Ep. 9: Arcus Anarchy (The Neverthere: Anarcus)

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Tanner (00:00):
Nother realm is a real play Dungeons and Dragons
podcast where in Bruce Tannerand we'll try to make dumb jokes
and a compelling story. Some ofthe content within will not be
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what happened on the lastepisode of Nother realm

Will (00:21):
I've met death he's waiting for you

Tanner (00:26):
My name is Serena months I've been trapped here for so
long.

Bruce (00:34):
I six Are you alright you got model over your feet?

Will (00:37):
I couldn't let it go Archie. I wouldn't say to ghost

Tanner (00:41):
you guys make your way into Leylen Our first stop is to
outward enterprises to talk toBaeth for Simona the black hole
collective

Will (00:48):
they were much slower than us no they blackballed
collective hasn't been in townfor like, months.

Bruce (00:54):
Ah, excuse me,

Tanner (00:56):
hold on what? And they will offer a partnership or
patronage of sorts. I will alsooffer to horses.

Bruce (01:05):
Oh yeah. Bravo. Sounds good. Alright, let's do that.

Tanner (01:07):
Hello, and welcome to doting doublets and other
grateful garments. I am Elias,what can I do for you?

Will (01:15):
We need some new digs.

Tanner (01:16):
That's what the children say.
I call that the coat of arms.
Are you going to steal?

Bruce (01:23):
Absolutely right.

Tanner (01:24):
All right, let's see what happens. After your lovely
shopping trip. The two of youmake your way over to the edge
when you hear someone yellingdownstairs. I demand to speak
with Archibald Theodore Cromwellright this instant you get him
down here now or else there willbe hell to pay.

(02:25):
You guys went to sleep at theedge and were woken up at least
it was morning time to the soundof someone asking where you are.
You hear someone downstairs andthey are just shouting for your
name. It's it's uncool. It'suncool that they're doing this

(02:46):
so early in the morning.
Especially your dog, right? Likeif it's a butt crack at dawn,
man.

Will (02:54):
I don't really sleep as I've said many times six does
not sleep.

Tanner (03:00):
Yeah, well, you know, you still need to rest in you
know, maybe you're maybe sixisn't a morning person, man. I
mean, have you thought Have yougotten that deep into your
character?

Will (03:09):
Oh, yeah, no, six isn't every time person always every
time person i

Tanner (03:13):
That's That's some BS man. All the time would not be
friends with six. If you're anevery time first person. I'm not
your friend. You got to haveyour limits. Yeah,

Will (03:22):
mornings leave me alone.
Will this will speak six all thetime. Talk to him. Doesn't
matter.

Tanner (03:28):
too cheery to

Bruce (03:30):
the best part of waking up at 6am in your butt. Oh, wow.

Will (03:36):
I've as soon as he says six. I was like this. This is
where he's going. And he did it.
He did. What? Okay, what do wedo with this? All right. All
right. So I guess what six woulddo at that point? Yeah, he would
say Archie looks like we have avisitor. I mean, technically you
live here. We live here. Now.

(04:01):
This is our home. I love myhouse. I need to decorate. We
need decorations.

Bruce (04:07):
Anybody ever seen like old school cartoons and nobody
wakes up out of bed and ourhairs everywhere and they're
disheveled and they're justangry and bleary eyed. For sure.
That's what just happened that'swhat Archie just did.

Tanner (04:19):
I want to also point out that you guys were given
separate rooms but six justapparently spent the night in
yours.

Will (04:25):
Yep. Just in the corner.

Bruce (04:29):
Why He doesn't sleep.
Yeah.

Tanner (04:32):
Doesn't make it not weird. So we just watched you
sleep.

Will (04:36):
I tell you what, Archie, you look like you're struggling
this morning. Let me uh I'll gosee who it is.

Bruce (04:44):
Heroin that right fucking mind or debris? Yellin familiar
this early in the morning ifthey didn't want to learn the
difference between wolves anddogs.

Will (04:55):
Okay, he hears that as I open the door and walk walk out
to see who it is. As

Tanner (05:01):
you make your way, downstairs into the edge, there
are a few bleary eyed patronsdown here. Pansy is behind the
bar. Just staring at this dude,as you get a good look at him.
He is very well dressed.

Bruce (05:20):
Because he's dressed better than me. That's the
question. Oh, yeah.

Tanner (05:23):
100% Well,

Bruce (05:24):
he's got to die. He's got to die.

Will (05:28):
Death will come for you.

Tanner (05:32):
So you see this man basically arguing with pansy
who's just not taking any of hisshit at this moment. He is
dressed in noble clothing.
There's a lot of white frills atthe cuff and the collar. And his
blue vest is tipped in

Will (05:52):
silver.

Tanner (05:54):
And he's just there arguing with her. Asking where
the two of you are

Will (05:59):
you saying?

Tanner (06:01):
I demand to see them.
Now. This is of the utmostimportance.

Will (06:07):
I guess I'm just gonna walk up to the bar. Okay, I just
stand there looking at him.

Tanner (06:15):
Just to get an an eye on on the scene. So pansy does look
over at you. You are currentlydressed. How?

Will (06:24):
Oh yeah, I didn't take off the clothes that I bought. I

Bruce (06:28):
bought a birthday suit.

Will (06:30):
I'm dressed. I'm dressed dapper AF.

Tanner (06:33):
So you've got your suit.
But you still I believe you keptthe blacksmith gloves and apron
on

Will (06:38):
right? Yes, yes. And there. Oh, that's right. That's
right. Yes, they're underneathmy apron. So I look like a crazy
person.

Bruce (06:46):
Look like somebody who's preparing to chop bodies. Oh,
that's

Will (06:50):
so I have I have the nice pants on and then the shirt. I
don't remember if I got a veston. I

Tanner (06:55):
got a jacket.

Will (06:56):
I got a jacket. Yeah, so jacket, pants shirt. And Gregory
apron and gloves. grungy aprongot got the nice gloves on and
on as well. Also grungy? I stillhave to keep on as well. I don't
think I'm just gonna add closeto my body. Like it's just gonna
get more close. When you get acape that I have had the cape

(07:20):
since the beginning. It was heput

Tanner (07:24):
beta format the stuff you put Okay. All right.

Will (07:27):
Oh, no, it wasn't base armor. It was Father Dell gave
me the cape. It was it's gotthis. Look, the cloak cloak.

Tanner (07:34):
Oh my God. It's not really still wearing the ropes
of Roderick. Yes, he

Bruce (07:39):
has been this entire time.

Will (07:40):
I've worn them the whole way.

Tanner (07:44):
I'd like I thought maybe you have them on. So you've
basically turn those into likesome sort of robe cloak thing
that's just on the outside ofyour suit with the aid. So very
little of your fancy clothes arecurrently showing. Yes. Okay.
Your mask is visible with thecrack of gold down the brow.
This guy turns to you and is abit dumbstruck by your odd

(08:07):
appearance. Pansy just kind ofshrugs and goes back over into
the corner to do what she doesin the morning prepping for
people to come in. Apparentlyshe doesn't sleep either.

Will (08:18):
Oh, well, she's

Tanner (08:19):
she's an every time person but she's also a no time
person. She's does no nonsenseever but has to be awake because
it's an in.

Will (08:27):
Okay, so as she walks away, I mean, he was calling for
us by name six and Archie right.

Tanner (08:33):
He was calling for Archie bathe, you know? Well, I
mean, you haven't talked about,he was just calling for Archie
and his accomplice. Okay, sohe's just staring at you and at
this point.

Will (08:44):
So you're looking for Archibald Theodore Cromwell?
Yes. I'm looking for Archibaldand his associate.

Tanner (08:56):
It is of the utmost importance that I speak to them
now.

Will (09:01):
I understand. May I ask what for? Well,

Tanner (09:07):
for a job, I'm willing to pay and I'm willing to pay
now. If they get their asses onthe move. Do you know are you
one of them? Do you know them? Ihaven't time for anyone else.

Will (09:20):
I I've I certainly know them. They're pretty cool. Good.
I

Tanner (09:27):
don't care. Show them.
Get them. Get them now. And hebasically you know, waved his
hand to like, wave you off to goget them like a servant.

Will (09:38):
I see. I'm like house six would do this. Man. I can
certainly give them a message.
What is the job? What is thequest?

Tanner (09:54):
He crosses his arms and looks you up and down?

Will (09:58):
I'm not here to give have

Tanner (10:01):
information to messengers if you know them, get
them.

Will (10:06):
I certainly know them and I put up my hand for a
handshake. I'm six. What's yourname?

Tanner (10:12):
He looks down at your hand and the backup tool refuses
to shake it. I don't have timeto make new acquaintances.

Will (10:21):
Well, you see, Archibald Theodore Cromwell is my best
friend. And I've been travelingwith him for a while. So I'm
certain that I am theaccomplice. You speak of. Ah,
good.

Tanner (10:35):
Then can we deal business so that I may leave?

Will (10:40):
As soon as Archie comes?
Maybe I can interest you in analcohol.

Tanner (10:46):
It is 730 in the morning.

Will (10:52):
Oh, is that not customary to drink alcohol this early?
Pansy

Tanner (10:56):
laughs over in the corner.

Will (11:01):
Pansy, I still have a lot to learn about this alcohol. She

Tanner (11:06):
she shrugs and goes back to what she was doing.

Will (11:09):
Look, I need you to get Archibald now. I need

Tanner (11:17):
a I have a problem I need solved. And if we could get
this rolling. I would begrateful.

Will (11:24):
And my gratuity gratefulness.

Tanner (11:31):
What's the I will I will give you money.

Will (11:35):
Money. Archie does love money. He's not really a morning
person. It's 730. Typically, wedon't get rolling until about
midday, but maybe he can make anexception for money. I'll be
right back. And I go get Archie.
Okay.

Bruce (11:56):
We were supposed to also do something when we started
last time and that was I wasplanning on on hiding the ring
somewhere

Will (12:01):
in the

Tanner (12:03):
Yeah, like you could you could hide this. It's you have
it stored. If you want to tryand hide it. You can We can
either toss it in the beginningor you can do it. No. If you
want to hide it, or if you wantto give it to six and have him
try it

Will (12:15):
out. He's magical.

Bruce (12:18):
You don't you don't put you don't you don't put hot
items on the market right away.
I mean, he's got

Will (12:24):
gleam in your eye. You're saving. Oh, I do have gloves.
That's really good.

Bruce (12:32):
Yeah, yeah, that's okay.
Well, yeah, we're just gonna,we're just gonna go with the
idea that I stashed it. We canfigure that out later. Okay. So
why he just walks in and goesArchie money. Yes, Archie.
Money. He like sits up out ofbed like from the waist like
creepy like, evil creature. LikeDracula. Like just straight like

(12:52):
the undertaker. Anybody has everseen the undertaker sit up
during WWE. Yes, that is howArchie sets up exactly like
that. And he just turns veryslowly, and looks at six and he
goes, Do you know what time itis? I do.

Will (13:08):
But this man is insistent.
He won't give me his nameeither. I think he has a quest.
Did he give you a number? Ah. Idon't think phones have been
invented yet. Okay.

Bruce (13:21):
Phone number a number of the money.

Will (13:25):
He did not. Would you like me to go get it real quick?
Yes, okay. I'll be right back. Igo.

Bruce (13:36):
I'll go back to him. As a number Archie doesn't get out of
bed for any less than

Will (13:42):
I hear him say that as we as I leave. Um, well, apparently
we don't get out of bed. Um,apparently, Archie does not get
out of bed for unless it's acertain amount of money. What
type of money are we talkingabout? So that I can properly

(14:02):
tell him also what is your name?
without skipping a beat? He says250 Chand Drea and waives you
off again. So,

Tanner (14:15):
Lord Chaudry is a human he has curly shoulder length
brown hair and a pencil thinmustache. Okay,

Bruce (14:24):
I'll be back Chaudry when six comes back, Archibald is
miraculously dressed andprepared to go.

Tanner (14:32):
Let me let me let me get this. So your hair was very
disheveled. I doubt you own likea comb would you do you lick
your hands and just kind ofslick it back.

Bruce (14:42):
Now what he does is he takes his hands and he wakes
when he wakes up he rubs him onhis face gets all that facial
oil yeah.

Unknown (14:49):
Nice good

Bruce (14:50):
it's disgusting audience is disgusting,

Will (14:53):
but one brand

Tanner (14:57):
sebum I thought

Will (14:59):
you Let's see him in all of

Bruce (15:01):
us what I thought he said to

Will (15:04):
sebum. Got it beard oil.
Okay, all right.

Bruce (15:08):
There's nothing wrong with natural oils from your
body.

Will (15:11):
No. Well, Archie unless it stinks. Archie 250 Choudry

Bruce (15:19):
now No, I heard him when he spoke out there. That's why
I'm already ready. Okay, I canhear him. I'll readjust his
coat. Looks into we have amirror in our room. Yeah. Okay,
readjust his code fixes his hisshirt. All right, let's go make
this Chandrika. Amen.

Will (15:37):
Agreed. And I also adjust my coat

Tanner (15:44):
Oh, all right. All right. You guys head back down.
He's sitting there just hisfoot. He has his arms crossed
and his foot his tapping againstthe wooden floor.

Will (15:53):
Archie Choudry Oh, I

Bruce (15:56):
assumed

Will (15:58):
Archie Choudry Choudry.
artery Choudry. Arch Charnthree, Archie. Yes.

Tanner (16:05):
Look, let's get this underway. I have places to be
one of them is home and I can'tcurrently access it.

Bruce (16:14):
That is definitely a problem. Or you forget your K or
something. Ha.

Tanner (16:18):
I wish it were that simple. But no, I don't carry
keys. I have people to open thedoors for me

Bruce (16:24):
that you lost the gentleman opened your door for
you know, I

Tanner (16:27):
can't get into Arcus Is it small?

Bruce (16:31):
Okay, you know, do you just tell me what you want me to
do? And look,

Tanner (16:34):
he brings his his fingers to his brow and kind of
rubs

Will (16:39):
I cannot

Tanner (16:43):
get back home. I was staying with the Marquess of
wound hold and I am trying toreturn back home. But these
imbeciles from Castor Haven havetaken over the town. ne'er do

(17:04):
wells.

Bruce (17:05):
I see. So you're, you're asking for the old old fashioned
favor of Muslim schools andcracking heads and getting
people to go to AI.

Tanner (17:15):
Yes, and I assume it would benefit the entire town
because if they're there, thenthey're stuck inside. It's my
son is in there. And I wouldlike him to be you know, the
whole

Will (17:33):
you see when when people get

Tanner (17:35):
that shouldn't have it get an education. They somehow
get it in their heads that theyare built for more and can do
greater things and they justneed to be put in their place
and that's what I'm asking toput them in their place. Which
isn't in Arcus my home

Will (17:56):
um, did you say they're from Castor Haven?

Tanner (18:00):
Yes, they are from Castor

Will (18:01):
Haven. Is there? I can tell you their budgets.

Tanner (18:08):
I don't know their names.

Will (18:11):
Oh, Archie Cantelli maybe there I need to find him. Enter
if not,

Bruce (18:19):
we can just you know I don't know pull people's
toenails out until they tell youwhere he is.

Tanner (18:23):
Yes that if you could pull pull them out and then pull
their toenails. I will pay you I

Will (18:30):
will pay you for that. 250 per toenail

Tanner (18:35):
about paying extra for the toenails. If you want to do
the toenails do the toenails.
I'm going to pay you to removethem to 50 either to remove them
from

Will (18:42):
Arcus remove the toenails.

Bruce (18:47):
Sure if you were Archie's just waiting, letting this
lettuce unfold just with aslight smirk on his faces. Six
continues talking.

Will (18:56):
I see removed them all including their toenails.

Tanner (19:00):
He turns to you Archie and we're just at this point is
no longer addressing six andstrokes, his pencil thin black
mustache. I'm going to addressyou directly because you seem to
be the more competent, one ofthe two.

Will (19:24):
What will it take to get you to like is is 250 It's
generous.

Bruce (19:31):
He began stroking his stroking his beard and he goes
well, did you put in an officialrequest with buysafe here at the
shop?

Will (19:39):
He is the

Tanner (19:41):
I went there. He said you too would the people for the
job. And he said he would sendfor you at some point today. So
yes, I have gone through thecorrect channels. I just want to

Bruce (19:56):
say oh just go and make sure your contracts right make
sure the money comes through. Nooffense.

Tanner (20:00):
he gestures to himself and his fine clothing. You don't
believe that I would be out.
I'll pay you half now and halfwhen you return. Last for
interior,

Bruce (20:12):
I just want a legal contract stating that work to be
done for pay is generally thebest way to deal with, you know,

Will (20:19):
things like if there's nature,

Tanner (20:21):
fine in certain courts, your word is also binding. So,
how about this, I Lord ChandrikaAbilene of Arcus. will pay you
the money in full when youfinish the quest requested? Is
that fine? And I'll go sign thepaperwork later. You have
various any gestures to pansy

Bruce (20:43):
hands. Did you hear all that?

Tanner (20:45):
She nods? I've got it.

Bruce (20:48):
Alright, witnesses are great. And heard it. We're good
to go. Now, how do we get towherever the hell you want us to
go?

Tanner (20:57):
Arcus is due west, you follow the road out of town and
you'll get there in a day'stime. Now, a little information
I think would probably probablybe helpful, would

Will (21:10):
it not? Yes. Great.

Tanner (21:15):
And once again, he's just looking exasperated. So
he'll, he's gonna give you alittle bit of information. And
here I go. Gonna give it to you.

Bruce (21:25):
Alright, well, you're writing this down? Sure.

Will (21:29):
The the majors,

Tanner (21:32):
currently in Arcus are calling themselves the Knicks
inheritors? I don't know why. Itsounds incredibly. I think to
name yourself just becauseyou're doing something is
inherently stupid. Butnonetheless, my son is in the
town. I want him safe. If he isnot.

Will (21:58):
I take off a quarter of what I owe you. But how is that
our fault? If something'salready happened to him? It's
part of the contract.
Understood.

Bruce (22:12):
I'd say here's the problem, though, is you're
expecting us to be able to fixthe problem that could have
already happened because ofsomething you decided

Tanner (22:17):
to do fine. If he is

Bruce (22:21):
I will not let any harm come to your son as long as harm
has not come to him before wefound them. And

Tanner (22:28):
there's no way to get any evidence of that. So Fine.
His name is Dennis. Theinformation that I have
gathered, is from a bard intown. He calls himself Aaron
assur. And I'm certain that ifyou need to get in, he is camped
outside and he'll no more. Iwant to make this completely

(22:50):
clear. I don't need you toparley with these people. I
don't need you to make friendswith them and ask them to leave.
I want it done.

Will (22:59):
forcedly. Are we clear?
Understood?

Bruce (23:06):
You have legal residents and orcas Correct? Yes, there

Tanner (23:09):
are citizens there.

Bruce (23:10):
I mean, you yourself. Oh, I

Will (23:13):
he

Tanner (23:14):
dust himself off? At all. I am the Lord of Arcus.

Bruce (23:21):
Okay, no, no, no, the reason why is because if I go in
there and you know, say someblood gets on the stone, I don't
want to be caught up in thatwith no correct orders, so to
speak.

Will (23:32):
I'm not

Tanner (23:34):
terribly concerned about the residences, or most of the
locations around I just want toget back to my estate.

Bruce (23:45):
All right, perfect. I can do that.

Tanner (23:48):
Look, I'm going to level with you. I need this to go
well.

Will (23:53):
I am being considered for a barony in parotia. This is

Tanner (24:02):
huge. I need you understand how huge this is? I'm
going from just being a Lord ofa location to a barren what
technically have anotherlocation. But title is
everything. And if this getsout,

Will (24:17):
I'm through.

Bruce (24:19):
So right you want it cleaned up and you don't want
anybody to know about it. Whodidn't need to know about it.
Exactly. Sure. Don't. It's gonnawork before. No problem. All
right.

Tanner (24:29):
He reaches into his purse and counts out 125 either,
and hands it over. Thank you,sir. You're very welcome. And I
hope that perhaps this is thestart of a lucrative
relationship. Actually, I don'tgive a fuck, just get the job

(24:51):
done. And he walks out.

Bruce (24:54):
Now it's finally good for somebody to have some honesty
around here.

Will (24:58):
Huh? He seem like like Jason

Tanner (25:07):
he seems like an ass to me. Pants.

Bruce (25:10):
I agree with you but he's got money and money makes the
world go round.

Tanner (25:16):
she shrugs and puts breakfast on the table for the
two of you. Thank you.

Bruce (25:21):
Haha Thank you.

Will (25:23):
Nom nom nom nom nom.

Tanner (25:25):
Alright, so you guys eat breakfast. He's basically been
like an iron giant has his chinjust on hinges and he just gross
whoreson gross for an organicthing to be able to do that. Oh
no, you're talking about a sixby six. I thought you got about
arpeggios like the fuck Archie'sis half snake. Great. Well, all

(25:45):
right.

Bruce (25:46):
He is serpentine.

Tanner (25:48):
You guys. You guys want to stop anywhere before heading
out of town? Or is there? Justjust gonna go because you got
things.

Bruce (25:57):
I'm gonna go I gotta go talk to base because I gotta I
gotta make sure that this is onthe up and up and that the guy's
not bullshitting me paying me100 Only if I go and then
fucking off. Okay, well,

Will (26:05):
so as he goes, I'll say, Archie, I'll meet you at the
stables. We get to ride ourhorses for the first time. All
right, we don't have to walk.
No, we don't. I can't wait tomeet my horse.

Bruce (26:19):
Well, things are finally starting to look up.

Will (26:22):
I'll meet you over there you go handle the Baeth stuff.
I've got to talk to pansy.

Bruce (26:28):
Hi, bruv don't go wandering off somewhere where I
can't find you or to get intomuch trouble or anything.

Will (26:33):
I would never wear a team.
I'll be back shortly. Okay.

Tanner (26:38):
Archie heads out and starts to make his way over to
12 Edge Street. Pansy iscleaning up at the bar.

Will (26:46):
Hey, pansy. Just real quick. Do you remember the night
we met?

Tanner (26:52):
Yes. Why wouldn't I remember the night that we met?
What

Will (26:56):
I came in, told you my name normal human. Jason told it
to the whole bar. And there wassomebody that should have
particular interest in me. Isthat right?

Tanner (27:07):
I'm sorry. I don't keep track of potential suitors that
enter the bar looking at otherpeople.

Will (27:14):
This would have I mean, it's pretty important. It would
have been Strickland. Do youremember Strickland?

Tanner (27:23):
She thinks for a moment and there's a look of struggle
on her face. But then she shakesthe name doesn't sound familiar.

Will (27:36):
Of the black hold collective large man red hair?
No, no, the

Tanner (27:41):
black hold collective.
They haven't been here formonths. They said they were
going to station a team and thennever did. We're just

Bruce (27:48):
making all these people have aneurysms over and over
again. Can you

Tanner (27:52):
remember? Can you remember this thing? Please
remember it?

Will (27:55):
Um, okay. Well, I remember things differently. I'm still
not sure why. But I appreciateyour honesty.

Tanner (28:06):
She looks at you. Like kind of weird. Like okay.

Will (28:13):
And yes, sure. It's

Tanner (28:16):
it's just a bar people come in and leave. But I guess
you guys are staying for a bit,which is great bathe is paying
for it. So that's quite nice tohave someone stable in here for
a bit. Do you need anythingbefore you go?

Will (28:35):
Well, I meant to ask you before but I felt I thought
maybe you didn't want to talkabout it. But your legs. How did
how did you get those legs? Ah,

Tanner (28:51):
well that's an awkward way of asking about it. But no,
it's it doesn't bother me. I wasinjured in my spine in the war
and you know these warriors ourtime in the war. Well, you
weren't we both know you weren'tthere. So

Will (29:10):
there's that they I just

Tanner (29:14):
had some modes that I put an order in for some Smith's
to create these if they wereDwarven. They came from netball.
It was pretty standard if you'reinto this kind of stuff.

Will (29:27):
I'm definitely into it. I find them fascinating. Maybe
some other time. I can inspectthem.

Tanner (29:35):
That's there like an extension of me. There or their
part. I mean, I can take themoff, but that would be I mean,
what what do I care? Sure if youwould like to at some other
point, that would be fine. Iit's a little weird.

Will (29:53):
I I see. I'm still learning about how to not be
awkward.

Tanner (29:59):
Well Mmm. Good luck with that Jason. And she turns around
and keeps cleaning.

Will (30:05):
Thank you, pansy. I'll see you later. I go off to the
stables to meet Archie.

Tanner (30:10):
Okay, Archie, you make your way over to outward
enterprises and you go insidethe door this time is actually
unlocked. And inside Baeth iswriting up on parchment. He
looks up and he goes, Ah, my newbusiness partner. How's it
going? Did you meet? Did youmeet the asshole McGee? That

(30:31):
little bit too? britches?

Bruce (30:34):
Oh, yeah. Okay, good. I want to make sure that he had
been by here already before, youknow.

Tanner (30:38):
Oh, yes. I'm writing up the contract right now. I I'm
sorry. I you know, I told himyou were staying in town. He's
like, do they have permanentresidents? And I said no. And he
was like, oh, there must be atthe end. I was like, well, it
would make sense for people tostay at the end. He was like,
I'm gonna go there. Now. I waslike, Can you please wait, they
might be sleeping. But then theyleft anyway because once again,
he's kind of a dick.

Bruce (30:59):
That's alright. I'm used to dealing with people like him.
A make sure you put in thatcontract that million six are
not responsible for any injurythat comes to his son previously
to when we find them. How areyou going to prove that? How is
he going to prove that it wasn't

Tanner (31:12):
good point. And he writes down on the piece of
parchment. Thanks both.
No problem. Hey, listen, I wenever talked about percentages
of what I get and what you getfor your deal. So he already
actually paid my portion upfront. So it's not part of what
he's paying, you

Will (31:29):
know, all right. Cool.
Yes. All right.

Tanner (31:32):
Just wanted to get that out of the way clean. Clean. 10%
right off the top.

Bruce (31:37):
Yeah, no problem. X finder's fee, I understand.
Yeah,

Tanner (31:40):
exactly. Okay. So if you want to go ahead and restock
anything that you need from thestockpile. Beyond that, I've got
your horses set up in thestable. Was there anything else
that you wanted to talk about orto set up before you head out?

Bruce (31:54):
Arcus caster Haven Can you tell me a little bit about
what you know.

Tanner (31:58):
So Ark is so the guy what's his name? Chantry. Even a
pump his name? Choudhury,whatever Joe that is a good one.
No. chanter. He is the Lord ofof Arcus. The next inheritors is
is I mean, actually, it's kindof a cool name. From, from what
I gathered from him, they justhave control of the city. And

(32:22):
if, you know, if you if you geton this guy's good side, he
might be a good connection toother rich people that need
things done. So there could beyou know, do a good job. That
would be great for us. I mean,don't take shit for sure. But
yeah, like, you know, peoplelike that sometimes the respect
a little pushback.

Bruce (32:42):
All right, no problem.
You do the job. Well, and youdon't let him walk all over you.
Because it speaks for itself.
Ah, am I gonna run into anyproblems seven an agreement with
him? Or am I pretty clear andfree?

Tanner (32:54):
I mean, he was just thinking, I spent four weeks
staying at the, the the Marquessof wounded March at his castle.
So you know, he is on the up andup in that sort of crowd. He is
part of, of court. So he's beentraveling from here to there,
like those people do in thosepeople in the High Court, at the

(33:15):
Capitol. So I don't think youwould have any trouble with him.
But he doesn't seem like thetype to be involved in nefarious
things, because I don't thinkthe kind of people that would do
those kinds of plots would putup with that kind of shit.

Bruce (33:29):
No, I fully agree. I just want make sure that he's not
going to come back in and say,oh, yeah, I never wrote that
contract. This man slaughteredyou know, five people in my
town. And I didn't tell him to.

Tanner (33:40):
I'll cut his balls off.

Will (33:41):
He does that. Alright, fair deal.

Bruce (33:44):
I don't need anything. I believe we're all topped up. I
believe six top dog crazy lasttime and we'll get out of here.
Go get this done. We'll see youlater. Bye. All right. Have a
good trip. Ding ding ding dingon

Tanner (33:53):
the door. So you head out and meet six over at the
stables inside the stables. Yousee to while you see multiple
horses set up in here, but totwo horses that six is currently
attending to. You've got ahorse. Okay, yeah, if you'd like

(34:13):
to describe what your horselooks like, Yeah, go for it.

Will (34:15):
Nice. My horse is huge.
It's a Clydesdale because heknows I'm made of metal I will
be very heavy. It has to be abig as horse. It's a it's a
brown horse with blonde mane andtail.

Tanner (34:31):
Nice. There is a stable boy in here scooping. Dookie
scooping poop and he sees you.
You know he's been talking toyou while you've been in here.
He says so they don't havenames. I mean, they just came
well, you could call himwhatever I imagined if you'd
like to name them something thatwhy is he so old all the sudden?

(34:53):
Stable grandpa. Grandpa This isstable grandpa with Is it
Canada?
Stable, grandpa? There we go. Soyou can name them whatever you
want. They they're down but thatthey don't have a stable name

Will (35:16):
stupid. Wow. Wow, that's awesome. I've never named
something before at least notthat I can remember. Maybe I've
named myself. I know that'sprobably confusing to you. I'm

Unknown (35:32):
not What about remember my own name on a daily basis?

Will (35:36):
What is your name? Okay, remember?

Bruce (35:40):
Stable grandpa?

Will (35:41):
Stable grandpa.

Unknown (35:46):
They call me they call me Gramps. Some people call me.
Smells like horse poopy. Ah,that's right. It is very rude.

Will (35:57):
I don't think you smell like horse poopy. I think that
the stuff around you smells likehorse poopy. You are Gramps.
Nice to meet you Gramps. I amsix.

Tanner (36:06):
It's nice to meet you two, six.

Will (36:08):
And this is my horse. His name will be seven. Okay,

Tanner (36:15):
Archie at this point you walk in, and you see the other
horse that set up for you. Wouldyou like to describe how it
looks?

Bruce (36:22):
It's Oh, no, no, no. And I don't. I'm done. I quit
because that was a stupid jokeI've ever heard that was six and
seven.

Will (36:33):
Wait, do you know why I named him seven?

Tanner (36:37):
No, why can you name them seven? Because it's a very

Will (36:41):
big number because 789 Okay, so

Bruce (36:53):
this was the end of the Nother brothers. It's the end
here boys.

Tanner (36:58):
Oh my god. I'm so the other horse Do you want to do on
scrabulous? You want me to gofor it?

Bruce (37:04):
Black on Black on Black my friend. I call you go in
there.

Tanner (37:08):
All Black Stallion. Who is black of I? Black of Maine
black of coat. And whorecognizes you? I didn't
recognize you. But he recognizesthat you have entered the room?
What would you like to name yourhorse?

Will (37:27):
Archie your horses beautiful. May I suggest that we
name it? Eight.

Bruce (37:33):
You may suggest it and you have been struck down and
overlooked. What's his name?

Tanner (37:39):
Yeah, what's his name?

Bruce (37:42):
Let's see here. What's his name?

Will (37:45):
What's his name? Archie?

Tanner (37:47):
What's his name? You is this

Bruce (37:48):
far I saw a man riding towards me on this fine of a
horse. Well, I would say thatwould be a nightmare. So I think
I'm gonna call them nightmare.

Unknown (38:03):
That's fuckin dope as hell. I'm down

Will (38:06):
with that. Like that is the coolest. Hey, you probably
come up with. I'm

Tanner (38:10):
stable grandpa. Hi. Nice to meet you, Gramps. Nice to
meet you too. You.

Will (38:17):
This is Archie. Yes.

Tanner (38:22):
No, wait, I'm Gramps.

Will (38:25):
Okay, Gramps. We'll see you later. And I'm gonna try to
mount my horse I've never donethis before.

Bruce (38:31):
Take care Gramps. I gave him a little tap on like a
little pat on the back likewe'll see you later.

Tanner (38:36):
Bye. Okay. Yeah you guys you guys not to find your horses

Bruce (38:40):
cabbages that's what you sound like

Tanner (38:49):
you start to head out of town and to the west

Will (39:13):
tuned Hello, dear listener, it's me again will aka
the voice of six. And I want tothank you again for listening to
the ninth episode in our veryfirst campaign, the never there.

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(40:23):
right after this message fromone of your favorite new
characters.

Unknown (40:30):
Hello, you if me, Stephen Graham. I've got some
notes here that I need to readout. First. Thank you all for
enjoying and sharing the show.
Second, we have some newsurprises coming up through
through stay tuned. Third, befunny Gramps. Maybe tell a joke
here. Fourth, say goodbye andremember go away. Oh, goodbye.

(40:54):
And remember why?

Tanner (41:28):
It is early AF. And the sun is rising, giving you plenty
of visibility as you head out.
Oh, yeah. Visibility. Yeah,well, we've been traveling
through some some rainy shittyweather. And in caves, both of
which really don't provide muchin the way visibility. The good
thing with visibility is thatyou get to see the countryside

(41:50):
and through here, it's a lot ofa lot of grass, but also a lot
of wheat fields. A lot ofdifferent things are grown in
this part of the kingdom. Youknow that if you take this road
continue on West and branch offeventually. RG at least you know
this that you would end up inGrineer, one of the largest
producing farm areas in thekingdom. But Arcus is due west

(42:15):
and the road you pass by a fewpeople traveling throughout the
day. And about early afternoon.
You do see and old man and weget to old man old mins in a

(42:37):
row. And because of stablegrandpa, which was an accident
and just want to be sure thateveryone understands that. You
see an old man up the way he'ssitting. He's propped up against
a road sign. His cane is gnarledand laying down beside him. He's
got a bald head and a very lightblond beard. And he is feeding

(43:02):
what looks like a raven withgold tipped wings. And as you
guys are trotting along on yourhorses, he weighed you down.

Will (43:12):
He seems kind of suspicious. I've never seen a
raven look like that.

Bruce (43:17):
Well, unfortunately, we were not given a description of
who was supposed to meet. Wewere just given a name. So let's
see what he says.

Will (43:25):
Yeah, the name by the way, his the name of the person we're
looking for. Is Eric as Jewish.

Bruce (43:31):
Right? Don't say that to him. I would never okay, yeah,
well, we'll pull to a stop Iguess.

Tanner (43:37):
Okay, so you guys you guys trot up to this old man
fitting this Raven The Ravenkind of jumps a little bit hops
out of the way. And over intothe grass closer to the old man
as he's, you know, still feedinghim bread. And the old man nods
to you and strokes his scratcheshis chin through his scraggly
blond beard. And he says Hey,there, good day to both of you.

(44:02):
It was nice of you to stop. I amjust a fellow traveler along the
road. I haven't talked to anyonein a moment. So figured I'd wave
someone down. Sounds a littleweird now that

Bruce (44:18):
I'm saying it but unless you acknowledge the fact

Tanner (44:21):
I assure you it gets I don't think yeah, weird.

Will (44:24):
It's nice to meet you. I am six.

Tanner (44:27):
Oh, well. My name is Craig. It's nice to meet you.

Will (44:32):
Very nice, Greg. That's a that's a very interesting bird.
Is that yours? This particular

Tanner (44:43):
one right here. No, it's not mine.

Will (44:48):
Gold tip Raven never seen that before. I've seen birds.

Tanner (44:55):
I would think we've all seen birds.
It is very interesting. This funOh, here he is quite personable.

Will (45:04):
But you know everything is

Tanner (45:07):
different in different places, sometimes feathers can
take on particular colors,especially towards mating
seasons. I don't know if thatexplains this. But

Will (45:17):
here we are. Say see.
Other gentleman,

Tanner (45:22):
whatever happens to be your name?

Will (45:25):
Oh, my name is Archie.

Tanner (45:27):
Good to meet you, Archie.

Will (45:29):
I, you know, it's it's odd. I

Tanner (45:32):
haven't spoken to anyone as I've been traveling is been
people I've passed on the road,but I've never maybe picked up
the courage to try and talk tosomeone else. But I thought if I
were to talk to someone, whatwould be the conversation
starter? What would what would Iwant to talk about? And I think

(45:54):
I think the thing that I'vewanted to ask someone for these
past few months is

Will (46:00):
Do you think that

Tanner (46:03):
believing in something hard enough will

Will (46:07):
make it manifest? No, unequivocally No, that doesn't
make sense.

Bruce (46:19):
In my experience, the only place to make something
truly real is whether or not youbelieve in it, whether or not
it's in your head. If you don'tbelieve in it, whatever it is,
you may be searching for youryou'll never find it. You got to
have some faith in something

Will (46:35):
to find what you're looking for. Hmm. So a bit of a

Tanner (46:42):
uneven belief system between the two of you, you
know, every one find someone tocomplement them and if you could
travel with those people, Ithink it actually

Will (46:52):
helps along the way. You know, to be truthful to the two
of you have I think that

Tanner (47:05):
this might be for you.
And he'll pull a sealed letterout from outside him. You could
see at the end of it, it hasthis red string tied around it.

Will (47:20):
This was tied to the Ravens

Tanner (47:23):
leg and it is addressed to Archie N six.

Will (47:28):
Lino learn.

Bruce (47:30):
Take it as a gentleman's hand.

Tanner (47:31):
Okay. It is a it's an envelope. You can see your name
is written on the front of it inbasically in gold. And like you
said, it is sealed. You can seea wax seal of gold on the back.
I didn't open it, as you cansee. And I haven't tried to peek
inside but I feel it's probablypretty important. The

(47:55):
information in there.

Will (47:57):
So they are

Bruce (48:01):
going to look Dr. T's gonna look down at his hand and
assuming he's gonna see the samekind of

Will (48:06):
gold color. Yep, same gold.

Bruce (48:10):
Alright, let's see what this is about. He's gonna take
out a little light dagger andpop to see you.

Tanner (48:18):
Okay, you open it up.
And I will send you what theletter says. If you don't mind
reading,

Bruce (48:27):
children. I'm glad to know of your exodus from both
the caves and the die splittingIsland. I do dearly hope that
your return trip was wildlyuneventful, but I do feel as
though you've tapped into thoselovely little curses of yours.
The power those curses grantshall grow as your bond with
them strengthens I can certainlyspeed that process along if you

(48:47):
further my itty bitty personalgoals as inevitability as a
first request, I beg that youbegin spreading the message of

Will (48:58):
AST a when you get to this word.

Tanner (49:02):
Most of it looks like it's constantly moving gibberish
but you can see the first letterit is an A

Bruce (49:11):
it's a psalm I can't read the rest. It's kind of like when
he would say it when he wastalking six if you remember so
it's yeah, whatever.

Tanner (49:19):
Six if you're peeking over at at the letter at the
same time, you can't see the eyelook at

Will (49:25):
the letter. Ah, Artie, I don't I don't see an A. I see a
bunch of garbled nonsense. But

Bruce (49:35):
I've seen Stranger Things Anyway, moving on. I understand
that you probably can't read itbut says it's quite simple. Just
help some of the good folks ofthe world and DOJ they seem to
be enjoying themselves andresponsible access. Give them
one of the coins the Raven Karisinstructed her to give you five
for now. She will be watching toknow when you need more

(49:56):
consensual hugs and kissesfucking course. Ah are a Saint
Sebastian, her old friend. I

Will (50:03):
know Yeah. What? What are these coins that he speaks of?
Do we have the coins?

Tanner (50:10):
They're not attached nor in the envelope.

Will (50:15):
Ah, I see. Archie. It seems as as if our new friend
Craig might have our coins.
Correct. Do you have our coins?

Tanner (50:30):
You both turned to Craig and he is gone. We would have
heard him right. You would havethe raven is still there. And in
its beak is a coin purse.

Bruce (50:41):
Okay, all right. I was okay.

Will (50:43):
I gotcha. Well, maybe this is it. I take the coin purse.

Tanner (50:48):
Okay. You take the coin purse, and you open it up
inside. There are five goldencoins. On each of them. There
are symbols and language youcan't quite understand. No. Do
either of us speak draconic?

Will (51:04):
No, I don't speak Dwarven in common? I do I speak
draconic.

Tanner (51:11):
Okay, it is it is draconic in nature, so you're
able to recognize most of it.
And it says it basically breaksdown to we live for indulgence.
Carry on carry on.

Will (51:30):
Well, it says we live for indulgence carry on carry on. I
guess we just hand these outdoes seems like a pretty simple
favor. Well, here's the problem.

Bruce (51:47):
Is it does say responsible access when we don't
know what that is? No ideawhat's considered responsible
and access and responsible. Ismy opinion a bit of an oxymoron
anyway,

Will (51:58):
maybe it's up to our discretion. I suppose we'll see.
I think we just start handing itout and see what happens. We'll
find someone

Bruce (52:10):
as the raven is still there. Is it gone? Raven still
there?

Will (52:13):
Cox. It's had you back and forth. Waiting.

Bruce (52:18):
We are taking the coins.
We took the coins? Yeah. Becausehe was reading them. Ryan.

Will (52:21):
Yeah. Maybe we should write back

Bruce (52:24):
where we probably should at least have the common
courtesy to answer. Do I tend ordo I have to have a quill and
ink?

Tanner (52:31):
You have stuff that you could? Yeah, okay. Yeah.

Bruce (52:34):
All right. This is going to art is going to be at the
bottom of the same paper

Will (52:39):
is just going to write

Bruce (52:42):
agreed and sign his name.
And he was alright six. Oh, ah.

Will (52:49):
Yeah, sure. I put Novar question mark. Oh, okay. And
then I just write the numbersix. Okay.

Tanner (52:59):
All right. You guys. Add that addendum to the to the
letter, seal it back up handedback to the Raven, who then be
tied to its legs and it flies. I

Bruce (53:11):
was gonna break a little piece of like ration off and I
give it to the Raven.

Will (53:14):
Okay. Yeah, it. It seems pretty thankful for it. Thank
you for your thoughts, brief,QA.

Bruce (53:23):
QA, I just want I just wanted to see if Tanner would do
a call. That's all

Tanner (53:27):
Oh, okay. So it flies off. And if you're watching it,
it disappears before you know itleaves your field of view like
it's not that it's just gottensmaller and you no longer can
see it. It just starts to flyoff and then it's gone.

Will (53:43):
Well, that was you know, this is gonna turn out to be
interesting. I like interesting.

Bruce (53:51):
Yeah, well, interesting.
Can be good for you just as wellas it can bite you in the ass.
Understood. Okay, let's go.

Tanner (53:59):
All right. So you guys have a basically the rest of the
day of travel. Is there anythingthat you guys are talking about
as you're going or is it justdead silence between the two of
you as you're traveling? No, I

Will (54:11):
think I think we should have a conversation about
everything's fucking happen butso I think that I would be
asking Archie his opinion on youknow, people forgetting who the
black hole collective Do you? Doyou think that means? That
thing, whatever it was dizzy.
That means that they came back.

(54:33):
It came back in eight swallowedadult. I don't know if those are
the right words. Well, we

Bruce (54:41):
could only be so grateful if it did, because Stricklin,
that guy was an absolute unit.

Will (54:48):
Yeah, he was kind of a douche. And I think the other
thing

Tanner (54:56):
you guys, you got you got the locket you want to talk
about any of that? Have

Will (55:01):
Oh yeah. Can I attune to that while we're going?

Tanner (55:04):
You certainly can. So as you're going along, you can
focus on a tuning to thoseitems. As far as I recall, you
left the ring back in the room.

Bruce (55:15):
Yep. And in a sheltered, hidden Sneaky sneaky place.

Tanner (55:18):
Yeah. And a little thieves thieves Cubby.

Will (55:23):
Yeah, as you're attuning to this. Locket you're looking

Tanner (55:28):
at over and again, it is a rusted oval locket. And you
can tell it's made of silver,you kind of start to clean some
of the rust off.

Will (55:36):
And as you tune to it,

Tanner (55:44):
you kind of get a better idea of what it is. And I know
maybe this isn't like since wehaven't identified it and
understanding what these thingsare and what they do is not how
it traditionally works, but youknow, attuning to it, you
realize whether or not it'scursed and stuff like that, so
I'm just going to give it toyou. This locket does require

(56:04):
attunement. Basically, when youmake an attack role while
wearing the amulet, or thelocket sorry, when you make an
attack role while wearing thelocket, you can forego rolling
the d 20 and get a 10 on the dieinstead. It has six charges of
this. And if the locket is lost,it can always be found as long

(56:26):
as you remain attuned.

Will (56:29):
Oh, does it work for any attack rolls? Spell rolls can't
spell attacks.

Tanner (56:35):
You just have to call it beforehand.

Will (56:37):
That is a dupe? Yep.

Tanner (56:40):
So that's you. That's automatic. Right?

Will (56:42):
It just seems broke.

Tanner (56:44):
It's why only give you six charges per long rest or

Will (56:48):
period period. Oh, nice.
Okay, that seems fine. That'sway more balance now.

Tanner (56:55):
Yeah, yeah. wasn't gonna give you just a constant 10 You
just have to up everything's AC.
That would suck for me. Yeah,right.

Bruce (57:03):
But yeah, well, so here we'll take a moment to we'll
take a moment of seriousnesshere. Alright, six. We need to
delay a little bit clearer witheach other if we're going to
continue to work together. Doyou have I think an idea of me
that is probably very, very far.
From what the actual truth

Will (57:24):
to my best friend and wonderful person?

Bruce (57:27):
No, right. Well, I can be your best friend.

Will (57:31):
But I'll make this clear.

Bruce (57:33):
I'm a career criminal brother, and we don't tend to
stray too far from who we areonce we've decided,

Will (57:38):
you know, when I was ahead in a bag, I heard somebody say
this before, and I think itapplies here. I ain't no narc
son

Bruce (57:52):
All right. Well, we returned to Leylen I got a
surprise for you. So but you'llneed to keep it under wraps.
nako telling everybody that yougot it. All right. You know,

Will (58:02):
this is the smartest way that Archie could have handled
this situation. Because for suresix was gonna get us in trouble
with that fucking ring that youstill that is?

Bruce (58:12):
No, he knows that six is like kinda almost an oblivious
kind of ignorant child. Yeah,naive child shouldn't say
ignorance should say naive. Heknows there's naivety there. So
just because he doesn't justbecause he's murdered people
doesn't mean he doesn'tunderstand naivety

Will (58:29):
a British? Yeah. You know, I, I liked the sound of
surprises, especially from mybest friend. Also, you know,
when I put those people tosleep, you know, when we're
fighting them? Yeah, I

Tanner (58:45):
just killed anyone.
Yeah.

Will (58:48):
He understands that we killed the Greeks. When we put
those Greeks to slow youremember that?

Bruce (58:53):
Oh, let me make it. Let me let me Nother on the road
with nobody listening. I'll makeit very clear to you what I did.
And I'm going to trust that eventhough you may not agree with my
methods, we have proven eachother to be companions well
enough that you will not doanything that would put our

(59:17):
friendship in on towards harm.

Will (59:20):
Wait. Are you saying that this secret if told could harm
you?

Bruce (59:27):
Probably both of us honestly.

Will (59:30):
Honestly, my safety is not of concern.

Bruce (59:33):
Oh, it should be

Will (59:34):
because that's, you know what? Normal

Bruce (59:38):
creatures, organisms.

Will (59:40):
self preservation absorbable. Yeah. Have you ever
heard still?

Bruce (59:48):
Oh, yeah, it's normal.
Well, I

Will (59:51):
would never do anything to harm you, Archie. I guess I
would never do anything to harmmyself. You know, when we're
fighting things I don't wantought to get hurt. That's true
self preservation. I did runaway against our fight or argue
I guess that was more naturalthan I thought. Well, we're all

(01:00:12):
out the way.

Bruce (01:00:14):
Is there anybody within earshot that is clearly

Tanner (01:00:17):
visible? No. Okay, well, you don't see anyone around.

Will (01:00:20):
And we'll get back to Leylen. We're going to have a
discussion, but I've got you

Bruce (01:00:27):
the ring from the suit maker, and I didn't get it on
the up and up, and he doesn'tknow I have it. So if you tell
him or you show anyone whilewe're in Leyland, our, our
friendship would end quiteprematurely. Well,

Will (01:00:45):
I certainly don't want that. And that rig look dope
anyways, I'm, maybe I should tryto steal things.

Bruce (01:00:54):
How about you let me do the stealin. And you do the
talk, and we're both good atwhat we're good at. I

Will (01:00:59):
you know, that's, that's fair. I can distract you steel.
I feel like a rebel.

Bruce (01:01:05):
Oh, yeah. You look like one. Alright, let's drop. Let's
not talk about it. And don'twear that ring around. Right.
Leylen All right.

Will (01:01:12):
You have nothing to worry about. As I said earlier, I
ain't no narc son. My good. I'mnot sure what a narc son is but
it seemed to fit when he saidit.

Bruce (01:01:26):
You don't want to be one guy. You don't want to be one.

Tanner (01:01:31):
Let me make a little note here.

Bruce (01:01:33):
What's the note? Nothing.
That he ain't no narc.

Will (01:01:38):
I never liked it when D DMS make notes as we're talking
about shady shit. Like we didthis thing. Let me make a quick
note here so I can rememberthis.

Bruce (01:01:48):
Well, I have really high passive perception. So like if
somebody was like creeping up onus, I should have definitely
gotten a chance to say the wordabout Okay. You guys, he's he's
making a note about my alignmentremaining evil and your
alignment changing to maybe?

Will (01:02:06):
Yeah, I guess that's kind of true.

Tanner (01:02:09):
I mean, now it's neutral. You do what you gotta
do? Yeah, we're

Will (01:02:13):
doing what we got to do to survive. It's I think it's more
neutral than anything. Okay, soyou guys,

Tanner (01:02:19):
as you finish your conversation it is getting later
on in the day. The trip was mademuch shorter by having these
horses. You're welcome.

Will (01:02:29):
Thank you. In the distance, you see a

Tanner (01:02:33):
fairly large town. Most of it is surrounded by a stone
wall. But you see farms and sortof cottages outside of the wall.
You begin your make making yourway towards it. And see a few
camps outside the walls of thisarea and assigned nearby that

(01:02:55):
does say Arcus. But written inred paint in front of Arcus is a
n. So it now reads and Arcus I'mvery clever. I know. I need to
now appreciate the shit out ofits please. I

Bruce (01:03:13):
appreciate it. Great. I appreciate it.

Tanner (01:03:16):
And as you to continue towards the city wall.

Will (01:03:20):
Wait before we do hold off before we do that. Ah, Archie
I'm not sure that this is theright place. This clearly is
anarchist we need to find Arcusright

Bruce (01:03:29):
but they they added the AI in the n six it's in
different color. Oh,

Will (01:03:35):
so the captors have claimed this as their own and
renamed it like I named my horseseven. Yeah. It's my horse.
Yeah, my that's their town. Weshould still try to find Arcus

Bruce (01:03:49):
kinda like I can't, I can't.

Will (01:03:53):
Okay, I get it. The two

Tanner (01:03:57):
of you continue to approach the outer wall. Again,
you see these sort of, you know,camps. There's things that you
wouldn't not see outside ofcertain towns, especially when
tradesmen visit and right as youapproach the closed gate, you

(01:04:19):
see someone pop up at the top ofthe wall next to the gate and
this person from this distanceyou can tell that they are
younger. They are wearing

Will (01:04:33):
flowy purple robes

Tanner (01:04:37):
and they yell out to you

Will (01:04:40):
halt no

Tanner (01:04:47):
oh you keep going. Cool.
I

Will (01:04:51):
just looked at Archie as I just kind of shrug.

Bruce (01:04:55):
Yeah, I keep I look at the guy on the wall and I point
at six and I say you Alright andwe're not not stopping.

Tanner (01:05:01):
If your thoughts stop, you'll feel the flavor.

Bruce (01:05:07):
As long as you don't fuck my general direction will be
alright.

Tanner (01:05:11):
He turns over, looks on either side of him and says,
Okay fellows, they asked for itto other guys jump up beside
him. And they all yell outtogether Fire Fire, fire bolt
and three fire bullets comeflying towards you guys. All
right, one of the fire boltsgoes wide and hits on the ground

(01:05:36):
nearby igniting some of thegrass one each hits both of you
square in the chest.

Bruce (01:05:44):
You know firewall catches things on fire, right? Yeah,

Tanner (01:05:47):
I certainly do. All right. Six, you take four
damage, Archie, you take fivefire damage, and an object hit
by ignites if it isn't beingworn or carried. So you guys
just take fire damage. Nothingmakes you able to Okay, so both

(01:06:09):
of your hit. Some of yourclothes start to singe and
embers spark up but you pat themdown quickly enough to where
they don't fully Ignite. Okay,you better stop right there. Or
we'll do fire balls.

Will (01:06:26):
I hope my horse at that point.

Bruce (01:06:27):
You should have a bit you just fucking hit my fucking new
count at bro. handaxe

Tanner (01:06:32):
Okay, roll the hit. He is in half cover. 14. Yeah.

Will (01:06:39):
Cool. How far are we from these guys right now.

Tanner (01:06:42):
Throwing x distance

Bruce (01:06:45):
is gonna take six to eight. Okay.

Tanner (01:06:48):
It catches him right in the shoulder and sticks. He
goes, Hi.

Bruce (01:06:56):
I'm going to at that point, I'm going to shout oh six
follow me and I'm going to takeoff around the corner because I
know they can shoot more bulletsthan I have access. Yes.

Tanner (01:07:04):
So the one dude is flipping out just he's bleeding
from his shoulder. He's tryingto yank this very well embedded
handaxe out of him and his otherfriends are just freaking out
next to him. And they turnquickly and start trying to
shoot more fireballs, but theysplash on the ground behind you.
Behind your horses becausethey're super fast. And you guys

(01:07:25):
make your way around the corner.
You hear yelling off in thedistance. The guy is still
screaming in through his screamshe's also yet to get on. Count
up there kindof circumvent. It'll
break the wall goes all aroundthe whole place. God and he's in
pain. I can't hold up that. No,that goes it's gotta be nice.

(01:07:46):
i Good lord. I mean it easily.
You're gonna

Bruce (01:07:51):
fix that. Yeah, there we go. I bet their mothers are
gophers. And fathers likeblueberries.

Tanner (01:07:58):
Wow. Well, I like how it was almost.

Bruce (01:08:01):
It's good. That that's the point. No,

Tanner (01:08:04):
I that's why I like it.
It's good.

Will (01:08:06):
Oh, okay, as I'm running, can I shoot a crossbow arrow?
Just just for whatever.

Tanner (01:08:12):
Yeah, go ahead and shoot these teenagers with a crossbow.
Done

Bruce (01:08:16):
a fire first.

Tanner (01:08:20):
Wait to try and get the same one.

Will (01:08:21):
Yeah, I'll try to hit the same one. Okay, it's half covers
that disadvantage. What

Tanner (01:08:27):
does that say? He gets like crazy from it.

Will (01:08:30):
Okay, so that is

Tanner (01:08:34):
13 to hit that hits. You shoot the bolt, and it sticks
into his other shoulder.
You guys remember the scene fromAce Ventura? To where he's got?
Pipes. It is like, this guy justgone. At the two things stuck

(01:08:54):
into his shoulder. And now hisother friends are freaking out.
One of them passes out justseeing the blood. And the other
one. You see him? The main guythat was yelling at you. He says
the other one. Go get the otherguys. And the other guy runs
off.

Bruce (01:09:11):
You know six. I think we could have took him now that I
know that. I see what we'redealing with here.

Will (01:09:16):
We probably could have but I don't really like hurting
people too bad. Maybe I maybe Ineed to get over that. Because
they seem to want to hurt me.
And you Well,

Bruce (01:09:32):
Becky, do you How about this? By swing? You swing in?
You're allowed to swing any timein which your life is in danger
sound like plan

Will (01:09:40):
sounds like a plan. But we're at an awkward position at
this point. How do we get in?

Bruce (01:09:48):
I'm gonna keep Yeah, like riding around the

Will (01:09:54):
perimeter wall. Yeah.

Bruce (01:09:56):
Is it a wall to wall okay,

Tanner (01:09:57):
it's a pretty high wall.
Definitely not something As youcould climb up, you, the two of
you kind of make your way aroundthis thing. It is not like the
city's not in a perfect circle.
But you do you can follow itaround. There's no hard angles
or anything on this, there's acouple of turrets around spotted

(01:10:18):
on these walls in equidistance.
Every once in a while, you'llsee, will you actually when you
look up at each one of thesesort of tower turret locations,
there is a person in a robe inthe same sort of robes in each
of these towers. Some of themare dressed in purple, some are

(01:10:38):
green, some are in red, and ifyou are in blue, and they just
all kind of look at you asthey're looking around or as
you're going around keeping aneye on you, but apparently they
haven't heard the commotion fromupfront yet.

Bruce (01:10:56):
Alright, six, we need to figure out who's in charge. If
they're using different colors.
That means that there's probablysome kind of hierarchy here.

Will (01:11:03):
Hmm. Okay. Which colors should we start with?

Bruce (01:11:09):
What colors were the guys at the purple? Well, we know
Purple's probably the lowestbecause?

Will (01:11:17):
Well. They seem like doofuses.

Bruce (01:11:21):
Yeah. Now Yeah, exactly.

Will (01:11:23):
Secretly. I'm hoping that can tell he is here.

Bruce (01:11:27):
He might be but I hope he's not on the other side.

Will (01:11:30):
I would imagine if this is Castro Haven, he would in fact
be on the other side.

Bruce (01:11:37):
Now, this isn't Casta Haven. This is just some falls
from gas to Haven.

Will (01:11:40):
This is Arcus Ah, I see. I spoken correctly. But if Castro
Haven is doing this, he'sprobably not on our side.

Bruce (01:11:53):
Oh, this gentleman is backed by Casta Haven book.
We'll find out soon enough. I'mjust looking for somewhere to
get in Tanner.

Tanner (01:12:01):
Okay, as you guys are traveling around, there are
they're really I mean, it's avery well built wall. As you go
around it, you don't see anyother gates. What you do see out
at the back of this sort of inthis kind of meadow and clearing
and you actually hear it beforeyou see it. You hear a lute

(01:12:22):
playing and out in this field ofyellow flowers. There is a
person sitting on a stumpplaying a lute

Will (01:12:34):
Okay, I'm gonna do do we both see him yeah, you both see
him

Bruce (01:12:39):
alright, I'm gonna point out him and I'm gonna say let's
go see if that's a contact

Will (01:12:45):
I agree it he said bar arts play music. Aaron is your

Tanner (01:12:51):
you as you approach you call out to Him. The loop
playing stops and he turns andit is this middle aged male with
flowing curly brown hair. He'sgot a headband on and he's got
this flowing. Sort of silk androbe that's blowing in the
breeze it has all thesedifferent colors stitched

(01:13:14):
through it sort of like amedieval sort of tie dye I guess
you could have regulatory tiedye and in fantasy settings
that's fine. He straight uplooks like a hippie and his face
you know is his eyes are halflidded, any lazily turns to you
and goes back to strumming asthough but he goes Hi, Mom,

(01:13:34):
y'allthat's what I go by. Let's go on
on.

Will (01:13:39):
Do you have something in your mouth?

Unknown (01:13:42):
Now I got I got a song in my mouth. Hey, how's it
going? Like,

Bruce (01:13:50):
last time you imbibe drugs?

Tanner (01:13:52):
When's the last time I didn't imbibe drugs you know?

Will (01:13:56):
Sounds like you have drugs in your mouth right now.

Unknown (01:13:59):
I got some drugs going through my system, ma'am.

Will (01:14:05):
Ah,

Bruce (01:14:07):
Archie pinches the bridge of his nurse

Will (01:14:11):
we were set by chandlery and told that Aaron as you are
would be able to help us is thatyou?

Unknown (01:14:18):
First things first wherever Tron has a fuck an
asshole second thing I don'tknow if I'm going to help nobody
out in any sort of predicament.
But I will tell you I do go by

Will (01:14:30):
Aaron assure

Bruce (01:14:32):
you so you're going to help us get get into the city
here right

Unknown (01:14:37):
I can help you get into the city if you so choose, but I
mean I don't know it justdoesn't seem like the kind of
day for that

Bruce (01:14:46):
would make you that kind of day. Drugs.

Unknown (01:14:48):
I mean, sorry. Got a one track mind sometimes. I'm
thinking I don't know I ain'tgot no need for nothing. You
know I'm just out here chillin

Will (01:14:59):
thanks usually use you seem like the perfect type of
person. Um I want to give youone of these. I'll pull out a
coin Oh, what's this

Tanner (01:15:15):
and he takes it and you can see it kind of glow in his
fingers as he kind of you knowthe coin trick where you make it
roll between your fingers hedoes that with it

Bruce (01:15:26):
it doesn't seem like he should have that much motor
capability considering a fuckedup you Oh,

Unknown (01:15:32):
how am I gonna flick my instrument baby if I don't have
this sort of mobility of myfingers as true and I'm not
gonna for that one. There are noright and nobody really ever has
an argument for the things thatI say. Especially not the things
that are saying if you get thething that I'm saying.

Will (01:15:48):
No, I don't but that's cool. Well, I when I hand you
that I just want you to knowkeep indulging Oh, you don't
have to tell

Unknown (01:16:00):
me twice and he reaches in his backpack and he pulls out
this long pipe and takes a longdrag

Tanner (01:16:06):
from it.
That's what I really like doingall the time

Will (01:16:11):
seems like responsible indulgence.

Unknown (01:16:14):
Well that's all from nature you know it's not like
it's gonna do me any harm I meana few brain cells here and
there. I got too many of themthat deal with anyway so why am
I gonna worry about it? You wantto kill some of yours any

Will (01:16:30):
offers you the pipe?

Bruce (01:16:32):
Now I'm all right down in Bible I'm working. Oh,

Will (01:16:35):
I agree if if drugs are like anything I've experienced I
don't know that I need drugsright now but maybe I'll come
see you after I'm veryinterested in drugs.

Unknown (01:16:44):
Now sometimes drugs are like something you've never
experienced before and that'sthe most beautiful thing I can
tell you from personalexperience you know

Bruce (01:16:54):
how on behalf surprised if I probably established the
run on chain in which your Godthose from anyway, that's
besides the point. How do we getin there and over the wire
majors from cashed out evenhere?

Unknown (01:17:05):
Are they don't even call themselves majors from Casa
Haven no matter what they callthemselves as the next
inheritors. If you catch thatdrift, right, what are they
inheriting? Or nothing. That'swhy it's the next inheritors.
You get it it's a fun play onwords. Next is nothing and
inheritance as those thatinherit the first word. So for
going on the sort of lexiconsort of vibe of knowing words

(01:17:27):
and shit. They don't inheritshit.

Will (01:17:31):
So why are they here? Cuz they want to inherit shit. I'm
confused.

Bruce (01:17:38):
Okay, I got it. All right. So they're pissed off
that their mommies and daddiesaren't fucking rich, basically,
is what you're telling me?

Unknown (01:17:44):
No, no, no, it's a little bit deeper than that. Let
me go ahead and see if I cangive it to you in a way that
kind of floats into youreardrums and makes you
understand what I'm trying toget to you. First off, right
ain't got nothing, okay? Andthey were like, oh, man, hey, we
got some sort of magical power.
Maybe we should learn more aboutthat and go to school for it,
you know, and that's like areally good thing that you can

(01:18:06):
do. But then they didn't knowthat that like school is so
expensive. So now they're infucking debt baby. And like,
that's why you should be asorcerer and not have to be a
wizard and learn all that stuffand pay for it. So you know,
student loans is the problem.

Bruce (01:18:23):
Maybe, oh, maybe they shouldn't I took out stupid
student loans if they gotten byhim back. Here's the facts. Let
me tell you some. I'm self made.
All right. I made myself mycrew. My business and I came
from nothing. I was an orphan.

Unknown (01:18:35):
I mean, if that's the vibe you want to live with and
put that behind you. I mean,pack it up in your own ball and
smoke it. Maybe I'm not. I'm nothating you for that.

Bruce (01:18:43):
Well, in a world of these kids up to today, back in my
day, we used to just frickinkick a door and take what we
needed. Hey,

Unknown (01:18:50):
sometimes thievery is the only way to go. I mean, I
myself stole this today and hereaches into his bag that a
mushroom I stole it from natureand he chops it down Jesus
Christ

Will (01:19:04):
God he is fucked

Bruce (01:19:08):
this is fantastic we're we're literally talking to
fucking die on ISIS in the fleshhere what I want to

Tanner (01:19:15):
what I want to point out on my notes so I could I
sometimes just make notes that Iread for voices and to remind
myself what I think these peopleshould sound like. It doesn't
sound like this I'm gonna goahead and precedent this. I have
not accomplished this but thisis just how I get into it. I put
sounds like a male share

Unknown (01:19:37):
love Oh to know. That's how I got it. Very nice. That's
how we got here. Berberian sogood. Okay, all right.

Bruce (01:19:43):
That's gonna make sense though. Like that as you say
that.

Will (01:19:47):
So can you help us get in?
We really have a need to get in.
Are we wasting time? Not againstthem.

Unknown (01:19:57):
They like you know, they got their own things. going
on, they're trying to be like,Oh, you're we're an occupying
force in this particularvicinity. But then, oh, sorry,
some things come back up everyonce in a while, but they're
just trying to play along withtheir own specific thing until
they get what they want. So theeasiest thing would be to give
them what they want, but then,you know, if they get what they

(01:20:18):
want, they're just gonna wantmore. That's how that kind of
stuff works, you know? So, thething we've got to discover and
you you are me, we all three ofus can spit ball this together
what our game plan is, becauseI've been kicked out of said
city and I cannot play my musicin the bars and make my own sort
of coinage now. I mean, I dohave this new fancy one here
that I am really enjoying.

Will (01:20:38):
I wouldn't spin that that's more of a token. He

Tanner (01:20:44):
flicks it in the air.
catches it.
Heads or tails.

Will (01:20:49):
Heads. Yeah, it lands on heads.

Tanner (01:20:53):
Hey, you win. Good job.

Will (01:20:56):
I would use that in maybe teach others to indulge the way
you do. That's a sign ofindulgence,

Unknown (01:21:05):
like 69% of our songs are about drugs.

Will (01:21:10):
69% What a very accurate measurement. How did you come to
that number?

Tanner (01:21:16):
Oh, no, it's just is what it is. I mean,

Bruce (01:21:19):
time it is by any chance.

Will (01:21:21):
Skin 30. Okay, I'm sorry.
I saw I use my internal clockthat is canon.

Tanner (01:21:29):
Your internal clock, looking towards the direction of
the sun, you understand that?
It's probably about 7pm

Bruce (01:21:34):
Fuck, you know?

Tanner (01:21:37):
He wanted to tell a joke, and you're not giving it
to him.

Will (01:21:40):
I don't know what time it is. What time is it?

Bruce (01:21:44):
I want to I was hoping Tanner would be like, Well, if
you look at the at the sun, andyou guess you probably think
it's roughly 420 Ah,

Tanner (01:21:55):
man. All

Will (01:21:56):
right, it is exactly 4:20pm.

Unknown (01:21:58):
You know, it's always what is what's the significance
of 420?

Will (01:22:03):
I have no clue.

Bruce (01:22:04):
No idea. Yeah. Great. So is there a way in? Or? Is that
the only way in?

Unknown (01:22:12):
That's the only way I know of that's the way I we knew
and that's the way I came out.
You know? So what did they want?
If not great for a fire? We'retalking about that. And you
know, with all the smoke, and Ido I'm bound to start a fire at
some point. But a way whatquestion you just asked me
before I went on anothertangent.

Will (01:22:29):
What do they want? Oh, they

Unknown (01:22:33):
they want so. Okay, here's the thing. So there is a
boy now, right? His name isDemuth as a dumb name. But
that's his name. And he wasgiven that name by his father.
He's a dumb name though. Hisfather the is the Lord of the
area. And he's you know, oh,well, he paid for her son's

(01:22:55):
schooling and all that. So theguy that's leading them? Well,
that's a that's a halflinghalfling boy's name is Z glad
foot, you know, he's kind of incharge. He's, uh, you're saying
that since they inherit nothing,they're gonna take what they
want. And so they decided thathe was going to take the city.

(01:23:16):
So they found out about the cityand that, you know, the Lord of
the place was gone. Because, youknow, all young denef went to
school with them. And theybrought they came back here on
summer holiday and they decidedthey're going to stay.

Bruce (01:23:33):
Why? So you're telling me, young, Abel, people here
with magical powers? You cannotfind any other way to get ahead?

Will (01:23:48):
Other than to raise hell?
Yeah.

Bruce (01:23:54):
I just wanted to make sure I had that clear.

Unknown (01:23:56):
Or tell me it is now you look like a man of means.
How did you get ahead?

Will (01:24:02):
With me bare knuckles, dude, and lots of blood sweat.
Wash. It sounds like

Tanner (01:24:08):
almost the same thing.

Bruce (01:24:10):
You got to contain it.
Yeah, they contain it in thewalls of that city has not
contained because if it getsout, somebody's going to send an
army to take the city back andthey're all going to die.

Tanner (01:24:20):
Is is that um, uh,

Will (01:24:21):
you know, I'm not

Bruce (01:24:27):
I mean, I could kill them all. But that's besides the
point.

Unknown (01:24:30):
Well, I don't know.
They seem to be pretty tough.

Bruce (01:24:35):
You clearly have not run into the ones we have older boys
in the purple robes. See, I wasright six. The purple robes are
the new beasts. Just like agang. They're lit they're
literally just a gang.

Tanner (01:24:48):
Yeah, I mean, if that's the way you want to define it,
maybe that is fine.

Will (01:24:54):
So there's no secret entrance.

Unknown (01:24:58):
I mean, if there was a secret entrance. I don't know
much about it. Like I'm just aguy that comes from town to town
singing songs and making hismoney that way. I mean, if you
want to try and find a secretentrance Oh no, you could search
around for it. There's there'salways got to be a means of
escape for you know, those richfolk.

Bruce (01:25:18):
Alright six. I don't think this gentleman's is going
to be much more help

Will (01:25:23):
for us well, at least we know what they're looking for. I
don't know that we are the onesto help. But maybe we just go
into the front door. Now hetried to get in. We could say
we're here to meet Zeke gladfoot. Hey, wait,

Unknown (01:25:43):
I do have an idea. Like if you were trying to get into
the front door and like they sawyou and now they know what you
look like. I can make you looklike something different.

Will (01:25:54):
By not be a bad idea. Oh, yeah,

Bruce (01:25:57):
that depends on what the cost is.

Will (01:25:59):
Oh, you gave

Unknown (01:26:00):
me this beautiful gold Corp. And I believe that's
payment enough for one simplelittle spell,

Will (01:26:03):
don't you? I I can agree to that. Oh, can you make us
look like those guys airport tothe purple robe dates.

Tanner (01:26:15):
Or you want to look like the lowest of the low in this
sort of

Will (01:26:19):
group? What were the other colors? Blue, red and green?
Yep. What's the highest color?
Ah, shit.

Unknown (01:26:32):
I don't know the ones that seem to be given the orders
seem to be in

Will (01:26:37):
red. Put us in red cloaks or Oo, oo, one of us can be red.
One of us can be blue.

Bruce (01:26:48):
Just remember, they're the red ones are the ones given
the orders. There's not gonna beas many of them which means
we're not going to be able tojust kind of slip in unnoticed.

Will (01:26:57):
Maybe we both be purple and say we're new recruits. And
then we can figure out what todo when we're in there. Do you
know how many of them there are?
Aaron?

Unknown (01:27:06):
I'm sorry. I don't sit around counting people every
once in a while. But let's seeif I want to guesstimate I want
to say little bro about like 25to 30 of them.

Bruce (01:27:19):
Probably 24 to 29 now but oh,

Will (01:27:22):
did you kill one? Is probably

Bruce (01:27:25):
close. He might ah definitely not fighting anytime
soon. That's fishiness Well,shit.

Unknown (01:27:32):
I think I'll probably be bummed about that if I wasn't
so in tune with my own feelingsright now if

Bruce (01:27:38):
you get my drift. I'm glad you're really really high.

Tanner (01:27:42):
So high and he started strumming on his on his lute.
He is really good.

Will (01:27:48):
That is a fantastic song.
But I tell you what, let's putlet's be purple. Archie, I think
that's probably our best bet. Weclaim to be new recruits.

Bruce (01:27:57):
Well, well, here's the problem, purple, purple, we got
to do what everybody else tellsus. Not if we sneak out we got
purple, green, blue and red.
While we try somewhere in themiddle, we try like green and
blue six.

Will (01:28:13):
I agree with you. Maybe we can get further ahead as green.
That's my guess green for go.
Because we're going to do this.
Alright, green is in green coatgreen cloak.

Tanner (01:28:28):
So Aaron starts strumming on his lute a
different tune it did, shiftsover from what he was playing
before and something different.
And you can see a sort of energycoming out from his fingertips
as he plays.

Will (01:28:42):
And he sings. If you're trying

Unknown (01:28:46):
to get into a new scene, maybe try and dress in
green,

Tanner (01:28:52):
and it flows out and hits you. And you could see your
clothes start to shift. Andyou're now in green robes. Both
of you have different faces. Youkind of still look like
yourselves. But it's justsomething it's different enough.
And when I say you look likeyourself six, you basically have

(01:29:13):
a sort of plain human form facewith the mustache that kind of
looks like your mask. LikeJason. Kind of but like if he
was made out of playdoughGotcha.

Bruce (01:29:26):
Do we sound the same?
Yeah, you

Tanner (01:29:28):
sound the same as you did before.

Bruce (01:29:30):
There's no funny come with another voice.

Tanner (01:29:33):
Now, you said you guys sound the same. You just look
like you just look like commonhumans. Very, very plain.
nondescript, there's nothingabout your face. That seems to
be memorable. Gotcha. But when Isaid you look like Plato you
don't actually look like a Platomonster six. That would be we
would freak out. You just looklike a dude like the uncanny
valley.

Bruce (01:29:52):
Yeah, you're you look like the greatest of gray men
that could gray man. Yep. Whichis basically yeah, very
unassuming. That's what I meanby that, yes.

Will (01:30:00):
All right. Well, I appreciate this kindness, Aaron.
Enjoy your indulgence. Oh,

Tanner (01:30:09):
you don't have to tell me twice and he reaches into a
pocket and he pulls out whatlooks to be some sort of powder
and

Bruce (01:30:18):
Jesus Aaron, you're not supposed to mix everything

Tanner (01:30:22):
that comes from a plant to.

Bruce (01:30:24):
But if it's an up or down or you don't want to take an All
Arounder

Will (01:30:29):
I no longer know if this is responsible indulgence or
not? Well,

Unknown (01:30:34):
I'm not gonna die. This is like half of the maximum
amount that I've ever done. Ithink he

Bruce (01:30:39):
knows what he's doing.

Will (01:30:40):
Oh, I'm a professional.
Hey, listen,

Unknown (01:30:43):
if you guys get in there, kindly let me know so I
can get back in. And also, ifyou know any events that you
might need a musician for in thefuture. Please do hit me up. I

Will (01:30:57):
understood You're very good.

Tanner (01:30:59):
Oh shit, and almost forgot.

Unknown (01:31:01):
I'm actually writing a song about this sort of
situation was happening here. Soif you don't mind just telling
me what happens afterwards orlike getting me into this so I
can see the fray of what is.
What is what? I would greatly. Iwould love you. No, that's too
strong in it. Ma'am.

Bruce (01:31:18):
Fucked up. I really this would be I really wish this was
like a time where I could justsay, alright, Archie dexon We
just were taken aback don't dothat. It would make sense. It
wouldn't make any sense at all.
But it would have beenhilarious. Bala you want to go
in? Okay. She can be ourhostage. All right.

Tanner (01:31:40):
So you guys finish up with Aaron. You are now. This
guy? Is this one of these guys?
And walking? Are you still onthe horses? Are you walking?

Bruce (01:31:50):
I want to I think I mean, I don't know. We'll thanks. I
think it'd be a good idea tomaybe like, let our horses graze
somewhere. Yeah, I was justsaying yes. Yeah. This seems
like

Will (01:32:02):
they can graze in the meadow with the Air and Air and
please don't get our horses. Hi.

Unknown (01:32:07):
I can't promise more than secondhand smoke. Oh, my
goodness.

Bruce (01:32:12):
All right. Well, either way. I don't want to try to take
those horses in there becausethat's not going to end. Well.
Aaron, that's one more thing.
We'll have to get

Tanner (01:32:21):
there and agrees to watch after him. You tie him up
to his stump. And he's, youknow, me, he'll sit there with
him. So you guys head to thefront of back to the main gate.
And as you're approaching adifferent guy pops up and he
says

Will (01:32:39):
halt.

Bruce (01:32:42):
Excuse me. Oh, are you to tell me the whole purple cloak?

Tanner (01:32:46):
I'm sorry. It's dusk. I can't really see. It's all shit.
Yeah. Okay, Cabal did and thegate opens up.

Bruce (01:32:55):
I'm going to turn to six and I'm going to say quietly
Alright, six. For warrants. Letme do the talking.

Will (01:33:03):
Understood.

Tanner (01:33:05):
All right. You guys walk into the gates and one of the
guy that was up top he rushesdown to he says hey, sorry about
that. We are we had some peoplecome by and they're just kind of
dicks and whatever throw rocksat the Jeffrey and then the
other was shot a boat. Also inthe Jeffrey so Jeffrey is having

(01:33:26):
a bad day.

Bruce (01:33:27):
And you let him get away?

Tanner (01:33:29):
They were on horses. Why did you want us to do about it?

Bruce (01:33:33):
He's more or both spells you could have used to deal with
them. What's wrong with

Tanner (01:33:37):
you though? I don't the O spells yet. We've got Firebolt
that's basically the only onewe've got.

Bruce (01:33:45):
What are you only going to learn what the man tells you
to learn?

Tanner (01:33:49):
I mean, we don't have the book you guys said you're
gonna teach us and we're justwaiting here at you got to stand
at guard on the wall.

Bruce (01:33:58):
combat experience you'll need it bro persuasion wouldn't
be would it be persuasion ordepth deception?

Tanner (01:34:06):
You don't know this stuff?

Bruce (01:34:07):
I don't know i So you told me

Tanner (01:34:09):
I'd been Jesus I just want some sort of charisma based
roll just to kind of zero and 18

Bruce (01:34:15):
on the dice Okay,

Tanner (01:34:16):
that's you know what?
Yeah, that's okay combat we havecombat of spirits man you don't
know or Bacchus school all thoseassholes and the professor's
they don't have combatexperience but we have combat it
all.

Bruce (01:34:34):
Is he just like talking to his like kind of talking to
at you and like more to hisOkay, so can I just like slowly
like slider I'm just gonna kindof walk away like I'm much too
important for him to continuetalking to and kind of waves if
wave six along

Tanner (01:34:49):
yet. So you guys keep walking in.

Will (01:34:52):
At this point, we'll stop and whispered Archie, Archie.
How long do these disguiseslast?

Bruce (01:34:59):
No. idea so be always prepared just in case somebody
started looking at us weird.

Will (01:35:04):
We should have probably asked that. We should have
showed up but

Bruce (01:35:07):
we didn't. So let's move.
Okay.

Tanner (01:35:11):
You guys continue to move into the town. It is pretty
well kept most of the streets inhere cobblestone. Most of the
houses and buildings and shopsare larger than they are in
Leylen. mostly made of stone.
They're big leaded glass windowson the front of the shop. So you
can look inside you can seebakeries and a lot of sundries

(01:35:31):
few grocers as well as you knowyour standard clothiers cloth
cloth ears closers, yourclothing stores, none other than
with with memorable names,especially nothing like doting
doublets and other gratefulgarments. And all around you can
kind of see citizens, they'renot really going about their

(01:35:57):
business. They're all kind ofeyeing you as you move down the
street. whispering to oneanother, mostly avoiding you and
these are people that aren'twearing any sort of colored
cloaks. But as you're passingthrough the streets, you see a
few people, few guys with withclerks on

Bruce (01:36:18):
I'm trying to keep a mental note a tally of how many
people how many guys were clerksI'm seeing.

Tanner (01:36:23):
Okay, um, you saw the three on the wall. All right.

Bruce (01:36:27):
Because Jeffrey got smoked. Yep, well, close smoked.
So that's for turtle.

Tanner (01:36:33):
Yep. And as you're walking through, you see a
couple of a blue leading a fewpurples. And each of them kind
of nods. You even the one in theblue cloak? You don't see any
reds walking around.

Bruce (01:36:51):
Okay, I'm just trying to keep a total count like that.
Because I'm trying to figure outhow many people we have against
like,

Tanner (01:36:58):
you've seen total, like, under 10.

Bruce (01:37:02):
goes south. I wonder how many people I have to
potentially murder to get out ofhere. That's what I'm trying to

Will (01:37:06):
figure. Yeah.

Tanner (01:37:08):
Yeah. So that's basically like when you going
out around the perimeter of thewall, that was a another five.
So about eight on the wall. Andtotal you've seen, you know, 10
to

Will (01:37:19):
15? gunjur.

Bruce (01:37:21):
Yeah, so that's fine. And they could be mining, I might
not even know there may beduplicates. For all I know, like
I see the same person couldn'ttell that's fine. Just trying to
get a like a basic count.

Tanner (01:37:30):
You can gauge as you're looking around, you don't see
any town guard or any otherforms of authority.

Will (01:37:38):
Well, that makes sense.
question is where are they?
Yeah,

Tanner (01:37:42):
so the the landmarks that you're kind of seeing in
here you know you've got asquare. Up in the back you can
see the tallest buildings, whichare farthest from the gate. One
is a large Manor and the otheris a church. This church has a
shield on it. So you dorecognize it as a church of
Roderick so those are the twomain landmarks in town that you

(01:38:06):
can kind of see just as you're

Will (01:38:07):
walking through okay, Church of hardrick

Bruce (01:38:11):
what was the other one sorry?

Tanner (01:38:12):
Just a large Manor it's like the the sort of Castle
that's

Bruce (01:38:16):
okay so that's probably homeboys house then.

Will (01:38:19):
Huh? Well, Archie, where do we start? There's a lot going
on here. I think it was a goodchoice not to be red but with
the way that the blue werenaughty to us I think we might
be higher up than them

Bruce (01:38:37):
Yeah, I think you probably right six but let's not
make any assumptions yet and doanything to brush or we need to
do is we need to find out weneed to find out where the
town's God are and let them outso that we can use that
commotion to get moving.

Will (01:38:51):
If I had to make a suggestion prison would be a
good place to start that's agood suggestion.

Bruce (01:38:58):
Well never thought I'd be breaking back into jail

Will (01:39:02):
let's do it. Okay, we head to the jail yet

Tanner (01:39:08):
you are you move around the town you do you want to you
don't know where the jail isthere's no town map you want to
try and ask a citizen

Bruce (01:39:15):
I was gonna go find a purple and basically I can just
do it if you want yeah. Are youthere alone purple or like a two
Purple's?

Tanner (01:39:25):
Yeah, you as you walk into the street you see two
Purple's leaning up against abuilding nearby just chatting.

Bruce (01:39:32):
I walk up to him and I go oh, you too?

Tanner (01:39:36):
Yeah, what can we do for you sir? I'm not coming up with
a different voice for all ofthese fuckers. That's okay.
That's okay.

Bruce (01:39:42):
I just see the voices hilarious alright guys, man,
look at me wrong the other day.
And I'd like to go find him. Doyou ever know where they're
being kept?

Tanner (01:39:53):
Yeah, they're cool, but I'd have to the prison sir.

Bruce (01:39:57):
Alright, cool. Good. Good to know where it moved from
anywhere. That's right. Wedidn't have any way to separate
them or be done to my coat on mycoworker separated and move and
move to the church or over inthat direction or the church or
anything.

Tanner (01:40:09):
Now the purples have been ordered to just watch them.

Bruce (01:40:12):
All right. And Archie looks around like, like he's
confused. or less. US town looksthe same. Everywhere you go to
these corners look the same.
Yeah, just to point me in thedirection of the press. Do me a
favor.

Tanner (01:40:31):
I can take you there if you like.

Bruce (01:40:34):
Yeah, sure if you could show me where it is. I seem to
get remember. I don't know why.
Some to do with this town.

Tanner (01:40:40):
I'll do it. A few tips be spell.

Bruce (01:40:45):
All right. Well, first, you got to show me.

Will (01:40:48):
I guess Oh, person on him.

Tanner (01:40:52):
freezes up.

Will (01:40:54):
And I look at the other one. Take us to the prison. In
my deep voice.

Bruce (01:41:02):
Hey, I'll teach you how to do that if you take us

Tanner (01:41:06):
dead. Amen. Let's do this. We'll do two different
voices for these guys. That'sthe maximum effort I put in.

Bruce (01:41:14):
That's cool. No problem.
There. All right.

Tanner (01:41:17):
So bro, let's go. And he starts walking up. Yo, I
recognize that was like therewas that whole person?

Will (01:41:25):
For once I'm letting him do the talking.

Bruce (01:41:28):
Yeah, yeah, it's all person. I high five, six.

Tanner (01:41:31):
You guys both noticed a bit of a glimmer around your
hands? In the illusion kind ofwaves for a moment. Yeah, that
was dope, man. All right. Solike the prison. You know, we
could take you down there orI'll take you down there. So
how'd you do that? Like, youknow, is that verbal? Is that
semantic? Do you have to havesome spell components? Like you

(01:41:54):
know, what are we talking like?
I'd like to be able to sly youknow just kind of I just get
somebody

Will (01:41:59):
the last time six did not listen to Archie it went
terribly with the ghost so hesays nothing keeps walking gosh,

Tanner (01:42:17):
I cool like look just find me later on like as does
tell me I'd really appreciateit. So you know down in the
prison Yeah. Oh, yeah. No, What?

Bruce (01:42:25):
What? No, it's just gonna say it takes you know
surprisingly takes a lot ofgold.

Tanner (01:42:31):
Oh, that's just a primary small component

Bruce (01:42:33):
of the primary spec opponent is gold takes a lot of
it. They just wasted probably aquarter of his inheritance.

Tanner (01:42:39):
That's fucking dumb.
There. That's like the wholething that we're trying to do to
be like our not paying for shitanymore now. Masa dama just

Bruce (01:42:47):
it just goes to show you that everything's gonna cost you
no doubt man. Like,

Tanner (01:42:51):
can we just like, you know, whatever, I get it, you
know, we'll come up with somecash and then I'll figure it
out. We'll figure it out. If youI get what the what you guys are
continuing to walk down thestreet. He's leading you through
these quarter corridors andcorners. You're like I mean, if
I had to like if I had to findthe book that had that
particular spell and and likeyou know if I gotta go into a
shop like we're not going backto the library, I caster Haven

(01:43:13):
you know, but like if I had tofind a shop, like what would
that book be called?

Bruce (01:43:17):
Alright, so what you want to do is you want to get you
want to go to Leyland. Oh yeah.
And want to go to doubtingdoublets and grateful garments.
And you want to say that youfound a black ring? Is that

Tanner (01:43:29):
like a postcard or something?

Bruce (01:43:30):
Was that the color?
Right? Yeah, well, yeah. So youtalk to the guy that he told me
he found a black ring. And hewill show you the books as
needed. About here and I'll tellyou what is even better if you
actually take just take themblind. You don't got to be
anything fancy. You just takethe black ring.

Tanner (01:43:51):
Like I mean, I don't know, like I don't have I've got
these robes, you know, and Idon't really have anything and
we just kind of left. You know,you know how you know how he
left he just left right and Ididn't grab I like a rucksack
and I'm like, Oh, here's theprison by the way.

Will (01:44:06):
And I wasn't gonna walk I wasn't gonna speak but make sure
you tell him that. You got itfrom Strickland of the black
hold collective. He won't knowwho that is.

Tanner (01:44:15):
That's starting to sound like there's a lot of
information. There's a lot ofsecret passwords though. So I
mean,

Bruce (01:44:21):
more than just a whole person out of it so grim or

Tanner (01:44:25):
when I get a girlfriend

Bruce (01:44:27):
you'll learn how to get one for sure. Alright

Tanner (01:44:32):
he opens the door to the President that walks away all
right.

Bruce (01:44:39):
Archie just stops and just looks at six and just just
just just like a long just starejust like like like like he
cannot process what he justheard. And he goes six let's
let's forget we ever spoke tohim. Please for the love of

(01:45:00):
everything holy.

Will (01:45:02):
You know, I kind of already forgot about him.
Perfect. Like,

Tanner (01:45:07):
this is one of my most well developed characters you
guys just gonna write them

Will (01:45:12):
off. Can I come across?

Tanner (01:45:14):
He's gonna come back.
Yeah. Oh yeah. I gotta getarrested all right. So

Bruce (01:45:25):
why is a perfect opportunity for good works?

Tanner (01:45:28):
Okay, you guys walk perfect opportunity into the
prison inside there is a personin blue robes sitting behind the
desk and he looks up at you andhe gives you a little nod
Don't Don't make me do anotherit's

Bruce (01:45:47):
God dammit. And now I just keep walking

Will (01:45:52):
What's your name? I'm just kidding. Okay.

Tanner (01:45:55):
Fuck you. You guys you guys keep walking.

Bruce (01:45:59):
He sees through your illusion because you fucked with
the DEA.

Tanner (01:46:03):
So you walk past him down this hallway and you start
to see these these cells itseems like you know the kind of
temporary holding that you wouldput people in overnight if they
were drunk it's not like a jailjail right that is not a pendant
pendant of an intention. It'snot a penitentiary

Bruce (01:46:22):
it is not a maximum security penitentiary in which
would have maximum securitypenitentiary guards ready to
slaughter all these people at atany any release switching?

Tanner (01:46:31):
Right? This is like this is a city watch. They're

Bruce (01:46:33):
not going to be that helpful. Got it.

Tanner (01:46:36):
So you guys, you guys come in. And the first couple of
cells, they are actually prettylarge cells, you think they are
meant to you know, they've got abench and they're they're meant
to hold multiple people at atime. And you you see this one
in the back you hear you know,talking from back there. And as
you get closer, you can see thatthere's it's it's most of the

(01:46:58):
guards are split half and halfbetween two cells in the back
left. You also see in the farcell to the right, someone just
sitting in the corner, they havea hood up and they're just kind
of chilling in there.

Will (01:47:12):
I look at I look at Archie and I say I think I have an
idea. I'm listening. Follow mylead. Yeah, sure. Why not? I
walk over to the cage with allthe guards. There's no other
there's no clothes

Tanner (01:47:28):
now. It's just the game blew up front.

Will (01:47:30):
Okay. How many guards are in there? Eight

Tanner (01:47:37):
and a half for a whole town? Nevermind. Not so they're
split up between two. There'stwo, eight and both? Yeah,
there's aid and both. So there'sthere's about 16 guards here.

Will (01:47:46):
Okay. All of you listen, we're not really the green
cloaks. We're not with theseguys. We're actually here on
orders from Choudry. And we'regoing to rescue the city. What
we need you to do, get out thereand create the best version that
you can until we can get to thered cloak. They

Tanner (01:48:05):
they all kind of start they look at you kind of funny
to begin with. And they start tonod and some of getting pumped.
You see a lot of these are likethey're starting to give each
other fist bumps and Abro it upin there. And there they seem
real ready for it.

Bruce (01:48:21):
I'm gonna start picking the lock on my thieves tools.

Tanner (01:48:24):
You go to pick the lock.
Go ahead and roll that

Will (01:48:30):
as he's picking the lock out. While he's doing that I'm
gonna say and take out as manyof the cloaks as you can 16th
you start to

Tanner (01:48:42):
unlock this cell. You can feel each of the latches
lifting each of the gates as youpass by, and you get to the last
one and click. It comes up. Butas soon as it does, you can see
these orange sparks come out.
Basically flutter out from thelock. You hear an alarm start to

(01:49:07):
ring out from this and you knowthat while you have unlocked
this jail cell, you have trippeda magical alarm inside.

Bruce (01:49:17):
Alright, thanks. Looks like we'll move in quick

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