanner (17:38):
though Aaron is is with you guys.

Bruce (17:43):
Oh, I'm sure I just I just assume he's attached now.
Yeah,

Tanner (17:47):
he's just wide eyed looking on.
Man that's like some I've beenthere done that
Alright, so you guys make yourway to one of the rooms slendro
Behind you. The three of you andAaron as you are in a dorm now
The Revenant in a bag.

Will (18:11):
Mark bark

Bruce (18:13):
well, we don't know what's in the bag. So I'm
waiting on Yeah, I just pointmark bark not like aggressively
but just kind of likequizzically and ice go. Explain.

Fraser (18:25):
I don't know if I can really explain but I'm pretty
sure dorm louds in my bag.

Bruce (18:32):
Oh, no. It's like a poker Mon. We there's

Fraser (18:38):
Yeah, but one I didn't want to catch.

Will (18:41):
Wait a second.

Bruce (18:42):
You're trying you don't have enough batches as a
problem. You're telling me thatwe can't try that. Why not the
Chablis? I mean we can which isgonna go in there kill him
before we do.

Will (18:56):
Well, as long as that stone is in there, I can't I I'm
not going to be able to gotowards in that bag.

Bruce (19:03):
Oh, we can bring him out.
Oh,

Fraser (19:08):
that seems to have consequences for six.

Will (19:11):
That's well, no, I don't know that dorm life was the
problem. Maybe it is I I reallyhave no clue. It could be the
dorm lounge. Could be the stone.
Either way that intense magichas an effect on me. But let's
even if it's not dorm loud andwe bring him out here. It might
not end well.

Bruce (19:30):
I mean, there's plenty of open fields around if you'd
prefer to murder a supernaturalcreature out there instead of in
the in hmm

Will (19:46):
i i think that just my personal take on this. I say the
what's in the bag is in the bagfor now at least.

Fraser (19:55):
Yeah, as long as you don't get to stick your hand in
there. I think you'll be okay.

Will (19:59):
Is there anything of importance besides dorm loud and
that stone and the ship?

Fraser (20:05):
The Shibley he says with an exasperated look on his face.

Will (20:10):
Do we need anything else out of the bag? Because

Bruce (20:13):
I need a fucking nap.
That's what I need. I,

Will (20:16):
I couldn't agree with you more.

Bruce (20:19):
Well, I for one feel pretty good. This is a problem
for tomorrow. Six

Will (20:26):
goes to sleep right there just sitting in front of you
just power down

Bruce (20:29):
for you to do. So you do sleep? Not really. His eyes are
open. He has some like, it'slike a conscious recharge mode
or something like that. Yeah,

Tanner (20:46):
but he's made the decision six, just six powers
down the glow in his eyes andhis number six on his forehead
just kind of leaves. The one badthing that you guys noticed is
that he forgot to plug himselfin. The USBC cord is just not

Will (21:01):
I forgot about that.

Fraser (21:02):
USBC we can't have zippers, but we can have you.

Tanner (21:09):
Oh, all right.

Bruce (21:10):
I know about this. So I go to where he pulled it out of
last time. And I plug and play

Tanner (21:15):
good. Yeah, yeah. So whose room did you go into?

Bruce (21:19):
I guess we'll say mine.
Okay, yeah.

Tanner (21:22):
He slept there in the past. So you guys have three
rooms, two of which areavailable for you mark bark. So
you go and find yours. The threeof you. I mean, doesn't matter
what time of day it is. You'redone. Even if you did get a full
heal on stuff, your injuries arestill existent. So you lay down,

(21:43):
getting some rest and really tryto recover from the ordeals that
you faced in Arcus. And in apocket dimension found in a bag.

Bruce (21:53):
My favorite kind of pocket dimension. Yeah. Do any
of

Tanner (21:57):
you dream during the night? I don't know. Do we? It's
up to you. Amanda

Fraser (22:04):
Elves don't really need to sleep. They go into a four
hour trance.

Tanner (22:07):
So drought, drought trance. Yeah, nice.

Fraser (22:11):
So maybe maybe I dream?
I don't know. Okay,

Bruce (22:14):
I just drink a lot. So I can't dream. Okay. Okay.

Tanner (22:16):
Got it. So, nice. Six, six, any any? Any thoughts? What
I'm actually what I'm basicallyasking for is if you guys are
trying like in your sleep? Areyou trying to put together you
know how dreams work? It's like,oh, hey, we went through a lot
of shit during the day. Now Ineed to parse that stuff at
night. Um,

Will (22:35):
I think six has no choice but to dream. Specifically, I
think I think a lot of this isgoing to revolve around the fact
that he was the entity that'sbeen plaguing them, if you will
second for the second time nowthey've run into this large
world eating being so I thinkthat would be something that he

(22:58):
is currently thinking about. Andthe stone in this connection. So
that would be that would be whatsix is thinking about as he's
resting.

Bruce (23:09):
All right. Artie also has dreams. He has dreams of RKO
going and he is off the toprope.

Tanner (23:18):
I'm gonna nod and pretend I know that wrestling
move.

Bruce (23:21):
It's a meme that's why I know Okay, yeah, they just edit
shit and then they like takeRandy Orton from WWE and they
paste his body in differentpositions are killing people in
videos. Which is his like whatwas fucking funny? The videos
are hilarious anyway

Tanner (23:37):
Nice. Mark Mark you do you have anything in

Bruce (23:40):
particular that you might dream about?

Fraser (23:45):
I don't know I'm trying to in Mark barks head he's
trying to figure out if he anddorm loud have some other
connection or like some someconnection he's just not aware
of. So maybe he's trying totrance that.

Tanner (24:01):
That is that is a good thought to try and try and parse
during the night. I'll help youout with that. A loud don't
don't resonates in your head asif this energy pulsing outwards
from something and you can seedon't dome in this darkness the

(24:23):
pocket dimension that you werein earlier, the stone and on it.
You can see your blood that wassplattered on top. It has not
dried even though it's been afew hours since your encounter
with dorm loud and each of thesepulses of energy flashes inside

(24:45):
you these visions of people thatyou thought you didn't know or
you didn't know that existed.
You see flashes of this too.
Wouldn't that overtook Arcus youknow that there are more people
there than you initiallyrecalled and eventually, you can

(25:09):
remember everyone that you'veencountered that was taken by
the the thing, the thing that'shunting and stealing people from
this plane of existence you havea connection to the stone, which
has a lingering and longingconnection to the thing that's

(25:32):
taking everyone in the realm tothe thing that binds this whole
story in forgotten memories. TheNeverthere there

Fraser (26:05):
huh, intriguing.

Bruce (26:08):
All right. So then

Tanner (26:10):
you all wake in the morning I'll say even though
some of you only needed fourhours or so asleep you slept
through the whole night it's abeautiful day outside pouring
into the windows.

Bruce (26:23):
You have nothing

Tanner (26:24):
Well, you have pressing matters to attend to but nothing
shouting downstairs. Nothingimmediately calling for your
attention. You all wake upnaturally to the smell of
breakfast being cookeddownstairs. You head down you
see pansy there several peopleacross the tables. Oh, yeah,
sorry. Before

Will (26:43):
before we had anywhere okay. I look to arches as I wake
up and do my robot stretch. Iactually find to be occupied to
be doing row row Bogu or RoboGuix Yeah,

Bruce (26:57):
we were kind of just

Will (26:59):
right yeah, yeah, there you go. So I fall on my face and
I say Archie that hurt myfeelings but more more
importantly where is my where'sthat rain?

Bruce (27:16):
I just kind of looks around tell you what. Next time
we leave town i'll give it toyou but let's keep it where it
is for now. Just in case allshopkeeper decides to ask
questions. Understood.

Tanner (27:29):
Done cool. Okay, now you guys go down to the smell of
bro. You're

Bruce (27:32):
not allowed to set me up for failure.

Tanner (27:37):
Yeah, pansy is serving I got gloves. Pansy serving people
downstairs. She prepares abreakfast for you as she sees
you come down. Full English verynice. Puts it in front of each
of you what you do with it is upto you. We've discussed that you
have a port for for liquids six.
Have we discussed what you dowith food yet? Is that something
we've

Will (27:58):
I've been back and forth on this. I have not been very
consistent to the podcast. Ijust put it in my fucking mouth.
Oh, let's let's stop be likelike I just have a mouthful
screw

Bruce (28:10):
dump it you dump it like a garbage chute basically like
Yes. Is it open? Yeah,

Fraser (28:14):
yeah. So earns it. It's like by internally, it's nearly
scored. 100%

Will (28:20):
Yeah, and I don't really eat. I don't really need to eat
so I just kind of eat a littlebit and then I'm going to use
the rest of time while they'reeating breakfast to attune to
that shield that I got I neverfound out what it was but I'm
just gonna tune to it. Okay. Oh,you're gonna get cars do you
take the time already curvescrew it

Tanner (28:42):
to a tune to double curse double curse. Total curse
power. Will you attune to thisshield over breakfast as
everyone's kind of eating theirfood? You shovel yours in you
actually feel that there is athere is a connection here that
this is a magical shield it isproviding you with better

(29:05):
resistance to attacks as ashield should but in this case,
it is granting you resistance todamage from ranged weapon
attacks. Oh shit

Will (29:14):
that's so good. I got two magical items with the with the
ring that I haven't gotten yetbut still that's so bad.

Tanner (29:20):
However. Oh no. You can feel this fucking cars twisted
nature inside it. That that youalso attuned to and now is just
part of you. You know fromcurses, that they don't just
stop when you put the thingdown. What does this curse you

(29:45):
actually did curse?

Fraser (29:47):
Jack ganz em giveth and the DM taketh away. Well,

Will (29:51):
I wanted to get it checked out but we we did pissed off the
guy that could do this in thistown.

Bruce (29:58):
Now we didn't we have no idea if he'd If that's true,

Will (30:01):
maybe David, I couldn't do you want

Tanner (30:04):
to know what the current app does? Yeah, because I've got
it down because I want you tokeep track of this. Whenever a
ranged weapon attack is madeagainst a target within 10 feet
of you, the curse causes you tobecome the target instead. Oh,
so it's actually not terrible.
That's actually

Will (30:24):
see it's kind of cool. So So I have plus how much Ac test
you

Tanner (30:28):
need to take while she let's do AC. Oh, no, sorry, the
shield if you haven't used ashield before the shield will
give you plus two AC all shieldsdo unless they're plus shields I
have. But the shield resistancemeans you take half damage from
range weapon attacks.

Will (30:45):
Damn, right. Okay, so it's just the plus two AC, I don't
get any more AC, it gets ranged.
I just take half damage. Okay,

Tanner (30:52):
so these are magical attacks. These are these are
ranged weapons. So this will bebows and slingshots and stuff
like that physical weapons

Will (30:59):
within 10 feet of me is that right?

Tanner (31:01):
So if Mark bark is within 10 feet of you, and
someone tries to shoot him witha bow, he turns and hits you
instead. tries to hit youinstead.

Will (31:10):
All right, I'm gonna do my best keep up with that. I swear
I'm gonna be consistent. I'mgoing to do it so honest. That's
actually pretty nice.

Fraser (31:16):
Yeah, that's pretty good for us. Yeah.

Tanner (31:18):
Honestly, I did overall.
I didn't want to give you ashitty curse with this. So this
is just this is the shield ofmissile attraction. It's
official item. I didn't I don'ttake credit for this one. So
actually, I think it's pretty,it's pretty cool. It actually I
think the curse is even a boon.
In some cases, in a lot ofcases. Yeah. So yeah, that's
what happens with that. Allright. So you guys finish off

(31:40):
your breakfast, you attune tothe shield? What are you doing
next, you know, that there is alot going on with, you know,
trying to figure out how to getrid of this this thing. So what
are you going to do to try anddo that you could have
conversations with a holy man,you could talk to your business

(32:04):
partner, you could find someother people in the town that
know more about magic orhistory, there are plenty of
options here to continue forwardand figuring out your plan of
attack. Or you're playing adefense as it were, if you can't
figure anything out. Soultimately, what do

Will (32:21):
out of game out of character? Do you guys have any,
any suggestions, because whatsix wants to do now is we need
to, we need to get moreinformation about this entity
that Tanner is callingNeverthere We wouldn't know the
name, we have no name for thisthing. So just big black smoke
monster. That would be thatwould be what I personally want

(32:43):
to do. And I need to figure outabout the like the neverending
chorus and DEVAR I need to findinformation about that, because
I'm starting as a player torealize that there are a lot of
things that I probably couldhave investigated along the way
that I would like to startinvestigating now because they

(33:04):
seem more pertinent.

Bruce (33:05):
No, not at all. Well.

Will (33:10):
Dude, it's hard at the moment. It's hard. So she said,

Fraser (33:13):
Well, I we do I'm curious about things going on
with my character. But at thesame time, like I feel like the
things I need to findinformation on are kind of
coming with me like there's notreally much that I as a
character would be motivated togo find right now. Well, other
than the only

Will (33:28):
lead that I have is six is PRT. belcam or finding podras.
Again, one of those two needs tohappen. So that's not
necessarily going to happen inLeylen Unless podras just shows
the fuck up. Because Ark iscan't be that safe. So unless
we're planning on going back toArk is which I think is a

(33:49):
terrible idea. I think it's justtalked to bathe and maybe he
leads us towards the Queen'shistorian PRT. belcam.

Fraser (34:00):
Is that who that is the Queen's historian. And I have
the queen Shibley that I can'tdrink.

Will (34:11):
Well, it's in the bag. We just got to figure it out.

Fraser (34:13):
We just gotta get it out of there without getting
grabbed.

Will (34:16):
What if we just fill it with concrete?

Fraser (34:20):
Then we still can't get the Shibli

Tanner (34:22):
because it'd be under 64 cubic feet of concrete.

Bruce (34:27):
Oh, you wait for Dawn loud to die and then you just
crack the Congress.

Fraser (34:31):
He's not dead yet. I don't know if

Will (34:32):
question. Does dorm loud need to breathe? Good question.
I mean, he's

Fraser (34:37):
been in there for way more than 10

Tanner (34:39):
Yeah, for sure. He was there for a full eight hours
rest and

Bruce (34:41):
you can definitely assume he does not need to breathe.

Fraser (34:44):
Yeah, I think it's safe to say

Will (34:46):
well, but he was in the stone that whatever. You're
right. I don't know. Okay.

Fraser (34:51):
Was he in the stone? Was he just in the bath? Maybe that
was the vessel was sealed. Thelaundry recognize that
immediately so hey, that's thethat's the dorm loud the stone
just happens to be there I

Tanner (35:09):
wish I had thought of that. I wish that would

Fraser (35:13):
if that was the vessel he was sealed in stone just like
magic to make it pop out of thisfucking

Bruce (35:19):
bag

Will (35:20):
the stone has nothing to do with dorm loud that would be
fucking hilarious

Fraser (35:24):
that would be right it's just a magical item that's like
magic enough to make it magicmagic.

Tanner (35:28):
Yeah, now it's something bagged I was like well

Will (35:35):
we can't really do much with dorm loud at the moment
perhaps we can find a weaknessmaybe if we talk to the
historian he can help with dormloud as well. We talked to the
number two maybe the number onehas to know more.

Fraser (35:49):
Where do we find him?

Bruce (35:50):
Or we could just go bury the bag 20 feet down and a
little field somewhere and leaveit be

Fraser (35:56):
but but I like my bag

Will (35:59):
it's not really usable at the moment.

Fraser (36:03):
Yeah, but I'm holding out Oh, we might make it usable
again. So we'll just see whathappens. I'll hang on

Will (36:10):
to Archie it really?
Doesn't seem like there's muchdanger in keeping it with Yeah,
until

Bruce (36:15):
we wake up and knickers and dormouse beating the fuck
out of us.

Will (36:21):
He can't really escape the bag if if I understand the way
that a bag of holding issupposed to work. Don't you have
to summon things from it?

Fraser (36:31):
No, nobody didn't summon dorm loud he just dragged me in
there by the arm.

Will (36:36):
Oh. Keep it nice and tight. We could seal it shut.
Head it here. Watch this. I usemending to seal the bag shut.
Can I do that? This

Fraser (36:50):
leather which is technically skin which he could
heal.

Tanner (36:54):
Yeah, it just becomes a whole cow

Bruce (36:58):
don't like claws his way out of its stomach.

Tanner (37:04):
It kind of looks like you guys remember Rita Repulsa
from Mighty Morphin PowerRangers at last phrase you know,
mending wood wood repairsomething that is broken. This
isn't broken.

Will (37:19):
Okay, understood.

Fraser (37:20):
Look, I'm pretty sure if you don't go sticking your
fingers around the opening, youwill be just fine. So I'll just

Will (37:32):
get me out. Okay. All right, somebody. Okay. Bruce,
Bruce, what are your motivationsright now? So we all could get
on the same.

Bruce (37:42):
Murder every single member of the Hadley family?

Will (37:45):
Oh, yeah, we did find the Headley thing.

Bruce (37:47):
Oh, yeah. I was waiting.
I was waiting to see if we werejust going to all say fuck it
and jump in there and just gofight Dawn loud. But since that
doesn't appear to be the case.

Will (37:55):
I mean, honestly, truthfully, this is outside
again. I was about to talk atsix voice but I don't think six
can go in the bag. If I go inthe bag. I turn into the thing
because that stone is stillthere. And then

Bruce (38:07):
just eat don't lamb from sauce.

Will (38:10):
Oh, hey, yeah, easy.

Tanner (38:12):
If you become the thing in the bag, then it's trapped in
the bag. The campaign's overyou've won.

Bruce (38:18):
Solo XP for six. Well,

Will (38:21):
I mean, if if Zeke Leadfoot was still around, we
could throw him in there sincehe wanted out. I'm sorry. I
forgot that. You don't know whoZeke is.

Fraser (38:32):
I? I remember him. What?
I remember him now. I remembereveryone that I had forgotten
when they got eaten by

Will (38:39):
the end because your blood fell on that stone? Well,
because

Fraser (38:43):
of my connection or interaction with dormire Elda
and thus, the Neverthere there,I guess. Wait, but yeah,

Will (38:50):
it's there.

Bruce (38:52):
Now he's doing the revenue. did

Will (38:58):
well, if we don't have a better suggestion, maybe we
talked to Baeth and see ifthere's another contract that we
can get involved with. It takesus closer to PRT. belcam

Bruce (39:06):
I still don't understand what the hell you're saying when
you say that. PRT Bill comm youknow, you know, you know that
fucking noise. It sounds bashingmics every time he tries to say
whatever. That's what thatsounds like the same thing.

Will (39:22):
Let's just call him PB.

Bruce (39:23):
How about that, please?
Sure. It works. PB

Will (39:27):
is the buttons Historie number one in all the land very
boring.

Bruce (39:32):
I won't be boring. If I show up on the Queen's doorstep.
I promise you that.

Will (39:35):
These days. She remembers you. I saw the paintings.

Bruce (39:41):
I think the whole fucking Capitol remembers me. And the
only person in like four or fiveyears the breakout of the
prison. You

Will (39:50):
you think you could do with a mask? We could go see
father Dale. He makes goodmasks.

Bruce (39:55):
Well, the problem with that is when they asked me to
take it off you He's not stucklike yours.

Will (40:02):
But he could pretend lie.
You taught me lie. I don't

Bruce (40:06):
think that's good. Let's explore other avenues before we
go down that road sites I gottago to buy something anyway.

Will (40:14):
Okay base it is.

Bruce (40:16):
Somebody should probably grab that bag. Anybody would
find it now open it see what'sinside, touching that thing?

Fraser (40:22):
Don't worry, I'll hang on to it. I think about slinging
it over my shoulder and just

Bruce (40:27):
kinda give Magdeburg a little more space than one
morning.

Fraser (40:34):
It's very obviously step closer to Archie.

Bruce (40:37):
I just like suck mine.
torso and harder.

Tanner (40:41):
Archer yo, social distancing.

Bruce (40:45):
I got my IG COVID No problem.

Tanner (40:48):
All right. Where are you guys heading? You got to go to
bathe first.

Bruce (40:53):
Yep, yeah, I am. I don't know what they're gonna be if
they're following me. Okay. Allright. Yeah,

Tanner (40:58):
the three of you head outside and you start making
your way out of the edge anddown the streets to number 12
Edge street, I believe was theaddress. You make your way over
to outward enterprises. On yourway. There. You see striding
towards you with a lot of pep intheir step. A familiar face, but

(41:23):
not in familiar clothing. Whoyou see before you is one of the
students that you sent to town.
You never got his name, but he'sjust prancing there strolling
along the street whistling andhe sees you and waves flappy
arms in the hair in the air.

(41:44):
Very excited to see you and hekind of runs up and he says,

Bruce (41:48):
Have a really really, really, really big question
about this. Yeah, what's up? Howdid he see us if we were in?
Alter? Oh, shit, fuck you.

Tanner (41:58):
Okay, fine. Good catch.
As you guys are walking down to12 ed street to go see bathe.
You see a familiar face stridingtowards you. He is whistling a
jaunty tune as he walks acrossthe cobblestone street. And you
recognize him immediately.

(42:18):
Here's one of the students thatyou saw in Arcus. In fact, the
one that you sent here, too, toclaim that he stole a particular
black ring.

Bruce (42:29):
I poke six, like very gently on the arm and I say not
a word. Understood, okay.

Tanner (42:36):
He just he strides by whistling. And he said, he's
singing. He stops every onceawhile to sing a song. And he's
looking around, up at the sky.
Just very happy to be here andsays out loud. It's such a
wonderful day to be young Denzeland he strides by you

(42:57):
and the distance.

Will (43:21):
Hello, dear listeners, this is will the voice of six
and your editor for thispodcast. This is a very long
episode. We're not even halfwaythrough the action and I hope
you're enjoying what you'veheard thus far. But before we
get back to the action, I'd liketo remind you that we have a
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(43:41):
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podcast. And now a message fromone of your favorite characters.
Hello, it

Tanner (44:18):
is me young den Sal, brother of young Daniel, you
know him he's the most alivebrother I have ever had before.
You should be like me and myvery good brother, and share the
podcast with all of your friendsand family. It is what you do
when you really, really, reallyreally love people and can't

(44:38):
wait to have them as a partner.
In all the things you do for therest of your life, like your
best man at your wedding, andthe person that you invest in a
nice storm in the country withand learn so many magic spells
that you can help each othergrow better as people and if you
do all that, and you're totallygonna get a gold flag. Good day

(45:23):
all right. So you guys, you guysmake your way over to outward
enterprises. You make your wayinside and bathe is there, you
know, scanning over papersagain, signing documents getting
things set up. He looks, youknow, a little panicked after
all the information that yougave him yesterday. But he looks
up at you and nods and says, ah,if it isn't my Well, my people

(45:51):
who I hope are going to solvethe problems of the world.
Hello,

Bruce (45:55):
that's probably a bit of a stretch if I'm honest with
you.

Tanner (45:57):
Well, I'm hoping that this thing that you have told me
about is a bit of a stretch aswell but apparently it's not
after the things that I sawyesterday

Bruce (46:06):
it gets worse how I got pulled into a bag

Fraser (46:14):
by dorm loud the revenue

Bruce (46:15):
or whatever the fuck that is apparently pulled him into a
bag. It's some kind of creepymonster that kills people
apparently. I don't know how itworks

Will (46:25):
dorm loud. The Revenant was a man who did not suffer the
week nor suffer the strong norsuffered the very strong. He was
just the all around bad dude.
And he's in that bag. Rightthere.

Bruce (46:38):
I can't get out. So at least we have that going for us.
His sword

Fraser (46:41):
hurts.

Tanner (46:42):
Are you sure?

Will (46:44):
No, we are not sure.

Bruce (46:46):
I'm pretty sure he's been in there for like, at least 48
hours in a minute. We'll get outyet.

Will (46:53):
He's the smart Bart Okay,

Fraser (46:57):
Baeth Why don't you stick your hand in there?

Tanner (47:02):
This is I have just met you. We are not on joking level
yet. So.

Fraser (47:07):
So you do believe us?

Tanner (47:09):
I have to believe something after I saw the smoke
coming out of the 60s face inthe smoke coming out of this
stone. And you know, there issomething obviously going on. I
have no reason not to believeyou. So, you know, I'm like
never smoked 80% You should tryit sometime. Especially drugs.
And Aaron is your who is behindyou guys. Just kidding. He's

(47:33):
probably still Did he just getlast passed out. And where did
we leave in?

Bruce (47:38):
Not in the same room at the back? Yeah, yeah. He

Tanner (47:42):
takes his room. You guys put them up in sixes room?
That'll be fine.

Bruce (47:46):
He's a late sleeper.
Yeah, of course.

Will (47:49):
Go figure.

Tanner (47:51):
I look if there is another entity that we have to
worry about in that bag. Is ittied into any? Anything else
that is happening? No clue.

Bruce (48:03):
Yeah, apparently some, you know, last little jaunt you
sent us on? Apparently doingloud is what the hell the
students took. Office. Right?
Was it August 6? I don'tremember Arcus or a&r is what?
It whatever. That's what theyapparently, were going to use to

(48:23):
make sure that they, I guess, Idon't know, canceled their
student loans for the governmentor something. I don't fucking
know. I have no idea what theywere doing. But this is what
they're gonna use. parently.
Interesting.

Tanner (48:37):
Okay. Yeah, let's not take that proverbial cat out of
the bag. Okay.

Bruce (48:43):
Yeah. So what is what is the what is the next step? What
do you guys,

Tanner (48:51):
what are you going? What are we going to do about all
this? I mean, I have limitedaccess to people here. One of
the only people I can trulytrust here a stable grandpa.
This is out of his particularpurview.

Will (49:06):
What about Elias? He seems pretty trustworthy, no.

Tanner (49:10):
Elias is a very capable merchant is able to identify
certain things, he knows thevalue of things that you might
bring in. So if there is anyparticular thing you want to
sell, I mean, he is worldly. Soit might be a good place to
start.

Bruce (49:27):
Oh, maybe not.

Will (49:30):
What if we, instead, I thought maybe you would have a
question for us to go on. Thatwill lead us to we're looking
for a historian. You want

Tanner (49:43):
I think we you want me to send you on a quest. When
something like this biggest isgoing through the world and you
are the only people that knowthat. It's what it does, and
remember the things that it doesto other people. You think you
think Yeah, sure, sure sure.
Sure. A start slipping throughquest. Yeah, so there's this
quest to go to Grineer and takecare of a goblin problem. He

(50:07):
throws the page behind him.
There is a quest to go to Mountreset the one about golf and
think Oh, you want to go in theback the gardens you don't want
the one about the things thatare stalking in the night. That
mantra said that's fine. Hethrows a paper behind them. I
don't I have ones that pay more.
I have things that

Bruce (50:26):
I can tell. I can I can tell Tanner never watch goblin
Slayer.

Will (50:29):
Yeah, no, I have not. It's so good, dude.

Tanner (50:33):
I mean, I have I have so many quests. All of these are
quests and he throws all thepapers off his desk. Go ahead.
It's like It's like 52 card pickup to pick pick any one you
want. There's some that pay fiveeither there's some that pay
45,000 either. What do you want?
I'm just

Bruce (50:48):
like standing there looking at Baeth have a meltdown
with why eyebrows raised.

Will (50:52):
I sense a bit of

Bruce (50:54):
hostility. hostility,

Tanner (50:57):
you sense a bit of hostility from me. I think you
are very wrong. What you mightactually be sensing is massive
amounts of anxiety and worryover the fact that something can
come and take the people thatyou know and make them not the
people that you know or makethem people that you don't make
them not you just I cannot wrapmy fucking head around it.

Will (51:18):
Ooh, yeah, I mean either.
mustn't lose your cool though.

Fraser (51:22):
Any of those quests go where the Queen lives. Okay.

Bruce (51:26):
I apologize for my outburst.

Tanner (51:29):
I suppose what you're trying to do. Why, why? Why the
Capitol? Why the Capitol? Whyare you wanting to go to the
Capitol?

Bruce (51:37):
Pyat belcam piata belcam.

Tanner (51:40):
This is a name of someone you know.

Will (51:43):
He is the number one historian after all, but we
might not be able to go tocapital directly. Archie has a
little bit of a history there

Bruce (51:55):
was quite a lot X I'm surprised hasn't reached out
here yet. Good thing at least Iwas able to get room and board
for it did.

Tanner (52:00):
I mean if you are Wait, what?

Bruce (52:03):
I actually don't want to know. You

Tanner (52:10):
the historian, you know for sure he is in the capital?
No.

Bruce (52:15):
Why would you think he's in the capital?

Will (52:18):
Crazy story directly?

Tanner (52:20):
The Queen's historic Yes, the Queen's historian would
probably be in the capital.

Will (52:23):
We just are looking for information on

Bruce (52:28):
this bullshit. Okay.

Tanner (52:32):
The difficult part about this is that the Queen's
historian would probably bewhere the Queen could access him
if she had any sort of inquirieson a daily basis. Her whims
decide to say, oh, what does allcalla TAs have in common with
this new land of Lear? You know,so the Queen's historian would

(52:53):
likely be in the hope swornpalace.

Will (52:55):
Oh, the more I think about it, that's not a great idea.

Bruce (53:00):
If we're not going to take another quest,

Will (53:05):
maybe we should just find partridge. I think he could be
of some service.

Bruce (53:09):
Well, hang on.

Tanner (53:11):
Hang on. If you are looking for access to people
higher up to try and gain accessto the historian and the have
sworn Palace. I might actuallyhave something for that. He
looks all around him at thepapers scattered everywhere.
Fuck. Okay, okay, what we'relooking for. The three of you

(53:35):
helped me. What we're lookingfor is a very thick piece of
parchment. It. It is probablythe most fancy handwriting
you've ever seen. And it isaddressed from one of the
Queen's lower advisors. A man bythe name of Thomas Jabba. So if

(53:56):
you can find that one, that thatmight be our in. And so we'll
just do a fun role to get goodto get things bubbling. So if
you all want to give me

Bruce (54:08):
an investigation role, that would be good.

Tanner (54:12):
You know what know you're trying to find a
perception please. You're notactively looking and trying to
figure things out.

Will (54:20):
16

Bruce (54:21):
that means it's passive perception.

Tanner (54:23):
Well, you are I'm asking you to actively look for it. You
get shut up Bruce.

Fraser (54:28):
non-natural 20

Bruce (54:30):
Oh, okay.

Tanner (54:33):
Mark bark. Yeah, you see it sitting on top of stack that
has been tossed over on the leftside of his desk. You pick it
up? It is this thick piece ofparchment. It is however,
written in Elvish which Ibelieve you should understand

Fraser (54:51):
that I

Tanner (54:51):
do. Awesome. Okay. So the the gist of the letter is
that this man had visor Talas.
Chava is looking for a set ofpeople that are that have a
particular set of skills. Andthose skills include being quiet
and not letting secrets get out.

(55:17):
Do you read through the letter?
Do you hand it over to

Bruce (55:19):
a boy bathe? I mean, yeah, if

Fraser (55:22):
I can understand it, I'm gonna read it.

Tanner (55:23):
Yeah. Okay. So the basic question is that there is a
missing shipment from the townof drawers did mill and the
advisor has been asking aroundtrying to figure things out,
every answer he gets from everylead that he finds is vastly
different from the other. So hehas no idea how to what to do,

(55:46):
where to go, other than itstarts in Drosten mill. What it
says in the contract is if it isaccepted, he will meet the group
in Dresden mill. And to givemore information there,

Bruce (55:59):
Turner, yes. What are the odds this guy would know who I
am? What are the odds? Um,

Tanner (56:08):
so the thing about your particular escape, is that those
in charge of the jail andkeeping you locked up would have
tried their best to make sure itdidn't reach too high. Because
other words that meant theirjobs and maybe even their heads.
So you think that there is apossibility that you people that

(56:32):
that shouldn't be told? Whywould the Queen be told if there
was an escape? Especially ifpeople were to stay in favor of
the Queen? So you know, there'sa chance that they that the
advisor might not know, however,if it's a lower advisor, he
might deal with these sorts ofthings.

Bruce (56:49):
Um, there is a possibility that might bring a
bit of a magnifying glass downon me granted, I suppose lover
lived my whole life, so I'm notworried about it, but just I
want to let you all know,

Tanner (57:00):
okay. So, this particular quest, you know, this
man knows a lot he is not like adirect face to face adviser. He
is more of someone who advisesthe adviser on specific matters
of the of the of the kingdom,and most of what he does is
designated towards he overseesthe raw materials shipments of

(57:24):
wood and stone throughout thecountry and some imports and
exports. So is it likely heknows your situation maybe. But
I think this is your only wayinto the the workings of the of
the crown, and trying to get anaudience with the historian.

Bruce (57:43):
I wouldn't be the first time I've don't turn these
tones. So it probably won't bethe last.

Will (57:50):
Look, I I'm out of Leeds.
Honestly, this is we don't knowwhere the giant smoke will pop
up again.

Fraser (57:59):
Yeah, as of now I say we just keep doing what's gonna get
us paid. And hope we run intothe right lead.

Will (58:05):
Archie, you are the leader, why don't you make the
call

Bruce (58:09):
as soon as to be about the only option we have

Tanner (58:11):
let's do it. Alright.
So, this particular contractpays 650 is what you would get
from it is lucrative it is an inwith someone in power. So it
actually has a few more benefitsthan just the money coming in. I
would suggest when dealing withthem you keep a very cautious

(58:33):
eye out for I mean, you you knowwhat, what people in power are
capable of you saw chancery butI think this is a bit of a
different breed this one, Ithink he will probably only act
in favor of the crown. As aremost of them work. So I can

(58:55):
equip you for the journey. It isa long ride to drought in mill,
the main road leads west you cancircle down from Grineer past
North Hill hold. And you coulduse the main road to go into
Velia or around it and then upto drugs and mill. Or you can

(59:16):
just cut across the plains andmake it there that way. Which if
you're trying to make it therequicker, I would highly suggest
you won't be traveling by roadso you won't be meeting up with
roads of guards. If you'reworried about them. You know the
soldiers finding you out andseeing you though I don't know
how many of them know who youare directly Archie unless
they've put out papers for yourRE arrest. So, you know two

(59:39):
options, the direct road and theway across the kingdom as the
crow flies.

Bruce (59:50):
Really planes ain't no different from the road when you
think of how it's going tosleep. I'll be hard No at all.
We probably

Will (59:56):
bit cold I would think the planes would be a little softer.

Bruce (59:59):
Well Nope,

Tanner (01:00:00):
aren't cold air. And there always is something too.
Was there a joke in there thatyou were trying to get across?
Well,

Will (01:00:06):
that's what she said. No, there

Tanner (01:00:10):
is if you if you travel straight across, I mean, you'll
end up running potentiallythrough the, the bottom edge of
the dark spur thicket, which isactually pretty hard to get
through. There aren't very nicethings in there but it shouldn't
be anything you're not capableof. And then you can just go
straight across from there totrust the mill. The problem

(01:00:32):
there is the crowns wood and Iwill let you know that that is a
very particular tree that growsthere that is only used and
shipped south on the iron sightsriver right into right into the
capital of Elia so for them touse to create everything for it.
So it is an important strongholdof the of the kingdom. So the

(01:00:54):
guard presence there is morethan it is here, of course,
because we have none, but theyare

Bruce (01:00:59):
there. Well,

Will (01:01:01):
Mark bark. Are you ready to both meet your horse in
stable grandpa?

Fraser (01:01:09):
I've heard so much about him. I feel I already know him.

Will (01:01:12):
He's very nice. He has my horse seven.

Bruce (01:01:16):
That's a good name.

Will (01:01:18):
Do you know why I named my horse seven? I have a guess.
Sevens very large number.

Fraser (01:01:25):
I bet you can't count any higher.

Will (01:01:28):
No. Because 789

Tanner (01:01:32):
Okay, so I will have a bundle a traveling bundled set
up for you guys. You go and getyour horses situated and then
you know I'll have that broughtout to you. So you have your
your traveling rations andeverything that you'll need for
the trip. Is there anything elsethat you think you might need? I
can we can any liens and closeas if someone else is going to
hear him. We can do some papercreation. If you need forging

(01:01:56):
papers, we can forge some papersfor you if you need them.

Bruce (01:01:58):
They might be good.

Will (01:02:00):
That's kind of smart.

Bruce (01:02:02):
Yeah, I agree. Because that'll keep any wandering eyes
off of us quickly.

Tanner (01:02:07):
All right, I've got a few alternate identities set up
that they haven't used before.

Bruce (01:02:13):
I'm not going to tell you where I got them. But I need can
I be Jason? Oh, you want thisspecific 101

Tanner (01:02:27):
Arctic, whatever, it might actually be wiser for you
to set up your own. If you wouldlike to do that, because then
you could actually put your ownsignature on that everything on
there. It's mine and associatedwith me now it would pass but
not under like direct scrutiny,especially when comparing person
to paper. You could go talk toalias bench and get new papers
made.

Will (01:02:47):
Well, maybe not. Well, let's see what you have. Okay,

Bruce (01:02:51):
no, tell you what, I need to go talk to him anyway. So
alright, to get some alterationsdone on this coat. I'm going to
be able to hide my face, alpha.
Alright, sounds good.

Tanner (01:03:03):
And you guys leave our enterprises bathe begins making
up your bundles for travel. Sohave all your rations for the
amount of time he estimates thatyou guys will be out prepared
for you as you leave. Before youhead off to doting doublets and
other grateful garments. Markbark you make your way out back

(01:03:24):
to the stable and inside is thisjovial old man. Just shoveling
hay putting it up for thehorses. You see the horses that
you came in on? And then you seeanother one in the stable that
you have not yet seen. What isthis horse look like?

Fraser (01:03:41):
So it's a big like one of those painted horses you
know, like it's white, but it'sgot the kind of like black and
brown kind of splotches on itthat aren't really in any
necessarily like a pattern.
They're just kind of like thrownall over it. Very Jackson
holidays.

Bruce (01:03:56):
I should have got a grace.

Tanner (01:03:58):
Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay. So you walk in here and you see
this horse over on the backstall. And you you see you see
the old man he turns to you whenyou walk across the threshold of
this table and he says oh, youmust be murdered work I've got a

(01:04:22):
horse here for you. And you canname it just like the other guys
names the other ones twos here.
This one's name is eight. Andthat one's name is death.

Fraser (01:04:38):
And you must be stable grandpa nice to me.

Tanner (01:04:41):
I feel kinda unstable today. My knees is a little bit
wobbly. I think from rangecoming in. You are outside the
sky is completely clear.

Fraser (01:04:49):
Sure grams. Which which was for me.

Tanner (01:04:54):
Oh, that one is a quarter that isn't one from the
other two guys. It's an adult.
It's a full full full adult. AndI've never given a name. And so
you can name it whatever youplease. What kind of name you
think,

Fraser (01:05:10):
Oh, I've got I've got the perfect name and I hope it's
really good. We're gonna callhim David. David Hassel hoofs.

Bruce (01:05:19):
Oh my fucking

Tanner (01:05:25):
staple how long you have to refer that?

Bruce (01:05:27):
How long refer to him only as Hasselhoff. The hoof
never.

Will (01:05:33):
How long did it take you to think of that? And how proud
of you are how proud look

Fraser (01:05:40):
look. I held on to that for an entire week. I'm not I'm
not pulling a tan or holding onit for years or anything. Oh,
but I'm high fiving myself right

Tanner (01:05:49):
nice. That's that's that's my third question. twice
removed. Is a horse to

Bruce (01:06:07):
fucking love it. No. He's the fucking best.

Fraser (01:06:15):
Your cousin's a horse.
Right? Okay.

Tanner (01:06:18):
My mother is a tooth fairy. You could see him grin
why he's got like half his teethmissing.

Fraser (01:06:24):
Maybe we should call him unstable grandpa. I kind of
whisper under my breath. What I

Tanner (01:06:29):
just said machismo reasons are wobbly.

Fraser (01:06:35):
Physically you mean physically unstable

Tanner (01:06:40):
or you want to get your economy physical?

Will (01:06:45):
And then we do allies.

Tanner (01:06:49):
All right. It's a good it's, he is He is God. Like
there is this is I just want youguys to know the amalgamation of
all the gods that exist in thisworld are just stable grandpa.
He is the chorus. He'severything.

Bruce (01:07:03):
Yeah. That makes sense.
Because I imagine all that allthose dietetic personalities
would make just

Tanner (01:07:09):
gently Yeah, yeah. Just so many different things. Okay.
Yeah, we

Bruce (01:07:13):
do before we go in the store. Yes. Before we are even
near the store. Okay. I justlook at six and I say our arty
looks at six. And he just says,Oren there. Let me do the
talking. Archie. Listen, you'vetaught

Will (01:07:31):
me a whole lot. And getting you in trouble is the
last thing that I want to do. Iwould miss you so much.

Bruce (01:07:38):
I love you. I know.

Tanner (01:07:43):
Nice. That's a good Han Solo.

Will (01:07:46):
Six Six will remember this.

Tanner (01:07:50):
Now we've just become a fallout. Now Fallout doesn't
have that kind of system. It is.
It's it's one of the games wherethey did the Borderlands Tales
from the Borderlands and theBatman, Telltale, Telltale,
Telltale.

Will (01:08:06):
They will remember this yet. Okay. I'm being quiet. I'm
just gonna listen.

Bruce (01:08:11):
Alright. Okay.

Tanner (01:08:13):
So you guys, approach doting doublets and other
grateful garments. Is everyonegoing inside? Or is it just

Bruce (01:08:23):
Archie? No, I'm

Fraser (01:08:24):
going to

Will (01:08:25):
first of all what? I guess we met back up with Mark Barton.
Yeah, everyone can go okay.
Yeah, as I was. That's just apoint of clarification. Okay.
Yeah, I'm for sure going in andfollowing Archie but he told me
what not to say Mark Markdoesn't know any any better of
anything so

Bruce (01:08:43):
he shouldn't also he shouldn't know that the ring
exists at all. No, he doesn't.
So I'm saying

Tanner (01:08:47):
my first and very important question how do you
open the door

Bruce (01:08:52):
I punch it open Do You Really Is this the one door
didn't punch Oh yes.

Will (01:08:58):
I think this is the only door that we did that clutch
open I think we just

Tanner (01:09:01):
put in the sound effect of it going bling bling.

Bruce (01:09:04):
We just try Okay, wait no this has to do with clothes so I
under this one like a normalhuman being

Tanner (01:09:09):
okay. You you enter in and inside there's actually
music playing from from a sourcein the back side of the room.
And you can see a little dusterin one of the back corners
popping up from behind a rack ofclothes dusting the wall. He

(01:09:30):
does not hear you enter eventhough the thing didn't

Bruce (01:09:34):
question before because this is going to be part of the
request as well. Did ourgarments take any like
significant damage that needs tobe repaired?

Tanner (01:09:49):
There were there were certainly syringes and other
damage.

Will (01:09:53):
You got hit by fire when you jumped out if you remember
fireball

Bruce (01:09:59):
but that was the Magic coach. I didn't know if, yeah,
it would still sit down and takedamage or not. You know what I
mean? Okay.

Tanner (01:10:06):
It's not it's not destroyed, but it's essential.
Yeah. Okay.

Bruce (01:10:10):
Yeah. It's not proper.
That's that was my point. Allright, cool. Yeah. So then do I
see him just still dusting andnot giving us any like, time of
day? Yep. All right. I'm justgonna I mean, straight on over
the countertop. Mr. Finch.
Believe I'm going to know yourhelp again.

Tanner (01:10:31):
You can see from where he is where you thought he was.
It is just a floating duster,dusting the walls. And there is
no one there.

Bruce (01:10:43):
On the other side of the counter, and

Tanner (01:10:47):
then you hear a click as the front door

Bruce (01:10:52):
locks. And standing there

Tanner (01:10:56):
is behind you after you entered

Bruce (01:11:01):
Yun din Zell.

Tanner (01:11:05):
And he says to the three of you. Oh, yeah. If it's not my
best good buddies who like sendme here to find books and to
talk about rings. And fuck, hedoesn't recognize you. That's
good. We were discussed. Yes. Helocks you guys. The door locking

(01:11:31):
does happen. And behind you. Youdo see young Dan Zell. And he
says to the three of you. Err, Idoing as I'm told and providing
a distraction. And then from theother side door on the backside

(01:11:52):
of the room that leads into theback porch and of the store
opens up and there steps outElias Finch and two other people
dressed in jesters clothes, fullpaint on their faces and bells
dangling from the

Will (01:12:11):
hats that they wear white alias pitches also

Tanner (01:12:15):
dressed in he's not dressed in Okay, now.

Bruce (01:12:18):
I pay no attention to young Dinsdale and I just go
hey, you're supposed to be thedistraction and maybe you
shouldn't have people bills onher hats come when the other
direction.

Tanner (01:12:28):
Oh, that. That was just for sure. That's just for show.
He snaps and their clothingdissipates and what you see
there are two men in all blackvery sleek clothing with the
bottom portion of their facescovered with masks. It's it's

(01:12:48):
just a thing.

Bruce (01:12:50):
I just put my hand in my pocket.

Tanner (01:12:54):
So we have some things to discuss. And I didn't think
you actually just come back in,but I appreciate that. You did.

Bruce (01:13:04):
Yeah, you need to fix my clothes. They're fucking singed.

Tanner (01:13:08):
Oh, I don't need to do Archie's ring. I'm sorry. You
think that?

Will (01:13:12):
Archie? What is he talking about? What's happening?

Bruce (01:13:16):
Hold on a second six. One second. All right. Well, it's
the first time we're wanting tofind a staff member treated
rudely. So I'm going to let youtell me what's going on. And I
really hope it's a good fuckingstory. Oh, I appreciate being
talked down to

Tanner (01:13:34):
I'm so sorry. Let me let me put on my customer service
voice. Hi, welcome to dotingdebits and other grateful
garments. I hope that you had apreviously wonderful experience
here and I see that yourclothing needs to mending. I
also see that some of the itemsthat we discussed last time, are
actually missing. And the funnything is, is that I didn't have

(01:13:58):
really anyone else in from thetime that you entered last time
until the time that you leftlast time. So I could only think
of one thing. Maybe I justmisplaced it. And yet lo and
behold this one and he pointstoo young Dinsdale comes in very
soon after the incident and saysHi, I've taken this thing and I

(01:14:21):
just wanted to let you know thatI did. Young didn't sell from
the door says Yeah. And now I'mpart of the Court of Justice is
it initiate and Elia says Ilesson one, shut up. So he turns
back to you Archie. How was thatfor better customer service?

Bruce (01:14:48):
are you just standing there looking at him with a
blank face? Passport, where youfix my clothes or not? What the
fuck are you going on about?

Will (01:14:57):
I've never seen that person Since look at young
Dinsdale,

Tanner (01:15:02):
what is oh yeah, I haven't ever seen you either, my
man.

Will (01:15:07):
Oh, okay. Okay is happening. Very nice to meet
you. Elias

Tanner (01:15:16):
I want you to roll deception for me. Well, the lie
hasn't been said yet. I needyou. I need you to did you take
the ring?

Bruce (01:15:30):
Or ring? Now roll this.
Wait, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Hold on. How long has it beensince we've been here? It's been
a while right? Like a coupleweeks.

Tanner (01:15:39):
It's been it hasn't been it might have been a week
because you guys took care ofalmost everything in Arcus once
you got in there in a day

Bruce (01:15:48):
okay, all right. So it's been about a week

Tanner (01:15:51):
with all the travel the resting

Bruce (01:15:53):
Yeah. Yeah, I'm trying to Yeah, okay. I'm trying to think
if a person would would forgetabout something they didn't buy
because I would but I'm ADHD sohold on Refresh refresh my
memory

Tanner (01:16:07):
of the of the thing you stole

Bruce (01:16:10):
I didn't steal anything but I'm trying to figure out
what rang we ever discussed. Oh,the black ring the one that's
the one that you didn't evengive me a price for because I
told you there's no way in hellI could afford because it was
double what we were paying

Tanner (01:16:22):
that one right the ring that I set out as a bit of a
test of the ring

Bruce (01:16:27):
that this gentleman apparently came back and we've
never seen before told you hetook and yet you're still
accusing me is that right? Ijust wanna make that clear.

Tanner (01:16:35):
He looks over it turns out didn't sell Do you have the
ring? Have you ever had thering? Denzel it says nah, some
dudes that came in Argusstraight up said hey, if you say
to this person at this store,that you have the ring slash
ticket. You could you couldprobably get it

Bruce (01:16:57):
I just want to make it as clear. Elias. You're accusing me
of thievery because some fuckingmoron walks into your store and
I take a step forward like I'mclearly showing nothing but
disdain at this point. Walks inyour store and tells you someone

(01:17:17):
told him if he brings you orsays he takes one of your
apparel items, he can get agirlfriend and now that turns
into accusing mate I just wannamake sure your story is fucking
straight flat thrash you and allyour fucking friends around here
for disrespecting me like that.

Tanner (01:17:34):
A boyfriend would be fine too.

Bruce (01:17:39):
I'm a little less angry because he's not an asshole.

Tanner (01:17:44):
The the two men behind alias, take step forward steps
forward as as you do approachand kind of guard alias. No,
give me any deception.

Bruce (01:17:57):
Okay.

Will (01:17:59):
Can I help him?

Bruce (01:18:02):
How would you add advantage or not considering the
stories absolute horseshit,because that makes no sense.

Will (01:18:12):
So, I would I would, I mean, I think I've kind of
already helped him bus that bypointing out the fact that Dan
ZIL or Denso, young Dinsdale,and he doesn't know us. We've
never seen him. I've never seenhim. He's never seen us. I feel
like that should

Bruce (01:18:28):
Oh yeah. I'm gonna add this on to I'm gonna also turn
back to Denzel after taking astep still very like I'm being a
bit aggressive at this point,like Archie's clearly not very
happy or not very happy, rightair quotes. And looks back at
the endzone he goes, what wasyour fucking name again?

Tanner (01:18:47):
Ah, I am young din Zell son of Daniel the elder. Because
it God

Bruce (01:18:58):
is young your first name?

Tanner (01:19:00):
No, my grandfather's name was Denzel. So I was named
after him and he was still alivewhen I was born. So now that I'm
the only one that was left whenI was actually born because of
the situation that I was in. Iam young didn't sell but since
he's dead now I'm still gonna goby young Dinsdale because I
figure it's a form of respect.
Dad, however, had my brother ofcourse he did because my brother
is his son as well. So my son'sBrother, no, sorry, man. All

(01:19:21):
this is like a lot of stuff. Sosorry. Let me slow down. My
brother's name is Daniel. Mydad's name is Daniel. He is
Daniel the younger my brotherand my dad is Daniel the elder.
And so that's the lineage but Igot my grandpa. You see how they
see where I'm going with thisgrandfather on my father's side.

Bruce (01:19:42):
Archie just blinks a couple of times. And he goes,
okay. All right. Okay, I get thelineage. What did these apparent
people who told you these thingslook like? You know,

Tanner (01:19:57):
they are actually really plainly I mean, they were they
were students too as far as Icould tell from Castro Haven.

Bruce (01:20:05):
They were where I turn it when he says students from
Castro Haven I turned back toElias Finch Oh students from
Casta Haven the place wherepeople learn about magic not
beat people with fucking axis.
Yeah, makes sense.

Tanner (01:20:22):
Now Now we

Bruce (01:20:25):
now Roma deception. Well

Tanner (01:20:26):
if you want to, yeah, you can. You could do so
advantage. Oh, with all thestuff he told us a lot

Will (01:20:31):
of goods as we got a good background here kinda. I mean, I
get it because because I don'tknow.

Bruce (01:20:37):
I don't even I don't even need. I'm not asking for
advantage. I'm just pointingout. Yeah, like I'm just driving
home how ridiculous this storysounds because yeah, that's a
lot. That's a big reach anyway,okay. I won't do it. Advantage.
Okay. 21 total? Wow. Wow. 17.
Okay.

Tanner (01:20:58):
Um, Elias looks between.
He actually he doesn't look toanyone. He just stares directly
at you, Archie. And his handsraise from his sides. And he
begins clapping. Oh, that was avery, very, very good lie. I
certainly enjoyed that one.

(01:21:22):
Here's, here's the thing of thatparticular ring. It had a little
spell on it. And that particularring, he pulls it out of his
pocket. He was hidden prettywell. I can actually appreciate
all of the effort you've gonethrough to hide it. And and the
alibi in the story. I don't knowhow you were so well disguised

(01:21:43):
when you were where you work? Orif you know at that point, I'm
actually not certain that thatwas you. So a lot of the story
doesn't line up and I can giveyou that much. Here's why.
Here's the bit. That's the catchfilm. You have stolen from a
very pure stolen from the wrongpeople. I want to know if you've

(01:22:11):
heard any rumors or legends orstories by the bedside of the
Court of Justice. When he saysthat name, Archie. Yes. You have
100% heard of the court ofjesters. Okay. You know, the

(01:22:31):
espionage that they have. Thathas been blamed on them the
assassinations, massive thefts,everything that people in power
can't figure out. They startwhispering the court of jesters.

Bruce (01:22:48):
Yeah, the boogey man behind all the things that
caught people can explain.

Tanner (01:22:55):
It's very nice to still be called boogie men, especially
in this day and age when there'sso many ways of finding things
out if there's just one loosethread. I will once again
commend you however, becausethere weren't very many loose
threads you did try and cover itup and young Dinsdale here was a
perfect mark. I will saywonderful choice for this

(01:23:16):
particular bit of deception. theonly the only real problem is
who you are trying to steal from

Bruce (01:23:24):
me my apparently trying to steal from

Tanner (01:23:26):
the Court of Justice the court with the whole failed
story. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So Ithought I thought I made that
clear. I'm sorry. I'm aleistFinch, an actor within the Court
of Justice. These are myassociates. I won't give you
their names. I have aproposition for you. I'm not

(01:23:47):
here to actually accuse you ofanything and by all means, here
he flicks the ring as if it werea coin it spins in the air
towards you.

Bruce (01:23:57):
Towards me or towards towards you know, hits me in the
chest and the bounces offbecause I'm still parading
around as the ball.

Tanner (01:24:05):
All right, it sounds on the floor and spins a little bit
before as finally settling.

Will (01:24:11):
As Archie has said many times once you start lie, you do
not fucking stop lying.

Tanner (01:24:18):
I this whole performance is wonderful. Wonderful. A full
on assessment of what I what Ibelieve you're capable of. I'm
not certain about these two. Hepoints to six and Mark bark. Hi.
We haven't actually met yet. I'mAlly's Finch, actor in the court
of justice as I've already said,also the owner of this

(01:24:40):
particular doting doublets andother grateful garments and if
you've known our franchisesaround we have one in Arcus
actually, I own the rights toall those too. So it's it's a
it's a it's a rather nicebusiness. And you are

Fraser (01:24:53):
trying to formulate a good response here.

Bruce (01:24:56):
There's a whole lot of shipping and Darner

Will (01:24:57):
Yeah, this is this was pretty nuts. Wait, so just just
so I'm clear what Frasier whileyou think of your response, just
yeah, we

Bruce (01:25:05):
just happen to coincidentally steal from
apparently the like, espionageand assassin ring that runs the
entire they had a empire

Will (01:25:13):
but they had a they had a tracking device basically on our
rig and they went and got itfrom our chat room. So they knew
Archie still the whole fuckingtime. So we're lying for
Absolutely.

Fraser (01:25:25):
You're just making up this line. They already that's

Bruce (01:25:27):
what he says. Yeah, that's what he said.

Tanner (01:25:29):
But the thing I didn't want to impress upon it. Yeah,
well, the one thing that I dowant to say is however unlikely
this all sounds alias phage hasalways been like at the start of
the thing. I was like, Yeah,it'd be kind of cool if this
thread gets in if they want toget into thievery or looking for
other ways to get into thecastle and stuff like that. So
always okay, court jesters. I'mnot I'm not I didn't just start

(01:25:50):
throwing this stuff in if thatmakes sense.

Bruce (01:25:52):
I kind of assumed that there was Yeah, I kind of
assumed there's more

Will (01:25:56):
story made up for it, dude. Like, are you You have my
respect. Like, this is fun. Ilove this. I love every day.

Bruce (01:26:03):
All right, go ahead.

Fraser (01:26:06):
I know a lot about you now. And you know nothing about
me. I'd rather keep it that way.

Tanner (01:26:12):
I can fully respect that. That's smart person like I
can

Will (01:26:20):
Oh,

Fraser (01:26:21):
Mark Mark facepalm so hard.

Will (01:26:27):
I really could resist I

Bruce (01:26:29):
know that's that's in

Fraser (01:26:32):
my name is Mark Bark, bark bark smooth. You may have
heard of me.

Tanner (01:26:37):
I haven't Good to meet you. Six. I so lovable really
not cut out for this kind ofwork. I will never be telling
you anything.

Will (01:26:48):
Understood. Okay.

Tanner (01:26:52):
I appreciate it fully appreciate the front. Boys with
we're fine now. And the othertwo men with Elias looked down
at him and nod and go back intothe back room. I am not here to
point any more accusatoryfingers or try and get anything

(01:27:16):
from you. I require no payment.
That ring is freely givenwhether or not you actually
decide to work with me. I justwanted to let you know that I
thought it was incrediblyimpressive that you took it when
you did. without me noticing Ihave very very, very keen eyes
keen enough to count all thethreads and stitches that have
popped on that jacket which ofcourse does need mending and I'd

(01:27:40):
be happy to help out. I justwant to know if you would like
greater involvement in a littlebit of an underground
association that carries a

Bruce (01:27:56):
lot of weight. Archie is going to smart at this point.
He's gonna bend down. He's gonnapick up the ring. He's gonna
toss it to six, six

Will (01:28:10):
drops it but he reaches out picks it up.

Tanner (01:28:15):
Actually, the floorboards here aren't all
directly connected together. I'mgonna need you to give me a
dexterity saving throw to see ifyou can grab it quick enough.
Nope.
It rose to the crackforced out of the basement.

Will (01:28:32):
What did I just say I caught it. This is okay. Well,
yeah.

Tanner (01:28:36):
lesson taught,

Will (01:28:37):
I get that I walk out the door.

Tanner (01:28:40):
You walk out the door, you realize that there's no way
down and you have a thought? Oh,I'd have to go into that back
room. Maybe that connects to abasement?

Will (01:28:48):
Yeah, so I'll go I'll go into that back room and I'll ask
allies. Can I go retrieve that?

Bruce (01:28:56):
Fine. Okay, I got it.
It's fine.

Tanner (01:28:59):
Okay, yeah, you walk down the stairs. There's there's
no one in here. It's just fullof cloth. And garments looks
like Elias is probably puttingtogether and they're on the
floor in the center is the ring.
While you're down there, Eliasturns back up to you, Archie.

Bruce (01:29:15):
And I'm just kind of waiting respectfully. No, I

Tanner (01:29:19):
thought I'm not I don't exactly have a direct offer on
the table. It is just seeingwhat kind of interest there
might be.

Bruce (01:29:28):
Considering your mind does his research. You probably
already know who I am anyway.

Tanner (01:29:35):
I know of your exploits and the fact that you escaped,
which is absurdly impressive.

Bruce (01:29:47):
All right. Well, I didn't steal the ring. But that that
obviously was like said I'm verysarcastic Yeah, okay, you can't
meet manner. But however, thekind of work you're talking
about sounds like it. Nodifferent what I've done my

(01:30:11):
whole life. Yeah, I might beinteresting. There's always a
catch. Oh, have you ever givenfreely? No, no, not at all. At
least nothing worth taking thereis

Tanner (01:30:25):
there's a certain amount of service expected within an
organization rights there aretimes when you will be called
directly to do things that youmight not agree with and we are
not without our limits, we willnot push if someone is not
wholeheartedly into it. Thethings that we are doing,

(01:30:48):
however, directly affect thosein power. It is a sort of
operation from the inside out ifyou will. Now, I know that maybe
espionage and things like thataren't exactly your forte. But
there are places where we need aman of your skills

Bruce (01:31:12):
that give like a mark barca a tap on the shoulder like
a back back of my hand tap verygently. And I guess what you're
saying, man? Is

Fraser (01:31:22):
this offer for me? The it seems like he's done a lot of
research on you. But he had toask my name.

Tanner (01:31:29):
The problem with you now six, I can I just bring yourself
cool. Yeah, you come back intothe door? Yes, we do employ
children in certain areas. So Iknow how to handle him.
You however, I didn't expectyou coming in with them and not

(01:31:50):
being separated from them. Forthe entire time you've been in
town. Other than sleeping, ofcourse, which we also watched
you do. I guess you have acouple of options. Either. You
jump on board. And we do a sortof assessment for your
particular skills. Or you leaveand never know when the knife

(01:32:13):
might come.

Bruce (01:32:22):
Whoa, whoa, hold on Elias.

Fraser (01:32:25):
This is starting to feel more like a hostage situation.
Oh,

Tanner (01:32:29):
sorry. Sorry. It didn't sell. Oh, away from the door,
please. And unlock it if youdon't mind.
Yeah, you got it. Click,and he says click verbally while
he unlocks the door.

Bruce (01:32:43):
You can't exactly say I want to be family here. As I've
never known a knife comesbecause we all know what that
means. What does that mean?
means one day, you will rely onyour face in a gutter. Something
you did.

Tanner (01:32:59):
Well tell me if there's much wrong in that vying on your
face in a gutter for somethingyou did. If you actually did it,
that we are not unkind.
If he decides to leave, we willlet that
happen. And we will watch untilthe day when Mar bark you might

(01:33:19):
slip up. And at that point intime, we will take care of you.
And we will take care of whoeveryou let loose your tongue to. So
it's not again, it's not unfair.
We are not interested in thosewho wish to go about their lives
as long as their lives do notimpede on our operations.

Bruce (01:33:38):
I seriously mean it wasn't it wasn't a direct
threat.

Tanner (01:33:42):
I wouldn't I mean, it's still it still was it holds a
lot of weight. Right? But it'snot we're going to kill you if
you don't do anything now. No,you have to you have to deserve
it

Bruce (01:33:52):
to a certain extent.
Exactly. As your moral compass.
Oh,

Tanner (01:33:59):
I like to think we in the organization all have a
pretty decent moral compass. Weall agree on the same basic
actions and abide by a similarset of principles. It is for us
to declare that those who are incharge probably shouldn't be and

(01:34:19):
that chaos would probably be farbetter. No government should be
holding someone down under theheel of their boot now should
they?

Bruce (01:34:29):
Oh no. Hmm that's interesting. I look at six and
Magdeburg and I say I thoughtthey were you know, the knife in
the dark for the government forroyalty above us. So the legend
say that's not the case. Andyou're telling me which gets
cracks and fucking heads? Well,I don't see any reason not to

(01:34:51):
join up. We claim all

Tanner (01:34:58):
all jobs. Is that The Nation stuffs that further are
sort of mystique. However, theones that we take and actually
commit also have purposes andthey are all against the Crown.
So that is a question that I dopose to all three of you. Do you

(01:35:21):
pledge your undying loyalty toher majesty is silt the Queen of
Attoria?

Bruce (01:35:26):
I know.

Will (01:35:30):
I owe the pledge allegiance to the United States.
I only pledge allegiance so

Bruce (01:35:36):
now I use state of Archie

Will (01:35:40):
and I rage. My only allegiance lies with the big
wolf band.

Bruce (01:35:46):
Isla Tanga. Don't even ah,

Tanner (01:35:49):
that sounds familiar to your last group.

Bruce (01:35:54):
I think that's what we met. Anyway. Okay.

Fraser (01:35:57):
The Bad Wolf buddies.

Tanner (01:36:00):
I don't believe that that's any better.

Bruce (01:36:02):
YouTube done. I just want to make sure that before like I
want to make sure because wehave an agreement we've already
signed we've already agreed tocommit to with our friend over
it all enterprises. So I'm onewho are all failing moral
failings that I do have a loosekeep my word. At

Will (01:36:22):
this point. I've already sold my soul to death.

Fraser (01:36:25):
Oh, that guy sold mine to dorm loud.

Tanner (01:36:28):
Ah, I know who death is.
I have no idea who dorm lout isit's fine. You can have all
other sorts of obligations aslong as they're not in direct
opposition to what we ask ofyou. We don't this is not a full
time job for most people. Theyhold their own positions and
that's why we like them. They goin they do their jobs and they
get out and they return topolite society as it were. In

(01:36:51):
your case. I wouldn't reallyexpect you to return to polite
society. You could just go backto adventuring.

Will (01:36:59):
Fun fact death loves the queen.

Tanner (01:37:01):
I thought that yes, I'm very confused about that
particular come out. I amfucking with you.

Bruce (01:37:08):
Oh, okay.

Tanner (01:37:11):
Young Dinsdale behind you goes

Bruce (01:37:18):
yeah, Archie's definitely like trying not okay, so

Tanner (01:37:25):
if you if you'd like to be part of our clandestine
operations, I this is a full oninvitation. I have nothing for
you at this direct moment. But

Bruce (01:37:33):
we had to have this meeting. Well, apparently you
know where we're staying so youknow where to find us. But in
the game long enough to knowwhen I'm beat so

Will (01:37:42):
we will be visiting. We will be leaving very soon. But
I'm just judging by the natureof this conversation. You will
have tabs almost everywhere. Isthat correct?

Bruce (01:37:56):
Not yet.

Tanner (01:37:59):
There is a bit of an initiation and young Dinsdale
behind us Yeah. Kind of hurts

Bruce (01:38:08):
yes it

Tanner (01:38:09):
not really it's just a it's a prick of the finger and a
drop of blood that we just

Bruce (01:38:15):
it's a thing that told me that from each of you if you
don't mind it may be difficultfor me are you to start to
rubbing his eyes Is there arubbing his eyes what's like his
index finger and he's just like,I'm so sick of making agreements

(01:38:35):
with people. In all this entirecampaign has been Archie and six
and Marburg making the

Tanner (01:38:43):
campaign of agreements

Bruce (01:38:48):
Well, what's it for so you can find me a kill me? Oh,
it's so I can find you. Okay.

Tanner (01:38:55):
And then and then kill you if needed. But the finding
is, you know, if you get introuble, we can also find you
that way. So it's, you know,

Bruce (01:39:03):
it does its job. Well, he's metal so as Yvonne Excuse
me? I think pink he hits six onhis chest. Yeah.

Will (01:39:12):
I don't know that you could be able to get blood from
me. How about this? If you findArchie, you'll find me.

Bruce (01:39:19):
I actually believe that.
And you mark bog smooth. I lookat Marburg and I say I'm pretty
sure we could take whoever theysend out us at least long enough
to get away again. So probablyno risk.

Fraser (01:39:33):
It feels like my whole existence is is an agreement of
sorts. What's one more to the

Bruce (01:39:39):
list? Okay,

Tanner (01:39:42):
so he, he goes back behind his counter, pulls out a
symbol, three symbols. Well, twosymbols doesn't need the third
one. And just a basic needle andhe gestures for you to hold out
your hands and he picks the tipHave each of your fingers. You
see, we used to do this like afull slice across the palm. And

(01:40:05):
it was really theatrical andfine, but then you can't do
anything with it afterwards, youknow what kind of damage that
does to your palm? How are yousupposed to hold a sword
afterwards? Oh, that was a pointof conversation. That's fine
though. It brings me

Bruce (01:40:17):
to say actually, I've never thought about it. But I do
appreciate that you're notcutting half my hand off exactly
right half man through.

Tanner (01:40:24):
So he picks your fingers gets the drop of blood and
assembles and he sets them backon the counter. Now that ring,
you can have watch out there'ssome wild shit in there. The
coats and jackets, he snaps hisfingers and six you recognize
this as mending your coatreforms, the syringes are gone,

(01:40:46):
all the threads come backtogether. And on all of you the
clothing is reformed. Now I knowyour previous obligations that
you have with with bathe that isall well and good. He does not
know of this arrangement. Idon't believe that he needs to.
But we will have some some jobsfor you. And I want to make this

(01:41:08):
the most clear thing of all. Ifyou decide to no longer work
with us, or that you areincapable of carrying out what
we

Bruce (01:41:19):
ask. That's okay.

Tanner (01:41:23):
We won't take any revenge on you. We'll handle the
task on our own and get thingsdone without you. However, the
moment you let slip anyinformation about me or the
organization itself as you findout more will be the moment
where you are now on ourhitlist. So please

Bruce (01:41:44):
have UK indeed. under wraps would be very lovely. Oh
boy. I can do this. Yes, youcan. You know make sure Okay,
Chad only totally can

Fraser (01:41:59):
do this.

Will (01:42:00):
I can do it.

Bruce (01:42:03):
Elias xo.

Tanner (01:42:04):
Elias walks up to six and he holds his hands out and
says

Bruce (01:42:09):
your hands please. Sure.
Okay.

Tanner (01:42:15):
He takes your hands in his much smaller ones and pulls
you down a little bit.

Bruce (01:42:19):
Look, I need you to say nothing.

Tanner (01:42:25):
If you do this, it will help so many people. Ross the
kingdom.

Bruce (01:42:33):
Will it help Archie?

Tanner (01:42:36):
He looks over it. Back at you Archie.

Bruce (01:42:38):
I mean Yeah. Okay. That's honestly the negative here. I
don't really see one there.

Tanner (01:42:44):
There's there's no negative no negative. It's just
don't betray us. And you canrefuse to jump in anytime. No,
negative six. No negative markbuck. No negative. Now that
we're all on the same page. HePat's, the side of your leg six.
And here's the thunk. Strange.
See? Away with you. I have anote. Yes.

Will (01:43:07):
Okay. So before we leave, and we don't have to do all this
on the podcast or anything, butI want to get this necklace
identified. And he saidsomething about the ring having
Wild Magic. I'd like to knowabout both of those things. We
can either talk about it now or

Bruce (01:43:22):
we also have to get identity made for everyone.
Yeah, yeah. Oh,

Will (01:43:26):
yeah. So let's just do all that. Like we do all those
things. Okay.

Tanner (01:43:31):
All right. So, so how we can wrap up this particular
montage, um, you ask Elias forthe papers, and he does, he is
able to set all these up. Hegives you a little bit more
information about theorganization as well. He tells
you that he is an actor and theguild have in the court of
jesters, which basically meanshe's an infiltrator. He goes

(01:43:51):
into places this is his currentposting, you let you know that
his basic mode of operation isopening stores in new locations
and taking up a spot therewhenever he needs to. So he is
sort of spreading his influencein these towns. And again, Mark
Mark you stole from his store inArcus. Something that he has not

(01:44:13):
he does not mention here, andthen he lets you know about a
couple of others. jugglers aresmaller people that work in
cities as informants. They'rethe lowest on the totem pole. No
one really tells them initiateslike young Dinsdale are just
trying to figure things out.
They see they have some skillsand other things especially

(01:44:35):
since young Dinsdale does knowsome magic so he's taken him
under his wing. And then thereare tumblers who are your basic
thief's your second storyworkers. And then there are the
bouncers which are people thatgo in they do the rough work,
they're on the ground, they'reokay with being seen and they're
getting shit done. And that isbasically what he is thinking

(01:44:56):
your jobs might be

Bruce (01:45:00):
but you're basically the Thieves Guild in the Dark
Brotherhood merged more or less?
Oh, yep, pretty much. Okay. Yep.

Tanner (01:45:08):
All right. So I have your papers set up. I hope these
identities will work out foryou. I know six you requested
your name to be Jason just Jasonlike one on Wednesday, correct?
No, sir. Okay. Yes, fine. Allright. And and yours. Archie,
what would you like your, yourearliest name to be?

Bruce (01:45:30):
What's how thorough are death records in this in this
country? Ah, healther Itdepends.

Tanner (01:45:39):
You had no like four actually gives me a give me a
knowledge check. Let's dohistory.

Bruce (01:45:44):
I think I just got to listen. Even 10

Tanner (01:45:46):
even 10. Okay. Um, yeah, so you know that death records
are probably depends on howimportant that person was. A lot
of peasants, you know, are justmarked down in a book if they're
found or not at all. Someonefrom your lineage? I mean, you
you wouldn't expect expect themto do too much for it.

Bruce (01:46:09):
Okay, yeah, so nema.
Gotcha. I think that I thinkthat I'll go by Jameis sign
surname. Cromwell okay.

Tanner (01:46:24):
Oh, that's a bit risky business sticking with your same
surname?

Bruce (01:46:29):
Well, I've got relatives can't prove I'm not a relative.
Sure.

Tanner (01:46:33):
It's as good as any other small bit of truth in
something is always a goodbacking to a lie. All right,
James Cromwell so he writes thatup and hands it over to you and
Mike bark anything in particularyou'd like to be called?

Fraser (01:46:47):
What about Ralph? Ralph?

Bruce (01:46:50):
Okay all right. Fucking love your names dude. route this
just Ralph is good.

Tanner (01:46:57):
Just surname

Will (01:47:01):
Oh, no, God Okay. Podcast his face right now. Do it do it
whatever he's no

Fraser (01:47:13):
I'm just gonna say something stupid like, like
Ralph person, but let's go withYeah, let's just go with like
Stevenson Hara that sounds

Tanner (01:47:24):
very simple. I thought you might just say Ralph again.

Will (01:47:29):
Hi, Ralph.

Fraser (01:47:34):
Please. All right. All right. Last name is Ralph.

Tanner (01:47:41):
Ralph. Ralph Ralph.

Will (01:47:47):
high fantasy and this motherfucker.

Tanner (01:47:51):
papers that audit. You could see Ralph Ralph.

Will (01:47:54):
Got Jason and Ralph Ralph.

Bruce (01:47:59):
People are gonna be like, people are gonna see his papers
and go follow these guys thinkabout it. If

Will (01:48:03):
the weird is the name, the better because they're not.
Question. Yeah, it

Fraser (01:48:08):
makes you less conspicuous. Right? more
conspicuous

Will (01:48:12):
is less conspicuous.

Tanner (01:48:13):
I agree. I can promise you that's not how it works. But

Fraser (01:48:17):
you did like so weird.
You know when people say oh, youcan't make this shit up. I met a
Ralph Ralph today. Okay, youcan't make this shit up. That's
what people say.

Tanner (01:48:29):
All right.

Will (01:48:30):
I have

Bruce (01:48:34):
all right that lockets

Tanner (01:48:37):
what that lock it does, and I did not give you the stuff
for the locket.

Will (01:48:41):
Yeah, I've already got it.
So just skip. Well, I'll erasethe lock it I need to write that
down.

Tanner (01:48:46):
He looks it looks at the lock. He says that's not cursed.
You're good to go. The ring. Idon't want to tell you too much
about the ring. Actually. It isvery fun to experience it for
yourself. What I can tell you isthat I call it surge. And it

(01:49:07):
will help with your spellattacks.

Will (01:49:09):
Oh, understood that.
That's not all it does. I put iton this.

Tanner (01:49:14):
Okay, yeah, you put it on. You feel a bit of magic
power coming from

Will (01:49:19):
great, Archie.

Bruce (01:49:21):
I feel like $10

Tanner (01:49:25):
What I can tell you about that. What I can tell you.
What I want to tell you is thatwhile you were it, you gain
extra power in your spellattacks. What that means it is a
plus one bonus to spell attackroles. Not your damage role, but

(01:49:45):
your attack role.

Bruce (01:49:47):
Understood? Yep.

Tanner (01:49:48):
Yep. In addition, you ignore half cover when making
spell attacks. So if someone isyou're shooting at someone who
is behind half cover You'reshooting at them as if they
don't have half cover.

Bruce (01:50:03):
What the hell? That's neat.

Will (01:50:06):
That's insane. Okay, it all

Bruce (01:50:07):
it is very good. But that's not all it does. And
you're not telling them theother.

Tanner (01:50:11):
I'm not telling you Elias because I'm not giving you
any more information about it.
It's not cursed. You can take itoff anytime you'd like. And it
wants to have an effect on you.
That shield is cursed as fuck.
Just so you know. Oh, it's

Will (01:50:26):
too late. I'm attuned.

Bruce (01:50:28):
All I know. So

Tanner (01:50:30):
yeah, that's, that's that's the basic gist of
everything that you have. Ithink you have the whistle jar
is well, and the coat of arms ofcourse, which is that lovely
piece there.

Will (01:50:40):
Um, outside of game, he used the word wild. He used the
word wild when describing thething so my guess is that
there's some wild magical inthis ring. I guess. Gonna try it
doesn't matter.

Bruce (01:50:55):
Wild Magic is fucking fun. I was almost a Wild Magic
barbarian.

Tanner (01:50:59):
If Oh, God, though, if you'd like to test it out. I
just ask that you don't do it inhere.

Bruce (01:51:04):
Please. Too late.

Will (01:51:06):
I'm just Just kidding. I'm not absolutely I would not

Bruce (01:51:10):
great. Or somewhere in the middle of nowhere. You can
give it a shot. Let's not blowany buildings up in the place
that we tend to frequent.
Understood.

Tanner (01:51:19):
Okay, so before I let you on your way again, is there
any other magical question youhave?

Bruce (01:51:28):
No, but is there any way you could add some way to cover
low hair from the face andPortnoy worth?

Tanner (01:51:33):
Sure I mean, we have masks like the one you saw on my
on my friends here.

Bruce (01:51:40):
Yeah, it probably helped.
And also it helped with theassault in anyway. Sure. Yeah,

Tanner (01:51:45):
no problem. What are you going to pull away with for he
goes around behind the counterand starts like pulls out a
couple masks. I'm guessing whatone that matches the coat.
Right?

Bruce (01:51:56):
Yeah, fossil? Well, I'm not saying I will, but I'm
saying that at some point. Theremay be a bit of a trip they're
not going yet.

Tanner (01:52:05):
You returning to Portway with might be

Bruce (01:52:09):
inadvisable. Oh, it is currently but um there's a
couple pounds of flesh I need tocollect there. I do plan on
doing so. Well,

Tanner (01:52:22):
if you need any help with the man and the sons,

Bruce (01:52:28):
you let me know. I'll do so. Might be a judge thrown in
there too.

Tanner (01:52:34):
I know the man not personally but sure. Understood.
Well.

Bruce (01:52:42):
Used to our partnership and I suppose

Tanner (01:52:44):
he hands you a mask and says I think it's going to be
beautiful. We'll be in contact.
So expect it or don't if youlike surprises. I was waiting
for six to be like I lovesurprises.

Will (01:52:56):
At this point. I've been surprised so damn much that I
don't know that another surpriseis really necessary here. We've
made a lot of movement, a lot ofagreements.

Bruce (01:53:08):
And yeah, we have this where Mark Mark opens the bag. I

Will (01:53:13):
just don't I just can't turn the bag of holding inside
out. Can I do that

Bruce (01:53:17):
into into a bag of eating so I can eat? Alright, we'll be
in touch. You boys be safe outthere.

Tanner (01:53:26):
And he'll open the doors. The door for you guys.
Young Denzel is sitting outsidejust kind of flooding his
fingers fiddling. Is that aword? You can kind of see sparks
of magic coming off. And he'sjust sitting there humming. Go
get a girlfriend gonna do somemagic. Everything is good. I
hope nothing tragic happens tomy brother.

Bruce (01:53:52):
We know they're related.

Tanner (01:53:54):
Yeah, he went over the whole spiel of him being related
to young Daniel because hisdad's name was Daniel and his
grad grandfather's name wasDenzel. Okay,

Bruce (01:54:01):
so we made the connection. Yeah. 100% I look at
I look at the other two. I thinkwe should tell him

Fraser (01:54:09):
six you tell him

Will (01:54:11):
i i probably would be the best for the job. I'll bring it
to me Zhi Yong Jin Zell.

Tanner (01:54:19):
Oh, yeah, sorry. Yeah, yeah. What's up, man?

Will (01:54:23):
Your brother died.

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